Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States : From Original and Official Sources [2 ed.]

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IOGRAPHICAL ANNALS

CIVIL

GOVERNMENT

UNITED STATES. FROM ORIGINAL AND OFFICIAL SOURCES.

CHARLES LANMAN, Author of

"DlCTIONABY

OF

CONGBESS," "PRIVATE JAPAN,"

LIFE OF DANIEL WEBSTEB,

"

"LEADING

Etc., Etc.

SECOND EDITION.

BEVISED,

ENLARGED AND COMPLETED TO DATE,

JOSEPH

M.

MORRISON.

NEW YORK: J.

M. MOERISON, PUBLISHES. 1887.

MEN

OF

Entered Mocordini? to \ct of Congress, in

CHARLES LANMAN AND l-i

J.

M.

trip

the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at

riTited and Bound by Herald Prlnttng and Publishing Co.. T

Erie, Pa.

year 18*6, by

MORRISON, VV

u.shingtoi

.

e/5

K a;

INTRODUCTION. THE

which attended the

success

me

induced

to

Government

Civil

existence.

In doing

iu

upon the scope and

enlarge

the entire

manner,

been

names and public with

identified

States

Dictionary of

that

during the

services of

all

and

has

Congress

so

work,

as

to

embrace

century of

first

its

a convenient space, and

to present, within

National

the

my

design of

United

the

have endeavored

this I

biographical form, the

nent

of

of

publication

those

State

who

have, in a promi

Governments

the

of

Republic.

The Biographical Sketches number about seven thousand, and with a series

trated

which

Tabular

of

and Papers

Records

of

an

found eight thousand additional names, making a

will be

these I have

historical

illus

character,

in

thousand

total of fifteen

personal references in the volume.

The

Congresses gress

;

persons included are the Delegates

classes of ;

the Senators, Representatives, and

Cabinet Ministers

of the Executive

;

Justices of

Departments

and such other men

as

the

military

hearts of

and naval

their

and Continental

Colonial

the Federal

Territorial Delegates of

Supreme and other Federal Courts

have held positions of honor

instances, I

the

;

Con

Officials

Governors of States and Territories; Diplomatic Ministers,

;

exerted an influence on public Indeed, in a few

the

to

have over-stepped the

countrymen, and

but

trust

iu

the

civil

service,

acquitted themselves with acknowledged credit.

affairs, or

history,

and

all

the

line

which separates the

civil

names thus added have a place

no apology, I

trust,

will

from

in the

be required for their intro

duction.

My

purpose has been to give, in the most concise and impartial manner, a practical

and comprehensive idea of the personal written,

representatives

but that

at

working

home and

of

our

abroad.

Government, as exhibited through

its

Of many men more might have been

was not deemed expedient in a work

268403

of

this

kind

;

and where not

IV

enough has been mostly

the fault must be

said

interested,

or

to

the

of

neglect

attributed their

friends

xpress no opinions of living men, and but seldom

the

to

indifference

and

;

have made

I

the persons

of

a point to

it

echo public opinion in regard to

to

the dead.

The information here and from the

presented has

archives of

been

Government

the

;

while, for

have availed myself of other opportunities, and tions connected with

Francis

S.

Drake

the

names

Joseph

hope that these records

of

Thomas,

will be

am

John L. Blake, and

chiefly

many

especially S.

Frederick A.

of

from original sources,

my

and

facts

indebted

annals and future welfare of

all

dates. I

to the publica

Austin Allibone, George Ripley^ P.

Barnard

;

and

I

cannot but

found so correct and conveniently arranged as

the volume indispensable, as one of reference, for political

obtained

those

who

feel

to

render

an interest in the

our country.

GEORGETOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, January, 1876.

CHARLES LANMAN.

PREFA0E TO REVISED EDITION. THE

Lanman

enviable reputation of Mr.

of his "Biographical

Annals"

and the universal recognition

as an author,

of

this

to delib

and attempting the continua

erate long before yielding to the persuasions of the author tion

me

book of reference, caused

as an authoritative

work.

Once launched upon the sea with which

predecessor had

my

battled

success

so

was almost overcome by the seemingly innumerable and insurmountable obstacles which constantly appeared in my pathway and was often tempted to lay down my pen and leave the work to some one more courageous, and more experienced than fully, I

The

myself.

encouraged me

however, feeble

success which attended

hereto appended in

abilities are

that they

may add

the

If

made some

I have

great work.

interest

hundreds

of

to the

persons

laborious

the form

of a second

the

in

of

way

works of

of

edition

Mr. Lanman,

my

and

trials

Lanman s

Mr.

embellishment in the hope

book.

whom

to

found

I

it

to

necessary

numerous

send

any response, and the large number who treated

requests with silence, had appreciated the absolute necessity

preparation of historical

efforts of

the end, and the results of

to

additions

appeals for data before receiving

my

much more

the

struggle on

to

this

kind, j

my

labors

of

co-operation

in

all

the

would have been very materially

more complete and satisfactory. To those who aided me by preparing, and sending to me, such data as I required, and to others who aided me collaterally, especially Mr. Sevellon A. Brown, Chief Clerk lessened

and

their

results

of the Department of resentatives,

I

I desire

State,

was compelled

and

make most

to to

the

trust

Hon John cordial

B. Clark, Clerk

Trusting

that

subscribe myself,

my

efforts

is

House

of

Rep

acknowledgements.

reading of the

proofs to

I believe I

others, but, as the entire

am

warranted in assuming but few errors will be found in the book. impossible,

work passed through three separate comparisons, that, while absolute perfection

of the

have accomplished at least a fair measure of The Public s most obedient servant,

JOSEPH

M.

success,

MORRISON.

I

IV

enough has been mostly

the fault must be

said

interested,

or

to

the

of

neglect

attributed their

friends

xpress no opinions of living men, and but seldom

indifference

the

to

and

;

have made

I

the persona

of

a

it

"point

to

echo public opinion in regard to

to

the dead. 1

The information here presented has been

and from the

archives of

Government

the

;

while, for

have availed myself of other opportunities, and tions connected with

Francis

S.

Drake

the

names

Joseph

hope that these records

of

and

found

so correct

annals and future welfare of

chiefly

many

especially S.

Frederick A.

the volume indispensable, as one of reference, for political

am

John L. Blake,

Thomas,

will be

obtained

of

from original sources,

my

facts

and

indebted to the publica

Austin Allibone, George Ripley^ P.

Barnard

;

and

I

cannot but

and conveniently arranged as all

dates, I

those

who

feel

an

to

interest

render in

our country.

GEORGETOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, January, 187b.

CHARLES LANMAN.

the

PREFASE TO REVISED EDITION. THE of his

Lanman

enviable reputation of Mr.

"

Annals"

Biographical

of

me

to delib

the author and attempting the continua

erate long before yielding to the persuasions of tion

and the universal recognition

as an author,

an authoritative book of reference, caused

as

work.

this

Once launched upon the sea with which

my

predecessor had

battled

so

success

overcome by the seemingly innumerable and insurmountable obstacles which constantly appeared in my pathway and was often tempted to lay down my pen and leave the work to some one more courageous, and more experienced than fully, I was almost

myself.

The

success which attended

me

the

much more

laborious

efforts of

Mr. Lanman,

however, encouraged struggle on to the end, and the results of my feeble abilities are hereto appended in the form of a second edition of Mr. great work.

that they If

I

have made some additions

may add

the

interest

hundreds

of

appeals for data before

my

to

persons receiving

the

way

works of

lessened and their results

To to

of the

Lanman s

book.

whom

to

I

found

it

to

necessary

send

numerous

any response, and the large number who treated this

kind,

more complete and

my

labors

of

co-operation

in

all

the

would have been very materially

satisfactory.

me by preparing, and sending to me, such data as I required, aided me collaterally, especially Mr. Sevellon A. Brown, Chief Clerk who others Department of State, and Hon John B. Clark, Clerk of the House of Rep those

resentatives,

I

and

embellishment in the hope

of

requests with silence, had appreciated the absolute necessity

preparation of historical

and

to the

in

trials

who

aided

I desire

make most

to

was compelled

to

the

trust

cordial

acknowledgements.

reading of the

that, while absolute perfection

Trusting

that

subscribe myself,

my

efforts

is

proofs

to

I

others, but, as the entire

am

warranted in assuming but few errors will be found in the book. impossible,

work passed through three separate comparisons,

I believe

have accomplished at least a fair measure- of The Public s most obedient servant,

JOSEPH

M.

success,

MORRISON.

I

ILLUSTRATIONS. Opposite Page.

Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Agricultural Department Building, Washington

14

Arthur, Chester Allan

66

Buchanan, James

Bureau

Engraving and Printing Building, Washington Cleveland, Grover of

Executive Mansion (North "

front),

32

(South front), Washington

169

James Abram

186

Grant, Ulysses 8 Harrison, William

Hayes, Rutherford Interior

199 221

Henry

B

227

Department Building (Patent

Jackson,

Office),

Washington

Andrew

Jefferson,

100 32

Washington

Fillmore, Millard Garfield,

368

144

260

Thomas

263

Johnson.

Andrew

266

Lincoln,

Abraham

301

Madison, James

314

Manor House (The Home Monroe, James National

Museum

of Washington), Mt.

Vernon

348

464

Building, Washington

Pension Bureau Building, Washington

416

Pierce, Franklin

Polk,

James

K

416

893 ".

399

Post Office Department Building, Washington

144

Smithsonian Institution Building,

464

State,

War

Washington and Navy Departments Building, Washington

Taylor, Zachary

The

. . :

Capitol Building

Treasury Department Building, Washington

112

492 (Frontispiece) Title

112

John

510

Van Buren, Martin

513

Washington, George

529

Washington Monument, Washington

5gg

Tyler,

CONTENTS. Page 1 to 568

Biographical Annals

APPENDIX. Alphabetical Lists of Senators and Representatives in each Congress

Amendments Area

to the Constitution of the United States

United States

of the

vii

Ixx vii-lxxix

Cabinet Ministers

House

of Representatives

Ixxvii

Colonial Governors of America

xciv

Constitution of the United States

xi-xv

Declaration of Independence

i

Delegates to the Colonial Congress

Delegates

to the Continental

i

viii

Congress

Diplomatic Agents of the United States District of

Ixxxvi

Columbia

cvii

Executive Officers of the Civil Service

Ixxix

Judges of the United States Circuit Courts Judges of the United States District Courts

:

Supreme Court Judges of the United States Territorial Courts Letter of the Convention to the old Congress

Names

of States

tern,

Ixxvii ,

of the United States Senate

Old Congress the Convention which framed the Constitution

in the

Proceedings of

Secretaries of the

xvi

viii

Presidents of the United States

Proceediags

Ixxxv

Ixxxiii

Presidents of the Continental Congress

Presidents pro

Ixxxiii

cvii

Pay Table of the Leading Civil Officers

Presidents of the United States Senate

Ixxxiv Ixxxiv

Judges of the United States

Origin of the

xvi-xix viii

Articles of Confederation

Clerks of the

xxiii-lxvii

United States Senate

xxi xxii

xvi

xv Ixxvii

Sessions of the Continental Congress

viii

Sessions of the Federal Congress

xxi

Settlement of the States and Territories

civ

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

iv

Speakers of the House of Representatives

xxii

State and Territorial Governors of the United States

xciv

State Ratifications of the Constitution

xvi

FOR COMPLETE SKETCHES of the

following persons

received too late for

classification

BISHOP, EICHARD M.

CHENEY, PERSON COLBY. CHURCH, LOUIS KOSSUTH.

HAWKINS, ALVIN. JACKSON, JOHN

J.

JAMES, CHARLES

KINKEAD, JOHN

P.

H.

LKDUC, WILLIAM

PUTNAM, JAMES

G. O.

RICHMOND, LEWIS. ROBERTS, ORAN MILO.

RUBLEE, HORACE.

SEAT WILLIAM

A.

STEARNS, MARCELLUS

VANCE, ROBERT

B.

L.

see page* 566, 567 and 568.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Abbett, Leon was born at Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, October 8, 1836; was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the Philadel phia High School in 1853; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of law, in Philadelphia, in 1857; in 1862, settled at Hoboken, New Jersey, in the practice of his profession in 1803, was appointed Corporation Attorney of Hoboken; in 1864, was elected a Representative in the New Jersey Legislature; was re-elected in 1865; was again elected to the same position in 1868, and was chosen Speaker of the House; was re-elected to both positions in 186 J; was. during the same period, Corporation Coun sel for Bayonne City and the Town of Union; in 1872 was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conven tion: in 1874 was elected a State Senator; in, 1876 ;

;

(

became Corporation Counsel of Jersey City, New Jer sey, to which place he had removed in 1866; was a

Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in !**(!, and was elected Chairman of the New Jersey Delegation in 1877 was elected President of the State Senate; in 1883 was elected Governor of New Jersey for the term of three years; in 1884 was Chairman of the New Jersey Delegation in the Democratic Na tional Convention. ;

Abbot

Joel was born in Fairfield, Connecti cut, emigrated to Georgia was elected a Representa tive in Congress from Wilkes County, in that State, from 1817 to 1825, serving as a member of the Com ;

;

Commerce and the Slave Trade.

mittee on

November

Died

1U, 1826.

Abbott

Amos

was born in Andover, Massachu1786 was educated at a district school, but spent the most of his life as a trader and merchant. During the years 1835, 1836, and 1842, was a Representative in the Massachusetts Legisla ture from 1840 to 1842 was a member of the State Senate; represented his native State in Congress from 1813 to 1849; opposed the war with Mexico, but voted for supplies. Died at Andover, Massachusetts, seits.

September

;

ID,

;

;

November

2,

1868. ;

was born in Concord,

New

Hampshire, July 15, 1825; received an academiceducation; studied law and came to the bar in 1852; from 1852 to 1857 owned and conducted the 3/rtwi-hexter Guardian ; was Quarter-Master General of Militia from 1855 to 1861 from 1859 to 1861 was one of the owners of the Boston Atlas and Bee; in 1861 raised a regiment of troops for the war, and was ap pointed Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1863 was made Col onel; in 1865 was brevetted a Brigadier-General "for soon gallant services in the capture of Fort Fisher after settled in North Carolina, and engaged in the lumber business; was a Delegate to the State Consti tutional Convention of 1867; elected to the State Legislature early in 1868; was elected a Senator in Congress, in 1868, for the term ending in 1871, serv ing on the Committees on Manufactures, Military Affairs, the Pacilic Railway, and Enrolled Bills. ;

;"

Abbott, Josiah

;

Abbott, Nehemiah

was born at Sidney, Maine, was a lawyer by profession; was a member of the House of Representatives, in the Maine Legislature, in 1842 and 1843; was elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-fifth Con gress, serving as a member of the Committee on March

;

29, 1806;

Revolutionary Pensions.

Abercrombie, James was born in Georgia, and, removing to Alabama, was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1851 to 1855. ;

Acheson, Marcus W.; Avas born in Pennsyl vania; received a collegiate education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar; settled at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the practice of his profession; in January, 1880, was appointed United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, re siding at Washington, in that state. Acker, Ephraim

L.;

was born

in

Marlborough

township, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1827; was edu cated in common schools, and graduated at Marshall College, Pennsylvania, in 1847; taught school two years; graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1852; was editor and publisher of The NorrMown, Register; Superintendent of Common Schools for Montgomery County from 1854 to 1860; was appointed Postmaster at Norristown in 1860, and removed after serving about eleven months; was In spector of Montgomery County prison three years; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Militia

Committee.

Abbott, John C.

Massachusetts,

education, graduating from Harvard University in 1832; studied law was admitted to the bar in 1835, and engaged in practice; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1836, a State Senator in 1841 and 1842; was Judge of the Superior Court in 1855; suc cessfully contested the seat of Rufus S. Frost as a Representative from Massachusetts to the Fortyfourth Congress, and took his seat July 28, 1876.

Gr.

;

November

was born 1,

at Chelmsford, 1815; received a classical

Amos

Ackerman, T.; was born in New shire in 1819: received a good education; studied law, and came to the bar in 1841; in 1850 removed to Georgia and settled in Elberton, where he practiced his profession; in 1866 was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Georgia, and remained in office until 1870; in that year was appointed AttorneyGeneral of the United States, and continued in that position until 1872.

Hamp

Acklen, Joseph Hayes; was born at Nash Tennessee, May 20, 1850; was educated partly

ville,

tutor, partly at Burlington College, and finally graduated, successively, at two foreign Uni versities; graduated in the law at Cumberland University, Tennessee, and commenced practice at Nash

by a private

ville; removed to Memphis; afterwards abandoned his profession and became a sugar planter in Louis iana; was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-fifth Congress; re-elected to the Forty -sixth

Congress.

,

BIOGRA THICAL AK N AL Adair, John was born in Chester County, South Carolina, in 1758; emigrated to Kentucky in 1787; served as a Major in the border warfare of the time; was elected to the Kentucky Legislature, serving one year as Speaker; in 1799 was a member of the Conven tion which formed the State Constitution; subse quently held the office of Register of the Land Office in Kentucky; was a Senator of the United States, from Kentucky, during the years 1805 and 1800; conrnianded the Kentucky troops at the battle of ;

New Orleans, under General Jackson, and was ap pointed a General in the army; was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1833, and was a member of the Committee on Military Affairs. Died at Harrodsburg, May 19, 1840.

Adams, Andrew;

was born

in Stratford,

Con

necticut, in January, 1730; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1700; adopted the profession of the law, and settled in the practice at Litchfleld in 17(J4; from 1777 to 1782 was a delegate from Connecticut to the Con tinental Congress, and was one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; in 1789 was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and in 1793 Chief Justice of said court. He received from Yale College the degree of LL.D.; died November 26, 1799.

Benjamin was born at "Worcester, Mas sachusetts;, was a member of the Legislature, as Rep resentative, from 1809 to 1814, and as Senator, in 1814 and 1815, and from 1822 to 1825; was a Representa tive in Congress from his native State, from 1810 to 1821, having first been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of E. Brigham, and was a

Adams,

;

mem

ber of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and Public Expenditures; died at Uxbridge, Massachu setts, in April, 1837.

Adams, Charles was a resident of Colorado; in 1880 was appointed United States Minister to Bolivia. ;

Adams, Charles F. was born in Boston, Au gust 18, 1807; spent the most of his boyhood in St. Petersburg and London, whilst hisfather, JohnQuincy Adams, was Minister to Russia and England; gradu ated at Harvard University in 1825; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828; served three years in the Lower House, and two years in the Upper House of the Massachusetts Legislature; in 1848 was a Delegate to the Buffalo Convention, and elected President; was the candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with Mr. Van Buren; was elected a Rep resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on .Manufactures, and as a member of the Special Committiv of Thirty-three on the Rebellious States. He was at one time the editor of a paper called the lloxton \\ /iii/; was a contributor to the North American lim cir, and the editor of the well-known Adams Letters; was the author of the standard Biography of his grand father, John Adams. Re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but was appointed by President Lincoln Minister to England, in 1H01. In 1804 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Harvard University and in 18(i9 he became an overseer of that institution. ;

;

C. H. was born in Coxsackie, Greene York, in 1824; studied law and prac ticed until 1850, when he engaged in manufacturing at Cohoes, New York; served as Trustee and Presi dent of the Water Board in that place before it was

Adams,

County.

;

New

In 1851 served as Aid to the Governor. a city. In 1857 was elected a member of the Assembly; was State Senator in 1872 and 1873; was a member of the Republican National Convention in 1872; was, for a

made

of Cohoes, long time, President of the National Bank and was the first Mayor of the city was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fourth ;

Congress.

Adams, George; was a citizen of Mississippi; was appointed United States Judge for the District embracing that State; resided at Natchez. was born at Keene, Hampshire, June 18, 1840 removed to Chicago, graduated from Harvard University Illinois, in 1853 was ad in 1800 studied law at Dane Law School mitted to the bar in 1865, and engaged in practice at in 1880 was elected a State Senator lor a Chicago term of five years was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-eighth Congress and resigned

Adams, George Everett

New

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

the Senatorship March Forty -ninth Congress.

3,

1883

;

was

re-elected to the

Adams, George M.; was born in Knox County, was educated at Kentucky, December 20, 1837 Centre College; studied law; was Clerk of the Circuit subse Court of Knox County from 1859 to 1801 quently served for a few months as a Captain in the Union Army was an additional Paymaster of Vol unteers from 1801 to 1805; was elected a Representa tive from Kentucky to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Militia and Freedmen s ;

;

;

Affairs.

Re-elected to the three succeeding

Con

gresses, serving on the Committee on Indian Affairs; in 1875 was elected Clerk of the House of Represen

tatives of the Forty-fourth Congress.

was born in Barboursville, Knox Kentucky, August 20, 1*12; was bred a farmer; read law and adopted that profession; in 1832 and 1833 was Deputy Sheriff of Knox County; in 1839 was elected to the State Legislature, and was re-elected; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky, from 1847 to 1849, and was a member of the Committee on Engraving; was a Presidential Elector in 1*44 and 185(5, and a Judge of the Circuit Court of Kentucky from 1851 to 1856. In 1859 was

Adams, Green;

County,

elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on In 1801 was appointed Post Offices and Post Roads. by President Lincoln. Sixth Auditor of the United States Treasury; was Disbursing Clerk in the House of Representatives at Washington, from 1875 to 18S1; died January 18, 1884.

Adams, James Hopkins;

was born

in

South

Carolina about 1811; graduated at Yale College in 1831 was a member of the Legislature and Senate of South Carolina; was Governor of that State from 1855 to 1857. After the secession of South Carolina from the Union was one of the Commissioners ap pointed to confer with the President concerning United States property in South Carolina; died near ;

Columbia, South Carolina, July 27, 1801.

Adams, Jewett W.; Nevada

for

was elected Governor of

the term of four years from January, 18S3.

Adams,

John; was born at Braintree, Massa chusetts, October 30, 1735; graduated at Harvard in University 1755; instructed a class of scholars in Latin and Greek for a subsistence; studied law, and having been admitted to the bar, settled at Quincy to practice his profession. As a member of the Con tinental Congress, from 1774 to 1777, was among the foremost in recommending an independent Govern ment; in 1777 was chosen Commissioner to the Court of Versailles. On his return was chosen a member of the Convention called to prepare a form of govern ment for Massachusetts. In September, 1779, was

P H .

sp^w

BIOGKAPH1CA appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace, and had authority to form a commercial treaty with Great Britain. In June, 1780, was appointed Ambassador to Holland; in 1782, went to Paris to engage in the negotiation for peace, having previously obtained assurance that Great Britain would recog After nize the independence of the United States. serving on two or three commissions to form treaties

ters

Adams, Samuel; was born

H74

:

entered Columbia 1*7

;

Law

27, 1722;

Massa

in Boston,

graduated at Harvard

;

j

a Representative in 1765; was chosen Clerk and served in that body for ten years, and, it is said, he New York suggested the Congress that assembled at in 1765, and the non-importation agYeement of 1769; addressed a public meeting the day after the Boston to de massacre, and was Chairman of the Committee mand the removal of the troops. In 1772 organized the Committee of Correspondence, which was first all the adopted by Massachusetts, and followed by of Inde provinces; was a signer of the Declaration the plan of pendence was one of those who matured the Continental Congress, and was Delegate from Massachusetts from 1774 to 1782 signed the Articles was a member of the State Con of Confederation vention which adopted the Federal Constitution, and made some amendments to that instrument on the ;

;

;

;

|

was made Presi

adoption of the State Constitution, was Lieutenant Governor of dent of the Senate Massachusetts from 1789 to 1794, and Governor from 1794 to 1797 died in Boston, October 2, 1803. ;

J

I

;

College

was admitted

;

Adams, Samuel

to

year and commenced practice in New York city was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-eighth Congress was re-elected a Representative to the Forty-ninth Congress.

the bar

September

University in 1740; studied for the ministry; re ceived the degree of A. M. in 1743; was one of the first who organized measures of resistance to the mother country, and drew up the instructions of the town of Boston against taxation in 1764 was elected

1S4>-!:.

in the class of

said,

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Adams, Robert H.; was a Senator in Congress, from Mississippi, by appointment, from January to May, in 1830; died at Natchez, on the second day of July following.

Adams, John J. was born in the Province of New Brunswick (now Dominion of Canada), Septem

dry -goods merchants, where he

it

1827.

1854.

Co.,

Rhetoric and Or besides many oc His unpublished writ

on

"Poems,"

was born in Hartford, Con was a Representative in Congress from Batavia, Genesee County, New Y ork. from 1823 to

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Adams, Parmenio;

ls5(>

B. Claflin remained until

and

necticut

"

II.

"Lectures

Silesia,"

and speeches. An would make many volumes. elaborate history of his life was published in 1875, Com edited by his son, Charles Francis Adams. plete works in pretss. ings,

"

attended the ordinary country schools l(i, (there were no free schools iivthe Province at that time) until about the age of sixteen, when he removed to New York city; entered the employ of Messrs.

on

3

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casional letters

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ber

N ALS

.N

atory,"

of amity and commerce with foreign powers, in 17H5 was appointed first Minister to London; and, in 1788, having been absent nine years, returned to America. In March, 17H9. the new Constitution of the United States went into operation, and he became the first Yice-President, which office he held during the whole of Washington s administration. On the retirernent of Washington he became, March 4, 1797, President of the United States. This was the termination of his public functions, and he spent the remainder of Died on the his days upon his farm in Quincy. Fourth of July, 1826, with the same words on his lips which, fifty years before, on that day, he had uttered on the floor of Congress: Independence for Letters on His principal publications were, ever!" Defense of the Ameri the American Revolution," can Constitutions," an Essay on Canon and Feudal under the signature of NoLaw," a series of letters It was as vanglus, and "Discourses on Davila." In Yice-President that he had a seat in the Senate. his life and writings were published, in ten vol umes, edited by his grandson, C. F. Adams.

Adams, John was a Representative in Congress from Greene County. New York, from 1833 to 1835, and was a member of the Committee on Invalid PenDied at Catskill, New York, September 28, sions.

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Adams, John Quincy;

was born in Brain(now Quincy.) Massachusetts. July 11, 1767. "When ten years of age. accompanied his father to France anil when fifteen, was Private Secretary to the American Minister in Russia graduate;! at Harvard University in 1787 studied law in NewFrom 1794 to 1801 buryport, and settled in Boston. was American Minister to Holland. Kngland, Sweden and Prussia was a Senator in Congress from lso:j to isos professor of Rhetoric in Harvard University, in 1809 was with limited duties, from 180(1 to 180* :

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was acting Governor of Ar

was a native of Franklin was a member of the Senate of that State. Removing to Mississippi, took an active was a member of the State part in public a flairs

Adams, Stephen;

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from Vir Adams, Thomas; was a Delegate from 1778 to 1780, ginia to the Continental Congress, and signed the Articles of Confederation.

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Addams, William; was born in Lancaster of Berks County, County, Pennsylvania; was Auditor C; -vmissioner of Pennsylvania, in 1*13 and 1814; the County from 1*14 to 1817; member of the State Leg islature from 1822 to 1824; was a Representative 1825 to 1829; As Congress from Pennsylvania, from sociate Judge of Berks County from 1839 to 1842.

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Died in the spring of 1858, aged eighty-two years.

Adee, Alvey York, November

A.; was born at Astoria, New 1842 was educated by private

27, civil

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was Secretary of the American Legation at Madrid, Spain, from 1870

tutors: studied

engineering;

BIOGRAPHICAL A N N A L S to 1877, several times acting as Charge (V Affairs; in 1877 was transferred to the Department of State, at Washington in 1878 became Chief of the Diplomatic Division of that Department; in July, 1882, was ap pointed Third Assistant Secretary of State. ;

Asa

was a Representative in the Leg Adgate, islature of New York from Clinton County, from 1798 to 1799; was a Representative in Congress from Es sex County, in that State, from 1815 to 1817; was again a member of the Legislature in 1823. ;

Adrain, Garnett

was born

in the city of 20, 1816; graduated at Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1833; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837; was a Representative from New Jersey in the Thirty-fifth Congress, serv ing as Chairman of the Committee on Engraving; was also elected a member of the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Engraving. In January, 1861, he offered the resolutkm of thanks to Major Robert Anderson for his defense of Fort Sumter. After leaving Congress he practiced his

New

B.;

York, December

profession.

Ahl, John A.; was born in Strasburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in August, 1815 received a good English education studied medicine with his father and graduated at the Washington Medical College" of Baltimore; abandoned his profession in 1850, and turned his attention to various kinds of manufactures was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Manufactures. ;

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Aiken D. Wyatt; was born at Winnsboro, South Carolina, March 17, 1828 graduated at the South Carolina College in 1849 taught school for two years engaged in farming served in the Con federate Army, during the war of the Rebellion, from ;

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Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

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New York

Seminary,

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studied law and was admitted

in 1855 removed to West Union, Iowa was a member of the Lower House and Senate was elected a Repre of the State for several years sentative from Iowa to the Forty-fourth Congress. to practice in 1854

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Thomas

Peter was elected a Repre Akers, sentative from Missouri to the Thirty-fourth Congress, for the unexpired term of J. G. Miller, and served ;

one session.

Albert, "William J.; was born at Baltimore, Maryland, August 4, 1816 educated at St. Mary s was bred a merchant retired from business College was a Presidential Elector in 1864 was in 1856 subsequently interested in banking and manufac ;

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Albertson, Nathaniel

was born

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in

Virginia ; the

in Congress from

was elected a Representative

First Congressional District of Indiana, from 184!) to 1851, and was a member of the Committee on Public Lands.

Albright, Charles was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1830 educated at Dick inson College studied law, and came to the bar in 1852 in 1854 visited Kansas, and in 1856 returned in 1860 was a Delegate to the Re to Pennsylvania publican National Convention entered the Army was commissioned Colonel, commanding in 1862 was placed the Third Brigade, at Chancellorsville in command of Camp Muhlenburg. Pennsylvania, to organize troops in July was sent to Philadelphia to in September, 1864. was assigned assist in the draft to an independent command to protect Railroads and the outer defenses of Washington in March, 1865, was promoted to brevet Brigadier-General of Volun after the war was sent to the cornmand of the teers Lehigh military distwct, to pacify tumults in the mining regions in 1865 was mustered out of service in 1872, was a Delegate to the Republican National was elected to the Convention at Philadelphia Forty-third Congress, serving on ,the Committee on Military Affairs. ;

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Aikin, William

was horn

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in Charleston,

South

Carolina, in 1806; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1825; was a member of the State Legisla ture in 1838, 1840, and 1842; was Governor of South Carolina in 1844; a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1857. He was considered one of the most successful rice-planters in his native State, and was one of the leading men of his State who did not take part in the Rebellion. Noted for his liberality, benevolence, and culture as a scholar.

vania,

Representative to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

James

Lusk was born November 4 r Alcorn, settled in Kentucky ; 1816, near Golconda, Illinois at was educated Cumberland College; was appointed of Deputy Sheriff Livingston County, and held the in 1843 was elected to the Legis office for five years lature removed in 1844 to Mississippi; entered upon the practice of law served sixteen years in the Legislature of that State, in the House and Senate in 1852 Avas chosen Elector was nominated for Gov ernor in 1857, but declined; was founder of the Levee System in his State; in 1858 was chosen President of ;

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Ainslie,

George was ;

born in Cooper County,

Missouri, October 30, 1838 received a common school education, and attended St. Louis University two was admitted to practice in years studied law ;

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and removed to Colorado in 1862 settled in that portion of Washington Territory which now constitutes the Territory of Idaho served in the Territorial Legislature, and was President of the Council during one session was editor of a news paper from 1869 to 1873 was elected District Attor ney in 1874 and re-elected in 1876 was elected a delegate from Idaho to the Forty-sixth and Forty1860,

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was born in New York, June 21, 1831 educated at schools and at the Oneida Conference

Ainsworth, Lucien Lester Woodstock, the

common

New

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the Levee Board of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta was elected to the State Convention of 1851, and again to that of 1861, the latter body electing him a BrigadierGeneral in 1865 was elected to the Senate of the United in 1869 was States, but not allowed to take his seat elected Governor of Mississippi; was elected to the Senate of the United States in 1871, for six years, serving on the Committees on Mines and Mining, Revision of Laws, Naval Affairs, and Levees of the Mississippi River. ;

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Aldrich, Cyrus Island,

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education

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B1OG KA PHICAL u boatman, a farmer, a contractor on public works, and a mail contractor; was a member of the Illinois Legislature; also a Register of Deeds and Register of the Land Office, at Dixon, in that State, for four years having removed to Minnesota, was a member of the Constitutional Convention of that State; member of the County Board of Hennepin County, in that State was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving Reas a member of the Committee on Agriculture. elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; was Chair man of the Committee on Indian Affairs. After leaving Congress was appointed, by President Lin coln, a Commissioner to settle claims against the Sioux Indians. In February, 1867, was appointed, by President Johnson, Postmaster at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

sailor,

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was born at Foster, Rhode Aldrich, Nelson received an academic Island, November 6, 1841 was education engaged in meicvntile pursuits "W.

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Rhode

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a Representative from Rhode Island to the Fortysixth and Forty-seventh Congresses; resigned in 1881 to take his seat as a Senator of the United States from Rhode Island for the term of six years from

March

4,

1881.

Aldrich, "William was born at Greenfield, New York, in January, 18:20 was reared on a farm re ceived a good education taught school for a time in 1846 engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1851 re moved to Wisconsin and engaged in merchandising and manufacturing was Superintendent of Schools for three years; was Chairman of the Board of Super visors one year was a member of the State House of ;

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Alexander, Henry

P.

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was born

in

New

York,

in 1802 engaged in commerce was a Representative in Congress from Herkimer County, in that State, from 1849 to 1851, and was a member of the Com mittee on Expenditures in the State Department. Died at Little Falls, Febvuary 22, 1867. :

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Alexander, James, Jr. was born in Maryland was a resident of St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio was elected a Representative in Congress from the Eleventh District of that State, from 1837 to 1839, and was a member of the Committee on Public Expenditures. Died August 6, 1846. ;

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Alexander, John was elected from Ohio, May 4, 1813, ;

in Congress

Mark

a Representative serving till 1817.

was born in Mecklenburg was elected a 7, 1792 the State Legislature in 1815 was in Congress from that State, from served on the Committees on Revo lutionary Pensions, Ways and Means, and Expend itures in the State Department, and the District of Columbia. Died at Scotland Neck, North Carolina,

Alexander,

July

6,

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February

County, Virginia, Representative in a Representative 1819 to 1833, and

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Alexander, Nathaniel graduated at Princeton ;

College in 1776, and, after studying medicine, entered the army. At the close of the war resided at the High Hills of Santee, pursuing his profession, and afterwards at Mecklenburg. While he held a seat in Congress, as a Representative from North Carolina, from 1803 to 1805, the Legislature elected him Gov ernor for 1806. Died at Salisbury, March 8, 1808, aged fifty-two. In all his public stations he dis with charged his duty ability and firmness.

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nois, in 1860,

Adam R.

Alexander,

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was born

in

Washing

ton County, Virginia; was elected a Representative in Congress from Madison County, Tennessee, from 1823 to 1827, and served as a member of the Commit tee on Post Offices and Post Roads.

Alexander, Robert was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777. ;

Alford, Julius C. was born in Georgia was elected a Representative in Congress from Troup County, in that State, from 1839 to 1842, and served as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs. ;

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Alger, Russell A.; was born in Lafayette Town Medina County, Ohio, February 27, 1836 when eleven years of age he lost both his parents and was thrown upon his own resources to secure a livelihood and support a younger brother and sister he worked on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, attend ing the Richfield, Ohio, Academy during the winter ship,

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Alexander, A. M.

was born in Clark County, Kentucky, May 26, 1834; removed to Missouri, and settled at Paris; studied law; was admitted to the. bar in 1860 and engaged in practice; was Prosecuting Attorney of Monroe County for six years; was a Dele ;

gate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1875 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

Alexander, D. S.; was born at Richmond, Maine. July 17, 1845 served three years as a private soldier during the War of the Rebellion received a classical education, graduating from Bowdoin College in 1870 ;

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Alexander, Evan; was born in North Carolina graduated at Princeton College in 1787 was a mem was a Repre ber of the Legislature for two years sentative in Congress from North Carolina from 1805 Died October 28, 1809. to 1809. ;

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chusetts,

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. President Monroe, the appointment of United States Marshal for the District of Vermont in 1*23 received from the same President the appointment of Minister in 1*30 was to Chili, which post he resigned in 1828 appointed President of the United States Branch Bank, at Burlington, which office he held until the expiration of its charter, after which he settled in the town of Highgate, Vermont, where he died of heart

a Legislature in 1839, 1833, 1834, 1838, and 1840 State Senator in 183.1, 1838, and 1839 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1842 to 1844 was a Representative in Congress from 1849 to 1853, and a member of the Committee on the -District of Colum bia Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Sutlblk County from 1858 to 1859 subsequently Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the State was a member of the State Constitutional Conventions of 1853 and 1859 a Commissioner to negotiate the Webster Treaty in 1842 was a Delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861. ;

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Allen, James C.J was born in Shelby County, Kentucky. January 28, 1*23; received a good com mon-school education studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1843; in 1846 was elected Prosecuting Attorney in the Seventh Judicial Dis in 1850 and 1851 was trict of Indiana for two years elected a member of the State Legislature was chosen a Representative in Congress from Illinois, from 1853 to 1855, and re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress;

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Worcester, August

1869.

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Allen, Charles H.; was born

at Lowell, Massa received his early educa

chusetts, April 15, 1848 tion in the public schools graduated from Amherst College in 1809 engaged in mercantile pursuits re ceived the degree of A. M. from Amherst College in 1872 held several local offices in Lowell was a Rep resentative in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1881 and 1882 was a State Senator in 1883 in 1884 was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty -ninth Congress. ;

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Allen, Chilton Virginia, April

6.

was born

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in Albemarle County, settled in Kentucky as a

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wheelwright educated himself for the legal profes sion from Clark County was elected, in 1811, to the Legislature of Kentucky, and re-elected for several terms was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1*31 to 1837, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Territories, and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1838 was Presi dent of the Board of Internal Improvement and in 1842 was again returned to the State Legislature, which was the last public position he occupied. 1 )ied He was a man of at Winchester, September 3, 1858. ability and of rare virtues. ;

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Allen, Elisha H.; was born in Xew Salem, Massa January 28, 1804 was bred a lawyer served in the Legislature of Maine from 183(5 to 1841, and in in 1838 as Speaker was elected a Representa 184(5 tive in Congress from Maine from 1841 to 1*43, serv ing as a member of the Committee on Manufactures in 1847 removed to Boston was elected to the Massa after which he was chusetts Legislature in 1849 afterwards became appointed Consul to Honolulu connected with the Government of the Sandwich

chusetts,

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John

M.; was born in Tishomingo Coun

in the same year was admitted to ti and commenced the practice of law at Tupelo, Mississippi; in 1*75 was elected District Attorney for the First Judicial District of Mississippi, in which position he served four years in 1**4 was elected ;v Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-ninth cr

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31, 1812.

Allen John J.; was born in Virginia was a res was elected a Representa ident of Harrison County tive in Congress from Virginia, from 1*33 to 1*35, and served as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia subsequently held the ol u e of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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necticut,

Mississippi, July 8, 1847: receive:! a commo:ischool education; served in the Con let .crate A .my after its close, at .emlc;! throughout the Civil War the Law School of Cumberland University, Tennes see, and in 1*70 graduated in law from the University

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resi

dent, if not a native, of Milton, Vermont adopted the profession of the law, in which he became distin ;

guished was a Representative in Congress from Ver mont from 1833 to 1*39. serving as an active member of the Committee on Claims subsequently settled in Burlington, Vermont, where he died December 11, ;

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Allen, John W.; was born in Litchiield. Con necticut, in 1*02; settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1*25; was a member of the Senate of that State from 1*35 to 1837 also Mayor of Cleveland was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from 1*37 to 1*41. serving a a member of the Committee on the Militia and Mili He was the son of John Allen, of Great tary Affairs. ;

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Allen, Joseph; was born in Boston was a mer chant in Leicester, and benefactor of the Academy there; twice Elector for President; was a Clerk of the County Court and a State Councilor was a Rep resentative in Congress from Massachusetts, from 1810 to 1*11, having succeeded J. Upham, resigned. Died at Worcester, September 2, 1827, aged seventy-eight :

Allen, Heman was born in 1779 was a resi dent of Colchester, Vermont graduated at Dart mouth College in 1795, and adopted the profession of the law was Sheriff of Chittenden County in 1808 and 1809 from 1811 to 1814 was Chief Justice of the Chittenden County Court from 1812 to 1817 was an active member of the State Legislature; was appointed Quartermaster of Militia, with the title of Brigadier was a Trustee of the University of Vermont was Jrst elected a Representative in Congress from Verin but in 1818 to uiont 1817, resigned accept, from ;

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born in Connecticut re elected a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1*39 to 1*41, and was a member of the Committee on Mileage.

Allen, moving to

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G R A P H I CAL ANXA LS

was born in Dutchess County, served in the Assembly of that State in 181:2; was a Representative in Congress, from 181 9 to 1821, and a member of the Committee on Manufac

New York

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Allen, Richard C.; was a citizen of Florida, and was one of the earliest United States Judges appoint ed for the District embracing that State.

was born

in Butler County, received a good English studied law, education taught school for a time and was admitted to the bar in 1849 in 1850 was elected a County Prosecuting Attorney, and re-elected in 1852; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Accounts re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving as Chairman of the Com mittee on Expenditures in Interior Department was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention in 1864, and also to the Philadelphia "National Union Conven tion" of 1866.

Allen,

Allen, Philip; was born in Providence, Rhode Island, September 1, 1785 graduated at Brown Uni versity in 1803 was elected to the State Legislature devoted much attention to in 1819, 1850, and 1821 was Governor of the business of manufacturing the Khode Island during years 1851, 1852, and 1853 in a Senator was elected Congress from his native State, from March 3, 1853, for six years, serving as a member of the Committees on Commerce and on Naval Affairs. He constructed the first Watt & BoulDied in Provi ton Steam Engine in Providence. dence, Khode Island, December 16, 1865.

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Virginia

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Allen, Robert was born in Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia, July 30, 1794 was educated at Dickinson and Washington Colleges, having left the latter institution on a furlough of three months, ;

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serving on the Committee for the District of

Columbia.

Allen,

"Willis

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was born

in Tennessee

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was a

Representative in Congress from Illinois, from 1851 to 1855.

Alley, John B.; was born in Lynn, Massachu January 7, 1817 received a good commonschool education was apprenticed to a shoemaker setts,

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years of age, subse after which he devoted himself to trading quently entered largely into the shoe and leather business served several years in the City Councils of Lynn was a member of the Governor s Council in a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852 1851 of the State Constitutional Convention held in 1853 in 1858 was elected a Representative from Massa chusetts to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Reelected to the Thirty -seventh, and also to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Commit Re-elected to tee on Post Offices and Post Roads. the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving again on the Post Office Committee, and as a member of that on the Bankrupt Law was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866. ;

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Samuel

C.;

was born

in Franklin ;

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8,

1842, aged seventy years.

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Allison, James was born in Cecil County, Maryland, October 4, 1772 studied law and ac quired a high position at the bar of Western Penn was elected a Representative from that sylvania State to the Eighteenth Congress was re-elected to the Xineteenth Congress, but on account of ill health and his dislike of public life, declined the position ;

was born at Pittsfield, Massa was educated at Union College studied chusetts law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837 removed to Washington. District of Columbia, and engaged in in 1842 re the printing and newspaper business moved to St. Louis, Missouri was a State Senator in became largely interested in rail 1850 and 1854 ways, and was, for many years, President of railway was elected a Representative from corporations Allen,

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ty, Massachusetts, January 5, 1772 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1794 was a Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1806 to 1810 a a State Senator from 1812 to 1815, and in 1831 member of the Executive Council in 1829 and 1830 was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1829, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Accounts. He was at one time a Con

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died April

1882.

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after practicing his profession for fifty years, died in June, 1854.

Allison, John was a son of James Allison, and was born in Pennsylvania, August 5, 1812 studied was elected law, but never practiced the profession to the Assembly of his State in 1846, 1847, and 1849 was a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-second and Thirty-fourth Congresses, and de On the 1st of clined a nomination for re-election. April, 1869, was appointed Register of the United died at Washington March, 23, States Treasury ;

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was born

Xorth Allen, was received a good education Carolina, in 1806 connected by family ties witli Allen G. Thurnian was an early emigrant to the State of Ohio adopted was a Representative in the profession of the law Congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1835, serving as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs was "William

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Allison,

Robert

was a Representative from 1831

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v,-as

born in Pennsylvania from Pennsylvania,

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in Congress,

to 1833.

B.; was born in the township of County, Ohio, March 2, 18:29 spent the most of his boyhood on a farm was educated chiefly at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, and at the Western Reserve College, Ohio studied law, came to the liar in 1851, and practiced the profession in

Allison,

Perry,

"Wm.

Wayne

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Ohio until 1857, when he settled in Dubuque, Iowa was a delegate to the Chicago Convention of I860 in 1861 was a member of the Governor s staff, and rendered essential service in raising troops for the war in 1862 was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands and Roads and Canals. Re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees .on Ways and Means, Mines and Mining, and Expenses in the Interior Department. Re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses. In 1873 was elected to the United States Senate for the term ending in 1879, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and also on the Com mittees on the Library and Appropriations was reelected for the term ending in March, 1885, and in January, 1885, was re-elected for a third term, end ;

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ing in 1891.

was born in 1778 was a Allston, Joseph planter of education and ability was several years a member of the South Carolina Legislature was Governor of that State from 1812 to 1814. Died Sep tember 10, 1816. He married a daughter of Aaron Burr, and for that reason was suspected, but un justly, of being concerned in the questionable enter His wife was lost at sea prises of that famous man. on her passage from New York to Charleston in 1812. ;

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Allyn, Joseph

was a native of Connecticut,

P.;

from which State he was appointed an Associate Jus tice of the United States Court for the Territory of

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in 1857 was elected to the State Legisla and served two terms in 1859 was appointed Judge of the Ninth Judicial District of the State, and served until 1867, when he resumed the practice of his profession was elected to the Forty-first Con gress, and re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Ohio

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Ames, Adelbert was born in Rockland, Maine, October 31, 1835; received a classical education; en tered the Military Academy at West Point, and grad uated in 1861 was commissioned second Lieutenant of Artillery brevetted Major for gallant services at the battle of Bull Run, where he was wounded brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for services at the bat was appointed Colonel of Vol tle of Malvern Hill unteers brevetted Colonel for services at the battle of Gettysburg brevetted Major-General of Volun teers for services at Fort Fisher, and again brevetted Major-General, United States Army, at the close of the war, for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the Rebellion was appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868; appointed to the command of the Department of Mississippi in 1869; was elected to the United States Senate for six years, taking his seat in 1870, and serving on the Commit noval of Political Dis tees on Military Affairs and abilities. In 1873 was elected Governor of Missis ;

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Anorel, William G.; was a native of New Shoreham, Rhode Island was elected a Representative in

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was born

in

Beverly, Massa

chusetts, February 11, 1815; graduated at Bowdoiir, College, Maine, in 1834 was admitted to practice law at Portland, Maine, in 1H37. In the winter of l838- 39 became editor of a Democratic newspaper in that city, The Ettxleni Argus, and continued to be its editor for the next four or live years, during a part ;

of which time he was also Register of Probate for the County of Cumberland. In 1845 accepted an in vitation from Mr. Bancroft, the Secretary of the Navy, to become Chief Clerk of the Navy Depart ment; subsequently succeeded Mr. Trist as Chief Clerk of the State Department, which was then pre In 1848 was appoint sided over by Mr. Buchanan. ed, by President Polk, Charge d Afftiircxof the United States to Bolivia. On his return from that mission, which he resigned after the election of General Tay in part lor, resumed the practice of law at Portland, nership with Nathan Clifford, subsequently one of theJudges of the Supreme Court of the United States;, soon afterwards, in September. 1850, was elected,. from the Portland District, a member of the Thirtysecond Congress. In 1855 joined Mr. Buchanan, then United States Minister to England, at London, as for Secretary of Legation, but returned home in time In 1857, having the Presidential canvass of 1856. been obliged, by reason of ill-health, to decline the had position of editor of the Wuxhintjton Union, which been tendered him, was appointed, by President Bu chanan, Assistant Secretary of State. In May, I860, was appointed Minister to Russia. Died at Portland,.

Maine, August 22, 1864.

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Congress from Burlington. Otsego County, New York, from 1825 to 1827. and again from 129 to 1833. and was a member of the Committees on Indian A Hairs and on Territories.

Angell, James B.; was a resident of Michigan was appointed United States Minister to ;

in 1880

China.

Anthony, George

T.;

was Governor

oi

Kansas

from 1877 to 1879. B.; was born in Coventry, 1S15. of (Quaker ancestry graduated at Brown University in 1833 in 1838 he assumed the editorial charge of the Providence Jour nal, which he retained until called to a seat in the United States Senate; was elected Governor of Rhode Island in 1849; re-elected in 1850, and declined a further re-election; was elected a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island for the term commencing in 1859 and ending in 1865, serving as Chairman of the Com mittee on Printing: was re-elected to the Senate for

Anthony, Hem^y

Rhode

Island.

April

1.

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the term ending in 1K71, again serving at the head of the Printing Committee and as a member of the Committees on Claims, Naval Affair s, Mines and Mining, and Post Offices and Post Roads; was a member of the National Committee appointed to ac company the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois; was one of the Senators designated by the Senate to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven On the meeting of the Forty-first tion" of 1866. Congress was elected President of the Senate, pro 1cm. Re-elected to the Senate in 1870, for the term

ending 1877; was again re-elected in 1882; died September 2, 1884.

in 1876,

and again

Appleton, John James

was born at Calais, September 22, 1792, while his father was United States Consul at that place; graduated at Har vard University in 1813; was Secretary of Legation of the United States to Portugal, from 1819 to 1822, to. to the Spain, from 1822 to 1825; Charge d Affaires Two Sicilies in 1825; and to Sweden in 1826. He re sided in France, where he owned a valuable estate. While at Stockholm he negotiated a treaty of Com Died at Rennes, France, March 4, 1864. merce. ;

France,

1

was born at New Ipswich,. Hampshire, October 6, 1779; entered Dartmouth after being College in 1794, but left his studies there,

Appleton, Nathan

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New

invited by his brother to jo n him in the mercantile business in Boston; became interested in the cotton manufacture, and in 1821 was one of the three origi nal founders of Lowell, Massachusetts; was, at dif ferent periods, a member of the Legislature of Massa in chusetts; from 1831 to 1833 was a Representative Congress from Massachusetts, serving on important committees; was again elected to Congress in 1842, but soon resigned his seat. Died at Boston, July 14, A memoir of his life was published by Robert 1861. :

C.

Winthrop.

was born in Brookfield, "William Massachusetts, November, 1786; was educated for mercantile pursuits, in which he was engaged exten took sively and successfully for more than fifty years; a prominent part in various public and benevolent finan enterprises: gave much attention to banking and cial operations; was for some years, and until the close of the institution, President of the Boston branch of the Bank of the United States; in 1850 was

Appleton,

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elected a Representative in Congress from Massachu-

BIOGRAPHICAL A N X A L S

12 -setts;

was

was also elected to the Died at Boston, in Febru

re-elected iu 185:7;

Thirty-seventh Congress. ary, 1862.

Archer, John; was born in Harford County, Maryland, in 1741, and graduated at Nassau Hall in 1760; studied theology, but, on account of a throat affection, turned his attention to medicine, and went through a course of study at the Philadelphia Medi cal College, receiving the first medical diploma ever issued in the New World; at the commencement of the Revolution had command of a military company; -was a member of the State Legislature; and after the -war practiced his profession; was a Presidential elector in 1797; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland, from 1801 to 1807; died in 1810. As a medical man he commanded great influence, and several discoveries were made by him, which have been adopted by the profession. was born in Harford Archer, Stevenson County, Maryland; graduated at Princeton College in 1805; was a Judge of the Court of Appeals; was -elected a Representative in Congress from Maryland, from 1811 to 1817, when he was appointed Judge in ;

Mississippi Territory; was chosen a Representative in Congress again, from 1819 to 1821, and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; in 1845 was ap pointed Chief Justice of Maryland, which office he held until his death, in 1848. He was the son of -John Archer.

was born in Harford Archer, Stevenson -County, Maryland, 1827; graduated at Princeton College in 1846; adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the Maryland Legislature in 1854; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees ;

-on

Naval

Affairs,

Expenditures on Public Buildings.

His in the District of Columbia. father, bearing the same name, and his grandfather, .John Archer, were both Representatives in Congress from the same District which he represented. Reelected to the Forty-first Congress; was a Delegate to the New York Convention of 1868; also re-elected to

and Education

the two subsequent Congresses.

Archer, William

was born in Amelia Coun 1789; came of a Welsh family, whom acquitted themselves with honoi in the Revolutionary War; obtained the rudiments of his education at the best grammar schools of the day; graduated at the College of William and Mary studied law; in 1812 was elected to the State Legis lature, where he served, excepting one year, unti 1819; in 1820 was elected a Representative in Con gress from Virginia, where he remained until 1835, taking an active part in all matters of national im

ty, Virginia, -a number of

March

S.;

5,

portance, and exerting a wide influence, especially as

Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs anc member of the Committee on the Missouri Com In 1841 was elected to the United States promise. Senate, where he remained until 1847, having, from the first, been placed at the head of the Committee on Foreign Relations in that body. By his publi acts, he commanded the respect of the country, and by the charms of his private character won the friend ship of many of the leading men of his day. On his retirement from public life, he devoted himself tc the improvement of his paternal estate; and dice March 28, 1855, of neuralgia, with which he had beei afflicted for

twenty

years.

Armfleld, Robert Franklin; was born

in Guil ford County, North Carolina, July 9, 1829; receivec a collegiate education; adopted the profession of the

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to 1861; State law; was County Attorney from 1855 solicitor for the Sixth District from 1863 to 1865; erved in the Confederate Army as Lieutenant-Colonel of luring the War of the Rebellion; was President he State Senate and Lieutenant-Governor in 1875 xnd 1876; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con;resses.

Armor, Charles Lee was born in Virginia; was of the appointed, from Maryland, an Associate Judge United States Court, for the Territory of Colorado. ;

Armstrong, David H.; was born in Nova Scotia, October 21, 1812; received an academic education, and was a teacher for eighteen years; in 1837 removed to Missouri, opening, in 1838, and conducting, in St. under the Louis, the first public school established laws of that State; in 1847 was appointed Comptrol ler of the city of St. Louis and re-appointed in 1848 and 1849; in 1854 was appointed, by President Pierce, Postmaster of St. Louis; was appointed a United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis V. Bogy, whose term of service would have expired March 3, 1879.

Armstrong, John; was

a native of Pennsylva distinguished himself in the Indian wars, and was consulted by the proprietors of Pennsylvania on all matters connected with Indian affairs; in 1776, Congress promoted him from the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier-General, and he assisted in the de fense of Fort Moultrie, and in the battle of Germantown; in 1777 resigned his commission in consequence of dissatisfaction as to rank; was subsequently elected a Representative to Congress from Pennsylvania, serv ing from 1793 to 1795; also held a number of other hon Died at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. March orable offices. after the expiration of his term 9, 1795, a few days in Congress.

nia;

Armstrong, John was born in Carlisle, Penn sylvania, November 25, 1755, and served as an officer At the close of the war, in the Revolutionary War. in order to obtain redress for the grievances of the he prepared the celebrated officers of the army, was a Delegate to the Conti "Newburgh Letters; ;

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nental Congress in 1778 and 1787, from Pennsylvania; was made Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of the State; to him was intrusted the direction of the last Pennsylvania war against the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming. Returning to New York, he was sent to the Senate of the United States, serving from 1800 to 1804, when he resigned. On the return of Chancellor Livingston from the French embassy, was commissioned Minister in his place, in 1804; and was also appointed a Commissioner Plenipoten

Returning to his own country, was appointed a Brigadier-General in 1812; in 1813, Sec retary of War, by President Madison, which position he resigned in consequence of difficulties growing out From that time he of the capture of Washington. He published a brief history of lived in retirement. the last war with England; died at Red Hook, New tiary to Spain.

York, April

1,

1843.

Armstrong, Moses K.; was

born at Milan, September 19, 1832; was educated at the Western Reserve College; removed to Minnesota in 185(5; was fleeted Surveyor of United States Lands; on the admission of Minnesota as a State, removed to Yankton, on the Missouri River; on the organ i/ation of Dakota, in 1861, was elected to the First Ter ritorial Legislature, and re-elected in 18(52 and 1863, serving the last year as Speaker; was editor of The Dakota Union in 1864; was elected Territorial Treas Ohio,

urer; appointed Clerk of the

Supreme Court

in 1865;

AN XAL8

B1OG RA PHICAL

as Chairman of the Select Committee on the Defenses and Fortifications of the Great Lakes and Rivers. In 1862 was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures, and as Chairman of that on Roads and Canals. In May, 1865, was appointed, by President Johnson, Sixth

elected to the Territorial Senate in 18G(i, eliosen President in 1867; published the first history of Da kota, in 1867; acted as Secretary to the Indian Peace Commi.ssion to the Sioux; from 1866 to 18G9 estab lished {lie base-lines for United States surveys in Southern Dakota, and the Northern lied River Valley; was again elected to the Territorial Senate in 1869; established the first Democratic, newspaper in the Territory; was chosen President of the First National Bank of the Territory in 1872; was elected Delegate to the Forty-second

Auditor of the Treasury; in 1866 published a tory of

Armstrong William was born in Lisburn, Antrim County, Ireland, December 23, 1782; came 1

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to this country in 1792; received a limited education; studied law in Winchester, Virginia; devoted himself In 1813 was appointed, by to mercantile pursuits. President Madison, Collector for the Sixth District of Virginia; in 18L8 and 1819 was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates; in 1822 and 1823, a member of the Board of Public Works; in 1820. and

1824 was a Presidential Elector; for many years a Justice of the Peace; one year High Sheriff of Hamp shire County; was a Representative in Congress from to 18J3.

Armstrong-,

"William

H.; was born in Williams-

port. Pennsylvania, September 7, 1824; graduated at Princeton College in 1847; adopted the profession of the law; was elected to the State Legislature in

I860 and ISb l; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Indian Affairs and the Civil Ser vice: in 1S82 was appointed Commissioner of Rail roads in the Department of the Interior.

Arnell,

Samuel

M.; was born in Maury County,

Ib33; his grandfather having been a soldier in the Revolution, and acquitted himself with credit at "King s Mountain;" was educated for the Church, but taught a classic school and studied law; in 1859 went into the business of manufacturing leather; in 1801 took an active interest in putting down the Rebellion, and suffered in person and property from the Confederate Army; was elected to the Tennessee Legislature, and advocated the passage of the Constitutional Amendment in 1865; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-ninth Congress, taking his seat near the close of the first session and serving on the Committee on Public Ex Re-elected to the Fortieth and Fortypenditures. first Congresses, serving on the Committee on Accounts and as Chairman of that on Expenditures in the State

Tennessee,

May

"His

Lincoln."

in Providence, Island, December 14, 1741; was a member of the State Assembly in 1776; was author of the Act

Rhode

Armstrong-, S. T.; was elected Lieutenant-Gov ernor of Massachusetts in 1S36, and was soon called upon to act as Governor of the State, in the place of John Davis.

l82,->

Abraham

Arnold, Jonathan; was born

and Forty-third Congresses.

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3,

Department.

of May, 1776, repealing the laws providing for the oath of allegiance to the mother country; was a sur geon in the Revolutionary Army; after the war re moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he wasappointed Judge of the Orange County Court in 1782, holding that office during the remainder of his lifej was a member of the Continental Congress from 1782; to 1784. Died in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, February 2,

1798.

Arnold, Lemuel H.; was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, January 29, 1792; removed to Rhode Island at an early age; graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1811; was educated for the bar, but turned his at In 1831 was elected tention to mercantile pursuits. Governor of Rhode Island, and re-elected in 1832; was a member of the Governor s Council during the Dorr Rebellion in 1842; was a Representative in Congress

from 1845 to 1847.

June

Died in Kingston, Rhode Island,

27, 1852.

Arnold, Peleg-; was a member of the Assembly of Rhode Island; was for many years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State; was a. Delegate tothe Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788, when he was app Island,

Judge.

>inted

February

Died in Smithfield, Rhode aged sixty-eight years.

13, 1820,

Arnold, Samuel; was born in Haddarn, Mid dlesex County, Connecticut, June 1, 1806; received his education at Plainfield Academy, in Connecticut, and Westfield Academy, in Massachusetts; devoted the most of his life to agricultural pursuits, and various interests of commerce; also for many years carried on one of the most extensive stone quarries in the Union; was, for a number of years, President of the Bank of East Haddam served his native county in the Legislature during the years 1839, 1842, 1844, and 1851 was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, as a Representative from Connecticut, serving as a ber of the Committee on Claims. to>

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Arnold, Samuel

G-.; was born in Providence, Island, April 12, 18-21; graduated at Brown University in 1841, having taken a year from the course to travel in Europe and the East; spent years in a counting-house in Providence, and again visited Europe spent two years at the Harvard Law School, and, having graduated, came to the bar in 1845; instead of practicing, again visited Europe and also South America. In 1852 was elected LieutenantGovernor of Rhode Island; in 1859 and 1860 published the "History of the State of Rhode Island," a work

Rhode

two>

Arnold, Benedict; was a member of the As sembly of New York from Amsterdam, Montgomery County, in 1816 and 1817; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1829 to 1831.

Arnold, Isaac N.; was born

in Hardwicke, Ot-

sego County, New York, in November, 1815 while engaged in acquiring an education taught school studied law, and came to the bar in 1835; in 1836 removed to Chicago, Illinois; in 1837 was First Clerk of the City of Chicago; in 1843 was elected to the Illinois Legislature, and took an active part in the in 1844 was a Presidential canal improvements Elector; was for a time Attorney for the Illinois and Michigan Canal; in 1860 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving ;

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upon which he had long been engaged; in 1861 was a Delegate to the Peace Convention, and again chosen Lieuteuant-Governor of the State; on the breaking out of the Rebellion took the field, for a few weeks, in command of a battery of artillery, as aide-de-campIn 1862 was again elected to Governor Sprague. Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island, and was soon afterwards chosen Senator in Congress, for the unex-

term of J. F. Simmons, resigned, serving onthe Committees on Commerce and Claims. piiecl

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.Arnold, Thomas D. was elected a Represent ative in Congress from Knox County, Tennessee, from 1831 to 18:53; was elected for a second term, from 1841 to 1843, representing Greenville County; and was a member of the Committees on Elections and Claims. ;

Arnot, John, Jr. was born at Elmira, New York, March 31, 1831; was educated at a private school at Northampton, Massachusetts; was three times President of the village of Elmira, and was the first Mayor after its incorporation was, subsequently, twice elected Mayor; became Cashier of the Chemuiig Canal Bank, in 1851, and continued in that position; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyjilath Congress. ;

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Arrington, H. Archibald

;

was born

in

North

Carolina; represented that State in Congress from 1841 to 1845, after which he retired to private life; -was a member of the Committee on Expenditures in His son, Alfred W. Arringthe War Department. ton, attained distinction as a Methodist preacher, a lawyer, and judge, and a writer for the magazines under the assumed name of Charles Summerfield, re siding in North Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana, Mis souri, and

Fairfield,

;

New York

City in 1853, and was soon after

admitted to the bar; entered upon the practice of his profession there at once and attained eminence; in J86 was appointed Engineer-in-Chief on the staff of ^Governor Morgan, and discharged the duties of the office with marked ability until the expiration of his term in 1863; in 1862 was appointed Inspector-Genjeral of New York, in addition to his other duties; was Collector of the Port of New York from 1871 to 1878; in 1879 was elected Chairman of the Republi can State Committee; in 1880 was elected Vice-Pres ident of the United States; in September, 1881, be came President of the United States by the death of President Garfield.

Arthur, William B.; was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March

removed with his parents to Covington, Kentucky, where he was educated; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850; was elected At torney for the Ninth Judicial District, and served from 1856 to 1862; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; elected Judge of the Ninth Judicial District in 1866, for a full term, but resigned in two years; was elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serv ing on the Committees on Elections and Railways and Canals. 3,

1825;

Asboth, Alexander Sandor was born in ;

Kesz-

County of Zaln, Hungary, December 18, 1811; studied at Oedenburg; served in the Austrian army, and afterwards devoted himself to engineering. In 1848 and 1849 took the side of the Liberals in the Hungarian army; was in several battles, and at tained the rank of Adjutant-General; went with Kossuth to Turkey, and was imprisoned with him at Kutaiah; on their release in 1851 came to the United States on the frigate Miatiiixippi, and became a citi zen; was a farmer, engineer, and manufacturer until thely,

1868.

Ash, Michael W. was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1835 to 1837, serving as a member of the Com mittee on Naval Affairs. ;

Ashe, John Baptiste; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; was a Repre sentative in Congress from North Carolina from 1790 to 1793; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac: was elected Governor of the State of North Carolina in 1801. Died November

27, 1802.

Ashe, John

at

.Franklin County, Vermont, October 5, 1830; removed, with his parents, to Central New York, in his boy hood; entered Union College in 1845, when fifteen years of age, and, after a brilliant course, graduated in 1848; his resources being limited, Jie taught school, in addition to prosecuting his studies at College, dur ing two winters of his collegiate course; began the /study of law upon leaving College; was Principal of an Academy at North Pownal, Vermont, in 1851 re to

Western Division in Fremont s campaign, which formed the rearguard at Holla; was with General Curtis in Arkansas, and was wounded in the battle of Pea Ridge; in 1863 commanded at Columbus, Ken he was again tucky, and then in West Florida, where for wounded; in 1865 was breveted Major-General his services in Florida; was appointed Minister to Died in conse the Argentine Republic in 1866. quence of his wounds, at Buenos Ayres, January 21,

Illinois.

Arthur, Chester A.; was born

moved

the government, 1861, when he offered his services to and. went Jus chief of Fremont s staff to Missouri; was made a Brigadier-General, and commanded the

B.

was a son of John Baptute Ashe

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elected a Representative in Congress from Ten nessee, from 1843 to 1845. representing the Tenth District, and serving as a member of the Committees on Invalid Pensions and Expenditures in the State

was

and Treasury Departments.

Ashe, Samuel

was born in North Carolina in and brother of General John B. Ashe, of the old Congress; was a lawyer of ability, a citizen of exalted patriotism, and a soldier in emergencies; was a lead ing member of the North Carolina Congress; Chief Justice of the State from 1777 to 1796: Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. Died at Rocky Point, North Carolina, February 3, 1813. ;

1725,

Ashe, Thomas S. was born in Orange County, North Carolina; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1832; studied law and pursued that pro fession; in 1842 was elected a member of the Legis lature of North Carolina; in 1847 was elected Solici tor of the Fifth Judicial District of North Carolina, .nd served in that capacity four years; in 1S54 was elected to the State Senate; in 1861 was elected to the ;

t

House of Representatives of the Confederate States; to the Senate of the Confederate Congress in 18(54; was one of the Councilors of State in 18(56; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures.

Ashe, "William S. was born in Wilmington. North Carolina, and was the son of John Baptiste Ashe; was a lawyer by profession served in the State Legislature in 1846, and was re-elected in 184S; was a Representative in Congress from 1849 to 1853, serv ing on the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department. Was killed on a railroad, near Wil^ ;

;

mington, in 1864.

Ashley Chester was born at Westfield, Massa ,

chusetts,

Hudson,

;

June

New

1790; was removed in infancy to York, where he resided until he reached 1,

the age of twenty-seven; then went to Illinois, and after practicing law in that State for two years, re moved to the Territory of Arkansas, and established himself in Little Rock, then a mere landing; was chosen a Senator in Congress from Arkansas in 1844 and was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in that body; served until his death, which occurred in Washington City, April 29, 1848.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. .Ashley, Delos R. received a good education; studied law in Monroe, Michigan: went to California in 1849, where he held the office of District Attorney in 1851, 1852 and 1853; was a member of the Cali fornia Assembly in 1854 and 1855; a State Senator in 1856 and 1857; State Treasurer in 1862 and 1863: ;

early in 18(J4 removed to Nevada, and was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, and on that on Free Schools in the District of Columbia; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Lands.

Died in San Francisco, July

18, 1873.

Ashley, Henry; was born

New

in Cheshire County,

Hampshire; was elected a Representative in Con gress from Delaware and Greene counties, New York, from 1825 to 1827.

Ashley, James M. was born ;

November

in Pennsylvania,

1824; was self educated; became an adventurer at the age of fifteen, at one time acting as clerk on the store-boats of the Ohio and Mississippi; then doing service in a printing-office: studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1H49: but, instead of practicing his profession, went into the business of boat-building, and was connected with the press; subsequently settled at Toledo, and went into the wholesale drug business; was elected a Rep resentative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Territories. Re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, and made Chairman of the Committee on Territories; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Claims, and as Chairman of the Committee 14,

on Territories, and under his immediate supervision the Territories of Arizona, Idaho, and Montana were Re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, organized. serving again at the head of the Committee on Terri tories, and as a member of those on Unfinished Busi ness and Mines and Mining: was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 18(J(J: was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress; subsequently ap pointed Governor of Montana.

Representatives and Senate of Massachusetts; in 181G to succeed C. Gore as Senator from that State in CYmgress; resigned in 1818; died at North

was elected

:

lloonville. Missouri,

March

26, 1838.

Ashmore, John D. was

born in Greenville Dis South Carolina. August 7. 1819; served as a merchant s clerk for several years, and then taught ;

trict.

school until he became of age; studied law. but, in stead of following that profession, turned his atten tion to agriculture: when quite young filled various offices in the State Militia: was a member of the South Carolina Legislature in 1848, 1850, and 1852: in 1853 was elected Comptroller-General of the State for two years, and was re-elected for a second term; was subsequently elected a Representative from With South Carolina to the Thirty-sixth Congress.

drew

in

December. I860.

Eli Porter was a distinguished law yer, and for several years a member of the House of

Ashmun,

:

May

ampton, Massachusetts,

10,

1819, aged forty-

eight.

Ashmun, George

;

was born inBandford, Mass

achusetts, December 25, 1804; graduated at Yale College in 1823: studied law, and settled in Spring field in 1828; served in the State Legislature during the years 1833, 1835, 1836, 1838, and 1841, officiating as Speaker of the House in the latter year; was a Representative in Congress from 1845 to 1851, serving as a member of the Committees on the Judiciary, Indian Affairs, and Rules; in 1860 was elected Presi dent of the Chicago Convention, convened to nomi

nate a President and Vice President; was subsequent ly appointed a Director of the Union Pacific Rail road; in 1866 was chosen a Delegate to the Philadel phia "National Union Convention," but did not take part in its proceedings. Died at Springfield, Massachusetts, July 10, 1870.

Ashton, J. Hubley was a citizen of Pennsyl vania, from which State he was, in 1864, appointed Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, serving three years; re-appointed in 1868, serving one year; was subsequently associated with the Court ;

for the

settlement of the

Alabama Claims.

Aspsr, Joel F. was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1822; removed with his father to Ohio in 1830; worked on a farm and attended school alternately; studied law and came to the bar ;

in 1844, writing frequently for the newspapers; was elected a Justice of the Peace in 1846, and in 1847 Prosecuting Attorney for his County; was a Delegate to the Buffalo Convention of 1848; editor of the Wcxtern Rc.ierre Chronicle in 1849, and of the Chnrdon Democrat in 1850; in 1861 raised a company and was mustered into the Volunteer Army as Captain, serving at the battle of Winchester, where he was wounded;

was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in on account 18(12: in 1863 was mustered out of service "

wounds

In the latter year received in action." organized a regiment of National Guards and became its Colonel, and, with it, was at the battle of Kellar s Bridge in 1864; for his services there was highly complimented: in that year removed to Missouri; in 1866 started a paper at Chillicothe, Missouri, called the Hpi cfnfin; and, while editing that journal and practicing law, was, in 1868, elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committee on Military Affairs; died at his home of

Ashley, "William H. was born in Powhatan County. Virginia: emigrated to Missouri, then Upper Louisiana, in 1808. and settled near the Lead Mines. In 1822 projected the scheme of the "Mountain Ex by uniting the Indian trade in the Rocky pedition. Mountains with the hunting and trapping business: enlisted about three hundred hardy men in the busi ness, and. after various successes and reverses, hav ing sustained numerous losses by Indian robbery and river disasters, he and his associates realized a hand some fortune: was the first Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, after it became a State: was a Represent ative in Congress, from 18:U to 1S37; died near

15

in October, 1872.

Astor, "William "Waldorf; was born in New York City, March 31, 1848; was chiefly educated by private tutors at his home, and in Europe; graduated from Columbia College Law School in 1875; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1878; a S^ate Senator in 1880 and 1881; was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Italy in 1882.

Atchison, David R. was born in Frogtown, Fayette County, Kentucky, August 11, 1807; was educated for the bar; removed to Missouri in 1830; was elected to the Legislature of that State in 1834 and 1838. In 1841 was appointed Judge of the Platte County Circuit Court; during the year 1843 was ap pointed a Senator in Congress, to which position he was subsequently elected for two successive terms, ;

serving until 1855, frequently at the head of impor tant committees, and for several sessions as President pro tcmpore of the Senate; upon his retirement from

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. agency business; studied law and came to the bar in 1861; served as Adjutant of Cavalry, and, in 1864, became Provost-Marshal for Southern Nebraska; from 1867 to 1871 was Register of the Land Office in Ne braska; subsequently turned his attention to the law and railroad building in 1 873 was appointed a Special Commissioner to Mexico; in May, 1875, was ap pointed Commissioner of Pensions in Washington.

the Senate he turned his attention to agriculture; died in 1886.

Atherton, Charles G-. was born in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, July 4, 1804; graduated at Cambridge in 1822; studied law, but en gaged in politics when quite young; was for many for years in the Legislature of New Hampshire,- and three years Speaker of the House; was a Represent ative in Congress from 1837 to 1843: a Senator in Congress from 1843 to 1849; in November, 1852, was elected a Senator to till a vacancy; died of apoplexy in Manchester, New Hampshire, November 15, 1853. ;

;

E.; was born in Juniata Coun Pennsylvania, April 16, 1841; received a comrnonschool and academic education; studied medicine and graduated at ttie Medical Department of the Univer sity of the City of NCAV York in March, 1861; served in the Union Army, as Assistant-Surgeon and Sur geon, from 1861 to 1866; being unable to practice medicine on account of disabilities contracted in the army, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870,

Atkinson, Louis

ty,

Atherton, Charles H.; was born

in Amherst, Hampshire, August 14, 1773; graduated at Harvard College in 1794; held the office of Register of Probate from 1798 to 1807; was a Representative in Congress from 1815 to 1817; stood at the head of the bar in Hillsborough County for many years; was a member of the State Legislature in 18:23, and again in 1838 and 1839; died in Amherst, January 8, 1853.

New

Atherton, Gibson

;

and engaged in practice at Mifliintown, Pennsylvania was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty -eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the ;

Forty-ninth Congress.

was born in Licking County,

Ohio, January 19, 1831 graduated at Miami Univer was admitted to sity, Ohio, in 1853; studied law; the bar in 1855, and engaged in practice at Newark, Ohio; was Prosecuting Attorney from 1857 to 1863; was Mayor, from 1860 to 1864; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1876; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-sixth and

Atkinson, Robert J.; was born in Ohio: in 1854 was appointed from that State Third Auditor of the Treasury, and remained in office until 1855, after which, until his death, he was engaged in the prose

;

cution of Claims before the Departments. j

j

j

Forty-seventh Congresses.

Atkins, John D. C.; was born in Henry County, Tennessee, June 4, 1825; graduated at the East Ten nessee University in 1846; studied law; was elected a member of the Legislature in 1849, and in 1851 was elected to the State Senate in 1855; chosen a Presidential Elector in 1856; elected a Representative in Congress in 1857; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifth Tennessee Regiment in the Confederate Army in 1861; was elected to the Confederate Provisional Congress in August, 1861, and re-elected in 18(53; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-third and Forty- fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty -seventh Congresses; in March, 1885, was appointed Commissioner of

;

prived him of all these offices; was a Delegate to the Congress at Albany in 1754, and was one of the Com mittee that drew up the plan of Union for the defense of the Colonies; was for many years in the Legisla ture and Council; also held the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; was Colonel of Militia, and in active service during the French and Indian wars; was Collector of Portsmouth, and Sheriff. At his death, he left two hundred pounds to the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, the interest to be spent in bread for the poor. Died September 22, 1779.

;

At Lee, Samuel John was born in 1738: com manded a Pennsylvania company in the French war; and in 1776 commanded an advanced battalion on Long Island; was made prisoner and remained some time in the hands of the British; was afterwards a Commis ;

Indian Affairs.

Atkinson, Archibald was born in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, September 13, 1792; left

Indians; was a Delegate from 177rt to 1782, and on the one of the Committee meeting of Pennsylvania in Died in 1781. Philadelphia in November, troops sioner to treat with the

;

to the Continental Congress

school at the age of eighteen; entered the office of the Clerk of the County Court, and performed the duties of copyist, devoting his leisure time to the study of law, which he completed at the Law School of Wil

liam and Mary College. In 1813 joined the at Norfolk, as ensign of a volunteer company was attached to the 29th Regiment, and was battle of Craney Island. Upon leaving the

was born in New Castle, Hampshire, December 20, 1697; graduated at Harvard University in 1718; was Secretary of tlu: Colony in 1741, Chief Justice in 1754, and MajorGeneral of Militia in 1769, but the Revolution de

Atkinson, Theodore

New

1786.

Aulick, John H.; was born in Virginia; was ap pointed Midshipman in the United States Navy, No vember 15, ]H09; Master s Mate in the action between the Enterprise and JJo.ccr, September 4, 1813; Lieu

troops

which at the

army,

commenced the practice of law in Smithh eld, and tenant, December 9, 181*4; Commander, March 3, 1831 was a member of the General Assembly from 1815 to* Captain, September 8, 1841; Commodore on retired incenncs in, 1817, and also of the House of Delegates and State list, July 16, 1862; commanded sloop Senate for several years. In 1843 was elected a Rep 1837; East India squadron in 1852 and 1853; in 1851 from and in served resentative was empowered to obtain permission to purchase sup Virginia, Congress until 1848; was a member of the Committees on Naval plies for the United States steamers in .Japan, and Affairs and Commerce; was Prosecuting Attorney for to negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce with his county twenty years, Mayor of Srnithfield, and that Empire; commenced the important work which a Magistrate. Died at Isle of Wight, January 10, was completed by Commodore M. C. Perry. ;

I

j

1872.

Atkinson, Henry M.; was born

in Wheeling, Virginia, September 9, 1838; removed to Ohio, in 1846, with his parents; was educated chiefly at the

Denverson University, Ohio, and in Connecticut; re moved to Nebraska in 1857, and engaged in the land

Austin, Archibald

;

was a Representative in

Congress, from Virginia, from 1817 to 1819.

Austin, Horace; was born in Connecticut in 1831; received an academic education; taught school; removed to Maine, and there studied law; in 1856

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. to Minnesota, where* he practiced his pro fession; served as a Captain, under General Sibley, against the Indians in 1863; in 1864 was elected a District Judge; in 1809 was elected Governor of Min nesota, and re-elected for a second term; on account of his health he retired to private life until 1876,

removed

when he was appointed Third Auditor of the United States Treasury in Washington.

Averett, Thomas H.; was born in Virginia; was a resident of Halifax County; was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from the Third District in that State, from 1849 to 1853, and was a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and on Revisal, and Unfinished Business.

John

was born in Alna, Maine, 8, 1825; completed his studies at the Maine Wesleyan University; was a manufacturer; was elected to the State Senate of Minnesota in 1858 and 1859 entered the Union Army in 1862 as Lieutenant-Colo nel of the Sixth Minnesota Infantry, and was mus Averill,

T.

;

March

;

tered out in 1865, as Brigadier-General of Volunteers; was elected to the Forty-second Congress; re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Avery, Benjamin

P.;

was born

in

New York

1829; received a good English education; learned the art of wood-engraving; removed to Cali in 1849 and had some experience among the fornia miners; in 1856 established a weekly paper, at North San Juan, called the Hydraulic Press; in 1860 joined the Marysville Appeal as assistant editor; in 1861 was chosen State Printer; was subsequently connected with the San Francisco Bulletin; in 1872 became the editor of the Overland Monthly; in 1874 was appointed Minister to China. Died in Pekin, November 8, 1875. He had the reputation of being a bold, forcible, and elegant writer, and was in every way a man of culture; was one of the founders of the San Francisco Art city in

Association.

Avery, Daniel was elected a Representative in Congress from New York from 1811 to 1815; and Resided in Cayuga County. again, from 1816 to 1817. ;

Avery, William

T. was born in Maury County, Tennessee, November 11, 1819 early in life was thrown upon his own resources for education and support; was a lawyer by profession; was elected to ;

;

the Legislature of Tennessee in 1843; held several creditable positions in his native State; was chosen a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committees on Expenditures in the ReState Department, and on Private Land Claims. elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Axtell, Samuel B.; was born in Franklin County, Ohio, October 14, 1819; was educated at Oberlin, and Western Reserve Colleges; studied and practiced law; emigrated to California in 1851; was elected a Rep resentative from that State to the Fortieth and Fortyfirst Congresses, serving on the Committees on Com merce and Weights and Measures. In 1874 was ap pointed Governor of Utah in 1875 was appointed to the same position in New Mexico; in 1876 was se lected as one of the Judges at the Centennial Exhi ;

was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico.

bition; in 1882

Aycrig g John B. was born in New York was elected a Representative in Congress from New Jer sey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843, and was a member of the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, and the Joint Commit,

2

;

;

tee

17

on the Library, and on Invalid Pensions; in 1844

Elector; was a candidate for elec tion to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but, although he came with the Broad Seal of New Jersey, was not

was a Presidential

admitted.

Ayer, Richard S. was born in Waldo County, Maine, October 9, 1829; received a common school education; engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits; at the breaking out of the Rebellion en listed as a private in the Fourth Maine Volunteers, and was promoted to a captaincy, which position he held for three years, serving at the first battles of Bull Run, Seven Pines, and Malvern Hill; in 1865 removed to Virginia; in 1867 was elected a Delegate was to the Virginia Constitutional Convention elected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on several committees. ;

;

Babbitt, Elijah

;

was born

in Providence,

Rhode

Island, in 1796; received a common school and aca demic education, in the States of New York and Penn sylvania; studied law in the latter State, and was admitted to the bar in 1824; was Prosecuting Attor ney for the State in 1833; served in the State Legis lature in 1836 and 1837; was a State Senator in 1844 and 1845; was elected a Representative from Penn sylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a

member

of the Committee on Revolutionary

Pen

sions; re-elected to the Thirty -seventh Congress.

Babcock, Alfred was a ;

New York

Representative in Con

from 1841 to 1843, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

gress from

Babcock, Leander; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853.

Babcock, "William was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1831 to 1833, serving on the Committee on Public Accounts. ;

Ambrose was a citizen of Georgia, and, was appointed Charge d Affaires to Sardinia,;

Baber, in 1841,

;

remaining there until 1843.

Bache, Alexander Dallas was born in Phila delphia, July 19, 1806; graduated at West Point in 1825; served there one year as Assistant Professor; was Lieutenant of Engineers until his resignation in 1829 engaged in constructing Fort Adams and other works at the entrance of Narragansett Bay; from 18271 to 1832 was Professor of Mathematics in the Univer ;

;

then took charge of the organi zation of Girard College; spent some time in 1836 inspecting the great schools of Europe, publishing upon his return a valuable work on the subject; in 1839 resigned his connection with this college; in 1841 was made Principal of the Philadelphia High School; in 1843 was appointed Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey; was one of the founders of the American Association for the Promotion of Science; in 1855 was made President of the American Philosophical Society; was an active and efficient member of the United States Sanitary Commission throughout the Civil War; the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of New York in 1836; by the University of Pennsylvania in 1837, and by Harvard University in 1851; in 1846 was made Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; in 1833 edited Brewster s "Optics," with notes; in 1840 to 1845 published "Observations" at the Observatory of Girard College; in 1834, Report of Experiments to navigate the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal by Died at Newport, Rhode Island, February steam. 17, 1867. sity of Pennsylvania;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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Bachman, Reuben KL. was born at Williams, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1834; passed his boyhood upon his father s farm; received a common school education; taught school for a few years; afterwards engaged in mercantile and milling business at Dur ham, Pennsylvania; held no public office prior to his election as a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-sixth Congress. ;

Backus, Henry

T.;

was a native of Norwich,

Connecticut received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; removed to Detroit in Michigan, where he was for many years devoted to his profession was subsequently appointed an Asso ciate Justice of the United States Court for the Ter ritory of Arizona. ;

;

Bacon, Ezekiel; was born in Stockbridge, Massa chusetts, September 1, 1776; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1794; was a member of the State Legislature in 1805 and 1806; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 1813; Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1813; First Comptroller of the United States Treasury from 1813 to 1815; removed to Utica, New York, and was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1821. In 1843 published Died in Utica, Recollections of Fifty Years Since. October

18, 1870.

Bacon, John was born

in Canterbury, Connect graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1765; studied theology; after preaching for a time in Maryland, removed to Massachusetts, and settled in Boston. Owing to some difficulties with his con gregation, he relinquished the ministry, and subse quently held the positions of magistrate, Representa ;

icut, in 1737;

tive in the State Legislature, Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, a member and President of the State Senate, and that of Representative in Con Died in gress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1803. Berkshire County, October 25, 1820.

Justice of the Supreme. Court of the State for a term of eight years, and was re-elected, serving until 1870; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Badger, George E.

practice of law; in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, Russia; resigned in 1859 and returned to South Car olina; in 1860 entered the Confederate service as a private served throughout the Civil War, rising to the rank of Major; after the close of the war resumed the practice of law in his native State; in 1868 was elected District Judge; in 1870 was an unsuccessful ;

candidate for Congress; in 1872 removed to Columbia, South Carolina; in 1878 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and devoted himself to se curing the re-establishment of the South Carolina College, which end he accomplished after a long and laborious struggle; was several times a member of the Democratic County and State Executive Commit tees; in 1884 was a Presidential Elector; in April, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, United States Charge d Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay.

Bacon, William Johnson

in 1820 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court, which position he re signed in 1825; was appointed Secretary of the Navy, by President Harrison, in 1841 was elected a Senator in Congress in 1846, and re-elected in 1849 for a term of six years, serving on the Committees on Military and Naval Affairs; was subsequently wholly devoted to the practice of his profession, visiting Washington occasionally to argue cases in the Supreme Court of the United States; died at Raleigh, North Carolina. ;

May

11, 1866.

Badger, Luther; was born

New

;

York, in 1814; graduated at in 1822; studied law in Utica and finished his legal education at the Litchfield Law School in 1824; was appointed Corporation Counsel for the city of Utica in 1837; was a member of the State Assembly in 1850; was elected a Trustee of Hamilton College in 1851; in 1853 was elected a to Utica,

Hamilton College

in Partridgefield,

Berkshire County,

Massachusetts, April 10, 1785; removed to Broome County, New York, in 1786. sufficient made progress in the common Having branches of an English education, entered Hamilton College at the age of nineteen, and spent two years In 1807 commenced the study of law; was ad there. mitted to the bar in 1812, and continued to practice his profession until 1824, when he was elected a Rep resentative to the Nineteenth Congress; had been engaged in military services in his State, and in 1819

was appointed, by Governor Clinton, Judge-Advocate Twenty -seventh Brigade of Infantry of New York State, which office he held for eight years. In 1832 resumed the practice of law, and in 1840 was appointed Examiner in Chancery and Commissioner of United States Loans, which office he held for three From 1846 to 1849 was United States District years. for the

Attorney

for

New York.

Badger, William was born ;

in Gilmanton,

13, 1779; his

New

youth was passed

in mercantile pursuits; was a member of the Legis lature from 1810 to 1812, and of the Senate from 1814 to 1816; President of that body in 1816; an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1816 to 1821; High Sheriff of Stafford County, New Hamp shire from 1822 to 1832; Governor of the State from 1834 to 1836; died September 21, 1852.

Baer, George was born in Frederick, Maryland; was engaged in various branches of business: was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1797 to 1801, and again from 1815 to 1817; died in Fred erick at an advanced age. ;

Bagby, Arthur P. ; was born in Virginia, in 1794; was liberally educated; adopted the profession of law, and settled in Alabama in 1818; was elected a member of the Legislature in 1820 and 1822, and was Speaker of the House; was Governor of Alabama from 1837 to 1843; was a Senator in Congress from that State from 1842 to 1849. His last public posi tion was that of Minister to Russia, to which he was appointed in 1848; died of yellow fever, at Mobile, September 21, 1858.

Bagby, John C. was born in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky, January 24, 1819; was educated at Bacon College; studied law and went to the bar in 1846; in that year removed to Rushville, Illinois, where he practiced his profession; in 1874, without seeking the nomination, was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth Congress. ;

was born at Williamstown, Massachusetts, February 18, 1803; re

moved

was born in the town of

to the Legislature in 1816;

Hampshire, January

Bacon, John E.; was born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, in 1830; received a thorough academic education and afterwards entered the South Carolina College, at Columbia, in that State, from which in stitution he graduated with high honor; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced the

;

Newbern, North Carolina, in 1795; graduated at Yale College in 1813; studied and practiced law; was elected

Bagley, George A. Jefferson County,

N^w

was born in Watertown, York, July 22, 1826; received ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was a Representative in Congress from Lincoln County, Maine, from 1835 to 1837, serving on the Committees on Agriculture and Expenditures in the Post Office Department; was Collector of Customs at Wiscasset, from 1849 to 1853, and died in July of the latter year.

an academic education; studied law, and was ad

1835;

mitted to the bar in 1847; practiced for six years, when he engaged in the manufacture of iron and machinery; was Supervisor of the town of Waterto \vn a number of years, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Jetferson County; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Representative from New York; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.

was born in Norfolk County, Bailey, John Massachusetts; was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 1815 to 1818; a clerk in the Depart ment of State for six years; a Representative in Con gress from Massachusetts from 1823 to 1831, serving on the Committees on Public Expenditures and Ex penditures in the State Department; was a State Senator in 1831 and 1834; died at Dorchester, Mas ;

Bagley, John H., Jr.; was born at Hudson, New York, November 26, 1832; received a common-school education; in 1851 went to California and engaged in mining and other pursuits; returned to New York and engaged in steam-boating on the Hudson River; settled at Catskill, New York, as a merchant; served lour terms as Supervisor of the town; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fourth Congress; also elected to the Forty-eighth Congress.

sachusetts,

I

Bagley, John

J.; was born in Medina, Orleans York, July 24, 1832; went to Michigan in 1840, and settled in Detroit; received a commonschool education; devoted himself to mercantile and manufacturing pursuits; in Detroit held the local ollices of member of the Board of Education, Alder man, and Police Commissioner; in 1872 was elected Governor of Michigan, and re-elected to the same

County,

|

New

office in 1874.

Died July

27, 1881.

June

16, 1835.

Bailey, John M.; was born at Bcthleham, New York, August 24, 1838; graduated at Union College in 1861; studied law; in 1862 entered the Union Army as First Lieutenant; in 1864 commenced the practice of law was Assistant District Attorney of; Albany County, New York, in 1865, 1866, and 1867; was Collector of Internal Revenue four years; in 1874 was elected District Attorney, and served three years was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of T. J. Cjuinn; was re-elected to the ;

|

;

Forty-sixth Congress.

Bailey, Alexander H.; was born in Minisink, Orange County, New York, August 14, 1817; gradu ated at Princeton College in 1838; studied and prac ticed law; in 1840, 1841, and 1842 was Examiner in Chancery for Greene County; was a Justice of the Peace at Catskill for four years; was a member of the 8tatc Assembly in 1849; was Judge of Greene County for four years from 1851; was a member of the State Senate from 1861 to 1864; was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Fortieth Congress, in the place of Roscoe Conkling, resigned, serving on the Committees on Private Land Claims and Expen Re-elected to ditures in the Interior Department. the Forty-first Congress, serving on important Com Died in Rome, New York, April 20, 1874. mittees.

Bailey, David J. was born in Georgia was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 ;

;

to 1855.

Bailey, Goldsmith F.; was born in Westmore land, New Hampshire, July 17, 1823; finished his education at the age of sixteen; became a printer and edited a country paper; studied law, and was admit ted to the bar in 1848; in 1856 was elected to the Legislature of Massachusetts; in 1858 and I860, to the Senate of the State was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh Congress. His health was impaired when he took his seat in Congress, and he died at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, ;

May

8,

1862.

Bailey,

James

E.;

was born in Montgomery

15, 1822; was educated at the Clarksville Academy, and the University of Ten studied was admitted to the bar at nessee; law; Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1840; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1853; was elected a Sena tor of the United States from Tennessee to lill the va cancy caused by the death of Andre w Johnson, serv ing from January, 1877, to March 3, 1881. Died at his home in Clarksville, Tennessee, December 29,

County, Tennessee, August

1885.

Bailey, Jeremiah was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island; graduated at Brown University, and studied law; was a member of the Maine Legislature from 1811 to 1814; a Judge of Probate from 1814 to ;

Bailey, Theodoms; was born in 1752; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1793 to 1797, and again from 1799 to 1803; was a Senator in Congress from 1803 to 1804, when he resigned and was appointed Postmaster of New York city. He died September 6, 1828. Baily,

Joseph

;

1

,

was born on the Brandywine

battle-ground, Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1810; received a limited education through his own exertions, on account of the moderate circum stances of his father, and was early apprenticed to a

mechanical business, which was his first step to emi nent success. From 1839 to 1845 represented his native county in both branches of the Legislature, and from. 1850 to 1854 represented Perry County in the State Senate; in 1854 was Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania; in 1860 was elected a Representa tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Connnittees on Agriculture and

1

was

re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Con on the same Committees; was one of the twelve Democrats in Congress who voted for the

Printing;

gress, serving

Constitutional

Amendment

abolishing slavery.

Baird, Spencer Fullerton

;

was born

at

Read

Pennsylvania, February 3, 1823; graduated at Dickinson College; in 1846 was made Professor ofc Natural Sciences in that institution; was appointed^ Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1850; was the editor and translator of the "Iconographic Encyclopedia," 4 vols., 8 vo, in 1851; author of papers on Zoology, and of reports on Natural His tory collections, made by Stansbury, Marcy, and Gillis, of the Mexican Boundary and Pacific Rail road Surveys; "The Birds of North America," 2 ing,

I

"Mammals of North America," 4to, 1861; he has also made many valuable contributions to the publications of the Journal of Sciences, Phila His last delphia, and the Smithsonian Institution. publications were on the Natural History and Distri of was bution appointed United States Commis Fish; sioner of Fisheries; Avas a Government Commissioner to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition; in 1878; was appointed Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu vols., 4to, 1860;

tion.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Baker, Caleb was born in Providence, Rhode Island; served four years in the New York Assembly; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821. ;

Baker, Charles S.; was born at Churchville, Monroe County, New York, February 18, 1839; was

educated in the common schools, at Caryville Sem inary, and at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York; was engaged in teaching for a time; studied law at Rochester and was admitted to the bar in I860; on the breaking out of the Civil War was one of the first to enlist in the Union Army, and was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, with which he was engaged in the first battle of Bull !Run, where he was severely wounded, and compelled to retire from the service; he resumed the practice of his profession at Rochester; was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Monroe County for three years; was a member of the Board of Educa tion of Rochester for two years, acting as its President during his second term; was an iinsuccessful candidate for the State Assembly in 1870; in 1878

was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1880 and 1882; during his service was prominent in promoting railroad reform legislation; in 1880 was elected a State Senator; in 1884, in the middle of his Senatorial term, he was elected a Representative from New York to the Fortyninth Congress.

Baker, Conrad

was Governor of Indiana from

;

1867 to 1869.

Baker, David Jewett

;

dani, Connecticut, September parents to Ontario County,

-

was born 7,

1792;

in East Hadwent with his

New

York, in 1800; worked on a farm; graduated at Hamilton College in 1816; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1819, settling in Kaskaskia, Illinois; had an exten sive practice, and was Probate Judge of Randolph County; was a Senator in Congress from 1830 to 1831,

I

carrying through Congress the important measure of

;

selling the public lands to actual settlers in parcels of forty acres; was United States Attorney for Illinois from 1833 to 1841. He opposed the introduction of slavery into Illinois in 1823 with such energy, that his opponents tried to kill him; died in Alton, Illinois, August 6, 1869.

Baker, Edward D.; was born in England brought to this country when a child, and was early left an orphan in Philadelphia. His father was a "weaver, and when a boy he worked at that business himself; obtained an education under many difficul ties; first studied for the ministry, but soon turned his attention to the law, becoming famous as an ad vocate in Illinois, to which State he emigrated in ;

1

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his nineteenth year. After serving in the Illinois Legislature for two years, he resigned, and, in 1846, went to Mexico as a Colonel of Volunteers, acquitting himself with credit at Cerro Gordo; was a Represen tative in Congress from Illinois from 1849 to 1851, after which he took an active part in the building of the Panama Railroad in 1852 settled in San Fran cisco, devoting himself to his profession; subsequently removed to Oregon, which State he represented as a Senator in Congress, taking his seat in March, 1861. At the. outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, he raised a body of men in Philadelphia, called the California Regiment, and while gallantly leading them in battle at Leesburg, Virginia, against a superior force, was shot from his horse and killed, October 21, 1861. ;

Baker, Ezra from

New

Baker, Grafton was born in Virginia and re moved to Mississippi, from which State he was ap ;

pointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of New Mexico.

Baker, James H.; was born in Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, May 6, 1829; received his education at the Wesleyan University of that State; became a at teacher, and had charge of a female seminary Richmond, Indiana; in 1853 purchased the Scioto Gazette and became its editor; in 1855 was elected Secretary of State for Ohio; subsequently removed to Minnesota and became the Secretary of that State; served as a Colonel in the army in 1862 and 1863; was made Provost-Marshal for the Department of Missouri, and served as such until the close of the Rebellion, having been made a Brigadier-General; was then appointed Register of Public Lands at Boonville, Missouri, holding the office two years; returned to his farm in Minnesota; in 1871 was ap pointed Commissioner of Pensions, resigning the position in 1875.

Baker, Jehu

;

was born in Fayette County Ken

tucky, November 4, 1822; received a good education; studied law and adopted it as a profession; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims, as Chairman of the Committee on Ex penditures in the Post Office Department, and on the Re-elected Special Committee on the Civil Service. to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Education and Labor and Freedmen s Affairs; in 1878 was appointed Minister Resident to Venezuela.

Baker, John was a lawyer by profession; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1811 ;

to 1813. 18, 1823.

Died

in Shepherdstown, Virginia,

Baker, John H. was born

in Parma Township, York, February 28, 1832; re moved, with his father, to Fulton County, Ohio, when a child, and worked on his father s farm until about twenty years of age; was educated at the winter schools in the vicinity; secured, by his own efforts, three years instruction in college; studied law, and commenced practice in Goshen, Indiana, in 1857; was State Senator in 1862; in 1874 was elected a Repre sentative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con ;

Monroe County,

New

gresses.

Osmyn;

was born in Amherst, Massa Baker, chusetts, May 18, 1800; graduated at Yale College in 1822; adopted the profession of the law; was a ber of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1833 and 1834; was a Representative in Congress from his na tive State from 1839 to 1845; was State Councilor in 1853 and 1854.

mem

Baker, Stephen was born in the city of New York, August 12, 1819; at an early age engaged in mercantile pursuits, from which he retired, in 1849, to a country seat in Dutchess County, New York: was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Roads and Canals and on Patents. ;

Baker, William H.; was born

in Lenox, Madi 1827; removed, with his parents, to Oswego County in 1829; received his education at the common schools; became a me chanic and then a school teacher; studied law, and came to the bar in 1851 in 1862 was elected District Attorney for Oswego County; re-elected in 18(56; in 1874 was chosen a Representative from New York to

son County,

New

York, January

;

was a Representative in Congress Jersey from 1815 to 1817. ;

August

17,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. the Forty- fourth Congress; re-elected to the Forty-

men and

books; re-elected in 1870 for a second term; to the Republican National Conven tion of 1876; in November, 1879, was appointed United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by. the death of Zachariah Chandler, serving until May,

was a Delegate

fifth Congress.

Balch, Alfred; was an early emigrant to the Territory of Florida; in 1840 was appointed one of the United States Judges for that Territory.

Abraham was a native of Connecti was a graduate of Yale College in 1772, and from 1775 to 1779 was a tutor in that institution. Having studied law, settled in Savannah, Georgia; soon after his arrival there, was chosen a member of Baldwin,

;

cut;

the Legislature; originated the plan of the Univer sity of Georgia, drew up the charter, persuaded the Assembly to adopt it, and was for some time its Pres ident; was a member of the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1788, and a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, which he duly signed. From 1789 to 1799 was a Representative in Congress from Georgia, and from 1799 to 1807 was a member of the United States Sen ate, part of the time President pro tempore of the Sen ate; was one of those who voted for locating the seat

of Grovernment on the Potomac. Died March 4, 1807, He was the half-brother of aged fifty-three years. Henry Baldwin.

Baldwin, Alexander W.; was a native of Ala bama, where he was born in 1835; received a legal education and settled in Virginia City, Nevada; in his thirtieth year was appointed United States Judge for Nevada; was killed by a railway accident, at Alameda, California, November 15, 1869. His father, Joseph G. Baldwin, was the author of a popular book entitled "The Flush Times of Alabama and Missis the Supreme Court of Cali sippi," and was Judge of fornia.

,

1881.

Baldwin, John

;

was born

in

"Windham,

Con

necticut; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1825 to 1829, serving on one standing com

mittee and one select committee.

Baldwin, John

D.; was born in North Stoning-

ton, Connecticut, September 28, 1810; graduated at Yale College, receiving the degree of A.M. read law, but never practiced; went through a course of theo logical studies, devoted himself to literary pursuits, and published a volume entitled "Raymond Hill, ;

In 1842 became associated with and then in Boston, and was editor of the Daily Commonwealth, a writer for the Advertiser, and subsequently became the pro prietor of the Worcester Spy; was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1860; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Ex penditures, on Public Buildings, and on Printing; reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the District of Columbia and Expen ditures on the Public Buildings; was for many years particularly devoted to the study of ancient history, and was the author of a work on that subject; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Con of 1866; and was re-elected to the Fortieth vention Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Library. Died at Worcester, July 8, 1883.

and other

Poems."

the press,

first

in Hartford,

"

Baldwin, Roger Sherman was born at New Haven, Connecticut, January 4, 1793; graduated at Yale College in 1811 studied law at Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1814, and estab lished himself in practice at New Haven, where he ;

C.J was born in Salina, New York, December 24, 1817; received a commonschool education having lost his lather when young,

Baldwin, Augustus ;

became dependent upon his own efforts for support in 1837 emigrated to Michigan and settled in Oak land County; taught school, and at the same time studied law; came to the bar in 1842. In 1844 and 1846 was elected to the Legislature of Michigan; in 1853 and 1854 was Prosecuting Attorney for his adopted county; was a Delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions of 1860; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Thir ty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Agriculture and Expenditures in the Interior De partment; was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention in 1864; and to the Philadelphia "National Union

;

Convention

"

of 1866.

Baldwin, Henry was born in New Haven, Con necticut, in 1779; graduated at Yale College in 1797; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania froxi 1817 to 1822, when he resigned; was a distin ;

guished lawyer, and was for many years Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Died in Philadelphia, April

Baldwin, Henry

P.;

21, 1844.

was born

in

Coventry,

Rhode

Island, February 22, 1814; was left an orphan a boy, and after receiving a good education was a mercantile clerk at Pawtucket for eight years be fore becoming of age, after which he was engaged, for several years, in business on his own account in

when

"VVoonsocket. In 1838 emigrated to Detroit, Michi gan, and, identifying himself with the interests of Michigan, became President of the Second National Bank of Detroit; was for two years a State Senator; in 1868 was elected Governor of Michigan, to which position he bwv ght a full store of general information gathered from foreign travel and the study

o"

;

In 1837 was elected to the State Senate; re-elected in 1838, and chosen President pro tempore of that body; was a Trustee of Yale College in In 1840 and 1841 was a .Representa 1838 and 1839. tive in the General Assembly; in the latter year was associated with J. Q. Adams in the argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case In 1844 and 1845 of the Africans of the Amistad. was Governor of the State; in 1847 was appointed, and in 1848 elected, to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Connecticut, serving until 1851; continued to reside.

subsequently engaged in his professional duties; was a member of the Peace Congress of 1861, and also a Presidential Elector in that year; died in New Haven,

February

10, 1863.

Baldwin, Simeon

was born at Norwich, Con ; graduated at Yale Col necticut, December 14, 1761 lege in 1781 in 1783 was appointed tutor at the Col in that position until 1786, when lege, and continued he was admitted to the bar in New Haven, and com menced the practice of law. From 1790 to 1803 was Clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United ;

;

States; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1803 to 1805, and declined a re-election in 1806 was appointed, by the Legislature, Associate Judge of the Superior Court and of the Supreme Court of Errors, and held the office until 1817; in 1822 was chosen by the General Assembly one of the Commissioners to locate the Farmington Canal, and was made President of that Board; in 1826 was elected Mayor of New Haven; in 1830 resigned his onice as Commissioner; died at New Haven, May 26, He was the father of Roger Sherman Bald 1851. ;

win.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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Balestier, Joseph; was a citizen of Massa and while holding the position of Consul at a Singapore, was empowered, in 1849, to negotiate with treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, Authorized to make a the Government of Borneo. similar treaty with Cochin-China. chusetts,

Ball, Ed-ward was horn in Virginia; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855, and was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress was subsequently elected Sergeant-at-Arnis in the House ;

;

of Representatives.

was horn in Lancaster Ball, William Lee County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1817 to 1824. Died in Wash ington, February 28, 1824, aged forty-five years. ;

John

at Pulaski, Ten nessee, May 20, 1827; received a classical education, graduating from the University of Nashville in 1845;

Ballantine,

G-.;

was born

studied law, and graduated from Harvard LawSchool in 1848; was admitted to the bar; engaged in planting; removed to Mississippi in 1855, and to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1860; served in the Confed erate Army throughout the Civil War; settled at Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1872; was elected a Represent ative from Tennessee to the Forty-eighth Congress, never before having been a candidate for political preferment; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Con gress.

Ballou, Latimer Island, March

was born in Cumberland, 1812; received his education at the public schools and academies in the vicinity; removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1828, and learned the printing business at the office of the Uni versity Press; in 1835 established the Cambridge Press, and continued in that business until 1842, when he

Rhode

"W.;

1,

to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and engaged in mercantile business; in 1850 was Cashier of the Woonsocket Falls Bank was Treasurer of the Woon socket Institution for Savings lor twenty-five years; was Presidential Elector in 1860; Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention of 1872; was elected a Rep resentative from Rhode Island to the Forty -fourth,

removed

;

Forty -fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses.

Bancroft, George; was born in Worcester, Massa commenced his education at Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and graduated at Cam chusetts, in 1800;

bridge University in 1817; in 1818 visited Europe, studied at Gottingen and Berlin, and traveled exten sively; in 1823 published a volume of poems; in 1824 a translation of "Heeren s Politics of Greece;" be came a frequent contributor to the Forth American and other reviews. On his return from Europe spent one year as a tutor at Harvard; was at the head of the Round Hill School at Northampton from 1838 to 1841 was Collector of the port of Boston, appointed by President Van Buren in 1844 was an unsuccess ful candidate for the Governorship of Massachusetts; in 1845 was appointed, by President Polk, Secretary of the Navy; in 1846 was appointed Minister to Great Britain, remaining there until 1849; on his return set tled in New York and became an active member of various learned societies. In 1844 published the first volume of his "History of the United States," since which time nine additional volumes have appeared; in 1855 published his Literary and Historical Mis cellanies;" in 1865, by invitation of Congress, de livered, in the Capitol, an oration on the death of Abraham Lincoln; in 1867 was appointed, by Presi dent Johnson, Minister to Prussia. On his return to ;

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America

settled in

Washington

City.

Banister, John was a delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779, and signed the Articles of Confederation. ;

Banks, John was born in Juniata County, Penn ;

his father s farm; sylvania, in 1793; was reared on received a classical education; studied law; came to the bar in 1819, and settled in the western part of the in Congress from Penn State; was a Representative he resigned to ac sylvania from 1831 to 1836, when of the Third cept the appointment of President Judge Judicial District of the State; in 1841 was the Whig candidate for Governor, but failed to be elected; in 1847 resigned the judgeship and became State Treas of urer; was subsequently engaged in the practice Died at Reading, on the 3d of April, his profession.

1864.

Banks, Linn Avas born in Virginia; was for of Del twenty successive years Speaker of the House in Con egates of that State; was a Representative 1838 to 1842, serving as a gress from Virginia from member of the Committee on Claims; was found drowned in a stream in Madison County, Virginia, ;

February

24, 1842.

Banks, Nathaniel P. was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, January 30, 1816, of poor but respect able parents, operatives in a factory; had no advan but tages but those afforded by the common school, became a lover of books at an early day; his first ven ture before the public was in the capacity of news paper editor in his native town, and he followed the same pursuit at Lowell; studied law, but did not elected to practice to any great extent; in 1848 was the Legislature of Massachusetts, serving in both was. houses, and officiating for a time as Speaker; chosen President of the Convention held in 1853 for revising the Constitution of Massachusetts; was soon afterwards elected a Representative in Congress, serving from 1853 to 1857, when he was elected Governor of Massachusetts by a majority of 24,000; during his second term in Congress was elected Speaker of the House, after a remarkable contest, and it is said that! not one of his decisions was ever overruled by the House; was elected Governor of Massachusetts for a, second term in 1858, and for a third term in Is59; during the Rebellion of 1861- 64, served in the Union army as a Major-General of Volunteers, and saw much service in the field; in 1865 was elected a Rep resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-ninth Congress, in the place of D. W. Gooch, resigned, serv ing on the Committees on the death of President Lincoln, and Rules, and as Chairman of the Commit tee on Foreign Affairs; was also one of the Represent atives designated to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia. Convention" of 1866, and of the "Sol "Loyalists held at Pittsburgh, and was rediers Convention elected to the Fortieth, Forty-second and Forty -fourth Congresses, serving on the most important commit tees; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress: in 1879 was appointed United States Marshal lor (lie District of Massachusetts, and was re-appointed in ;

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1883.

Banning-, Henry B.; was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, November 10, 1834; received an academic education; studied and practiced law at Mount Vcrnon, Ohio, until 1661, when he enlisted as a private soldier; rose to the rank of Brevet Major-General; represented Knox County in the Ohio Legislature in 1866 and 1867; removed to Cincinnati in the year 1869, where he resumed the practice of law; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Con gresses, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was appointed Chairman of the re-elected to the Committee on Military Affairs

in December, 1875,

;

Forty-tilth Congress.

Barber, son,

Edward Wilmot

Vermont, July

1828

3,

;

was born at Ben removed to Vermont;

Michigan, in 1839; received a common school education learned the printing business was Clerk of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1857 to 1863; was Clerk of Eaton County from 1861 to 1865, and Register of Deeds from 1865 to 1867; was Reading Clerk of the National House of Representa tives during the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and For ville,

;

;

tieth Congresses; was Supervisor of Internal Revenue for Wisconsin and Michigan from 1869 to 1873; was appointed Third Assistant Postmaster-General in March, 1873, and resigned June 1, 1877, after twenty years of continuous public service.

Barber, Hiram, Jr. was born in Warren County, York, March 24, 1835; removed to Wisconsin in 1846, and was educated at the State University at Madison; studied law and was admitted to the bar; was District Attorney of Jefferson County, Wiscon sin, in 1861 and 1862; was Assistant Attorney-Gen ;

New

State in 1865 and 1866; removed to Chicago, Illinois, in 1866; was elected a Represent ative from Illinois to the Forty-sixth Congress. eral of the

Barber,

J.

Allen

was born

;

in

Vermont; ob

tained a liberal education at the University of Ver mont; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1833; in 1837 removed to the Territory of Wisconsin was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin in 1846; was elected to the State As sembly in 1852, 1853, and 1863, serving the last year as Speaker; was elected to the State Senate in 1856 and 1857; was elected to the Forty -second Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, ;

serving on several Committees.

Barber, Levi; was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1821 to 1823. Barber, Noyes; was born in Grotou, Connecti was in early life a merchant, but a lawyer by profession; was a Representative in Con cut, April 28, 1781

;

gress from his native State from 1821 to 1835; died at Groton, January 3, 1845. He was a man of ability, and while in Congress accomplished much good for his native State, where he was universally respected as a man and a statesman.

Barbour, James

was a native of Virginia was

;

six years.

Barbour, John S. was born in Culpepper County, Virginia; was in early life a member of the State Legislature; from 1823 to 1833 a member of Congress from Virginia; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1829 and 1830, again in the State Legislature in 1833 and 1834; died in Culpepper County, Virginia, January 12, 1855. ;

Barbour, John

in Culpepper Coun was educated at the University of Virginia; graduated in law at that in stitution, and commenced practice in his native S.;

December

"

position for

upwards of thirty years; was elected

a

Representative from Virginia to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Barbour, Lucien was born ;

in Canton, Connec

1811; graduated at Amherst College in 1837, having been himself a teacher while receiv ing his own education; removed to Indiana, studied law, and settled in the practice at Indianapolis; was appointed, by President Polk, United States District Attorney; acted a number of times as arbitrator be tween the State of Indiana and private corporations; in 1852 was appointed a Commissioner to prepare a code of practice for the State; was a Representative from Indiana in the Thirty-fourth Congress.

ticut,

March

4,

Barbour, Philip P.; was born in 1779; waseduca-. ted for the law, in the practice of which he was suecessful; was a member of Congress from Virginia,! from 1814 to 1825; Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives in 1821; in 1825 was appointed Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia; was again in Congress from 1827 to 1830, officiating as Chairman, of the Judiciary Committee; in 1836 was appointed,! by President Jackson, an Associate Judge of the Su preme Court of the United States. Died in Wash ington City, of ossification of the heart, February 25, 1841. Barclay, David was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress, from his native State, from 1855 to 1857. ;

Bard, David

was a graduate of Princeton Col was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1799, and again from 180o ;

lege in 1773; to 1815.

Died in Virginia in 1815.

Abraham

Barker, A.; was born in Lovell, Ox ford County, Maine, March 30, 1816; received a com and mon-school education, engaged in agricultural pursuits; was early a strenuous advocate of temperremoved to Pennsylvania in ance and anti-slavery; 1854, and devoted himself to the lumber and mercan tile business; Avas a Delegate to the Chicago Conven tion of 1860; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims.

i

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Speaker of the House of Delegates, and Governor of that State; was a Senator in Congress, from 1815 to 1825, officiating as President pro tcmpore of the Senate, as Chairman of the Committees on Foreign Relations and the District of Columbia, and serving on other important Committees; was appointed Secretary of War in 1825, and Minister to England in 1828; died in Orange County, Virginia, June 8, 1842, aged sixty-

ty, Virginia,

county; was elected a member of the State House of Representatives, serving from 1847 to 1851; was elected President of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company," (now the "Virginia Midland Railway Company,") in 1852, and continued in that

was born

29, 1820;

Barker, David was a lawyer profession was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1827 to 1829. Died in Rochester, New Hamp shire, April 1, 1834, aged thirty-seven years. :

;

Barker, Joseph

l>y

;

commenced

his classical stu

Harvard University, and graduated at Yale College in 1771; was an ordained Preaciierol the Gos pel; was a Representative in Congress from Massa Died in 1815, aged chusetts from 1805 to 1809. dies at

sixty-four years.

Barksdale, Ethelbert was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee; received a classical education; removed to Mississippi at an early age; adopted the profession of journalism; was a Representative in the Confederate Congress for four years; was a Presiden tial Elector, and President of the Mississippi College of Electors, in 1876; was elected a Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-eighth Congress, a:id was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

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Barksdale, William

was born

in Rutherfort 1821 pursued a partial course of studies at the Nashville University ;

County, Tennessee, August

21,

;

was a lawyer by profession; held a commission in the Staff of the Second Mississippi Regiment, in the Mexican War, in 1847; was a member of the Missis sippi Convention called in 1851 to discuss the Com promise measures of 1850; was elected Representative from Mississippi in the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Joined the Great Rebellion in 1861, and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. was born

at Fairfield, Ver mont, May 12, 1814; engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits until 1858; removed to St. Albans, Vermont, and engaged in banking and other pursuits; served six terms as a Representative in the State Leg islature, and two terms as State Senator; was twice a member of State Constitutional Conventions; was County Treasurer for several years; was elected a Eepresentative from Vermont to the Forty-sixth Con

Barlow, Bradley

;

gress.

Barlow, Joel; was born in

Reading, Connecticut, March, 1755; served as a volunteer in the Revolu studied tionary Army; theology; was licensed as a Congregational minister, and from 1778 to 1783 was a chaplain in the army, varying his clerical duties with the composition of patriotic songs and addresses to keep up the spirit of the soldiers. About 1781 The delivered, at New Haven, a poem entitled Prospect of Peace." Settling at Hartford he tried book-selling; established the American Mercury, a weekly paper; in 1785 was admitted to the bar. In 1786 published a revision of Dr. Watts version of the Psalms, containing some pieces of his own was also one of the authors of the Anarchaid," and in 1787 published his Vision of Columbus." In 1788 visited Europe as agent of the Ohio Land Company, and published, in aid of the French Revolution; "Advice to the Privileged Orders," "Letter to the National Convention," and in 1798, Conspiracy of the Kings," a poem. In 1792, as Deputy of the Lon don Constitutional Society, presented an address to the French Convention, by whom he was invested with the rights of a French citizen, and given employ ment at Savoy, where he wrote his mock-heroic poein, Hasty Pudding;" in 1795 to 1797, was United States Consul at Algiers, and negotiated treaties with Algiers and Tripoli; in 1796 published his political writings; in 1799 published his letter to the people of the United States, and endeavored to adjust our dif ficulties with France, and in a memoir to the French ;

"

"

"

"

Government, denounced privateering as sea-robbery; in 1805 returned to the United States, and resided on the Potomac near Washington; in 1807 published the "Columbiad;" in 1811 was Embassador to France; was invited, by the French Minister, to a conference with Napoleon at Wilna, but died before his arrival there, at Zarnowicke, near Cracow. Poland, December 22, 1812.

Barlow, Stephen was ;

a Representative in Con

gress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1829, a member of the Committee on Agriculture. ;

and was

was born in Berk Barnard, Daniel ; shire County, Massachusetts, in 1797; graduated at Williams College in 1818; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar, in New York, in 1821; in 1826 was elected District Attorney for the County of Monroe, New York; was a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1*39 io 1845, serving as Chairman of the Judiciary COLU-

Dewey

In 1850 was appointed Minister to mittee. devoted much attention to literary pursuits, degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Died at leges of Geneva and New York.

Prussia; and the the Col

Albany,

April 24, 1861.

was born in Hartford, Con Barnard, necticut, January 24, 1811; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1830; was admitted to the bar in 1835; traveled extensively in Europe until 1837, when he was elected a member of the Legislature of Connecti cut, and was twice re-elected to that office, during which time he effected a re-organization of the State

Henry

;

Common School system; was four years Secretary of the Board of School Commissioners, and made his first annual report in 1839; issued four A olumes of the Connecticut Common School Journal, and continued it from 1850 to 1855; was Superintendent of Pub lic Schools in Rhode Island, from 1843 to 1849; State Superintendent of School Architecture from 1850 to 1854; began the American Journal of Education in 1855; became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Education; in 1857 was ap pointed Commissioner of the new Department of r

Education at Washington; published several works on Education in Europe and America; received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard University, in 1852.

Barnard, Isaac D.; was born at Aston Pennsyl vania, 1791; received an ordinary education; began to study law in Chester in 1811 was appointed Cap tain of the Fourteenth Infantry, March 12, 1812; Major, June 26, 1813; was distinguished at Lyons Creek, and at the capture of Fort George in 1813; left the army in 1815; resuming his legal studies was ;

admitted to the bar, in 1816, atWestchester; wassoon made Deputy Attorney-General; chosen State Sen ator in 1820; Secretary of State in 1 826 was United States Senator from Pennsylvania, from 1827 to 1831. Died at Westchester, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1834. ;

Barnes, Alanson H.; was born in New York; removed to Wisconsin and practiced law; in 1873 was appointed United States Associate Justice for the Territory of Dakota.

Barnes, David Leonard was a citizen of Rhode Island; in 1801 was appointed, by President Adams, United States Judge for the District of Rhode ;

Island.

Barnes,

Demas

Ontario County,

;

New

was born

in

York, April

Gorham township, 4,

1827; received

an academic and classical education spent his boyhood on a farm; became a clerk in a country a store; subsequently merchant; in his twentysecond year removed to New York City, where he followed the drug and medicine business, with branch houses in New Orleans and Montreal. ;

After serving as a member of the Chamber of Com merce, and as President of several incorporated companies, crossed the American Continent in a wagon, examining the mineral resources of Colorado, Nevada, and California; in 1866 was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Fortieth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Banking and Currency, and Education and Labor.

Barnes, George F.; was born in Richmond ounty, Georgia, August 14, 1833; was educated at the Richmond County Academy, in Augusta, Georgia and at the State University, at Athens, Georgia graduated from the latter institution in August, 1853studied law; was admitted to the bar in February 1855, and engaged in the practice of law at Atlanta, ^eorgia; in the fall of 1855 was an unsuccessful candi-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. date for member of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia; in 1860 was elected a member of the Georgia House of Representatives; was three times re-elected; entered the Confederate army, as a Lieutenant of Artillery, in April, 18(51 served in that capacity until the latter part of the war, when he became a commander of a battery of artillery on the coast of Georgia and South Carolina; in 1868, 1876, and 1880, was a Delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of those years; in 1876, was elected a member of the National Democratic Committee, and continued to serve as such until 1884; in the latter year was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-ninth Congress.

the Commissioners to visit Washington in behalf of South Carolina; served as a member of the "Confed erate" Congress; after the war was again President of the South Carolina College.

;

Barnes, William H. was born at Hampton, Connecticut, in 1843; in 1852 removed, with his pa rents, to Illinois; received a liberal education, gradu ating from Michigan University as A. B. in 1865; studied 4aw; in 1866 was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law at Jacksonville, Illi nois; was a Representative in the State Legislature :in 1871 and 1872; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884; was a member of every Democratic State Convention held in Illinois between 1865 and 1885; in October, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona. ;

was

elected a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1812 to 1815, when he was appointed one of the Commissioners to run the

Barnett,

"William

Creek Boundary

;

line.

Barney, John was a son of Commodore Joshua Barney, and a member of Congress from Maryland ;

i

|

from 1825 to 1827. Died in Washington, District of Columbia, January 26, 1857, aged seventy-two years. He was known in Washington society for many years as an agreeable gentleman; left behind him an un finished

record of

"Personal

Recollections of

Men

both in this country and Europe.

and Things,

Barnitz Charles A. was a Representative in Con ,

;

gress from Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1835. York, in that State, in March, 1850.

H.

Died at

was born in Connecticut, a common-school edu cation; when eighteen years of age became engaged in business pursuits; was for many years largely en gaged in the production of iron from the ore, and in In 1852 was elected the manufacture of car-wheels. to the State Legislature; was a Delegate to the Phil

Bariium,

September

"William

;

17, 1818; received

National Convention" of 1866; in elected a Representative from Con necticut to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com adelphia

"Union

April, 1867,

was

mittees on Manufactures, and Roads and Canals; was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con gresses also to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Con gresses, serving on various important committees; was elected United States Senator from Connecticut to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orris S. Ferry, ;

serving from May, 1876, to March, 1879.

Barnwell, Robert; was a Representative in Con gress from South Carolina, from 1791 to 1793. Barnwell, Robert Woodward was born in South Carolina; graduated at Harvard University in ;

1821; studied law;

was a Representative in Congress

from South Carolina from 1829 to 1833; was President of the South Carolina College from 1835 to 1843; was a Senator in Congress, in 1850, by appointment, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Franklin H. Elniore. In December, 1860, was appointed one of

25

Barr,

John

"W.;

was born

at Versailles,

Ken

tucky, December 17, 1826; was educated in the pri vate schools of that vicinity; graduated from the Law Department of Transylvania University, Lex ington, Kentucky, in 1847, and commenced the prac tice of law at Versailles; soon afterward removed to Louisville, Kentucky, where he continued to prac tice his profession until 1880, when he was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Ken tucky; never sought, or held, any political office.

Samuel F.; was born near Coleraine Coun Antrim, Ireland, June 15, 1829; emigrated with his parents, to the United States in 1831 received a common-school education; engaged in railroad and commercial pursuits; was editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph from 1873 to 1878; was elected a Represen tative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. Barr,

ty,

;

Thomas

J.; was born in New York City in Barr, 1812; commenced life by engaging in a variety of pursuits; from 1835 to 1842 held the position of a landlord in New Jersey; in 1849 and 1850 was an As sistant Alderman in the City Councils in New York; in 1853 was elected a member of the State Senate; was elected a Representative in Congress from New York, taking his seat during the second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress, and re-elected to the Thir ty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Com mittee on Expenses in the State Department subse

1

;

New York

quently held an office in the Custom House.

connected with

Barrere, G-ranville was born in Highland County, Ohio; received a common-school education; attended college at Augusta, Kentucky, and Marietta, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Ohio; commenced practice in Illinois in 1856; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committees on Private Land Claims and Weights and Measures. ;

Barrere, Nelson was a Representative in gress from Ohio, from 1851 to 1853. ;

>

Con

Barrett, J. Richard was born in Kentucky; removing to Missouri, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Public Lauds. ;

Barrett, Joseph H.; was born in Vermont; re ceived a good education; was appointed in 1861, from. Ohio, Commissioner of Pensions; in 1868 resigned the position returned to Ohio, and associated him self with the newspaper press of Cincinnati. ;

Barringer, Daniel L.; was born in Mecklen burg County, North Carolina, October 1, 1788; had a, good classical education studied law, and practiced, with success in Wake County served in the Legisla-, ture of North Carolina in 1813, and again from 1819; to 1822; was a Representative in Congress from North. Carolina from 1826 to 1835; was a Presidential Elector in 1844; subsequently removed to Tennessee, and was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of that State. Died October 16, 1852. ;

;

1

1

Barringer, Daniel Moreau was born in Cabarras County, North Carolina; graduated at the Uni versity of North Carolina in 1826; selected the law as a profession; commenced practice in 1829; in that year was elected a member of the State Legislature, ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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in which position he continued for a number of years in 1835 was a member of a Convention to amend the State Constitution; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1843 to 1849, when he was appointed, by President Taylor, Minister to Spain, and continued in that mission by President Fillmore; on resigning his position as Minister, after serving four years, traveled extensively in Europe; on his return home was elected to the State Legislature; in declined a re-election, retired to private 1855> having life, devoting himself to literary studies and pursuits was elected a Delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861, ;

;

also to the Philadelphia "National Union Con of 1866. Died at the Green Brier Springs, Virginia, September 1, 1873.

and

vention

"

Barren, H. D. was appointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury in 1869, and held the office until 1872. ;

Barrow, Alexander; was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1801; after completing his education was admitted to the bar; soon after removed to Lou isiana, gave up the practice of law, and turned his attention to planting; served a number of years in the Legislature of Louisiana: was a Senator in Con 1846. Died Decem gress from Louisiana from 1841 ber 29, 1846. tc


>.

his

I hita-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNA L S Bradley, Abraham, Jr.; was born in Connecti cut: was appointed Assistant Postmaster-General in 1817, holding the office about one year. was born

in East Bloornfield, Bradley, Edward, Ontario County, New York, in April, 1808; passed

his boyhood on a farm; when twenty-eight years of age was appointed Associate Judge of the Common Pleas of his native county; in 1839 removed to Michigan and engaged in the practice of law; in 1842 was elected to the Senate of Michigan; was a Rep resentative from that State to the Thirtieth Congress. Died in New York City, August 5, 1847, while on a tour for the benefit of his health.

Bradley, James; was a resident of Indiana; was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Nebraska.

Bradley, Joseph P.; was born in Berne, Albany County, New York, March 14, 1813; at the age of sixteen taught school; graduated at Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1836; taught an academy at Mill stone studied law, and came to the bar of that State in 1839; practiced the profession at Newark from the lime of his admission until his appointment as As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, March 21, 1870; never took much part in politics; was, however, a Presidential Elector in 1868; was formerly a Whig, -but became a moderate Repub lican; although he was never identified with the anti-slavery movement, zealously supported the Gov ernment during the Rebellion. His grandfather served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, and ;

his father in the

War

of 1812.

Bradley, Lewis B.; was born

in Osage County. February 18, 1805; received a good com mon-school education; emigrated to Missouri in 1845, and settled in Howard County; in 1852 removed to California and settled in San Francisco; in 1860 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1866 removed to Nevada; in 1870 was elected Governor of that State,

Virginia,

and

re-elected in 1874

by a greatly increased majority.

Bradley, Nathan B.; was born in Lee, Berk shire County, Massachusetts, May 28, 1831; removed to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1835, and settled on a farm; apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a clothier, and served the term of three years; at the age of nineteen went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and spent a year in the employ of lumber manufacturers; returned to Ohio, then went back to Michigan to en gage in his vocation of manufacturing lumber; was elected a Justice of the Peace three terms; a Super visor one term an Alderman three terms; was the first Mayor of Bay City, declining a re-nomination: "was a candidate for the Lower House of the Legis lature; elected to the State Senate in 1866, but declined a re-nomination; was elected to the Fortythird and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the ;

Committee on Public Lands.

Bradley, Phineas; was born in Connecticut; in 1818 was appointed an Assistant Postmaster-Gen eral.

Bradley, Stephen

Roe

;

was born

in Walling-

ibrd, Connecticut, February 20, 1754; graduated at Yale College in 1775; was a lawyer by profession; was a General of Militia, the intimate friend of Gen eral Ethan Allen, and the Aid of General

Wooster,

whe;i that officer fell in a skirmish with the enemy; was the first Senator from Vermont in the Congress of the United States, serving from 1791 to 1795, and from 1801 to 1813; a man of eminent ability, but of eccentric habits. During a part of the Seventh and

53

,

Tenth Congresses officiated as President pro tern, of the Senate. Died in New Hampshire, December 9, 1830.

Bradley, William O.; was born at Westmin Vermont, March 23, 1782; entered Yale Col lege; was compelled to leave when a freshman, in

ster,

1796, and yet, in 1817, the Corporation of the Insti tution surprised him with the degree of M. A. stud ied law with his father, Stephen R. Bradley, and was admitted to the bar in 1802. The public positions held by him are as follows: from 1800 to 1803, Sec retary of Commissioners of Bankruptcy from 1804 to 1811, State s-Attorney for Wiudham County, and part of this period Clerk of Westminster; in 1806 and 1807, Representative in the State Legislature; in 1812, member of the State Council; a Representative in Congress from 1813 to 1815; from 1817 to 1822, agent of the United States under the Treaty of Ghent; again in Congress from 1823 to 1827; in 1850 again in the State Legislature; in 1856. a Presidential Elec tor; in 1857 a member of the State Constitutional Convention; in 1858 took formal leave of the bar, at ;

;

which he had practiced for fifty-four years, conferring honor upon his native State and bearing a spotless reputation as a man. Died at Westminster, Ver mont, March 3, 1867.

Bradshaw, Samuel O.; was born in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, June 10,

1809; received a common school education; studied medicine, and graduated at the Pennsylvania Medi cine College in 1833; was a Representative from his native State to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Brady, James

D.; was born at Portsmouth, Vir 1843; was educated in the common schools and in private schools; in 1855, at the age of twelve years, was left an orphan, and in 1858 secured a clerkship in New York City, which he retained un ginia,

til

April

April,

3,

1861,

when he

resigned to enlist in the

Union Army; served throughout the

Civil War, ris through all the intermediate grades, to the rank of Colonel, which, at the age of twenty-two, he held when mustered out of service at the close of the war, in 1865; probably the youngest officer of that rank in the service; three years of his service were passed in the Adjutant-General s, Judge- Advocate s, and In spector-General s Departments of the Army; after leaving the Army he settled at Petersburg, Virginia, in the wholesale and retail grocery business; in 1866 sold out his business and was appointed Naval Store keeper at the Gosport Navy Yard; was, for a time, Chief Accountant at that Navy Yard; in 1870 was elected Clerk of the Courts at Portsmouth, Virginia, serving until 1876; was then appointed a Special Inspector of Customs; in 1877 was appointed United State s Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second Virginia District; was tendered the position of Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the State, but declined; in 1880 and 1884 was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions; has been a prominent member of all State Republican Conventions in Virginia since the close of the war; was, for five years, Secretary, and four years Chairman of the State Republican Committee; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-ninth Congress, and re ing,

signed the Collectorship.

Brady, Jasper E.; was born in New Jersey; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1849; subsequently settled in the practice of the law at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and afterwards in Washington City, was long a clerk in one of the Government departments. Died in Wash ington,

January

23, 1870.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

54

Thomas

was born at Mtincie, In J.J Brady, diana, February 12, 1839; received a common school education; taught school for several years in Muncie and vicinity; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 18GO; entered the Union Army, in 1861, as to a Captain; was promoted Major in 1862, and Colonelcy in 1863; served throughout the .Civil War, was mustered out of service with the last regi an0

Breck, Samuel was born in Boston, July 17, was a Representative in Congress from Penn ;

1771

September

October 10, 1797.

and then entered Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), where he remained three years, at the end of which time he was com pelled, by impaired eyesight, to relinquish his studies; engaged in cotton planting in Arkansas; also in the commission business at Pine Bluff, Arkansas; was elected a Representative from Arkansas to the Fortyeighth Congress was re-elected to the Forty-ninth

;

;

Congress.

was Governor of the Terri

tory of Idaho from 1876 to 1880.

Brayton, "William D. was born in Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, November 6, 1815; was educated at Brown University; ill-health preventing him from following a sedentary profession, entered ;

into active mercantile pursuits; held the position, for some time, of Town Clerk; in 1841 was elected to the State Assembly, serving two terms; after serv the ing for two years in the Town Councils, part of time as President, was, in 1848, elected to the State Senate; again elected to the State Assembly in 1851; in 1855 was, a second time, elected State Senator; was Presidential Elector in 1856; was elected a member from Rhode Island to the Thirty-fifth and Thirtysixth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Pat on Expendi ents, and as Chairman of the Committee tures on the Public Buildings; in 1864 was Collector of Internal Revenue in Warwick, Rhode Island.

was Lieutenant-Colonel in the Revolutionary Army and a brave officer; was a mem ber of the State and Federal Constitutional Conven ;

New Jersey; Chief Justice in that State for nine years; in 1789 was appointed United States Died in Judge for the District of New Jersey. Trenton, New Jersey, August 16, 1790, aged fortytions of

four.

New

London, Breatnitt, John was born near with his Virginia, September 9, 1786; removed, in 1800; was a father, to Logan County, Kentucky, and was surveyor and school teacher; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1810; was several years in the from 1828 to Legislature; was Lieu tenant-Governor 1832 to 1834, 1832; was Governor of Kentucky from and was a warm supporter of Jackson for the Presi dency. Died at Frankfort, Kentucky, February 21, ;

1834.

Boston, Massachu Dartmouth College in to Kentucky in 1814; 1812; studied law; removed

Breck, Daniel was born near ;

setts,

Died in Philadelphia,

1862.

years,

in Matthews County, Virginia, October 8, 1823; received a com mon school education; adopted the profession of the law; was elected to the State Senate in 1851, and reelected in 1853; was elected to the Common Council of Fredericksburg in 1866; was elected a Representa tive from Virginia to the Forty -second Congress.

Brearly, David

1,

Breckenridge, Clifton R.; was born at Lexing ton, Kentucky, November 22, 1846; received instruc tion at private schools until nearly sixteen years of age, when he entered the Confederate service; at the close of the Civil War engaged in business for two

Braxton, Elliott M.; was born

Brayman, Mason

;

sylvania from 1823 to 1825.

that service, frequently served in the Virginia Legis lature; having lost his large property by the war, was subsequently greatly perplexed in his financial Died at Richmond, Virginia, of par circumstances. alysis,

55

in 1788; graduated at

I

j

Breckenridge, James; was born near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, March 7, 1763; gradu ated at William and Mary College in 1785; in 1781 was a soldier in Colonel Preston s Rifle Regiment under General Greene; was admitted to the bar in 1787, and became a successful lawyer; was a promi nent leader of the old Federal party in the General Assembly of the State; was a member of the United States Congress from 1809 to 1817; was one of the originators of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and with Mr. Jefferson, a founder of the University of Virginia.

Died at Fincastle, August, 1846.

Breckenridge, James D.; was born in Jeffer son County, Kentucky was a Representative in Con Died at gress from that State from 1821 to 1823. Louisville, in May, 1849. ;

Breckenridge, John was a Virginian by was the author and advocate of the celebrated ;

birth;

Res

in the Legislature of that State; emigrated to Kentucky; was elected United States Senator in 1801; was appointed Attorney -General of the United States, by President Jefferson, in Jan uary, 1805, holding that office until January, 1806. Died at Lexington, Kentucky, December 14, 1806.

olutions of

1798-99,"

Breckenridge, JohnC.; was born near Lexing ton,

Kentucky, January

16, 1821;

was

educate;! at

Centre College, Kentucky; spent a few months at Princeton College; studied law at the Transylvania Institute, and was admitted to the bar at Lexington; emigrated to Burlington, Iowa, where he remained for a time, but returned to Lexington, where he con tinued to reside, and when not engaged in public duties practiced his profession with success; served as a Major of Infantry during the war with Mexico, and while in that country distinguished himself as the counsel of Major-General Pillow during the fa mous court-martial on his return from Mexico was elected to the State Legislature; was a Representa tive in Congress from the AshlanS District from 18ol ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

53

him the mission to Spain, but family affairs compelled him to decline the honor; was elected Vice-President of the United States in 1856, on the ticket with James Buchanan, and entered upon the duties of his ofiice in March, 1857, as President of the United States Senate; in to 1855; President Tierce tendered

1860 was nominated by the Southern Democratic party as their candidate for President, but was de feated; in 1861 went into the Senate as the sxccessor of Mr. Crittenden; was expelled from the Senate on December 4, 1861; took part in the Great Rebellion as a General. Died at Lexington, Kentucky, May 17, 1875, leaving behind him a spotless reputation. The compiler of this volume has special reasons for respecting his memory, because of his personal as sistance in preparing the Introduction to the First Edition of the Dictionary of Congress, in 1859, in which one of the Senator s most eloquent speeches

was

originally published.

Breoksnridge, William Campbell Preston

;

was born near Baltimore, Maryland, August 28, 1837; while his father was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Baltimore, was prepared for College at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky; en tered Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, in 1853; graduated therefrom in 1855; studied law; graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louis ville, Kentucky, in 1857, and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice at Lexington, Kentucky, in the same year; in 1862 entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Cavalry; rose to the rank of Colonel, and, at the time of the surrender, was in command of a Brigade of Kentucky Cavalry; was editor of the Lexington Observer and Reporter from 1866tol86S; County Attorney from 1856 to 1870; member of the City Council of Lexington from 1870 to 1879; Professor of Equity, Jurisprudence, and Pleadings in the Law Department of the Kentucky University in 1872; Presidential Elector in 1872; Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1876 and 1880; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-ninth Congress; received the degree of LL. D. from the Cumberland University

and the Central University. Breese, Sidney was born in Whitesborough, Oneida County, New York, July 15, 1800; attended Hamilton College, but graduated at Union College; removed to Illinois; after due preparation, and be fore becoming of age, was admitted to the bar; his first public position was that of Captain of Militia, after which he became Assistant Secretary of State under Secretary Kane; was appointed Postmaster of Kaskaskia, Illinois; in 1822 was appointed State At torney, which office he held until 1827, when he was ;

appointed United States District Attorney for Illi nois; in 1829, published a volume of Decisions of the supreme Court, which now bears his name, and was the first octavo volume published in the State; served in the Black Hawk war as a Lieutenant of Volun teers; in 1835 was elected a Circuit Judge; was a Senator in Congress from Illinois from 1843 to 1849, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands; was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institute during President Polk s administration; in 1850 be

came a member of the Illinois Legislature, and was elected Speaker; was one of the originators of the Illi2ois Central Railroad; in 1855 was again placed on the Circuit Court bench, and made Clfaf Judge; pubJished a work on Illinois in 1869.

tled in Michigan; engaged in business at Negaunee, in that State, as a capitalist and land speculator, and in iron mining; in 1872 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature for the term of two years; re signed in 1873; was State Senator in 1877 and 1878;

was elected Mayor of Negaunee in 1878, 1880, and 1882; was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Breng-le, Francis; was born in Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845. Died December 10, 1846.

Brent, Richard was born in Virginia was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1795 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1803; was a Senator Died December 30, in Congress from 1809 to 1814. ;

;

1814.

Brent,

Thomas I/.

L.;

was a

citizen of Virginia;

was Secretary of Legation to Portugal in 1822; was appointed Charge d Affaires in 1825, remaining in that capacity until 1834.

Brent, "William, Jr.; was a citizen of Virginia; went to Buenos Ayres in 1844 as Charge d Affaires, and remained there until 1846.

Brent, "William L.; was born in Charles County, Maryland; was a Representative in Congress, from Louisiana, from 1823 to 1829. Died in July, 1848.

Brentano, Lorenzo was born in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, November 4, 1813; received a classical education graduated in the law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frieberg; en tered upon the practice, and soon attained promi nence; was elected to the Chamber of Deputies; in 1848 was elected to the Frankfort Parliament, and when, the following year, the Grand Duke of Baden fled from the Revolutionists, became President of the Provisional Republican Government; after the defeat ;

;

of the Revolutionary forces he fled to the United States, and settled in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, as a farmer; in 1859 removed to Chicago, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar, but turned his atten tion to the press; was a member of the Assembly in 1862; was President of the Chicago Board of Educa tion for five years; a Presidential Elector in was appointed United States Consul at Dresden in 1872, serving until 1876; was elected a Representa tive from Illinois to the Forty-fifth Congress. 18l>8;

Brenton, Samuel; was a native of Gal latin County, Kentucky; was a Minister of the Gospel from the age of twenty until 1848, when, stricken by paralysis, he resigned; was appointed Register of the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Land Office; was elected to Congress from Indiana in 1851, and again in 1855; was also President of the Fort Wayne College. Died March

29, 1857,

aged forty-eight years.

Brents, Thomas H.; was born in Pike County, Illinois, December 24, 1840; removed to Oregon; received a collegiate education; adopted the profes sion of the law; was a Justice of the Peace; was ap pointed Postmaster at Canyon City, Oregon; was of Clerk Grant County County; served as a member of the State House of Representatives; settled in Washington Territory; was elected a Delegate from

Washington Territory to the Forty-sixth, seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Forty-

Brevard, James was born in Iredell County, North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1819 to 1821. ;

Edward

was born in the city of pchaekau, Germany, November 10, 1831 was edu

Breitung

,

;

;

cated at the College of Meiningen, at Meiningen, Germany; emigrated to the United States, and set

Brewer, David J.; was born at Smyrna, in Asia Minor, June 20, 1837, his parents being, at the time,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNA L 8 missionaries to the Greeks; his parents returned to the United Stales dnriug his infancy, and settled in Connecticut; young Brewer was educated in the schools of Hartford, East Hampton, Middletown, and New Haven, Connecticut; entered Wesleyan University, at Middletown, in 1851; at the close of the junior year went to Yale College and entered as a junior; graduated from the latter institution in 1856- passed one year in the law office of his uncle, David Dudley Field, in New York City, and then entered the Law School at Albany, New York; .graduated therefrom in 1858, and, in the fall of that .year, went West; in 1859, settled at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the practice of law; in 1881, was ap pointed a United States Commissioner; in 1832, was elected Judge of Probate and Criminal Courts -of iLeavenworth County, Kansas; in 1864, was elected District Judge of the First Judicial District of Kansas; was President of the City Board of Education -of Leavenworth in 1865; was Superintendent of the ^Leaven worth Public Schools in 1866 1867 and 1868; in the latter year, was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Leavenworth County; in 1870, was elected an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, for the term of six years; was re-elected in 1876 and 1882; in 1884, resigned from the State Bench to .accept the appointment of United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, tendered him toy President Arthur. B.; was born at Keene, New 1820; graduated at Dart mouth College in 1843; studied medicine, and gradu ated as M. D. in 1845, at Hanover (N. H.) Medical College; practiced his profession in Vermont, and at Plymouth, Massachusetts; in 1851 removed to Titusville, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the lumber business; in 1853, in connection with others, organized the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, the pioneer petroleum enterprise; Col. E. L. Drake became a stockholder and sunk the first oil well, this company

Brewer, Francis October

8,

judicate the claims of the Cherokee Indians against the United States; in 1867 was appointed AttorneyGeneral of Pennsylvania; in 1881 was appointed, by President Gariield, Attorney-General of the United States; resigned in 1882, and resumed the practice of

j

his profession in Philadelphia.

Brewster, David P.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1839 to 1843. Died at Oswego, February 21, 1876.

Bridges, George "W.; was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, October 9, 1825; was educated at the East Tennessee University; adopted the profes sion of the law; was Attorney-General of the State in 1849 and in 1854. holding the office for eleven years; held the positions of Bank Attorney and Railroad Director; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; was elected a Representative in Congress from Tennessee in 1861, to serve in the Thirty-seventh Congress; but, being arrested by the "Confederates," during the Rebellion, did not take his seat until towards the close of the last session.

,

Hampshire,

57

.

j

j

Bridges, Samuel A.; was born in Colchester, Connecticut, January 27, 1802; received an academic education, and graduated at Williamstown College in 182(J; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1829; in 1830 removed to Pennsylvania; was for seven years Deputy Attorney-General of the State for Lehigli County; was a Representative in Congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1848 to 1849,, and from 1853 to 1855; was again a Representative in the Forty-fifth Died January 14, 1884. Congress. Briggs, Ansel was elected Governor of Iowa in and remained in the office until 1850. ;

1846,

Government Director of the Union Pacific Rail road from 1874 to 1878; Manager of the State Insane Asylum at Buffalo in 1881 and 1882; was, for ten years, President of the First National Bank, Westiield; was elected a Representative from New York

was born in Fulton County, York, in 1805; removed to Vermont in 1813, to the Legislature of which State he was elected in 1837; in 1838 settled in the City of New York, and for many years devoted himself to the hardware busi ness, by which he amassed a fortune represented the City of New York in Congress from 1849 *o 1853. and in 1858 was elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolu tionary Claims; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention" of 1866. Died at.

to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Saratoga,

being thus the means of inaugurating the oil traffic; Mr. Brewer then settled at Westtield, New York; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1873 and 1874;

Hart was

born in Hunterdon Coun Brewer, ty, New Jersey, March 29, 1844; received a good ed ucation; engaged in the manufacture of pottery; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1876; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. J.

Brewer,

Mark

;

S.;

was born

at Addison, Michi

gan, October 22, 1837; worked on his father s farm until he reached the age of nineteen; received an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and commenced practice in Pontiac; was City Attorney in 1866 and 1867; was Circuit Court Commissioner from 1866 to 1869; served two years as State Senator; was elected a Representative

from Michigan to the Forty-fifth Congress; re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Briggs, George

;

New

;

June

1,

1869.

Briggs, George N.; was born in Adams, Berk Massachusetts, April 12, 1796; com by learning the trade of a hatter; spent one year in an academy studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1818; was Register of Deeds from 1824 to 1831; was a Representative in Congress shire County,

menced

life

;

from Massachusetts from 1831 to 1843, officiating dur ing the Twenty-seventh Congress as Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office; from 1844 to 1851 was Governor of Massachusetts; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1853; -from 1853 to 1859 held the position of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; was a Trustee of Williams College for sixteen years; a noted advocate of the Tem perance Cause. Died, in 1861, from the effects of an An interesting biog accidental gun-shot wound. raphy of him was published in 1866, by Rev. Wm. C. Richards.

Brewster, Benjamin Harris

;

was born

in Sa

New Jersey, October 13, 1816; gradu ated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1834; studied law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; was ad mitted to the bar in 1838, and engaged in the prac lem County,

tice of

law at Philadelphia; became eminent in his was appointed, by President Polk, to ad-

profession;

James

was born

at Bury, Lan emigrated to the United States; received an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851, and

Briggs,

cashire,

F.;

England, October

23, 1827;

practice at Hillsboro, New Hampshire; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1856,

commenced

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

58

and 1874; in 1871 removed to Manchester, Hampshire; was a State Senator in 1876; was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con 1857, 1858,

New

gresses.

Brigham, Elijah was a native of Northborough, ;

Massachusetts; a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1778; studied law at Harvard; was a merchant by occupation; held many positions of trust and respon sibility; was a Representative in Congress from Mas sachusetts from 1811 to 1816, when he resigned. Died in Washington City, of croup, April 22, 1816, aged sixty-six years.

Brigham, Lewis A. was

born at York Mills York, January 2, 1831 graduated at Hamilton College in 1849; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855; removed to New Jersey; was elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of the City of Bergen from 1866 to 1870; was a member of the Board of Police Commissioners of Jersey City from 1874 to 1876; was a Representative of the State Legislature in 1877; was elected a Representative from New Jer sey to the Forty-sixth Congress. Died February 20, ;

New

;

1886.

Bright, Jesse D.; was born at Norwich, Chenango County, New York, December 18, 1812; re ceived an academic education studied law as a pro fession; was Circuit Judge of Indiana; State Senator; Marshal of the United States for the District of Indi ana; Lieu tenant-Governor of that State; was a United States Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1857, and President of the Senate during several sessions; was elected for an additional term in 1857, for six years, and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Build ings and Grounds, and a member of the Committees on Finance and the Pacific Railroad; was expelled ;

for alleged disloyalty in February, 1862; subsequently settled in Kentucky, and was elected to the Senate of that State. Died in Baltimore, Maryland, May 20, 1875. ;

was born

;

Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Private Laud Claims; in December, 1875, was ap pointed Chairman of the Committee on Claims; also re-elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con

Brinkerhoff, Jacob was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from ;

1843 to 1847.

Bristol, Warren was born at Stafford, Genesee County, New York, March 19, 1823; removed, with ;

his parents, to Ransomville, Niagara County, New York, in 1829; received an academic education; re moved to the city of Lockport, New York, in 1845; studied law in the office of the Hon. Edward I. Chase, in that city; removed to the Territory of Minnesota in 1850 and settled at Minneapolis; was admitted to the bar in 1851, and engaged in the practice of law at Minneapolis; in 1852 was the first District Attor

ney of Hennepin County, of which Minneapolis was the County seat; removed to Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1855;

held, successively, the offices of District Attorney and Judge of Probate, in that County; waa President of the first Republican State Convention of Minnesota, in 1855, which was held at St. Paul, and at which the Republican party was first organized in that State; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1864; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1865; was a State Senator from 1866 to 1870; in 1872 was appointed, by President Grant, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; was re-appointed by President Grant in 1876 and by President Hayes in 1880.

Bristol,

Brinker, William Hugh; was born in Craw ford County, Missouri, December 23, 1851; in 1853 removed, with his parents, to Warrensburg, Johnson was educated at the common County, Missouri schools and at the State University, at Columbia, Missouri, remaining at the latter institution one year; read law, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1873; engaged in the practice of law at Warrensburg; in 1876 was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Johnson was twice re-elected, serving three County, ;

Missouri; successive terms; in April, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, an Associate Justice of the Su preme Court of the Territory of New Mexico; soon

removed

William

;

was born in Hamden, Con

necticut, in 1779; graduated at Yale College in 1798; studied law, and was for many years a distinguished

member

of the

New Haven

bar; was Judge of the for the State of Connec the of Superior Court of that

United States District Ccrart

was a member

State from 1819 to 1826. 7, 1836.

Died at

New Haven, March

Bristow, Benjamin H.; was born in Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky, June 20, 1832; graduated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1851; studied law, and began practice at Elkton in 1853; removed to Hopkins ville. Kentucky, in 1858, and continued his profession there; in 1861 entered the army as

Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twenty- fifth Kentucky In commanded the Eighth Ken tucky Cavalry; while serving in the field, was elected to the State Senate for four years, but resigned at the fantry: subsequently

years, and resumed his profession in Louisville; in 1866 was appointed United States Dis trict Attorney for the District of Kentucky; resigned in 1870; in October, 1870, was appointed SolicitorGeneral of the United States; resigned in the autumn

end of two

gresses.

after

State, in 1843. Died, before the expiration of his term, in Huron County, Ohio, April 30, 1844.

ticut;

John Morgan

at Fayetteville, Tennessee, January 20, 1817; received his early education at Fayetteville, and at Hillsborough, North Carolina; graduated at Nashville University in 1839, and from Transylvania University in 1841 practiced law; was a member of the Legislature of Tennessee in 1847 and 1848; was elected to the Forty-second Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-third and

Bright,

and distinguished himself at the battle of Queenstown; was twice elected to the New York Legisla ture; for many years held the office of Major-General of the New York Militia; in 1837 removed to Ohio; was elected to Congress, as Representative from that

to

Albuquerque,

Brinker hoff, Henry

New

Mexico.

B.; was born in Adams

at an early County, Pennsylvania, in 1788; emigrated the last war \.ith En period to New York; during volunteer company, gland served in command of a

of 1872; was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, June 3, 1874.

Bristow, Francis M.

was born near NicholasJessamine County, Kentucky, August 11, 1804; received a good English education; studied law, and divided his time between that profession and farming; in 1831 and 1833 was elected to the Kentucky Legis lature; in 1846 to the State Senate; in 1849 was a member of the State Constitutional Convention; in 1854 was elected a Representative in Congress for the unexpired term of Pressly Ewing; in 1859 was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Agriculture and the Special Committee of Thirty-three. Died at Elkton, Kentucky, June 10, 1864. ville,

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Broadhead, James O.; was born at Chariot tsVirginia, May 29, 1819; received a classical ed

ville,

ucation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Missouri in 1842, and engaged in the practice of law in that State; was a member of the State House of Representatives of Missouri in 1847; a State Senator from 1850 to 1854; a Delegate to the State Constitu tional Convention of 1861 United States District Attorney for the East?rn District of Missouri in that year; was Provost-Marshal-General of the Depart ment of the Missouri in 1863; member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1875; was elected a Representative from. Missouri to the Forty-eighth ;

Congress.

Broadhead, John O.; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1831 to 1833, and again from 1837 to 1839. was born in Virginia; was an early emigrant to Utah, and in 1850 was appointed a United States Judge for that Territory; subse quently resided in Washington City.

Brochus, Perry

E.;

Brockenbrough, J. W.; was a native of Vir ginia; was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court for that District.

engine company in New York, during waich pericd he was an active politician; removed to California in 1849, and engaged in the business of smelting and assaying gold; was a member of the Convention which drafted the Constitution of that State; served two years in the California Senate, and was President of that body in 1851; was elected a Senator in Con gress from California in 1856, for the long term, taking his seat during the second session of the Died at San Francisco, Thirty-fourth Congress. California, September 16, 1859, from a wound re ceived in a duel fought with David S. Terry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State, on the 13th of the same month. He was the first member of the United States Senate ever killed in a duel; it is said that some of the marble pillars in the old Senate Chamber, where he had a seat, were cut by his

own

father.

Brodhead, John was aminister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for forty-four years was a Repre sentative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. Died at New Market, New Hamp shire, April 7, 1838, aged sixty -seven years. ;

;

Brodhead, John M.; was born Hampshire,

Brockenbrough, William

H.;

was born in

went

to Florida for the benefit of his health, which, during his residence there, was a continual depression upon his physical and mental energies; under the Territorial Government, was a Senator from the Western District, and at one time President of the Senate; was United States District Attorney, and also Judge; was a Representative in Congress from Florida from 1845 to 1847; was also a Presidential Elector on several occasions Died at Tallahassee,

1813;

Florida, in June, 1850, of

pulmonary consumption.

Brockway, John

H.; was born in Ellington, at Yale College in 1820; commenced active life by teaching in the academy at East Windsor Hill studied law practiced the pro fession; frequently served in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1839 to 1843. Connecticut; graduated ;

in Canaan,

New

and was the son of John Brodhead,.

formerly a member of Congress; educated partly at the New Market Seminary; graduated at Dartmouth College as a physician was appointed Second Comp troller of the United States Treasury and held the office until 1857; was an Alderman of Washington City in 1861 and 1862, and introduced the first Union resolutions after the battle of Bull Run; was a Com missioner for the District of Columbia under the Emancipation Act in 1862; in 1863 was again ap pointed Second Comptroller, and remained in that position until January, 1876, when he resigned. Among his other official positions held at different times may be mentioned those of Trustee of an Asylum, and of a College, and also that of a Bank ;

Cashier.

;

Broderick, Case was born in Grant County, Indiana, September 23, 1839; in early childhood re moved, with his parents, to Jasper County, Indiana, and settled upon a farm; was educated in the com mon schools of that, then new and sparsely settled, ;

went

to Jackson County, Kansas, tract of laud, which he engaged in in in the Union Army, enlisted cultivating; 1862, serving throughout the Civil War; at the close of the war, returned to Kansas, and soon thereafter was elected a Justice of the Peace; removed to Hal ton, the county seat of Jackson County, and studied law; was admitted to the bar and engaged in the practice of law; in 1868 was elected Probate Judge; was sev eral times re-elected; was elected Prosecuting At torney for Jackson County and served four years; in 1880 was elected a State Senator, and served one

section; in 1859,

5,

and purchased a

term of two years; on March 24, 1884, was ap pointed, by President Arthur, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Idaho; at once removed to Boise City, Idaho, and entered upon the discharge of his j udicial duties.

Broderick, David

O.; was born in the

District

of Columbia, of Irish parentage, in December, 1818; when a boy of five years removed to New York City with his father; during his youth was apprenticed to the trade of a stone-cutter, which was the trade of his father; was for many years foreman of a fire-

Brodhead, Richard; was a native of Pike County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con gress from 1843 to 1849; a Senator of the United States Senate from Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1857. Died at Easton, Pennsylvania, September

17, 1863.

Brogden, Curtis H.; was born in Wayne County r North Carolina; as a boy worked on his father s farm;, early took an interest in military atfairs and became a General of Militia; was elected to the State Legis lature in 1838, and, in one or the other of the two-

pointed a Collector of Internal Revenue; after the additional service of four years in the State Senate was, in 1872, elected Lieutenant-Governor; on the death of Governor Caldwell, in 1874, became the Governor of the State; among the other public posi tions which he held may be mentioned those of State Director of the Weldon and Wilmington Railroad, Trustee of the State University, and Justice of Wayne County; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Bromberg, Frederick George

was born in ; City, June 19, 1837; removed to Mobile, in at Harvard Alabama, 1838; graduated University in 1858; was a student in the Chemical Laboratory of the Lawrence Scientific School from 1861 to 1863; was elected tutor in mathematics at Harvard Univer in in 1865 and returned to sity 1863; resigned Mobile; was appointed Treasurer of the city of Mobile in.

New York

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. and served until 1869; was a member of the State Senate of Alabama from 1868 to 1872; was appointed Postmaster of Mobile in 1869, and removed in 1871; was elected to the Forty-third Congress and re-elected to the Forty -fourth Congress; served on the 1867,

Committee on Commerce.

Bromwell, Henry P. H.; was born in Balti more, Maryland, August 26, 1823 spent seven years of his boyhood in Ohio; went with his father to Illi nois in 1836 received a good English and classical education; studied law; came to the bar in 1853, and practiced in different parts of the State; from 1852 to 1854 was the publisher and editor of the Age of Steam and Fire, at Vandalia; in 1853 was elected Judge of Fayette County for four years; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Patents, Expenses in the State Department, and the Civil Service; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Pub lic Expenditures. ;

;

Bronson, David was born in Suffield, Connecti cut; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1819; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1823; was a member of the Legislature, as Representative, in 1832 and 1834, and as Senator in 1816; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Norridgewock, Maine, from 1841 to 1843, and served as a member of the Committee on Public Lands; from 1850 to 1853 was Collector of Customs at Bath, Maine; from 1854 to 1857 was Judge of Probate for Sagadahock County. Died in Talbot County, Maryland, in November, ;

1863.

H.; was born in Rutland, New was educated for the bar, to practice in 1822; was a Representa tive in Congress from New York from 1837 to 1839, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Terri tories; in 1839 was appointed one of the Territorial Judges of Florida, and from that time until his death served continually on the bench, at the time of his death being District Judge of the United States for Northern Florida. Died at Palatka, August 13, 1855.

Bronson, Isaac

York, October and admitted

16, 1802;

Brooke, Robert

;

was Governor of Virginia from

1794 to 1796.

Brooke, "Walter; was a Senator in Congress from Mississippi from 1852 to 1853, in place of H. S. Foote, resigned.

Took part

in the Rebellion.

Brookings, W.; was an early emigrant to Utah was appointed an Associate Judge of the United "W

;

States Court for that Territory.

Brooks, David; was born army in 1776 as a Lieutenant

in 1736; entered the in the Pennsylvania

was captured at Fort Washington, and remained a prisoner for two years; upon being exchanged was promoted Assistant Clothier-General at headquarters, an office of responsibility, which he so tilled as to secure the friendship of Washington; after the close of the war removed to New York, and afterwards settled in Dutchess County, representing each locality in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from New York, from May 1797, to July, 1797; a Commissioner for making the first treaty with the Seneca Indians (signed where the city of Utica now stands), and subsequently first Judge of Dutchess line;

County for sixteen years. Died at his home, where he was universally esteemed, in August. 1838.

in 1844; studied law; was a member of the Massa chusetts Legislature in 1858; of the State Senate in 1859; of the Committee chosen in 1859 to revise the statutes of Massachusetts was elected to the Fortyfirst Congress in 1869, to fill a vacancy; in 1864 was chosen an Overseer of Harvard College, and was for several years Chairman of the Greek Committee. ;

was born in North Caro from whence he was, in 1866, appointed United States Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Brooks, G-sorge

Brooks, James was born in Portland, Maine, November 10, 1810; when only eleven years of age became a clerk in a store; when sixteen was a school teacher, and at the age of nearly twenty -one gradu ;

ated at the Waterville College; was an extensive traveler both in this country and Europe, and pub lished a large number of letters descriptive of his tours; in 1835 was elected to the Legislature of Maine; in 1836 established the New York Duly E.cpre-n, of which he was the chief editor and proprietor; in 1817 was elected a member of the New York Leg islature; from 1849 to 1853 was a Representative in Congress from the city of New York, serving on the Committee on Public Lands; re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving as a member of the Com mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Ways and Means and the Pacific Railroad, but his seat was successfully contested by W. E. Djdge; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention of re-elected to the Fortieth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Ways and Means, Reconstruction, and on Rules; re-ele;tedto the three succeeding Congresses, and during one of the re cesses, performed a tour around the world, about w lich he published an interesting book. Died in Washington, District of Columbia, April 30, 1873. "

"

18i>6;

Brooks, John was born in Medford, Massachu brought up on a farm; received a common school education, at which time Count Rumlbrd was a fellow student, and an intimacy with him continued ;

setts;

through correspondence during the

was apprenticed

in Concord, Mas sachusetts, July 26, 1824; graduated at Cambridge

life

of the Count;

at the age of fourteen, for seven years, to Dr. Tufts; commenced the practice of med icine at Reading, where he commanded a company of Minute-men in 1775; was in nearly all the battles of

the Revolution, and was especially distinguished at Saratoga; in 1778 was associated with Inspector-Gen eral Steuben in the duty of introducing a uniform system of exercise and manoeuvres, and was Ad jutant-General at the battle of Monmouth; to him belongs the credit of sending Cuyler to give the alarm to Arnold s forces; after the war, resumed the practice of medicine in Medford; was for many years MajorGeneral of Militia, and as a member of the Legislature was against Shay s Rebellion; was a Delegate to the Convention for adopting the Federal Constitution, which he advocated; was appointed, by Washington, Marshal of his District, and Inspector of the Revenue in 1795; was State Senator and Councilor; AdjutantGeneral of the State from 1812 to 1815; its Governor from 1816 to 1823, when he retired to private life; received from Harvard University the degrees of M.D. and LL. D. in 1816; was President of the Mas sachusetts Medical Society from 1817 until his death; of the Cincinnati from 1787; and of the Massachu setts Bible Society. Died at Medford, March 1, 1825.

Brooks, Micah

was born in Cheshire, Connec in 1775; was educated by his father, with he removed to Western New York, where he settled on a taught school; farm; was a Justice of!

ticut,

Brooks, G-eorg-e M.; was born

"W.;

lina; resided at Elizabeth City,

whom

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. the Peace in 1806, and for twenty years thereafter was a County Judge was a member of the New York Assembly in 1808 and 1809; was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1815 to 1817; a member of the State Constitutional Convention of Died at Liv 1821; a Presidential Elector in 1824. ;

ingston County,-

New

York, July

7,

1857.

Brooks, Preston

S.; was born in Edgefield Dis South Carolina, in August, 1819; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843; was a State Representa tive in J844; in 1846 raised a company of volunteers, was made Captain, and served in the Palmetto regi ment during most of the Mexican War; after the trict,

Avar levoted himself to planting; was elected to Con gress in 1853, and again in 1855; in 1856 made a per sonal assault upon Charles Sumner, in the United States Senate Chamber, which event caused much

excitement throughout the country; -the attack was caused by words uttered in debate by Senator Sum ner against A. P. Butler, who was Mr. Brooks rela tive. Died in Washington, District of Columbia,

January

27, 1857.

Broom, Jacob was

born in Baltimore, Mary land, July 25, 1808; received a classical education; on removing to Pennsylvania, was appointed, in 1840, Deputy Auditor of that State; in 1849 was elected Clerk of the Orphans Court for the City and County of Philadelphia; was elected a Representa tive, from that State, to the Thirty -fourth Congress. Died in Washington, in November, 1864. ;

Broomall, John M.; was born

Upper Chichester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, January 19, mathematical ed 1816; received a good classical and ucation in the schools of the Quakers, to which sect Ins family had belonged for several generations stu died law, and was devoted to that profession; served in the Legislature of the State; was a Presidential Elector in 1861 in 1862 was elected a Representa in

;

;

from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eight Congress, and was a member of the Committees on Accounts and Public Expenditures; re-elected to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Pub lic Expenditures, on Accounts, and on the Memphis

tive

Riots; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Accounts.

Broome, James

E.;

was Governor of Florida

from 1853 to 1857.

Broome, James M.;

graduated at Princeton College in 1794; was a Representative in Congress, from Delaware, from 1805 to 1807.

Brough, John was born in Marietta. Ohio, September 17, 1811; began life as a printer; entered the Ohio University; in 1831 published at Marietta the Washington Counly Republican, and in 1833 the Lancaster Eagle; was clerk of the Ohio Senate from 1835 to 1838; then a member of the Legislature; from 1839 to 1845 Auditor; in 1846 opened a law office in Cincinnati ai d published the Inquirer; in 1848 was President of the Madison and Indianapolis Railway; in 1853, of the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Road; in 1863 was elected Governor of Ohio. Died in Cleve land, August 29, 1865.

61

Chapel Hill University in 1814; in 1815 removed,, with his parents, to Tennessee, where he devoted himself to the study of law; when admitted to prac tice, became a partner of the late James K. Polk, in Giles County; served for a number of years in the Legislature i Tennessee; in 1839 was elected a mem ber of Congress from Tennessee, and re-elected in 1841 and 1843; on his retirement from Congress in 1845, was elected Governor of Tennessee; was at all times considered one of the most faithful and in dustrious leaders of the Democratic party in Ten nessee. His last position was that of Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Buchanan. Among the measures which marked his administra tion of our postal affairs may be mentioned the establishment of a new and shorter oceanic communi cation to California, by Tehuantepec; of the great overland mail from Memphis and St. Louis to San Francisco, and another across the continent, by the His speeches, Congressional and way of Salt Lake. Died political, were published at Nashville in 1854. in Washington, March 8, 1859.
9

;

ington City, February 24, 1881.

Carr, Dabney S.; was a native of Baltimore; was several years Naval Officer of that port; was United States Minister to Turkey from 1843 to 1849. Died Charlottsville, Virginia, March 24, 1854, aged was

unable to participate in the active duties of the and resigned his seat, to take effect upon the

Seriate,

Clay,

Matthew

;

was a Representative in Con Died in 1815.

gress from Virginia from 1797 to 1813.

Clay, Thomas H.; was born in 1803, in Ken tucky, and son of Henry Clay; in 1862 was appointed Minister Resident to Nicaragua, where he remained until 1866 during the same period was accredited as Minister to Honduras. Died in Lexington, Ken tucky, March 18, 1871. ;

Clayton, Alexander M.; was an early emigrant when it was a Territory; in 1835 was

to Arkansas

appointed one of the United States Judges for that district.

BIOGRAPHICAjr ANNALS. Clayton, Augustin

S.;

was born in Fredericks^

burg, Virginia, November 27, 1783; was educated at the University of Georgia; read law, and practiced it with eminent success; served iu the State Legisla ture; was appointed Judge of the Superior Court; was a Presidential Elector in 1829; was a Represent ative in Congress from Georgia from 1831 to 1835; was for many years skeptical on the subject of the Christian religion, but at the time of his death was a sincere believer, and a member of the Methodist

Episcopal Church; he acquired some distinction as politician, and the political pamphlet called Crockett s Life of Van Buren," is said to have been the production of his pen. Died at Athens, Georgia,

a

"

June

Clayton, Charles was born in England in 1825; was well educated; went to Wisconsin in 1842; crossed the Eocky Mountains to Oregon in 1847; ar rived in San Francisco in 1848 was Alcade in Santa ;

;

Clara in 1849; built the flour mills there in 1852; re moved to San Francisco in 1853, and engaged in the grain and flour business; was a member of the State Legislature in 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866; a member of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco from 1864 to 1869; in 1870 was appointed Surveyor of Customs of the port and district of San Francisco was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committees on Commerce and the Centennial ;

Celebration.

in 1835; resigned in December, 1836; in January, 1837, was appointed Chief Justice of Delaware, which office he resigned in 1839; was again elected to ,the Federal Senate in 1845, and was a Senator until 1849, when he became Secretary of State under President Taylor, which position he occupied until the death of Taylor, in July, 1850; during this period negotiated the famous Clayton-Bui wer Treaty; was for the third time elected to the Senate; took his seat March, 1851; died a Senator, November 9, 1856. During his last term in the Senate, he vindicated, with marked ability, the principles of the treaty which he inaugurated. At the bar he was a learned lawyer and eloquent advocate, and during his whole public career acquitted himself uprightly, with

and with recognized ability.

Clayton, Joshua; was a

native of Delaware; practiced medicine for many years; during the scarcity -of Peruvian bark during the Revolutionary War, suc cessfully substituted for it in his practice a mixture of poplar and the root of the dogwood, in nearly qual parts, and half the quantity of the interior of the white oak; was President of Delaware from 1789 to 1793 Governor from 1793 to 1796 was chosen Senator of the United States in 1798. Died in Delaware, ;

;

August of that

was born in Delaware County ;

Union Army in Kansas, May 29, 1861, as Captain of the First Kansas Infantry; was appointed Lieuten ant-Colonel of Cavalry in. 1862; was appointed Colonel of the same in 1862; commissioned Brigadier-General in 1864; settled in Arkansas at the close of the war as a planter; was elected Governor in 1868; United States Senator in 1871, for the term ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Territories, Engrossed Bills,

Levees, Political

Disabilities,

and Military

Clayton, Thomas; was born in 1778; was a Representative in Congress ironi Delaware from 1813 to 1817; United States Senator from 1823 to 1826, and again from 1837 to 1847; was, at different periods, a member of the Delaware Legislature, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and of the Superior Court.

Died in

New

Castle, Delaware,

August

21,

1854, aged seventy-six years.

Cleaveland, J. P.; was a Representative in Con gress from Georgia from 1836 to 1839; subsequently removed to Charleston, where he became a merchant. Died May 19, 1841.

Clemens, Jeremiah was born in Huntsville, Alabama, December 28, 1814; was educated at La Grange College and the University of Alabama; studied law at the University of Transylvania, in Kentucky; was admitted to the bar in 1834; in 1838 was appointed United States Attorney for the North ern District of Alabama; in 1839, 1840, and 1841, was ;

Clayton, John M.; was born in Sussex County, Delaware, July 24, 1796; graduated at Yale College in 1815; was bred to the bar, having studied law in 1he office of John Clayton, and for a time in the Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut; commenced prac tice in 1818, and soon attained eminence in his pro fession; in 1824 was elected to the State Legislature, iind subsequently Secretary of State of Delaware; in 1829 was chosen a Senator in Congress; was re-elected

in

;

Aifairs.

21, 1839.

dignity,

Clayton, Powell

nn Pennsylvania, August 7, 1833 received his education at Partridge s Military Academy, Bristol, Pennsyl vania; studied civil engineering at Wilmington, Dela ware, and followed it as a profession; entered the

year.

Clayton, Philip; was born in Georgia; received a liberal education; went to Washington in 1849, under the patronage of Howell Cobb, and was made Second Auditor of the Treasury Department, where he remained until 1857, when he received the ap pointment of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, remaining in that office until 1861, when he retired to take part in the Rebellion.

elected to the State Legislature; in 1842 raised a com pany of Volunteer troops and went to Texas, having

been appointed Lieutenant-Colonel; was subsequently appointed to the same office in the Regular Army in 1843 and 1844 was again elected to the Legislature; in 1844 was a Presidential Elector; in 1848 was ap pointed Governor of the Civil and Military Department of Purchase in Mexico, which position he held until the close of the war; was a Senator in Congress from Alabama from 1849 to 1853; wa a Presidential Elector in 1856; as an author Mr. Clemens published Bernard Lile two novels, entitled and Mustang Gray," the first in 1853 and the last in 1857; was an editor. in Died subsequently Huntsville, May 21, ;

1865.

Clemens, Sherrard was born at Wheeling, Vir ;

ginia, April 28, 1826; graduated at Washington Col lege, Pennsylvania; was a lawyer by profession; dur ing political campaigns held several confidential posi tions in his native State; was elected a member of

Congress from December, 1852, to March, 1853; was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the

Committees on Manufactures and Revolutionary Pensio ns; in 1856 was chosen a Presidential Elector; in 1859 was wounded in a duel fought with Mr. Wise, and was prevented from attending the second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce; took part in the Rebellion.

Clements, Andrew J.; was born in Jackson County, Tennessee, in 1832; received a common school education; studied medicine, and graduated at the University of Tennessee in 1858, after which he prac ticed his profession; in 1861 was elected a Represent ative from Tennessee in the Thirty-seventh Congress in 1866 was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee. ;

Clements, Isaac was born in Franklin County, ;

Indiana, in 1837; graduated at the Greencastle Col-

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lege in 1859, paying his own way by teaching; stud ied law; removed to Illinois, and taught school; en tered the Union Army, as Second Lieutenant of In fantry, in 1861, and remained in the service three years, during which he was wounded three times and was twice promoted for meritorious services was appointed Register in Bankruptcy in June, 1867 was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Patents. ;

;

Clements, Judson

was born in Walker a com school education; studied law at Cumberland in bar University, Tennessee; was admitted to the 1869, and commenced practice at La Fayette, Georgia; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, in 1872, for the term of two years, and was re-elected in 1874; was elected a State Senator in 1877; was C.;

County, Georgia, February

mon

12, 1846; received

elected a Representative from Georgia to the Fortyseventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Clements, Newton N.; was born in Tuskaloosa County, Alabama, December 23, 1837: received a classical education at the University of bania and Harvard University, Massachusetts; studied law, but never practiced; entered the Confederate Army, in 1861, as a Captain, and rose to the rank of Colonel; was a planter and manufacturer; was President of the Tuskaloosa Manufacturing Company; was a Rep resentative in the Legislature of Alabama in 1870, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878; the last three years Speaker of the House of Representatives; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-sixth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Burwell B. Lewis. .

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Cleveland, Orestes Schenectady County,

;

New

was born in Duanesburg, York, March 2, 1829; re

school education; settled in New as a merchant, and subsequently in Jer sey City as a manufacturer; was in the Citv Councils in 1861 and 1862; President of the Board" of Alder men one year; was Mayor of the city in 1864, 1865, and 1866; rendered the Union cause some financial help in 1864, on his individual guarantee; was elect ed a Representative, from New Jersey, to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving on the Committees on Terri

ceived a

common

York City

tories

and Manufactures.

Clever, Charles P.; was born in Cologne, Prov ince of Russia, Germany, February 23, 1830; was educated at the Gymnasium of Cologne and Univer sity of Bonn; adopted the profession of the law; re moved to New Mexico and practiced there with suc cess; filled the offices in that Territory of United States Marshal, Attorney-General, Adjutant-General, as well as several others; was elected a Delegate from New Mexico to the Fortieth Congress; in 1868 pub lished a small work on the Resources of New Mexico ; his seat was successfully contested by J. F. Chavez, who was admitted during the last month of the For tieth Congress.

John Henry ; was born in Providence, Island, January 16, 1809; graduated at Brown University in 1827; was a lawyer in New Bedford; was a member of the Legislature in 1835; AttorneyGeneral of Massachusetts from 1849 to 1853, and from 1854 to 1858; Governor of the State in 1853 and Died at 1854; President of the State Senate in 1862. New Bedford, Massachusetts, January 2, 1876. Clifford,

Rhode

Clifford, Nathan was born in Rumney, Grafton County, New Hampshire, August 18, 1803; fitted himself for college at the Haverhill Academy, and completed his education at the Hampton Literary In stitution; studied law, and, after being admitted to the bar, removed to Maine in 1827; was elected to the Legislature, from York County, in 1830, and reelected for three years, during the last two occupying the post of Speaker; in 1834 was appointed AttorneyGeneral for the State of Maine, which office he held four years; was a Representative in Congress from 1839 to 1843; in 1846 was appointed, by President Polk, Attorney-General of the United States, which office, he held until March, 1847, when he was ap pointed Commissioner to Mexico; when peace was declared between this country and Mexico was ap pointed Minister to that Republic; on his return to the United States settled in Portland, devoting him self to his profession; in 1858 was appointed, by President Buchanan, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ;

Clemson, Thomas

GK; was born in Pennsylva nia; received a superior education, and devoted him self to the study of chemistry; was Cliarge d Affaires to Belgium from 1844 to 1851; subsequently resided in Maryland near Washington having married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, became a resident of ;

South Carolina.

Clendenen, David; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1814 to 1815, in place of R. Beall, resigned, and again from 1815 to 1817.

Chauncey

Cleveland, F.; was born in ton, Connecticut, in 1799; was educated in the com mon schools of that vicinity; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1819; was in the Connecticut Legislature in 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1832, 1835,

Hamp

1836, 1838, 1847, and 1848, and was twice elected to Speaker; was appointed Attorney for the State in 1832; was Governor of Connecticut in 1842 and 1843; received from Yale College the degree of LL.D. was a Representative in Congress from 1849 to 1853; a member of the Peace Congress of 1861; Presidential Elector in 1860. ;

Cleveland, Grover March 18, 1837;

;

Jersey,

was born at Caldwell, New received a common school

and academic education was a clerk in New York City one year; in 1855 went to Buffalo, New York, and became a clerk in the employ of an uncle; stud ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859, and en gaged in the practice of law at Buffalo; was Assistant District Attorney, by appointment, from 1863 to 1866; in 1870 was elected Sheriff; in 1881 was elected Mayor of Buffalo; in 1882 was elected Governor of New York for the term of three years from January, 1883; in November, 1884, was elected President of the United States, assuming the duties of his office March 4, 1885. ;

Clift, Joseph W.; was born in Marshfield, Mass achusetts, September 1, 1836; was educated at Phil lips Academy at Andover, where he partially lost his sight; was engaged in the business of building from 1854 to 1857; removed to Georgia in 1857; stud ied medicine at Atlanta; graduated at the Harvard Medical School in 1862; served in the army as a sur geon, and saw much service; in 1865 settled at Sa vannah, and practiced his profession; in 1867, was appointed Register of that city; was elected in 1868 a Representative, from Georgia, to the Fortieth Con gress, serving

on the Committee on Revolutionary

Pensions.

Clinch, Duncan L.; was a General in the United States Army; from 1843 to 1845 was a Representa tive in Congress from Georgia; he was a brave soldier and noble-hearted man. Died at Macon, Georgia October 28, 1849.

\

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BIOGRAPHICAL A N X A L S Clingan, "William was a Delegate, from Penn sylvania, to the Continental Congress, from 1777 to 1779, and was a signer of the Articles of Confedera ;

tion.

Clingman, Thomas L.; was born in Hnntsville, Surry County, North Carolina; graduated at Chapel Hill University; studied law, but just as he was about to enter upon the practice was elected to the House of Commons of the State; on his retirement from the Legislature, in 1836, removed to Ashville, in Buncombe County; was soon after elected to a seat in the State Senate of North Carolina; in 1843 was elected to Congress, and, with the exception of one term, was a member of the House of Representatives until the Thirty-fifth Congress, when he .was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Att airs; on the resignation of A. Biggs, was appointed a Senator in Congress, and in November, 1858, his appointment was confirmed by the Legislature; made contributions to the science of geology and mineral ogy, and brought to light many facts connected with the mountains of North Carolina, one of the highest peaks of which it was his fortune to explore and measure, and which now bears his name took part in the Rebellion of 1861 as a Colonel, having been expelled from the Senate in July, 1861, to which he had been re-elected for the term commencing in March, 1861 was a Delegate to the New York Con ;

;

vention of 1868.

Clinton, De Witt was born at Little Britain, Orange County, New York, March 2, 1769; graduated at Columbia College, with the highest honors, in 1786; studied law, but did not engage much in its practice was elected to the Senate of New York in 1799; in July, 1802, fought a duel with Mr. Swartwout, arising from a political controversy concerning Mr. Burr; was a Senator of the United States from 1802 to 1803; was chosen Mayor of New ;

in

;

York in 1803, holding this office until 1815, except ing the years 1807 and 1810; while Mayor, was also for several years a State Senator, and the LieutenantGovernor; under his auspices, the Historical Society of New York, of which he was at one time President, and the Academy of Fine Arts were incorporated, the New York City Hall was founded, the Orphan Aslum established, and the city fortified; took a great did more than any interest, as early as 1817, in, and other man in behalf of the Erie Canal, and that great work was finished during his administration as Gov the can ernor, in 1825; in 1812 consented to become didate of the Peace party for the Presidency of the United States; in 1823 and 1824 was President of the Board of Canal Commissioners, and during the latter year was elected Governor of the State, and in 1826 was re-elected to the same office; afterwards declined the embassy to England, offered to him by President Adams. Died at Albany, February 11, 1828.

George was born in Ulster County, York, July 26, 1739; commenced life by sailing as a privateer; served as a Lieutenant in the expedi tion against Fort Frontenac; afterwards studied law; was a member of the Colonial Assembly, and also of the Provincial Congress in 1775; was appointed a Brigadier-General in 1777; was Governor of New York for eighteen years; from 1795 to 1800 lived in retirement; was again chosen Governor in 1804; was elected Vice-President of the United States during the year 1804, and retained the office until his death, consequently officiating as President of the Senate a period of eight years. Died at Washington, District of Columbia, April 20, 1812. Clinton,

;

New

Clinton, George, Jr.; was born in New York; was a member of the New York Assembly in 1801

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and 1802; was Representative in Congress from that State from 1804 to 1809. Clinton, James G.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1841 to 1845.

Clinton, Thomas; was a native of Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1827 to 1831, and for a second term from 1833 to 1835.

Clop ton, David; was born

in Georgia in 1820; elected a Representative from Alabama to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Public Expenditures resigned in Feb ruary, 1861, to take part in the Rebellion of that

was

;

year.

Clopton, John; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia, from 1795 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1816. Died September 11, 1816.

Clowney, Williaki K.; was

born in South Car graduated at the South Carolina College in 1828; adopted the profession of the law; was Com missioner in Equity of South Carolina; was a Rep resentative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1837 to 1839.

olina;

Clymer, George was born in Philadelphia in 1739; was a patriot of the Revolution; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and early espoused the cause of his country; in 1773 resolutely opposed the sale of tea sent out by the British Government, and not a pound was sold in Philadelphia; in 1775 was one of the first Continental Treasurers in 1776 was a mem ber of Congress, and signed the Declaration of Inde pendence; in 1774 his furniture was destroyed by the enemy; in 1780 co-operated with Robert Morris in the establishment of a bank for the relief of the country; was a member of the old Congress in 1780, and a Representative, under the Constitution, from 1789 to 1791, from Pennsylvania; was also a member of the Convention which formed the Federal Consti tution, and signed that instrument; in 1791 was placed at the head of the Excise Department in Penn sylvania; in 1796 was sent to Georgia to negotiate a treaty with the Creek and Cherokee Indians; was af terwards President of the Philadelphia Bank and of Died at Morrisville, the Academy of Fine Arts. Bucks County, January 23, 1813. ;

;

Clymer, Hiester; was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1827; graduated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1847; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1849; pursued his profession in that county until 1851; removed to Pottsville, and there practiced until 1856, when he settled in Reading; in 1860 represented Berks Coun

ty in the Board of Revenue Commissioners of the State; in the same year attended the National Demo cratic Convention in Charleston and Baltimore; was a member of the State Senate of Pennsylvania from October, 1860, until he resigned, when nominated, in 1866, a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania; in 1868 again represented his District in the Demo cratic Convention which met at New York; in 1870 was appointed a member of the State Board of Pub lic Charities; was elected to the Forty-third and

Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Public Lands; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committees on Library and on Ex penditures in the War Department; re-elected to the Died June Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses. 12, 1884.

Cobb, Illinois,

Amasa

;

September

was born in Crawford County, 27,

1823;

received

a

common

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school education; emigrated to Wisconsin Territory in 1842; spent five years in the lead-mining business; served in the Mexican War as a private soldier; read law, and at the end of the war began its practice in 1850 was elected a District Attorney, and served four years; in 1854 was elected to the State Senate, and served two years; in 1855 was appointed AdjutantGeneral of the State, and again in 1857; was elected to the State Legislature in 1860; re-elected in 1861, and chosen Speaker; in 1861 and 1862 served in the Volunteer service as Colonel of the Fifth Wisconsin Regiment; was elected a Representative from Wis consin to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on the Militia, and Chairman of the Joint Committee on Enrolled bills during the recess of Congress was again commissioned a Colonel, and raised the Forty-third Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, which he commanded until July, 1865, when he was mustered out; was bre vetted for gal lant services at Williamsburg, Golden s Farm, and Antietam; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Enrolled Bills, District of Columbia, and Mines and Mining; re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on ;

;

the Committees on Claims, Public Buildings and Grounds, and Military Affairs.

Cobb, Clinton L.; was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, August 25, 1842; attended school; and then went into a counting-room; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1867; was a candi date for Congress in 1868, but withdrew in favor of J. R. French; was elected to the Forty-first, Fortysecond, and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions, War Claims, and Chairman of Freedmen s Affairs. Oobb, David

;

was born in Attleborough, Massa

chusetts, September 14, 1748 graduated at Harvard College in 1776, and adopted the medical profession; served in the Revolution in 1777, as LieutenantColonel; served as an Aid to General Washington with the rank of Colonel was promoted to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General after the war was made Judge of a County Court; was elected to the Legis lature, and served as Speaker from 1789 to 1793; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts ;

;

;

from 1793 from 1801

was President of the State Senate Lieutenant-Governor of the State in 1809; a State Councilor in 1808, and from 1812 to 1818; was subsequently appointed Major-General of the State Militia. Died April 17, 1830. to 1795; to 1805;

Cobb, George T.; was born in New Jersey; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committee on In valid Pensions. Cobb, Howell

the uncle of Secretary Cobb, and the latter was named; was born in GranNorth ville, Carolina; was a Representative in Con gress from Georgia from 1807 to 1812; during the last war with England served with credit as a Captain in the army, and after peace was declared settled upon a plantation, and devoted his whole attention to ag riculture. Died about the year 1820. for

;

whom

Cobb, Howell ; was born at Cherry Hill, in Jef ferson County, Georgia, September 7, 1815; when a child, his father removed to Athens, Georgia, where he subsequently resided; graduated at Franklin Col lege in 1834; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836; was a Presidential Elector in that year; in 1837 received the appointment of Solicitor-General of the Western Circuit, which office he held four years; was elected a Representative in Congress in 1842; reelected in 1844, 1846, and 1848, and during his latter

term was elected Speaker; on his retirement from Congress, was chosen Governor of Georgia; in 1855 was again elected to Congress; on the accession of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency, went into his cabi net as Secretary of the Treasury; took a prominent part in the Rebellion of 1861 was a member of the so-called Confederate Congress, and a Brigadier-Gen eral. Died in New York City, October 9, 1868. ;

Cobb, B. W.; was born

at Ashville, Alabama, was educated at the University at Knoxville, Tennessee; studied law, and commenced practice in 1855; was elected State Senator in 1872; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Conven tion of 1875; was re-elected State Senator in 1876, and was elected President of the Senate was elected Governor of Alabama in 1878, and re-elected in 1880,

February

25, 1829;

;

serving until 1882.

Cobb, Stephen Alonzo; was born in Madison, 17, 1833; received a common school edu

Maine, June

cation; removed to Minnesota in 1850; worked in the lumbering business for four years, while preparing for college; entered Beloit College in 1854; graduated

W

Brown University in 1858; settled in yandotte, Kansas, in 1859, and commenced the practice of the law; entered the army in 1862, served through the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was Mayor of Wyandotte in 1862 and 1868; a member of the State Senate in 1862, 1869, and 1870; Speaker of the House in 1872; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committees on Post Roads and the State Department. at

Cobb, Thomas

B.; was born in Lawrence Coun July 2, 1828; was reared on a farm; at tended the Bloomington University; studied law, and

ty, Indiana,

commenced

practice at Bedford, Indiana, in 1853;

was

a State Senator from 1858 to 1866; removed to Vincennes, Indiana, in 1867; was President of the Dem ocratic State Convention in 1876, and a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of that year; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth, and Forty - seventh Con gresses; re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and again re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Cobb, Thomas W.; was born in Columbia County, Georgia, in 1784; attained a high position as a lawyer was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1817 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1824; was a Senator in Congress from 1824 to 1828; was subsequently chosen a Judge of the Superior Court; died in Greensborough, February 1, 1830. He was the author of many political essays. ;

Cobb, "Williamson B. "W.; was born in Ray County, Tennessee, in 1807; in 1809 his father re to Madison County, Alabama, with the pros

moved

perity of which State his name was identified for many years received a good common school educa tion, and then turned his attention to farming; from this pursuit was called in 1845 to a seat in the State Legislature, where he remained two years; in 1847 was elected a Representative in Congress from Ala bama, in which capacity he served his adopted State by successive re-elections down to 1860; during eight years of his Congressional career officiated as Chair man of the Committee on Unfinished Business, and the remainder of the time as Chairman of the Com mittee on Public Lands; the credit is awarded him of having engineered through Congress the Bounty Land Bill of 1850, and the Graduation Bill of 1854; was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol, in Alabama, in November, 1864. He had served in the Confederate Congress, but was expelled therefrom oa account of disloyalty to the Confederacy. ;

BIO

Coburn, Abner; was born

in

er

"

York,

and

fession.

Died September

12, 1810.

Cox, Leander M.; was

born in Virginia; re Kentucky, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty -third and Thirty-fourth Congresses; served as a Captain in the Mexican War; was Grand Master of the Order of Free Masons in 1843, and a Presidential Elector in 1853.

Cowles, W. H. H.; was born at Hamptonville, North Carolina, April 22, 1840; was educated at home and in the common schools and academies of his

moving

enlisted in the Confederate Army, in and was elected First Lieutenant on the or

native county; 1861,

1810.

the ganization of his regiment; served throughout and war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, being twice severely wounded in 1866 commenced the study of the law; in January, 1867, was admit ted to the bar of the County Court, and a year later to that of the Superior Court of Yadkin County,

to

Cox, Samuel S.; was born in Zanesville, Ohio, September 30, 1824; graduated at Brown University in 1846; adopted the profession of the law, and was also an editor, in Ohio, of the Columbus Statesman; was appointed Secretary of Legation to Peru in 1855; North Carolina; removed to Wilkesborough, North was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirtywas fifth and Carolina, and entered upon the practice of law; Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving as Chair Reading Clerk of the Senate of North Carolina from man of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; as 1872 to 1874; in the latter year was elected Solicitor an author, published a book of foreign travel, called of the Tenth Judicial District of the State, in which "The Buckeye Abroad," and on literary topics is an member of the occasional position he served four years; was a lecturer; was elected to the Thirty-seventh Democratic State Executive Committee for eight Congress, serving on the Committee on Foreign Af candidate for years; in 1882 was an unsuccessful fairs, and was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, member of the State Assembly; in 1884 was elected serving on the same committee; was a Regent of the a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty- Smithsonian Institution, to serve until December, ninth Congress. 1865; a delegate to the Chicago Convention in on his retirement from Congress, settled in the city in born was Baltimore, Cox, Christopher C.; of New York; in 1865 published a political work en Maryland, August 16, 1816; graduated at Yale Col titled "Eight Years in Congress;" was a Delegate in was s a master received in 1838; degree 1835; lege to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention made a Doctor of Laws by Trinity College in 1867; of 1866, and the New York Convention of 1868; from was appointed Commissioner of Pensions in 1868; a New York was returned to the Forty-first Congress, member of the Board of Health in 1871, acting as and re-elected to the three subsequent Congresses, President of the Board for several years; his special serving on the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Bank line of study was medicine, and he practiced both as and the Centennial, Rules; at the opening of the ing, a physician and a surgeon; was for one year a Pro first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, was one of fessor in one of the Philadelphia colleges; served as the three candidates for the Speakership, but M. C. President of a medical society; as a Surgeon in the Kerr was the successful competitor; in 1869 visited ot was the Rebellion Surgeon-General army during and published a successful for his the State of Maryland before the close of the war Europeentitled health, Search for Winter Sunbeams;" work, was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Maryland. in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency; was elected Cox, Jacob Dolson; was born, of American Speaker pro tern, of the House in June, 1876; was reOctober 27, 1828 parents, in Montreal, Canada, elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, spent his boyhood in the city of New York, and re in March, 1885, was moved to Ohio in 1846; was educated at Oberlin Col and Forty-eighth Congresses; appointed, by President Cleveland, United States in 1851; studied law and lege, where he graduated came to the bar in 1853; was elected to the State Minister to Turkey. Senate in 1859; during the earlier stage of the Rebel Cox, WalterS.; was born at Georgetown, Dis he took an trict of Columbia, October 25, 1826; attended private lion, while holding a State commission, for the active and important part in raising troops schools until his twelfth year, when he entered war, and was, in May, 1861, appointed a Brigadier- Georgetown College; graduated therefrom in 1 843, in in was the bat as such General of Ohio Volunteers; his seventeenth year; studied law with his father and tles of Gauley Bridge, South Mountain, and An tieat the Law School of Harvard University; graduated and himself with distinction, from Harvard in 1847; was admitted to the bar the tarn, where he acquitted to the rank 01 was he tor which services promoted same year, on his twenty-first birthday, and engaged ;

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subsequently joined General Sher of the Ohio; had command of an important division, and won fresh honors in the campaign against Atlanta, and in the campaign o: Franklin and Nashville; after the war resigned his commission in the army, and entered upon the prac tice of law in Cincinnati; was chosen Governor of Ohio for the years 1866 and 1867; declined the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, tendered by President Johnson in 1868; on March 5, 1869, was

Major-General man with the

;

Army

Mm

in practice in his native city; upon the decease of his father, in 1848, succeeded to his practice and became very successful in his profession; in 1879 was ap pointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Cox, William Ruffln; was born in Scotland Neck, North Carolina; removed to Tennessee; grad uated at Franklin College; studied law at Lebanon Law School; received the degree of Bachelor of Laws

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

re-elected for the three succeeding terms; in 1828 lected Governor of Vermont, and was re-elected in 829 and 1830; in 1829 was President of the Constiutional Convention; in 1842 was appointed by Govrnor Paine, and afterwards elected by the Legislaof ure, a Senator in Congress for the unexpired term ne year; thus filled every office in the gift of VerDied in Craftsbury, Vermont, November 19, nont.

was

institution, and engaged in the practice of at Nashville, Tennessee, returned to his native State and engaged in planting; served in the Confed

from that

law

Army during the war of the Rebellion, rising from the rank of Major to that of Brigadier-General; at the close of the war resumed the practice of law at Raleigh, North Carolina; was Solicitor of the Metro

erate

politan District for six years; Judge of the Supreme Court for the same district for several years; a Trustee of the University of the South; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1868; was Chair man of the Democratic State Committee was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-

853,

;

seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Ooxe, Alfred C.; was born at Auburn, New York; was graduated from Hamilton College in 1868, was admitted to the bar the same year, and engaged in the practice of law at Utica, New York; in 1882 was appointed United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, his grandfather, Honorable Alfred Conlding having formerly held the

was

position.

Coxe, Tench

was born in Philadelphia, May 22, 1755; became a partner in business with his father in 1776; was a Commissioner to the Federal Convention it Annapolis in 1786; was a Delegate to the Conti nental Congress in 1788; was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1790 Commissioner of the Revenue in 1792; Purveyor of the Public Supplies from 1803 to 1812; his sympathies were on the side of England ;

;

during the Revolution; he published several valuable works on the Commerce and Manufactures of the United States. Died in Philadelphia July 17, 1824.

Coxe, William was a Representative in Con gress from New Jersey from 1813 to 1815; served in the State Legislature, and was chosen Speaker of the Assembly. Died in Burlington. ;

Cozzens, "William C.; was elected LieutenantGo vernor of Rhode Island in 1862; soon afterwards became Acting Governor, remaining in that capacity until 1863.

Crabb, George

"W.;

was born

in Virginia;

was

a Representative in Congress from Alabama from 1839 to 1841.

Crabb, Jeremiah

;

was a Representative in Con

gress from Maryland from 1795 to 1796.

Cradlebaugh, John; was born

in

Ohio;

re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving

on the same Committees; in 1859 was again elected a member of the State Legislature; in 1860 was a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention" which nomi nated Abraham Lincoln in 1864 was elected a Sen ator in Congress from New Hampshire, for the term of six years from 1865, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs, Territories, the Pacific Railroad, and Engrossed Bills was also a Delegate to the Philadel phia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was subse quently made Chairman of the Committee on Con tingent Expenses of the Senate; re-elected for the term ending in 1877, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. ;

;

Craig, Hector gress from

New

was a Representative in Con York, from 1823 to 1825, and again ;

from 1829 to 1830.

Craig, James was born in Pennsylvania about 1820; was a lawyer by profession; was a member of the Missouri Legislature in 1847; was a Captain of a Volunteer Company in the Mexican War; Circuit Attorney for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit in Mis souri from 1852 to 1856; was a Representative in the Thirty-fifth Congress from Missouri, serving on the ;

Committee on Post-Offices and Post Roads was reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Post-Offices and Post Roads; was ap pointed a Brigadier-General of Volunteers in 1862, and employed in the West. ;

Craig, John D.; was born in Ireland, but his was an American; in 1827 was appointed Su

father

wa

elected a Delegate from the Territory of Nevada tc the Thirty-seventh Congress; was subsequently ap pointed United States Judge for the Territory of Utah.

Crafts, Samuel C.; was born in Windham County, Connecticut; graduated at Harvard Univer sity in 1790; his father effected the settlement

aged eighty-four years.

Cragin, Aaron H.; was born in Weston, Ver mont, February 3, 1821; adverse circumstances preented him. from, obtaining a collegiate education 4udied law, and came to the bar in Albany, New York, in 1847; the same year removed to Lebanon, Hampshire, and practiced his profession; was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature from 1852 to 1855; was elected a Representative from that state to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Claims and Printing;

;

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115

o:

Craftsbury, Vermont, and upon the organization o: the town, in 1792, Mr. Samuel C. Crafts was chosen Town Clerk, and held the office for thirty-seven suc cessive years; was the youngest Delegate to the Con vention" for revising the State Constitution in 1793 in 1796, 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805 was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the State from 1796 to 1815 was Register of Probate for Orleans House o District; in 1798 and 1799 was Clerk of the to Representatives; from 1809 to 1812, and from 1825 in 180( 1827, was a member of the Executive Council; was appointed a Judge of Orleans County Court, am remained such till 1816, during the last six year as Chief Judge; from 1825 to 1828 was again Chie in Judge, and from 1836 to 1838 Clerk of the Court; 1816 was elected a Representative in Congress, and 7

perintendent, or Commissioner, of the Patent Office, remaining in the office only about one year.

Craig, Robert; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1829 to 1833, and again from 1835 to 1841.

Craige, Burton was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, March 13, 1811; graduated at Chapel Hill in 1829; was a lawyer by profession; was a member of the State Legislature in 1832 and 1834; was elected to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and ;

Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving as a member of the Judiciary Committee; re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on.

Revolutionary Pensions; took part in the Rebellion of 1861, as a member of the Confederate Congress. Died at Concord, North Carolina, December 30, 1875.

Craik, William gress

was a Representative in Con from Maryland, from 1796 to 1801. ;

Crain, William H.; was born at Galveston, November 25, 1848; graduated from the Col-

Texas,

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lege of Saint Francis Xavier, New York City, July 1, 1867, and, several years later, received the degree of A. M. from that institution; studied law at Indianola, Texas; was admitted to the bar in February, 1871, and entered upon the practice of law at Indianola; subsequently settled at Cuero, Texas; in |1872 was elected District Attorney for the Twentythird Judicial District of Texas; in 1876 was elected a State Senator; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Moderator for the town of Newport; was a member of the several Conventions for framing and remodel ing the State Constitution, and was Vice-President of the Convention in 1842; from 1827 to 1843 was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1847, when he was returned to the Legislature, and was several times Speaker of that body, until 1854, after which time he lived in retirement. Died at Newport, Feb ruary 12, 1864.

Cramer, John was a Presidential Elector in 1805; served three years in the Assembly, and three ;years in the Senate of the State of New York; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1821; was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1833 to 1837. Died, at Waterford, New

Cranston, Robert B.; was born in Rhode Island j was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1849; in 1864 was a Presidential Elector. Died at Newport, January 27, 1873, aged eighty -two years.

;

York, June

1,

1870, aged ninety-two years.

Cramer, Michael J.; was born at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, February 6, 1835; emigrated, with his .father, to the United States, when a child, settling at Cincinnati, Ohio; was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan

;

University, at Delaware, O., where he graduated in the full classical and theological courses; joined the Cincinnati Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in i860, and was engaged in the pastoral work for four years; organized two loyal churches at Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War, from which churches sprang the Central Tennessee Annual Conference; was Chaplain in the United States Army from 1864 to 1867; in the latter year was appointed United States Consul at Leipsic, Germany, in 1870 was appointed United States Minister to Denmark in 1881 was transferred in a like capacity to the Re public of Switzerland; was an accomplished scholar, linguist, and writer; received, from the Syracuse University, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. ;

Cranch, William; was born

at

Weymouth.

Massachusetts, July 17, 1769; graduated at Harvard .University in 1787, in the class with his first cousin. J. Q. Adams; studied law; was admitted to the bar in July, 1790; practiced in Braintree and in Haverhill; removed to Washington in 1794; in 1801 was appointed, by President Adams, (his brother-in-law), on the last night of his administration, Junior Assist ant Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia; was Chief Justice from 1805 to 1855; in these fifty-five years, but two of his decisions were overruled; he published nine volumes of Reports of and six volumes of United States Supreme Court, Reports of Circuit Court of District of Columbia," from 1801 to 1841 also prepared a code of laws for the District; published a memoir of John Adams, .8vo, in 1827; was a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died, in Washington, District of Co

Crapo, Henry H.; was born

in Dartmouth,

Mas

sachusetts, May 24, 1804; resided, for many years, in New Bedford, from which place he removed to Michigan in 1857; became extensively engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber; was for a time Mayor of Flint, where he resided; served in the State Senate; was twice elected Governor of the State in 1864 and 1866 performing important services during the progress of the Rebellion. Died in Flint, July 23, 1869.

Crapo, William W.; was born

at

Dartmouth,

Massachusetts, May 16, 1830; educated at the public schools of New Bedford, at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at Yale College, where he graduated in 1852; studied law, and practiced the profession in New Bedford; was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1857; in 1875 was elected a Represent ative to the Forty-fourth Congress, in the place of James Buffinton, who died before taking his seat in that Congress, to whi:h he had been elected; was reelected to the Forty-lit ih. Forty-sixth, and Fortyseventh Congresses; declined a re-nomination.

Crary, Isaac E.; was born in Preston, New London County, Connecticut; received a good Eng lish education; adopted the profession of the law, to the Territory of Michigan; was there

and removed

appointed a General of Militia; was elected a Dele gate to Congress from the Territory in 1835 and 1836; was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from the time of its admission into the Union in 1836 Died in Marshall, Michigan, May 8, 1854. to 1841.

"

"

;

lumbia, September

1,

1855.

Crane, Joseph H.; was born

in Elizabethtown, Jersey; studied law; was, for many years, Pres ident Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1829 to Died at Dayton, Ohio, November 12, 1852, 1837.

New

aged seventy years.

Crane, Stephen; was a Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

Cranston, Henry Y.; was born in Newport, Rhode Island, October 9, 1789; received a limited education; worked at a trade for five years from the age of twelve, then commenced the business of com mission merchant; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in three years; in 1818 was elected Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and held the office until ,1833; was for twenty-five years annually elected

Cravens, James A.; was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, November 4, 1818; removed with his father to Indiana in 1820; spent his boyhood in Washington County, where he received a common school education, and devoted much of his life to agricultural pursuits, especially to the raising of the best breeds of cattle; in 1841 was a Presidential Elec tor; served as a Major in the Mexican War under General Taylor, and was present at the battle of Buena Vista; in 1848 and 1849 was elected to the Legislature of Indiana; in 1850 elected to the State Senate, serving three years; in 1854 was commissioned a Brigadier-General of Militia; frequently presided over the Board of School Trustees for his township; was Vice-President and President of the Washington and Orange Counties Agricultural Societies; in 1859 was appointed by the Legislature of Indiana to the important position of Agent for the State, which he resigned; in 1860 was elected a Representative i rom Indiana to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Territories; was re-elected to Thirty-eighth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on Territories; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention of 1S66, and also to the New York Convention of 1868. th


;

from 1792 to 1806, when he resigned; in 1797 was appointed Minister to France. Died in 1811.

Dana, John

"W.;

was an active

was born in Fryeburg, Maine; Governor of the State from South America to reside in

politician; 1847 to 1850; went to

(

and died of cholera at Rosario, New Granada, December 22, 1867. He contracted the disease of which he died while miuistering to an American lady, whose death occurred on the day preceding his 1861,

own.

Dana, Judah was born in Massachusetts in 1772; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1795; com menced the practice of law in Fryeburg; was Attor ney for Oxford County for six years; Judge of Probate for twenty years Judge of the Common Pleas for nine years; one of the Committee which drafted the Con stitution of Maine; a member of the Executive Coun cil of the State in 1834; by appointment of the Gov ;

;

was a Senator in Congress from Maine during the years 1836 and 1837. Died at Fryeburg, Maine, ernor,

December

27, 1845.

;

of Massachusetts; a Senator of the United States in the First Congress after the adoption of the Federal When Washington City was founded Constitution. Mr. Dalton invested his entire fortune in lands there, and lost it by the mismanagement of a business agent. At the same time a vessel which was freighted with his furniture and valuable library was lost on her voyage from Newburyport to Washington, and he thus found himself penniless after having lived sixty years in affluence. Several offices of profit and honor were immediately tendered him by the Gov ernment, and he accepted the Surveyorship of the Died in Boston in June, 1817, and Port of Boston. his remains were taken to Newburyport, were interred in the burial-ground of

where they St. Paul s

Church.

was born in Portsmouth, 20, 1809* never had the privilege of even a common school education; was by trade a printer; was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-fourth Congress, where he served on the Committee on Engraving, and to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committee on Roads and Canals. Died at Boston, May 17, 1860.

Damrell,

"William S.;

New Hampshire, November

Dana, Amasa was a member of the New York Assembly in 1828 and 1829; a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845. ;

Dana, Charles Anderson was born in HinsNew Hampshire, Augusts, 1819; studied two ;

dale,

years at Harvard University, but did not graduate on account of impaired eyesight; edited the Harbin ger; was a contributor to the Boston Chronotype; was connected with the New York Tribune from 1847 to 1858; subsequently editor of the New York Sun; also edited the "Household Book of Poetry" in s Appleton 1858, and was one of the editors of T ar in 1863 was assistant Secretary of "

Cyclopedia;"

W

and 1864.

Dana, Francis; was born in 1743; graduated at Harvard College in 1762; after studying law, re

Dana, Richard

H., Jr.; son of the poet bearing

same name, and grandson of Francis Dana, the jurist; was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August in 1837; his 1, 1815; graduated at Harvard College studies having been interrupted by a weakness of the eyes, he went to sea, and puplished a famous book studied law entitled "Two Years before the Mast; at the Dane School was for a time a professor in Harvard College, and came to the bar in 1840; in 1841 published "The Seaman s Friend," and "Seaman s successful as an advocate, Manual;" was eminently and engaged in many important trials; always the friend of the sailor; was a frequent contributor to the North American Review and the Law Reporter] was one of the founders of the Free-Soil Party in Massachu setts; served in the State Legislature; was a leading member of the State Convention of 1853: was for five years United States Attorney for Massadiu etts; was the

"

;

prominent as a member of the Episcopal C mrch; in March, 1876, was appointed Minister to England, in Died January 7, 1882. place of R. C. Schenck.

Dana, Samuel was

born at Groton, Massachu June 26, 1767; was a lawyer by profession, and became eminent; was President of the State Senate; ;

setts,

Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas; was a Representative in Congress in 1814 and 1815 Died in in place of W. M. Richardson, resigned. Charlestown, Massachusetts, November 20, 1835.

W.

was born in Connecticut in Dana, Samuel a Rep 1747; graduated at Yale College in 1775; was resentative in Congress from 1797 to 1810; a Senator in Congress from Connecticut from 1810 to 1821. Died July 21, 1830. ;

Dane, Joseph; was born in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, October 25, 1778; graduated at Harvard University in 1799; adopted the profes sion of the law; removing to Kennebunk, Maine, was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1816 and 1819; in 1820 was elected to Congress for the unexpired term of J. Homes; from 1821 to 1823 in Congress, represented the York District of Maine when he resigned; was subsequently in the Legisla ture as a member of the House for six years; was a member of the Senate in 1829; was chosen a member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts in 1817,

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and to a similar station in Maine in 1841, but de clined both offices; settled in Kentucky early in the present century, where he died May 1, 1858.

Dane, Nathan

Governor of Virginia; was defeated at the election; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-ninth Congress.

was born at Ipswich, Massachu ; graduated at Harvard College in 1778 was a Delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1788; was the framer of the Celebrated ordinance passed by Congress in 1787; "though devoted to the practice of law, found time to prepare a Digest of American Law in nine volumes;

Daniel, Peter Vyvian; was born in Stafford County, Virginia, in 1785; graduated at Princeton College in 1805; studied law with Edmund Randolph, and came to the bar in 1808 was a member of the State Legislature in 1809 and 1810; in 1812 was a member of the Privy Council, and served as such

established a Professorship of Law in Harvard Uni versity; after he had attained his seventieth year, was in the habit, of spending fourteen hours of each day engaged in reading and writing. Died at Bev He received erly, Massachusetts, February 15, 1834. from Harvard College the degree of LL.D.

was tendered the office of Attorney-General of the United States, by President Jackson, but declined the appointment; in 1836 was appointed Judge of the

setts, in 1752;

;

until 1835; frequently served as Lieutenant-Goveruor;

United States District Court for Virginia; in 1840

was appointed, by President Van Buren, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Died in 1860.

Danford, Lorenzo was born in Belmont County, Ohio, October 18, 1829; received a common school education, and attended college two years at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania; studied law at St. Clairsville, Ohio; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Belmont County in 1857 and 1859; entered the Army; served as private, Lieutenant, and Captain until 1864, when he resigned on account of sickness was a Presiden tial Elector in 1864; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Commit tee on the Post Office and Post Roads; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. ;

;

Daniel, Henry; was born in Virginia in 1793; removed to Kentucky in his early youth; was a law yer by profession; was a volunteer in the War of 1812, with rank of Captain; was a State Representative from Montgomery County in 1812, 1819, and 1826; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1827 to 1833; had a famous encounter in that House with Tristam Burgess; in 1845 shot his brother-in-law in the Court House of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. Died in that town October

Daniel,

5,

1873.

John M. was born ;

in Virginia; prior to

1854 obtained some reputation as a newspaper writer; was appointed Minister Resident to Sardinia, but re signed the office and returned to the United States; resumed his connection with the press and the Rich mond Examiner ; though a very zealous friend of the Confederate Government, was very bitter in his at tacks upon its Executive Head; wrote a "Life of Stonewall Jackson," which was published in Eng land.

Died March

30, 1865.

Daniel, JohnR. J.; was born in Halifax County, North Carolina; graduated at the University of that State in 1821 studied law, and practiced it with suc ;

cess; served for several years in the General Assem bly; was elected Attorney-General of the State; was

a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1841 to 1853. serving through several sessions as Chairman of the Committee on Claims. Removed to Louisiana, where he died.

Daniel,

John

"War-wick

;

was born

at

Lynch-

burg, Virginia, September 5, 1842; was educated at Jjynchburg College and Dr. Gessner Harrison s Uni versity School; entered the Confederate Army in 1861, and served throughoxit the Civil War, rising to the rank of Major and Adjutant-General entered the Law School of the University of Virginia in 1865; graduated in 1866 was admitted to the bar, and en gaged in the practice of law at Lynchburg, Virginia; in 1869 was elected a member of the State House of Delegates; in 1875 was elected a State Senator, and was re-elected in 1879; was a Presidential Elector in 1876; in 1881 resigned the office of State Senator to accept the nomination of the Democratic party for ;

:

B.; was a Representative in Con from Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1851.

Danner, Joel gress

Darby, Ezra was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1804 to 1808, when he resigned. Died January 28, 1808. ;

Darby, John Fletcher; was born in Person County, North Carolina, December 10, 1803; in 1818 removed, with his father, to Missouri, and settled in St. Louis County, where, until 1823, he worked on a farm, pursuing his studies under many difficulties, having previously received a good English education in his native town; after the death of his parents, in 1825, he applied for an appointment at West Point; being unsuccessful, sold out his father s estate, went to Frankfort, Kentucky, and studied law; in May, 1827, having a license to practice from the Supreme Court of Kentucky, returned to Missouri, and com menced professional life; was four times chosen Mayor of the city of St. Louis, and once a member of the State Senate; was a Representative in Congress from 1851 to 1853 from that State. Dargan, Edward

was born in North Caro Alabama, where he subsequently taught school and studied law; in 1844 was elected Mayor of Mobile; from 1845 to 1847 was a Representative in Congress from Alabama; during the latter year was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama. lina;

removed

S.;

in early youth to

Dargan, George W.; was born in Darlington County, South Carolina, in 1841; was educated at the county schools and the State Military Academy; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1872; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1877; was elected Solicitor of the Fourth Judicial Circuit in 1880; was elected a Representative from South Carolina to the Forty-eighth Congress. Dargon, G-eorge W.; was born

in South Caro

1801; was liberally educated, and adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the State Senate for several years; Commissioner in Equity for "lharleston; from 1847 to the time of his death, the hancellor of South Carolina. Died in Columbia, lina in

June

12, 1859.

Darling,

Mason

Vlassachusetts,

May

C.; 18,

was born in Belliugham, 1801

;

received a

common

commenced active life as a school New York .studied medicine, and gradu

ichool education;

;eacher in

;

ated at the Berkshire Medical Institution of Massa:husetts, in 1824 practiced his profession for thirteen years, when he removed to Wisconsin, and aided in establishing the towns of Sheboygan and Fond du Lac ,he principal offices held by him in Wisconsin were ;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNULS. those of Judge of Probate, Mayor of Fond du Lac, and a member, for several years, of the Territorial Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from the State of AVisconsin, from 1847 to 1849.

Darling, William A.; was born in Newark, New December 17, 1817; shortly afterwards set New York City; received a commercial edu cation, and, as clerk and proprietor, was devoted to the wholesale business; in 1838 was a director of the Jersey, tled in

Mercantile Library Association; was, for eleven years, a member, as officer and private, of the Seventh Reg iment, National Guard; from 1847 to 1854 was Dep uty Receiver of Texas for New York; from 1854 to 1865 was President of a railroad company in New York; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; in 1863 and 1864 was President of the Union and Republi can Organization of New York City; in the latter year was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty -ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs, Expenditures in the Post Office Department, and the War Debts of Loyal States, and also as Chairman of the Committee on Revenue Frauds.

Darlington, Ed-ward was born in Pennsyl vania, and was a Representative in Congress from ;

that State, from 1833 to 1839.

Darlington, Isaac

was born in "Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1781; was reared to hard labor, partly on a farm, and in the shop of his father, a worthy blacksmith; was a ;

Quaker; educated himself; taught school; studied law, and was successful as a practitioner; in 1807 was elected to the State Legislature; served as a Volun teer Lieutenant in the last war with England; was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, from 1817 to 1819, declining a re-election; in 1820 was ap pointed Deputy Attorney-General for Chester County; in 1821 was appointed President Judge of the County Died Court, which office he held until his death. April 27, 1839.

Darlington, William; was born in, Birming ham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1782; was brought up on a farm until eighteen years old, trained in the religion of George Fox, and when young had but a limited education; studied medi cine, and in 1804 graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; in 1806 was disowned by the Society of Friends for accepting the appointment of Surgeon to a military regiment; in 1807 went to India as Sur geon of a merchant ship; in 1811 and 1812 assisted in establishing the West Chester Academy, Pennsyl vania, of which he was long a Trustee and the Secre tary; in 1813 prepared a catalogue of plants of his native county; in 1814 took part in establishing the Bank of West Chester, and was its President; when Washington City was attacked by the British, he went to camp as a volunteer; was a member of Con gress from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817, and again was also a member of the from 1819 to 1823 ;

was a Canal "American Philosophical Society;" Commissioner in 1825; in 1826 aided in forming a Natural History Society in West Chester, and was elected President of the same; on account of his de votion to science, and his scientific learning, a num ber of rare plants were named after him by leading naturalists of Switzerland and America; also held the office of Clerk of the Court of Chester County; aided in founding, and was President of, the "West Chester Medical Society;" was President of a rail way company; his publications on botany and kin dred subjects are quite numerous; in 1848 received from Yale College the degree of Doctor of Laws, and

1-27

1855, from Dickinson College, that of Doctor of was elected a member of some Physical Science Died forty learned societies in America and Europe. in

;

in 1863.

Darragh, Cornelius

was born in Pennsylva was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1847. Died in January 1855. ;

nia;

,

Darrall, Chester B.

was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1842 received a common school education studied medicine, and graduated at the Albany Medical College; entered the Union Army as Assistant Surgeon of Volunteers, promoted to be Surgeon, and served throughout the war; settled in Louisiana at the close of the war, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; was elected to the State Senate of Louisiana in 1860 was elected to the Forty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-sec ond and three subsequent Congresses, serving on the Committees on the District of Columbia, and Edu cation and Labor, and Chairman of Enrolled Bills; ;

;

;

;

was, also, elected a Representative to the Forty-seventh Congress.

from Louisiana

Darwin, C. B.; was a resident of Iowa, from which State he was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Wash ington.

Davee, Thomas was born ;

in Plymouth, Massa

1797; removed to Maine, and was bred a merchant; served six years in the Maine Legislature; during his second term in the Assembly was chosen Speaker; was also High-Sheriff of Som erset County; was a Representative in Congress from 1837 to 1841 was also for many years a Postmaster in Maine, and at the time of his death was a Senator Died December 9, elect of the State Legislature. 1841. chusetts,

December

9,

;

Davenport, Franklin; was a soldier in the a man of education, and a Revolutionary War Judge was a Senator in Congress from New Jersey from 1798 to 1799, but was superseded by J. Schureman; was a Representative in Congress from 1799 to ;

;

1801.

Davenport, Ira

New York, June

was born at

;

Hornellsville,

28, 1841; received a collegiate

edu

cation; settled at Bath, New York; was a State Sen ator in 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881; was State Comp troller in 1882 and 1883; in the latter year was de feated for re-election; in 1884 was elected a Repre sentative from New York to the Forty -ninth Congress; in 1885 was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State.

Davenport, James was a graduate of Yale College in 1777; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1796 to 1797, when he died. ;

Davenport, James

J.; was born in Virginia; resident of Santa Fe, and in 1853 was appoint ed, from Missouri, Chief Justice of the United States

was a

Court for

New

Mexico.

Davenport, John was born ;

in Stamford,

Con

necticut, January 16, 1752; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1770; was a tutor in that College in 1773 and

1774; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1799 to 1817; served with credit in the Revolutionary War, as a Major in the Commissary Department; also practiced law. Died in Stamford, November 28, 1830.

Davenport, John was a Representative in Con ;

gress from Ohio from 1827 to 1829.

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sition in the regular army; on the organization of the Pacific Railroad Company was elected its President; in 1866 was a Delegate to the National Union Convention held in Philadel phia; was appointed, by President Johnson, Minister to the Netherlands, but declined a few weeks later was appointed Naval Officer for the port of New York, from which position he was soon transferred to France as Minister Plenipotentiary; was Governor of New York from 1873 to 1875. "

13, 1842.

Disney, David

141

Brown University the Degree of Master

;

Dixon, Archibald was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, April 2, 1802; removed, with his father, to Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1805; re ceived a limited English education at the county schools, but made good use of his advantages; at the age of twenty studied law; entered upon the practice and acquired considerable reputation as a lawyer; in 1830 was a Representative in the Legislature, and ;

in 1836 in the State Senate; was again in the Lower House in 1841 in 1843 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky; in 1849 was a member of the Constitutional Convention for reforming State laws; was a member of the United States Senate from 1852 to 1855, having been elected to fill the vacancy occa sioned by the resignation of his friend, Henry Clay; served as a leading member of the Committee on Ter ;

ritories.

Dixon, James was born in Enfield, Connecticut, Augusts, 1814; graduated at Williams College, Mas ;

adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the House in the Legislature of Connecticut in 1837, 1838, and 1844, and of the State Senate in 1849 and 1854; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1845 to 1849; was elected a Senator in Congress for six years from 1857; was re-elected in 1863 for the term ending in 1869, serving on the Committee on Manufactures and vari ous other Committees, and as Chairman of the Com mittee on Contingent Expenses of the Senate, of the Committee on the District of Columbia, and of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads; was a member of the National Committee appointed to ac company the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union sachusetts, in 1834;

;

Convention"

of 1866.

Died

at Hartford,

March

27,

1873.

Dixon, Joseph; was born in Greene County, North Carolina; was educated at the private and public schools of that county; resided on a farm; for three or four years engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a magistrate, and Judge of the County Court; was a member of the State Legislature in 1868 and 1869; was elected to the Forty -first Congress, serving on several Committees.

Dixon, Joseph Henry; was a Representative in Congress from

North Carolina from 1799 to 1801.

Dixon, Luther

C.; was an early emigrant to the Territory of Wisconsin; was appointed a Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Wis consin.

Dixon, Nathan

F.; was born in Plainfield, Con graduated at Brown University in 1799; studied law, and established himself in Rhode Island in 1802 to practice his profession; in 1813 was elected a member of the General Assembly of that necticut, in 1774;

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142

State, and continued to serve in that capacity for seventeen years; from 1839 to 1842 was a Senator of Died at Washington, District of the United States. His son, bearing the Columbia, January 29, 1842.

same name, was

also in Congress.

Dixon, Nathan

F.; was. born in Westerly, Island, May 1, 1812; fitted for college at Plainfield Academy, in Connecticut, and graduated at Brown University in 1833; attended the Law Schools at New Haven and Cambridge; was admit ted to the bar in New London in 1837, and engaged in the practice of his profession in Connecticut and

Ehode

Island; was a member of the General As of Rhode Island from 1840. to 1849; was a Presidential Elector in 1844; was elected a Repre sentative from Rhode Island to the Thirty-first Con gress; was again elected to the General Assembly of his State in 1851, and with the exception of two /^ears, held the office until 1859; in 1863 was elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Commerce; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; in the Thirty -ninth Con

Ehode sembly

Commerce and Expenditures on the Public Buildings was a Dele

gress served on the Committees on

;

Loyalists Convention of 1866, and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress; reelected to the Forty -first Congress, and made Chair man of the Committees on Commerce and Private Land Claims.

gate to the Philadelphia

Dixon, Nathan Fellows

was born at Wester ly, Rhode Island, August 28, 1847; was fitted for college at Westerly and at Phillips Academy, And;

over, Massachusetts; graduated from Brown Univer sity in 1869; studied law with his father, Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, and at the Albany Law School; was admitted to practice in New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut in 1871; in 1877 was appointed, by President Grant, United States District Attorney for the District of Rhode Island; was re-appointed in 1881 in 1885 was elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the Forty-eighth Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the transfer of Hon. Jonathan Chace to the United States Senate. ;

Doane, William

was born in Maine; having was elected a Representative in that State from 1839 to 1843. Congress from removed

;

to Ohio,

Dobbin, James

O.;

was born

in 1814; gradu

ated at the University of North Carolina in 1832; was a lawyer by profession; was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from his native State in 1845, and declined a re-election served in the State Legis lature in 1848 and 1850, and during the last session officiated as Speaker; in 1852 was a Presidential His eloquence at the bar and in the legis Elector. ;

lative hall is said to have been very effective, and his urbane manners and amiable disposition made him a general favorite. He was Secretary of the Navy dur ing the whole of President Pierce s administration. Died at Fayetteville, North Carolina, August 4,

1857.

Dobbins, Samuel A.; was born

in Burlington Jersey, April 14, 1814; was educated in select schools; engaged in farming; was High Sheriff of Burlington County from 1854 to 1857; was a ber of the State Legislature from 1859 to 1862; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, and re-elected to

County,

New

mem

the Forty-fourth Congress, serving on the Committee

on Patents.

Dobbs, Arthur; was born in Ireland in 1634; was a man of letters; was a member of the Irish Parliament; was distinguished for his attempts to

discover the North-west passage; adopted concilia tory measures towards the Indian tribes, but his ad ministration was a continual contest between the loyalists and the colonists. He was the author of An Account of the Countries Adjoining Hudson s Bay," published in London in 1748; "Trade and Improve ment of Ireland," Dublin, 1729; "Captain Middleton s Defence, 1744; emigrated to North Carolina; was chosen Governor, November 1, 1754, serving until his death. Died in Town Creek, North Carolina, March 28, 1765. "

Dockery, Alexander M.; was born in Living ston County, Missouri, February 11, 1845; was edu cated in the common schools and at the Macon Acad emy, Macon, Missouri; studied medicine, and gradu ated at St. Louis Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri; practiced his profession for ten years in 1874 became Cashier of the Farmers Exchange Bank, at Gallatin, Missouri; was a Curator of the University of Missouri ten years was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the ;

;

Forty-ninth Congress.

Dockery, Alfred

was a native of North Caro was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1851 to 1853; was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868; was the i ather of O. H. Dockery. ;

lina;

Dockery, Oliver H.; was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, August 12, 1830; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1848 studied law, but became a farmer; was elected to the State Legislature in 1858 and 1859; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; in 1868 was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims reelected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims, and as Chairman of that on Freed men s Affairs. ;

;

Dodd, Edward was born in Salem, Washington County, New York, in 1805; was bred a merchant; chosen County Clerk of the County of Washington for three terms of three years each, commencing Jan uary 1, 1835; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of New York in 1846; was a Representa tive in Congress from that State in 1 855, serving on the Committee on the District of Columbia. ;

Doddridge, Philip was born ;

in

Brooks County,

Virginia, in 1772; in his youth worked on a farm on the Ohio River, but was sent to school at the age of sixteen; after a voyage down the Mississippi on a flat-boat, studied law, and gained a brilliant local reputation; was Delegate from Brooke County to the Legislature of Virginia in 1815, and was a member for some years; in the Constitutional Convention of 1829 and 1830 was the acknowledged leader of^ the party in favor of the white basis of representation his success in parliamentary conflict was due to his close reasoning, thorough knowledge of the subject, great energy of manner, and a wonderful command of language; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1832: resided in Washington, and was, engaged in codifying the laws of the Dis trict of Columbia. Died in Washington, November 19, 1832. :

Dodds, Ozro March

J.; was 22, 1840; received

born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a collegiate education in

Cincinnati; raised a company of students at Oxford, called the "University Rifles," which was attached to the Twentieth Ohio Volunteers, and served through the three months service under General McClellun; returning home, raised another company, attached

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. to the Eighty-first Ohio Volunteers, and served until 1863, when he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Alabama Cavalry; after the war, studied law and was admitted to practice was elected to the Legislature of Ohio in 1869; was elected to the Fortysecond Congress, serving on the Committee on Civil Service. ;

C.; -was born in St. Genevieve, Missouri, January 2, 1812; was a Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Iowa from 1841 to 1847; a Presidential Elector for the State of Iowa in 1848; a Senator in Congress from the State of Iowa from 1848 to 1855; after which he received, from President Pierce, the appointment of Minister to Spain, which he resigned; was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1864, and also to the Philadelphia of 1866, as well as National Union Convention the New York Convention of 1868; from 1838 to 1841 held the office of Register of the Land Office at Burlington, Iowa.

Dodge, Augustus

"

"

Dodge, G-renville M.; was born

in Danvers, Massachusetts, April 12, 1831; graduated at the Norwich University of Vermont in 1850; adopted the profession of civil engineer; was employed on several important railroads in the West, and became chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad; in 1861 entered the military service as Captain raised the Fourth Regiment of Iowa Infantry, and was made Colonel; in 1862 was appointed Brigadier General for services at Pea Ridge; after various services in Mid dle Tennessee, at Vicksburg, and Corinth, took an active part in the Atlantic campaign, and was pro moted to be a Major General on the recommendations of Generals Grant, Sherman, and McPherson; was subsequently in command of the Departments of Wisconsin, Kansas, and the Plains; soon after, re signing his commission in the army, was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Military Affairs and Roads and Canals was also Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868. ;

;

Dodge, Henry was born in Vincennes, Indiana, October 12, 1782; removed to Wisconsin; served with great credit as an officer of volunteers, on the north western frontiers; was Brigadier-General of Missouri troops in 1812; distinguished himself especially in the Black Hawk War, and as an Indian fighter was thought to have no superior; when the First Regi ment of Dragoons was raised in 1833, was appointed Colonel, which office he resigned in 1836, when he was appointed Governor of Wisconsin Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, serving as such from 1836 to 1841, and from 1845 to 1848; was a Delegate to Congress from Wisconsin from 1841 to 1845; a Senator in Congress from the State of Wis consin from 1848 to 1857. Died at Burlington, Iowa, June 19, 1867. He was the father of Augustus C. ;

Dodge.

Dodge, William E.; was born

in Hartford, Con 1805; received a good common school education; in his thirteenth year removed to New York and entered a counting house as clerk; on reaching the age of twenty-one commenced business on his own account, and was for many years at the head of one of the most extensive importing and manufacturing establishments in the country; was prominently connected with many of the public im provements of the day; was a member of the Peace Convention of 1861 devoted much time and money to the support of the Government during the Rebel lion; was, for many years, President of the National Temperance Society; active in the various religious and benevolent operations of New York; was elected necticut,

September

;

4,

143

a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress, having successfully contested the seat of James Brooks, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia of 1866. Loyalists Convention Died, February "

"

9,

1883.

Doe, Nicholas B.; was born in New York; was elected a Representative from that State to the Twen ty-sixth Congress, in place of A. Brown, deceased.

Andrew

was born in Washington "W.; York; served one year (1832) in the State Assembly; was many years a teacher and sur veyor; County Clerk for one year; held the office of Surrogate from 1835 to 1840; was a Representative in Congress from 1839 to 1843; went to California in 1849, but subsequently returned to his native county.

Doig,

County,

New

Dole, William P.; was born in New Hampshire; was appointed, from Illinois, Commissioner

in 1861

of Indian Affairs, continuing in the position until 1865.

Dolph, Joseph N.; was born at Hector, Tompkins County, New York, October 19, 1835; was edu cated in the common schools and by private tutors studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1861 in 1862 removed to Portland, Oregon, and engaged in the practice of law; in 1864 was elected City At torney; in 1865 was appointed United States District Attorney; was elected State Senator in 1866, and again in 1872; was Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee from 1866 to 1868; in 1882 was elected United States Senator from Oregon for the term ending in 1889. ;

;

Donelson, Andrew Jackson; was born in Tennessee in 1799; graduated at West Point in 1820; was Aid-de-camp to General Jackson in 1820 and 1821; his Private Secretary from March, 1829, to March, 1837; Charge d Affaires to Texas in 1844 and 1845; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary to Prussia from 1846 to 1848; to Germany in 1848 and 1849; was editor of the Washington Union in 1851 and 1852; candidate of the American party for Vice-President in 1 852 cotton planter in Bolivar County, Mississippi, from 1822 to 1865; lawyer in Memphis from 1865 to 1871. Died in Memphis, Tennessee, June 26, 1871. ;

Donley, Joseph B.; was born in Mount Morris, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1838; graduated at Waynesburg College in 1859; went to Illinois and engaged in teaching; became Professor in College; served in the Illinois Army as Captain of Volunteers from 1862 to 1865; graduated at the Law School of Albany in 1866, and returned to Pennsylvania; in 1867 was appointed a Register in Bankruptcy in Pennsylvania, holding the office until elected a Representative from that State to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving on the Committees on the Militia and Public Expenditures.

Abingdon

Donnan, William Of.; was New York, June 30, 1834;

ton,

born in West Charlhis early education

was received at the district school and Cambridge Academy; graduated at Union College in 1856; re moved to Independence, Iowa, where he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857; was elected Treas urer and Recorder of Buchanan County, and held the office until 1862; entered the Union Army as a private in 1862, and rose to the rank of Brevet Major for efficient services in the field, serving to the close of the Rebellion; was a member of the State Senate in 1868 and 1870; was elected to the Forty-second Con gress, and re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Military Affairs.

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Donnell, Richard S.; was born in North Caro lina; was a Representative in Congress from that Let State, from 1847 to 1849; in 18G3 published a ter on the Rebellion," which attracted great atten

from Maryland, from 1825 to 1831.

Died August

6,

1846.

"

tion.

Donnelly, Ignatius was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1831; graduated at the Central High School in that city; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1853; emigrated to Min nesota in 1857; was elected Lieutenant-Go vernor of ttfat State in 1859; was re-elected in 1861 in 1862 was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the Thir ty-eighth Congress, and served on the Committees on the Post Office and Post Roads, and Expenditures in the Interior Department, and also on the Special Committee on the Pacific Railroad; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on the Pacific Railroad, the Public Lauds, and Bureau of Education was also re-elected to the For ;

;

;

tieth Congress.

Doolittle, James R.; was born in Hampton, Washington County, New York, January 3, 1815; graduated at Geneva College in 1834; adopted the pro fession of the law, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York in 1837; was, for several years, District Attorney in Wyoming County, New York removed to Wisconsin in 1 851 was cho sen Judge of the First Judicial Circuit of that State in 1853; resigned in 1856; in 1857 was elected a Sen ator of the United States for six years, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and as a member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Commerce, and Military Affairs; was also a member of the Peace Congress of 1861 in 1863 was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1869; during the summer recess of 1865, as a member of a Special Com mittee of the Senate, visited the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River; was a Delegate to the Phil of 1806, tak adelphia National Union Convention ing an active part in its proceedings, and officiating as President of the Convention. ;

;

;

"

"

Dorr, Thomas "William; was born at Provi dence, Rhode Island, November 5, 1805; graduated at Harvard University in 1823; studied law in the office of Chancellor Kent; was admitted to the bar in 1827, and commenced practice in Providence; originally a National Republican, became a Democrat in 1837; the Rhode Island Government was then based upon a charter granted by Charles II. in 1663, and the elec tive franchise was limited to the holders of a certain amount of real estate, and to their eldest sons about one-third of the citizens; Mr. Dorr was a mem ber of the Assembly from 1833 to 1837, and exerted himself in vain to procure a liberal Constitution; was chosen Governor, by the suffrage party, in 1841; on May 3, 1842, Mr. Dorr s Government attempted to organize at Providence, and to seize the reins of power; they were resisted by the legal State Govern ment, who attacked and dispersed them at Chepachet, May 25 Mr. Dorr fled to Connecticut, and afterward ;

New

Hampshire; a reward of four thousand dollars by the authorities of Rhode Island, for his apprehension; he soon returned, was arrested, tried, convicted of high treason, and sentenced to im prisonment for life, but was pardoned in 1847; in to

was

offered,

1853 the Legislature restored to him his

civil rights.

and ordered the record of his sentence to be expunged

;

he lived to see his State under a liberal Constitution, and his party in legal possession of the Government. Died in Providence, Rhode Island, December 27, 1854.

Dorsey, Olement was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland was a Representative in Congress ;

;

Dorsey, George "W. E.; was born in Lou don County, Virginia, January 25, 1842; removed, with his parents, to Preston County (now West Virginia), in 1856; was educated in private schools and at Oak Hill Academy; recruited a company and entered the Union Army in August, 1861, as First Lieutenant, Sixth West Virginia Infantry; was promoted to the rank of Captain, and of Major, and was mustered out with the Army of the Shenandoah in August, studied law; 1865; removed to Nebraska in was admitted to the bar in 1869; in 1874 eugaged in banking at Fremont, Nebraska, and continued in that business, achieving very gratifying success; was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Insane Hospital, a member, and Vice- President, of the State Board of Agriculture of Nebraska; was, also, Chair man of the Republican State Central Committee of Nebraska; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Nebraska to the Forty-ninth Congress. 186(>:

Dorsey, Stephen "W.; was born at Benson, Ver mont, February 28, 1842; received an academic edu cation; removed, when a boy, to Oberlin, Ohio, was one of the first to volunteer in the army, in which he served until the close of the war; returning to Ohio, resumed business in the Sandusky Tool Company, and was chosen its President; was elected, without his knowledge, President of the Arkansas Central Railway Company; removing to Arkansas, was cho sen Chairman of the Republican County and State Committees; was elected United States Senator from Arkansas for the term commencing in 1873 and end ing in 1879, serving on the Committees on Appropri ations and District of Columbia.

Dorsheimer, "William was born Wayne County, New York, February 5, ;

at Lyons,

1832; was Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard College in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854. and fitted

for college

at Phillips s

engaged in practice; resided in Buffalo, New York, for a number of years; was appointed Major in the United States Army in 1861; in 1867 was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York; in 1874 was elected Lieutenant-Goveruor of the State; was re-elected in 1876; removed to New York City in 1877, and continued the practice of his profession; was elected a Representative from New

York

to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Doty, James D. was born in New York was a Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Wisconsin from 1839 to 1841; from 1841 to 1844 was Governor of Wisconsin; was, for many years, United States Judge for Northern Michigan; was also Superintend ent of Indian Affairs; was a Representative in Con gress from the State of Wisconsin from 1849 to 1853; in 1864 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Gov ernor of Utah, of which Territory he had previously been Treasurer. Died June, 1865. at Salt Lake. ;

;

F.; was born in Otsego York, in 1794; began active life as a in 1809; followed that business journeyman printer in Albany, Utica, and at Ballston Spa, where he es tablished a newspaper; for twenty years edited a journal in the city of Auburn; was elected a Repre sentative to Congress in 1831, and was again elected in 1835; subsequently resided in the city of New York, and became well known as a bookseller. Died

Doubleday, Ulysses

County,

New

in Belvidere, Illinois,

March

11, 1866.

Dougherty, Charles; was born at Athens, Georgia, October 15. 1850; his early education was

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUILDING. (PATENT OFFICE.) WASHINGTON.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT BUILDING, WASHINGTON.

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j

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. acquired in the public schools of Athens; at the age of fifteen entered the University of Virginia, where he pursued his studies for two years; was for a time engaged in the occupation of a sailor; settled at Fort Orange, Florida, as a planter; in 1876 was elected ? Representative in the Florida Legislature; was reelected in 1878 and was elected Speaker of the House: was again re-elected in 1880 and 1882, and in the lat ter year was again elected Speaker; resigned in 1884 on being elected a Representative from Florida to the

Forty-ninth Congress

Dougherty, Thomas in 1815

was born in Kentucky; was elected Clerk of the National House of ;

Representatives, continuing in that office until 1822. B.; was born at Providence Forge, Kent County, Virginia, December 21, 1822; his lather died when he was four years of age, and he was sent to Rumford Academy at the age of eleven; then spent one term in William and Mary College, and in 1840 visited a relative in Scotland with the view of obtaining a medical education at Edinburgh University; spent one session attending lectures on

Douglas, Beverly

chemistry, agriculture, and civil law; returned to Virginia; graduated at the Law School of William and Mary College; was admitted to the bar in 1846, and settled in King William County; in 1850 was a member of the State Constitutional Convention; was elected a member of the State Senate under the amended Constitution, and was a member of that body until 1865; wr as a candidate for Congress in that year, but was not elected; in 1861 entered the Con federate service as First Lieutenant in Lee s Mounted Rangers, of which he was made Captain; then Major of the Filth Virginia Cavalry, Army of Northern Vir ginia; resigned in 1863 to resume his Legislative duties; upon the surrender of the Confederate Armies he returned to private life, and had held no public office since that time until elected to the Forty-fourth

Congress as Representative from Virginia; was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress. Died December 22, 1878.

Doug-las, Stephen A.; was born at Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, .\pril 23, 1813; lost his lather while an infant; his nether being left in des titute circumstances, he er. tered a cabinet shop at Middlebury, in his native tate, for the purpose of learning the trade; afte.- remaining there several months, returned to Bra ition, where he continued for a year at the same calMng, but his health com pelled him to abandon it, and he became a student in the academy; his mother having married a second time, he followed her to Canandaigua, in the State of New York; here he pursu d the study of law until his removal to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1831 from Cleve land went still further West, and finally settled in Jacksonville, Illinois; was at first employed as clerk to an auctioneer, and afterwards taught school, de voting all the time he could spare to the study of law; in 1834 was admitted to the bar; soon obtained a lucrative practice; was elected Attorney-General of the State; in 1837 was appointed, by President Van >

;

Buren, Register of the Land Office at Springfield, Illinois; in 1840 was elected Secretary of State, and the following year Judge of the Supreme Court; this office he resigned, in consequence of ill-health, after sitting upon the bench for two years; in 1843 was elected to Congress, and continued a member of the

Lower House

for four years; in December, 1847, was elected to the United States Senate for the term end in ing 1853; was re-elected for the term ending in 1859; re-elected for another term, but died in Chicago,

June

3,

1861;

was Chairman of the Committee on

Territories; in 1860 w\is candidate for President,

was defeated by Abraham Lincoln,

10

but

145

Doug-lass, J. W.; was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1827; removed to Erie, in that State, received an academic education; studied law and came to the bar in 1850; was appointed a

Collector of Internal Revenue in- 1862; Deputy Com missioner of Internal Revenue in 1869; in 1871 was appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue, holding the position until 1875.

Douglass, Samuel J.; was an emigrant to Flor ida while yet a Territory; in 1842 was appointed one of the Judges of the United States for that dis trict.

Dowd, Clement was born in Moore County, North Carolina, August 27, 1832; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1856; taught school and studied law; removed to Charlotte, North Caro lina, and practiced law; was Mayor of Charlotte from 1869 to 1871; was elected President of the Commercial National Bank of that city in 1871, and continued in that position; was elected a Representa tive from North Carolina to the Forty-seventh and ;

Forty-eighth Congresses.

Dowdell, James F.; was born in Jasper County, Georgia, November 26, 1818; graduated at Randolph Macon College in 1840; was a lawyer by profession; removed to Alabama in 1846, and took charge of a female college for one year, and afterwards engaged in farming and planting; in 1848 was a Presidential Elector; was a Representative from Alabama in the Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Con and was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and also that of Inquiry into the Cost of Public Printing and Laws relating thereto. Thirty-third,

gresses,

Dowdney, Abraham

was born in Ireland, ; in October, 1840; came to the United States in early and settled in York City, where he boyhood continued to reside; was educated in private schools; became a contractor and builder; served in the Union Army during the Civil War, as Captain in the One

New

Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, New York

Volunteers; was Chairman of the Board of School Trustees of the Nineteenth Ward of New York City from 1882 to 1885; in 1885 was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Forty-ninth Congress. Died in the city of New York, December 10, 1886.

Downey, John

G.; was Governor of California

from 1860 to 1862.

Downey,

S.

W.; was born

at

Westernport,

an academic edu cation; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1863; served in the Union Army during the War of Maryland, July

25, 1839; received

the Rebellion; removed to the Territory of Wyoming in 1869; was elected a member of the Territorial Council in 1871, 1875, and 1877; wT as Treasurer of the Territory for three years, and was Auditor of the Territory at the time of his election as a Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming to the Forty -sixth Congress.

Downing Charles was born in Virginia; was a Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida from 1837 to 1841. Died October 24, 1841. 1

,

;

Downs, Solomon W.; was born in Tennessee in 1801; graduated at the Transylvania University; studied law and came to the bar in 1825; settled in Louisiana; was United States District Attornev from 1845 to 1847; a Presidential Elector in 1844; Collector of the Port of New Orleans; from 1847 to 1853 was a Senator in Congress from Louisiana. Died at Or chard Springs, Kentucky, August 14, 1854.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

146

Edward

was a Representative in Con Dowse, gress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821; resigned and \V. Eustis was elected in his place. ;

Dowse, William was elected a Representative New York to the Thirteenth Congress, but died ;

from

before taking his seat, February 18, 1813.

Dox, Peter M.; was born

in Geneva, Ontario York, September 11, 1813; educated at Hobart College, Geneva, graduating in 1833; studied ahd practiced law was elected to the Legislature in 1841; was Judge of the Ontario County Courts; re moved to Alabama in 1855, and engaged in agricul tural pursuits in 1865 was elected, as a Union man, to represent Madison County in the Convention called for the revision of the State Constitution; took an active part in the restoration of the State to its place in the Union; was elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serving on the Committee on Banking and Currency.

County,

New

;

Drayton, "William ; was born in St. Augustine, Florida, December 30, 1776; went to school in Eng land, and on returning to South Carolina was for a time Assistant Clerk in a Court of Sessions; studied law and came to the bar in 1797; was a Captain in the South Carolina Militia; in 1812 was commis sioned a Colonel in the United States Army, and In spector-General in 1814; assisted Generals Scott and Macornb in preparing a System of Infantry Tactics for the army was elected Recorder of Charleston in 1819; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1825 to 1833; was chosen President of the United States Bank in 1840. Died in Philadel phia, May 24, 1846. ;

;

Drayton, William; was a

citizen of South Caro General bearing the same name; in 1789 was appointed the first United States Judge for the District of South Carolina. lina; father of the

Drayton, William Henry was born

in South was educated at Westminister and Oxford, Doxey Charles T.; was a resident of Anderson, England; in 1771 was appointed a Judge; was Presi Indiana; never held a public office until elected a dent of the Provincial Congress; was made Chief Representative from Indiana to the Forty-seventh Justice in 1776; was a warm advocate of freedom, Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of and published various pamphlets which strengthened Godlove S. Orth; served from January 9, 1883, to the American cause; was a leading member of the March 4, 1883. South Carolina Assembly; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779, and was a Drake, Charles D.; was born in Cincinnati, signer of the Articles of Confederation was the Ohio, April 11, 1811; was the son of Dr. Daniel author of a History of the Revolution," which was ;

Carolina;

;

"

Drake; received an academic education; in 1827 en tered the navy as a midshipman, and remained, in the service until 1830; then studied law, and was admit ted to the bar in 1833; in 1834 removed to St. Louis, where he practiced his profession in 1859 was elected to the Missouri Legislature; in 1861 and 1862 took an active and conspicuous part against the secession movement; in 1863 was elected to the Missouri State Convention; was a Presidential Elector in 1864; in 1865 was a member and Vice-President of the Con vention that formed the present Constitution of Mis souri; in January, 1867, was elected a Senator in Congress from Missouri for the term ending in 1873, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs, Pacific Railroad, Contingent Expenses, and Ordnance; in 1871 was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Treatise on the Law Claims; was the author of a of Suits by Attachment in the United States," and of a Life of Daniel Drake. ;

"

Drake, John R.; was one of the earliest settlers in Tioga County, New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1817 to 1819; was elected Judge of Tioga County in 1833 was a ber of the New York Assembly in 1834; he was in ill health for eight years before his death, which oc curred at Oswego, March 21, 1857, in the seventyfourth year of his age.

mem

;

Drake, Thomas J.; was born moved to Michigan, from which

in New York; re State he was ap pointed Associate Judge of the United States Court lor the Territory of Utah, residing in Salt Lake City.

Draper, Joseph was a Representative ;

in

Con

gress from Virginia from 1830 to 1833.

Drayton, John; was Governor

.

of South Caro lina from 1800 to 1802, and from 1808 to 1810; was District Judge of the United States for some years previous to his death, which occurred at Charleston, November 27, 1822. He published in 1802 "A View of South Carolina," "Memoirs of the Revolution in 8vo., 1821, and "Letters Carolina," 2 vols. Written During a Tour Through the Northern and Eastern States," 8vo., 1794.

South

published in three volumes, by his son, in 1821.

Drew, George

F.;

was Governor of Florida from

1877 to 1881.

Drew, Thomas

S.;

was Governor of Arkansas

from 1844 to 1848. F.; was born in Kinderhook, New 1813; was apprenticed to a mechanic in New York City; was a master-mechanic until 1856; in 1844 was appointed Superintendent of the New York Penitentiary, holding the office one year; set tled in East Saginaw, Michigan, in 1856; was Presi dent of that village in 1858; during the two succeed ing years was a member of the Michigan Legislature; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on the Public Lauds; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Invalid Pensions, Mines and Mining, and Public

Driggs, John

York, March

3,

Lands; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyal Convention of 1866; was re-elected to the For

ists

"

tieth Congress.

Dromgoole, George C.; was born in Virginia; was educated a lawyer; entered public life when young; served for years in the two Houses of the State Legislature, and was President of the Senate; was a member of the second Constitutional Conven tion of Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1835 to 1841, and from 1843 to Died April 27, 1847. 1847.

Drum, Augustus; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855.

Drummond, Thomas was born in Bristol, Maine, October 16, 1809; was educated at Bowdoiu College, Maine; graduated in 1830; studied law in Philadelphia, where he was admitted to the bar in March, 1833; removed to Galena, Illinois, in 1835; was elected to the House of Representatives of Illi nois in 1840; was appointed Judge of the District Court of the United States Illinois, by President Taylor, in February, 1850; removed to Chicago in ;

f

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. dent of the D wight Farm and Land Company, of Da Com kota; a Director and member of the Executive mittee of the Southern Central Railroad; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth, Died Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses.

November

26, 1885.

Dwight, Theodore was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, December 6, 1764; soon after the Revolution studied law, and attained a high position as a lawyer; for a number of yearij was a State Sena tor in Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut during the years 1806 and 1807; in 1813 was a Presidential Elector; was a ready and brilliant writer, and conducted for a time the Hartlord Mirror; was Secretary of the Hartford Conven tion, of which he wrote the authentic history; in 1815, at the suggestion of leading men, he estab lished the Albany Daily Adoertlw; in 1817 founded the New York Daily Advertiser, which he conducted with signal ability until 1836, when he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and retired from active life. About three years before his death he went to New York to reside with his son, and died in that city Brother of President Timothy June 11, 1846. Dwight. He was one of the founders of the Ameri can Bible Society; wrote a Life of Thomas Jefferson and a Dictionary of Roots and Derivations. ;

Thomas

Dwight, graduated at Harvard Uni versity in 1778; was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1794 and 1795; a State Senator from 1796 to 1803 and in 1813; a member of the Ex ecutive Council in 1808 and 1809; was a Representa tive in Congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1805. Died in 1819. ;

Dwinell, Justin graduated at Yale College in was a member of the New York Assembly in 1821 and 1822; was a Representative in Congress

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College in 1740, and received the degree of LL.D. from that institution in 1787; commenced the prac tice of law at the age of nineteen; from 1745 to 1762 was a Representative to the General Court; was ap pointed to the command of a Connecticut regiment during the French War in 1755; was elected a mem ber of the Council in 1762; went to England in 1763 as Agent of the Susquehanna Company; was a Dele gate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was a Dele ;

gate to the Continental Congress in 1774, and held a seat in that body during the war, excepting 1 779 was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court in 1766; was Chief Justice from 1789 to 1793. Died in Wind;

ham,

May

13, 1807.

Dyer, Elisha was Governor two years, beginning with 1857. ;

of

Rhode Island

for

Dyer, John J.; was an early emigrant to Iowa; prior to the year 1850 was appointed United States Judge for the three Districts of Iowa.

Eager S. W.; graduated at Princeton College in 1809; was a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1829 to 1831.

Eames, Benjamin

T.;

was born in Tudham,

Massachusetts, June 4, 1818; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1843; was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Providence, Rhode Island; was a member of the State Senate in 1854, 1855, 1856, 1859, and 1863; of the Legislature in 1859, 1868, and 1869, serving the last year as Speaker; was a Delegate to the Con vention at Chicago in 1860; was elected to the Fortysecond and two succeeding Congresses, serving on the Committees on Patents and Land Claims; was re-elected to the Forty-filth Congress; declined a renomination.

;

1805;

from that State from 1823 to 1825.

Dyer, Charles E.; was born in Cicero, Onondaga County, New York, October 5, 1834; removed, with his parents, to Ohio, in 1835, and to the, then, Territory of Wisconsin in 1839; his education was partly academic and partly by private tutor; in 1849 entered the office of the Western Citizen, newspaper, in Chicago, Illinois, with the intention of becoming a printer; in 1851 removed to Sandusky, Ohio, where he, finally, was employed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; upon the advice of Hon. Ebenezer Lane, formerly one of the Judges of the State Supreme Court, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858; in January, 1859, removed to Racine, Wisconsin, where he was, the same year, elected City Attorney, and was re-elected in I860; in 1866 was elected a Representative in the State Legis lature, and was re-elected in 1867; in 1875 was ap pointed United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Dyer, David

P.;

was born in Henry County, 1838; removed to Missouri in

Virginia, February 12, 1841: was educated at St. Charles College; studied law, and came to the bar in 1859; was a District Prosecuting Attorney in 1860; was elected to the State Legislature in 1862 and 1865; had command of the Forty-ninth Missouri Volunteers during a part of the Rebellion; was elected Secretary of the State Senate in 1866; a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Territories and Agriculture.

Eames, Charles was ;

necticut,

September

;

was born 28,

1721;

in

Windham, Con

graduated

at Yale

New

Braintree,

partment; a few months later became associate ed itor of the Washington Union , was appointed, by President Polk, Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands for the negotiation of a treaty in 1850 re turned; after editing the Nashville Union for six months, again edited the Union, until sent as Minis ter to Venezuela by President Pierce returned to Washington in 1858, where he practiced law until his death; during the last five years of his life he won ;

;

distinction by his knowledge of international law. Died in Washington, District of Columbia, March 16, 1867.

Earle, Elias; was born in Frederick County, was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1805 to 1807, from 1811 to 1815, and again from 1817 to 1821. Virginia;

Earle, John B.; was a Representative in Congress irom South Carolina from 1803 to 1805.

Samuel was

Earle,

;

gress from South Carolina

a Representative in Con from 1795 to 1797.

Earll, Jonas, Jr.; was born in 1786; was at one time a Senator in the New York Legislature; was a member of Congress from that State froni 1827 to 1831; was a Canal Commissioner at the time of his death, which occurred at Syracuse, New York, in October, 1846.

Earll,

Dyer, Eliphalet

born in

Massachusetts, March 20, 1812; in 1831 graduated at Harvard University; studied at the Cambridge Law School, but was prevented by ill health from prac ticing, and in 1845 took a position in the Navy De

Nehemiah

was a Representative from 1839

to 1841.

H.; was born in New York; in Congress from that State

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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Early, Peter was born in Madison County, Vir June 20, 1773; emigrated to Georgia with his father in 1795; graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, and studied law in Philadelphia; served in the United States House of Representatives from Georgia from 1802 to 1807; was one of the most conspicuous among its members who supported the Administra tion; on his return to Georgia, was made a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State; in 1813 was elected Governor; was subsequently a State Senator, but for ;

ginia,

several years before his death lived in retirement. Died August 15, 1817.

Basby, William was ;

appointed Commissioner

of Public Buildings for the District of Columbia, in 1851, holding the position until 1853.

from 1843 to 1846; Superintendent of Public Schools from 1845 to 1850; Governor of the State from 1846 to 1849; was a member of the Constitutional Conven tion in 1848. Died at Middlebury, July 4, 1855. John was born in Sutton, New Hamp Eaton, shire, December 5, 1829; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1854; removed to Ohio; was Superintend ent of Schools at Toledo from 1856 to 1859: studied theology at Andover; served as a Chaplain in the Army; had charge of the Freedmen in the extreme South; was commissioned a Colonel in the Volunteer Service, and brevetted a General; held a number of official positions during the war; established and edited the Daily Post at Memphis, Tennessee; in 1870 was appointed United States Commissioner of Ed ucation wrote and published many papers on matters connected with education. ;

;

Easterbrook, Experience

;

was born

in

Leb

anon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, April 30, 1813; received a good academic education; studied law iu Buffalo, and graduated at the Law School of Marshall College, Pennsylvania; removed to Wiscon sin in 1840, where he practiced his profession until 1854; besides holding a number of county offices, was

member of the Convention that formed the Consti tution of that State; served also in the Legislature of Wisconsin, and was Attorney -General of the State; in 1854 Avas appointed United States District Attor ney for the Territory of Nebraska, which office he held until 1859, when he was elected a Delegate from a

Nebraska

to the Thirty-sixth Congress.

Eastman, Benjamin in Congress

February

5,

O.;

was a Representative

from Wisconsin from 1851 to 1855.

Died

1856, at Platteville, in that State.

Eastman, Ira A.; was born in New Hampshire: graduated at Dartmouth College in 1829; served in the State Legislature, and was Speaker of the House from 1837 to 1839; was at one time Secretary of the State Senate; was Register of Probate; from 1844 to 1859 was a Judge of the Circuit and Supreme Courts; and was elected a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1839 to 1843. Eastman, Nehemiah wavS born in Strafford County, New Hampshire; was a lawyer by profes sion; settled at Farmington, New Hampshire; was a ;

Senator in the State Legislature from 1820 to 1825; a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1825 to 1827. Died January 11, 185b, aged sixty -five years.

Easton, Rufus

;

was appointed United States

Judge for the Territory of Louisiana in 1805; was elected a Delegate to Congress from Missouri Territory from 1814 to 1816.

Eaton, Benjamin H.; was born near West Bed Coshocton County, Ohio, December 15, 1833; received a common school and academic education; taught school for a time and, in 1854 removed to Iowa, where he again engaged in teaching; removed to Colorado in 1859; engaged in farming, mining, manufacturing, and stock raising; served as Justice of the Peace, County Commissioner, and as Repre sentative and Senator in the Territorial Legislature; in 1884 was elected Governor of the State of Colorado. ford,

Eaton, Horace

was born in Barnard, Vermont, 1804; graduated at Middlebury College in 1825; practiced medicine in Enosbury from 1828 to 1848, when he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in Middlebury College, subse quently resided at Middlebury; was for some years a member of the Legislature; Lieutenant-Go vernor

June

22,

;

Eaton, John H.; was born in Tennessee; was a Senator in Congress from Tennessee from 1818 to 1829; was Secretary of War under President Jackson from 1829 to 1831; from 1834 to 1836 was Governor of the Territory of Florida; from 1836 to 1840 was Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain. Died in Wash ington, District of Columbia, November 17, 1856, aged fifty-six years. He was the author of a Life of Andrew Jackson.

Eaton, Lewis was a ;

Representative in Congress

New York from 1823 to 1825. Eaton, William W.; was born

from

in Tolland, Con necticut, in October, 1816; was chiefly educated at public schools, but also received private instruction studied law, and was admitted to the bar; settled in Hartford, and had an active practice; was elected a ;

member of the House of Representatives of Connecticut in 1847, 1848, 1853, 1863, 1868, 1870, 1871, 1873,

and

1874; was elected Speaker in 1853 and 1873; was elected State Senator in 1850; in 1874 was elected United States Senator for the term ending in 1881 in 1882 was elected a Representative from Connecticut to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

Eckert, George N.; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849, after which he was appointed Director of the United States Mint from 1851 to 1853. He was a physician by profession, and a man of superior ability.

Died in Philadelphia, in July, 1865.

Eckles, Delane R.; was born in Kentucky; re moved to Indiana; was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Utah.

Eckley, Ephraim R.; was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, December 9, 1812; received his educa tion in the West; read law, and came to the bar in 1837; was a member of the Ohio Senate iu 1843, 1845, and 1849, serving until 1851; in 1853 was elected to the State House of Representatives; during the Rebellion was, at different times, Colonel of the; Twenty-sixth and Eightieth Regiments of Ohio Vol unteers, serving through several battles, and at the battle of Corinth commanded a brigade; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Pri vate Land Claims, and on Roads and Canals; in March, 1863, resigned his position in the army; reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Public Lands and on Accounts; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on his former committees.

Eddy, Norman; was

moved

to Indiana;

born in

New

York; re

was a Representative in Congress

from that State from 1853 to 1855.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Eddy, Samuel was ;

born in Providence, Rhode

Island, March 31, 1769; graduated at Brown University in 1787; studied law, but did not long engage in practice; in 1798 was chosen Secretary of State, and held the office for twenty-one years, when he re signed; was elected a Representative in Congress from his native State from 1819 to 1825; was subse quently Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island for eight years; devoted some attention to literary pursuits, and was honored in 1801 with the degree of LL.D. Died in Providence, February 3, 1839.

Eden, Charles from 1713 to 1722.

;

was Governor of North Carolina Died March 26, 1722, aged forty-

eight years.

Eden, John R.; was born in Bath County, Ken tucky, February 1, 1826; went with his parents, at an early age, to Indiana; received a common school ed ucation; studied law, and commenced practice in Il linois: in 1856 was appointed State Attornej^ for the Seventh District, which office he held four years; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as a member of the Committees on Accounts and Revolutionary Pen sions; was elected to the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Claims; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on War Claims; was re-elected to the Forty -fifth Congress; was again elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Edgecomb, Willard W.

;

was a

citizen

of

Maine; while holding the position of Consul at Cape

Town, Africa, was empowered to negotiate a treaty of friendship and commerce with the Orange Free States, in 1871.

Edgerton, Alfred P.; was born at Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, January 11, 1813; is a lineal descendent of Richard Edgerton, one of the original proprietors of Norwich, Connecticut; re ceived an academic education; made his first public appearance as editor of a newspaper in his native town; removed to the city of New York in 1833, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; in the spring of 1837 went to Ohio, and assumed the management of the extensive interests of the American Land Com pany and the Hicks Land Company, in the north western part of the State; established an office at Hicksville. Williams County, (now part of Defiance County); in 1845 was elected to the State Senate of Ohio; in 1848 was a Delegate at Large to the Demo cratic National Convention; in 1850 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-second Con gress in 1852 was re-elected to the Thirty-third Con gress; was Chairman of the Committee on Claims; in 1853 was appointed Financial Agent of the State of Ohio, holding the position until May 1, 1856; was a member of the Democratic: National Committee from 1852 to 1856, and was Chairman of the Sub-Com mittee which organized the Democratic National Convention in 1856; in 1857 removed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, but retained his residence in Ohio until 1862; in 1858 was a member, and Chairman of the Committee to investigate the frauds upon the Ohio State Treasury, and made an elaborate report, dis closing the authors, and the extent of the frauds; in 1859, with Hugh McCulloch and Pliny Hoogland, became lessee and general manager of the Indiana Canals, and acted as such until 1868; in January, 1864, was a Delegate at Large to the Democratic National Convention; in 1868 was a Candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana, on the ticket with Thomas A. Hendricks, but the ticket was defeated; in 1872 was nominated as the "Straight-Out" Candi ;

153

date for Governor of Indiana, but declined to run was, for many years, President of the Board of School Trus tees of Fort Wayne, Indiana, also a Trustee of Pur due University, of Lafayette, Indiana, and the Agri cultural and Mechanical College of Indiana, endowed by the General Government; in November, 1885. was appointed, by President Cleveland, United States Civil Service Commissioner, and became the Presi dent of the Commission. ;

Ketchum

Edgerton, Joseph

;

was born in

Vergennes, Vermont, February 16, 1818; spent his youth in Clinton County, New York, and received a common school education, chiefly at Plattsburg read law; settled in New York City in 1835; came to the bar in 1839; removed to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1844; in 1855 was President of the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company, and subsequently finan cial agent of the same when consolidated with the Pittsburg road; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs. ;

Edgerton, Sidney was born in Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, in 1818; became an orphan when a boy; acquired an academic education by means of his own exertions, teaching school and studying at the same time; removed to Ohio in 1844, and studied law, spending one year at the Law School in Cincinnati; was a Prosecuting Attorney for four years in Summit County; was elected a Rep resentative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia; re-elected to the Thirty -seventh Con gress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, and Private Land Claims; was appointed, by President Lincoln, a Judge for the Territory of Idaho, and, subsequently, Governor of Montana. ;

Edie, John R.; was born in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses from that State, serving as a member of the Committee on Patents.

was born in Massachu J. "Wiley was a Representative in Congress from that

Edmands, setts;

;

State from 1853 to 1855.

Edmond, William

;

was born

at

South Britain,

Connecticut, September 28, 1755; graduated at Yale College in 1773; was a volunteer soldier at the burn ing of Danbury, and received a wound in the leg

which made him lame for life; was a lawyer by pro fession; was chosen a member of the Legislature; member of the Council; Judge of the Supreme Court of that State; was a member of Congress from Con Died in Newton, Con necticut from 1798 to 1801. necticut, August 1, 1838. Edmonds, John "Worth was born in Hudson, New York, March 13, 1799; graduated at Union Col lege in 1816; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and began to practice in Hudson in 1820; was a member of the Legislature in 1831; of the Senate from 1832 to 1836; also of the Court of Errors; in 1836 and 1837; was sent, by the Government, on special missions to the Indians on the frontiers; in 1837 resumed the practice of law in New York City; was Prison In spector in 1843; Circuit Judge from 1845 to 1847; Judge of the Superior Court from 1847 to 1852; a member of the Court of Appeals in 1852 and 1853, when he retired and practiced in New York; became an advocate of Spiritualism in 1853, and published a work, in two volumes, on the subject, and also ad ditional volumes. Died in New York, April 5, 1874. ;

A.; was born in Virginia; elected a Representative in Congress from that

Edmondson, Henry was

;

>

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

154

State in 1849; was re-elected to each successive Con down to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as i member of the Committee on Public Expenditures

gress

Edmunds, George F.; was born in Richmond Vermont, February 1, 1828; received a common school education, and enjoyed the instruction of a private tutor; studied law, and came to the bar in 1849, devoting himself exclusively to the legal pro fession; in 1851 settled in Burlington; in 1854, 1855, 185/7, 1858, and 1859, was elected to the Vermont Legislature, serving three years as Speaker; in 1861 and 1862 was elected to the State Senate, officiating

as President pro

of that body during those years; on the breaking out of the Rebellion was a member of the State Convention which met to form a coalition tern,

between the Republicans and War Democrats, and drew up the resolutions which were adopted in that Convention as the basis of union for the country; on the death of Solomon Foot was appointed in his place -to the United States Senate, taking his seat in April 1866, and the appointment was confirmed by the Legislature; the Committees upon which he served were those on Commerce, Public Lauds, Pensions, Retrenchment, and the Judiciary; was also a Dele of gate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention 1866; during the Forty-second and Forty-third Con gresses was Chairman of the Committee on the Judi ciary; was re-elected to the Senate for the term endting in 1881 was again re-elected for the term ending in 1887; in March, 1883, was elected President of the ;

Senate, pro tempore.

was an emigrant to Utah, and was appointed an Associate Judge of the United

Edmunds,

Gr.

;

States Court for that Territory.

born in Niagara

1810; received a school and academic education; from 1826 until 1831 was a school teacher; removed to Michi gan and became a merchant at Ypsilanti; was for ten years an Inspector of Schools, holding also a number of other local positions; in 1839 was elected to the State Senate; in 1846 to the Lower House; in 1847 was the Whig candidate for Governor, but not elected was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1851 in 1853 removed to Detroit and entered exten sively into the lumber business from 1857 to 1861 was Comptroller of Detroit, which office he resigned to become the Commissioner of the General Land Office in Washington; resigning that position in 1866 was chosen Postmaster of the United States Senate, which position he resigned in 1869, to accept the office of Postmaster of Washington City; from 1855 to 1861 was Chairman of the Republican State Cen tral Committee of Michigan President of the Michi gan Soldiers Relief Association in Washington City, from its first organization in 1861; was also Presi dent of the National Council of the Union League of America from its organization in 1862 to 1869, when he retired from the position.

common

;

;

;

;

Edmunds, Newton was born in New York; was an early emigrant to Dakota; in 1863 was ap ;

Governor of that Territory,

Yankton, and serving in that

residing in

office until 1866.

Joseph E.; was born in Sussex County, Jersey; was elected a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1837 to 1839; was a mem ber of the State Legislature, and of the Convention which framed the last State Constitution. Edsall,

New

Edward, John; was

born in

New

York; was a

Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1843.

November

13, 1826.

Edwards, Francis S.; was born in Norwich, Connecticut, May 28, 1818; adopted the profession of the law; removing to New York, was appointed a Master in Chancery, in 1841, for the County of Chenango; in 1851 was elected Surrogate of Chautauqua County; in 1854 was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress from

New

York.

Edwards, Henry W.; was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1779; graduated at Princeton College in 1797; studied his profession at the Litchfield Law School, and settled in New Haven; was a Represent ative in Congress from 1819 to 1823; United States Senator from 1823 to 1827; member of the State Senate in 1828 and 1829; Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1830; Governor in 1833, and from 1835 to 1838; upon his recommendation a Died in geological survey of the State was taken. New Haven, July 22, 1847. Edwards, James L.; was born in Virginia; was appointed from that State, in 1837, the Commissioner of Pensions, serving in that capacity until 1850. Edwards, John

Edmunds, James M.; was County, New York, August 23,

pointed

Edwards, Benjamin; was born in Stafford County, Virginia, in 1752; had not the advantage of a classical education, and his pursuits were those of agriculture and merchandise; was a member of the Maryland Legislature; also of the State Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution; was a mem ber of Congress from Maryland from 1794 to 1795, to fill the unexpired term of Uriah Forrest; spent the latter years of his life in Kentucky, but held no public position in that State. Died in Todd County,

;

was a member of the Ken

tucky Legislature from Fayette County in 1781, 1782, 1783, and 1785; was a Commissioner who chose the seat of Government at Frankfort in 1785; was a member of the State Conventions of that year, and of the Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1792; was United States Senator from Kentucky from 1792 to 1795.

Edwards, John was ;

a Representative in Con

gress from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843. Chester, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1843.

Died in

Edwards, John C.; was a Representative in Congress from Missouri from 1841 to 1843; Governor of that State from 1844 to 1848. Edwards, Ninian was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, March, 1775; was, in early life, the intimate friend of William Wirt, and graduated at Dickinson College; studied both medicine and [aw, but devoted himself to the practice of law with minent success; removing to Kentucky, was twice lected to the Legislature; was appointed a Circuit and subsequently Judge of the General Court "lerk, of Kentucky, of the Circuit Court, of the Court of Appeals, and finally, Chief Justice of the State, all beibre reaching the thirty-second year of his age; in 1809 President Madison appointed him Governor of ;he Territory of Illinois, to which office he was three imes re-appointed. Before Congress had adopted any measures on the subject of volunteer rangers, he organized companies, supplied them with arms, stockade forts, and established a line of posts rom the mouth of the Missouri to the Wabash River. iTe was thus prepared for defence, and during the In dian wars on the frontiers was most devoted to his country s service. In 1816 was appointed a Commis sioner to treat with the Indian tribes; when Illinois jecame a State, was elected a Senator in Congress, erving from 1818 to 1824, when he was ^appointed Minister to Mexico, but declined the office; in 1826 ;

>uilt

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was elected Governor of the State of Illinois, which he filled until 1831. Died of cholera July 20,

office

1833.

Edwards, Pierrepont; was born in North Massachusetts, April 8, 1750; was the ampton, youngest son of Jonathan Edwards, the distinguished From the fact that his father was a mission among the Stockbridge Indians, he spent much of his early boyhood among that people, and acquired divine.

ary

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public schools; was trained a farmer; quit that busi ness in 1852 to attend two academic courses in Ohio; in 1853 commenced the study of medicine, and grad

uated in 1856; engaged in practice for six years, and then turned his attention again to farming and to the production and refining of petroleum oil; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress; in December, 1875, was ap pointed Chairman of the Committee on Mileage.

the language so perfectly that he was wont to say that he thought in Indian." His youth was passed

Egbert, Joseph was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1841

in

to 1843.

"

New Jersey and North Carolina, and he was edu cated at Princeton College; studied law, and settled in the practice of the profession in New Haven, Con necticut; was frequently elected to the Connecticut Legislature; Avas administrator of the estate of Ben edict Arnold at the time of his treason; served in the army during the Revolution; w^sin two hard-fought battles; at the battle of Danbury was reported killed because he remained on the battle field for the pur pose of rescuing a friend; was a Delegate from Con necticut to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; subsequently filled the office of United States Judge for the State of Connecticut, which he held at the time of his death, which occurred at Bridgeport, He was the founder of Connecticut, April 1, 1826. what was called the Toleration Party in Connecticut, and by his ability and perseverance called down upon his head the animosity of the Calvinists; was also the first Grand Master among the Masons of Connecticut, having, in fact, drawn up the Constitu tion of the original Lodge in that State. Edwards, Samuel; was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1819 to 1827. Edwards, Thomas M.; was born in Cheshire New Hampshire; graduated at Dartmouth

County,

College; adopted the profession of law; served eight years in the New Hampshire Legislature between the years 1834 and 1856; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; in 1859 was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs; reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; was a Dele gate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 1866. "

Tom

Edwards, O.; was born in Maryland; hav ing taken up his residence in Ohio, was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849. Died at Wheeling, West Virginia, in Feb ruary, 1876.

Edwards, Weldon N.; was born in Northamp ton County, North Carolina, in 1788; was educated at Warrenton Academy; read law, and came to the bar in 1810; was in the Legislature for two years; was a member of Congress from North Carolina from 1816 to 1827; again went into the Legislature, serv ing there from 1833 to 1844; was again elected in 1850; was made President of the State Senate; was President of the State Convention in 1861 and died in Warren, North Carolina, December 18, 1873. ;

Edwards, William P.; was born in Georgia; received a legal education; was elected a Representa tive from that State to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. was born in New York; was a member of the Assembly of that State in 1829; was Effner, Valentine

;

Ege, George

Egbert, A. GK; was born in Mercer County, Penn was educated principally in

sylvania, April 13, 1828;

was a Representative in Congress

Eggleston, Benjamin; was born

New

in Corinth,

York, January 3, 1816; re moved with his father to Hocking County, Ohio, in 1831, where he entered upon commercial pursuits, becoming extensively identified with the business interests and prosperity of Cincinnati and Ohio was connected for many years with the Board of Public Saratoga County,

;

Works

of Hamilton County and Cincinnati, and was Chairman; was the effective Chairman, also, of an important finance committee, in a time of great its

public distress; was President of the City Council; was for some years a member of the State Legisla ture; was a member of the Chicago Convention of 1860, and a Presidential Elector at the following election; in looking after the welfare of the Ohio soldiers during the Rebellion, rendered services that were universally acknowledged; one or two import ant canals were inaugurated by him, and carried on under his supervision; in 1864 was elected a Repre sentative from Ohio to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Commerce, and Ex penditures in the Post Office Department, and Reve nue Frauds; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention" of 1866; was re-elected to "Loyalists the Fortieth Congress, serving on the additional Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office De

partment; subsequently published several successful novels.

Eggleston, Joseph November

was born

;

in

Amelia Coun

1754; was educated at the College of William and Mary; served in the Revolutionary War as a Captain and Major of Cavalry under Colonel Henry Lee; was in several of the bat tles fought by Gates and Greene; served in the Vir ginia Assembly for several years; was a Representa tive in Congress from Virginia from 1798 to 1801; from the time of his leaving Congress until his death was a Justice of the Peace. Died February 15, 1811. ty, Virginia,

24,

Eickhoff, Anthony was born in Westphalia, Germany, September 11, 1827; studied philology; emigrated to the United States in 1847; studied law in Saint Louis, Missouri, but did not practice; be came an editor and had editorial charge of newspa pers at Saint Louis, Dubuque, Iowa, and Louisville, Kentucky, and finally at New York, where he lo cated permanently in 1852; in 1863 was appointed Commissary General of Subsistence of the State of New York; was subsequently elected a Representa tive in the New York Legislature; was elected Coro ner of the city of New York in 1873; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth ;

Congress.

;

a Representative in Congress from 1835 to 1837.

,

from Pennsylvania during the years 1796 and 1797, for the unexpired term of D. Heister, resigned.

Einstein,

Edwin; was

born at Cincinnati, Ohio;

to New York in 1846; received a collegiate education; engaged in mercan tile pursuits; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth Congress.

November

18, 1842;

removed

Ela, Jacob H.; was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, July 18, 1820; began active life as a prin ter in the office of the Strtlexmaii newspaper in 1837; established and edited the Herald of Freedom, and

also participated in establishing the Independent Dem ocrat; in 1857 and 1858 was a member of the State Legislature, and rilled several other State offices; in

1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, United States Marshal for his State, holding the office until 1866; was elected a Representative from New Hamp shire to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serv ing on the Committees on Printing, Claims, and Freedmen s Aifairs; in 1872 was appointed Fifth Auditor of the United States Treasury; in June, 1881, was appointed Sixth Auditor of the Treasury.

Elam, Joseph

B.;

was born in Hempstead Coun

removed, with his ty, Arkansas, June 12, 1821 father, to Louisiana in 1826; studied law and was admitted to practice at Alexandria in 1843; served two terms in the State Legislature; in 1851 removed ;

to De Sota Parish; in 1861 was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention; again served in the Legislature during the Civil War; was elected a Rep resentative from Louisiana to the Forty-fifth Con gress; re-elected to the Forty -sixth Congress.

Eldred, Nathaniel B. was born in Orange County, New York, in 1795; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1822 to 1828; was for a time Canal Commissioner of Pennsylvania; Naval Died at Officer at Philadelphia from 1852 to 1858. Bethany, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1867. ;

Eldredge, Nathaniel

B.; was born in Auburn, March, 1813; received a common school ed ucation; studied medicine; attended Medical College at Fairfield, New York; removed to Michigan in 1837,

New York,

and

ANNALS.

B1OGRA PHICAL

156

Oakland County in the practice of 1843 removed to Lapeer, Michigan, where he practiced his profession for nine years; stud ied law, and was admitted to the bar, engaged in the practice of law at Lapeer; held various local offices; was Clerk of the State Senate in 1845; State Senator in 1848; Judge of Probate from 1852 to 1856; in 1861 raised a company of volun teers and joined the Seventh Michigan Infant ry; was, soon afterwards, promoted to Major; be came a Lieutenant Colonel in 1862; in 1865 removed to Adrian, Michigan, was elected Mayor in 1870; the same year was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress; in 1874 was elected Sheriff of Lenawee County was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the settled in

medicine; in

;

Forty-ninth Congress.

Eldridge, Charles A.; was born in Bridgeport, Addison County, Vermont, February 27, 1821; when a child removed, with his parents, to St. Lawrence County, New York; studied law in that State, and came to the bar in 1846 in 1848 removed to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; in 1854 and 1855 was a member of ;

the State Senate; in 1862 was elected a Representa tive from Wisconsin to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Claims and Naval Affairs; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia re"National Union Convention" of 1866; was elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on the Judiciary and Revolutionary Claims; re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving on the Judiciary Committee and that on the District of Columbia. Elgar, Joseph was appointed Commissioner of Public Buildings for the District of Columbia in 1816, and continued in that office until 1834.

Samuel

A.; was born in Boston, Massa 1798; educated at Harvard College; engaged in commercial and manufacturing business; was Mayor of Boston from 1837 to 1839; Representa tive and Senator in the Legislature for three or four years; was a Representative in Congress from 1850 to 1851; was also Treasurer of Harvard College for eleven years. Died at Cambridge, January 26, 1862. Eliot,

chusetts,

March

5,

Thomas

D.; was born in Boston, Massa Eliot, chusetts, March 20, 1808; graduated at Columbia College, Washington City, in 1825; adopted the pro fession of the law, and settled at New Bedford; served in both Houses of the Massachusetts Legisla ture; was a Representative in Congress for the unexpired term of Zeno Scudder, in 1855; re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Con gress; and was Chairman of the Special Committee on Confiscation of the Property of Rebels; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Commerce and on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, and also as Chairman of the ;

Special Committee on Emancipation; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, and was again a member of the Committee on Commerce, and Chairman of that on Freedmen, and also of that on the New Or leans Riots; several important bills bearing on the colored race were drawn up by him; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress. Died at New Bedford, June 15, 1870. "

Elkins, Stephen

"

B.;

was born

in Ohio,

Septem

ber 26, 1841; removed to Missouri when young; graduated at the University of that State in i860; studied law; went to the Territory of New Mexico in 1863; was a member of the Legislature in 1864 and 1865; held the offices of District Attorney, AttorneyGeneral, and United States District Attorney in the Territory; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Del egate from that Territory.

Ellery, Christopher; graduated at Yale Col was a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island from 1801 to 1805; in the latter year was ap pointed United States Commissioner of Loans; was appointed Collector of Newport in 1828. Died in

lege in 1787;

1840.

Ellery, "William ; was born in Newport, Rhode Island, December, 22, 1727; graduated at Harvard College in 1747; was a lawyer by profession; a Dele gate to the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1780. and from 1783 to 1785; was a signer of the Declara tion of Independence, and also of the Articles of Con federation; in 1786 was appointed Commissioner of Loans for Rhode Island; was elected Chief Justice of the State; in 1789 was appointed, by President Washington, Collector of Newport, which office he held until his death, which occurred February 15, 1820. Ellicott, Andrew was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1754; was a Civil Engi neer; founded the town of Ellicott s Mills, in Mary land was a personal friend of Franklin and Wash ington; in 1790 was employed by the General Govern ment to survey and lay out the City of Washington in 1792 was appointed Surveyor-General of the United States; in 1812 became a Professor of Mathe matics at West Point, where he died, August 29, ;

;

;

1820.

;

Ellicott, Benjamin; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1817 to 1819.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Elliot, John; graduated at Yale College in 1794; resided in Sunbury, Liberty County, Georgia; was a Senator in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1825, serving on several important Committees. Died August 9, 1827.

Elliott,

James

;

was a Representative in Congress Died at Newfane,

from Vermont from 1803 to 1809. Vermont, November 10, 1839.

Elliott, James T.; was born in Monroe County, Georgia, April 22, 1823; received a common school education; studied law, and came to the bar in 1854; was chosen President of a railroad company in 1858; was elected a Circuit Judge in Arkansas in 1866; es tablished a newspaper at Camden, in that State, in 1867, called the South Arkansas Journal; was elected a Eepresentative from Arkansas to the Fortieth Con gress, for the unexpired term of James Hinds who was assassinated.

John

M.; was born in Scott County, Vir was educated in the county schools of Kentucky; studied law, and commenced to practice in 1843; was elected to the State Legisla ture in 1847; in 1853 was elected a Representative in Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Elliott,

ginia,

May

16, 1820;

Public Expenditures. Elliott, Mortimer F.; was born at Cherry Flats, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1842; Avas reared on a farm was educated in the common schools and at Alfred University, New York; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1864; com menced practice at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; in 1870 was an unsuccessful Candidate for President Judge; attained eminence in his profession, was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1873; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the ;

Forty-eighth Congress. ;

;

Committees, but resigned. Ellis, Caleb was born at Walpole, Massachu setts; graduated at Harvard College in 1793; when admitted to the bar he settled at Claremont, New Hampshire; was a Representative in Congress, from 1805 to 1809; was a member of the Council, and in 1811 elected to the State Senate; in 1812 was one of the Electors of President and Vice-President; in 1813 was Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and continued in that office until his death, which occurred May 9, 1816, aged forty-nine years. ;

Ellis, Cheseiden was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1843 to 1845. ;

Ellis, E. John was born in Covingtou, St. Tam Parish, Louisiana, October 15, 1841; was par tially educated at Centenary College, but graduated at the University of Louisiana in 1861; entered the Confederate Army as a private, and became Captain of Infantry, serving under Generals Johnson, Beauregard, and Bragg; in 1863 was captured and impris ,

many

oned at Johnson

s Island,

in 1865, he returned to Louisiana and began practic ing law, which he continued until 1874, when he was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; in December, 1875, was ap pointed Chairman of the Committee on Mississippi Levees; was re-elected to the Forty -fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Ellis, John "Willis ; was born in Rowan, North Carolina, November 23, 1820; graduated at the Uni versity of North Carolina in 1841; studied law; was a member of the House of Commons of that State from 1844 to 1848, then Judge of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity; was Governor of North Carolina from 1859 until his death, which occurred in Raleigh, in 1861.

Ellis, Powhatan was born in Virginia; remov ing at an early day to Mississippi, there devoting him self to the practice of law; became one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of that State in 1825 was ap pointed to a seat in the United States Senate, but was displaced by the Legislature; in 1827, however, the Legislature elected him a Senator in Congress, where n*e served until 1833, after which be was ap pointed United States Judge for the District of Mississippi; in 1836 was appointed Charge d Affaires to Mexico; in 1839 Minister to that Republic. ;

;

Ellis, Vespasian was a citizen of Missouri; in 1844 was appointed Charge d Affaires to Venezuela, where he remained until 1845. ;

Ellis, William C.; was a Representative in gress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825.

Lake

Erie; after his release,

Con

Ellison, Andrew; was born in Ireland; emi grated to Ohio was elected a Representative in Con gress from 1853 to 1855. ;

born at New Hope, "W.; was Ohio, December 18, 1833, received a good education in the common schools of Brown County and at a private academy in Clermont County, Ohio; taught school two years; studied medicine with his father; graduated from the Cincinnati Col lege of Medicine and Surgery and engaged in prac tice as a physician; some years later attended a full course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College and received a diploma therefrom; in 1861 was a member of the County Military Board of Brown County, set tled at Georgetown, Ohio; was three times chosen County Auditor; in 1878, was tendered the office of Superintendent of the Central Insane Asylum, at Columbus, Ohio, but declined it; became a member of several medical societies, including the American Medical Association was a Delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention in 1880; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty ninth Congress.

Ellsberry,

was Elliott, Robert Brown, of Columbia born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 11, 1842; in 1853 entered High Holborn Academy, in London, England; in 1855 entered Eton College, England, and graduated in 1859; studied law, and practiced his profession was a member of the State Constitu tional Convention of South Carolina in 1868; was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, from 1868 to 1870; in 1869 was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General, which position he held until elected to the Forty-second Congress; re-elected to the Forty-Third Congress, and served on several

157

"William

Brown County,

;

Ellsworth, Charles Vermont, January

was born

at Berkshire,

29, 1824; received

an academic

C.;

education; studied and practiced law; removed to Michigan, was appointed Prosecuting Attorney of Livingston County in 1850; removed to Montcalm County in 1851 was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1852 to 1854; served two terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Montcalm County; was appointed a Paymaster in the army in 1862 and served until the close of the war; was elected a Rep resentative from Michigan to the Forty-fifth Con ,

gress.

Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt; was born at Windsor, Connecticut, November 10, 1791; graduated at Yale College in 1810; studied law at Litehn eld and settled at Windsor; after a few years removed to

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

158

Hartford, where he lived about ten years, was then appointed Resident Commissioner among the Indian tribes in Arkansas was United States Commissioner of Patents from 1836 to 1845; his Reports to Con gress during this period added greatly to the im provement of agriculture; then settled in Lafayette, Indiana, where he was a purchaser of United States land; in 1857 returned to Connecticut; was the author of "Digest of Patents from 1770 to 1839." Died at Fair Haven, Connecticut, December 27, 1858. ;

Ellsworth,

Henry W.; was

born in Windsor,

Connecticut, in 1814; graduated at Yale College in 1834; studied law in New Haven Law School; re moved to Indiana in 1835; was counsel for S. F. B. Morse in some of his suits connected with telegraph patents; was appointed Charge d Affaires to Sweden in 1845. Died at New Haven, in August, 1884. He was the author of "Sketches of the Upper Wabash a contributor to the Knickerbocker Valley," and 1

Magazine. ;

was born

pointed a Judge of the Superior Court of that State; in 1787 was elected a member of the Convention In an which framed the Federal Constitution.

assembly illustrious for talents, erudition, and pa His exer triotism, he held a distinguished place. tions essentially aided in the production of an instrument which has been the main pillar of American prosperity and glory; was afterwards a member of the State Convention of Connecticut, and contributed his efforts towards procuring the ratification of the When the Federal Gov Constitution by that State. ernment was organized, in 1789, was a member of the Senate from Connecticut; in 1796 was appointed, by President Washington, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but resigned the office on account of ill-health in 1800; in 1799 was appointed, by President Adams, Envoy Extraordinary to France, for the purpose of concluding a treaty with that He re nation: in 1805 was a Presidential Elector. ceived the degree of LL.D. in 1780, from Yale Col Died November lege, and in 1797 from Dartmouth. 26, 1807.

Ellsworth, Samuel S.; was born in Vermont; was a member of the New York Assembly in 1840: was a Representative, in Congress from that State from

.1845 to 1847.

Ellsworth, William W.; was the son of Oliver Ellsworth, was born in Windsor County, Connecti cut, November 10, 1791; graduated at Yale College in 1810; adopted the profession of law, and was Pro fessor of Law in Trinity College; was a Representa tive in Congress from Connecticut from 1829 to 1833; in 1838 was elected Governor of Connecticut, and re-

elected for four years, was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut for many years. Died at Hart ford. Connecticut, January 15. 1868.

Ellwood, Reuben ; was born in New York in 1821; removed to Illinois in 1836, and applied him self to various avocations, at different points in the State; received an academic education; finally located at Sycamore, Illinois, and engaged largely in President became of several manu manufacturing; facturing companies; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-eighth Congress.

;

graduated at Princeton

ir

of that State in 1804 and 1805; a State Senator from 1814 to 1817. Died August 17. 1843, aged eightyfive years.

Elmer, Ebenezer ; was born in Cedarville, New Jersey, in 1752; was educated a physician; was a Field Officer of the Revolutionary War; also a Sur geon in the army; was President of the Society of the Cincinnati for New Jersey; a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1801 to 1807 served a. number of years in the State Assembly, and was chosen Speaker; was also for a long time AdjutantGeneral of the New Jersey Militia; during the War of 1812 commanded the troops on the Delaware; in 1807 and 1815 was a member and Vice-President of the State Council; in 1808 was appointed Collector of Died Bridgeton, and held the office for many years. at Bridgeton,

New

Jersey, October 18, 1843.

Elmer, Jonathan

at Windsor. Con necticut, April 29, 1745; graduated at Princeton Col lege, New Jersey, in 1766; studied law, and soon be came eminent in the practice; in 1777 was chosen a Delegate in Congress from Connecticut; in 1780 was elected to the Council of Connecticut, and was a member of that body until 1784, when he was ap

Ellsworth, Oliver

Elmendorf, Lucas

1782; was a Representative in Congress from NeV York from 1797 to 1803; a member of the Assembly

was born in Cumberland Jersey, in 1745; was a prominent phy his native county; having sician, graduated with honors at the University of Pennsyl vania; was a member of the Continental Congress; a Senator in Congress under the Federal Constitution from New Jersey from 1789 to 1791 was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the County,

;

New

and practiced in

;

Potomac; during the War of the Revolution was a Sheriff, a Surrogate, and a Judge; was a man of learning, and a member of the Philosophical Society of America. Died in 1817.

Elmer, Lucius Q. O.; was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1793; graduated at Princeton College in 1824; was educated a lawyer, which profession he practiced in his native town; for many years was Prosecutor for the State; was in the Assembly from 1820 to 1823, the last year being Speaker of that body; in 1824 was appointed Attorney of the United States for New Jersey, which office he filled until 1829; was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1843 to 1845; in 1850 was appointed Attorney-Gen eral of the State; in 1852 was appointed one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of his State, which office he continued to hold until 1859.

Elmer, Richard A.; was born

in Orange County, York, June 16, 1843; received a classical educa from Hamilton tion, graduating College in 1864 studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1868; his professional practice was limited, owing to other duties, circumstances having compelled him to as sume the management of the First National Bank of Waverly. New York, in which he continued until May, 1881, when he was appointed, by President Garfield, Second Assistant Postmaster-General.

New

;

Elmore, Franklin Harper; was born in Laurens District, South Carolina, in 1799; entered South Carolina College in November, 1817, and graduated in 1819; was a lawyer by profession, and was admit ted to the bar in 1821; was a Colonel of Militia, and also a Trustee of the South Carolina College, in 1822 was elected Solicitor of the Southern Circuit, and was continued in this office, by re-elections, until 1837, when he was elected to the House of Representativ ,3 in Congress, and served until 1839; was in that yeiir elected President of the Bank of the State of Sou,, h Carolina, which office he held till his appointment to the United States Senate, in April, 1850, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John C. Calhotui; his voice was heard but once in the Senate, and then in answering to his name when called by the Secre Died in Washington, District of Columbia^ tary. May 29, 1850.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

159

Elmore, Rush.; was born in Alabama; settled in Kansas; was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for that Territory, residing at Lecompton.

H.; was born in Vermont; re was appointed one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court for the Territory of Idaho.

Ely, Alfred -was born in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, February 18, 1815; removed to Rochester, New York, in 1835; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841, where he practiced his profession; in 1840, while a student at law, was ap pointed Clerk of the Recorder s Court of Rochester; in 1858 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty -sixth Congress; was re-elected, and while in the Thirty-seventh Congress served as Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions; in July, 1861, was a witness of the battle of Bull Run, where he was captured and taken as a prisoner of war to Richmond after a confinement of more than five months was exchanged in December, 1861, for the Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, the American Minis ter to France, who had been imprisoned for disloy alty; after his return home, Mr. Ely published a book with the title, "Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War in Richmond, edited by the author of this volume.

Emery, George "W.; was a citizen of Tennessee; in 1875 was appointed Governor of Utah, serving until March 1, 1880.

;

;

Ely, Frederick David; was born at Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, September 24, 1838; received his early education at Day s Acad emy, Wrentham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1859; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1862 and entered upon the practice of law at Dedham, Massachusetts; was a Trial Justice from 1867 to 1885 was a Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1873; was a State Senator in 1878 and 1879; was a member of the School Committee of Dedham, Massachusetts, from 1882 to 1885; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to

Emerson, Philip

moved

to Michigan; in 1873

Emmanuel, David; was

acting Governor ol

Georgia in 1801.

Emmons, H. H.; was born in New York; after acquiring a good education at the common schools, became an assistant in the office of his father, who was the editor of a paper; he studied law and was admitted to the bar of that State; soon afterwards settled in Detroit, where his father had already located himself as a lawyer, and with whom he became asso ciated in the practice of his profession about the year 1840; in 1843 his father died; acquired distinction during a period of commotion in Detroit by defending the right of an American Protestant clergyman to preach against Catholicism, Irish repeal, temperance, or secret societies, or whatever he conscientiously be lieved to be injurious to the welfare temporal or eternal of his fellow-citizens; in 1853 his health became somewhat impaired by application to busi and he partially retired from active professional although his services were in frequent demand by the railroad companies of the State, whose busi ness he had made a specialty; early in 1870 was ap pointed Circuit Judge for the State of Michigan, but exercised a much wider jurisdiction. ness, life,

;

the Forty-ninth Congress.

Ely, John; was born in Connecticut; was a Rep resentative in Congress from New York from 1839 to 1841, having previously served two years in the As sembly of that State. Ely, Smith, Jr.; was born in New Jersey in 1825, his grandfather having served with honor in the Revolution; after receiving a good education, studied law. and came to the bar in 1846, but did not practice the profession; devoted himself for many years to mercantile pursuits; in 1856 was elected a School Trustee; in 1857 to the State Senate; was County Supervisor from 1866 to 1870; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-second Congress, serving on various committees; in 1872 was elected a Commissioner of Public Instruction, and in 1874 was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Depart ment. Died July 28, 1884. Ely, William graduated at Yale College in 1787; was a Representative in Congress from Massa chusetts from 1805 to 1815. Died in 1817. ;

Embree, Elisha was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, September 28, 1801; in 1811 removed, with his father, to the southwestern portion of In diana Territory, where he long continued to reside; received a common school education, after which he studied and practiced law; in 1813 was elected to the State Senate of Indiana; in 1835 was chosen, by the Legislature, Circuit Judge, which office he held for ten years; in 1847 was elected Representative in the Thirtieth Congress from Indiana, and after the expiral ion of that term engaged in agricultural pursuits. Died at Princeton, New Jersey, March 7, 1863. ;

Emott, James was born in Albany, New York, in 1770; did not receive a collegiate education, but in 1800 Union College conferred on him the degree of A.M.; was a distinguished member of the bar; under the old Constitution of New York, for several years, filled the office of First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for his county, and in that capacity gave that court a rank among the best of the State was a Rep resentative in Congress from his native State from 1809 to 1813; under the Constitution of 1821 was ap pointed Judge for the Second District, which station he filled until he reached the age of sixty years, which required him to retire. Died in Poughkeepsie, April 7, 1850. ;

;

Emrie, J. Reece; was born in Ohio; elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fourth Congress. Endicott, William O.; was born at Salem, Massachusetts, November 19, 1826; received a classi cal education, graduating from Harvard University in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in the County of Essex, Massachusetts, in December, 1851, and was engaged in practice until 1873; during that time was several times the Democratic candidate for the office of Attorney-General, and once for mem. of Congress, but was each time defeated; in Marcn, 1873, was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which office he held until

November, 1882, when he resigned;

after

an

absence of a year and a half in Europe, returned to the practice of law in Massachusetts; was the Demo cratic candidate for Governor of that State in 1884,

and was defeated; in March, 1885, was appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Cleve land.

English James E.; was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in March, 1812; received a common school education was bred a carpenter and became a master builder, and a dealer in lumber; entered into ;

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160

which he continued until extensively engaged in several branches of manufacture; in 1855 was a member of the Legislature of Connecticut; in 1856 was elected to the State Senate, and declined a re-election was a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut in 1860, but was defeated was elected a Representa tive from his native State to the Thirty -seventh Con gress, and re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, mercantile pursuits, 1855,

in

when he became

;

;

serving on the Committees on the Public Lands and Expenditures in the State Department; was also a National Union Con Delegate to the Philadelphia of 1866; was elected Governor of Connecti vention cut in 1867, 1868, and 1870; subsequently traveled extensively; in November, 1875, was appointed a Senator in Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of O. S. Ferry.

Errett, Russell was born in New York in 1817; was self-educated; removed to Pennsylvania in 1829; adopted the profession of an editor; was Comptroller ;

of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, in 1860; Clerk of the State Senate in 1860 and 1861; served in the Union Army, as Additional Paymaster, from 1861 to 1866; was a State Senator in 1867; was Assessor of Internal Revenue from 1869 to 1873; again Clerk of the State Senate from 1872 to 1876; was elected a Representa tive from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth

and Forty-seventh Congresses.

"

"

English, William Scott County, Indiana,

was born at Lexington, November 3, 1851 removed

E.;

;

an early age; graduated at the Northwestern University, and was admitted to the practice of the law in 1872; soon retired from active practice; from 1875 to 1886 was a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of his county, serving as its chairman during two important cam paigns; was a member of the State House of Repre sentatives in 1878; was the Democratic candidate for Representative in the Forty-eighth Congress in November, 1882, but the certificate of election hav ing been given to his Republican competitor, Stanton J. Peele; after a contest, the seat was awarded to Mr. English. to Indianapolis at

English, "William H.; was born in Scott County, Indiana, August 27, 1822; received a good common school education, and spent three years at the Uni versity of South Hanover; studied law, and was ad mitted to practice in 1846; in 1843 was elected Clerk of the House of Representatives of Indiana; during President Folk s administration was a Clerk in the Treasury Department; was the Clerk of the State Constitutional Convention in 1850; in 1851 was elected to the State Legislature, and officiated as Speaker; in 1852 was elected a Representative in Congress from Indiana; re-elected in 1854, and made a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; re-elected in 1856, and during the first session of the Thirtyfifth Congress took part in the Kansas Compromise measure; was Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads; was re-elected to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving on the same committee.

Eppes, John W.; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia from 1803 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1815; was a Senator in Congress from 1817 to 1819, when he resigned because of ill health. Died near Richmond, Virginia, September, 1823, aged fifty years.

Erdman, Jacob; was

born in Pennsylvania;

was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847. Died in Lehigh County, July 20, 1867.

Ermentrout, Daniel; was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1837; received a collegi ate education; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1859; was elected District Attorney in 1862, and served three years; was City Solicitor from 1867 to 1870; was a State Senator from 1873 to 1880; was for many years a member of the Board of School Control of Reading; was frequently a Delegate to Democratic State Conventions; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1880; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fortyseventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Erskine, John was born in Ireland resided at Atlanta, Georgia; in 1866 was appointed United States Judge for the District of Georgia. ;

Ervin,

;

James was ;

born in South Carolina in

October, 1778; graduated at Brown University in 1797; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1800; served in the State Legislature in 1801 and 1802, and from 1804 to 1816; was a Solicitor of the

Northern Circuit; was, for eight years, a Trustee of *he South Carolina College; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1817 to 1821.


Republican National Convention of 1876; was ap pointed United States Consul at Valparaiso, Chili, in 1879; was Acting Charge d Affaires to Chili in 1882; in 1883 was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Corea, and, as such, exchanged the ratifications of the first treaty witii that country. ;

Thomas

M.; was born in 1809; received a good education, and prepared himself for the med

Foote,

was, for many years, the proprietor and editor of the Buffalo Commercial-Advertiser; in 1849 was appointed Charge d Affaires to New Gren ada; in 1852 was appointed to the same position near the government of Austria. Died at Buffalo, February 20, 1858. ical profession;

Foraker, Joseph Benson was born in Highland ;

1846; was reared on his father s County, Ohio, July farm; his early education was acquired in the com 5.

mon

schools of his native county; in July, 1862, en listed in the Union Army; was commissioned Second Lieutenant in January, 1863, and First Lieutenant

February, 1864, in September, 1864, was ap pointed Adjutant, and transferred to the Staff; in the same month was detailed as Acting Signal Officer; in March, 1865, was commissioned a Captain. by brevet, "for meritorious services;" was honorably mustered out of the service in June, 1865; returned to his home at Salem, Ohio, and attended school there a short time; then attended the Wesleyan University, at Delaware, in

Ohio, for two years; from there went to Cornell University, from which institution he graduated, in the classical course, in July, 1869; studied law while attending the University and in the law office of Judge James Sloaue, in Cincinnati; was admitted to

Ford, George; was born at South Bend, St. Jo seph County, Indiana, January 11, 1846; received a common school education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in practice at South Bend; was Prosecuting Attorney at South Bend from 1875 until 1885, when he resigned, having been elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-ninth Con gress.

Ford, James served two years in the Pennsyl vania Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1833; his life was honorably interwoven with the history of his State. Died at Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, August, 1859, aged seventy-six years. ;

Ford, Nicholas was born

in Ireland; emigrated United States in 1848; engaged in mercantile ;

to the

pursuits at St. Joseph, Missouri; was elected a Rep resentative from Missouri to the Forty-sixth and

Forty-seventh Congresses.

was born in Pomfret, Connec October 15, 1801 graduated at Yale College in 1825; studied law, and was admitted to practice in Burlington served several terms in the State Legis lature, and was, at different times, Speaker in each branch; was Governor of Ohio in 1848 and 1850 and Major General of Militia. Died at Burton. Ohio,

Ford, Seabury

;

ticut,

;

;

May

8,

1855.

Thomas

in 1804, while he was yet a emigrated to Illinois; studied and practiced law; was a Judge of the Superior Court of the State; was the author of a History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847; was Governor of the State from 1842 to 1846. Died in Peoria, January, 1851.

Ford,

;

child, his parents

Ford, Thomas H.; was elected Government Printer for the House of Representatives in 1860. Ford, "William D.; was born in Providence, Rhode Island; served in the New York Assembly in 1816 and 1817; was a Representative in Congress from, that State from 1819 to 1821.

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Forester, John B.; was born in Tennessee; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1837, and was a member of the Committee on Claims. Died August 31, 1845.

Forker, Samuel C.; was born in Mount Holly, a common .Jersey, March 16, 1821; received school education; was Cashier of the Bordentown Banking Company; was elected to the Forty-second

which he never recovered; was a Delegate from 1786 to 1787; was Representative in Congress from Maryland during the years 1793 and 1794, and resigned. Died at his effects of

to the Continental Congress

country seat near Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1805.

New

Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Fornance, Joseph was born in Pennsylvania, was a Representative in Congress from that State ;

from 1839 to 1841.

Forney, Daniel M.; was born in Lincoln Coiinty, North Carolina, May, 1784; during the last war with England served as Major in the State Line; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1815 to 1818, and in 1820 was appointed Com missioner to treat with the Creek Indians; from 1823 to 182(i was a member of the State Legislature; in 1834 removed to Lowndes County, Alabama, where lie

died in October, 1847.

Forney, John W.; was born in Lancaster, Penn sylvania, September 30, 1817; acquired the art of printing, and took charge of the Lancaster InicUito Phila ge.nccr as early as 1840; in 1845 removed delphia, where he edited the Pennsylvanian until 1851; from that year until 1855 was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and at the same time conducted the Union newspaper: in 1857 returned to Philadelphia and established the Press: was again made Clerk of the House of Representatives from 1859 to 1861 soon afterwards established the Chronicle in Washington City, and at the same time continued to edit the Press in Philadelphia; was Secretary of the United States Senate from 1861 until 1868; subsequently spent several years in Europe, and did ranch by his pen to promote the success of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. ;

Forney, Peter; was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, April, 1756; was a patriot and soldier

of the Revolution; served as a member of the State Legislature for several years; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1813 to 1815; served as an Elector on the Presidential tickets of Died Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson.

February

1,

1834.

Forney, "William H.; was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 9, 1823; removed to Ala bama, with his parents, in 1835; graduated at the University of Alabama in 1844; served as a Lieu tenant of Volunteers in the Avar with Mexico; studied law anrt practiced the profession for twenty-five years; in 1859 was elected to the State Legislature; served in the Confederate Army during the Rebellion, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General; in 1865 was elected a State Senator; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty- fourth Congress; was reelected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Forrest, Thomas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1822 to 1823, for the unexpired term of William Milner. Died March 20, 1825. He was elected to Congress by a majority of one. ;

Forrest, Uriah was a General in the Revolu tionary War; lost a leg at the battle of Brandywine; was wounded at the battle of Germantown, from the ;

Forsyth, John

was born

;

in Fredericksburg,

Virginia, October 2, 1780; graduated at Princeton College in 1799; removed, with his father, to Charles ton, South Carolina, and afterwards to Augusta, Georgia; studied law, and from 1802 to 1808 distin guished himself at the Georgia bar; in 1808 was At torney-General of the State; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1813 to 1818, and from 1823 to 1827; a Senator in Congress during the years 1818 and 1819, and from 1829 to 1837, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce; Governor of Georgia in 1827, 1828, and 1829; Minister to Spain from 1819 to 1822; was Secretary of State under Pres ident Jackson, in which position he was continued by President Van Buren until the end of his administra tion; his superior abilities were universally acknowl edged, and the dignity and elegance of his manners added much to his popularity. Died in Washington City, of bilious fever, October 21, 1841.

Forsythe, Albert P.; was born at New Rich mond, Ohio, May 24, 1830; was educated in the com mon schools, and at Asbury University; was raised a farmer and continued in that occupation: was a First Lieutenant in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion; was elected Master of the Illinois State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry in 1875, and again in 1878; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the

Forty -sixth Congress.

*

Fort, George F.; was Governor of from 1851 to 1854.

New

Jersey

Fort, Greenberry L.; was born in Ohio, Octo ber 17, 1825; removed to Illinois in 1834; was reared on a farm; was admitted to the bar; elected Sheriff, Clerk of Circuit Court, and County Judge; volun teered in the army in 1861, and was mustered out of service in 1866; in 1866 was elected to the State Sen ate; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Territories; re-elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses. Died January 14, 1883.

Fort, Tomlinson was a Representative in Con gress from Georgia from 1827 to 1829; was at one time a member of the Legislature of Georgia; prac ticed the profession of medicine; was President of the Central Bank of Georgia from 1832 until his ;

death,

two

which occurred

May

11,

1859, aged seventy-

years.

Forward, Chauncey; was born at Old Granby, Connecticut, and was the younger brother of Walter Forward; about the year 1800 removed to Ohio with his father; was educated at Jefferson College; studied law, and came to the bar in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl vania; in 1817 settled in Somerset, in that State; was frequently elected to the State Legislature, serving in both Houses; in 1825 Avas elected a Representative in Congress for an unexpired term, and was twice reelected, serving until 1831; never quitted politics, nor ceased to practice his profession, but late in life took a special interest in matters connected Avith the Baptist Church, and became a very popular and Died at Somerset, October, successful preacher. 1839.

Forward, "Walter was born in Connecticut in 1786, where he received a liberal education; removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and studied ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

served with the State troops, and on the staff of Gov ernor Carney, in protecting the frontier against bush whackers and the invasion of the Confederate forces; was a State Senator in 1863 and 1864 in 1867 was elected Mayor of Atehison; in 1874 was appointed, by President Grant, United States District Judge for the District of Kansas; in 1879 took up his resi dence in Topeka, Kansas.

law; in 1805 became editor of the paper called the Tree of Liberty; from 1806 to 1822 was engaged in the practice of law, and, as a pleader, had few equals; in 1822 was elected to Congress from Pennsylvania as a Representative, where he continued till March, 1825; in 1837 bore a prominent part in the Pennsyl vania Convention to reform the State Constitution; in March, 1841, President Harrison appointed him First Comptroller of the Treasury, which post he held until appointed, by President Tyler, Secretary of the Treasury; on retiring from President Tyler s Cabinet, resumed and continued his practice at the bar, until appointed, by President Taylor, Charge d Affaires to Denmark, where he spent several years, resigning his position to return home in order to ac cept the office of President Judge of the District Court of Allegheny County, to which he had been

;

Foster, Charles; was born in Seneca County, Ohio, April 12, 1828; received a common school and academic education engaged in mercantile pursuits and in banking; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-second, Forty -third, Forty-Fourth, and Forty -fifth Congresses; was elected Governor of Ohio in 1879 and re-elected in 1881. ;

While in Court, em called by popular election. ployed in his judicial duties, he was suddenly taken and died in forty-eight hours, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1852.

Fosdick, Nicoll was born in New London, Con necticut, November 9, 1785, of direct Puritan stock; in 1809 removed to Herkimer County, New York: in 1816 was a Presidential Elector; in 1818 a ber of the Legislature of New York; again in 1819, ;

mem

New York

re-election;

was a Representative from

in the Nineteenth Congress; returned to his native place in 1843; from 1849 to 1853 was Col lector of Customs for the District of New London. Died in New London, May 7, 1868.

Foster, Abiel was born in Andover, Massachu August 8, 1735 graduated at Harvard Univers ity in 1756; studied theology, and was pastor for eighteen years of the Congregational Church in Can terbury, New Hampshire; in 1780 was a Representa tive to the General Court; was a Delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1785; was present at Washington s resignation of the command of the army at Annapolis; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1789 to 1791 was again a Representative in the Leg islature and a Delegate to revise the State Constitu tion was a member of the State Senate from 1793 to 1794, and in both years was President of that body; was again elected to Congress from 1795 to 1803. Died at Canterbury, February 6, 1806. ;

setts,

;

;

;

Foster, A. Lawrence was born in New York was a Representative in Congress from that State ;

;

from 1841 to 1843.

Foster, Cassius G.; was born at Webster, Mon New York, January 22, 1837; his father, who was a farmer in good circumstances, died in 1840; four years later the widow re-married, and the step-father was not an exception to the rule, so it was a great relief to young Foster when, his mother

roe County,

having died, he was, at the age of ten years, sent to live with his guardian, a farmer residing in Michi gan his distaste for farm duties became apparent at an early age, and developed with his advance toward manhood; he attended the High School at Adrian, Michigan, for several terms, and then taught a dis trict school for two terms to replenish his exhausted exchequer; in 1856, at the age of nineteen, he began the study of law, but, his health failing, he soon after returned to his birthplace, in Monroe County, New York in 1857 resumed his law studies at Roch ester and Le Roy, New York; in February, 1859, was admitted to the bar of the New York Supreme Court; in June of that year he removed to Kansas, and settled at Atehison, where he soon established himself in a good practice; during the Civil War he ;

;

12

in Brookfield, Mas 1757; graduated at Brown University in 1774 practiced law at Brookfield was County Sheriff and Judge and afterwards Chief Jus tice of Common Pleas; was for some years a menibei of the House and Senate of Massachusetts; was a member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts; on the death of his father was chosen to supply his place in the Convention for framing the State Consti tution in 1779; a Representative in Congress from 1793 to 1799, and United States Senator from 1800 to Died in Brookfield, April 1803, when he resigned. 29, 1823.

Foster,

Dwight

sachusetts,

December

was born

;

7,

;

;

ill,

and declined a

177

Foster, Ephraim H.; entered public life when quite young; in 1829 was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Tennessee; in 1837 was elected to the United States Senate, but in 1839 resigned his seat because he could not obey the instructions of the State Legislature; in 1843 was re-elected for two years; on his return from Washington was a candidate for Governor, but failed of an election. Died at Nash ville, September 4, 1854. Foster, Henry A.; was born in New York; served in the Senate of that State from 1831 to 1834, and from 1841 to 1844; was a Representative in Con gress from New York from 1837 to 1839; was a Sen ator in Congress during the years 1844 and 1845, by appointment of the Governor; was subsequently a J udge of the Supreme Court of New York.

Foster, Henry Donnel was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1812; received a liberal education; studied law; was elected to the Twentyeighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses; was elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1846 and 1847; was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Penn sylvania in 1860; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims. ;

Foster, Jedediah

was born in Andover, Mas graduated at Harvard University in 1744; was a lawyer by profession was a member of the Worcester Convention of 1774, and ;

sachusetts, October 10, 1726;

;

soon

the

after chosen to

provincial

Congress,

of

which he was an active and useful member; about the same time was elected a Councilor; in 1776 was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court; was for many years a Judge of Probate, and also of the Court of Common Pleas; was also a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of Massa Died October 17, 1779. chusetts.

Foster, John "W. was born in Pike County, In diana, March 2, 1836; graduated at the Indiana State University in 1855; studied law at the Law School of Harvard University; was admitted to the ;

bar and commenced practice at Evansville, Indiana; served in the Union Army throughout the War of the

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178

Rebellion, rising to the rank of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General at the close of the war became the editor of the Daily Journal, at Evansville, Indiana; in 1869 was appointed Postmaster at Evansville; was Chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1872; in 1873 was appointed United States Minister to Mexico; in 1880 was transferred to St. Petersburg, as Minister to Russia; resigned in 1881 and resumed the practice of law, locating at Washington, District of Columbia; in February, 1883, was appointed United States Minister to Spain. ;

La Fayette

S.; was born in Franklin, County, Connecticut, November 22, 1806; graduated at Brown University in 1828; stud ied law, and came to the bar in 1831; was a member of the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1839 and 1840, in 1846, 1847, and 1848, and 1854; was Speaker

Foster,

New London

of the House in 1847, 1848, and 1854; Mayor of the City of Norwich for two years, in 1850 and 1851 in 1850 received the degree of LL.D. from Brown Uni versity; was chosen a Senator in Congress for the term commencing in 1855 and ending in 1861 serv ing as a member of the Committees on Public Lands, Pensions, and the Judiciary; in 1860 was re-elected for the term ending in 1867, and during the Thirtyseventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses was Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, and a member of the Committees on Revolutionary Claims, Private Land Claims, Indian Affairs, and Foreign Relations; at the extra session of the Senate, in 1865, was chosen President pro tern, of that body, the death of Abra ham Lincoln and the elevation of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency making him Acting Vice-President of the United States; during the subsequent recess, as a member of the Special Committee of the Senate, visited some of the Indian tribes west of the Missis sippi; in 1869 was elected Professor of Law in Yale College, and in 1870 to a seat on the Bench of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. ;

;

Foster, Nathaniel G.; was born at The Fork," in Greene County, Georgia, August 25, 1809; gradu ated at Franklin College in 1820; read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1831, and settled in Madison, Georgia, where he obtained a high reputation as an advocate and jury lawyer; served three years as So licitor-General of the Ocmulgee Circuit, five years in the State Senate, and one year in the House; was a Representative in the Thirty -fourth Congress. "

Foster, Stephen C.; was born in Machias, Maine, December 24, 1799; commenced life as a blacksmith; later in life became a lumber-merchant and ship-builder; was in the Maine Legislature from 1834 to 1837, again in 1840, when he was President of the Senate, and again in 1847: was elected to Con gress from Maine in 1856, serving through the Thirtyfifth Congress as a member of the Committee on Man ufactures; became President of the Washington Agri cultural Society of his native State; was re-elected to the Thirty -sixth Congress; was a member of the Peace Congress of 1861.

Foster, Theodore

was born in Massachusetts Brown University in 1770; was Congress from Rhode Island from 1790 ;

in 1752; graduated at

a Senator to 1803.

V

in

Died in 1828, aged seventy-six years.

Foster, Thomas F.; was born in Greensborough, Georgia, November 23, 1790; graduated at Franklin College in 1812; read law at home, and at Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1816; was for many years a member of the Georgia Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1829 to 1835, and again from 1841 to Died in 1847. J843.

Foster,

New

"Wilder

D. was born ;

in

Orange County,

1819; received a common school education; went to Michigan in 1837 as an ap prentice to the tinner s trade; carried on genera) hardware business in Grand Rapids; was City Treas urer and Alderman of that city in 1854 was elected Mayor; was elected State Senator for 1855 and 1856; again elected Mayor in 1865 and 1866; was elected to the Forty-second Congress to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures.

York, January

8,

;

B.; was born in Kaskaskia, Illi 1818; was chiefly self-educated was first a clerk and then a civil engineer; in 1841 established a paper called the Belleville Advocate, which he printed and edited for four years; then studied law, and after being admitted to practice, in 1846 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for his dis trict, and was re-elected in 1851 was elected a ber of the Illinois Legislature; in 1856 was again elected Prosecuting Attorney; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-sixth

Fouke, Philip

nois,

January

23,

;

mem

;

Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Ex penditures; re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but served as Colonel of Volunteers in 1861, resign ing his commission in 1862.

a soldier in the War of the attained the rank of Captain; was a member of Congress from Kentucky from 1797 to 1807. Died at Lexington, Kentucky, August 22,

Fowler, John; was

Revolution;

1840, aged eighty -five years.

Fowler, Joseph Smith

;

was born in Steuben-

Ohio, August 31, 1822; graduated at Franklin College in 1843, in which institution he was a Pro fessor of Mathematics for four years; commenced the study of law in Kentucky, but removing to Tennes see, was admitted to the bar in that State; when the Rebellion broke out, he warmly espoused the Union cause; in September, 1861, left the State under the forty days proclamation of Jefferson Davis, and re sided in Springfield, Illinois, until April, 1862; on his return was Comptroller of Tennessee under Gov ernor Johnson, and took a leading part in organizing the Union party and re-organizing the State Govern ment; in 1865 was elected a Senator in Congress from ville,

Tennessee for six years, but was not admitted to his seat until July, 1866; was a Delegate to the Phila delphia

"Loyalists

Convention"

of 1866; and the

committees upon which he was placed in the Senate were those on Manufactures, Territories, Foreign Affairs, Pensions, and as Chairman of that on En grossed Bills.

Fowler, Orin; was born

at Lebanon, Connecti in

29, 1791; graduated at Yale College 1815; stiidied theology under Dr. Dwight; made

cut,

July

an

extensive missionary tour in the Valley of the Mis sissippi, and in 1819 settled as pastor in Plainfield, Connecticut; was twenty years a pastor at Fall River, which he represented in both branches of the Legislature for several years; was a Representative in Congress from 1849 to the time of his death, which occurred in Washington, September 3, 1852; replied to Mr. Webster s speech of March 7, 1850, and was an opponent of intemperance and slavery; published "A Treatise on Baptism," in 1835, and] "Historical Sketch of Fall River," in 1841.

Fowler, Samuel was born in New Jersey in 1779; was a distinguished member of the medical profession; was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey, from 1833 to 1837. Died in Sussex County, New Jersey, February 21, 1844. ;

BIO GRAPHICAL ANNALS. Edward

was born in Maine, and was a Fox, resident of Portland; in 1866 was appointed United Died sud States Judge lor the District of Maine. denly,

December

;

14, 1881.

Fox, Gustavus Vasa was born in Saugus, Massachusetts, June 13, 1821; entered the Navy as Midshipman in 1838, and remained in the service for nineteen years: in 1856 went into the manufacturing business at Lawrence; when hostilities commenced, in 1861, was assigned the duty, by President Lincoin, of supplying Fort Sumter with provisions; soon afterwards entered the Navy Department as Assist ant Secretary, where he remained until 1866, when, he resigned: in an official capacity was sent to Rus sia to deliver in person the Resolutions of Congress passed upon the escape of the Emperor from, assas sination; on his return to the United States resumed his old business of Manufacturing in Massachusetts. ;

I

5

;

Fox, John

in the city of New York in school education; was bred a, mechanic; was elected an Alderman in the City Councils; also held the office of Supervisor; in 1866 was elected a Representative from New York to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Post Offices and Post Roads, and Invalid Pensions; re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the ;

1835; received a

was born

common

Committee on Mileage and Enrolled

Bills.

Franchot, Richard was born in Morris, Otsego County, New York, in 1816; received an Eng lish education; served as a civil engineer for seven years; subsequently turned his attention to farming; was President of the Albany and Susquehanna Rail road Company; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on the District of Columbia and the Pacific Railroad. Died at Schenectady, Novem ber 23, 1875. ;

Brown

was born in Philadel Francis, John phia, May 31, 1794; graduated at Brown University in 1808; losing his father in infancy, was reared by his maternal grandfather, Nicholas Brown, one of the founders of

;

Brown University; acquired a mer

cantile education at Providence, and attended the Litchfield Law School; in 1821 settled at Spring Green as an agriculturist; was a member of the State Legislature from 1821 to 1829; State Senator in 1831; Governor from 1833 to 1838; State Senator in 1842; United States Senator in 1*844 and 1845; State Sen ator again from 1849 to 1856; Trustee in Brown Uni versity from 1828 to 1857; Chancellor from 1841 to 1854. Died at Warwick, Rhode Island, August 9, ,1864.

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Francis, William H.; was born at South Norwalk, Connecticut, August 29, 1839; was educated at the village school in South Norwalk, at Schenck s Military Academy, at Danbury, Connecticut, and at Oberlin College, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in June, 1865, and was in the active practice of law in Newark, New Jersey, until August, 1882; from 1861 until 1882 took a prominent part in New Jersey politics and was a member, and for some time chairman, of the Young Men s Central Club and the Republican Central Committee of Newark, and of the

Essex County, New Jersey, Republican Committee; was Corporation (City) Counsel of Newark, New Jersey, from 1871 to 1875; represented Essex County in the New Jersey Senate in 1879, 1880, and 1881; in May, 1881, as one of the Delegates from New Jersey, attended the unveiling of a monument to commemorate the battle of the Cow Pens, at Spartansburg, South Carolina, (on the one hundredth an niversary of the battle) and on that occasion delivered the oration in behalf of the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware: in 1882 was appointed Receiver of the United States Land Office at Bismarck, Dakota Territory; July 5, 1884, was appointed, by President Arthur, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory.

Frank, Augustus was born in Warsaw, Wy oming County, New York, July 17, 1826; early be came engaged in mercantile pursuits, to which he was devoted for many years; in 1852 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on ;

Patents; re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on the Library and on Mileage; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Con gress, when he was made Chairman of the Committee on the Library, serving also on the Committee on Mileage, and the Select Committee on the Bank rupt Law; was also a Delegate to the State Constitu tional Convention of 1867.

Franklin, Benjamin uary

;

was born

in Boston,

17, 1706; after various vicissitudes,

Jan

when seven and became

went to Philadelphia, a printer; with the help of Governor Sir William Keith, visited England, where he remained nearly two years; on his return became a clerk; then en gaged in business on his own account; in 1732 com menced the publication of "Poor Richard s Alma which he continued until 1737; after that es nac," tablished a newspaper; held the various offices of State Printer, Clerk of the General Assembly, and Postmaster of Philadelphia; was the father and pa tron of the Philosophical Society, and of the Penn sylvania University and Hospital; in 1741 published the General Magazine; in 1744 was elected to the Provincial Assembly, holding the office ten years in 1758 concluded a treaty with the Indians at Carlisle; in the following year was sent to Albany, New York, to meet a Congress of Commissioners to arrange means of defense against the French and Indians; subse quently became Postmaster-General of America; was sent to England as an advocate and agent for the province on two occasions, remaining there eleven years; on the breaking out of the Revolution returned to America, and took an active and important part in public affairs; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; a Delegate to the Continental Con gress in 1775 and 1776; in 1778 was sent to France in a diplomatic capacity, where he remained until 1785; was next elected Governor of Pennsylvania, and was a member of the Convention which formed the Fed eral Constitution, and signed that instrument; the qualities of his mind were remarkably versatile, but teen years of age

;

John M.; was born County, New York, March

Francis,

at Prattsburgh,

Steuben 6, 1823; received a common school and academic education; learned the printer s trade; was editor of the Wayne Sentinel, at Palmyra, New York, from 1843 to 1845; studied law; was, for a short time, editor of the Rochester York) Daily Advertiser; editor of the Troy

(New

(New York) Daily Budget from 1846 to 1848; in 1851 established the Daily Times at Troy, New York, and continued the controlling owner and editor of that journal after his withdrawal from its active manage ment; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; was appointed United States Minister to Greece in 1871; resigned in 1873; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1880; was appointed United States Minister to Portu gal in 1882.

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he stood pre-eminent as a philosopher and benefactor of mankind; he made important discoveries in elec tricity wrote and published much on a variety of

Freedley, John was born in Norristown, Montr gomery County, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1793; com menced life as a brickmaker; studied law, and was

themes, and his

admitted to the bar in 1820; entered extensively into various kinds of business, especially that of quarry ing marble, and was successful; was a Representa tive in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1851. Died December 8, 1851.

;

"Writings,

"Life,

and Correspond

issued in ten volumes, are an important feature in all the best libraries of the country. Died April 17, 1790. ence,"

Franklin, B. J.; was born in Mason County, Kentucky; was educated at Bethany College, West Virginia; subsequently taught school; studied law, and on coming to the bar settled at Leavenworth, Kansas; in 1860 removed to Missouri; served in the Confederate Army as a Captain; in 1871 was elected Circuit Attorney for the Twenty -fourth Circuit of the State; in 1874 was elected a Eepresentative from Missouri to the Forty -fourth Congress; was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Franklin, Jesse

;

was born in Surry County,

North Carolina, in 1758; served with credit in the Revolutionary War, as a Major; was a member of the House of Delegates of that State in 1794; represented that State in Congress from 1795 to 1797, and then returned to the Legislature; from 1799 to 1805, and from 1807 to 1813, was United States Senator, offici ating in the Eighth Congress as President pro tern, of the Senate; having been superseded by F. Locke, in 1816, was appointed, by President Madison a Com missioner to treat with the Chickasaws; in 1820 was elected Governor of North Carolina. Died in Surry County, in 1823, aged sixty-five years.

Franklin, John B.; was born in Worcester County, Maryland, May 6, 1820; graduated at Jef ferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1836; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841 served in the ;

State Legislature of Maryland in 1843, and also in 1849, when he was elected Speaker; in 1851 was chosen President of the Board of Public Works of the State; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1853 to 1855.

Franklin, Meshack was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1807 to 1815; served in the House of Commons of that State in 1800; in the State Senate in 1828 and 1829; was a member of the Executive Council of North Carolina, and a Delegate to the Convention for revising the State Constitution. Died in Surry County, Decem ber 18, 1839.

;

was born in Philadel Freeman, phia, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1832; graduated at the high school of his native city in 1850, having been advanced six months for proficiency; began the study of law, but relinquished it to engage in mer cantile pursuits entered the navy as Assistant Pay master in 1863, and was attached to the blockading squadrons in the North Atlantic and the Gulf of Mex ico was on board of the Iron Age at the time of her destruction off the coast of North Carolina; was on special duty during the attacks on Newberne, Little Washington, and Plymouth in 1864; in the latter year resigned on account of ill health; resumed the study of law, came to the bar, and practiced in Phila delphia; was a Commissioner from that city to the Austrian Exposition in 1873; was elected a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Con gress; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Chapman;

;

;

Freeman, Constant; was

born in Massachu 1816 was appointed Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, at that time called "Accountant of the in 1817 received the title of Auditor, and Navy; served as such until 1824. setts; in "

Freeman, James C.; was born in Jones County, Georgia, April 1, 1820; received a common school education; was a planter; was a Union man before, during, and since the war; never held any office until elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Land Claims.

Freeman, John removed

was born in New Jersey; was elected a Representative

D.;

to Mississippi;

in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853.

;

Franklin, "Walter S.; was born in Pennsylva nia; in 1833 was elected Clerk of the National House of Representatives, in which office he remained until 1838.

Fraser, Philip; was born in Pennsylvania; the profession of the law and settled at Jacksonville, Florida; in 1862 was appointed United States Judge for the Northern District of Florida. adopted

William C.; was a citizen of Lancas Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1776; was appointed an Associate Justice of the Territory of Wisconsin. Died at Milwaukee, October 18, 1838. Frazier,

ter,

Frederick, Benjamin Todd; was born at Fredericktown, Columbiana County, Ohio, October 1835; received a good education; settled at Marshalltown, Iowa, and engaged in the business of manufacturing; served three terms as a member of the City Council and three terms as a member of the School Board of Marshalltown; in 1882 was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Con gress, but only secured his seat on March 3, 1885, after a contest; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth .">,

Congress.

Freeman, Jonathan; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1797 to 1801 ; from 1789 to 1797 was a State Councilor; from 1793 to 1808 was one of the Overseers of Dartmouth Col lege.

Died in 1808, aged sixty-three

Freeman, Nathaniel;

years.

born at Dennis, graduated at Harvard

-was

Massachusetts, in April, 1741 University; studied medicine; was a patriot in the Revolutionary War; performed various services in the Legislature and as a Brigadier-General of Militia; was also a Judge of Probate for forty-seven years, and a Judge of the Common Pleas for thirty years; was twice married and had twenty children; was a member of Congress from Massachusetts from 1795 to ;

1799.

Died September

27, 1820.

Freeman, Samuel was

born in Portland, Prov ince of Massachusetts, June 15, 1743; was active and zealous in the Revolutionary struggles; in 1774 was Secretary of the Cumberland County Convention; member of the Provincial Congress in 1775; of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1776 and 1778; in 1775, on the re-organization of the Courts, ;

was appointed Clerk, and held that office forty-five years; was Register of Probate until commissioned Judge in 1804, continuing until 1820; Postmaster of Portland from 1776 to 1805; an efficient friend of Bowdoin College; published "Town Officer," Ameri can Clerks Magazine, The Massachusetts Justice," 1

"

Directory," 1803; and edited the Journal of Rev. Thomas Smith in 1821. Died ii Portland. September 2, 1831.

8vo,

1803;

"Probate

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Frelinghuysen, Frederick

;

was born

in

New

Jersey, April 13, 1753; graduated at Princeton Col lege in 1770; when twenty-two years of age was sent 1o the Continental Congress; as Captain of a Volunteer Corps of Artillery was at the battles of Trenttm and Monmouth, and it is said that it was he who killed Rhalle, the Hessian commander at Tren ton was a Senator in Congress from 1793 to 1796, when he resigned on account of domestic bereave ments; he stood among the first at the bar of New ;

and held various State and County Died April 13, 1804. Jersey,

Frelinghuysen, Frederick

T.;

offices.

was born at

Millstown, Somerset County, New Jersey, August 4 1817; the nephew and adopted son of Theodore Frelinghuysen; graduated at Rutgers College in 1836; studied law, and came to the bar in 1839 was ap pointed Attorney-General of New Jersey in 1861, and re-appointed in 1866; was subsequently appointed a Senator in Congress from New Jersey for the unexpired term of William Wright, deceased, serving on the Committees on the Judiciary and Pensions; in January, 1867, his appointment as Senator was con firmed by the election of the Legislature his term terminated in 1869; was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1875, serving on the Committees on Foreign Relations and the Judiciary, and as Chair man of the Agricultural Committee; in 1870 was ap pointed Minister to England, but declined; was reelected to the Senate for the unexpired term ending in 1877; in 1881 was appointed Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Arthur. Died May 20, 1885. ;

;

;

Frelinghuysen, Theodore was born in Millstown. Somerset County, New Jersey, March 28, 1787, and was the son of Frederick Frelinghuysen, of the Continental Congress; graduated at Princeton Col lege, Nassau Hall, in 1804; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1808; was Attorney-General of New Jersey from 1818 to 1829; a Presidential Elector in 1829; a Senator in Congress from New Jer sey, from 1829 to 1835; was Chancellor of the Uni versity of New York from 1839 to 1850, when he re signed; while in that position was the candidate of the Whig party, for V ice-President upon the ticket with Henry Clay; in 1850 was elected President of Rutgers College, where he officiated until his death, devoting much of his time and means to the benevo ;

and educational interests of his native State, of York, and of tlie Union; resided for many years at Newark. New Jersey, and was Mayor of that city in 1837 and 18:58; also served as President of the American Temperance Union, of the American Tract Society, the Hoard of Foreign Missions, and of the American Bible Society, during his residence in New York. In the church, lie was for many years recog nized as a great leader, in all the moral movements of the country, and was universally beloved. He had a rare command of thought and language, and an was considered eloquent speaker. Died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 12, 1862. lent

New

Fremont, John Charles was born in Savan nah, Georgia, January 21, 1813; his father was an emigrant from France; received a good education, though left an orphan at four years of age; at the age of seventeen graduated at Charleston College; from teaching mathematics turned his attention to civil engineering, and was recommended to the Govern ment for employment in the Mississippi Survey; was afterwards employed at Washington in con structing maps of that region; having received the commission of a Lieutenant of Engineers, proposed to the Secretary of War to penetrate the Rocky ;

Mountains; his plan was approved, and in 1842,

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with a few men, he explored the South Pass; im patient of quiet, he planned a new expedition to the Territory of Oregon; approached the Rocky Moun tains by a new line, scaled .the summits south of the South Pass, deflected to the Great Salt Lake, and connected his survey with that of Wilkes s Ex pic ring Expedition; also in another expedition revealed the grand features of Alta California, its great basin, the Sierra Nevada, the valleys of the San Joaquin and Sacramento, and established the geography of the western portion of the continent; in August, 1844, was planning a third expedition, while writing the history of the second, and before its publication, in 1845, was again on his way to the Pacific, collecting his mountain comrades, to examine in detail the Asiatic slope of the continent, which resulted in giv ing a new volume of science to the world, and Cali fornia to the United States; after the conquest of California, in which he bore a part, was the victim of a quarrel between two American commanders, and was stripped of his commission by court-martial the President re-instated him, but he declined returning; he determined to retrieve his honor; one line more would complete his survey the route for a great road from the Mississippi to San Francisco again appeared in the Far West; refitted his expedition, and started again; pierced the country of the Apaches; met, awed, or defeated savage tribes, and in a hundred days from Santa Fe stood on the banks of the Sacramento the people of California reversed the judgment of the court-martial, and he was made the first Senator of the Golden State, serving from 1849 to 1851 was sub sequently, in 1856, a candidate for President, in opposition to Mr. Buchanan, but was defeated; in 1861, entered the Union Army as a Major-General; by the "Cleveland Convention" of 1864 was again nomin ated for the office of President of the United States, but was again defeated. ;

;

;

;

New

French, A. C.; Avas born in Hampshire; after graduating at Harvard University, removed to Illinois and entered into the public service of that State in 1835 was a lawyer by profession was for sev ;

;

eral years the President of the Board of Trustees of McEndree College, and Professor of Law in that insti tution; was Governor of Illinois from 1846 to 1853.

Died in Lebanon,

Illinois,

September

4,

1864.

French, Benjamin B.; was born in New Hamp shire; removed to Washington City, and became inter ested in politics; in 1845 was elected Clerk of the House of Representatives, and held the position until 1847; was greatly distinguished as a member of the Masonic Fraternity; in 1853 was appointed Commis sioner of Public Buildings in Washington, serving in that capacity many years. Died in Washington. Gr.; was an early emigrant to Cali was appointed from that State, in 1875, Chief

French, C. E. fornia;

Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Utah.

French, Charles Grafton Wilberton

;

was

born at Berkeley, Bristol

County, Massachusetts, August 22^1820; received a classical education, grad uating from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1842; taught school; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar at New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1848, State;

and commenced practice at Boston, in that removed to California in 1851, and practiced

time in Placer County, subsequently settling in Sacramento County, in the practice of his profession; for a

was, for many years, Trustee of the State Library; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1872; in 1875 was appointed Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of Arizona, and was re-appointed in 1880.

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French, Ezra

B.;

was born

New

in

Hampshire;

received a common school education settled in Maine became Secretary of State of Maine; was a Represent ative from Maine to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serv ing as a member of the Committee on Manufactures was also a member of the Peace Congress of 1861; was appointed, by President Lincoln, Second Auditor of the United States Treasury; served until his death, April 24, 1880. ;

;

;

French, Henry Flagg

was born at Chester, Hampshire, August 14, 1813; received an aca demic education studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1834; engaged in the practice of law at Chester; was County Solicitor from 1838 to 1848; in 1841 removed to Portsmouth, and in 1842 to Exeter, New Hampshire; was Bank Commissioner from 1848 to 1852; was Justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1855 to 1859; in the latter year, opened a law office in Boston, Massachusetts; removed his family to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1860; was appointed Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County in 1862, and held the office until 1865, when he was elected the first President of the Massachusetts Agri cultural College removed to Amherst, where the col lege was established in September, 1865; being una ble to organize the college in accordance with his ideas of what such an institution should be, he re >

;

New

Frick, Henry; was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1795; was educated as a printer; became an editor of a newspaper at Milton; served for three sessions in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania at the time of his death, which occurred at Washington City,

March

1844.

George; was born

Fries,

moved

1,

in Pennsylvania; re

was elected a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term ending in 1849. Died November 13, to Ohio;

1866.

;

;

signed, in October, 1866, and resinned the practice of law in Boston; in 1867 purchased a farm at Concord, Massachusetts, where he took up his residence, prac ticing his profession in Boston; in 1876 was appointed Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury, at Washington, and continued in that office under suc cessive administrations; received the degree of M. A. from Dartmouth College in 1852, and, in 1861, was elected a member of the Phi-Beta-Kappa Society of that institution has always taken a deep interest in Agriculture; was President of the Rockiugham Agri cultural Society from 1852 to 1859; was, for many years, a regular contributor to several agricultural, and horticultural papers and magazines; in 1857 pub lished a treatise on "Farm Drainage." ;

French, John R.; was born Hampshire,

May

28,

1819;

in

Gilmanton,

was apprenticed

New

to the

printing business; published for five years the Herald Eastern Journal, Oj Freedo n; edited for two years the in Maine; removed to Ohio in 1854, and there edited newspapers called the Telegraph, the Press, and the Cleveland Leader; was elected to the Ohio Legisla ture in 1858 and 1859; in 1861 was appointed a Gov ernment Clerk in Washington; in 1864 a Tax Com missioner for North Carolina; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on the War De

partment.

French, Richard; was a native of Kentucky; was a lawyer by profession; became a prominent Judge in that State, and the town of Freuchburg Avas named for him; was a member of the Legislature from Clark County in 1820 and 1822: a Presidential Elector for Jackson in 1829; was a Representative in Congress from 1835 to 1837; and again from 1847 to to 1849.

French, Theophilus; was a resident of Ohio; was Commissioner of Railroads in the Department of

was a Senator of the Fromentin, Eligius United States from Louisiana from 1813 to 1819; in 1821 was Judge of the Criminal Court of New Orleans, and was appointed Judge of the Western ;

District of Florida; soon resigned his office and re turned to the practice of law at New Orleans. Died of the yellow fever, October 6, 1822.

was born April 26, 1720; in Frost, George 1740 left the counting-house of his uncle, Sir Wil liam Pepperrill, at Kittery Point, Maine, and entered one of his vessels as supercargo, following the sea for about twenty years; becoming a partner with Gen eral Richards of London, sailed to and from that part; about 1760 returned and resided at New Castle for four years; then removed to Durham; was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Stafford County, from 1773 to 1791; was for many years Chief Justice; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1779, and Councilor from 1781 to 1784. Died His father was a commander in the June 21, 1796. ;

Royal Navy of England.

Frost, Joel; was born in New York; serve;! in the State Assembly in 1806 and 1808; was a R -presentative in Congress from that State from 18J3 to 1825.

was born at St. Frost, Richard G-raham Louis, Missouri, December 29, 1851; received a col legiate education; adopted the profession of the law; was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1876; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the ;

Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Frost, Rufus S.; was born in Maryborough, New Hampshire, July 18, 1826; removed to Boston in 1838; was educated in the public schools and at Newton Academy; began mercantile life as a clerk, and entered the dry goods commission business, which he followed successfully; was elected Mayor of Chelsea in 1867. and re-elected in 1868, with only five votes against him; was state Senator in 1871 and 1872; was a member of the Governor s Council in 1873 and 1875; was for many years a Director of the North National Bank of Boston, and a Trustee of the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank; built a fire-proof building in his native town, placed in it a library of valuable books, and presented it to the town, with the condition that it should be for the free use of the inhabitants; in 1874 was elected a

Representative

from Massachusetts to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Fry, Jacob, Jr.; was a native of Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1835 to 1839; was at one time AuditorGeneral of the State. vania,

November

Died at Norristown, Pennsyl

28, 1866.

the Interior from July, 1878, to February, 1882. P.; was born in Lewiston, Maine, 1831; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850; studied and practiced law; was a member of the State Legislature in 1861, J862, and 1807; Mayor

Frye,

in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1827 to 1831.

Frey, Joseph

;

was born

"William

September

2,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. of Lewiston in 1866 and 1867; Attorney-General of the State in 1867, 1868, and 1869; was elected to the

Forty-second and two succeeding Congresses, serving on several committees, and as Chairman of that on the Library; was a Delegate to the Republican Na tional Conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880; was reelected to the Forty -fifth, Forty-sixth, and Fortyseventh Congresses; was elected United States Sen ator from Maine, for the term ending in 1883, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of James G. Elaine; was re-elected for the full term of six years.

Fulkerson, Abram; was born in Washington County, Virginia, in May, 1834; graduated at the Virginia Military Institute; adopted the profession of the law; served in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Colonel; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1871 and 1873, and a State Senator in 1877 and 1879; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-seventh Congress. Puller,

Bartholomew

olina; in 1859

was born in North Car was appointed, from that State, Fifth ;

Auditor of the Treasury, serving as such until 1861. Fuller, Benoni Stinson was born in Warrick County, Indiana, November 13, 1825; was reared on a farm; received a common school education; after reaching his twenty-first year became a school teacher; in 1856 was elected a County Sheriff, and re-elected in 1858; in 1862 was elected to the State Senate, serving four years; in 1866 and 1868 elected to the lower house of the Legislature; in 1870 and 1872 to the Senate for a second and third term; was then elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; re-elected to the Forty-fifth ;

Congress.

Fuller, George was born in Pennsylvania, and was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845. ;

Fuller, Henry M. was born in Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1820; graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, in 1839; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842; in 1848 was elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania; was a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1851 to Died in Philadelphia, 1853, and from 1855 to 1857.

Fuller, Timothy was born at Chilmark, Mar s Vineyard, Massachusetts, July 11, 1778; grad uated at Harvard University in 1801 was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1813 to 1817; Speaker of the Lower House in 1825; again a State Representative in 1831; a State Councilor in 1831; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1825. Died at Groton, Massachusetts, October 1, 1835, aged fifty-seven years. He was the father of the distinguished authoress, Sarah Margaret ;

tha

;

Fuller.

Fuller, "William E.; was born at Ho ward, Centre County, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1846; removed to Iowa in his youth; was educated at the Upper Iowa University and the Iowa State University, graduat-, ing from the Law Department of the latter in 1870, as the valedictorian of his class; engaged in the practice of law; in 1866 and 1867 was employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian AiFairs in the Department of the Interior, at Washington City; was a Representative in Iowa Legislature in 1876 and 1877, and was one of the most active members of that body, as well as a leading member of its Judiciary Committee; was several times a member of Republican State and Congressional Committees; re sided at West Union; in 1884 was elected a Repre sentative from Iowa to the Forty-ninth Congress.

26, 1860.

Fuller, Jerome was an early emigrant to Min nesota; in 1851 was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for that Territory. ;

Fuller, Philo C.; was a member of the New York Assembly in 1830; a Representative in Con gress from New York from 1833 to 1837; the Second Postmaster-General from 1841 to 1843; Comptroller of New York in 1851. Died at Geneva, Assistant

August

16, 1855.

Fuller, Thomas J. D.; was born in Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont, March 17, 1808; was left an orphan when seven years of age spent his boyhood and youth upon a farm; on attaining man hood, studied and adopted the profession of the law; was admitted to the bar in 1833; removing to Maine was elected State Attorney for his county for three years; was elected a Representative from Maine to the ;

Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirtyfourth Congresses, serving as an active member of the Committee on Commerce; in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Second Auditor of the Treas Died near ury, which office he held until 1881. Upperville, Virginia, February 13, 1876.

William New York

K.; was a member of the As in 1829 and 1830; at one time Adjutant-General of the State Militia; from 1833 to 1837 a Representative in Congress.

Fuller, sembly of

Fullerton, David ; was born in 1771 was for several years a member of the Legislature of Penn sylvania; represented that State in Congress from 1819 to 1820, when he resigned. Died at Greencastle, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1843. ;

Fulton, Andrew S. was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849. ;

;

December

183

Fulton,

John

H.;

was a Representative in Con Died at Ab-

gress from Virginia from 1833 to 1835. ington, January 28, 1836.

Fulton, "William S.; was born in Cecil County, Maryland, June 2, 1795; graduated at Baltimore Col lege in 1813, and commenced the study of law Avith William Pinckney, but before coming of age served with great credit in a Volunteer company, which was assigned to the defence of Fort McIIenry was aid to Colonel Armistead, taking charge of his company during the illness of that commander, and returned with it to the city of Baltimore; after peace was re stored in 1815, removed to Tennessee with his father s family, and resumed the study of law with Felix Grundy; in 1818 volunteered with the Nashville Guards, and was Private Secretary to General Jack son during the Florida campaign; settled in Alabama ;

1829 was appointed, by President Jackson, Secretary of the Territory of Ar kansas, and in 1835 Governor of the same, Avhich office he held until that Territory was admitted into the Union as a State, when he was elected a Senator Died at from Arkansas, serving from 1836 to 1844. Rosewood, near Little Rock, Arkansas, August 15, in the practice of law; in

1844.

Funston,

Edward

ty, Ohio, in 1836;

H.; was born in Clark Coun was reared on a farm; his early

education was acquired in the common schools; after wards attended the academy at New Carlisle, Ohio, and, later, the Marietta (Ohio) College; in 1861 entered the Union Army as a Lieutenant in the Six-

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teenth Battery of Ohio Volunteers and served throughout the Civil War; in 1867 removed to Kan sas and settled on a farm near Tola; was a Repre

Gaillard, Theodore was one of the earliest Judges of the United States Circuit Court, having, in 1801, been appointed Chief Justice of the Fifth

sentative in the Kansas Legislature in 1873, 1874, and 1875, and in the latter year was Speaker of the House; in 1880 was elected a State Senator, and was made President of the Senate pro tempore; March 1, 1884, was elected a Representative from Kansas to the Forty-eighth Congress, to fill a vacancy, and the same year was re-elected to the Forty-ninth. Con

Circuit; in 1813 was appointed, by President Jeffer son, a District Judge of the United States for Louis iana, thereby making a transfer of position which is

gress.

Furnass, R.

"W.;

was Governor of Nebraska from

1873 to 1875.

Pyan, Robert W.; was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1835; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857; in 1858 removed to Mis souri and settled in Webster County in the practice of law served in the Union Army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of Colonel; at the close of the war was appointed Circuit Attorney of therFourteenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri; in 1866 was elected Judge of that circuit, and was re-elected in 1868, 1874, and 1880; was a member of the State Constitu tional Convention of 1875; was elected a Representa tive from Missouri to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

Gadsden, Christopher; was ton,

born in Charles South Carolina, in 1724; elected to the New

York Congress of 1765, to petition against the Stamp Act; was a Delegate from that State to the Continent al Congress from 1774 to 1776; during the siege of Charleston, in 1780, was taken prisoner and confined for some months at St. Augustine; a parole was which he declined; on his release by ex change, was elected Governor of the State, but de clined to serve on account of his age. Died August 28, 1805. His grandson, bearing the same name, was the third Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina. offered him,

Gadsden, James; was born in Charleston, May 15, 1788; graduated at Yale

South Carolina,

College in 1806; engaged in commercial pursuits till the Warof 1812, when he was Lieutenant of Engineers, and served in Canada; was confidential aid to General Jackson after the war, and accompanied him in the Seminole War in 1818, in which, he distinguished himself and was made Captain, having charge of the construction of works for the defense of the Gulf frontier; on October 19, 1820, was appointed Inspect or General of the Army, with rank of Colonel; after the reduction of the army in 1822, was relieved, and assisted Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, for several months; then became a planter in Florida; was a member of the Territorial Council, and as Commis sioner effected a treaty for the removal of the Seminoles from Northern to Southern Florida; was after ward occupied in commerce and rice culture near Charleston; was appointed Minister to Mexico in Gadsden Purchase," now 1853, and negotiated the known as Arizona, for ten million dollars. Died in "

Charleston,

December

26, 1858.

;

not

common among

Gaines, John

was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849; was subsequently appointed Governor of Oregon Territory; served as a Major in the Mexican War as Aid to General Scott, and suffered imprison ment. Died in Oregon in 1858.

Gaither,

Nathan

;

a

member of the Legislature

1823.

Gaillard,

John was ;

a Senator of the United

States from South Carolina from 1804 to 1826; voted for the War of 1812; was repeatedly called to pre side over the Senate in the absence of th Vice-Presi dent. Died at Washington, February 26, 1826.

;

was born at Columbia, Ken

tucky, in 1785 adopted the medical profession was a member of the State Legislature from Adair County in 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1818; was a Presidential Elector in 1829; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses was a member of the Constitutional Con vention of the State in 1849; was again a Presidential Elector in 1861. ;

;

;

Galbraith, John was born in Peiinsylvania; was bred a lawyer; served several terms in the Legis lature of Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841. Died at Erie, June 15, 1860, while holding the office of United States Presi dent Judge for the Sixth District of Pennsylvania. ;

Galbraith, William J.; was born atFreeport, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1837; received a classical education, graduating from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1857; studied law at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1861; served as an officer in the United States Signal Corps from 1861 to 1864; engaged in the prac tice of his profession; removed to Iowa; in 1879 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana, and was re-appointed in 1883.

Gale, George was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1789 to 1791; was one of those who voted to locate the Seat of Government on the Potomac. ;

Gale, Levin; was born in Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1827 to 1829.

Gale, William H.; was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Colorado. Gale, Joseph was born in Eckington, England, April 10, 1786; his father, bearing the same name, was a printer, a personal friend of the poet Mont gomery, and after corning to Philadelphia in 1792, became the first reporter of proceedings in the American Congress, and in 1799 founded the Raleigh Register in North Carolina; the son went with his father to Raleigh obtained a good education, acquired the art of stenography, and a knowledge of printing affairs j went to Washington City in 1807, and joined as an assistant in the Intelligencer, which was a new name for the Gazetteer, established by the father in Philadelphia, and was removed with the Government; became one of the proprietors in 1809, and from that time until his death, in conjunction with his brotherin-law, William W. Seatou, was the ruling spirit of the great journal known to the world as The National Intelligencer; also held many local offices of trust and honor, and was repeatedly chosen Mayor of Washing;

;

Gage, Joshua was

from 1805 to 1808, in 1813, 1814, 1820, and 1821; a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1819; was a State Councilor in 1822 and

the Judiciary.

P.;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. years he was, with Mr. Seaton, the publisher of the General Government. Died

ton; for official

many

at Washington, July 21, 1860.

was appointed Third Aud itor of the Treasury in 1849, and re-appointed in 1850, remaining in office until 1853.

Gallaher, John

S.;

Gallatin, Albert; was born at Geneva, in Switz erland, January 29, 1761; graduated at the Univers emi ity of his native city in 1779; the next year grated to America; commenced his career in Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, having been placed in command of a small fort at Machias; while there, contributed largely from his private funds to the sup port of the American troops; was appointed a tutor at Harvard University in 1782; removed t Pennsyl vania in 1783, where he took a prominent part in the State Convention of 1789, and served in the lower branch of the Legislature in 1790 and 1791; also spent several years in Virginia, and in that State took the oath of allegiance; in 1793 was elected a Senator in Congress from Pennsylvania, but his seat was vacated in 1794, by a resolution of the Senate, on the ground of want of citizenship for a sufficient length of time; soon after, without his knowledge, was elected a Representative in Congress from Penn in the sylvania, serving from 1795 to 1801; was latter year appointed Secretary of the Treasury under President Jefferson, and, as an executive Councilor, and subsequently diplomatist and statesman, ob tained a very high reputation; in 1813 went to St. Petersburg as one of the Envoys Extraordinary to of negotiate with Great Britain, under the mediation Russia, and, during the following year, with Adams, Bayard, Clay, and Russell, signed the Treaty of Ghent; assisted also in concluding the Commercial Convention with England at London in 1815, and re sided at Paris, as Minister of the United States, from 1816 to 1823; in 1827 obtained full indemnification from England for injuries sustained by our citizens, for violating the Treaty of Ghent; President Mad ison tendered him a seat in his Cabinet as Secretary of State; President Monroe offered him the post of Sec retary of the Navy; he was also nominated for Vicepresident: all of which honors he declined; in 1828 be came a citizen of New York, and took an active part in promoting the literary and commercial interests of the Empire City, and of the Union at large; in 1831 was a member of the "Free Trade Convention," and drew up the memorial to Congress, which embodied the views of the Democratic party; was President of the National Bank of New York, and also of the New York Historical Society and the Ethnological the New Society, and advocated the establishment of York University; just before his death, became iden tified with the Smithsonian Institution; was a fine scholar, and published many papers on the Currency and Finance, on Indian Languages, and other import ant subjects. Died at Astoria, Long Island, August 12, 1849.

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intendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico in 1868; was elected Delegate to the Forty-second Congress.

Gallinger, Jacob H.; was born at Corn wall, On March 28, 1837; being the son of a farmer and one of twelve children, his time was occupied in as lim sisting his father, and his early education was s ited; at the age of twelve he became a printer apprentice, and served four years; at the expiration of his apprenticeship he went to Ogdensburg, New York, and worked as a journeyman for one year, when he returned to Cornwall and took charge, as editor and foreman, of the paper upon which he had served as apprentice, at the same time receiving instruction from a competent teacher; in 1855 went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and began the study of medicine,

tario,

graduating in 1858, as valedictorian of his class; his vacations were passed in various capacities in the office of the Cincinnati Gazette, and in study and literary work; after practicing in Cincinnati for a year, in 1860, he removed to New Hampshire, and settled at Concord in the practice of his profession; was, for seven years, President of the New Hamp shire Homeopathic Medical Society; in 1868 received an honorary degree from the New York Homeo pathic Medical College, and has also received the

honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College; in 1872 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1873; in 1876 was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention; in 1878 was elected State Senator, and re-elected in 1879; was President of the Senate during his second term; in 1882 was elected Chairman of the State Committee, and was thrice re-elected; in 1884 was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Galloway, Joseph; was born in 1730; was a member of the Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1764, was a Delegate to the Conti nental Congress in 1774 and 1775, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; subsequently de serted the American cause and joined the British in New York; in 1779 was examined before the House of Commons, and his testimony was not creditable to the British commander in America; died in En gland in 1803. He was the author of a number of political pamphlets bearing upon the conduct and the consequences of the war, which were published in London, and attracted much attention. officiating as Speaker;

Galloway, Samuel; was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1811; removed to Ohio in 1819; graduated at the Miami University in 1833; was a Professor in that institution, as well as in Hanover College, in Indiana; studied law and came to the bar in 1842; was at one time Secretary of State; was elected a Representative in the Thirty-fourth Con gress; was a benevolent man, and noted for his elo quence as an orator.

Gallup, Albert was at one time Sheriff of Albany County, New York was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1837 to 1841 was ap pointed, by President Polk, Collector of Albany. Died at Providence, Rhode Island, November, 1851. ;

Gallegos, Jose M.; was born in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, November 14, 1815; was edu cated at the Academy of Taos; studied theology at the College of Durango, Mexico, where he graduated in 1849; was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Mexico in 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846; a member of the first Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico in 1850 and 1851 was elected Delegate to Congress in 1854; was Speaker of the Territorial House of Representatives in I860, 1861, and 1862; Quartermaster-General of the Territorial Militia, and Treasurer of the Territory for five years; was made in prisoner of war by the Texas Confederate Troops, 1862, and subjected to close confinement: was Super ;

;

;

Galusha, Jonas

;

was born in Norwich, Con

necticut, in 1753; was a Revolutionary soldier, and served at Bennington, Vermont; was a member of the Council from 1793 to 1798, and again from 1801 to 1805: was a member of the General Assembly in

Supreme Court from 1795 and from 1800 to 1806; Governor of Vermont from 1809 to 1813, and from 1815 to 1820. Died at Shaftsbury, Vermont, October 8, 1834.

1800; Judge of the State to 1797,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

18G

Gamble, Hamilton R.; was an active member of the Constitutional Convention of Missouri at the opening of the Rebellion in 1861, and was made Acting and Provisional Governor of that State, when the regular Governor, C. F. Jaekson, joined the Confederacy. Died January 31, 1874. Q-amble, James; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851

to 1855.

Gamble, Roger L.; was a member of the House of Representatives in Congress from Georgia from 1833 to 1835, and from 1841 to 1843; afterwards Judge of the Superior Court of that State. Died December

20, 1847.

Gannett, Barzilla

graduated at Harvard University in 1785; served four years in the State Legis lature; was a Representative in Congress from Mas sachusetts from 1809 to 1811. E.

;

W.; was

born in Tennessee, March a good education; removed to Ar kansas in 1850; was elected a Representative in Con-gress in 1860, but does not appear to have taken his seat; in 1873 prepared a digest of the laws of Ar kansas; soon afterwards was appointed Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition. Died at his home,

Gannt,

17, 1832; received

June

10, 1874.

Gansevoort, Leonard

New York

;

was a Delegate from and

to the Continental Congress in 1787

Gardner, Charles K.; was born

in

Morris Coun

New

Jersey, in 1787; was Ensign in the Sixth Infantry in 1808; Captain in 1812; Brigade-Major in 1812; Assistant Adjutant-General in 1813; Major of Twenty-fifth Infantry in 1813: Adjutant-General in 1814; Brevet Lieutenant -Colonel for distinguished service in 1815; Major of Third Infantry, and Adju tant-General of Division of the North; resigned in 1818; w as in the battles of Chrystlers Fields, Chippewa, and Niagara, and at the siege and defense of Fort Erie; in 1822 and 1823 edited the New York Patriot] was the author of a "Compendium of In fantry Tactics" in 1819; "Dictionary of the Army of the United States," in 1853; Second Edition, 1860; was Senior Assistant Postmaster-General in 1829; Auditor of the Treasury from 1836 to 1841; Post master at Washington City from 1845 to 1849; Sur veyor-General of Oregon from 1849 to 1853; was afterwards in the Treasury Department at Washing ton until 1867; he was the father of General Frank Gardner, who surrendered Port Hudson to the Fed eral Army in 1863. Died in Washington, November 1, 1869. ty,

Gardner, Francis was born in Leominster, Massachusetts. December 27, 1771; graduated at Har vard College; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809. Died at Rox;

bury, Massachusetts, June 25, 1835.

Gardner, Gideon; was a Representative

in

Con

gress from Massachusetts from 1809 to 1811.

1788.

Ganson, John

was born in Le Roy, Genesee York, January 1, 1818; graduated at Harvard College in 1839; adopted the profession of ithe law; was a member of the State Legislature in ,1862: was elected a Representative from New York to [the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Comniittee on Elections; was also a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention" of 1864. Died in "Buffalo, New York, .

County,

;

New

September

28, 1874.

Garber. Silas

;

was Governor of Nebraska from

1875 to 1879.

Garcelon, Alonzo; was born at Lewiston, Maine, in 1813; was educated at Bowdoin College, graduating therefrom in 1836; graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1839; in the same year com menced the practice of medicine at Lewiston, Maine; was Mayor of Lewiston for a time; served in the House of Representatives of the Maine Legislature; was Surgeon-General on the staff of the Governor of Maine during the Civil War; was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1868 and for Governor in 1878; there having been no choice for Governor at the election in 1878 no candidate having received a majority of all the votes cast under the Constitution of Maine the election of a Governor devolved upon the Legislature, which, being Democratic by a small majority, elected Mr. Garcelon to the office.

Gardner, Henry

J.;

was Governor of Massa

chusetts from the year 1855 to 1858.

Gardner, Joseph was a Delegate from Penn sylvania to the Continental Congress in 1784 and ;

1785.

Garfleld, James A.; was bom in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 19, 1831 graduated at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1856; adopted the profession of the law; in 1859 and 1860 was a member of the Ohio Senate; in 1861 entered the army as Colonel of the Forty-second Regiment of ;

Volunteers; was appointed a Brigadier-General in 1862, the day that he fought in the battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky; subsequently served at Shiloh, Corinth, and in Alabama, and early in 1863 was appointed Chief of Staff to General Rosecrans, with whom he served until alter the battle of Chickamauga; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, before taking his seat in Congress w as appointed a Major-General for gallant and meritorious services of Volunteers in the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, from Septem re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con ber 19, 1863; gress, serving on the Committees on Ways and Means, on the Postal Railroad to New York, and as Chairman of that on a Bureau of Education; was also a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; was a Dele of gate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention 1866, and to the "Soldiers Convention," held in Pittsburg; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on old Committees, and as Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs; re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committees on Banking and Currency, the Census, and the Committee on Appropriations, and as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; in 1872 received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College, was reelected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses; in 1880 was elected United States Senator from Ohio for the term of six years from March 4, 1881; in the fall of the same year was elected President of the y

"

"

"

Gardenier, Barent; was a Representative New York from 1807 to 1811.

"

in

Congress from

was born in Russellville, Ohio, 30, 1830; in 1854 removed to Fayette Count} received a common school education; studied Ohio; law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and began

Gardiner, Mills

;

January

practice;

,

was Prosecuting Attorney

for

Fayette Coun

ty for four years; a State Senator from 1862 to 1864; a Presidential Elector in 1864; a Representative in the Legislature from 1866 to 1868; a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1873; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fifth Congre-w.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. United States, and resigned the positions of member of Congress and Senator; was installed in the Presi dency on March 4, 1881; on July second, of that year, as he was passing through the railroad depot at Washington, was shot in the back by an assassin; after a lingering illness the wound proved fatal, causing death on September 19, 1881.

was born in Shoreham, G-arfielde, Selucius Vermont, December 8, 1822; removed to Kentucky in early life was educated at Augusta College read law, and was admitted to the bar; in 1849 was elected a member of the Convention to revise the State Constitution; spent the following year in South America; emigrated to California in 1851; was ;

;

elected a

;

member

of the Legislature of that State-in 1852, and in 1853 was selected to codify the laws of the State; returned to Kentucky in 1854; was a member of the Cincinnati National Convention in 1856; an Elector in that canvass; removed to Wash ington Territory in 1857, where he filled the position of Receiver of Public Moneys in 1860; was Sur was elected a veyor-General from 1866 to 1869 Delegate to the Forty-first Congress and re-elected to the Forty-second Congress. Died at Washington, D. C., April 13, 1883. ;

Garland, A. H.; was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, June 11, 1832; was taken to Arkansas in the following year; graduated at St. Joseph s College, Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1849; studied law, and after coining to the bar settled at Little Rock; op posed the early movements of the Rebellion, but finally joined the State in the Southern cause; served in the Confederate Congress; was subsequently chos en to the United States Senate, but refused admis sion; in 1874 was for a short time Acting Secretary of State of Arkansas; was elected Governor of that State in 1874; in 1876 was elected United States Sen ator from Arkansas for the term of six years from March, 1877; was re-elected for another term in 1882, receiving the entire vote of his own party and of the Republicans in the State Legislature; but three votes being cast against him; in March, 1885, was ap pointed Attorney-General of the United States in the Cabinet of President Cleveland.

Garland, David S.; was a Representative in Died in Congress from Virginia, from 1809 to 1811. October, 1841.

Hugh

A.; was born in Nelson County, was grandson of General John Garland; graduated at Hampden Sidney Col

Garland,

Virginia,

June

1,

1805;

lege in 1825; was Professor of Greek in that college for five years; studied law, and came to the bar in 1841; served five years in the State Legislature; was Clerk of the National House of Representatives from 1838 to 1841; acquired a competence by his profes

but by various misfortunes was reduced to poverty; when in his fortieth year removed to Mis souri, and was again successful in his profession; two books which he published (the Lives of John Randolph and Thomas Jefferson) were eminently successful. Diediat St. Louis, Missouri, October 14, His son, bearing his name, was killed in one 1854. of the battles in Tennessee during the Rebellion, sion,

whilst fighting against the Union.

Garland, James was a native of Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1845 to 1847. ;

Garland, Rice

was born

in Virginia; removed to Louisiana; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1834 to 1840; resigned to become ;

Judge of the Superior Court of Louisiana.

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Garnett, James M.; was born at Elm wood, in Essex County, Virginia, June 8, 1770; served for several years as a member of the Legislature of his native State; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia, from 1805 to 1809; was a member of the Convention assembled at Richmond in 1829 to revise the Constitution of Virginia; was interested in the cause of education, and devoted to the pursuits of agriculture, having presided over the Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg for more than twenty years, and toiled laboriously for the formation of a National Agricultural Society. Died at El in wood,

May, 1843, aged sixty-two

Garnett, Muscoe

years.

R. H.;

Avas born in Essex County, Virginia; was educated at the University of Virginia; studied law; was a member of the Consti tutional Convention of the State in 1850; a member of the House of Delegates in 1853, 1854, 1855, and 1856, and during the latter session was Chairman of the Committee on Finance; was elected to the Thirtyfifth Congress as a Representative from Virginia, serving as a member of the Committee on Claims;

was

re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress; was a Delegate to the Democratic Conventions at Baltimore and Cincinnati, in 18,52 and 1856 respectively; took part in the Rebellion.

Garnett, Robert S.; was a native of Essex County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1817 to 1827.

Garnsey, Daniel G.; was born in Saratoga County, New York; was a Representative in Con gress from that State, from 1825 to 1830. Garrard, James Virginia,

January

;

14,

was born in Stafford County, 1749; was an officer of the

Revolution; afterward a member of the Legislature of Virginia, where he was an advocate of the Relig ious Freedom Bill; was one of the first settlers of Kentucky in 1782 settled near Paris, Bourbon County ; was, for several terms, a member of the Kentucky Legislature; was Governor of Kentucky from 1796 Died at Mount Lebanon, Bourbon County, to 1804. January 19, 1822. The hero of the battle of Wild in 1802, was his son. Cat," ;

"

Garrett, Abraham E. was born in Overton, March 6, 1830; received his education in country schools and at Poplar Spring College, Kentucky; studied law, but became a farmer; served in the army during the war; was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee in 1865, and to the State Senate in 1867; was elected to the Forty -second Congress, serving on the Committee on Agriculture. ;

Garrison, Daniel; was born in Salem County, Jersey; was a Representative in Congress from

New New

Jersey from 1823 to 1827.

Garrison, George Tankard was born in Accomae County, Virginia, January 14, 1835; graduated ;

at Dickenson College, Pennsylvania, in 1853,

and at of the University of Virginia in 1857; engaged in the practice of law; was a Representative in the State Legislature and, subsequently, a State Senator during the existence of the Confederacy; was Circuit Judge from 1870 to 1880; was elected a Rep resentative from Virginia to the Forty-seventh Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress.

the

Law School

Garrow, Nathaniel; was a Representative New York from 1827 to 1829.

in

Congress from

Garth, William W.; was born

in Morgan Coun Alabama, October 28, 1827; was educated at La Grange, and at Emory and Heury College, Virginia; ty,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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studied law at the University of Virginia, and was admitted to practice; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Gartlin, Alfred; was born in North Carolina; graduated at the University of that State; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1823 to 1825. G-artrell, Lucius J. was born in Wilkes County, educated at Randolph Georgia, January 7, 1821 Macon College, Virginia, and Franklin College, Athens, Georgia; adopted the profession of the law; in 1843 was elected, by the General Assembly of Georgia, Solicitor-General of the Northern Judicial Circuit; resigned in 1847, on being elected a Repre sentative to the Legislature; was re-elected in 1849; was a Presidential Elector for the State of Georgia in in the 1856; in 1857 was elected a Representative of the Thirty-fifth Congress from Georgia; was one Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and a mem ber of the Committee on Expenditures in the Treas ury Department; re-elected to the Thirty -sixth Con Elections with gress, serving on the Committee on drew in 1861, and retired to Georgia. ;

;

;

G-arvin, William S.; was* a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1847.

Gaston, William was born in Newberne, North Carolina, September 19, 1778; his early education was conducted by his mother; advanced at the Cath olic College of Georgetown, District of Columbia; graduated at Princeton College in 1796; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1798; served a num ber of years in the State Legislature, one term as a Speaker; was a Presidential Elector in 1808; was Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1813 to 1817; in 1834 was appointed Judge of the Court; in 1835 was a member of the State ;

Supreme

Convention to amend the Constitution; continued on the bench until the time of his death, which occurred January 23, 1844; was an able and successful law a taste for polite lit yer, and an upright judge, had as one erature, and is remembered in North Carolina of the most distinguished citizens of that State.

Gates, Seth Merrill was born in Winfield, Herkimer County, New York, October 16, 1800; was self-educated; studied law, and commenced practice in 1827; was elected to the State Legislature in 1832, declining a re-election; in 1838 purchased, and be came editor of the Le Roy Gazette; was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Twenty -sixth Con the Twenty-seventh Con gress, and was re-elected to In his paper and in Congress he advocated gress. the right of petition, and on account of his hostility to slavery a reward of five hundred dollars was At the offered by a southern planter for his person. close of the Twenty-seventh Congress he drew up a of Texas, which was protest against the annexation signed by twenty-two Representatives John Quincy Adams heading the list of names; in 1848 was the ;

Free-soil candidate for Lieu tenant-Governor of

New

York.

Gause, Lucien Cotesworth

was born at Laurel Hill Place, Brunswick County, North Caro with his father to lina, December 25, 1838; removed ;

Lauderdale County, Tennessee, when quite young;

was educated at a county school until sixteen years of age, and then at the University of Virginia; studied law at Cumberland University, Tennessee; graduated there; removed to Jacksonport, Arkansas, enlisted in the infantry service of the Confederate Army in 1861; rose to the rank of Colonel ; surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, May to practice, in 1859;

returned to Jacksonport in July, and re practice of law; in 1866 served one term in the General Assembly, and was appointed one of the State Commissioners to visit Washington, in sup a port of the existing State Government; was elected Representative in Congress in 1872 by the Demo his competitor, crats, but his seat was contested by and the case was never determined; in 1874 was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. 26, 1865;

sumed the

Gay, Edward J.; was born at Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia, February 3, 1816; in 1820 r^ moved, with his parents, to Illinois, and thence tc St. Louis, Missouri, in 1824; his early education was acquired from a private tutor, and in 1833 and 1834 he attended Augusta College, Kentucky; was early familiarized with business affairs, by assisting his father in important commercial transactions, and was Louis largely interested in commercial affairs at St. from 1838 to 1860; in 1855 removed to Louisiana, finally settling at Plaqiiemine, in that State;

became

and largely engaged in commercial, manufacturing, agricultural pursuits; in 1883, upon the foundation of the Louisiana Sugar Exchange, at New Orleans, was elected its first President; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Gayarre, Charles E. A.; was born ana,

January

3,

in Louisi 1805; was educated at the College of

New Orleans; in 1826 went to Philadelphia and stud ied law was admitted to the bar in 1829, and re turned home; in 1830 was elected to the Legislature; in 1831 was appointed Deputy Attorney-General; in 1833 Presiding Judge of the City Court of New Or in Congress, leans; and in 1835 was elected a Senator but ill health prevented him from taking his seat; went to Europe, where he spent a number of years, and on his return, in 1843, was again returned to the State Legislature; in 1846 was appointed Secre tary of State, in which capacity he served seven his years; as an author he acquired a high position, leading works being "History of Louisiana," "Ro mance of the History of Louisiana," Spanish Dom a dramatic novel called The ination in Louisiana, School of Politics," and a work on "The Influence ;

"

of the Mechanic

Arts."

Gayle, John; was born in Sumter District, South Carolina, September 11, 1792; was educated at South Carolina College; emigrated to Alabama in 1813; in 1817 was appointed a member of the Terri was Solicitor of the First Judicial District on the organization of the State Government; in 1823 was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the State; in 1829 was elected to the State Legisla torial Legislature;

and was Speaker of the House; in 1831 was elected Governor, and re-elected in 1833; was Presi dential Elector in 1836 and in 1840; in 1847 was elected from Mobile County a Representative in Con of the United gress; in 1849 was appointed Judge States District Court of Alabama. Died near Mobile, July 21, 1859.

ture,

Gaylord, Augustine S.; was born in 1825; was a successful lawyer in Michigan for many years; in November, 1875, was appointed an Assistant Attor ney-General of the United States for the Interior De partment.

Gaylord, James M.; was born in Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853.

Gazley, James W.; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1825.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Gear, John H.; was Governor

of

Iowa

Iroin 1878

to 1882.

G-eary,

189

George, James Z.; was born in Georgia in 1828; removed, with his father, to Mississippi, when a lad received a public school education; served in the army in the war with Mexico; studied law and was admitted to practice; served in the Confederate Army during the war of the Rebellion, in command of a regiment; was Chairman of the Democratic State Committee of 1875 and 1876; was elected Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; was elected a Senator of the United States from Mississippi for the term of six years from March 4, 1881. ;

John

"W.;

was born

in

Westmoreland

Pennsylvania, about 1820; taught school: s clerk in Pittsburg; afterwards studied at Jefferson College, and became a civil en gineer, and was several years connected with the Allegheny Portage Railroad; was Lieutenant-Colo nel of Roberts Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican War, and commanded his regiment at Chapultepec, where he was wounded, but resumed his command the same day at the attack on Belen Gate; for meritorious conduct on that occasion, was made first Commander of the city of Mexico after its capture, and Colonel of his regiment; in 1849 removed to California, and was Postmaster of San Francisco; was first Alcalde of that city, and its first Mayor; in 1852 returned to his farm at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; from July, 1856, to March, 1857, was Governor of Kansas; in 1861 returned to Pennsyl vania and raised and equipped the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers; commanded in several en

County,

was a merchant

gagements in that year; occupied Leesburg, Virginia, in March, 1862; was Brigadier-General of Volunteers in 1862; was wounded in the arm at Cedar Mount ain led the Second Division of the Twelfth Corps at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg in 1863; commanded the Second Division of the Twen tieth Corps in Sherman s Georgia and South Carolina campaigns; was appointed Military Governor of Savannah on its capture in 1864; was chosen Gov Died at Harrisburg, ernor of Pennsylvania in 1867. Pennsylvania, February 8, 1873. G-ebhard, John; was born in Claverack, New York was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1821 to 1823. ;

;

Geddes, George "W.; was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 16, 1824; received a common-school education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and engaged in practice; was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Sixth Judicial Dis trict from 1856 to 1866, and again from 1868 to 1873; was the candidate of his party for Supreme Judge in 1871, but was defeated; was elected a Representa tive from Ohio to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Geddes, James

;

was born near

Carlisle,

Penn

sylvania, July 22, 1763; obtained a limited ed ideation while working upon a farm; removing to New York, he organized, in 1794, a company for the manufacture of salt at Onondaga; in 1800 was elected a magistrate; in 1804 and in 1821 was in the State Legislature; in 1809 was an Associate County Justice; in 1812 Judge of the Common Pleas; was a Representative in Con gress from New York from 1813 to 1815; in 1822 was appointed Chief Engineer of the Ohio Canal; in 1827 assisted in locating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Died August 19, as well as the Pennsylvania Canal. 1838.

George. M.

O.; was born in Noble County, Ohio, 1849; received a good education, completing it at Willamette University, Oregon; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Portland, Oregon, in 1877; was a State Senator for four years; was elected a Representative from Oregon to the Forty-seventh and Forty -eighth Congresses.

May

13,

German, Obadiah was a Senator in Congress New York from 1809 to 1815. Died September ;

from

24, 1842.

Gerry, Elbridge was born at Marblehead, Mas sachusetts, July, 1744: graduated at Harvard Col lege in 1762; devoted himself for several years to ;

commercial pursuits; was a member of the Legisla ture in 1773, and was appointed on the Committee on Correspondence; from 1776 to 1785 was a Dele gate to the Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration of Independence; also the Articles of Confederation; while in Congress was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and Supplies, and when the Committee were in session at Menotomy, he, with Colonel Orne, escaped from the British troops at night by fleeing to a cornfield, while the house was searched for them; was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, but declined subscribing to it; was a Presidential Elector in 1793 was a Representative in the Federal Congress from 1789 to 1793; in 1797 was appointed Minister to France; in 1804 was one of the Presiden tial Electors; was Governor of Massachusetts in 1810 and 1811; in 1813 was inaugurated Vice-President of the United States; and filled the office until his his death, which took place at Washington, Novem ber 23, 1814. ;

was born in Water ford, Ox December 6, 1815; received an academic education studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839; in 1840 was Clerk of the House of Representatives of Maine; in 1842 was appointed State s Attorney for Oxford County, and elected the following year; in 1846 was elected to the State Leg islature; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1849 to 1851. The signer of the Declar ation of Independence, bearing the same name, was

Gerry, Elbridge

;

ford County, Maine, ;

his grandfather.

was Governor of South Carolina

Gerry, James was born in Maryland was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843.

from 1818 to 1820; Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Died in Charleston, South Carolina, March 5, 1828, aged about fifty-five years.

Gervais, John L.; was a Delegate from South Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1782 to

Geddes, John

;

Gentry, Meredith P.; was born in North Carolina in 1811; studied law and settled in the practice of his profession in Tennessee; was elected to the Legislature of the State in 1835 and 1837; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1839 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1853; took part in the Re bellion as a member of the "Confederate Congress."

He was quite distinguished 3, 1866. and very popular as a man.

Died November us an orator,

;

;

1783.

Getz, J. Lawrence was born in Reading, Penn sylvania, September 14, 1821; received an academic education in Reading and in Nottingham, Maryland; read law, and came to the bar in 1846; having turned his attention to the newspaper business, was for twenty years the editor of the Reading Gazette and Democrat; in 1856 was elected to the State Legisla ture; in 1857 re-elected and made Speaker of thfr ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

190

House; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Mileage, Soldiers and Sailors Bounties, and Public Expenditures; re-elected to the two subsequent Congresses, serving on important Committees.

Gibbs, "William Channing was Governor of Rhode Island from 1821 to 1824. Died in Newport, Rhode Island, February 21, 1871, aged eighty-four ;

years.

Gibson, Charles Hopper; was born in Queen Anne County, Maryland, January 19, 1842 was ;

Henry

was born

in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1798; early in life removed to Missouri; served in the War of 1812, and was Captain of the first? Militia company formed in the State of his adop tion adopted the profession of the law, and became eminent as a practitioner; took an active part in pol

Greyer

S.;

;

and was a member of the Convention which formed a State Constitution was an active member of the first two sessions of the State Legislature, and was chosen Speaker during his second term; suc ceeded Mr. Benton in the United States Senate, where he served from 1851 to 1857; while in Washington participated as Attorney in the Dred Scott case; was a man of ability, of pleasing manners, and of high character. Died at St. Louis, March 5, 1859. itics,

;

Gholson, James H.; was born in Virginia graduated at Princeton College in 18:20; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Virginia from 1833 to Died at Brunswick, Virginia, July 2, 1848, 1835. aged fifty years.

;

Gholson,

S. J.

;

was a Representative

in Congress

from Mississippi from 1837 to 1838 was subse quently appointed United States Judge for the Dis ;

trict of Mississippi.

G-holson,

was a Representative in

Thomas;

Congress from Virginia from 1808 to 1816.

Gibbons,

Thomas

;

was a

citizen of Georgia; in

1801 was appointed District Judge of the United States Court for the State of Georgia.

Gibbons, "William was a Delegate from Geor gia to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1786. ;

Gibbs, Addison

C.;

was born

at

;

years.

Gibbs, Richard; was a

citizen of

New

York;

was appointed Minister Plenipoten

;

Gibson, Eustace Avas born at Culpeper, Vir ginia, October 4, 1841; was, to a large extent, selfeducated, having left school at the age of thirteen years; in 1856 went to Kansas, and was on the ;

Southern side of the

"John

Brown

War";

returned

to Virginia in 1857; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860; in 1861 volunteered as a private in the Confederate Army, and was elected a First

Lieutenant; in 1863 was disabled by wounds, and was placed on the retired list with the rank of Cap tain; was a member of the State Constitutional Con vention of 1867; in 1871 settled at Huntington, West Virginia, in the practice of his profession, in which he speedily acquired eminence; in 1876 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and was chosen Speaker; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; was elected a Representative from West Virginia to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the

Forty-ninth Congress.

East Otto,

Cataraugus County, New York, July 9, 1825; was educated at Griffith Institute, Springville, and the State Normal School at Albany, New York, from which latter he graduated; taught scaool and studied law; was admitted to the bar at Albany in 1849, and commenced practice in Jefferson County, New York in 1850 removed to Oregon; in 1851 was a volunteer in the Indian War in Oregon; was a Representative in the Legislature during the session of 1852-53; was Collector of Customs for the Southern District of Oregon from 1853 to 1857; in 1858, against his wish, was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the First Judi cial District, but declined to qualify, and the office was filled by appointment of the Governor; in the fall of 1858 removed to Portland, Oregon, and con tinued the practice of his profession; in 1862 was elected Governor of Oregon, and served four years; was one of the Commissioners to revise the State Code in 1863; at the close of his term as Governor was nominated, by his party, for United States Sen ator; in order to harmonize differences and unite the party, after nineteen ballots had been taken, during which time he came within one vote of an election, withdrew from the contest; resumed the practice of law, and was twice elected District Attorney; was Deputy United States District Attorney for four years, and United States District Attorney for two

in April, 1875, tiary to Peru.

educated at the Archer School, in Harford County, Maryland, at Centreville Academy, and at Washing ton College, Chestertown was a clerk in the insur ance office of an uncle in Baltimore for two years; in 1862 began the study of law at Easton, Maryland; was admitted to the bar in 1864 and engaged in the practice of law at Easton; in 1867 was nominated, by President Johnson, to be a Collector of Internal Revenue, but was not confirmed by the Senate; in 1869 was appointed Auditor and Commissioner in Chancery; in 1870 resigned to accept the office of State s Attorney for Talbot County, Maryland, to which he was appointed by the Court; was elected to the office, in 1871, for a full term, and was re-elected in 1875; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Gibson, James King was born in Abington, Virginia, February 18, 1812; received a common school education; went to Alabama in 1833, and en gaged in mercantile pursuits; returned to Virginia and was Deputy Sheriff of Washington County in 1834 and 1835; was a merchant in Abington from 1835 to 1840; Postmaster at Abington from 1838 until 1849; was teller in the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Abington in 1849, and Notary Public: after the war became a farmer; was elected to the Forty -first Congress, serving on several committees. ;

Gibson, John

was born

in Lancaster, Pennsyl received a classical education; was an Indian trader at Fort Du Quesne, where he was captured by the Indians, and his life was saved by becoming the adopted son of a squaw; in 1774 rendered good service in the Dunrnore Expedition against the Shawnees, securing peace and the release of many prisoners; served with credit in the Revolu tionary Army in New York, New Jersey, and on the frontiers; in 1788 was a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention; long a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and a General of Militia; in 1800 was appointed Secretary of the Territory of In diana, holding the position until it became a State; was Acting Governor of Indiana from 1811 to 1813.

vania,

May

;

23, 1740;

His brother, Died near Vincennes, April 10, 1822. George, also distinguished himself as a soldier in the Revolution.

Gibson, Randall Lee was born ;

Kentucky, September

10, 1832;

in Springfield,

began his education

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. at Lexington with a private tutor; graduated at Yale College in 1853, and in the Law Department of the University of Louisiana in 1855; spent three years in was settled as study, and traveled in Europe; a planter in Louisiana when the Civil War began, and entered the Confederate Army as a private soldier; rose to the command of a division; after the war began the practice of law in New Orleans; was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Fortyfourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth,

Forty-sixth, and Forty seventh Congresses; was elected a Senator of the United States, from Louisi ana, for the term of six years from March 4, 1883. -

Giddings, De

C.; was born

in Susque"Witt hanna County, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1827; received an academic education; studied law at Honesdale; removed to Texas; was admitted to the bar in 1852,

and practiced entered the Confederate service, and served until the close of the war; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1866; was elected to the Forty -second Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Commit ;

tees on Land Claims and Indian Affairs; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.

was

also

Giddings, Joshua R.; was born at Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1795; was a lawyer by profession; practiced in Ohio; was elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1826; was a Representa tive in Congress from Ohio from 1838 to 1859; was for many years recognized as one of the leaders of the Anti-slavery party, and was the author of a book on Florida, and also of a History of the Great Rebel in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, lion"; Coiisul-General of British North America. Died at Montreal, suddenly, May 27, 1864. "

Giddings, Marsh; was appointed Governor

New Mexico in 1871 in June, 1875.

;

held the

office

four years.

of

Died

Gi?ford, Oscar Sherman was born at Watertown, New York, October 20, 1842; removed to Illi ;

nois in his youth received a common school and aca demic education; served in the Union Army as pri vate in the Elgin (Illinois) Battery from 1863 to 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870, and engaged in the practice of law at Canton, Dakota; was elected District Attorney for Lincoln County in 1874; in 1882 and 1883 was Mayor of the city of Can ton was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Dakota which convened at Sioux Falls September 7, 1883; was elected Delegate from Dakota to the ;

;

Forty-ninth Congress.

was born in Gilbertsville, Gilbert, Abijah Otsogo County, New York, June 18, 1806, the eldest of eighteen children was a student at Hamilton Col lege, but ill-health prevented him from graduating; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York and elsewhere; removed to Florida for the health of his family; was elected a Senator in Congress from that State, for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875, serving on the Committees on Agriculture and Post Offices and Post Roads. ;

;

Gilbert,

Edward

;

was a Representative in Con

gress from California from 1850 to 1851.

Gilbert, Ezekiel was born in 1755, in Middletown, Connecticut; graduated at Yale College in 1778; was a member of Congress from New York from 1793 to 1797. He suffered, for thirty years, from a stroke of paralysis, and died at Hudson, New York, ;

in July, 1842.

Gilbert, Sylvester; was born in 1756, at He bron, Connecticut; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1775; str.died law, and was admitted to practice in 1777, at Hebron; in 1780 was a member of the General Assembly, being the youngest member in the House; in 1788 was appointed State s Attorney for Tolland County, and filled that office twenty-one years; in 1807 was appointed Chief Judge of the County Court and Judge of Probate, which offices he held until 1825, with the exception of his term as Representative in Congress from Connecticut in 1818 and 1819; in 1810 was a teacher of a law school,

which he continued about seven years, during which time fifty-six students were prepared for the bar un der his tuition; in 1826 was again elected to the Leg islature, and was then the oldest member in the House, to which body he had, from the year 1780, been re-elected thirty times. Died in January, 1846. Gilbert, William A.; was born in Connecticut; removing to New York, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fourth Congress. Gilchrist,

John James was ;

born at Medford,

Massachusetts, February 16, 1809; graduated at Har vard University in 1828, and settled as a lawyer in Charlestown, New Hampshire; was a member of the Legislature Register of Probate Associate Judge in 1840; Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1848, and of the United States Court of Claims in Digest of New Hampshire Re 1855; published a ;

;

"

ports."

Died in Washington, April

29, 1858.

Robert B.; was a native of South Car resided in Charleston about 1841 was ap pointed United States Judge for the District of South a time held for the same Carolina; position in Georgia. Gilchrist,

olina;

;

Giles, John ; was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, about the year 1788; graduated at Chapel Hill University in 1808; was a lawyer by profession, and engaged in the practice for more than thirty years; in 1829 was elected a member of the House of Representatives in Congress from North Carolina, but resigned before taking his seat, on account of ill-health; in 1835 was a member of the Convention which met to revise the Constitution; died March 2, 1846, in Stanley County, North Carolina, where his professional duties required his attendance before the Circuit Court. Giles, William Branch was born in Amelia County, Virginia, August 12, 1762; graduated at Princeton College in 1781; studied law, but aban doned the profession after practicing about six years; was a Representative in Congress from 1790 to 1798, and again from 1801 to 1802; in 1801 and 1805 was a Presidential Elector; was a United States Senator from 1804 to 1816; was subsequently a member of the Legislature; a few months after his first appoint ment to the Senate he was superseded by A. Moore, but was immediately re-appointed for the longer term; from 1826 to 1829 was Governor of his native Died in Albemarle County, Virginia, Decem State. ;

ber

4,

1830.

Giles, William Fell; was born in Harford County, Maryland, April 8, 1807; received an aca demic education in Baltimore and his native place; studied law in Baltimore, and came to the bar in 1829; was elected to the State Legislature in 1837 to 1839; in 1845 was elected to Congress; declined a re-nomination; in 1853 was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Maryland. Gilflllan, O. W.; was born in Pennsylvania; studied law, and was admitted to the bar of that

B I O G li A P H 1 C A L

192

ANNALS.

State; in 1857

was elected Superintendent of PublicInstruction for Mercer County, holding the office two years; in 1859 was Transcribing Clerk in the State House of Representatives; in 1861 was ap

United States, and continued in that office until he resigned in 1858, and President Buchanan appointed him Solicitor of the Court of Claims, which position he held until 1861; subsequently devoted himself to

pointed District Attorney for Venango County; in 18C2 was elected to the same position, and held the office for three years; in 1868 was elected a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-first Con gress, serving on the Committees on the District of

literary labors.

Columbia and Revolutionary Pensions. Gilfillan, James was Treasurer of the United States from July, 1877, to March, 1883. ;

John

was born

at Barnet, Cale donia County, Vermont, February 11, 1835; gradu ated at the Caledonia County Academy in 1855, and removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota; studied law; was admitted to the bar in July, 1860, and entered upon the practice of law at Minneapolis; was a ber of the Board of Education from 1860 to 1868; was an Alderman of the city of Minneapolis from 1865 to

Gilfillan,

B.;

mem

1869; was Prosecuting Attorney of Hennepin County from 1863 to 1867, and from 1869 to 1873; was City Attorney of Minneapolis from 1861 to 1864 was a member of the State Senate of Minnesota from 1875 to 1885; became Regent of the State University of Minnesota in 1880, and continued in that office; was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the ;

Forty-ninth Congress. Gill, Charles B.; was a was Commissioner of Pensions

citizen of Wisconsin; in the Department of the Interior from February 10 to March 28, 1876.

Gill,

Moses

;

was

elected Lieutenant-Governor

of Massachusetts in 1797; was acting Governor of the State from 1799 to 1800, in the place of Increase

Sumner. Gillespie, James was a member of the Provin Congress of North Carolina; was a Representative in the United States Congress from that State from 1793 to 1799, and from 1803 to 1805. Died January

Gillette, Edward H.; was born at Bloomfield, Connecticut, October 1, 1840; completed his education at the New York State Agricultural College in 1862; in 1863 removed to Des Moines, Iowa, and engaged in various pursuits; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Gillette, Francis; was a Senator in Congress from Connecticut, during the session of 1854 and 1855, for the unexpired term of Truman Smith, resigned.

Gillis, James L.; was born at Hebron, Washing ton County, New York, October 2, 1792; received a common school education; served an apprenticeship to the currying and tanner s trade; during the cam paigns of 1812 and 1813, served as a volunteer from New York; in 1814 was commissioned a Lieutenant by the Governor of New York; having been taken prisoner by the British, was transported to Halifax, where he remained until the close of the war; subse quently returned to Ontario County, and established himself as a farmer; in 1823 removed to Pennsyl vania; in 1840 was elected to the Legislature of that State; in 1842 was appointed one of the Judges of Jefferson County; in 1845 was elected to the State Senate; in 1851 again re-elected to the lower House; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania in the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committee

on Agriculture.

Gillon, Alexander; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1793 to 1794. Died during the latter year.

;

cial

10, 1805.

Gillet,

Ransom H.;

was born in New Lebanon, York, January 27, 1800; his

Columbia County, New early employment was on his father s farm, in Sara toga County, in the summer, and lumbering in the pine forest during the winter; in 1819 removed to St. Lawrence County, where he was employed to teach school during the winter, and attended the St. Law rence Academy during the summer; in 1821 engaged in the study of law with Silas Wright, at Canton, still continuing to teach for his support; was admitted to the bar, and settled in Ogdensburg, where he con tinued, devoted to his profession, for about twenty years; in 1827 was appointed Brigade-Major and In spector of Militia; in February 27, 1830, was ap pointed Postmaster of Ogdensburg, which office he tilled three years; in 1832 was a member of the Baltimore Convention, which nominated Generel Jackson for President; was elected the same year a Representative in Congress; re-elected in 1834, and served as a member of the Committee on Commerce in 1837 was appointed, by President Van Buren, a Commissioner to treat with the Indian tribes in New York, and continued in that service until 1839; in 1840 was a member of the Baltimore Convention which re-nominated Mr. Van Buren; engaged in the practice of law; in 1845 was appointed, by President ;

Polk, Register for the Treasury, serving until 1847, Solicitor of the Treasury, in which office he continued until the autumn of 1849 resumed the practice of law in New York; in 1855 became Assistant to the Attorney-General of the

when he was appointed

;

New Hamp

Gilman, Charles J.; was born in shire; served in the Legislature of that State in 1854; removed to Maine; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from that State, and was a member of the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Gilman, John Taylor; was born

in Exeter,

New

Hampshire, December 19, 1753: was a volunteer in the Revolutionary Army; a Delegate from New Hampshire, in 1780, to the Hartford Convention; a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783, in the latter year succeeding his father as Treasurer of New Hampshire; this office he resigned to become a Commissioner to settle certain accounts for the States, but was re-elected in 1791 was Gov ernor of New Hampshire from 1794 to 1805, and again from 1813 to 1815, when he declined a re-elec tion. Died September 1, 1828. ;

Gilman, Joseph was appointed

in 1796 a Ter Judge of the United States Court for the Ter Northwest of the Ohio River. ritory ;

ritorial

Gilman, Nicholas Hampshire

;

was a Delegate from New-

to the Continental Congress from 1786 to

1788; a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution, and signed that instrument; after the adoption of the Constitution was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from 1789 to 1797; was a Sena tor in Congress from New Hampshire from 1805 to Died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1814. 1814, aged fifty-two years.

Gilmer, George B.; was born (now Oglethorpe), Georgia,

County, 1790;

received

an

academic

in

Wilkes

April 11, education; studied

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNULS. law, and settled at Lexington, Cglethorpe County, Georgia; in 1813, as First Lieutenant of the Fortythird Regiment, United States Army, participated in the Creek War; in 1818 entered upon the practice of his profession; was elected to the State Legislature in 1818, 1819, and 1824; was a Representative in

Congress from Georgia from 1821 to 1823, from 1827 to 1829, and from 1833 to 1835; was Governor of the .State for the terms commencing in 1829 and 1837, land during the latter term removed the Cherokee

Indians from Georgia; was President of the Board of Presidential Electors in 1836; was also a Presidential Elector in 1840; for thirty years performed the duties of Trustee of the Georgia College; was the author of a book, published in 1855, entitled "Georgians, which contains much useful and interesting informa tion touching the early settlement of his native State. Died at Lexington, Georgia. November 15. 1859. .

G-ilmer, John A. was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, November 4, 1805; acquired a good English education at winter schools, working on a farm and in the shop during the summers; taught school, and thus obtained the means to enter the academy at Greeusborough for three years; became a good linguist and mathematician, and taught for ;

;

.

three years in a grammar school; afterwards studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1832; was a member of the State Senate from 1846 to 1856, and was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Con gress, serving as a member of the Committee on Elec tions; in 1856 was the Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina, but was defeated; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and made Chairman of the Committee on Elections; withdrew in 1861; was

a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention of 1866. Died in Greensborough, May "

"

14. 1868.

Thomas W.

was a native of Virginia; Gilnier, received a limited education; studied law, and while practicing the profession edited a newspaper; served frequently in the Legislature, and was Speaker of the House held many positions of prominence was Governor of the State in 1840; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1841 to 1843; was Secretary of the Navy under President Tyler; was killed by an accident on board the United States steamer Princeton, February 28, 1844. ;

;

;

was born in Pennsylvania; G-ilmore, Alfred was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1853. ;

Gilmore, John

;

was a Representative in Con Died

gress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1833. May 18, 1845.

Gilmore, Joseph Atherton; was born in Weston, Vermont, June 10, 1811; w as brought upon a farm: went to Boston at the age of fifteen, and en tered a store; became interested in railroads and mining, and acquired a large fortune; returned to New Hampshire in 1843; was Superintendent of the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad from 1853 to 1856, and also of the Concord and other connecting lines until 1866; was State Senator in 1858 and 1859; President of that body in 1859 was Governor of New Hampshire from 1863 to 1865. Died in Concord, New Hampshire, April 17, 1867. r

;

Gilpin, Henry D.; was born in Philadelphia in 1801 graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1819; studied law, and began to practice in Phila delphia in 1822; was United States Attorney for his State in 1832; Solicitor of the United States Treasury ;

13

193

United States Attorney-General in 1840 and 1841; published a volume of reports of cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1837, and "Opin ions of the Attorney-Generals" in 1840; from 1826 to 1832 edited the Atlantic Souvenir; was President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and VicePresident of the Historical Society; wrote several of the biographies of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and other biographies and discourses, and supervised The Madison Papers, when pub lished by Congress. Died in Philadelphia, Decem ber 29, 1869. in 1837;

Gist, Joseph was born in Union District, South Carolina, in 1775; was educated at the Charleston College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1799; was a Presidential Elector in 1809; served in the Legislature of his native State for eighteen years; was a Representative in Congress from South Caro lina from 1821 to 1827; served as a Trustee of the State College. Died May 8, 1835. ;

Gist, "William H.; was born in Sout and was Governor of that State from 1858

i

Carolina, to 1860.

Glass, Presley T.; was born in Halifax County, Virginia, October 18, 1829; in 1828 removed, with his parents, to Weakley County, West Tennessee, then almost a wilderness; was reared on a farm; was chiefly educated at the "old field schools" of the county, and at the Dresden Academy; labored on his father s farm until he reached the age of eighteen; then, for two and a half years, received private in struction from the principal of the County Academy;

read law, and attended the Law School of Transyl vania University, of Kentucky, during one session; on his return from college, at the age of twenty-two, was elected a Representative in the State Legislature; in the same year, 1847, was admitted to the bar; the

year previous he had been elected, and commissioned by the Governor, a Colonel of Militia; at the expira tion of his legislative term entered upon the practice of law; in 1849 removed to Landerdale County, Ten nessee; soon abandoned the practice of his profes sion, and engaged in the occupation of a merchant; in the autumn of 1849 was appointed Trustee of the County Male Academy, serving five years; was for some time an Alderman of the town of Ripley, in which he resided in 1852 was elected a Magistrate, serving for several years as Chairman of the County Court; was re-elected, but resigned before the expira tion of his second term; in May, 1861 was appointed Major and Commissary of Subsistence in the Confed erate service, serving throughout the Civil War; at the close of the war returned to his home in Ripley; in February,, 1866, removed to Memphis, Tennessee, and engaged in the commission business; two years later sold out to his partner, and went to Trenton, Tennessee, where he joined his brother John in the newspaper business, and became editor of the Tren ton Gazette ; in December, 1868 he was married, and soon after settled on his farm in Haywood County, Tennessee in the autumn of 1869 returned to his old home in Ripley, Tennessee, and resumed business as a merchant; in 1871 was again elected a Magistrate; was re-elected, and served as Chairman of the Board and Judge of the County; in 1881 was elected a Rep resentative in the State Legislature; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Fortyninth Congress. ;

;

Glasscock, John R.; was born

in Panola Coun to Virginia to California in 1856; received a col

ty, Mississippi,

August 25, 1845; removed

in 1854, and legiate education, graduating from the College of California (now the University of California) in 1865;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

194

studied law, and graduated from the Law School of the University of Virginia in 1888; was admitted to the bar in Virginia and California in that year and engaged in the practice of law in the latter State; in 1875 was elected District Attorney of Alameda County, and served one term, declining a re-nomina tion; was elected a Representative from California to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Glascoek, Thomas man of Georgia; served

;

was a soldier and states at the siege of Savannah,

under Count Pulaski, as Lieutenant, and exhibited great skill and bravery; was appointed Colonel of the troops ordered out by the Legislature, in defense of the State against the Indians, on the western frontier, and was afterwards elected General of Militia; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1836 to 1839, and highly respected for his talents and character. Died at Decatur, Georgia, May 9, 1841.

Glasgow, Hugh. was ;

gress from Pennsylvania

a Representative in Con

from 1813

to 1817.

Gleason, William E.; was born in Maryland; emigrated to Dakota, where he was appointed United States

Judge

for that Territory, residing at

Yankton.

Glen, John; was a native of Maryland; was

Glenn, Elias; was born in Maryland; was ap pointed Judge of the United States Court for that State.

Glenn, Henry took an active part in the Revo lutionary War; was a Representative from New York in Congress from 1793 to 1801. Died at Schenectady in 1814, aged seventy-three years. ;

George W.; was

born near Greencastle, Ohio, July 4, 1827; received a thorough English education, and was well advanced in the classics; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850; in 1859 removed to Kansas, settling at Atchison, in that State, in the practice of law; in 1862 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and, by re-elections, served nine sessions in the House and Senate; in 1872 Fairfield County,

abandoned his profession and engaged in farming and stock-raising; in 1882 was elected Governor of Kansas fir the term of two years from January, 1883.

Gloninger, John was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative from that State in the Twelfth ;

Congress; resigned before the expiration of his term, and E. Crouch was elected in his place.

Adam

J.; was born in HagersGlossbrenner, town, Maryland, August 31, 1810; apprenticed at an early age to the printing business, which was his school; when seventeen years of age traveled in the West; became foreman in the office of the Ohio Monitor, and afterwards of the Western Telegraph; in 1829 re turned to Maryland; went thence to Pennsylvania, and settled at York, where he published the York held various offices of trust and responsi (lazettc, and bility; in 1849 was elected Sergeaut-at-Arnis of the National House of Representatives for the Thirty -first Congress, and was re-elected to the same office by the four following Congresses; in 1861 was Private Sec retary to President Buchanan in 1863 became one of the founders of the Philadelphia Age; in 1864 was Delected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on ;

Glover, John Milton was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, June 23, 1835; was educated at Washing ton University, Saint Louis, Missouri; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Saint Louis; held no public office prior to his election as a Representative from Missouri to the ;

Forty-ninth Congress.

Glover, John Montgomery; was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, September 4, 1824; re ceived a collegiate education, but left college before graduating; studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but practiced only a short time; was appointed a Colonel of Cavalry; commissioned Colonel of the Third Missouri Volunteer Cavalry in 1861; resigned, in 1864, on account of impaired health; in 1866 was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Missouri; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Education and Labor; was re-elected to the Forty -fourth and

Forty-fifth Congresses.

1853.

Glick,

tive Mansion.

lib

erally educated; adopted the profession of the law; was for many years a Judge of the United States District Court of Maryland. Died in Baltimore, July 8,

Public Lands and Engrossed Bills; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Expenditures in the Navy Department and Execu

Goddard, Calvin

;

was born

in

Shrewsbury,

Massachusetts, July 17, 1768; graduated at Dart mouth in 1786; was admitted to the bar in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1790; settled at Plainfield, from which place he was elected a Representative in the Legislature for nine sessions, during three of which he was Speaker of the House; removed to Norwich in 1807; from 1801 to 1805 was a Representative in Congress; from 1808 to 1815 was a member of the State Council; in 1813 a Presidential Elector; in 1814 a Delegate to the Hartford Convention; from 1815 to 1818 Judge of the Superior Court; was State s Attorney for the County of New London for five years, and Mayor of Norwich for seventeen years.

Died at Norwich,

May

2,

1842.

Godshalk, "William was born at East Not tingham, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1817; received a common school and academic education engaged in the occupation of a miller; was Associate Judge of Bucks County from 1871 to 1876; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. ;

;

Goff, Nathan. Jr.; was born in Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia) February 9, 1842; at tended the common schools and the Northwestern Academy; in 1859 entered Georgetown College, Dis trict of Columbia; left college in 1861, and entered the Union Army; served throughout the war, rising to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General graduated from the University of the City of New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1865; was elected a Rep resentative in the State Legislature in 1867; reelected in 1868; before the expiration of his term, was appointed United States District Attorney, and served in that capacity until January, 1881; was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1870, and for Governor in 1876; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880; in January, 1881, became Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Hayes, serving until March, 1881; upon retiring from the Cabinet, was re-ap pointed United States District Attorney, which office he resigned in 1882; was elected a Representa tive from West Virginia to the Forty-eighth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Goforth, John; was born

in Pennsylvania; in

an Attorney-General of the

1873 was appointed United States.

was born in Bedford 1807; received an aca demic education; studied law in Winchester; was admitted to the bar in 1828, and practiced in several of the Circuit and District Courts of the State; in 1836 was a member of the Legislature, and in 1837 declined a re-election; in 1839 was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from Virginia, and was reelected in 1841, 1843, and 1847; was Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads during his last term; was afterwards appointed one of the Visitors to West Point, under the administration of President Fillmore; in 1859 was nominated as the Whig candidate for Governor of Virginia. Died in Richmond, January 5, 1870. G-ogfgln,

"William

County, Virginia,

Gold,

Thomas

May

R.;

L.;

31,

was a native of

New

York;

graduated at Yale College in 1786; was a member of the State Senate from 1797 to 1802; a member of the Assembly in 1808; a Representative in Congress from New York from 1809 to 1813, and aeain from 1815 to 1817. Died in 1826.

Goldsboroug-h, Charles "W.; was Governor of the State of Maryland was a Representative in Con Died at Shoal Creek, Marygress from 1805 to 1817. ;

laud December

13, 1834.

G-oldsborougii, Robert was a Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress from 1774 to ;

1775; at the time the Declaration of Independence signed, he was at home on a sick-bed, and soon afterwards died, at his residence in Maryland; he was by profession a physician.

was

was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 10, 1809; received a good removed to Alabama; studied law, and education; was admitted to the bar in 1826; was on the Bench of the Circuit Court, and afterward of the Supreme Court, of which he was Chief Justice for some years was Adjutant-General of Alabama during the war; was elected to the United States Senate in 1870 for

Goldthwaite, George

;

;

the term ending in 1877;

when

elected, his residence

was Montgomery, Alabama; served on the Committee on Claims and Revolutionary Claims.

Golladay,

Edward

I.;

was born in Lebanon,

Tennessee, September 9, 1831; graduated at Cumber land University; taught school; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1852; was elected to the State Legislature in 1857; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; served in the Confederate Army as Colonel,

and participate in several important engagements; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on Patents. !

Golladay, Jacob S.; was a native of Kentucky; was a member of the Legislature of that State from Logan County in 1850, 1851, and 1853; a State Sen ator from 1853 to 1855; in 1867 was elected a Repre sentative in Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Hise; resigned in 1870; was also elected to the Forty-first Congress to

fill

a vacancy.

Gooch, Daniel W.; was born in Wells, State of Maine, in January, 1820; graduated at Dartmouth Col lege in 1843; studied law, and came to the bar in 1846; commenced the practice of his profession in Boston in 1852 was elected to the Legislature of Massachu setts; in 1853 to the Constitutional Convention of the State, and subsequently a Representative in the Thirty-fifth Congress from Massachusetts, for an un;

195

expired term; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con member of the Committee on Ter ritories; re-elected to the Thirty -seventh Congress, serving on the Special Committee on the Conduct of the War; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims and Foreign Aifairs; re-elected to the Thirty -ninth Congress, but in 1865 was appointed, by President Johnson, Navy Agent for the port of Boston; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Conven tion of 1866; again elected to the Forty-third Con gress, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs. gress, serving as a

"

"

was born in Bedford County, was a student at the New London Academy; graduated at Emory and Henry College in 1848; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851; was elected a member of the Legis lature of Virginia in 1851, and again in 1866; was a

Goode, John, May 27,

Virginia,

Jr.;

1829;

member of the Virginia Convention which adopted the Ordinance of Secession in 1861; was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861; re-elected in 1863, and served in that position until the close of the war; was a member of the Electoral College in 1852, and again in 1856; was a Delegate to the National Demo cratic Convention in 1868, and was appointed, by that body, a member of its Executive Committee, and re-appointed at Baltimore in 1872; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-fourth, and Forty-sixth Congresses; in 1885 was appointed, by President Cleveland, Solicitor-General of the United States, and served several months, but his nomination was finally rejected by the Senate. Forty-fifth,

Goode, Patrick G.; was born in Virginia; was elected a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1837 to 1843. Goode, Samuel was ;

a Representative in Con

gress from Virginia from 1799 to 1801.

Goode, "William O.; was born at Inglewood, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, September 16, 1798; was educated at the College of William and Mary; studied law, and commenced the practice in 1821 ;

was, early in life, elected for several terms a member of the State Legislature; in 1829 was a member of the State Reform Convention of Virginia; in 1832 was again elected to the State Legislature, and took an active part in the debates on slavery of that year; was again elected to the Legislature in 1838; was elected a Representative in Congress from Virginia in 1841, serving until 1843; was subsequently again elected to the Legislature, and was Speaker of the House of Delegates for several sessions; was a mem ber of the State Reform Convention of 1850, and was chosen Chairman of the Legislative Committee; was a member of the House of Delegates, called to put the New Constitution into operation, and Chairman of the Committee on Finance: in 1853 was again elected a Representative in Congress from Virginia, and was regularly re-elected until the Thirty-fifth Congress, in which he served as Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia. Died near Boydtown, Vir ginia,

July

3,

1859.

Goodenow, John

M.; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1829 to 1831. Died in 1838, aged fifty-six years.

Goodenow, Robert was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, in 1800; admitted to the bar in ;

1821; was County Attorney from 1828 to 1834, and in 1841; having taken up his residence in Maine, was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853; in 1857 was appointed Bank Commis sioner for the State.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

196

G-OOdenow, Rufus K.; was born

in Henniker, Hampshire, April 24, 1790; removed with his father to Brownfield, Maine, where he was educated in a country school was a farmer, and for many years a common sailor; entered the army in 1812 as Captain in the Thirty-third Regiment of United States In fantry, and served in that capacity until 1815; upon the organization of a State Government was ap pointed Clerk of the Courts for Oxford County, and

New

;

removed

to Paris; held this office sixteen years was a member of the Maine Legislature; a Presidential Elector in 1840; represented his District in the Thirtyfirst Congress. Died at Paris, March 24, 1863. ;

G-oodhue, Benjamin was born at Salem, Massa ;

October 1, 1748; graduated at Harvard University in 1766; received literary honors from Yale College in 1804; early in life engaged in commercial pursuits; was a Whig during the Revolution; repre sented his native county in the State Senate from 1784 to 1789, when he was elected a Representative to Congress under the new constitution, and, assisted by Mr. Fitzsimmons, of Philadelphia, formed our code of revenue laws, the majority of which have never been abrogated; in 1796 was elected a Senator of the United States, and became distinguished as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce; in 1800 resigned his seat and retired from public life. Died at Salem, July 28, 1814. chusetts,

G-oodin, John R.; was born at Tiffin, Ohio, December 14, 1836; removed to Kenton, Ohio, in 1844; received a collegiate education studied law was ad mitted to the bar in 1857, and commenced practice at Kenton; in 1859 removed to Humboldt, Kansas; in 1866 was elected a Representative in the State Legis lature; in 1867 was elected Judge of the Seventh Judicial District for the term of four years; was re;

elected in 1871

;

resigned in 1875, to take his seat as a Representative from Kansas to the Forty-fourth Congress. ;

Law

and for many years the efficient was twice elected to the State Legislature was a Judge of the County and Probate Courts for fifteen years; was a Presidential Elector in 1797; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1799 to 1801. Died in New Haven, in Yale College,

Mayor

of

New Haven; ;

November

1,

1849.

G-oodrich,

John

Z.;

was born in

Sheffield,

Mas

sachusetts, September 27, 1801 adopted the profes sion of the law, but turned his attention to manu facturing; was a Presidential Elector in 1841; served in the State Legislature in 1848 and 1849; was a Rep resentative in Congress from 1851 to 1855, from his native State; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Collector of Boston; was a Delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861. ;

"

"

G-oodrich, Milo was born in Homer, ;

New York,

January 3, 1820; received an academic education; studied law; was a member of the State Constitu tional Convention in 1867; was elected to the Fortysecond Congress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary.

Goodwin, Henry C.; was born in De Ruyter, Madison County, New York, June 25, 1824; received an academic education; studied law, and was admit ted to the bar in 1846; in 1847 was elected District Attorney of Madison County, and held the office three years; was a Representative from New York to the second session of the Thirty -third Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Claims. Died at Hamilton, Madison County, New York, November 12, 1860.

Good-win, Ichabod; was born

in South Ber 25, 1743; ac companied his father, who was wounded, in 1758, to Ticonderoga; was a member of the Provincial Con gress in 1775 and 1777; was Lieutenant-Colonel of

wick, Massachusetts Province,

May

Goodloe, William C.; was a resident of Ken tucky; in 1878 was appointed United States Minister to Belgium.

Gerrish s York County regiment, having charge of the Saratoga prisoners; was Major-General of Militia from 1783 to 1815; a member of the General Court in 1792; sheriff of York County, Maine, from 1793 to

G-oodrich, Aaron; was a native of Tennessee; received a good education, and adopted the profession of the law in 1849 was appointed Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the Territory of

1820.

;

Minnesota, and was the that District.

first

Judge appointed

for

G-oodrich, Chauncey; was born at Durham, Connecticut, October 20, 1759; graduated at Yale College in 1776, with a high reputation for genius and. acquirements; after spending several years as tutor in that institution, established himself as a lawyer at Hartford in 1781, and soon attained eminence in the profession; was a Representative in the Legislature in 1793; a Representative in Congress from 1795 to 1801; from 1802 to 1807 was a Councilor of the State; was elected United States Senator from 1807 to 1813; was elected Mayor of Hartford in 1812, and resigned his seat in Congress; was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State in 1813; was a Delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814. Died at Hart ford,

August

18, 1815.

G-oodrich, Elizur ; belonged to the Washington school of Federalists, and his removal from the office of Collector of Customs at New Haven, immediately on the accession of Jefferson to the Presidency, gave occasion for the famous letter in which Jefferson avowed his principle of removal for political opinions; besides being honored with various offices of trust and responsibility, was, for some time, professor of

Died in South Berwick,

Goodwin, Ichabod Hampshire from 1860

;

May

25, 1829.

was Governor

of

New

to 1861.

G-oodwin, John N.; was born in South Ber wick, Maine; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1844; studied law, and commenced practice in South Berwick; in 1854 was elected to the Senate of Maine; in 1860 was a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on the Militia and Invalid Pensions; was subse quently appointed, by President Lincoln, Chief Jus tice of the Territory of Arizona, and afterwards Gov ernor; was elected a Delegate from Arizona to the Thirty-ninth Congress. Good-win, Peterson was a Representative in Died in Congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1818. November of the latter year. ;

Goodyear, Charles

;

was born in

Cobleskill,

Schoharie County, New York, April 26, 1805; gradu ated at Union College in 1824; studied law, and came to the bar in 1827, was a member of the State Assembly in 1839; in 1841 was appointed First Judge of Schoharie County; was a Representative from New York in the Twenty-ninth Congress; dis continued the practice of his profession in 1852, and turned his attention to the business of private bank ing in Schoharie and the city of New York; in 1864

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress; during his first term in Con Invalid Pen gress he served on the Committee on on the sions, and during the Thirty-ninth Congress Committees on Private Land Claims, Revolutionary Pensions, uud on a Bureau of Education; was a Dele gate to the Philadelphia "National Union Conven-* tion of 1866, and that of New York in 1868. "

Gordon, James was for seven years a member of the State Senate of New York; twelve years in the State Assembly; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1791 to 1795. ;

Gordon, John

B.; was born in Upson County, Georgia, February 6, 1832; was educated at the Uni versity of Georgia; was admitted to the bar; at the beginning of the war entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Infantry, and was promoted, by regu lar grades, to the command of the Second Army Corps; commanded one wing of General Lee s army at Appomattox Court House was wounded in battle ;

eight times; was the Democratic candidate for Gov ernor of Georgia in 1868, and his party claimed his election by a large majority, but his opponent was declared elected; was a member of the National Democratic Convention of 1868; was a Delegate from the .State at large to the National Democratic Con vention of 1872; was a Presidential Elector in 1868 and in 1872; was elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879,

serving on the Committees on Commerce, Agricul ture, and Education and Labor; was re-elected for the term ending in 1885; resigned in 1880.

Gordon, Samuel; was born in New York; served in the State Assembly in 1834 was a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1845 to 1847; in 1863 was ap pointed Provost-Marshal for the Nineteenth District ;

of

New

York.

Gordon, William was a graduate of Harvard College in 1779; was Attorney-General for the State of New Hampshire; a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1797 to 1800, when he re Died in Boston, May, 1802, aged thirtysigned. ;

nine years.

Gordon, William was a Representative

F.; was a native of Virginia; in Congress from that State is said to have been the orig

from 1828 to 1835; he inator of the Sub-Treasury System. marle County, July 2, 1858.

Died in Albe-

Gore, Christopher; was born in Boston, Mas sachusetts, in 1758; graduated at Harvard College in 1776; settled in Boston as a lawyer, and in 1789 was appointed District Attorney for the District of Mas sachusetts, under the new Constitution of the United States; in 1796 was appointed a Commissioner under the fourth article of Jay s Treaty; this appointment compelled him to go to London, where he remained eight years, during the last of which he was Charge. iV Affaires; was chosen Governor in 1809; in 1813 was chosen a Senator of the United States, in which capacity he served until 1816, when, after serving as a Presidential Elector during that year, he retired Died March 1, 1827, aged sixtyto private /ife.

Having no children, Mr. Gore left valuable bequests to the American Academy and the Histori cal Society, of which he was a member, and made Harvard College, of which institution he had been a eight.

Fellow and Trustee, his residuary legatee. He was for a time the legal tutor and adviser of Daniel Webster.

197

Gorham, Benjamin; was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 13, 1775: graduated at Cam bridge in 1795; studied law with Theophilus Parsons, of Newburyport, and rose to eminence at the bar of Boston; was a Representative in Congress from the Suffolk District from 1820 to 1823, and from 1827 to 1831, and from 1833 to 1835; was afterwards for a short time a member of the State Legislature, but spent the closing years of his life in retirement. Died in Boston, Massachusetts, September

27, 1855.

Gorham, Charles T.; was Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior at Washington, from March, 1876, to April, 1877.

Gorham, George C.; was born in New York; removed to California, where he entered into politics, and was defeated for two or three elective offices; in 1868 was elected Secretary of the United States Sen ate, in which position he continued until 1881. Gorham, Nathaniel was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 27, 1738; received a common school education; settled in business in his native town; was its Representative in the Legislature from 1771 to 1775; was a Delegate to the Provincial Con gress in 1774 and 1775 again a member of the Leg islature, and a member of the Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1779; a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783, and from 1785 to 1787, and was chosen President of that body in 1786; was, for several years, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; was a member of the Con vention for framing the Federal Constitution, and to fill the chair in the was called by Washington T hole for three months; was Committee of the afterwards influential in its adoption by the State; in connection with Oliver Phelps he purchased an immense tract of land on the Genesee River, now comprising ten or twelve counties in the State of New York, of which tract his eldest son was a pioneer Died at Canandaigua, October 22, 1826. settler. ;

;

W

Gorman, Arthur P.; was born in Howard County, Maryland, March 11, 1839; received a lim ited education in 1852 was appointed a Page in the United States Senate; continued in the service of that body until 1866, at which time he was Post master of the Senate; in that year was removed from office, and was immediately appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of Maryland, remaining in office until 1869; in that year was ap pointed a Director in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; in the same year was elected a member of the State House of Delegates; was re-elected in 1871, and was made Speaker; in 1872 was elected President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and continued in that position by successive re-elections; was a State Senator from 1875 to 1880, when he re signed, having been elected a Senator of the United States from Maryland for the term of six years, from ;

March

4,

1881.

Gorman, Willis Arnold was born near Flemingsburg, Kentucky, January 12, 1814; studied law, and commenced practice in 1825 at Bloomiiigton, Indiana; in 1837 and 1838 was Clerk of the Indiana Senate: was several years a member of the State Legislature; was Major of the Third Indiana Volunteers in the Mexican War; commanded an ;

independent battalion at the battle of Buena Vista; in 1847 raised the Fourth Indiana Volunteers, which he commanded in several battles; in 1848 was Civil and Military Governor of Puebln; was a Representa tive in Congress from 1849 to 1853, from Kentucky;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

198

was Governor of Minnesota from 1853 to 1857; mem its Constitutional Convention in 1857; prac ticed law at St. Paul until 1861; when he was chosen Colonel of the First Minnesota Volunteers; appointed ber of

Brigadier-General, September, 1861 was in the bat and West Point; led a bayonet charge at Fair Oaks, and commanded a brigade in Howard s division of Second Corps at Antietam. ;

tles of Ball s Bluff

G-orshire, William B.; was born in New York; rejnoved to Colorado, where he was appointed United States Judge for the Territory of Colorado, residing at Denver. Gross, James H.; was born at Union Court House, South Carolina, August 9, 1820; engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; was elected a Representative from South Carolina to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Daniel

was born

in Connecticut; on re elected a Representative in from 1847 to 1851. Congress

GrOtt,

moving

to

;

New York was

Gould, Herman D.; was born in Connecticut; having taken up his residence in New York, was elected a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1849 1851. Died in Delhi, New York, in to"

1852.

Gourdin, Theodore was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1813 to 1815. ;

Died January

17, 1826.

GrOvan, A.

B.; was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1822 to 1827, having first been elected for the unexpired term of James Overstreet.

Gove, Samuel

F.;

was born in Weymouth,

Massachusetts, March 9, 1822; received a common school education; removed to Georgia in 1838, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a Captain and Assessor of Taxes for Bibb County in the Confederate service; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1837; was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Fortieth Congress, servingonthe Conmr.ttee on the Navy Department.

Graham, Daniel was born in Tennessee; in 1847 was appointed Register of the Treasury Depart ment, remaining in office until 1849. ;

Graham, James was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in January, 1793; graduated at the University of that State in 1814; studied law, and practiced with success for many years; served four years in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1833 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1847; passed the closing years of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits. Died Septem ;

ber 25, 1851.

islature, and was Speaker in 1820; was a Represent* ative in Congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839J Died near Valonia, Indiana, in 1857.

Graham,

"William A.; was born in North Caro September 5, 1804, and was the son of General * Joseph Graham of the Revolution; was educated a# Chapel Hill University, where he graduated in 1824;, studied law, and came to the bar at Newberne; servedin the State Legislature from 1833 to 1836, and also in 1839 and 1840; was a Senator in Congress from North Carolina from 1841 to 1843; in 1844 was elected Governor of the State, and re-elected in 1846; Secretary of the Navy under President Filmore; sub sequently was nominated for the office of Vice-President on the ticket with Winfield Scott; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention"

lina,

1

1

was>

of 1866; subsequently held the position of Arbitrator between the States of Virginia and Maryland. Died at Saratoga, New York, August 11, 1875.

Amos

Granger, P.; was born in Suffield, Hart ford County, Connecticut, in June, 1789; received a common school education; in 1811 removed to Manlius, New York, and was for a time President of that corporation served as a Captain of Militia at Sackett s Harbor in 1812; subsequently became a General of Militia; in 1820 removed to Syracuse, and for many years devoted himself to agricultural and mercantile pursuits; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Territories; in early life became zealously attached to the Episcopal Church, and by his liberality and knowledge of ;

ecclesiastical history did much for the prosperity of the church in his section of the country; was a cousin

of Francis Granger. 20, 1866.

Died in Syracuse,

James

Graham, John was a citizen of Virginia; in 1819 was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Por tugal; also went to Brazil on diplomatic business; returned to the United States in 1820. Died July 31 ;

of that year.

Graham, "William; was born in 1783; received a limited education; was a member of the Convention which framed the .State Constitution of Indiana; served many years in both branches of the State Leg

York.

F.; was born in New York; elected a Representative from Michigan to the

Granger, Bradley was

Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Granger, Francis was born December 1, 1792, in Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut; graduated at Yale College in 1811; on removing to New York was, for five years from 1826, a member of the Generai Assembly of that State; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841, when he resigned to accept from President Harrison, the appointment of PostmasterGeneral; after that time lived in retirement; was a member of the Peace Convention of 1861. Died at Canandaigua, New York, August 28, 1868. ;

Granger, Gideon; was born in Suffield, Con necticut, July 19, 1767; graduated at Yale College in 1787; in the following year was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, where he prac ticed with great distinction; in 1793 was elected a member

of the Legislature, and continued in that several years; to his exertions the State is principally indebted for its school fund; in 1801 was appointed Postmaster-General of the United States, and continued in that office until 1814, when he re moved to the State of New York; in 1819 was elected to the State Senate, which position he resigned in 1821, on account of ill-health did much to promote internal improvements in the State; and gave one thousand acres of land in aid of the canal. Died in Canandaigua, December 31, 1822. His writings were confined almost entirely to political subjects; his principal publications were vritten in favor of the administrations of President J ^fferson and Governor H*/ Clinton, and on the School Fund of Connecticut. was an able speaker and a powerful writer.

body

H.; was elected a Representa Graham, tive from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Accounts.

New

August

;

-~

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Grant, Abraham P.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839.

Grant, James Benton was born in Russell County, Alabama, January 2, 1848; served in the Confederate Army from January to April, 1865; re moved to Iowa in 1870; attended the Iowa Agricul tural College three years, Cornell University one year and the School of Mines, at Freiberg, Saxony, two ;

years;

then,

"Zealand,

in 1876,

making a

visited Australia

critical

and

Grant, Ulysses S. was born in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, April 27, 1822. Although originally named Hiram Ulysses, the Congressman who nominated him for the West Point Academy gave his name by mistake as Ulysses S., and by that name he has ever been recognized; graduated at the Military Academy in 1843, and as Second Lieutenant was assigned to the Fourth Infantry; continued in the army for eleven years, and participated in most of the battles of the Mexican War, serving under Generals Scott and Taylor, and receiving two brevets for gallantry at Molino del Key and Chapultepec; while serving in Oregon, in 1852, was promoted to the rank of Captain; in 1854 resigned his commis sion, and settled on a farm near St. Louis, Missouri; in 1859 was a real estate agent in St. Louis; early in 1860 removed to Galena, Illinois, where he joined his father and a brother in the manufacture of leather. When the Rebellion commenced he raised and took command of a company of Volunteers; before the ;

was Colonel of the Twenty-first

1854 was elected to the Virginia Legislature; during the latter year removed to Missouri; was elected to the Convention of that State in 1860; in 1862 was elected to the Senate of the State, and re-elected in lH(jl; during a part of the Rebellion was Colonel of the Eighth Regiment of Missouri Cavalry; after the close of the war turned his attention to the practice of law; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Militia and Education and Labor.

New

examination of the ore

mines of those countries; settled at Leadville, Colo rado, in 1877, and engaged in the business of smelt ing; in 1882 was elected Governor of Colorado.

close of 1861

199

Illinois

Regiment, and was made a Brigadier-General of Vol unteers; in 1862 was promoted to the rank of MajorGeneral of Volunteers, from which time his military history is to be traced in his achievements at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, luka, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, in the west and south, and at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Peters burg in Virginia, culminating in the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, on April 9, 1865; on July 4, 1863, was appointed, by President Lincoln, MajorGeneral in the Regular Army; was appointed Lieu tenant-General March 2, 1864, receiving his commis sion directly from the hands of the President; the full title of General was conferred upon him July 25, 1^(16; after the close of the Rebellion took command oi the armies of the United States, with his head quarters at Washington. In December, 1863, Con gress passed a joint resolution thanking him and the soldiers who fought under him for their gallant services, and awarding him a gold medal; on De cember 12, 1867, was appointed, by President John son. Secretary of War ad interim, in the place of E. M. Stanton, suspended, which position he held until the November following, when the Senate refused to sanction the suspension of Mr. Stanton; in 1868 was elected President of the United States; inaugurated as such on March 4, 1869; was re-elected in 1872 for the term ending in 1877. Died at Mt. McGregor, July 23, 1885.

Grantland, Seatori was born in Virginia; having taken up his residence near Milledgeville, in Georgia, was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1835 to 1839; was also a Presi ;

dential Elector.

Gravely, Joseph J.; was born in Henry County, Virginia, in 1828; received a common school educa tion; passed his youth chiefly on a farm; in 1853 and

Graves, Alexander; was born in Mississippi, 29, 1844 when the Civil AVar broke out was

August

;

attending Centre College, Kentucky; left college, and entered the Confederate Army, serving throughout the war; in 1865 resumed his studies, and graduated from Oakland (now Alcorn) University, Mississippi, in 1867; studied law, and graduated from the Law Department of the. University of Virginia in 1869; settled at Lexington, Missouri, in the practice of his profession; in 1872 was elected City Attorney of Lex ington; in 1874 was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Lafayette County; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty -eighth Congress.

Graves, County,

Edward

New

O.; York, August

was born in Herkimer 1843; was educated at

3,

Seminary and at Hobart College, Geneva, York; on leaving college, June 1, 1863, was ap pointed a clerk in the office of the Treasurer of the United States at Washington City; was promoted through the intermediate grades and on May 15, 1868, was appointed Chief Clerk of the Treasurer s Fairfield

New

in April, 1872, was appointed, by President Grant, a member of the Treasury Board of Civil Ser vice Examiners; in October, 1873, was appointed Chief Examiner of the Civil Service; July 1, 1874, was appointed Superintendent of the newly-created National Bank Redemption Agency; in 1877 was Chairman of a committee appointed to examine the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Treasury Department; April 1, 1883, was appointed Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Washington June 1, 1885, was appointed Chief of the Bureau of En graving and Printing in the United States Treasury office;

;

Department

Graves,

at Washington. "William J.;

was a member of the Ken

tucky Legislature from Henry County in 1834; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1835 in 1838 engaged in a duel at Bladensburg, to 1841 Maryland, with Jonathan Cilley, in which the latter ;

was killed; was again a member of the Legislature in 1843 from Jefferson County; was a Presidential Died at Louisville, September 27, Elector in 1848. 1848. aged forty-three years.

Gray, Edward was a

Representative in Con

;

gress from Virginia from 1799 to 1813.

Gray, George was born at New Castle, Dela May 4, 1840; graduated from Princeton College ;

ware,

in 1859, receiving the degree of A. B., and in 1862 received the degree of A. M. after studying law with his father, Andrew C. Gray, spent a year in the Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1863, and began the practice of law at New Castle; ;

was appointed Attorney-General of the State of Delaware, in 1879, by Governor Hall, and re-ap pointed, in 1884, by Governor Stockley; was a Delegate Democratic National Conventions of 1876, 1880, and 1884; was elected to the United States Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Thomas F. Bayard as Secretary of State, and took his seat March 19, 1885. to the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

200

Gray, Hiram

was born in Salem, Washington York, April 10. 1802; graduated at in 1821; studied law, and came to the bar in 1823; settled in Elmira, and there practiced his profession; was a Representative in Congress from York from 1837 to 1839; in 1846 was Judge of the Sixth Judicial District; in 1847 one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, serving in that capacity until County,

;

New

Union College

New 1860

Gray, Horace March

;

was born

at

Massa

Boston,

graduated at Harvard University in 1845; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851, and engaged in practice at Boston; was Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1854 to 1861 in 1864 was ap pointed an Associate Justice of that Court, and in 1873 became Chief Justice of the same Tribunal; in 1881 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. chusetts,

24,

1828;

;

Gray, Isaac P.; was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania; his ancestors were members of the Society of Friends,

his great-grandfather having America with William Penn, and served as a member of the General Assembly from 1684 to 1692, when Penn was Governor and proprietary of the province; in 1836 Mr. Gray s parents removed to Ohio, he being but a child at that time; received a common school education; in 1855 removed to Union City, Indiana; studied law; was admitted to the bar and engaged in practice at Union City; in 1857 was elected a member of the City Council; in 1862 was appointed, by Governor Morton, Colonel of the Fourth

come

to

Indiana Cavalry; in 1864 raised the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Infantry; in 1866 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress; in 1868 was elected a State Senator; in July, 1870, was by President Grant, Consul to St. appointed, Thomas, but declined the position; in 1872 was a Delegate to the Liberal Republican National Con vention and was appointed, by the Convention, the Indiana Representative on the National Committee; in 1876 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana; became Governor on the death of Governor James D. Williams; was re-nominated in 1880, but was not elected; in 1881 received the complimentary vote of his party in the Legislature for United States Sena tor; in 1884 was elected Governor of Indiana for the term of four years.

Gray, John

O.; was born in Southampton Coun was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1820 to 1821, for the unexpired term of James Johnson. ty, Virginia;

new State Constitution in 1838; was Governor of Maryland from 1838 to 1841. Died in Queen Anne County, July 9, 1868. cessful struggle to obtain a

Grayson, "William J.; was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1788; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1809; was bred to the legal pro fession; was a Commissioner in Equity of South Car olina for many years; a member of the State Legisla ture in 1813; a Representative in Congress from 1833 to 1837; was appointed, by President Taylor, Collec tor of the Customs of Charleston, holding the office until 1853; subsequently devoted himself to plant

ing; published "The Hireling and the Slave," Chicora, and other Poems," and was the author of a "Life of J. L. Petigru." Died in Newberne, Octo "

ber

4,

1863; son of William Grayson.

Greeley, Horace

;

3,

was abandoned; during

its existence,

was born in Prince William

;

County, Virginia; educated at the University of Ox ford, England studied law at the Temple, London, and settled in Dumfries, Virginia; was appointed Aid-de-camp to General Washington, August 24, 17 6; Colonel of a Virginia regiment January 1, 1777; Commissioner of the Board of War in 1780 and 1781; a Commissioner to treat with Sir William Howe respecting prisoners, while the army Avas at ;

Valley Forge, and at Monmoitth commanded his reg iment with valor; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787-, member of the Virginia Convention to consider the Federal Constitution in 1788, but. with Henry, opposed its adoption in 1789 and 1790 was United States Senator from Virginia. Died at Dumfries, while on his way to the Seat of ;

Government, March

12, 1790.

several

political Constitution, the Jeffersonian,

preceding President Taylor s inauguration; in 1851 visited Europe, and was chosen Chairman of one of the juries at the World s Fair; gave an account of his travels in a series of letters to the Tribune, which were afterwards collected into a volume; also pub lished a collection of his addresses, essays, etc. un der the title of "Hints toward Reforms"; and a work entitled "The American Conflict"; in 1S64 was a Presidential Elector; was a Delegate to the of 1866, and Loyalists Convention Philadelphia to the "State Constitutional Convention" of 1867; was one of those who gave bail for Jefferson Davis in May, 1867; in November, of that year, was ap pointed, by President Johnson, Minister to Austria, and was confirmed, but declined the position; in 1872 was nominated by the Conservative party for the Died near office of President, but was defeated. Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, No vember 29, 1872. His most popular book was Rec ollections of a Busy Life." ,

"

"

in New York; served the Assembly of that State; was a Rep resentative in Congress from 1843 to 1845; was sub sequently Judge of a County Court. Died at Sodus, ayne County, New York, October 18, 1865.

Green, Byram; was born

five years in

W

Green, Duff was born ;

Grayson,

"William

;

was born in Maryland

in

1786; was a planter; served in both branches of the State Legislature, and took an active part in the suc

Mr. Greeley

campaign papers, the and the Log Cabin; in 1841 commenced the publication of the New York Tribune; in 1848 was chosen to fill a vacancy in the Thirtieth Congress, and served through the short term

published

"

Gray son, William

New

was born at Amherst,

1811; until the age of four teen attended a common school during winter, work ing in summer on his father s farm; in 1826, his par ents having removed to Vermont, Horace, who had early shown a fondness for reading, especially of newspapers, and had resolved to be a printer, en deavored to find employment as an apprentice in a printing-office in Whitehall, but without success; afterwards applied at the office of the Northern Spec tator in Poultney, Vermont, where his services were accepted, and where he remained until 1830, when the paper was discontinued, and he returned to work on his father s farm; during the following year went to the city of New York, where he obtained work as a journeyman printer, and was employed in various offices, with occasional intervals, for the next eight een months; in 1834, in connection with Jonas Win chester, started the New Yorker, a weekly journal of literature and general intelligence, and became its editor; after struggling on several years the journal

Hampshire, February

in Georgia about the year

Louis, Territory of Mis souri, a early as 1817; in 1824 became the editor of a paper called the Inquirer; left it before the close of

1794;

was a resident of

St.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

mission to suggest amendments to the Constitution of New Jersey in 1873; became a member of the bar of New York in 1874; was a Delegate to the Demo cratic National Conventionsof 1860 and 1880; in 1884 was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the

the year; went to Washington City,, and in 1826 became the proprietor and editor of the United States he advo Telegraph, which he conducted until 1835; cated the interests of John C. Calhoun against those of

Andrew Jackson, while holding

the position of

Government Printer, to which he was elected in 1829, whereby he lost an annual income of fifty thousand

Green,

was subsequently engaged wholly in private enter had a personal difficulty with James AVatson Webb on the steps of the Capitol, which at

tracted much attention in the political world, but resulted in no personal harm to either party; the man who succeeded him as Public Printer in Washington was Frank P. Blair, and it is a little singular as an incident in their lives, that both these men had a habit, after they became advanced in years, of ap pearing on the streets of Washington, carrying long staffs instead of common canes, while supporting their Mr. Green died in Dalton, Georgia, feeble steps. which was his home, June 9, 1875.

W.

was born in Maryland; elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1855. ;

was

Green, I. L.; was born in Massachusetts; gradu ated at Harvard University in 1781; was a Represent ative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to Died in 1841. 1809, and again from 1811 to 1813. Green, Innis ; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1827 to 1831.

Green, James Virginia, February

S.; was born in Fauquier County, 28, 1817; in 1836, with no fortune,

and but a common English education, removed to Alabama, where he remained one year; then took up his residence in Missouri after many struggles with the world, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and soon thereafter acquired a lucrative practice; was a Presi ;

dential Elector in 1844; was a member of the Con vention held in 1845 for the revision of the Constitu tion of Missouri; was elected a member of Congress in 1846, serving through two terms; argued a boundary dispute case in the Supreme Court by ap pointment of the Governor of Missouri; in 1849 took the stump against the late Hon. Thomas H. Benton in 1853 President Pierce appointed him Charge d Affaires, and subsequently Minister Resident, at Bogota, New Granada; was again elected a member o*f Congress in 1856, but before taking his seat was chosen by the Legislature to represent the State of Missouri in the Senate of the United States, where he remained until 1861; during the first session of the Thirty -fifth Congress was a member of the Coinmittees on the Judiciary and on Territories, and at the commencement of the second session of that Congress was chosen Chairman of the Committee on Territories. Died at St. Louis, January 19, 1870. ;

1

.

G-reen,

Robert

S.;

was born at Princeton,

J.;

was born near

St.

Mark

s,

tion; Ten ity of Virginia and Cumberland University, the bar became a nessee; upon his admission to and Walker partner in the law firm of Robert J. Louis Janin, at Washington, District of Columbia;

prises; in 1830

to Ohio;

Wharton

from North Florida, whither his parents had removed Dis Carolina; was educated at Georgetown College, trict of Columbia, and at the United States Military Academy, remaining three years at the latter institu read law and political economy at the Univers

New

Green, Frederick

.

Forty-ninth Congress.

so dollars; carried his hostility against the President from 1835 to ;far, that he refused to take his hand; 1838 edited a paper called the Reformation; after that went to Europe and engaged in various schemes for .making money, in which he was eminently successful; York, called the in 1844 edited a journal in Republic, which lost much money for its proprietors;

removed

201

New

Jersey, March 25, 1831; graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1850; studied law; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 1853, and as Councilor in 1856; was City Attorney of the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey, from 1857 to 1868; was Sur rogate of Union County from 1862 to 1867; was

Presiding Judge of Union County Court of Common Pleas from 1868 to 1873; was a member of the Com

and en relinquished the profession soon afterwards has since gaged in agricultural pursuits, which he the Civil War followed; upon the breaking out of enlisted in the Confederate Army; was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel; was taken prisoner at Roanoke wounded and Island; wounded at Washington; taken prisoner at Gettysburg; at the close of the war resumed the management of his farm in North Caro the Democratic National Con lina; was a Delegate to ventions of 1868 and 1876; was a Presidential Elector in 1868; purchased the famous Tokay Vineyard, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and settled the Society of there; was elected first President of Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of North Caro from North Caro lina; was elected a Representative lina to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

was born in the Shenandoah Val Kentucky County in the the Court for Legislature of Virginia; was Clerk of many years: was a member of the Danville Conven tion in 1785, and of the first State Constitutional Convention of 1792; was a Surveyor for locating land warrants; was a member of the Kentucky Legis lature in 1836 and 1837; was a Representative in

Green,

"Willis;

ley, Virginia; represented

,

Congress from that State from 1839 to 1845.

Greene, Albert C.; was born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1792; read law in New York, where he was admitted to the bar; returned to his native the practice of his pro State, and there commenced the General Assembly fession; in 1815 was elected to of the State; in 1816 was elected a Brigadier-General of Militia, and subsequently became a Major-General ;

from 1822 to 1825 served again in the Legislature of the State, and was chosen Speaker; from 1825 to 1843 was Attorney-General of the State; from 1845 to 1851 was a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island; two Houses having again served a term in each of the of the State Legislature, retired from public life in of Master of Arts from. 1857; he received the degree Brown University in 1827. Died at Providence,

January

8,

1863.

Greene, George W.; was born in Orange County,

New

York, July 4, 1831; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; was a teacher in several academies in Pennsylvania for several years; was appointed a School Commissioner for Orange County in 1856; read in 1860; in 1861 was law, and came to the bar elected Judge of Orange County for three years; was elected a Representative from New York to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving on the Committee on Freed-

men

s Affairs.

Greene, Bay; was born in Rhode

Island; gradu

ated at Yale College in 1784 was a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island from 1797 to 1801, when he ;

resigned.

Died

in 1849.

.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

202

Greene, Roger Sherman was born in Roxbury (now Boston), Massachusetts, December 14, 1840; removed to Westborough, Massachusetts, in 1849, and to Windsor, Vermont, in 1851; received a classical education, graduating from Dartmouth Col lege in 1859; studied law in the office of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, New York City; was admitted to the bar there in May, 1862, and engaged in prac tice; entered the Union Army for the war of the Rebellion, in September, 1862, under commission as Second Lieutenant of Company I, Third Missouri Infantry; in March, 1863, was promoted to First Lieutenant in the same company; was made Captain ;

of Company C, Fifty-first U. S. Colored Infantry, in August, 1863, and serving as officer of that regiment till the close of the war; was honorably discharged, by acceptance of resignation, November, 1865; was Judge Advocate of the District of Vicksburg at the close of 1864 and beginning of 1865, and Judge Ad vocate of the Western Division of Louisiana from June, 1865, until retirement from service; received a severe gunshot wound through his right arm in the general assault on Vicksburg, while in command of his company, May 22, 1863; resumed the practice of law at Chicago, Illinois, in January, 1866; in July, 1870, while residing at Kenosha, Wisconsin, was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, residing at Olympia; was twice re-appointed, holding the office until January, 1879, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the same court, residing at Seattle, Washington Terri tory; in 1883, was re-appointed Chief Justice.

Thomas

Greene, M.; was a Delegate to Con gress from the Territory of Mississippi from 1802 to 1803. Greenleaf, Halbert S.; was born at Guilford, Vermont, April 12, 1827; received a common school and academic education taught school for three years; at the age of twenty-three shipped before the mast on a whaling vessel and made one voyage; in 1852 re moved to Shilburne Falls, Massachusetts, and was employed in a cutlery manufactory; at the expiration of nine months engaged in manufacturing pursuits on his own account; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1856; served two years as a Captain of State Militia; in 1861 organized the Yale and Greenleaf Lock Company, of which he became Business Manager; in 1862 enlisted in the Union Army; served with con spicuous gallantry, rising to the rank of Colonel, arid frequently commanding a Brigade; in 1882 was elected Commander of the First New York Veteran Brigade, with the rank of Brigadier-General, and was unani mously re-elected in 1883; became very successful in the manufacture of locks; was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Forty -eighth Congress. ;

was Governor of Ken tucky from 1804 to 1808; was a patriot of the Ameri can Revolution, and participated in the perils of the war; was at various times a member of the Legisla ture of Kentucky was a Representative of that State in Congress from 1792 to 1797; was a Presidential Elector in 1809; was a man of great usefulness in his native State. Died at Frankfort, Kentucky, April

Greenup, Christopher

;

;

24, 1818.

Arkansas from 1853 to 1858, serving a portion of the time as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs; in 1859 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Com missioner of Indian Affairs. born in Carlisle, Penn sylvania, June 10, 1755; received a good classical edu cation, and for several years was tutor in the Univers ity of Pennsylvania; in 1783 opened a country store in Middletown, Dauphin County, whence he removed in 1789 to a wilderness valley, where he commenced agricultural pursuits; in 1790 was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from Pennsylvania, serving from 1791 to 1807; was a Senator of the United States from 1807 to 1813, serving for a time as President pro 1cm. of the Senate; in 1814 removed to Bellefonte; in 1816 was appointed Secretary of State of Pennsyl

Gregg Andrew; was 1

,

vania; was remai-kable for a sound and discrimina ting mind, agreeable and dignified manners, and per formed his duties with talent and integrity. Died at Bellefonte, May 20, 1835. %

Gregg, David L.; was a citizen of Illinois; in 1853 was appointed a Commissioner with diplomatic powers to the Sandwich Islands, where he remained until 1858.

Gregg, James M.; was born

in Patrick County,

June 26, 1806; received a common school education; was a practical farmer; studied law; in 1830 settled in Hendrick County, Indiana; from 1834 to 1837 was County Surveyor; was then chosen Clerk of the Circuit Court, serving until 1845; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on Public Expendi Virginia,

tures.

Gregory, Dudley

S.;

was born in Connecticut;

was

at one time engaged in the iron business among the Adirondack Mountains of New York; settled in New Jersey; was elected a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1847 to 1849; held many Died in Jersey City, positions of trust and honor. December 8, 1874.

Gregory, John M.; was born in Virginia; was Governor of that State in 1842 and 1843. Greig, John was born in Dumfriesshire, Scot August 6, 1779; educated at the Edinburgh High School; emigrated to America in 1797; settled in Canandaigua, New York; studied law, and came ;

land,

to the bar in 1804; practiced his profession until 1820, when he became Presideutof the Ontario Bank, which position he held until 1856; was for many years a Regent of the New York University, and also a Vice-Chancellor; was long the active head of an Agricultural Society, and was one of the founders

and corporators of the Ontario Female Seminary; was elected a Representative in Congress for the term commencing in 1841 resigned at the close of the first Died at Canandaigua, April 9, 1858. session. ;

Greiner, John was born in Philadelphia; re moved to Ohio when young; was, for eight years, ;

Librarian of the State Library; became editor of the Ohio State Journal, and was a writer of popular political songs, among the most noted of which were those entitled, "Old Zip Coon," Tippecanoe and The Wagoner Boy"; in 1849 was Tyler Too," and appointed, by President Taylor, an Indian Agent in New Mexico; afterwards became Governor of the Territory; in 1865 settled in Zanesville, Ohio, and edited the Times of that city; was very popular as a member of various societies. Died at Toledo, May 13, 1871, in the sixtieth year of his age. "

Greenwood, A.

B.;

was born

in Franklin Coun graduated at the Athens

July 11, 1811 University, Georgia; was a lawyer by profession; was a member of the Legislature of the State of Arkansas from 1842 to 1845; was Prosecuting Attorney for said State from 1845 to 1851; Circuit Judge from 1851 to 3: was elected a Representative in Congress from ty, Georgia,

;

"

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

203

was born in Greenfield, Grennell, George Franklin County, Massachusetts, December 25, 1786; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1808; studied law, and came to the bar in 1811; was Prosecuting Attorney for Franklin County from 1829 to 1818; was a member of the State Senate from 1824 to 1827; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1829 to 1839; was for many years, from 1838 to 1859, a member of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, and in 1854 the degree of LL.D. was con ferred upon him by that institution; from 1849 to 1853 was Probate Judge for his county, and subse quently settled down as Clerk of the Franklin Coun ty Court; was the first man who proposed and advocated on the floor of Congress the recognition of

Griffin, Cyrus; was born in Virginia in 1749; was educated in England; returning to Virginia, be came a member of the Legislature; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1781, and in 1787 and 1788, and was its President in 1788; was President of the Supreme Court of Admiralty; a Commissioner in 1789 to the Creek Nation; Judge of the United States District Court for Virginia from 1789 until his death, which occurred at Yorktown, Virginia, December 14, 1810.

Hayti.

in 1800

;

Gresham, Walter Q.; was born in Harrison County, Indiana, March 17, 1833; attended the State University, at Bloomington, Indiana, but did not graduate; studied law; was admitted to the bar, in 1855, and engaged in practice at Coryden, Indiana; entered the Union Army in 1861 as Lieutenant-Col onel; was, soon afterwards, promoted to a Colonelcy, and was made a Brigadier-General after the fall of Vicksburg; was wounded in July, 1864, while in command of a Division before Atlanta, and was brevetted a Major-General from that date; was Finan cial Agent of Indiana at New York City from 1867 to 1869, when he was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Indiana, in which capacity he served until April, 1883, when he was appointed Postmaster-General in the Cabinet of. President Arthur; in 1884 was appointed, by President Arthur, United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

Grey, Benjamin E.; was a native of Kentucky; was a member of the Legislature of that State from Logan County in 1838 and 1839; was State Senator from 1847 to 1851; was Speaker of the Senate and Acting Lieutenant-Governor in 1850; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Kentucky from 1851 to

John was an early emigrant to Indiana; was appointed a Judge of the United States Court for that Territory; in 1806 was appointed to the same position for the Territory of Michigan, where he remained for many years. Griffin,

Griffin,

;

John

K.; was a Representative in Con

gress from South Carolina, from 1831 to 1841. at Milton, South Carolina, August 1, 1841.

Griffin,

Samuel was ;

a Representative in Con

gress from Virginia, from 1789 to 1795, and of those who voted for locating the seat of ment on the Potomac.

Griffin,

Thomas

;

Died

was one Govern

was a Representative in Con

gress from Virginia from

1

803 to 1805.

Samuel was

born in Wales, Great 1816; was educated at Alle gheny College, Meadville; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar in 1846, and practiced; was elected a Representative to the Forty-second Congress from Pennsylvania, serving on the Committee on FreedGriffith,

Britain,

men

;

February

14,

s Affairs.

was one of the earliest Griffith, "William Judges of the United States Circuit Court; in 1801 was appointed, by President Jefferson, to the Third ;

Circuit.

1855.

Grider, Henry; was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, July 16, 1796; received a good education at Bowling Green and elsewhere; studied law, and while engaged in practice, also devoted some atten tion to farming; rendered his first public service as a war with En private in the army, during the last to Cana gland, serving with Shelby in his campaign to the Legislature da; in 1827 and 1831 was elected ate Senate, where of Kentucky, and in 1833 to the he served four years; was a Representative in Con to 1847; was also gress from Kentucky from 1843 elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on

the Committees on Revolutionary Claims and on Mileage; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress; was a member of the Committee on the Territories; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Territories. Mileage, and Recon struction

tember

Griffin, Isaac; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1813 to 1817.

Died in Warren County, Kentucky, Sep

14, 1866.

Grier, Robert C.; was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1794 graduated at Dickinson College in 1812; studied law, and came to the bar in 1817, practicing his profession in North umberland, Columbia, Lycoming, Union, and Schuylkill Counties; was appointed President Judge of Al a resident legheny County in 1833, when he became of Pittsburg; in 1846 was appointed, by President Court of Polk, an Associate Justice of the Supreme the United States; removed to Philadelphia in 1848. ;

Died in Philadelphia, September

25, 1870.

Grimes, James W.; was born in Deering, borough County,

New

Hampshire, October

Hills-

16, 1816;

commenced his education at Hampton Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836; soon after that time emigrated to the West; in 1838 was elected to the General Assembly of the Territory of Iowa, to which he was frequently re-elected; was Governor of the State of Iowa from 1854 to 1858; in was elected a Senator in Congress from that 1 859 State for six years, serving as Chairman of the Com mittee on the District of Columbia, and also of that on Naval Affairs, and as a member of those on Pub lic Lands and Public Buildings; was a Delegate to Peace Congress" of 1861; was re-elected to the the Senate for the term commencing in 1865, and ending in 1871; in 1865 received from the Iowa College the degree of LL. D. was also a member of the Special "

;

Joint Committee on the Rebellious States, and the Committees on Contingent Expenses of the Senate and on Appropriations; and was one of the Senators designated by the Senate to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866. Died at Burlington, Iowa,

February

7,

1872.

Grinnell, Joseph was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, November 17, 1788; his early educa tion was received at private schools, and was molded in view of a mercantile life; commenced business in New York as a commission merchant in 1809, and continued there until 1829, for five years being con nected with John H. Rowland, eleven with Preserved ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

204

and four years with his brothers, Moses H. and Henry Grinnell; in 182JJ retired from the New York concern, and visited Europe; on his return set

Fish,

tled in his native, place, devoting himself to com merce generally, and especially to the whale fishery; among the laborious positions which he long held in New Bedford were those of President of the Marine Bank, of the New Bedford and Taunton Railroad, and of the Wamsutta Cotton Mill; in 1839, 1840, and 1841 was a member of the Governor s Council of Massachusetts; was elected a Representative in Con gress in 1843, and was three times re-elected, serving on the Post Office and Commerce Committees; orig inated the idea of a reduction of postage and the establishment of life boats; indeed, so great was Mr. Grinnell s influence on the floor of Congress, as every measure he proposed seemed to succeed, he was play fully designated by his friends as one of the most dangerous men in the House.

Grinnell, Josiah B.; was born in New Haven, Vermont, December 22, 1821; received a collegiate and theological education; went to Iowa in 1855, and turned his attention to farming, becoming the most extensive wool-grower in the State, to which indus

,

i

.

try he devoted special attention; was a member of the State Senate for four years; a special agent for the General Post Office for two years; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Freedmen, on Agricul ture, and on the Postal Railroad to New York; in June. 1866, L. H. Rousseau, a fellow-member, made a per

sonal assault upon him for words spoken in debate, which resulted in a resolution which was passed, reprimanding the assailant for violating the rights and privileges of the House." "

G-rinnell, Moses H.; was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, March 3, 1803; was educated at pri vate schools and at Friends Academy; was bred a merchant, and frequently went abroad as supercargo was a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1839 to 1841; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; Moses H., & Henry Grinnell, and Robert B. Minturn, were the gentlemen com posing the distinguished firm of Grinnell, Minturn & Co., the house taking that title in 1829, though in reality founded many years before by Joseph Grinnell and Preserved Fish; in 1869 was appointed Collector of the Port of New York. ;

Griswold, G-aylord graduated at Yale College in 1787; was a member of the New York Assembly from 1796 to 1798; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1803 to 1805. Died in 1809. ;

John

A.; was born in Rensselaer County, York, about the year 1822; was edu cated for the mercantile profession; settled himself in the iron trade, and also engaged in banking; served one term as Mayor of the city of Troy; in 1862 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thir ty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Death of President Lincoln and Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means.

G-riswold,

New

G-riswold, John A.; was born in Greene Coun ty, New York, in 1827; after acquiring a good edu cation studied and adopted the profession of the law; in 1856 was elected District Attorney of Greene and held the for three years; in 1864 County, position

was elected County Judge, and continued in the four years; in 1868 was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Forty-first Congress, serv ing on the Committee on Coinage. office

was born in Lyme, Connec 1762; graduated at Yale College in 1780, and studied law, in the practice of which he became eminent; from 1795 to 1805 was a Represent ative in Congress from Connecticut: in 1801 declined the appointment of Secretary of War, tendered him by President Adams, a few days previous to the accession of President Jefferson in 1807 was chosen a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State; was LieutenantGovernor from 1809 to 1811; was then elected Gov ernor; while holding that office he refused to place four companies under General Dearborn, at the requi sition of the President, for garrison purposes, deem ing the requisition unconstitutional, as they were not wanted to "repel invasion"; in 1809 was a Presidential Elector; a scene that occurred between him and Matthew Lyon, on the floor of Congress, G-riswold, Rog-er

ticut,

May

;

21,

;

caused great excitement; he received, from. Harvard Died in 1812. College, the degree of LL.D.

Griswold, Stanley; was born in Torringfbrd, Connecticut, November, 1768; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1786, and became a clergyman in 1804 be came the editor of a Democratic paper in Walpole, New Hampshire; was soon after appointed, by Presi dent Jefferson, Secretary of the Territory of Michigan; was a Senator in Congress from Ohio in 1809, but was superseded by A. Campbell; was United States Judge for the Northwestern Territory. Died at Shawnee;

town,

Illinois,

August

21, 1814.

Groesbeck, William

S.; was born in New York about the year 1826; studied law, and removed to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the practice of his profession; in 1851 was a member of the "State Con stitutional Convention"; in 1852 was a member of the Commission appointed to codify the laws of Ohio; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirtyfifth Congress, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; was a member of the "Peace Congress" of 1861; in 1862 was elected to the Senate of Ohio; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Con vention of 1866; was one of the counsel for Andrew Johnson during his Impeachment Trial in 1868. "

Groome, James

was born in Elkton, Cecil 4, 1838; studied law with his father, John C. Groome, who was a prominent lawyer; was admitted to the bar in 1861 in 1867 was B.;

County, Maryland, April

;

elected to the State Constitutional Convention; in 1871 was elected to the State Legislature, and was re-elected; in 1874 was elrtjted Governor of Mary land was elected United States Senator from Mary land for the term of six years from March 4, 1879. ;

Gross, Ezra C.; was born in Windsor County, Vermont; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1806; practiced law in Elizabethtown, New York; was Surrogate of Essex County from 1815 to 1819; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1819 to 1821; was elected to the Assembly of that State in 1828 and 1829. Died before the close of his second term.

Gross, Samuel; was a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1819 to 1823.

Grosvenor, Charles Henry; was born at Pomdescended Connecticut, September 20, 1833 from Colonel Thomas Grosvenor, of the Second Regifret,

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. meat of the Connecticut line in the Revolutionary Army, who was his grandfather, and his father was an officer in the army during the war of 1812; when in 1838 he was taken, by his five years of age parents, to Ohio, settling in Athens County; his edu cation was confined to two terms in an infant school at Pomfret, when he was four years of age, and three winter terms in a log school house in Ohio 1840 to 1849; worked on a farm until he reached his major ity; studied law and taught school for three winters, in Athens County; was clerk in a store for portions of six years; Avas admitted to the bar, at Athens, in was elected 1857, and engaged in practice there Township Clerk in 1855 and 1856; was a member of the Town Council of Athens in 1859 and 1860: en listed in the Union Army in 1861, and served throughout the war as Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, and was brevetted Brigadier-General in 1865; was Solicitor of Athens in 1867 and 1868; Presidential Elector in 1872 and 1880; was elected a Representa tive in the State Legislature in 1873 and re-elected in 1875, serving as Speaker in 1876 and 187 7 was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home in 1880; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-ninth ;

205

in 1868 was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention; in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874 was a Representative in the Vermont Legislature; in 1876 was a member, and President pro tern, of the State Senate; in 1878 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress; in 1880 was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Forty-seventh Congress, and in 1884 was elected a Representative to the Forty-ninth Congress; in 1876 became a Director in the Barton National Bank, in which position he continued.

years;

Grove, William B.; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina, from 1791 to 1803.

Asa P.; was born in Ontario County, York, in 1819; was educated at Centre College, Kentucky, of which State he became a resident in 1847; studied and practiced law; was elected to the State Senate in 1857; re-elected in 1861, holding the position eight years; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Expenditures on the Public Build Grover,

New

;

Congress.

Grosvenor, Thomas P.; was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, in 1780; graduated at Yale College in 1800; after studying law, removed to New York; served a number of years in the Legislature of that State; was elected a Representative in Congress, from 1813 to 1817. Died April 25, 1817. Grout, Jonathan was born in Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, July 23, 1737; was an officer in the colonial service in the French and Indian War of 1757 to 1760; studied law and settled in Petersham, Worcester County, Massachu setts; was an active and energetic Whig through the Revolutionary War; served for a short time in the Revolutionary Army; was for some years a member of the General Court, or House of Representatives of Massachusetts; in 1789 was elected a member of the First Congress, in which he served from 1789 to 1791; subsequently devoted himself to his profession. Died while attending Court at Dover, New Hamp ;

shire,

September

8,

1807.

Grout, William W.; was

born, of American parents, at Compton, Province of Quebec, Canada, May 24, 1836; returned, with his parents, to the old homestead, in Kirby, Caledonia County, Vermont, in 1846; received a common school and academic educa tion; studied law, was graduated from the Poughkeepsie, New York, Law School, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1857; was admitted to the bar

of Caledondia County, Vermont, in December of that year settled at Barton, Orleans County, Vermont, in August, 1858, and engaged in the practice of law; in 1862 was nominated, by the Republican party, for State s Attorney, but declined the candidacy, and in the succeeding September enlisted in the Union Army was made Captain on the organization of the company, and Lieutenant-Colonel on the organization of the regiment; served until musteredout, in August, 1863; in July, 1864, was commissioned, by the Gov ernor of Vermont, -to recruit colored troops at Newberne, North Carolina, and, in the fall of the same year, was appointed, by the same authority, to the com mand of the provisional forces upon the Canadian frontier, after the St. Albans Raid the same fall was elected, by the Legislature, a Brigadier-General, and was assigned to the command of the Second Brigade of Vermont Militia; also, the same fall, was elected State s Attorney for Orleans County for a term of two

ings.

Grover, Lafayette; was born in Bethel, Ox ford County, Maine; educated at Bowdoin College; studied law in Philadelphia, where he was admitted to the bar in 1850, and soon afterwards took up his residence in Salem, Oregon Territory; in 1851 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Territory; in 1852 Auditor of Public Accounts served three years in the Territorial Legislature; saw some service in the Indian wars of Oregon in 1854 was a Commissioner to adjust the claims of citizens in Oregon against the United States; in 1856 was appointed one of the ;

;

Commissioners to investigate the Indian war claims against the General Government; having been an active member of the Convention of 1857 to form a State Constitution, was subsequently elected the first Representative in Congress from the prospective State, and took his seat as such in February, 1859; subsequently resumed the practice of law; from 1867 to 1870 was engaged in the milling business; was Chairman of the State Central Democratic Commit tee; in 1870 was elected Governor of Oregon, and re-elected in 1874; resigned in 1877 to take his seat as a United States Senator from Oregon for the term ending in 1883.

Grover, Martin was a native of New York; was bred a lawyer; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847; was a Judge of the Supreme Court of New York from 1857 to 1859; was Judge of the Court of Appeals from 1859 for a full term; was elected an Associate Judge in 1870 for fourteen years. Died in Allegany County, New York, August 23, 1875. He acquired a fortune by his profession, and would never accept more than ;

7 per cent, interest for

money

loaned.

;

;

;

Grow, Galusha A.; was born in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, August 31, 1823; was edu at Amherst College, graduating in 1844; adopted the law as a profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1847; having settled among the moun tains of Pennsylvania, and hishealth being delicate, he amused himself by surveying wild land and rafting; in 1850 was elected a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, where he served as a member of the Committee on Territories and Public Printing; when Mr. Banks was Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives, Mr. Grow was Chairman of the Com mittee on Territories; during one of the recesses of Congress visited Europe; was re-elected to the Thirty-

cated

sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Commit tee on Territories; re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, and was chosen Speaker of the House of

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

206

Representatives; was a Delegate to the "Baltimore of 1864; subsequently resided for sev eral years in Texas, engaged in important business

Convention

"

enterprises; returned to Pennsylvania in 1875, again took an interest in political affairs.

and

was born in Virginia, Septem ber 11, 1770; removed with his father to Kentucky, and was educated at Bardstown Academy: studied law, and soon became distinguished at the bar; com-

G-rundy, Felix

;

irfenced his public career, at the age of twenty-two,

of the Convention for revising the Con for six or seven years, a member of the Legislature of that State; in 1806 was elected one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and was soon after Chief and Justice; in 1807 removed to Nashville, Tennessee, became eminent as a lawyer; from 1811 to 1814 was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee, and dur ing several years after was a member of the Legis lature of that State; from 1829 to 1838 was United States Senator, and in the latter year was appointed, by President Van Buren, Attorney-General of the

as a

member

stitution of

Kentucky; was afterwards,

United States; in 1840 resigned this position, and was again elected Senator. Died at Nashville, Tennessee,

December

19, 1840.

Guenther, Richard

was born at Potsdam, November 30, 1845; received a collegiate education; studied pharmacy in the Royal Pharmacy ;

Prussia,

at Potsdam; emigrated to the United States in 1866; settled at Oshkosh. Wisconsin, in 1867; was elected State Treasurer in 1876 and re-elected in 1878; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Fortyseventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty -ninth Congresses.

was Governor of South G-uerard, Benjamin Carolina from 1783 to 1785; Speaker of the House in Died in Charleston, South Carolina, January, 1783. ;

1789.

Guion, John

J.;

was the son of Major James

Guion, of the regular army, and was born in Natchez,

Mississippi, in 1801; was a member of the State Senate and President of that body also a Judge of the Criminal Court; in 1851 Governor, pro tern., of the State; subsequently a Judge of the District Court of the State. Died at Vicksburg, June 26, 1855. ;

Gunckel, Louis

B.;

was born

in

Germantown,

Ohio, October 15, 1826; sruduated at Farmer s College in 1848, and the law school of Cincinnati College in 1851; came to the bar the same year; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1856; a member of the Senate of Ohio in 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865, was a Presidential Elector in 1864; was ap pointed, by Congress, one of the Managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in 1864, and re-appointed in 1870; was appointed United States Commissioner to investigate Indian frauds, in 1871: was elected to the Forty -third Congress, serving on the Committee on Military Aifairs.

Gunn, James was a Senator of the United States from Georgia from 1789 to 1801. Died in He was one Louisville, in that State, July 30, 1801. of those who voted for locating the Seat of Govern ment on the Potomac. ;

Thomas M.; was born in Middle Ten September 18, 1826; received a classical edu cation, graduating from Irving College in 1850; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced Gunter,

nessee,

practice at Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1853; was a Delegate to the State Convention of 1861; served in the Confederate Army as a Colonel; was Prosecuting

Attorney from 1866 to 1868; successfully contested W. W. Wilshire in the Forty-third Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty -fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses. the seat of

H.; was born in Lebanon, Con Gurley, necticut, in 1787; was educated at Williamstown in College; studied law, and settled at an early day

Henry

Congress from Louisiana; was a Representative that Slate from 1823 to 1831; previously held the office of United States Judge for the District Court Died in 1832. of Louisiana. in>

Gurley, John A.; was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, December 9, 1813; received an academic education; studied for the ministry; was settled as a preacher at Methuen, Massachusetts, from 1834 to 1837, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, for fifteen years he published a paper called the Star of the West; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Printing; re-elected to the Thirty -seventh Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Commerce, and on Roads and Canals. Died at Cincinnati, August 19, 1863, Avhile holding the office of Governor of Arizona, conferred upon him by President Lincoln.

Amos

was a Representative in Con Gustine, Died in gress from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843. Lost Creek Valley, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1844. ;

Guthrie, James was born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, December 5, 1792; edu cated at the Bardstown Academy; when twenty years of age commenced trading with New Orleans as the owner of flat-boats; studied law, and in his twenty-fifth year settled at Louisville as a lawyer; for a time held the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the county in which he lived, and for many years practiced his profession with success; during that period was shot by a political opponent, and was, in years; consequence, confined to his bed for thro served nine years in the Legislature of the State, and ;

six years in the State Senate; was President of the of 1851; took an State Constitutional Convention active part in the banking business of Louisville, and, after originating, became President of the Nash ville and Louisville Railroad; in 1853 went into President Pierce s Cabinet as Secretary of the Treas Chicago Convention ury was a Delegate to the of 1864 was elected a Senator in Congress from Ken tucky, in 1865, for the term ending in 1871, serving "

"

;

;

on the Committees on Finance, Agriculture, Patents, Appropriations, and Mines and Mining: was also a National Union Con Delegate to the Philadelphia of 1866; resigned in February, 1868, on ac vention count of his health. Died in Louisville, March 13, "

"

1869.

Guyon, James, Jr.; was born in Richmond County, New York, in 1777; represented Staten Island in the Legislature of New York a number of years; was a member of Congress from 1819 to 1821. Died on Staten Island, March

Gwin,

"William

8,

1846.

M.; was born in Summer County,

Tennessee, October 9, 1805; graduated at Transyl vania University, Lexington, Kentucky, and studied medicine; was appointed United States Marshal for Mississippi was elected a Representative in Congress from that State, serving from 1841 to 1843; was Com missioner of Public Buildings to superintend the erection of the New Orleans Custom-House; was a member of the Convention for framing the Constitu tion of California; was one of the first United States Senators from that State, having been elected, in ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. 1850, for six years, and re-elected, in 1856, for the term which expired in 1861; was Chairman of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and a member of the Committees on Finance, and on Post Offices and Post Roads; during the Rebellion was arrested and imprisoned for his opposition to the Federal Govern ment, but was released on his parole by President

ing occasional sermons; was a contributor to the Biblical Repertory, the Bibliothcca Sacra, and other periodicals,

education.

and for fifteen years made reports on Died at West Lebanon, New Hampshire,

15, 1861.

January

Hadley

O. A.; was cx-officio Governor of Arkan and 1873.

Johnson in 1866; after the war retiirned to Califor nia, where he was largely interested in mining.

sas in the years 1872

Died September

New

3,

1885.

Grwinnett, Button was born in England in 1732; received a good education; came to America in 1770, and settled in Charleston, South Carolina; was devoted first to commercial pursuits, and afterwards to planting, in Georgia; joined the popular party, and was conspicuous at Revolutionary committees; ;

was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1776, and was one of the signers of the Declar ation of Independence; in 1777 was a member of the Convention to form a State Constitution for Georgia; was re-elected to Congress, but, having fought a duel with General Mclntosh, was mortally wounded, and died

May

27, 1777.

born in 1754; was a member of the first regiment ever formed in Georgia; member of the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786; Collector of the port of Savannah from 1789 to 1799. Died in Chatham County, Georgia, Novem ber 19, 1799.

Habersham, Joseph was born in Georgia in 1750; served with distinction in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant-Colonel; was a Delegate from Georgia to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786; a member of the State Assembly; was ap pointed, by President Washington, Postmaster-Gen eral in 1795, and, having been continued in office by Presidents Adams and Jefferson, resigned in 1802, when he became a President of the Branch Bank of the United States at Savannah, which he held until his death. Died in Georgia in 1815. ;

Habersham, Richard W.; was born in Savan nah Georgia in 1786; was educated at Nassau Hall, New Jersey, where he graduated in 1805; distin guished himself as a lawyer, and occupied many sta tions of trust in his native State; was a Representa tive in Congress from 1839 to 1843, where he com manded great respect for his political integrity. Died in Habersham County, Georgia, December 2, 1844. Hackett, Thomas C.; was born in Georgia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1851, and was a member of the Commit tee on Indian Affairs. Died at Marietta, Georgia, 8,

1851.

Hackley, Aaron, Jr.; was born in New Haven, member of the New York Legis

Connecticut; was a

lature in 1814, 1815, and 1818; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821.

Haddock, Charles Brickett was bor.n in New Hampshire, June 20, 1796; graduated ;

Franklin,

Dartmouth College in 1816, and Andover Semi nary in 1819; was Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth from 1819 to 1838, and of In tellectual Philosophy and Political Economy from 1838 to 1844; was Charge d Affaires from the United States to Portugal from 1851 to 1855; was in the at

Legislature of New Hampshire four years; intro duced the present common school system of the State, and was the first school commissioner under it; was

the originator of the railroad system of volume of addresses,

shire; published a

S.;

was born in Morris County,

Jersey, March 12, 1818; graduated at Princeton College in 1836; was admitted to the bar in 1840, and practiced at Morristown, New Jersey; went to California in 1849; in 1852 was elected to the State Senate, and served two years; in 1855 was elected State Judge for the District of San Francisco, and served six years; in 1865 and in 1867 elected to the State Senate and served six years; in 1871 was elected a Regent of the University of California; was elected to the United States Senate for the unexpired term of Eugene Casserly, resigned in 1874, for the term ending in 1875, serving on the Committees on

Manufactures and Territories.

Hagner, A.

Habersham, John; was

October

Hager, John

New Hamp etc.,

includ

B.; was born at Washington, Dis of Columbia, July 13, 1826; graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1845; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and settled at Annapolis, in the of his profession; in 1850 practice Maryland, was Judge- Advocate of a Naval Court of Inquiry; in 1864 was a Special Judge in Prince George s County, Maryland; in 1876 was Judge- Advocate of a General Court-Martial held at San Francisco, California; in 1854 was a Representative in the Maryland Legisla ture; in 1857 and 1874 was an unsuccessful candi date for Congress; in 1861 was a Presidential Elector; in 1879 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Su the Court of District of Columbia. preme trict

Hagner, Peter was born in Philadelphia, Oc tober 1, 1772; was the son of Valentine Hagner, who served with credit in the War of the Revolution; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; was for a time clerk in a counting-house; in 1792 received, from President Washington, the appointment of Accountant of War; removed to Washington City with the Government; in 1817 was appointed, by Presi dent Monroe, Third Auditor of the Treasury Depart ment; continued in the public service for fifty-seven years, under every President from Washington to ;

Taylor, and was frequently complimented on the floor of Congress for his official faithfulness; was twice honored by direct votes in the two Houses of Died Congress; resigned his office in October, 1849. in Washington City in July, 1850. He was frequent ly called upon to settle important claims for the Gov ernment outside of his regular duties, because of his exceptional efficiency; was also connected with the city Government of Washington.

Haygood, Johnson

;

was Governor of South

Carolina from 1880 to 1882.

Hahn, John was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817. ;

Hahn, Michael was

born on the Rhine, in Ba when ten years of age came to the United States and settled in Louisiana; attended the common schools of New Orleans and graduated from the High School; supported himself, while studying law, by attending to the care of real estate; in addition to his reading he attended the Law Department of the University of Louisiana and was graduated therefrom, in 1851, with the degree of LL. B. entered upon the practice of law at New Orleans; when but twenty-two years of age was ;

varia,

November

;

24, 1830;

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elected a School Director; served several terms in this capacity, being, at one time, President of the Board; was a Union man throughout the secession troubles, and opposed secession with vigor; in 1862 was elected a Representative in Congress, serving but a short time; was Prize Commissioner in New Or leans in 1863; in January, 1864, became the owner and editor of the Daily True Ddta newspaper, at New Orleans, and advocated the abolition of slavery through its columns; in 1864 was elected Governor of Louisiana for four years; in 1865 was elected a United States Senator and resigned the office of Gov ernor, but never took his seat in the Senate; started the New Orleans Republican in 1867, and was its editor until 1871 removed to his plantation in that year, and was made a School Director of St. Charles Parish; in 1872 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1874 and 1876, serving a short time as Speaker; in 1878 was unanimously elected a Police Juror for his parish; was Superintendent of the United States Mint at New Orleans for a short time; in 1879 was elected District Judge, and in 1884 was re-elected for four years; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Louisiana to ;

the Forty-ninth Congress, and resigned the Judgeship.

Died at Washington City, March

15, 1886.

Haight, Charles; was born at Colt Monmouth County, New Jersey, January

s

Neck,

4,

1838;

graduated at Princeton College in 1857; studied law, and came to the bar in 1862 as an attorney, and in 1864 as a counselor; was elected to the New Jersey Legislature in 1861 and 1862, and was chosen Speaker in the latter year; was a Delegate to State Conven tions in 1864 and 1865; was commissioned a Briga dier-General of Militia in 1861, and rendered effective service in raising troops for the war; in 1866 was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on

Naval

Affairs; re-elected to the Forty-tirst Congress.

was born in New York City, was educated at a private school; entered a counting house, and turned his whole at tention to mercantile pursuits: became a Director in

Haight, Ed-ward

March

;

26, 1817;

the National Bank of New York; subsequently VicePresident of the Bank of the Commonwealth, and finally its President; besides acting as a director in six or seven banks and insurance companies, he fre quently served as an officer in various benevolent institutions; in 1860 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures.

Haight, Fletcher M.; was an emigrant fornia; was appointed District.

United States Judge

to Cali for that

was born in Roch York, May 20, 1825; graduated at Yale College in 1844; studied law, and was admitted to the bar of St. Louis, Missouri, in October, 1846; settled to practice in San Francisco in 1850; was ap pointed United States District Judge of California, by President Lincoln; was elected Governor of Cali

Haight, Henry Huntly

ester,

;

New

fornia in 1867, serving until 1871.

Haile William was born in 1897; was a mem ber of Congress from Mississippi, from 1826 to 1828. Died at Woodville, Mississippi, March 7, 1837. ;

Hailey, John was born in Smith County, Ten August 29, 1835; received a common school education; removed to Missouri in 1848; went to Oregon in 1853; settled in Idaho in 1863; was elected ;

nessee.

Delegate from Idaho to the Forty-third Congress; in elected a member of the Legislative Coun

of Idaho, and was President of the Council; in 1884 was elected Delegate from Idaho to the Fortyninth Congress. cil

Haines, Daniel; was a native of New Jersey; was elected Governor of the State in 1843, serving one year; in 1848 was again elected, and continued in office until 1851.

Haines, Townsend was appointed Register of the United States Treasury in 1850, but only held the position until 1851. ;

Haldeman, Jacob S.; was a citizen of Penn sylvania; in 1861 was appointed Minister Resident to Sweden and Norway, where he remained until 1864.

Haldeman, Richard J.; was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1831; studied at Part ridge s Military School; graduated at Yale College in 1851 the same year visited Europe, and studied a short time in the universities of Berlin and Heidel berg; in 1853 went, as Attache of Legation, to Paris, and also to St. Petersburg; traveled throughout Scandinavia, Central and Southern Europe, and the Far East; in 1857 purchased the Daily and Weekly Patriot and Union, in Harrisburg, and edited it until 1860; in 1860 was a Delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions; was elected to the Forty-lirst Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-second Con gress, serving on the Committees on the Census, Land ;

Claims, and Agriculture.

Halderman, John A.; was a citizen of Missouri; in July, 1882, to

was appointed United States Minister

Siam.

Hale,

Artemas

;

was born in Winchendon,

Worcester County, Massachusetts, October 20, 1783; pursued the occupation of a farmer until twenty-one years of age; received a common school education; was a teacher in Hiugham for ten years, and then removed to Bridgewater, where he engaged in man ufacturing; was a Representative in the Legislature for several years, and a State Senator in 1833 and 1834; in 1853 was a member of the State Constitu tional Convention; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1845 to 1849; in 1864 was a Presidential Elector.

Hale, Charles was born in Boston, Massachu June 7, 1831; graduated at Harvard University in 1850; in 1852 established and edited To-day, a literary journal; was subsequently editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser; was United States Consul to Egypt from 1864 to 1870; was Assistant Secretary of ;

setts,

State from 1872 to 1874; contributed to the Xorth American Rcuieic and the American Almanac.

was born in Turner, Oxford Hale, Eugene County, Maine, June 9, 1836; studied law, and came to the bar in 1857; during the latter year was ap pointed Attorney for Hancock County, and was three times re-appointed; in 1866 was elected to the State Legislature, serving two years; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Maine to the Forty-lirst Congress, serving on the Committees on Naval A Hairs and the State Department; re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving on the Committee on Appropria tions; in 1874 was tendered the office of PostmasterGeneral, by President Grant, but declined; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1868, 1876, and 1880; was re-elected to the Fortyrifth Congress; was tendered a Cabinet appointment by President Hayes, but declined it; was elected a United States Senator from Maine for the term of six years from March 4, 1881. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Hale, James T.; was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in October, 1810; received a common school education studied law, and was admitted to Ihe bar in 1832; in 1851 was appointed President Judge of the Twentieth Judicial District of Pennsyl vania; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Claims; re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Claims and on Roads and Canals; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was Chairman of the Committee on Claims. Died at Bellefonte, Penn ;

sylvania, April

7,

1865.

Hale, John Blackwell; was born in Brooks (now Hancock) County, West Virginia, February 27, 1831; was educated at a common country school; studied law was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Carrollton, Missouri; was ;

a Representative in the Missouri Legislature from 1856 to 1858; was a Presidential Elector in Missouri in 1860; was Colonel of the Sixty-fifth Regiment Mis souri Militia, and of the Fourth Provisional Regiment States service lot Missouri Militia in the United during the Civil War; was a Delegate to the Demo cratic National Conventions of 1864 and 1868; was a Presidential Elector in 1872; was a member of the (Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1875; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the i

Forty-ninth Congress.

Hale, John P.; was born in Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire, March 31, 1806; after pre paring himself at Exeter Academy, entered Bowdoin College, and graduated in 1827; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1830; in 1832 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1834 Avas appointed, by President Jackson, District Attorney for New Hamp shire, and re-appointed by President Van Buren; in 1843 was elected a Representative in Congress; in 1846 was again elected to the State Legislature, and chosen Speaker; in 1847 was elected a Senator in Congress, and after serving until 1853, devoted him self for two years to his profession; was again elected to the United States Senate in 1855; and in 1859 was re-elected for the term ending in 1865, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and of that on Post Offices and Post Roads; in 1852 was the Free-Soil candidate for Vice-President

member

of the United States; soon after leaving the Senate, March 10, 1865, was appointed, by President Lin Died at Dover, November coln, Minister to Spain. 18, 1873.

Hale, Robert S.; was born in Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont, September 24, 1822; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1842; studied law, and after coming to the bar settled in the practice of his profession at Elizabethtown, Essex County, New York; was Judge of Essex County from 1856 to 1864; in 1859 was appointed a Regent of the University of New York; in 1860 was a Presidential Elector; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thir ty-ninth Congress, in the place of Orlando Kellogg, deceased, serving on the Committees on the Militia, Manufactures, and Retrenchment; was a Delegate to the "National Union Convention at Philadelphia, in 1866; re-elected to the Forty-third Congress; was, for several years, engaged by the United States as Special Counsel under the Treaty of Washington. "

Hale, Salma was born at Alstead, New Hamp shire, March 7, 1787; was a printer at Walpole, New ;

Hampshire; at the age of eighteen edited, in that place, the Political Observatory; subsequently studied law; from 1812 to 1834, with the exception of a few

14

209

was Clerk of the Supreme Court of Cheshire; was a Representative in Congress from 1817 to 1819; afterwards practiced at the bar; was a member of years,

the Legislature from 1823 to 1825; Secretary of the Board of Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent; in 1825 published "History of the United States," Annals of Keene for schools; in 1826, "History of the United States," London, 1826, and other lit erary works. Died at Keene, November 18, 1806. "

";

Hale, William

was one of the most influential Hampshire; was a member of Congress from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1817. Died at Dover, November 8, 1848, aged eighty-four

men

in

;

New

years.

was born in Iowa, November received a good education; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1858; in that year settled at Glenwood, Iowa, in the practice of law was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1863, and re-elected in 1864, 1865, and 1866; during the latter year was elected Speaker pro tern, of the House of Representatives and acted as Speaker the greater part of the session was a Presidential Elector in 1868; was Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of the Eighth and Ninth Congressional Districts for a number of years; in August, 1883, was appointed, by the President, Governor of Wyoming Territory.

Hale,

18,

"William

;

1839;

;

;

Haley, Elisha was born in Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1835 ;

to 1839.

Hall, Allen A.; was born in North Carolina; practiced law at Nashville, Tennessee, and was, for thirty years, connected with the leading papers there; was Charge d Affaires to Venezuela from 1841 to 1845; Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury in 1849 and 1850; edited the Republic at Washington afterward edited the Daily News from 1857 to 1859, at Nashville; was Minister to Bolivia from 1863 to 1867. Died at Cochabamba, Bolivia, May 18, 1867. ;

Hall, Augustus; was born in Batavia, New York, April 29, 1814; educated at Middlebury Acad emy in that State; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836; removed to Marysville, Ohio, in 1837; was County Attorney from 1840 to 1842; re moved to Kessauque, Iowa, in 1844; was a Presi dential Elector in 1852; in 1854 was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress from Iowa; was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857; the same year was Chief Justice of Nebraska. Died near Bellevue, Nebraska, February 1,

1861.

Hall, Benjamin P.; was born in New York; was appointed, from that State, Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Colorado, residing at

Denver

City.

Hall, Benton J.; was born at Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, January 13, 1835; removed, with his parents, to Iowa in December, 1839; was educated at Knox College, Illinois, and at Miami University, Ohio, at which latter institution he was graduated in June, 1855; studied law in the office of his father, Hon. J. C. Hall, at Burlington, Iowa; was admitted to the bar in 1857, and engaged in the practice of law at Burlington was a Representative in the General Assembly of the State of Iowa in 1872 and 1873; was elected a Senator in the General Assembly of Iowa for a term of four years, from January, 1882; was elected a Representative from ;

Iowa

to the Forty-ninth Congress.

no

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

Hall, Boiling; was a member of Congress from Georgia from 1811 to 1817. Died near Montgomery Alabama, March 25, 1836, aged sixty-seven years.

Hall, Chapin ; was born in Ellicott, Chautauqu County, New York, July 12, 1816; received a gooc English education; devoted himself to mercantil pursuits in connection with lumbering; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to ths Thirty sijcth Congress, serving as a member of tl e Co limit tee on Invalid Pensions. Hall, David; 1802 to 1805. Hall,

was Governor of Delaware from

Dominick Augustine was born in North ;

Carolina in 1765; commenced the practice of law in Charleston, South Carolina; was District Judge o Orleans Territory from 1809 until 1812, when it be came the State of Louisiana; was then appointee United States Judge of the State, in which position he continued during his life; owing to the military operations against New Orleans, his court was ordered to be adjourned for two months from December 15, 1814; in March, 1815, while the city was under Mar tial Law, Judge Hall was arrested General Jack by son for having granted a writ of habeas corpus to a person arrested by his authority; was released March

and immediately summoned General Jackson to answer for a Contempt of Court, resulting in a judg ment against him, and a fine of one thousand dollars, which he paid; it was, however, refunded to him, with interest, in 1844, by an Act of Congress. Died in New Orleans, December 19, 1820. 14,

Hall, George; was born in New Haven, Con necticut; was a member of the Assembly of New York in 1816, was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821. O.; was a citizen of New York; was years in the Consular Service in Cuba, serving as Consul at Matanzas, Vice Consul-General at Havana, and, from 1873 to 1882, as Consul-General of the United States at Havana; in 1882 was appointed United States Minister to the Central American States served until 188 6.

Hall,

for

Henry

many

;

Hall, Hiland; was born in Bennington, Vermont, July 20, 1795; passed his boyhood on his father s farm, receiving a good English education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1819; in 1827 was elected to the State Legislature, and afterwards, for several years, was State s Attorney; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Vermont from 1833 to 1843, officiating for several sessions as Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; was Bank Commissioner for Vermont from 1843 to 1846; four years Judge of the Supreme Court; in 1850 Second Comptroller of the Treasury, and in 1851 was ap pointed, by President Fillmore, Land Commissioner for California, where he remained until 1854; subse quently resided on the farm where he was born, and was elected Governor of Vermont in 1858; in 1859 re ceived from the University of Vermont the degree of LL.D. served as a Delegate to the "Peace Congress" of 1861. Died December 18, 1885. ;

was a Delegate from Maryland to Hall, John the Constitutional Convention from 1775 to 1786, and fiom 1783 to 1784. ;

Hall, John W.; was born at Frederica, Delaware, January 1, 1817; received a good education; was left an orphan at an early age; the failure of his guardian threw him upon his own resources at the age of six

teen, and he became a clerk in a mercantile house; invested his savings in outside business, which pros pered, and at the age of twenty -one commenced busi ness for himself; engaged in a variety of pursuits, in all of which he succeeded; finally confined himself to farming and ship-building; was State Director in the Farmer s Bank from 1861 to 1878; Stock Director from 1867 to 1871; was a State Senator; was a Dele-, gate to the Democratic National Convention of 1876; was Governor of Delaware from 1879 to 1883.

was born in Essex County, Mas Hall, Joseph sachusetts, June 26, 1793; received a limited educa tion at Andover Academy; went to Maine, and was a clerk in a store until he was twenty-one years of age; served as Lieutenant of Militia in 18i3 and 1814; from 1817 until 1819 was engaged in mercantile pur suits; was Sheriff of two counties for twelve years; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1833 to 1837; was the first Northern man who voted ;

against receiving slavery petitions; before entering Congress was for four years Postmaster of Camden, Maine; was appointed, by President Polk, Navy Agent of Boston in 1849.

Hall, Joshua G-. was born at Wakefield, New Hampshire, November 5, 1828; graduated at Dart mouth College in 1851; studied law; was admitted to practice in 1855; was Solicitor of Stratford County from 1862 to 1874; was Mayor of Dover, New Hamp shire in 1866 and 1867; was a State Senator in 1871 ;

and 1872, and a member of the State House of Rep resentatives in 1874; was United States District At torney from 1874 to 1879; was elected a Representa tive from New Hampshire to the and Forty-sixth

Forty-seventh Congresses.

Hall, Lawrence W.; was born in Lake County, Ohio, in 1819; was educated in that State; graduated at Hudson in 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1843; practiced his profession until 1851, when he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which position he held until 1856; was elected a Repre sentative from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committees on Agricul ture and on Public Buildings and Grounds; during the troubles of 1862 was imprisoned for alleged dis Died soon after his release, in Ohio, Janu loyalty. ary 26, 1863. Hall, Lyman; was born in Connecticut in 1725; jraduated at Yale College in 1747; studied medicine, and established himself in Sunbury, Georgia; early spoused the American cause; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1779, and signed ;he Declaration of Independence; his property was confiscated by the British; in 1783 was elected Gov ernor of Georgia. Died in that State in 1791. Hall, Nathan K.; was born March 28, 1810, at Marcellus, Onondaga County, New York; read law n the office of Mr. (afterwards Pres dent) Fillmore, ind became his partner in the practice of their pro fession at Buffalo, Erie County, New York, in 1832; leld different administrative and j udicial offices in lis native State; served as a member of the State legislature; was a Representative in Congress from 847 to 1849; on Mr. Fillmore s accession to the residency, in July, 1850, was appointed to the ffice of Postmaster-General; was subsequently ap pointed Judge of the United States District Court for iVestern New York. Died in Buffalo, March 2, 1874. ;

Hall,

Obed

;

was a Representative in Congress

om New Hampshire

from 1811 to 1813.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Hall, Robert B.; was born in Boston, Massachu January 28, 1812; was educated for the minis try; was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1855; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-

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York

setts,

State from Orange County, in 1816 and 1817, and from 1820 to 1821 was a Representative in Con gress from 1825 to 1829.

fourth Congress in that year, and was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress in 1857, serving as a mem ber of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Halloway, Ransom was a Representative in Congress from the Eighth Congressional District of New York, from 1849 to 1851. Died in Mount Pleasant, Prince George County, Maryland, April 6,

Hall, Thomas H.; was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, in 1773; was educated for the medical profession was a Representati ve in Con gress from 1817 to 1825, and again from 1827 to 1835; in 1836 served as a member of the State Senate, and voted against the acceptance of any of the surplus revenue of the United States Treasury by the State of North Carolina. Died in Tarborough, June 30, ;

1853.

Hall, Willard; was born in Westford, Massa December 24, 1780; graduated at Harvard College in 1799; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1803;- removed to Delaware and practiced chusetts,

his profession there; in 1811 was elected Secretary of State in Delaware, and held that office three years; was elected a Representative in Congress in 1816, and re-elected in 1818; was again Secretary of State in 1821; in 1822 was elected to the Legislature; in 1823 was appointed, by President Monroe, District Judge of the United States for Delaware; in 1829 revised the State Laws of Delaware; in 1831 was a

member of the State Constitutional Convention; was also a man of influence in the religious world; was a Sunday-school teacher for forty^ years; the father of the public school system of th e State, and was an earnest advocate of the idea that lawyers ought al ways to be religious men. Died in Wilmington, in

May,

;

;

1851.

James D.; was a native of Vir and about the year 1844 was appointed United States Judge for the Eastern District of Hallyburton,

ginia,

Virginia.

Halsell, John E.; was born in Warren County, Kentucky, September 11, 1826; was educated in the common schools, and attended Cumberland Univers ity, Tennessee, from 1845 to 1849; engaged in agri cultural pursuits until 1857, then settled at Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the practice of law; in 1869 was elected Circuit Judge was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-eighth Congress; was reelected to the Forty -ninth Congress. ;

Halsey, George A.; was born Essex County,

Newark and engaged in the manufacturing business; in 1861 and 1862 was elected to the State Assembly; in the latter year was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of New Jersey, which office he held until 1866; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Fortieth Con

settled in

gress, serving

on the Committees on Retrenchment

and the

District of Columbia; in 1864 was Collector of Internal Revenue at Newark, New Jersey; was elected to the Forty-second Congress.

1875.

Hall,

in Springfield, 1827; in 1844

New Jersey, December 7,

Halsey, Jehiel H.; was a Representative from

Willard Preble

;

was born

in Virginia in

1825; received a good education; studied law and was admitted to the bar; removed to Missouri, where he became eminent in his profession; was a Repre sentative from Missouri to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses; was Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri from 1861 to 1865, and was Acting Governor for a portion of the time. Died at St. Jo seph, Missouri, November 1, 1882.

Hall, William; was born in 1774; was a Gen was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1831 to 1833. Died in Surnner County, Tennessee, in October, 1856. eral of Militia;

Hall, William A.; was born in Maine; was taken to Virginia in early childhood; emigrated to Missouri in 1841; in 1844 was a Presidential Elector; in 1847 was appointed a Judge of the Circuit Court; was a member of the "Missouri Convention" of from Missouri to 18(51; was elected a Representative the Thirty-seventh Congress, in place of J. B. Clark, expelled; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Con Committees on Roads and Ca gress, serving on the in the Post Office Depart nals, and Expenditures ment; was also a Delegate to the "Chicago Conven National of 1864, and to the Philadelphia tion Union Convention of 1866. "

New York

to the Twenty-first Congress; was a State Senator from 1832 to 1835.

Halsey, Nicoll was a member of the New York Assembly from Tompkins County in 1 824 a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1833 to ;

;

1835.

Halsey, Silas; was a resident of New York; was a Representative in the State Legislature for several years; was a Representative from New York to the Ninth Congress; was a State Senator for one year. Halsted, William was born in New Jersey; graduated at Princeton College in 1812; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843; was a candidate for election to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but, although he came with a certificate under the seal of his State, was not admitted. ;

Ham, John; was a citizen of Ohio; was Charge d Affaires to Chili from 1830 to 1833. j

Hambleton, Samuel was born

in Talbot Coun Maryland, in 1812; received an academic educa tion; studied law and came to the bar in 1833; was ;

ty,

elected to the House of Delegates in 1834, 1835, and 1853; to the State Senate from 1844 to 1850; was a Presidential Elector in 1844 President of the Chesa peake and Ohio Canal in 1853 and 1854; was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Build ings and Territories; re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce. ;

Hallett, Moses was born in Illinois; received a good education; studied law and engaged in prac in 1874 was appointed tice; removed to Colorado; an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Colorado; in 1877 was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Colorado. ;

Hamer, Thomas L. was born in Pennsylvania; removed to Ohio when quite young; taught school; studied law and came to the bar in 1821; served sev;

Hallock, John, Jr.; was born in Orange County, New York; was a member of the Assembly of New

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eral sessions in the State Legislature, and was once elected Speaker; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1839; entered the army as a private, and was promoted at once to the rank of Brigadier-General; it has been said to his credit that

he was the Representative who nominated General U. S. Grant, as a Cadet to West Point. Died at Monterey, Mexico, while serving in the army, De cember 3, 1846.

Hamill, Patrick

was born in Alleghany Coun April 28, 1817; received a private and common school education; settled in Cumberland; was bred to the trade of a carpenter, but never worked as such; in 1841 was appointed Tax Collector for his County, and held the office two years; devoted some attention to mercantile pursuits; was elected to the State Assembly in 1843 and 1844; was seven years Judge of the Orphans Court of Allegheny County; subsequently turned his attention to stock;

ty,, Maryland,

raising on his farm known as "Cranberry Glade"; in 1867 was again elected Judge of Probate; was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving on the Committees on Public

Expenditures and the Navy Department.

Hamilton, A. H.; received a common school ed ucation; studied law, and devoted himself to that profession and politics; in 1874 was elected a Repre sentative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. Hamilton, Alexander was born in the island of St. Croix, of American parents, in 1757; when sixteen years of age came to New York, and spent three years in King s College; two years afterwards entered the army as an officer of artillery and be came an Aid-de-camp to Washington, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; acquitted himself with credit at the siege of Yorktown after the war quitted the army and turned his attention to the law in New" York was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783, and in 1787 and 1788; in 1786 was elected to the State Assembly; was elected to the Convention which formed the Federal Constitution; by his writings, signed Publius, did much to secure its adoption, but was the only member from New York who signed that instrument; in 1789 was appointed, by President Washington, Secretary of the Treasury, and continued in that office until 1795, when he re signed; in 1798 was associated with Washington in command of the army; in 1804 had a difficulty with Aaron Burr, which resulted in a duel, which took place at Hoboken, when he received a fatal shot, and died on the following day, July 12, 1804; he was the author of a great variety of able essays on politics and finance, and especially of the largest number of chapters published in the Federalist; his collected writings were published in an edition of seven vol umes in 1850. ;

;

ional Governor of the same State; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia of 1H66, Loyalists Convention and to the "Soldiers Convention," held at Pittsburg; was also a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State; member of the State Constitutional Con vention; was a brother of Morgan C. Hamilton. Died "

"

at Austin, Texas, April 11, 1875.

Hamilton, Charles M.; was born in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, in November, 1840; in 1801 entered the Union Army as a private, participated in sixteen battles, and was wounded three times at Games Mill, Antietam, and Fredericksburg; was for a time confined in Libby Prison; in October, 1863, was appointed a Lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps; was appointed a Judge Advocate, in which capacity he served until 1865; was subsequently a Commissioner of Refugees in Florida; on being mus tered out of service, early in 1868, turned his atten tion to the practice of law; was elected a Representa tive from Florida to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; reelected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on the District of Columbia and Educa tion and Labor.

Hamilton, Cornelius

was born in Muskin1821; received a com school education; studied law, but in addition to practicing that profession paid some attention to farming and banking, and edited a newspaper; in 1850 was elected to the "State Constitutional Con vention"; in 1856 to the Senate of the State; was subsequently appointed an Assessor of Internal Rev enue; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Private Land Claims and Invalid- Pensions; he was called from his duties in Washington to at

gum mon

S.;

County, Ohio, January

2,

tend upon a son, who had suddenly become insane, and by that son, in an unguarded moment, was killed, at Marysville, Ohio, December 21, 1867.

;

Hamilton,

Andrew

J.;

was born in Madison

County, Alabama, January 28, 1815; received a good school education; passed his earlier years on his father s farm; for some years held the position of Clerk of the Circuit Court, and did business as a merchant; subsequently studied law and was ad mitted to the bar; in 1846 removed to Texas, and devoted himself to his profession in that State held the office of Attorney-General served frequently in the Legislature; in 1856 was a Presidential Elector; was elected a Representative from Texas to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Select Committee of Thirty -three in 1862 was ap pointed, by President Lincoln, Military Governor of Texas, and in 1865, by President Johnson, Provis

common

;

;

;

Hamilton, James was born at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1789; was liberally educated, and adopted the law as a profession; in 1812 served with distinction on the Canadian frontier; was for several years Mayor of Charleston in 1823 was elected to the State Legislature from that position was trans ;

;

;

ferred to the National House of Representatives, where he remained until 1829; was subsequently chosen Governor of South Carolina; becoming inter ested in the Republic of Texas, helped to promote her independence, and went to Europe as Minister Plenipotentiary from that Republic; did much to promote the interests of his native city and State; was one of the founders of the Southern Quarterly Re view, and also of the Bank of Charleston; at the time of his death was a Senator elect in Congress from Texas; was drowned on his passage to Texas, No 15, 1857, by a collision between the steamers Galvcston and Opelousas, being a passenger on board the latter steamer.

vember

Hamilton, John; was at one time High Sheriff of Washington County, Pennsylvania; was a Repreentative in Congress from that State, from 1805 to Died at his home, August 31, 1837. 1807. Hamilton, John Marshall; was born near Richwood, Ohio, May 28, 1847; removed, with his father, to Marshall County, Illinois, in 1854; was reared on a farm until sixteen years of age, having no advantages of education except those afforded by the country schools during the winter months, but studied diligently at home; attended an academy at Henry, Illinois, two terms; entered the Union Army

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. and served until the close of the war; in 1865 entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and in 1868 graduated with the degree of B.A. was princi pal of the academy at Henry, Illinois, in 1868 and 1869; in the latter year became a Professor of Latin at the Illixiois Wesleyan University; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870, at Bloomington, Illinois, and at once entered upon a very successful practice there; received the degree of A.M. from the Ohio Wesleyan University was elected a State Sen ator in 1876; was made President pro tern, of the Senate in January, 1879; was elected Lieuteuantin 1864,

;

;

Goveruor in 1880; by the election of Governor Cullom to the United States Senate in January, 1883, be

came Governor of two years.

Illinois for the

unexpired term of

Hamilton, Morgan C.; was born near the town of Huntsville, in the State of Alabama, February 25, 1809; received a country school education; was brought up to mercantile pursuits; removed to the republic of Texas in 1837; was a clerk in the War Department from 1838 until 1845, acting as Secretary of War a portion of the time; was appointed Comp troller of the Treasury of the State in 1867; was elected a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1868; was elected to the United States Senate on the reconstruction of Texas, and took his seat in 1870; was also elected for the term commencing in 1871 and ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Pen sions

and Railroads.

Hamilton, Paul

was born in South Carolina; patriot of the Revolution; in 1799 was ap pointed Comptroller of South Carolina, which office he held over live years; in 1804 was elected Governor of the State; in 1809 was appointed Secretary of the Navy, and held the office until 1812, when he re Died at Beaufort, June 30, 1816. signed. ;

Hamilton, Robert; was born

New

member

of the House of Representatives in the State Legislature in 1847; was elected to the United States Senate, May 26, 1848, for four years, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the decease of John Fairfield; was reelected for six years in 1851 was elected Governor of Maine, January 7, 1857, resigning his seat in the Senate and being inaugurated Governor the same day; on the 16th of the same month was re-elected United States Senator for six years, and resigned the office of Governor, February 20, 1857; served as a member of the Committees on Commerce and on the District of Columbia; in 1860 was nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for the office of Vice- President, and was elected; in 1865 was ap pointed, by President Johnson, Collector of Customs for the port of Boston; in 1869 took his seat in the Senate for the fourth term, serving on various im portant Committees, and as Chairman of that on Mines and Mining; was re-elected for the term end ing in 1881; in June of that year was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain; resigned in 1882 and returned home. ;

Hammet, "William J.; was born in Virginia; studied divinity; was Chaplain of the University of Virginia, when he finished his education was at one time Chaplain of Congress; was a Representative La Congress from Mississippi, from 1843 to 1845. ;

Hammond, Abram

A.; was born in BrattleVermont, in March, 1814; went to Indiana when a youth; studied law, and came to the bar in 1835; after residing in various places, in 1850 was made a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Indianapolis; emigrated to California in 1852, but returned to In diana in 1854, locating at Terra Haute; in 1860 was elected Governor of the State, serving until 1861; having gone to Colorado for his health, died in Den

boro,

was a

sex County,

213

Jersey,

in

December

5,

Hamburg, Sus 1816; received

an academic education; studied law, and was admit ted to practice in 1836, and as a counselor in 1840; was Prosecutor of Pleas fifteen years was a member of the State Legislature in 1863 and 1864, serving the last year as Speaker was elected to the Forty -third Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims; was ;

;

re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Hamilton, "William T.; was born in Washing ton County, Maryland, September 8, 1820; educated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania; studied and practiced law; was a member of the Legislature in 1846; a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1849 to 1855; in 1861 declined the nomination for Governor of Maryland; was United States Senator from Maryland from 1869 to 1875; was elected Gov ernor of Maryland for the term of four years from 1880.

Hamlin, Edward S.; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1844 to 1845.

ver,

August

27, 1874.

Hammond, Edward was born in Maryland was a Representative in Congress from that State from ;

;

1849 to 1853.

Hammond,

Eli Shelby was born at Brandon, April 21, 1838; passed his infancy in Alabama, and his childhood at Galveston, Texas; settled in Shelby County, Tennessee, in 1850; gradu ated at Union University, Tennessee, in 1857, and at. the Lebanon Law School in 1858; in the latter year was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Ripley, Mississippi; in 1859 removed to Memphis, Tennessee; served in the Con federate Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Regimental Adjutant; resumed the practice of law at Ripley, Mississippi; in 1868 again removed to Memphis, Tennessee; in 1878 was appointed United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. ;

Mississippi,

Hammond, Jabez D.; lar political writer of collegiate education,

was a lawyer and popu York; did not receive a but Union College conferred

New

upon him the degree of A. M. was a Representative New York from 1815 to 1817, and, on the expiration of his term, was elected to the State Senate, of which he was a member until 1821 in 1830 visited Europe to restore his health; was elected County Judge in 1838, and about that time commenced his "Political History of the State of New York"; in 1845 was elected, to succeed Mr. ;

in Congress from

Hamlin, Hannibal was born in Paris, Oxford County, Maine, August 27, 1809; prepared himself for a collegiate education, but, owing to his father s death, was obliged to take charge of his farm, where he remained until he was of age; then spent a year in a printing office as a compositor; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1833, and continued in active practice until 1848; was a member of the Maine Legislature from 1836 to 1840; Speaker of the House in 1837, 1839, and 1840; was elected a Rep resentative to the Twenty-eighth Congress, and reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; was again a ;

;

Van Buren, as a Regent of the University of New York, and held the office until his death; after his return from Europe, having withdrawn in a measure from public and professioual life, devoted himself to literary

pursuits,

and published

"Julius Melbourn,"

"The

works entitled Political History of

New

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

214

and the Life and Times of Silas Wright." Died August 18, 1855, in Cherry Valley, New York, "

York,"

his place of residence.

General, and, in 1831, Secretary of State; retired from Died September 11, 1842. public life in 1835.

Hammons, David was born in Oxford County, Maine, in 1807; received a limited education; studied law and commenced the practice in Lovell, Oxford County, in 1836; was a member of the Senate of Maine in 1840 and 1841; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849. ;

Hammond, James

H.; was born in Newbury District, South Carolina, November 15, 1807; gradu ated at the State College, Columbia, in 1827; prac ticed law from 1828 to 1830; was editor of the South ern Times; served his native State in Congress from 1835 to 1837, after which he visited Europe for his health; in 1841 was appointed a General of Militia; in 1842 was elected Governor of South Carolina; after spending about fifteen years in the quiet enjoyment of his plantation on the Savannah River, devoting himself to agricultural and literary pursuits, he was, in November, 1857, elected to the United States Sen ate in place of A. P. Butler, but withdrew in Decem ber, 1860.

Hammons, Joseph was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. Died at Farmington, in that State, April, 1836. ;

Hampton, James G.; was born in New Jersey; graduated at Princeton College in 1835; was a Repre sentative in Congress from his native State from 1845 to 1849.

Died at his residence, November 13, 1864.

Hampton, Moses was ;

Hammond, John; was born at Crown Point, New York, August 27, 1827; received an academic education, and graduated at the Troy Polytechnic Institute, New York; went to California in 1849; re turned to New York and became an iron manufac turer; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, rising from the ranks to Brigadier-General; was elected President of the Crown Point Iron Company; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. Hammond, Nathaniel J.; was born in Elbart County, Georgia, December 26, 1833; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1852; commenced the practice of law in 1853; was Solicitor-General from 1861 to 1865; was Reporter of the State Supreme Court from 1867 to 1872; was Attorney-General of the State from 1872 to 1877; was a member of the Con stitutional Conventions of 1865 and 1877: was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress. Hammond, Robert

H.; was born in Pennsyl vania; was a Representative in Congress from that Died June 2, 184-7. State from 1837 to 1841.

Hammond, Samuel;

was born

in

Richmond

County, Virginia, September 21, 1757; received as good an education as the country afforded at the time; when quite young volunteered in an expedition against the Indians under Governor Dunmore, and acquired distinction at the battle of the Kanawha; when the Revolution broke out he displayed great bravery and ability at the battle of Long Bridge; at the siege of Savannah, where he was made Assistant Quartermaster; at the battle of Black Stocks had three horses shot under him, and was wounded; was a member of the "Council of Capitulation" at Charleston; was at the battle of King s Mountain; was also at the siege of Augusta; at the battle of Cowpens; the battle of Eutaw, where he was again badly wounded; was also in many other battles; after the war settled at Savannah, and held many positions of trust and honor; in 1793 headed a vol unteer corps, and did good service in the Creek coun try; served a number of years in the Georgia Legis lature; was one of the early Governors of the State; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1803 to 1805; was appointed, by President Jef ferson, Military and Civil Commandant of Upper Louisiana and Receiver of Public Money in Missouri; was also President of the Bank of St. Louis; in 1824 returned to South Carolina, and was elected to the Legislature of that State; was appointed Surveyo:-

born in Beaver County

Pennsylvania, October 28, 1803; removed, with his father, to Trumbull County, Ohio, so that his oppor tunities for even a common school education were limited; he, however, by his own exertions, obtained a classical education, and graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania; studied law at Uniontown; was admitted to the bar in 1829, and commenced to practice in Somerset, Pennsylvania, where he re mained until 1838; then went to Pittsburgh, and practiced his profession; from 1847 to 1851, was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, and declined a re-election; in 1853 was elected President Judge of the District Court for Allegheny County.

Hampton, "Wade was born in South Carolina in 1765; took an active part in the War of the Revo lution; was a Representative in Congress from that State from to 1797, and from 1803 to 1805; a Presidential Elector in 1800; also in 1828; commanded a brigade in 1812 on the northern frontier; spent the larger part of his life engaged in agricultural pur ;

17i>5

by which he amassed a very large fortune, having been called the richest planter in the United Died at Columbia. South Carolina, February States. suits,

4,

1834.

Hampton, "Wade; was born at Charleston, South Carolina, March 28, 1818; graduated from the South Carolina College; at different times served in both branches of the Legislature, being a State Sena tor at the time the State seceded; resigned from the Senate and entered the Confederate Army; served with conspicuous gallantry, rising to the rank of Major-General; was elected Governor of South Caro lina in 1876, and was re-elected in 1878; in Decem ber of the latter year was elected a Senator of the United States for the term of six years from March in 1885 was re-elected for a second term. 4. 1879 ;

Hanback, Lewis was ;

nois,

March

born at Winchester,

27, 1839; received a

common

Illi

school edu

and a half years in the Union during the War of the Rebellion; studied Jaw, and was admitted to the bar in 1866; was Probate Judge of Shawnee County, Kansas, for four years; was Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Kansas for more than two years; in 1879 was ap pointed Receiver of Public Moneys at Salina, Kansas; was elected a Representative from Kansas to the

cation; served three

Army

Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyninth Congress.

Hanchett, Luther was born

in Portage County, 1825; received a good education at law, and commenced the practice years of age; emigrated to Wiscon for some time, engaged in the lead ;

Ohio, October 25, Fremont; studied when twenty -one sin in 1849; was,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. and lumbering business; was four years District At torney for Portage County in his adopted State; from 1858 to 1860 was a member of the Wisconsin Senate; in 1860 was elected a Representative from Wiscon sin to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Expenditures and Private Land Claims. Died at Madison, Wisconsin, Novem26, 1862.

Contractor; was engaged in mercantile pursuits in the service of the Confederate States, as a civil and military officer, from 1861 to 1865; was elected to the

Forty-second Congress as Representative from Ala bama, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Hanks, James M.; was born

:

Hancock, John was ;

born near Quincy, Massa

chusetts, in 1737; graduated at Harvard University in 1754; was bred to commercial pursuits in the counting-house of an uncle; visited Europe in 1760; became a successful merchant; was for many years one of the selectman of Boston in 1766 went into the General Assembly of the State, where he became dis tinguished for his ability; was among the first to repel the policy of England, and the first vessel seized by the revenue officers was his property; in 1774 was unanimously elected President of the Provincial Congress, and having been elected a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1775, Avas chosen President of that body, serving as such two years and a half, and as a Delegate from 1775 to 1780, and from 1785 to 1786; was the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence, and his peculiar signature is univers ally known; he also signed the Articles of Confeder ation was a member of the Convention to form a ;

;

State Constitution; live years, after

was Governor of Massachusetts for

the adoption of

its

Constitution, and,

under the Federal Constitution, from 1789 until his death, on October 8, 1793; he was a bold and hightoned patriot, and possessed all the personal quali ties of a good man and a true gentleman.

Hancock, John was born in Jackson County, Alabama, October 29, 1824: was educated in Ala bama and Tennessee; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1846; settled in Texas in 1847, practic ing his profession until 1851, when he was elected to the District Bench of the State; served as Judge until 1855, when he resigned; was a member of the State Legislature in 1860 and 1861; refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States, and was expelled; was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1866; engaged in the practice of his profession, and stock raising; was elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Con gresses, serving on the Committees on Appropriations and the Centennial; was re-elected to the Fortyfourth Congress; was also elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

Hand, Augustus C.; was born in Shoreham, Addison, County, Vermont, in 1806; adopted the profession of law; settled at Elizabethtown, Essex County, New York; was Surrogate of that county from 1831 to 1839; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1839 to 1841; a member of the State Senate from 1845 to 1848; was a Justice of the Supreme Court from 1848 to 1856, after which he was wholly devoted to the practice of his profession. Hand, Edward; was a Delegate from Pennsyl vania to the Continental Congress, in 1784 and 1785. "William A.; was born near Franklin, December 15, 1834; removed, when young, to Alabama, where he was educated at a village school; was a United States mail-carrier for two

Handley,

Georgia,

years;

a Post Office Clerk; for

many

years a Mail

Helena, Arkan

in

received a common school education; was a student at the Colleges of New Al bany, Indiana, and Columbia, Tennessee; studied law; graduated at the University of Louisville in 1855; commenced practice, and continued it at Hele na until the breaking out of the war; was opposed to secession; was elected Judge of the First District of Arkansas in 1864, and remained upon the bench until 1868; was elected to the Forty-second Congress as Representative from his native State, serving on the sas,

Hancock, George served as a Colonel in the Revolution; was greatly beloved by his associates; was a Representative ill Congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1797. Died at Fotheringay, Virginia, August 1, 1820, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.

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February

12, 1833;

Committee on Insurrectionary

Hanna, John

;

was born

States. in

Marion County, In

diana, September 3, 1827; graduated at Asbury Uni versity, Indiana, in 1850; studied and practiced law; was Mayor of Greencastle from 1851 to 1854; re

moved to Kansas, and was a Representative in its Territorial Legislature in 1857 and 1858; returned to Indiana; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, United States District Attorney for the District of Indiana, and was re-appointed in 1865; was removed by President Johnson; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Hanna, John

A.; was a Representative in Con

gress from Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1805.

Hanna, Robert was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1816; a General of Militia; was for many years in the State Legislature; was a Senator in Congress from Indiana, by appoint ment, from 1831 to 1832; took an active part for many years in the public affairs of his State; was killed by the cars, while walking on the track of a railroad at Indianapolis, November 19, 1858. ;

Hanneg-an, Edward A.; was born in Ohio, but passed his boyhood in Kentucky; received a good education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in his twenty-third year, settling in Indiana; was frequently a member of the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1833 to 1837; a Senator in Congress from 1843 to 1849, offi ciating part of the time as Chairman of the Commit tee on Roads and Canals and on Enrolled Bills; on his retirement from the Senate was appointed Minister to Prussia, and on his return from Europe took up his residence in Missouri. Died at St. Louis, February

25, 1859.

Hanson, Alexander Contee was a lawyer by ;

profession; was a Presidential Elector in 1789 and 1793; at one time edited a political newspaper called the Federal Republican, first at Baltimore and then at Georgetown, District of Columbia; was a bitter op ponent of the administration, and in 1812 published an article which so irritated the populace that his printing-office in Baltimore was destroyed; resolved to re-issue the paper, and took possession of a house for that purpose, supported by several political

armed the paper appeared next morn ing with an article against the people and police of Baltimore, and in the evening the house was attacked by a mob, wl ich was, however, repelled; but Mr. Hanson and his friends were obliged to surrender to the civil authorities for security, and were conducted to jail; that building was also attacked, and Mr. Hanson was thrown in front qf the jail, with others, friends, well

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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New

left by the inob, supposed to be dead it was after this that he issued his paper in Georgetown; afterwards settled in Baltimore, and was elected a Representative in Congress, serving from 1813 to 1816, when he was elected a Senator of the United

and

;

States from Maryland. 1819.

Died in Belmont, April 2 3,

Hardin, Benjamin; was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1784; removed, with his parents, to Washington County, Kentucky, in 1787; received his education from private tutors; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1806; settled at Elizabethtown, but removed to Bardstown in 1808; was a member of the Legislature in 1810, 1811, 1824, and 1825; State Senator from 1828 to 1832; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky, from 1815 to 1817, from 1819 to 1823, and from 1833 to 1837; was Secretary of State of Kentucky from 1844 to 1847; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1849; in the summer of 1852 was crip pled by a fall from his horse and died soon after at Bardstown, September 24, 1852.

Hanson, John ; was distinguished as a friend of his country; was a Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress from 1781 to 1783; President of that body during the first session, and a signer of Died in Prince the Articles of Confederation. George County, November 13, 1783. Haralson, Hugh A.; was born in Greene Coun Georgia, November 13, 1805; graduated at the

ty,

University of Georgia in 1825 adopted the law as a profession, bavin-;*, by an act of the Legislature, been permitted to practice before he was twenty-one; was, for many years, a member of the Georgia Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1851; participated in the military affairs of the State, and was a Major-General of Militia; when in Congress was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. Died at his home in October, 1854. ;

Haralsson, Jeremiah was born in Muscogee County, Georgia, April 1, 1846, of slave parents; in 1865 became free by the close of the Rebellion, and settled in Alabama; acquired a knowledge of English by means of his own personal efforts; in 1868 took an interest in politics; in 1870 presided over the Con vention which nominated B. S. Turner for Congress; in the same year was elected to the State Legislature in 1871 a Justice of the Peace; was for three years Alabama Labor Union also President of the elected to a Convention of his own people held in New Orleans; in 1872 was elected a State Senator; in 1874 was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress from ;

;

;

the State of Alabama.

Hard, Gideon gress from

;

New York

was a Representative in Con from 1833 to 1837, and a State

Senator from 1842 to 1847.

Hardeman, Thomas was ;

Jersey to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-

elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; declined re-nom ination; in 1878 was elected president of the Hudson County National Bank; was elected to the Fortyseventh Congress; declined a further re-nomination.

born at Eatonton,

Georgia, January 12, 1825; graduated at Emory Col lege, Georgia, in 1845 studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847; engaged in the warehouse and commission business; in 1853 was elected a Repre sentative in the State Legislature; in 1855 was elected State Senator; in 1857 was again elected to the As sembly; in 1859 was elected a Representative in Con gress from Georgia; served with distinction in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; was again elected to the Assembly in 1863, and was Speaker of the House; was re-elected in 1864, and was again made Speaker; was Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee for four years; in 1874 was again elected a Representative in the State Leg islature, and was chosen Speaker of the House; in 1876 became President of the Georgia State Agricul tural Society, and continued to be annually re-elected was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

;

Hardenbergh, Augustus A.; was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 18, 1830; was educated at Rutgers College; spent several years in a counting house in New York City; in 1853 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1858 became cashier of the Hudson County Bank in Jersey City; in 1868 was elected, by the Legislature, State Director of Rail roads; was a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention of 1868; President of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey; in 1874 was elected a Representative from

Hardin, Charles H.; was born in Boone County, Missouri, in 1820; graduated at the Miami Univers ity. Ohio; studied law; in 1848 was elected a County Attorney in Missouri; in 1851 became one of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum; in 1852 was elected to the State Legislature, and re-elected in 1855; was one of a Commission to revise the State Laws; in 1858 was again elected to the Legislature, and in 1860 to the State Senate; again elected to the Senate in 1872; in the following year was elected Governor of Missouri; devoted much of his attention, as a public man, to the cause of education, and through his liberality a college was established in Mexico, bearing his name, and having an of nearly forty thousand dollars.

endowment

Hardin, E. R.; was born in Georgia; was ap pointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Nebraska.

Hardin, John J.; was born at Frankfort, Ken tucky, in 1810; was the son of M. D. Hardin, pre viously a member of Congress; graduated at the Transylvania University; adopted the profession of the law; removed to Illinois, and located in Jackson ville,

where he practiced

held the

his profession

with success;

office of

Prosecuting Attorney for his Cir cuit; was a member of the Illinois Legislature from 1836 to 1842; was a Representative in Congress from Illinois, from 1843 to 1845; commanded a regiment in the war with Mexico, and was killed at the battle of Buena Vista, while leading his men, with heroic gallantry, in a final charge, February 23, 1847.

Hardin, Martin D.; was born on the Mouongahela River, Western Pennsylvania, June 21, 1780; was educated chiefly at Transylvania Seminary, in Kentucky; studied law; served for several years in the Legislature of Kentucky*, was at one time Sec retary of State ior Kentucky; served in the North western army as a Major; was a Senator in Congress during the years 1816 and 1817; he had a superior mind, and as a lawyer was eminently successful. Died in Franklin County, Kentucky, October 8, 1823.

Harding, Aaron was born in Greene County, Kentucky; passed his boyhood on a farm; studied law, and came to the bar in 1833, locating in Greene County; in 1840 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1861 was elected a Representative from Kentucky ;

to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Territories; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Post Office and Po>t Roads; re-elected to the Thirth-ninth

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Congress, serving on the Committees on Banking and Currency and Invalid Pensions; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention" of 1866.

Harding Abner

O.J was born in East Hamp ton, Middlesex County, Connecticut, February 10, 1807; was educated chiefly at Hamilton Academy, New York; practiced law in Oneida County, of that State, and fifteen years in Illinois; managed farms in that State for twenty -five years; was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1848; served in ,

the State Legislature in 1848, 1849, and 1850; was for ten years engaged in managing railroads; in 1862 enlisted as a private in the Eighty-third Illinois In fantry, and, having been appointed its Colonel, served with success at Fort Donelson was made a Brigadier;

General, and had command at Murfreesborough in 1863; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Illi nois to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, and on the Militia; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Union Prisoners, Claims, and the Militia. Died at Monmouth, Warren County, Illi nois,

July

19, 1874.

Harding, Benjamin F.; was born in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1823; studied law in his native county, and came to the bar in 1847; emigrated to Illinois in 1848, and during the follow ing year settled in Oregon; in 1850 was chosen a member of the Legislative Assembly; in 1851 was Chief Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; in 1852 was chosen a member of the Legislature and made Speaker; in 1853 was appointed, by President Pierce, United States District Attorney for the Territory of Oregon; in 1854 was appointed Secretary of the Ter ritory, which office he held until Oregon was ad mitted as a State; from 1859 to 1862 was a member of the State Legislature, serving the last two years as Speaker; in 1862 was elected a Senator in Congress from Oregon; took his seat during the third session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Naval Affairs and that on Public Lands. Harding, Stephen S.; was born in Indiana; removed to Utah; was -appointed from that Territory an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Colorado, residing in Denver City.

Hardy, John was

born in Scotland, September emigrated to the United States, with his parents, when a child graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1853, and became a tutor in that institution studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1861 in that year was a member of the State House of Representatives; was a member of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York in 1863, 1864, 1867, 1868, and 1869; was Clerk of the Com mon Council in 1870 and 1871; was Chief Clerk in the office of the Mayor in 1877 and 1878; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fernando Wood; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth ;

19, 1835;

;

;

;

Congress.

Hardy, Samuel was a Delegate to the Conti nental Congress from Virginia from 1783 to 1785. ;

Haring, John

;

was a Delegate from

to the Continental Congress again from 1785 to 1788.

New York

from 1774 to 1775, and

Harlan, Aaron was born in Warren County, Ohio, September 8, 1802; received a good English education; adopted the profession of the law, and \vas admitted to the bar in 1825; in 1831 was elected ;

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member of the State Legislature; in 1838 and 1839 was elected to the State Senate; was a Presidential Elector, in 1844, from Ohio; in 1849 was again elected to the State Senate; in 1850 was a member of the

a

"State Constitutional Convention"; in 1852 was elected a Representative in Congress from Ohio, where he continued to serve the people of his native district until the close of the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Private Land

Claims.

Harlan,

Andrew J.;

was born

in Chester, Clin

ton County, Ohio, March 29, 1815; received a limited education studied law, but abandoned the practice for politics; in 1842 was elected Clerk of the Indiana House of Representatives; was elected to the Legisla ture in 1846, 1847, and 1848; was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from Indiana from 1849 to 1851, and again from 1853 to 1855. ;

Harlan, James; was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, June 22, 1800; received a good English education; engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1817 to 1821 then commenced the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1823; in 1829 was ap pointed Prosecuting Attorney for the Circuit in which he resided, and held the office four years; in 1835 was elected a Representative in Congress from Ken tucky, and in 1837 was re-elected; during the last session was Chairman of the Committee for Investi gating Defalcations; from 1840 to 1844 was Secretary of State of Kentucky was a Presidential Elector in 1841 in 1845 was elected to the lower branch of the ;

;

;

Legislature; in 1850 was appointed Attorney-General of that State, which office he held until his death, which occurred at Frankfort, Kentucky, February 18, 1863.

Harlan, Illinois,

Asbury

James

;

was born in Clarke County,

25, 1820; graduated at the Indiana University in 1845; adopted the profession of

the law;

August

w as Superintendent r

of Public Instruction

lowain 1847; was President of the Iowa Wesleyan University in 1853; was elected a Senator in Con gress from Iowa in 1855, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands; on January 12, 1857, because of informality in his appointment, and after long debate, his seat was declared vacant, but on the 17th of the same month he was elected by the Legis lature for the term ending in 1861; was a Delegate to for

the "Peace Convention" of 1861; was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1867; in March, 1865, was invited, by President Lincoln, to succeed Mr. Usher as Secretary of the Interior Department; after the death of President Lincoln he waived his right to a seat in the cabinet of President Johnson, but the appointment of the former was confirmed by the latter, and on May 15, 1865, he resigned his seat in the Senate and entered upon his duties as Secre tary of the Interior; in January, 1866, was again re-elected to the Senate for the term commencing in 1867 and ending in 1873, and in July resigned his position as Secretary of the Interior, the resignation to take effect in the September following; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866; in 1867 wasmade Chairman of the Com mittee on the District of Columbia, serving on those on Foreign Relations, Post Office, and Pacific Railroad; in 1869 was appointed President of the Iowa Univers ity; after leaving the Senate in 1873 became pro prietor and editor of the Washington Chronicle.

Harlan, John Marshall ; was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, June 1, 1833; graduated from Centre College, Kentucky, in 1850; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1853; in 1858 was elected

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218

County Judge of Franklin County, Kentucky; in ,1859 was defeated for Congress as the candidate of the Whig, or anti-Democratic party; at the breaking out of the Civil War entered the Union Army as Colonel of the Tenth Kentucky Infantry; in 1863 was elected, on the Union ticket, Attorney-General of Kentucky; was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State in 1871 and 1875; in 1877 was appointed, by President Hayes, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Harper, James; was born in Ireland in 1779; was a brickmaker; having emigrated to Pennsyl vania, was elected a Representative in Congress from 1833 to 1837; was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. Died in Philadelphia, March 31, 1872.

Harper, James C.; was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1819; removed to Ohio in 1831; was reared on a farm; received a common school education in 1840 removed to Caldwell County, North Carolina, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, but afterwards in farming; filled various county offices; was elected to the State Legislature in 1865, 1866, and 1868; was barred by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but his disabilities were removed by Congress in 1869; was elected to the Forty -second Congress, serving on the Committee on the Pacific ;

Harmanson, John

H.; was born in Norfolk,

"Virginia, in January, 1803; was educated at Jefferson College, Mississippi; having removed to Louisiana, devoted himself first to one of the mechanic arts, then to law, and afterwards to agriculture; served in the State Senate in 1844; was elected to the National -House of Representatives in 1845, and re-elected in

1847 and 1849, ever keeping a watchful eye upon the interests of his adopted State; proposed, in Congress, a project to secure a grant from the United States to Louisiana of all the submerged lands in that State, with a view to their redemption from that condition,

thus promoting the public health. Orleans, October 25, 1850.

Railroad.

Harper, John A.; was a gress from

New

Died in

Harmar, Josiah; was

born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1753; educated chiefly at Robert Proud s Quaker School; was made Captain of the First Pennsylvania Regiment in October, 1776 was Lieutenant-Colonel from 1777 until the close of the war; was in Washington s Army from 1778 to 1780; with General Greene in the South in 1781 and 1782; made Brevet-Colonel of the First United States Regi ment in 1783; in 1784 took the Ratification of the Treaty of France; was Indian Agent for the North west Territory in 1785, and was present when the treaty was made at Fort Mclntosh; was Lieutenant;

Colonel of Infantry in 1784; brevetted BrigadierGeneral by Congress in 1787, and General-in-Chief of the Army in 1789; commanded an expedition against the Miami Indians in 1790, and partially defeated them; resigned in 1792; was Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania, from 1793 to 1799, and furnished the troops for Wayne s campaign in 1793 and 1794. Died in Philadelphia, August 20, 1813.

Harmer, Alfred O.; was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1825; received a public school education; commenced business as a shoe manufacturer and became a wholesale dealer; was elected a member of the City Councils of Philadelphia in 1856, and served four years; was elected Recorder of Deeds for Philadelphia in 1860, and served three years; was a Delegate to the National Convention at Chicago; was elected to the Forty -second and Fortythird Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Commit tee on the District of Columbia, and as a member of that on Weights and Measures; was again a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Fortyninth Congresses. Harriett, Cornelius; was a Delegate from North Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1780, and signed the Articles of Confederation.

Harper, Alexander; was born in Ireland; having emigrated to Ohio, was elected a Representa tive in Congress from 1837 to 1839, from 1843 to 1847, and again from 1851 to 1853.

Harper, Francis J.; was elected a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, but died before taking his seat, March 18, 1837, aged thirty-eight years.

New Hampshire

Representative in Con

from 1811 to 1813.

Harper, Joseph M.; was born in Limerick, Maine, June 21, 1787; commenced active life by working on his father s farm in summer, and going to the district school in winter; was also at the Fryeburg Academy; taught school; studied medicine and law, and practiced both professions; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Hampshire, from 1831 to 1835; in 1858 Avas President of the Me chanics Bank, Concord; for a short time, in 1831, officiated as Acting Governor of New Hampshire.

New

Died in Canterbury,

New

Hampshire, January

14,

1865.

Harper, Robert Goodloe

;

was bom near Fred-

ericksburg, Virginia, in 1765; was a graduate of Princeton College in 1785, and for a time a teacher in that institution; removing to Charleston, South Carolina, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of that State; was a leading Representative in Con gress from South Carolina, from 1794 to 1801; subse quently removed to Baltimore, Maryland; was a Senator in Congress from that State during the years 1815 and 1816; in 1819 visited p]urope, and on his return devoted himself to the cause of the Coloniza tion Society and to literary pursuits, publishing a number of interesting addresses and papers, which were subsequently collected in a volume; served with credit in the war of 1812, attaining the rank of

Died suddenly, January 15, 1825, Major-General. having been engaged the preceding day in the Cir cuit Court. Received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton College.

was a Judge of the United Harper, Samuel States Court for the District of Louisiana.

H;

Harper lina; born

"William

;

was a native of South Caro

graduated at the South Carolina College in 1808; became one of the Board of that institution in Trustees of 1813; adopted the pro fession of the law; served in the State Legislature, and was elected Speaker of the Lower House; was a Senator in Congress from South Carolina during the year 1826; was appointed Chancellor of that State in 1835; in 1830 was elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals, and for a time State Reporter; for domestic reasons, he spent a few years in Missouri from 1818 to 1823, and while there was made Chancellor of Died October 10. the State; was an eminent jurist. 1847.

January

17. 1790;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Harriman, "Walter was born at Warner, New Hampshire; was a school teacher, and subsequently a trader, and being an active politician, held several important offices in August, 1862, became Colonel of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment, which he led through the Civil War; was Secretary of State of New Hampshire from 1865 to 1867, and Governor of the State from 1867 to 1869. Died July 25, 1884. ;

;

was born in Massachu was for many the Treasury Department at Wash

Harrington, George setts;

became a

;

citizen of Georgia;

years a Clerk in ington; Chief Clerk under his personal friend, S. P. Chase; in 1861 was appointed Assistant Secretary of that department; between the years 1865 and 1869. was Minister Resident to Switzerland; was subse quently President of a telegraph company in New

York City.

Harris,

Gary

was appointed Commissioner

A..;

of Indian Affairs in July, 1836, but only held the office until October of the same year.

Harris, Charles M.; was born in Munfordsville, Hart County, Kentucky, April 10. 1821; received a common school education; adopted the profession of the law; having become a citizen of Illinois, was elected, in 1862, a Representative from that State to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Public Expenditures and on Expenditures in the War Department.

Edward

was one of the earliest mem of the Circuit Court of the United States after its organization, and was appointed Judge of the Fifth Circuit in 1802, by President Jefferson. Harris,

;

ber

Harris, Elisha was Governor of Rhode Island two years, beginning with the year 1847. ;

for

Harrington, Henry County,

W.; was born

New York, September

12, 1825;

in Otsego

studied law,

and came

to the bar in 1849; in 1856 took up his residence in Indiana, and continued the prosecution of his profession there; after serving in a local conven tion, was chosen a Delegate to the Charleston Con vention in 1860; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving

on the Committee on Private Land Claims; was a Delegate to the New York Convention of 1868; was subsequently appointed an Assessor of Internal Rev enue in Indiana.

Harris, George E.; was born in Orange County, North Carolina, January, 1827; was reared in Car roll County, Tennessee; removed to Mississippi in 1844; studied law and practiced from 1854 until the breaking out of the war in 1861; was opposed to se cession, but when his State severed its connection with the Union, joined the Confederate Army, and remained until the close of the war; came home and favored reconstruction was elected District Attorney in 1865 and 1866; was elected to the Forty -first and Forty-second Congresses, serving on the Com mittees on Military Affairs and Accounts; was quently chosen Attorney -General for the State of ;

sul>se-

Gwinn; was

born near Leonardstown, St. Mary s County, Maryland, De cember 13, 1806; after receiving an academic educa tion at Charlotte Hall, spent a few months in St. Mary s College, and went to Yale College, from which he was dismissed, with one hundred and forty others, in 1829, on account of their seceding from Commons Hall; although a compact was entered into that they would not return unless their wishes were respected, all of them did return, excepting Mr. Harris and one subsequently spent fourteen other, a Georgian; months at the Cambridge Law School, and then set tled in his native county as a lawyer; in 1832 was elected to the House of Delegates of Maryland, and re-elected in 1833, 1836, 1849, 1852, and 1856; with his profession and public duties he combined agri cultural pursuits; in 1863 was elected a Representa tive from Maryland to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures; was a of 1864; reDelegate to the "Chicago Convention

Harris, Benjamin

"

Mississippi.

Harris, Henry R.; was born in Sparta, Georgia, February 2, 1828; removed to Greenville, Meriwetiier County, in 1833; graduated at Emory College in 1847; engaged in planting; was a member of the Georgia Convention in 18(1 was elected to the Fortythird Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, serving on the Committee on Mines and Mining; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; was also elected a Representa tive to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

Harris, Henry S. was born at Belvidere, New Jersey, December 27, 1850; graduated at Princeton College in 1870; studied law; was licensed as an at torney in 1873, and as Counselor in 1876; in 1877 was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Warren County; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the ;

elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; in May, 1865, was arrested and tried by court martial for violating the 56th Article of War, and, although declared guilty, the President, on acount of additional testi mony, ordered the sentence of the court to be re mitted in full.

Forty-seventh Congress.

Harris, Benjamin W.; was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, November 10, 1823; received an academic education; studied law at the Dane Lawat Bos School, Cambridge; was admitted to practice ton in 1850; removed to East Bridge water in 1850; was a member of the State Senate in 1857, and a from Representative in 1858; was District Attorney 1858 to 1866; was Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District from 1866 until 1873, when he resigned; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, serving on the Committee on Indian Affairs; was re-elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Fortyde fifth, Forty -sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; clined a re-nomination.

to prepare for college; graduated at Union College in 1824; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Albany, where he settled; for seventeen years devoted his whole attention to his profession, in which he was eminently successful, avoiding all political entanglements; in 1844 was elected to the State Legislature; re-elected in 1845; was a Delegate, in 1846, to the Convention for revising the Constitu tion of the State; before the Convention adjourned was elected to the State Senate; in 1847 was elected Judge of the Supreme Court, and held the position twelve and a half years; in 1861 was elected, for six years, a Senator in Congress from New York, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Private- Land Claims, and member of the Committees on the Judi-

Harris, Ira; was born in Charleston, Montgom ery County, New York, May 31, 1802, tracing his lineage to the colony of Roger Williams; when a boy worked upon a farm in summer, and attended school in winter; in his seventeenth year entered Cortland

Academy

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

220 ciary, Foreign Relations,

and Public Lands; was a

member of the

Special Joint Committee on the Rebel lious States; was also a member of the National Com mittee appointed to accompany the remains of Presi dent Lincoln to Illinois; during his sojourn in Wash ington he delivered an occasional Lecture before the Law Students of Columbia College, by invitation of the Faculty; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia of 1866, and to the "State Loyalists Convention Constitutional Convention" of 1867; received, from Union College, the degree of LL.D., and, in 1869, was acting President of that institution. Died in Albany, December 2, 1875. "

Harris, Isham GK; was born in Franklin County, Tennessee; received an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac tice at Paris, Tennessee, in 1841; was elected a Rep resentative in the State Legislature in 1847; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirtyfirst and Thirty-second Congresses; declined a re election; removed to Memphis, Tennessee; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; was elected Governor in 1857, and re-elected in 1859 and 1861; served three years in the Confederate Army as a Staff Officer; was elected a United States Senator from Tennessee for the term of six years from March 4, 1877, and was re-elected for the term ending in 1889.

Harris, J. Morrison was born in the city of Baltimore, in 1821; was educated at Lafayette Col ;

lege, Pennsylvania; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1843; was a Presidential Elector in 1848 in 1855 was elected a Representative from Mary land in the Thirty-fourth Congress, and returned to the Thirty-fifth Congress in 1857, serving as a mem ber of the Committee on Mileage; also re-elected to the Thirty -sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention" of 1866. ;

Harris, John; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1807 to 1809.

Harris, John A.; was born in New York in 1826; in 1846 settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, devoting him self to mercantile pursuits; was President of the Marine Bank of Milwaukee; removed to Louisiana in 1864; was a member of the State Constitutional Conven tion was a member of the Board of Registration also of the State Senate; in 1868 was elected a Sena tor in Congress from Louisiana for the term ending in 1873, serving on the Committees on the District of ;

;

Columbia and Printing. Harris, John T.; was born in Albemarle Coun ty, Virginia, May 8, 1825; received a good English education, attending school and working on his father s farm alternately; taught school for a while; studied law, and was licensed to practice in 1845; was a State Elector in 1848, 1851, and 1855; a Presi dential Elector in 1852 and 1856; was twice elected Attorney for the Commonwealth; was elected a Rep resentative from Virginia to the Thirty-sixth Con gress, serving on the Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings; was also elected to the Fortysecond and two succeeding Congresses, serving on the Committees on Claims and War Claims; in De cember, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Com mittee on Elections; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses.

Hirris, Leavitt in 1813 was appointed Secretary of Legation to Russia, and while there, acted also as Secretary of the Mission Extraordinary, for entering into negotiations with England; in 1833 was made Charge tf Affaires to France. ;

Mark

was born in Ipswich, Massachu removed to Portland in 1800; became a grocer; took an active part in politics; held the offices of County and State Treasurer for twenty years; was a State Senator in 1816 and 1819; a State Harris,

;

setts, in 1779;

Counselor in 1820; served also in the State Legisla was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1822 to 1823, for the unexpired term of E. Whitman. Died in New York, March 2, 1843. ture;

Harris, Robert was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1823 to 1827. ;

Harris, Sampson W.; was born in Elbert County, Georgia, February 23, 1809; graduated at Franklin College in 1828; adopted the profession of the law; served one term in the Georgia Legislature; removed to Alabama; was there appointed Prosecut ing Attorney for the State; in 1847 was elected a Representative in Congress from Alabama, where he continued until his death. Died in Washington, D. C., April 1, 1857.

;

Harris, Thomas K. was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1813 to 1815. ;

Thomas

L.; was born in Norwich, Con Harris, necticut, October 29, 1816; graduated at Trinity Col lege, Hartford, in 1841; studied law in Connecticut with Governor Isaac Toucey was admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1842, and during that year com menced the practice of his profession in Petersburg, Menard County, Illinois in 1 845 was chosen School Commissioner for his county; in 1846 raised and com ;

;

manded a company, and joined

the Fourth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, to serve in the war with Mex ico; was afterwards elected Major of the regiment, and owing to the sickness of his superior officers, was chief in command during most of the campaigns; was at the taking of Vera Cruz, and served in the navy battery with a detachment during the day of its terrible fire; was also at Cerro Gordo, and after the wounding of General Shields, took command of the regiment; was honorably mentioned in govern

ment dispatches

for placing a twenty-four pounder cannon on the heights of Cerro Gordo, during the night preceding the battle; while absent in the army,

in 1846, was elected a Senator in the Illinois Legisla ture; in 1848 was chosen a Representative in Con gress; was again elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress during his second term officiated as Chairman of the Committee on Elections; took a special interest in the election in Illinois, when he was re-elected to the ;

Thirty-sixth Congress, and

it is

supposed that owing

to his declining health, the efforts he made were the immediate cause of his death, which occurred at Springfield, Illinois, November 24, 1858; his disease

was pulmonary consumption. Harris, Townsend was a citizen of New York; went to Japan as Consul General, and two years afterwards was authorized to negotiate a treaty with that empire; in 1868 was promoted to the rank of Minister Resident, and succeeded in negotiating a treaty, and by his diplomacy won special credit from his government; in 1871 was re-commissioned to the same office, and is credited with having done much to cement the existing friendship between the United Died February 25, 1878. States and Japan. ;

in 1855

Harris, W. L.; was appointed, by the Acting Governor of Mississippi in 1851, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, caused by the resignation of J. Davis, but it does not appear from the Journal of the Senate that he took his seat.

.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Harris, "Wiley P.; was born in Mississippi was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855. Took part in the Rebellion. ;

Harris, William A.; was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, Augusts, 1805; received a classical education; adopted the profession of the law, and practiced it for ten years; was twice elected to the Legislature of Virginia; was a Presidential Elector in 1641; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1841 to 1843; was editor, for several years, of a journal called the Spectator, and subsequently of the Constitution, published in Washington; in 1845 was appointed, by President Polk, Charge d Affaires to Buenos Ayres, where he remained until 1851; after the election of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency, be came the editor and proprietor of the Washington Union, which continued in his possession until he was elected Printer to the United States Senate, which office he held for two years; in 1854 removed to Missouri.

>

Died in Pike County, March

28, 1864.

Harrison, Albert GK; was a native of Kentucky; was a lawyer by profession was a member of Congress ;

from Missouri from 1835 to 1839. Died at Fulton, Missouri, September 7, 1839, highly esteemed.

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Harrison, Benjamin; was born in Berkeley County, Virginia; was educated at the College of William and Mary; after performing important duties on local committees, was elected to the Will iamsburg Convention of 1774; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778, and signed the Declaration of Independence; in 1775 was a member of the Rich mond Convention; took an important part in organiz ing means of defense; while in Congress he served conspicuously on the most important committees, and was very popular as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole; was a Counselor of Virginia under the new form of government; was considered a Colossus in the cause of liberty and human rights; was amember, and Speaker, of the House of Burgesses; in 1782 was elected Governor of Virginia, and twice reelected; subsequently served in the Legislature; was a member of the Convention called to ratify the Federal Constitution. Died in April, 1791. He was the warm personal friend of Washington, and the father of President William Henry Harrison. Harrison, Benjamin was born at North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833; received ;

a classical education, graduating at Miami Univers ity, Ohio, in 1852; studied law: in 1854 removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and settled in the practice of his profession in 1860 was elected Reporter of the Supreme Court of the State; entered the Union Army in 1862, as a subaltern and rose to the rank of Colonel, and Brevet Brigadier-General, serving until 1865; while in service was re-elected Reporter of the Su preme Court and, after leaving the army, served four years in that position; was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1876; in 1879 was ap pointed a member of the Mississippi River Commis sion; was elected a Senator for the United States from Indiana for the term of six years from March 4, 1881. ;

Harrison, Carter B.; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1799.

w^

born in Fayette Harrison, Carter H.; County, Kentucky, February 15, 1825; his early edu cation was obtained from his mother, but he gradu ated at Yale College in 1845; prepared himself for the legal profession, but became a farmer; subsequently traveled in Europe; graduated at the Law School of Transylvania, and settled in Chicago, Illinois;

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after the great fire, in 1871, was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners; in 1874, after his return from a second trip to Europe, was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth was re-elected to the Congress; Forty-fifth Congress; in 1879 was elected Mayor of Chicago, and was re-

elected in 1881, 1883,

and 1885.

Harrison, Henry B.; was born at New Haven, Connecticut, September 11, 1821; received a classical education, graduating from Yale College in 1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar at New Haven in 1848, and engaged in the practice of law there, in which he continued until 1880, when he retired from business; was a member of the State Senate of Con necticut in 1854; was a Representative in the Legis lature of Connecticut in 1865, 1873, and 1884; in the latter year was Speaker of the House; was elected Governor of Connecticut for the term of two years

from January, 1885.

Harrison, Horace H.; was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, August 7, 1829; was liberally educated; was elected Clerk of the State Senate in 1851; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857; removed to Nashville in 1859; was appointed United States District Attorney for Middle Tennessee in 1863; was elected Chancellor in the Nashville Chancery Division in 1866; was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1867; resigned in 1868; was an Elector for the State at large; was again appointed United States District Attorney in 1872; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Elections. Harrison, John Scott was born in Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1857. He was the sou of William Henry Harrison. ;

Harrison, Richard; was born Auditor of the United States five years Consul to Cadiz. July 10, 1841.

in

1750;

wa

and Died in Washington,

for fifty-five years;

Harrison, Richard A.; was born in England in 1827; emigrated to Ohio in 1836; received a good English education; served for a time in a printing office in Clarke County; graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in 1846; in 1857 was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives; subsequently to the State Senate; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Invalid Pensions and on the Militia.

Harrison, S. S.; was born in Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1837. Harrison, William was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787. ;

Harrison, William Henry was born in Charles County, Virginia, February 9, 1773; was educated Hampden Sidney College; afterwards studied medi cine; received, from President Washington, a mili tary commission in 1791, and fought under Wayne in 1792; after the battle of Miami Rapids, was made Captain and placed in command of Fort Washington; in 1797 was appointed Secretary of the Northwest Territory; in 1799 and 1800 was a Delegate to Con;ress; being appointed Governor of Indiana, was also Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and negotiated thirteen treaties; gained a great victory at the battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811; in the war with Great Britain was Commander of the Northwest ;

at

Army, and was distinguished in the defense of Fort

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

223

Meigs, and the victory of the Thames; from 1816 to 1819 was a Representative in Congress from Ohio; was a Presidential Elector in 1821 and 1825; from 1825 to 1828 was United States Senator; in 1828 was Minis ter to the Republic of Columbia; on his return, re sided upon his farm, at North Bend, Ohio; in 1840 was elected President of the United States, by two hundred and thirty-four votes out of two hundred and ninety-four, and was inaugurated March 4, 1841. Died in the Presidential Mansion, April 4, 1841. at Vienna, Trumbull County, Ohio, July 4, 1830; received a good educa* tion in the common schools and at Grand River Insti

Hart, Alphonso

;

was born

tute, Austiuburgh, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851, and engaged in practice; was editor of the Portage (Ohio) Sentinel from 1854 to 1857; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Portage County in 1861, and re-elected in 1863; in 1864 re signed and was elected State Senator; was again elected State Senator in 1871 in 1872 was a Presi dential Elector; in 1873 was elected Lieutenant-Governor; removed from Ravenna to Cleveland, Ohio; in 1878 settled at Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty;

eighth Congress.

Hart, Emanuel B.; was born in New York City, October 29, 1811; entered early upon a mercantile occupation; went to the Spanish Main as a super cargo; settled in New York as a commission mer chant; served for a time in the Board of Aldermen was a Representative in Congress from 1851 to 1853; was at one time a Lieutenant-Colonel of the State Militia; was appointed, by President Buchanan, Sur veyor of the Port of New York; was also frequently a member of the State and National Conventions of the Democratic party. ;

Hart, E. Kirke was born at Albion, Orleans County, New York, April 8, 1841; received an aca demic education; engaged in the banking business in 1860, and became Cashier of the Orleans County Na tional Bank; was a member of the Assembly in 1872; was elected a Representative from New York to the ;

Forty-fifth Congress.

Hart, John was born at Hopewell, New Jersey, 1708; received an ordinary education; was a farmer, and for many years a member of the Colonial Legis lature of New Jersey; was a Delegate to the Conti nental Congress from 1774 to 1777; suffered much from the loyalists, who used special exertions to take him prisoner; fled from his family, and wandered through the woods from cottage to cottage, and from ;

cave to cave, constantly hunted by his enemies, so that he never ventured to sleep twice in the same place; the capture of the Hessians by Washington allowed him to return to his estate, where he passed the rest of his life; was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and great confidence was reposed in the wisdom and judgment of honest John Hart." Died at Hopewell, in 1780. "

Hart, O. B.; was born in the North; emigrated to Jacksonville, Florida; was made Associate Judge of the Supreme Court in 1868; was elected Governor of Florida in 1872. Died at his home, March 18 1874.

Hart, Roswell was born at Rochester, New York, in 1824; graduated at Yale College in 1843; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847, but never practiced the profession; devoted himself to mercantile pursuits; in 1864 was elected a Repre sentative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Indian Affairs, ;

Expenditures in the State Department, and the Dis Columbia was re-elected to the Fortieth Died April 20, 1883. Congress. trict of

;

John F.; was born in Maine; was for years a Clerk, and lso Chief Clerk, in the Treasury Department; in 1865 was appointed Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury; resigned in May, 1875; his reputation was that of a most capable officer. Hartley,

many

Thomas

was born in Reading, Penn ; Hartley, sylvania; served in the Revolutionary War as a Colonel, from 1776 to 1779; was a lawyer of emi nence; was a Representative in Congress from Penn sylvania from 1789 until his death, which occurred at York, Pennsylvania, in 1800. He was one of those who voted for locating the seat of Government on the Potomac.

Hartranft, John Frederick; was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1830; graduated at Union College in 1853; studied law and came to the bar in 1859; entered the Volunteer Army at the commencement of the Rebellion, and, as Colonel of the Fourth Pennsylvania, was in the battle of Bull Run; was also in the battles at Roanoke Island, at Newberne, in the second battle of Bull Run, and many other engagements; from 1864 was a Brigadier-General, and had command of a brigade at the battle of the Wilderness; was brevetted a Major-Gen eral; his troops were the first that entered Petersburg; in 1865 was elected AuditorGeneral of Pennsylvania, and re-elected in 1868; in 1872 was elected Governor of Pennsylvania, and was re-elected in 1875.

Hartridge, Julian; was born in Savannah, Georgia; received a collegiate education studied and practiced law; was Solicitor-General of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia; a Representative in the State Legislature; Delegate to the Charleston Demo cratic Convention of 1860; served in the Confederate Army; was a member of the Confederate Congress; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conven tion of 1872; Presidential Elector in that year; was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Fortyfourth Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fifth Died January 8, 1879. Congress. ;

Hartzell, William was born upon a farm in Stark County, Ohio, February 20, 1837; in 1840 re moved, with his parents, to Illinois; in 1844 re moved to Texas, where he remained until 1853, when he returned to Illinois, and settled in Randolph County; graduated at McKendree College in 1859; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and engaged in the practice of law; was elected a Representative to the Forty- fourth Congress from Illinois; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. ;

Harvey, James E.; was born in South Carolina, February 4, 1820; was chiefly educated by the Right Rev. Bishop England, in Charleston; paid some at tention to law; in 1842 was appointed to the charge of the Loan Office in the United States Treasury, which he organized; in 1844 became connected with the North American and United States Gazette, of Phil adelphia, as one of its editors, and was its Washing ton correspondent for seventeen years; also corre sponded with the New, York Tribune and other jour in 1861 was appointed, by President nals; Lincoln, Minister to Portugal, and remained in the position eight years, the Senate having confirmed him with out a single opposing vote; in 1870 established a Democratic paper in Washington called the Patriot, which he managed for one year, when his health him to retire. compelled

!

,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. James

M. was born in Monroe County, Harvey, Virginia, September 21, 1833; studied in the public schools of Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois; practiced sur veying and civil engineering as a profession until he removed to Kansas, in 1859; was Captain in the ;

Fourth and Tenth Regiments of Kansas Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until 1864; was a member in the lower House of the State Legislature in 1865 and 1866; a member of the State Senate in 1867 and 1868; was Governor of Kansas from 1869 to 1871; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Alexander Caldwell, and took his seat in 1874, for the term ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Mines and Min ing, Mississippi Levees, and Public Lands.

Harvey, Jonathan; was born in Merrimack New Hampshire; served seven years in the

County,

two Houses of the State Legislature; was President of the Senate from 1817 to 1823; was a State Coun selor from 1823 to 1825; was a Representative in Con gress from New Hampshire from 1825 to 1831, during his last term serving as a member of the Committee Died in Sutton, New Hampshire, on Commerce. August

aged seventy-nine years.

23, 1859,

Harvey, Louis

P.;

was born in East Haddam,

Connecticut, July 22, 1820; removed, with his parents, to Ohio in 1828; was educated at the Western Reserve College; in 1840 settled at Kenosha, Wiscon sin, where he taught an academy and edited a news paper; in 1850 removed to Rock County and entered into active business; was a member of the first State Constitutional Convention; was in the State Senate from 1855 to 1857; was chosen Secretary of State soon afterwards; was elected Governor of Wisconsin while going to the army with supplies for in 1861 the wounded after the battle of Shiloh, was drowned in the Tennessee river, April 19, 1862. ;

Harvey, Matthew was born in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, in 1781; was for many years a member of the New Hampshire Legislature Speaker of the House from 1818 to 1821; was a Rep resentative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1821 to 1825; President of the State Senate from 1825 to 1828; was a State Counselor in 1828; Governor of the State in 1830; in 1831 was appointed Judge of the United States District Court. Died at Concord, New ;

;

Hampshire, April

Harvie, John

7,

1866.

was a Delegate

to the Conti nental Congress from Virginia from 1778 to 1779, and signed the Articles of Confederation. ;

Hasbrouck, Abraham was a member of the New York Assembly from Ulster County in 1781 and ;

1782, and again in 1811; was a Representative in Congress from 1813 to 1815 was a State Senator in ;

1822.

Abraham

Hasbrouck, B.; was a native of Ulster County, New York; spent a few years of his life in New Jersey; graduated from Yale College in 1810; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1825 to 1827; was President of Rutgers College,

which

office

he resigned.

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Haskell, Dudley C.; was born at Springfield, Vermont, March 23, 1842; received a classical educa tion; engaged in mercantile pursuits; removed to Kansas in 1855; served as a Representative in the State Legislature in 1872, 1875, and 1876, the last term as Speaker; was elected a Representative from Kansas to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. Died, at Washington, December 16, 1883. Haskell, "William T.; wavS born in Tennessee; received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; commanded, as Colonel, a Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers in the war with Mexico, and distinguished himself at Medelin and at Cerro Gordo was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1847 to 1849; a Presidential Elector in 1852. Died at Hopkinsville, Tennessee, March 20, 1859. ;

Haskin, John B.; was born at Fordham, Westchester County, New York, August 7, 1821 was edu cated at a public school in New York City; was a lawyer by profession; held several important city offices from 1846 to 1856; was then elected a Repre sentative in the Thirty-fifth Congress from New York, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Expen ditures in the Navy Department; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures. ;

Haslett, Joseph was born in Delaware, and was the son of John Haslett, who was killed at the battle of Princeton in 1777 was Governor of Dela ware from 1811 to 1814. and again in 1823 and 1824. ;

;

Hassaurek, Frederick; was a citizen of Ohio; from 1861 to 1866 was Minister Resident to Ecuador. Hastings, George was born in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, March 13, 1807; graduated at Hamilton College in 1826; studied law and was ad mitted to the bar in 1830; was District Attorney for Oneida County nine years; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1853 to 1855; late in the latter year was elected Judge for Livingston County, which office he held until his death. Died ;

at

Mount

August

Morris,

Livingston County,

New

York,

29, 1866.

Hastings, John

was a Representative in Con Died at Colum

;

gress from Ohio from 1839 to 1843. bus, December 29, 1854.

Hastings, Samuel Clinton

was a lawyer by was a Representative in Congress from Iowa from 1846 to 1847; was at one time a Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa; having emigrated to Cal ifornia, practiced his profession in San Francisco. ;

profession;

Hastings, Seth graduated at Harvard Uni was a Representative in Congress ;

versity in 1782;

from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1807; after his ser vice in Congress, was elected a State Senator in 1810 and 1814; was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions. Died at Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1831, aged seventy years.

Hastings, "William Soden was frequently a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts; was in ;

the Senate from 1829 to 1834 was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1842. Died at the Sulphur Springs, Virginia, June 17, 1842. ;

Hasbrouck, Josiah was for four years a mem ber of the New York Assembly; was a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1817 to 1819. ;

Hatch, Herschel Harrison

was born at MorYork, February 17, 1837; received a common school education; in 1854 became clerk in a dry goods store in New York City; graduated from the Law School of Hamilton College,

risville,

Hascall, Augustus P.; was born in Massa was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1851 to 1853.

chusetts;

Madison County,

New

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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New York, in 1858, and was admitted to the bar; en in gaged in the practice of law in his native county; 1863 removed to Bay City, Michigan, and practiced his profession; was elected a member of the first Board of Aldermen of Bay City in 1865; elected Judge of Probate in 1868; appointed a member of

the State Constitutional Commission in 1872, and of the State Tax Commission in 1881; was elected a Eepresentative from Michigan to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Hatch, Israel T.; was born in New York in 18Q8: was a member of the Assembly of that State in 1852; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Militia, and as a member of the Committee on Engraving; in 1859 was appointed, by President Buchanan, to examine and report upon the working of the Reciprocity Treaty; a few weeks later was ap pointed Postmaster at Buffalo. Died at Buffalo, September 24, 1875. Hatch, William Henry

;

was born

in

Scott

County, Kentucky, September 11, 1833; was educated at Lexington, Kentucky; was admitted to the bar in 1854, and engaged in the practice of law; removed to Missouri; was elected Circuit Attorney of the Six teenth Judicial Circuit in 1858, and re-elected in 1860; served in the Confederate Army as Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General during the war of the Rebellion; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Hatcher, Robert A.; was born

in Buckingham County, Virginia, February 24, 1819; was educated in Lynchburg; studied law, and was licensed to practice in Kentucky; removed to Missouri in 1847; there fol

lowed his profession; was, for six years, Circuit Attorney of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Missouri; was a member of the State Legislature in 1850 and 1851 a member of the State Convention in 1862; of ;

the Confederate Congress in 1864; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on several Committees; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. Died at Charleston, Missouri, December 18, 1886.

Samuel G-.; was born in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, July 18, 1780; received a common school education; tried the sea as a sailor, but gave it up; in 1830 settled in Chenango County,

Hathaway,

New York; was, for eight years, a Justice of the Peace; in 1814 and 1818 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1822 to the State Senate; was a Representative from New York to the Twenty-third Congress; in 1852 was a Presidential Elector; was a Delegate to the "Cin cinnati Convention" of 1856; was for many years deeply interested in military affairs, and attained the rank of Major-General of Militia; besides holding a

great variety of local offices, became one of the most extensive land proprietors and farmers in his

county.

Hathorn, Henry H.; was born

New York, November

in Greenfield,

28, 1813; received

an academic

education; was a merchant at Saratoga from 1839 to 1849; was largely interested in the hotel business there, as one of the proprietors of Congress Hall, and also owner of the Hatliorn Spring; was Supervisor for Saratoga four years; was elected Sheriff of the County in 1853 and 1862, serving six years; was elected to the Forty-third Congress from New York; re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Hathorn, John; was ate of

New York

a

in 1787;

member of the

State Sen was a Representative in

Congress from New York from 1789 to 1791, and again from 1795 to 1797; was again elected to the State Senate in 1804; during the latter year was a Presidential Elector.

Hatton, Frank was born at Cambridge, Ohio, April 28, 1846; in early boyhood removed, with his parents, to Cadiz, Ohio, where his father published the Republican newspaper; in 1857 entered his father s office as an apprentice; at the age of fourteen, in 1861, became foreman of the publishing office; in 1863 enlisted in the Union Army; in 1864 was com missioned a First Lieutenant; at the close of the war, in 1865, settled at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, whence his father had preceded him, and, in partnership with his father, published the Journal newspaper there; in 1874 removed to Burlington, Iowa, and purchased a controlling interest in the Burlington Hawkeyc, and there gained a national reputation as a political writer; was appointed, by President Hayes, Post master at Burlington; in October, 1881, was ap pointed, by President Arthur, First Assistant Post master-General on the appointment of PostmasterGeneral Gresham as United States Circuit Judge, in 1884, Mr. Hatton was promoted to the vacancy thus created, and enjoyed the distinction of being, with the single exception of Alexander Hamilton, the youngest person who had ever held a Cabinet office; on the expiration of his term of office, in March, 1885, resumed the profession of journalism as prin cipal owner and editor of the Mail, at Chicago, Illi ;

;

nois.

Hatton, Robert

;

was born in Sumner County,

Tennessee, in 1827; graduated at Cambridge Uni versity; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1849; served in the Tennessee Legislature in 1856; in 1859 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty -sixth Congress, serving on the Commit tee on Expenses in the Navy Department; served in the Rebellion of 1861, and was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, before Richmond, in 1862.

Haughey, Thomas; was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1826; emigrated to this country and set tled in Alabama in 1840, where he received a clas sical education; studied medicine and surgery, and graduated as a physician in New Orleans in 1858; served as a Surgeon in the army of the United States from 1862 to 1865; was subsequently Staff Surgeon in the Military Hospital at Chattanooga; was twice compelled to leave his home on account of his devo tion to the Union cause; was a Delegate, in 1867, to the State Constitutional Convention; and in Febru ary, 18C8, was elected a Representative from Ala bama to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Expenditures on Public Buildings. Haun, H. P.; was born in Scott County, Ken tucky; read law at the Transylvania University, of that State, and was admitted to the bar in 1839; was for a time Attorney for his native county; removed to Iowa in 1845, and was a member of the Conven tion which formed the Constitution of that State in 1846; removed to California in 1850, and was there elected a County Judge; in 1859 was elected a Sen ator in Congress from California, for the unexpired term of the late Mr. Broderick, serving on the Com mittees on Indian Affairs and on Territories. Died at Marysville, California, May 6, 1860.

Haven, Nathaniel A.; was a native of New Hampshire; graduated at Harvard University in 1779; was a member of Congress from that State from 1809 to 1811. Died in March, 1831, aged sixtynine years.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1857. Died at Buffalo, New York, De cember 24, 1861.

Haven, Solomon &. was ,

Havens, Harrison

/

was born in Franklin

B.;

County, Ohio, December 15, 1837; received a common school education; studied law in Illinois, and prac ticed in that State and in Iowa; removed to Spring editor of the field, Missouri in 1867, and became of law in Springfield Patriot; returned to the practice and 1873; held several unimportant civil offices, served for a short time as Captain in the army; was elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Con on Territories. gresses, serving on the Committee

Havens, Jonathan

N.; graduated at Yale Col

was for nine years a member of the New York Assembly from Suffolk County, and a Rep resentative in Congress from 1795 to 1799, the year

lege in 1777, and

of his death.

Hawes, Albert GK; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1837, and died in Davis County, Kentucky, April 14, 1849. Hawes, Aylett was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia from 1811 to 1817; was a phy sician by profession, and died in Culpepper County, Virginia, August 31, 1833.

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He was Indian Character." Topography" and one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Govxnment on the Potomac. Died June 6, 1816. "

Hawkins, Isaac R.; was born in Maury Coun Tennessee, May 16, 1818; served as a Lieutenant

ty,

in the war with Mexico, and was present at the cap ture of Vera Cruz; was a Presidential Elector in of 1856; was a Delegate to the "Peace Congress" but on account of 1861; was in 1862 elected a Judge, the war was not commissioned; from 1862 to 1865

served as an officer in the Union Army, and had command of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry; was and con captured by Confederates in March, 1864, fined in two different prisons in Macon, Georgia; was one of the fifty officers placed under the fire of the Federal guns in Charleston; in 1865, after having been mustered out was commissioned Chancellor for the Sixth Division of Tennessee; in that year was elected a Representative in Congress from Tennessee to the Thirty-ninth Congress, taking his seat near the close of the first session, and serving on the Com mittees on the Militia and the Debts of Loyal States; was re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Con gresses, serving on the Committee on Military Affairs, and Chairman of that on Mileage.

;

Hawes, Richard was born in Caroline County, Virginia, February 6, 1797; removed, with his family to Kentucky in 1810; received a good col legiate education; adopted the profession of law; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1828, 1829 and 1836, and was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1837 to 1841. ;

Hawk, Robert M.

A.; was born in Hancock County, Indiana, April 23, 1839; was educated at the local schools and at Eureka College, Illinois; removed served* three years in the Union Army, during the War of the Rebellion, rising to the rank of Major; was Clerk of the County Court of Carroll County, Illinois, from 1865 to 1879, by successive elections; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. Died June 29, 1882.

to Illinois;

Hawkes, James was ;

sachusetts,

from

New

born in Worcester, Mas

and was a Representative in Congress York from 1811 to 1823.

Hawkins, Alvin was a resident of Hunting don, Tennessee, and served in the Senate of that State; was Governor of the State from 1881 to 1883. ;

Hawkins, Benjamin was ;

born in Yates Coun

North Carolina, August 15, 1754; was educated at Princeton College, and was an excellent French scholar, which occasioned his becoming a personal friend of Washington, that he might act as inter preter in his intercourse with the French officers of his army; was with him at the battle of Monmouth; in 1780 was chosen Commercial Agent by the Legislature of North Carolina; from 1781 to 1784, and 1786 to 1787, was a Delegate in Congress; as a Senator of the United States, under the Constitution, from North Carolina, served from 1789 to 1795; hav ing been appointed, by President Washington, Agent

ty,

Superintending of all the Indians south of the Ohio, retained that office until his death, having tendered his resignation, without its being accepted, He to each successive President from 1796 to 1816. was a man of superior abilities and lofty character, and left behind him some valuable writings on

Hawkins, George S.; was born in New York, and having become a citizen of Florida, was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Commit Congresses from that State, serving on the tees on Private Land Claims and on Naval Affairs; was also a member of the Select Committee of Thir a Delegate to ty-three on the Rebellious States; was the Philadelphia "National Union Convention" of 1866.

Hawkins, Joseph; was New York from

Congress from

a Representative in 1829 to 1851.

Hawkins, Joseph H; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature from 1810 to 1813: and Speaker of that body in 1812 and 1813; a Representative in Congress from that State in 1814 and 1815. Hawkins, M. member lina;

of the

T.; entered public life in 1819 as a

House of Commons of North Caro

was a member of the State Senate from 1823 to

1827; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1831 to 1841 served again in the State Senate in 1846; was also at one time a General of ;

Militia.

Hawkins, Philemon was

born in North Caro December 3, 1752; was a member of the Assem bly from Bute County before he was of age, and rep resented the counties of Bute and Granville for thir teen years, with but two years intermission his last term was at Fayetteville in 1789; was a member of a ;

lina,

;

troop of cavalry at the battle of Allamance, May 16, 1771; raised the first Volunteer company in Bute County for the War of Independence; in 1776 was elected Colonel of a Regiment, and in that capacity performed much service; was the last surviving signer of the State Constitution of North Carolina; in 1776 was a member of the Convention which ratified the United States Constitution; was frequently a mem ber of the Executive Council. Died at Pleasant Hill,

Warren County, North

Carolina,

January

28,

1833.

for

15

Hawkins, William

was a native of North was elected a member of the Assembly in 1805 and was Speaker; took an active part in the War of 1812; was Governor of North Carolina from 1811 to 1814. Died about that time.

Carolina;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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in New York; re was appointed from that State

Hawley, Cyrus M.; was born moved

to Illinois;

Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City.

Hawley, John B.; was born in Fairfield County Connecticut, February 9, 1831; Avent to Illinois witl his parents when quite young; studied law, and or coming to the bar in 1852, settled at Rock Island; it i856 was elected State s Attorney, serving four years in 1861 entered the Volunteer Army, and as a Cap tain took an active part in the battles of Forts Henry and Donaldson, receiving injuries in the last engage ment which made it necessary for him to retire Iron military duty in 1862; in 1865 was appointed, try

President Lincoln, Postmaster of Rock Island, and removed the year following by President Johnson in 1868 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Lauds and Freedmeu s Affairs; re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, serving as Chair man of the Committee on Claims; was Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury from December, 1877, to April, 1880.

Hay, Andrew K.; was born in Massachusetts; having become a resident of New Jersey, was elected a Representative in Congress from 1849 to 1851. Hay, G-eorge; was a distinguished member of the Virginia Legislature; was for many years United States Attorney, in which capacity he was the prose cutor of Aaron Burr; was subsequently Judge of the United. States Court for the Eastern District of Vir Hortensius," ginia; his political writings, signed gave him some celebrity; he wrote a treatise against of John "Life the Usury Laws, Thompson," and a Died in Richmond, treatise on Emigration in 1814. September, 1830. "

Hay, John B.; was born in Belleville, Illinois, January 8, 1834; received a common school educa tion; worked on a farm, and then in a printingoffice; adopted the profession of the law; was, for eight years, a District Attorney for the State; served in the Union Army during the Rebellion; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-first Con gress, serving on the Committees on Invalid Pensions and the Post Office. ,

was born

in Northampton, Hawley, Joseph. Massachusetts, in 1724; graduated at Yale College in 1742; began public life as a preacher, but devoted himself to the law; practiced many years in Hamp shire County, and became distinguished as a lawyer ;

and politician, and an advocate of American liberty; from 1764 to 1776 held a seat in the Legislature, and was a member of all the important Committees ol the time, refusing an election as member of the Coun cil; in 1770 was Chairman of the Committee on Cor respondence; in 1774 was Chairman of the Committee to Consider the State of the Country, in the Provin Congress, and was a member of that body in 1775; continued a member of the General Court as long as health would permit; was an opponent of Jonathan Edwards, and effected his removal from Northampton, but afterwards became his warm advo cate, and in 1760 wrote a remarkable letter deploring the part he had originally taken against him. Died in Northampton, May 10, 1788. cial

Hay, Malcolm was born at Philadelphia, Penn ;

was educated at the University of Pennsylvania; in 1859 removed to Missouri and en gaged in mercantile pursuits; in 1862 began the study of law at Trenton, New Jersey; was admitted to the bar there in 1865 and entered upon the practice of law: soon afterwards removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he continued the practice of his profession became Presidentof the Mercantile Library Association, of Pittsburg; was a Trustee of the Dollar Savings Bank; was a member of the State Constitu tional Convention of 1872; was Chairman of the Pennsylvania Delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; in March, 1885, was sylvania, in 1842;

;

appointed, by President Cleveland, First Assistant Postmaster-General; resigned in July of t^e same year on account of ill-health. Died October 20, 1885.

Hayden, Ed-ward Daniel was

born at CamDecember 27, 1833; was eduated at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts, md at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and practiced ;

Hawley, Joseph Bos-well was born ;

at Stew-

artsville, North Carolina, October 31, 1826; removed to Connecticut in 1837; graduated at Hamilton Col lege, New York, in 1847; studied law at Cazenovia,

New York, and Farmington,

Connecticut;

commenced

practice at Hartford, September 1, 1850; became edi tor of the Hartford Evening Press in 1857; enlisted in th?, First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, 1861, and was commissioned a Captain served three months, and engaged in recruiting the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, in which he was commissioned Lieuten ant-Colonel; became Colonel in 1862, Brigadier-Gen eral in 1864, brevetted Major-General in 1865, and mustered out in 1866; was elected Governor of Con necticut in 1866, holding the office one year; returned to journalism as editor of the Hartford Courant; was President of the National Republican Convention in 1868; was elected to the Forty-second Congress to succeed James L. Strong, deceased, in 1873; re-elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Com ;

mittee on the Centennial Exhibition was made President of the Centennial Commission; was elected a Representative from Connecticut to the Forty-sixth Congress; was elected United States Senator from onnecticut for the term of six years from March 4 ;


assed gradlated at Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1860; entered he Union Army in 1861 as a private, and served hroughout the war, rising to the- rank of md Brevet Brigadier-General; after the closeColonel, of the var became a journalist; was a Delegate to the Naional Republican Convention in 1872; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fifth Con;rcss; re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Hayes, Philip

icut,

February

3,

;

BIOGEAPHICAL ANNALS. Hayes, Rutherford B.; was born in Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822 graduated at Kenyon College, Ohio, and at the Law School of Cambridge; adopted the profession of the law; was City Solicitor of Cin cinnati from 1858 to 1861; Major and LieutenantColonel of the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers in 1861; Colonel of the same from 1862 to 1864, when he was appointed a Brigadier-General; during the same year was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims, and as Chairman of the Committee on the Library; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress; resigned in the summer of 1867, and was soon after wards elected Governor of Ohio; in 1868 the degree ofLL.D. was conferred upon him by Gambier Col lege; in 1875, after a severe contest, was again elected Governor of Ohio, the opposing candidate ;

being William Allen, who, as Governor, had recently appointed him a Commissioner to the Centennial; was President of the United States from 1877 to

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of Lieutenant; in 1814 was elected to the State Legis and in 1818 Speaker, and was also AttorneyGeneral of the State; was elected to the United States Senate in 1823, and continued thereuntil 1832, serv ing as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs; in 1832, as a member of the "Union and State Rights Convention" of South Carolina, reported the Ordi nance of Nullification, and was soon afterwards elected Governor of the State, serving until 1834; was subsequently Mayor of Charleston, and President of the Charleston, Louisville, and Cincinnati Railroad Company. Died at Ashville, North Carolina. Sep tember 24, 1839. His abilities were of a high order, and he acquired distinction by his participation in a debate in the Senate with Daniel Webster. lature,

Haynes, Charles

E., was born in Brunswick, and was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1825 to 1829, and again from 1835 to

Virginia, 1839.

1881.

Hayes, Samuel was born

in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1841 to 1843. ;

Haymond, Thomas S.; was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1849 to 1851.

Haymond, W.

was born

in Harrison County, 1823; gained his education mostly by his own industry, with some instruction at the common schools; in this way mastered the higher branches of mathematics; taught school for

Virginia,

February

S.;

20,

two years, also devoted some time to civil engineer ing; studied medicine, and removed to Indiana in 1851, and became successful in his profession; in 1831 entered the army as a Surgeon, where he re mained until 1863 defeated for the State Senate in 1866; was elected President of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad Company in 1872, 1873, and 1874; and was the projector of a railroad from Chicago to Charleston, South Carolina, and elected President of the company in 1873; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty;

fjurth Congress.

Hayne, Arthur P.; was born in Charleston, South Carolina, March 12, 1790; received a good edu cation, and commenced active life in a countinghouse; early formed an attachment for military life, and on entering the army, rendered good service dur ing the last war with England at Sackett s Habor, as First Lieutenant; on the St. Lawrence as Major of Cavalry; in the Creek Nation as Inspector-General, and also at the storming of Peusacola and at New Orleans; after the war studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania; during the Florida war was again called into the field, and had command of the Tennessee Volunteers, and after receiving three brevets, retired from the army in 1820; subsequently served in the Legislature of South Carolina, and was chosen a Presidential Elector in 1828, voting for Jackson; was appointed to a seat in the United States Senate from South Carolina in May, 1858, in the Died in Charleston, South place of J. J. Evans. His brother, E. Y. Carolina, January 7, 1867. Hayne, was also a Senator in Congress.

Hayne, Robert Y.; was born near Charleston, South Carolina, November 10, 1791; his early advan tages of education were limited; studied law with Langdon Cheves, and was admitted to the bar before he was twenty -one years of age, attaining high rank as a lawyer; in the war of 1812 held the commission

Haynes, Martin A. was born at Springfield, New Hampshire, July 30, 1845; received a common ;

school education; adopted the occupation of a printer; served three years in the Union Army during the Civil War; in 1868 established the Lake Village Times; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1872 and 1873; Clerk of the State Supreme Court for Belknap County from 1876 to 1883; Presi dent of the New Hampshire Veteran Association in 1880 and 1881; Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1881 and 1882; was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Fortyeighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress.

Hays, Charles was born in Greene County, Alabama, February 2, 1834; educated at the Uni versity of Georgia and the University of Virginia; devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, and was one of the largest planters in Alabama; elected to the Constitutional Convention of Alabama in 1867, and was one of the framers of the Constitution of that ;

was elected to the State Senate of Alabama in and while a member was elected to the Fortvfirst Congress; was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving on the Committee on Naval Af of that and Cha~irman on fairs, Agriculture. State; 1868;

Hays, James B.; was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1840; removed, Avith his parents, to Wisconsin in 1847; attended the public schools, the parish school Delafield, Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin State University, until 1860; in. 1861 began the study of the law at Horicon. Wiscon sin; was admitted to the bar in 1865; was Clerk of Courts for Dodge County, Wisconsin, from 1863 to 1867; was District Attorney for Dodge County for eight years; was an unsuccessful candidate for Secre tary of State of Wisconsin in 1877; in July, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Idaho. at"

Hays, L. Samuel was born in Pennsylvania, and was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845. ;

Hayt, Ezra A.; was a citizen of New York; was Commissioner of Indian Afl airs, in the Department of the Interior, from September, 1877, to March, 1880.

Hayward, and

in

Elijah

;

was born

1830 was appointed

General Laud Office tion six years.

in Massachusetts;

Commissioner of the in Washington, holding the posi

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Haywood, William H., Jr.; was born in Wake County, North Carolina, in 1801; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1819; studied law

graduated from Lafayette College, at Easton, Penn sylvania, in 1863; in August, 1866, was appointed a first-class clerk in the Post Office Department, at Washington City; was successively promoted to a clerkship of the second class in March, 1868; of the third class in July, 1869, and of the fourth class, with an assignment as Acting Chief of the Stamp Division, in May, 1870; in April, 1872, was appoint ed, by President Grant, a member of the Civil Ser vice Examining Board of the Post Office Depart ment; in July, 1874, was appointed Chief of the Stamp Division of the Post Office Department, being the first person to hold that office; in July, 1877, was appointed, by President Hayes, Third Assistant Postmaster-General; studied law while serving in the Department, and in June, 1877, graduated from the

life as a member of the Houseof Com mons in 1834, continuing there three years; in 1836 was Speaker of the House; and was a Senator in Con

entered public

gress from 1843 to 1846.

Hazard, Ebenezer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1745; graduated at the New Jersey College in 1762; was the last Postmaster-General under the old Government, having served as such from 1782 to 1789: was the author of two volumes of Historical Collections, and also of a Report on the Western Indians. Died in Philadelphia. June 13. ;

1817.

Law Department

Hazard, Jonathan was a Delegate from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788. ;

Hazard, Nathaniel; was born in Newport, Island; graduated at Brown University in

Rhode

1792; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821. Died December 18, 1820, in

Washington

of the Columbian University, at

in July, 1877, was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, but never practiced law; in 1884, without resigning his post in the Post Office Department, was a member of

Washington City;

the Government Board of the New Orleans Exposi tion, by appointment of President Arthur.

City.

Hazeltine, Abner was a member of the New York Assembly in 1829 and 1830; was a Represent ative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1837. ;

Hazzard, David; was Governor

Head, Natt was born at May 20, 1828; received ;

Hazeltine, Ira

was born at Andover, Ver 1821; received a common school and S.;

mont, July 13, academic education; taught school in Wisconsin for three years; studied law; engaged in various enter prises for developing the resources of that State; was commissioned a Colonel of State troops in 1852; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1867; in 1870 removed to Missouri and engaged in agricultural pursuits; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-seventh Congress.

of Delaware

from 1830 to 1833.

shire,

Hooksett, New Hamp a common school and

partial academic education; at an early age engaged in the manufacture of bricks and in the lumber busi ness, in which he became very successful; was a Director in several banks and railroads; was a Repre sentative in the State Legislature in 1861 and

1862;

New

was Adjutant-General, Inspector-General, and Quar termaster-General of the State from 1863 to 1870, rendering most efficient service; was defeated for the State Senate in 1875; was State Senator in 1876 and 1877, and was President of the Senate in the latter year; was Governor of New Hampshire from 1878 to 1880. Died at Hooksett, November 12, 1883.

Forty-seventh Congresses.

Healy, Joseph; was born in Cheshire, New Hampshire; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1825 to 1829, and was a mem ber of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; was also a State Counselor from 1829 to 1832, and State Senator in 1824. Died at Washington, New Hamp shire, October 10, 1861, aged eighty-five years.

Hazelton, Gaorge O.; was born in Chester, Hampshire, January 3, 1833; graduated at Union College, New York, in 1858; studied law and was admitted to the bar; settled in Boscobel, Wis consin, in 1863; was elected District Attorney in 1864 and re-elected in 1866; was elected State Sena tor in 1867, and chosen President pro tern, of the Sen ate; re-elected in 1869; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Hazelton, Gerry W.; was born in Chester, New Hampshire, February 24, 1829; was educated at the Pinkerton Academy, New Hampshire, and was a private tutor there; studied law in New York; re moved to Wisconsin in 1856; was electeH to the State Senate in 1860, and twice chosen President pro tern.;

elected District Attorney in Columbia County; was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue in 1866, and was removed; appointed United States Attorney for the District of Wisconsin in 1869; was elected to the

Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committees on War Claims, Elections, and the

Navy Department. Hazelton, John W.; was born

at Mullica Hill, Jersey, December 10, 1819; attended the high school at Burlington; was a practical was a

New

farmer; Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1868; was a Presidential Elector in that year; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serv ing on the Committee on Agriculture.

Hazen, Abraham D.; was born at Centreville, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1841; was prepared for college by a private

tutor;

Heard, John

was born at Georgetown, Pettis was educated at the common County and at the State University T.

;

County, Missouri;

sehools of Pettis at Columbia, Missouri,

graduating from the Univers

ity in 1860; read law; was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of law at Sedalia, Missouri ; was elected to the State Legislature of Missouri in 1872; in 1861 was elected, without opposition, a State Senator, and served four years; in 1881 was em

Fund Commissioners of the State to prosecute and adjust all claims of the State against the General Government; resigned that position on being elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-ninth Congress.

ployed by the

Hearst, George was born in Franklin County, Missouri, September 3, 1820; received a public school education; passed his early manhood on his father s ;

arm; in 1850 went to California, where he worked mines and located and purchased mining prop erty; engaged in mining, stock-raising and farming; in 1865 was elected a Representative in the Califor :

in the

nia State Legislature; in 1885 the Democrats who were in the minority in the State Legislature, gave him their unanimous vote for United States Senator;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. on March 23, 1886, Avas appointed, by the Governor, United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John F. Miller.

Heath, James E.; was born in Virginia, in 1850 was appointed Commissioner of Pensions, holding the oflice until 1853. P.; was born in Delaware, De cember 21, 1777; in 1799 was appointed a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, which in 1802; was Register in Chancery at he

Heath, James

resigned Annapolis at the commencement of the War of 1812; served through the whole war as Aid-de-camp to General Winder; in 1838 was wrecked on the steamer Pulaki, and spent live days and nights afloat upon a of age piece of the wreck; when nineteen years a* fought a duel with John Knight, and received wound, from which the ball was never extracted; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1833 to 1835, serving as a member of the Com mittee on Commerce. Died in Georgetown, District of Columbia, June 12, 1854.

Heath, John; was

a Representative in Congress

from Virginia from 1793 to 1797. S.; was a native of Maryland; Heath, reccive.l a liberal education; several of his kinsmen

Upton

life, and he himself held various local offices connected with the profession of the law; was for many years United States Judge for the District of Maryland.

were prominent in public

Heaton, David; was born

in Butler County, an academic educa to the bar; in 1855 tion; read law, and was admitted was elected to the Ohio Senate; in 1857 removed to Minnesota; was elected to the Senate of that State: was twice re-elected; in 1863 removed to Newbern, North Carolina, where he held a position under the Treasury Department; in 1867 was elected a Dele

Ohio,

March

10, 1823; received

in 18(J8 gate to the State Constitutional Convention; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Census; re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committee on Elections, and as Chair man of that on Coinage, Weights, and Measures.

Died in Washington, June 25, 1870. His God bless the colored people." were

last

words

"

Hebard, William; was born

in Connecticut;

Vermont; was elected a Representative in from 1849 to 1853, was Congress from that State Judge of the Supreme Court from 1842 to U845; Judge of Probate for seven years; served seven years in the two Houses of the Legislature; was two years Attorney for Orange County. Heflin, Robert S.; was born in Madison, received a good education; Georgia, April 15, 1815; served in the Creek War in 1836; was elected Clerk of the Superior Court of Fayette County in 1836, and re-elected in 1838; studied law, and came to the bar in 1840; was a member of the State Senate in 1840 and 1841 removed to Randolph County, Georgia, in of the Legislature in 1849, and 1844; was a member man during the war of the Re 1860; was a Union was compelled to leave his home bellion, and in 1864,

settled in

;

to save his

life,

"William was born at Albig, RheinGermany, October 11, 1824; came to the United States in 1843 and settled at Evansville, Indi ana; became President of a large cotton mill, and owner of other manufacturing establishments there; served six years in the City Council; was a Repre sentative in the State Legislature in 1870; was a

Heilman,

;

rlessen,

State Senator in 1876; also a Delegate to the Repub lican National Convention of that year; resigned his eat in the State Senate in 1879, having been elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-sixth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Conress.

was born in Berks County, Heister, Daniel Pennsylvania, in 1747; received a good English edu cation; became a thorough business man; settled in Montgomery County, where he was active during the Revolution, being Colonel, and afterwards BrigadierGeneral of the Militia, and in service; in 1784 was elected to the Supreme Executive Council of Penn sylvania; in 1787 was appointed a Commissioner of the Connecticut Land Claims; was a member of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Congresses, from Pennsylvania; after this removed to Hagerstown, Maryland; was elected from that State a member of the Seventh and Eighth Congresses. Died at Wash He was one of those who ington, March 8, 1804. voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac. ;

Heister, Daniel; son of John Heister; suc ceeded his father in Congress; was a member of the Eleventh Congress. Heister, John; brother of Colonel Daniel Heister; was born April 9, 1746; was a member of the Tenth Congress, from Pennsylvania. Died Oc tober 15, 1821. Heister, Joseph was born in Bern Township, Berks County, November 18, 1752; was brought up to conduct a farm and a store; inheriting a good fortune, at the outbreak of the Revolution, equipped a company himself, with which he joined the army; ;

became a Colonel; was a prisoner in the Jersey prison-ship, where he exercised a liberal generosity in alleviating the sufferings of his fellow-prisoners;

was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of 1776; served five years in the House and four in the Senate of Pennsylvania, and as a

member

of the State Constitutional Convention of 1790; was a member from Pennsylvania of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses; in 1807 was appointed one of the two Major-Generals to command the Pennsylvania contingent, called for by the President. After this he retired from public life, but in 1814 his old constituency of Berks again elected him to the Fourteenth Congress, and reelected him to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con

ran for Governor unsuccessfully, but three years afterwards was elected, and served in that office until 1823, with great credit for a wise and honest administration of public affairs. Declining all solicitations to the contrary, he now finally re tired from office, and spent the serene evening of an honorable life in the midst of the people who loved him. Died at Reading, June 10, 1832.

gresses; in 1817

passing through the lines to the

Union Army at Rome, Georgia, accompanying Gen eral Sherman s command to Savannah; was appointed elected Judge of Probate in 1865, and subsequently to that office, which he held until the State was ad mitted into the Union; was a Republican Elector was elected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on several Committees.

Heister, "William nephew of John and of Col onel Daniel Heister; was born in Bern Township, Berks County; established himself in Lancaster County, where he cultivated a farm, and by his in dustry, honesty, and good sense, recommended him self to the popular regard; was a member of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses, of the ;

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of

Convention of 1837* to revise the Constitution Senate. Died Octo Pennsylvania, and of the State her 15, 1853, aged sixty-two years.

Helm, John Larue was born in Hardin

County,

;

1802; when a lad was employed was in the office of the Circuit Clerk; studied law; admitted to the bar; was made County Attorney; in 1826 was elected to the House of Representatives eleven of the State, and was a member of that body from 1844 to 1S4B, years; was elected State Senator run for and from 1865 to 1869; resigned in 1867 to seven yea the in Legislature Governor; presided was was elected lieutenant-Governor in 1848; and Pres Governor from 1850 to 1852; in 1854 was made in ident of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad;

Kentucky, July

4,

at 1867 ill-health prevented his being inaugurated was performed at the

ceremony Frankfort, and residence in Elizabethtown, September died September 8, 1867.

3,

where

ol the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member sub the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads; in the Interior sequently accepted a Chief Clerkship

Department.

Helms,

"William

Army; was

was Governor of lowap Died February 16, 1883.

Hempstead, Stephen from 1850 to 1854.

;

Hemsley, "William was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1784. ;

Hendee, George Whitman; was born in received an Stow, Vermont, November 30, 1832 academic education; studied law and was admitted to the bar; was Prosecuting attorney in 1858; a mem ber of the State House of Representatives in 1861 and 1862; of the State Senate in 1807, and last year; was Lieu 1868, and President pro tern, the tenant-Governor of Vermont in 1869; was Governor, in 1870; was elected to the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses, serving in the former on the Com mittee on the District of Columbia; re-elected to the 186(>,

Forty-fifth Congress.

Henderson, Archibald was born in Granville County, North Caroliua, August 7, 1768; was edu cated in his native county; studied law, and rose to a high position at the bar of his State; was a Repre sentative in Congress from North Carolina from 1799 to 1803; was subsequently elected to the General As sembly for several terms. Died October 21, 1822. ;

was an officer in the Revolu ; a Representative in Congress

to from New Jersey, from 1801 to 1811; removing Tennessee, died there at an advanced age.

Hemphill, John; was a Senator in Congress from Texas, from 1859 until that State seceded, when he became identified with the great Rebellion; ex 1861. pelled from the Senate July 10, at Chester, South educa Carolina, August 25, 1849; received his early tion at the schools of Chester, and graduated from the South Carolina University in 1869; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1870; commenced

Hemphill, John

He was a man of ability, pure and 10, 1817. without reproach, and his loss was deeply lamented by all who knew him. August

;

Helmick, William; was born in Jefferson received a com County Ohio, September 6, 1817; mon school education, and taught school for seven was admitted to the bar in years; studied law, and a Prosecuting Attorney; 1845; in 1851 was elected Ohio to in 1858 was elected a Representative from

tionary

Louis and St. Charles, and in 1809 Attor of Upper Louisiana, ney-General for the Territory which office he held until 1811; was the first Dele western side of the Missis gate to Congress from the Missouri Territory from! sippi River, representing 1811 to 1814; after his service in Congress, went upon, several expeditions against the Indians; was elected! to the Territorial Assembly, and chosen Speaker; died

trict of St.

J.;

was born

was an unsuccessful practice at Chester in 1871; Candidate for the State Assembly in 1874; in 1876 was elected a Representative in the State Legisla in 1878 and 1880; was ture, and was re-elected elected a Representative from South Carolina to the the FortyForty -eighth Congress; was re-elected to ninth Congress.

Hemphill, Joseph was born in Delaware Coun the old Pennsylvania; was a leading member of ;

ty,

Federal party; was a Representative iu Congress from from 1819 to Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1803, again himself 1827, and from 1829 to 1831; distinguished on the Judiciary Bill in particularly by a speech was for some time Judge of the District Court 1801; Died in Philadelphia, of Philadelphia. 1842, aged seventy-two years.

Hempstead, Edward was ;

born in

May

29,

New Lon

a classical don, Connecticut, June 3, 1780; received education from private tutors, and having studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801; after spend Island practicing his pro ing three years in Rhode fession, removed, in 1804, to the Territory of Louis iana, traveling on horseback, and tarrying for a time at Vincennes, Indiana Territory; first settled at St. Charles, on the Missouri River, but in 1805 removed to St. Louis, where he afterwards resided; in 1806 was appointed Deputy Attorney-General for the Dis

Henderson, Bennett H.; was

a Representative

in Congress from Tennessee from 1815 to 1817.

Henderson, David B.; was born at Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, March 14, 1840; emigrated, with his parents, to the United States in 1846, lo cating in Illinois; settled permanently in Iowa in 1849; was educated in the common schools and at the Upper Iowa University; entered the Union Army a private iu 1861 and served with distinction, rising to the rank of Colonel; was several times wounded, losing a leg at the battle of Corinth; was, for a time, Commissioner of Enrollment for the Third District of Iowa; was Collector of Internal Revenue from 1865 to 1869, when he resigned to engage in the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in 1865; in 1869 and 1870 was Assistant United States District Attorney; was Chairman of the Iowa delegation in the Republican National Convention of 1880; was Secretary of the Republican Congressional Commit tee in 1832; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the

Forty-ninth Congress.

Henderson, John; was a lawyer by profession;, a General of Militia in Mississippi; a Senator in Con gress from Mississippi from 1839 to 1845; during the latter part of his life practiced his profession in. Louisiana; after his service in Congress, was engaged in an unlawful expedition against Cuba, for which he was tried, but acquitted by a New Orleans jury. Died at Pass Christian, in 1857, aged sixty-two years.

Henderson, John November

B.;

was born

in

Virginia,

1836 removed, with his par ents, to Missouri; spent a part of his boyhood on farm; while obtaining an academic ednc ition, taught 16, 1826: in

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. school for his support; studied law, and came to the bar in 1848; was soon afterwards elected to the State Legislature, re-elected in 1856, and in the same year chosen a Presidential Elector; also in 1860; was a Delegate to the Charleston Convention in 1860; com

manded

for a time a Brigade of Militia; on the ex pulsion of Trusten Polk from the United States Senate, was appointed to fill the vacancy, and in 1863 was elected for the full term ending in 1869, serving on the Committees on the Post Office and Post Roads; and those on the District of Columbia, Finance, Expenses of the Senate, Foreign Relations, and Claims, and as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs; was also a Commissioner to treat with the hostile tribes of Indians in 1867; in 1875 was ap pointed to assist the District Attorney at St. Louis to prosecute certain men who had conspired to defraud the Government, when he reflected on the President in severe language, and was at once removed.

Henderson, John H. D.; was born in Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky, July 23, 1810; re ceived a good English education; commenced active life by adopting the trade of a printer; was subse quently a preacher of the Gospel, and for several in 1864 years was devoted to agricultural pursuits; was elected a Representative from Oregon to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Pacific Railroad, Mines and Mining, Indian Af the Death of fairs, and the Special Committee on President Lincoln.

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ihe United States, which mission resulted in the an nexation of Texas; in 1845 was a member of the Con vention which framed the Constitution of the Slate of Texas; in November of the same year was elected Governor of that State; when the Mexican war broke out in 1846, as Governor of the State, and by per mission of the Legislature, he took command in per son of the volunteer troops called for by General Taylor, served six months as Major-General, and distinguished himself at the battle of Monterey, sub sequently receiving from Congress, for his services, a vote of thanks and a sword valued at fifteen hun dred dollars; in 1857 was elected a Senator in Con gress from Texas, but, owing to ill-health, did not take an active part in its proceedings. Died in Washington City, June 4, 1858, deeply lamented by all who knew him.

Henderson, Samuel was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1815, for the unexpired term of Jonathan Roberts. ;

Henderson, Thomas was a graduate of Prince ton College in 1761 was Judge of the Court of Com mon Pleas; a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1780; was a Representative from New Jersey in Congress, under the Constitution, from 1795 to 1797; was once Lieutenant-Go vernor of that ;

;

State.

Henderson, Thomas J.; was born in Browns Haywood County, Tennessee, November 29,

ville,

Henderson, John S.; was born in Salisbury, Rowan county, North Carolina, January 6, 1846, and for College at a the University of private institute, and entered North Carolina in January, 1862; pursued his studies there until 1864, when he entered the Confederate Army, and served as a private until the close of the Civil War; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866; engaged in the practice of law at Salis for Rowan County from bury; was Register of Deeds 1866 to 1868, when he resigned; in 1871 was elected a Delegate-to the State Constitutional Convention, and again in 1875; in 1876 was elected a Representa tive in the State Legislature; in 1877 was elected, by the General Assembly, a Trustee of the University

always resided there; was prepared

of North Carolina, and held the office for eight years; was a Director in the Western North Carolina Rail road Company from 1877 to 1880; in 1879 was elected a State Senator; in 1880 was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention; in 1883 was Insane Asylum appointed a Director of the Western of the State, and held the position until 1884; in the latter year was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Henderson, Joseph was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1833 to 1837. ;

Henderson, J. Pinckney was born in Lincoln a County, North Carolina, March 31, 1808; received liberal education, but did not graduate; adopted the law as a profession, first visiting Cuba for his health, and settling in Mississippi; emigrated to Texas in that of Attorney-General 1836; his firstcivil oflQcewas of the Republic of Texas, having been appointed by Presideut Houston in 1836; in 1837 was appointed soon afterwards Secretary of State of the Republic; ;

Minister Plenipotentiary to England and France, clothed with the additional powers of Commissioner to solicit the recognition of the independence ol with Texas; in 1838 made a commercial arrangement with England, and, in 1839, a commercial treaty a Special Minister to France; in 1884 was appointed

1824; in 1836 removed, with his father, to Illinois; received an academic education, and spent one year at the University of Iowa; adopted the profession of the law; from 1847 to 1849 was a Clerk for County Commissions; served four years as the Clerk of the County; was a Master in Chancery; in 1854 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1856 was chosen a Senator, serving four years; raised a regiment of volunteers in 1862, of which he became Colonel; served until the close of the war, and for a consider able time had command of a brigade; in 1864 was severely wounded at Resaca; was brevetted a Briga dier-General, in 1865, for services in Georgia and Tennessee; was a Presidential Elector in 18G8; in 1871 was appointed a Collector of Internal Revenue, holding the office two years; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,

Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth

Con

gresses. "William F.; was a lawyer by pro was appointed, by President an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cleveland, Court of the Territory of New Mexico for the term of

Henderson,

fession; in April, 1885,

four years; resided at Santa Fe.

Thomas A.; was born in MuskinCounty, Ohio, September 7, 1819; was edu^/^d at South Hanover College; studied law, and com pleted his legal studies at Chambersburg, Pennsyl Hendricks,

gum

vania, in IS 13; settled in Indiana, and practiced his with success, in 1848 was chosen to the State Legislature; declined a re-election; was an active member of the Indiana "Constitutional Con vention of 1850; Avas a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1851 to 1855; was appointed, by President Pierce, in 1855, Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office, in which lie was continued by President Buchanan until 1859, when he resigned; was subsequently elected a Senator in Congress for the term commencing in 1 863 and ending in 1869,

professioi.

"

serving on the Committees on Claims, Public Build ings and Grounds, the Judiciary, Public Lands and

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Naval Affairs; in 1872 received a majority of the Democratic votes for the office of President of the United States; in 1876 was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice-President of the United States; in 1884 was Died elected Vice-President of the United States.

November

24, 1885.

sentative in the Legislature in 1846, and again in was elected a 1849; was a State Senator in 1869; Representative from Maryland to the Forty-fifth Con -sixth Congress. gress; re-elected to the Forty

Henry, James was a Delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress, from 1780 to 1781 was a lawyer and a Judge. Died in Virginia in January, ;

;

Hendricks, William

;

was born

in

Westmore

land County, Pennsylvania, in 1783; was one of the removed early settlers of Madison, Indiana, having there in 1814; during his residence in that State filled many high and important offices; was Secretary of the Convention which formed the present Constitution of the State; was the first and sole Representative of Indiana in Congress from 1816 to 1822; was Governor of the State from 1822 to 1825, when he was elected a member of the United States Senate, and served until 1837; was Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Died in Madison, May 16, 1850. Canals.

1805.

Henry, John; was a graduate

of Princeton Col

lege in 1769; was for several years, from 1778, a Del egate to the Old Congress; was a Senator in Congress, under the Constitution, from Maryland, from 1789 to 1797, when he resigned; was elected Governor of Maryland in the latter year; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Po tomac. Died at Easton, December, 1798.

Henry, John P. was born in Scott County, Ken tucky, January 17, 1793; received a large part of his education at the Georgetown Academy of Kentucky; studied medicine, and in 1813 was appointed Sur geon s Mate in Boswell s Regiment of Kentucky troops, serving at Fort Meigs; graduated from the ;

Henkle, Eli Jones; was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, November 24, 1828; received an academic education; taught school three years; studied medicine, and graduated at the University of Maryland in 1850; devoted himself to his profession and to agricultural pursuits; was elected a member of the House of Delegates of Maryland in 1853; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1864; was a member of the State Senate in 1867, 1868, and 1870; re-elected to the House of Delegates in 1871 and 1873; in 1872 was Delegate to the National Democratic Convention; was one year Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Natural History in the

Maryland Agricultural College, which position he resigned in 1874; was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Forty-fourth Congress re-elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty -sixth Congresses. ;

Henley, Barclay was born in Clark County, Indiana, March 17, 1842; at the age of ten years re moved, with his parents, to California; returned to Indiana, and was educated at Hanover College, in that State; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1864; returned to California and settled at Santa Rosa; was District Attorney of Sonoma County for four years was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1869; was a candidate for Presidential Elector in 1876 and was defeated; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; was elected a Representative from California to the Forty-eighth Congress was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

;

;

New York University; settled in Hopkinsville, Ken tucky, in 1822; was the brother of Robert P. Henry; was elected to Congress from Kentucky, for the unexpired term of the same, from 1826 to 1827; subse quently removed to Burlington, Iowa. Henry, Joseph was born at Albany, New York, 17, 1797; received a common school educa ;

December

tion in Saratoga County; as an apprentice, pursued, for a short time, the occupation of a watch-maker; was attached to a surveying party, to mark out a. State road from the Hudson River to Lake Erie; in 1826 entered the Albany Academy as Professor of

Mathematics, and soon after began a series of experi electricity; made various discoveries in electro-magnetism, which were described in Silliman s Journal as early as 1831 in 1832 was called to the chair of Natural Philosophy in Princeton College; in 1835 was oftered a Professorship in the University of

ments in

;

Virginia, but declined; in 1837 visited Europe, \vhere he remained one year, and his discoveries connected with the electro-magnet were recognized, and result ed in establishing the wonders of what is now called the telegraph; in 1846 resigned his honorable posi tion at Princeton, and became the Secretary or Direc tor of the Smithsonian Institution his scientific writings, including his elaborate Smithsonian con tributions, reports, scientific investigations, and dis ;

Thomas

was born

in Indiana in 1810; was educated at the Indiana State College; pur sued the occupation of a farmer; was a member of the State Legislature from 1832 to 1842; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Indiana from 1843 to

Henley,

J.;

1849, having been the first native of that State elected to that office; in 1849 emigrated to California; was a member of the first Legislature of that State; Avas for seven years Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California; was subsequently appointed Postmaster of San Francisco.

Henn, Bernhart; was born

in

New York; emi

grated to Iowa; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1853.

Hennegan,

B. K.; was Acting Governor of South

Carolina in 1840.

Henry, Daniel M.

coveries,

and numbering more than

fifty,

have given

him

a world-wide reputation; the great institution under his charge was entirely organized, and has ever been conducted according to his individual opinions, sustained by a Board of Regents; made a second visit to Europe for his health, and received all the atten tion from the scientific world which was so eminently his due; without extra compensation, he served the General Government in manifold departments, but chiefly as the Executive head of the Light House Board, of which he was a member for more than twenty years; as the head of several scientific socie ties, his influence was universally recognized and ap preciated; long before he became identified with the

Smithsonian Institution, he publisflbd many valua papers on electricity and magnetism in the

ble

was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, February 19, 1823; was educated at Cambridge Academy and at St. John s College, Annapolis; studied law; was admitted to the bar in and commenced practice; was elected a Repre 1844, ;

"American Philosophical Transactions," Silliman s Journal of Science, and the Journal of the American Institute; the two principal learned societies over which he was called to preside as President, were the National Academy of Sciences, and the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Education.

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Henry, Patrick; was born in Studley, Hanover but devoted much of his attention to writing on poli County, Virginia, May 29, 1736; his education was tics; was for nine years Collector of Customs for the port of Boston; in 1843 was appointed, by President neglected until he had reached the age of manhood, and was a husband and father; then it was that he Tyler, Secretary of the Navy, and after holding the began to study law, and was soon admitted to prac-v office for nearly a year, was rejected by the Senate; took an important part in the earlier railroad opera tice; in 1764 made his first striking effort as an ad tions of his State, and was one of the projectors of vocate and an orator, and from that year became famous; was the first man of mark in Virginia to the Boston and Worcester and Providence Railroads. Died in Leicester, November 11, 1852. declare against the usurpations of Great Britain; in 1765 was chosen to the Virginia Assembly, and there Henson, Abraham; was a citizen of Wisconsin; introduced a set of remarkable resolutions, support in 1863 was appointed a Commissioner and Consuling them with a speech of surpassing ability; from that time he was hailed as the great advocate of General to Liberia. Died at his post of duty, July human rights and rational liberty; was elected a 20, 1866. Delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress, Hepburn, William Peters was born in Cofrom 1774 to 1776; there distinguished himself as an lumbiana County, Ohio, November 4, 1833; removed of was the Declaration to orator; signed Independence; Iowa in 1840; received a common school educa a Delegate to the "Richmond Convention" of 1777, tion; adopted the profession of the law; was elected and again electrified the people by his eloquence; in Prosecuting Attorney of Marshall County in 1856; 1776 was elected Governor of Virginia, re-elected, Chief Clerk of the State House of Representatives in and then declined a re-election; from 1780 to 1791 1858; District Attorney of the Eleventh Judicial served in the Assembly of the State; in 1788 was a District of the State in the same year; entered the member of the Convention to ratify the Federal Con Union Army, in 1861, as Captain, and rose to the stitution, to which he was opposed; in 1795 Wash rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, serving much of the ington tendered to him the office of Secretary of time on staff duty; commanded a cavalry brigade in State, but he preferred the retirement of home, and 1864; was a Presidential Elector in 1876; was elected declined it; was again elected Governor in 1796, but a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-seventh and declined to serve; in 1799 President Adams tendered Forty-eighth Congresses; was re-elected to the Fortyhim the mission to France, but his declining health ninth Congress. compelled him to decline that honor also, and on June 6, of that year, he died; evidence of his splendid Herbert, Hilary A.; was born at Lanrensville, South Carolina, March 12, 1834; in 1846 removed to intellect are abundant and "familiar as household words," and a tribute that he paid to the Christian Greenville, Alabama; received a collegiate education; studied law, and entered upon the practice at Green religion in his will is, for beauty and force, without a parallel in the English language. ville; entered the Confederate Army and rose to the rank of Colonel; in 1872 removed to Montgomery, Robert was born in Scott Henry, P.; County, Alabama; was elected a Representative from Alabama Kentucky, November 24, 1788; graduated at the to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty -seventh, and of studied law with University Transylvania; Henry Forty-eighth Congresses; was re-elected to the Fortyninth Congress. Clay, and was admitted to the bar in 1809; served that year as Prosecuting Attorney for his District; served in the war of 1812, as an Aide-de-camp to his Herbert, John C.; was a Representative in Con father, Major-General William Henry; subsequently gress from Maryland from 1815 to 1819, and a Presi dential Elector in 1824. settled in Christian County, and became Prosecuting Attorney for that Circuit; was a Director of the Herbert, Paul; was born in Louisiana; gradu Princeton Branch of the Commonwealth Bank; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky, from ated first in his class at West Point in 1840; entered 1823 to 1827; as a member of the Committee on the engineers; was acting Professor of Engineering at West Point in 1841 and 1842; resigned in 1845; Roads and Canals, he obtained the first appropria was Chief Engineer of the State of Louisiana from tion ever granted for improving the Mississippi 1845 to 1847; re-entered the service as LieutenantRiver; while in Congress received the appointment Colonel of the Fourteenth Infantry; was brevetted of Judge of the Court of Appeals, which he declined. Died of fever, August 25, 1826, before the expiration Colonel for gallantry at Molino del Rey, and com manded his Regiment after his Colonel was killed at of his term in Congress. Chapultepec; was Governor of Louisiana from 1853 Henry, Thomas; was born in Ireland in 1785; to 1858; was made Brigadier-General in the Southern served his adopted State, Pennsylvania, in Congress Army in 1861 commanded the Louisiana forces, and from 1837 to 1843. Died in Beaver County, Penn was taken prisoner at the battle of Pea Ridge in 1862. ;

;

sylvania, February 27, 1849.

Herbert, Philip

Henry, William; was a

Delegate from Penn sylvania to the Continental Congress, from 1784 to to 1786.

Henry, William

T.;

to 1857.

Hereford, Frank

was born in

;

New

Hampshire;

Vermont; devoted himself to mercantile pursuits; was for many years Cashier of the Bank of Bellows Falls, where he resided was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from Vermont, from 1847 to 1853, accomplishing much work as a member of sev eral Committees. settled in

;

Henshaw, David was born in Leicester, Mas sachusetts, April 2, 1791; his father was a patriot of the Revolution; received a common school education; while yet a young man engaged in the drug business, ;

was born in Alabama; was a

Representative in Congress from California from 1855

was born in Fauquier Coun July 4, 1825; was liberally educated; studied law and removed to California; was District Attorney of Sacramento County from 1855 to Octo ber, 1857; settled in West Virginia; was elected a Representative from West Virginia to the Forty-sec ond, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses, serv ing on the Committees on Public Lands, Militia, and Territories; in December, 1875, was appointed Chair man of the Committee on Commerce; in 1876 was elected United States Senator, for the term ending in 1881, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Allen ;

ty, Virginia,

T. Caperton.

/

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

234

was born in Herkimer Coun York, in 1773; was, for many years, a Judg of the Circuit Court; was a Representative in Con and again gress from New York from 1817 to 1819, from 1823 to 1825. Died at Danube, New York, Jun

Herkimer, John

ty,

;

New

8, 1845.

Hermann, Binger; was born at Lonaconing Allegheny County, Maryland, in February, 1843; re

ceived his early education in the common schools while a youth, removed, with his parents, to Balti more, Maryland; completed his studies at Manches ter Academy (afterward Irving College) near Balti more; in 1859 accompanied his parents to Oregon, where they settled; taught school until 1864; in thai r 3 ear was made a Lieutenant in a Volunteer Regimenl then recruiting, but the war ended without the regi ment being called into service; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar in 1866; in the same year was elected a Representative in the State Legislature; went to San Francisco and continued his legal studio: until the spring of 1867; then returned to Oregon and entered upon the practice of law; in the fall of 1867 was appointed a Deputy Collector of Internal Rev enue, in which office he continued until 1871; in 1868 was elected a State Senator; in 1871 was ap pointed United States Receiver of Public Moneys at Roseburg, Oregon; in 1873 resumed his law practice, and, later, also engaged in mercantile pursuits and banking; in 1882 was appointed, by the Governor of Oregon, Judge Advocate of the State Militia with the rank of Colonel; in 1884 was elected a Repre sentative from Oregon to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Hernandez, Joseph M.; was one of the promi nent Spanish citizens who remained in the Territory of Florida at the time of its transfer to the United States; was the first Delegate to Congress from Florida, and subsequently a leading member and pre of the Territorial Legislature; at the siding breaking out of the Indian hostilities, was made a Brigadier-General in the United States service. He a man of refined and elegant manners; resided at officer

w

St.

,

Augustine.

Died near Matanzas, Cuba, June

8,

1857, at an advanced age.

;

March

28, 1883.

Herndon, William S.; was born at Rome, Georgia, November 27, 1837; removed with his father to Texas, in 1852; was educated at McKenzie College, Texas; studied law, and began to practice in I860 enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861, and re mained until the close of the war; resumed the practice of the law in Smith County; was elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. scTvin"on the Committees of Agriculture and Public Lands. ;

Herod, William

;

was a Representative

gress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839.

in

Con

Anson

;

was born in Lewiston, Maine,

21, 1812; received a common school educa tion; at the age of fifteen years was apprenticed to

the business of a printer; settled in New York City in 1836, and continued in the same employment un til 1838, when he commenced the publication of a weekly journal now called the New York Attas; in 1853 was chosen one of the Aldermen of the City, and served three years; was appointed, by President Buchanan, Naval Storekeeper for New York, which office he held until 1861 in 1862 was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolution ary Pensions, and Expenditures in the Navy Depart ment; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Na tional Union Convention of 1866. Died in New ;

"

Ebenezer Herrick, who served in Congress from 1821 to 1827, was his father. York,

February

6,

1868.

Herrick, Ebenezer; was born

in Lincoln Coun Maine; in 1820 held the office of Secretary of the State Senate; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1821 to 1827; was a State Senator in 1828 and 1829. Died at Lewiston, Maine, May 7, 1839. ty,

Herrick, Joshua was born in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1794; received a common school education; removed to Maine, and became a Sheriff in that State; was Deputy Collector of the port of Kennebunk from 1829 to 1841; was Chairman of a Board of County Commissioners from 1842 to 1843; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1843 to 1845, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs and Accounts; was again Deputy Col lector of Kennebunk from 1847 to 1849, and from 1850 to 1854; in 1856 was Register of Probate for York County, State of Maine. ;

Herrick, Richard

was born in Rensselaer was a man of remarkable was a member of Congress from New York from 1845 to the time of his death, which occurred at Washington, June 22, 1846. County,

New York,

P.; in 1791;

business enterprise;

Samuel was born in Dutchess Coun York, April 14, 1779; read law at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in 1805; in 1810 settled at Za^nesville, Ohio, and was appointd Collector of Taxes for that County; soon after wards Prosecuting Attorney for the same county, and soon alter that, by President Madison; was appointed United States District Attorney for Ohio in 1812 was appointed one of a Board of Commissioners for setling the North-western boundary line: in the auumu of that year succeeded Lewis Cass as Prose:uting Attorney for Muskingum County; in 1814 was appointed to the same office in Licking County; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1817 to Herrick,

ty,

Herndon, Thomas H.; was born in Greene (now Hale) County, Alabama, July 1, 1828; graduated at the University of Alabama; attended the Law School of Cambridge University, Massachusetts; was ad mitted to the bar in his native State and commenced practice; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1857 and 1858; was a Trustee of the University of Alabama in 1858 and 1850; was a mem ber of the State Secession Convention of 1861 entered the Confederate Army and r,ose to the rank of Colonel; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1875; was again in the Legislature in 1876 and 1877; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-sixth Congress; re-elected to the Fortyseventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses. Died at Mo bile,

Herrick, January

;

New

;

821; alter his first election his seat was contested by Charles Hammond, but the House sustained his lairn; was a Presidential Elector in 1828; in 1829 vas appointed, by President Jackson, United States District Attorney for Ohio; the remainder of his life vas spent in retirement, and he died in December 851.

Hersey, Samuel

F.;

was born at Snmncr,

laine, April 12, 1812; received an academic eduation; was ? merchant, and engaged in banking, nd was largely interested in the lumber business in laine, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; was u member of he Legislature of Maine in 1842, 1857, 1865, 1867, nd 1869, and of the Executive Council in 1851 and 852; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1860; also at Baltimore in 864; was a member of the National Republican

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Committee from 1864 to 1868; was elected to the on Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving important Committees. Died at Bangor, February 3, 1875.

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sequently a member of the Convention that formed the Constitution of South Carolina in 1790. Died in

March, 1809.

Heyward, William, Jr. graduated at Prince ton College in 1808; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1825. ;

born near Kingston, New Jersey, in 1730; was educated at the Princeton School; settled in Philadelphia as a merchant; when thirty years of age located at Edenton, North Caro was a lina; served in the Assembly of the Province; Delegate from North Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777, and again in 1779, and signed the Declaration of Independence; was de facto Died in Philadel the first Secretary of the Navy.

Hewes, Joseph was ;

phia,

November

Hewitt,

10, 1779.

Abram

Stevens was born

in Rock-

;

New York,

attended the common schools; on competition gained a scholarship in Columbia College, whence he graduated in 1842; was, for a time, tutor of mathematics; studied law and came to the bar in 1845; on account of impaired vision gave up the profession; in connection with Peter Cooper engaged in the manufacture of iron in con nection with Edward Cooper, his brother-in-law, established extensive steel and iron works in New Jersey and Pennsylvania; was a Scientific Commis sioner to the Paris Exposition in 1867; during the Rebellion, in 1862, was sent to England on a con fidential mission to learn the process of making gunbarrel iron; at a heavy loss to his firm furnished the

land County,

July

30, 1822;

;

Government with

much war

material; in 185!) organized the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, which has been eminently successful: was somewhat active in politics, and Chairman of the Democratic General Committee of the City of New York; in 1874 was elected a Representative to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyfifth Congress; was again a Representative in the

Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress; in 1886 was elected Mayor of New York City and resigned his seat in Congress to accept that position.

Hewitt, C. O.; was born in New York; having emigrated to Washington Territory, was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for that dis trict, residing at Vancouver.

Hewitt, Goldsmith W.; was born in Jeiferson County, Alabama, February 14, 1834; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856; entered the Confederate Army in 1861; Avas wounded in the battle of Chickamauga in 1863; in 1870 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1872 was made State Senator, and served two ses sions; resigned in 1874, to accept the nomination as Representative from Alabama to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was elected to that position was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress; was also elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. ;

Heyward, Thomas was born

in the Parish of St. Luke, South Carolina, in 1746; received a classical education, and studied law, finishing his legal studies at the Temple, in London; on his return from a tour in Europe was elected to the Assembly in North Caro lina; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1798, and signed the Declaration of Inde pendence and the Articles of Confederation; was sub sequently a Judge of the Civil and Criminal Courts of the State; commanded a company of artillery at the battle of Beaufort, and was wounded served also at Savannah and Charleston; at the. latter place was taken prisoner, and while confined at St. Augustine his property was pillaged and his wife died was sub ;

;

;

Hibbard, Ellery A.; was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, July

1826; received an academic edu and practiced law; was Clerk of the State House of Representatives in 1852, 1853, and 1854; was a member of the State Legislature in 1865 and 1866; was elected to the Forty -second Congress; at the close of his term in Congress, was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and 31,

cation; studied

served as such until 1874; declined a new appoint ment under the revised judiciary system, preferring to follow his profession.

Hibbard, Harry was born ;

in

Vermont; gradu

ated at Dartmouth College in 1835; was Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representa tives in 1839; Clerk of the same from 1840 to 1843; Speaker of the House in 1844 and 1845; in the State Senate from 1846 to 1849, officiating two years as President; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire, from 1849 to 1855. Died at Somersville,

July

27, 1872.

Hibshman, Jacob was born in Lancaster, Pennsvlvania; Avas a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1819 to 1821. ;

Hickman, John was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the Brandywine battle ground, September 11, 1810; received a thorough mathematical and classical education commenced the study of medi cine, but finding his heal th too feeble for the dissectingroom, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1833; was a Delegate to the Democratic Baltimore Convention of 1844; in 1845 was appointed District Attorney for Chester County, holding the office fif teen months; in 1854 Avas elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Congress, serving on the Committee on Elections; re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions; re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee; re-elected to the Thirty -seventh Congress, again serving as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee; declined a re-election to the Thirtyeighth Congress, but was subsequently, in 1867, a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. Died at Westchester, March 23, 1875. ;

;

Thomas

day

was born in Dor Hicks, Holly ; chester County, Maryland, September 2, 1798; re ceived a plain English education; worked on his father s farm when a boy; served for a time as Con stable and Sheriff of his county; subsequently de voted himself to mercantile pursuits; in 1836 was a Presidential Elector; Avas also a member of the Gov ernor s Council; in 1838 was appointed Register of Wills; was a member of the "State Constitutional Convention of 1849; frequently served in the Leg islature of the State; was Governor from 1858 to 1862; Avas appointed a Senator in Congress in the place of James A. Pearce, deceased, taking his seat during the third session of the Thirty-seventh Con gress, and was elected for the term ending in 1867, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs, and that, on Claims. Died in Washington City, February 13, He will ever be remembered as a true patriot 1865. for his firmness during the earlier troubles of tfie "

Rebellion.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

236

Hiestand, John A.; was born in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Octobei 2, 1824; was reared on a farm; attended the common schools and academies of the neighborhood and Penn sylvania College at Gettysburg; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849, and entered upon the practice of law at Lancaster, Pennsylvania; was elected to the State House of Representatives of Pennsylvania as a Whig in 1852, 1853, and 185G; in October, 1858, purchased an interest in the Lancaster

Examiner newspaper and printing establishment, with which he became editorially connected; was elected a State Senator in 1860, for a term of three years; was a Presidential Elector in 1864, and was appointed by the Electoral College the messenger to carry the vote to Washington; was appointed, by President Grant, in 1871, Naval Officer at the Port of Philadelphia, and was re-appointed in 1875, serv ing eight years; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Hiester, Isaac Ellmake.r; was born in Lan Pennsylvania; received a classical education; graduated with honors at Yale College; studied law; was a member of the Thirty -third Con gress, in which he expressed opinions upon the slav ery question not in harmony with those of his con stituency; at the next election was defeated, and resumed the practice of law with distinguished suc cess; was the son of William Heister, M. C., but changed the orthography of his surname. Died at caster County,

Lancaster, February

6,

1871.

Higby, William; was born

in Essex County, York, August 18, 1813; passed his boyhood on a farm; engaged in the lumber and iron business; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840: adopted the profession of the law, which he practiced in his native county until 1850; during that year emigrated to California; was District Attorney of Calaveras County from 1853 to 1859; in 1862 was a member of the State Senate; in 1863 was elected a Representative from California to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands and Expenditures in the Navy Department; reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; was also a mem ber of the Special Committee to visit the Indian tribes of the West in 1865, and of the Committees on the Death of President Lincoln and Appropriations; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven

New

of 1866; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and as Chairman of the Committee on Mines and tion

"

,

Mining.

Higginson, Stephen; was a Delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 178

and

1783.

Hill, Benjamin H.; was born in Jasper County, Georgia, September 14, 1823; received a classical education; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1844; studied law, and came to the bar in 1845; in 1851 was elected to the State Legislature; was an unsuc cessful candidate for Congress in 1855, and for Gov ernor in 1857; was again a Representative in the State Legislature in 1859 and 1860; was a Presiden tial Elector in 1861; was a Delegate to the State Convention of 1861, and opposed secession; was a Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, and afterwards a Senator from that State in the Confederate Congress; in 1875 was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garrett McMillan: was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; was elected a Senator of the United States

for the term of six years from March 4, and resigned his seat in the Lower House. Died, at his home, August 16, 1882L

from Georgia 1877,

Hill,

Clement in.

Representative 1853 to 1855.

was born in Kentucky; was a Congress from that State, from

S.

;

Hill, David Bennett; was born at Havana, Schuyler (then Chemung) County, New York, August 29, 1845; was educated in the common schools and at the Havana Academy; became a clerk in a lawyer s office in Havana; in 1863 went to Elmira, New York, and began the study of law; in November, 1864, was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of law at Elmira; a month later was appointed City Attorney; entered the field of politics, in which he took great interest; in 1868 was a Delegate to the Democratic State Convention; in 1870 was elected a

Representative in the State Legislature, serving on important Committees; was re-elected in 1871; from 1868 he was annually chosen a Delegate to the Dem ocratic State Conventions of succeeding years, and in 1877 and 1881 was elected President of the respective conventions; in 1876 and 1884 was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of those years; in 1881 was elected a member of the Common Council of Elmira; in 1882 was elected Mayor of Elmira; in the fall of the same year was elected LieutenantGovernor of New York; in 1884, upon the resignation of Governor Cleveland, Mr. Hill became Governor of the State of New York; in 1885 was elected Presi dent of the State Bar Association of New York; in 1886 was elected Governor for a full term, of four years.

Clement ; was born in MassachuHill, in 1870 was appointed" an Assistant AttorneyGeneral of the United States.

Hugh

letts;

Hugh

L. W.; was born in Tennessee; was Hill, a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849. Hill, setts,

Isaac

April

7,

was born at Somerville, Massachu 1788; in 1798 his parents removed to ;

a farm in

Ashburnham, Massachusetts; his educa was exceedingly limited, and at the early age of fourteen he was apprenticed in a printing-office in 1809, at the expiration of his apprenticeship, went to Concord, New Hampshire, and purchased the Ameri can Patriot, which was afterwards issued as the New Hampshire Patriot, and became a paper of immense circulation and influence during the twenty years of his editorship; during that time was twice chosen Clerk of the State Senate; was once a Representative in the Legislature; was elected a member of the State Senate in 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1827; in 1828 was a candidate for the United States Senate, but not elected; in 1829 was appointed, by President Jack son, Second Comptroller of the Treasury, and held Mie office until April, 1830; returned to New Hamphire, and was elected, by the Legislature, United States Senator for six years, from 1831 in 1836 re signed his Senatorship, after being elected Governor tion

;

;

)f

New Hampshire; was

re-elected in 1837

and 1838;

1840 was appointed, by President Van Bureu, Sub-Treasurer at Boston, and in that year n connection with his two oldest sons, established^ HiWs New 11

Patriot, which they published and edited until 1847, when that paper Avas united with the Patriot : also published the Farmer*

Hampshire

Monthly

Visitor,

an agricultural paper, for ten years; during the last fifteen years of his life devoted much attention to Died in igriculture. District of Colum bia,

March

Washington,

22, 1851.

BIOCJRAPHICA John was

Hill

born in Virginia; was a Repre Congress from that State from 1839 to ;

sentative

in.

1841.

Hill, John Carolina; served ;

State;

was born in Stokes County, North the Legislature of the in Congress from 1839 to

many years in

was a Representative

1841; in 1850 held the position of Reading Clerk in the State Senate. Hill, John was born in Catskill, New York, June 10, 1821; received a common school education; was for seven years a clerk and book-keeper in his native ;

removed to Boonton, Morris County, New Jer and pursued the same business for three years;

L

ANNALS.

237

of Colorado Territory in 1872 and 1873; was elechd a Senator of the United States from Colorado for the term of six years from March 4, 1879.

was born in Johnson, Trumbull Hill, Ralph County, Ohio, October 12, 1827; after receiving an academic education, studied law at the New York State and National Law School, and received the de ;

gree of LL.D. in 1851; on removing to Indiana, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thir

ty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Ter ritories and on Expenditures in the Treasury De

partment.

place; sey,

subsequently devoted himself to mercantile pursuits; held, for many years, a number of local offices; in 1860 was elected to the State Legislature; was twice re-elected, and was made Speaker of the Assembly; took an active part in raising troops during the Re bellion; was foremost among his neighbors in pro moting the moral and social welfare of his fellowcitizens; in I860 was elected a Representative from

New

Jersey to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the

Committees on the Post

and Weights and

Offices

Measures; re-elected to the Forty-first and Fortysecond Congresses; was a State Senator from 1875 to 1878; was again a Representative in the Forty-seventh Congress.

Died July

25, 1884.

;

elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from Georgia, and was a member of the Committee on Public Lauds; re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con

on the Committee on Foreign Affairs: withdrew in February, 1861, and returned to Georgia; did not take an active part in the Rebellion; in 1866 was appointed, by President Johnson, Collector for the Port of Savannah; in 1876 was appointed a Visit or to the West Point Academy, as well as a Register in Bankruptcy; in 1868 was elected a Senator in Congress for the term ending in 1873.

gress, serving

Hill, Mark L.; was born in Biddeford, Maine, June 30, 1772; from the year 1792 to the close of his life, was almost constantly in the exercise of some public employment, either by popular election or executive appointment; though denied the advant ages of a liberal education, he succeeded, by assidu ous self-culture, in making himself useful to his country and gaining honor in the various posts of high responsibility to which he was successively ele

vated; was, at various periods, a member of the Sen ate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, member of

Congress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821, and from Maine from 1821 to 1823; Postmaster at Phippsburg, Maine, Collector of the port at Bath, and held several town and county offices was one of the Over seers of Bowdoin College from its foundation until 1821, when he became a Trustee, in which office he continued until his decease; during the whole period of forty-nine years, he regularly attended every meet ing except one. Died at Phippsburg, Maine, Novem ;

ber 26, 1842, in the seventy-first year of his age.

Nathaniel

was born in Orange County, 1832 was educated at Brown University, Rhode Island; was Professor of Hill,

P.;

York, February

18,

;

for the District of Mississippi.

Hill,

was born in Abbeville District, Hill, Joshua South Carolina, January 10, 1812; had not a collegi ate education; studied law as a profession; was

New

was born in Iredell Hill, Robert Andrews County, North Carolina, March 25, 1811; removed, with his parents, to Tennessee; received a limited education; in 1833 was elected a Constable, and in 1836 a Justice of the Peace; having adopted the pro fession -of the law, in 1847 was elected a Circuit At torney-General, and held the office until 1854; soon afterwards removed to Mississippi, and was made a Judge of Probate; during the war he did what he could to help both sides in the way of kindness and charity; was a Delegate to the State Convention of 1865. and in 1866 was appointed United States Judge

;

Chemistry in that institution from 1860 to 1864; studied metallurgy in the universities of Europe for two years; settled in Colorado as manager of a smelt ing company in 1867; was a member of the Council

Thomas

;

was born in Penn

....

.vania;

was a

Representative in Congress from that State from 1824 to 1826.

Hill, Whitmell; was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, February 12, 1743; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; was a Delegate to the Congresses at Hillsborough and Halifax in 1775 and 1776; was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coventry Mili from tia, and Delegate to the Continental Congress 1778 to 1781 was frequently a member of the House and Senate of North Carolina previous to 1785. Died at Hill s Ferry, Martin County, North Carolina, Sep tember 26, 1797. ;

Hill, William D.; was born in Nelson County, in country Virginia, October 1, 1833; was educated two schools, and attended Antioch College, Ohio, to practice at years; studied law and was admitted of Springfield; Springfield, Ohio, in 1860; was Mayor was a Representative in the State Legislature in unsuccessful can 1866, 1867, 1868, and 1869; was an didate for Congress in 1870; in 1875 was appointed served Superintendent of Insurance for the State, and three years; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty -sixth Congress; was also elected to the

Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. Hill, William H.; was a Representative in Con from 1799 to 1803; wasgress from North Carolina also appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the District of North Carolina. Died in 1809.

Hillegas, Michael was the first United States Died in Philadelphia, September, 1804, ;

Treasurer.

aged seventy-six years.

Hillen, Solomon, Jr.; was born in Baltimore in County, Maryland, in 1813; was a Representative was edu Congress from that State from 1839 to 1S41; cated at the Georgetown College; studied law; served in the Maryland Legislature in 1834 and 1838; was elected Mayor of Baltimore in 3842, for an ur.expired on term; was re-elected for two years, but resigned account of his health, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

2;)8

was born at Montville, Con Hillhouse, at Yale Col necticut, October 21, 1754; graduated entered upon lege in 1774; after due preparation, Revo tlie practice of law; took an active part in the Haven was in lutionary struggle, and when New vaded by the British, was Commander of the Gover

James

;

s Guards; became a Representative in Congress was chosen a 1791, and three years afterwards Senator of the UnLed States from Connecticut, where He continued a distinguished member for sixteen was President pro years, and in the Sixth Congress the seat tern, of the Senate; in 1810 resigned his of Senate, and accepted the office of Commissioner the School Fund of Connecticut, which he managed with great ability and fidelity for fifteen years; was a Delegate to the Hartford Convention of 1814; in 1825 undertook to conduct the construction of the

nor in

m

Farmington and Hampshire Canal; was chosen Treasurer of Yale College in 1782, and continued to hold the office until his death, doing much to pro Died at New mote the interests of that institution. Haven, December

29, 1832.

Hillhouse, "William; was a Delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1786.

was born in North Caro South Carolina, at the Col studied law, and re lege of which State he graduated moved to Georgia; in 1836 became a citizen of Ala Hilliard,

Henry W.;

General, and subsequently a Major-General.

Died

at Helena, Arkansas, October 22, 1868.

Hindman, "William was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress; was a Representa tive in Congress from 1792 to 1799; was a Senator in Congress during the years 1800 and 1801. Died ;

January

26, 1822.

Hinds, James was born in TTebron, "Washing ton County, New York, December 5, 1833; graduated at the Cincinnati Law College in 1856; removed to Minnesota, and practiced his profession there; was District Attorney for the State until 1860; served in the war for the Union as a private, after which he settled at Little Rock, Arkansas; was a member of the Convention which formed the present Constitu tion of the State; was appointed a Commissioner to codify the laws of the State; was elected a Repre sentative from Arkansas to the Fortieth Congress; was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868; in October of the same year was assassinated at Mon roe, Arkansas, by a political opponent. ;

Hinds, Thomas was born about the ye ir 1775; was a distinguished officer in the battle of New Or leans; was a Representative in Congress fnrn Missis ;

in lina; passed his boyhood

;

bama, occupying for several years a Professorship in the University of that State; in 1833 was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1840 a Presidential President Tyler, Elector; in 1842 was appointed, by Minister to Belgium; was a Representative in Con was also a gress from Alabama from 1843 to 1851; and devoted Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, some attention to the pursuits of literature; a vol ume of his speeches was published in 1855; in 1877 was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil. Hillyer, Edgar "Winters; was born in GranLicking County, Ohio, December 3, 1830; graduated at what is now called Dennison University; ville,

to California in 1851; studied law, and came to the bar in 1856; practiced in Placer County until 1861; served in the war for the Union, and rose to the rank of Colonel; in 1865 became Acting JudgeAdvocate for the Department of the Pacific; in 1863 had command of the Carnp at Los Angeles, during the troubles there; from 1864 to 1865 was stationed at Fort Yuma; underorders from General McDowell, investigated the conduct of certain persons who had exulted over the death of President Lincoln; was elected to the State Legislature in 1862; in 1866 was elected Attorney for Storey County, holding the office until 1869, when he was appointed Judge of the United States Court for the District of Nevada.

went

Hillyer, Junius was born in "Wilkes County, Georgia, April 23, 1807; graduated at the State Uni versity at Athens, in 1828; having studied law while in college, was admitted to the bar within one week after graduating; in 1834 was elected, by the Legis lature, Solicitor-General for the Western District of the State; was a Representative in Congress from Geor gia from 1851 to 1855, during his second term serving as Chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, So licitor of the United States Treasury, remaining in ;

;

office until 1861.

Hindman, Thomas

sentative from Arkansas to the Thirty-sixth Con was re-elected to the Thirl \ ,v onth Congress, but when the Rebellion broke out he entered the Confederate service; was at once made a Brigadiergress;

Died in Jefferson County, sippi from 1823 to 1831. Mississippi, August 23, 1840.

Hines, Richard was born in North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from that State ;

from 1825 to 1827.

Hires, G-aorge; was born in Salem County, New January 26, 1835; received a common school and commercial education; engaged in the mercan tile business and manufacturing; was elected Sheriff of Salem County in 1867, 1868, and 1859; in 1831 was elected a State Senator for a term of three years; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Jersey,

Forty-ninth Congress.

Hiscock, Frank was born at Pompey, New York, September 6, 1834; received an academic edu cation; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855, and commenced practice at Tully, New York; was District Attorney of Onondaga County from 1860 to 1863; was a Delegate to the State Constitu tional Convention of 1867; was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Con ;

gresses.

Hise, Elijah; was born in Kentucky, July 4, was appointed Charge d Affaires to Guatemala; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Kentucky to 1802; in 1848

the Thirty-ninth Congress, for the unexpired term of H. Grider, deceased, serving on the Committee oa Reconstruction; was re-elected to the Fortieth Con

but died, by suicide, at Russellville, Kentucky, In personal appearance he bore a re markable resemblance to John C. Calhoun, of whom he was a warm admirer. gress,

May

8, 1867.

Hitchcock, Peter; was born

in Cheshire,

Con

necticut, October 19, 1780; graduated at Yale College in 1801 was admitted to the bar in 1804, and com menced the practice of law in his native town in 1806 removed to Geauga County, Ohio; in 1810 was elected to the General Assembly of that State; from 1812 to 1816 was a member of the State Senate, and ;

;

was born in Tennessee in 1818; served in the Mexican War as a Second Lieutenant of Mississippi Volunteers; was a Repre C.;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. President of that body one session was a Represent ative in Congress from 1817 to 1819; was then chosen Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio for seven years; was re-elected to the same office in 1826; retired from the Bench in 1852, after a judicial service of twentyeight years, having been for a portion of that time Chief Justice; from 1833 to 1835 was again a ber of the State Senate, and once again President; in 1850 was a Delegate to the "Constitutional Conven tion of the State. Died in Painesville, Ohio, May 11, 1853. ;

mem

"

Hitchcock, Phineas"W.;

was born

in

New Leb

New York, November 30, 1831; graduated at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1855; studied law; after being admitted to the bar emigrated to Nebraska Territory, and settled in the practice of his anon,

Omaha in 1857; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Marshal of the Territory, which office he held until his election from Nebraska, as Delegate to the Thirty-ninth Congress; was a member of the National Committee appointed to ac profession at

company the remains of President Lincoln to Illi nois; in March, 1867, was appointed Surveyor-Gen was elected to the United States Senate for the term ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Territories, District of Columbia, and

eral of Nebraska;

Pacific Railroad.

Hitchcock, Samuel

was a lawyer of high and a citizen of Vermont; in 1793 was ap pointed, by President Washington, United States Judge for the District of Vermont; in 1801 was pro moted, by President Adams, to the Bench of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second ;

character

Circuit.

the practice of his profession; was for ten years a of the Corporation of Harvard College, and, was appointed an overseer of that institution; in 1859 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court; on the 5th of March, 1869, entered the Cabinet of President Grant, as Attorney-General; in 1871 be came a member of the Joint High Commission for making a Treaty between England and the United States; was a Presidential Elector in 1872; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, declining a re election served on the Committees on Foreign Af fairs and Revision of Laws; on the maternal side was a grandson of Roger Sherinan.

member

in 1868,

;

Hoar, George Frisbie was born in Concord, Massachusetts, August 29, 1826; graduated at Har vard College in 1846; after going through a course of legal studies at the Harvard Law School, was admit ted to the bar in 1849, and settled at Worcester, in the practice of his profession; in 1852 was elected a Representative in the General Court; in 1857, to the State Senate; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty-first Congress, serv ing on the Committees on Education and Labor, and Revision of Laws; was re-elected to the three suc ceeding Congresses, serving on various important Com mittees; declined a re-nomination; was President of the Republican State Conventions of 1871 and 1877; was Overseer of Harvard College from 1874 to 1880; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1880; President of the Convention in 1880; was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; was elected a United States Senator from Mas sachusetts for the term of six years from March 4, 1877; was re-elected for a second term of six years. ;

Hoar, Samuel

Robert Roberts; was born

at Urbana, Ohio, January 16, 1834; removed to Illinois in 1837; received a collegiate education; engaged in various pursuits; was First Secretary of the American Lega tion at Paris, France, from 1874 to 1881, serving as Charged Affaires ad interim for a portion of the time; was Assistant Secretary of State in 1881 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. M. A. Hawk; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth

Hitt,

;

and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Hoag, Truman New

H.; was born in Manlius, OnonYork, April 9, 1816; received a public school education; from 1832 to 1839 was clerk in a store and in a canal office at Syracuse; in 1842 engaged in the steamboat business on Lake Ontario; removed to Toledo in 1848, and established himself there in the transportation and produce business; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Buildings. Died in Washington, February 5,

daga County,

1870.

was born in Lincoln, Massachu 1788; graduated at Cambridge in two years thereafter, a private tutor 1802; in Virginia; studied law with Artemas Ward; was admitted to the bar in 1805, and opened an office in Concord; soon attained high rank, and was for forty years one of the most eminent and successful prac titioners in the State; was a member of the Conven tion for revising the State Constitution in 1820; State Senator in 1825 and 1833; a Representative in Con setts,

;

May

18, was, for

gress from 1835 to 1837; in 1844 was appointed by the Legislature of Massachusetts to proceed to South Carolina and aid the colored citizens of Massachu setts, imprisoned by the authorities of South Caro lina, by testing, in the Courts of the United States, the Constitutionality of the acts of South Carolina authorizing the imprisonment of colored persons who should enter that State; his appearance in Charles

ton caused great excitement, and he was expelled from that city by its citizens, December 5, 1844, the Legislature having passed resolutions on that day authorizing the Governor to expel him; member of the Executive Council in 1845 and 1846; State Representative in 1850 was a member of various re ligious and charitable societies, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and, at the time of his death, one of the Overseers of Harvard College, the degree of Doctor of Laws having, in 1838, been conferred upon him by that institution. Died in Concord, Massa ;

Hoagland, Moses; was born

in Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1851; was subsequently appointed United States Judge for the Territory of Washington.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood; was born in Con cord, Massachusetts,

239

in 1816;

the son of the late

Samuel Hoar, and brother of George F. Hoar; gradu ated at Harvard University in 1835, and spent two years at the Cambridge Law School soon afterwards engaged in teaching school at Pittsburgh and other western cities; came to the bar in 1840, and com menced the practice of law in his native State; was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but after serving several years, resigned to resume ;

chusetts,

November

2,

1856.

Hoard, Charles

B.; was born in Springfield, Ver 28, 1805; was a mechanic, and for several in years early life a clerk in a private land office in Antwerp, New York; was Postmaster under Presi dents Jackson and Van Buren Justice of the Peace for several years; a member of the New York Legis lature in 1838, and County Clerk of Jefferson County, New York, in 1844, 1845, and 1846; was an active

mont, June

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

2-10

a Representative to the politician, and was elected on Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committee Expenditures in the State Pep irtment; was re-elected to the Thirty -sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Claims.

Hobart, Aaron was born in Abiugton, Ply mouth County, Massachusetts, June 26, 1787; gradu ated at Brown University in 1805; adopted the pro ;

fession of the law; served in the State Senate; was Judge of Probate: was a State

was a

Repre Counselor; sentative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1821 Died at East Bridgewater, September 19, to 1827. 1858.

Hobart, John Sloss in 1757;

;

graduated at Yale College District Court of New

was Judge of the

in that York, and held several important positions State during the Revolutionary war, after which he was appointed one of the three Judges of the Supreme Court; was a member of the United States Senate from February to April, 1798, in the place of P. Schuyler, but resigned, and was then appointed Judge of the United States District Court of New York. Died

February

4,

1805, aged sixty-six.

Hobble, Selah

R.; Avas born at

Newburg, New

York, March 10, 1797; at an early day established himself at Delhi, Delaware County, in the practice of law, where he was soon appointed District Attorney and Brigade Major and Inspector; was a Representa tive in Congress from New York from 1827 to 1829, when, on the accession of General Jackson to the Presidency, he was appointed Assistant PostmasterGeneral, which position he held until 1850, when he retired on account of ill-health, but resumed the duties of the office under President Pierce. Died in Washington, District of Columbia, March 23, 1854. He was the son-in-law, and at one time the law partner, of Erastus Root.

was born in Cumber 1838; received an academic education; studied law; commenced practice at Balti more, Maryland, in 1859; served in the Confederate Army during the war of the Rebellion was a mem ber of the Board of School Commissioners; was Trustee of St. Mary s Industrial School; was elected a member of the State House of Representatives in 1870, again in 1876, and was re-elected in 1878, serv ing the last term as Speaker; was elected a Repre sentative from Maryland to the Forty-seventh and Hoblitzell, Fetter

land, Maryland, October

S.;

7,

;

Forty-eighth Congresses.

Hodges, Asa; was born January

22, 1823; was continued to prac

admitted to the bar in 1849, and removed to Arkansas in 1859; in 1866 was a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention under the reconstruction acts of Congress; in 1868 was elected a Representative in the General Assembly; in 1870 was elected a member of the State Senate and elected to the Forty-third Congress from Arkansas.

tice until 1860;

;

Hodges, Charles

D.; was elected a Representa tive in Congress from Illinois, and took his seat during the second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress.

Hodges, George T.; was born in Clarendon, Vermont, July 4, 1789; was bred to active business, and was a merchant in Rutland for many years; served frequently in both Houses of the State Legis lature; was a Representative in Congress from Ver mont during the third session of the Thirty-fourth Congress; for more than a quarter of a century was President of the Bank of Rutland; was a large con tributor to the success of the Burlington Railroad, and a warm supporter of the Vermont Agricultural Died at Rutland, September 9, 1860. Society.

Hodges, James

L.; was a State Senator in 1823 was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1827 to 1831. Died March 8

and

18:24;

t

1846, aged fifty-six years.

S. H.; was born in Vermont; removed Washington; in 1852 was appointed Commissioner of the Patent Office, which office he resigned in 1853; in 1861 was appointed Examiner-in-Chief in the Patent Office, where he remained until his death, which occurred April 20, 1875.

Hodges,

to

Hoffman, Henry W.; Avas born in Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1855 to 1857; was subsequently elected Sergeant-atArms of the House of Representatives; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Collector of the port of Baltimore.

Hoffman, John T.; was born at Sing Sing;, New York, January 10, 1828; graduated at Union College in 1846; was admitted to the bar January, 1849; acquired an extensive practice in New York City; connected himself with Tammany Hall in 1854; was elected Recorder of the city in I860 and 1863; ren dered himself conspicuous for his severity to the rioters of July, 1863; was elected Mayor in 1865, and re-elected in 1867; was Democratic candidate for Governor in 1866, but was defeated by Fenton; was chosen Governor in 1869, serving until 1872. Hoffman, Michael ; was born in the town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York, in 1788; was educated as a physician; afterwards studied law and settled in Herkimer County, where he occupied a high position was elected to Congress in 1824, and ;

continued a member for eight years, serving a por tion of the time as Chairman of the Committea on Naval Affairs; was appointed a Canal Commissioner for the State of New York, wrote several able reports, and resigned the office in 1835; in 1841 went into the House of Assembly from Herkimer County, and ac complished much good for the service and credit of his State; was a Delegate to the "Constitutional Con vention" of 1846, aud was Naval Officer in the City of New York; was a powerful and effective debater, and, as a man, unselfish and of high character. Died at Brooklyn, September 27, 1848.

Hoffman, Ogden was born in New York City in 1794; graduated at Columbia College in 1812; soon after entered the navy as a midshipman, but in three ;

years resigned, rmd studied law; commenced practice in Orange County, and was appointed District Attor ney; removed to New York City in 1826; was a part ner of Hugh Maxwell, and became eminently success ful in his profession; in 1828 was a Representative in the Legislature; from 1829 to 1835 was District Attor ney; was appointed United States District Attorney, by President Harrison; from 1837 to 1841 was a Rep resentative in Congress, and was a member of the Affairs; was again elected to Congress in 1848; in 1854 was appointed AttorneyGeneral of the State; was remarkable for his elo quence and learning, and for more than a quarter oi a century occupied a high position at the bar of New York. Died in that city, May 1, 1856.

Committee on Foreign

Hoffman, Ogden; was born

at Goshen, Orange October 16, 1822; graduated from Columbia College in 1840; studied law at Dane Law School, Harvard University; was admitted to the bar, and then traveled in Europe for fourteen months; in 1850 removed to California, and commenced the practice of law; in 1851 was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Cali fornia, and continued in that position.

County,

New

Dfork,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Hogan, John was born in Mallow, County of Cork, Ireland, .January 2, 1805; emigrated to Balti more, Maryland, with his father in 1817; in that city was apprenticed to the trade of a shoemaker; during his term of service did what he could to ob tain an education, and was an attendant of the Asbury Sunday-school; in 1826 emigrated to the West; in 1831 opened a store in Madison County, Illinois; in 1836 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1838 was elected, by the Legislature, Commissioner of the Board of Public Works; re-elected and made Presi dent of the Boaid; in 1841 was appointed, by Presi dent Harrison, Register of the Land Office at Dixon, Illinois, where he remained until 1845; soon after wards settled in St. Louis, Missouri, resuming the mercantile business; became engaged with insurance companies; organized and was President of a savings institution and a bank; in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Postmaster of St. Louis; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means and the Special Committee on Civil Service; was the author of two publications, on the "Resources of Missouri" and on the "Commerce aud Manufactures of St. Louis"; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention of ;

"

"

1866.

Hogan, William was born in 1792; when quite young went, with his father, to the Cape of Good Hope, then a Dutch colony, where he acquired the Dutch language; returned to America and graduated at Columbia College; studied law, but having pur ;

chased land in Black River Country, New York, set tled in that region; as a pioneer, did much to develop the country, and a thriving town on the St. Lawrence received the name of Hogansport; was for many years a County Judge: was a Representative in Congress from 1831 to 1833; in 1850 became an Examiner of Claims in the Department of State, which position was soon exchanged for that of Translator, his studies, while traveling abroad, having made him a thorough scholar in the languages of Europe, and he remained in that position until 1869.

Hoge, John; was born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1760; received the greater part of his education from a private tutor; entered the army of the Revolution in 1776, and was made Ensign of the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment; in 1782 emigrated to the western part of the State, and with his brother William, founded the town of Washington; in 1789 was a Delegate to the Conven tion wr hich formed the State Constitution; from 1790 to 1795 served in the State Senate; in 1799 was chosen a member of the "American Philosophical was a Representative in Congress from Society"; Pennsylvania in 1804 and 1805 for the unexpired term of his brother, William Hoge; was a man of Died near Washington, culture and literary tastes. Pennsylvania, August 4, 1824. Hoge, John Blair was born ;

at

Richmond, Vir

1825; studied law, and was ad mitted to practice in 1845; became President of the Bank of Berkeley, Virginia, in 1853; was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; served in the Confederate Army as a commissioned officer throughout the war of the Rebellion was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in 1871 a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1871 to 1872; Circuit Judg^ from 1872 to 1880, when he resigned to take his seat ginia,

February

2,

;

;

16

241

in the Forty-seventh Congress as a Representative

from West Virginia.

was born in Ohio; having re was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1847.

Hoge, Joseph

moved

P.;

to Illinois,

Hoge, Solomon L.; was born in Logan County, Ohio; received a liberal education; graduated at the Cincinnati Law College in 1859; practiced at Bellefontaine until 1861 entered the army as First Lieu tenant in the infantry; was promoted to a Captaincy; was severely wounded at the second battle of Bull Run; was twice brevetted for gallant conduct in battle, and at the close of the war received a com mission in the Regular Army; materially aided in the reconstruction of South Carolina, and was elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State by the General Assembly; was elected to the Fortyfirst and Forty-fourth Congresses. ;

Hoge, William was born in Cumberland Coun Pennsylvania; in 1782 settled in the western part of the State, and, with his brother John, founded the town of Washington; was a Representative in Con ;

ty,

gress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1804, when he Died on his resigned, and again from 1807 to 1809. estate in the town of Washington.

Hogeboom, James L.; was a member New York "Constitutional Convention" of

of the 1821 was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1823 to 1825. ;

Hogg, Samuel was the son of Thomas Hogg, a Major in the army during the Revolutionary War, and was born in Halifax, North Carolina, April 18, 1783; studied medicine, and practiced the profession in Tennessee; served as a Surgeon in the army during the Creek War, and was with General Jackson at New Orleans, where he acquitted himself with great credit in the hospitals; was elected to the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from 1817 to 1819, and declined a re-election; in 1828 set tled in Nashville, where he practiced his profession until his death, excepting two years which he spent in Mississippi for his was President of the health; Medical Society of Tennessee, and received honorary degrees from the Universities of Maryland and Penn Died at Nashville, May 28, 1842. It was sylvania. the mother of Dr. Hogg, who, when Tarlton sneeringly said that he would like to see the Colonel Washington of whom he had heard so much, replied: "You would have had that pleasure if yon had only taken the time to look behind you in your flight from the battle of Cowpens." ;

Holbrook, E. D.; was born in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1833; received a common school education; studied and adopted the profession of the law; having emigrated to Idaho, was elected a Dele gate from that Territory to the Thirty-ninth Con gress, and re-elected to the Fortieth Congress. Holbrook, Frederick

;

was born

in East

Connecticut, in 1813; was Governor of from 1861 to 1863. sor,

Holcomb, George was born ;

Wind

Vermont

in Lambertsville,

New Jersey, in 1786; graduated at Princeton College in 1805; adopted the medical profession, and practiced it with success in Allenwas a member of the State Legislature in town; Hunterdon County,

1815; received from the University of Maryland the degree of M. D. was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1821 to 1828. Died at Allentown, January 14, 1828. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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Holden. William W.; was for many years con nected with the press of North Carolina, especially tlie Raleigh Register, and noted as a politician; was Provisional Governor of the State in 1865; was elected Governor in 1869, but

was impeached

for

malfeasance in office, and in April, 1872, was removed from the Governorship by a two-thii ds vote of the Senate of North Carolina, sitting as a Court of Im

peachment. in Vir that ginia; was a Representative in Congress from first term State, from 1849 to 1853, and during his was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in

Holladay, Alexander R.; was bora

the

Navy Department.

Holloway, David P.; was born in Waynesville Warren County, Ohio, December 6, 1809; removed, with his parents, to Cincinnati in 1813; in 1823 went to Richmond, Indiana, and learned the printing busi ness; subsequently served four years in the office of the Cincinnati Gazette; commenced the publication of the Richmond PMK//HI in 1832, editing it for many years; in 1843 was elected to the lower branch of the State Legislature of Indiana, and in 1844 to

the State Senate, serving nine years; in 1855 was elected a Representative in Congress from Indiana, and was Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, during that term; was eight years President of the Agricultural Society of Wayne County; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Commissioner of Patents.

Holland, Cornelius; was born July

9,

Died September

9,

1883.

1782;

established himself as a physician at Canton, Maine; was a member of the Maine Constitutional Conven tion of 1819; a member of the State Legislature in 1820 and 1821; a State Senator in 1822, 1825, and

Holly, Charles F.; was appointed a Judge of the United States Court for the Territory of Color

1826; was a Representative in Congress from Maine, from 1830 to 1833, serving on the Committee on Elections, as well as the Committee on Representa

Holman, Jesse Li.; was a citizen of Indiana; re sided at Lawrenceburg; about the year 1836 was ap pointed United States Judge for the District of Indi-

tion under the Fifth Census.

James

was a Representative in Con ; Holland, gress from North Carolina, from 1795 to 1797; and again from 1801 to 1811.

Holleman, Joel was bom in the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, October 1, 1799; was educated at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; taught school for some years, and then studied law, in the practice of which he was successful; was a Representative in ;

Congress from Virginia, from 1839 to 1840, when he because he could not represent the feel resigned, ings and wishes of a majority of his constituents" was subsequently in the State Legislature for several years, and was Speaker of the House when he died, "

;

August, 1844.

Holley, Alexander H.; was a native of Con necticut; received a good education; was Governor of his native State for one year, beginning in 1857.

Holley, John M.; was born in Salisbury, Con necticut, in November, 1802; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1822; removed to New York and came to the bar in 1825; was a member of the New York Assembly from 1838 to 1841; was elected a Representative in Congress from New York from 1847 to 1848. Died at Jacksonville, Florida, piration of his term.

March

Holliday, Frederick

"W.

8,

1848, before the ex

M.; was Governor of

Virginia from 1878 to 1882.

Hollister,

Gideon

H.; was a citizen of Connec

ticut; in 1868 was Consul-Genera] and Minister Resi dent to Hayti, where he remained until 1869, when he returned to the United States.

Hollister, Madison E.; was born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1808; received a common school education while working on his father s farm; studied Jaw, and settled in Illinois in 1836; was a Presidential Elector in 1848; in 1855 was elected Judge of the Ninth Judicial District of the State, continuing in the office until 1866; in that year was appointed Consul to Buenos Ayres, where he re mained until 1869, and then resumed his profession; in 1861 was, without solicitation, appointed Associate Justice of th e United States Territorial Court of Idaho, and was soon afterwards made Chief Justice.

ado.

Holman,

"William S.;

was born

in Verdstown,

Indiana, September 6, 1822; received a good English education at common schools; adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the Convention to re vise the Constitution of Indiana in 1850; was a mem ber of the State Legislature in 1851; was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1852 to 1856; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving as a member on the Commit tee on Revolutionary Claims; re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the same Committee; elected to the For tieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Enrolled Bills and Claims; re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses, making a total service of sixteen years, during which time he served upon nearly all the im portant Committees; in December, 1875, was ap pointed Chairman of the Committee on Public Build ings and Grounds; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-eighth and For

ty-ninth Congresses.

Holmes, A.

J.; was born in Wayne County, 1842; removed, with his parents, to Wisconsin in 1853; received a good academic educa tion, which was interrupted, in 1862, by his enlist ment in the Union Army served throughout the war, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant; was taken prisoner in 1864, and was confined in various South ern prisons for several months, being finally ex changed; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1866; graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan in

Ohio,

March

2,

;

1867; removed to Boone, Iowa, and began the prac law in 1869; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1881; was elected a Repre sentative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. tice of

Holmes, David was a native of Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1797 to 1809; in the latter year was appointed Gov ernor of the Territory of Mississippi, which position he held until 1817; was Governor of the State, by from 1817 to election, 1819; was a Senator in Con gress from Mississippi from 1820 to 1825, when he ;

resigned.

Died August

20, 1832.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Holmes, Elias B.; was born May 27, 1807; commenced

mont,

at the age of

emigrated to

twenty

at Fletcher, Ver as a teacher:

life

Monroe County,

New York;

studied law, and was admitted to prac was a Representative in Congress from York from 1845 to 1849.

tice in 1830;

New

Holmes, Gabriel was born in Sampson

County, North Carolina; was educated at Harvard University was a lawyer by profession was in the State Senate in 1807; governor of the State in 1621; was a Repre sentative in Congress from North Carolina from 1825 Died September 26, 1829, in Sampson to 1828. County, North Carolina, aged sixty-five years. ;

;

;

was born in Charleston, 1786; was educated at the best schools of his native city, and graduated with honors at Yale College in 1815; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1818, in Charleston; was one of the originators of the "South Carolina in Association"; was elected to the State Legislature 1826; for a time devoted himself to planting; was a

Holmes, Isaac

E.;

South Carolina, April

5,

Representative in Congress from South Carolina, from 1839 to 1851, during which period he served with ability at the head of the Committees of Commerce and the Navy, and also of that on Foreign Affairs; subsequently took up his residence in California; having returned to his native State, died in Charles ton,

February

25, 1867.

Holmes, John was born on Cape Cod ;

in March,

Brown University in 1796; studied law, and commenced the practice in Alfred, Maine, in 1799; was a member of the Massachusetts Legis lature in 1802, 1803, and 1812; was a Boundary 1773; graduated at

Commissioner under the Treaty of 1815; a State Senator from 1813 to 1815; a Representative in Con gress from Massachusetts, from 1817 to 1820; was a member of the Convention to form the Constitution of Maine, and Chairman of the Committee that drafted the document in 1820; was a Senator in Congress from Maine from 1820 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1833; during a part of 1829, and from 1835 to 1838, was a member of the Maine Legislature; was United States District Attorney, and District Judge Maine from 1841 until his death, which occurred He was a prominent at Portland, July 7, 1843.

243

Holt, Joseph was born in Breckeuridge County. Kentucky, January 6, 1807; was educated at the St. Joseph and Centre Colleges of that State; studied law; came to the bar in 1828, and settled in Louis ville; for two years was Attorney for the Common wealth; was a visitor to West Point in 1835, ap ;

pointed by President Jackson; a Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of that year, in which he vindicated R. M. Johnson from certain political im putations made against him; from 1835 to 1840 resided in Mississippi, practicing his profession; re turned to Louisville; from 1848 to 1851 traveled in Europe and the East, going up the Nile and visiting Jerusalem; in 1857 settled in Washington City, and

was soon afterwards appointed, by President Buchanan, Commissioner of Patents; in 1859 went into the Cabinet as Postmaster-General; in 1860 was placed ad interim at the head of the War Department, and subsequently continued as Secretary; in 1861 was a Commissioner for adjusting the war claims of Missouri; early in 1862 was a Commissioner on Ord nance; in the latter part of year was appointed, by President Lincoln, Judge Advocate General; in 1864 was placed at the head of the Bureau of Military Justice; in November, 1864, President Lincoln in vited him into the Cabinet as Attorney-General, which invitation he declined; on the first of Decem ber, 1875, was retired at his own request, and a suc cessor

was appointed.

was born in Connecticut; was a Holt, Orrin Representative in Congress from that State in 1836 to fill an unexpired term, and again from 1837 to ;

1839.

Holten, Samuel was born in Danvers, Massa June 9, 1738; was bred a physician; during ;

chusetts,

the Revolution he zealously espoused the cause of his country, and was a member of the old Congress, from 1778 to 1787, officiating at one time as its President; also signed the Articles of Confederation; was a Rep resentative, under the Constitution, from 1793 to 1795; spent the closing years of his life as Judge Died January 2, of Probate for Essex County. 1816.

member

Holton, Hart B.; was a resident of Maryland; was elected a Representative from that State to ^he Forty-eighth Congress; in 1883 was an unsuccessful

for his

candidate for Governor of Maryland.

for

of the bar for forty years, and distinguished eloquence and wit.

was born in Schaghticoke, York, in August, 1815; set tled with his father in Morrisville, Madison County, in 1819, where he afterwards resided; received an academic education; studied law; came to the bar in 1841, prior to which date he spent five years as a Civil Engineer; was twice appointed Loan Commis sioner for Madison County, in 1848 and 1850; in 1851 was elected Judge and Surrogate for the same county, and re-elected in 1855 and 1859, serving until 1864, in 1864 was altogether a period of twelve years; elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Lands and Revolutionary Pensions.

Holmes, Sidney

T.;

New

Rensselaer County,

Holmes, Uriel graduated from Yale College in 1784; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1817 to 1818, when he resigned. Died in 1827. ;

Holsey, Hopkins; was born in Virginia in 1799; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia, from 1837 to 1839 subsequently edited the Athens Banner, and filled a large space in. the politics of Georgia. Died in Columbus, Georgia, March 31, 1859. ;

Hook, Enos was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1839 ;

to 1841.

E.; was born in Union Dis South Carolina; graduated at the Cambridge

Hooker, Charles trict,

Law School; settled at Jackson, Mississippi, in the practice of law; was elected District Attorney in 1850; in 1859 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature; resigned to enter the Confederate Army, in 1861; rose to the rank of Colonel; in 1865 was elected Attorney-General of Mississippi, and was re-elected in 1868 was elected a Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Fortysixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses. ;

Hooks, Charles was born in Bertie County, North Carolina; served for many years in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress during the years 1816 and 1817, and from 1819 to 1825; sub sequently removed to Alabama, where he died in ;

1851.

Hooper, Benjamin S.; was born in Bucking ham County, Virginia, March 6, 1835; received a common school education; engaged in mercantile

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

244

pursuits early in life, and continued it in connection with the manufacture of tobacco; was elected a Rep resentative from Virginia to the Forty-eighth Con gress.

Hooper, Samuel was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, February 3, 1808; received his educa tion in that town; spent four years in a countingroom in Boston; subsequently made repeated visits to Europe and the West Indies, attending to com mercial business; in 1832 settled finally in Boston as a merchant, chiefly engaged in the China trade, the last house of which he formed a part, having been long known as William Applcton & Co. in 1851 was elected to the State House of Representatives, served three years, and declined a re-election in 1857 was elected to the State Senate, and declined to serve a second term; in 1861 was elected a Representative from Massachusetts, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Appleton, in the Thirty-sev enth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means; in 1862 was re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the same Committee; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Ways and Means, Banking and Currency, and the War Debts of the Loyal States; in July, 1866, received from Howard University the de School of gree of Master of Arts, as founder of the was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Mines Loy alists Convention" of 1866; re-elected to the For ;

;

;

"

F.; was born in Washing York, April 22, 1829; received a good English education; removed to Wisconsin and engaged in general business pursuits; was Private Secretary to the Governor of Wisconsin for one term; was a member of both branches of the Legislature; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committees on Enrolled Bills and Public Lands. Died in Madison, January 3, 1870.

Hopkins, Benjamin

ton County,

New

Hopkins, Q-eorge "W.; was born in Goochland County, Virginia, February 22, 1804; was educated at the "old field schools" of that day, and for some years alternately taught school and studied law; dur ing the years 1833 and 1834 served in the House of Delegates; was elected a Representative in Congress in 1835, and was re-elected until 1847, serving dur ing one session as Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, after which he was appointed, by Presi dent Polk, Charge d Affaires of the United States to Portugal; on his return from Europe, in 1849, went a second time into the House of Delegates of Virginia, and was elected Speaker of the House: was subse quently elected a Judge of the Circuit Court; in 1857 was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Died March 2, 1861, at which time he was a member of the Virginia Legislature.

";

tieth, Forty-first, Forty-second,

and Forty -third Con Died in Wash-

gresses; declined a re-nomination.

ington, February 15, 1875.

Hooper, William was born in Boston, June 17, 1742; graduated at Harvard University in 1760; studied law and was admitted to the bar; in 1766 settled at Wilmington, North Carolina; in 1770 had the courage to instigate severe measures against three thousand Regulators in that State, which caused their dispersion; in 1773 was elected to the State Assem bly; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777, and signed the Declaration of In dependence; in 1776 was a member of the "Hillsborough and Halifax Convention"; in 1787 retired from public life. Died in October, 1790. ;

W.

Hooper, H.; was born in Cambridge, Dor chester County, Maryland, December 25, 1813; re ceived a common school education; was, for several years, a clerk in a store at Baltimore when seven teen years of age built a schooner; was, for some years, a merchant on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; emigrated to Illinois in 1835, from which time until 1849 he was engaged in mercantile pursuits and steamboating on the Mississippi; in 1850 removed to Utah; was a member of the Legislature, and Acting Secretary of the Territory; in 1859 entered the Thir ty-sixth Congress as a Delegate from the Territory of Utah; was re-elected a Delegate to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses; was re-elected to the two ;

succeeding Congresses.

Hopkins, James

C.; was born in Vermont; in 1870 Avas appointed United for the Western District of Wisconsin,

settled in Wisconsin

;

States Judge residing at Madison.

Hopkins, James Herron was born in Wasnington County, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1831 was educated at Washington College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Pittsburgh before he was of age; continued engaged in his profession so closely as to impair his health and compel him to visit Europe; a year after his return he retired from prac tice; engaged in banking, as President of the Penn sylvania Bank, and Director of other institutions of the kind; in 1872 was candidate for Congress for the State at Large; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress; was also elected Grand Master of Knight Templars in the United States in 1874; in December, 1875, was ap pointed Chairman of the Committee on the Centen nial; was also elected a Representative to the Forty-l ;

;

eighth Congress.

Hopkins, Moses Aaron was born, of slaves parents, in Montgomery County, Virginia, December 25, 1846; after the close of the Civil War, in 1865, went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and entered s night school; then took an academic course iul Avery College; in 1870 entered Lincoln University ir Chester County, Pennsylvania, graduating, in 1874. as Valedictorian of his class; then entered Auburt ;

;

Theological Seminary, in Cayuga County,

New York

from which he graduated with honor in 1877; wa, the first colored graduate from that institution;

j

th
,

House, John

F.; was born in Williamson Coun January 9, 1827; graduated at Leb School in 1850, and settled in Clarksville,

ty, Tennessee,

anon

Law

Tennessee, to practice law; Avas elected a member of the State Legislature in 1853; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; in 1861 was a member of the Pro visional Congress of Confederate States; entered the Southern Army and remained until the close of the war; was paroled at Columbus, Mississippi, soon after the surrender; was a member of the House of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty -fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Houseman, Julius was born at the village of Zeckendorf, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, December 8, 1832; received a common school educa tion, and a commercial training, in his native village; emigrated to the United States in 1851, settling at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1852; engaged in mer ;

cantile pursuits; filled several local positions, among them being those of Alderman and Mayor; was n, Representative in the State Legislature in 1871 and 1872; was defeated as a candidate for LieutenantGovernor in 1876; in that year retired from mercan tile business and engaged in the manufacture of lum ber; was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Houser, Samuel T.; was born in 1832; was an early settler in the Territory of Montana; became largely interested in mining, and was successful; settled at Helena, Montana; became President of the First National Bank of Helena; in July, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Governor of the Territory of Montana for the term of four years.

Houston, George

S.;

County, Tennessee, January

was born 17, 1811;

in Williamson removed, when

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. quite young, to the Fifth Congressional District of Alabama, where he was educated, and continued to reside: soon after attaining the age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar; was elected to the Alabama Legislature and served two sessions; was, for a time, Attorney for the State, or Solicitor; was a second time elected to the Legislature; was elected a Repre sentative to Congress in 1841, and continued to serve, by successive re-elections, until 1849, when he volun tarily retired, for the purpose of resuming the prac tice of law; was again elected to Congress, in 1851, and subsequently re-elected, serving on several of the leading Committees, and officiating, during the Thirty-fifth Congress, as Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary; during a former Congress acted as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means; was also a member of the Special Committee of Thirty- three; withdrew in February, 1861; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Con of 1866; was Governor of Alabama from vention 1874 to 1876; was elected United States Senator from Alabama for the term of six years from March 4, "

Died December

1879.

31, 1879.

Houston, James; was born

in

Maryland; was

liberally educated; adopted the profession of the law; in 1806 was appointed, by President Jefferson, United States Judge for the District of Maryland.

Houston, John was early distinguished in the Revolutionary movement, and was one of the four persons to call the first meeting of the Friends of Liberty, in 1774, at Savannah; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, and was a member of the first Naval Committee; would have signed the Declaration of Independence had he not been called home to counteract the influence of Dr. Zubly in opposition to it; was a member of the State Council in May, 1777; Governor of Georgia from 1778 to 1784; in 1787 was Commissioner for settling the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina; in 1792 was appointed first Judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Died in Savannah, July 20, 1796. He was the son of Sir Patrick Houston. ;

Houston, John W.; was born in Sussex County, Delaware; studied at Newark Academy, and gradu ated at Yale College in 1834; studied law with John M. Clayton, and was admitted to the bar in 1837; was Secretary of State in 1841 a Representative in Congress from Delaware from 1845 to 1851; in 1856 was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Dela ware was a Delegate to the Peace Congress of ;

;

1861.

Houston,

gubernatorial term, resigned his office, and went to take up his abode among the Cherokee Indians, in Arkansas; during his residence among the Indians, became acquainted with the frauds practiced upon them by the Government agents, and undertook a mission to Washington for the purpose of exposing them; in the execution of this project he met with little success; became involved in lawsuits, and re turned to his Indian friends; during a visit to Texas, was requested to allow his name to be used in the canvass for a Convention which was to meet to form a Constitution for Texas, prior to its admission into the Mexican Union; consented, and was unanimously elected; the Constitution drawn up by the Conven tion was rejected by Santa Anna, at that time in power, and the disaffection of the Texans, caused thereby, was still further heightened by a demand upon them to give up their arms; they determined upon resistance; a militia was organized, and Austin, the founder of the colony, was elected Commanderin-Chief, in which office he was shortly after suc ceeded by General Houston; he conducted the war with vigor, and finally brought it to a successful ter mination by the battle of San Jacinto, which was fought in April, 1836, in May, 1836 he signed a treaty acknowledging the independence of Texas, and in October of the same year was inaugurated the first President of the Republic; at the end of his term of office, as^the same person could not constitu tionally be elected President twice in succession, he became a member of the Texas Congress; in 1841, however, was again elevated to the Presidential chair; during the whole time that he held that office it was his favorite policy to effect the annexation of Texas to the United States, but he retired from office before the consummation of his wishes; in 1846 Texas became one of the States of the Union, and General Houston was elected to the United States Senate, of which body he remained a member until 1859, the close of the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committee on Indian Affairs; in 1859 was elected Governor of Texas; in a letter that he ad dressed to the compiler of this volume he said, in his characteristic manner, that he "had risen from a Ser geant up to President of a Republic, and down to a Senator of the United States. Died in Huntsville, Texas. July 25, 1863. His name was Sam not "

Samuel, as generally printed.

Houston, William

;

was a Delegate from Geor

gia to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787, and was a member of the Convention which formed the Federal Constitution, but did not sign the instru

ment.

Sam

;

was born in Rockbridge County,

March 2, 1793; lost his father when quite young, and his mother removed with her family to the banks of the Tennessee, at that time the limit of Virginia,

but a scanty education; passed the Cherokee Indians, and, in fact, through all his life seems to have held opinions with Rousseau, and retained a predilection for life in the wilderness; served for a time as clerk to a country trader, and taught school; in 1813 enlisted in the army and served under General Jackson in the war with the Creek Indians; distinguished himself on several occasions, and, at the conclu sion of the war, had risen to the rank of Lieu tenant, but soon resigned his commission and commenced the study of law at Nashville; it was about this time he began his political life; after holding several minor offices in Tennessee, he was, in 1823, elected to Congress, and continued a mem ber of that body until in 1827, he became Governor civilization; received

several years

247

among

of Tennessee; in 1829, before the expiration of his

Houston, "William C.; graduated at Princeton College in 1768; was a Professor of Mathematics in the same; was a Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1782, and again in 1784 and 1785. Died in 1788.

Hovey, AlvinP.; was

born in Mount Vernon,

Ohio, May 8, 1821 studied law and came to the bar in 1843; entered the volunteer service during the Rebellion as a Major; served with distinction as Colonel and Brigadier-General at Shiloh, Corinth, Champion Hill and Vicksburg, and was made a brevet Major-General; after the war resigned was appointed Minister Resident to Peru in 1866. ;

;

Howard, Benjamin; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1807 to 1810, when he was appointed Governor of Indiana Territory; was appointed Brigadier-General in the United States Army in 1813; was once Governor of Missouri Ter ritory.

1814.

Died at

St.

Louis, Missouri. September 18,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

2-18

Howard, Benjamin C.; was born in Maryland in 1791; graduated from Princeton College in 1809; commanded a volunteer company at the battle of was a Presidential Elector in North Point in 1814;

1828; was a Representative in Congress from Mary land from 1829 to 1833, and again from 1835 to 1839; from 1835 to 1850 was a General of Militia; was a Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1843 to 18(52; was Democratic candidate for Governor of Maryland in 1861; was of 1861 son Peace Congress also a Delegate, to the of John E. Howard. Died in Baltimore in 1872. "

"

;

and in this battle he one time the swords of seven officers who had surrendered to him personally; on this occasion he saved the life of the British Gen eral O Hara, whom he found clinging to his stirrup and asking quarter; when the army was disbanded he retired to his patrimonial estate near Baltimore; in 1787 was a Delegate to the Continental Congress; in 1788 was chosen Governor of Maryland, and held the office three years; was a Presidential Elector in 1792; a Senator of the United States from Maryland from 1796 to 1803, and was President pro 1cm. of the Senate in the Sixth Congress. Died October 12, first

time

war,

had

in

at

in the his hands

1827.

Howard, George; was became acting Governor

in

a native of Maryland; in 1832 was elected 183,J;

Governor of Maryland, remaining in office until 1833.

Howard, Henry was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, April 2, 1826; studied law and came to the bar in 1851; after practicing eight years, Avent into commercial business; served a number of years in the State Legislature; was a Delegate to the National ;

Convention of 1856, which nominated Fremont; was a Presidential Elector in 1872; in 1873, without solic iting the honor, was elected Governor of Rhode Is land, and re-elected in 1874; declined a re-nomina tion for 1875.

the State; twice re-elected, serving in all six years, in 1862 was elected a Senator in Congress, in place of K. S. Bingham, deceased, for the term ending in 1865, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and as a member of the Committees on Military Affairs, the Judiciary, and Private Land Claims; was re elected Senator for the term com mencing in 1865 and ending in 1871, serving on the Committees on Claims, Private Land Claims, the Li brary, the Special Joint Committee on the Rebellious States, and as Chairman of that on Ordnance; re ceived from Williams College, 1866, the degree of LL.D. was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyal of the same year. Died at Detroit, ists Convention April 2, 1871. As an author he published, in 1847, a translation from the French of the "Secret Memoirs He drew up the plat of the Empress Josephine." form of the first convention of the Republican party "

;

and

have given

is said to

it its

name.

Howard, John Eager; was in Baltimore County,

born June 4, 1752, Maryland; graduated at Prince

ton College; entered the army in 1776 as a Captain in the regiment of Colonel J. C. Hall in the following year was promoted; finally succeeded to the com mand of the Second Maryland Regiment; was an efficient coadjutor of Greene during the campaign of the South, distinguishing himself at the battle of Cowpens, when, said Lee, "He seized the critical moment, and turned the fortune of the day"; also at Guilford, and the Entaws; was in the engagement of ;

White Plains, Germantown, Monrnouth, Camden, and Hobkirk s Hill; having been trained to the infantry service, he was remarkably apt at charging into close with fixed bayonet; at Cowpens battle this mode of fighting was resorted to for the

born in Floyd County,

Howard, Robert laAv,

nence in his

M.; was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, July 10, 1805; was educated at the Acad emies of Bennington and Brattleborough, and at Williams College, where he graduated in 1830; studied law, and taught in an academy in Massachu setts for a time; removed to Michigan in 1833, and came to the bar of that Territory in 1833; in 1838 was a member of the Legislature of the State; from 1841 to 1843 was a Representative in Congress from Michigan; in 1854 was elected Attorney-General of

Gr.; Avas

r

studied

Howard, Jacob

in 1854,

Howard, Jonas

Indiana; removed to Jeffersonville, Clark County; Indiana; Avas educated at Asbury College, Greencastle, Indiana; "graduated in the laAv from the State University at Bloomington, Indiana, in 1851; en gaged in the practiceof laAv at Jeffersonville, Indiana; Avas elected a RepresentatiA e, to the State Legislature in 1862, and again in 1864; was a Presidential Elector in 1868, and again in 1876; was elected a RepresentatiA e from Indiana to the Forty-ninth Congress.

A.; was a citizen of Arkansas; and engaged in practice, attaining emi profession; in June, 1885, was appointed,

by President Cleveland, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States in the Department of Justice, at Washington.

Howard, Tilghman A. was born near ;

Pickens-

South Carolina, November 14, 1797; received a limited education, and commenced active life as a clerk in a store, and as a schoolmaster; removed to Tennessee and deA oted himself to the law; Avhen twenty-seven years of age was elected a member of the Tennessee Legislature; Avas a Jackson Elector in 1830; during that year removed to Indiana, and Avas appointed, by President Jackson, District Attorney for that State; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1839 to 1841; was appointed (.-liaise (P Affaires to Texas in 1844, in which Republic lie died, August 16, 1844.

ville,

r

E. was born in NorridgeMaine; studied laAv; emigrated to Mississippi, where he distinguished himself as an editor, and fought two duels, first Avith S. S. Prentiss, and next with Governor McNutt; emigrated to Texas; Avas elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1853.

Howard, Volney

;

Avock,

Howard, William; was born in Virginia; was elected a Representative from Ohio, to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. Howard, "William A.; was born in Vermont; graduated at Middlebury College in 1839; having taken up his residence in Michigan, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving on the Commit tee on Ways and Means; successfully contested the JB. Cooper, in 1860, and became a member of the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Select Committee of Thirty-three; in 18(51 Avas appointed, by President Lincoln, Postmaster at De troit; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists ConA entiorr of 18S6; in 1869 was appointed Minister to China, but defined the position; Avas Governor of Dakota from 1878 to 1880.

seat of G.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Howe, Albert sachusetts,

R.;

January

2,

was born in Brookfield, Mas 1840; was well educated:

served in the Forty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry as Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Acting Adjutant, par ticipating in the campaign in North Carolina; was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Fifth Mas sachusetts Cavalry; promoted to be Major, serving in Virginia and Texas until November, 1865; settled in Mississippi, on a cotton plantation, in 1865; was a member of the Mississippi State Convention in 1868 a Delegate to the Chicago National Convention in 1868; was appointed Treasurer of Panola County in 1869; was a member of the Legislature in 1870, 1871, and 1872; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims. ;

Howe, James H. was born ;

to Wisconsin

;

in 1873

in Maine; removed was appointed United States

Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, resid ing in Kenosha.

Howe, John "W.; was born in New Hampshire; having settled in Pennsylvania, was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from 1849 to 1853.

Howe, Thomas

M.; was born in Vermont; set tled in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative in Congress from 1851 to 1855; was for many years Cashier, and then President, of the of Pittsburg.

Exchange Bank,

Ho well, Edward

j

was a member of the New 1832; was a Repi esentative in Congress from that State, from 1833 to 1835.

York Assembly

;

in

Howell, Elias was born in New Jersey having taken up his residence in Ohio, was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from that State, from 1835 to ;

;

1837.

Howell, James B. was born

in New Jersey, 1816; removed to Newark, Licking County, Ohio, in 1819; graduated at Miami University in 1837; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1839; removed to Iowa in 1841, where he practiced law for several years; in 1845 purchased a paper and engaged in the newspaper business; removing to Keokuk in 1849. started the Daily Whig, afterwards the Daily Gate City; took a prominent part in or ganizing the Republican party in Iowa in 1855 and 1856; was a Delegate to the Fremont Convention in 1856; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. Grimes, in January, 1870; in 1871 was appointed a member of the Southern Claims Commission. ;

July

4,

Howell, Jeremiah B.; was a native of Rhode Island; graduated at Brown University in 1789; was a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island from 1811 to 1817. Died in 1822, aged fifty years. Howell, Nathaniel graduated at Princeton College in 1788; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1813 to 1815. Died at Canan;

Howe, Thomas

Y., Jr.; was a native of New York; was a Representative in Congress from that from 1851 to 1853. State,

Howe, Timothy

O.; was born in Livermore, Oxford County, Maine, February 7, 1816; received an academic education at the Readfield Seminary; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839; settled at Readfield; was elected to the Legislature of Maine in 1845; in the latter part of that year re moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin; was elected a Cir cuit Judge in that State, in 1850, holding the office until 1855, when he resigned; in 1861 was elected a Senator in Congress from Wisconsin, for the term ending in 1867, serving on the Committees on Fi nance, Commerce, Pensions and Claims, and as Chair man of the Committee on Enrolled Bills and of those on the Library and Claims, and subsequently on those on Appropriations and Revolutionary Claims; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention of 1866; in January, 1867, was reelected to the Senate for the term ending in 1873; and again for the term ending in 1879, serving as Chairman of the Committees on Claims and the Li brary of Congress; in January, 1882, was appointed Postmaster-General in the Cabinet of President Arthur. Died, suddenly, at Keuosha, Wisconsin, "

"

March

25, 1883.

Ho well, David

;

1,

Brown

University; practiced law in Providence, and

became eminent; was for some time Attorney-Gen eral of the State and Judge of the Supreme Court; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from

1782 to 1785; after the re-organization of the General Government, was appointed Commissioner to settle the Eastern Boundary of the United States; was sub sequently District Attorney; from 1812 to his death, was District Judge for Rhode Island; was a dis tinguished

Died July

classical 29, 1824.

York, October

16,

1851, aged eighty-

Howell, Richard was born in Delaware, 1754; practiced law; commanded a company of Grenadiers before the Revolutionary War; in 1775 was appointed Captain of the Second New Jersey Regiment; distin guished himself at Quebec; was promoted to Major in 1776, and commanded his regiment until 1779; was appointed Judge Advocate of the Army in 1782, but declined; resuming the practice of law, was Clerk of the Supreme Court from 1778 to 1793; was Governor from 1794 to 1801. Died at Trenton, New Jersey, April 28, 1802. ;

F.; was born in Michigan; York, from which State he was ap pointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Arizona.

Howell,

removed

to

"William

New

Howey, Benjamin F.; was born at Pleasant Meadows, Gloucester County, New Jersey, March 17, 1828; received an academic education in addition to the instruction of private tutors; at nineteen engaged in the grain and flour

the age of

commission

business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in 1855 re to Warren County, New Jersey, and engaged in the business of quarrying, and manufacturing, roofing and school slates; was a Captain in the Union Army in 1862 and 1863; was elected Sheriff in 1878; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the

moved

was born in New Jersey, Jan 1747; graduated at New Jersey College in 1766; removed to Rhode Island, and was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in 1796, and from 1790 to 1824 was Professor of Law in uary

New

daigua,

one years.

scholar and

political

writer.

Forty-eighth Congress.

Howland, Benjamin was ;

Island;

a native of

Rhode

in Congress from that State Died May 6, 1821.

was a Senator

from 1804 to 1809.

Howley, Richard was ;

a Delegate from Geor

gia to the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1781.

Hoyt, Henry Martyn was born at Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in June, 1830; re ceived a classical education, graduating from Wil liams College in 1849; studied law; was admitted to ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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the bar in 1853, and commenced practice at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Colonel and Brevet

Brigadier-General; was Judge of the Court of Com Pleas of Luzerne County in 1867; was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883; received the de gree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and from Lafayette College; upon the expiration of his gubernatorial term settled in Philadelphia in the practice of law.

mon

Hoyt, John P.; was born at Austinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, October 6, 1841; received an aca demic education; served in the Union Army during the greater part of the Civil War; studied law, and graduated from the Ohio State and Union Law Col lege in 1867; was admitted to the bar in the same year, and removed to Michigan, where he practiced law for nine years; was a Representative in the Mich igan Legislature in 1873 and 1875; was Speaker the latter term; in 1876 was appointed Secretary of Ari zona Territory, and in 1877 became Governor of that Territory; in 1878 was tendered the appointment of Governor of Idaho Territory, but declined it; in 1879 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, and was re-appointed in 1883.

Hoyt, John W.; was a resident of Wisconsin, where he was engaged in literary pursuits; was, for a time, a member of the Board of Railroad Commis sioners of the State of Wisconsin in 1878 was ap pointed, by President Hayes, Governor of the Terri tory of Wyoming for the term of four years. ;

was born in Virginia; Hubard, Edmund was a Representative in Congress from that State "W.;

from 1841

to 1847.

Hubbard, Asahel W.; was

born in Haddam, Connecticut, January 18, 1819; received a district school education; removed to Indiana in 1838, and taught school for a time; studied law, and came to the bar in 1841; in 1847 was elected to the Indiana Legislature, and served three years; in 1857 removed to Iowa, and was chosen Judge of the Fourth Judi cial District of that State; in 1862 was elected a Rep resentative from Iowa to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and of the Special Committee to visit the Indian Tribes of the West; re-elected to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Pub

Expenditures and Indian Affairs; also re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on his old Com lic

mittees.

Hubbard, Chester November

D.; was born in

Hamden,

removed, with his parents, to Western Pennsylvania in 1815; thence to Wheeling, Virginia, in 1819; graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1840; was engaged in the lumber, iron, and banking business; in 1852 and 1853 was a Connecticut,

25, 1814;

member of the Virginia Legislature; was a member of the "Richmond Convention of 1861; and also of the Wheeling Convention of the same year; served one term in the Senate of West Virginia, after its organization; was a Delegate to the Baltimore Con vention of 1864; was the Commissioner from West to the Soldiers National Virginia Cemetery; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thir ty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, and on Banking and Currency; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on old Committees and as Chairman of that on Interior De partment Expenses. "

"

"

"

"

Hubbard, David; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Alabama from 1839 to 1841, and for a second term from 1849 to 1851. Hubbard, Demas, Jr.; was born in Winfield, New York, January 17, 1806;

County of Herkimer,

received an academic education; was devoted to farm ing and the practice of law; was for many years Supervisor of Chenango County, and four years Chair man of the Board from 1838 to 1840 was a member of the State Legislature; in 1864 was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Con gress, serving on the Committee on the Post Office ;

and Post" Roads. tember 2, 1873.

Died

in

Smyrna,

New York

Sep

Hubbard, Henry; was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, May 3, 1784; graduated at Dart mouth

College in 1803; studied law, and commenced practice in Charlestown; entered early into public life; was frequently a member of the State Legisla ture, and for some years Speaker of the House; was Judge of Probate for Sullivan County from 1827 to 1829; was a Representative in Congress from 1829 to 1835, and a Senator in Congress from 1835 to 1841; was Governor of New Hampshire in 1842 and 1843; from 1846 to 1849 was United States Assistant Treas urer in Boston; for a part of the time during the Twenty-eighth Congress, he acted as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Died at Charlestown, New Hampshire, June 5, 1857.

Hubbard, John was ;

March

born in Readfield, Maine,

22, 1794; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1816; was a supporter of the Maine Liquor Law; taught at Hallo well Academy, Maine, for two years; and in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, two years; prac

ticed medicine in the latter place from 1822 to 1829; removed to Hallowell in 1830; was State Senator in

1842 and 1843; Governor of Maine from 1850 to 1853; agent for the United States Treasury for the New England States from 1857 to 1859, and from 1859 to 1861 a Commissioner under the Reciprocity Treaty with Great Britain; received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1822- and LL. D. from Wat College in 1851. Died at Hallowell,

February

6,

1869.

Hubbard, John H.; was born in Salisbury Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1805; received a,

good common school education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1826, and was a regular practitioner of his profession until live 1855; years was Attorney for the County of Litchfield was twice elected to the State Senate; in 1863 was elected a Representative from Connecticut to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Patents and Expenditures in the Post Office Depart ment; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress serving on the Committees on Roads and Canals and on Patents; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 1866. for"

Hubbard, Jonathan H.; was born in 1768was one of the most esteemed citizens of Vermont and was distinguished as a. jurist; was a Representa tive in Congress from 1809 to and for many 1811, years was one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Vermont. His death occurred where most of his s spent, at Windsor, Vermont, September 20,

Hubbard Levi; was a member of the Massa chusetts Legislature in 1804 and 1805: a State Sena tor in 1806, 1807, 1811, and 1816; was a tive from Congress Massachusetts from 1813 to

m

Repr^.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. for some years a County Treasurer; a State Counselor in 1829; a Presidential Elector in 1820 and

1815; 1828.

Hubbard, Lucius F.; was born in Troy, New York, January 26, 1836; was left an orphan at the age of three years; received an academic education; learned the trade of a tinsmith in 1854 removed to Chicago Illinois; in 1857 removed to Minnesota, and established the Republican newspaper, at Eed Wing; in 1858 was elected Register of Deeds, and served two years; in 1861 enlisted in the Union Army, and was made Lieutenant-Colonel; was promoted to a Col onelcy in 1862; took part in twenty -four battles, and was a Brigadier-General when mustered out of ser vice; returned to Red Wing, and engaged in the milling business; in 1872 was elected State Senator; was re-elected in 1874; in 1881 was elected Governor of Minnesota, for a term of three years; in 1884 was ;

re-elected.

Hubbard, Richard Bennet; was Walton County, Georgia, November

1,

horn

in

1832; received

a classical education, graduating from Mercer Uni versity, Georgia, in 1850; studied law at the Uni versity of Virginia, and at Harvard University, Mas sachusetts, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of LL. B. was admitted to the bar in 1853; immediately thereafter emigrated to ;

Texas and engaged in the practice of law; was a Deletrate to the Democratic National Convention of 1856; was United States District Attorney from 1856 to 1858; was Representative in the State Legislature in 1858; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1860; was a Colonel in the Confederate Army; in 1874 was President of the Democratic State Convention; in that year was elected LieutenantGovernor of Texas, and was ex-officio, President of the State Senate; in 1876, by election of Gov ernor Coke to the United States Senate, became Gov ernor of the State, serving as such until 1879; deliv ered the Centennial Address, on behalf of Texas, at Philadelphia, in 1876, by special designation; was a Delegate to the Democratic State and National Con ventions of 1880; in the latter seconding the nomina tion of. the successful candidate, and taking a prominent part in the proceedings of the Convention retired from active political life and engaged in de veloping the resources of the State; in April, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan. the"

;

Hubbard, Richard Dudley was ;

born at Ber

Connecticut, September 7, 1818; graduated from Yale College in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and engaged in the practice of law at Hartford, Connecticut; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1842, 1843, 1855, and 1858; was State s Attorney for Hartford County from 1864 to 1868; was elected a Representative from Connecti cut to the Fortieth Congress, and declined a re-nom ination was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1872; in 1876 was elected Governor of Connecti cut, and served two years; was re-nominated in 1878, but was defeated at the polls. Died at Hartford, Connecticut, February 28, 1884. lin,

;

Hubbard, Samuel Dickinson; was

born at Middletown, Connecticut, August 10, 1799; gradu in studied ated at Yale College law, but did 1819; not practice, devoting himself chiefly to the nianufacturingbusiness; served asa Representative through the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses; in 1852 was appointed Postmaster-General, and held the office until the close of President Fillmore s admin istration, after which he retired to private life; was

251

zealous in the cause of education, and assisted in the establishment of the City High School at Middletown. Died October 8, 1855.

Hubbard, Thomas

H.; was a native of

New

Haven, Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College in 1798; studied law; settled at Hamilton, in

Madi

son County, New York, and was there Surrogate for ten years; in 1823 removed to Utica; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New York, from 1817 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1823; was Presidential Elector

and 1852. Died in Utica, in_1812, 1844, 1857, aged seventy-six years.

May

22,

Edwin N.; was born in Coxsackle, York, August 13, 1815; received an academic education; was chiefly devoted to the pursuits of manufacturing and farming; held, for a time, the office of County Supervisor; in 1864 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Manufac tures, Expenditures in the War Department, and Free Schools in the District of Columbia. Hubbell,

New

Hubbell, James R.; was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1824; received an ordinary educa tion; adopted the profession of the law; served four times in the State Legislature, twice as Speaker of the House; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; in 1834 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the War Department and Agriculture; was a Dele of gate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention "

"

1866.

Hubbell, Jay A.; was born in Avon, Michigan, September 15, 1829; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1853; was admitted to the bar in 1855; removed to Ontonagon, Michigan, in 1855; was elected District Attorney of the Upper Peninsula in 1857 and 1859; removed to Houghton in 1860; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1861, 1863, and 1865; was engaged in the practice of law until 1870; was elected to the forty-third Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Banking and Currency, District of Columbia, and Mines and Mining: was re-elected to the Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; de clined a further re-nomination.

Hubbell, Sidney A.; was born in Connecticut; New Mexico; was appointed an Associ

emigrated to

ate Justice of the United States Court for that Terri tory, residing at Santa Fe.

Hubbell, William S.; was born in New York; was a member of the Assembly of that State in 1841 was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845. ;

Hubbs, Orlando was born

in New York, Feb a good education; settled at Newberne, North Carolina; was elected a Repre sentative from North Carolina to the Forty-seventh ;

ruary

18, 1840; received

Congress.

Hubley, Edward B.; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1835 to 1839. Died February

23, 1856, in Philadelphia.

Hudd, Thomas

R.; was born at Buffalo, New 2, 1835; removed to Wisconsin in and settled in 1853, Appleton, from whence, in 1868, he removed to Green Bay; was educated in the com mon schools, printing office and Lawrence Univers ity; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and en gaged in the practice of law; was District Attorney oi Outagamie County, Wisconsin, in 1856 and 1857-

York, October

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

252

was City Attorney of Green Bay in 1873 and 1874 was State Senator from the Twenty-second District Assem in 1862 and 1863; was a member of the State State Senator in 1876, bly in 1868 and 1875; was a Delegate to the Demo 1877, 1878, and 1871); was was again a cratic National Convention in 1880; State Senator in 1882 and 1883, and was re-electe was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the :

to rill the va Forty-ninth Congress as a Democrat, Honorable Joseph cancy caused by the death of 1886. Rahkin, and took his seat March 8,

Hudson, Charles

was born in Marlborough.

;

his youth Massachusetts, November 14, 1795; passed as a student in a village school, and also as a teacher, and at the age of twenty-one was a day laborer on a of the Unifarm; in 1819 was licensed as a preacher versalist persuasion; was a member of the Massachu setts Legislature from 1828 to 1833; a State Senator from 1833 to 1839; a State Counselor from 1839 to in 1841, where he re 1841; was elected to Congress mained until 1849; was subsequently appointed Naval Officer for Boston, Massachusetts, by the Fed eral Government, serving from 1849 to 1853; in 1864 was Assessor of Internal Revenue at Lexington, Massachusetts.

Hudson, Silas A.; was a citizen of Iowa; in 1869 was appointed Minister Resident to Guatemala, where he remained until 1872. Hufty, Jacob; was a Representative from

New

in Congress

Jersey from 1809 to 1814

was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1799 to 1805, and for a second term from 1815 to 1817.

Huger, Benjamin

;

Huger, Daniel; was a member of the Conti nental Congress; was a Representative in the Con gress of the United States from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793.

Huger, Daniel Elliot ; was a citizen of Charles ton, South Carolina; graduated at Princeton College in 1798; for nearly half a century was identified with the public service of his State as a member of the Legislature, State Senate, and Judge of her Courts; was a Senator in Congress from South Carolina from 1843 to 1846. Died in Charleston in August, 1854.

in

Hughes, Charles; was born in Georgia; New York; was elected a Representative

settled in

Con

gress from that State from 1853 to 1855; iu 1862 was appointed Provost-Marshal for the Sixteenth District

of

New

York.

Hughes, Christopher; was a native of Mary land; was a man of education and culture, and held the following diplomatic appointments: Secretary of Legation to England in 1814; same to Sweden and Norway in 1816; acted as Charge d? Affaires in 1817, and commissioned as such in 1819; from 1825 to 1830 Cliarge (V Affaires to the Netherlands, with spe cial instructions to Denmark; from 1830 to 1840 was

Charge d Affaires to Sweden and Norway; re-commis sioned in 1842; returned to this country in 1845. j

Died in Baltimore, September

18, 1849.

born in New York West Point Academy,

Hughes, George W.; was in 1806;

was educated

at the

where he graduated in 1827; adopted the profession of civil engineer, and was employed as such for some years in New York; in 1830 was appointed a Civil Engineer in the General Government, in which posi tion he remained until 1838, when he was trans ferred to the Corp.? of Topographical Engineers in the

Regular Army; resigned in 1851, and was made President of the Northern Central Railroad; in 159 was elected a Representative from Maryland to the to perfect Thirty -sixth Congress; visited Europe himself in his studies; helped to locate the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama; served with distinc tion in the War with Mexico, receiving Died at West River, Maryland, in 1870.

two brevets.

Hughes, James was born at Hampstead, Mary;

at the State 24, 1823; was educated the practice of law at University of Indiana; began First Bloomington, Indiana, in 1842; was appointed Lieutenant of the Sixteenth Regiment of United States Infantry, one of the ten regiments in the Mex ican War, and served until the close of the war; then returned to the practice of law iu Bloomington in 1852 was elected Circuit Judge for six years; in 1853 was elected Professor of Law in the University of a Rep Indiana, and served three years; was elected resentative from Indiana in the Thirty-fifth Con Ter on of the Committee gress, serving as a member President Bu ritories; in 1861 was appointed, by which posi chanan, a Judge of the Court of Claims, tion he resigned in 1865; in May, 1866, was appointed, by President Johnson, a Cotton Agent for the Treas ury Department; subsequently settled in Washington afterwards City as an Attorney-at-law, but was soon elected to the Legislature of Indiana.

laud,

November

;

Hughes, James M.; was wa^ a Representative

a native of Kentucky; from Missouri from

in Congress

1843 to 1845.

Hughes, Robert W.; was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, June 6, 1821; was chiefly educated at the Caldwell Institute, North Carolina; was, for a time, a tutor in the Bingham High School; studied law and came to the bar in 1846, locating in Rich mond; from 1853 until 1857 was the editor of the Richmond Examiner; wrote for two years for the Washington Union; attended the Charleston Conven tion of 1860; subsequently wrote for the Republic and State Journal in Richmond; in 1873 was the Republi can candidate for Governor of Virginia, but not elected; in 1874 was appointed United States Dis trict Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia; was the author of two biographies of Secretary of War John B. Floyd, and of General Joseph E. Johnston; in 1879 published a popular treatise on the currency question, which was commended by the Comptroller of the Currency; between the years 1877 and 1882 published five volumes of Reports of Decisions in United States Courts of the Fourth Judicial Circuit; the third of these Reports contains the decision of Judge Hughes in the famous case of the Arlington estate, which decision was sustained by the United States

Supreme

Court.

Hughes, Simon P.; was born in Tennessee in 1830; attended school and college in his native Slate until 1849, at which time he went to Arkansas, set tling in Monroe County; was Sheriff oi Monroe County in 1854 and 1855; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and entered upon the practice of law; in 1861 entered the Confederate Army as a Cap tain; soon after became a Lieutenant-Colonel; on the re-organization of his regiment was left out, and reentered the service as a private soldier; served throughout the war; was a Representative in the State Legislature of Arkansas in 1866 and 1867; in 1874 was elected a Delegate to the State Constitu tional Convention; in the same year was elected Att >rney-General of Arkansas, in which office he served two years; in 1884 was elected Governor of Arkansas for the term of two years, and in 1886 was re-noininated by acclamation, and re-elected.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Hughes, Thomas H.; was New Jersey from

Congress from

a Representative in 1829 to 1833.

Hughston, Jonas A.; was born was a Representative from

in

New York;

that State to the Thirty-

fourth Congress; in 1845 was District Attorney for Delaware County was subsequently Marshal of Shanghai, China, where he died in 1862. ;

Hugunin, Daniel, Jr.; was born in Montgomery New York; was distinguished as an officer

County,

war of 1812, and participated in the stirring events on the Niagara frontier, -and the battle of Queenstown, with General Scott, where he was taken prisoner; was a member of Congress from New York from 1825 to 1827; a member of the New York Legis lature, and at a later period United States Marshal for the Territory of Wisconsin, under an appointment from President Harrison. Died at Kenosha, Wiscon in the

sin,

June, 1850, aged fifty-nine years.

John "W.; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1814 to 1817, hav ing succeeded Daniel Dewey, resigned. Hulbert,

Hulburd, Calvin

T.; was born in Stockholm, Lawrence County, New York, June 5, 1809; graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1829; read law at Yale College; adopted the occupation of farming; was a member of the State Legislature from 1842 to 1844, and again in 1862; in the latter year was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Commit tee on Agriculture, and as Chairman of the Commit tee on Public Expenditures; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Library, and as Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures, and also of that on the Custom House Frauds in New York; was re-elected to the Foitieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Re construction; in 1867 received, from Hamilton Col lege, the degree of LL.D. St.

Hulburd, Hiland R.; was appointed Deputy Comptroller of the Currency in 1865, and in 1867 was made Comptroller, remaining in office until

Humphrey, Charles; was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, about 1712; was brought up in the milling business, in which he was long and exten sively engaged; was a patriot of the Revolution; a member of the Provincial Assembly from 1764 to 1774, and a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776; although he opposed the measures of Great Britain, he voted against the Declaration of Independence. Died in Haverford in 1786.

Humphrey, Herman L..; was born at Candor, New York, March 14, 1830: received a common school and academic education; became a merchant s clerk; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854; removed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and commenced practice in 1855; was appointed District Attorney; in 1860 was appointed County Judge, to fill a vacancy, and in 1861 was elected to the same office for a full term; was elected State Senator, and resigned the Judgeship in 1862; was Mayor of Hudson one year; was Circuit Judge from 1867 to 1877; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Humphrey,

James; was born inFairfield, Con necticut, October 9, 1811; in 1831 graduated at Amherst College, of which his father, Rev. Heman Humphrey, was for many years President; in 1832 had charge of Plainfield Academy, Connecticut ; studied law and commenced practice in Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained only one year; in 1838 removed to the City of New York, where he practiced his profession; in 1858 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and of the Select Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebellious States; was re-elected to the Thirty -ninth Congress; during the summer of 1865 visited Europe on a tour of pleasure; in the Thirty -ninth Congress served on the Committee on Commerce, and as Chair man of the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department. Died in Brooklyn, New York, June 16, 1866.

Humphrey, J. M.; was born in Holland, Erie New York, September 21, 1819; received a

County,

1872.

Noble

A.; was born in Camden County, Georgia, March 11, 1827; was educated in his native county and at Savannah; became a merchant; re

Hull,

moved

to Florida; Florida Legislature Confederate Army tenant-Governor of

Representative Congress.

Hull,

June came

253

was

a

Representative in

the

and 1861 served in the as Captain; was elected Lieu Florida in 1876; was elected a from Florida to the Forty-sixth

"William

;

in 1860

;

was born in Derby, Connecticut,

24, 1753; graduated at Yale College in 1772; to the bar in 1775, but soon entered the Revo

lutionary Army as a Captain; was rapidly promoted, and became Inspector of the Army under Baron Steuben; was present at the battles of White Plains,

Trenton, Princeton, Stillwater, Saratoga,

and Stony Point, and

Monmouth

Morrisiana received the thanks of Washington; two years after his surrender to the British at Detroit was tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot, but on ac count of his age and public services the sentence was remitted by President Madison, by whom he had been made Commander-in-Chief it is now agreed among historians that his reasons for giving up De troit to the British General Brock were not cowardice or disloyalty; in 1824 he published a series of letters Died at Newtown, Massa in vindication of himself. for his services at

;

chusetts,

November

29, 1625.

common school education; adopted the profession of law; was District Attorney for Erie County in 1857, 1858, and 1859; was a member of the State Senate from 1863 to 1865; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce and the Special Com mittee on the Civil Service; in 1865 was President of the "Democratic State Convention"; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the additional Committee on Expenditures in the State Depart ment.

Humphrey, Reuben; was, for four years, aSenator in the Legislature of New York from Onondaga County; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1807 to 1809. Humphreys, Andrew; was elected a Repre sentative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James D. Williams, serving from December, 1876, to March, 1877. Humphreys, Charles; was a Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

Humphreys, David was born in Derby, Con necticut, in 1753; educated at Yale College; in 1780 became a Colonel and Aid-de-camp to Washington, ;

with

whom

he resided for a considerable time; in

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

254

1784 accompanied Thomas Jefferson to Europe as Secretary of Legation; in 1786 was elected to the Legislature of Connecticut; was Minister to Portugal in 1791; to Algiers in 1793, and to Spain in 1796; commanded two Connecticut Regiments in the War of 1812; acquired considerable fame as a writer, es pecially of poetry, and a collection of his writings was published in New York in 1804. Died in New

Haven, February

21, 1818.

Humphreys, David. C.; was born in Alabama; was appointed, by President Grant, from that State one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the District of Columbia.

Humphreys, Jacob; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1821. Humphreys, Perry W.; was in Congress

a Representative from Tennessee from 1813 to 1815.

Humphries, Benjamin

G-.;

was Governor of

Mississippi from 1866 to 1868.

Hung-erford, John N.; was born at Vernon, Oneida County, New York, December 31, 1825; grad uated at Hamilton College in 1846; became a banker in 1848, and continued in that vocation; was a Dele gate to the National Republican Convention of 1872; was elected a Representative from New York to the Died at Corning, New York, Forty-fifth Congress. April

2,

was born

in 1769; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia from 1813 to 1817; BrigadierGeneral of Virginia Militia on the Potomac in 1814; commanding in support of Commodore Porter s artil lery at the "White House," in September of that Died at Twiford, Westmoreland County, Vir year. officer

ginia,

P.;

of the Revolution

December

;

21, 1833.

Hungerford, Orville

;

was born

in Connecticut

was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1843 to 1847. Died at Watertown. April

in 1790; 1855.

6,

Hunt, Carleton; was born at New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1, 1836; graduated from Harvard College in 1856; received the degree of A.M. from that institution in 1859; received the degree of LL.B. from the Law Department of the University of Louisi ana in 1858, and was admitted to the bar in that year; in 1860 was a member of the Convention of the Constitutional Union Party at Baton Rouge, Louisi ana; served as an officer in the Confederate Army; was State Administrator of the University of Louisi ana in 1866; later was appointed, by the State Su preme Court, a member of the Committee to examine applicants for admission to the bar; in 1878 was Chairman of the Committee to organize the American Bar Association, and after organization, was Chair man of the Committee on Legal Education; in 1872 and 1879 was a member of the Democratic State Con ventions of those years; in 1879 was Professor of Civil Law in the University of Louisiana; in 1880 was made Doctor of Laws by the same University; was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Fortyeighth Congress. Hunt, Hiram P.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1843. Hunt, James B.; was a native of New York, and many years law partner with Michael Hoffman

for

removed

15, 1857,

aged

fifty -eight years.

Hunt, Jonathan

was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807; represented the State of Vermont in Congress from 1827 to 1832, serving on the Committee on Public Lands. Died at Washington, May 14, of the latter year. ;

Hunt, Samuel was a Representative in Congress ;

New Hampshire from 1802 to 1805. Hunt, Theodore G.; was born in South Carolina;

from

was a Representative in the Thirty-third Congress from Louisiana.

Ward

was born in Utica, New York, always resided in his native place; graduated at Union College in 1828; turning his at tention to law, attended the law lectures of Judge Gould at Litchneld, Connecticut; in 1838 was elected a member of the Assembly, and was re-elected in 1839; in 1844 was elected Mayor of Utica; in 1865 was elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, which position he held until 1872, when he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; received from Union Col lege and Rutgers College the degree of Doctor of Laws. Died March 24, 1886.

Hunt,

June

;

14, 1810;

1883.

Hungerford, John

an

into the Union, and was soon called to responsible public trusts; was a member of Congress from Michi gan from 1843 to 1847. Died in Washington, August

;

to

Michigan about the time of

its

admission

Hunt, Washing-ton; was born

at

Windham,

New York, August 5, 1811; at the age of eighteen entered upon, the study of law, and was admitted to the bar at Lockportiu 1834; in 1836 was appointed first Judge of Niagara County; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1849, serving during his last term as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce; in 1849 was elected Comptroller of Greene County,

New York, and in 1850 Governor of the State; was temporary Chairman of the last "Whig National Convention" ever held, in 1856; in 1860 was tend ered the nomination for the office of Vice-Presi dent, but declined; after that time lived in retire ment upon a farm near Lockport, dividing his atten tion between his friends, his books, and the pursuits of agriculture was a Delegate to the Chicago Con vention in 1864, and to the Philadelphia National Union Convention" of 1866. Died in New York City, February 2, 1867. ;

"

"

Hunt, William H; was born at Charleston, South Carolina, June 12, 1824; (his mother was Lou isa Gaillard, of a Huguenot family, sister of the Hon. John Gaillard, who was, for more than eighteen years, a United States Senator from South Carolina, serving, the greater portion of the time, as President pro iem. of the Senate; his father, Thomas Hunt, was a lawyer and planter in the same State, to which he removed, in early life, from the Bahama Islands,

where his ancestors,

for several generations, had alternately, the offices of Governor and Chief Justice of those possessions) he received a classical education, chiefly at Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Connecticut; was, for several years, a student in Yale College, but left before graduating; com menced the study of law at the Yale Law School, and finished it in his brother s office in New Orleans; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and engaged in practice at New Orleans; was Acting Professor and Lecturer on Commercial and Criminal Law in the University of Louisiana in 1865 and 1866; in 1876 was appointed Attorney-General of Louisiana, to fill a vacancy, and was subsequently elected to that office, serving until April, 1877; in 1878 was apfilled,

;

.

BIOGRAPHICAL a Judge of the United pointed, by President Hayes, States Court of Claims; resigned in 1881, to become President Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of .Garfield declined the appointment of United States Circuit Judge tendered him by President Hayes; in May, 1882, resigned his post in the Cabinet to accept the appointment of Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary of the United States to Kussia. Died at his post, February 27, 1884. ;

Hunter, John; was a

Representative in Congress

from South Carolina from 1793 to 1795, and a Sena tor in Congress from that State from 1795 to 1796.

Hunter, John "W.; was born in the village of Bedford, Kings County, New York (now within the limits of the city of Brooklyn), October 15, 1807; after devoting himself in various ways to measures which looked to the progress and advancemeiit-of his native city, became identified with the New York Custom House as clerk in 1831, and in 1837 as As sistant Auditor, in which position he continued until his resignation in 1865; in 1864 his name was forged to two checks for six thousand six hundred dollars, and four thousand two hundred dollars, on the As sistant Treasurer of New York, and although a suit was instituted by that officer, the entire innocence of Mr. Hunter was triumphantly vindicated, and the Treasurer not only acknowledged his error in the ex premises, but out of his own pocket paid all the of the penses of the trial; this was considered one most remarkable cases of the kind on record, and only tended to brighten the fair fame of the tempo rary victim; in 1865 accepted the position of Secre in 1866 tary of a Banking Institution in Brooklyn was elected, by a large majority, a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress, in the the place of James Humphrey, deceased, serving on Committees on Commerce, Banking and Currency, and Expenses in the Navy Department.

A.

Hunter, Morton

O.;

was born

in Versailles, ;

;

Forty-fifth Congress.

Hunter, Naisworthy ; was a Delegate in Con gress from the Territory of Mississippi from 1801 to Died March 11, 1802. 1802. Hunter, Robert M. T.; was born in Essex County, Virginia, April 21, 1809; was educated at the University of Virginia; adopted the profession of the law, and came to the bar in 1830; served three years in the State Legislature; was first elected a Representative in Congress from his native State in 1837, when he served two terms; was again elected in 1845, officiating during the Twenty-sixth Congress as Speaker; in 1847 was elected a Senator in Congress for a long term, and re-elected for the term ending in serving as Finance, and as a 1859,

Chairman of the Committee on member of the Committees on the

235

.

Library, and on the Pacific Railroad; was re-elected to the Senate in 1859, for another term, but was ex as pelled, July, 1861; took part in the Rebellion Secretary of State, and a member of Congress in the Confederate Government; after the Rebellion was ar rested as a prisoner of State, but was released on his parole; in 1867 was pardoned by President Johnson.

was a native of Virginia; was appointed Fourth Auditor of the Treas ury, which position he held until 1861.

Hunter, Taliaferro

;

in 1860

Hunter, "William was a member of the State in Legislature in 1807 and 1809; a State Counselor in Con 1809, 1814, and 1815; was a Representative ;

gress from

Vermont from 1817

to 1819.

Hunter, William was born in Newport, Rhode Uni Island, November 23, 1775; graduated at Brown went to London and studied medi versity in 1791 and entered at the cine, but soon changed to the law, Inner Temple in London on his return to Newport, of twenty-one, was admitted to the bar; in at the ;

;

;

age 1799 was a Representative in the General Assembly of Rhode Island, and re-elected at different periods from that time to the year 1811, when he was chosen a Senator in Congress, and held his seat until 1821 his speeches, especially those on the acquisition of Florida, and the Missouri Compromise, won him a high reputation as a sagacious statesman and a finished orator; in 1824 was Charge, d Affaires to Brazil, an office which was, in 1842, raised to a full mission, and he was continued as Minister until ;

1845,

when he

Newport

;

went Ripley County, Indiana, February 5, 1825 through a scientific course of studies in the Indiana State University; studied law and graduated as a lawyer at the above institution in 1858 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1860 was a Presidential Elector; in 1852 raised the Eighty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and as Colonel commanded it until the fall of Atlanta in 1864; also had command of a brigade under General Sherman in his march to the sea, and continued with the Fourteenth Army Corps until its arrival in Washington; in March, 1865, was brevetted a Brigadier-General; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Ter ritories and Mines and Mining; elected to the Fortythird and Forty-fourth Congresses; re-elected to the

NNAL8

3,

retired from public life; resided at until his death, which occurred December

1849.

Hunter, "William; was born in Newport, Rhode Island, November 8, 1805; was the son of the former Senator bearing the same name; in his fifteenth year entered the Military Academy at West Point as a Cadet, but after two years was obliged to resign on account of an affection of the eyes; subsequently re sumed study in his father s office and prepared him self for the legal profession, devoting special atten tion to the French and Spanish languages; in 1826 was admitted to the bar in New Orleans, where he had long intended to locate; in 1827 was attacked by the yellow fever, and returned to Newport to recruit his health; practiced law in Providence until 1829, when various circumstances induced him to accept a clerkship in the Department of State at Washington, acting chiefly as a translator; in 1852 was made Chief Clerk by Daniel Webster; in 1853 was offered the position of First Assistant Secretary, but de clined in 1866 was appoi nted Second Assistant Sec retary of the Department, in which he continued until his death July 22, 1886. ;

F.; was born in Alexandria, 1808; had few educational advantages; practiced the trade of a cabinet-maker until 1840; having studied law, removed to Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1853, after which he devoted himself to his profession.

Hunter,

Virginia,

"William

December

10,

Hunter, "William H. was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1837 to 1839. ;

Huntingdon, Abel ; was born in Norwich, Con necticut; at an early age removed to East Hampton, Long Island, and for sixty years was a practicing phvsician; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1833 to 1837; was Collector of Sag Harbor under President Polk; member of the New York Constitutional Convention of 1846. Died at "

"

East Hampton,

May

18, 1858,

aged eighty-two years.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

256

Huntington, Benjamin was a native of Nor wich. Connecticut: graduated at Yale College in 1701; was a member of practiced law in his native town; the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1784, and also from 1787 to 1788; a Representative in Congress under the Constitution from 1790 to 1791; was a Judge of the Superior Court of the State from 1793 to 1798; was Mayor of Norwich for twelve years; received from Dartmouth College the degree of LL.B. Died

Governor from 1808 to 1810; member of the Legis lature in 1811 and 1812; District Paymaster in the war of 1812, with rank of Colonel. Died in Paines ville, Ohio, June 8, 1817.

in 1800.

Virginia,

;

Huntington, Ebenezer; was born

in

Norwich,

Connecticut, December 26, 1754; graduated at Yale as a College in 1775; joined the army the same year volunteer; was soon commissioned as a Lieutenant;

was appointed a Captain, and also Deputy Lieu Adjutant-General; in 1777 a Major; in 1779 a tenant-Colonel; was present at the surrender of Coruto Congress wallis, at Yorktown was twice elected from Connecticut, serving from 1810 to 1811, and again from 1817 to 1819; in 1799 he was, at the recommendation of "Washington, appointed a Brig adier-General in the army raised by Congress when expectations were entertained of a war with France: he was one of the most efficient officers in the army. in 1776

;

Died June

Land

in

New York;

was appointed Commissioner of the General

Office,

holding the position until 1842.

was an emigrant from New and about the year 1844 was appointed United States Judge for the District of In

Huntington, E. M.

England

;

to Indiana,

diana, residing at Terre Haute.

Huntington, Jabez W.; was born

in Norwich,

Connecticut, November 8, 1788; graduated at Yale College in 1806; studied law at Litchrield, and com menced to practice there, where he remained thirty years; in 1828 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1829 was a Representative in Congress, which office he rilled until 1834, when he removed to Nor wich became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Er rors, and was chosen a Judge of the Superior Court of his State: was a Senator in Congress from 1840 until his death, which occurred at Norwich, Novem ;

ber

1,

1847.

Fu rtington,

Samuel; was

born in Windham, 1732; although not liberally educated, he acquired a knowledge of law and early came to the bar; settled in Norwich and became emi nent in his profession; in 1764 was elected to the General Assembly of the State; in 1765 was appointed King s Attorney; in 1774 was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court; in 1775 elected to the Council; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of the Articles of Confederation; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1767 to 1784, serving as President in 1779; in 1784 was appointed Chief Justice; was Governor of the State o( Connecticut from 1786 to 1796. Died January 5, in the latter

Con

lecticut,

July

;

Hunton, Eppa; was

born in Fauquier County, September 23, 1823; studied and practiced law: was State Attorney for tha county of Prince William from 1849 to 1862; was elected to the State Convention in 1861; entered the Confederate Army as Colonel of the Eighth Virginia Infantry; was pro moted after the battle of Gettysburg, and served through the war as Brigadier-General; was captured at Sailor s Creek, in 1865, and imprisoned in Fort Warren; was elected to the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses, serving on the Committees on Military Affairs and Monuments: in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Revo lutionary Pensions; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses.

Hunton, Jonathan

G.; was born at Unity, Hampshire, in 1781; was Governor of Maine in Died in Fairrield, Maine, October 1830 and 1831.

New

17, 1834.

Huntington, Elisha M.; was born in 1841

Huntington, Samuel was a Judge of the United States Court for the Territory of Michigan.

3,

year.

Huntington, Samuel was born in Coventry, Connecticut, October 4, 1765; was educated by his nncle, Governor Samuel Huntington, of Windham, Connecticut, and graduated at Yale College in 1785; was admitted to the bar in 1793; removed to Ohio in 1800 and settled near Painesville; was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1802 and 1803; member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the State in 1802; a Senator in the first Legislature and chosen Speaker; a Judge of the Superior Court, ap pointed April 2, 1803; afterwards Chief Justice; ;

14, 1851.

Huntsman, Adam; was was a Representative from 1835 to 1837.

a native of Virginia; from Tennessee

in Congress

Kurd, Frank Hunt

;

was born at Mount Ver-

non, Ohio, December 25, 1841; graduated at Kenyon College in 1858; adopted the profession of the law; was made a County Prosecuting Attorney in 1863; a State Senator in 1H66; codified the Criminal Code of Ohio in 1868, which was duly published: in 1874 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the FortyIburth Congress; was also elected to the Fortysixth and Forty -eighth Congresses.

Hurlbut, Stephen A.; was born in Charleston, South Carolina, November 29, 1815; liberally edu cated; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837; removed to Illinois, settling at Belvidere; was elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1847; wag a Presidential Elector in 1848; a member of the Legislature in 1859, 1861, and 1867; Presidential Elector in 1868; appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers in 1861 commanded the Fourth Division at Pittsburg Landing, in 1862; was promoted MajorGeneral in 1862; assigned to the commands of the Sixteenth Army Corps at Memphis, and of the De partment of the Gulf in 1864; was Minister Resident to the United States of Columbia from 1869 to 1872: was elected a Representative from Illinois to the ;

Forty-third Congress, and re-elected to the Fortyfourth Congress, serving on the Committees on Rail ways and Canals, Civil Service and Mississippi Levees; in 1881 was app .ited Minister Plenipoten tiary to Peru.

Died at his post April

Hutchins, John; was born

3,

1882.

Vienna Township. Ti umbull County, Ohio, July 25, 1812; was chiefly educated by private tutors, although he spent one year at the Western Reserve College.; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837; in 1838 was in

appointed Olerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Trumbull County, holding the position five years: in 1849 was elected to the Ohio Legislature; served a number 6f years as a Bank Director; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Claims; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh COD

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. serving as Chairman of the Committee on Manufactures; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia

gress,

"Loyalists

of 1866.

Convention"

was born at Brooklyn, Con necticut, in 1823; graduated at Amherst College; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and com menced practice in New York City; was a member of the State House of Representatives of New York in 1852, and of the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth, Forty -seventh, and Forty-eighth

Hutchins,

"Waldo

;

Congresses.

Hutchins, "Wells A.; was born in Hartford, Trumbull County, Ohio, Octobers, 1818; received.a

common school education taught school for several years in Ohio and Indiana; studied law, and came to the bar in his twenty-third year; was elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1851 in 1862 was appointed one of the six Provost- Marshals for Ohio; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth Con gress, serving on the Committee on Commerce. ;

;

Hutson, Richard; graduated at Princeton Col lege in 1765; was a Delegate from South Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779, and was one of the signers of the Articles of Confedera tion.

Hutton, John

B.;

was elected a Representative

from Missouri to the Forty-ninth Congress. in New York; having citizen of New Jersey, was elected a Repre sentative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from that State,

Huyler, John; was born

become a

and was a member of the Committee on Agriculture. Died in New York, January 9, 1870. B.; was born in Guilford, New York, 1838; received his education at Oberliu College, Ohio; studied law, and came to the bar in the spring of 1861, at St. Paul, Minnesota; entered the Union Army in a Minnesota Cavalry regiment in 18(52; removed to Missouri in 1866, and engaged in the practice of law; was appointed Secretary and At torney of a railroad in 1868; was Prosecuting Attor ney in 1872; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Elections.

Hyde, Ira

January

18,

Hyman, John Adams

was born in Warren North Carolina, of slave parents, July 23, 1840; was self-educated, and after his emancipation, in 1865, was engaged in mercantile pursuits; in the year last named became a member of the Board of Education for Warren County; was a member of the Equal Rights Convention of 1866; of the State Con stitutional Convention of 1868; served in the State Legislature from 1868 to 1874; was elected a Repre sentative from North Carolina to the Forty-fourth Congress; was Vice-President of the State Council of the Union League during its existence in North Car olina, and a Delegate to numerous Republican State Conventions.

M.; was a member of the Leg

islature of Pennsylvania in 1809; was a Representa tive in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813, when he resigned, and D. Udree was elected in his place; in 1810 was commissioned Clerk of the Orphans Court of Berks County, and remained in that office for six years; in 1814 was commissioned

County Surveyor, and remained in that

office for

ten

years.

Hynes, William Clare, Ireland,

17

March

J.;

States in 1854; was educated in public and private schools until sixteen years of age; learned the art of printing in the office of the Springfield Republican,

Massachusetts, and became a printer, lecturer, and editor; was a student at the law lectures at Columbia College in 1869; was admitted to the bar of Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1870; was elected to the Fortythird Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Expenditures and Territories; in 1875 removed to Illinois, locating in Chicago as a lawyer.

Ihrie, Peter; was a native of Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1829 to 1833. Ilsley,

Daniel

;

was born

in

Falmouth, Massa

in 1740; was a distiller by occupation; served three years in the State Legislature: was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 1809. Died in 1813. chusetts,

James

Inilay, H.; graduated at Princeton Col lege in 1786; was, for a time, Tutor in that institu tion; was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1797 to 1801. Ing-alls, John James was born in Middleton, Massachusetts, December 29, 1833; educated at Wil liams College; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857; removed to Kansas in 1858; was a mem ber of the Wyandotte Convention of 1859; Secretary of the Territorial Council in 1860; Secretary of the State Senate in 1861; a member of the State Senate in 1832; editor of The Atchison Champion in 1863; was defeated for Lieutenant-Governor in 1862, and again in 1864; engaged in the practice of law; was elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879, serving on the Commit tees on Pensions, Education and Labor, and Indian Affairs; was re-elected for a second term of six years; in 1885 was again re-elected for six years. ;

Inge, Samuel "W.; was born in North Carolina; on removing to Alabama, was elected a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1851; then removed to California and practiced law. Inge, "William M.; was born in Tennessee; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1835.

;

ton,

Hyneman, John

257

was born in the County of came to the United

31, 1843;

Ingersoll, Charles Anthony; was born in Haven, Connecticut, in 1798; studied law in the office of his brother, Ralph J. Ingersoll; attained em inence in his profession; held several offices of honor; was appointed, by President Pierce, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Con Died in New Haven, February 9, 1860. necticut.

New

Ingersoll, Charles J.; was born in Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1782; received a lib eral education; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1815, when he was appointed United States District Attorney for Penn sylvania, which position he held until 1829; in 1837 was appointed Secretary of Legation to Prussia; was afterwards elected a Representative in Congress from 1841 to 1847, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; he published a "History of the Second American War with Great Britain," and sev eral other works of minor importance, including some poetry also served as a member of various In ternal Improvement Conventions; in 1847 was nom inated, by President Polk, Minister to France, but was rejected by the Senate. Died in Philadelphia May 14, 1862. Was brother of Joseph R. Ingersoll. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Ingersoll, Charles R.; was born in New Haven, in Connecticut, in 1820; graduated at Yale College was 18-10; studied law, and came to the bar in 1845; frequently elected to the State Legislature; was Gov ernor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1876; his father, Ralph J., and his brother, Colin M., were both Rep resentatives in Congress.

pointed, by the State, as agent to prosecute certain claims against the United States, and was successful; in 1854 was a candidate for the office of United States Senator, and received the entire vote of his party in the Legislature, but Senator Foster was elected; in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Com missioner of Customs.

Ingersoll, Colin M.; was born in Connecticut in a liberal education, and adopted the profession of the law; was Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, by appointment of President Polk; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1851 to 1855.

Ingham, Samuel D.; was born in Pennsylvania, September 16, 1779; received a good education; was lor some years manager of a paper-mill in Eastern New Jersey; served three years in the Pennsylvania

182,0; received

Ingersoll, Ebon C.; was born in Oneida County, York, December 12, 1831; removed, with his

New

Legislature; held for a time the office of Prothonotary to one of the Courts of that State; was a Representa tive in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1818, and from 1822 to 1829, serving as Chairman of several

Committees; was then appointed, by President Jack Died at Trenton,

father, to Illinois, in 1843; finished his education at Paducah, Kentucky; studied law, and came to the bar in 1854; in 1856 was elected to the Illinois Leg

son, Secretary of the Treasury.

islature; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-eighth Congress, for the unexpired term of Owen Lovejoy; re-elected to the

Innes, Harry; was born in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1762; in 1776 and 1777 was employed by the Committee of Safety of Virginia to superintend Chipil s lead mines; in 1779 was appointed, by the Virginia Legislature, to settle land claims in the Abingdon district; in 1783 was chosen Judge of the Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky; in 1785

Thirty-ninth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia; re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, continu ing at the head of his old committee, while serving on various others. Died June 1, 1879.

Ingersoll, Jared; was born in 1749; graduated at Yale College in 1766; attained high rank as a lawyer; was a Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1780 and 1781; Member of the Convention which framed the Federal Constitu tion, and signed that instrument; was for many years Attorney-General for Pennsylvania; was Judge of the District Court of the United States at the time of his death, which occurred in 1822; in 1812 was the Federal candidate for the office of Vice-Presi dent; received from Yale College the degree of LL.D.

Joseph R.; was born in Philadelphia, 178H; graduated at Princeton College in 1804; was a lawyer by profession; was a Representa tive in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1835 to Ingersoll,

June

14,

and from 1842 to 1849, and for a time Chair of the Judiciary Committee; was appointed, by President Fillmore, in 1852, Minister to England; the titles of LL.D. and D.C.L. Oxon., were conferred upon him. Died in Philadelphia, February 20, 1868.

New

Jersey,

June 5,

1860.

and 1787 was Attorney -General of that State; was Judge of the United States District Court for Kentucky from 1787 until his death; in 1791 was one of the Local Board of War to call out the militia on expedi Died in Frankfort, Ken tions against the Indians. tucky, September 20, 1816. Iredell, James was born in Chowan County, North Carolina, in 1788; graduated at Princeton ;

College in 1806; was, for several years, in the Legis lature of that State; part of the time Speaker of the

House; in 1812 commanded a Company of Volunteers which went to Norfolk to repel the British; in 1819 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court; in 1827 was elected Governor of North Carolina; was a Senator in Congress from 1828 to 1831; toward the close of his life was a Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Died at Edenton, April 13, 1853. Court.

1837,

man

Ingersoll, Ralph J.; was born in New Haven, Connecticut; graduated at Yale College in 1808; served in the Legislature of Connecticut several years; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1825 to 1833; in that year was appointed Attorney for the State; was appointed, by President Died in Polk, Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia.

New

Haven, August

27, 1872.

Ingharn, Samuel; was born

was born on the banks of Nolinn, Kentucky, January 1, 1827; was

;

common

schools of

that

period

and added largely to his information and knowledge by self-instruction; was appointed Deputy Sheriff" of Hart County, while yet a minor; was made of legal age by special act of the Kentucky Legislature in order that he might fill the office of Constable, to which he was appointed in 1847, by the County Court of Hart County; studied law; in 1852 removed to Texas and settled at Seguin, where he continued to reside and practiced the proi ession of the law; in 1856 was elected Mayor of Seguin in 1861 was elected a Delegate to the State Convention, by whose authority ;

in Hebron,

Con

necticut, September 5, 1793; received a good En glish education in Vermont; studied law in Connecti cut, and was admitted to the bar in 1815 in 1817 settled at Say brook; from 1827 to 1835 was State s Attorney for the County of Middlesex, and again in 1843 and 1844; was a Judge of Probate from 1829 to ;

Judge of the Middlesex County Court from 1849 to 1853; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from, 1835 to 1839, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and as a member of the Committee on Commerce; also served a num ber of years in the Senate and House of Representa tives of Connecticut; three years as Speaker, and was one year Clerk of the House; in 1837 was ap 1833;

Ireland John in Hart County, eduratjtl in the

the State seceded; in 1862 entered the Confederate Army as a private soldier; served throughout the war, rising to the rank of Lieu ten aat-Colonel; in 1866 was elected a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of that year; in the summer of the same year was elected Judge of the Second Judicial District of Texas; in 1872 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature; in 1873 was elected a State Senator; in 1875 was appointed an Associate Judge of the State Supreme Court; in 1882 was unanimously nominated a candidate for Governor of Texas and was elected; in 1884 was re-nominated by acclamation, receiving the unanimous vote of the Convention, and was re-elected Governor by a majority of 100,000 votes.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Irion, Alfred B. was born in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, February 18, 1833; his early education was acquired at a private boarding school; in 1851 entered the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, in that State, and in 1855, was graduated there from; the same year began the study of law; in 185 was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the prac tice of law at Marksville, in his native parish; in 1864 was elected a Representative in the State Legis lature; in 1879 six new Judicial Circuits were estab lished, by an act of the Legislature, the tribunals for which were styled "Circuit Courts of Appeal," and, in 1880, Mr. Irion was elected one of the Judges for the Third District, for the term of four years; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

Irvin,

Alexander; was born

in Pennsylvania;

was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849.

Irvin, David; was appointed a Judge of the United States for the Territory of Wisconsin in 1837, and although the records show that David Erwin had previously been a Judge for the Territory ol Michigan, it is persumed the two names represent the

same man.

Irvin,

James

was born

in Pennsylvania:

was

a Representative in Congress from that State from 1841 to 1845.

Irving William was born in the city of New York, August 16, 1766; from 1787 to 1791 was an Indian trader on the Mohawk; was subsequently a merchant in New York City; was a Representative in Congress from 1813 to 1819, and a member of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures; was a brother of Washington Irving, for whose "Salma gundi" he wrote several poems and essays; was dis tinguished for his colloquial powers, and was a pop ular as well as an influential member of Congress; resigned before the expiration of his term, on account ,

"William

;

Died November

9,

1821.

Irwin, Jared was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1751 removed to Georgia at the age of seven; was for many years on the Indian fron tier, and during the latter part of the Revolutionary War, was actively employed against the Tories and ;

;

a member of the State Court of Legislature of Ohio; Judge of the Supreme the State; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1829 to 1833. Died at Lancaster, Ohio,

Irvin,

the front rank of American authors; the only public positions ever accepted by Mr. Irving were those of Secretary of Legation to England in 1829, and Min ister Plenipotentiary to Spain in 1842, and it was during his prolonged residence in this latter country that he collected the materials for several of his more important productions; by his pure character and rare abilities he won the universal respect and affec tion of his ^countrymen, and died on November 28, 1859, at his residence, known as "Sunnyside," beautifully located on the Hudson River, which was the theme of some of his most delightful writings. His writings are too numerous even to be specified in a brief record like the present.

of his health. ;

259

W.; was

April, 1842.

Irvine, William was born in Ireland; educated the medical profession; served as Surgeon on board a British ship, in the war which began in 1754, and after the peace of 1763, settled at Carlisle, Penn member of the State Con sylvania; in 1774 was a vention in 1776 served in Canada, and accompanied Colonel Thompson from Sorelle to dislodge the enemy from Trois Rivieres; was taken prisoner June at Quebec until exchanged in 16, and remained such 1778: on his release was promoted to the command of the Second Pennsylvania Regiment; in 1781 the de fense of the North-western frontier was intrusted to was him, and he attained the rank of Major-General; a Representative in Congress from 1793 to 1795; was a Commissioner during the Whisky Insurrection of to Philadelphia, and was 1794; removed shortly after ;

for

Indians; at the close of the war was a member of the State Legislature, and of the Convention which adopted the United States Constitution in 1789; was Governor of the State from 1796 to 1798 President of the State Constitutional Convention in 1798; was many years a member, and President of the State Senate; was again Governor from 1806 to 1809. Died at Union, Washington County, Georgia, March 1, ;

1818.

;

was a appointed Superintendent of Military Stoics; Continental ConDelegate from Pennsylvania to the a Presidential Elector gressfrom 1786 to 1788; was Died July 30, 1804, aged sixty-three years. in 1797.

elected a Representative Irvine, William from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on the Militia. ;

Irving,

was

Washington

;

was born in the

city of

1783; received an ordinary school education; in his sixteenth year began the study of the law, and in his nineteenth year became a writer for the local press; in 1804 visited Europe for his health, where he spent two years; on his re turn to America, was admitted to the bar, but never his career as an author practiced law; in 1807 began by projecting a serial work called "Salmagundi," and his last work, the Life of George Washington, was completed and published in 1859; between these two dates, .he produced a large number of works, in all the departments of polite literature, which were eminently successful, and placed him in

New

York, April

3,

"

"

Irwin, Jared; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817.

Irwin, John N.; was appointed Governor of the Territory of Idaho for the term of four years from March, 1883. Irwin, Thomas was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1829 to 1831; in the latter year was appointed, by President Jackson, United States Judge of the Wes tern District of Pennsylvania. ;

Irwin, "William; was born in Ohio; after re ceiving a good education, graduated from Marietta College; taught school for a time; removed to Cali fornia in 1852; turned his attention to the newspaper business, and became editor of the Yreka Union; served several times in the State Legislature; when a vacancy occurred in the Governorship in February, 1875, was chosen President of the Senate, and acting Lieutenant-Governor; at the ensuing election, in September, was elected Governor of California. Died March 15, 1886. Irwin, William W.; was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843; from 1843 to 1847 was Charge d Affaires of the United States to Denmark. Died in Pittsburg, September 15, 1856.

Isacks, Jacob O.; was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con gress from Tennessee from 1823 to 1833.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS

260

at Lebanon, Ohio, Ittner, Anthony was born school educa October 8. 1837; received a common builder the trades of bricklayer and tion; learned elected to the and pursued those avocations; was in 186 /, and City Council of Saint Louis, Missouri, ot ;

Jack, William was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1841 to 1843. ;

Jackson, Andrew; was born at Warsaw Settle ment, North Carolina, March 15, 1767; when four teen years of age left the academy where he had been placed and entered the Revolutionary Army; at the age of twenty-one established himself as a law yer in Western North CaroliLa; when that part of the country became a Territory in 1790, President Burke County, in born Washington appointed him Attorney of the United IVerson, Alfred; was Princeton at States lor the new district; at the time that Terri Georgia, December 3, 1798; graduated served tory was formed into the State of Tennessee, he was College in 1820: was a lawyer by profession; of House the Representa of a member of the Convention which drew up the new three years as a member oi the in Legislature Senator as tives and one year Constitution; was immediately chosen a Representa the of Supreme elected twice Judge tive in Congress, serving one term, when he. was Georgia; was four years; transferred to the United States Senate, where he Court of that State for terms of three and was one of the Electors-at-Large in the Presidential continued until 1798; his next public position was to the that of Judge of the Supreme Court; having been Election of 1844; was elected a Representative to theUmted chosen Major-General of one of the divisions of the Thirtieth Congress; in 1854 was elected and Tennessee Militia, he retained the office until 1814, States Senate for six years from March 4, 1855, time acted as Chairman ot the Committee when he went into the Regular Army with the same for a on was assigned to the command of the army at on Claims, and as a member of the Committee rank; Pacific Railroad; withdrew New Orleans, and January 8, 1815, obtained his Military Affairs and the Rebellion. in February, 1861, and joined the great famous victory over the British; in 1817 and 1818 conducted the Seminole War in Flov da, and soon New after retired from the army; in 1823 was again elected Ives, Willard; was born in Water town, educa a good English a Senator in Congress, and remained there two years, York, July 7, 1806; received was a Representa tion; was a farmer by occupation; having declined the mission to Mexico in the same 1853: to tive in Congress from New York from 1851 year; in 1828 was elected President of the United in 1846 was elected, by the Methodist Episcopal States, and re-elected in 1832; the events which World s Con marked his administration were the difficulties with Church, a Delegate to the "Christian which was held in London. vention," France, the suppression of the nullification move ment in South Carolina, the Indian War in Florida, Izard, George was born in South Carolina in and the removal of the deposits from the United and made a tour States Bank; retired to private life in 1836, and in 1777; received a classical education, of Europe; was appointed Lieutenant of Artillery in the peaceful shades of the Hermitage in Tennessee

to the State House re-elected in 1868; was elected was elected a State Senator RepSntatives in 1808; was elected a Repre in 1870 and re-elected in 1874; sentative from Missouri to the Forty-fifth Congree

Ion"-

;

in Charleston Har 1794; Engineer of Fortifications bor in 1798; Captain in 1799; aid to General Hamil ton in 1799; resigned in 1803; on the breaking out of the war of 1812 was appointed Colonel of Second in 1813; Major-General Artillery; Brigadier-General in 1814; disbanded 1815; was Governor of Arkansas which occurred Territory from 1825 until his death, He published at Little Rock, November 22, 1828. "Official Correspondence with the War Department in 1814 and 1815"; was the son of Ralph Izard.

Mark

W.; was appointed Governor of the Izard, Territory of Nebraska in 1854, and remained in office until 1857. Izard, Ralph was born near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1742; graduated at Cambridge Univers his grandfather was one of the found ity, England; ers of South Carolina, and he inherited a large es tate in land and slaves; visited England in 1771, and the Continent in 1774; made a second visit to France; was appointed, by Congress, Commissioner at the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and resided in Lee against Silas Deane; Paris; sided with Arthur Franklin, and the other American agents in France; ;

returned to America July 10, 1780; was instrumental in obtaining General Greene s appointment to the Southern Army, and pledged his large estate for the purchase of ships of war in Europe; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783; United States Senator from 1789 to 1795; President of the Senate pro tern, during the first session of the Third Congress; was a distinguished and eloquent states man; in the judgment of Washington no man was more honest in public life; his correspondence from 1774 to 1784, with a memoir, was published by his daughter in 1844. Died at South Bay, near Charles ton,

May

30, 1804.

died,

June

8,

1845.

Jackson, Charles; was Governor of Rhode Island for one year, beginning with 1845. Died in Providence, January 21, 1876, in the seventy-ninth year of his age.

Jackson, Claiborne F.; was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, April 4, 1807; emigrated to Mis souri in 1822; served as Captain in the Black Hawk War; served for twelve years in the State Legislature, for a time as Speaker; was a prime mover in organ izing the banking institutions of that State, and was a Bank Commissioner; in 1860 was elected Governor of Missouri; left the State on the approach of the Federal Army, and was deposed by a State Conven tion; afterwards served for a short time as a General Died at Little Rock, in the Confederate Army. Arkansas, December 6, 1862.

Jackson, David; was a Delegate from Pennsyl vania to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786.

Jackson, David

S.; was born in New York; a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1848.

was

Jackson, Ebenezer, Jr.; was born in Connecti cut; was a Representative in Congress from that State, to fill an uuexpired term, from 1834 to 1835. Jackson, Edward B.; was born in Harrison County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1820 to 1823, his first term having been in continuation of that of James PinDied September 8, 1826. gale, resigned. Jackson, Hancock Missouri in 1857.

;

was acting Governor of

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Jackson, Henry was born in Devonshire, En gland in 1778; emigrated to America at the age of twelve years; was educated by his brother, General James Jackson; was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University of Georgia from 1811 to 1814, and from 1817 to 1828; was Sec retary of Legation to France under William H. Crawford, Minister; on his return, and the appoint ment of Gallatin to France, he remained in the Lega tion as Charge d Affaires until 1817, during which interval Gallatin was engaged in special negotiations with Great Britain; received the degrees of LL.D. and M.D. from Philadelphia College. Died near Athens, Georgia, April 26, 1840. ;

1

in Savannah; on the return of peace he engaged with success in the practice of law; in 1780 fought a duel

with Lieuten ant-Governor Wells, whom he killed, but was himself wounded in both knees; was a mem ber of the Convention which formed the first Consti

was chosen a Representative in Congress in 1789 from Georgia, and after the close of his first term successfully contested the seat of Anthony AVayne; in 1793 was chosen a Senator, which office he resigned in 1795; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac; was Major-General of the Georgia Militia; was Governor of the State from 1798 until his election as United States Senator in 1801. Died

tution of Georgia;

March

Jackson, Henry Rootes was born in Athens, Georgia, June 24, 1820; commenced his education at ;

Franklin College, Athens, Georgia; graduated at Yale College in 1839; was admitted to the bar, and was several years United States District Attorney for the State; was also at one time one of the editors of the Savannah Georgian; was Colonel of a Georgia Regi ment in the Mexican War; was a Judge of the East ern Circuit from 1849 to 1853, when he was appointed Charge d Affaires to Vienna, Austria; from 1854 to 1858 was Minister Resident; was a Southern Briga dier-General during the beginning of the Rebellion, and had a command on the Upper Potomac; was the and other poems; in March, author of Tallullah "

"

was appointed, by President Cleveland, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to 1885,

Mexico.

Jackson, Howell E.; was born at Paris, Ten nessee, April 8, 1832; received a classical education, graduating at West Tennessee College in 1848; grad uated at the Lebanon Law School in 1856, and com menced practice at Jackson, Tennessee; removed to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1859; was twice appointed a Judge of the State Supreme Court; returned to Jackson in 1876; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1880; was elected a Senator of the United States from Tennessee for the term of six years from March 4, 1881 in March, 1886, was ap pointed, by President Cleveland, United States Dis trict Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. ;

Band

was a citizen of Penn Jackson, Isaac sylvania; in 1841 was appointed Charge d Affaires to Denmark, and died in office, July 27, 1843. ;

Jackson, Jabez was born in Georgia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1836 ;

to 1839.

2(31

18, 1806.

Jackson, James

was born in Jefferson County, graduated at the University of Georgia in 1837; studied law; commenced the practice in 1840; in 1842 was elected Secretary of the Senate of Georgia, holding the office one year; in 1845 was Georgia,

;

in 1819;

elected to the State Legislature, and re-elected to the position in 1847; in 1849 was chosen, by the Legislature, Judge of the Western Circuit of his State, and was elected to the same office by the people in 1853, and again in 1857; in June of that year was nominated for Congress, resigning his judgeship, and in October following was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was a member of the

same

Committee on Claims and Revolutionary Claims; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress; resigned in February, 1861, and returned to Georgia.

Jackson, James

S.; was born in Madison Coun Kentucky; adopted the profession of the law; served in the Mexican War as a Captain of Volun teers; in 1861 was elected a Representative from Ken tucky to the Thirty-seventh Congress; while the Re bellion was progressing, recruited a regiment of Kentucky Cavalry; was subsequently appointed a Brigadier-General, and was killed at the battle of ty,

Perryville in 1862, while fighting in the service of his country.

Jackson, John GK; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia from 1795 to 1797, from 1799 to 1810, and again from 1813 to 1817.

Jackson, John J., Jr.; was born in Virginia; in August, 1861, was appointed, by President Lincoln, United States Judge for the District of West Vir ginia, residing at Parkersburg; had previously held the same

office in Virginia.

Jackson, Jonathan

Jackson, Jacob B. was born

at Parkersburg, Virginia) April 6, 1829; received ;

Virginia, (now West an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and engaged in the practice of law as a profession; from 1852 to 1861 was Commonwealth Attorney for the County of Pleasants, and from 1871 to 1877 held the same position in the County of Wood was a member of the House of Delegates of West Virginia during the years 1875 and 1876; Mayor of the City of Parkersburg in 1879; in 1880 was elected Governor of West Virginia for the term of four years from March 4, 1881. ;

Jackson, James

was born

in Devon, England, in 1757, and came to this country in 1772; early in the American Revolution joined the army; in 1778 was made Brigade-Major; in 1781 commanded the Legionary Corps of the State of Georgia; when the British evacuated Savannah, July 12, 1782, he re ceived the keys; for his various services, the Assem;

Lly of the State presented

him with a house and

lot

was born in Boston in 1743; graduated at Harvard College in 1761; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782; United States Marshal from 1789 to 1791 Treasurer of Mas sachusetts from 1802 to 1806; was Treasurer of Har vard College from 1807 until his death, which oc curred in 1810. ;

;

Jackson, Joseph "W.; was frequently a member of the City Council of Savannah; at one time Mayor of the city; served a number of years in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1850 to 1853. Died at Savannah, De cember

28, 1854.

Jackson, Oscar L. was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1840; was reared on a farm; was educated in the common schools, at Tansy Hill Select School, and at Darlington Acade my; was clerk in a store for a time; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, entering as Captain, and receiving the promotions of Major, LieutenantColonel, and Colonel by brevet; took part with the ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

262

Army of the Tennessee in the campaigns in Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi; also from Chattanooga to Atlanta, the inarch to the sea, and through the Carolinas, commanding his regiment during the lat ter part of the war; was very severely wounded in battle at Corinth, Mississippi. October 4, 18(i2 studied law; was admitted to the bar at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1867, and there entered upon the 1868 to practice of law; was District Attorney from was a 1871, was County Solicitor from 1874 to 1880; member of the Commission to codify laws and devise a plan for the government of cities of Pennsylvania in 1877 and 1878; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty -ninth Congress. ;

Jackson, Richard, Jr.; was born in 1764; was a member of Congress from Rhode Island from 18U8 to 1815; in early life

in mercantile busi the first in this country who

was engaged

and was among embarked in the manufacture of

ness,

cotton; he filled several important public offices, and was distin guished for his benevolence. Died at Providence, April 18, 1838.

Jackson, Thomas B.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 18:57 to 1841; was also for three years a member of the Assembly of New York. Jackson,

"William

;

was born

in Massachusetts,

September 6, 1783; was one of the pioneers of rail road enterprise in Massachusetts; was a member of the State Legislature from 1829 to 1832; from 1834 to 1837, and 1841 to 1843 was a Representative in Congress from that State; at the time of his death was President of the Newton Bank. Died at New He was an ton, Massachusetts, February 27, 1855. earnest advocate of Temperance and Anti-Slavery.

W.

was born in Chester, Orange County, New York, December 29, 1794; received a common school education; was chiefly engaged in mercantile business; was Justice of the Peace several years in Havana, New York; held the office of County Judge four years; in 1848 was elected a Representa tive in Congress, and served one term.

Jackson,

T.;

Jacob, Charles D.; was a resident of Kentucky in October, 1885, was appointed Minister Resident of the United States to Colombia, serving until Octo ber, 1886.

;

Jacob, John J.; was born in Hampshire County, West Virginia), December 9, 1829;

Virginia (now

graduated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, in 1849; studied and adopted the profession of the law; was for several years connected with the State Uni versity of Missouri; was a member of the West Vir ginia Legislature in 1869; in 1870 was elected Gov ernor of West Virginia for two years; was re-elected for the term of four years, beginning with 1873.

Jacobs, Ferris, Jr.; was born at Delhi, New York, March 20, 1836; graduated at Williams Col lege; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and began the practice of law at Delhi; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, rising from the rank of Captain to that of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General; was elected District Attorney in 1865, and was re-elected; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conven tion of 1880; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty -seventh Congress.

Jacobs, Israel was born in Germany was a Ro-v-esentntive in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1793. ;

;

was born in Livingston Coun* York, in 1829; removed with his father to Michigan in 1831; was educated there; became a lawyer; in 1852 emigrated to Oregon; was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washing ton Territory in 1869, and settled there; in 1871 was appointed Chief Justice of the Territory; reappointed in 1874, and held that position when elected a Delegate to the Forty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Forty -fifth Congress.

Jacobs, Orange

ty,

;

New

Jacobs, S. D.; was born in North Carolina; in 1851 was appointed, from Tennessee, First Assistant Postmaster General, which position he held until 1853.

Jadwin, Cornelius C.; was born at Carbondale t Pennsylvania. March 27, 1835; received a common school education; taught school and studied civil engineering and pharmacy; was a civil engineer from 1857 to 1861 engaged in the drug business, locating at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in 1862; served, for nine years, as a member of the District Board of Edu cation, tfiree years as President of the Board; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1880; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-seventh Congress. ;

James, Amaziah B.; was born at Stephentown, New York, July 1, 1812; received an academic edu cation;

law;

removed

Sweden, Monroe. County; studied to the bar in 1838 and commenced Ogdensburg, New York; in 1853 was to

w as admitted r

to practice at elected a Justice of the State Supreme Court; re signed in 1876; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con gresses.

James, Charles

P.; was appointed an Associate Supreme Court of the District of Co lumbia, December 10, 1879.

Justice of the

James, Charles

T.; was born in West Green Island, in 1806; received a limited edu turned his attention to mechanics as cation; early connected with the cotton interest; wrote a series of papers oil the culture and maTiufacture of cotton in the South; received the degree of M. A. from Brown University in 1838; was a Senator in Congress from 1851 to 1857, from Rhode Island; subsequently in vented a rifled cannon, and met his death from the explosion of a shell of his own invention, while try ing experiments at Sag Harbor, New York, October 17, 1862.

wich,

Rhode

James, Darwin B.; was born at Williamsburgh, Massachusetts, May 14, 1834, his ancestors having been among the earliest settlers of the St:\te; in 1847 removed to Williamsburgh, then a sub urb of Brooklyn, New York, leaving him at school at Amherst, where he remained three years; in 1851 became a clerk in a wholesale silk house on Broad way, New York City; in 1858 engaged in the im porting and jobbing of East Indian goods, in which his firm prospered and became one of the leading houses of the country in that line; in 1868 made the tour of the world; devoted much time to charitable and religious works; became a manager in many be nevolent societies; President of a savings bank; was one of the founders of a dispensary one of the found ers, and Treasurer, of the Bureau of Charities of Brooklyn; served six years as Park Commissioner; became a Director in a Marine insurance company; Secretary of the New York Board of Trade and Trans portation; a member of the Executive Committee of the New York Anti-Monopoly League, and an active his parents

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. worker iu ic .isting the encroachments of large cor porations; always declined political preferment; de clined being a candidate for the Forty-seventh Con gress; accepted a

unanimous nomination, and was

elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-

ninth Congress.

James, Francis was ;

was a Representative

a native of Pennsylvania; from that State

in Congress

from 1839 to 1843.

James, Thomas L. was born at Utica, New York, March 29, 1831; received an academic educa tion; was apprenticed to a printer; in 1851 removed to Hamilton, New York, and took charge the Madison County Journal, which was, in 1856, con solidated with the Democratic Republican; was made Collector of Canal Tolls, at Hamilton, in 1854 and 1855; was appointed Inspector of Customs in the New ;

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from 1866 to 1868 was a merchant; meantime studied law; was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law in 1868; in the same year was a Presidential Elector, and was elected a Representative in the Legislature of North Carolina; was re-elected to the Legislature in 1870 and was made Speaker of the House; was a Presidential Elector in 1872; in 1875 was a member of the State Constitutional Con vent ion; in 1876 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina; in 1879 become Governor by the election of Governor Vance a United States Senator; in 1880 was elected Governor; in March, 1885, was appointed,

by President Cleveland, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil.

of"

York Custom House in 1861; Weigher in 1863, and Deputy Collector in 1870; was appointed Postmaster at New York City, by President Grant, in 1873, and was re-appointed, by President Hayes, in 1877; was appointed Postmaster-General iu the Cabinet of President Garlield, in March, 1881, :uul continued in that position in the Cabinet of President Arthur, un til January, 1882, when he resigned to accept the Presidency of the Lincoln National Bank of New

York

City.

James,

"William

H.; was Governor of Nebraska

from 1871 to 1873.

Jameson, John; was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from Missouri from 1830 to 1831; again from 1843 to 1845, and for another term from 1847 to 1849. Janes, Henry F.; was born at Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, in October, 1792; stud ied law in Montpelier, Vermont; was admitted to the bar in Washington County in 1817, and commenced to practice at Waterbury in that year; from 1820 to ls;}() was Postmaster at Waterbury; was a member of the Legislative Council from 1830 to 1834; was a Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1834 to 1837; was State Treasurer from 1838 to 1841; a

member of the Council of Censors in 1848; a of the Legislature from Waterbury in 1855. Jarnagin, Spencer was born ;

in

Granger Coun

Tennessee; graduated at Greenville 1813: studied law and was admitted to 1817; was United States Senator from from 1841 to 1847. Died in Memphis, ty,

June

member

College in the bar in

Tennessee Tennessee,

24, 1851.

Jarvis, Leonard; was born in 1782; graduated Harvard University in 1800; was Sheriff of Han cock County from 1821 to 1829; Collector of Customs for the Penobscot District from 1829 to 1831; a Represertative in Congress from Maine from 1831 to 1837, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affiiirs; from 1838 to 1841 held the office of Navy Agent for the port of Boston. Died in Surrey, Maine, September 18, 1854. at

Jarvis, Thomas Jordan was born in Currituck County, North Carolina, January 18, 1836; graduated from Randolph Mason College in 1860; in 1861 entered the Confederate Army as a private; in August, 1861, was made a first Lieutenant; in 1863 was promoted Captain; on May 14, 1864, his right arm was shattered by a bullet and he was compelled to jetire from the service; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of North Carolina in 1865; ;

Jay, John

was born in New York, December graduated at King s College in 1764; stud ied law, and came to the bar in 1768; was a Dele gate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777, and from 1778 to 1779: in 1776 was recalled from Congress to aid in forming the Government of New York, and for that reason was not present to sign the Declaration of Independence; from 1777 to 1779 was Chief Justice of the State, but resigned to fill the post of President of Congress; in 1779 was appointed Minister to Spain was a Commissioner to negotiate peace with England; signed the definite treaty at ;

12, 1745;

;

Paris in 1783; was appointed, by Congress, Secretary of State; though not a member, he aided at the Con

vention which formed the Federal Constitution; also Hamilton and Madison in editing the Fed eralist; in 1789 wasappointed, by President Washing ton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which position he resigned in 1794 to accept the mission to England, when he negotiated the treaty which bears his name; was Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801, after which he retired to private assisted

life.

Died in 1829.

Jay, John

was born in New York City, June graduated at Columbia College in 1836; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and practiced law; was a prominent member of the Union League Club of New York was, for many years, a Manager and Cor responding Secretary of the New York Historical Society, and a member of the American Geographical and Statistical Society; was the author of many antislavery addresses and pamphlets, and pamphlets on matters connected with the Episcopal Church; also egal arguments, political addresses, reports, etc. was appointed Minister to Austria, April, 1867. ;

23, 1817;

;

;

Jayne, William

was born at Springfield, Illi October 8, 1826; adopted the profession of and practiced eleven years in Springfield; medicine, n 1859 was elected Mayor of that city; was elected to the State Senate in 1860 and 1861 during the latr year was appointed Governor of Dakota Territory; n 1862 was elected a Delegate from Dakota to the After Thirty-eighth Congress. occupying his seat or some time, he was superseded by J. B. S. Todd. ;

nois,

;

Thomas

was born at Shadwell, Jefferson, ; Virginia, in 1743; his education was chiefly acquired rom private tutors, although he passed two years it the College of William and Mary; adopted the "aw as his profession; was a member of the Legisla;ure of Virginia from 1769 to the commencement of ;he American Revolution; in 1775 was a Delegate in Congress; on May 15, 1776, the Convention ofVirinia instructed their Delegates to propose a Decla ration of Independence; in June Mr. Lee accord-

ngly made the motion, and it was voted that a com mittee be appoint***! to prepare one; the committee vas elected by ballot,

and consisted of Thomas

Jef-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

264

ferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston; the Declaration

whom

the Jefferson, to belonged, as Chairman of the

was exclusively the work of right of draughting

it

Committee, although alterations and amendments were made in it by Adams, Franklin and other members of the Committee, and afterwards by Con gress; Jefferson retired from Congress September, 1776, and took a seat in the Legislature of his State in October; in 1779 was chosen Governor, and held the office two years declined a foreign appointment in 1776, and again in 1781; accepted the appoint ment as one of the Commissioners for negotiating peace, but before he sailed news was received of the signing of the provisional treaty, and he was excused from proceeding on the mission; returned to Con gress; in 1784 wrote notes on the establishment of a money-unit, and of a coinage for the United States; in May of that year was appointed, with Adams and Franklin, a Minister Plenipotentiary to negotiate treaties of commerce with foreign nations; in 1785 was Minister to the French Court; in 1789 returned to America, and received from Washington the ap pointment of Secretary of State, which he held until December, 1793, and then resigned; in September, 1794, when an appointment was offered him by Washington, he replied, "No circumstance will ever more tempt me to engage in anything public not withstanding this determination, he suffered himself to be a candidate for President, and was chosen VicePresident in 1796; at the election, in 1801, he and Aaron Burr having an equal number of electoral ;

";

votes for President, the House of Representatives, a severe struggle, finally determined in his favor; was re-elected in 1805; at the end of his sec ond term he retired from office. Died July 4, 1826, at one o clock in the afternooon, just fifty years from the date of the Declaration of Independence. It is a most remarkable fact that on the same day John Adams, a signer with Jefferson of the Declaration, the second on the Committee for draughting it, and Jefferson s immediate predecessor in the office of Jefferson s publications were: President, also died. "Summary View of the Rights of British America," 1774; "Declaration of Independence," 1776; "Notes on Virginia," 1781; "Manual of Parliamentary Life of Cap Practice, for the Use of the Senate"; tain Lewis," 1814; and some papers of a philosophical character. His works, chiefly letters, were first pub lished by his grandson, Thomas Jefferson after

"

Randolph,

1829, and a complete edition, by order of Congress, in nine volumes, in 1853.

Jeffords, Elza

;

was born

in

Lawrence County,

Ohio, near the present town of Ironton, in 1826; re moved, with his parents, to Portsmouth, Ohio in 1828; received a common school education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1847; settled in Mississippi in 1864; was Judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals of the State in 1868 and 1869; engaged in the practice of his profession and in was a member of the Board of License planting; Commissioners for District No. 2 for four years; was ele-ted a Representative from Mississippi to the Fony-eighth Congress. ,

Jenckes, Rhode

Thomas A.;

Brown Univers

ity in 1838; studied law, and practiced the profes sion until elected, in 1863, a Representative from Rhode Island to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Patents, and the

Committee on the Bankrupt Law, having drawn up the bill on that subject; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Retrenchment, the Death of President Lin coln, and as Chairman of the Committee on Patents, and also Chairman of a Special Committee on the Civil Service; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention" of 1866; was re-elected "Loyalists Special

to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Retrenchment and Revision of Laws; re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, serving on important Committees. Died in Cumberland, Rhode Island,

November

4,

1875.

Jenifer, Daniel, of St. Thomas was a Dele gate from Maryland to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1782; was also a member of the Convention which formed the Federal Constitution, and signed that instrument; his son, bearing the same name, was a member of the Federal Congress. ;

Jenifer, Daniel was frequently a member of the State Legislature of Maryland; represented that State in Congress from 1831 to 1833, and from 1835 to 1841; during the administrations of Presidents Harrison and Tyler was the United States Minister to Austria. Died December 18, 1855, near Port To ;

bacco, Maryland.

Jenison, Silas H.; was born in Shoreham, Vermont, in 1791 was Lieutenant-Governor in 1835; was Governor of Vermont from 1835 to 1841. Died at Shoreham, Vermont, September 30, 1849. ;

Jenkins, Albert G-.; was born in Cabell County, Virginia, November 10, 1830; graduated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and in law at Cambridge, in 1850; never practiced law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; was a member of the Cincin nati "National Convention" in 1856; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on the Militia; re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the same Committee; subsequently served as a Brigadier-General in the Confederate service, and was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness.

Jenkins, Charles J.; was born in South Caro lina in 1805; graduated at Union College, New York, in 1825; served several terms as a Representative in the State Legislature, four terms as Speaker of the House; in 1831 was elected Attorney-General of the State; in 1853 was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor; in 1858 was tendered the post of Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Buchanan,

but declined; was a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Southern Confederacy; in 1865 was elected Gov ernor of Georgia for the term of two Died at years.

Somerville, Georgia,

June

Jenkins, Lemuel Jeffries, Noah L..; was born in Pennsylvania in 1828; was educated and admitted to the bar in Ohio, where he practiced his profession until 1861, when lie entered the Union Army and served during the was Assistant Provost Rebellion; Marshal General of the United States during 1864 and 1865; was Regis ter of the United States Treasury from September 18G7 to March, 1869.

was born in Providence,

Island, in 1818; graduated at

gress from

New York,

Jenkins, Robert

;

14, 1883.

was

a Representative in

Con

from 1823 to 1825. ;

was a Representative

in

Con

gress from Pennsylvania, from 1807 to 1811.

Jenkins, Timothy; was born ter

in Barre,

Worces

County, Massachusetts, January 29, 1799; re ceived an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1824, practicing his profession

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. New

in Oneida County, York; was District Attorney for that county six years, and resigned the office on being elected a Representative in the Twenty-ninth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-

Died at Martinsburg,

second Congresses.

December

New

York,

24, 1859.

Jenks, G-eorg-e A.; was born in Jefferson Coun Pennsylvania, March 20, 1836; graduated at

ty,

Jefferson College in 1858; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1859; engaged in the practice of his profession in the town of Brookville; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fortyfourth Congress; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions on ;

July land,

was appointed, by President Cleve Assistant Secretary of the Department of the

1,

1885,

Interior.

Jenks, Joseph was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1656; was Deputy Governor of Rhode Island; was Governor from 1727 to 1732; he was the tallest man in Rhode Island, standing seven feet and two inches in his stockings. Died June 15, 1740. ;

Jenks, Michael H.; was born was a Representative

in Congress

in Pennsylvania;

from that State

from 1843 to 1845.

Jenness, Benning W.; was Judge of Probate in Strafford County, New Hampshire, from 1841 to 1845; was a Senator in Congress from New Hampshire dur ing the years 1845 and 1846.

Jennings, David was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey; was a Representative in Con gress from Ohio from 1825 to 1826. ;

Jennings, Jonathan was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey; was the first Governor in ;

Indiana; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1809 to 1816, and from 1822 to 1831; in 1818 was appointed, by President Monroe, Commissioner. Died near Charlestown, Indian Clarke County, Indiana, July 26, 1834.

Jerome, David Howell; was born

at Detroit, 17, 1829; passed his infancy in

Michigan, November the State of New York; returning to Michigan, with his widowed mother, in 1834, and locating in St. Olair County; in 1853 went to Californiaand remained one year; in 1854returnc to Michigan and settled at Saginaw in the business of merchandizing; was a State Senator from 1862 to 1868; in 1865 and 1866 was Military Aid to the Governor; was President of the State Military Board from 1865 to 1873; in the latter year was appointed a member of the State Constitu tional Commission; in 1875 was appointed a member of the Board of United States Indian Commissioners; was Governor of Michigan from 1881 to 1883. .

Jeter, Thomas B.; was born in 1825; was a resi dent of Union, South Carolina; was a lawyer by pro fession; served several terms as State Senator; was President of the Senate at the time of the resignation of Governor Simpson, in August, 1880, and, by virtue of his office, became Governor of the State; resigned in December, 1880, to accept the position of Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; in 1883 was ap pointed one of the Railroad Commissioners of the Died at his home May 20, 1883. State.

Jewell, Marshall was born in Winchester, New 20, 1825; was brought up a tan ner; studied telegraphy and electricity in Boston, and superintended the construction of lines between ;

Hampshire, October

265

Louisville and New Orleans; in 1850 commenced, in Hartford, the business of manufacturing leather-belt ing; was Governor of Connecticut from 1868 to 1870; was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia in 1873; in 1874 was appointed Postmaster-General in the Cabinet of President Grant. Died February 10, 1883.

Jewett, C. O.; was an early emigrant to Ark was appointed a Justice of the United States Court for that Territory; after it became a State, continued on the Bench as Judge of the United States ansas;

District Court.

Jewett, Freeborn G?; was born in New York; was a member of the Assembly of that State in 1826 and 1827; was a Representative in Congress from 1831 to 1833; from 1846 to 1856 was a Judge of the Su preme Court of New York. Died February 23, 1858, aged sixty -eight years.

Jewett, Hugh J.; was born at Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland; received a good educa tion; studied law in Cecil County; left Maryland in early manhood, and removed to Ohio, where he prac ticed his profession; held no public position until 1872, when he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fourth Congress; soon resigned to accept the position of President of the Erie Railroad Company.

Jewett, Joshua H. was born at Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland, September 13, 1812; adopted the profession of the law; removed to Ken tucky; was elected a Representative from that State ;

to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and was Chairman of the Committee on Invalid

Pensions.

Jewett, Luther was born

in Cantei mry, Con December 24, 1772; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1795; was both a clergyman and a physi cian; was, for fifteen years, a member of the Vermont Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1815 to 1817. Died March 8, 1860, ;

necticut,

aged eighty-seven years.

Jewitt, Albert GK; was a citizen of Maine; in 1845 was appointed Charge & Affaires to Peru, where he remained until 1847, when he returned home.

Johns, Kensey was born in Delaware, Decem ber 10, 1791; graduated at Princeton College in 1810; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1813; was a Representative in Congress from Delaware from 1827 to 1831; in 1832 was appointed Chancellor of the State of Delaware, in Avhich capacity he was still serving at the time of his death, which occurred at New Castle, March 28, 1857; a person bearing this name was appointed to the Senate from Delaware in 1794, but was not admitted; he was the father of the above, and also filled the position of Chancellor of the State. ;

Johnson, Alexander S.; was born in Utica, in 1822; received a liberal education studied law, and settled in New York City; in 1852 was elected to the Bench of the Court of Appeals, and removed to Al bany, serving one term; subsequently returned to his native town; in 1873 was appointed a Commis sioner of Appeals, to fill a vacancy; before the close of the year was re-appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeals, holding the office until December, 1874; in October, 1875. was appointed United States Judge for the Second Circuit, in the place of L. B. Wood ruff, deceased. ;

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266

Johnson,

Andrew

December

was born in Raleigh, Nortl

1

;

when

ten years of age was apprenticed to a tailor, and worked at that busi ness, in his native town, until his seventeenth year never attended school, but acquired a good Englisl: education by studying alone; removed to Greenville, Tennessee; was elected Mayor of that place in 1830; was elected to the State Legislature in 1835; to the State Senate in 1841 was a Representative in Con gress from Tennessee from 1843 to 1853, serving on various important committees; during the latter yeai w as chosen Governor of Tennessee, and re-elected in 1855; was elected a Senator in Congress in 1857 for the term ending in 1863, serving on the Committees on Public Lands and the District of Columbia; in 1862 resigned his seat in the Senate, and was .ap pointed, by President Lincoln, Military Governor of of 1864 the "Baltimore Convention Tennessee; was nominated for the office of Vice-President of the United States, and duly elected; on the death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865. took the prescribed oath and entered upon his duties as President of the Carolina,

29, 1808;

;

"

"by

United States; his life and speeches have been pub lished in a variety of editions; in 1866 received from the University of North Carolina the degree of LL.D. on February 22, 1868, the House of Representatives adopted articles of impeachment against him, found ed chiefly upon his alleged misconduct under the Tenure-of-Office Bill; only one Republican, S. F. Gary, and one Conservative Republican, T. E. Stewart, voted against the measure; on being tried by the Senate, organized as a High Court of Impeachment, the necessary two-thirds vote could not be secured, ;

and he was acquitted; the Democrats who voted for his acquittal were Senators Bayard, Buckalew, Davis McCreery, Hendricks, Johnson, Patterson of Tennes see, Saulsbury, and Vickers; and those elected to the Senate as Republicans, who voted with them, were Senators Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Norton, Ross, Trumbull, and Van Win kle; the Republicans who voted for conviction were Senators Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Ed munds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Morrill of Maine, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Porneroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner. Thayer, Tipton, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates, and Wade, the President of the Senate pro tern.; Mr. Johnson was again elected to the United States Sen ate for the term commencing in 1875; occupied his seat during the extra session of the Senate. Died in Carter County, Tennessee, July 31, 1875.

Conkling,

Johnson, Benjamin was an early emigrant to the Territory of Arkansas; in 1821 was appointed United States Judge for that Territory, serving in that capacity until 1833. ;

Johnson, Cave

was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, January 11, 1793; received a liberal edu cation, and adopted the profession of the law; was a Circuit Judge for several years; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1829 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1845, after which he went into ;

the Cabinet of President Polk, as Postmaster-Generalalso held, for many years, the position of President of the Bank of Tennessee, which he resigned in 1859. Died in Clarksville, Tennessee, November 23 1866.

Johnson, David; was born

in Virginia in 1782to the bar in South Carolina in 1805;

was admitted was a member of the Legislature of that State in 1812; Solicitor of the Middle Circuit, Unbn District

from 1812 to 1815; Circuit Judge from 1815 to 1824; Judge of the Court of Appeals from 1824 to 1835; Chancellor from 1835 to 1846; Governor of South Car olina from 1846 to 1848. Died at Limestone Springs, South Carolina, January 7, 1855.

Johnson, D.

B.;

was born in

New York; was

ap

pointed an Associate Justice of the United States for the Territory of New Mexico, residing at Santa Fe.

Johnson, Francis; was born in Caroline County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Ken tucky in 1820, in the place of D. Walker, deceased, and from 1821 to 1827. Johnson, Frederick A.; was born

at Glens York, January 2, 1833; received a com mon school and academic education; became a clerk in the Glens Falls Bank in 1852; was afterwards Cashier of the Commercial Bank of Glens Falls; in 1871 engaged in the business of private banking at Glens Falls; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress. Falls,

New

Johnson, Harvey H.; was born in Vermont;

moved gress

was elected a Representative from that State from 1853 to 1855. to Ohio;

in

re

Con

Johnson, Henry; was born in Tennessee, Sep tember 14, 1783; studied law in Louisiana; was Clerk of the Second Superior Court of Orleans Territory in 1809; Judge of the Parish Court of St. Mary, May 1,

Constitutional Convention" 1811; member of the of Louisiana in 1812; ran for Congress in 1812, but was defeated; was elected a Senator in Congress in 1818 for the unexpired term of W. C. C. Claiborne, deceased, and held that position until 1824, in which year he was elected Governor of Louisiana; in 1826 was re-elected, holding that office for four consecu tive years; in 1829 was defeated for the United States Senate, by Edward Livingston; was a Repre sentative from Louisiana to the and "

Twenty-fourth Twenty-fifth Congresses; in 1842 was a candidate for Governor, but was defeated by Alexander Mouton; in 1844 was elected to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of A. Porter, under which election he sat in the Senate until March, 1849; was the head of the Whig party in Louisiana

Died July

31, 1861.

Johnson, Henry C.; was born at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, March 29, 1826; his father beingat that time an officer of the army and stationed at That post; in 1837 removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he received an academic and collegiate educa tion; studied law; was admitted to the and com bar, practice at Meadville; at an early age entered and at once became a leader; was frequently a Delegate to County and State held a

menced

politics

number of important public

Conventions;

positions, among which were those of Attorney-General of New Mexico, Dis trict and Prosecuting Attorney for Crawford County,

Pennsylvania; Representative in the State Lerisl ature for several terms, was during one of which Speaker of the House; was Chairman of the Judi ciary Committee of the House, and one of the Joint Jommittee to revise the. work of the Commission for the Codification of the Laws; was one of the Com mittee of Seven for conducting Mr. Lincoln s second canvass in Pennsylvania; was President of the State he"

Convention which nominated General Hartranft for Auditor-General; was a Presidential Elector in 1872n April, 1874, was appointed Commissioner of Cus toms in the Treasury Department at Washington in which office he served until April, 1885, when he re signed.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Johnson, Herschell V.; was born in Burke County, Georgia, September 18, 1812; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1834, and adopted the profession of the law; was a presidential Elector in 18-14; in 1848 was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate; in 1849 was elected a Judge of the Superior Court; in 1860 was a candidate for the office of Vice-President, on the ticket with S. A. Douglas, but was defeated subsequently served in the Confederate Senate; was a Delegate to the Phila National Union Convention of 1866; after delphia the Rebellion became a Judge of the Supreme Court ;

"

of Georgia.

"

Died August

17, 1880.

Johnson, Hezekiah S.; was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1828; was educated chiefly at the Allegheny College, Meadville; learned the printing trade; removed to New Mexico in 1849; studied law and came to the bar in 1854; held the offices of District Attorney, Clerk of Court, and Treasurer of the Territory; in 1863 was elected to the Territorial Legislature; edited newspapers in Meadville, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque; in 1869 was appointed, by President Grant, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, and was re-ap pointed in 1871.

Johnson, Isaac from 1845 to 1850.

was Governor of Louisiana New Orleans, March 15,

;

Died in

1853.

Johnson, James; was born in Virginia: was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1813 to 1820, when he resigned, and was appointed Col lector of the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Vir Died at ginia; also served in the State Legislature. Norfolk,

December

1825.

7,

Johnson, James

was born in Orange County, Virginia; served as Lieutenant-Colonel under Colonel R. M. Johnson at the Battle of the Thames; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky during the years 1825 and 1826; his death was announced in the House of Representatives in December, 1826.

Johnson, James

;

was born

in Robinson County, graduated at the State Uni versity in 1832; taught school for a time, and studied law; was a Representative in Congress from 1851 to 1853; in 1865 was appointed Provisional Governor of Georgia; in 1866 was appointed Collector of Customs at Savannah, where he remained until 1869, when he resigned; was subsequently made a Judge of the Circuit Court of the State.

North Carolina,

;

in 1811;

Johnson, James A.; was born in Spartanburg, May 16, 1829; received a common

South Carolina,

school education; studied medicine and law; removed to California; was elected to the State Legislature in 1859; was elected a Representative from California to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on

Post Office and Post Roads, and Agriculture; was reelected to the Forty-first Congress.

Johnson, James H.; was born

in

New Hamp

shire; was a State Senator in 1839; was a State Coun selor in 1842 and 1843; was a Representative in Con

gress from 1845 to 1847, serving on the Committee on Manufactures.

Johnson, James

L.;

was born in Kentucky; was

a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1851.

Johnson, Jeromus was born in Kings County, New York; was a Representative in Congress from New York City from 1825 to 1829. Died in Goshen, Orange County, New York, September 7, 1846. ;

2G7

Johnson, John was born in the County of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1808; received a common school education; emigrated to Ohio in 1824, where he was devoted to agricultural pursuits; served as a member of the Ohio Senate; also, in the last Constitutional Convention of that State; was a Representative Congress from Ohio from 1851 to 1853. ;

m

Johnson, John T.; was born in Scott County, Kentucky; was a brother of Richard M. Johnson; was once Judge of the Court of Appeals of Ken tucky- represented that State in Congress from 1821 to 182o; for thirty years was a preacher of the Gospel,, without receiving a salary. Died in Lexington^ Missouri, December 18, 1857.

Johnson, Joseph was born in Orange County,. NewYork, December 19, 1785; on removing to Virginia, was elected a Representative in Congress from 1823 ;

to 1827, from 1835 to 1841, and from 1845 to 1847; was Governor of Virginia from 1852 to 1856.

Johnson,

J.

Neely was ;

Governor of California

from 1856 to 1858.

Johnson, Noadiah served in the Legislature New York; was a member of Congress from 1833 to ;

of

1835.

Died at Albany, April

4,

1839.

was born

in Ohio; was a Johnson, Perley B.; Representative in Congress Irom that State from 1843-

to 1845.

was born in Warren County, Jersey, January 17, 1818; his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; in 1839 removed with his father to Pennsylvania, settling in North ampton County; was educated at Lafayette College, where he spent two years, after which he spent twoyears teaching school in the South; on his return home studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and soon afterwards was elected Clerk of the Court of Sessions and of Oyer and Terminer; in 1853 and 1854 was elected to the State Assembly; in 1857 wasChairman of the Democratic State Convention; in 1860 was the Revenue Commissioner for the Third Judicial District of the State; was elected a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Roads and Canals, and on Patents; was re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress, and was a member of the Committee

Johnson, Philip

;

New

Territories; was a Delegate to the Chicago Con vention of 1864; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Post Office and Post Roads, and Expenditures on the Public Buildings. Died in Washington, January 31, 1867.

on

Johnson, Reverdy; was born at Annapolis, Maryland, May 21, 1796; was educated at St. John s. College, Annapolis; studied law with his father, and having been admitted to the bar, practiced his pro fession; his first appointment was that of State At torney; in 1817 removed to Baltimore; in 1820 was appointed Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Debtors, which office he held until 1821, when he was elected to the State Senate, serving five years; was re-elected and resigned in the second year of that term; in 1845was chosen a Senator in Congress, where he remained

when he resigned to accept the post of At torney-General of the United States, tendered him by President Taylor; leaving the latter position, he turned his whole attention to his profession, prac ticing chiefly in the Supreme Court of the United Mr. Johnson also took an active part in the States. preparation of seven volumes of Reports of Decisionsin the Court of Appeals of Maryland was a Delegate to the "Peace Congress" of 1861; was subsequently

until 1849,

;

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elected to the House of Delegates of Maryland by th voters of Baltimore County; in 18(32 was again electe a Senator in Congress from his native State, for th

term commencing March, 1863, and ending in 186 serving on the Library Committee, those on the Ju diciary and Foreign Relations, and also the Specia Joint Committee on Reconstruction; was one of th Senators designated by the Senate to attend th funeral of General Scott in 1866; was a Delegate t the Philadelphia National Union Convention o "

"

1866, taking a leading part in its proceedings. In ar address to the law students of Columbia College ii June, 1875, he made the statement that he had beei a practicing lawyer for sixty years; in the latter par of 1875, notwithstanding his advanced age, he mad
.

Jones, William; was born in Philadelphia; took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle; fought at Trenton and Princeton as a volunteer, and served on several vessels; was a Lieutenant under Commodore Truxton; was twice wounded and twice made prisoner; in 1790 settled in Charleston, South Carolina, whence he returned to Philadelphia in, 1793; was a Representative in Congress from Penn-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. sylvania from 1801 to 1803; was, for a short time, Secretary of the Navy under President Madison; was President of the Bank of the United States, Collec tor of Customs at Philadelphia, and for twenty-six years was a member of the American Philosophical Society, before which he read many valuable com

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Jordon, Edward; was born

in

New

York; in

1861 was appointed from Ohio the Solicitor of the United States Treasury, which position he held until 1869.

Rhode Island Regiment; afterward commanded a marine corps in one of the national frigates; was

Jorgenson, Joseph was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1844; graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Penn sylvania; was an Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army from 1865 to 1868; settled in Virginia; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1871 was Postmaster of Petersburg, Virginia; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con

made

gresses.

munications, which were published. lehem, Pennsylvania, in 1831.

Died at Beth

Jones, William ; was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1754; was a carpenter in his youth; en tered the army in 1775 as a Captain in Colonel Lippitt s

prisoner at Charleston, South Carolina; after the in Providence until his death; was, for several years, a Representative from Provi dence in the Assembly, and also Speaker of that body; was Governor of Rhode Island from 1811 to 1817. Died at Providence, April 9, 1822.

war was a merchant

Jones, William G.; was a Judge of the United States Court for the District of

Alabama.

Jones, William T.; was born in Corydon, Indi ana, February 20, 1842; received his education at the Miami University, Ohio; studied law; served in the army as Lieutenant, Captain, and Major of the Sev enteenth Indiana Volunteers; was Presidential Elec tor in 1868; was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, April 6, 1869; was elected a Delegate from Wyoming Territory to the Forty-second Congress. Jones, Willie was a brother of Allan Jones; was a Delegate to the Convention which formed the State Constitution of North Carolina in 1776, and drew up the instrument which was adopted; was President of the Committee of Safety in 1775; Dele gate to the House of Commons of North Carolina from 1776 to 1778; Delegate to the Continental Con gress in 1780 and 1781 was elected a member of the Federal Constitutional Convention, but declined; was

;

;

Joseph, Antonio was born ;

at Taos,

New Mex

August 25, 1846; received his early education at Lux s Academy, in Taos, and attended Bishop Lammy s School, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for two years; afterwards attended Webster College, in Saint Louis ico,

County, Missouri, for four years, completing a com mercial course at Bryant & Stratton s Commercial College, in Saint Louis, Missouri; engaged in mer

New Mexico; was County Judge of Taos County, New Mexico, for six years; was a Representative in the Territorial Legis lature for six years; was a Senator in the Territorial Legislature when elected a Delegate from New Mex cantile pursuits at Ojo Caliente,

ico to the

Forty-ninth Congress.

Joslyn, M. L.; was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior in July, 1882.

Joyce, Charles Herbert

;

was born near An-

;

;

a member of the State Constitutional Convention which rejected the United States Constitution in 1788. Died near Raleigh, North Carolina.

Jordan, Conrad N. was born in New York City, April 20, 1830; received his education in pri vate schools, which he attended until he reached the age of thirteen years; then entered a printing office as office boy; learned the art of printing and fol lowed the occupation of a compositor until his twenty-second year; in the latter part of the year 1852, secured a position in the Hanover Bank, of New York City, as clerk; rose rapidly through the intermediate grades to the post of Cashier; served in this capacity in several different banks in the City of New York; in 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Treasurer of the United States at Wash ;

ington.

Jordan, Isaac M.; was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1835; removed to Ohio when a youth: received a classical education, graduating from Miami University, Ohio, in 1857; studied law in Dayton, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; engaged in the practice of law; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and continued the practice of his profession; was nominated by acclamation, and elect ed a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-eighth Congress ; had never before been a candidate for office.

Jordon, Dillon was an early emigrant to the Territory of Florida; in 1838 was appointed a United States Judge for that district. ;

18

dover, Hampshire County, England, January 30, 1830; emigrated to the United States, with his par ents, in 1836, and settled in Washington County, Vermont; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and began to practice at Northfield; was State Librarian in 1855 and 1856; County Attorney in 1856 and 1857; commissioned Major of Second Ver mont Infantry (three-years men) in 1861, and pro moted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1862; resumed the practice of law at Rutland after his service in the army; was a member of the Legislature in 1869, 1870 and 1871; was Speaker during the latter term; was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Fortyfourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth,

Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Norman B.;

was born in Rome, Oneida January 10, 1815; educated at the Grammar School of that town; studied law, and removed to Chicago, Illinois, in 1836; became an Alderman in the City Council was also City Attor ney, Notary Public, and County Attorney; was a member of the Illinois Senate from 1844 until 1860; was appointed, by President Lincoln, Minister Pleni potentiary to Prussia in 1861, and held the office until 1865; in 1866 was elected a Representative, from Illi nois, to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Banking and Currency, and Weights and Measures subsequently appointed Collector of Cus toms at Chicago.

Judd,

County,

New York,

;

;

Judson,

Andrew

T.;

was born

at Eastford,

Connecticut, November 29, 1784; his education was obtained at the common schools, and under the in structions of his father and brother; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1806, when he removed to Montpelier, Vermont, and practiced in that State; afterwards returned to his native town, and in 1809 went to Canterbury, which he made his permanent residence; in 1819 received the appointment of State s Attorney for Windham County, which office he held for fourteen years; was at different times a member

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of both branches of the Legislature; was a Represent ative in Congress from 1835 to 1839, when he wa* elected Judge of the District Court, and continued in that position until his death; in October, 1850, was designated, by the Circuit Judge cf the Second Cir cuit, to hold the Courts of the United States in the Southern District of New York during the illness ol the distinguished Judge of that district, and oiliciated at the trial of Mr. O Sullivan, and others, for the at tempted Cuban invasion. Among the causes which we re brought before him for adjudication was the libel suit of the Amistad and the fifty -four Africans on board. Died at his home, March 17, 1853.

Julian,

George

"W.;

was born

in Ccntreville,

County, Indiana, May 5, 1817; received a good common school education spent three years as school-teacher; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1840; in 1845 was elected to the Legislature of Indiana; was a Delegate to the "Buffalo Conven tion of 1848; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1849 to 1851; in 1852 was nominated by the Pittsburg Convention for the office of VicePresident of the United States, on the ticket with J. P. Hale for President; in 1856 was Vice-President of the held at Pittsburg; in Republican Convention 1860 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands, on Public Expenditures, and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the "War; in 1862 was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress; was Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, and a member of the Committee on Public Expenditures; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving again at the head of the Public Lands Committee, and on that on Expenses in the Navy Department; was also a member of the National Committee ap pointed to accompany the remains of President Lin "Wayne

;

"

"

"

at an early period of his life he went to Tennessee, and finally settled in Kaskaskia, in Illinois Terri tory, in 1815; in 1818 was a member of the Conven tion for framing a State Constitution, and, when that Government was organized, was appointed Sec retary of State; was subsequently elected a member of the Legislature; from 18:25 to 1835 was a Senator in Congress from Illinois, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims. Died at Washington, District of Columbia. December 12, 1835.

Kane, John K.; was born in Albany, New York, in 1795; graduated at Yale College in 1814; studied law, and settled in Philadelphia; in 183:2 was one ol a Board of Commissioners to settle certain claims with France; in 1845 was chosen Attorney-General of Pennsylvania; in 1846 resigned to accept the position of United States District Judge for the State of Penn

sylvania; was a man of high culture, and President of the American Philosophical Died in Society. Philadelphia, February 21, 1858.

"

"

coln to Illinois; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the additional Committees on the Assas sination of President Lincoln, and Education and

Labor.

Junkin, Benjamin T.; was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1822; educated at Fayette College; studied law at Carlisle, and was admitted to the bar in 1844; was elected District At torney for Perry County in 1850, and held the office three years; was elected from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Kalbfleisch, Martin; -was born in Flushing, Netherlands, February 6, 1804; received a common school education, and adopted the profession of a, chemist; came to the United States early in life, and his first public position was that of Health Warden in New York City in 1832; in 1836 was Trustee of one of the common schools in New York; in 1852 and the two succeeding years was Supervisor of the town of Bushwick, Kings County; in 1854 was appointed President of a Board of Commissioners for consolidat ing the cities of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and Bushwick; in 1855 was elected an Alderman of Brooklyn, and, having been re-elected, was President of the Board of Aldermen from 1857 to 1861; during the latter year was elected Mayor of Brooklyn; in 1862 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Claims and Expenditures in the Treasury Department; was a Delegate to the Phila of 18(J6; in delphia National Union Convention 1867 was again elected Mayor of Brooklyn. Died in Brooklyn, February 12, 1873.

Kasson, John A.; was born

near Burlington, 11, 1822; graduated at the Uni of Vermont in studied law in Massa versity 1842; chusetts; practiced the profession in St. Louis, Mis souri, until 1857, when he removed to Iowa; in 1858 was appointed a Commissioner to report upon the condition of the Executive Departments of lo wa in 1859 assisted in the State Bank of organizing Iowa, and became Director for the State; in 1861 was appointed Assistant Postmaster-General, which office he resigned, in 1862, when elected a Repre sentative from Iowa to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means;during the summer of 1863 was appointed, by President. Lincoln, a Commissioner to the International Postal Congress at Paris, returning in August; was reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress serving on the Committees on Appropriations and the Death of President Lincoln, and as Chairman of the Commit tee on Coinage, Weights and Measures; retiring from Congress in 1867, was appointed a Special Com missioner to Europe for the Post Office Department and on his return was elected to the Legislature of Iowa for several years; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses; was United States Minister to Austria-Hungary from 1877 to 1881; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Vermont, January

Kaufman, David S.; was born in Cumberland Pennsylvania, in 1813; graduated at Princeton Col lege, in 1833; not long after removed to Natchez Mississippi, and read law in the office of General Quitman; in 1835 settled in Natchitoches, Louisianain 1837 emigrated to Nacogdoches, in Texas; in 1838 was elected a Representative in the Texan Congresswas twice re-elected, and twice chosen Speaker of the House; in 1843 was elected to the Senate, and from the Committee on Foreign Relations, in 1844 pre sented a report in favor of annexation, and took an active part in its consummation; in 1845 was ap pointed Charge to this government, but that office was superseded by the final act of annexation, and he was elected one of the first members of the House of Representatives from Texas, serving from 1846 to Died in Washington, District of f&l. Columbia,

January

13, 1851.

"

"

i

Kane, Elias K.; was born in New York State about the year 1795; was bred to the legal profession;

Kavanag-h, Edward was born April 27 1795adopted the profession of the law; was a member of he Maine Legislature in 1826, 1828, 1842 and 1843Secretary of the State Senate in 1830; was a Repre sentative in Congress from 1831 to 1835, when he was ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. appointed Charge d Affaires to Portugal, where he re mained until 1841; in 1842 was a Commissioner for settling the Northeast Boundary; was Acting Gov ernor of Maine from 1843 to 1844, and for a short time President of the State Senate. Died at Newcastle, Maine, January 20, 1844. 1

Kean, John

;

was a Delegate from South Carolina

to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787.

Kean, John, Jr.; was born at Ursino, Union New Jersey, December 4, 1852; graduated at the Law School of Columbia College; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1877; engaged in banking, County,

mining, and Elizabeth,

from

New

settled in pursuits; Jersey; was elected a Representative Jersey to the Forty-eighth Congress.

manufacturing

New

Kearney, Dyre was ;

a Delegate from Delaware from 1786 to 1788.

to the Continental Congress

Keese, Richard

was born in Peru, Clinton York, November 23, 1794; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New York from 1827 to 1829; subsequently settled in Pennsylvania. County,

;

New

Edward

C.; was born in St. Louis, Kehr, Missouri, November 5, 1837; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in St. Louis in 1858; in 1873 was elected a Repre sentative from Missouri to the Forty -fourth Congress, never before having held any public office.

was born in Clark County, Keifer, Ohio, January 30, 1836; was educated in the com mon schools and at Antioch College; studied law; was J. "Warren

;

admitted to practice at Springfield, Ohio, in 1858; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General and Brevet MajorGeneral; resumed the practice of law; in 1866 was tendered the commission of Lieutenant -Colonel, United States Army, but declined; was a State Senator in 1868 and 1869; Trustee of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home from 1870 to 1878; Trustee of Antioch College for a number of years; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1876; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Fortyseventh Congresses, serving as Speaker in the latter Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth Con gress.

Keightley, Edwin William was born in La Grange County, Indiana, August 7, 1843; received a common school education, and attended the Val ;

paraiso Collegiate Institute one year; graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michi gan in 1865, and commenced the practice of law in Saint Joseph s County, Michigan; in 1872 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for two years; was appointed Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit; was elected to the same position in 1875, for the term of six years; was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty -fifth Congress; in May, 1879, was ap pointed Third Auditor of the United States Treas ury.

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Keim, George May; was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1805; was educated at Princeton College; studied law, and came to the bar in 1826; soon alter became Cashier of the Farmers Bank at Reading; in 1829 became interested in the navigation and railroad interests of his District; be came a prominent official among the Masons; took an interest in military affairs, and became a Major-General of Militia; was an earnest student of geology and Indian history, and collections that he made were donated to public institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution; in 1835 became the head of a firm which established an extensive rolling-mill; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Conven tion of 1837; in that year was elected to Congress to fill a vacancy, and was twice re-elected; in 1842 he at a dinner presided Congressional given to Charles Dickens in Washington; was himself a writer of verses; by President Taylor was appointed Marshal of Eastern Pennsylvania, and re-appointed by Presi dent Polk; in 1847 was made President of the Lib erty Union"; was one of the Managers of the Phila delphia Art Union; in 1852 was elected Mayor of Reading; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; took an interest in raising troops for the Rebellion. Died suddenly, June 10, 1861, while drilling a company for the war. "

Keim, William High; was

born near Read was educated at Military School rose by regular de to the rank of grees Major-General of Militia; in 1848 was elected Mayor of Reading; in 1859 was elected a in Representative Congress; was also SurveyorGeneral of the State; was placed in command of a Division of the Volunteer Army in 1861; after a cam paign on the Upper Potomac was appointed a Brig adier-General in the Regular Army; served with honor in the Army of the Potomac. Died at Harrisburg, May 18, 1862, of typhoid fever, contracted while in command of his brigade on the Peninsula. ing, Pennsylvania,

the

Mount Airy

June

13, 1813, ;

Lawrence M.; was born in Orangeburg South Carolina, October 4, 1824; graduated at the College of South Carolina in 1843; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1845; was elected to Keitt,

District,

the State Legislature in 1848; in 1853 was elected to a seat in the National House of Representatives; was consecutively re-elected until December, 1860, when he resigned, serving in the Thirty-fifth Congress as Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds; just before leaving Congress was elected to the Seceding Convention of South Carolina, and sub sequently took an active part in the great Rebellion as a member of the Confederate Congress; was killed in battle, in Virginia, June, 1864.

Kelley, William D.; was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1814; received a good En glish education; commenced life as a reader in a printing-office; spent seven years as an apprentice in a jewelry establishment; removed to Boston and fol lowed his trade there for four years, devoting some attention to literary matters; returned to Philadel phia, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841 held the office of Judge of the Court of Com mon Pleas in Philadelphia for some years; in addi ;

Kelly, A. M.; was born in Virginia; resided in Richmond; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Richmond; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in March, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, United States Minister to Italy did not enter upon the discharge of his duties for clerical reasons; in April, of the same year, was appointed Minister to Austria, but the same objections were raised as in the case of Italy, and he was recalled. ;

tion to his many political speeches, a number of lit erary addresses have been published from his pen; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as a member of

the Committees on Indian Affairs, and Expenditures on Public Buildings; was re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Agri culture, and on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on

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the Library, Naval Affairs, and on Freedmen; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven tion of 186(i; was re-elected to the Fortieth Con gress, serving on old Committees and as Chairman of that on Weights and Measures; was re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Centennial Celebration; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-sev

ister to Guatemala, and in 1866, by President son, Chief Justice of Nebraska Territory.

John

"

enth, Forty-eighth,

and Forty-ninth Congress.

Kellogg Charles was a native of Berkshire County, Massachusetts; served six years in the New York Assembly from Cayuga County; was a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1825 to 1

,

;

1827.

Kellogg Francis

was born in Washing Hampshire County, Massachusetts, May 30, 1810; received a limited education, and, having removed 1

"W.;

,

ton,

to Michigan, entered into the business of lumbering; served in the Legislature of Michigan; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-sixth

Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions; was re-elected to the Thirty-sev enth Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands and on Expenditures in the Post Office De partment; was also re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on Military Affairs; in 1865 was appointed, by President Johnson, Collector of Internal Revenue for Alabama, and was elected from that State to the Fortieth Con gress.

Kellogg, Orlando was born in Elizabeth town, York, June 18, 1809; studied law and was ad mitted to the bar in 1838; in 1840 was appointed ;

New

Surrogate of Essex County, which office he held for four years; in 1846 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirtieth Congress; also re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Manufactures, and on the Militia; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but died at Elizabethtown, August 24, 1865, before taking his seat.

Kellogg, Stephen W.; was born in Shelburne, Massachusetts, April 5, 1822; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1846; studied law, and practiced at Naugatuck and Waterbury; was Judge of the New Haven County Court in 1854; Clerk of the State Senate in 1851; member of the State Senate in 1853, and of the State House of Representatives in 1856; elected Judge of Probate in 1854, and held the office six years; was a Delegate to the National Republican Conventions of 1860 and 1868; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committees on the Pacific Railroad, War Claims, and Chairman of that on Reform in the Civil SerKellogg, William; was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, July 8, 1814; removed to Illinois in 1837; his education was obtained in the common schools of the country; studied law, and acquired an extensive practice in disputed land titles in Illinois; served in the State Legislature in 1849 and 1850; was three years Judge of the Circuit Court of Illinois; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Public Expenditures; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Judiciary Committee, and on the Special Committee of Thirtythree on the Rebellious States; re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Judiciary Committee, and that on Government Expenditures; in 1864 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Min

Kellogg, "William Pitt was born at Orwell, Vermont, December 8, 1831; removed to Illinois in 1848; studied law, and came to the bar in 1854; was a Presidential Elector in 1856 and 1860, and a Dele gate to the Republican Conventions of those years; was appointed, by President Lincoln, Chief Justice of Nebraska, which position he resigned to take command of a cavalry regiment at the breaking out of the Rebellion of 1861; for his services in Southern Missouri and in the Corinth campaign, was made a Brigadier-General; left the army on account of im paired health; was appointed Collector of the Port of New Orleans; in 1868 was elected a Senator in Congressfrom Louisiana for the term ending in 1871, serv ing on the Committees on Commerce and Private Land Claims; was subsequently elected Governor of Louisiana, his right to be recognized as such having been contested with much bitterness between the political parties of the State; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1863, 1876, and 1880; was again elected to the United States Senate for the term of six years from March 4, 1877; in 1882 was elected a Representative to the Forty -eighth Con ;

gress.

Kelly,

James

;

was a Representative in Congress

from Pennsylvania, from 1805 to 1809.

Kelly, James K.; was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1819; graduated at Princeton College in 1839; studied law, and came to the bar in 1842; went to California in 1849, and to Oregon in 1851; in 1852 was elected one of three commissioners to prepare a code of laws for that Territory, was a member of the Legislative Council from 1853 to 1857; a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Oregon in 1857; was a Senator in the State Legislature from 1860 to 1864; was appointed United States District Attorney for Oregon in 1860, but declined; in 1855 was chosen Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers, and was engaged in the Yakima Indian war in 1855 and 1856; was elected a Sen ator in Congress for the term commencing in 1871 and ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Post Offices, Mines and Mining, and Military Affairs. Kelly, John; was born in the city of New York, April 21, 1821; was educated at the public schools in that city was by trade a mason was Alderman of the city for two years; was elected a Representative in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means; in October, 1858, was elected High Sheriff for the City and County of New York; was a Delegate to the Died in New York "Chicago Convention" of 1864. ;

City,

June

;

1,

1886.

Kelly, Milton; was born in New York; ap pointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Idaho. This Judge has been incorrectly placed upon the records as Kellogg. Kelly, "William was a Representative in Con gress from Louisiana during the years 1821 and 1822, and a Senator in Congress .from 1822 to 1825. ;

Kelsey, "William H.; was born in Smyrna, New York, October 2, 1812; adopted the profession of the law; in 1840 was appointed Surrogate of Livingston County; in 1850 District Attorney of the same Coun ty; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. on the Committee on Agriculture; re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committees on Appropriations and Accounts.

Kelso, John R.; was born in Franklin County, Ohio, March 21, 1831; educated at Pleasant Ridge College, Missouri; was for a time the Principal of an academy; served through the war for the Union as a Lieutenant and Captain; in 1864 was elected a Rep resentative from Missouri to the Thirty-ninth Con gress, serving on the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads; was also a Delegate to the Philadel phia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866.

Kemble, G-ouverneur was born in New York ;

was a Representative

in Congress

;

from 1837 to 1841.

Kemper, James

L.; was born in Madison Coun 1824; was educated at Washington College and at the Virginia Military Institute; be came a lawyer in 1846; served through the war with Mexico as a Captain served ten years in the Legisla ture of his native State; served as a Colonel, and be came a Major-General in the Confederate Army dur ing the Rebellion, having been wounded and left for dead on the field of battle at Gettysburg; in 1874 was elected Governor of Virginia. ty, Virginia, in

;

Kempshall, Thomas; was born in England; having emigrated to New York, was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1839 to 1841; was one of the pioneers of Rochester, and died in that city,

January

14, 1865.

Kenan, Thomas was ;

born in Duplin County,

North Carolina, in 1771; in 1799 was a member of the House of Delegates; served in the State Senate in 1804; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1805 to 1811 subsequently re moved to Alabama, where he served for many years in the Legislature of that State, but declined a re Died near Selma, October 22, election to Congress. ;

1843.

Amos was born in Dunstable, Massa August 16, 1789; commenced his education while a farmer s boy at the academies of New Ipswich and Groton; taught school at North Reading; with the money thus obtained, entered Dartmouth Col lege, and graduated with honor; in 1811 commenced the study of law; in 1814 visited Washington City, and thence went to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was a tutor for one year in the family of Henry Clay; in 1816 was appointed Postmaster of Georgetown, Kentucky while practicing his profession edited a newspaper called the Argus, and for many years was a constant writer for the political press; became a Director in the Bank of the Commonwealth; in 1829 was appointed, by President Jackson, Fourth Aud itor of the Treasury; in May, 1835, was promoted to the position of Postmaster-General, in which position he continued under President Van Buren until May, 1840; subsequently took up his residence in Washing ton City soon after the claims of Professor Morse in regard to the telegraph had been recognized by Con with the practical work gress, he became identified ings of that invention; was also the founder of the Deaf and Dumb Institution in Washington, and at the cost of one hundred thousand dollars, built, as a memorial to his wife, the Calvary Baptist Church of Washington; in 1866 went to Europe on a tour of to the Holy Land; at pleasure, extending his travels the time of his death was engaged in writing a His tory of his Life and Times; was also the author of a Died in Washington, June Life of Andrew Jackson. Kendall,

chusetts,

;

;

12, 1869.

277

Kendall, Charles

West

was born in Searswas educated at Phil lips Academy, Massachusetts, and attended a par tial course at Yale College; studied law in Sacra mento, California, and practiced in Nevada; was a member of the Legislature of California in 1861 and 1862; was elected to the Forty-second and Fortythird Congresses from Nevada, serving on the Com mittees on Mines and Mining and Treasury Depart mont, Maine, April

;

22, 1828;

ment.

Kendall, Jonas was born at Worcester, Massa chusetts, in 1757; obtained a finished education by his own unaided exertions; served thirteen years in ;

the Legislature of Massachusetts; was a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821. Died in Leominster, Massachusetts, October 22, 1844.

Kendall, Joseph G.; was born in 1788; gradu ated at Harvard University in 1810; was a tutor there from 1812 to 1819; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1829 to 1833; was then appointed Clerk of the State Courts. Died at Worcester, Massachusetts, October

2,

1847.

Kenna, John E.; was born at Valcoulon, Vir ginia (now West Virginia), April 10, 1848; served in the Confederate Army during the War of the Rebel lion; afterwards attended St. Vincent s College, at Wheeling, West Virginia; studied law; was admitted to practice in 1870; was Prosecuting Attorney from 1872 to 1877; was elected a Representative from West Virginia to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-sev enth, and Forty-eighth Congresses; resigned in 1883 to take his seat as a Senator of the United States from West Virginia for the term of six years from March 4, 1883.

Kennedy, Andrew; was born in Ohio in 1810; was bred a blacksmith, and at the age of nineteen could neither read nor write; subsequently studied law; was a member of the State Senate of Indiana; represented that State in Congress 1841 to 1847. Died at Muncietown, Indiana, December 31, 1847.

;

Kennedy, Anthony; was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1811 when ten years of age removed to Virginia; was educated at Jefferson Academy, Charlestown, Virginia; studied law, but abandoned it, and ;

subsequently engaged in the manufacture of cotton, and in planting; was a member of the Legislature of Virginia from 1839 to 1843; was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress from Virginia; removed to Baltimore in 1850; was elected to the Maryland Leg islature in 1856, serving as Chairman of the Commit tee on Ways and Means; was elected to the United States Senate for six years from March 4, 1857, serv ing as a member of the Committee on Private Land Claims and on the District of Columbia.

Kennedy, James K.; was an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Wash ington. Kennedy, John P.;. was born in Baltimore, October, 1795; studied law, and practiced in that city until 1838; was a member of the House of Delegates of Maryland in 1820, 1822, and 1846; was Speaker in the latter year; was Secretary of Legation to Chili in 1823; in 1838 was elected to the House of Represent atives in the Federal Legislature, and served in that body through the Twenty -fifth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty -eighth Congresses; his last national position was that of Secretary of the Navy, under President Fillmore; in 1849 was chosen by the Regents of the University of Maryland to preside over that institu-

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tion as Provost; among his various political tracts, been speeches, reports, and addresses, which have published, are "A Review of Mr. Cambreling s Free Trade Report, by Mephistopheles," in 1830; "The Memorial of the Permanent Committee of the New York Convention of Friends of Domestic Industry," in 1833; an elaborate report on "The Commerce and of the United States, by the Committee of

Navigation

which Mr. Kennedy was Chairman), and a report from the same Committee on in 1843; besides these, he "T.he Warehouse .System," published several pamphlets and tracts, in defense of Commerce" (of

in 1842;

the protective system; in the field of general literature he is known to the public as the author of "Swallow Horseshoe Barn; a Sojourn in the Old Dominion," of the Bowl," "Quod Libet," "Rob Robinson," "Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, late AttorneyGeneral of the United States," sundry historical, biographical and literary discourses, essays and re views, which have not yet been collected into volumes; he was an active member of the Historical Society of Maryland, and for a long time its ViceDied at Newport, Rhode Island, in President. "

August, 1870.

Kennedy, Joseph C. &. was born atMeadville, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1813; was educated at Alle gheny College, Pennsylvania; read law; at an early age became the owner of two newspapers; in 1849 was appointed Secretary of the United States Census Board; drafted the bill for the establishment of the Census Bureau, which was passed by Congress, and was appointed the first Superintendent of the Bureau, conducting the collection of statistics of the Seventh Census; in 1851 was commissioned to visit Europe in the interest of statistics and cheap postage; ,

was a member of the International Statistical Con gress held at Brussels and Paris; in 1850 was Secre orld s tary of the United States Commission to the Fair at London, England; was again at the head of the Census Bureau in I860; was a Commissioner to

W

Exhibition of 18G1 was Corre sponding Secretary of the National Institute, and of the United States Agricultural Society, and Editor of the journal of the latter; was a member of the Statistical Board of Belgium; of the Geographical the International

;

Society of Prussia; of the Statistical Societies of France, England, and Ireland, and of other European and American associations; in 1860 was presented, by the King of Denmark, with a gold medal for his services in statistics; in 1867 received the degree of

LL.D.

Kennedy, "William; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1803 to 1805 from 1809 to 1811, and from 1813 to 1815. Kennett, Luther M.; was born in Fal mouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky, Marcli 15, 1807; re ceived a good English and classical education; was, for a number of years, Deputy Clerk of Pendleton and Campbell Counties; studied law; in 1825 re moved to Missouri, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits; having settled in St. Louis in 1842, was elected to the Councils of that city; in 1849 was Chairman of the Pacific Railroad Convention," held in St. Louis, and subsequently Vice- President of the company formed for commencing the work; in 1850 was elected Mayor of St. Louis, and re-elected in 1851 and 1852; in 1853 was elected President of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Missouri (St. Louis Dis trict) from 1855 to 1857. "

Kennon, William was born in Pennsylvania; emigrated to Ohio; was elected a Representative in ;

Congress from that State from 1829 to 1833, from 1833 and from 1847 to 1849.

to 1837,

Kent,

Edward

Hampshire, January

was born

;

8,

in Concord,

New

1802; graduated at Harvard

University in 1821; studied law and attended a course of lectures by Chancellor Kent in New York; settled in practice atBangor, Maine, in 1825, and be came eminent in his profession; in 1827 was appoint ed Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions for Penobscot County; from 1829 to 1833 was a member of the Legislature; was afterwards Mayor of Bangor for two years; was Governor of Maine from 1838 to 1840; in 1843 was appointed by the Legislature one of the Commissioners for settling the Maine boun dary line under the Ashburton Treaty; in 1848 was a Delegate to the Convention which nominated Gen eral Taylor, and was appointed by him, upon his elevation to the Presidency, Consul to Rio Janeiro; in the spring of 1854 returned to Bangor and resumed his profession; in 1859 was appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine; in 1855 re ceived the degree of LL.D. from Wat. College.

Kent, Joseph; was born in 1779 in Calvert County, Maryland; was educated for a physician, and combined the practice of his profession with the pur suits of agriculture; was a Representative in Con gress from his native State from 1811 to 1815, and from 1821 to 1826; Governor of Maryland from to 1829; United States Senator from 1833 to 1837. Died near his residence in the vicinity of Bladensburg, Maryland, November 24, 1839. 1H2(>

Kent, Moss was the father of James Kent was a member of the New York Assembly in 1807 and 1810, from Jefferson County; was a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1813 to 1817. :

;

Kent, William

was born in 1802 and was the James Kent; was for many years, a success ful lawyer in New York City, and a Judge of the Circuit Court; for a short time was a Professor in Harvard University. Died at Fishkill, New York, ;

son of

January

4,

1861.

Kenyon, William S.; was elected a Represent ative from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress,

serving as a member of the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Ker, David

;

was an early emigrant to the Ter and in 1802 was appointed a

ritory of Mississippi,

Judge of the United States Court

for that Territory.

Kernan, Francis was born in Steuben County, ;

New

1816; received his educa Georgetown College, District of Colum adopted and practiced the profession of law;

York, January

14,

tion at the

bia; held, for a time, the office of Reporter of the Court of Appeals; served in the State Legislature; was elected

a Representative from New York to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary; was a Regent of the University of Utica; a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867. and the National Convention held in New York in 1868; was subsequently elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing in 1875, serv ing on the Committees on Finance and Patents. "

"

Kerr, John was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817. ;

was

born in North Carolina; re Kerr, John; ceived a liberal education, and adopted the profes sion of the law; was a Representative in Congress from his native State from 1853 to 1855; was subse quently elected to the House of Commons of that State.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Kerr, John Bozman was born at Eastern, Tal bot County, Maryland, March 5, 1809; graduated a Harvard University in 1830; studied law at Easton and was admitted to the bar in 1833; was a membe of the General Assembly of Maryland from 1836 t 1838; from 1847 to 1849 acted as Deputy for the At torney-General of Maryland for Talbot County; from 1849 to 1851 was a Representative in Congress, anc at the end of the session was appointed, by Presides Fillmore, Charge d Affaires to the Republic of Nica ragua; during the Revolution of 1851 had the gooc in Centra fortune, as the National Representative America, to bring about an armistice, and was instru mental in saving the lives of leading officers of the revolutionary party, for which he received a forma expression of thanks from the Executive on leavinj the country; in 1853 the Congress of the United State; voted him an extra sum for services in Centra America; in 1854 resumed the practice of his profes sion in the city of Baltimore; subsequently held an office under the Attorney-General in Washington, after which he was appointed Deputy Solicitor of the Court of Claims. He was the son of J. L. Kerr. ;

Kerr, John L.; was born at Greenbury Point, near Annapolis, Maryland, January 15, 1780; gradu ated at St. John s College in 1799, studied law with John Leeds Bozman, and practiced the profession with success; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1829, and again from 1831 to 1833; was a Senator in Congress from 1841 to 1843; was a member of the National Convention" held at Harrisburg in 1839; was at the head of the electoral ticket for President during the same year; before en tering Congress was the Agent of Maryland in the prosecution of militia claims against the United States. Died at his homestead, in Maryland, Feb ruary 21, 1844. "

Kerr, Joseph was a Senator in Congress from Ohio from 1814 to 1815, having succeeded Thomas ;

\Vorthingtou.

Kerr, Michael C.; was born near Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1827; was chiefly self-educated, but studied at several academies; for a time taught school; studied law in the University of Louisville, and received .the degree of Bachelor of Laws; after a brief residence in Ken tucky settled at New Albany, Indiana; in 1856 was elected for two years to the State Assembly; in 1862 was elected Reporter to the Supreme Court of the State, and published five volumes; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Private Land Claims, and on Accounts: Avas re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Elections, and Roads and Canals; was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serving on various important Committees, chiefly the Judi ciary; having been re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, was the choice- of his party for Speaker, and was duly elected. Died August 20, 1876.

279

Ketcham, John H.; was born in Dover, DutchCounty, New York, December 21, 1831; received

ess

an academic education; adopted the occupation of a farmer; was for two years Supervisor of his native town was a member of the Assembly in 1856 and 1857; of. the State Senate in 1860 and 1861; in 1862 entered the military service, and as Colonel of the One Hundred and Fiftieth New York Volunteers served until January, 1865, when he was made a Brigadier-General by brevet, which position he re signed in March, 1865, having previously been elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-ninth Congress; served on the Committee on Military Affairs; was also one of the Representatives desig ;

nated by the House to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, and Military Affairs; also re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con gresses, serving on various Committees; in 1874 was appointed one of the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, serving until 1877; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1876; was elected a Representative from New York to the Fortyfifth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Conresses.

Ketchum, Winthrop W.; was

born at WilkesPennsylvania, June 29, 1820; was school teacher or eight years; was admitted to the bar in 1850; was ?rothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lu:erne County from 1855 to 1858; was a member of he House of Representatives of the State in 1859; State Senator in 1860, 1861, and 1862; was appointed Solicitor of the United States Court of Claims, by Mr. Lincoln, in 1865; held the office two years and esigned; was elected a Representative from Penniylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress. jarre,

Key, David M.; was

born in Greene County,

Tennessee, January 27, 1824; studied law, and was dmitted to practice in 1850; was a member of the state Constitutional Convention of 1870; was Chaiiellor of the Third Chancery Division of the State to 1875, when he was appointed United Senator for the unexpired term of Andrew ohnson, deceased, serving until 1877; was Postniaser-General in the Cabinet of President Hayes from 877 to 1880, when he resigned, and was appointed Jnited States District Judge for the Eastern and liddle Districts of Tennessee.

rom 1870 itates

Key, Philip; was

born in

St.

Mary

s

County,

Maryland, in 1750; received a classical and coinmerial education was devoted to agricultural pursuits; rved a number of years in the Legislature of Maryand, and was for one or two terms Speaker; also ndered some service in the Municipal Courts of his ative county; was a Representative in Congress from laryland from 1791 to 1793. Died, in his native lace, in January, 1820. ;

Key, Philip Barton was born in Cecil County, laryland, in 1765; was liberally educated; entered English Army as a Capta u, and Avhen the Revoutionary War broke out refused to bear arms against ;

Kerrigan, James

E.;

was elected a Represent

ative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, leaving his seat for a time to serve as Colonel of Vol unteers in the troubles of 1861.

Kershaw, John was

a native of South Caro in Congress from that State from 1813 to 1815, when he was appointed, by President Madison, one of the three Commissioners to run the Creek boundary lines. ;

lina;

was a Representative

e Colonies; had a small command, and did some rvice at Pensacola, Florida, where he was a hard ;udent; after the peace, returned to Maryland, where e took a high position as a lawyer; represented Vnnapolis in the State Legislature; was a Representtive in Congress from Maryland from 1807 to 1813. )ied at Georgetown, District of Columbia, July 28, 815.

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Keyes, Elias was born in Ashford, Connecti cut; was a member of the Legislature of Vermont, ;

from Stockbridge County, for a period of eighteen was years; from 1803 to 1818 was a State Councilor; a Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1821 to 1823.

Kidder, David was born in Dresden, Lincoln County, Maine, December 8, 1787; received a classi cal education from private tutors; studied law, and settled in Somerset County, where he was County Attorney from 1811 to 1823; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1823 to 1827; a member Died November 1, of the State Legislature in 1829. ;

1860.

Kidder, Jefferson

P.;

was born

at Braintree,

was educated at the common Vermont, in 1814 schools; graduated at the Norwich University studied and practiced law; was State Attorney from 1842 to 1847; a member of the State Constitutional Conven tion in 1843; of the State Senate in 1847 and 1848; Lieuteuant-Governor in 1853 and 1854; removed to Minnesota in 1857; was elected to the Legislature in 1860, 1862, and 1863; was a Provisional Delegate from Dakota Territory, while traveling there; was appointed an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Dakota in 1865, and removed there; was re-ap pointed in 1869, and again in 1873; after holding the position ten years, resigned on being elected a Dele gate from Dakota to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -fifth Congress; in 1883 was ap pointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ;

;

of Dakota; died at St. Paul, Minnesota, October 1883.

Kidwell, Zedekiah was born ;

ty, Virginia,

January

4,

1814;

2,

Coun was educated by his in Fairfax

father; studied medicine, and graduated at the Jef ferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1839; after practicing medicine some years, in 1848 commenced the study of law, and began to practice as a lawyer in 1849; served a number of years in the Legislature

of Virginia; was a

member

Constitu tional Convention" in 1849; was a Presidential Elector in 1852; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1853 to 1857; in 1857 was elected one of three Commissioners to superintend the pub lic works for the State of Virginia, representing in that board the Third District. Died at Fairmount, of the

"State

April 27, 1872.

Kilbourn, James was born in New Britain, Connecticut, October 19, 1770; while apprenticed as a farmer s boy received instruction in Latin and Greek and mathematics from the son of his employer; ;

was next a mechanic, then a merchant and manufac turer; finally studied divinity, and became a clergy man of the Episcopal Church; in 1803 was instru mental in forming an emigrating colony to Central Scioto Company"; a town was Ohio, called the soon organized, and named Worthington; in 1805 was appointed, by Congress, to the office of United States Surveyor of Public Lands; in 1806 was chosen by the Legislature a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio College, at Athens; in 1812 was appointed, by the President, a Commissioner to settle the boundary between the Public Lands and the Virginia Reserva tion, and also commissioned as Colonel of the Fron tier Regiment; was one of the Commissioners for lo cating Miami University, and President of the Board of Trustees of Worthington College; from 1813 to 1817 was a Representative in Congress from Ohio; in 1823 was elected to the Ohio Legislature, serving on fourteen committees; was re-elected in 1838; subse quently devoted much attention to matters of state "

policy.

Died

in

Worthington, Ohio, April

24, 1850.

Kilgore, Daniel was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1835 to 1839. Died in New York, December 12, 1851. ;

David was

born in Harrison County, 1804; removed, with his father, to Indiana, in 1819, and settled in Franklin County; received a common school education commenced the study of law in 1825, and was admitted to practice in 1830; removed to Delaware County: in 1833 was lected to the State Legislature, and served several years; in 1839 was elected by the Legislature Presi dent Judge of the Judicial Circuit in which he re sided, and held the office seven years; in 1850 was a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the State; in 1854 was again elected to the Legislature, and was Speaker of the House; in 1856 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-fifth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth ConEx ;ress, serving as a member of the Committee on penditures in the Treasury Department and that on the District of Columbia; was a Delegate to the National Union Convention of 1866. Philadelphia

Kilgore,

;

Kentucky, April

3,

;

"

"

Kille, Joseph was born in New Jersey; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1839 ;

to 1841.

W.

was born in Lebanon, Penn Killinger, John sylvania, September 25, 1825; graduated at Marshall College in 1843; studied law, and came to the bar in 1846; was Attorney for Lebanon County until 1849; was elected to the House of Representatives of the State in 1850 and 1851 was elected to the State Senate in 1854, serving three years was elected a Representa tive from Pennsylvania to Thirty-sixth, Thirty-sev ;

;

;

and

Forty-third Congresses, enth, Forty-second, serving on the Committees on Revision of Laws and Pacific Railroad; was also elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses.

Kilpatrick, Judson; was born near DickerNew Jersey, January 14, 1836; graduated at West Point in 1861; entered the First Artillery, and was wounded at Big Bethel, Virginia, in June, 1861; was Lieutenant-Colonel of New York Cavalry in Sep tember, 1861, and was at the Battle of Manassas; Colonel of Second New York Cavalry in 1862; Com mander of Cavalry in 1863, and was brevetted Major after the action at Aldie; was Commander of Cavalry in the Army of the Potomac, and in the Army of the Cumberland, and was wounded at Resaca in 1864; was severely wounded, and brevetted Colonel in the March to the Sea was Captain of the Eighteenth Artillery in 1874; was brevetted Major-General for the capture of Fay etteville, North Carolina, in March, 1865; was Major-General of the United State.-; Army for campaign in the Carolinas; Major-General of Volunteers in June, 1865; was Minister to Chili from 1865 to 1870; was again appointed Minister to Chili in 1881. Died at Santiago, Chili, December C, 1331.

town,

"

";

Kilty, William settled in the city of Washing ton in 1800, and, in the following year was appointed Chief Justice of the Circuit Court for the District of ;

Columbia.

Kimball, Alanson M.; was born in Buxton, York County, Maine, March 12, 1827; received a common school and academic education; removed to the State of Wisconsin, and there became a member of the Legislature in 1863 and 1864; was by occupa tion a merchant; in 1864 was elected a Representa tive

from Wisconsin to the Forty -fourth Congress.

Putnam was born at Salem, Massachusetts, April 26, 1836; was prepared for colKimball, James

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. lege at the Salem High School, and afterwards at tended successively Harvard University, the Uni versity of Friedrich \Vilhelm, at Berlin, Germany, George Augusta University, at Goettingen, and the School of Mines, at Freiberg, Saxony; in 1857 re

ceived from George Augusta University the degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. returned from Europe in 1859, and became associated in the geological survey of the States of Wisconsin and Illinois; in 1860 was ap pointed Professor of Chemistry and Economic Geol ogy in the New York State Agricultural College, at Ovid, New York, now a part of Cornell University; in 1861 entered the Union Army as Assistant Adju tant-General, with the rank of Captain, and was assigned to duty as Chief of Staff under General Pat rick; was in all the principal engagements partici pated in by the Army of the Potomac until Decem ;

ber, 1862, when ill-health compelled him to resign his commission and retire to civil life; in 1863 was brevetted Major for gallant conduct; settled in New York City as a geologist and mining engineer, and rapidly gained distinction; in 1873 accepted the Hon orary Professorship of Geology in Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and took up his resi dence in that place, still continuing his business re

New York City; became President of the Everett Iron Company; in June, 1885, was ap pointed, by President Cleveland, Director of the United States Mints. lations in

Kimball, Sumner I.; was born at Lebanon, Maine, September 2, 1834; received a classical edu cation, graduating from Bowdoin College in 1855; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1859; practiced his profession one year at North Ber wick, Maine, and one year at Boston, Massachusetts; in 1861 was appointed a first-class clerk in the office of the Second Auditor of the United States Treasury, at Washington; was promoted, through the succes sive grades, to the post of Chief Clerk, now desig nated Deputy Auditor; in 1871 was appointed Chief of the Revenue Marine Division, in the Secretary s office, in charge of the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Stations; on the erection of the LifeSaving Service into a separate bureau, by act of Con gress, in 1878, was appointed, by the President, the General Superintendent of that service.

Kimmell, William; was born in Baltimore, Maryland received a collegiate education studied law, and was admitted to practice at Baltimore; be came interested in agriculture, and was a Director in several railroad and commercial enterprises; was a member of the State Democratic Committee from ;

;

1862 to 1865; a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1864; was a State Senator from 1866 to 1871; was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Forty-tilth Congress; re-elected to the Forty -sixth

Died December

Congress.

28, 1886.

Kincaid, John was a Representative from Kentucky from 1829 to 1833. ;

in

Con

gress

Adam

King,

;

was a Representative in Con from 1827 to 1833. Died

gress from Pennsylvania May 6, 1835.

Andrew

was born in Greenbrier Coun ; Virginia, March 20, 1812; received a common school education; studied law, and settled in Mis in 1846; to the souri; was elected to the State Senate House of Representatives in 1858; was Judge of the Circuit Court from 1859 to 1864; was elected to the

King,

ty,

Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on

Freedmen

s Affairs.

281

King, Austin A.; was born

in Sullivan Coun Tennessee, September 20, 1801; received as good an education as the Country then afforded; studied law, and was licensed to practice on becoming of age; removed to Missouri in 1830; in 1834 was elected to the Missouri Legislature; was re-elected to the same position in 1836; in 1837 was appointed a Circuit Judge for Ray County, which position he held until 1848, when he was elected Governor of Missouri, the term of that office expiring in 1853; in 1862 was again placed upon the bench in his old Circuit; dur ing that year was elected a Representative from Mis souri to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary. Died in St. Louis, April 22, 1870. ty,

King, Cyrus; was born

in Scarborough,

Massa

1772; graduated from Colum bia College in 1794; was Private Secretary to Senator Rufus King, his half brother, in 1796; studied law, and practiced twenty years in Saco; was a MajorGeneral of Militia; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1817. Died April 25, 1817. chusetts,

September

King, Daniel

6,

Putnam

was born in Danvers, graduated at Harvard in 1823; at first contemplated the study of law, but soon abandoned it for the practice of agriculture; in 1836 and 1837 was a member of the Massachusetts Legis lature; in 1838 and 1839 was a member of the State Senate; in 1840 and 1841 was President of that body; was Speaker of the House in 1843; during that year was elected a Representative in Congress, and held that position until his death, which oc curred in Danvers, July 25, 1850. Massachusetts,

in

;

1800;

King, George O.; was born in Rhode Island; graduated at Brown University in 1825; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1849 to 1853;

was Presidential Elector in

Newport, July

1849.

Died at

17, 1870.

was born in Hampden, ; King, shire County, Massachusetts; studied law atWilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, and began practice at Allentown, in the same State, about the year 1815; was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania, when elected a Representative in the Twenty-second Congress; was re-elected to the Twenty-third Congress; separated

Henry

Hamp

from the Democratic party on the question of the re moval of the government deposits from the Bank of the United States; retired from political life, and re sumed the practice of law. Died July 13, 1861, aged seventy -one years.

King, Horatio was born in Paris, Oxford County, Maine, June 21, 1811; his grandfather and three uncles fought in the Revolution; received a good common school education; when quite young became identified, as printer and publisher, with a newspaper called The Jeffersonian, which was finally merged in The Eastern Argus; in 1839 settled in Washington City as a clerk in the Post Office Depart ment, where he continued, and received various pro motions; in 1850, became connected with the Foreign Mail Service, in which capacity he originated and perfected certain postal arrangements of great import ance; in 1854 was appointed First Assistant Post master-General, and in January, 1861, while acting as Postmaster-General, was questioned by a member of Congress, from South Carolina, in regard to the franking privilege, when, by his reply, he was the first officially to deny the power of a State to take itself out of the Union; from President Buchanan he received the appointment of Postmaster-General, ;

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282

until the 4th ot serving from the 12th of February March 1861 during the existence of the Rebellion to he was appointed one of a Board of Commissioners for the District o Law the out Emancipation carry ot also served gratuitously as Treasurer ;

Columbia;

the Maine Soldiers Relief Association.

King James; was

born at Highwood,

New

his father Jersey in 1791; was taken to England by

when American

Minister, and

was educated there; was an emi

m

1610; graduated at Harvard College was a nent merchant and banker in New York City; from New Jersey trom Representative in Congress 1849 to 1851. Died in Highwood, New Jersey, October 3, 1853.

King,

J.

Floyd; was born near

St.

Mary

s,

a collegiate educa Georgia, April 20, 1842; received and served tion; entered the Confederate Army rank of Colonel throughout the war, attaining the removed to Louisiana, and became a planter, studied of Militia; law; was appointed Brigadier-General was elected Inspector of Levees, and President of the Board of School Directors of his District; also Trus tee of the University of the South; was elected a to the Forty-sixth, Representative from Louisiana was reForty -seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

King, John; was born

in 1775; served in

from

Con

New York, from 1831 New York, Septem

gress as a Representative Died at New Lebanon, to 1833. ber 1, 1836.

King, John A.; was born in New York, January

educated at Harrow, England; was 3, 1788; was somewhat devoted to farming; was a member of the New York Assembly from 1819 to 1821; was again elected in 1832 and in 1840 from Queens County; in 1823 was elected to the State Senate; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New York from 1849 to 1851; was Governor of New York from 1856 to 1858: Kut us King, the diplomatist, was his father, and James G. King, of New Jersey, was his brother; was appointed Secretary of Legation at London in 1826, and, on the return of his father to the United States, acted as Charge Affaires; in 1859 was a Delegate to the "State Convention" held at Saratoga; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; was a Delegate to the "Peace Congress" of 1861; to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention" of 1866, and to the of 1867. Died State "Constitutional Convention He was de at Jamaica, Long Island, July 7, 1867. voted to farming, and President of the State Agri cultural Society for many years.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

290

was defeated in 1866 as Candidate for Secre tary of State; was a Code Commissioner for the State in 1874; in 1875 was elected a Representative to the La Dow, Forty-fourth Congress, in the place of G. A. in 1864;

who

died in

May

of that year.

Lane, Samuel was one of the first men ap of Public pointed Superintendent or Commissioner date Buildings for the District of Columbia, but the of his appointment does not appear on the public ;

records.

Lang-don,

Chauncey

College in 1787;

graduated

;

from Yale

was a Representative in Congress

from Vermont, from 1815

Langdon. John was ;

seven years a State Coun

to 1817; served

in the Legislature of the State; was Died in 1830. cilor for nine years.

educated

for

mercantile

on the pursuits, and afterwards prosecuted business sea, until the commencement of the controversy with Great Britain; was one of the party which removed the powder and military stores from Fort William and -Mary, at New Castle, New Hampshire, in 1774; in 1775 and 1776 was chosen a Delegate to Congress from New Hampshire; commanding a company of volunteers, he served, for a while, in Vermont and Rhode Island; in his own State, he was, in 1776 and 1777, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; in 1779 was Continental Agent in New Hampshire, and contracted for the building of several ships of war; in 1783 was again appointed a Delegate to Congress; was after wards repeatedly a member of the Legislature, and Speaker; was a member of the Convention that

framed the Constitution, signing his name to that instrument; in March, 1788, was chosen Governor of the State; from 1789 to 1801 was Senator of the United States, and was President of the Senate pro tern, during the First Congress, and part of the Sec ond; was one of tho=p who voted for locating the Seat of Government on. the Potomac; from 1805 to 1808, and again in IttlO and 1811, was Governor of the State. Died in Portsmouth, September 18, 1819,

aged seventy-eight years.

Langdon, Woodbury was a Delegate New Hampshire to the Continental Congress in ;

from 1779

and 17&SO; was a Counselor from 1781 to 1784; a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in Died January 13, 1782, and from 1786 to 1790. 1805, aged sixty-five years.

Langston, John Mercer was born near Louisa Court House, Louisa County, Virginia, December 14. 1829; received a collegiate education, graduating from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1849, and" from the ;

Theological Department in 1853, receiving the degree of A. M. studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Lorain County, Ohio, in 1855; practiced his pro fession in Ohio for twelve years, during which period he was several times elected to important local po in 1867 was sitions; appointed General Inspector of the National Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, serving two years; in 1869 was elected Professor of Law in Howard University, and was made Dean of the Law Department; during the last two years of his service was Vice-President and Acting President of the University; for the faithful performance of these duties received the degree of LL. D. from 1870 to 1877 was a member of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, and its Attor ney; in 1877 was appointed Minister Resident and Consul-Geuerarof the United States to the Republic of Hayti. ;

;

Langworthy, Edward; was a Delegate from from 1777 to Georgia to the Continental Congress of the Articles of 1 779, and was one of the signers Confederation.

Lanham, Samuel W.

T.; was born in Spartan(now county,) South Carolina, July 4, the Con 1846; received a good education; entered federate Army when a boy; in 1866 removed to Texas; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1869: settled at Weatherford, Texas; was District Attor ney; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; was elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-eighth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

burg

District,

Lanman, James

was born in Norwich, Con 1769; graduated at Yale College in 1788; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1791, and settled as a lawyer in his native town; was a member of the Convention which framed the first Constitution of Connecticut in 1818; served two years in the Lower House of the Legislature in 1817 and 1832, and one year as a State Senator in 1819; necticut,

June

;

14,

for five years, from 1814 to 1819, Attorney for the State tor New London County, acquiring great One of the most local distinction by his abilities. famous trials that he conducted was that of the Rev.

was

Annul Rogers, who was convicted of an infamous crime against one of his parishioners, and was im prisoned for two years, and who subsequently pub lished a book of nearly three hundred pages abusive of said Attorney; was elected a Senator in Congress, serving from 1819 to 1825, during one Congress as Chairman of the Committees on Post Offices and Post Roads, and Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and voted with the South on the Missouri Compromise; during the Seventeenth Congress was at one time member of four Committees, viz., that of Commerce and Manufactures, the Militia, District of Columbia, and the Contingent Expenses of the Senate; was ap pointed, by the Governor, to a second term in the Senate, during the recess of the Legislature, and be fore the vacancy occurred, and, by a small majority, the Senate decided that the appointment was with out authority of law; was subsequently Judge of the Supreme and Superior Courts of Connecticut, for three years, from 1826 to 1829; from 1831 to 1834 was Mayor of Norwich, where he died August 7, 1841. His son, Charles James Lanman, also a gradu ate of Yale College, was one of the earliest emigrant lawyers from New England to the Territory of Michi gan, where he took part in founding a number of im portant towns, and was for many years Receiver of Public Moneys, and it is a matter of public record that on visiting Washington, nearly thirty years after retiring from office, he was officially informed that there was a considerable amount of money standing to his credit at the Treasury Department; was sub Died sequently Mayor of Norwich, in Connecticut. in 1870, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. The Senator had another sou, James 1[. Lanman, who was a lawyer, and who acquired some reputation as an author.

Lansing, Gerit Y.; was born

in

Albany,

New

York, in 1783; served four years in the Legislature of that State; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1831 to 1837; Avas, for many years, Chancel loi of the Board of Regents of the Univers Died at Albany, January 3, 1862. ity of New Fork.

Lansing, John

was a Delegate from New York from 1784 to 1788; also a member of the Convention that framed the Federal Constitution, which he opposed, and consequently ;

to the Continental Congress

the Convention, defining his position in a lished letter. left

pub

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Lansing, "William E.; was born in the town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York, in 1822; stud ied law at Utica. and commenced the practice in 1845; in 1850 was elected District Attorney of Madi son County; in 1857 Clerk of the same county; in 1860 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs; was re-elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committee on Claims. Died July 29, 1883.

Lapham, Elbridge Gerry

;

was born

in

Farm-

7 ington, Ontario County, New York, October 18, 1814; worked on a farm; received a common school educa tion, and completed his studies at the Canandaigua Academy; was Civil Engineer on the Michigan Southern Railroad; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844, and gained a successful practice; in 1867 was a member of the Constitutional Convention

New York; had never been a candidate for any political office until elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fourth Congress; was reelected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-

of

seventh Congresses; was elected a United States Sen ator from New York, for the term ending in 1885, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Roscoe Conkling.

Laporte, John; was born in Congress i\ Representative 1833 to 1837.

in Pennsylvania; was from that State from

Larned, Samuel was a citizen of Rhode Is land: went to Chili in 1826 as Secretary of Legation; in 1828 Avas appointed Charge Affaires to Peru; recommissioned in 1830, and remained at that post un til 1837, then returned to the United States. ;

Cily ouunc.l in A is.o. n -c i;i a. \vas ecU Is.rf. iSrSJ, IbHi an n lss|; i:t I.Si H ciig l).isine>s iu-i a niiMvii ml; \v:i-i li(|iao r.cttred u Kejir vstj.iUiLivc liiiiiuU to t.:j .Xi\yniuth CoMg.vss. :

1 1

,

.


!(
i;i;mny:

after-

with his hrot. ier. Joseph in l.ii/ubct spU;: in \ Li!)!" y, City County, men a. :f Ho business, in which he wa.s V:r;.nt;i:i, in the Presid one of \v;;s i.i .8 appointed successful; ing .1 ustices of the comity was ele -trd a l. epreseuta-

warl engaged

bvisii.ess

in

t

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t.."

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;

fivc

1

,e e.c

iom Yi.gimA led

t.i

ti.o

to ti.e

Forty eighth Coii^res-s Forty ninth Coiijji Ods.

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AA.LS

301

Alabama when a youth; studied and practiced law; served in the Mexican War as a Captain; was a Rep resentative in the Legislature in 1849 and 1850; a State Senator in 1860, and again in 1863; was a Cap tain in the Confederate Army; was Lieu tenant-Gov ernor in 1874; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Ligon, Thomas Watkins was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia; was placed, at an early ;

Hampden Sidney College, but finished his education at the University of Virginia; studied law; after spending a year and a half at the Yale Law School, settled in Baltimore; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1845 to 1849; in 1854 was elected Governor of that State. Died Jan age, at

13, 1881.

uary

Lilly, Samuel was born in New York; adopted the medical profession; was a Representative in Con ;

gress from

New

Lincoln,

Jersey from 1853 to 1855.

Abraham

;

was born

in

Hardin Coun

removed, with his father, to Indiana, in 1816; received a limited edu cation; worked at rail-splitting for a time; twice visited New Orleans as a boatman; removed to Illi nois in 1830, and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits; served as a Captain of Volunteers in the Black Hawk War; was at one time Postmaster of New Salem; served four years in the Illinois Legislature, viz., 1834, 1836, 1838, and 1840, during which time he turned his attention to the study of law with John T. Stuart, and settled at Springfield in the practice of that profession; was a member of the National Con vention which nominated General Taylor for Presi dent in 1848; was a Representative in Congress from Illinois from 1847 to 1849, serving on the Committees on the Post Office and Post Roads, and on Expenses in the War Department; in 1858 acquired distinction by stumping the State of Illinois for the United States Senate, against S. A. Douglas; in 1860 was nominated by the Republican party as their candi date for President of the United States, and was duly ty,

Kentucky, February

12, 1809;

"

elected to that position for the term commencing; March 4, 1861; by the Baltimore Convention," held in 1864, was nominated for re-election to the Presi dency, and was triumphantly elected; in December, 1864, the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Princeton College; on April 14, 1865, while seated in a private box at the theatre, he Avas shot in the "

head by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, and died at seven o clock on the following morning; the circum stances of his death filled the whole land with hor ror, and the demonstrations to his memory were heartfelt and universal; his name was everywhere mentioned, with rare kindness, as the Mtrvj~ ed "

-

President."

Enoch

was born in Worcester, Massa Lincoln, chusetts, December 28, 1788; after studying law, set tled in Fryeburg, Maine, and afterwards removed to ;

was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1818 to 1820, succeeding A. K. Parris, resigned, and from 1821 to 1826 from the new State of Maine; was then Paris;

elected Governor of Maine, and re-elected in 1828; he published, while at Fryeburg, a poeni, entitled The Village was also the author of some histor ical recollections of Maine. Died at Augusta, Octo ber 8, 1829. "

";

it TTi v-Lincoln, Levi was born May ;it lljuvju,, Co! ham, Massachusetts; in I 72, and setilcl ;i* a hr.vyer in Worcester, v h TO he rose to distinction: \v;ts a Judge 01 Pnriau ;t 1.".

;

17
gnidin>tvas

"

>3,

1836.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

S04

sev Jersey; from 1752 to 1758 published works on law and politics; in 1758 was elected a member of the Assembly; purchased a tract of land

m 1764;

and

was educated graduated at Yale College in 1786; Amthe law; in 1792 was Secretary to Mr. Morris, in Congress bissador to France; was a Representative Died at Living[from New York from 1803 to 1807. Btan Manor, New York, December 22, 1810, aged

to

eral

forty-two years.

and served on the most im 1774; re-elected in 1775, recalled June 5, to com portant committees; was mand, as Brigadier-General, the State Militia; suc ceeded William Franklin (deposed) as Governor in until his death; he was 1776, and held the office Don Quixote of the Jer called by the British the from having so frequently escaped their at seys to the tempts to kidnap him; in 1787 was a Delegate Constitutional Convention; refused the commission

Henry Walter

Livingston,

;

was born

in Albany, New vino-ston, Philip at Yale College in York, January 15, 1716; graduated lork City; 1737- was a successful merchant in New an Alderman for four years; served several years

L

was

;

"born

fwaa

with Ldin the State Legislature, and corresponded President jnond Burke on commercial matters; was Lee and Jay of the Provincial Congress in 1775; with was appointed to memorialize the British Govern from 1774 to 17/8; ment; was a Delegat^ to Congress was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; of New York. subsequently served in the Senate Died June 12, 1778. He was noted for his rare busi the ness capacity and his benevolence, and was founder of the Professorship of Divinity in Yale Colwas also one of the founders of the Society Li le^e;

Columbia College. brary, and aided in establishing

Livingston, Robert Le Boy graduated from Princeton College in 1784; was elected a Representa tive in Congress from the Sixth Congressional Dis trict of New York from 1809 to 1813, but resigned in 1812, when he was succeeded by T. P. Grosvenor; was then appointed, by President Madison, Lieuten ;

ant-Colonel of Infantry.

the city of New York, which office he resigned at the beginning of the Revolution; in 1775 was elected to the Assembly from Dutchess County; the same year was sent as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, serving until 1777, and was a member of the Com mittee for draughting the Declaration of Independ ence; was also a Delegate from 1779 to 1781, and in the latter year was appointed Secretary for Foreign of Affairs; on resigning, he received the thanks Congress; was appointed Chancellor of New York under the new Constitution, and filled that office nntil 1801; in 1788 was Chairman of the State Con tention which adopted the Federal Constitution; in 1794 declined the appointment of Minister to France, tendered him by Washington; in 1801 accepted that office, and proceeded to Paris; after the close of his mission Napoleon presented him with a snuff-box, containing a miniature of himself by Isabeyj with the assistance of Monroe he made the purchase of Louisiana; in Paris he formed ah intimacy with Robert Fulton, and was instrumental in the intro duction of steam navigation into the United States; introduced merino sheep and gypsum into New York; was President of an Agricultural Society and of the Academy of Fine Arts; published an oration deliv ered before the Cincinnati Society in 1787, and other

Died in 1813, aged sixty-six years.

Livingston,

Jersey, built a house called in 1773, where he resided during the remainder of his life; was elected a Delegate to the Continental Congress in in Elizabethtown, "Liberty Hall,"

Van Brugh;

was

a

c ii.^n

of

New

York; in 1848 was appointed Minister Resilient to Ecuador, but only remained there ...ml one year. .1

"

to superintend the Federal Buildings, and as Minis ter to Holland was the author of a poem called and a variety of political "Philosophical Solitude," ;

and

v

,om Delegate Yoric to the Continental Cou^rco-s in 1164 and a

l

l.H.-..

L .v New

n^ston. \\~il Novrm xv

ir>.

York. (!

in 1741

:

was

a

other tracts.

July

m

1

;

was

172.1:

:!().

iwyer by i-

bor-i

g

in

;ni;i:ile.l

}>r

>ie.ssi,>n,

Oi tl.c b..r oi

Died in Elizabeth,

New

Jersey,

25, 1780.

Edward

was a Delegate to the Conti-i Lloyd, nental Congress in 1783 and 1784; a member of Con gress from 1806 to 1809; Governor of Maryland from Ts09 to 1811; a Presidential Elector in 1812; United States Senator from Maryland from 1819 to 1826, when he resigned; was highly respected both in public and private life. Died June 2, 1834. ;

born at Harnbrooke, Dor Maryland, February 21, 1852; passed his boyhood on his father s farm; in 1860 re moved, with his parents, to Cambridge, Maryland; was educated at the Cambridge Male Academy; lef school at the age of seventeen, and commenced the study of the law; while pursuing his legal studies, began teaching a country school, and three months

Henry was

Lloyd,

;

County,

later was elected Assistant Principal of the Cam bridge Academy; in 1873 was admitted to the bar; in 1874 became Principal of the Cambridge Academy, and he continued in that position until July, 1880, when he resigned to engage in the practice of law a Cambridge, Maryland; was Auditor of the Circui Court for Dorchester County, Maryland, from 187 to 1884, and a portion of that time was also Clerk and Treasurer to the Commissioners of the town o! Cambridge; in 1881 was elected a State Senator; ir 1884 was elected President of the State Senate; in March, 1885, upon the appointment of Governor MeLane as United States Minister to France, became Governor of Maryland, cx-officio; in January, 1886, was elected, by the Legislature, Governor of State for the unexpired term ending in 1888. th


Thomas J.; was born in Jefferson Coun Iowa, June 25, 1841; received an academic edu cation; removed to Nebraska in 1860; engaged in mercantile pursuits; entered the Union Army in 18G1 as a First Lieutenant, and served until 1866, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was a member of the Territorial Council; when Nebraska was admit ted as a State served in the first State Senate, and was re-elected, serving until appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, in 1869; held the latter office until its abolition by act of Congress; was elected a con tingent member of Congress in 1876 and 1878; was elected a Representative from Nebraska to the Fortyfifth Congress in the place of Frank Welch, deceased;, was again elected a contingent member of the Fortysixth Congress. Majors,

ty,

Malbone, Francis; was a Representative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1793 to 1797; was a Senator in Congress in 1809. Died June 4, 1809.

Magruder, Patrick was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1768; was educated at Prince ton College adopted the profession of the law was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1805 to 1807; was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives from 1807 to 1815, performing at the same time the duties of Librarian of Congress. Died in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1819 or 1820.

Mallary, Rollin C.; was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1784; graduated at Middlebury Col lege in 1805; represented the State of Vermont in Congress from 1820 to 1831, and took an active part, as Chairman of an important committee, in all mat ters appertaining to commerce; was held in the highest estimation both for his public acts and private vir tues. Died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 16, 1831.

Magruder, Richard B.; was a native of Mary land; studied law, and became a leading member of the bar of Baltimore was, for many years, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Maryland. Died in Baltimore, February 11, 1844.

Mallory, Francis was born in Virginia; was a. Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. Died at Nor

;

;

;

;

;

folk,

March

26, 1860.

Mallory, Meredith; was born in Connecticut was a Representative in Congress from New York

,-

Mahon, David W.; was

born in Pennsylvania;

appointed a clerk in the office of the First Auditor in 1842; promoted to the position of Chief Clerk in 1853; in 1871 was appointed First Auditor

from 1839 to 1841.

AVUS

of the Treasury.

Malione, William; was born at Southampton, Virginia, in 1827; graduated from the Virginia Mili tary Institute in 1847; became a Civil Engineer and engaged in railroad construction; served in the Con federate Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Major-General; became largely interested in rail roads, and President of a railroad company; was elected a Senator of the United States from Virginia for the term of six years from March 4, 1881.

Mahoney, Peter P.; was born in the City of New York, June 25, 1848; was educated in the grammar schools of New York City; was engaged in the dry- goods business for several years; never held any public office prior to 1884, when he was elected

a Representative from Congress.

New York

to the Forty-ninth

Mallory, Robert was born in Madison County, Virginia, November 15, 1815; graduated at the Uni versity of Virginia in 1827; removed to Kentucky in 1839, where he devoted the most of his life to agricul tural pursuits; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a ;

member

of the Committee on Roads and Canals; re-

elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canalsre-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Convention of 1866in 1875 was appointed a Commissioner to the Cen tennial Exhibition, and was one of the Vice-Presidents. "

Mallory, Rufus was born in Chenango County, York, June 10, 1831; in 1855 removed to Iowa| ;

New

where he resided three years; in 1858 settled in Oregon, and having studied law, came to the bar in 1861; was soon afterwards elected Prosecuting At-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

316

torney for the First Judicial District; in 1862 was elected to the State Legislature; after serving one-

was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the Third Judicial District, which office he held until in that year was elected a Representative from 1866; Oregon to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Mines and Mining, and the Pacific Rail way.

session,

Mallory, Stephen R.; was born in Nassau about 1810; removed to Key West, Florida, when young; studied law, and came to the bar in that State; was a Delegate to the "Nashville Convention" of 1850; was at one time a correspondent for the New York Herald; was a Senator in Congress from Florida, having been elected in 1851, serving continuously,

re-election, until 1861; was Chairman of the Com mittee on Naval Affairs, and a member of the Com mittee on Claims; was expelled March 11, 1861, and took part in the Rebellion, as Secretary of the Con federate Navy; after the Rebellion was arrested as a Prisoner of State; was released, on his parole, in March, 1866, and in 1867 was pardoned by President Johnson.

by

Manderson, Charles F.; was born at Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1837; received the best scholastic advantages obtainable in that in city;

1855 removed to Canton, Ohio; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859; was soon after elected City Solicitor, and was re-elected the following year; in April, 1861, enlisted a company of volunteer troops, and entered the Union Army as its Captain served with distinguished gallantry in many of the most important battles of the war, and was severely wounded; was promoted to the rank of Brevet Brig adier-General "for gallant, long-continued, and meritorious services during the entire war of the Re bellion"; resigned in 1865, because of disability, and ;

resumed the practice of law at Canton was elected District Attorney, and re-elected; in 1869 removed to Omaha, Nebraska; was President of the State Bar Association for two terms; was City Attorney for five years; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1871 and 1874; was elected a United States Senator from Nebraska for the term of six ;

years, from

March

4,

1883.

Maney, George was a citizen of Tennessee; in 1882 was appointed United States Minister to Bo ;

livia.

Mangum,

Willie

P.;

was born

North Carolina,

in

Orange Coun

in 1792; graduated at the Uni versity of that State in 1815; studied law; rose to eminence in his profession; entered into politics; was

ty,

elected to the House of Commons in 1818; in 1819 was elected a Judge of the Superior Court; from 1823 to 1826 served as a Representative in Congress- was a Presidential Elector in 1829; was elected a United States Senator in 1831; re-elected in 1841; re-elected for a third term of six years, in 1847, serving from 12 to 1845 as President pro tern, of tfie Senate; in 1837 received eleven electoral votes for President of

the United States, and during the administration of President Tyler was President of the United States Senate; subsequently lived in retirement at his home in North Carolina. Died

September

14, 1861.

Mann, Abijah, Jr.; was born at Fairfield, HerNew York, September 24, 1793; re

kiiner County,

ceived a good common school education, and became a teacher in the district school in Oneida County; was afterwards a merchant, Postmaster, and Justice of the Peace; was elected to the Legislature in 1827, serving by re-elections until 1830; was a Representa tive in Congress from 1833 to 1837, during which time he served on several Committees, once as Chair man of the Committee on Rules and Orders of the House; in 1837, on returning to his native county, was again elected to the Legislature; afterwards re moved to New York City, and declined all official employments. Died at Auburn, New York, Septem ber 6, 1868.

Mann, A. Dudley was ;

1805;

born in Virginia in

was appointed Special Minister

to negotiate

commercial treaties with Hanover, Oldenburg, and Mecklenburg, in 1845; was accredited to all the Ger

man

States excepting Prussia for the same object in 1847; was Commissioner to Hungary in 1849; Minis ter to Switzerland in 1850, and negotiated a recipro cal treaty; was Secretary to General Pierce in 1853, and resigned the same year; was Assistant Secretary of State; having devoted himself to the material in terests of the Southern States, he was sent, by the

Confederate Government, upon a special mission, and was afterwards joined with Slidell and Mason to represent

it

abroad.

Mann, Horace was born in Franklin, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, May 4, 1796; was, in some degree, self-educated, but graduated at Brown Uni versity in 1819, where he subsequently held the po sition of Tutor of Latin and Greek; studied law at Litchfield, Connecticut; while counselor-at-law at Dedham, Massachusetts, where he settled in 1826, was elected to the State Legislature; removed to Bos ton in 1834, where he was elected to the State Sen ate, chosen President of that body, and also Presi dent of the Massachusetts Board of Education, which he was foremost in founding; also rendered import ant services in behalf of the Normal Schools of Mas sachusetts; was elected a member of Congress from 1848 to 1853; after that time continued to be devoted to matters connected with education, having been appointed President of Antioch College and the North western Christian University at Indianapolis; he wrote much and well, and is remembered as a bene ;.

Died at Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859; in 1865 his life was published by his

factor to his race.

August widow.

2,

Mann, Job ; was born in Bethel Township, Bed ford County, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1795; received a common school education; in 1816 was appointed Clerk to a Board of County Commissioners; two years later was appointed Register, Recorder, and Clerk for the Courts of Bedford County, all of which posi tions he continued to hold until 1835, when he was elected a Representative in Congress, where he served

one term; in 1839 was admitted to the bar; 18 12 was appointed State Treasurer, which office held for three terms; in 1847 was again elected Congress, where he served until 1851, declining a

in

he to re

election.

Mann, Joel K.; -was born in Pennsylvania in 1780; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1831 to 1835. Died in Montgomery Coun ty, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1857.

Manly, Charles was born in Chatham County North Carolina; graduated at the State University in 1814; studied law; was Treasurer of the University /or a long time Clerk of the State House of Reading Manning-, Daniel -was born at Albany, New ^ .Representatives; was Governor of North Carolina York, August 16, 1831; received an elementary edu JVom 1849 to 1851. cation in the public of eleven schools, and at the ;

;

age

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. years entered the office of the Albany Argus news office boy; rose through the various grades to the post of manager and, in 1873, became Presi dent of the Argus Publishing Company; was a Director, for Albany City, in the Susquehanna and Albany Railroad; from 1869 to 1872 was a Director in the National Savings Bank of Albany; in 1873 be came a Director in the National Commercial Bank of Albany; was a member of the Democratic State Con vention of New York in 1874, and of every subse quent Democratic State Convention until 1884; in. 1876 became a member of the Democratic State Com mittee, and thereafter continued to occupy that posi tiou was Secretary of the Democratic State Com mittee of New York in 1879 and 1880, and its Chairman from 1881 to 1884; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884; was Chairman of the Convention in 1880, and Chairman of the New York Delegation to the Con vention of 1884; in 1881 became Vice President, and in 1882 President of the National Commercial Bank of Albany, New York; was a Park Commissioner in the City of Albany from 1873 to 1884; in March, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Secre tary of the Treasury of the United States.

paper as

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Mountain in 1861; commanded the Second Brigade, First Division, Army of the Ohio, at the battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky, in 1862; was appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers in 1862; was engaged in front of Corinth, Mississippi; com manded the United States forces at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, in 1862; was wounded and taken prisoner and exchanged in 1862; commanded a skirmish with Pegram in March, 1863, and during the Morgan raid in Indiana and Ohio in 1863; was with Burnside in East Tennessee; was assigned, in September, 1863, to the command of the Twentythird Army Corps; was in the siege of Knoxville, battle of Rich

Tennessee, and various battles in that State; was severely wounded at the battle of Resaca, and was forced to resign by reason of disabilities resulting from wounds received in the service; was elected to the Forty-second Congress from Indiana, serving on the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Manypenny, George W.; was born in Penn sylvania; in 1853 was appointed, from Ohio, Com missioner of Indian Affairs, retaining the office until 1857. Marable, John H. was born in Brunswick County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1825 to 1829. ;

Manning, James

was a native of New Jersey; graduated at Nassau Hall in 1762; was one of the founders of

;

Brown University when that ;

institution

was removed to Providence he became first President; was Pastor of the Baptist Church in that town, and continued in the charge of these two offices until his death, excepting an interval of six months, in 1785 and 1786, during which he was a Delegate to the Died in 1791, aged fifty-two

Continental Congress. years.

was born in Edenton, 1830; received his education at the University of North Carolina; removed to Pittsborough, North Carolina, in 1851, and began the study of law; was licensed to practice in 1853; was a member of the Convention of 1861 was elected to the Forty-first Congress.

Manning, John,

North Carolina, July

Jr.;

3,

Marble, Edgar M.; was a resident of Michigan; was an Assistant Attorney-General of the United was Commissioner ol States from 1877 to 1880 Patents, in the Department of the Interior, from 1880 ;

to 1884.

Marchand, Albert G-.; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843. Died at his residence in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Feb ruary

5,

1848.

Marchand, David was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: was a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1817 to 1821. ;

;

Manning, John

L..;

was born in South Carolina;

was Governor of that State from 1852 to 1854.

Manning, Richard, South Carolina,

Jr.;

May

was born

in

Sumter

1789; graduated at the State College at Columbia in 1811; commanded a volunteer company in the war of 1812 was fre quently in the upper and lower houses of the State was Governor of South Carolina for two Legislature; years from 1824; was a Representative in Congress from 1834 to 1836. Died May 1, 1836, at Philadel phia, before the expiration of his term, very sud denly, while seated at the table with his family. He was greatly respected for his talents and virtues. District,

1,

;

Manning,

Van H.;

was born in North Carolina,

26, Itf39; removed to Mississippi in 1841; rece ved a classical education; removed to Arkansas in

July

i860: studied law and was admitted to practice; serve l in the Confederate Army during the war of the Rebellion, rising to the rank of Colonel; was elected a .Representative from Mississippi to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,

and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Manson, Mahlon D.; was born in Piqua, Ohio, February 20, 1820; received a common school educa tion; engaged in agricultural and mechanical pur suits, and was a druggist; was a member of the Legislature of Indiana in 1851; Captain of Volun teers during the Mexican War; enlisted as a private during the Rebellion, and became Colonel of the Tenth Indiana Infantry, which he commanded at the

Marchant, Henry was born at Martha s Vine yard, Massachusetts, April, 1741 graduated at Phila delphia College in 1762; studied law under Judge Trowbridge, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; practiced ;

;

in Newport, Rhode Island; was Attorney-General of that State from 1770 to 1777; was a member of the Assembly took an active part in the Revolution was Chairman of the Committee to prepare instructions to the Delegates in Congress; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1780, and in 1783 and 1784, and an efficient member of various import ant committees; was a member of the Convention to adopt the Federal Constitution; from 1790 until his death was Judge of the United States District Court; received the degree of LL.D. from Yale College in Died at Newport, August 30, 1796. 1792. ;

;

Marcy, Daniel was born in New Hampshire, November 7, 1809; became a sailor when twelve years of age. and at twenty was master of a ship; in 1853 and 1854 was a member of the New Hampshire Leg islature; in 1856 and 1857 a State Senator; was sub ;

sequently engaged in the mercantile and ship-build ing business; was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions and on Expenditures in the Navy Department; was a Dele gate to the Philadelphia "National Union Conven tion" of 1866.

Lamed

was oorn in SturMarcy, William bridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, in 1786; taught graduated at Brown University in 1808 ;

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school for a while in Newport, Rhode Island; studied New York; law, and commenced practice in Troy, was appointed Recorder of that city in 1816; made in 1829 Comptroller in 1823, and removed to Albany; was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the Senate in State; was elected to the United States of 1831; resigned in 1833, having served as Chairman the Judiciary Committee; was elected Governor of New York in 1832, and re-elected in 1834 and 1836; was Secretary of War under President Polk from 1845 to 1849, and Secretary of State under President Pierce from 1853 to 1857; was a hard-working, careful, plain man. and a good scholar; as a statesman and diplo matist he had a reputation of displaying both judg ment and skill, but his crowning virtue was his incorruptible integrity. Died at Balston Spa, New

York, July

4,

1857.

Mardis, Samuel W.J was born

in

Alabama

in

1801 was a Representative in Congress from Alabama from 1831 to 1835, and was much respected for his ;

manly ber

virtues.

Died at Talladega, Alabama, Novem

14, 1837.

Marion, Robert was a ;

native of South Caro from that State

lina; a Representative in Congress fiom 1805 to 1810.

Markbreit, Leopold; was a from 1869

to 1873

citizen of Ohio; to Bolivia.

was Minister Resident

Markell, Henry; was born in Montgomery Coun New York; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1825 to 1829.

ty,

Markell, Jacob was a Representative New York from 1813 to 1815. ;

in

Con

gress from

Markham, Henry

H.; was born at Wilming ton, Essex County, New York, November 16, 1840; attended the district school during the winters, and "worked on a farm during the summers; completed his education at the Academy of South Hero, Ver mont; in the spring of 1862 emigrated to Manitowoc, "Wisconsin; in the fall of that year enlisted in the Thirty -second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; re mained with the regiment until February 3, 1865, at which time he was severely wounded at Rivers Bridge, South Carolina, from which place he was returned to Beau port, South Carolina; owing to per manent disabilities, he did not rejoin the regiment, and was mustered out with the regiment at Milwau kee, Wisconsin, June 23, 1865; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar in May, 1867, and began the prac tice of law at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; in January, 1879, for the benefit of his health, moved, with his to family, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, where he engaged in various enterprises; never per mitted his name to be used for any public position, and never held any position of public trust, prior to his election as a Representative from California to the Forty-ninth Congress.

was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: was a Representative in Con gress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1827, and was. in the latter year, appointed Naval Officer for the Port of Philadelphia.

Markley, Philip

S.;

Marks, Albert S.; was born in Daviess County, Kentucky, in October. 1836; received an academic education; removed to Winchester, Tennessee, in 1856: studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; served in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Colonel; lost a leg at the hattle of Murfreesboro and his name was placed on the "Roll of Honor" for gallantry; at the close of the

war resumed the practice of his profession at Win was elected one of the Chancellors of the state; in 1878 was re-elected; was Governor of Tennessee from 1879 to 1881; he resumed the practice chester; in 1870

of law.

Marks, William; was

in Congress

a Senator

from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1831, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills.

Marling John L.; was a citizen of Tennessee; was appointed Minister Resident to Guatemala in 1854; on October 2. 1856, resigned the position and died on the 10th of the same month. 1

,

Marmaduke, John Sappington

;

was born

in

Saline County, Missouri, in March, 1833; was active ly engaged on his father s farm until seventeen years of age; then entered Yale College where he remained two years; left Yale and went to Harvard College; in 1853 was appointed a cadet at the United States Mil itary Academy, at West Point, New York; graduated in 1857 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the United States Army; in 1860 resigned his com mission and returned to Missouri; in 1861 entered the Confederate Army as a Colonel in 1862 was pro moted to Brigadier-General, and in 1864 to MajorGeneral; in October, 1864, was taken prisoner, and was held until after the close of the war, in 1865 en gaged in various business pursuits; then entered the field of journalism, in which he continued for several years; in 1873 and 1874 was Secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture; from 1875 to 1884 was a State Railway Commissioner; in the latter year was elected Governor of Missouri. ;

;

Marquette, T. M.; was elected a Representative from Nebraska to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but did not take his seat until the last day of the last session of that Congress.

Alem

Marr, graduated at Princeton College in 1807; was a Representative in Congress from Penn sylvania from 1829 to 1831. ;

W.

Marr, G-eorge L.; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1817 to 1819.

Marron, John; was born in Ireland; was ap pointed from, the State of Georgia a Clerk in the General Post Office; became Chief Clerk, and was subsequently appointed Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral.

Marrow, John was

a Representative in Con from 1805 and 1809. ;

gress from Virginia

Marsh, Benjamin F.; was born in Hancock County, Illinois, November 19, 1837; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fifth, For ty-sixth, and Forty -seventh Congresses. Marsh, Charles; was born at Lebanon, Con necticut, July 10, 1765; removed, with his father s family, to Vermont before the Revolution; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1786; studied law and com menced practice in Woodstock, Vermont; was, for fifty years, devoted to his profession, and for a long time at the head of the bar in the State; served as a member of Congress from 1815 to 1817, and while in Washington became identified with the ^American Colonization Society as one of its founders; he ac quired great popularity as a patron of benevolent so cieties generally, and was a highly influential and useful citizen. Died at Woodstock, Vermont, Janu ary 11, 1849. The degree of LL.D. was conferred

upon him by Dartmouth College.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Marsh, George P.; was born in Woodstock, Vermont, March 15, 1801; was educated at Dart mouth College, where he graduated in 1820; after wards removed to Burlington, Vermont, where he commenced the study of law, and afterwards made that place his home; after his admission to the bar, came into an extensive practice, and devoted much of his time to politics; was a member of the State Legislature in 1835; in 1842 took his seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he continued until sent as Resident Minister to Turkey, by President Taylor, in 1849; at this post he rendered essential service to the cause of civil and religious toleration in the Turkish Empire; was also charged with a special mission to Greece in 1852; was well known as an author and a scholar; devoted much attention to the languages and literature of the North of Europe, and his sympathies appeared to be with the Goths, whose presence he traced in whatever is great and peculiar in the character of the founders of New England; in a work entitled "The Goths in New England," he contrasted the Gothic and Roman

which he appeared to regard as the great antagonistic principles of society at the present day; was also the author of a grammar of the old Northern Icelandic language, and of various essays, literary and historical, relating to the Goths and their con nections with America; also the author of an inter esting work on the Camel; also of a work on the En characters,

glish language, which occupies a very high rank; and still another of great merit, entitled "Man and Na ture his miscellaneous published addresses and speeches are quite numerous; after his return from Turkey performed the duties of Commissioner of Railroads for the State of Vermont; his library is said to have been one of the finest in the country, rich beyond compare in Scandinavian literature; in ;

1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Minister

which post he remained until his death, which occurred at Rome, Italy, July 24, 1882. to Italy, at

Marshall, Alexander K.; was born tucky

;

in

Ken

was a Representative in Congress from that

State from 1855 to 1857.

Marshall, Alfred served four years in the Maine Legislature, namely, 1827, 1828, 1834, and 1835; was a Representative in Congress from Maine, ;

from 1841 to 1843, acting as a member of the Com mittee on the Militia; from 1846 to 1849 was Col lector at Belfast, Maine; was also, for some years, a General of the State Militia.

Marshall, Edward C.; was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from California, from 1851 to 1853.

Marshall,

Humphrey

;

was among the

earliest

pioneers to Kentucky, having gone there in 1780; in 1787; was a member of the "State Convention served for many years in the State Legislature: was a Senator in Congress from 1795 to 1801. He was the author of the first published History of Ken tucky, and died at an advanced age. "

"

Marshall, Humphrey was born at Frankfort, Kentucky, January 13, 1812; graduated at West Point Academy, but resigned his military commis sion of Lieutenant and studied law, which he prac ticed with success; during the ten years preceding the Mexican War, and while devoting himself to his profession in Louisville, he took an active part in ;

the military affairs of the State as Captain, Major, and Lieuten ant-Colon el: served in the Mexican War as Colonel of Cavalry, leading the charge of the Ken tucky Volunteers at Buena Vista in 1847; after de

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clining several important nominations, he retired to a farm; was elected to Congress in 1849 as a Repre sentative, and re-elected in 1851; was appointed, by President Fillmore, Commissioner to China, which was immediately raised to a first-class mission on his return was elected a Representative to the Thirtyfourth Congress; in 1856 was a member of the "Am erican National Council," held in New York; in 1857 was re-elected to Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Military Affairs; took part in the Rebellion of 1861 as a General of Volunteers. ;

James was one of the earliest set the District of Columbia, after the removal of the Seat of Government; in 1801 was appointed Circuit Judge of the United States for the District of Marshall,

;

tlers in

Columbia.

Marshall, James W.; was born in Clarke (then part of Frederick) County, Virginia, August 14, 1822; passed several years of his boyhood in Mount Sterling, Kentucky; prepared for College in the schools of his native section; graduated at Dick inson College in 1848, and was appointed Adjunct Professor in that institution; in 1850 was elevated to the professorship of ancient languages; was United States Consul at Leeds, England, from 1861 to 1864; was First Assistant Postmaster-General from 1869 to 1877, excepting a brief interval, in 1874, when he was temporarily appointed Postmaster-General; was then appointed General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, in which position he continued until 1878.

Marshall, John ; was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, September 24, 1755, and was the eldest of fifteen children; had some classical education in his youth, but his opportunities for learning were limited, and he never entered college, his father, Thomas Marshall, being a poor man, but possessed of superior talents; at the commencement of the Revo lutionary AVar he espoused the cause of liberty with ardor; in 1776 was appointed Lieutenant, and in 1777 promoted to the rank of Captain; in 1780 was admitted to the bar; in 1781 resigned his commis sion and entered upon the practice of his profession, soon rising to distinction; was a member of the to ratify the Constitution of Virginia Convention the United States, and, as such, produced a deep im pression by his logic and eloquence; also entered the Legislature of Virginia, where he was a leader; Presi dent Washington invited him to become AttorneyGeneral, and tendered him the mission to France after Mr. Monroe s return, both of which honors he "

declined

"

;

President

Adams appointed him an Envoy

to France, with Pickering and Gerry, not accredited, and he returned to the

but they were United States

in 1798; was a Representative in Congress in 1799; in 1800 was appointed Secretary of War, which office he declined soon afterwards Secretary of State Jan ;

;

uary, 31, 1801, upon the nomination of President Adams, was confirmed as Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States. He wrote a "Life of George Washington," and a "History of the American Colonies." Died in Philadelphia, July 6, 1836. As a Judge he was the most illustrious in America, and, for his public service, was ranked by many with Washington. He was the object of universal affection, respect, and confidence, and, in every particular, one of the greatest and best of men.

Marshall, Samuel S.; was born in Illinois; educated at Cumberland College, Kentucky; studied law, and devoted himself to its practice in his native State; was elected to the State Legislature in 1840

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was elected, by the Legislature, State Attorney, serving two years; in 1851 was elected a Judge of the Circuit Court, in which position he remained until 1854; was elected to the Thirty -fourth Congress from Illinois; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was Chairman of the Committee on Claims; was of 1864; a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention was elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Elections and on Freedmen was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Judiciary Committee; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving on many important Committees; in 1867 received the unanimous vote of his party in the Illinois Legisla ture for United States Senator, and in the Fortieth Congress, the entire vote of the Democrats for Speaker of the House. "

;

"

Thomas A.; was born near Ver Kentucky, January 15, 1794; graduated at

Martin, Alexander ; was born in Guiilbrd County, North Carolina; was educated at Princeton College, and devoted much attention to the pursuits of literature; was a member of the Colonial Assem bly, and Colonel of a regiment in the Continental line, serving at the battles of Brandy wine and Germantown; was subsequently in the State Senate,

and was elected Speaker; was elected Governor of North Carolina in 1782, and again in 1789, and was a member of the Convention which framed the Con stitution of the United States; from 1793 to 1799 was United States Senator; in 1793 the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Princeton Col lege, and at the time of his death he was a Trustee of the University of North Carolina. Died in No vember, 1807.

Martin, Barclay; was born in South Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee

from 1845 to 1847.

Marshall, sailles,

Yale College in 1815; studied law, and entered upon the practice in 1816; was a Representative in Con gress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1835; was a Judge and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Ken tucky for about twenty years; was a Professor of Law in the Transylvania College; also served in the Legislature of Kentucky; was on the bench as late as 1866, and in that year received from Yale College the degree of LL.D. Died in Louisville, April 17. 1871.

Thomas

Marshall, P.; was born in Kentucky in 1800; graduated at Yale College; studied law, and practiced the profession with success; was, for several years, Judge of the Circuit Court of Louis ville; was a Representative in Congress from Ken Died near Versailles, tucky from 1841 to 1843.

Woodward County, Kentucky, September His

abilities

22, 1864.

were of a high order, and as an orator had few equals.

before popular assemblies he

Marshall, from 1866

Wm.

R.

;

Martin, Benjamin F. was born in Marion County, Virginia, October 2, 1828; remained upon a farm until he became of age; graduated, with hon ors, at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1854; taught school for eighteen months; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice; in the same year removed to Pruntytown, Virginia (now West Virginia); was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in 1872; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conven tion of that year; was elected a Representative from West Virginia to the Forty-filth and Forty-sixth ;

Congresses.

Martin, Charles D.; was born in Ohio; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thir ty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on In valid Pensions. Martin, Daniel; was a native of Maryland; was Governor of that State in 1830. Died in Talbofc County, July 10, 1830, before the expiration of his term of office.

was Governor of Minnesota

Edward

to 1868.

Marston, Gilman; was born

Martin, Livingston; was born at Seaford, Delaware, March 29, 1837; received a col legiate education; studied and practiced law; was Clerk of the State Senate; was a Commissioner to define the boundary line between Delaware and New Jersey; was a Delegate to the Democratic National

in Oxford, New 1811; graduated from Dart mouth College in 1837, and at the Dane Law School in 1840; commenced the practice of law in Conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876 and New Hampshire, in 1841; in 1845 was electedExeter, to the 1880; was New Hampshire Legislature, and served four years; elected a Representative from Delaware to the Fortysixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. was a member of the Convention to revise the Con stitution of that State in 1850; was a Representative Elbert S.; was born in Virginia; was Martin, in Congress from New Hampshire from 1859 to 1863, elected a Representative from that State to the Thirtyserving on the Committees on Elections, and on Mili sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Commit tary Affairs; in June, 1861, was appointed Colonel tee on Expenditures on the Post Ofiice of the Second Regiment New Department. Hampshire Volunteers which he led at the battle of Bull Run, throughout Martin, Francois Xavier; was born at Mar the Peninsula Campaign under McClellan, at the France, March 17, 1762; emigrated to tho second battle of Bull Run, and also at Fredericks- seilles, United States in 1782, and established himself at under burg, Burnside; in 1863 was commissioned a Newbern, North Carolina; taught French; learned Brigadier-General, assigned to the District of St. printing; edited a newspaper, and peddled it through and attached to the army of the James in Mary, the adjoining counties; published school books, al 1864, fighting at Kingsland Creek, Drury s Bluff, manacs, and translations of French works, etc Cold Harbor, and Petersburg; early in 1865 was studied and was admitted to the bar in 1789* law, elected to the Thirty-ninth and became distinguished in the Congress, serving on the profession, at the Committees on Mileage, and Military same time pursuing the vocation of Affairs; on printer and nubthe fall of Richmond retired from the army; was one hsher; was appointed Judge of Mississippi Territory of the Representatives designated by the House to by Jefferson; in 1813 was Attorney-General of the attend the funeral of General Scott in State of Mississippi; in 1815 was made 1866; was a Jud^e of Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven Supreme Court of Louisiana, and Chief Justice from tion" of 1866, and also to the "Soldiers Conven L837 to 1845; published histories of Louisiana and tion held in Pittsburg; in 1870 was appointed Gov- North Carolina; "Notes and Decisions in the Superior einor of Idaho. Courts of North Carolina from 1787 to 1796"-

Hampshire, August

20,

"

*"

Acts

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. ;

of the North Carolina Assembly from 1715 to 1803 from ".Reports of the Superior Courts of Orleans 1809 to 1812"; "Reports of the Supreme Court of I ouisiana from 1813 to 1830 and a "Digest of the Territorial and State Laws," in French and Eng lish. Died at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 10, 1846. ;

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;

Martin, Frederick S.; was born in Rutland County, Vermont, April 25, 1794; after spending his early life as a sailor on Lake Champlain and at sea, settled at Olean, New York, as a hotel keeper and merchant; in 1838 was appointed Postmaster at that place; served three years in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1851 to 1854.

James

was born

in Scott County, a good education; removed to Illinois in 1846; served in the war with Mexico; was Clerk of the Marion County Court for twelve years; studied law; was a member of the Republican State Central Committee for several

Martin,

Virginia,

August

S.;

19, 1826; received

army as Colonel in 1862, and was brevetted Brigadier-General was elected County Judge of Marion County at the close of the war; ap pointed Pension Agent in 1868; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Invalid Pensions. years; entered the

:

Martin, John was appointed Naval Officer at Hunbury, Georgia, in 1761; was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775, and of the Committees of ( ouncil and Safety entered the Georgia Continent ;

;

Captain; was Lieutenant-Colonel in 1781, and member of the Legislature from Chatham Coun ty: was State Treasurer in 1783; commissioned to make a Treaty with the Creek Indians, January, 1783; was Governor of Georgia from 1782 to 1783. al line as

Martin, John Jacob; was born in Abbeville, South Carolina, in 1826; received a good education and studied law, coming to the bar in 1848; served as a Captain in the war with Mexico; was subse quently appointed Secretary of Legation to Peru; re moved to Georgia, where he practiced law from 1853 to 1861, when he removed to Alabama; was a mem ber of the first Convention which organized the Re publican party in that State; also a member of the Constitutional Convention of that State; Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868; in 1869 was appointed .Sixth Auditor of the Treasury in Washington, which

and was appointed Post

position he resigned in 1875.

master of Montgomery.

Martin, John

L.;

was born at Brownsville, FayMarch 10, 1839; received

ette County, Pennsylvania,

a common school education at the age of fourteen entered the office of the Brownsville Clipper as an ap prentice; in 1857 worked a short time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a journeyman, and then removed to Kansas, where he continued in the printing business; in 1858 purchased the Squatter Sovereign newspaper, at Atchison, Kansas, and changed the name to the Champion; he continued in the proprietorship and management of this journal; in 1859 was Secretary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, which ramed the present Constitution of Kansas; in May of that year was a Delegate to the Convention at which the Republican party was organized; later in the same year was elected a State Senator; in 1860 was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention; on the admission of the State of Kansas, in 1861, served, during one session, as State Senator; resigned to accept the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Eighth Kansas Volunteer Infantry for service in the Union ;

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Army; in November, 1862, was promoted to Colonel of the regiment; in the succeeding month was ap pointed Provost Marshal of Nashville, Tennessee, serving for six months; was in the principal engage ments with the Army of the Tennessee; was in com mand of a brigade at the battle of Chicamauga; com manded a brigade for several months prior to being mustered out of service, in November, 1864; returned to Kansas and resumed the management of his news paper; was mayor of Atchison, Kansas, in 1865; in 1868 was elected Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for the District of Kansas; was a Dele gate to the Republican National Conventions of 1868, 1872 and 1880; was a member of the Republican Na tional Committee from 1868 to 1880, and its Secre tary in 1879 and 1880; was a member of the United States Centennial Commission from 1871 to 1876; was President of the Kansas Editorial Association in 1878; in the same year was elected, by Congress, a member of the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers Home, and was re-elected in 1882; in 1884 was elected Governor of Kansas.

Martin, John Mason; was born at Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. January 20, 1837; after receiving a thorough course in the High School, he attended the University of Alabama during one term, at the close of which he withdrew and entered Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, from which institu tion he was graduated in 1856; settled in Tuskaloosa, Alabama; after leaving College he studied law and, in July, 1858, was admitted to prac tice in the Supreme Court of Alabama; served in the Confederate Army four years in 1871 was elected State Senator, to fill a vacancy, and in 1872 was elected for a full term during the latter term was elected President pro tempore of the Senate; in 1875 was elected Professor of Equity Jurisprudence in the University of Alabama, the term continuing until 1886; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Ala bama to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

;

Martin, John

P.; was born in Lee County, Vir October 11, 1811; removed to Kentucky in 1828; in 1841 was elected to the Legislature of that State, and re-elected the following year; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Kentucky from 1845 to 1847; in 1857 was elected to the Senate of Kentucky, which was his last public position. ginia,

Martin, Joseph John was born in Martin County, North Carolina, November 21, 1833 received an academic education; studied law, and was ad mitted to practice in 1859; was County Attorney for six years; in 1868 was elected Solicitor for the Second Judicial District for the term of six years; was reelected in 1874 and served until nominated for Con gress in 1879; was a Delegate to the Republican Na tional Convention of 1876; was elected a Representa tive from North Carolina to the Forty-sixth Congress. ;

;

Martin, Joshua Lanier was born in TenneDecember 5, 1799; received the advantages of such educational facilities as were then at command; ;

see,

settled in Alabama; studied law; was admitted to the bar; engaged in the practice of law and became emi nent in his profession; his first appearance in public life was as Representative in the Alabama Legisla ture, in 1822; was subsequently elected, successively, Solicitor, Circuit Judge, and Chancellor; in 1835 was elected a Representative from Alabama to the twen ty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Twentyfifth Congress; in 1845 announced himself an inde pendent candidate for Governor of Alabama, in op position to Colonel Nathaniel Terry, the regular nominee of his party; he made the canvass on the

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question of the state credit and, after a contest of re brilliancy, was elected, serving until 1847; his election resulted in the maintenance of the credit of the State unimpaired. He was one of the remark able men of his time, and his favorite motto was, "Have your heart in the right place." Died, at He was Tuscaloosa, Alabama, November 2, 1856. the father of Congressman John Mason Martin.

markable

Martin, Josiah

was born April 23, 1737; was an Ensign in the Fourth Infantry of North Carolina in 1756; Lieutenant-Colonel in 17G9; was Governor ,

;

of North Carolina from 1771 to 1775; took energetic measures to preserve the royal authority in 1775, and, April 24th, was obliged to take refuge on board the Cruiser, from which ship he issued a proclamation August 8th; was on board the fleet of Sir P. Parker at Charleston, in June, 1776 was with Cornwallis at the defeat of Gates at Caindeii. in 1780, but left .North Carolina on account of ill health, March, 1781, ;

and withdrew

to

Long

Island,

and thence

to England.

Died in London, July, 1786.

Margin, Luther

;

was born in

New

Marvin, James M.; was born in Ballston, Sara toga County, New York, February 27, 1809; passed a portion of his boyhood on a farm; received a good education; in 1846 was elected to the House of As sembly; was a County Supervisor for three terms: in 1862 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Territories was re-elected to the Thirtvninth Congress, and was made Chairman of the Com mittee on Expenses in the Treasury Department; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the ;

Committee on

P.; was born in New York; served in the Assembly of that State from Chautau qua County, in 1836; was a Representative in Con gress from New York from 1837 to 1841; in 1855 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of that State.

Marvin, "William; was a citizen of Florida; was appointed United States Judge for the Southern District of that State.

New

Brunswick,

Jersey, in 1744; graduated at Nassau Hall in 1766; taught school for several years in Maryland; came to the bar in Virginia, and settled in Accomac County; in 1774 took an active part in opposing En gland; was a member of the "Annapolis Conven tion of that year; in 1778 was appointed AttorneyGeneral of Maryland was a Delegate to the Conti nental Congress in 1784 and 1785; was a member of "

;

the Convention which formed the Federal Constitu tion, but was opposed to its adoption, and an elabor ate speech which he delivered before the Assembly of Maryland about the Convention caused considerable excitement at the time throughout the country; he acquired distinction by defending Samuel Chase and Aaron Burr, in their celebrated trials; in 1814 was appointed Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Died in New York, July 10, 1826. He received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton College.

Martin, Morgan L.; was born in New York; was a Delegate to Congress from the Territory of

Mason, Amistead Thomson; was born in Loudon County, Virginia, in 1785; was educated at William and Mary College; was a farmer by occupa tion; a Colonel in the War of 1812; was a United States Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817; fell in the memorable duel with Colonel McCarty, Feb ruary 6, 1819.

Mason, Charles ; was born in New York about 1808; graduated at the head of his class at West Point in 1829; entered the Engineers, but resigned Decem ber 3, 1831; practiced law at Newburg, New York, from 1832 to 1834; in New York City from 1834 to 1836; Burlington, Iowa, from 1847 to 1853, and again from 1858 to 1859; and at Washington from 1860; was Acting Editor of the New York Evening Post in 1837 and 1838; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Iowa from 1838 to 1847; Commissioner to draft a Code of Laws for the State of Iowa in 1848; Judge of Des Moines County Court in 1851 and 1852; United States Commissioner of Patents from 1853 to 1857.

Wisconsin from 1845 to 1847.

Martin, Noah was a native of New Hampshire; was Governor of that State for two years from 1852 ;

to 1854.

Martin, Robert N.; was born in Dorchester County, Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1827. D.; was a Judge of the Court was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1827 to 1833; was distin guished for his talents and public usefulness; retired to bed slightly indisposed, and was found dead in the morning, at Charleston, November 17, 1833,

Martin,

of

Common

aged

"William

Pleas;

forty-five years.

Henry O.; was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts; graduated at Williams Col lege in 1800; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1823 to 1831, and again from 1833 to 1835. Died in I860, aged eighty years. Martindale,

Marvin, Dudley

;

was a native of Lyme, Con

from which place he removed to Canandaigua, New York, in 1807; was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of law in 1811; soon at tained eminence in his profession; was a Representa tive in Congress from 1823 to 182!); in 1844 removed to Ripley, Chautauqua County; was again elected to Died at RipCongress, serving from 1847 to 1849. ley, New York, June 25, 1852, aged sixty-five years. necticut,

Territories.

Marvin, Richard

Mason, G-eorge; was

born at Doeg

s

Neck,

Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1726; was a Statesman of the Revolution in 1769 drew up the Non-impor ;

tation Resolutions, which were presented by Wash ington in the Virginia Assembly and unanimously adopted; wrote a tract against British taxation, and presented a series of twenty-four resolutions in

which he recommended a Congress of the Colonies; these were sanctioned by the Virginia Convention, and adopted by the First Congress; was a member of the Virginia Legislature, and in 1776 drafted the Declaration of Rights and Constitution of Virginia, and was known as the Father of States Rights was a member of the Committee of Safety; in 1777 was a Delegate to the Continental Congress; in 1787 was a member of the Convention to frame the Fed eral Constitution, and favored the election of the President by the people; was opposed to the clause "

";

the Constitution prohibiting the abolition of which he considered a great evil and a source of natural weakness; refused to sign the in strument, and, with Henry, objected to its ratifica tion by the State; was elected first United States Senator from Virginia but declined, and retired to

in

slavery,

Died at his estate, private life. on the Potomac, October 7, 1792.

"

Gunston

Hall,"

Mason, James B.; was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives for many years, and for a part of the time was Speaker; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1815 to 1819.




gress,

and was re-elected

to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Matteson, Joel A.; was Governor

of Illinois

Henry Mason

was born in GreenMatthews, brier County, Virginia, in 1834; graduated from the and commenced the practice University of Virginia, of law in his native county, in 1857; was, for several a Professor in years, Allegheny College, Pennsylva nia ; was a Major of Artillery in the Confederate the Civil Army during War; at the close of the war was elected a State Senator, but could not qualify; ;

was a member of the State Constitutional Convention West Virginia in 1871; was elected Attorney-Gen eral of the State in 1872; was elected Governor in Died at Lewisburg, 1876, and served four years. West Virginia, April 29, 1884. of

Matthews, John was ;

a Revolutionary patriot

of South Carolina; was first Speaker of the House of Representatives of that State after the dissolution of the Royal Government in 1776; the same year was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; from 1778 to 1782 was a Delegate to the Continental Congress; was a member of the Committee to visit the Army, and also of the Committee to confer with the Pennsylva nia Line of the army which had mutinied; was Gov ernor of South Carolina from 1782 to 1783; in 1784, on the establishment of the Court of Equity, was ap Died at Charleston, No pointed one of the Judges.

vember, 1802, aged fifty-eight years.

Matthews, Stanley; was born at Cincinnati. Ohio, July 21, 1824; received an academic education and graduated at Kenyon College in 1840; studied law, and practiced in Cincinnati; in 1851 was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, and resigned in 1853; was elected State Sen ator in 1853; was appointed United States District Attorney in 1858, and resigned in 1861; in 1861 en tered the Union Army as Lieutenant-Colonel and became a Colonel; in 1863 was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and resigned in was a Presidential Elector in 1864 and 1868; was defeated for Congress in 1876 by 75 votes; was elected a Senator in Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman, and served from 1H(>4:

March, 1877, to a Justice of the

March, 1879; in 1881 was appointed Supreme Court of the United States.

31.

Matthews, William was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1797 to 1799.

Matteson, Orsamus B. was born in New York; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and

Mattocks, John; was born in Hartford. Con necticut, in 1776; removed to Peacham, Vermont; was, for many years, distinguished as a successful

from 1853 to 1857.

Died in Chicago, January

1874. ;

Thirty-fifth Congresses.

Matthews, George was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1739; led a volunteer company against the Indians at the age of twenty-two, and distinguished himself at the battle of Point Pleasant ;

;

lawyer; held various public trusts; was, for years, Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont; a Representative in Congress from 1821 to 1825. from 1841 to 1,843; was Governor of the State year, declining a re-election to that office. Peacham, Vermont, August 14, 1847.

two was and

one Died at

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Mattoon, Ebenezer was born in Amherst, Mas graduated at Dartmouth College in 1776; in 1797 was a Presidential Elector; was a Major in the War of 1812; Sheriff of Hamp shire; was a Representative in Congress from Massa chusetts from 1801 to 1803, having succeeded L. Lyman, resigned; in 1816 was chosen Adjutant-General Died in Amherst, September 11, 1843, of Militia. aged eighty-eight years.

Max-well, J. P. B.; was born in New Jersey in 1805; graduated at Princeton College in 1823; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1827; was a Representative in Congress from 1837 to 1839. and again from 1841 to 1843. Died at Belvidere, New Was a candidate lor Jersey, November 14, 1845. election to the Twenty -sixth Congress, and although he came with the great seal of his State, was not ad mitted.

Maul, Joseph; was Acting Governor of Dela ware in 1846, having previously been elected Lieu-

Maxwell, Lewis was a native of Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State

tenant-Governor.

from 1827 to 1833.

;

sachusetts,

August

19, 1755;

,

Maurice, James was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 ;

to 1855.

Maury, Abraham

;

Max-well, Congress from

Thomas New

was a Representative in York, from 1829 to 1831. ;

May, Henry was born in the District of Co lumbia; received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; was a Representative in Con gress from Maryland from 1853 to 1855; was reelected to the Thirty -seventh Congress; was ap pointed, by President Pierce, to visit Mexico on busi ness with the Gardiner Claim, and during the Re bellion voluntarily went to Richmond on a peace Died in Baltimore, mission, but was unsuccessful. ;

P.;

was a Representative

in

Congress from Tennessee, from 1835 to 1839. Died at his residence, in Williamson County, Tennessee, July 22, 1848.

Maury, "William A.; was a resident of Virginia; in 1882 was appointed an Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. S. B.; was born in Monroe County, Ken 30, 1825; was educated there in private schools until seventeen years of age; in 1842 entered as a Cadet at West Point, and graduated in 1846; joined the Seventh Regiment of the United States Infantry at Monterey, Mexico, as brevet Second Lieutenant; in 1847 received brevet as First Lieuten ant for services at Contreras and Cherubusco; served through the Mexican war, and resigned in 1849; re

Maxey,

tucky, March

turned to Kentucky; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850; removed to Texas in 1857; in 1861 was elected State Senator for four years; de clined to serve, and raised the Ninth Texas Infantry for the Confederate service, and was made Colonel; was Brigadier-General in 1862, Major-General in 1864; commanded the District of the Indian Terri tory from 1863 to the close of the war, and was also Superintendent of Indian Affairs; resumed the prac tice of law; in 1874 was elected United States Sen ator from Texas; was re-elected for the term ending in 1887.

Maxey, Virgil was born at Attleborough Mas sachusetts; studied law with R. G. Harper, of Mary land, and settled in that State, where he soon became eminent in his profession ; was a member of both houses of the Legislature; Solicitor of the United States Treasury, and Charge. Affaires to Belgium; published Compilation of the Laws of Maryland from 1692 to 1809," 4 vols. 8vo, 1809; "Oration be fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society," in 1833. Was killed February 28, 1844, on board the United States steamer Princeton, by the explosion of one of her ;

7;

Miller-, Samuel H.; was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1840; graduated from West minster College in 1860; taught school one winter; published and edited the Mercer Dispatch from 1861 to 1870; was admitted to the bar at Mercer, Pennsyl vania, in 1870, and engaged in the practice of law; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Miller,

Smith; was

a native of North Carolina;

when a youth removed with his father, to Indiana; his education was limited engaged in farming as an occupation; was a member of both branches of the Legislature of Indiana; was a Representative in Con ;

gress from 1853 to 1855.

Miller, Stephen; was Governor of Minnesota from 1863 to 1866.

Miller, Stephen D., was born in the Waxsaw Settlement, South Carolina, in May, 1787; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1808; adopted the profession of the law; cametothe bar in 1812; served in the South Carolina Senate in 1822; represented hia native State in the Lower House of Congress from

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. 1814 to 1819; was Governor of South Carolina from 1828 to 1830; was elected a Senator in Congress for the term from 1831 to 1837, but resigned on account of his health at the end of two years. Died at Ray mond, Mississippi, March 8, 1838, having removed to that State in 1835, where he was an extensive planter.

took up his residence in Little Rock; was Deputy State Treasurer in 1881 and 1882; in 1886 was again elected State Auditor.

Miller, William S.; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1845 to 1847, and a man of high cultivation. Died in New York City,

November was born

;

9,

1854.

in

Oswego County, 12, 1838; graduated at Union College in 1860; served in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion; became engaged in the manufacture of paper, and in agricultural pursuits; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conven tion of 1872; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1874 and 1875; was elected" a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Cougressess; resigned in 1881, upon being elected a Senator of the United States from New York for the unexpired term of Thomas C. Platt, resigned. w hich began on March 4, 1881. Miller, "Warner New York, August

345

r

Miller, William was born in Warren County, North Carolina; from 1810 to 1814 served in the Legislature; was Governor of the State from 1814 to 1817; in 1825 was appointed Charge Affaires to Guatemala; died before entering upon his duties. ;

1

was born in Cecil County, Millig-an, John Maryland, December 10, 1795; after receiving an academic education, entered Princeton College, and remained three years: then studied law, and was ad mitted to practice in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1818: piirsued his profession for several years, but subsequently retired to a country-seat near Wil mington in 1830 was elected a member of the House of Representatives in Congress from Delaware, and served from 1831 to 1839; in 1839 was appointed, by the Governor, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware. ;

;

Milligan, Samuel was a citizen of Tennessee, from which State he was appointed an Associate Jus tice of the United States Court for the Territory of Nebraska, residing at Dakota City. ;

d"

Miller, William H.; was born in Perry County, r Penns3 lvania, January 29, 1828; graduated at Mar shall College, Franklin, Pennsylvania; in 1854 was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of his native State, which office he held until 1863; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving 011 the Committee on Invalid Pensions. His father, Jesse Miller, was also a Rep resentative in Congress.

Miller, William B.; was born near Bates ville, Independence County, Arkansas, November 27, 1823; passed his childhood and youth assisting his father in his farm duties; his education was limited to an oc casional school attendance, but he improved such ad vantages as were aiforded him; in 1843 was ap pointed, by the Governor of Arkansas, the Agent of the State in the selection of lands granted the State by the General Government, serving several months; from June to November, 1844, was QuartermasterGeneral on the staff of the Governor; in September, 1846. was appointed Deputy Clerk for Independence County, serving two years; in 1847 was also an Al derman of the town of Batesville; in 1848 was ap pointed a Notary Public; in the same year was elected Clerk of Independence County: was re-elected in 1850, 1852, and 1854; while serving as Clerk, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of the Su preme Court of Arkansas; in August, 1854, resigned as County Clerk to accept the appointment of State Auditor for an unexpired term; was defeated, as a candidate before the State Legislature for a full term; in 1855 was appointed, by the Governor, Accountant of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas, then in liquid ation; continued in that position until November, 1856, when he was again chosen Auditor of the State; in 1857 removed to Little Rock, Arkansas; served as Auditor, by re-elections, until displaced, under the proclamation of President Lincoln, at the close of the Civil War. in 1865; at the ensuing election, in 1866, was again elected Auditor; in 1868, at an election held under the new Constitution, was again super seded returned to Batesville and resumed the prac tice of his profession; in 1874 was again elected Auditor of the State, serving until January, 1877; in 1876 was elected Governor of Arkansas; was reelected in 1878, serving until 1881; in 1874 again ;

was born at Montville, Milliken, Seth L. Maine, December 12, 1831; removed to Camden. received a classical education Maine, in 1848 graduating from Union College in 1856; was, the same year, elected a Representative in the State ;

;

;

Legislature, and was re-elected the following year; studied law and was admitted to the bar; was Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State, for the county of Wardo, from 1859 to 1871, inclusive; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1876, and was. the same year, a Presidential Elector; engaged in the practice of law at Belfast, Maine; was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1880; was elected a Representative from Maine to the Fortyeighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth

Congress.

W.

was born in Graves Millikin, Charles County, Kentucky, August 15, 1827; graduated in 1849; studied law; was Attorney of Simpson County five years; was appointed, in 1867, Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky, to fill a va cancy; elected the following August to serve out the unexpired term, and re-elected in 1868 for a full term of six years; resigned in 1872; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures. ;

Mills, Elijah H.; was born in 1778; graduated at Williams College in 1797 studied law was a Repre sentative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819, and a Senator in Congress from 1820 to 1827. Died in Northampton, May 5, 1829. ;

;

Mills, Roger Q.; was born in Todd County, Kentucky, March 30, 1832; received a common school education; emigrated to Texas in 1849; locating at Palestine; studied law; supported himself while pur suing his law studies by performing clerical duties in the Post Office and in the offices of the Court Clerks; in 1850 was appointed Engrossing Clerk of the State House of Representatives; at the age of twenty his disabilities as a minor were removed by the Legislature and he was admitted to the bar; en tered upon the practice of law at Corsicana, Texas, at which place he continued, thereafter, to reside; in 1859 was elected a Representative in the State Legis lature; in 1860 was a Presidential Elector.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

346

Millson, October

1,

John

and was one of the first men in this country to in troduce and write upon the silk-growing business.

S.; was born in Norfolk, Virginia and commenced the study of law

1808,

before the age of sixteen held no public office unti elected a Representative from Virginia in the Thirty

Died at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1865, universally respected for his high character

;

first

Congress, which position he

filled,

by

and

re-elec

member of the Com on Commerce and Ways and Means, and o

tions, until 1860, serving as a

Miner, Phineas was an eminent lawyer; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut during the years 1834 and 1835, for an unexpired term. Died at Litchfieid, in that State, September 16,

mittees the Special Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebel lions States; in 1844 and 1848 was a Presidentia Elector. 1874.

;

Died at Norfolk, Virginia, February 26

1839, aged sixty years.

Minor, William

Millward, John was born in Pennsylvania was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Patents. ;

Millward, was

ability.

"William

;

was born

;

was born at Stam

was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut; he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Wes ley University in 1865.

in Pennsylvania

a Representative in Congress from

Thomas

October 3, 1815; graduated at Yale College in 1834; was eight years in the State Legisla ture; Consul-General to Havana from 1864 to 1867; ford, Connecticut,

that State

from 1855 to 1857.

Minot, Josiah was appointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury in 1855; and Commissioner of Pensions in 1856, but only remained in office until the com mencement of 1857. ;

Milnes, William, Jr.; was born in Yorkshire, England, December 8, 1827; emigrated to America and settled in Pottsville. Pennsylvania; after com pleting an academic education, apprenticed himself to the blacksmithing business at the expiration of his apprenticeship entered into the business of min ing and shipping coal; in 1865 removed to Virginia and purchased tlie extensive property located in Page and Rockingham counties known as the Shenandoah Iron Works; was elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Representative from Virginia, serving on several ;

Alexander was born in AberdeenScotland, October 17, 1817; received a good education in Scotland; emigrated to the United States, and settled in Wisconsin; was a banker; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the For Mitchell,

ty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committee on Banking and Currency; was the Dem ocratic candidate for

Committees.

;

shire,

Governor of Wisconsin in 1879

and was defeated.

Milnor,

James

was born in Philadelphia, June

;

20, 1773; received his

and

education at a grammar school at the University of Pennsylvania, and subse

quently studied law; in 1794 commenced the prac he was twenty-one years of age; from 1811 to 1813 was a Representative from Pennsylvania in Congress; in 1811 was elected a Delegate to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church; in 1814 was ordained a Clergyman by Bishop White, and in 1816 was called to the Rector ship of St. George s Church, in New York; was one of the founders of the New York Deaf and Dumb tice of his prol ession before

Institution,

pany with

and

after

spending the evening in com in apparent good health,

its Directors,

died suddenly, April

8,

1845.

Milnor, William; was born in Philadelphia; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1811, from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1821 to 1822.

Mitchell, Anderson; was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, in 1800; graduated at the University of that State in 1821 studied law and ;

Wilkes County in 1840, when he was im mediately elected to the Legislature; was a member of Congress in 1842 and 1843; was subsequently de settled in

voted to his profession.

Mitchell, Charles B. was elected a Senator in ongress from Arkansas for a term of six years, comnencing March 4, 1861, but was expelled by the Senate July 11. 1861. ;

"

Mitchell, Charles F.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State rom 1837 to 1841.

Mitchell, Charles L.; was born at New Haven, August 4, 1844; received an academic ed ucation then passed two years in a tour around the world, visiting points in Europe, Asia, and Africa; en Jonnecticut, ;

Milton,

John

;

was Governor of Florida from

1861 to 1864.

Miner, Ahiman L.; was born in Vermont; was Clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 183 and 1837; a State Representative in 1838, 1839, and 1845; a State Senator in 1840; County Attorney for two years; Register of Probate for seven yearsJudge of Probate from 1846 to 1849; a Representa tive in Congress from Vermont from lcS51 to 185T Died July 20, 1886.

Miner, Charles; was born in Norwich, Con necticut, about the year 1778; when a youth of nine

removed, with his father, to Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania; subsequently settled in Westchester for many years published the Village Record in that place; was a Representative in Congress from from 1825 to Pennsylvania 1828, and declined a re election on account of deafness; was the author of an interesting work, entitled "History of Wyoming teen,

and

1

member of the lirm of \litchell, Vance and Company, and as a Director in the Winchester Arms Company, the Meriden Britauia Company, the Tradesman s Bank, of New Haven, and other enterprises; was a Representative in the gaged in active business as a

State Legislature in 1878; was defeated for State Senator in 1879; was elected a Representative from Jonnecticut to the Forty-eighth Congress; was relected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

David Bradie was born in ScotOctober 22, 1737; removed to Savannah, Geor gia, in 1783, to take possession of property left by an studied was elected incle; Solicitor-General of law; Jeorgia in 1795; was a member of the Legislature in 796; Governor of the State from 1809 to 1813, and rom 1815 to 181H; was, afterwards, Agent to the (Jreek Indians, with whom he concluded a treaty January 22, 1818. Died at Milledgeville. Georgia, Mitchell,

;ind,

\pril 22, 1837.

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Mitchell, George E.; was born in Cecil County, Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1827, and again from 1829 to Died in Washington, June 28, 1832. 1832.

was born in Woodbury, Con Mitchell, necticut, in 1784; received a liberal education, and adopted the profession of medicine; after practicing for a while in Connecticut removed to New York;

Henry

the

New

adopted State; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. Died in Norwich, New York, January 12, 1858.

Mitchell, James C.; was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1825 to 1829.

celebration of the embarkation of the Pil

grims at Delft Haven.

Mitchell, Nathaniel was a Delegate from Del aware to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788. ;

;

after receiving from Yale College the title of M.D., York with eminent practiced his profession in success; in 1827 was elected to the Legislature of his

first

347

Mitchell, Robert; was born

was a Representative

in

in Pennsylvania; Congress from Ohio from

1833 to 1835.

Mitchell, Robert B.; was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1828; graduated at Washington County, Pennsylvania; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar served as Lieutenant of Ohio Vol unteers in the Mexican War afterward resumed his profession; removed to Kansas in 1856; took an active part against the Pro-Slavery party; was in the Territorial Legislature in 1857 and 1858; State Treasurer from 1858 to 1861; Adjutant-General in 1860 and 1861 Colonel of the Second Kansas Volun ;

;

;

James

in York County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1827.

Mitchell,

S.;

was born

Mitchell, John; was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. Died at Beaver, Pennsylvania, in August, 1849.

;

John

I.;

in

;

;

.

Nahum;

was born in East BridgeMitchell, water. Massachusetts, February 12, 1769; graduated at Harvard University in 1789; taught school; studied 1 law, and was admitted to the bar in 179:2; from 18 1 to 1821 was Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and afterwards Chief Justice; from 1798 to 1812 was a Representative in the General Court; a Representative in Congress from 1803 to 1805; in 1813 and 1814 was State Senator; from 1814 to 1820 was one of the Governor s Council; from 1822 to 1827 was Treasurer of the State; in 1840 published a History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and published a volume of sacred music, entitled the "Bridgewater He fell and died suddenly in one of the Collection. streets of Plymouth, August 1, 1853, while attending "

26, 1882.

Samuel Latham;

was born on Long

Island in 1763; was well educated; after the close of the Revolutionary War went to Edinburgh, and there studied medicine and natural history on his return was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in Columbia College; hisipractice as a physi cian was extensive; he edited, with Dr. Smith, four teen volumes of the "Medical Repository"; also published a "Life of Tammany," thr- Indian Chief, and other useful works, historical and scientific; was a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1801 to 1804. and again from 1810 to 1813, and a Senator from 1804 to 1809. Died in New York, ;

September 8. 1831. A work which he published an Picture of New York," sug onymously, entitled gested to Washington Irving his "Knickerbocker s "A

1 1

istory of

New

Mitchell,

was born

Tioga County. Pennsylvania, July 28 1838; received a common school education, and also studied for some time at the University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; taught school served in the Union Army as a commissioned officer during the War of the Rebellion; was admitted to the practice of law in 1864 was District Attorney of Tioga County from 1868 to 1871; was a Represent ative in the State Legislature from 1872 to 1876; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty -fifth and Forty -sixth Congresses; was elected a Senator of the United States from Pennsylvania for the term of six years from March 4. 1881

Mitchell,

Died January

Mitchell,

John

H.; was bora in Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1835; studied and practiced law; removed to California, and settled in San Francisco; removed to Portland, Oregon, in 1860, and continued his profession; was elected Corpora tion Attorney in 1861; was elected to the State Sen ate in 1862, and served four years, the last two as President; in 1865 was commissioned LieutenantColonel of Militia; was a candidate for United State* Senator in 1866. but defeated was chosen Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Willamette University at Salem, Oregon, in 1867, and served in that position nearly four years; was elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing in 1873, and ending in 1879, serving on the Committees on Privileges and Elections. Claims and Transportation; in 1885 was again elected a Senator from Oregon.

Mitchell,

and severely wounded at Wilson s Creek, dur ing the Civil War; soon after raised a Regiment of Cavalry; was made Brigadier-General in 1862; placed in command of the Thirteenth Division of Buell s army, and fought at Perry ville, October 8, 1862; was appointed Governor of New Mexico, November, 1865. teers,

York.

Stephen M.; was

born at Wethers-

Connecticut, December 27, 1743; graduated at Yale College in 1763; was chosen a tutor in the Col lege in 1766, in which station he continued three years; entered upon the practice of law in 1772; in 1779 was appointed a Judge of the Hartford County Court, and in 1790 placed at the head of that Court ; was a Delegate to the old Congress in 1783 and 1785 j and in 1793 was appointed to the United States Sen ate, which position he held until 1795; in 1795 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Connecti cut; in 1807 Chief Justice of that Court, which olfice he held until 1814, when he became disqualified by age; was a Presidential Elector in 1805; it was to his services, while in Congress, that Connecticut was greatly indebted for the establishment of her title to Western Re the tract of land in Ohio called the serve. Died in the plaoe of his birth, September field,

30, 1835.

Mitchell, Thomas R.; was born in Georgetown, South Carolina; graduated at Harvard University in 1802; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina, from 1821 to 1823, from 1825 to 1829, aud again from 1831 to 1833. Died in 1837. Mitchell, William; was born in New York; was a lawyer by profession was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serv Died hi ing on the Committee on Indian Affairs. ;

Macon, Georgia, in September, 1865.

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Mix, Charles holding the for

many

E.; was born in Connecticut; after of Chief Clerk in the Indian Bureau

office

years,

was Commissioner from June

to

No

vember, in 1858, and then resumed his clerkship; re sided in Georgetown. District of Columbia.

SethO.; was born at Battle Creek, Mich August 10, 1841: attended the common school

and High School in that place: in 1858 removed to Colon. St Joseph County, Michigan, and was an as sistant teacher in the Seminary there until 1860; in I860 entered the Literary Department of the Univers ity of Michigan where he studied one year; then en tered the Law School, of the University, from which he graduated in 1863, and at once went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was employed in a law office there; in 1864 removed to Lyons, Michigan, and en tered upon the practice of law; in 1866 removed to Northport, Michigan; in 1874 removed to Traverse City, Michigan, continuing in the practice of his pro fession; was Township Clerk of the Township of

Lyons, and afterwards of the township of Leelaun, Michigan; was Prosecuting Attorney for Leelaun County, Michigan, for six years; was Deputy Collec tor of Customs at Northport, Michigan, for six years; was a State Senator in 1871 and 1872; was a member of the State Constitutional Commission in 1873; was Register of the United States Land Office at Traverse City, Michigan, from 1874 to 1878; was Prosecuting Attorney for Grand Traverse County, Michigan, in 1878; was a Representative in, and Speaker of, the Lower House of the Michigan Legislature in 1881 and 1882; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884; in the same year was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Moflfet, John was born in the County of An trim, North of Ireland, in 1832; came with his parents to this country when a child; was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania; estab lished himself as an apothecary in Philadelphia: in 1868 was elected a Representative from Pennsylva nia to the Forty -first Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Freedmen s Affairs; his seat was contested, however, by Leonard Myers, and in April, 1869, the latter was declared duly elected. ;

;

engaged in the study of the law; in 1780 held the of Military Commissioner for Virginia, and, in that capacity, visited the Southern Army; in 1782 was a member of the Virginia Assembly; and in 1783 a Delegate to Congress; in 1788 was a member of the Convention in Virginia to deliberate on the proposed Constitution for the United States; in 1790 was elect ed a Senator of the United States from Virginia; in 1794 received the appointment of Minister Plenipo tentiary to France, and was recalled in 1797; in 1799 was elected Governor of Virginia; in 1802 was sent on a special mission to France, which resulted in the purchase of Louisiana; in 1803 was appointed Min ister to England; in 1805 was associated with Charles Pinckney. to negotiate with Spain; during his resi dence in England he and Mr. William Pinckney ne gotiated a commercial treaty with Great Britain, but it was never submitted to the Senate by President Jefferson; returned to America in 1808; in 1811 was Governor of Virginia, and the same year received, from President Madison, the appointment of Secre tary of State, which office he held until his election as President, March 4, 1817; during a part of the time, in 1814 and 1815, he also performed the duties of Secretary of War: was again elected President in 1821. Died July 4, 1831. office

Mofifatt, igan,

Monroe, James was born April 28. 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia; was educated at William and Mary College; in 1776 joined the army in the Revolutionary War, and continued with it un til 1778, displaying great bravery; then retired and

James

was born in Plainfield, Con Monroe, necticut, July 18, 1821 received his early education at Plainfield Academy; graduated atOberlin College, Ohio, in 1846, and pursued a course of theological study there; was a Professor in Oberlin College from 1849 until 1862; a member of the State House of Rep resentatives in 1856, 1857. 1858, and 1859, and of the State Senate in 1860, 1861. and 1862; chosen Presi dent of the Senate in 1861 and again in 1862; was United States Consul at Rio Janeiro from 1863 to 1869, serving for several months of 1869 as Charge (V Affaires ad interim at that capitol; was elected to the ;

Forty-second,

Hosea

was born in

New

York; served six years in the Legislature of that State; was a Rep resentative in Congress from 1813 to 1817. ;

Molony, Richard

New but

S.; was born in Northfield Hampshire; entered Dartmouth College in 1836

the institution before the close of the follow ing year and commenced the study of medicine; re left

moved

to Illinois

and

settled

at

Belvidere,

Boone

County, in the practice of the medical profession; was a Representative from Illinois to the Thirtysecond Congress, succeeding his friend and college

classmate, John Wentworth.

Monell, Robert; was a native of Columbia County, New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1829 to 1831. Died in December, 1860.

Money, H.

D.; was born in Holmes County, Mis 2fi, 1830; prepared himself for the legal profession, but abandoned it to become a jour nalist; in 1875 was elected a Representative from Mis sissippi to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses. sissippi,

August

and

Forty-third,

Forty-fourth

Con

on the Committees on the Library, and Banking and Currency, and Chairman of that on Education and Labor; was re-elected to the Forty gresses, serving

fifth

Moffit,

;

and Forty-sixth Congresses.

Monroe, Thomas B.; was a citizen of Kentucky;

about the year 1834 was appointed United States for the District of Kentucky.

Judge

Monroe, V.; was born in Kentucky; was ap pointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Washington, residing at Olympia.

Montanya,

J.

D. L.; was born in

New

York;

served two years in the Assembly of that State; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1839 to 1841.

Montgomery, Daniel was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1809. ;

Montgomery, John; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1807 to 1811.

Montgomery, JohnG-.; was

born in Northum

berland, Pennsylvania, in 1805; graduated at Wash ington College in 1824; came to the bar in 1827- was elected to the State Legislature in 1855; was elected a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress from Pennsyl vania, but died before taking his seat, of the mys terious National Hotel disease, at Danville, Pemwyl vania. April 1857, aged fifty -two years ->4.

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349

dent Cleveland, United States Attorney-General for Mr. Montgomery the Department of the Interior. held very strong and somewhat peculiar views on the question of free-schools, and endeavored to secure As much legislation in conformity with these views. Montgomery, M. V. was born in the Township prominence was given to this matter at the time 01 of Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Michigan, October Mr. Montgomery s nomination to the Senate, and 20, 1840; attended the common schools from early some misconception prevails as a consequence, the childhood until seventeen years of age; then taught propositions which he desired enacted into law are in a district school during the winters for four years, 1st, legal compulsion of parents to given below attending a High School at Eaton Rapids during the feed, clothe and educate their children; 2d, children summers; in 1861 entered the Union Army, and served of indigent parents should be fed, clothed and edu about ten months in the Second Michigan Cavalry in cated at public expense; 3d, children whose parents the fall of 1862 began the study of law in Eaton are able to care for them shall not be a tax upon the Rapids; in the spring of 1863 was elected Township public for food, clothing, or school facilities; 4th, Clerk, and was re-elected in 1864 in 1865 was admitted parents mentally and morally unfit to care for chil to the bar; in 1866 commenced the practice of law at dren shall exercise care in selecting schools where of the in was candidate Eaton Rapids; the same year their temporal and eternal welfare will be promoted; his party for Prosecuting Attorney of Eaton County, or 5th, education by any particular teacher, book, but was defeated; in 1870 was elected a Representa system of religious or non-religious instruction shall tive in the State Legislature and served two years; not be compulsory; 6th, the course of study in public in 1874 was an unsuccessful candidate for Attorneyschools shall be confined to the practical branches, General of the State; in 1875 removed to Lansing, except in special instances where the classics and the Democratic in 1876 was a to Delegate Michigan higher branches may be taught as a reward of merit; National Convention; in March, 1885, was appointed, shall be 7th, the educating and training of the young in of Patents President Commissioner by Cleveland, open to private competition provided, that the State the Department of the Interior at Washington. shall establish and maintain such necessary educa

Montgomery, Joseph graduated at Princeton College in 1755; also took a degree at Yale College in 1760; was a Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Con tinental Congress from 1780 to 1784. ;

;

:

;

;

;

;

Montgomery, Thomas

;

was born in Nelson

County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1815, and again from Died April 2, 1828. 1821 to 1823.

Montgomery, William was

a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1793 to 1795. ;

Montgomery, William was born in Guilford County, North Carolina; was educated for the medi cal profession was elected to the General Assembly in 1824, where he served, with but one intermission, until 1834, when he was elected a Representative in Congress, and continued in that position until 1841. Died November 27, 1844, aged fifty-three years. ;

;

Montgomery, William; was born in Canton Township, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1819; graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, in 1839; stud ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1842; was elected a Representative in Congress in 1856, serving in the Thirty-fifth Congress on the Committee on Public Lands; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Roads and Canals. Died in Washington, Pennsylva May 2, 1870. Montgomery, Zachariah

nia,

was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, March 6, 1825; in 1828 removed, with his parents, to Daviess County, Kentucky oc casionally attended a "subscription day-school" until about nineteen years of age, at which time the sum total of his school attendance was about two years; he then entered St. Mary s Jesuit College, in ;

;

Marion County, Kentucky, where he remained until, two years later, the entire faculty of the college were transferred to St. John s College, at Fordham, New York; he then went to St. Joseph s College, at Bardstown, Kentucky, where, in 1847, he graduated with the degree of A. B. remained in the college one year as a teacher and, at the same time, studied law in 1848 received the degree of A. M. continued the study of the law and, in 1849, was admitted to the bar; in 1850 went to California; after a short mining experience, entered upon the practice of law in Sutter County, California; in 1856 was appointed Dis trict Attorney of Sutter County; was re-elected; in 1860 was elected a Representative in the California Legislature; in May, 1885, was appointed, by Presi ;

;

;

tional institutions as private enterprise shall iail to and every person entitled to have his establish child or ward educated at public expense shall select his own school, and the teacher or principal of such school ;

shall be paid for teaching such pupil a compensation, the maximum of which shall be fixed by law, which compensation shall be proportionate to the progress made by the pupil in the legally appointed secular branches; said progress to be ascertained by examiners by law; but no religious tuition shall be at

provided public expense.

F.; was born at Granby, Massachu 1832; received a good education; in 1848 removed to Chicopee, Massachusetts; in 1851 removed to Oregon; was, for two years, in the employ of the United States in connection with the Govern ment surveys in Oregon; in 1853 engaged in mercan tile business at Brownsville, Oregon; in 1856 was in Cali appointed Inspector of United States Surveys duties as Inspector fornia; upon the completion of his went to Illinois, where he remained four years; in 1862 returned to Oregon and engaged in mercantile business at The Dalles, in that State; in 1863 removed his business to Umatilla, Oregon; afterwards engaged in various pursuits; in 1872 was elected State Senator, but his seat was successfully contested by his com a Representative in the petitor; in 1880 was elected State Legislature, and served in that body as Speaker; in 1882 was elected Governor of Oregon for the term of four years.

Moody, Z. May 27,

setts,

Wyman

B. S.; was born in Waterville, Moor, Maine, November 3, 1814; graduated at Waterville and was admitted College; studied law at Cambridge, to the bar in 1834; was a member of the Maine Leg islature in 1839 was Attorney-General of that State from 1844 to 1848; by appointment, succeeded John Fairfield as a Senator in Congress, serving from Jan uary to June, 1848; subsequently devoted much at tention to the railroad interests of his State; in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Consul-GenDied in eral for the British American Provinces. ;

Lynchburg, Virginia, February

bom

16, 1869.

Brunswick County, North Carolina, May 21. 1755; was educated in Bos ton, where he acquired a knowledge of military tac

Moore, Alfred

tics; in

;

was

in

1775 joined the Continental Troops of Nortli

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

350

j

Moore, Andrew; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia from 1789 to 1797, and again from 1803 to 1804, when he was appointed to the United States Senate, but was superseded by W. B. Giles; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac. Died in May, 1821.

;

Andrew

"

was born in Wor County, Massachusetts, June 19, 1812; removed

Athens Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and subsequently of the First National Bank of Athens; in 186:2 was appointed a Collector of Internal Revenue; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Territories, and the Militia. years, of the

Moore, Ely was born ;

cated as a printer; was

New

Jersey, and edu a Representative in Congres 8 in

Laban

;

cester to Ohio with bis father in 1817; received his educa tion at a frontier school; from 1836 to 1846 was County Surveyor; from 1846 to 1860, County Audi tor; was a Director, and then President for many

from New York from 1835 to 1839; was appointed Marshal of New York, by President Polk subse quently edited a newspaper in New Jersey; was ap pointed Indian Agent in Kansas Territory; at the time of his death was Register of a Land Office in Kansas. Died January 26, 1860.

Army

Moore, John was boru in Berkeley County. Virginia, in 1788; having removed to Louisiana, be came an active politician; from 1825 to 1834 was a member of the State Legislature; also served several years in the State Senate; was a Representative in Congress from Louisiana from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1851 to 1853; was a Presidential Elector in 1849; a Delegate to the seceding "State Conven Died in Louisiana, in June, 1867. of 1861. tion

B.; was originally a school Moore, teacher in Alabama; Governor of the State from 1857 to 1863. Died in Marion, April 5, 1873.

Moore, Eliakim Hastings

all the campaigns of the of the Cumberland as Colonel, commanding a Brigade a part of the time, and was brevetted a Brigadier-General; after the war re-entered the pul Elder at Decatur; in 1868 pit, and was Presiding was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees 011 Claims and Patents; was re-elected to the Fortysecond Congress, serving as Chairman of the Com mittee on Invalid Pensions.

performed much service in

Carolina as Captain; when the British seized Wil mington, raised a troop of volunteers which did good service; in 1790 was elected, by the Assembly, Attor ney-General of the State, although he had never read a law -book; soon became, by study and observation, eminent at the bar; was appointed Judge in 1798; was Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1799 to 1805. Died in Belfont, North Carolina, October 15, 1810.

|

T.; was born in Cabell County, Moore, Virginia, January 13, 1829; received a limited edu cation; removed to Kentucky, and adopted the profession of the law; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures; served as a Colonel in the army during the Rebellion.

Moore, Marshal F.; was born in New York; removed to Ohio; was appointed from that State Governor of the Territory of Washington, residing at Olympia.

Moore, Nicholas B.; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland, from 1803 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1816. Died at Baltimore in 1816.

;

Moore, G-abriel was born in Stokes County North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from Alabama from 1822 to 1829; Governor of the State from 1829 to 1831; a Senator in Congress from 1831 to 1837. Died at Caddo, Texas, in 1844. ;

Moore, Heman Allen was born in Plainfield, Vermont, in 1810; studied law in Rochester, New York; removing to Columbus, Ohio, obtained dis tinction as a lawyer; was appointed Adjutant-Gen eral of the State Militia; was a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1843 to the time of his death, which occurred in Columbus, April 3, 1844. ;

Moore, Henry

D.; was born in Goshen, Orange County, New York, April 17, 1817; received his edu cation at one of the public schools of New York City; when sixteen years of age, acquired a knowledge of the tailoring business, which he followed until 1843: in that year removed to Philadelphia, and became interested in the marble business; was a Representa tive in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1853; for several years after leaving Congress was Treasurer of Pennsylvania.

Moore, Jesse

H.; was born in St. Clair County, April 22, 1817; his father was a soldier in the Revolution; graduated at the College of Lebanon in 1842; soon became a teacher, and in 1844 was Principal of a Seminary in Vermillion County; in 1846 received a degree from Asbury University; in 1848 took charge of the Methodist Church in Shelbyville; from 1854 to 1856 had charge of the Quincy College; in 1862 raised a regiment for the war, and Illinois,

Moore, Oscar F.; was born in Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1855 to 1857.

Moore, Robert was born ;

in

Washington Coun

Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1817 to 1821.

ty,

Moore, Samuel; was born in Cumberland County, New Jersey; was a Representative in Con gress from Pennsylvania, from 1819 to 1822; was a physician.

Died February

18, 1861.

Moore, S. McD.; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1 833 to 1835; served in the Confederate Army during the Rebellion.

Moore, Sydenham E.; was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, but removed to Alabama, with his parents, soon after its admission as a State; was educated at the University of Alabama; was bred to the profession of the law; was Judge of the County Court of Greene County, Alabama, for six years, and for a short time also of the Circuit Court of that State; resigned his Judgeship, and went to Mexico as Captain of a Volunteer Company, and served one year, a portion of the time in General Taylor s line, on the Rio Grande, and also in General Scott s line, at Tampico, Vera Cruz, Alvarado, and Jalapa; on his return home was elected Brigadier-General of Militia; in 1857 was chosen a member of the Thirtyfifth Congress; re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con gress, serving as a member of the Committee on Claims; took part in the Rebellion as a Colonel.

Moore, Thomas

was a Representative in Con South Carolina from 1801 to 1813, and from 1815 to 1817. again gress from

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Moore, Thomas O.; was Governor

of Louisiana

from 1860 to 1864.

Moore, Thomas

was born in Charlotte was an officer in the War of of 1812; was a member Congress from 1823 to 1829 from Kentucky; was Minister to the Republic of Co lombia in 1829; was Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regular Army during the war with Mexico; his last public position was that of a member of the Conven tion for revising the Constitution of Kentucky. Died in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, July 21, 1853. P.;

County, Virginia, in 1795

;

Moore, Thomas S.; was born in Jefferson County, Virginia was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1820 to 1823. ;

Moore, "William was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1810; received a common school education worked on a farm was clerk in a country store for some years; was subse quently devoted to mercantile pursuits in Atlantic County, New Jersey; was, for nineteen years, agent of the Weymouth Iron Works; was for a time en gaged in ship-building and the coasting trade; was twice elected a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Atlantic County, serving, in all, ten years; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, and Public Buildings and Grounds, and as Chairman of the Post Office De partment Committee. ;

;

;

was born at Hunts"William Robert Alabama, March 28, 1830; received a very limited education; removed to Tennessee when a boy; engaged in commercial pursuits: was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty -seventh

Moore,

;

ville,

Congress; declined a re-nomination.

Moore, "William S.; was born in Bethlehem, Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1822; graduated at Washington College in 1847; studied law; was chosen Prothonotary in 1854; was connected with the press; was elected to the Fortythird Congress, serving on the Committee on Revis ion of Laws.

Moorhead, James Kennedy; was

Moran, Benjamin was a citizen of Pennsyl vania; after receiving a good education, was ap pointed a Clerk at the United States Legation in ;

London. England; was soon made Secretary; fre quently officiated as Charge d Affaires, ad interim; in 1874, as a return for his long and efficient services, was appointed Minister Resident to Portugal.

Morehead, Charles S.; was born in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1802; adopted the profession of law; after practicing it for a few years, was elected to the State Legislature, serving during 1828 and 1829; in 1832 was appointed Attorney-General of Kentucky, which office he held five years; in 1838, 1839, and 1840 was again returned to the Legislature, officiating during the latter year as Speaker; was re-elected and made Speaker in 1841; was again re-elected in 1842 and 1844, and for the third time chosen Speaker; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 1851; in 1853 was once more returned to the Legislature; in 1855 was elected Governor of Kentucky; was for many years one of the most devoted friends and supporters Peace of Henry Clay; in 1861 was a Delegate to the Died at GreenConvention held in Washington. "

"

ville, Mississippi,

Morehead, gress from

I.

December T.;

23, 1868.

was a Representative

in

Con

North Carolina from 1851 to 1853.

Morehead, James T.; was born in Covington, Kentucky. May 24, 1797; studied law, and entered upon the practice in 1818; served three years in the State Legislature; in 1832 was elected LieutenantGovernor of Kentucky, and after the death of Gov ernor Breathitt in 1834, became Governor; in 1837 was again elected to the Legislature: in 1838 was appointed President of the Board of Internal Im provements, which office he held until 1841, when he was elected to the United States Senate for the term of six years; subsequently resumed the practice of Died at Covington, Kentucky, De his profession. cember 28, 1854.

Morey, Prank was born ;

setts,

July

11,

1840;

in Boston, Massachu was educated in the public

removed to Illinois in 1857; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and read law; entered the army, and served principally on staff duty: settled in Louisiana in 1866, and engaged in cotton-planting and in the insurance business was a member of the Assembly in 1868 and 1869 was appointed a Com missioner to revise the statutes and codes of the State; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty-second, schools;

born on

the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, in 1806; re ceived a limited education; spent the most of his youth on a farm, and as an apprentice to a tanner; was one of the contractors for building the Susquehanna branch of the Pennsylvania Canal; was the originator of a passenger packet-line on said canal in 1836 removed to Pittsburgh; there took an active part in improving the navigation of the Monongahela; was made President of a company bearing that name, and established in that city the Union Cotton Fac tory; in 1838 received the Militia title of AdjutantGeneral; subsequently taking a great interest in the business of telegraphing, became the President of several telegraph companies; in 1859 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving as a member of the Commit tee on Commerce; was re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving as Chairman of the Special Committee on National Armories; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, and as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs; re-elected to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means, and again at the head of the Committee on Manufactures; was re-elected to the Fortieth Con to the Chicago Convention gress; was also a Delegate Died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March of 1868. ;

6, 1884.

351

;

;

Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committees on Public Lands, Freedmen s Affairs, and Military Affairs, and Chairman of that on Mis sissippi Levees.

Morey, Henry Lee

was born in Butler Coun April 8, 1841; received a good education; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, at taining the rank of Captain; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar in 1867, and commenced practice at Hamilton, Ohio in 1871 was elected City Solicitor to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected for the term of two years; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of But ler County in 1873; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth ;

ty, Ohio,

;

Congresses.

Morgan, Charles H.; was born in Allegany New York, July 5, 1842; emigrated, with

County,

his parents, to Wisconsin when a child; was educated at Fond-du-lac, and studied law; served four years and two months in the war for the Union as a Volunteer; then began the practice of his profession;

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removed to Missouri and became Prosecuting Attor ney for Benton County; was elected to the State Legislature; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re elected to the Forty -fifth Congress; was also elected to the Forty -eighth Congress.

Morgan, Christopher; was

born in Groton

in 1828; was Connecticut; graduated at Yale College a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1839 to 1843; was Secretary of State of New York from 1848 to 1852; was Mayor of Auburn in 1860.

Morgan, Daniel

;

was a native of New Jersey

Pacific Railroad, Military Affairs, Printing, Mines and Mining. Finance, and as Chairman of the Com mittee on the Library; as Chairman of the National Union Executive Committee, was present at the of 1864, and opened its Baltimore Convention proceedings; on the retirement of Secretary Fessenden, President Lincoln tendered Mr. Morgan the Secretaryship of the Treasury, which he declined; in 1866 was appointed a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention," but did not take any part in its proceedings; in 1867 received from Williams Died in New York City, College the degree of LL.D. February 14, 1883. "

Morgan, George W.; was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1820; in 1836 left col lege, and, as a private, joined a company commanded by his brother, and went to assist Texas in gaining her independence, in which service he rose to the rank of Captain; in 1843 settled at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and adopted the profession of the law; served in the Mexican War as Colonel of the Second Ohio Infantry, and for his services at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco was brevetted a BrigadierGeneral in the Regular Army; in 1855 was appointed treat of the other division, after the fall of Montgom ery, left Morgan to contend with the whole force of Consul at Marseilles; in 1858 was appointed Minister Resident at Lisbon; on the breaking out of the Re the enemy, and he was taken prisoner; on being ex bellion, as Brigadier-General of Volunteers, had changed, was appointed to the command of a regi ment; was with General Bates at the capture of Bur- command of the Seventh Division of the Army of goyne; in 1778 commanded a corps on the Schuylkill the Ohio; was with General Sherman at Vicksburg; to cut off supplies from the British in Philadelphia; was assigned to the Thirteenth Army Corps, and served in the Southern campaign, under General was in command at the taking of Fort Henderson, in Greene, and advanced to the rank of Brigadier-Gen Arkansas; on account of his loss of health, resigned his command in 1863; in 1865 was the unsuccessful eral, receiving from Congress a gold medal for the skill and bravery he displayed at the battle of Cowcandidate for Governor of Ohio; in 1866 was elected pens in the defeat of Tarleton in 1794 commanded a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth Congress, the Militia of Virginia, ordered out by President serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; in 186K Washington for the purpose of suppressing the his seat was contested by Columbus Delano, and his Insurrection in claims was was a re-elected to the Forty-first and Whisky rejected; Pennsylvania; Repre sentative in Congress from 1795 to 1799; in 1799 Forty-second Congresses, serving on the Committees published an address to his constituents, vindicating on Foreign Affairs, Military Affairs, and Reconstruc the administration of Mr. Adams. tion. Died in Win removed in early

Virginia; having neither the advantages of wealth nor of a good education, wa dependent upon manual labor for his support; in 1755 served as a private soldier under General Braddock; at the close of the campaign retired to a farm in Frederick County; at the commencement of the Revolution commanded a troop of Cavalry, under General Washington, at Boston; was detached on the expedition against Quebec, and when Arnold was wounded, took command of his division the re life to

;

;

chester, Virginia, in 1802;

aged sixty-nine years,

Morgan, Edwin B.; was born at Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, May 2, 1806; was a mer

chant by occupation, until his election to the Thirtythird Congress as a Representative; was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and was a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

Morgan, Ed-win

D.; was born in Washington

Berkshire County, Massachusetts, February 8, 1811; at the age of seventeen entered a wholesale grocery house in Hartford, Connecticut, as a clerk, and in three years became a partner; soon after attaining his majority, was chosen a member of the City Coun cil of Hartford in 1836 settled in New York City and was extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1849 was chosen an Alderman of the city; during the same year was elected to the State Senate, and served two terms; in 1855 was appointed Commis sioner of Emigration, and held the office until 1858was Vice-President of the "National Republican ;

;

Convention" held at Pittsburgh in 1856; was long Chairman of the National Republican Committee; in 1858 was elected Governor of New York, and reelected in 1860; in 1861 was appointed, by President

Lincoln, Major-General of Volunteers, and, although he rendered much service, declined all compensation the number of troops sent to the war during his ad ministration was two hundred and twenty-three thousand; in 1863 was elected a Senator in Congress from New York for the term ending in 1869, serving 011 the Committees on Commerce, Manufactures, the

Morgan, James was born in New Jersey was a Representative in Congress from that State from ;

;

1811 to 1813.

James

Morgan, Bright was born in Lincoln bounty, Tennessee, March 14, 1835; removed, with his parents, to De Soto County, Mississippi, in 1840, where he has since resided; received an academic studied law at Hernando, Mississippi ; education; was admitted to the bar in 1857, and entered upon ;he practice of law at Hernando; was elected Judge of Probates in 1860; in 1861 resigned and was mustered nto the Confederate States service as a private was elected Captain, and in the organization of the Twen;

;

.y-ninth Mississippi Infantry was elected Major; was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel; at the lose of the war was again elected Judge; was a member of the State Senate of Mississippi in 1876, and in was 877, 1878; October, 1878, appointed, by he Governor, Chancellor of the Third Chancery Disfour was Grand Master of Marict, serving years;

ons in Mississippi; in 1884 was elected a Representtive from Mississippi to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Morgan, John

J.; was born in Queens County, York; was a member of the New York AssemJly; a Representative in Congress from that State rom 1821 to 1825; again in the Assembly in 1836 nd 1840. Died July 29, 1849, aged eighty years. 9

Morse, Freeman H.; was born

in Bath, Maine, in the State Legislature from 1840 to 1844, and also in 1853 and 1856; was Mayor of Bath three years; was elected to Congress in 1843, serving one term; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from Maine, serving as a

February

18, 1807;

was

mem

ber of the Committee on the Cost of Public Printing, and that on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and was a member of the Special Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebellious States; was a member of the "Peace Congress" of

1861; was appointed, by President Lincoln, Consul at London.

Morse, Isaac Edwards

was born in New Or was educated at Partridge s Military Academies at Norwich, in Vermont, and at Miihlletown, in Connecticut; graduated at Harvard University in 18:29; studied law in New Orleans, and in Pennsylvania; was a Representative from Louis ;

leans, Louisiana, in 1809;

iana in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first Congresses; was subsequently At torney-General of Louisiana. Died In New Orleans,

and

February

11, 1866.

Morse, Leopold; was born at Wachenheim T Bavaria, August 15, 1831 received a common school education; emigrated to the United States early in in Boston, Massachusetts; life; became a merchant was twice a Delegate to Democratic National Con ventions; was twice defeated as a Candidate for Con from Massachu gress; was elected a Representative setts to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty -seventh,, and Forty -eighth Congresses. ;

Morse, O. A.; was born

in Cherry Valley, OtseYork, March 26, 1815; graduated at Hamilton College, New York; studied law; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Invalid

go County,

New

Pensions.

Morsell,

James

was born in Calvert County,

S.;

10, 1775; received

Maryland, January

a good educa

in George tion; studied law, and came to the bar town, District of Columbia, where he continued to reside; served as a volunteer soldier in the war of

1812; in 1816 was appointed, by President Madison, a Judge of the United States Court for the District of Columbia, and continued in that capacity until 1863, when that court was abolished to make way lor the new order of affairs; he numbered among his inti mate friends such men as Francis Key, Roger Taney r and Walter Jones; was also personally acquainted with George Washington. Died, after a long life of honor and usefulness, at the residence of his daughter in Prince George County, Maryland, January 11, 1870, having, on the preceding day, completed his ninety-fifth year.

Morton, Jackson moving

was born in Virginia; re was a Senator in Congress from

to Florida,

;

that State from 1849 to 1855; subsequently entered extensively into the business of manufacturing lum ber in Florida; served in the Rebellion as a menibei of the Confederate Congress.

Morton, Jeremiah; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1851.

Morton, John was born in Ridley, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1724; passed his boyhood on his father s farm; received a common English education; in 1764 was appointed a Justice of the Peace; was soon elected to the Assembly of the State; was a member of the New York Congress in 1765; in 1767 became a County Sheriff, holding the office three years; was a Judge of the Supreme Court ; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to Died in April of the latter year. His dying 1777. words were uttered in behalf of his distracted ;

country.

Morton, Levi Parsons was born ;

at

Stoneham r

an academic educa tion; became a merchant in Hanover, New Hamp shire, in 1845; removed to Boston, Massachusetts, iii 1850, and to New York in 1854; in 1863 engaged in the business of banking, in New York, and in Lon don, England; was appointed an Honorary Commis Vermont,

May

16, 1824; received

sioner to the Paris Exposition of 1878; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth Congress; resigned in March, 1881, to accept the appointment of Minister Plenipotentiary to France.

Morton, Marcus was born ;

in Freetown, Massa

1784; graduated at Brown University in 18i)4; studied law, and devoted himself to politics; in 1811 was chosen Clerk of the Massachusetts,

December

19,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. chusctts Senate; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1821; in 1823 was a member of the Executive Council of that State; in 1824 was elected Lieutenant-Go vernor; was sub sequently a Judge of the Supreme Court of Massa chusetts from 1825 to 1840; was Governor of the State from 1840 to 1841, and again from 1813 to 1844, chosen each time by one vote; was Collector of Boston from 1845 to 1849; was a member of the "Constitutional Convention of 1853; a member of the State Legislature in 1858. Died at Taunton, "

February

\

6,

1864.

Morton, Oliver P.; was born in Wayne County, Indiana, August 4, 1823; was educated at the Miami University; studied law and came to the bar in 1847; in 1852 was elected Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Indiana; in 1856 was nominated by the Republicans for the office of Governor of In diana, but was defeated; in 1860 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana; and in 1861, on the transfer of Governor H. S. Lane to the United States Senate, assumed the office of Governor and held it i our years; in 1864 was elected Governor for a second term; in 1865, on account of his having been stricken with paralysis, visited Europe in the hope of improving his health; returned in 1866 and, in spite of continued ill-health, resumed his executive duties; in June, 1866, while seated in his chair, de livered a political speech which created much en thusiasm in the State, and of which more than a million copies were published in pamphlet form; on the subsequent meeting of the Legislature, in January, 1867, was elected, by a remarkable vote, a Senator in Congress for the term ending in 1873, serving on the Committees on Foreign Relations, Agriculture, Military Aft airs, and Private Land Claims; in 1870 was tendered the Mission to England, but declined; was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1879, serving as Chairman of the Committees on Privileges and Elections. Died at Indianapolis, Indiana, November 1, 1877.

Moseley, Jonathan Ogden was born at East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut; was a ;

graduate of Yale College in 1780; was a Representa tive in Congress from his native State from 1805 to 1821; subsequently removed to Michigan, and died at Saginaw, in that State, September 9, 1839, aged seventy-seven years.

Moseley, William A.; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1816; was a member of the New York Assem bly in 1835; of the State Senate from 1838 to 1841, .and a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1847. Moseley,

"William

D.;

was Governor of Florida

from 1845 to 1849.

Moses, F.

J., Jr.;

was Governor of South Caro

lina from 1873 to 1875.

Mosgrove, James was born at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1821; received a common school education; engaged in the iron business, and became President of the Kittanning Iron Company; also President of the First National Bank of Kittan ning; was elected a Representative from Pennsylva nia to the Forty-seventh Congress. ;

Motley, John Lothrop

;

was born

in Dorches

Massachusetts, April 15, 1814; graduated at Har vard University in 1831; spent a year at each of the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin; afterward trav eled in Italy, and then returned to America, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836; ter,

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in 1839 published Morton s Hope.," a novel; in 1840 he was Secretary of Legation to Russia, but soon re turned; in 1849 wrote "Merry Mount," and also contributed articles to the New York Review on Do Tocqueville s Democracy, and Goethe s writings; and to the North American Review on Peter the Great; went to Europe in 1851 to gather materials for a his Rise and Fall of the Dutch Republic," tory of the which was published at London in 1856; the work was translated into the Dutch, German, and French languages, with an introduction by Guizot in the lat ter; in 1861 published the "United Netherlands"; was a member of the Institute of France, and other, learned societies of Europe and America; in 18(31 The published in the London Times an essay on Causes of the American Civil War"; in 1868 deliv ered an address on Historic Progress and American Democracy; in November, 1866, was appointed Min ister Plenipotentiary to Austria; was recalled in 1867; was Minister to England from April, 1869, to No "

|

"

"

vember, 1870.

Mott, Gordon N.; was born in Zancsville, Ohio, October 21, 1812; studied law, and came to the bar in 1836; during the troubles between Mexico and Texas in that year, served nine months as a volunteer in the Texan service; soon after returned to Ohio, and set tled in the practice of his profession in Miami Coun ty; served as a Captain in the war with Mexico, hav ing raised the company he commanded, after which he again returned to his native State; in 1849 emi grated to California; in 1850 was elected Judge of Sutter County: in 1851 was appointed a District Judge; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln,

a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada Territory; in 1862 was elected a Delegate from that Territory to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

Mott, James was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1801 to 1805; had previously been Treasurer of the State, and was a Presidential ;

Elector in 1809.

Mott, Richard was born in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York, July 21, 1804; was edu Nine Partners," cated at the Quaker Seminary of in Dutchess County, New York; bred a merchant; re moved to Toledo, Ohio; was elected to the Thirtyfourth Congress, and re-elected to the Thirty -fifth ;

"

Congress.

Motte, Isaac

;

was a Delegate from South Caro

lina to the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782.

Moulton, Mace; was born in New Hampshire; was Sheriifof Hillsborough County in 1845; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847; a State Counselor in 1848 and 1849.

Moulton, Samuel W.| was born

in

Wenham,

Massachusetts, January 20, 1822; received a common school education; after spending some years in the Southern States, settled in Illinois in 1845; adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the Illi nois Legislature from 1852 to 1859; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; was the author of the present com mon school system of the State; was chosen President of the Board of Education of Illinois in 1859, and held the position in 1864, when he was elected a Rep resentative from Illinois to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Territories, and Ex penditures in the Navy Department, and also on those on the Bureau of Education and Free Schools in the District of Columbia; was elected to the Forty-sev enth Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-eighth, Congress.

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Moultrie, William was born in South Carolina in 1731; received a good education; in 1761 was Cap tain in the Cherokee Expedition; member of the Pro vincial Congress in 1775; was promoted to Colonel in s Point com 1775; by planting a battery at Haddrill was a member pelled two British vessels to move off; of the Council of Safety; in 1776 was ordered to Sul livan s Island, and his defense of Fort Moultrie won for him great renown; in 1776 was made Brigadierin 1779 defeated a superior British force ;

>

General; /near Beaufort; the same year opposed the advance upon Charleston, and held the city until the approach of General Lincoln; also distinguished himself in 1780 at Charleston, and was imprisoned until ex

changed for General Burgoyne; was Major-General in 1785 to 1782; was Governor of South Carolina from he 1786, and from 1794 to 1796; while a prisoner, Died in Charleston, South ivrote his "Memoirs." Carolina, September 27, 1805.

Mouton, Alexander was a Senator in Con gress from Louisiana from 1837 to 1841 Governor of the State from 1841 to 1845; took part in the Re bellion, and was killed on the Red River, April 9, 1864. ;

;

Mower, Horace; was born in Vermont; removed to Michigan, from which State he was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of New Mexico, residing at Santa Fe.

Mo wry, Rhode

Daniel,

Jr.;

was a resident of Smith-

which he represented in the Colonial General Assembly at the time they passed the act which renounced allegiance to the king; was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Rhode Island was elected a Delegate to the Continental Congress from that State in 1781; although the intention was to keep only two Delegates in Congress, four were field,

Island,

;

elected, with instructions to serve alternately, each couple for six months; Varnum and wry were to have the first six months, and Collins and Ellery the

Mo

second.

Mudd, Ignatius

;

was appointed Commissioner

of Public Buildings for the District of Columbia in 1850, holding the position until 1851.

Muhlenberg, Francis Samuel

;

was born

in

Philadelphia, April 22, 1795; received a liberal edu cation; studied law; was Private Secretary to Gov ernor Heister of Pennsylvania; removed to Ohio; be came a member of the Legislature of that State; was a Representative from Ohio in the Twentieth Con Died in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1832. gress.

Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus; was born at the Trappe, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1750; was or dained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in Germany on his return to the United States offici ated in country churches in Pennsylvania, and in a church in New York City, which he left when the British entered; in 1779 and 1780 was elected to the Continental Congress by the Legislature of Pennsyl vania; for three years succeeding was a member and Speaker of the State Legislature; was a member and President of the Council of Censors, and took an efficient part in calling the Convention of 1790, which revised the State Constitution was President of the State Convention called to consider the ratification of the Federal Constitution, to which he gave an earnest support; was a member of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Congresses; was Speaker of the House in the First and Third Congresses; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the 1 otoruac; as Chairman of the Committee of the ;

;

Whole, he gave his casting vote in favor of the law required to carry Jay s Treaty into effect; was Regis ter of the Land Office of Pennsylvania, under Govern ors Miffliu and McKean, while holding which office he died at Lancaster, June 4, 1801.

Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus

;

son of Rev.

Henry Ernestus and nephew of J. P. G. and F. A. Muhlenberg; was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1782; was carefully educated by his very learned father; was ordained to the Lutheran Min istry in 1802; was called to Trinity Church, Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1802, and remained a most accepta Dr.

ble pastor of that congregation until 1828, when illhealth and other causes compelled him to abandon

the ministry; was President of the Lutheran Ministeriurn of Pennsylvania, as his father and grandfather had been before him; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to Congress in 1828, and served from March 4, 1829, until February, 1838, when he resigned his seat and accepted the Mission to Aus tria, about that time created; President Van Bnren tendered him the post of Secretary of the Navy, when forming his Cabinet, and the Mission to Russia, both of which he declined; in 1835 was the candidate of sv portion of the Democratic party for Governor; in 1838 was appointed Minister to Austria; in 1840 was re called, at his own request; in 1844 was nominated for the Governorship by the Democratic party, but during the canvass died suddenly at Reading, on the 12th of August of that year; he was greatly beloved by the people, and richly deserved their esteem as an upright man and able statesman.

Henry

Muhlenberg, Augustus, Jr.; was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, in July, 1823; received an excellent education, availing himself to the fullest extent of every advantage offered him; graduated at Dickinson College; studied law for four years, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1844; was elected to the State Senate in 1848, of which body he at once became a leading member; wrote a Life of General Muhlenberg; was elected a member of the Thirtythird Congress, in which body he appeared but for one day; attacked with typhoid fever, he was never able to resume his seat, and died at Washington, January 9, 1854, to the great regret of a constituency which anticipated for him a long and distinguished career in the public service.

Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel

;

was born

at the Trappe, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1746; was sent to Halle, in Germany, with his two younger brothers, Frederick A. and Henry E. in 1762, to be edu cated; the three brothers were devoted to the Chris tian ministry. Peter was ordained Deacon in the Church of England, on April 21, 1772, by the Bishop of London; a few days after, Priest, in company with William White, afterwards Bishop; returning to America, was settled over a charge in Dnnmore, New Shenandoah County, Virginia; in 1774 was elected to the House of Burgesses of that Colony; at the break ing out of the Revolution his ardent sympathies with it carried him into the army; in his farewell sermon he told his people, "There was a time for all things a time to preach and a time to fight, and that now was the time to fight"; raised the Eighth Virginia Regiment, and was made its Colonel; his first cam paign was in South Carolina and Georgia; on Febru ,

ary 21, 1777, was made Brigadier-General, in which capacity he served with distinguished gallantry at Brandywine, Germantown, Morimouth, Stony Point,

in Virginia, and at Yorktown, where he commanded the First Brigade of Light Infantry, in making the final assault with which he was wounded; in the J *ot

promotion was made Major-General;, after the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. elected Vice-President of Pennsylvania; was a Presidential Elector in 1797; was a member of the First, Third, and Sixth Congresses, from Pennsyl vania; was United States Senator in 1801, which office he resigned in 1802; was appointed Supervisor of Revenue for Pennsylvania in that year; was ap pointed Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, while holding which office he died, October 1, 1807.

war was

Muldrow, Henry L.; was born in Mississippi; graduated at the University of Mississippi; was adto the bar in 1859, and engaged in the practice Df law; served in the Confederate Army from 1831 4o \865, rising to the rank of Colonel; was District At torney for the Sixth Judicial District of the State, from 1869 to 1871; was elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1875; was elected a Repre sentative from Mississippi to the Forty-fifth, Fortysixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses.

""juitted

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a County Auditor; in 1851 was elected to the State Senate and declined a re-elev:tion was a Delegate to the Democratic Cincinnati Convention of 1856, to the "Charleston and Baltimore Conventions of 1860, and to the Philadelphia National Union Conven tion" of 1866; served during the Rebellion under General Sherman, as Colonel of the Fifty -seventh Ohio Volunteers, which he recruited, from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned on account of ill-health; on recovering his health was appointed the State Agent to visit all the Ohio troops in the Department of Ten nessee with poll-books and tally-sheets; in 1864 was appointed to perform the same duty for the Ohio troops in the Army of the Potomac; in 18(i6 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Niagara Ship Canal, the Union Prisoners, and Indian Affairs; was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress. ;

"

"

"

"

Munroe, James w as r

;

was born in the Grand Muller, Nicholas Duchy of Luxembourg, Germany, November 15, received a common school education, and attended Luxembourg Atheneum; emigrated to the United States, and engaged in Railroad business; was a pro moter of, and Director in, the Germania Bank of New York City; was a member of the State Assembly in 1875 and 1876; of the Democratic State Central Com mittee in 1875; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con gresses; was also elected to the Forty -eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

18i>6;

Mullin, Joseph was a native of Ireland; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1847 to 1849. ;

Mullins,

James

;

was born in Bedford County,

Tennessee. September 15, 1807; received a limited education while working on his father s farm; on be coming of age turned his attention to the milling business, and subsequently became a millwright, which business he followed until 1829; in 1831 was made a Colonel of Militia; from 1840 to 1846 was a County Sheriff; in 1862, on account of his devotion to the Union, was compelled to flee from his home for safety, and resided within the Federal lines at Nash ville; became a Staff Officer, and participated in the battle of Murfreesborough; ussault on Hoover s Gap;

also

took part in the

was a Delegate to the Nashville Convention" of 1865; was elected to the State Legislature in the same year, and made Speaker; in 1887 was elected a Representative from

Munroe, Thomas became a citizen of Wash ington about the time of the removal of the Seat of Government from Philadelphia, and in 1802 was ap pointed Superintendent, or Commissioner, of Public Buildings for the District of Columbia. ;

Munson, Lyman tice of the

Murch, Thompson H.; was born at Hampden, Maine, March 29, 1838; received a common school education; passed his early life at sea; learned the trade of a stone-cutter and followed it for eighteen years; in 1877 became the editor and publisher of The Granite-Cutters International Journal; was elected a Representative from Maine to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. Murfree, "William H.; was born in Hertford County, North Carolina; graduated at Chapel Hill in 1801, and, having studied law, was a successful ad vocate; served in the State Legislature in 1805; was a Representative in Congress from 1813 to 1817; was a Presidential Elector in 1813; in 1825 emigrated to Tennessee, and died soon after at Nashville.

Murphy, Charles

sions.

1853.

Mumford, Gurdon S.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1805

to 1811.

Mungen, William; was born in Baltimore. Maryland, May 12, 1821 removed, with his parents, to Ohio in 1830; received the rudiments of his educa tion from his mother, but afterwards obtained a knowledge of the Latin and German languages; spent his youth engaged in agricultural pursuits; adopted the profession of the law; was, for some years, the publisher and editor of the Democratic Courier, published in Findlay, O .iio; in 1846 and 1848 was chosen ;

B.; was appointed Chief Jus United States Court for the Territory of

Montana.

lina;

;

/

a State Senator during the three subsequent years. Died in New Jersey in 1870.

Tennessee to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Territories, and Revolutionary Pen

Mumford, George was born in Rowan County, North Carolina; represented it in the General Assem bly in 1810 and 1811; was a Representative in Con Died in Washington, De gress from 1817 to 1819. cember 31, 1818, before the expiration of his term.

born in Virginia; gradu

West Point in 1815; having removed to New York, was elected a Representative in Congress from that State, serving from 1839 to 1841; was a member of the Assembly of New York in 1850 and 1852, and ated at

was born in South Caro was a Representative in Congress from 1851 to ;

Murphy, Henry C.; was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1810; graduated at Columbia College in 1830; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1833; was at one time Attorney for the City of Brooklyn; was elected Mayor of that city in 1842; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1843 to 1849; was appointed, by President Buchanan, Minister to The Hague; in his tastes he was decidedly literary, and devoted much at tention to the investigation of the early history of his native State; on his return from Europe was elected to the Legislature of New York, serving in both the Assembly and Senate; was also a Delegate to the "State Constitutional Convention" of 1867; and was again elected to the State Senate in 1868 and 1869; in 1868 published a translation from the Duteh entitled Journal of a Voyage to New York, in 1679, 1680"; was a Delegate to the New York Convention of that year. "

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Murphy, Isaac was ;

Governor of Arkansas fron

1864 to 1868.

Murphy, Jeremiah

H.; was horn at Lowell

in Massachusetts, February 19, 1835; was educated the common schools of Boston, Massachusetts, and at the State University of Iowa, having removed to the latter State in 1853; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; was Mayor of Davenport, Iowa, in 1873; was a State Senator from 1874 to 1878; was defeated for Congress in 1876; was again elected Mayor of Davenport in 1880; was elected a Repre sentative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Congress was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress.

Murphy, John was a native of South Carolina; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1808; was Clerk of the Senate of South Carolina: Trustee of his A ma Mater; removed to Alabama in 1817; was Governor of Alabama from 1825 to 1829, and a Representative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1835. Died in Clark County, Alabama, September 21, 1841, in the fifty-sixth year of his ;

age.

Murphy, John L.; was born in Tennessee; was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Montana, residing in Vir ginia City.

Murphy, William

S.; was a citizen of Ohio; was appointed Charge d Affaires to the Re public of Texas, and died at Galveston, July 13,

in 1843

18:4.

Murrah, Pendleton; was born in Alabama; graduated at Brown University in 1848; was Gov ernor of Texas from 1833 to 1865. Died at Monterey, Mexico, September 23, 1865.

Murray, William Vans

;

was born

in

Mary

land about the year 1761; in 1783 went to London; entered as a student of law at the Temple, and re mained three years; on returning to his native State engaged in the practice of law; was soon elected to a seat in the Legislature; in 1791 was elected a Repre sentative in Congress, and continued in that position until 1797, when he declined being a candidate; was appointed, by President Washington, Minister to the Netherlands; in connection with Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Davie, negotiated a treaty with France in 1800; returned to the United States in 1801. Died Decem ber 11, 1803. He possessed great keenness of wit and delicacy of taste, and was distinguished for his eloquence, having a mind well stored with science

and

literature.

Mutchler, William

;

was born

in

Northampton

County, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1831; was reared on a farm: received an academic education; studied law at Easton, and came to the bar in that place; in 1860 was elected Prothonotary of his native county, and re-elected in 1863; was, for two years, an As sessor of Internal Revenue; in 1869 and 1870 was Chairman of the Democratic State Committee; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Pennsylva nia to the Forty-fourth Congress; in December, 1875. was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Ex penditures in the Interior Department; was again a Representative in the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Amos

was born in Lancaster County, Myers, Pennsylvania, April 23. 1824; received a good aca demic education; studied law, and came to the bar in 1846; in 1847 was appointed a District Attorney; in 1852 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy De partment, and a member of the Committee on Mileage. ;

f

Murray, Ambrose

S.; was born in New York; elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and was a

was

member

of the Committee on Mileage.

Eli H.; was, for a time, United States Kentucky; in March, 1880, was appoint ed, by President, Hayes, Governor of the Territory of Utah for the term of four years.

Murray,

Marshal

for

Murray, John was born in Lancaster, Pennsyl vania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1817 to 1821. ;

Murray, John gress from

L.; was a Representative Kentucky from 1838 to 1839.

in

Con

Murray, Robert M.; was born at Concord, Lake County, Ohio, November 28, 1841; was educated at Wi lough by, in Lake County, until sixteen years of age; then went to Oberlin College and remained two years; served in the Union Army one year; at the close of the war attended Law College at Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from that institution; engaged in the practice of law for a short time, and then Ijecame Cashier of the First National Bank of Painesville, Ohio, in which position he remained from 1870 to 1879; resigned and removed to Piqua, Ohio, where he engaged in the manufacture of farm implements; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortyeighth Congress. I

Murray, Thomas; was born in Northumber land County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1821 to 1823. Murray, William

;

was born in

New York; was

Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1855.

Myers, Leonard was born in Attleborough. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1827; received a liberal education and adopted the profes sion of the law; was Solicitor for two Municipal Dis ;

tricts in

Philadelphia; codified the ordinances for the consolidation of the city; translated several works from the French; in 1862 was elected a Representa tive from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Patents and Ex penditures in the Post Office Department; was reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Patents, Expenditures in the Post Office Department, and the Special Committee on the Civil Service; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, ind was placed on the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Patents; was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Patents.

Myers, William

R.; was born in Clinton CounOhio, June 12, 1836; removed to Madison County, his childhood and youth were Indiana, in 1848 massed upon a farm received a common school edu cation; in 185!) learned the trade of a painter; folowed this avocation during the summer and taught school during the winter seasons until 1861; in 1858 was elected Surveyor of Madison County and con tinued in that office until he enlisted in the Union Army in 1861; served throughout the war, rising to ;he rank of Captain; after the close of the war again taught school; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1871; in 1868 and 1869 was Superintendsnt of the Public Schools of Anderson, Indiana, and emained a member of the School Board until elected o Congress; was elected a Representative from ludiana to the Forty-sixth Congress. ;y,

;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. D.; was born in Tennessee; was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853; returning to Tennessee, was a Presidential Elector, in 1861, from that State.

Nabers, Benjamin

on removing

to

Mississippi,

Convention of 1873; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fafth, Forty-sixth, and Fortyseventh Congresses; in 1883 was appointed, by President Arthur, Solicitor of the Treasury, in which position he served until 1885.

Nance, Albinus was

born at La Fayette, Stark 30, 1848; received a good a the classical course at of education, taking part Knox College, Illinois; served in the Union Army throughout the Civil War; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar; in 1871 removed to Nebraska, and continued the practice of his profession; was a Rep resentative in the State Legislature in 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878, and was Speaker of the House the two latter years; was Chairman of the Nebraska Delegation to the Republican National Convention of 1876; was elected Governor of Nebraska in 1878, and re-elected in 1880.

Neal,

;

Count},

Illinois,

March

of Welsh descent, and born Virginia; was educated was the first elected Speaker of the North Carolina Senate, serving several terms; was the sec ond Governor of the State under the Constitution, in 1781; from 1782 to 1785 was in the Assembly; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1786. Died in New York, December 2, 1786, while on his way to Philadelphia to take his seat in Con He was a true patriot, sparing neither health gress.

Nash, Abner; was

in Prince

Edward County,

for the bar;

nor property in the cause of his country. C. E.; was born at Opelousas, Parish of Landry, Louisiana, May 23, 1844; received a

Nash, St.

common school education in New Orleans; enlisted as a private soldier in the Corps d Afrique in 1863, and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant-Major of the regiment; lost a leg at Fort Blakely, and was honorably discharged in 1865; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-fourth 1

Congress.

Naudain, Arnold; was born in Delaware; graduated at Princeton College in 1806; was a Sena tor in Congress from Delaware from 1829 to 1836. Died in Odessa, Delaware, January 4, 1872. Naylor, Charles

;

was born in the County of

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6, 18J6; was educat d a lawyer; was admitted to the bar of Phila delphia in 1828, and was for some years extensively engaged in practice; represented his native District in Congress from 1837 to 1841; in 1846 raised, in Philadelphia, a company of volunteers, and, as their Captain, took part in the war with Mexico; rendez voused at the Island of Lobos, in the Gulf of Mexico; landed with the invading army at Vera Cruz; was active in the operations before that city, and in most of the engagements in General Scott s line; after the capture of the City of Mexico, September 14, 1847, was appointed Governor of the National Palace (the Halls of the Montezumas"), and keeper of the archives and property of that Republic, and continued to hold that place and to aid in the administration of the government of the city until its final evacuation by the American Army, June 12, 1848; filled many posts of trust and honor in his native State. Died in Philadelphia, December 24, 1872.

Neal, Henry S.; was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, August 25, 1828; graduated at Marietta College in 1847; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1851; was elected a State Senator in 1861, and reelected in 18;i3; was appointed Consul of the United States at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1869; was Charge d Affaires during a part of 1869 and 1870, when he re signed; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional

John Randolph

;

was born in Anderson

County, Tennessee, November 26, 1838; in 1851 re moved, with his parents, to McMinn County, Ten nessee; was reared on a farm; after obtaining a primary education in the local common schools, he attended Hiawassee College, in Monroe County, Ten nessee, during one session, and then went to Emory and Henry College, Virginia, from which institution he graduated in 1858; taught school in Roane Coun ty, Tennessee, for one year; studied law; in 1860 was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of law; opposed secession, but when Tennessee joined the Confederacy he enlisted in the Confederate Army; was soon afterwards elected Captain; in 1862 was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1863 was promoted to a Colonelcy; in the spring of 1865 was assigned as a member of a Court organized at Rich mond, Virginia, the Confederate Capitol, to adjudi cate certain claims; on the fall of Richmond, soon afterwards, went to Giles County, Virginia, and taught school for three months; then returned to Tennesee, and taught school in Roane County until De cember, 1866, when he went to Sevier County, Ar kansas, and engaged in the practice of law his health failing, in 1870, he returned to East Tennessee, and finally settled at Rhea Springs, in Rhea County, Ten nessee, where he continued to reside, and where he engaged in mining, agriculture, and the practice of his profession; in 1874 was elected a Representative in the Tennessee Legislature; in 1878 was elected a State Senator, and, upon the assembling of the Legis lature, in January, 1879, was elected Speaker of the Senate and ex-officio Lieutenant-Governor of the State; in 1880 was a Presidential Elector; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

Neal, Lawrence T.; was born in Parkersburg, Virginia, September 22, 1844; was educated at the Asbuiy Academy; removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1864; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866; was Solicitor of Chillicothe in 1867; was elected to the Legislature in 1867; was Attorney of Ross County in 1870, and held that office until 1872, when he resigned; was elected to the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.

Neale, Raphael was born in St. Mary s Coun Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from ;

ty,

that State from 1819 to 1825.

H.; was born in Morgan Coun February 26, 1831; in that year his par-K ents removed to McDouough County, in the same State; was reared on a farm; received a common school education; in 1853 crossed the plains, with an ox team, to Portland, Oregon, where he remained one month, and then went to Sacramento, California, where he served as cook in a hotel for five months; then engaged in mining; in 1855 returned to Illinois and settled at Macomb; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1858; in 1864 was

Neece,

"William

ty, Illinois,

elected a Representative in the State Legislature; in 186!) was elected a Delegate to the State Constitu tional Convention; in 1871 was again elected to the Legislature; in 1872 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress; in 1878 was elected State Senator, and served four years was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

363

Negley, James S.; was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, December 22. 1826; was edu-

sou, in 1863; was a Representative in the Legislature in 1868 and 1869; removed to in 1871 was a State Senator in 1875, 1876,

Wisconsin Minnesota 1877 and \,cated at the Western University; served in the war with Mexico; entered the volunteer service in 1861; 1878; was Prosecuting Attorney of Douglas County for three years; became a Regent of the Minnesota* raised a brigade in three days, and was made a Brig adier-General; was the first to direct public- attention State University; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; to the removal of arms from the Allegheny Arsenal was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the ;

for the use of rebels; joined the army of General Sherman with his brigade, and succeeded General Buell in Tennessee; defended Nashville in 1862; was promoted to a Major-General for gallant services at Stone River; served with credit in the Campaign of

Tallahoma, Alabama, and Georgia; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Military Affairs, Enrolled Bills, and Revolutionary Claims; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses, serving on important Committees; in 1884 was elected a Repre sentative to the Forty-ninth Congress. Neil, John B.; was appointed Governor of Idaho term of four years from July, 1880.

Homer A.; was born in Poughkeepsie, York, August 31, 1829; adopted the profession of the law; in 1855 was elected Judge of Dutchess County for four years, and in 1859 was re-elected for a second term; in 1862 was elected a Representative Nelson,

New

12,

T Nelson, Samuel; was born in Hebron, W ashNew November ington County, York, 10, 1792, of

Irish

descent; graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1813; studied law, and came to the bar

New York in 1817; located himself in Cortland County, where he practiced his profession with great success; in 1820 was a Presidential Elector; was a Delegate to the "State Constitutional Convention of 1821; during the same year was appointed Post master of Cortland village; in 1823 was made Judge of the Circuit Court, which position he held for eight years; in 1831 was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of that State; in 1837 was made Chief Justice, and held the position until 1845, when he was ap pointed, by President Tyler, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; in 1846 was elected a Delegate to the "State Convention" of that year, but declined to serve; received the degree of LL.D. from Middlebury College, Columbia College, and Geneva College; a sketch of his career was published in the "Pioneers of Cortland County," by H. C. Goodwin. Died at Cooperstown. New York, Decem of

signed was a Delegate to the "State Constitutional Convention of 1867; a few months afterwards was elected Secretary of State, and re-elected in 1868 and ;

"

"

1869.

Nelson, Hugh; was born in Virginia; was, at one time, Speaker of the House of Delegates of Vir ginia; a Judge of the General Court; a Presidential Elector in 1809; a member of Congress from 1811 to 1823: was immediately afterwards appointed Ameri can Minister to Spain. Died in Albemarle County 18, 1836.

Nelson, Jeremiah was born in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, September 14, 1769; gradu ated at Dartmouth College in 1790; settled in Newburyport, Massachusetts, as a merchant; served as a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1807, and again from 1815 to 1823. Died at vNewburyport, October 2, 1838. ;

ber 13, 1873.

Nelson, John was born in Frederick. Mary land, in 1791; graduated at William and Mary Col lege in 1811; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1821 to 1823; in 1831 was appointed Charge iV Affaires to the Two Sicilies; in 1844 was ;

j

appointed by President Tyler, Attorney-General of the United States. Died in Baltimore, January 8 1860, aged sixty-nine yesvs. Received the degree of A.M. from the College of New

Nelson, Thomas; was born in Peekskil!. New York, January 23, 1819; son of William Nelson, formerly in Congress; graduated at Williams Col lege in 1836; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in New York; visited Europe in 1842; in 1851 was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Oregon. Nelson, Jr.; was born in York, Virginia, December 26, 1738; was educated at Trinity College, England; was devoted to farming and some thing of a sportsman; in 1774 was elected to the House of Burgesses, and took a bold stand in favor of liberty; was re-elected to that position; after attending various local conventions, was elected a Del egate to the Continental from 1775 to

Thomas,

|

j

Jersey.

Stiff

May

liberality.

from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serv ing on the Committees on Indian Affairs and Unfin ished Business; in 1857 Rutgers College, of New Jer sey, conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and at the time of his election to Congress he was Colonel of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regi ment of New York Volunteers, which position he re

Nor

way, February 2, 1843; came, with his parents, to the United States in 1849, and settled in Chicago Illi nois; removed to Wisconsin in 1850; took a fouryears course at Albion Academy, from which lie graduated; studied and practiced law; served in the Union Army more than three years, during the civil war; was wounded and taken prisoner at Port Hud-

in Cooperstown.

1826; graduated at Yale College in 1846; studied law, and came to the bar in New York City in 1849; removed to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1850; in 1857 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory; and in 1858 Dis trict Judge of the United States for the State of Min nesota. In 1875 an opinion which he delivered on the Civil Rights Bill attracted much attention for its

New

was born in Bergen

severe wounds at the battle of Camden, and was left on the field; after the war studied law, and practiced

Nelson, R. R.; was born

;

;

re-elected to the Forty-

Nelson, Roger; was born in Maryland; was aGeneral in the Revolutionary War; received several

York,

Neilson, John was a Delegate from New Jer sey to the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779.

Nelson, Knute

was

with success; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1804 to 1810; was several years in the Virginia Legislature; from 1810 to 1815 was .Judge of the Upper District of that State. Died at Fredericktown, Maryland, June 7, 1815, at an advanced age.

for the

March

F orty-eighth Congress; ninth Congress.

Congress

j

j

j

!

1777,

and again from 1779 to 1780, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; took part in the ruilitary affairs of the time as a Brigadier-General; served in the State Legislature: in 1781 was elected Governor of Virgin!;-.; was present at the siege of York-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. town, acquitted himself with ability, and was pub

thanked by Washington; retired to private in 1781. Died in January, 1789. licly

i

life

Nelson, Thomas A. R.; was born in Tennessee; was bred a lawyer; was a Presidential Elector in 1848; in 1851 was appointed, by President Fillinore, a Commissioner to China; served as a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and was a member of the Special Committee of Thirty -three on the Rebellious States; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but was prevented from taking his seat by the forcible action of the Confeder ate Government; was also a Delegate to the Philadel phia "National Union Convention" of 1866; in March. 1868, acted as one of the Counsel for Presi dent Andrew Johnson, before the High Court of Im peachment; was a Delegate to the New York Con vention of that year.

Nelson, Thomas H.; was born in Mason County, Kentucky, about 1824; removed early in life to Rockville, and afterward to Terre Haute, Indiana, where he became prominent in law and politics; was Min ister to Chili from 1861 to 1866; was appointed Min ister to Mexico, March, 1869; was one of the found ers of the Republican party in the West.

363

Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions; he was reserved in his habits, but had many devoted friends. Died September 10, 1850.

Wilson -was a Representative in Con from South Carolina from 1817 to 1819.

Nesbitt, gress

;

Nesmith, James W.; was born in Washington County, Maine, July 23, 1820; when quite young removed to New Hampshire, and in 1838 emigrated to Ohio; subsequently spent some time in Missouri, and in 1843 emigrated to Oregon; in 1848 and 1853 commanded, as Captain, two expeditions against the Indians; in 1853 was appointed United States Mar shal for Oregon, which position he resigned in 1855 y and took command of a regiment; in 1857 was ap pointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon and Washington Territories; was elected a Senator in Congress from Oregon for the term beginning in 1861 and ending in 18J7, serving on the Committees on Military Affairs and Indian Affairs, and also the Special Committee appointed to visit the Indian tribes of the West, and the Committees on Commerce and Revolutionary Claims; in 1866 was appointed a Visitor to the West Point Academy, and was one of the Senators designated to attend the funeral of General Scott; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention of 1866; was subse quently appointed Minister to Austria, but not con tinued; while devoting himself to farming in Oregon, was elected to the Forty-third Congress, in place of J. J. Wilson, deceased. Died June 17, 1885. "

"

Nelson, Haverhill,

Thomas Leverett New

;

Hampshire, March

was born 4,

1827;

in

was

prepared for college at Haverhill Academy and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire; entered Dartmouth College in 1842; in 1844 removed to .Burlington, Vermont, and enteied the University of Vermont, in that city; graduated therefrom in 1846, and engaged in civil engineering, in which oc cupation he continued until 1853, residing in various parts of the country; then began the study of law at Worcester, Massachusetts; was admitted to the bar, at Worcester, in 1855, and settled there in the prac tice of law was a Representative in the Massachu setts Legislature in 1869, and was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee; was City Solicitor of Worcester f.om 1870 to 1873; at different times held numerous minor State and Municipal offices; also became a ;

member of several local societies, among which was the American Antiquarian Society; in 1878 was ap pointed United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; in 1885 received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Vermont.

Thomas

Nelson, M.; was born in Virginia in 1782; served with distinction in the War of 1812 as a Captain of Infantry after the war was promoted to the rank of Major, but resigned his commission; was a Representative in Congress from his native State from 1816 to 1819, when he declined a re ;

election, 10, 1853.

and

retired to private

life.

Died November

Nelson, "William was born in Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, June 29, 1784; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1807; was District Attorney for the Comities of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland, for a period of thirty years; was a member of the Assem bly of New York in 1819 and 1820, and a State Sen ator in 1823; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1847 to 1851 was a resident of Peekskill, where he died October 2, 1869. ;

;

was born in York, Pennsylvania, was educated a physician; was frequently fill places of trust and responsibility in his native town; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1846 to 1850, serving as

Nes, Henry

in 1799; called to

(

;

Joseph; was born

in 1730; was a Brigadier of State Militia, and Commissioner to run the boundary line between Virginia and Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Died in Congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1795.

Neville,

Revolutionary

officer,

Hardy County,

Virginia,

March

4,

1819.

New, Anthony was born in Gloucester County r Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1793 to 18 J5; on taking up his resi dence in Kentucky, was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1811 to 1813, from 1817 to 1818, and from 1821 to 1823. ;

New, John

O.; was born in Vernon, Indiana,. 1831 graduated at Bethany College, Vir ginia, in 1851 studied law, and came to the bar in Indianapolis; in 1856 was appointed Clerk, of the Marion County Courts, and re-appointed; in 18 Jl was appointed Quartermaster-General of Indiana, serving as such until elected to the State Senate; alsoacted, for a time, as financial Secretary to Governor Morton, and assisted in the management of the finances of the State; in 1865 was elected Cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, serving assuch until appointed, by President Grant, in 1875, without solicitation on his part, as Treasurer of the United States, in which position he served until July, 1876; was Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury from 1882 to 1884, when he re

July

6,

;

;

signed.

New, J. D.; was horn in Vernon, Indiana, No vember 28, 1830; was educated at Bethany College, West Virginia; began the practice of law in 1856; was elected District Prosecuting Attorney in 18)2. and served two years; was elected Judge of Common Pleas in 1864, and served four years; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty -fourth and Forty-sixth Congresses.

Newberry, John New York, November gan, with his

father,

S.; was born at Waterville r 18, 1826; removed to Michi

when

a child; received an

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

3G4

demic education and graduated at Michigan Univers and was admitted to prac ity in 1847; studied law,

tice in 1852; in 1864 engaged largely in manufactur to hi; ing enterprises; held no political office prior -election as a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-sixth Congress. Died at Detroit, Michigan -January 2, 1887.

Newbold, Joshua G-. was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1830 received a common schoof and academic education in his na tive State; applied himself to the study of medicine for one year and then abandoned it; studied law, and was admitted to the bar, in March, 1854, removed to the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, and settled upon a farm; also engaged in merchan dising; in 1862 entered the Union Army as Captain of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers; served as Judge-Advocate, with headquarters at Woodville, Alabama, was elected a Representative in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Eight eenth General Assemblies of the State of Iowa, and. in 1874, was temporary Speaker of the House; in 1876 was elected Lieutenant-Governor, and was, exofficio, President of the State Senate; was Governor of Iowa in 1877 and 1878; held a number of county offices, and practiced law at Mt. Pleasant. ;

;

Newbold, Thomas was a Eepresentative in Congress from New Jersey from 1807 to 1813, after which he served in the Legislature of that State. Died in Burlington County, of apoplexy, in Decem ;

first

Congress.

seat,

while on a

Died of cholera before taking his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in

visit to

July, 1849.

Newman, Daniel was born in North Carolina; was appointed Lieutenant of the Fourth United States Infantry* March, 1799; resigned, January 1, 1802; was Adjutant and Inspector-General of Georgia; Col onel commanding Georgia Volunteers in two actions with East Florida Indians, in 1812; distinguished himself in an attack on Creek Indians in Autossee towns under General Floyd in 1813; was LieutenantColonel commanding Georgia Volunteers, December, 1813; severely wounded at Camp Defiance, January, 1814; was a Reprefentative in Congress from Georgia from 1831 to 1833. Died in Walker County, Georgia, ;

in 1851. I

Newsham, Joseph

P.; was born in Monroe County, Illinois, in 1839; received an academic edu cation; was a merchant s clerk for two years; studied law, and came to the bar in Missouri in 1860; served rs a Lieutenant and Adjutant in the volunteer army, and was wounded at the battle of Chickasaw Bayou;

on being discharged from military

service, removed and was made Clerk of a Court in the Parish of Ascension; was a Delegate to the State Con stitutional Convention of 1867; was elected a Repre sentative from Louisiana to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Post Office Depart to Louisiana,

ment.

Newton, Eben was born in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut, October 16, 1795; his early edu cation was limited, having been obtained while work ing on a farm; his first earnings off the farm were from teaching school in the winter; in 1814 emigrated to Portage County, Ohio, and turned his attention to farming; studied law; in 1823 was admitted to the bar, and became the partner of Elisha Whittlesey, at Canfield, Ohio; in 1842 was elected a member of the Ohio Senate; was soon afterwards elected President Judge of the Third Circuit; was elected a Represent ative in Congress for the term from 1851 to but before taking his seat visited Europe; in 1856 was elected President of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon Railroad Company, in which position he remained until 1859, when he declined are-election; afterwards devoted himself to the pursuits of agriculture, in which he was eminently successful. ;

ber, 1823.

Newcomb, C. A.; was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1830; received a classical edu cation; adopted the profession of the law; devoted much attention to the business of fruit-growing, es removed to pecially to the culture of the grape Iowa, and was a Circuit Judge for two years; Judge of a County Court for three years; settled in Mis souri, and was elected, for two years, to the Legisla ture of that State; in 1866 was elected a Representa tive from Missouri to the Fortieth Congress, serving ;

on the Committees on Agriculture, and Roads and Canals.

Newell, William A.; was born at Franklin, Ohio; graduated at Rutgers College Grammar Schooll New Jersey, in 1836; was educated for the medicaprofession; settled in New Jersey; was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from New Jersey from 1847 to 1851, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary

18~>3,

Newton, Isaac was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1800; shortly after he became of age, ;

settled on a farm in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Claims and Roads and Canals; in 185(5 was elected and soon took rank among the best farmers in the Governor of New Jersey for the term ending in 1860: was one of the first and most active members was a Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of State; of the State Agricultural Society; was for years per 1864; was also elected to the Thirty-ninth Con sistent in urging upon Congress the policy of estab gress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary lishing the Department of Agriculture; was appointed Claims, Foreign Affairs, and War Debts of the Loyal its first Commissioner, after organization. Died in States; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyal Washington, June 19, 1867. ists Convention" of 1866; was a candidate for Gov ernor of New Jersey in 1877, but was defeated by Newton, Thomas; was born in Norfolk, Vir General McClellan; in 1880 was appointed Governor ginia, in 1769; was a Representative in Congress from of Washington Territory for a te- Ji of four years. Virginia from 1801 to 1829, and again from 1831 to 1833; served for many years as Chairman of the Com Newhard, Peter; was born in Pennsylvania; mittee on Commerce and Manufactures. Died in was a Representative in Congress from that State from Norfolk, Virginia, August 5, 1847. 18-19 to 1843.

Newman. Alexander;

Newton, Thomas W.; was

a Representative iu

was born in Orange 1836 was elected a Rep County, resentative to the State Legislature, where he served

Jongress from Arkansas in 1847.

several years; was also elected to the State Senate; from 1845 to 184,9 was Postmaster of Wheeling; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the

Newton, Willoug-hby was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State

Virginia, in 18J6; in

Thirty-

;

>om

1843 to 1845.

February and March,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Niblack,

"William

E

;

was born

in

Dubois Coun

1822; studied law, and was ad mitted to practice in 1843; during that year was ap pointed County Surveyor; in 1849 was elected to the State Legislature, where he served until 1852; in 1854 was appointed a Circuit Judge, and subsequent ly elected for six years, was elected a Representative in the Thirty-fifth Congress from Indiana, serving on the Committee on Mileage, and re-elected to the ty,

Indiana,

May

19,

Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Patents; was a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention" of 1864, and to the "New York Convention" of 1868; was elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means; also, re-elected to the Forty -first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Con gresses; was, from 1864 to 1872, a member of the "National Democratic Committee" for Indiana.

Niblack, Silas N.; was elected a Representative from Florida to the Forty-second Congress, having successfully contested the seat claimed by Josiah T. Walls.

was born in Hanover, Vir William and Mary College in

Nicholas, George ginia; graduated at

;

1772; was distinguished, during the Revolution, in the field, and in the Council; was Major of Second

Virginia Regiment in 1777, and, afterwards, Colonel; was a leading member of the Convention which rati

Federal Constitution; a prominent member of the House of Delegates in Virginia; removed to Kentucky in 1790; was a member of the Convention for framing a State Constitution, and was the author of that instrument; was the first Attorney-General of the State. Died in Kentucky in 1799. fied the

Nicholas, John; was a Representative

in

Con

gress from Virginia from 1793 to 1801 subsequently removed to Geneva, Ontario County, New York, whence he was elected to the State Senate from 1806 to 1809. Died May 27, 1821. ;

Nicholas, Robert Carter was born in Vir ginia in 1715; graduated at William and Mary Col lege; represented James City in the House of Bur gesses of Virginia when very young; continued in that position until the House of Delegates was organ ized in 1777, and was a member of that body until 1779, when he was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Chancery, and consequently of the Court of Appeals was opposed to the Stamp Act resolutions of Patrick Henry was Treasurer of the Colony from 1776 to 1777; in 1773 was a member of the Commit tee of Correspondence; was also a member of all the ;

;

;

important Conventions, and President pro tern, of that of July, 1775; was a good lawyer and financier.

Died at Hanover, Virginia, in 1780.

Nicholas, Robert Carter

;

was born in Vir

ginia; was appointed Captain of the Twentieth Infan try in 1812; Major of the Twelfth Infantry in 1813; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1814; was Charge d Affaires to Naples, and subsequently Secretary of State of Louisiana; in 1851 became State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Died at Terrebonne, Louisiana, December 24, 1857.

Nicholas, "Wilson C.; was Governor of Virginia; was an officer in the War of the Revolution, and a member of the Convention which ratified the Consti tution of the United States; was a distinguished

member

of the Senate of the United States from 1799 to 1804 and of the National House of Representatives from 1807 to 1809, and ably supported the measures of President Jefferson s Administration; in 1804 re signed his seat in the Senate, and accepted the office of Collector of the Ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth;

was afterwards again a member of the House, but re signed his seat in 1809; in 1814 was Governor, and remained in

office until 1817.

Died at Milton, Octo

ber 10, 1820.

John C.; was born at Clinton, Geor April 25, 1834; was educated at William and Mary College, Virginia; studied law, and divided his attention between the practice of his profession and the occupation of a planter; served in the Confederate Army throughout the war; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1865; was a Pres idential Elector in 1868; was elected to the State Senate in 1870 and served five years; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; wagel ected a Representative from Georgia to the Fortysixth Congress; was also elected to the Forty -eighth, Congress. Nicholls,

gia,

Nichols, Francis T.; was Governor of Louisiana from 1876

to 1880.

Nichols, Matthias H.; was born in Salem County, New Jersey, October 3, 1824; his education was acquired in a printing-office, and by the aid of friends who instructed him after the ordinary hoursof labor; studied law, and in 1849 was licensed topractice in Auglaize County, Ohio; was Prosecuting Attorney for Allen County; resigned the office in wa 1852, to become a candidate for Congress elected a Representative from Ohio to theThirty;

third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and was a member of the Joint Committee on Print ing.

Nicholson, Alfred O. P.; was born in William son County, Tennessee, August 31, 1808; graduated at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina, in 1827; settled in Tennessee as a lawyer; was a member of the State Legislature from 1833 to 1839; was a Sena tor in Congress from that State from 1840 to 1842; was a member of the State Senate from 1843 to 1845; was Chancellor of the middle division of the State in 1845; was President of the Bank of Tennessee in 1846 and 1847; was elected Printer of the House of Representatives by the Thirty-third Congress, and Printer of the Senate by the Thirty-fourth Congress; from 1853 to 1856 was editor of the Washington Daily Union; was elected a Senator in Congress from Tennessee for the term commencing in 1859 and end ing in 1865, but was expelled July 11, 1861 was a National Union Con Delegate to the Philadelphia vention" of 1866. ;

Nicholson, John was for several years a mem ber of the New York Assembly; was a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1809 to 1811.Died January, 1820, aged fifty-five years. ;

Nicholson, John A.; was born in Laurel, Sus sex County, Delaware, November 17, 1827; was edu cated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania; settled at Dover, Delaware, in 1847; studied law, and came to the bar in 1850; subsequently retired to private life; was elected a Representative from Delaware to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures, and the Special Committee on the Death of President Lincoln; re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ap propriations.

Nicholson, Joseph Hopper was a native of Maryland; received a good education; was a lawyer ;

in 1805 was appointed Chief Justice of the Sixth Judicial District; was also a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland; from 1799 to 180S was a Representative in Congress. Died March 4,

by

profession

;

1817, aged forty-seven years.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

366

Nicoll, Henry was born in the city of New York, October 23, 1812; graduated at Columbia Col lege in 1830; studied law, and practiced with suc ;

cess;

was a member of the

New York

"Constitutional

Convention of 1846; was a Representative in Con gress from New York, from 1847 to 1849.

on Commerce; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention of 1866; in 1870 was ap "Loyalists pointed United States Judge for the District of New "

Jersey.

"

Nicoll, John C.; was a native of Georgia; was a of education and culture, and a resident of Sa vannah; in 1839 was appointed United States Judge

man

for the District of Georgia.

Noble, David A.; was born

in Massachusetts;

liberally educated; adopted the profession of the law; on removing to Michigan, was elected a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855.

was a native of Battletown, Noble, James Clark County, Virginia; removed, when a youth, to Kentucky, and subsequently to Indiana; was a selfeducated man, and very influential in his adopted State; was a Senator in Congress from Indiana from 1816 to 1831. Died in Washington, February 26, of the latter year. ;

Nilea, Jason; was elected

the Forty-third Congress from Mississippi, serving on the Committee on Banking and Currency. to

Niles, John M.; was born in Windsor, Connecti cut, in 1787; was bred to tlje bar, and went to Hart ford in 1816 to practice law; in 1817 was there, con cerned in publishing the Times, which he edited for a time; in 1820 was a Commissioned Judge of the

County Court; was appointed Postmaster at Hart by President Jackson, and held the office until made a Senator in Congress in 1835, in which posi tion he remained until 1839; in 1840 was appointed Postmaster-General by President Van Buren; in 1842 was again elected to the United States Senate, served six years, retired to private life, and died May 31, 1856. Was fond of literary pursuits, and his con tributions to the periodical press were abundant; edited a Gazetteer of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and wrote a "History of South America. In his will he gave twenty thousand dollars for the benefit of the poor of Hartford, and bequeathed his ford,

Noble, Noah was born in Virginia, January 15, 1794; was Governor of Indiana from 1831 to 1837. Died in Indianapolis, February, 1844. ;

Noble, Patrick was born in Abbeville District, South Carolina, in 1787; graduated at New Jersey College in 1806; was a lawyer, and partner of J. C. a State Calhoun; Representative in 1812; was Speaker from 1818 to 1824, and again from 1832; in 1836 was President of the State Senate: was Governor from 1838 to 1840. Died at Abbeville in 1840. ;

"

"

"

library to the Historical Society of Connecticut.

Nathaniel ; was born in South Princeton, Island, in 1741; graduated at Princeton Col lege in 1766; was a student of law, medicine and Niles,

Rhode

theology; was the inventor of

making wire from bar by water power, and erected, at Norwich, Con a woolen-card manufactory; was a member necticut, of the Vermont Legislature, and Speaker of the was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ver House; was six times a mont; Presidential Elector; was a Representative in Congress from Vermont, from 1791 to 1795; wrote poetry and many sermons, and preached in his own house twelve years. Died at West Fairlee, Vermont, in November, 1828. iron,

Nisbet, Eugenius; was born in Georgia in 1803received an English and legal education; was, for several years, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State; was a Representative in Congress from 1839 to 1841; took an active part in the Rebellion of 1861became a member of the Confederate Congress. Died at Macon, March 18, 1871. Nisbet, E. A.; was born in Georgia; was a Rep resentative in Congress from that State from 1839 to 1842; took part in the Rebellion.

Niven, Archibald

C.; was born in New Yorkwas a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847, and a member of the State Legis

lature in 1864.

Nixon John T.; was New Jersey, in 1820;

County,

born in Cumberland graduated at Princeton

College in 1841; studied law, and came to the bar in 6 n the Jerse y Legislature from io ] 9 to 18oO, during the last year as Speaker- was 2ted a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the

/T- ^

Committee on

New

-

Commerce; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee

was born in Pennsylvania, received a good English education in the State of Ohio; studied and practiced law; was elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1856, serving two in 1860 was elected a terms; Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Patents; was re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress, serving on the same Committee.

Noble,

June

"Warren P.;

14, 1821;

Noble, William H.; was born in New York; served three years in the Assembly of that State from Cayuga County; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. Died at Roches ter, February 5, 1850, aged sixty-two years.

W.

was born in Bradford County, Noell, John Virginia, February 15, 1816; emigrated to Missouri with his parents in 1832; received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; from 1841 to 1850 was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Perry County, Mis souri; served four years in the State Senate of Mis souri; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Mis souri to the Thirty -sixth Congress, serving as a ber of the Committee on of the Public ;

mem

Expenses

Buildings; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Con

gress; serving as a member of the Committee on Claims; was also re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Con Died in Washington, March gress. 1863. 14,

Noell,

Thomas

E.;

was born in Perry ville, Mis

souri, April 3, 1839; received a good English educa tion; when nineteen years of age was admitted to the bar, and practiced law until 1861, when he was

ap

pointed a Military Commissioner for the arrest of dis loyal persons; subsequently went into the ranks of the State Militia, and rose to the rank of Major, which he held until 1862; in that year was appointed a Captain in the Nineteenth Regiment of Regular United States Infantry; was subsequently elected a from Representative Missouri to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Private Land Claims, the Militia, and Mines and Minin"was a Delegate to the National Union Convention" held in Philadelphia in 1866; re-elected to the For tieth Congress. Died at St. Louis, October 3, 1867 "

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Noggfle, David was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1809; received a common school education, and even that with great difficulty; removed, with his father, to Ohio in 1820; in 1836 re moved to Illinois, where he studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar; in 1840 removed to Beloit, Wis consin; in 1845 was made Postmaster of that place; resigned in 1848; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1846; of the Wisconsin LegisLtture in 1855 and 1857; was a Circuit Judge of the State from 1858 to 1866; in 1869 was appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Idaho; re-appointed in 1873; on account of failing health resigned the position in ;

and removed

1875,

San Francisco,

to

California.

Nolan, Michael N; was born in Ireland in 1834; emigrated to the United States in 1844; received a

common

became school education; studied law largely interested in the business of brewing; a Di rector in the National Savings Bank of Albany, New York was, for ten years, Fire Commissioner of Al bany, was elected Mayor in 1878; re-elected in 1880 and 1882; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty -seventh Congress. ;

;

Norcross,

Amasa

Hampshire, January

was born

;

at Rindge,

26, 1824; received

New

an academic

education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858, 1859 and 1862; was Assessor of Internal Revenue from 1862 to 1873; was Mayor of Fitchburg, Massachu setts, in 1873 and 1874; was a State Senator in 1874; was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Con

367

Hobart, resigned. Died at New York, January 4, 1836, aged eighty-three years, and was buried at

Duanesburg.

Norton, Daniel Knox County, Ohio,

S.;

was born

in

Mount Vernon,

April 12, 1829; was educated at Kenyon College; served one year in the war with Mexico in the Second Ohio Regiment; commenced the study of law in 1848 at Mount Vernon; in 1850 went across the plains to California, spending a part of that and the following year in Nicaragua; returning to Ohio, renewed the study of law, and came to the bar in 1852; practiced his profession in that State until 1855, when he removed to Minnesota; in 1857 was elected to the State Senate, declining re-election in 1859; was again re-elected in 1860, and also in 1863 and 1864, having been a member of the State House of Representatives in 1862; in 1865 took his seat as a

Senator in Congress from Minnesota for the term end: ing in 1871, serving on the Committees on Indian Affairs, Engrossed Bills, Claims, Territories, and Patents and the Patent Office; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention of "

1866.

Died in Washington City, July

1,

1870.

Norton, Ebenezer F.; was born in New York; served in the State Assembly from Erie County in 1823; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.

Norton, Elijah H.; was born in Logan County, received a liberal Kentucky, November 24, 1821 classical education, graduating at the Transylvania Law School in 1841; removed to Missouri in 1845; practiced law until 1852, when he was chosen a Judge of the Circuit Court of Missouri was re-elected ;

;

gresses.

the same position in 1857; after resigning the Judgeship, in 1860, was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serv ing on the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. to

Norris, Benjamin W.; was born in Kennebeck County, Maine, in 1819; when a boy worked on a farm; graduated at Waterville College in 1843; read law, but instead of practicing the profession, was engaged in teaching for several years; was for several years a Land Agent for his State was a Delegate to the Na tional Baltimore Convention of 1864; was a Commis sioner for the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettys burg from 1863 to 1865; was appointed a Paymaster in the Army in 1864, and on being mustered out in 1865, purchased a plantation and settled in Alabama; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1868; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Reconstruction. Died in Montgomery, January ;

27, 1873.

Norris, Moses; was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, in 1799; graduated at Dartmouth Col lege in 1828; studied law, and devoted himself suc cessfully to the practice in 1839 was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1840 was Speaker of the House; in 1841 was elected a member of the State in 1843 was elected a Representative in Council Congress, where he continued four years; in 1847 was again a member of the Legislature, and Speaker; ;

;

while serving in that capacity was elected a Senator in Congress, serving from 1849 to 1855. Died in Washington, January 11, 1855.

North, John "W.; was an early emigrant to the was appointed an Associate Territory of Nevada Justice of the United States Court for the District of

Norton, Jesse O.; was born in Vermont; gradu ated at Williams College, Massachusetts; emigrated to Illinois in 1839; studied law, and came to the bar in 1840; in 1847 was a member of the "State Consti tutional Convention was a member of the State Legislature in 1851 and 1852; was elected a Repre sentative from Illinois to the Thirty -third and Thirtyfourth Congresses, serving on the Committees on Post Offices and Post Roads; in 1857 was elected Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of Illinois, holding the office until 1862; in 1863 was again elected a Repre sentative in Congress, serving on the Committees on Post Offices and Post Roads, and Revolutionary Pen sions; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention of 1866. ;

"

Norton, Nelson

I.; was born in Cattaraugug York, March 30, 1829; received a com mon school education; in early life was engaged in farming; subsequently devoted himself to mercantile business; returned to farming; was appointed a Jus tice of the Peace; was six years a County Assessor; five years a County Supervisor; was elected to the State Legislature in 1861; was a Presidential Elector in 1872; in 1875 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty -fourth Congress to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Augustus F. Allen.

County,

New

;

Nevada, residing at Carson City. i

i

North, William

;

was Aid

to

Baron Steuben in

the Revolutionary War, and afterwards appointed Adjutant-General; was Senator in Congress from New York, by appointment, in 1798, in the place of J. S.

Norvell, John was bred a printer; for a time was the editor of a newspaper in Philadelphia; was appointed, by President Jackson, Postmaster of De troit, Michigan; having 1 ecime identified with the Territory of Michigan, berama one of the Senators in ;

Congress from the new Sti.te serving in that capacity from 1835 to 1841 V Died of apoplexy, in April, 1850.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

368 It is worthy of notice that this sons, six of whom served their soldiers during the Rebellion.

worthy man

left seven country with credit as

Norwood, Thomas Manson was born in Talbot County, Georgia, April 26, 1830; received an aca demic education in Monroe County, Georgia; gradu ated at Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, in 1850; Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852; re moved to Savannah in 1852; was a member of the ,Georgia Legislature in 1861 and 1862; was a Presi dential Elector in 1868; was elected to the United States Senate in 1871 for the term ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Pensions, Transporta ;

tion, Land Claims, and Revolutionary Claims; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Abraham

was born

at Saybrook, Con necticut; graduated at Yale College in 1"87; studied for the ministry, but did not take orders; in 1788 taught school in Georgia a year; studied law in Camden, South Carolina; was admitted to the bar in 1791 in 1794 settled on the Pacolet River, and con

Nott,

;

;

tinued the practice of his profession; was a Repre sentative in Congress from 1799 to 1801, when he was elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Judge of the Superior Court. Died at Fairfield, South Carolina, June 19, 1830.

Nott, Charles Cooper was born at Union Col Schenectady, New York. September 16, 1827; studied law, and on his admission to the bar, settled in the city of New York, where he practiced from 1850 to 1861 served as a Captain of Cavalry and also Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of New York Volun teers during the Rebellion; was made prisoner in 1863, and confined for more than a year; in 1865 was appointed, by President Lincoln, one of the Judges of the Court of Claims in Washington. ;

lege,

;

Edward

was born in 1657; was Governor of Virginia from 1705 until his death, which occurred August 23, 1706, at Williamsburg, Virginia.

Nott,

Amos

;

Nourse, graduated at Harvard in 1812; studied medicine; was a Medical Lecturer at Bowdoin College from 1846 to 1854, and Medical Professor since 1854; was also Postmaster of Hallowell, Maine, and Collector of Customs at Bath; was a Senator in Congress from Maine from January to March in ;

1857.

Nourse, Joseph; was born in London in 1754; emigrated, with his family, to Virginia in 1769; en tered the Revolutionary Army in 1776, as Secretary to General Charles Lee; was Clerk and Auditor of the Board of War from 1777 until appointed Assist ant Auditor-General in 1781 was Register of the United States Treasury from 1789 to 1829; was a Vice-President of the American Bible Society. Died near Georgetown, District of Columbia, September ;

1,

.

Noyes, Edward Follensbee; was born

at

East Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, Octo ber 3, 1832, but his parents died before he was three years of age, and he went to reside with grandparents at East Kingston, New Hampshire; attended the common schools and the Kingston Academy; at the age of thirteen was apprenticed to the printer s trade in the office of the Morning Star newspaper, at Dover New Hampshire; remained there four and a half years; then attended school in the summer and taught school in the winter, while preparing for col lege; attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, graduating therefrom, near the head of

his class, in 1857; the same year settled at Cincin nati, Ohio; having studied law and been admitted to the bar, he commenced the practice of law at Cin cinnati in 1858; in 1861 entered the Union Army as

Major of the Thirty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; in 1862 was promoted to Lieutenant-Col onel and Colonel; lost a leg in battle July 4, 1864, while leading an assault upon the enemy s works, near Marietta, Georgia; was subsequently brevetted a Brigadier-General; in October, 1864, was assigned to the command of Camp Dennison, Ohio; in 1865, while absent on military duty, was elected Solicitor of the city of Cincinnati, which office he held two years; in 1867 was elected Probate Judge of Hamilton ( ounty, Ohio, for a term of three years; in 1870 traveled in Europe; in 1871 was elected Governor of Ohio; in 1873 was re-nominated for Governor, but was de

feated by a narrow majority; received the votes of the Republican members of the Legislature for United States Senator, but was not elected; in 1876 was Chairman of the Ohio Delegation to the Repub lican National Convention, and nominated the suc cessful candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes; in 1877 was appointed, by President Hayes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to France; resigned in 1881, and returned to his home in Cincinnati, where he resumed the practice of his profession; during his service abroad, was sent on a mission to the all the countries special East, visiting bordering on the Mediterranean Sea.

Noyes, John; was a College in 1795; institution;

graduate of Dartmouth was subsequently a tutor in that

was elected a Representative in Congress Died in 1841,

from Vermont, from 1815 to 1817. aged seventy-eight years.

Noyes, Joseph C.; was born at Portland, Maine, was a member of the State Legislature in

in 1798;

1833; a Representative in Congress from Maine, from 1837 to 1839, serving as a member of the Committee on Agriculture; was a merchant by occupation; was Collector of the Passarnaquoddy District from 1841 to. 1843; was subsequently Treasurer of a Portland Sav Died in Portland, July 21, 1868. ings Bank.

Nuckolls, Stephen

P.;

was born in Grayson

County, Virginia, August 16, 1825; received an academic education; removed to Missouri in 1846, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; in 1854 removed to Nebraska Territory; was one of the founders of Nebraska City, and was a member of the Legislature in 1859; in I860 went to Colorado Territory, and en gaged in mining; from 1864 to 1867 resided in New York City; settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, in 1867, and upon the organization of ritory, in 1869, was elected a

Wyoming Ter

Delegate to the Forty -

first

Congress.

Nuckolls, William

C.; was born in South Car olina; graduated at the University of that State in. 1820; adopted the profession of the law; was a Rep

resentative in Congress from South Carolina 1827 to 1833.

from

Nugen, Robert H.; was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1809; with his parents re to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1811: settled in Tuscarawas County in 1828; in 1880 was elected a from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Con Representative gress, serving on the Committee on Roads and Canals: declined a re-election. moved

Nunn, David

A.; was born in

Hay wood County,

Tennessee, July 26, 1832; was educated at the Col lege of West Tennessee studied and practiced law; in 1863 was elected to the State Senate; in 1865 ;

*x>

,

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT BUILDING WASHINGTON.

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING BUILDING, WASHINGTON.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. the State House of Representatives; was elected a Representative from Tennessee, to the Fortieth and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Claims, Invalid Pensions, and Freedinen s Affairs.

Nutting-, Newton W.; was born in Oswego County, New York, October 22, 1840; received an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1863, and engaged in practice at Oswego, New York; was School Commissioner for four years was District Attorney of Oswego County from 1869 to 1872; was County Judge from January, 1878, to March, 1883. when he resigned, having been elected a, Representative from New York to the Forty-eighth ;

Congress.

Nye, James W.; was born

in Madison County, York, June 10, 1815; adopted the profession of the law; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lin coln, Governor of Nevada Territory, in which posi tion he continued until the adoption of the State Constitution, when he was chosen a Senator in Con gress from the new State for the term commencing in 1865, and ending in 1867, serving on the Committees

New

on Naval Affairs, and Territories, and as Chairman of that on Enrolled Bills: was also a member of the National Committee appointed to accompany the re mains of President Lincoln to Illinois; in January, 1867, was re-elected to the Senate for the term end ing in 1873, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Oakley, Thomas Jackson; was born in Dutchess County, New York, in 1783; graduated at Yale College in 1801; studied law, and entered upon the practice at Poughkeepsie, New York; in 1810 was appointed Surrogate of Dutchess County; in 1813 was elected a Representative in Congress where he con tinued until 1815, when he resumed his profession, and was elected a member of the Assembly; was ap pointed Attorney-General of the State of New York in 1819; in 1820 again served in the Assembly, and in 1827 was again elected to Congress; in 1828, when the Superior Court of New York City was organized, he was appointed one of its Judges on the reorgani zation of the Court under the Constitution of 1846, was elected the Chief Justice, and continued in that position until his death, which occurred in New ;

York

City, stations to fidelity

May

11, 1857.

The

duties of the various

which he was called he discharged with and marked ability.

Gates, "William C.; was born in Pike, (now Bullock) County, Alabama, November 30, 1835; was self-educated; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced with success; also engaged in farming and milling; in 1861 entered the Confederate

Army as Captain and was promoted to a Colonelcy; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Conven tion of 18G8; was a Representative in the State Leg islature from 1870 to 1872; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1875; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-seventh Congress; re-elected to the Forty-eighth and Fortyninth Congresses.

O

Bannon, A. J.; was born in Virginia; was a Clerk in the Treasury Department; in 1859 was ap pointed Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, remaining in office until 1860.

O Brien, James

was born in King

s

County,

Ireland, March 13, 1841; received a common school education; emigrated to the United States, and set tled in New York City was elected an Alderman in ;

24

1864, and re-elected in 1866; was elected Sheriff in 1867; was elected State Senator in 1871; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth Congress.

O

was born at Machias, Brien, Jeremiah Maine, in 1768; received a limited education; served six years in the Maine Legislature; was a farmer and merchant; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1823 to 1831. Died at Boston, Massa ;

May 30, 1858. William J.; was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 28, 1836; was educated at St. Mary s

chusetts,

O Brien,

College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; was elected to the Forty -third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Pensions.

Thomas

P.; was born in Texas in Ochiltree, 1837, his father having been one of the founders of the Texas Republic; was educated in the schools of his native State; at the age of seventeen volunteered in the "Texas Rangers," and served in several In dian campaigns; served with distinction in the Con federate Army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of Colonel, and being several times honorably mentioned in Special Orders; soon after the close of

the war was appointed, by President Grant, United States Marshal in his native State; was, for a time, State Commissioner of Emigration, to visit Europe; was elected a Representative from Texas to the

Forty-eighth Congress.

O

Connor, M. P.; was born at Beaufort, South Carolina, September 29, 1831; was graduated from St. John s College, Fordham, New York; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in prac tice; was a Representative in the Legislature of South Carolina from 1858 to 1865; was elected a Rep resentative from South Carolina to the Forty-sixth Died April 26, 1881. Congress. Odell, Moses F.; was born in Tarry town, Westchester County, New York, February 24, 1818; received a common school education from a Clerk he rose to the position of Assistant Collector of the Port of New York, under President Polk; under President Buchanan held the post of Public Appraiser; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Treasury Department, and a mem ber of that on Indian Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress; serving on the Committee on Military, Affairs; in 1865 was appointed, by Presi dent Johnson, Naval Agent for the Port of New York. Died in that city June 13, 1866. He was a ;

man

of rare business habits, and universally His disease was cancer in the mouth.

re-

pected.

Odell, N.

Holmes was ;

born near Tarrytown,

New York, October 10,

1828; graduated at the Paulding Institute, Tarrytown; spent four years in the steamboat business between Albany and New York; was a member of the Assembly during two successive sessions, closing in 1861; was founder of the First National Bank at Tarrytown, and was its first Cashier, which office he resigned in 1864; was elected County Treasurer in 1866, and re-elected in 1869 and L872; in 1874 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-fourth Congress.

O Donnell, James March

;

was born at Norwalk, Con

removed, with his parents, Michigan, in 1848; enjoyed no educational advan tages, but after commencing to learn the printer s trade, in 1856, made up this deficiency by study after working hours; in 1861 enlisted in the First Michi. necticut,

;

369

25, 1840;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

370

gan Infantry, and served out his time, participating in the first battle of Bull Run; was Recorder of the City of Jackson, Michigan, for fourterms, 1863-1886; established the Jackson Daily Citizen in 1865, and continued its owner and editor; was Presidential Elector in 187-2, and was designated by the State Electoral College as Messenger to convey the vote of Michigan to Washington; was elected Mayor of Jack son in 1876 and re-elected in 1877; in 1878 was appointed Aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Croswell, with the rank of Colonel; in 1884 was elected a

Representative from

Michigan to the Forty-ninth

Congress.

O

Ferrall, Charles T.; was born in Frederick County, Virginia, October 21, 1840; at the age of fifteen was appointed Clerk pro tempore of the Cir cuit Court of Morgan County, Virginia, to lill a vacancy caused by the death of his father, and at the age of seventeen was elected Clerk of the County Court of that County for six years; in May, 1861, unlisted in the cavalry service of the Confederate States; passed through all the grades to Colonel, and at the surrender of Lee was in command of all the Confederate Cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley; was several times wounded once through the lungs; soon after the close of the war studied law at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia; graduated and located at Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he commenced the member of the Gen practice of his profession was a eral Assembly of Virginia from 1871 to 1873; was Judge of the County Court of Rockingham County from 1874 to 1880; in 1882 was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Seventh District of Vir ginia, and according to returns he received 11,941 votes against 12,146 votes for John Paul, the nom inee of the Republican-Readjuster Coalition party; contested the election, and was seated by the Fortyeighth Congress, May 5, 1884; was re-elected to the ;

Forty-ninth Congress.

Ogden, Aaron was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Decembers, 1756; graduated at Nassau ;

Hall in 1773; taught school for a time; served as an in the army throughout the Revolutionary War; had a horse shot under him at the battle of Springfield, New Jersey; participated in the Sul livan campaign against the Indians; for his services officer

at Yorktown was complimented by Washington; after the war pursued the legal profession with distinction; was a Presidential Elector in 1800; was a Senator in Congress from 1801 to 1803; was Gov ernor of New Jersey in 1812; at the time of his

death was President-General of the Society of Cin Died at Jersey City, April 19, 1839. Dur cinnati. ing the War of 1812, President Madison tendered him a commission as Major-General in the Army of the United States, which honor he declined, prefer ring to continue, as he had been, Commander-inChief of the Militia of his own State.

Ogden, David A.; was born New Jersey; studied law; took up St. Lawrence County, New York

in Morristown, his residence in in 1812; was a

member

of the Assembly in 1814 and 1815; was a Representative in Congress from New York from Died at Montreal, Canada, June 9, 1817 to 1819. 1829.

Ogden, Robert was a Delegate from New Jer sey to the Colonial Congress, which met in New York in 1765.

Ogle, Alexander was born in Maryland about the year 1765; removed, at an early age, to Somer set, Pennsylvania; in 1806 was elected to the State Legislature, and frequently re-elected; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1819; subsequently served several years iu the two Houses of the State Legislature; was a Gen eral of Militia; for nine years was Prothonotary of his Died in Somerset, Pennsylvania, October County. 14, 1852. ;

Andrew

Ogle, J.; was born at Somerset, Penn sylvania, in 1822, and was a grandson of Alexander Ogle; was considered a precocious politician, and was Prothonotary of his County when twenty-one years of age; was a Representative in from

Congress Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1851; President Fillmore appointed him Charge Affaires to Denmark in 1852, but he, died suddenly of apoplexy before accepting the appointment. d"

Ogle, Benjamin; was born in Maryland in 1751; was a member of the Council of that State before the Revolution; was Governor from 1798 to 1801. Died in Annapolis, July 6, 1809.

Ogle, Charles was a son of Alexander Ogle, and was born at Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1798; was educated for the bar, and was a successful law yer; was a Representative in Congress from Penn sylvania from 1837 to 1841; distinguished himself by a speech against the appropriation for furnishing the Executive Mansion; was a General of Militia. Died May 10, 1811, having been elected to the suc ;

ceeding Congress.

Oglesby, Richard J.; was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, July 25, 1824; settled in Illinois in 1836; received a common school education; was a carpenter for two years; studied law, and was admit ted to the bar in 1845; served one year in the Mexi can War; worked two years in the mines of Califor nia; was elected to the State Senate in 1860; resigned to enter the volunteer service in 1861; at the com mencement of the Rebellion was chosen Colonel, afterwards appointed Brigadier-General, and in 1863 a Major-General; resigned in 1864, and was elected Governor of Illinois; was again elected Governor in 1872; a few months thereafter was elected to the United States Senate for the term ending in 1879, serving on the Committees on Pensions, Public Lands, and Indian Affairs; in 1884 was again elected Governor of Illinois for a term of four years.

O

Hara, James E.; was born in the city of New York, February 26, 1814; received an academic edu cation; removed to North Carolina; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1872; engaged in the prac tice of law in Halifax; was Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Halifax County from 1872 to 1876; was a member of the State Constitutional Con vention of 1875; was a candidate for election to the Forty-sixth Congress, but his opponent was given the certificate of election; was elected, without opposi tion, a Representative from North Carolina to the was to re-elected the FortyForty-eighth Congress; ninth Congress.

,

Ogier, Isaac S. K.; was born in South Carolina; an early emigrant to California, and resided at Angeles; in 1858 was appointed Judge of the

ivas IA>S

United

States Court for the Southern

California.

District of

Olcott, Simeon; was born in 1737; graduated at Yale College in 1761; studied law, and settled in the practice at Charlestown, New Hampshire; in 1784 was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas; in 1790 a Judge of the Superior Court; Chief Judge of the same Court in 1795; was a Senator ir* Congress from New Hampshire from 1801 to 1805 Died in

New Hampshire

in 1815.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Olden, Charles C.; was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1797; after engaging in mercantile pur suits in New Orleans and Philadelphia, returned to his native place in 1825, and devoted himself to farm between the years 1844 and 1850 was twice elected to the State Senate; in 1859 was elected Gov ernor of the State, after which he retired to private ing

b71

re-elected to the same office, which he con tinued to hold until elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-fourth Congress; re-elected to the

and twice

Forty-fifth Congress.

;

Andrew

was born at Springfield, OtseYork; soon after his birth, in 1819, his parents removed to Penn Yan, in Yates County life in his old home near Princeton. received a classical education, and graduated at Union College in 1835; studied law; was admitted to Olds, Edson B.; was born in Vermont; was edu the bar in 1838, and entered upon a successful prac cated for the medical profession; was a Representa First tive in Congress from Ohio from 1849 to 1855; in 1862 tice; was appointed to succeed his father as of the Court of Common Pleas in 1843, which was, for a short time, imprisoned in Fort Lafayette Jwdge until the adoption of the new State for supposed disloyalty, and while there confined was- position he held elected a member of the Assembly of Ohio, having Constitution; in 1846 was elected Judge of the Sur rogate and County Courts; in 1852 was elected a in the State served six Oliver, go County,

;

New

;

years

previously

Legislature,

was

and been Speaker of the Senate; after the close of the war of the Rebellion he built a church with the un

Representative to the Thirty-third Congress; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

should be free from the heresy derstanding that it of regarding slavery and rebellion as sins." Died

Oliver, Mordecai was born in Anderson Coun Kentucky, October 22, 1819; emigrated to Mis souri in 1832; received as good an education as that country afforded, and entered upon the study of law at the age of nineteen, was admitted to the bar in 1842; was elected Circuit Attorney for the Fifth Ju dicial Circuit of Missouri in 1848; in 1852 was elected a member of the Thirty-third Congress, and re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress; upon retiring from Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in Richmond, Missouri.

at Lancaster, Ohio,

January

24, 1869.

Olin, Abraham B.; was born in Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1812; graduated at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1835; commenced the practice of law at Troy, New York, in 1838; was for three years Recorder of the city of Troy; was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from New York, serving as a member of the Commit tee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Military Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; in 1863

was appointed, by President Lincoln, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; in 1865 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Union College; his father, Gideon Olin, was in Congress from Vermont during the administration of President Jef Died July

ferson.

Gideon

7,

1879.

was born in Rhode Island re Vermont, became one of its founders; was a member of the State Legislature and Speaker of the House; a Judge of the County Court, and a Rep Died at resentative in Congress from 1803 to 1807. Shaftsbury, Vermont, in 1822. Olin,

moving

;

;

re-

;

ty,

William M.; was a native of Spring Otsego County, New York; was a lawyer by profession, and for a long time First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; was a State Senator and Lieutenant-Governor in 1830, and a Representative from New York in the Twenty-seventh Congress. Oliver,

field,

Olney, Cyrus was a native of New York; was an early emigrant to the Territory of Oregon; in 1853 was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for that District. ;

to

Olin, Henry his boyhood was passed in Addison County, Vermont; was elected to the General Assembly of that State in 1799, and, excepting four years, continued to serve in that capacity until 1825; was a member of the "State Constitutional Conven of 1814, 1822, and 1828; was an Associate tion Judge of the Addison County Court from 1801 to 1806; was Chief Judge of said court in 1807, and from 1810 to 1824; was chosen a Representative in Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Charles Rich, in 1824, and served through the term ending in 1825; was also, at one time, LieutenantGovernor of the State. Died at Salisbury, Vermont, in 1837, aged seventy years. ;

"

Oliphant, E. P.; was a native of Pennsylvania; was appointed from that State an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of ington, residing at Whatcomb.

Oliver,

Addison

;

Wash

was born in Washington

Pennsylvania, in 1833; graduated at Wash ington College in 1850; spent two years in Arkansas as a teacher; returned to Washington in 1853, and studied law with William Montgomery, M.C. was "ounty,

O

Neal, Edward Asbury was born in Madi son County, Alabama; graduated from La Grange College; studied law, and settled at Florence, Ala bama, in the practice of his profession; was Prose cuting Attorney of the Fourth Judicial Circuit for four years; entered the Confederate Army as a Cap tain, in 1861, and rapidly rose to the rank of Briga dier-General, at the close of the war resumed the practice of law at Florence; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1875; in 1882 was elected Governor of Alabama; was re-elected in 1884, ;

O Neill, March

Charles; was born

in Philadelphia,

graduated at Dickinson College in. 1840; studied law, and came to the bar in 1843; in 1850, 1851, and 1852 was elected to the State Legis lature, and in 1853 to the State Senate; again elected to the Legislature in 1859; in 1862 was elected a Rep resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce; re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on, the same committee; was re-elected to the Fortieth, 21, 1821;

Forty-first, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving again on the same committee and those on Appropriations and Expenditures in the Post Office Department; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-

sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,

and Forty-nintbi

Congresses.

O

Neill, John was born in Philadelphia, Penn admitted to practice, and settled in Western Iowa iix sylvania, December 17, 1821; in 1827 settled, with* his father, in Frederick, Maryland; was educated ata 1857; was elected to the Iowa House of Representa tives in 1863, and to the Iowa Senate in 1865; was St. John s College, at that place; studied law, andelected Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit in 1868, came to the bar of Maryland in 1842; in 1844 re;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

372

there practiced his profession in in 1855 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Muskingura County; in 1862 was electee a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth Con gress, serving on the Committee on Private Lane Claims.

moved to Ohio, and Supreme Court;

the

O Neill, John

J.; was born at St. Louis, Mis 1846, of Irish parents; received common school education; was in the Governmem civil service during the Civil War; was afterwards in 1872 was engaged in manufacturing pursuits elected a .Representative in the State Legislature was re-elected in 1874 and 1876; in 1878 was nomin

souri,

June

25,

;

ated for Congress by the

Workingmen

s party,

bul

withdrew; was elected to the Municipal Assembly 01 St. Louis in 1879, and re-elected in 1881; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyninth Congress; signalized his service by the intro duction, and passage, during the Forty-ninth Con gress, of a bill providing for the arbitration of differ ences between employers and employees, which gave him a National reputation. .

Ordway, Nehemiah G-.; was born at Warner, Merrimac County, New Hampshire, November 10,

1828; received a common school education; was en gaged in mercantile pursuits until 1855; removed to Concord, New Hampshire, and was appointed Sheriff of Merrimac County in 1856; in 1861 was appointed General Agent of the Post Office Department for the New England States, with headquarters at Boston, Massachusetts; in 1863 was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States House of Representatives, and served, by re-election, during the Thirty-eighth,

Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses; in 1875 was elected a Repre sentative in the New Hampshire Legislature, and was re-elected in 1876 and 1877; during the same period was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and also served as a member of the Tax Commission to revise the tax system of the State; in 1879 was elected a State Senator; in 1880 was ap pointed Governor of Dakota Territory for the term of four years.

that State from 1792 to 1797. Died in Paris, tucky, June 21, 1835, aged seventy years.

Ken

Orr, Benjamin; was born in Bedford, New Hampshire. December 1, 1772; graduated at Dart mouth College in 1798; in his youth worked at a, trade and taught school; studied law, and began to practice at Topsham, Maine, in 1801 afterwards re moved to Brunswick, where he was eminent in chan cery practice; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1819; was the author of an oration on the death of Washington, in 1800. Died in Brunswick, September 1, 1828. ;

Orr, Jackson was born in Fayette County, Ohio, September 21, 1832; received a good education, and attended an irregular course at the University of Indiana; studied law, but devoted himself to mer cantile pursuits; served in the army as Captain in the Tenth Iowa Infantry; was a member of the Leg islature of Iowa in 1868; was elected to the Fortysecond and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the ;

Committee on Public Lands.

James

Orr, L.; was born at Craytonville, South received his education Carolina, May 12, 1822 chiefly in the University of Virginia; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1843; in 1844 was elected to the State Legislature; was re-elected in 1845; in 1848 was elected a Representative in Con gress from South Carolina, to which position he was ;

subsequently re-elected; during the Thirty-second Congress was frequently Chairman of the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and during the next Congress was Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs; on the assembling of the Thirty -fifth Congress, was elected Speaker; in December, 1860, was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit Washington in behalf of South Carolina; in 1865 was elected Governor of South Carolina; was subsequently appointed Minister to Russia. Died at St. Peters

May 5, 1873. Orr, Robert was born in Westmoreland County,

burg, Russia,

;

Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829.

Orth, Grodlove S.; was born near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1817; was educated chiefly at the Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg; studied law, and came to the bar in 1839, locating in Indiana; in 1843 and 1846 was elected to the State Senate, serving six years in all, one year as President of that body; was a Presidential Elector in 1848; was a member of the "Peace Congress" of 1861; in 1862 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; in 1862, when a call was made for men to defend Indiana from threatened incursions, lie organized a company in two hours, was elected Captain and placed in command of the United States ram Ormsby, Stephen; was educated for the bar; Horner, cruising the Ohio River, and doing much was a Judge of the Circuit Court of Kentucky; a to restore quiet along the borders of Kentucky, Indi under Harmer in his campaign of ana, and Illinois; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Brigade-Major 1790; a Representative in Congress from 1811 to 1817; Congress, serving on the Committees on the Death of was defeated in 1813, but his successful President Lincoln, Freedmen, and Foreign Affairs; competitor, John Simpson, having been killed at the battle of e-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving as Chairman River Raisin, he was re-elected before the of the Committee on Private Land Claims; was also opening of Lived to an advanced age, and died at elected to the Forty-first and Forty-third Congresses, Congress. Louisville, Kentucky, in 1846. serving as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; in March, 1875, was appointed Minister to Orr, Alexander D.; was a native of Virginia- Austria, having previously declined the Mission to removed to Kentucky; in 1784 settled in Mason Brazil; returned to the United States in 1877; was County; was a member of the State Legislature in again elected to Congress as a Representative from T 1792; upon the admission of Kentucky into the ndiana to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con Union, was elected a Representative in Congress from gresses. Died December 16, 1882.

O Reilly,

Daniel; was born

at Limerick, Ire 1838; received an academic education with his emigrated, parents, to the United States in 1856; settled in Brooklyn, New York; was City was a member of the Board of Aldermen Weigher; in 1873, 1874, and 1875; acted as Supervisor of Kings County in 1874 and 1875; during 1875 was President tern, of the Board of pro Aldermen, and, for five months, a member of the Board of Health; also act ing Mayor on several occasions; was again elected Alderman for the years 1878 and 1879; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth Congress.

land,

June

3,

;

i

i

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Orton, William; was born in New York; was appointed from that State, in 1865, Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the United States Treasury, but only held the office one year; afterwards became President of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Died April 22, 1878.

Osborn, Thomas A.; was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1836; received an academic education, and was, for a time, a student at Allegheny College; learned the printing business, but aban doned it for the law; was admitted to the bar at Pontiac, Michigan, in 1857; soon afterwards removed to Kansas; was elected County Attorney of Doniphan County in 1858; was elected State Senator in 1859; in 1862 became President of the Senate; the same year was elected Lieutenant-Go vernor of the State; was United States Marshal from 1864 to 1866; was elected Governor of Kansas in 1872 and re-elected in 1874; was United States Minister to Chili from 1877 to 1881, during which time he conducted important negotiations between various South American Pow ers; in 1881 was promoted to the post of United States Minister to Brazil. Osborn, Thomas O.; was born in Ohio; re moved to Illinois; in 1874 was appointed Minister Resident to the Argentine Confederation, residing at

Buenos Ayres. T.

appointed Major-General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania; as such, commanded the troops sent to Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1871, to suppress the mining riots; again, in 1874, at Hazleton, during the mining troubles; at Susquehanna during the railway strike in 1875, and at Wilkesbarre during the riots of 1877; in 1878 resigned from the National Guard; in 1883 was Commander of the Department of Penn sylvania Grand Army of the Republic; in the same year was elected a member of the School Board of the Third District of Wilkesbarre, of which he was chosen President in 1885; in 1884 was elected a Representative-at-large from Pennsylvania to the Fortyninth Congress.

Osborne, Thomas B.; was born in Fairneld County, Connecticut, in 1797; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1817; studied law, and was, for several years, Judge of Fairneld County; was a Representative in

Congress from 1839 to 1843; in 1848 settled in New Haven, and became a Professor in the Law Depart ment of Yale College; in 1856 received from the Wesleyan University the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Died in

New

Haven, September

Osgood, Gayton

P.;

2,

1869.

graduated at

Harvard

University in 1815; served in the Massachusetts Leg islature in 1829 and 1831; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1832 to 1835.

Died June

26, 1861,

aged sixty -four years.

W.; was

born in Westfield, Essex County, New Jersey, March 9, 1836; when a boy, went with his father to Jefferson County, New York, where he worked on a farm, and acquired a common school education; graduated at the Madison Univers ity in 1860; entered upon the study of law, but in 1861 was mustered into the military service as a Lieutenant of Artillery; as Captain, took part in the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, and as Chief of Artillery, was engaged in nearly all the subse quent battles of the Peninsula, and also in the Army of Tennessee, serving until the close of the war; was three times wounded in battle, and had an arm and shoulder broken by a railway accident; after the war went to Florida for his health practiced law at Tal

Osborn,

373

;

was made a Register of Bankruptcy in 1867; was a member of the State Convention which adopted the new Constitution, which he drafted; was elected to the State Senate; was elected a Senator in Congress from Florida, for the term ending in 1873, serving on the Committees on Patents and Public Lands. lahassee;

Osgood, Samuel was born

at Andover, Massa Harvard University in 1770; losing his health became a merchant; was a Delegate to the Essex Convention in 1774; a member of the Provincial Congress, and on many important committees; in 1775 and 1776 was Aid to General Ward, and member of the Board of War; Captain at Lexington and Cambridge in 1775; left the army in 1776, with the rank of Colonel and Assistant Commissary was a member of the House until 1780, and then State Senator; was Delegate to ;

chusetts; graduated at studied theology, but

;

the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1784; First Commissioner of the United States Treasury from 1785 to 1789; United States Postmaster-General from 1789 to 1791 afterwards member of the New York Legislature and Speaker of the House; Supervisor of New York from 1801 to 1803, and from that time un til his death was Naval Officer of that port; he pub lished a work on Chronology; "Remarks on Daniel Letters on Episcopacy"; and Revelation The and other subjects. Died ology and Metaphysics, ;

"

"

";

"

Osborne, Edwin S., was born at Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, August?, 1839; grad uated from the University of Northern Pennsylva nia, and from the National Law School at Poughkeepsie, New York; received the degree of LL.B. in the class of 1860; read law at Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl vania, and was admitted to the bar there in Febru ary, 1861; in April of that year enlisted in the Union Arm.y in 1862 was commissioned Captain of Com pany F, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers; in 1863 was promoted to Major and appointed Assistant Inspector-General; after the close of the war, was detailed as a Judge Advocate in the Bureau of Military Justice, at Wash ington; while in this position performed some very important legal duties, among which was an investi ;

gation of the cruelties inflicted upon Union prisoners by the Confederate troops in charge of Andersonville and other Confederate prisons the result of this in vestigation was the trial and execution of Captain Wirz, the Confederate commandant at Anderson ville; left the army in 1863 and resumed the practice of law at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; in 1870 was ;

in

New

York, August

12, 1813.

J. H.; was born January 22, 1833; passed boyhood on his father s farm in Centre County, Pennsylvania; was educated in the common schools, and at Pine Grove Academy, Mount Pleasant Col lege, and Dickinson Seminary, Pennsylvania; taught school; studied law at Elmira, New York, and was admitted to practice there in 1859; was a Delegate to the Republican State Convention of New York in 1861; removed to Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1865; was a member of the Republican State Committee; a Dele gate to the Republican National Convention of 1876; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to

Osmer,

his

Forty-sixth Congress.

O Sullivan, John L.; was a citizen of New York City a man of liberal education associated for some years with the magazine literature of the country, and also with politics; in 1854 was appointed Charge d Affaires to Portugal; in a few months was promoted to the rank of Minister Resident; returned to the United States in 1858. ;

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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was elected a District Judge for six years; became a Professor of Law in the University of Indiana; in 1863 was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department, and remained in that position until 1871, when he was appointed Arbitrator on the part of the United States, on the Commission for the Settlement of Claims of American Citizens against Spain in 1875 was appointed Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court.

Oswald, John Holt was

born in Pennsylvania elected Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1800, remaining in office only one year. ;

was

Otero, Mariano

was born

S.;

at Peralta,

New

Mexico, August 29, 1844; was educated at the Uni versity of St. Louis, Missouri; engaged in commer cial pursuits and stock-raising; was Probate Judge from 1871 to 1879; was nominated a Delegate to the Forty-fourth Congress, but declined; was elected a Delegate from New Mexico to the Forty-sixth Con gress.

Otero, Miguel A.; was born

at Valencia,

New

Mexico, June 21, 1829; was educated at the St. Louis University, in Missouri; studied law, and was ad mitted to practice in Missouri in 1852; returning to New Mexico, was elected to the Territorial Legisla ture; was appointed, by President Pierce, United States District Attorney for the Territory, but de clined to serve; for a time held the office of AttorneyGeneral for the Territory; in 1855 was elected a Dele Died May 31, gate to Congress from New Mexico. 1882.

was born in Boston, Otis, Harrison Gray Massachusetts, October 8, 1765; graduated at Har vard University in 1783, and soon became a success ful practitioner at the bar; was for many years an active and leading member of the State Legislature, serving as Speaker and President of the Senate was chosen a Representative in Congress from the Suffolk District in 1797, and served through President Adams s administration; in 1817 was chosen a Sena ;

;

tor in Congress, where he remained for five years; was also Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Mayor of Boston, for whose prosperity he ac

complished much good, displaying, in all his public stations, great ability and the utmost fidelity to the public interests; was apointed, by President Adams, United States District Attorney for Massachusetts; was a Delegate to the "Hartford Convention" in 1811; was distingushed for his scholarly acquire ment;, and for his eloquence as an orator. Died at Bosto i, October 28, 1848.

Otis, John was born in Maine, iu 1801; gradu ated at Bowdoin College in 1823; adopted the profes sion of the law; served five years in the Maine Legis lature; was a Commissioner for settling the North eastern Boundary; was a Representative in Ccngress from Maine, from 1849 to 185]. Died OctoLe 17 ;

;

Oury, Granville H.; was born in Abingdon, Virginia, March 12, 1825; removed to Missouri in 1836; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and removed to Texas; in 1849 went to California and engaged in mining; in 1856 settled in Arizona; was elected a Representative in the Territorial Legis lature in 1866, 1873, and 1875, serving as Speaker the first two terms; was elected a Delegate from Arizona to the Forty-seventh Congress.

Outhwaite, Joseph H.; was born at Cleveland, Ohio, December 5, 1841; was educated in the public schools of Zanesville, Ohio taught two years in the High School of that city, and was principal of a grammar school in Columbus, Ohio, three years; read law while teaching; was admitted to the bar in 1866; practiced law at Osceola, Missouri, from 1867 to 1871; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Frank lin County, Ohio, in 1874, and again in 1876; was one of the Trustees of the County Children s Home from March, 1879, until July, 1883; was one of the Trustees of the sinking fund of the city of Colum bus, Ohio, in 1883, and in 1884 was re-appointed for a term of five years; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty -ninth Congress ;

Outlaw David; *as born in Bertie County, North Carolina; graduated at the University of that State read law at Newbern, and was ad 1824; mitted to the bar in 1827; served three years in the louse of Commons; was elected Solicitor of Edenton District in was a 1836; Representative in Congress from 1847 to 1853.

m

Outlaw George

North Carolina;

Commons

O.; was born in Bertie County was a member of the House of

in 1796; in the State Senate a number years thereafter; was a Representative in Conmg the years 1824 1825 D *ed August

rt

g

^

^

f Tloob.

.o,

-

1856.

was born in Boston, Otis, Samuel Allyne Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard College in 1759; in 1776 was a Representative in the Assembly. and subsequently a member of the Convention whicl framed the Constitution of Massachusetts; from 1787 to 1788 was a Delegate to the Continental Congress, and upon the adoption of the Constitution was ap pointed Secretary of the Senate, holding that office lor more than thirty years. Died at Washington, April 22, 1814, aged seventy -three years. ;

Overstreet, James; was a native of Barnwell District, South Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1822 Died in \JM&,

i

Otterbourg, Marius

;

was a

sin; while holding the position of he was, in 1866, made

citizen of

Wiscon

Consul in Mexico, Acting Charge d Affaires, and in the following year received the appointment of Minister Plenipotentiary, but shortly afterwards re turned to the United States.

Overton, Edward,

was born at Towanda, 1836; graduated at Prince in studied law, and Jersey, was admitted to practice in1856; 1858; served in the Jmon Army from 1861 to 1864, rising to the rank of Pennsylvania, February ton College

New

Jr.;

4,

Was a ReSis ter in Bankrupcy was elected a Representative rom Pennsylvania to the Forty-fifth and Fortv-

^ rom

IQ^ 1867

. to

?S el;

1876;

rxth Congresses.

Overton, Walter H.; was a Representative in Congress from Louisiana, from 1829 to 1831.

Otto, William T.; was born in Philadelphia, Owen, Allen P.; was born in North Carolina; January 19, 1817; graduated at the University of having removed to Georgia, was elected a Represtudied law and Pennsylvania, removed to entative in Congress from 1849 to 1851. was subsewhere he followed his profession until 1844. Indiana, when he uently appointed Consul at

Havana

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Owen, George W.; was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, in 1798; was Speaker of the House of Representatives in Alabama; Mayor of Mobile was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1823 to 1829, when he was appointed Collectoi of the Port of Mobile. Died August 18, 1839, at Mo bile,

Alabama.

Owen, James; was born in Bladen County, North Carolina, in December, 1784; was well edu cated; adopted the occupation of a planter; was a General of Militia; was four years a member of the Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina, from 1817 to 1819.

Owen, Robert Dale; was born in Glasgow. Scotland, November 7, 1801 his grandfather, David Dale, was an eminent cotton manufacturer on the Clyde, and his father, Robert Owen, was the cele brated philanthropist; was educated by a privatetutor until the age of sixteen, when he entered the private college of Hofwyl, near Berne, in Switzerland, remaining there three years; in 1826, his father having purchased the estate of New Harmony, in Indiana, he emigrated to this country; in 1835 was chosen to the Indiana Legislature, and twice re-elected; in 1843 was elected a Representative in Congress from Indiana, and re-elected in 1845; introduced the bill ;

organizing the Smithsonian Institution, and was one of its first Regents; also submitted the resolution which brought about the settlement of the Oregon Boundary; in 1849 was elected to the "Constitutional Convention" of Indiana, and made its Chairman; in 1853 was appointed, by President Pierce, Minister to Naples, remaining there five years in 1860 published "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World," and in 1864 "The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Emancipation"; after a succession of efforts, extend ing through fifteen years, he procured the passage, in Indiana, of laws securing to women independent rights of property; during the Rebellion served on two important Government Commissions; subse quently devoted much attention to Spiritualism, and in 1875 became temporarily insane; notwithstanding ;

many peculiar opinions, he was reputed to be a pure-hearted man, and, as a writer of English, had few equals. his

Owen, "William D.; was born at Bloomjngton, Indiana, September 6, 1846 was educated at the In diana State University; entered the ministry of the Christian Church; removed to Logansport, Indiana, in 1881; was engaged in literary pursuits, being the Success in Life author, among other writings, of in 1884 was elected and The Genius of Industry a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-ninth ;

:

"

;

Congress.

was a prominent member was a Representative in Congress rom 1835 to 1839. Died at Savan

Owens, George

"W.;

Paca, "William was born at Hall, Harford County, Maryland, October 31, 1740; graduated at Philadelphia College in 1758; was admitted a student at the Middle Temple, London, in 17G2;

I

Owsley, Bryan Y.; was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1841 to 1843. Owsley, "William; was born in Virginia in 1782; with his father settled in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1783; taught school and studied law; represented Garrard County for several years in the Legislature; was Judge of the Supreme Court of the State from 1812 to 1828; removed to Boyle County in 1843; was Governor of Kentucky from 1844 to 1848. Died in Danville, Kentucky, in December, 1862.

Wye

;

mpracticed law at Annapolis, Maryland; was a ber of the Maryland Legislature in 1771, and op posed the Royal Government; was a member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1774, and a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1779; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; State Senator from 1777 to 1779; Chief Justice of the State from 1778 to 1780; Chief Judge of the Court of Ap peals and Admiralty from 1780 to 1782; was elected Governor in 1782 and 1786; was a member of the Convention which ratified the Constitution in 1788; was United buites District Judge from 1789 until his death, which occurred in 1799. m
2

;

Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Agriculture, and Invalid Pensions; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress; in 1875 was elected Secretary of the State of Maine.

Perkins, Bishop was born in New Hampshire; New York; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855. ;

settled in

Perkins, Bishop W.; was born at Rochester, Lorain County, Ohio, October 18, 1841; removed, with his parents, to Illinois in 1855; received a com mon school education and attended Knox Academy, at Galesburg, Illinois, one year; in 1860 went to Pike s Peak; returned to Illinois in 1862 and enlisted in the Union Army; served until 1866, performing important duties, and rising to the rank of Captain and Acting Adjutant-General; was wounded at Fort Donelson returned home when mustered out of service, read law, and was admitted to the bar of the Illinois Supreme Court in 1867; settled at Princeton, ;

Indiana, in the practice of law; in April, 1869, re to Oswego, Kansas; in June of that year was appointed County Attorney; in 1870 was elected Probate Judge, and was re-elected in 1872; in Feb ruary, 1873, was appointed Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of the State; in November of that year was elected to the same position; was re-elected in 1874, and again in 1878; was elected a Represent ative from Kansas to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

moved

Perkins, Elias

was born in Norwich, Connecti April 5, 1767; graduated at Yale College in 1786 studied law, and, after practicing a few years, relinquished the profession; was a Presidential Elec tor in 1797; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1801 to 1803; was subsequently chosen Judge of the Court for the county of New London, which office he held until he became ineli gible from his advanced years; was Mayor of the city of New London from 1829 to 1832, when he declined a re-election. Died in New London. September 27, ;

cut,

;

Penny-backer, Isaac

was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in 1806; was a lawyer by pro fession was a Representative in Congress from 1837 to 1839; then Judge of the District Court of Western Virginia; was a Senator in Congress for the term from 1845 to 1851. Died in Washington, District of Columbia, January 12, 1847. S.;

;

Penrose, Charles nia; in 1841

B.;

was appointed

of the United

was born in Pennsylva

Solicitor of the Treasury States, remaining in office until 1845.

Leg-rand W.

was born in Buffalo, New Perce, York, June 19, 183G; received a good education; stud ied law at the Albany University in 1856; entered the volunteer service in 1861 was appointed Second Lieutenant of Michigan Volunteers in 1861, and Cap tain in 1862; was brevetted Major at Port Hudson in 1863; was appointed Captain of United States Vol unteers in 1863, and brevetted Colonel in 1865; set tled in Mississippi; was elected to the Forty-first ;

;

1845.

Perkins, G-eprg-e Clement; was born at Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1839; was reared on a farm, with limited educational advantages; at the age of twelve went to sea as cabin boy; followed this calling, and that of a sailor for several years; in 1855 shipped "before the mast on a sailing vessel bound for San Francisco,*California, where he arrived in the autumn of that year; went to Sacramento, California; went, on foot, to Oroville, California, where he became porter in a store; subsequently became a partner in the business, and was very successful; engaged in "

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

387

banking, milling, mining, and sheep-raising; in 1868 was elected a State Senator; became a large stock holder in the Pacific Coast Steamship Company passed through the junior grades to the office of Grand Master of the Order of Free and Accepted Ma sons of the State of California; was elected President of the Merchants Exchange, of San Francisco; in 1879 was elected Governor of California, serving until January, 1883; in the latter year, during the Triennial Conclave of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, held at San Francisco, was Grand Commander of the Grand Commaudery of California, and was elected Grand Junior Warden of the Grand

was elected alderman and member of the Assembly of the State; in 1851 was elected Mayor of Albany, which office he held twelve years; was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committee on

Encampment.

ing school in the winter; spent three years in mer cantile pursuits; turned his attention to the law; was admitted to the bar at Oxford, Maine, in 1844, and there practiced his profession; was elected to the Maine Legislature in 1839, 1842, and 1843; was after

;

Perkins, Jared; was born in New Hampshire; held the position of State Councilor from 1846 to 1849; was a State Representative in 1850; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853. Died at Nashua, October 14, 1854. Jr.; was born in Louisiana, July 1819; graduated at Yale College in 1840, and sub sequently at the Law School of Harvard University; settled, for the practice of his profession, in New Or leans, but his health compelled him to travel in Europe; on his return, in 1851, was chosen a Judge of the Circuit Court of Louisiana; held this position until elected to Congress, in 1853, where he advo cated Democratic measures, and remained until 1855, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; took part in the rebellion.

Perkins, John,

1,

Public Buildings and Grounds.

Perry, John J.; was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 2, 1811; when a child removed with his father, Rev. Daniel Perry, to Oxford, Maine; received a common school education, and of his own accord spent three years at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary," paying for his tuition by laboring on the farm belonging to the institution, and also by teach

wards, for seven years, Major-General of the Maine Militia; in 1846 and 1847, was elected to the State Senate; in 1854 was elected Clerk of the Maine House of Representatives; was a Representative in Congress from 1855 to 1857; was connected with the press, as editor of the Oxford Democrat, a paper published at Paris, Maine; was elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a mem ber of the Committee on Territories; was a member of the of 1861. Peace Congress

Perry, Madison from 1857

S.;

was Governor of Florida

to 1861.

Perry, Matthew Galbraith was born in New Rhode Island, in 1794: was appointed Midship man in the nited States Navy in 1809: Lieutenant in 1813; Con nnander in 1826. and Captain in 1837; ;

Perrill, Augustus L.; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio, from

1845 to 1847.

port,

I

in 1819 fixed

Perry, Benjamin Franklin

;

was born near

Greenville. South Carolina, in 1806; received a lib eral education; studied law; was admitted to the bar at Greenville, South Carolina, in 1828, and entered upon the practice of law at that place; held many offices of profit and trust; in 1835 was elected a State Senator; at the breaking out of the Civil War, in 1860, opposed secession, and throughout the conflict remained a steadfast unionist; after the closeof the war was elected Governor of South Carolina; in 1870 was elected United States Senator, but was not permitted to take his seat; in 1872 was elected a Representa tive in Congress, but was again refused admission to a Congressional seat; abandoned politics, and resumed the practice of his profession; in 1876 was a Delegate Died at his to the Democratic National Convention. liome, near Greenville,

Perry, County,

Edward

South Carolina, December

3,

was born in Berkshire March 15, 1833; prepared Lee Academy, and entered Yale Col A.;

Massachusetts,

for college in lege in the class of 1854; left college in his junior year, 1853, and went to Alabama; studied law, end was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Alabama in 1857; settled in Pensacola, Florida, in the practice of law; at the commencement of the Civil War entered the Confederate service as Captain;

was promoted

to a Colonelcy,

and afterwards com

missioned as Brigadier-General; after the close of the war resumed the practice of his profession at Pensacola, Florida; never held public office until elected Governor of Florida for the term of four years,

from January, 1885.

Perry, Eli; was born in Washington County, York, December 25, 1802; received a good edu cation commenced business as a dealer in provisions, and continued it for twenty-five years was a banker;

New

;

;

the locality of the first settlement of Liberia; from 1821 to 1824 cruised in the West Indies and captured several pirates; was in the Med iterranean from 1830 to 1833; on his return took charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; then commanded

the African Squadron then the Gulf Squadron, and co-operated in the siege of Vera Cruz during the Mexican War; from 1852 to 1854 commanded the Japan Expedition, and negotiated an important treaty with that power in 1854; an account of the expedi tion was published in 1856 in three large volumes. Died in New York, March 4, 1858. ;

Perry,

Nehemiah; was

born at

Ridgefield,

Connecticut, March 30, 1816; received a good educa tion at the West Lane Seminary; was chiefly en gaged in the cloth and clothing business; was for many years the presiding member of the Common Council of Newark, New Jersey; served a number of years in the Legislature of that State; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary

Claims, and Expenditures on Public Buildings

;

was on

re-elected to the Thirty -eighth Congress, serving

the Committee on Commerce.

Perry, R. H.; was a citizen of Rhode Island; while holding the position of Consul at San Domingo, in 1869, was empowered to negotiate for the cession of that country to the United States, and also to obtain a lease of Samana Bay

Perry, Thomas was born in Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847; was a Circuit Judge from 1851 to 1861, and from 1864 to 1871. Died in Cumberland, June 27, ;

1871, aged sixty-three years.

Perry, William in 1790 was appointed an Asso ciate Justice of the United States Court for the Terri tory lying south of the Ohio River. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

38tt

Perry, William

was born at Green 1839; was educated in the schools of his native city, in the Furman Uni versity, at the South Carolina College, and at Har vard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating from the latter institution with distinguished honors; studied law and was admitted to practice at Colum bia, South Carolina; engaged in the pursuit of his entered the profession as a partner of his father; Confederate Army in 1861 and served throughout the war, being promoted to First Lieutenant and Adju tant; resumed the practice of his profession; soon after was elected a Delegate to the State Convention; was a Representative in the State Legislature; in 1868 was elected Solicitor of the Western Circuit and served four years; in 1880 was elected State Senator an d served four years; in 1884 was elected a Repre sentative from South Carolina to the Forty-ninth ville,

Hayne;

South Carolina, June

9,

Congress.

organization of the Federal Government, President Washington offered him the position of Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, which he de clined, but accepted that of Judge of the District Court of Pennsylvania, which situation he occupied until his death besides his duties on the bench, he was engaged in the pursuits of agriculture and public works; was first President of the Company who built the permanent bridge over the Schuylkill at Phila delphia; in 1797 published his experiments in agri culture and improvements in American husbandryi was President of the Philadelphia Agricultural So ciety, and enriched its memoirs with many valuable communications. Died in Philadelphia, August 21, 1828. :

Peters,

Samuel

R.

was born in Pickaway

;

County, Ohio. August 16, 1842; worked on a farm, attending the district school in the winter, until 1859; in that year entered Wesleyan University,

;

Ohio; left in his sophomore year, in 1861, to enlist in the Union Army as a private; served until 1865, rising to the rank of Captain; graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan in 1867; practiced law, and edited the Memphis Reveille

Peter, George was born in Georgetown, Mont gomery County, Maryland (now the, District of Co lumbia), September 28, 1779; was educated at pri vate institutions and at the Georgetown College; en tered the United States Army in 1799, and resigned

newspaper, at Memphis, Missouri, until 1873; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1872; removed to Kansas in 1873, and engaged in the practice of law at Marion Centre; was elected State Senator in 1874; in March, 1875, was appointed Judge of the Ninth Judicial District; in the succeed ing November was elected to the same position, and

Persons, Henry was born in Monroe County, Georgia, in 1834; removed to Talbot County in 1836; in 1855 graduated at the University of Georgia; de voted his attention to agriculture; served in the Con federate Army as Captain was elected a Represent ative from Georgia to the Forty-sixth Congress. ;

;

as Major of Volunteers during the 1812; was a Representative in Congress from 1816 to 1819, and again from 1825 to 1827; was twice elected to the State Legislature, and also served the public as Commissioner of Public Works for the State of Maryland. Died in Montgomery County, Mary in 1809; served

War of

land,

June

22, 1861.

was

re-elected in 1879; removed to Newton, Kansas, in 1876; was elected a Representative from Kansas to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the

Forty-ninth Congress.

Petrie, G-eorge; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849.

John

A.; was born in Ellsworth, Han cock County, Maine, October 9, 1822; graduated at Yale College in 1842; studied law at the Harvard Law School, and came to the bar at Bangor in 1844 in 1862 and 1863 was elected to the Senate of Maine;

Petriken, David was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1841. Died January 3, 1849.

in 1864 was elected to the House of Representatives; at the close of 1864 and also in 1865 and 1866 was elected by the Legislature Attorney-General of the State; was, subsequently, elected a Representative from Maine to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the

Pettees, John J.; was Governor of Mississippi from 1860 to 1862; was a Brigadier-General in the Confederate service; was killed at the battle of Peach Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864.

Peters,

;

Committees on Public Expenditures and Patents; was re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Library and on

the Judiciary Committee.

Peters, John S.; was born in Connecticut in 1778; received a good education; was several years in the State Legislature; was Lieutenant-Go vernor from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Connecticut from 1831 to 1833. Died in Hebron, April 1, 1858. ;

Peters, Richard was born near Philadelphia. August 22, 1744; graduated at Philadelphia College; was a lawyer by profession, and very successful in ;

his native State, because of the fluency with which he spoke German; was remarkable for his wit, and

when he accompanied the delegation from Pennsyl vania to the Six Nations, the Indians were so de lighted with his vivacity that he was formally adopted by them into their tribes; at the commence ment of the Revolution became a Captain of Volun teers, but was soon transferred to the Board of War, with which he was connected until 1781, when he resigned his post, and received from Congress a vote of thanks for his services; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783; after the

;

Pettibone, Augustus H.; was born at Bedford, Ohio, January 21, 1835; graduated from the Univers ity of Michigan in 1859; studied law and commenced practice at La Crosse, Wisconsin; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of Major; settled in Tennessee; was elected Attorney-General for the First Judicial Circuit; was a Presidential Elector in 1868 and 1876; was Assistant United States District Attorney for several years; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-sev enth, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses."

Pettigrew, Ebenezer was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1835 to 1837, and was a member of the Committee on Expenses in the ;

Navy Department. Pettigrew, R. F.; was born at Ludlow, Vermont, in July, 1848; removed, with his parents, to Wis consin in 1854; received a good education; studied law; went to Dakota in 1869, and, after following various vocations, engaged in the practice of law in 1875; was elected a member of the Council in 1877, and re-elected in 1879; was elected a Delegate from Dakota

to the Forty-seventh Congress.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Pettis, Spencer was born in Virginia; was ed ucated a lawyer; on taking up his residence in Mis souri, was elected a Representative in Congress from Died August that State, serving from 1829 to 1831. in a 26, 1831, aged twenty-nine years, having fallen

Senate of Tennessee; held many other local positions of high character; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845, received a medical education, but abandoned that profession for politics. Died in Sumner County, Tennessee, November 12, 1845, having been re-elected to Congress.

;

duel, with Major

Thomas

Biddle, at St. Louis.

Pettis, S. Newton was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1828; studied law, and came to the bar in Pennsylvania in 1848; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, a Justice of the United States Court for Colorado; before the close of that year he Tesigned, and returned to Pennsylvania; was subse quently elected a Representative from that State to the Fortieth Congress, for the unexpired term of D. A. Finney, serving on the Committee on Elections; in 1878 was appointed Minister Resident to Bolivia,

Peyton, Samuel

O.; was born in Bullitt Coun in 1804; received a good common school education; settled in Hartford, Kentucky, and de voted two years to the duties of a clerk; studied

;

ty,

Pettit, Charles; was a Revolutionary patriot; was a successful lawyer; was Secretary of New Jersey under Governor Franklin, and continued in that office under Governor Livingston, until called by

General Greene to the Post of Assistant QuarterMaster General; at the resignation of General Greene was offered the position of Quarter-Master General, which he declined; after the close of the war, became a merchant in Philadelphia; was a member of the Legislature, and author of the funding system was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787. and an advocate for the adoption of the Federal Constitution in the General Convention at HarrisDied in Philadelphia, September 4, 1806, burg. aged sixty-nine years. ;

I

;

;

1859 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Chief Justice of the Federal Courts of Kansas; was a Dele gate to the "Chicago Convention" of 1864. Pettit, John U.; was born in New York; gradu ated at Union College in 1839 studied law, and com menced the practice of his profession in Wabash, In diana, in 1841; went as United States Consul to

Kentucky,

medicine, and graduated at Transylvania University in 1827; in 1835 was elected to the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 1849; was also elected to the Thirtyfifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving, during his last term, as a member of the Committee on Public Died in Hartford, Ken Buildings and Grounds. tucky, in January, 1870.

remaining there until 1880.

Pettit, John was born at Sackett s Harbor, Jef ferson County, New York, July 24, 1807; received a good education; studied law; removed to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1831 was a member of the State Legis lature; United States District Attorney; served in the House of Representatives in Congress, from 1843 to 1847, and in the United States Senate from 1853 to 1855; in 1850 was a member of the "State Constitu tional Convention," and twice held the office of Cir cuit Judge; was a Presidential Elector in 1852; in

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I

Phelps, Charles E.; was born in Guilfbrd, Ver mont, May 1, 1833; removed, with his parents, to Pennsylvania in 1838, and to Maryland in 1841; graduated at Princeton College in 1852, and at the Law School of Harvard University in 1853; studied law, and came to the Maryland bar in 1855; in 1858 was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1859; during that year assisted in organizing the "Mary land Guard" for municipal purposes; was chosen Captain; afterwards Major, which latter commission he resigned April 19, 1861, rather than obey an order that he deemed treasonable; in 1860 was a member of the City Council of Baltimore; in 1862 was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Maryland Volunteers; promoted to the rank of Colonel in 1863, and honorably discharged on account of wounds in 1864; was soon afterwards elected a Representative from Maryland to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Militia and on Naval Affairs; was, subsequently, commissioned a Brigadier-General for gallant conduct at the battle of Spottsylvania; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Appropriations and Expenses in the "War Department; in 1864 was one of a Commis sion to revise the Militia Laws of Maryland; was a member of the National Committee appointed to conduct the remains of President Lincoln to Illi-

;

Maranham, Brazil, in 1850; on his return, in 1853, was appointed Judge of the Upper Wabash Circuit Court of Indiana; was elected to Congress, as a Rep resentative from that State, in 1854; was re-elected to the Thirty -fifth Congress; was a member of the Joint Committee on the Library; was re-elected to the Thirty -sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Library Committee.

Peyton, Bailie was born in Surnner County, Tennessee; received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; was a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1833 to 18:57; in 1849 was appointed, by President Fillmore, Minister to Chili; was subsequently elected United States District At torney for Louisiana; was, for a time settled at San Francisco, California, in the practice of his profes sion, but returned to his native State; in 1861 was a Presidential Elector for the State of Tennessee; sub sequently served in the Confederate Army during the War of the Rebellion. ;

Peyton, Joseph H.; was born ty,

in Surnner

Coun

Tennessee, in 1813; was frequently elected to the

Phelps, Darwin; was born in East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut; when quite young became an orphan, and went to reside with his grandparents in Portage County, Ohio; received a good education at the Western University, and after studying law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his kinsman, Walter Forward, settled in Armstrong County in 1835, devoting himself to the practice of his profession; in 1855 was elected to the State Legislature; was a Delegate to the Chicago Conven tion of 1860; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-first Congress, serv ing on the Committees on Invalid Pensions, and Public Buildings. Phelps,

Edward John

;

was born

at

Middle-

bury, Vermont, July 11, 1822; read law at Yale Law School in 1842 and 1843; was admitted to the bar in Vermont, in December. 1843, and engaged in the prac tice of law at Middlebury, Vermont; was Second Comptroller of the United States Treasury from September, 1851, to May, 1853; was a member of the Vermont Constitutional Convention in 1870; was elected President of the American Bar Association in 1880; became Professor of Law in Yale College in

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system became the model for all subsequent sur veys; in 1795, was one of the purchasers of the West ern Reserve, in Ohio, comprising three million three hundred thousand acres; afterwards removed to Can andaigua; represented that district in Congress from 1803 to 1805; was a Judge of the Circuit Court; his principal associate in the Western Reserve purchase

from 1881; received the honorary degree of A. M. Yale College, and the degree of LL.D. from Middlebury College; in April, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Envoy Extraordinary and Min ister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great

his

Britain.

was one William Hart he had a son who was a mem New York Legislature from Ontario County

Phelps, Elisha was a native of Simsbury, Con necticut; bora in November, 1779; graduated at Yale Cqllege in 1800, and studied law at Litchfield; was several times a member of the House of Representa tives and of the Senate of his native State; was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Legislature in 1821 and 1829; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 181!) to 1821, and also from 1825 to 1829; was Comptroller of the State ;

;

ber of the

in 1834; as a man of enterprise, his reputation was Died in Canandaigua, February 21, very extensive.

1809.

Phelps, Seth

L.; was born in Ohio; was educated United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis. Maryland, and was commissioned a Midshipman in the United States Navy; served throughout the War of the Rebellion, rising to the rank of Captain in 1865 resigned his commission and entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company resided in at the

from 1830 to 1834; in 1835 was appoiuvd one of the Commissioners to revise the statutes of Connecticut. Died at Simsbury, in April. 1847.

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Phelps, James; was born at Colebrook, Con necticut, January 12, 1822; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1845; was several times a member of the Connecticut Legislature; was elected, by the General Assembly, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court for the Constitutional term of eight years; was re-elected in 1871; in 1873 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, which office he held when elected a Representative from Con necticut to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; declined a re-nomination.

Phelps, John Smith

was born in Simsbury. Hartford County, Connecticut, December 22, 1814; was educated at Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Connecticut, and studied law in the office of his father, Elisha Phelps; practiced law a short time in his native State; in 1837 emigrated to Mis souri, and settled at Springfield, Greene County, near which town he now resides; in 1840 was chosen by the people of Greene County to represent them in ;

the Legislature; having been appointed Brigade-In spector in 1841, has since borne the title of Major; in 1844 was elected a Representative to the Twentyninth Congress, serving in that position until the close of the Thirty-sixth Congress, and was a mem her of the Select Committee of Thirty-three on the Re bellious States; was also re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress; served as Colonel of Volunteers in 1801; in 1862 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Military Governor of Arkansas; during the Thirtyfifth Congress was Chairman of the Committee on

Ways and Means, and generally served on important Committees; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National I nion Convention of 1866; in 1867 was appointed a Commissioner to settle the War Claims of Indiana; in 1876 was elected Governor of Mis souri; in June, 1882, was tendered a position as member of the Tariff Commission, but declined to "

"

serve. ;

from 1835 to 1839.

was born

at Windsor, Connecti ; cut, in 1749; received a mercantile education at Suffield, Connecticut; engaged in business at Granville, Massachusetts; during the Revolution was in the Commissary Department of that State; in 1788 pur chased, with Nathaniel Gorham, of the State of Mas sachusetts, a tract of two million two hundred thou sand acres of land, in theGenesee New

now the

Country, York, the Counties of Steuben and Ontario: opened land office in America, at Canandaigua. and

first

China, Japan and Mexico for several years in this connection; became V ice-President of the Company; resigned in June, 1878, to accept the appointment of Commissioner of the District of Columbia; in 1883 was appointed, by President Arthur, Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru. Died, at his post, shortly after enter ing upon the discharge of his duties.

Phelps, Samuel

S.; was born in Litchfield, Con May 13, 1793; graduated at Yale College in while 1811; studying law in 1812, entered the Ameri

necticut,

can army; before the close of his military career was appointed Paymaster; settled in Middlebury, and practiced law; in 1827 was a member of the Council of Censors, and wrote the address issued by that body; in 1831, was chosen a member of the Legisla tive Council of Vermont, and was soon afterwards appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, in which position he remained until 1838; was a Sen ator in Congress from 1839 to 1851, in which body he displayed abilities of a high order; in January, 1853, was appointed to the Senate in the place of William Upham, deceased, and served until October, 1854.

Phelps, Timothy G.; was born in New York; removing to California, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty -seventh Congress.

Phelps, William W.; was born in Oakland County, Michigan, June 1, 1826; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1846; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 184M; edited a Democratic newspaper, in Oakland County, from 1851 to in 1852 and 1853 held the office of Commissioner for 185r>-

his native county, performing the duties of. Judge at Chambers; in 1854 was appointed, by President Pierce, Register of the United States Land Office at Red Wing, in Minnesota; in 1857 was elected a Rep resentative from Minnesota to the Thirty-fifth Con gress,

Phelps, Launcelot was born in Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from that State Phelps, Oliver

i

and was a member of the Committee on Mile assumed the editorship of the Red Wino-

age; in 1860 Sentinel.

Phelps, William Walter; was born in New York, August 24, 1839; graduated at Yale College in I860; pursued his studies in Europe, and later at Columbia College, New York; entered upon the practice of law; was a Director of the National City and Second National Banks of New York; the United States Trust, and Farmers Loan and Trust Com panies; also in various railroad companies; was made Fellow of Yale College in 1872; was elected a Repre sentative to the Forty -third Congress; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1880; was United States Minister to Austria in 1881 appointed

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. but resigned in a few months; was elected a Repre sentative from New Jersey to the Forty-eighth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth. Congress. Philips, John Finis was born in Boone County, Missouri. December 31, 1834; was educated at the State University of Missouri and Centre College in Kentucky, graduating at the latter institution in 1855; studied law, and began to practice in George town, Missouri, in 1857; was a member of the State Convention, in 1860, to determine the relations of the .State and Federal Government; served the tioven ment as Colonel of a Regiment of Cavalry throughout the Civil War; a part of the time was Brigade Com ;

mander; was promoted to Brigadier-General, by the Governor, in 1864, but refused confirmation by the State Senate on political grounds; at the close of the war resumed the practice of law; in 1868 was a Del egate to the National Convention at New York; on his return home was nominated for Congress, but was defeated through mob violence; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Fortyfourth Congress; was elected to the Forty-sixth Con gress, in January, 1880, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of A. M. Lay. Phillips, Henry M.; was born in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was a member of the Com mittee on Finance.

Phillips, John was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1823. ;

was born in Charleston, South December 13, 1807; was educated at the Norwich Military Academy, in Vermont, and at Middletown, Connecticut; in 1825 commenced the study of law in Charleston, and on the day after at taining his majority was admitted to the bar; en tered public life by becoming a mem her of the "Nul lification Convention," in 1832, and voted with the mi nority in 1834 waselected, for two years, to the State Legislature; resigned in 1835; removed to Mobile, Alabama, and practiced his profession with success; was elected President of the Alabama "Dem in ocratic State Convention"; in 1844 was elected to the Legislature, and was Chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations; in 1849 was President of an "Internal Improvement Convention"; in 1851 was again elected to the Legislature in 1852 went to the was a Representative in Baltimore Convention Congress from Alabama, from 1853 to 1855, and de Phillips, Philip

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Carolina,

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clined a re-election; engaged in the practice of his profession at Washington, District of Columbia. Died there, January 14, 1884.

Phillips, Stephen Clarendon; was born at Salem, Massachusetts, November 1, 1801; graduated at Harvard University in 1819, with high honors; began to study law, but soon became a merchant; from 1824 to 1829, by annual re-elections, was chosen a Representative in the State Legislature; from 1830 to 1831 was State Senator; in 1832 and 1833 was again a member of the House; from 1834 to 1838 rep resented Massachusetts in Congress; from December, 1838, to March, 1842, was Mayor of Salem, and upon his voluntary retirement devoted the whole of his salary as Mayor to the public schools of the city; in 1840 was one of the Presidential electors for Massa chusetts; in 1848 and 1849 was the Free-soil Candi date for Governor; held various State and private trusts, in the discharge of which, by his ability, sa gacity, experience, and integrity, he rendered signal service; was, for many years, a member of the State

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Board of Education, and a Trustee of the State Luna tic Hospital at Worcester; retired from public life in 1849, and was extensively engaged in the lumber business; was lost by the burning of the steamer Montreal, on the St. Lawrence River, June 26, 1857, while returning from Quebec, whither he had been on business. Phillips,

William A.

;

was born in Paisley,

Scotland, January 14, 1826; came to the United States in 1838; practiced law and edited a newspaper until 1855; went to Kansas as a writer for the New York Tribune; entered the army as Major in 1861; commanded an Indian regiment during the war in the West; was a member of the State Legislature of Kansas; was elected to the Forty-third Congress and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Lands; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Phillips, William F.; was born in Virginia; in 1853 was appointed from that State Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, remaining in office until 1857.

Philson, Robert; was born in Donegal, Ireland; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1821. Phister, Elijah Conner; was born atMaysville, Kentucky, October 8, 1822; graduated at Augusta College, Kentucky, in 1840; studied law, and com menced practice in 1844; was Mayor of Maysville in 1847 and 1848; was elected Circuit Judge in 1856 and served six years; was a Representative in the State Legislature from 1867 to 1871; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to tl~ Forty-sixth and Forty -seventh Congresses; declined a re-nomina tion.

Phoenix,

J.

Phillips; was born in Morristown,

New Jersey; was for many years a leading merchant in New York City; served several years in the Coun cils

of the city;

was a Representative

New York

in

Congress

from 1843 to 1845; was a member of the State Assembly in 1848, from New York City; was again in Congress from 1849 to 1851, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce; in 1841

from

was a Presidential York,

May

Elector.

4, 1859, at

Died, suddenly, in an advanced age.

w

New

J. was born at Paxton, Pickens, Andre Pennsylvania, September 19, 1739; removed with his father, in 1752, to the Warsaw Settlement, in South Carolina; served as a volunteer in Grant s expedition against the Cherokees, and was an active military partisan during the Revolution; was a member of the State Legislature from the close of the war until 1793, when he was elected a Representative in Congress from 1793 to 1795; in 1795 was commissioned MajorGeneral of the South Carolina Militia, and was fre quently a Commissioner to treat with the Indians; it was his son who was Governor of the State from 1816 to 1817. Died in Pendleton District, South Carolina.

August

;

17, 1817.

Pickens, Francis W.; was born

at Togadoo,

Parish, South Carolina, April 7, 1807; was educated at South Carolina College: admitted to the bar in 1829, and began to practice at Edgefield District; in 1832 was a member of the State Legisla ture, and took part in the Nullification excitement; was a Representative in Congress from 1835 to 1845; in 1836 made a speech opposing the right of ConTress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia; in 1844 was elected to the State Senate; was a ber of the Nashville Southern Convention in 1850 and 1851; presided over the State Convention in 1854; St.

Paul

s

mem

BIOGKAPHICAL ANNALS.

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was a delegate to the Convention at Cincinnati in from 1857 to I860; 1856; was Minister to Russia when South Carolina seceded from the Union was chosen Governor of the State; demanded the sur render of Fort Sumter by General Anderson, and took an active part in the Rebellion; was a planter, and gave much attention to scientific agriculture. Died at Edgefield, January

25,

1869

Pickens, Israel; was born in Cabarus County, North Carolina; served one year in the State Legis from that lature; was a Representative in Congress State from 1811 to 1817, in which year he was appoint ed Register of the Land Office of Mississippi Territory

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station to the Secretaryship of War, on the resigna tion of General Knox; in 1795 was appointed Secre tary of State in the place of Edmund Randolph; from that office he was removed, by President Adams, in 1800; attheend of the year 1801 returned to Massachu setts; in 1803 the Legislature of that State elected him a Senator in Congress, for the residue of the term of Dwight Foster, who had resigned, and in 1805 re-elected him to the same station for the term of six years; after its expiration, in 1811, was chos en, by the Legislature, a member of the Executive Council; during the War of 1812 was appointed a member of the Board of War for the defense of the State; in 1814 was returned to Congress, and held his seat until March, 1817; then finally retired to private His death took place January 29, 1829. In life.

on removing to Alabama was elected Governor of that State in 1821; in 1826 was a Senator in Congress from Alabama. public life he was distinguished for energy, ability, and disinterestedness; as a soldier he was brave and Pickering John was born at Newington, New patriotic, and his writings bear ample testimony to Hampshire, September 22, 1737; graduated at Har his talents and information; he was one of the leaders vard University in 1761; was a lawyer and jurist; a of the Federal party of the United States. In 1867 the Consti member of the Convention which framed his life was published by his son Octavius. elected a in 1787 was tution of New Hampshire; member of the Convention which framed the Federal Pickering, William; was born in England; Constitution, but declined; was a Judge of the Su emigrated to Illinois; in 1861 was appointed from o 1790 from New 1795, that State Governor of the Territory of Washing Hampshire preme Court of and was at one time Chief Justice; was subsequently ton, residing in Olympia, serving in office until for New District Court States United of the 1867. Judge Hampshire, but his reason became impaired and he Pickett, James O. was born in Fauquier Coun was removed from office in 1804. Died at Ports ty, Virginia. February 6, 1793; removed, with his mouth, April 11, 1805. parents, to Mason County, Kentucky, in 1796; re Pickering, Timothy was born in Salem, Mas ceived a superior education, and was fitted for public sachusetts, July 17, 1745; graduated at Harvard Uni service at an early age; in the War of 1812 was an officer in the United States Artillery; served also in versity in 1763, and after the usual course of profes the of admitted to the sional studies, was practice the army from 1818 to 1821; resigned, and returned law when the dissensions between the mother coun to Mason County, where he commenced the practice the he became cham our and own commenced, of law; was editor of the Ifaym-ilh Enyle in 1815; try pion and leader of the Whigs of the quarter where he was a member of the Legislature in 182.2; Secretary lived was a member of the Committees of Inspec of the State from 1825 to 1828; was Secretary of tion and Correspondence, and bore the entire burden Legation to Columbia from 1829 to 1833; a portion of writing; the addresses which, in 1774, the inhab of that time acted as Charge d Affaires; was Commis itants of Salem, in full town meeting, voted to Gov sioner of the United States Patent Office in 1835; was ernor Gage, on the occasion of the Boston Port Bill, Fourth Auditor of the Treasury from 1835 to 1833; from his a of pen; part it, any proceeded disclaiming was Minister to Ecuador in 1838; Charge d Affaires wish on the part of the inhabitants of Salem to profit to Peru from 1838 to 1845, was, for a few years, by the closing of the port of Boston, is quoted by editor of the Congressional Globe, at Washington, in Dr Ramsay, in his history of the American Revolu which city he died July 10, 1872. tion; in April, 1775, on receiving intelligence of the battle of Lexington, he inarched with a regiment, of Pickett, John C.; was born in Virginia; in 1836 which he was at the time Commander, to Charles- was appointed Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, re town, but had not an opportunity of coming to ac maining in office until 1838. tion; before the close of the same year, when the pro visional government was organizing, was appointed Pickman, Benjamin was born in 1763; grad one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for uated at Cambridge in 1784; visited Europe; on his return studied law; though admitted to the bar, Essex, his native county, and sole Judge of the Mari time Court for the Middle District, comprehending abandoned the profession; devoting himself to mer Boston, Salem, and the other ports in Essex; these cantile pursuits; in 1800 was elected to the State offices he held until he accepted an appointment in Legislature; was elected a State Senator, and was rethe army; in 1777 was named Adjutant-General, by elected a number of years; in 1807 became a member Washington, and joined the army, then at Middle- of the Executive Council; was a Representative in brook, New Jersey; continued with the Commander- Congress from 1809 to 1811; in 1820 was a mem in-Chief until the American forces went into winter ber of the Convention for revising the State Constitu at Valley Torge, having been present at the tion; also held many other offices of trust and honor. Died at Salem, Massachusetts, in August, 1843. attics of Brandy wine and Germantown; then pro Quarters 1

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ceeded to discharge the duties of a member of the Continental Board of War, to which he had been elected by Congress; in this station he remained un til he was appointed to succeed General Greene in the office of (Quartermaster-General, .which he re tained during the residue of the war, and in which he contributed much to the surrender of Corn wall is at Yorktown; from 1790 to 1794 was charged by President Washington, with several negotiations with the Indian nations on our frontiers; in 1791 was m;ide Irostmu.ster-General; in 1794 removed from that

Pidcock, James Nelson was born at White House, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, February 8, 1836; received a district school education; was en gaged in civil engineering from 1850 to 1857; in became a farmer and dealer in live stock; was State Senator from 1877 to 1880; in 1884 was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Forty -ninth ;

18.".7

Congress.

Pierce, sachusetts,

Benjamin; was December

born at Clemsford

25, 1757; his early years

Mas were

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. spent on a farm; joined the Revolutionary Array after the battle of Lexington, and remained in it through the war; was at Bunker Hill and Bemis Heights; served as Ensign, Lieutenant, and BrigadierGeneral; from 1789 to 1802 was a member of the General Council; Chancellor from 1803 to 1809, and again from 1814 to 1818; was High Sheriff from 1809 to 1814, and again from 1818 to 1823; was Governor from 18-27 to 1829. Died at Hillsborough, New He was the father of Hampshire, April 1, 1839. Franklin Pierce, President of the United States.

Pierce, Benjamin was born in Salem, Massa chusetts, April 4, 1809; graduated at Harvard Uni versity in 1829; after teaching school in Northamp ton, was appointed tutor in mathematics at Cam bridge in 1831; Professor of Mathemathics and Natural Philosophy in 1833; was Perkin s Professor of Astronomy from 1842 to 1847; was Consulting Astronomer to "The American Epl eiiieiis and Nautical Almanac from its establishment in 1849; ;

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was a member of the Royal Society of London from 1852; President of the American Institution for the Advancement of Science in 1853; one of the Council which established Dudley Observatory in 1855; Super

intendent of the United States Coast Survey from 18(57 to 1874; was a contributor to several scientific journals; published several valuable text-books from 183(5

to 1846;

"Associative Comets";

"Treatise

Algebra":

on Analytic "Theory

methods of investigating

tudes in the

"

Mechanics";

of the Tails of terrestrial longi

Report of the Superintendent of Coast

Criterion for the Rejection of Doubt discovered and announced the of Saturn s rings in 1851 prepared a volume fluidity of lunar tables for the Nautical Almanac; received the degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1847.

Survey

"

;

also

"

ful Observations

;

;

Pierce, Charles W.; was bom in New York in was a Lieutenant in the Illinois Volunteers

1823;

soon after the commencement of the Rebellion set tled in Alabama in 1867; in 1868 was elected a Rep resentative from that State to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Interior Depart ment.

1593

of Mexico; on the restoration of peace between the countries, resigned his commission and returned

two

home, where he remained, comparatively unobserved, until 1852, when he was nominated as the Demo for the Presidency; was elected President of the United States in November, 1852; was inaugurated March 4, 1853, and served to the end of his term, after which he retired to private life. The best biography of him was written by his personal friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Died in Con cord, New Hampshire, October 8, 1869.

cratic candidate

Pierce, Gilbert A.; was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, January 11, 1838; settled in Porter County, Indiana, in 1856; entered the Law Department of the University at Chicago in 1859, and remained until the fall of 1860, when he was admit ted to the bar, and opened a law office at Valparaiso, Indiana; enlisted as a private in Company H., Ninth Indiana Volunteers, in April, 1861, and was elected Second Lieutenant; was appointed a Captain and Bjigade Quartermaster, by President Lincoln, May 3, 1861; in the fall of 1862 was promoted a Lieuten ant-Colonel, and assigned to duty as Chief Quarter master of the Thirteenth Army Corps, then stationed in Texas; in 1864 was made Colonel and Inspector; resigned October 5, 1865, and resumed the practice of law at Valparaiso. Indiana; in 1868 was elected a Representative in the Indiana Legislature; in 1869 was appointed one of the Financial Clerks of the United States Senate, which position he resigned in 1872 to accept an editorial position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean; was made managing editor of that paper in 1876, and remained in editorial charge until 1881, when he was tendered, and accepted, the position of Chief Editorial Writer on the Chicago Daily News; was the author of the Dickens Dictionary, issued by James R. Osgood, Boston, and of two novels of a political character, as well as a number of plays; in June, 1884, was appointed, by President Arthur, Governor of the Territory of Dakota.

;

Pierce, Franklin ; was born in the town of Hillsboro, New Hampshire, in 1804; after complet ing his academic studies, entered Bowdoin College, Maine; on leaving college, commenced his legal studies at Northampton, Massachusetts, but subse quently returned to his native State, and finished his studies at Amherst; was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of his profession in his native town; before the end of two years was elected a Rep resentative in the State Legislature, and during his second year s service was chosen Speaker of the House; in 1832 was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Twenty-third Congress; in 1834 was re-elected to the Twenty-fourth Congress; in 1837 was elected a member of the United States Senate; after five years service in that body, re signed his seat: settled in Concord, New Hampshire, and resumed practice at the bar; adhered to his resolution of accepting no political office, refusing to be a candidate for Governor of the State, or United States Senator, and declining the offices of AttorneyGeneral and Secretary of War, which were tendered him by President Polk; on the breaking out of the Mexican War, however, he enrolled himself as a private soldier in the New England Regiment, but President Polk sent him a Colonel s commission, and subsequently, in March, 1847, raised him to the rank of Brigadier-General; was in most of the battles which were fought between Vera Cruz and the City

Pierce, Henry Lillie was born at Stoughton, Massachusetts, August 23, 1825; received a thorough English education; was a manufacturer; was a mem ber of the State House of Representatives in 1860, 1861, 1862, and 1866; was an Alderman of the city of Boston in 1870 and 1871; was Mayor of Boston in 1873; was elected a Representative from Massachu setts to the Forty-third Congress to fill a vacancy; in 1874 was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, serv ing on the Committee on Levees. ;

Pierce, gress from 1802.

Joseph was a Representative in Con New Hampshire during the years 1801 and ;

Pierce, Ray Vaughn was born in Stark, Herkimer County, New York, August 6, 1840; received a common school education; studied medicine, gradu ;

ating in 1863; practiced at Titusville, Pennsylvania, until 1867, when he removed to Buffalo, New York, and established an infirmary; was elected to the State Senate in 1877; resigned in 1879; in 1878 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Pierce, Rice A.; was born at Dresden, Tennes July 3, 1848; .received an academic education; studied law. and was admitted to the bar at Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1868; in 1869 commenced the practice of law at Union City, Tennessee; in 1874 was elected District Attorney-General of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of the State; in 1878 was re-elected for the full term of eight years; in 1882 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-eighth

see,

Congress.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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Pierce, Robert B. F.; was born at Laurel, In diana, February 15, 184:5; served in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion; graduated at Wabash College in 1866; studied law; entered upon its practice at Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1867; was

Prosecuting Attorney from 16(58 to 1874; in 1880 was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Fortyseventh Congress.

elected a United States Senator from New Hampshire term of six years from March 4, 1883. Died October 8, 1886.

for the

Pike, Frederick A.; was born at Calais, Maine, where he always resided; was, for several years, a member of the Maine Legislature, serving one term as Speaker of the House of Representatives; adopted the profession of the law; was, for several years,

At

Pierce, "William; served in the Revolutionary torney for the county in which he lived; in 1860 was XVar as an Aid-de-camp to General Greene, and for elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Naval his services a sword was presented to him by the old Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, Congress; was a Delegate from Georgia to the Conti nental Congress; was a member of tin- Convention serving as Chairman of the Committee on Expendi which framed the Federal Constitution; while in tures in the State Department, and a member of the Congress wrote his impressions of the men who served Committee on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the in that body, which were long afterwards published Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on his old commit in a Savannah paper. tees, and as Chairman of the Committee on Expenses in the State Department; was also a member of the National Committee appointed to accompany the re Pierpont, Francis H. was a native of Vir mains of President Lincoln ta Illinois, and Chairman ginia; was Governor of that State from 1864 to 1868. of the Special Committee on the Murders in South Car Pierrepont, Edwards; was born in North olina; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving Haven, Connecticut, March 4, 1817; graduated at on the Committee on Reconstruction as well as on Yale College in 1837, and at the New Haven Law his old committees. School practiced law in Columbus, Ohio, from 1840 to 1845, and subsequently in Xew York City, where Pike, James was born in Salisbury, Massachu he became eminent in his profession; was Judge of setts, in November, 1818; was educated at the Westhe New York Supreme Court from 1857 to 18(50; in leyan University, in Connecticut; was a minister in 1862 was^ made a member of the Military Commission the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1841 to 1854; was elected a Representative from New for the trial of prisoners of State; was a member of Hampshire in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; was Congresses, and United States Attorney for the Southern District of was a member of the Committee on Enrolled Bills. New York from 1869 to July, 1870; was a Democrat in 1861, but became a Republican, and Pike, James S.; was a citizen of Maine; in 1851 supported was appointed Minister Resident to the re-election of Mr. Lincoln; also aided in the Mexico, where he remained until 1866. election of General Grant; was appointed, by him, Attorney-General of the United States, May 15, 1875: Pile, William A.; was born near Indianapolis, was one of the prosecuting counsel in the trial of Surratt for the assassination of President Lincoln; Indiana, February 11, 1829; received a good English and classical education; was a did much by his pen to expose the corruptions of the clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the Government; was an active member of the "Com ;

;

;

mittee of

Seventy"; was, for several years, identi with the Texas and Pacific Railroad; in 187G was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister of the United States to Great Britain. Plenipotentiary

fied

Pierson, Isaac; was born in New Jersey. An gust 15, 1770; was educated at Princeton College graduating in 1789; was subsequently a fellow of the College of Surgeons and Physicians of New Yorkpracticed medicine for forty years; was a Representa tive in Congress from New Jersey from 1827 to 1831 Died in

New

Jersey,

September

22, 1833.

Pierson, Jeremiah H. was born in Essex County, New Jersey; was a Representative in Con from New York from 1821 to 1823. gress ;

Pierson, Job was a Representative in Congress Xew York from 1831 to 1835. Died 9

Missouri Conference at the commencement of the Re bellion; in 1861 joined the Missouri Volunteers as Chaplain; in 1862 had command of a battery of Artil lery as Captain; was soon afterwards to the

promoted rank of Colonel of Infantry; in 18.53 was appointed a Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers; was in the Missouri under General Lyon; was campaign with Generals Grant and Halleck at Corinth; was also at Vicksburg and near Mobile, and his command was the first to break the enemy s line at the capture of Fort Blakely; in 186(5 was elected a Representa tive from Missouri to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Union Prisoners and Military Affairs, and as Chairman of the Committee on Expen ditures in the Post Office in 1869 was Department; appointed Governor of New Mexico; in 1871 was ap pointed Minister Resident to Venezuela.

;

from

April

I860, aged sixty-nine years.

Pike, Austin P.; was bora at Hebron New Hampshire, October 16, 1819; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar

in 1845; was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1850, 1851, 1852 1865 and 1866 and Speaker during the last two years; was a Presidential Elector in 1852; was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1857 and 1858, and was I resident of the Senate in the latter year- was a Del to the egate Philadelphia Convention of 1856- was Chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1858 and 18o9; was elected a Representative from

Hampshire

to the Forty-third Congress- in 1883

New was

John

was born

in New Hamp m 1827; receivedS.;a good education; engaged in

Pillsbury, shire,

mercantile pursuits; in 1854 removed to Minnesota and settled at the Falls of St. Anthony; engaged in business as a hardware merchant; was, for twelve years, a member of the Minnesota State Senate- in 1864 was President of the Board of Regents of the State University of Minnesota; in 1877 was elected Governor of Minnesota, and in 1880 was re-elected serving until January, 1884.

Pilsbury, Timothy; was born in Newbury Massachusetts, April 12, 1789; received a common school education; spent two years as a clerk in a store, and several subsequent years as a sailor sting trader,

making one

trip to

and Europe as captain

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS of a brig; settled in Maine; was appointed a member of the Executive Council; also served in the State Legislature; went from Maine to Ohio, thence to Louisiana, and finally to Texas; served a number of years in the Senate and House of Representatives o Texas, and, when that Eepublic came into the Union was elected a Representative in Congress from 184d to 1849. Died near Danville, Texas, November 23, 1858.

Pinckney, Charles; was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1758; was a patriot in the Revolu tionary struggle: was taken prisoner, and sent to St. Augustine, Florida; served in the Provincial Legis was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1785; received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton College in 1787; in the same year was a Delegate to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, and signed that instrument; was Pres ident of the State Convention which ratified the Fed eral Constitution; was Governor of South Carolina from 1789 to 1792, and from 1796 to 1798; was a Sen ator in Congress from 1798 to 1801 in 1801 was ap pointed, by President Jefferson, Minister to Spain, holding that position until 1805; served in the State Legislature in 1810 and 1812; was a Representative in Congress from 1819 to 1821. Died October 2. lature;

;

1824.

moirs of Jonathan

and

was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 525, 1746; was educated at Westminster and Oxford, England; read aw at the Temple, London, and passed nine months n the Royal Military Academy, Caen, France; in ;

i769 established himself in Charleston, South Caroina, in the practice of law; was a member of the

Provincial Congress of South Carolina in 1775; was a Captain, and soon after Colonel of the First South Carolina Regiment; after the successful de fense of Fort Moultrie, joined the Northern army, and was an Aid to Washington at Brandywine and Jermantown; in 1778 took part in the expedition to ^lorida; in 1779 was President oi he South Carolina first

i

Senate; defended Charleston against General Provost listinguished himself during the invasion of Georgia and Savannah; was made prisoner in 1780 at the surrender of Charleston; after the war resumed the ;

of law; was a member of the Convention which framed the Federal Constitution; declined uccessively the positions of Judge of United States Supreme Court, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State, tendered him by President Washington; was >ractice

Major-General of State Militia; in 1796 was Min ster to France; was ordered to quit the French Teritory by the French Directory, who would not eceive conciliatory propositions from the United States;

withdrew

to

Amsterdam

in 1797;

on his

re-

nrn home was made Major-General WJT* a candidate or the Vice-Presidency in 1800; w as the author ol he famous sentiment: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." Died in Charleston, Aug

"Robert

Y.

Hayne,"

was the son of Governor

Died in Charleston, February 3 r

Charles Pinckney. 1863.

Pinckney, Thomas was born in Charleston, South Carolina, October 23, 1750; was educated in England with his brother Charles; studied law in the Temple, London, England; was admitted to the bar in 1770; joining the Continental Army, rose to the rank of Major; served as Aid to General Lincoln, and ;

afterwards to Count D Estaing, at the siege of Sa vannah in 1779; distinguished himself in the battle at Stone Ferry; was Aid to General Gates, at Camden, in 1780; during 1 resident Washington s admin istration, was offered the position of Judge of the United States Court, which he declined; was Gover nor of South Carolina from 1787 to 1789; was Min ister to Great Brjtain from 1792 to 1794; in the latter year went on a mission to Spain, where he made the treaty of St. Ildefonso, securing to the United State* the free navigation of the Mississippi; in 1796 re turned to Charleston; was elected a Representative in Congress from 1799 to 1801; in 1812 President Madison appointed him to the command of the Sixth Military District; his last field service was at the battle of Horse-Shoe Bend, where the power of the Creek Indians was broken. Died in Charleston, No

vember

Pinckney, Charles Cotes-worth

Maxey,"

"Andrew Jackson";

2,

1828.

Pindall, James was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1817 to 1820, when he resigned. ;

Pindar, John S.; was born at Sharon, Schoharie County, New York, November 18, 1835; was educated in the common schools of the county, and at Richmond ville Seminary; in 1854 went to Chi cago, Illinois, and became a clerk in a store, remain ing there four years; then went to Des Moines, Iowa, for one year, and to La Porte, Indiana, for one year, after which he resumed his residence in Schoharie

New York in 1862 commenced the study of law at Lawyersville, Schoharie County; in May, 1865, was admitted to the bar as an attorney and County,

;

counselor at law; in 1868 was elected the first Police Justice of the village of Cobleskill, New York, serv ing two years; in 1872 was elected Trustee of the village, in whic .i position he continued to serve until January, 1882, when he was elected President of the village; was, annually, twice re-elected in 1879 wa* elected President of the Schoharie Union Anti-Horse;

Thief Society, and was annually re-elected; in 1875was elected Chairman of the Democratic County Com mittee, in which position he continued by annual reelections; in 1884 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Samuel Everett was born at SalisHampshire, August 2, 1832; received a, Common school and academic education, as a preiminary, and graduated from Dartmouth College, in. ust 16, 1825. the class of 1857; immediately after graduation bethe study of law with his cousin at Bethel, Ver was born in mont; was admitted to the bar of Windsor County, Pinckney, Henry Laurens Charleston, South Carolina, September 24, 1794; Vermont, in December, 1859, and at once entered upon he practice of law at Hartford, Vermont; in 1861 en;raduated at the South Carolina College in 1812; tudied law with his brother-in-law, Robert Y. isted in Company F, Third Regiment Vermont Vol layne; was admitted to the bar; was a member of unteers, and was elected First Lieutenant; served in the Legislature from 1816 to 1832; was Mayor of he Army of the Potomac until his regiment wa Charleston in 1832, and in 1839 and 1840; was a mustered out of service in 1864, and was successively )romoted Captain, Major, and Lieutenant-Colonel;, Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1833 to 1837; was subsequently Collector of the Port, after being commissioned a field officer, was much of and a member of the Legislature; was editor of the ;he time in command of a regiment, by special as Charleston Mercury in 1819; was a prominent leader signment; during a part of the winter of 186:5-64, wasn command of the famous First Vermont Brigade; in the State Rights party; was the author of Me ;

T

;

"

Pingree,

mry.

New

;

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396

was severely wounded

before Yorktown, Virginia; at

the close of his service in the field, was commissioned to raise a regiment for the protection of the Northern border of Vermont against invasion by Confederate St. Albans refugees in Canada, at the time of the Colonel of the regi Raid," and was commissioned at the close of the Civil War, resumed the "

ment;

was practice of his profession at Hartford, Vermont; twice elected State s Attorney for Windsor County, 1 Vermont; in 1882 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont, serving two years; in 1884 was elected Governor of Vermont for a term of two years; in 1886 was appointed Chairman of the Board of Rail road Commissioners of Vermont.

Pinkney, William

was born

at Annapolis, Maryland, March 17, 1764; prepared himself for the bar, under the instruction of Judge Chase; was ad mitted to practice in 1786, and immediately gave promise of distinction; was a member of the Conven tion which ratified the Federal Constitution; from 1789 to 1792 was a Representative in Congress; was then a member of the Executive Council, and made its President; in 1795 was a member of the State Legislature; in 1796 was a Commissioner under Jay s Treaty, in conjunction with Mr. Gore, and remained in London eight years; recovered, for Maryland, a claim on the Bank of England for $800,000; in 1806 ;

was Envoy Extraordinary to England, and in 1808, on the return of Mr. Monroe, was made Minister Plenipotentiary: returned to the United States, and settled in Baltimore in 1811; was soon after a mem ber of the State Senate; in December, 1811, was ap pointed Attorney-General, and

remained in

that

commanded a battalion of rifle men, and was wounded at Bladensburg, Maryland, position until 1814;

in August, 1814; was a Representative in Congress in 1815 and 1816; was then made Minister to Russia and Envoy to Naples; on his return, in 1819, was elected a member of the United States Senate, and continued in that station until his death, February 25, 1822. He possessed splendid talents, and was one of the most accomplished oiators and statesmen of his time.

Pinney, Daniel H.; was born

at Albion, New 1837; received a common school edu cation; removed to Illinois in 1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861, and engaged in practice; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1876 and 1877; in 1883 was appointed Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

York, June

2,

Piper, William was a Representative in gress from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813. ;

Con

William A.; was born in Franklin Coun Pennsylvania, in 1825; at the outbreak of the Mexican War, volunteered in the military service and acquitted himself with credit as a soldier; removed to California in 1849, while it was yet a Territory, and settled in San Francisco; in 1874 was elected a from California to the Forty-fourth Representative Congress. Piper,

ty,

Pirce, William A.; was born at Scituate, Rhode February 29, 1824; attended district schools,

Island,

and worked

in the mills and on the farm, alternately, until eighteen years old; then attended the Smithfield Seminary for nine after that taught months; school for about a year; was then employed to take charge of the Simmonsville factory store, buying and selling goods and keeping the books; in 1854 com menced the manufacture of cotton goods on his own account, and continued in the business until 1863; in 1855 was elected a State Senator; in 1858, and again

in 1862, was elected a Representative in the Rhode Island Legislature; in 1862 was appointed, by Presi dent Lincoln, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Second District of Rhode Island, which position he held until the office was abolished in May, 1873; then devoted his attention to farming, interspersed with political and official duties; in 1879 was again elected a member of the State House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1880 and 1881; in 1882 was again elected State Senator; was Chairman of the Rhode Island Delegation to the Re publican National Convention in 1880, and a mem ber of the Republican National Committee in 1880 and 1884; was a member of the Republican State

Committee

for

twenty-two years, and

its

Chairman

fourteen years; in the District Convention of 1880, to nominate a candidate for the Forty-seventh Congress, he had a plurality of votes until the sixtyfor

eighth ballot, when he withdrew his name and nomin ated the successful candidate; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the Forty-ninth Congress.

was born

Pitcher, Nathaniel; Connecticut; was a

member

at Litchfield,

New York

of the

Legis

lature in 1806, 1815, 1816, and 1817; was a Delegate to the "State Constitutional Convention of 1821; in 1828 was Lieutenant-Governor and Acting Gov ernor of the State; was subsequently Commissioner to survey the State roads; was a Representative in Con gress from New York from 1819 to 1823, and again from 1831 to 1833. "

Pitkin, Timothy; was born at Farmington, Connecticut, in 1765; graduated at Yale College in 1785; was, for several years, a member of the State Legislature; was Speaker of the House during five sessions; was a Representative in Congress from 1805 to 1819; in 1810 published a "Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States," and in 1828 his Political and Civil History of the United States from 1763 to the Close of Washington s Ad ministration." Died in New Haven, December 18. "

1847.

Pitkin, William was a native of Connecticut; was a member of the Council in 1734; was appointed a Judge of the State Court in 1741 was LieutenantGovernor and Chief Justice from 1754 to 1766; in 1754 was one of the Delegates to the Convention at Albany, and was one of the Committee appointed to prepare the plan of Union, which was adopted; was Governor of Connecticut from 1766 to 176i). ;

;

Died

in

East

Hartford,

Connecticut,

October

1,

1769.

Pitman, Charles W.; was born in New Jersey; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1851. Pitman, John; was born in Rhode Island in 1784; was, for forty years, Judge of the United States District Court in that State. Died in Providence, November 17, 1864. Plaisted, Harris M.; was born in Jefferson, Hampshire, November 2, 1828; after his boy hood he worked upon his father s farm and taught

New

school until 1849; graduated at the Waterville Col lege in Maine, in 1853; afterwards was again con nected with schools; graduated at the Albany Law School in cam to the bar in 1856, residing in Maine; in 1861 entered the Volunteer service as Lieutenant-Colonel; as Co ouel participated in all the battles between Yorktown and Malvern Hill; commanded a brigade at Charleston was with Gen eral Grant before Richmond became a Major-General 185.">;

;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. by brevet; served two years in the New Hampshire Legislature; was a Delegate to the National Re publican Convention of 1868; was Attorney-General for Maine from 1873 to 1875; was elected a Reprei

!

i

sentative from that State to the Forty-fourth Confill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel F. Hersey was Governor of Maine from 1881 to 1883. gress, to

;

Plant, David was a native of Stratford, Cor necticut; graduated at Yale College in 1804; in 181U ;

and 1820 was Speaker of the State House of Repre

member

1821 a

of the State Senate; was twice re-elected; from 1823 to 1827 was Lieutenant-Governor of the State; from 1827 to 1829 was aDied Representative in Congress from Connecticut. sentatives; in

October 18, 1851.

and 1862; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 18G4 and 1869, serving the latter year as Speaker; was elected a Senator of the United States from Connecticut for the term of six years from March 4, 1879; in 1885 was re-elected for a second term, ending March 3, 1891. in 1861

Platt, Thomas C.; was born in Owego, NewYork, July 15, 1833; received an academic education in Owego; was a member of Yale College, but with drew on account of ill-health followed mercantile busi ness was President of the Tioga National Bank, and engaged in lumbering in Michigan; was Clerk of the County of Tioga in 1859, I860, and 1861; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-third Congress, and re-elected to the Forty -fourth Congress, serving on the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads; was elected United States Senator from New York for the term of six years from March 4, 1881 ; resigned in June, 1881. ;

;

Plants, Tobias A.; was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1811; was self-educated; taught school for several years; studied law and came to the bar in 1841 practiced the profession of the law in Ohio was a member of the Ohio Legislature from 1858 to 1861; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Expenditures, on Mileage, and War Debts f the Loyal States; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

1786.

Plater, George; was born in Maryland in 1736; graduated at William and Mary College in 1753; studied law; was Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals; was a Delegate to the Continental Con gress from 1778 to 1781 was President of the Con vention which ratified the Federal Constitution; was Died at Annapolis, Governor of Maryland in 1792. Maryland, February 10, 1792.

Pleasants, James; was born in Virginia in 1769; was a Representative in Congress from 1811 to 1819; was United States Senator from 3819 to 1822; was Governor of Virginia from 1822 to 1825; was a member of the Convention of 1829 and 1830 for Amending the State Constitution; was twice ap pointed to the bench, but declined, from a distrust of his own qualifications; was a man of rare modesty, greatly respected and esteemed for public and private

;

;




ough Bank.

Reed, John; was born in Plymouth County, Massachusetts graduated at Yale College in 1772was ordained a minister of the and Gospel in ;

settled at

1780,

West Bridgewater, Massachusetts; was a

Representative in Congress from that State from 17!)5 101. Died February 17, 1831, aged eighty years.

Reed, John

was born at Bridgewater, Massa1781; was a graduate of Brown Universa 03; lawyer by profession; was a Representitive in Congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to and 817, again from 1821 to 1841; was LieutenantGovernor of Massachusetts from 1844 to 1851. Died at Bridgewater, November 25, 1860

m

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BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. in New Jersey, August 1741; graduated at Princeton College in 1757; studied law at the Temple in London; in 1774 was one of the Committee of Correspondence in Philadel

Reed, Joseph was born ;

-27,

convention

phia; was President of the first popular in Pennsylvania; accompanied Washington as an

Aid and remained with him through the campaign; in 1776 was appointed Adju tant-General of the army; was appointed a General of Cavalry, but declined the position, though he was was a Delegate present at the battle of Germantown; to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1778, and a

when he went

to Cambridge,

was President signer of the Articles of Confederation; of Pennsylvania in the latter year, continuing in the office until 1781. when he resumed the practice of but law; in 1784 visited England for his health, without beneficial results. Died March 4. 1785. An attempt was made, by the British, to bribe him, but it was treated with the utmost scorn.

was born in Kent County, Mary was a Senator in Congress from Maryland from 1806 to 1813; was a Representative in Congress from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1822 to 1823, having

Reed, Philip

;

415

works of his brother Henry, and published a large of historical addresses and political pam phlets; also contributed to the American Quarterly, and North American Review; passed the latter years of his life in the city of New York, where he died February 18, 1886.

number

Reese, David A.; was born in South Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1853 to 1855.

Reese, Seaborn was born at Madison, Georgia, November 28, 1846; was educated partly at the Uni ;

versity of Georgia, leaving that institution in his senior year, 1868; commenced the practice of law in 1869; in 1872 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature for the term of two years; was So licitor-General of the Northern Judicial Circuit from 1877 to 1880; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Fortyseventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of A. H. Stephens; was re-elected to the

land;

Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

successfully contested the seat of Jeremiah Causden. Died November 2, 1829.

Long

Reed, Robert R.; was born in Pennsylvania: studied medicine and practiced the profession served one or two terms in the Legislature of Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1851. Died at Harrisburg, December ;

15, 1864.

Thomas B.;

was born at Portland, Maine, 1839; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1860; studied law; was Acting Assistant Paymaster United States Navy in 1864 and 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and commenced practice at Port land; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1868 and 1869, and a State Senator in 1870; was Attorney-General of the State from 1870 to 1872; was elected a Representative from Maine to the Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Reed,

October

18,

Reed,

"William

;

was a native of Massachusetts;

an eminent merchant, and highly esteemed for his benevolent and religious character; was a member of Congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1815; was President of the Sabbath-school Union of Massachu setts, and of the American Tract Society; Vice-Presi dent of the American Education Society; a member of the Board of Visitors of the Theological Seminary at Andover, and of the Board of Trustees of Dart mouth College besides liberal bequests to heirs and relatives, he left $68,000 to benevolent objects, of which $17.000 were to Dartmouth College, $10,000 to Amherst College, $10,000 to the Board of Commis ;

sioners for Foreign Missions, $9,000 to the First Church and Society in Marblehead, $7,000 to the Second Congregational Church at Marblehead, and $5,000 to the Library of the Theological Seminary Died at Marblehead, February 18, 1837, at Andover.

very suddenly, while attending a Sabbath-school meeting.

Reed,

"William

Bradford was born ;

in Phila

delphia, June 30, 1806 graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1822; was Attorney-General in as United States Minister to Pennsylvania in 1838; China in 1857 and 1858. and negotiated the Treaty Life and Corres ratified in 1861; was the author of Life of Esther Reed," pondence of Joseph Reed," Vindication of Joseph Reed," in reply to Bancroft s History, in several pamphlets; edited the posthumus ;

w

"

"

"

Reeves, Henry A.; was born

in Sag Harbor, Island, in 1833 after going through a course oi studies at the University of Michigan, graduated at Union College, New York, in 1852; taught school for two years; studied law, and came to the bar in Brooklyn, New York, in 1857; in 1858 purchased the Republican Watchman, published at Greenport, Long Island, and edited the same; in 1861 was arrested, by ;

order of Secretary Seward, and confined for five weeks in Fort Lafayette, for alleged disloyalty; in 1868 waa elected a Representative from New York to the For ty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Agri culture,

and Navy Department.

David S.; was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, April 19, 1813; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1834; was elected to the State Legislature in 1835, and served continu ously until 1842; in 1843 was elected a jRepresentative in Congress from North Carolina; was reflected in 1845; in 1850 was elected Governor of North Caro Reid,

lina;

was

re-elected in 1852, serving until 1855, elected a Senator in Congress for four

when he was

was Chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, and a member of the Commit tee on Commerce; was a Delegate to the "Peace years;

Congress"

of 1861.

James W.; was

Reid, Rockingham County, North

born at Wentworl h,

Carolina, June 11, 1849; attended academic schools at Winston, Went worth, and Thomasville, North Carolina; labored on a farm two years: passed through the sophomore rear at Trinity College, North Carolina; completed his edu cation while student-tutor at Emory and Henry Col lege, Virginia, from which institution he graduated in June, 1869; read law while teaching school; was admitted to the bar in 1873, and engaged in the practice of law at Wentworth; was elected County Treasurer of Rockingham County, North Carolina, in 1874. and was continuously re-elected until Novem ber, 1884; was Secretary, and Chairman in 1884, of the

Executive Committee of Rockingham years; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-ninth Congress; inJanuary, 1855, at a special election, was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, to fill the unexpired term

Democratic

County for ten

of Alfred M. Scales.

Reid,

John

"W.;

was born at Lynchburg, Vir

ginia, June 14, 1821 received a good English educa tion; removed to Missouri in 1840; studied law, and ;

came

to the bar in 1844

;

served with credit in the

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Mexican War, in 1846, as Captain of a company of mounted volunteers, with Colonel Doniphan; settled in Jackson County, practicing his profession; served two sessions in the Missouri Legislature; was elected

a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty -seventh Congress; was expelled from the House in December,

colored regiments in Maryland and Missouri; taught school in St. Louis; then went to Vicksburg and as sisted in managing the freedmen s affairs; followed the army to Jackson; organized churches, and lectured; spent the next two years in Kansas and

and lecturing; returned to Mis Natchez was chosen a mem ber of the City Council; was a Senator in Congress from Mississippi, from February, 1870, to March, 1871, having been the first of his race elected to that position; subsequently became a preacher in the Methodist church, and was quite successful. Missouri, preaching

1861.

sissippi,

Robert R.; was born in Beaufort District, % Reid, South Carolina, in 1789; removed early in life to Georgia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1818 to 1823; was elected Mayor of Au gusta on his retirement from Congress; was also a Judge of the Superior Court of Georgia; in 183:2 was appointed, by President Jackson, District Judge for

1844.

1.

James

Reynolds, John

was born in Schuylkill Coun ty, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1845; graduated at Pottsville High School; studied law, and was admit ted to practice in 18(59; was elected District Attorney in 1871, and served in that office until 1875; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the B.

;

;

nois,

;

1837 to 1839.

New

in New Yorkin Congress from that State 1837; also served in the Assembly of that State in 1819.

was a Representative

from

;

r was born in Wake County .. I 822 gradated at the ma; l University of that State; practiced law for a but taking an interest in politics was elected totime, Congress where he served from 182!) to 1839, and again from 1841 t,

Abraham;

18:55 to

Reynolds, Robert M.; was born

"*

kingum County,

in

Mns-

Ohio, August 30, 1826; received a classical education; removed to Illinois in 1847 and to Iowa in 1851; was of an

4

to Portugal in 1843

was born

)

was born at Abnerville, Indiana Reilly, John County, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1836; received a common school education; was clerk in a country store from the age of sixteen until eighteen; in entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the Engineer Corps; filled various minor positions until 1865, when he was appointed Superin tendent of Transportation was President of the Board of City Commissioners of Altoona in 1867 and 18; i8; was President of the Bell s Gap Railroad Com pany during 1872 and 1873, and was also connected with the manufacturing and mining interests of the State; in 1874 was elected a Representative to the

Affaim

;

Pennsylvania, February 26, 1789, of Irish parents, who landed in Philadelphia in 1786; was a member of a company of scouts in the campaigns against the Indians, in 1812 and 1813; practiced law at Cahokia; was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1818: was a member of the Legislature from 1826 to 1830, 1846 to 1848, 1852 to 1854; served during the last term as Speaker; was Governor of Illinois from 183 to 1834; commanded the Illinois Volunteers during the Black Hawk War in 1832; was a Representative in Congress from 1835 to 1837, and from 1839 to 1843: published "Pioneer History of Glance at the Crystal Palace, Illinois," in 1848; and Sketches of Travel," in 1854; "My Life and Times, in 1855, and at one time conducted the Belle ville Eagle, a daily paper. Died at Belleville, Illi

County,

;

Forty-fifth Congress.

1843; was Charge d

;

Reynolds, James B.; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1823 to 1825.

18.".!)

Reilly,

settled at

Reynolds, Gideon; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1851.

Eastern Florida; was appointed, by President Van Buren, Governor of the Territory of Florida from to 1841; was a member of the Convention which formed a State Constitution for Florida, over which body he presided in a creditable manner. Died near Tallahassee, July

and

re^/J,

I

Academy and

leacherof Mathematics for ten years; studied law Iowa Cavalry in 1861- became a veteran b re-enlistment in 7 1864; was three times wounded action; was mustered out of service as a Captain in 1865; in that year settled in Alabamawa a member of the State Constitutional Convention of ^1867; was admitted to the bar at Montgomery, Alabama; in 1868 was elected Auditor of the State and served more than four years; was Minister Resiol thc United States to Bolivia from 1874 to ?S* 1! 8 WaS a PP intef1 First Auditor of th TT * , United States Treasury at Washington. enlisted in the First

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MANOR HOUSE (THE HOME OF WASHINGTON) MT. VERNON.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Reynolds, Thomas; was born

Bracken Coun

in

1796; studied law, and settled in Illinois when quite young; was Clerk of the State House of Representatives; was afterwards elected a Representative in the Legislature and made Speaker; was Attorney-General of the State; Judge of the Supreme Court; in 1828 removed to Missouri, where he was a member of the State Legislature, and President Judge of a Court of Justice was Governor of Missouri from 1840 to 1844: became a monomaniac, and committed suicide, at Jefferson City, February, 9, 1844. ty,

Kentucky, March

12,

;

Rhea, John; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1803 to 1815, and from 1817 to 1823; in 1816 was appointed United States Com Died May 27, missioner to treat with the Choctaws. 1832, aged seventy -nine years. Rhett, Robert Barnwell; was born in Beau South Carolina, December 24, 1800; received a liberal education, and adopted the profession of the law; in 1826 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1832 was elected Attorney-General of South Caro lina; was a Representative in Congress from 1838 to 1849; was a Senator in Congress during the years fort,

1850, 1851, and a part of 1852. resigning contrary to the wishes of his State; he is said to have been the first man who proposed, and advocated on the floor of Congress, a dissolution of the Union took part in the Rebellion of 1861, as a member of the Confed erate Congress; was a Delegate to the New York Con vention of 1868. ;

Rhodes, Samuel was a Delegate from Penn sylvania to the Continental Congress from 1774 to ;

1775.

Ricaud, James B.; was born at Baltimore, T Maryland, February 11, 1808: graduated at W ashwas a lawyer by profes ington College, Maryland;

was a member of the House of Delegates of Maryland in 1834. and of the State Senate of Mary land from 1836 to 1844. inclusive; was a Presidential Elector in 1836 and 1844; was a Representative in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Manufactures, and also on that sion;

Accounts of a late Clerk of the House; resigned his seat in the Maryland Senate, and was appointed Judge of the Circuit Court. Died at Chestertown, Maryland, January 24, 1866. for Investigating the

Rice, Alexander H.; was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in August, 1818; received a common school education; served in his father s paper mill as a clerk while yet a mere boy; subsequently gradu ated at Union College in 1844, after which he en tered, on his own account, into the paper business; in 1853 was elected to the Common Council of Bos ton, and became the President of that body; was Mayor of Boston in 1856 and 1857; was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the ThirtyBixth Congress, serving on the Committee on the District of Columbia; was re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs, and on Expenditures in the Treasury Department; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, in which capacity he introduced a large number of important measures; was also reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Unfinished Business, and Naval Af Loyalists fairs; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention" of 1866, and to the Chicago Convention of 1868; was subsequently elected Mayor of Boston; was Governor of Massachusetts from 1876 to 1879. "

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Rice, Americus V.; was born in Perry ville, Ashland County, Ohio, November 18, 1835; graduated at Union College, New York, in 1860; served in the war for the Union from 1861 to 1865, entering as a private and coming out as a Brigadier-General was wounded a number of times, and lost his right leg in Georgia; in 1864 was elected to Congress on the home vote, but was defeated by the soldiers vote, in 1868 became manager of a banking house in Ottawa, Ohio; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Ohio to ;

the Forty -fourth Congress;

was

re-elected

to

the

Forty-fifth Congress.

Rice, Benjamin F.; was born in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, New York, May 26, 1828; re ceived an academic education; taught school for sev eral winters; studied law, and came to the bar at Twine, Kentucky; was elected to the State Legisla ture in 1865; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; removed to Minnesota in 1860; entered the Volun teer Army in 1861 as a private; was made Captain; served as such during the war, declining several offers of promotion after the war settled at Little Rock, Arkansas; practiced law there, and organized the Republican party in that State; in 1868 was elected a Senator in Congress from Arkansas, for the term ending in 1873, serving on the Committees on Claims, JJistrict of Columbia, the Pacific Railway, and the Judiciary. ;

Rice, Edward Y.; was born in Logan County, Kentucky, February 8, 1820; educated at Shurtleff College; studied law; in 1847 was elected County Recorder of Montgomery County, Illinois; was a member of the Legislature in 1849; was elected Judge of Montgomery County, and served two years; was appointed Master in Chancery from 1853 until 1857, when he was elected Judge of the Eighteenth Circuit of Illinois; was re-elected in 1861, and in 1867; was a member of the Constitutional Conven tion of Illinois in 1869; was elected to the Fortysecond Congress, serving on the Committee on Elec tions.

H.; was born in Waitsfield, Ver emigrated to Michigan in 1835, when it was a Territory, and was employed in making surveys of the Kalamazoo and Grand Rivers, and also for a ship canal at the outlet of Lake Su perior; after that time lived in three other Territor ies, viz. Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, much of his life being spent among the wild Indian tribes of the Northwest; in 1839 was appointed a Sutler in the army; was employed as Commissioner in making many Indian treaties of great importance; in 1853 was elected a Delegate to Congress from Minnesota; was re-elected in 1855; having secured the passage of the act authorizing the people of Minnesota to form a State Constitution; in 1857 was elected a Senator in Congress from Minnesota for the term of six years; at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress, was appointed a member of the Committees on Indian Affairs and on Post Offices and Post Roads; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention" of 1866; was one of the original proprietors of St. Paul and Bayfield; when in Congress was a member of the famous Peace of 1861. Committee

Rice,

Henry

mont, November

29, 1816;

:

John B.; was born in Easton, Maryland, 1809; received a common school education; re to Chicago, Illinois; was an actor and man ager of a theatre until 1857; was elected Mayor of Chicago in 1865; re-elected in 1867; was elected to the Forty -third Congress; was appointed Librarian of the House of Representatives. Died in Norfolk, Virginia, December 17, 1 874. Rice,

in

moved

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Rice, John B.; was born at Fremont, Ohio adopted the medical profession; served in the Union Army as Assistant-Surgeon. Surgeon, and Surgeon in-Chief of a Division during the War of the Rebel lion; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-seventh Congress.

John

H.; was born in Mount Vernon, Ken Maine, February 5. 1816; received a good common school education; bet wee" the year. 1832 and 18.J8 held a variety of local offices at Au gusta; devoted some attention to the study of law served as a Staff Officer during the troubles connected with the northeastern boundary; in 1840 was ap pointed Deputy Sheriff of Kennebec County; in 1842 settled in Piscataquis County, and devoted himselt

Rice,

nfcbec County.

to the lumbering business until 1848: subsequently practiced law; in 1852 was elected a State Attorney for three years; was re-elected, and held the office un til he was chosen a Representative from Maine to the Thirty -seventh Congress, serving on the Committees

on Revolutionary Claims, and on Patents; was elected

re-

to the

Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman^of the Committee on Public Buildings and a of the Committee on the Terri member Grounds, tories, and as Chairman of the Special Committee on Frontier Defenses; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, continuing on the same Committees; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Con vention of 1866; in February, 1867, was appointed, by President Johnson, Collector of the Port of Bangor, Maine. "

"

Rice, John M.; was born in Floyd County, Ken tucky; served in the Legislature of Kentucky in 1859 and 1867; was elected a Representative from Ken tucky to the Forty-first Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Manufactures and Revolutionary Pen sions.

Rice, Theron M.; was born at Mecca, Ohio, Sep tember 21, 1829; was reared on a farm; received an academic education; taught school and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced 1658 removed to Missouri; served in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion, rising to the rank of Colonel; at the close of the war re sumed the practice of law at Tipton. Missouri; was elected Circuit Judge in 1868, and served six years: was elected a Representative from Missouri to the practice,; in

.

Forty-seventh Congress.

Thomas

Rice, graduated at Harvard Univers ity in 1791; adopted the profession of the law; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1813; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819. Died in 1854. Rice,

;

William W.; was

born at Deerfield Mas sachusetts, March 7, 1826; graduated at Bowdoin College in 146; was Preceptor in Leicester Acad

emy, Massachusetts, for four years; studied law and commenced practice at Worcester, Massachu setts; was Judge of Insolvency for Worcester County in 1858; was Mayor of Worcester in 1860; was Dis trict Attorney for the Middle District of Massachu setts from 1869 to 1874; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1875; was elected a Representa tive

from Massachusetts to the Forty-fifth, FortyForty-eighth, and Forty-ninth

sixth, Forty-seventh,

;

was born in Hampshire County was a Representative in Con

Massachusetts, in 177J

:

and again Vermont.

Rich, John T.; was born at Conneautville, Penn sylvania, April 23, 1841; removed, with his parents, to Vermont in 1846. and to Michigan in 1848, set tling at Elba: received an academic education; en gaged in farming; was Chairman of the Board of Su was elected a Repre pervisors of Lapeer County sentative in the State Legislature in 1872, 1874, 1(S70, and 1878. serving as Speaker during the last two terms; was State Senator in 1880; resigned in 1881, having been elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Omar D. Conger to the United States Senate. ;

Richard, G-abriel; was born at Saintes, in France, October 15, 1764; was educated at Angiers; received orders at a C atholic Seminary in Paris, in 1790; came to America in 1798; was, for a time, Pro fessor of Mathematics in St. Mary s College, Mary land; labored in Illinois as a missionary went to Detroit, Michigan, in 1799, whence he was sent as a Delegate to Congress in 1823; during his ministry it became his duty, according to the Roman Catholic religion, to excommunicate one of his parishioners, who had been divorced from his wife; the parishioner prosecuted the priest for defamation of character, which resulted in his obtaining a verdict of one thou sand dollars; this money the priest could not pay, and he was, consequently, imprisoned in the common As he had already been elected a Delegate to jail. Congress, he went from his prison, in the wilds of Michigan, to his seat on the floor of Congress; in 1809 ;

visited

Boston, took a printing press to Michigan,

and started a journal called the Michigan Essay, which failed for want of readers then published some Roman Catholic books, and the Laws of the Terri all in in after Hull s surrender, tory, 1812, French; was taken prisoner, and after his release, finding his in wheat and people want, purchased gave it to the destitute. He was master of several languages, and was a man of superior ability and rare benevolence. Died at Detroit, September 13. 1832. ;

Richards, Jacob was a Representative in Conjressfrom Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1809. ;

Richards, John jress

was a Representative in Confrom Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1797.

Richards, John

;

was a member of the New 1814 and 1815; was a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1823 to York Assembly

;

in

1825.

Mark

was born in New Haven, Con Richards, necticut; was a member of the State Legislature for was eight years; County Sheriff for five years; was a Presidential Elector in 1813; was a State Counselor ;

1813 and 1815;

was a Representative in Congress 1817 to 1821 was Lieutenantovernor of Vermont in 1830.

in

Tom Vermont from

;

Richards, Matthias was born in 1757; was a Judge of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1788 to 1797; was a Representative in "Congress from Penn sylvania from 1807 to 1811. Died in 1830. ;

Richardson, David

New

Congresses.

Rich, Charles

gress from Vermont from 1811 to 1812, from, 1817 to 1824. Died at Shoreham, October 15, 1824.

P.;

was born at Macedon,

York, May 28, 18:53; graduated at Yale College n 1856; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 18(J4; removed to Angelica, New York, in 1866, and en

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. gaged in the practice of his profession was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-sixth ;

.and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Richardson, James Carolina, 1804.

B.; was a native of South and Governor of that State from 1802 to

Richardson, James Daniel was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee. March 10. 1843; re ceived an academic education; entered the Con federate Army in 1861, as a private; in 1862 was commissioned, and made Adjutant of the Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry, in which capacity he served until the close of the war; was wounded at the bat ;

of Resaca, Georgia, in 1864; after the close of the war, studied law, and was admitted to practice at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1866, and commenced practice there; in 1870 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and was elected Speaker on the first day of the session in 1872 was elected State Senator and served two years; in 1873. when thirty years of age, was made Grand Master of Masons for the State of Tennessee; also became Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of the State in 1 884 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Fortytle

.

;

;

ninth Congress.

Richardson, John Peter was born at Hickory ;

Hill, Sumter District, South Carolina, April 14,1801: graduated at South Carolina College in 1819; was a member of the State Legislature from 1824 to 1836; was a Representative in Congress from 1837 to 1840; was Governor of South Carolina from 1840 to 1842: opposed the ordinance of Nullification, and was a leader of the Union Party; in 1850 was one of the Delegates-at-large from South Carolina to the South ern Convention; in 1851 presided over the meeting of the Southern Rights Association in Charleston, and opposed the separate secession of the State in

1852.

Richardson. John

S.; was born in South Caro was an Associate Judge of the General Sessions and of the Common Pleas, and Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeals; was elected a mem ber of Congress in 1820, but owing to some exigency in his private affairs, was not qualified; was a mem

lina in 1777;

ber of the State Legislature, and Attorney-General Died at Charleston, lor the State of South Carolina. May 11, 1850.

Richardson, John S.; was born near Sumter, South Carolina, February 29, 1828; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1850; studied law: was ad mitted to the bar in 1852; settled at Sumter as a lawyer and farmer; served in the Confederate Army as a commissioned officer during the War of the Re bellion; was a member of the State House of Repre sentatives from 18G5 to 18G7; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1876; was de feated as a candidate for the Forty -fifth Congress; was elected a Representative from South Carolina to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Richardson, Joseph I

i

;

was born

at Billerica,

Massachusetts, February 1, 1778; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1802; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1827 to 1831; was senior Pastor over the First Church at Hingham, .Massachusetts, for fifty years.

1

Richardson, ;

\

:

;

"William

Alexander was born ;

Fayette County, Kentucky; graduated at the Transylvania University; studied law. and came to the bar before attaining his twentieth year, and soon after settled in Illinois; in 1835 was elected State Attorney; in 1836 a member of the State Legislature; jp 1838 was elected to the State Senate; in 1844 was in

;

419

again elected to the Legislature, and made Speaker of the House; was also chosen a Presidential Elector in 1844; in 1846 served as Captain in the Mexican War, and on the battle-field of Buena Vista was pro moted by the unanimous vote of the regiment; in 1847 was elected a Representative in Congress from Illinois, where he continued to serve by re-election until 1856, when he resigned; in 1857 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Governor of Nebraska, which position he resigned in 1858: in 1860 was against his consent again elected to the House of Representatives, but, in 1863, before the expiration of his term, was elected a Senator in Congress for the unexpired term of his friend, S. A. Douglas, serving on the Committees on Territories and the District of Columbia; was a Delegate to the New York Conven tion of 1868. Died at Quincy, Illinois, December 27, 1875.

Richardson, William Adams was born in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, November 2, 1821; graduated at Harvard University in 1843: was made Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at that institu tion in 1846, and came to ihe bar in the same year; was at once made Judge Advocate of the Massachu setts Militia, and held the office four years; in 1849 ;

Common Council of Lowell, and and 1854. acting as President; was iden tified with several banking institutions, and Presi dent of Wamoset Bank; in 1855 was appointed torevise the Statutes of Massachusetts; subsequently was appointed, by the Legislature, to edit the annual supplements to the General Statutes, which he con tinued to do for twenty-two years: in 1856 became a Judge of Probate, and two years later Judge of Pro bate and Insolvency, serving as such for sixteen years: in 1863 was made an Overseer of Harvard Col was chosen

to the

also in 1853

declined a Superior Court Judgeship, lege; in and became -Assistant Secretary of the Treasury De partment; in 1871 went to Europe as a Financial Agent for the Government; in 1873 was appointed Secretary 18(i!>

of the Treasury; in 1874 resigned that position to accept a seat on the Bench of the United States Court of Claims; published, among other things, "The Banking Laws of Massachusetts," in 1855, and Practical Information Concerning the Public Debt of the United States," with the National Banking Laws, in 1872; the supplement to the Revised Sta tutes of the United States, under appointment of Congress, in 1881: received the degree of LL.D. from Columbian University in 1873, from Georgetown Col lege in 1881, and from Howard University in 1882; January 20, 1885, was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims. "

"William M.; was born at Pelharn, Hampshire, January 4, 1774; graduated at the University of Cambridge in 1797: practiced law for a few years at Groton, Massachusetts; was a member of Congress from that State from 1811 to 1814, when he resigned; removed to Portsmouth, New Hamp

Richardson,

New

in 1814; was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in 1816, and dis

shire,

charged the duties of the office for nearly twenty-two years; was a man of distinguished talents, great in dustry, and extensive acquirements, and highly re spected for his integrity and estimable character; was the author of The New Hampshire Justice," and "The Town Officer"; a considerable portion of the first and second volumes of "The New Hampshire Reports" was drawn up by the Chief Justice; nearly all the cases of the third, fourth, and fifth were furnished by him, and of the matter for perhaps four volumes more, he prepared a large share. 1838.

Died at Chester,

New

Hampshire, March

L

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

420

Richmond, Hiram

H.; was born in Chautau-

qua. New York, May 17, 1810; received a good edu cation; studied medicine two years with his father, Lawton Richmond; entered Allegheny College, where he remained two years; turned his attention to the study of law. and was admitted to the bar in 1838; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, servin on the Committees on Indian Affairs, and Public Ex penditures.

Richmond, James Buchanan was born at Turkey Cove, Virginia; received a limited education; studied and practiced law; served in the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was ;

elected a Representative from Virginia to the Fortysixth Congress.

Richmond, Jonathan was born in Bristol, Massachusetts in 1774; was one of the pioneers of Western New York in 1813; was once Collector of the Customs for the United States; was a Representa tive in Congress from New York from 1819 to 1821. Died at Cayuga. New York, July 2!), 1853. ;

Richmond, Lewis

was a resident of Rhode Island; in 1884 was appointed, by President Arthur, United States Minister to Portugal, in which position Riddle, Albert G.; was born in Massachusetts; was a lawyer bv profession; elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims; settled

Washington City in 1865.

Read

;

;

the District of Columbia, Private Land Claims, Died in Washington Manufactures, and Printing. He was a descendant of City, March 29, 1867. George Read, of the Revolution.

Riddle, H. T.; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-fourth Congress, in the place of Jofen W. Head, who had been previo*ij elected, but died before taking his seat. Riddle, Haywood Yancey was born at Van Tennessee, June 20, 1834: graduated at Union University, Tennessee, in 1854, and at the Lebanon Law School in 1857; from 1H65 to 1875 was Clerk and Master of the Lebanon Chancery Courtwas then elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-fourth Congress, to fill the vacancy cause d by the death of S. M. Fite; was re-elected to the ;

Buren,

Forty -fifth

Congress.

Ridgeley, Henry M.; was born

in 1778;

was

a

lawyer by profession, and for many years was a dis tinguished member of the Delaware bar; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Delaware from 1811 to filled a vacancy as Senator in Congress from 1826 to 1829. Died at his residence in Dover, Dela 1>*15;

ware, August

7,

1847.

Ridgely, Richard was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786. ;

was a Representative Ridgeway, Robert from Virginia in the Fortieth Congress. Died in Amherst County, October 16, 1869. Was at one time editor of the Richmond Whig. ;

Ridgway, Joseph was born on Staten 1783: received a limited New York. May ;

,

Island,

educa

tion; learned the trade of a house carpenter; in 1811 emigrated to Cayuga County, York, and de voted himself to making fanning mills; in 1822 set tled in Columbus, Ohio, and established an extensive

New

was born in Newcastle, Delaware, in 1817; was educated at Delaware Col lege; studied engineering, and was engaged for years in locating and constructing railroads and canals in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, the last of which was the great work at Harper s Ferry; afterwards studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and was appointed Deputy AttorneyGeneral for his native county, which position he held until 1850, when he was elected a Representa tive from Delaware to the Thirty-second Congress was re-elected to the Thirty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Roads and Canals, and was Chairman of the Committee on ,Engraving, and also a Special Committee on the Peruvian Guano Ques tion; in 1849 was appointed, by the Governor of the State, a Commissioner on the part of Delaware to retrace the celebrated "Muson and Dixon s line," the report of which was printed by the Legislatures of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland in 1850; was a Delegate to the several "Democratic National Conventions" of 1844, 1848. and in 1864 was 1856; elected a Senator in Congress from Delaware, for the term ending in 1869, serving on the Committees on

Riddle, George

elected a Representative in the State Legislature in 1871, and again in 1873; was elected Common weal tii Attorney in 1875 and 1879; in the latter year was elected State Senator; was a Presidential Elector in 1876 and 1880; in 1881 was elected United Statea Senator from Virginia for the term of six years from March 4. 1883.

;

he served until April, 1885.

in

Riddleberger. Harrison Holt; was born at Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, October 4, 1844; was educated in the common schools and by a private tutor; entered the Confederate Army in 1862 as Lieutenant, and was promoted to Captain; taught school and studied law in 1868 and 1869; was

iron foundry, which subsequently became an estab lishment for manufacturing railroad carriages; in 1828 was elected to the Legislature of Ohio, and was re-elected in 1830; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio, from 1837 to 1843; failed in business in 1811, and though exonerated by the bankrupt law, to pay up his old debts, at thought proper, in the rate of two dollars for one; of seventy creditors he found but four living, so that he had to search lor, and pay the heirs, which occupied four months of 18~>7,

his time.

Riggs,

James Milton

;

was born in Scott Coun

April 17, 1839; was reared on a farm; school education, and passed one year at Eureka College, Illinois; in 1864 was elected Sheriff of his native county; in the same year settled in Winchester, in that county; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868; was elected a Rep resentative in the State Legislature in 1870; in 1872 was elected State s Attorney for Scott County, and ved four years; was elected a Representative from [llinois to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ty, Illinois,

received a

common

Riggs, Jetur R.; was born in Morris County, New Jersey, June 20, 1809; studied medicine; grad uated at the Barclay Street Medical University of New York; in 1828 made an extensive sea voyage; practiced his profession from 1832 to 1849; served wo years in the New Jersey Legislature; spent one or two years in charge of the hospital at Sutter s Port, California; in 1855 was elected, for three years, o the Senate of New Jersey; in 1858 was elected a Representative in Congress from New Jersey, serving as a member of the Committee on Manufactures. Died in Drakesville, Sussex County, November 5. 1869.

Riggs, Lewis was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 184] to 1843. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was a member of the New Riker, Samuel York Assembly in 1784; was a Representative in Con ;

gress from that State from 1804 to 1805, and again from 1807 to 1809.

in 1860 was elected a Presidential Elector; in 1867 was elected Attorney for Frederick County, to serve for four years was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Forty -second Congress, serving on ;

the Committee on Public Lands.

Ringgold, Samuel

was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1810 to 1815. and again from 1817 to 1821. ;

Ring-old, Thomas was a Delegate from Mary land to the Colonial Congress, which met in New ;

York

in 1765.

Rings, Daniel was an early emigrant to the Territory of Arkansas; was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. Died at Little Rock, ;

September

3,

1873.

Riotte, Charles N.; was a citizen of Texas, and Minister Resident to Costa Rica from 1861 to 1867.

Ripley, Eleazar

"W.;

graduated at Dartmouth

College in 1800; studied law, and settled in the Dis trict of Maine was Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1811 acquitted himself with credit as an officer in the last war with England; ;

;

to Louisiana, from whence he was elected to Congress, serving from 1835 to the time of his death, which occurred at New Orleans, March 2,

removed

1839, aged fifty-seven years,

James

"W.;

Thomas

C.; was elected a Representa to the Twenty-ninth Congress, for the unexpired term of R. P. Herrick, resigned.

Ripley,

New York

Risley, Elijah was born in Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1849 to 1851. Died at Fredonia. January 9, 1870, aged ninety years. ;

was born in Pennsylvania; Ritchey, settled in Ohio; was elected a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1847 to 1849, and again from 1853 to 1855.

Thomas;

Ritchie, David was born at Canonsburg, Wash ington County, Pennsylvania, August 19. 1812 graduated at Jefferson College in 1829; was admitted to the bar at Pittsburgh in 1835; received the degree of J. U. D, from the University of Heidelberg, Ger many, in 1837; was a Representative from Pennsyl vania to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirtyfifth Congresses, and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; after leaving Congress held the office of Judge for about one year; while engaged in the practice of his profession, died at Pittsburgh. ;

;

January

Masons for Governor in 1829, but was defeated was afterwards Governor from 1835 to 1839; was an ad vocate and promoter of public schools, and a distin Died in Carlisle, guished opponent of slavery. Pennsylvania, October 16, 1869. ;

Rittenhouse, David was born near Germantown, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1732; while working on his father s farm at Norristown, had access to the mathematical books of a deceased uncle, and thor oughly mastered Newton s "Principia": before he was nineteen he discovered the method of fluctions, and for some time supposed it was original with him self; made a clock before he was seventeen, without instruction, and in 1751 applied himself to that art with great skill; at the age of twenty-three made an orrery which was purchased by Princeton College; subsequently constructed another for the University of Pennsylvania; in 1763 was employed to determine "Mason and Dixon s Line," which he did with in struments of his own construction afterwards fixed the boundaries of several other States; was appointed by the American Philosophical Society, to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, and at the moment of apparent contact, his emotion was so great that he fainted; his account was published by the Society; in 1770 removed to Philadelphia, and engaged in making clocks and mathematical instruments; from 1777 to 1789 was Treasurer of Pennsylvania; suc ceeded Franklin as President of the Philosophical Society in 1791 was Director of the United States Mint from 1792 to 1795; was a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston; in 1775 an address, delivered by him, upon the History of Astronomy, was published; received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Penmsylvania in 1782. and F.R.S. in 1795. Died in Philadelphia, June 26, ;

;

was a lawyer; served four Ripley, years in the Legislature of Maine; was an officer in the last war with England; was a member of Con gress from Maine from 1826 to 1530, when he was ap pointed Collector of Customs for the Passamaquoddy Died in June, 1835. District of Maine. tive from

Ritner, Joseph; was born in 1779; was fre quently a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1827; was the candidate of the Anti-

24, 1867.

Ritchie, James Monroe was born at Dunfermline, Scotland, July 28, 1829; emigrated, with his parents, to the United States in 1832; received a limited education; adopted the profession of the law; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conven tion of 1880; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-seventh Congress. ;

Ritchie, John was born in Frederick City, Maryland, August 12, 1831; educated at the Freder ick Academy; commenced the study of medicine, but ;

relinquished it for the law, attending the Law School at Harvard College; in 1854 was admitted to the bar;

;

1796.

Ritter, Burwell C.; was born in Barren County, Kentucky, January 6, 1810; received a good English education; adopted the avocation of farming; was a of the Legislature of Kentucky in 1843 and 1850; in 1864 was a Presidential Elector; in 1865 was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Agri culture, and Expenditures in the Treasury Depart

member

ment.

Ritter, John was born in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. February 6, 1779; re ceived such education as the country afforded in Ger man, and but three months of an English course; at ;

eighteen years of age entered the printing-office of the Readinger Adler, of which his father was half owner; this was at the issue of the second number of the paper; in 1802 bought his father out, and continued, as an editor and proprietor, to conduct the journal to the day of his death; never sought any office; an election to the Convention to revise the Constitution of Pennsylvania in 1836, and elections to seats in the-. Twenty-eighth and Twenty -ninth Congresses, from Pennsylvania, came to him as a spontaneous declara Died attion of popular confidence and respect.

Reading, November 24, 1851.

Thomas

was born in Tennessee Rivers, a Representative in Congress from 1855 to 1857. ;

;

waa

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Thomas was born in Nelson County, at the Col Virginia, June 17, 1806; was educated and at the leges of Hampden, Sidney and Harvard, University of Virginia; settled in Albemarle County, from which he was elected to the State Legislature at Rives,

;

intervals irom 1835 to 1861, the latest years in the Senate; in 1866 was appointed to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and his opinions were pub lished in several volumes; gave up his seat on the Bench in 1869; in 1871 was appointed United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia.

Rives, Francis E.; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 Died November

to 1841.

30. 1861.

from 1815 to 1817; was a Senator of the United Statesfrom 1837 to 1841. Died at Tree Hill, near Rich

mond, Virginia, May

Robbie, Reuben

was born in Vermont; settled York; was elected a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1851 to 1853. in

called to reform the State Constitution elected to the Legislature of Virginia in 1817, 1818, and 1819, from Nelson County; in 1822 was elected to the same position from Albemarle County in 1823 was elected a Representative in Congress, and served for three successive terms; in 1829 was appointed, by President Jackson, Minister to France: on his return, in 1832. was elected a Senator in Con gress; resigned in 1K54 was re-elected in 1835, and served to the end of the term, in 1839; in 1840 was elected to the Senate for a third term, where he re mained until 1845; in 1849 was a second time ap pointed Minister to France; returned to the United States in 1853, when he finally retired from political life; also added to his reputation by publishing a Life and Times of James Madison history of the took part in the Rebellion of 1861, as a member of the so-called Confederate Congress, having previously Convention,"

;

;

New

Robbins, Asher; was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1757; graduated at Yale College; was a lawyer by profession; was United States District Attorney in 1812; held many other important public positions; was a leading Senator in Congress, from Rhode Island, from 1825 to 1839; was a member of Died the Rhode Island Legislature for many years. at Newport,

Rives, "William C.; was born in Nelson County, Virginia, May 4, 1793; was educated at Hampden Sidney, and William and Mary Colleges; studied law and politics under the direction of Thomas Jefferson; was Aid-de-camp in 1814 and 1815, with a body of Militia and Volunteers called out for the defense of Virginia; in 1816 was a member of the "Staunton

11, 1845.

Rhode

Island, February 25, 1845.

Robbins, George R.; was born near Allentown, Mon mouth County, New Jersey, September 24, 1812; graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel phia, in 1837; pursued the practice of medicine until his election from New Jersey to the House of Repre sentatives of the Thirty -fourth Congress; was reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was a mem ber of the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

was

;

Robbins, John was born in Philadelphia; re ceived a limited education worked on a farm was, for several years, engaged in the iron and steel busi ness; was elected to Congress in 1848, 1850, and 1852;. subsequently held a number of local positions; in 1874 was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. ;

;

;

;

"

";

been a Delegate to the "Peace Congress" of that year; in 1866 was chosen a Delegate to the Philadel phia "National Union Convention," but did not take part in its proceed Jigs. Died in Albemarle County, Virginia, April 26, 18(58.

Roane, Archibald

;

was Governor

ot

Tennessee

from 1801 to 1803. ;

Roane, John J.; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia, his native State, from 1831 to 1833.

Roane, John Selden was a ;

Lieutenant-Colonel

Arkansas Cavalry in the Mexican War: dis tinguished at Buena Vista, and commanded thereoiment after Yell was killed; was made Colonel in 1847: was Governor of Arkansas from 1848 to 1852: was a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army. Died at s

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, April

8,

1867.

Roane, John T.; was a Representative in gress from Virginia from 1809 to 1815. Roane. William

Con

H.; was born in Virginia in was twice elected a member of the Executive Council of that State; was once a Delegate to the General Assembly; was a Representative in Congress 1788;

in Randolph North Carolina, in 1829; was educated at Trinity College, North Carolina, and Randolph Macon College, Virginia; adopted the profession of the law; was an officer in the Confederate Army through out the Civil War, participating in nearly all the bat tles in Virginia from Bull Run to Appomattox Court House: was elected to the Senate of North Carolina in 1868, and re-elected in 1870: was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures; was re-elect

ed to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Roberdeau, Daniel was a Delegate from Penn sylvania to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1779, and was a signer of the Articles of Confedera ;

tion.

Roane, John was born in Virginia; was a Pres idential Elector in 1809; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1815 to 1817, from 1827 to 1831, and for a third term from 1835 to 1837. Died in Washington. District of Columbia, December 18 1869.

of Yell

Robbins, William M.; was born

County,

Roberts, Anthony E.; was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, October, 1803; removed, with his parents, to Lancaster County in his infancy re ceived a common school education, and commenced life as a merchant; in 1839 was elected Sheriff of Lancaster County and held the office till 1842; in 1849 was appointed, by President Taylor, Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; remained in that position until 1853, and collected the statistics of that District for the Seventh Census; was a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty -fifth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on the Militia. ;

Roberts, Charles B.; was born at Uniontown, Carroll County, Maryland, April 19. 1842; graduated at Calvert College in 1861; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1864; practiced his profession in Westminster; was a Presidential Elector in 18(18; with that exception never accepted a public nomina from Maryland to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the tion until elected a Representative Forty-fifth Congress.

was a citizen of New Roberts, Edmund Hampshire; in 1832 was empowered as a Special ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

423

Agent to negotiate with Cochin-China for the exten sion of the commerce of the United States in the Pa cific Ocean.

Robertson, John; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1834 to 1839.

Roberts, Ellis H.; was born in Utica, New York, September 30, 1827; was trained a printer; graduated at Yale College in 1850; in 1851 became editor and proprietor of the Utica Morning Herald; was a Delegate to the National Republican Conven tions of 1864 and 1868; was a member of the Legisla ture of the State of New York in 1867; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty -second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Commit

Thomas A.; was born at HodgensKentucky, September 9, 1848; graduated from Cecilian College, Kentucky, in 1870, and from Louis

tee on

Ways and Means.

Roberts, Jonathan; was born in 1771; early in the present century was at different times elected to both branches of the Pennsylvania Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from 1811 to 1814, when he resigned; was an advocate of the war of 1812; from 1814 to 1821 was a Senator of the United States; in 1841 was appointed, by President Harri Died in son, Collector of the Port of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July, 1854. Roberts, O. M.; was Governor of Texas from 1879 to 1883.

Roberts, Robert W.; was born in Delaware; was elected a Representative

settled in Mississippi;

in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1847.

Roberts, "William R.; was born in -Cork County, Ireland, February 6, 1830; came to the United States in 1849; received an academic education; was en gaged in mercantile pursuits in New York for nearly twenty years, and retired from business in 1869; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committees on Claims, and Weights and Meas ures; in April, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland. United States Minister to Chili.

Robertson,

Edward White;

was born near

Nashville, Tennessee, June 13, 1823; removed, with his parents, to Louisiana in 1825; received a col legiate education commenced the study of law in 1845; served in the army during the war with Mex ico in 1846; was a Representative in the State Legis lature from 1847 to 1849; graduated in law at the University of Louisiana in 1850; commenced prac tice in Iberville Parish. Louisiana; was again in the Legislature in 1853; was State Auditor from 1857 to 1S62; entered the Confederate Army in the latter year, as Captain, and served throughout the war; at its close resumed the practice of law at Baton Rouge, L.misiaua; was elected a Representative from Louis iana to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty;

seventh Congresses.

ville Law University in 1871; was twice elected School Commissioner of La Rue County, Kentucky; afterwards was elected County Attorney; in 1877 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature; be fore the expiration of his term of office was, in 1879,

appointed Commonwealth Attorney, to fill a vacancy, and in 1880 was elected to that office; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-eighth Congress; was never defeated at the polls, having won every political contest into which he entered; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress.

Robertson, Thomas Boiling; was born at Richmond, Virginia, in 1778; graduated at William and Mary College in 1807; was United States District Judge of Louisiana; was the first Representative in Congress from Louisiana elected under the State Constitution, serving from 1812 to 1818. Robertson, Thomas J.; was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina. August 3, 1823; graduated at South Carolina College in 1843; studied medicine for a time, but established himself as a planter; dur ing the Rebellion remained a Union man; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention con vened after the passage of the Reconstruction Acts by Congress; in 1868 was elected a Senator in Con gress from South Carolina for the term ending in 1871, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, Agricul ture, and Claims; was re-elected for the term ending in 1877, and ufactures.

was Chairman of the Committee on

Man

"William H.; was born in Bedford, County, New York, October 10, 1823; received an academic education in that town studied law, and came to the bar in 1847, at Poughkeepsie; in 1848 was elected to the Assembly, and re-elected in 1849; in 1854 was elected to the State Senate; in 1856 was elected, for four years, Judge of Westches-

Robertson,

W estchester T

;

ter County; was re-elected in 1859, and also in 1863, serving eleven years in all; in 1860 was a Presidential Elector; was a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention of 1864, which re-nominated President Lincoln; in 1866 was elected a Representative from New Tork to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Commerce, and Revolutionary Claims; was a Dele gate to the "State Republican Convention" of 1867; in 1875 was elected to the Senate of New York.

Windham

was elected LieutenRobertson, ant-Governor of Virginia in 1834 in 1836 was made acting Governor of the State, remaining in that posi ;

;

tion until 1837.

Robertson, George was born in Mercer County> Kentucky, November 18, 1790; completed his educa ;

tion at Transylvania University; studied law, and practice in 1809; in 1816 was elected a Representative in Congress, and served from 1817 to 1821 ; was a member of the Legislature, and Speaker of the House during four sessions, ending in 1827; in 1828 was Secretary of State, and the same year was

commenced

chosen Judge of the Court of Appeals; in 1829 was commissioned Chief Justice of Kentucky, which posi tion he resigned in 1833; resumed the practice of law in Lexington in 1835; was Professor of Law in Tran sylvania University for twenty -three years; repeat edly declined important offices, including missions Died at Lexington, May 17, to Colombia and Peru. 1874.

Robertson,

ville,

Robeson, George M.; was born in Warren County, New Jersey, in 1827; graduated at Prince ton College in 1847; studied law; on coming to the bar, in 1850, settled in Newark, where he practiced his profession; settled in Camden, and in 1859 was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for that County; on the outbreak of the Rebellion, was appointed, by the Governor of the State, a Brigadier-General, and took an active part in the organization of troops; in 1867 was appointed Attorney-General of which position he resigned to accept a

New

Jersey,

seat. J une 22,

1869, in the Cabinet of President Grant, as Secretary of the Navy; remained in the Cabinet until the advent of President Hayes in 1877; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Forty -sixth

and Forty-seventh Congresses.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

424

and served two terms; enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General and Brevet Major-General; was Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee from 1877 to 1879; was State Commis sioner of Railroads and Telegraphs in 1880; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-sev enth and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Bobie, Frederick; was born at Gorham, Maine, August 1:2, 1822; was fitted for college at Gorham in Academy, and graduated from Bowdoin College received a diploma from the Jefferson Medical 184 in 1844, and College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Bidefonl and Waldoboro, Maine, practiced medicine the State for twelve years; was a Representative in 1

;

as Speaker for Legislature for seven years, serving for two terms; sessions; was a State Senator served as Paymaster in the Union Army throughout the Civil War; was, for many years, a Director in a several railroad and banking corporations; was member of the Executive Council on the staff of the Governor of Maine for four years; was made Master of the Maine State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry; in 1862 was elected Governor of Maine for the term of two years; was re-elected in 1884.

two

Robinson, Charles

was the

;

first

Robinson, James W.; was born in Union County, Ohio, November 28, 1826; graduated at Jef ferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and at the

Law College in 1851; was elected to the Legislature in 1858, 1860, and 1864; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee Cincinnati

on Elections.

Robinson, John L.; was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1847 to 1853; in 1857 was appointed, by President Bu chanan, United States Marshal for the District of Indiana, which office he held until his death, March

Governor of

the State of Kansas, having been elected in 1801, and serving one year.

Robinson, Christ Dpher; was born in Rhode in 18:25; Island; graduated at Brown University adopted the profession of the law; was AttorneyGeneral of Rhode Island; was elected a Representa tive from Rhode Island to the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Judi serving as a member of the Committee on of Thirtyciary, and also on the Special Committee three on the Rebellious States; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Minister to Peru; was a Dele Loyalists Convention," held in Phila gate to the delphia in 18H6. Robinson, Edward was a ship-master and merchant; served two years in the Maine Senate; was a Representative in Congress from Maine during the years 1838 and 1839; in 1840 was a Presidential Died February 20, 1857, aged sixty -one Elector. ;

years.

21, 1860. ,

Robinson, John M.; was born in 1793; was one of the early settlers of Illinois, and one of the .1 udges of the Supreme Court of that State; was a Senator in Congress from 1830 to 1842. Died at Ottawa, Illinois, April 26, 1843. Robinson, John Stamford

vard College in 1856; taught school from 1856 to 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Chicopee, Massachusetts, in 1866; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1874, and a State Senator in 1876; was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty -fifth, Forty-sixth. Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Con gresses; in 1883 was elected Governor of Massachu setts and resigned his seat in Congress to assume the duties of that office, from January, 1884; was reelected in 1884 and 1885.

Robinson, James O. was born in Edgar Coun ty, Illinois, in 1822, served as a private in the Mexi can War; studied law, and came to the bar in 1854; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Mileage, and as a member of the Committee on Expenditures in the State Depart raent; was a Delegate to the Philadel National Union Convention" of 1866; in 1867 phia was appointed a Commissioner to settle the war claims of Indiana; was elected to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on various com ;

"

mittees.

Robinson, James County, Ohio. October

S.;

was born

in Richland

1S27; received a common school education; learned the trade of a printer; in 1845 removed to Kenton, Ohio, and engaged in the of a in 1856 was elected publication newspaper Chief Clerk of the State House of Representatives, 14,

;

;

was born at Beu-

graduated at William and Mary College in 1824; settled as a law 10, 1804;

yer in his native town, and was successful in the profession; was. for many years, in the State Legis lature; was Governor of Vermont from 1853 to 1854; in l^bO was Delegate to the Charleston Democratic Died in Charleston. South Carolina, Convention. April 25. I860.

Robinson, Jonathan

;

was appointed Chief

Vermont

in 1801, in the place of Judge Smith, who resigned; in 1806 was elected to succeed Mr. Smith as Senator in Congress, serving from 1807 Died at Bennington, November 3. 1819, to 1H15. aged sixty -four years.

Justice of

Robinson, George D.; was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, January 20, 1834; graduated at Har

November

nington, Vermont,

Robinson,

J.

F.;

was Governor of Kentucky

from 1861 to 1863.

Robinson, Lucius; was born

at

Windham

New

York, November 4, 1810; was chiefly self-educated; attended Delaware Academy, at Delhi, New York, for several terms, and paid his expenses by teaching school for several months each year; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832, and entered upon the practice of law at Catskill. New York; was District-Attorney of Greene County, New York, from 1837 to 1840; in the latter year re moved to New York City, where he practiced his profession: in 1843 was appointed, by the Governor. Commissioner in Chancery, and held the office until it was abolished, in 1846; then removed to his farm in Chernuug County. New York; in 1859 was elected a Representative in the New York Legislature; was re-elected in I860; in 1861 was elected Comptroller

Greene County,

was re-elected in 1863; changed his views and was defeated as the Democratic candidate for Comptroller in 1H65; was defeated as a candidate for Congress in 1870; in 1871 was a mem ber of the State Constitutional Commission; in 1875 was again elected Comptroller; in 1876 was elected Governor of New York.

of the State; political

Robinson, Milton S. was born at Versailles, Indiana, April 20, 1832; received a common school education; studied law with his father; was admitted ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. bar of the Supreme Court of Indiana in 1851, e:igaged in practice; served in the Union Army throughout the War of the Rebellion; was a Presi dential Elector in 1856; was elected State Prison Director iu 1861; resigned and entered the army as Lieutenant-Colonel; rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General was a member of the State Sen ate from 1867 to 1870; in 1874 was elected a Repre sentative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. to the

and

;

Robinson, Moses was educated at Dartmouth College; served in the Legislature of Vermont; was Governor of that State from 1789 to 1790; was a ber of the Senate of the United States from Vermont, under the administration of President Washington, from 1791 to 1796, when he resigned; was one of the minority who were opposed to the ratification of Jay s Died at Bennington, May 26, 1813, aged Treaty. ;

mem

seventy-two years.

Robinson, Orville was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845; also served four years in the Assembly of that State, from Oswego County. ;

Robinson,

Thomas

;

was a Representative in

Congress from Delaware from 1839 to 1841. Died in Sussex County, in that State, October 28, 1843. j

Robinson, William E.; was born near Cooks town. Tyrone County, Ireland, May 6, 1814; received a good English and classical education; emigrated to this country in 1836; entered Yale College, and re ceived the degree of A.M. in 1841; was, for two years, a student at the Yale Law School between the years 1838 and 1844 was a frequent writer for the New York Herald; during the latter year became identified with the New York Tribune, signing his communications "Richelieu"; in 1848 and 1849 be came identified as editor with a weekly paper called The People; in 1859 visited his native land and the Continent of Europe; practiced law in New York from 1853 to 1862; in 1862 was appointed United ;

States Assessor of Internal Revenue for the City of Brooklyn; in 1866 was elected a Representative from New York to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Expenses in the Treasury Department; was again a Representative in the Forty -seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Robison, David F.; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1855 to 1857.

Rochester, "William B.; was born in Washing ton County, Maryland; was a man of eminent legal acquirements, and much respected for his abilities; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1821 to 1823; subsequently held the office of Circuit Judge in New York, but resigned to compete with l)e Witt Clinton for the office of Governor; was lost, with many others, off the coast of North Caro lina, by the explosion of the steamer Pulaski, June 15, 1838.

Rockhill, William was born in New Jersey, and. having settled in Indiana, was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from that State from 1847 to ;

1849.

425

and benevolent enterprises; in 1835 was chosen of Norwich, and held the office three years: waa again elected Mayor in 1845; was a Presidential Elector in 1845; was one of the projectors of the Nor wich and Worcester Railroad; in 1849 was ap pointed Commissioner of Customs in Washington, and held the office until 1853. lic

Mayor

Rockwell, Francis W.; was born

at Pittsfield, 1844; received a good educa tion, graduating from Amherst College in 1868, and from Harvard Law School in 1871; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law in his native place; in 1873 was appointed one of the Special Justices of the District Court of Central Berk shire; resigned in 1875; held several local offices; in 1879 was elected a Representative in the State Legis lature; in 1881 was elected a State Senator, and waa re-elected in 1882; in January, 1884, was elected a

Massachusetts,

May 26,

Representative from Massachusetts to the Fortyeighth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George D. Robinson, elected Governor of Massachusetts; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Rockwell, John A.; was born

Con

;

of the Committee on Claims subsequently practiced in the Court of Claims, and was the author of a work Died in Washington, of apo on Spanish law. plexy, February 10, 1861. ;

Rockwell, Julius; wasbornatColebrook, LitchCounty, Connecticut, April 26, 1805; entered Yale College in 1822, and graduated in 1826; studied law at the New Haven Law School, and was ad mitted to the bar in Litchfield County, in 1829, com mencing practice in 1830 at Pittsfield, Massachu field

setts; was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts from 1834 to 1838, and was Speaker from 1835 to 1838; in that year was appointed Bank Commissioner, and held the office three years; waa a Representative in Congress from 1847 to 1851 in 1853 was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution of Massachusetts; was a United States Senator, by appointment, for two sessions, from 1853 to 1855 to succeed Mr. Everett; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; in 185H was again elected to the House of Representatives of that State; in 1859 waa made a Judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. ;

Rodman, William; was born in Bensalem, Bucks County. Pennsylvania, October 7, 1757, his parents being of the Society of Friends; received a liberal education; served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier; under the call from Washington, he raised and commanded a company, during the "Whisky Insurrection" in Western Pennsylvania; was, for many years, in the Legislature of his native State; was a Representative in Congress from 1811 Died at the place of his birth, July 27, to 1813.

1824.

Rodney, Caesar

was born

in Dover, Kent received a liberal educa tion; was High Sheriff, Justice of the Peace, and a Judge in his native county; in 1762 was elected to the State Legislature, serving several years, and as Speak er in 1769 was a Delegate to the New York Congress in 1765; was a Delegate from Delaware to the Conti nental Congress from 1774 to 1778, and in 1783; w;c ;

County, Delaware, in 1730

Rockwell, Charles W.; was born in Norwich. Connecticut; was the brother of John A. Rockwell; received a good education; devoted himself to mer cantile pursuits, and acquired a large fortune in the Southern States; then returned to his native place, where for twenty years he took a leading part in pub

at Norwich,

necticut, in 1804; graduated at Yale College in 1822; studied law, which he practiced with ability and suc cess; was twice elected to the State Senate; was, at one time, Judge of the County Court for New Loudon County was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1845 to 1849, serving as Chairman

;

;

.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

426

Edward

a signer of the Declaration of Independence; was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Delaware; also served for a time as General of Militia; was President of the State of Delaware. Died in 1783. A son of his was subsequently a member of the Fed

was born in Connecticut; re Rogers, ceived a classical education; studied law, and settled in Madison County, New York; was for many years County Judge; was a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1843 to 1845. Died in Gal-

eral Congress.

way, Saratoga County, aged seventy years.

Rodney, Caesar

A.; was a Representative in Congress from Delaware from 1803 to 1805 was ap pointed Attorney-General of the United States by President Jefferson; in 1812 commanded a company of volunteers in defense of Baltimore; was again a Representative in Congress from Delaware from 1819 to 1821 was a Senator of the United States from 1321 to 1823, in which year he was appointed United States Minister to Buenos Ayres, where he died June ;

:

10, 1824.

Rodney, Caleb was acting Governor of Dela ware iu 1822 and 1823, in the place of John Collins, who died before the close of his term as Governor. ;

Rodney, Daniel; was a Presidential Elector in 1809; was Governor of Delaware from 1814 to 1817: was a Representative in Congress from the State of Delaware from 1822 to 1823; was a Senator in Con Died September 2, 1846, gress from 1826 to 1827. aged seventy-five years.

Rodney, George B.; was born in Delaware; graduated at Princeton College in 1820; was a Rep resentative in Congress from his native State from 1841 to 1845; was a Delegate, in 1861, to the Peace Congress" of Washington. "

Rodney, Thomas was a Delegate from Dela ware to the Continental Congress from 1781 to 1783. and from 1785 to 1787; in 1803 was appointed, by President Jefferson, United States Judge for the Ter ;

ritory of Mississippi.

Rogers,

Andrew

Sussex County,

New

J.;

was born

in

Hamburg,

1828; received spent the most of his youth as an assistant in a hotel and in a country store; taught school for two years and a half, during which time he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852: in was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Public Expenditures; was re-elected to Jersey, July

1,

;

New

Rogers H. GK was

York,

May

23,

1857,

a citizen of Pennsylvania;

;

was appointed Charge d where he remained one year. in 1840

Affairrs to Sardinia,

Rogers, James was born in South Carolina; graduated at the University of that State in 1813; adopted the profession of the law; was a Representa tive in Congress from that State, from to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1843. ;

183.~>

Rogers, John

;

was a Delegate from Maryland

to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1776; was Chancellor of the State. Died at Annapolis in 1789.

Rogers, John; was born York,

May

9.

1813; received a

in

Caldwell, New school edu

common

was a manufacturer and merchant: was Supervisor of his town ten years; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committees on the State Department and Manufactures. cation;

Rogers, John Henry; was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, October 9, 1845; removed to Mississippi in 1853; served in the Confederate Army from March, 1862, to the close of the war, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant; in 1865 en tered Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky; in 18(57 entered the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, and graduated in 1868; in 1869 removed to Fort Smith. Arkansas, and entered upon the practice of law; iu 1877 was elected Circuit Judge, and was re-elected in 1878; resigned in 1882, and was elected a Repre sentative from Arkansas to the Forty-eighth Conress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress.

tees

Rogers, Sion H.; was born in Wake County, North Carolina, September 3D, 1825; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1846; studied law, and came to the bar in 1848; was elected to the Thirty-third Congress; was elected to the Legisla ture of North Carolina in I860: served in the Con federate Army as Colonel of the Forty -seventh North Carolina Regiment; was Attorney-General of North Carolina from 1862 to 1868; was elected to the Forty-

Department, and Reconstruction.

second Congress.

a limited education;

18(>2

the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Commit on the Judiciary, Expenses in the Post Office

Rogers, Anthony A. C.; was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, February 14, 1821; during his youth was occupied as a clerk in a store, and was subsequently a merchant in his native State; in 1854 removed to Arkansas, where he continued in the mercantile business; in 1862 was arrested and placed under bonds, by the State authorities, for sympathiz ing with the General Government; in 1864 was elected to Congress, but not admitted after the war resided for a time in Illinois, but did not relinquish his citizenship in Arkansas; was elected a Repre sentative from that State to the Forty-first Congress, & serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions, and Education and Labor. ;

Rogers, Charles; was born in New Yorkserved in the Assembly of New York from Washing ton County in 1833 and 1837; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845. Rogers, Daniel; was Governor in the years 1797

and 1798.

of Pennsylvania

Thomas

Rogers, J.; was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1781; came to the United States when but three years of age; was the author of biographi cal dictionaries of Revolutionary worthies; edited a

was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1818 to 1824. Died in New political paper;

York

City,

December

7,

1832.

Rogers, "William F.; was born in Northamp ton County, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1820; at an early age entered a printing office at Easton, Penn sylvania, and followed the trade of a printer until forty years of age; in 1846 removed to Buffalo, New York; in 1861 was a Captain of Militia; assisted in organizing the Twenty-first Regiment of New York Volunteers, and was unanimously elected its Colonel; served with it in the field until it was discharged iu 1863; in 1864 was appointed Provost-Marshal of the Thirtieth District of New York; was elected Comp troller of the city of Buffalo in 1866, and Mayor in 1868; was appointed Major-General of the Fourtn Division National Guard was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Edward A.;

was born in New Hamp was appointed Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue, holding the office until superseded by Columbus Delano, in 1868; after leaving the Treas ury removed to Philadelphia and became interested Rollins,

Romeis, Jacob was born in the village of Weisenbach, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, De cember 1, 1835; came to the United States, with his parents, in 1847, and settled at Buffalo, New York; attended the village school at Weisenbach, and the public and select night schools in Buffalo; from 1850 to 1856 was employed on the large railroad steamers on the lakes; then settled at Toledo, Ohio in the em ploy of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway, in which he continued in 1874 was elected a mem ber of the Board of Aldermen of Toledo, and was reelected in 1876; was President of the Board in 1877; in 1879 was elected Mayor of the city, and was reelected in 1881 and 1883; in 1884 was elected a Rep resentative from Ohio to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

shire; in 1865

in the business of life insurance.

Edward

H.; was born in Somersworth, Rollinford, Strafford County, New Hampshire, October 3, 1824; received an academic education, and for a short time taught school was for several years devoted to mercantile pursuits, first as a clerk and then as an apothecary; was a member of the State Legislature in 1855, 1856, and 1857. serving as

Rollins,

now

;

;

,

Speaker during the last two years was chosen Chair man of the State Republican Committee in 1856, which position he held until he entered Congress was elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on the District of Columbia; was re-elected to the ;

Romero, Trinidad was born at Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 15, 1835; received a common school education; engaged in merchandising and stock-rais ing; was a Representative in the Territorial Legis lature in 1863; was elected Probate Judge of San Miguel County in 1867, and served until he re signed was elected a Delegate from New Mexico to the Forty-fifth Congress. ;

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;

:

I

J

1

Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Accounts; was re-elected to the Thirtyninth Congress, continuing at the head of the same Committee, and serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures; was also a member of the National Committee appointed to accompany the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was elected Secretary of the Union Pacitic Railroad Com pany in 1869, and Treasurer in 1871; resigned those positions when elected a United States Senator from New Hampshire for the term of six years, from

March

4,

;

;

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1

.

,

James Sidney

;

was born

in

Governor by two hundred and thirty votesone hundred thousand having been polled -though many thought him legally elected; in I860 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Commerce, and Expenditures in the War Department; in 1862 re-elected to the Thirty-eighth, Congress, serving

on the Committee on Naval Affairs; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia 1S66.

"National

Union Convention" of

!

j i

)

:

turn, retired from the practice of law to private life, but was induced to accept the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court of the State in 1851 was also, for several years, in early life, a member of the city ;

government; was an Attorney of the United States, and held the office of Judge eight years. Died in

New

York, April

5.

l*?f>.

Roosevelt, Robert B. was born in the city of New York in 1829; received a liberal education and studied law; practiced in the city of Xew York for ;

|

twenty years; was the author of

Fish of the Birds of the "Five Acres too Much," and other North." works; was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries for the State of New York in 1868; edited Tlie New York Citizen from 18(58; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on various Committees, with special zeal upon the one for investigating the affairs of the District of Columbia. North,"

"Superior

Fishing,"

"Game

"Game

Root, Erastus was born at Hebron, Connecti March 16, 1772; graduated at Dartmouth Col lege in 1793, after which he taught school for some ;

cut,

Roman, Andre Bienvenu was born in St. I.audry Parish, Louisiana, in 1795; was a member of the Legislature in 1818; was frequently re-elected, and served four years as Speaker; was Judge of St. James s Parish from 1826 to 1828; was Speaker of the House from 1828 to 1830; was Governor of Louisiana from 1830 to 1834, and from 1838 to 1841; was a member of the Convention which passed the Ordinance of Secession, which he opposed; was appointed, by the Confederate Government, with John Forsyth and Martin J. Crawford, to confer with the Govern ment of the United States at Washington. Died in St. James s Parish, Louisiana, January 29, 1866. ;

,

James I.; was born in the city of York, December 14, 1796; was educated at Columbia College; graduated in 1815; studied law with Peter Augustus Jay, and was for several years his partner: in 1S35 and 1840 was a member of the State Legislature; in 1842 and 1843 was a Repre sentative in Congress from New York City; declined a re-election, and went abroad in 1843; on his re Roosevelt,

New

Madison

County, Kentucky. April 19, 1812; graduated at the State University of Indiana, at Bloomington, in 1830; studied law and graduated at the Transylvania Law School, in Kentucky, in 1833; soon afterwards settied in Boone County, Missouri; in 1838 was elected to the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1 840 and 1842; in 1846 was elected to the State Senate, serving four years; in 1854 was again elected to the Legislature; in 1857 was defeated as the Whig candidate for

was

;

1877.

Rollins, -J

427

time; studied law, and settled in Delaware County, New York, in 1796; was a Representative in the New York Assembly eleven years; was Speaker of the House three years; was State Senator eight years; was a Representative in Congress from 1803 to 1805, and from 1809 to 1817, when he resigned and was appointed Postmaster at Delhi, New York; in 1822 was chosen Lieutenant-Governor of the State; was again elected to Congress from 1831 to 1833; was also Died in New York City, Major-General of Militia.

December

24, 1846.

Root, Jesse

was born at Northampton, Massa January, 1737; graduated at Princeton College in 1756; preached about three years, and then studied law; settled in Hartford, Connecticut; took part in the Revolutionary War was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1783; was appointed Judge of the Superior Court in 1779: was Chief Justice of Connecticut from 1796 until hisDied March 29, 1822. resignation in 1S07. ;

chusetts,

Roman, J. Dixon was born in Maryland; was educated a lawyer; was a Presidential Elector on two occasions; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849; was President of the Hagerstown Bank; was a Delegate to the "Peace Died in Maryland, January 19, Congress" of 1861. ;

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428

Boot, Joseph M.; was born

in Cayuga,

New

at Auburn, and 7, 1817; read law moved to Ohio in 1829; was appointed Prosecuting to the Attorney in that State; in 1840 was elected State Senate; served as a Representative in Congress from 1845 to 1851; was, for a time, Chairman of the Committees on the Post Office, and Expenditures in was a Presidential Elector the re

York, October

Treasury Department; in 1860, and a Delegate to the Philadelphia l ists Convention of 1866.

"Loyal-

August, 1837, was apprenticed to the printing busi ness; in 1847 removed to Wisconsin; was foreman in the office of the Milwaukee Sentinel; soon afterwards became an editor; on the breaking out of the trou bles in Kansas, in 1856, removed to that State, and took an active part in its local affairs was a member Kansas Constitutional Convention of 1859; of the from that time until 1861 served in the State Legis lature; enlisted as a private soldier in a Kansas regi ment during the Rebellion, attaining the rank of Major; subsequently became the associate editor of ;

"

"

Boot, Joseph P.; was a citizen of Kansas; in 1870 was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili, but resigned, and left that country in 1873.

the Lawrence Tribune; in July, 1866, was appointed, by the Governor, a Senator in Congress from Kansas for the unexpired term of James H. Lane, deceased, ending in 1872, serving on the Committees on Pen

Boots, Logan H. was born in Perry County, March 26, 1841 graduated at the Normal

sions, Indian Affairs, and Printing; in January, 1867, his appointment to the Senate was confirmed by the

:

Illinois,

;

Legislature, and he was made Chairman of the Com mittee on Enrolled Bills; subsequently returned to his old occupation of printing, and in 1875 was fore man of an office in Kansas; in 1880 was the Demo cratic candidate for Governor of Kansas, but was not elected; in 1882 removed to New Mexico; in May, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Gov ernor of the Territory of New Mexico.

a high University of that State; was principal of school; in 1862 took an active part in raising troops for the war, and was appointed a Quartermaster; subsequently served as a Commissary of Subsistence, with the rank of Colonel, in the operations against Atlanta; after the war settled in Arkansas as a plant er: was elected a Representative from that State to the Fortieth Congress, arid re-elected to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving on the Committees on Mines and Mining, and Pacific Railroad; was also a Dele gate to the Chigago Convention of 1868.

Boss, George; was born

Bose, Bobert L.; was born at Geneva, New York, October 12, 1804; was a farmer by occupation; held the office of Supervisor for the town of Allen s Hill; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1847 to 1851. Bose, Bobert S.; was born in Henrico County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from the State of New York from 1823 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1831. Died at Waterloo, New York, Novem ber 24, 1835, aged sixty-three years.

Bosecrans, William Starke was born at graduated at Kingston, Ohio, December 6, 1819 "West Point in 1842; entered the Engineer Corps; was Assistant Professor of Engineering at West Point in 1843 and 1844. and from 1845 to 1847; was Assistant Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1844 and 1845; had charge of the repairs at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, from 1847 to 1853; in 1854 resigned because of ill-health; was a civil engineer and architect at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1854 and 1855; was Superin tendent of Cannel Coal Company from 1855 to 1857; engaged in the manufacture of kerosene oil from 1857 to 861 was then appointed Aid to General McClellan in Ohio; was appointed Colonel, and Chief Engineer of Ohio; was commissioned Colonel of Ohio Volun teers, and Brigadier-General United States Army commanded the Department of Ohio; in 1862 was in command of a division at the siege of Corinth; com manded the Army of the Mississippi, Army of the Cumberland, and won the battle of Stone River; was unsuccessful at Chickamauga, in 1863, and was re lieved of his command; in 1864 commanded the De partment of Missouri; was made Brevet Major-Gen eral United States Army in 1865; resigned in 1867; was Minister to Mexico in 1868. but was recalled in a few months; was elected a Representative from California to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth

at

New

Castle, Dela

ware, in 1730; acquired a classical education under his father s roof; studied law, and came to the bar in 1751; settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; in 1768 was elected to the Colonial Legislature; was a Dele gate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777; was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence; was a member of the Colonial Convention that commenced the new government; was Chairman of the Committee that formed the organization of the State Government; in 1779 was appointed Judge of the Court of Admiralty for Pennsylvania. Died in July of that year, from an attack of gout. He was a profound lawyer and an earnest patriot.

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Henry H.; was born in Essex County, York; graduated at Columbia College, New

Boss,

New

York, in 1808; studied law, and practiced the profes sion in Essex, Essex County, New York, for fifty years; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1825 to 1827; was County Judge of Essex County in 1847 and 1848; was a Presidential Elector in 1848, heading the State ticket, and officiating as President of the Electoral College. Died September He was distinguished for his ability, elo 13, 1862. quence, dignity, and high character.

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Congresses; in June, 1885, was appointed, by Presi dent Cleveland, Register of the Treasury, at Wash ington.

Boss, David

Boss, James; was born about the year 1761, in Pennsylvania: was a lawyer by profession, and was a member of the Convention that formed the Consti tution of Pennsylvania in 1790; was a Senator in Congress from Pennsylvania, from 1794 to 1803, serving during one session as President pro tern, of that body. Died at his residence, near Pittsburgh, November

27, 1847.

Boss, John

;

was a Representative

in Congress

from Pennsylvania, from 180!) to 1811, and again from 1815 to 1818, having resigned.

Boss, Lewis W. was born in Seneca County, York. December 8, 1812; removed, with his father, to Illinois when a boy; was educated at the ;

New

Illinois College;

adopted the profession of the law;

and 1844 was elected to the State Legisla ture; was a Presidential Elector in 1848, and a Dele gate in 1860 to the Charleston and Baltimore Conven tions; in 1861 was elected to the "State Constitutional in 1862 was elected a Representative Convention in 1840

;

was a Delegate from Maryland

to

the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1787.

Boss, Edmund G-.; was born at Ashland, Ohio, December 7, 1826; received a limited education; in

;

from Illinois to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. on

t/he

Committee on Invalid Pensions; was re-elected

Com

to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the mittee on Indian Affairs; was also re-elected to the

Fortieth Congress, serving on the additional mittt-e on Agriculture.

Com-

429-

Volunteers, and in July was in camp with four com panies; in October, 1861, was appointed a Brigadiergeneral; was present at the battle of Shiloh, and re>orted for gallantry was also in the battle of Perrydistinguished gallantry and good ville, and for his ervice there, was, in October, 1862, appointed a Major-General; was also in the advance upon Corinth after the battle of Shiloh, and in the battle of Stone riiver, and many similar engagements; in 1864 con ducted a highly important and successful raid into the heart of Alabama, and defended Fortress Roserans with eight thousand men during the siege of Nashville; in 1865 was elected a Representative from ;

"

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Ross, Miles

;

was born in Raritan Township,

New Jersey, April 30, 1828; re school education; was for many in the shipping busi years engaged, with his father, and largely ness; was a wholesale coal merchant, interested in shipping property; at different times .filled most of the local offices of the district; was a member of the Board of Freeholders; was a Repreto the State Legislature for two years; in Middlesex County,

ceived a

common

.sentative

1874 was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Forty -fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-seventh ConForty-sixth, and Forty-fifth,

was born in Coudersport, i Ross, Sobieski ^Pennsylvania, May 16, 1828; was educated as a purveyor and engineer, but engaged in settling land In the northern counties of Pennsylvania; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, and re-elected to *the Forty-fourth Congress, serving on the Com;

flmittee

on Agriculture.

Thomas

was a native of Pennsylvania; in 1825; was a Rep^graduated at Princeton College in Congress from that State, from 1849 to (pesentative jj

Ross,

;

853.

Thomas R.;

was born in 1789; was long a leading lawyer in Warren County, Ohio, and was became legal preceptor of Thomas Corwin, who his partner in the practice of law; was a Representa tive from Ohio to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses; in 1849 retired from business and settled upon a farm; two year before his death became blind was considered a man of great ability Died near Lebanon, Ohio, June 28, anil learning.

Ross,

;

1869.

Ross, William H.; was born

in

Delaware; was

elected Governor of that State in 1851, continuing in office until 1855.

Rossell, "William; was born in New Jersey in 1761; received a good education and studied law; was for many years a Judge of the United States District Court; also a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Died at Mount Holly, June 20, 1840.

Rothwell, Grideon F.; was born in Callaway County, Missouri, in 1836; graduated at the Univers ity of the State of Missouri studied and practiced law; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-sixth Congress. ;

Rousseau, Lovell H.; was born near Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky, August 4, 1818. to which place his father had emigrated from Virginia was chiefly self-educated, acquiring a good English educa tion adopted the profession of the law, and prac ticed with success in Indiana, to which state he re moved in 1841; was elected for three years to the Legislature of Indiana, and for three years to the Senate of the State; served through the war with Mexico as a Captain, and was present at Buena Vista in 1850 returned to Louisville, Kentucky, where he sub equently resided in 1860 was elected, by both politi cal parties, to the Senate of Kentucky; after serving through the stormy session of 1861, resigned his seat, Hud asked for permission to raise troops for the war Ja June of that year was commissioned a Colonel o ;

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Kentucky to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Military Affairs and on Roads and Canals; was also one of the Representatives desig nated by the House to attend the funeral of General Scott, in 1866; in June, 1866, made a personal assault on J. B. Grinnell, a fellow-member of the House, for words spoken in debate; although the Committee appointed to investigate the subject reported a reso lution to expel, the Hoirse adopted the minority re port to reprimand him for violating the privileges of the House, whereupon he resigned his seat as a Rep resentative in the Thirty-ninth Congress, but was reelected, during the subsequent recess, to the same Congress, serving again on the Committees on Mili tary Affairs, and Roads and Canals; in April, 1867, was appointed a Brigadier-General in the regular army, and was assigned to duty in the new Territory of Alaska.

Rousseau, Richard H.; was a citizen of Ken tucky: in 1866 was appointed Minister Resident toHonduras, returning to the United States in 1869. Routt, John L. was a resident of Denver, Colo rado; in 1871 was appointed Second Assistant Post master-General, in which capacity he served imtil 1875, when he resigned, and returned to Colorado; was Governor of Colorado Territory during a part of the year 1875; in 1876 was elected Governor of the new State of Colorado, holding the office until 1 879. ;

Rowan, John

;

was born in Pennsylvania, in

1773; emigrated to Kentucky when quite young; was a member of the Convention which formed the Con stitution of 1799; was Secretary of State in 1804; was elected a member of Congress from 1807 to 1809; was, for many years, a member of the General As sembly; was a Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1819; was a Senator in Congress from 1825 to 1831; his last public position was that of Minister to the Twa Sicilies. Died in Louisville, Kentucky, July 13, 1853.

Rowe, Peter was a Representative New York, from 1853 to 1855. ;

in Congress

from

Rowell, Jonathan H.; was born

at Haverhill,

New

Hampshire. February 10, 1S33; was reared on a. farm; removed to McLean County, Illinois, in 1849;. received a classical education, graduating from Eureka College, Illinois, in 1861; served three years in the Union Army, during the Civil War, as a line officer; graduated from the Law Department of the Chicago University, and was admitted to the bar in 1865; en gaged in the practice of law at Bloomington, Illinois; was State s Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District from 1868 to 1872; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the

Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Rowland, David was a Delegate from Con necticut to the Colonial Congress, which met in New ;

York

in 1765.

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Royce, Homer B.; was born in Berkshire, Ver mont, in 1819; received a common school education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1H42; wasa member of the State Legislature in 1846 and 1847 was Prosecuting Attorney ibr the State in 1848; was a State Senator in 1849, 1850, and 1851; was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on :

Foreign Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the same commit tee; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866.

born at Tinmouth. Ver graduated at Middlebury

Royce, Stephen; was mont, August

1787;

12,

Maine Legislature, and officiated as Speaker three the Court of years; from 1831 to 18:55 was Judge of Common Pleas; was a Senator in Congress from Maine from 1835 to 1841, and a member of the Com mittee on Commerce; took a special interest, in, and was the originator, when in Congress, of the idea of

a re-organization of the Patent Office, and the first patent granted, after the re-organization, July 28, 1836, was granted to him tor a locomotive steam-en gine.

Ruggles, Nathaniel

member of the Legislature in 1815 and 1816, from Sheldon County, and from 1822 to 1824 from St. Albans County; was Judge of the Supreme Court of the State in 1826 and 1827, and from 1829 to 1852; was Chief Justice from 1846 to 1851; was Governor of Vermont from 1854 to 1856; received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Vermont in 1837. Died in East Berkshire, Vermont.

was a Representative

November

from 1847 to 1851.

College in 1807; was a

11, 1868.

Rublee, Horace; was a in 1869 land.

citizen of Wisconsin; to Switzer

was appointed Minister Resident

Ruffln, Thomas was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina; graduated at Chapel Hill University; a lawyer by profession served as Circuit Attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri from December, 1844, to December, 1848; was elected a, Representative from North Carolina to the Thirtythird, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving as a member of the Committees on Public Lands, on Accounts, and on the Militia; took part in the Rebellion of 1861 as a member of the Con federate Congress, having previously been a Delegate ;

;

to the

"Peace Congress" of 1861; also served as a Colonel in the Southern Army, and from the effects of a wound, died, at Alexandria, Virginia, in October

1863.

Ruggles, Benjamin; was born in Windham County, Connecticut, in 1763; obtained the means for receiving a classical education by teaching a school in winter; studied law, and, after his admission to the bar, removed to Marietta, Ohio; subsequently settled at St. Clairsville; in 1810 was elected President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Third Circuit; was elected by the Legislature, a Senator of the United States from Ohio, serving from 1815 to 1833; from his well-known habits of industry, and constant devotion to the in terests of his constituents he was called "The Wheelhorse of the Senate"; from his youth, he was a member of the Masonic fra ternity; in 1837 was a Presidential Elector. Died at St. Clairsville, Ohio, September 2, 1837, aged seven ty-four years.

Rug-gles, Charles H.; was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, about the year 1790; adopted the profession of the law; removing to New York was a member of the New York Legislature in 182(1; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1821 to 1823; was, for many years, a Judge of the Circuit Court: served for a second term in the State Legislature; was made a Judge of the Court of Ap peals, and Presiding Judge from 1853; retired from the bench in 1855. Died at Poughkeepsie, June 16 1865.

at Westbo rough, Mas was well educated, and possessed a taste the mechanic arts; was nine times elected to the ;

for

eight years.

Rumsey, Benjamin Maryland 1778

was

;

to the Continental

a Delegate from Congress from 1776 to

.

Rumsey, David,

Jr.; was born in New York; in Congress from that State

Rumsey, Edward.

;

was born

in

Kentucky; was

a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839.

New Jersey; was a was a Representative Jersey from 1845 to 1847.

Runk, John; was

born in

Presidential Elector in 1841; in Congress

from

New

Runnels, Harrison R.; was born in Mississippi; emigrated to Texas in 1841; served in the Legislature of the State and was Speaker of the House; in 1855 was elected Lieutenant-Governor; in 1857 was elected Governor of Texas. Died in Cowie County, Missis sippi.

Runnels, sippi

Hiram

&.; was Governor of

Mi.-. 1s-

from 1833 to 1835.

Rush, Benjamin; was born at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1745; was chiefly educated at Princeton College, New Jersey: studied medicine for six years, and then attended lectures at the Edinburgh University, in Scotland; practiced in the hospitals of London, and completed his studies in Paris; on his return he was at once appointed a Professor in a medical institution in Philadelphia; was an earnest advocate of the cause of liberty; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777, and a signer of the Declaration of Independ ence; was a member of the Convention called to ratify the Federal Constitution, and subsequently held the post of Cashier of the United States Mint; on retiring from political life, devoted his whole attention to his profession, and was a Professor in various important institutions; as a high officer, took an active part in the Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the Philadel phia Bible Society, the Philadelphia Medical Society. and the American Philosophical Society; among his numerous writings were Medical Inquiries and Ob servations," and a "History of the Yellow Fever." Died April 19, 1813, and is remembered as one of the He was the father leading medical men of his time. of Richard Rush, for many years Minister to England and France, and also Secretary of the Treasury under President J. Q. Adams. "

Rush, Richard; was

born

in

Philadelphia

was the sou of Benjamin Rushgraduated at Princeton College in 1797; studied law ind came to the bar in 1*00; in 1811 was made At torney-General of the State; was soon afterwards ap pointed, by President Madison, Comptroller of the August

Ruggles, John was born sachusetts;

was a native of Massa

;

chusetts; graduated at Harvard University in 1781; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1819. Died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, December 19 of the latter year, at the age of fifty-

29, 1780;

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431

Treasury; on July 4, 1812, by request, delivered an educated at the Bingham School and at the Chapel Hill University; studied law, and was admitted to oration in the Capitol; in 1814 was appointed Attor ney-General of the United States, having declined practice in 1866; was elected a Representative in the the office of Secretary of the Treasury; for a few State Legislature in 1864, and re-elected in 1865; months performed the duties of Secretary of State. was elected Judge of the Superior Courts for the Fourth Judicial Circuit in 1868, and served six years; under President Monroe; in 1817 was appointed Min was a member of the State Constitutional Conven ister to England, serving until 1825; was Secretary of the Treasury, under President J. Q. Adams; was tion of 1871; was again elected to the Legislature in candidate for Vice- President on the ticket with 1876; was a Delegate to the Republican National Adams; in 1847 was appointed; by President Polk. Convention of that year; was elected a Representa Minister to France, remaining in office ten years; in tive from North Carolina to the Forty -sixth Congress. 1833 published Residence at the Court of St. Russell, David; was born in Massachusetts in James"; a Sequel to it in 1845; in 1857, "Familiar. Letters of Washington in 1860 a volume of "Occa 1800; was a Representative in the New York Legis lature in 1 f 26 and 1830, from Washington County; sional Productions" was published; took a leading was United States District Attorney for Northern part in securing the fund of the Smithsonian Institu New York; was a Representative in Congress from tion, and was a Regent of the same; published vari ous papers and addresses on literary and political New York from 1835 to 1841, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Claims. Died at Salem, Washing Died in Philadelphia, July 30, 1859. topics. ton County, New York, November 24, 1861. "A

";

Busk, Jeremiah. M.; was born in Morgan Coun

June 17. 1830; received a good education; removed to Wisconsin in 1853; held several county offices; was a member of the Legislature in 1862; was commissioned Major of AVisconsin Volunteers in 1862; was soon afterward promoted; served with General Sherman from the siege of Vicksburg until mustered out at the close of the war, and was brevetted Briga ty, Ohio,

dier-General for meritorious services at the battle of Salkehatchie; was elected Bank Comptroller of Wis consin in 1866, and re-elected for 1868; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty -second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions; was elected Governor of Wisconsin for the term of three

years from January, 1882; was re-elected in 1884.

Rusk, Thomas

was born

J.;

in

South Carolina

in 1802; studied law, and practiced with success in Georgia; in the early part of 1835 removed to Texas, and was a prominent actor in all the important events in the history of the Republic of the State of

Texas

;

was a member of the Convention which de

clared Texas an independent Republic, in March. 1836; was the first Secretary of War; participated in the battle of San Jacinto, and took command of the

army after General Houston was wounded; con tinned in command of the army until the organization of the Constitutional Government in October, 1836. when he was again appointed Secretary of War: re signed after a few months; afterwards commanded several expeditions against the Indians served as a member of the House of Representatives, and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which last office he resigned early in 1842; in 1845 was President of the Convention that consummated the annexation of Texas to the United States; upon the admission of Texas into the Union, in 1845, was elected one of the Senators in the Congress of the United States, in which office he served two terms, and was re-elected for the third term, ending in 1863; was Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office; took a deep inter est in the wagon-road to the Pacific, and the Over land Mail; at the time of his death, which occurred in Nacogdoches, Texas, July 29, 1856, was President pro tern, of the Senate in a moment of insanity, caused by the overwhelming grief at the death of his wife, took his own life; aged fifty-four years. ;

;

Buss, John; was

a native of Ipswich, Massa was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1819 to 1823. Died at Hartford, Connecticut, June 22, 1832, aged sixty-eight years.

chusetts;

Russell, Daniel Lindsay was born in Bruns wick County, North Carolina, August 7, 1845; was ;

James

M.; was born at York, Pennsyl was a successful lawyer; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843. Died at Bedford, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1870.

Russell,

vania,

November

10, 1786;

Russell, Jeremiah was born in New York; was Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845. ;

a

Russell, John was a Representative in Congress New York from 1805 to 1809. ;

from

Russell, Jonathan; was born in Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was appointed Minister Plen ipotentiary to Sweden in 1814; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1823. Died February 16, 1832.

Russell,

Joseph was ;

gress from New 1851 to 1853.

a Representative in Con

York from 1845

to 1847,

and from

Russell, Samuel L.; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855.

Thomas

was born in Massachusetts; Russell, in 1874 was appointed from that State Minister Resi dent to Venezuela, residing at Caracas. Russell,

;

"William;

was born in Inland; emi

grated to Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1827 to 1833, and again from 1841 to 1843.

Russell, "William A.; was born at Wells River, Vermont, April 22, 1831; received an academic edu cation; engaged in the business of manufacturing paper, in 1852, at Exeter, New Hampshire; after wards located at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the same business, and established paper mills in several other places; also engaged in agriculture; was a Del egate to the Republican National Conventions of 1868 and 1876; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1869; was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Forty -sixth, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Russell, "William P.; was born in Saugerties, Ulster County, New York; was a merchant for twenty years; was a member of the Legislature of New York in 1850, serving one term; was elected a Representative from New York in the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committee on Indian Af fairs.

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432

Bust, Albert

CAL

1

was born in Virginia; removing was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1855 to 1857, and again from 1859 to Koads and Canals, 1861, serving on the Committee on and the Special Committee of Thirty-three on the Re ;

to Arkansas,

bellious States; took part in the Rebellion of 18(il,

and was a Brigadier-General.

served as a volunteer officer during the Rebellion, and became a Brigadier-General by brevet; settled in Wilmington, North Carolina; in 1866 was appointed a Captain in the Regular Army; resigned in 1870 to accept the office of Third Auditor of the United States Treasury, which office he resigned in January, 1876.

was a native of

;

New York

City; was a nephew of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling; graduated at New Jersey College in 1776;

was educated a lawyer; was a Senator of the United States from New Jersey from 1791 to 1798; was a Presidential Elector in 1798, 1813, and 1821; was the during the administration of President Washington; early re tired from public life, and being one of the largest landholders in New Jersey, was actively engaged in Died at agricultural and internal improvements. Ederston, New Jersey, February 23, 1840, in the eightieth year of his age. last survivor of the Senators in Congress

Rutherford, John was a native of Virginia; was Governor of that State in 1841 and 1842. ;

Rutherford, Robert

;

was a Representative in

Congress from Virginia from

adopted the profession of the law: entered the Union Army in 1862 and was mustered out as a Captain in 1864, having been incapacitated for duty by wounds received in battle; in 1865 removed to Kansas and settled in Topeka; was County Attorney for eight years; was Assistant United States Attorney from 1873 to 1877; was elected a Representative from Kan to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth. Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses.

sas

was born in New York City, October 29, 1839; brought up in a mercantile house and studied law, coming to the bar in 1860;

.Rutherford, Allan;

Rutherford, John

ANNALS.

171)3 to 1797.

Ryerson, Martin was born in New Jersey in 1815; received a liberal education and adopted the profession of the law, in which he was eminently suc cessful; was, for a time, Associate Justice of the Su preme Court of New Jersey; in 1874 was appointed one of the Judges of the Court organized in Wash ;

ington for the purpose of adjudicating the Alabama Claims; participated to some extent in the political affairs of his time, and was noted for his high charac ter and benevolence; ill-health caused him to resign his last public position, and he died at his residence He was re in Newton, New Jersey, in June, 1875. markable for his strict business habits, and a few hours before his death made a calculation as to the cost of his funeral, and signed a check for the amount required, giving as a reason that he did not want his executors to be troubled about the matter while set tling his estate.

Ryon, John W.; was born in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1825; received an academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice; was District Attorney of his native county from 1850 to 1856; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fortysixth Congress.

Sabin,

Rutledge, Edward; was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in November, 1749; received a good education; studied law at the Temple, in London, England: was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777, and signed the Declaration of In dependence; took part in military affairs, and was taken prisoner at Charleston, remaining in confine ment nearly a year; subsequently served in the State Assembly; in 1798 was elected Governor of South Carolina, holding the office until his death, which oc curred January 23, 1800. He had an enviable repu tation, both as an orator and a patriot. Rutledge, John was born in Ireland in 1739; emigrated to South Carolina; studied law in England: returning to South Carolina in 1761, took an active part in the Revolutionary cause, and was a Delegate to the Continental Congress; in 1776 was appointed President of South Carolina, and Cormnander-inChief of that Colony, having also been a member of the Convention of 1774; was Governor of the State in 1779; was Chancellor of the State in 1784; was a member of the Convention to frame the Constitution of the United States, and signed that instrument; was a Representative in Congress from 1797 to 1803; after having been Judge of the Court of Chancery, Chief Justice of South Carolina, and Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, was finally pro moted to the position of Chief Justice, but was not confirmed by the Senate. Died in July, 1800. ;

Alvah

;

was born at Georgia, Vermont,

October 23, 1793; was educated for the ministry; served ten years in the State Legislature; was Secre tary of State for Vermont in 1841 was a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1857. ;

Sabin, Chauncey Brewer; was born at Oneonta, Otsego County, New York, August 6, 1824; received a liberal education, completing hi.s college course in 1840; read law; was admitted to the bar, at Albany, New York, in January, 1846, and en gaged in practice there; in December, 1847, removed to Houston, Texas, where he practiced his profession he remained a steadfast Unionist during the War of the Rebellion, and, in 1863, was compelled to seek safety in flight, his native State being his refuge; after the close of the war, in 1865, he returned to Houston and resumed the practice of law; in 1867 was appointed Judge of the Third Judicial District of Texas, and was the first .Judge to empanel colored jurors; he held this office until the Fall of 1868; in 1871 removed to Galveston, Texas; was Judge of the District Court in 1871-72; in the Spring of 1872 was appointed City Attorney of Galveston; in 1873 was elected a Representative in the State Legislature; in 1874 was appointed, by President Grant, Postmaster at Galveston, which office he held until March 31, 1883; on April 5, 1884, was appointed, by President Arthur, United States District Judge for the Eastern ;

District of Texas.

Sabin, jDwight M.; was born in LaSalle County, April 25, 1844; was reared on a farm, at

Illinois,

Ryall, D. D.; was born in Trenton, New Jersey; adopted the profession of the law; was a Representa tive in Congress from New Jersey from 1839 to 1841.

Ryan, Thomas was born at Oxford, New York, November 25, 1837: was reared in Bradford ounty, ;

(

Pennsylvania

;

received

an

academic

education -,

re tending the District School in Winter; in moved, with his parents, to Connecticut; attended Phillips Academy for a time; served in the Union Army as Aid on the Staff of Dr. Hard, Chief Med ical Officer of Pleasanton s Corp*, for a few months, in 1863, but failing health rompslled him to resign; in October of that year became a Clerk in the office 18.">7

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. of the Third Auditor, at Washington City; resigned in 1864 and engaged in farming, and the lumber business in Connecticut; removed to Minnesota in 18C8, engaging in lumbering and manufacturing, in which he was very successful; in 187U was elected a State Senator, and was re-elected in 1871; served several terms as a Representative in the State Legis lature; became President of several large manufac turing companies; was elected a United States Sena tor from Minnesota for 1883.

syc years

from March

4,

Sabin, G-eorge M.; was born in Cuyahoga was educated at County, Ohio, September 18, Western Reserve College, Ohio, graduating therefrom in 185(5; removed to Wisconsin; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858, and engaged in practice; at the breaking out of the Rebellion enlisted in the First Wisconsin Regiment, and served throughout the war; removed to Nevada in 1868, and practiced law; in 1882 was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, residing at Carson 183f>;

the office of Prosecuting Attorney three terms; re turned to Cincinnati in January, 1865, and practiced law in the firm of Sage & Hinkle until appointed, in March. 1883, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.

Sage, Russell; was born

in Oneida County, York, August 4, 1816; received a common school education commenced active life as a clerk in a store at Troy, New York, and until 1853 was wholly devoted to mercantile pursuits; in 1841 was elected an Alderman of the city of Troy, and by an nual re-elections, served seven years in that capacity; was Treasurer of Rensselaer County for seven years, in which office he was especially popular; was a Rep resentative in Congress from New York from 1853 to 1857, serving on the Committees on Invalid Pensions and on Ways and Means. He was the first man who advocated, on the floor of Congress, the purchase of Mount Vernon by the General Government.

New

;

Safford, A. P. K.; was Governor of the Terri tory of Arizona from 1870 to 1878.

City.

was born at Lisbon, New Hampshire, February 28, 1803; was entirely self-ed ucated; was bred a merchant; was for many years a bank officer; was for some time Secretary of the Boston Board of Trade; was three times elected to the Legislature of Maine from Eastport; was at one time Deputy Collector of the Port of Passamaquoddy

Sabine, Lorenzo

;

;

held, in Massachusetts, the position of Confidential

Agent of the Treasury Department; was a Repre sentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-second Congress; devoted much of his time to literary pur Life of Commodore suits, and was the author of a "The American Loyalists," "Report on Preble," the American Fisheries," and "Notes on Duels and was also a contributor to the North Amer Duelling ican Review and other leading periodicals; the degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Bowdoin and Harvard Colleges.

433

Sailly,

Peter; was born

in Loraine,

France;

United States in 1783, and settled in Clinton County, New York; having been well edu cated, and possessing a decided talent for business, acquired considerable influence, and held several offices of public trust in his adopted State; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1805 to 1807; on his retirement from that position, was appointed, by President Jefferson, Collector of Cus toms for the District of Champlain, holding the office until his death, which occurred at Pittsburgh, in first

came

to the

1826.

"

"

;

Saltonstall, Leveret! was born in Massachu in 1781; graduated at Harvard College in 1802; commenced the practice of law in Salem, Massachu setts in 1805, and was distinguished as a lawyer; ;

setts,

was a State Senator in 1831; was Mayor of Salem from 1836 to 1838; was a Presidential Elector in 1837; frequently served in the State Legislature; was Sadler, Thomas William was born near Rus- a Representative in Congress from 1838 to 1843; was also an active member of the American Academy of sellville, Franklin County, Alabama, April 17, 1831 Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts His removed, with his parents, to Jefferson County, Ala torical Society, and the degree of Doctor of Laws bama, in 1833; received an academic education; re moved to Antauga County, Alabama, in 1855; en was conferred upon him by Harvard College, to gaged in mercantile pursuits until the beginning of which institution he left a legacy; made a bequest of the Civil War; volunteered and served in the division valuable books to Phillips Academy, at Exeter, of the Confederate Army commanded by General where he commenced his education. Died at Salem, Joseph Wheeler; after the close of the war engaged Massachusetts, May 8, 1845. in agricultural pursuits and the practice of law; was Samford, William J.; was born at Greenville, County Superintendent of Education from 1875 to in early childhood re 1884; was a Presidential Elector in 1880; in 1884 was Georgia, September 16, 1844; elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty- moved to Alabama; received a limited education; ;

;

Sackett, William A.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1853, and was a member of the Com mittee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Sage, Ebenezer graduated at Yale College in was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1809 to 1815, and again from 1819 to 1820. ;

1778;

Died in 1834.

Sage, George B.; was born

at Erie, Pennsyl to Ohio in 1835; vania, August 24, graduated from Granville College, Ohio, in 1849, and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1852; practiced law at Cincinnati from 1852 to 1858 as a member of the law firm of King, Anderson Sage, and after wards of Corwin Sage; removed to Lebanon, Ohio, in 1858, and practiced law there until 1865, holding

1828; removed

&

&

28

the University of Qeorgia at the age of seventeen to enter the Confederate Army as a private, and rose to the rank of Captain; studied law, and commenced to practice in 1871 ; was a Delegate to the State Con stitutional Convention of 1875; was a Presidential left

ninth Congress.

Elector in 1876; was elected a Representative from to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Alabama

Sammons, Thomas; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1803 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1813. Sample, Samuel was a Representative

O.; was born in Maryland; in Congress from Indiana from

1843 to 1845.

Sampson, Ezekiel S. was born in Huron County, Ohio, December 6, 1831 received his early education, at public schools; later at Howe s Academy, Iowa, and at Knox College, Illinois; studied law, and began to practice at Sigourney, Iowa, in 1856; was Prose;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

434

cuting Attorney in 1856, 1857, and 1858; was Cap tain in the Fifth Iowa Infantry in 1861 and 1862, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1883 and 1864; was a State Senator in 1866; was Judge of the Sixth Judi cial District of Iowa from January, 1867, to January, 1875; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty -fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyfifth

Congress.

Sampson, Zabdiel

was born

;

in

Plympton,

Massachusetts; graduated at Brown University in 1803; adopted the profession of the law; was a Rep resentative in Congress from his native State from 1817 to 1819; in 1820 was appointed Collector of Customs at Plymouth, where he died, while in office, 19, 1828.

July

Samuel, G-reen

was born in Virginia

B.;

in

was elected a Representative in Congress from 1838 to 1841 was. for eleven years, Judge of the Su preme Court of Appeals. Died at Richmond, Janu 1794;

;

ary

5,

1859, aged sixty-five years.

priated a part of his wealth to the establishment of "Jackson

College,"

have been educated.

where many prominent men Died many years ago.

Sanford, Jonah; was born in Cornwall, Ver mont, in 1789; removed to Hopkinton, New York, in 1811; in 1829 and 1830 represented his county in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress for the unexpired term of Silas Wright, from De cember, 1830, to March, 1831; was one of the Asso ciate Judges of the Court *of Common Pleas; on the breaking out of the Rebellion exerted himself to raise a regiment of troops, in which he succeeded, and then turned it over to the command of another. Died in Hopkinton, December 25, 1867.

Sanford, Nathan; was born at Bridgehampton, Long Island, November 5, 1779; was admitted to the bar in 1799; was United States Commissioner of Bankruptcy for New York in 1802; was United States District Attorney for New York from 1803 to 1816; was Speaker of the Assembly in 1811 was afterwards State Senator; was a member of the State Constitu tional Convention in 1821 wasa United States Senator from 1815 to 1821, and asjain from 1825 to 1831 was Chancellor of New York from 1823 to 1825. Died at ;

Sandford, John was a native of New York was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1841 to 1843; was a member of the New York Died in Am Senate, in the extra session of 1851. sterdam, Montgomery County, New.York, October, ;

;

;

;

Bridgehampton, October, 1838.

Sanford, Stephen was born in Montgomery County, New York, May 26, 1826; was educated at Sandford, Jonah was a member of the New the Georgetown (District of Columbia) College and York Assembly in 1827 and 1830, from the county of the Poughkeepsie Institute; was a carpet manufac St. Lawrence; was a Representati vein Congress from turer; was elected a Representative from New York 1830 to 1831. to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Commit 1857.

;

;

Sandford, Thomas was born in "Westmore land County, Virginia, in 1762; removed to Kentucky in 1792, and settled at Covington; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1799; was sev eral times a member of the Legislature; was a Rep resentative in Congress from 1803 to 1807; was drowned in the Ohio River, December 10, 1808.

tees

on Manufactures and Patents.

;

was born in Franklin Sandidge, John M. County, Georgia, January 7, 1817; was a planter by occupation; served as a member of the Legislature of Louisiana from 1846 to 1855; in 1852 was a member of the Convention that framed the present Constitu tion of that State; was Speaker of the House in the Louisiana Legislature in 1854 and 1855; was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Thirty-fourth ;

and

Thirty-fifth

and was Chairman Land Claims.

Congresses,

the Committee on Private

Sands, Joshua

of

was born in Queens County, York, in 1758; during the war of 1775 was a member of the Brooklyn Home Guards; in 1797 was appointed, by President Adams, Collector of Cus toms for the port of New York; was at one time a Magistrate in Kings County; also took an active part, with two brothers, in the Revolutionary War to its close; was a member of the New York Senate from Kings County from 1792 to 1799 was a Represent ative in Congress from 1803 to 1804, and again from 1825 to 1827. Died in his native county, September He was the father of Commodore Sands. 13, 1835. ;

Sapp, William Fletcher; was born

at

Dan

Ohio, November 20, 1824; received a common school and academic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began to practice at Mount Vernon, Ohio; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1854, and again in 1856; in 1860 re moved to Nebraska; in 1861 was appointed AdjutantGeneral of Nebraska Territory, and subsequently elected to the Territorial Legislature; served in the Union Army as Lieutenant-Colonel; removed to Iowa; was a State Representative in 1865; United States District Attorney from 1869 to 1873; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Fortyfifth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-sixth ville,

Congress.

Sapp, William B.; was born in Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1857.

New

;

Henry

1849 was appointed Sec retary of Legation to France; from 1861 to 1869 was Minister Resident to Belgium.

Sanford,

S.; in

James T.; was born in Virginia; was removed to Tennessee at an early was a day; Representative in Congress from Tennes see from 1823 to 1825 having acquired a large Sanford,

liberally educated;

;

property in the pursuits of agriculture, he appro

Sargeant, Nathaniel Peaslee; was born at Methuen, Massachusetts, November 2, 1731; gradu ated at Harvard University in 1750; studied law, and practiced in Haverhill; was elected a Delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1775; was a Repre sentative in the Legislature in 1776 was Judge of the Supreme Court of the State; became Chief Jus tice in 1789. Died at Haverhill, Massachusetts. ;

in October, 1791.

Sargent, Aaron A.; was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, September 28, 1827; early acquired a knowledge of the printing business; emigrated to California in 1849; studied law, and came to the bar in 1854; in 1861 was elected a Representative from California to the Thirty -seventh Congress, serving as a member of the Select Committee on the Pacific Rail road, to which enterprise he was particularly devoted was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-Second Congresses; was elected a Senator in Congress for the ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. term comment-ing in 1873 and ending in 1879, serv ing on the Committees on Naval Affairs, Mines and Mining, and Appropriations; March 2, 1882, was appointed, by President Garfield, United States Min ister to Germany.

Nathan

was born in Puthey, Ver mont. May 5, 1794; received a good education; studied law. and in his twenty-third year removed to Cahawba. Alabama, where he was a Judge of the County and Probate Courts; between the years 1826 and 1830 resided in Buffalo, New York; in the latter year went to Philadelphia and established a Whig newspaper; subsequently became the Washington

Sargent,

4:55

in Congress for the term ending in 1865, serving on the Committees on Commerce, Pensions, and Patents and the Patent Office; was a Delegate to the "Chi cago Convention" of 1864; was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1871, serving on the

Committee on Mines and Mining.

;

Saunders, Alvin was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, July 12, 1817; received an academic edu cation; removed to Iowa in 1836; was Postmaster at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for seven years; studied law but never practiced; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and in banking; was a member of the Convention called to frame the first Constitution of Iowa; was a ;

was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1860 and 18? 8; was one of the Commissioners appointed by Congress

correspondent of the United States Gazette, of Phila delphia, and by the assumed name of Oliver Oldschool, became quite famous; in 1849 was elected

State Senator for eight years;

Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives in Washington; was Register of the Treasury from 1851 to 1853; in 1861 was appointed Commissioner of Customs, and held the position until 1871, when he Died in Washington, February 2, 1875. resigned. At the time of his death he was President of the Washington Reform School, and his last literary labor was the preparation of a work entitled Pub lic Men and Events," which came from the press, in two volumes, only a few days before his death. He made a decided mark in his time as a journalist, an

to organize the Pacific Railroad

"

executive

officer,

and a man of high

character.

was born

at Gloucester, Sarg-ent, Winthrop Massachusetts, May 1, 1753; graduated at Harvard University in 1771; in 1775 was Captain of one of his father s ships; entered the Army in that year; was appointed Navy Agent at Gloucester in 1776; was Captain and Lieutenant of Knox s Regiment of Artillery in 1776, and took part in the siege of Bos ton, and the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Braudywine, Germantown, Monmouth, etc., attaining the rank of Major, serv ing during the entire war; became connected with the Ohio Company, and in 1786 was appointed, by Congress, Surveyor of the Northwest Territory; be came its Secretary in 1787; was Governor of the Territory of Mississippi from 1798 to 1801; was Adjutant-General of St. Glair s army in the un fortunate expedition against the Indians, in 1791. and was wounded; was Adjutant-General and In spector in Wayne s Campaign in 1794 and 1795; was a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Philosophical Society; he published "Boston, a Poem," in 1803. Died on a voyage from Natchez to Philadelphia, June 3. 18:20. His grandson, bear ing the same name, was noted as an author. ;

Saulsbury, Eli was born in Kent County. Delaware. December 29,1817; was educated at Dick inson College; studied and practiced law; was a member of the State Legislature of Delaware in 1853 and 1854; was elected a Senator in Congress in 1871, for the term ending in 1877, serving on the Commit tees on Pensions, Privileges and Elections, Printing, and Post Offices and Post Roads; was re-elected in 1877, and again in 1883. ;

Gove

was born in Delaware; was Saulsbury. ; elected Governor of that State in 1865, remaining in office until 1871; was a brother of Senator Eli.Saulsbury.

was born in Kent Coun 1820; was educated at Dela ware College and also at Dickinson College; studied Jaw, and was admitted to the bar in 1845; in 1850 was appointed Attorney-General of Delaware, hold ing the office five years; in 1859 was elected a Senator

Saulsbury,

ty,

"Willard

Delaware, June

2,

;

Company; was Gov

ernor of the Territory of Nebraska from 1861 until it was admitted as a State in 1867; was elected a United States Senator from Nebraska for the term of six years from March 4, 1877.

Saunders, Romulus M.; was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. March. 1791; received an academic education, and spent two years in the University of that State; studic:! law in Tennessee, and was admitted to practice there in 1812; returned to North Carolina; was in the House of Commons from 1815 to 1820, and for two years Speaker of the House; was a Representative in Congress from North Caro lina from 18-21 to 1827, and from 1841 to 1845; in 1828 was Attorney-General of the State; in 1833 was President of the Board of Commissioners to settle the claims of American citizens under the treaty of July 4, 1831, with France; in 1835 was elected a Jud ge of the State Supreme Court; in 1846 was ap pointed, by President Polk, Minister to Spain, where he remained four years on his return was again elected to the Legislature of North Carolina; afterwards de voted much attention to the railroad improvements of the State. Died in Raleigh, April 21, 1867. ;

Savage, John was a member of the New York Assembly in 1814; from 1815 to 1819 was a Repre ;

sentative in Congress from that State; subsequently held the positions of District Attorney, Comptroller of the State, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and Treasurer of the United States for New York was a Presidential Elector in 1845. Died ;

in Utica, October 19, 1863,

aged eighty-four years.

Savage, John H.; was a native of Warren County, Tennessee; during his minority volunteered as a private soldier, under General Gaines, to defend the Texan frontier; also served during a campaign in Florida; afterwards studied law; commenced prac tice, in 1837, at Smithville, Tennessee; was elected Colonel of the Tennessee Militia; was elected, by the Legislature, Attorney-General of the Fourth District of his State, in 1841, and held the office until 1847; during that year received, from President Polk, the appointment of Major in the Fourteenth Regiment United States Infantry, and, joining the American Army in Mexico, was present at the battles of Contreras, Cherubusco, and Molina del Rey, and was wounded at Chapultepec; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and as such had command of his regiment, after the death of Colonel Graham, until the close of the war; on returning to Tennessee, resumed the practice of

his profession

;

was elected a

Representative in Congress in 1849 was re-elected in 1851; declined being a candidate in 1853; was again elected to Congress in 1855 and 1857; was a member of the Committee on Military Affairs. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

436

Savage, John S.; was born in Clermont County, common school Ohio, October 30, 1841; received a to the bar in education; studied law; was admitted Clinton County, Ohio, in 1865; never held any pub to lic office until elected a Representative from Ohio the Forty-fourth Congress.

of the Justices of the State; in 1863 was elected one Supreme Court of the State; was Chief Justice from 1868 to 1870; in the latter year was commissioned United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, re siding in San Francisco, California.

was born in Norridgewock, in 1 Maine; graduated from Bowdoin College studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1829; served eight years as Register of Probate; was a State Senator during the years 1843 and 1844; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Maine from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1849 to 1851.

dison County, Vermont, September 22, 1816; re ceived a good common school and business education; removed to Wisconsin and devoted himself to the lumber trade; was elected to the Legislature of Wis consin in 1857 and 1861 in 1863 was elected Mayor of Oshkosh, and re-elected in 1864; was elected a Rep resentative from Wisconsin to the Thirty-ninth Con on Manufactures, gress, serving on the Committees and on Invalid Pensions; was also a Delegate to the Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was Philadelphia re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce and Southern Railroads; was also re-elected to the three succeeding Con the Committee on the gresses, serving as Chairman of Pacific Railroad and as a member of various other Committees; declined a re-election; was elected a United States Senator from Wisconsin for the term of

Sawtelle, Cullen

Sawyer, Philetus

;

was born at Whiting, Ad-

;

;

Sawyer, Frederick A. was born in Bolton, Wor ;

County, Massachusetts, December 12, 1822; while yet a boy, acted as a clerk, and taught school for several winters; graduated at Harvard College in in 1844; was a teacher at Gardiner and Wiscasset, the State of Maine, for seven years: from 1851 to at Lowell, 1859, continued the profession of teaching South Reading, and Boston, in Massachusetts, and at Nashua, in New Hampshire; in 1859 went to Charles ton. South Carolina, and had charge of the Normal School there until 1861, when, as a loyal man, he and his family were permitted to return to New En and was made gland; returned to Charleston in 1865, Collector of Internal Revenue; was elected to the State Constitutional Convention, under the Acts of cester

six years, from

March

4.

Sawyer, Samuel

1881.

L.;

was born at Mount Ver-

non, New Hampshire. November 27, 1813; gradu ated at Dartmouth College in 1833; was admitted to the bar at Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1836; re moved to Missouri in 1838; was elected Circuit At torney in 1848, and re-elected in 1852; was a Dele gate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1861, and to the National Democratic Convention of 1868; was elected a Circuit Judge in 1871, and re-elected in 1874; was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty -sixth Congress.

Reconstruction, but was compelled to decline; was elected a Senator in Congress from South Carolina, for the term ending in 1873, serving on the Commit tees on Private Land Claims, Education, Pensions,

and Appropriations; was subsequently appointed As sistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Sawyer, John Gilbert was born at Brandon. Vermont, June 5, 1825; was educated at the com mon schools and at Millville Academy; studied law: was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the prac tice of law; settled at Albion, Vermont; was a Jus tice of the Peace from January, 1852, to April, 1858; was District Attorney of Orleans County, Vermont, from January 1, 1863, to January 1, 1866; was Judge and Surrogate of Orleans County from January 1, 1868, to January 1, 1884; in the latter year, was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Forty;

Sawyer, S. T.; was born in North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839; was appointed, by President Pierce, Collector of Customs at Norfolk, Virginia; was sub sequently editor of the Norfolk Argus. Died in New Jersey,

;

to 1849.

Say, Benjamin in

Camden County,

1850 removed to Washington, and held a clerkship in one of the departments; published a Life of John Randolph.

Sawyer, Lorenzo was born in Le Roy, Jeffer son County, New York, May 23, 1820; while obtain ing the rudiments of his education worked upon a farm; in his sixteenth year, went with his father to ;

;

subsequently

went to Ohio, and Western Reserve Col

lege; studied law, and came to the bar in 1846; re moved to Illinois; thence to Wisconsin; in 1850 went to California; worked for a time in the mines; set tled in the practice of his profession at Sacramento soon afterwards went to Nevada, where he remained until 1853; settled permanently in San Francisco; in 1854 was elected Attorney for the city; was after ;

wards appointed Judge of the District Court

was a Representative in Con

from 1808 to 1809, for the unexpired term of Joseph Clay.

in 1801; voted in the Electoral College for Thomas Jefferson in 1804; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to Congress in 1807, serving until 1813; subsequently served in the same capacity from 1817 to 1823, and from 1825 to 1829; about the year

Pennsylvania

;

gress from Pennsylvania

North Carolina, in 1777; was educated at Flatbush, New York; studied law; was in the State Legislature

finished his education at the

1865, aged sixty-five years.

Sawyer, William; was born in Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845

ninth Congress.

Sawyer, Lemuel was born

November 29,

for the

at Grenada, Mis September 23, 1841 removed, with his par ents, to Texas in 1851 was educated at the Bastrop Military Institute, at Bastrop, Texas; in 1861 en listed in Fifth Regiment of Texas Volunteers for ser

Sayers, Joseph D.; was born

sissippi,

;

;

Army; was, soon afterwards, appointed Adjutant of the Regiment; for gallantry on the field of battle, was promoted Captain and as signed to the command of the Val Verde Battery; in April, 1863, was severely wounded; was afterwards promoted to a Majority, and assigned to duty as Chief of Staff of Green s Cavalry Corps; was again severely wounded at the battle of Mansfield, Louis iana, in 1864; in the fall of 1864 was assigned to duty as Chief of Artillery for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana; after the close of the war, returned to Bastrop, Texas; taught school and studied law; was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of law at Bastrop; in 1872 was elected a State Senator; in 1875 was Grand Mas ter of Masons for the State of Texas; in 1876, 1877, and 1878 was Chairman of the Democratic State Ex ecutive Committee; in the latter year was elected vice in the Confederate

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Lieutenant-Governor of Texas; in 1883 was elected President of the Live-Stock Association of Texas; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-ninth Congress.

was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, March 31, 1836; removed to Clinton Sayler,

Henry

B.;

County, Indiana, in 1836; received a common school education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859; enlisted in the army as Lieutenant; was pro moted to Major of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Indiana Infantry; held no public office until elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Weights and Measures.

Sayler, Milton was born in Lewisburg, Preble Connty, Ohio, November 4, 1831; graduated at Miami University in 1852, and at the Cincinnati Law School; practiced law; was a member of the State Legislature in 1862 and 1863, and of the City Coun cils in 1864 and 1865; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-third and Forty -fourth Con gresses, serving on the Committees on Revision of Laws and Private Land Claims; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Pub lic Lands; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. ;

Scales, Alfred M., Jr.; was born in RockingCounty, North Carolina, November 26, 1827;

ham was

chiefly educated at the Chapel-Hill University adopted the profession of the law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 was elected to the Legislature of North Carolina in 1852 and 1856; in 1857 was elected a Representative from his native State to the Thirty;

;

Congress, and was a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia; was a Presidential Elector in 1861 was elected to the Forty-fourth Con gress; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and fifth

;

;

Forty-eighth Congresses; in 1884 was elected ernor of North Carolina for four years.

Gov

May

23, 1858.

Schell, Richard was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-third Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David B. Mellish, serving on the Committee on the Census. ;

Schenck, Abraham H.; was born in was a member of the New York Assembly in

Jersey,

May

17, 1860.

Schenck, Robert O.; was born in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, October 4, 1809; graduated at Miami University in 1827, where he remained one or two years as a tutor; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831, and settled in Dayton; in 1840 was elected a Representative to the Ohio Legislature; re-elected in 1842; was a Representative in Con gress from his native State from 1843 to 1851, serv ing on many committees; during the Thirtieth Congress was Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals; on his retirement from Congress was ap pointed, by President Fillmore, Minister to Brazil, and during his residence in South America took part in negotiating a number of treaties; on his return, in 1853, became extensively engaged in the railway business; in 1861 served as a Brigadier and MajorGeneral in the Union Army; in 1862 was elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; in 1865 was appointed, by President Johnson, a member of the Board of Visitors to the West Point Academy, and was President of the Board; served on the Committee on the Death of President Lincoln, and again at the head of the Committee on Military Affairs; was a member of the National Committee appointed to accompany the re mains of President Lincoln to Illinois; also of the

was

Committee on Retrenchment; was one of the Repre sentatives designated by the House to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866; was also a Delegate Convention" of the Philadelphia "Loyalists and to the "Soldiers Convention" held at Pittsburgh was re-elected to the Fortieth and Fortyfirst Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Commit tee on Ordinance, and at the head of the Committee on Ways u:id Means; in 1870 was appointed Minister to England on his return to the United States, set tled in Washington City in the practice of his pro

to

1866,

;

;

fession.

Scammon, John F.; was born in Saco, Maine, October 24, 1786; was bred a merchant; served in the Massachusetts Legislature, as a Representative, during 1817, and in the Maine Legislature in 1820 and 1821; was Collector of Customs at Saco from 1829 to 1841; was Secretary of an insurance company from 1841 to 1845, and Treasurer of a savings bank from 1843 to 1845; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1845 to 1847; was a State Senator in 1855. Died

Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals, which po he held for eight years. Died atCamden, New

sition

Schermerhorn,

1801.

and 1806; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1815 to 1817; was among the first who engaged in the manufacture of cotton under the non-intercourse laws. Died in 1831. 1805,

Schenck, Ferdinand S.; was born in MiddleBex County, New Jersey, February 11, 1790; received a common school education; having studied medi cine, was, for many years, devoted to its practice; in 1829 was elected to the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1830 and 1831; was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1833 to 1837; in 1844 was a member of the Convention to revise the State Constitution; was soon afterwards elected a

M.; was a Repre

New York from 1849 New York, August 22,

Schleicher, Gustave was born at Darmstadt, Germany, November 19, 1823; was educated at the University of Giessen became a civil engineer, and was employed on the construction of railroads emi grated to Texas in 1847; at first lived on the frontier, but settled in San Antonio in 1850; served in the State Legislature in 1853 and 1854; from 1859 to 1861 served in the State Senate; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-fourth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth and Fortysixth Congresses. Died, at Washington City, Jan ;

;

;

uary 1777;

Abraham

sentative in Congress from to 1853. Died in Rochester, 1855.

10, 1879.

Schley, William was born in Frederick City, Maryland, December 15, 1786; received an academic education in Georgia; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Augusta, Georgia, in 1812; continued ;

the practice of his profession until 1825, when lie vvas elected a Judge of the Superior Court of the Midlie District of Georgia; was elected to the State Leg islature in 1830; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1833 to 1835; during the two suceeding years was Governor of Georgia; published a the English Statutes "Digest of was, when Gov ernor, one of the most active supporters of the West ern and Atlantic Railroad; at the time of his death ,vas President of the Medical College of Georgia. Died at Augusta, Georgia, November 20, 1858. ";

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Schofleld, John McAllister; was born in Chautanqua County, New York, September 29, 1831 removed to Illinois with his parents, when a boy; graduated at the West Point Military Academy in 1853, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Second Artillery; was first stationed in South Carolina and Florida; was an instructor in Natural Philosophy, at West Point, for five years; in 1860 ;

w^s granted leave of absence to occupy the chair of Natural Philosophy in Washington University, at St. Louis; on the commencement of hostilities in 1860 was detailed, by the War Department, to raise troops and was appointed Major of the First Missouri Vol unteers; in 1861 was appointed a Captain in the Reg ular Army: was Chief of General Lyon s Staif as Assistant Adjutant when that heroic General fell at Wilson s Creek, and acquitted himself with great gal lantry; in November, 1861, was made a BrigadierGeneral of Volunteers; in June, 1862, the entire State of Missouri was placed under his command; in Octo ber following he won the battle of Maysville, near Pea Ridge, in Arkansas; soon after that was commis sioned a Major-General of Volunteers; in 1864 be came a Brigadier-General in the Regular Army, and in 1865 was elevated to the full rank of Major-Gen eral; in 1864 joined General Sherman with seventeen thousand men, and took a conspicuous part in nearly all the engagements of the Atlanta campaign, until the surrender of General Joseph Johnston; after the war made a tour of inspection in the Southern States; also visited Europe; in 1867 was assigned to the First Military District, comprising Virginia; on the resig nation of General Grant as Secretary of War ad in terim, and while impeachment was progressing, was appointed, by President Johnson, Secretary of War; after the acquittal of the President, was duly con firmed,

May

30, 1868.

Schoolcraft, John L.; was born in Albany, York, and was always identified with that city

New

as a merchant; was, for many years, President of the Commercial Bank of Albany was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1849 to 1853. Died ;

at St. Catherine

s,

Canada West,

in

May, 18oO.

Schoonmaker, Cornelius

O.; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New York from 1791 to 1793; was, for fourteen years, before and after the above term, a member of the New York Assembly, from the County of Ulster.

Schoonmaker, Marius was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that ;

State from 1851 to 1853.

was a citizen of Rhode Schroecter, Francis and a man of superior culture; in 1849 was appointed Charge (P Affaires to Sweden; in 1854 was raised to the rank of Minister Resident; subsequently traveled extensively in Europe, and published an in teresting work in two volumes of observations on the ;

Island,

Mediterranean.

Schultz,

Emanuel

;

was born in Berks County

Pennsylvania, July 25, 1819; removed to Ohio in 1838; engaged in the business of manufacturing; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1673; in 1875 was elected a member of the State use of Representatives for the term of two yearswas elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortyseventh Congress. H
9

1

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. mania, where he signed treaties with Roumania on behalf of the United States; in 1881 was sent on a special mission to Belgrade, Servia, where he con cluded treaties with that country; in 1883 was ap pointed Minister Resident and Consul-General to Greece, Roumania, and Servia; contributed to various American and English periodicals; published two translations from the Russian, "Father and Son," by Targenef, in 1867, and The Cossacks, by Count Tolstoi, in 1878; edited a translation from the Fin nish in 1867; published a biography of Peter the Great in 1879 to 1883; in 1882 received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College; was, at different times, elected a member of the American Geographi "

"

New York; The Royal Geographical So London; The Imperial Russian Geographical Society, St. Petersburg; The Royal Italian Geograph cal Society,

ciety,

Rome; The Academy of Arcadia, Rome; The Royal Asiatic Society, London; La Societie The Evangelical School, Asiatique, Paris, and ical Society,

Smyrna.

Schuyler, Philip was a native of Albany, New York; was appointed Major-General in the army of the Revolution in 1775, and dispatched to the forti fications of the north of New York, to prepare for the invasion of Canada; by the loss of his health, the command soon devolved upon Montgomery; on his recovery, directed the operations against Burgoyne, and in consequence of the evacuation of Ticonderoga, ;

unreasonably fell under some suspicion, and was superseded in command by General Gates; after wards rendered important services, though not in command; was a Delegate to Congress previous to the present Constitution; was a Senator of the United States, by appointment, from 1789 to 1791, and again in 1797, but resigned. Died at Albany in 1804, aged seventy -three years.

J.; was a Representative in York from 1817 to 1819. Died February 21, 1835, aged sixty-

Schuyler, Philip Congress from

New

in

City,

New York

seven years.

Sch warts, John; was born in Jerks County, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1793; received a common school education; served as Lieutenant in the last war with Great Britain; was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1806 to 1829, and from that year to 1857 was devoted to farming; was elected a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Con Died in July, 1860, before the expiration of gress. 1

its first session.

/ Scofleld, G-lenni W.; was born in Chantauqua County, New York, March 11, 1S17; graduated at Hamilton College in 1840, and removed to Warren, Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the bar in 1843; in 1850 and 1851 was a member of the Penn sylvania Assembly, and from 1857 to 1859 was in the State Senate; in 1861 was appointed President Judge Sot the Eighteenth Judicial District of the State; in 18(i2 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Elections, and Expenditures in the War Department; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Con gress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Un Business; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Elections, and Indian Affairs; was re-elected to the three sub sequent Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs; was Register of the Treasury of the United States from 1878 to 1881, when he was appointed an Associate Justice of the \United States Court of Claims. finished

.

Scott,

Abraham

M.; was Governor of Missis

sippi from 1831 to 1833.

439

Andrew

was an early emigrant to Ar Scott, kansas; in 1819 was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for that Territory. Scott, Charles

;

;

was born

in

Cumberland Coun

ty, Virginia, in 1733; was a non-commissioned officer at Braddock s defeat in 1755; raised and commanded

the

first company south of the James River for the Revolutionary Army; was appointed Colonel of the Third Virginia Battalion in 1776; was distinguished at Trenton; was Brigadier-General in 1777; was at the battle of Stony Point in 1779; was made prisoner at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1780; was not ex until near the close of the war; was the last changed to leave the field of Monmouth, and was particularly in 1785 settled in Woodford County, distinguished; Kentucky; was with St. Clair as Brigadier-General of Kentucky levies; in 1791 commanded in an Ex pedition to the Wabash, and against the Indians; in 1794 commanded a portion of Wayne s Army at the battle of Fallen Timbers; the Shiretown of Powhattan was named for him; also a County in Kentucky; was Governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812. Died October 22, 1820.

Scott, Charles L.; was born at Richmond, Vir January 23, 1827; his early education was ac quired in the private schools of Richmond and at the Richmond Academy, and during the years 1844, 1845 and 1846 he attended William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Virginia; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar; practiced law at Richmond, Vir ginia, in 1847, 1848 and 1849; in the latter year went ginia,

to California in a sailing vessel; in the fall of that year entered upon the practice of law in San Fran from February, 1850. until the cisco, California spring of 1852 worked in the gold mines in Northern California; then went to Tuolumne County, in South ern California, where he worked in the mines about two years; in 1854 resumed the practice of his pro fession; in 1855 was the Democratic candidate for State Senator, but was defeated; in 1856 was elected a Representative from California to the Thirty-fifth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con gress; left his seat in Congress in March, 1861, and went to Alabama, where he enlisted in the Confeder ate Army; was elected Major of his regiment; par ticipated in the first battle of Manassas, in July, 1861, and was severely wounded in the right leg; at the battle of Seven Pines, in 1862, ruptured his old wound and was compelled to withdraw from active service; was appointed, by President Davis, Chief Justice of the Court of Inquiry of Longstreet s Divi sion, with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, but was compelled, by ill-health, to decline the office; en gaged in planting; in 1867 became proprietor and editor of a newspaper; in 1877 removed to Mon roe County, Alabama, and engaged in planting; in 1881 resumed the practice of his profession at Monroe;

ville, Alabama; in April, 1885, was appointed, by President, Cleveland, United States Minister to Ven ezuela.

Scott, Gustavus was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1785; was one of the original Commissioners of Public Buildings lor the District of Columbia. ;

Harvey

Scott, D.; was born in Ohio; removed to Indiana; was elected a Representative from In diana to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Scott, James was an early emigrant to the West; in 1813 was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Indiana. ;

Scott, ginia,

in

John was

born in ; 1782; graduated at

Hanover County, Vir Princeton College in

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

440

in 1802; 1805; removed, with his parents, to Indiana settled at St. Genevieve, Missouri, in 1805; was a Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Missouri from 1816 to 1821; was a Representative in Congress from Missouri from 1821 to 1827. Died at St. Geuevieve, in 1861.

Scott, John was a Representative in Congress from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, from 18:29 ;

to 1831.

Scott, John was born at Alexandria, Hunting don County, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1824, his father, bearing the same name, having formerly served in ;

Congress; received a common school education; stud ied law, and came to the bar in 1846; was a Prose cuting Attorney from 1846 to 1849; was for ten years Solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; in 1862 was elected to the State Legislature; presided over a State Convention held at Williarnsport in 1867; was elected a Senator in Congress from Penn sylvania for the term commencing in 1869 and end ing in 1875, serving on the Committees on Naval Af fairs, Claims, and Pacific Railroad, and as Chairman of that on Claims.

John

vania Canal; in 1850 became General Agent of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad; in 1858 was made General Superintendent of the entire line of road; in 1860 was elected Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; in May, 1861, while in Washington attending to railroad business, was commissioned Colonel of the District of Columbia Volunteers; a few weeks later was appointed in charge of all Government railways and telegraphs; in August, 1861, was appointed Assistant Secretary of War; resigned this office in June, 1862, and re sumed his duties as Vice-President of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company; in 1863 became Colonel and Assistant Quartermaster on the Staff of General Hooker; then resumed his former office in the Railroad Company; was a Director in several Railroad Companies; from March, 1871, to March, 1872, was, in addition to his other duties, President of the Union Pacific Railway Company; in May, 1872, was elected President of the Texas Pacific Railway Company; in August. 187:?, was elected President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway Com pany; in 1874 was elected President of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company; in May, 1880, resigned the latter office. Died May 21, 1881.

Q.; was born in Philadelphia, Penn left that city when 26, 1819 seventeen years of age, to seek his fortune in the West; settled in Missouri, and for many years re sided at the Iron Mountain; engaged in the business of iron-master, and in developing the mineral re sources of the State; in 1862, at a special election, was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-eighth Congress, in the place of J. W. Noell, deceased was a candidate for Congress at the regu lar election, in 1862, against Mr. Noell, but was de feated by a small majority; his committee duties were rendered as a member of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Scott, William L.; was born at Washington, D. C., July 2, 1828, his parents being residents of Virginia; his father, Robert I. Scott, was a graduate of West Point, in the class of 1812, and his grand

Scott, John Morin was Secretary of State of New York State in 1778 and 1789; was a Delegate from New York to the Continental Congress from

became largely interested in iron manufacturing, coal mining, and the construction and operation of railroads; as 1 resident or Director, was interested in

Scott,

December

sylvania,

;

;

;

1780 to 1783.

Scott,

Robert Kingston; was born

in

Arm

strong County, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1826; studied medicine, and graduated as M. D. at the Starling Medical College, Ohio; settled to practice in Henry County, Ohio; was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of theiSixty-eighth Ohio Volunteers in 1861; Colonel in 1862;*. was at the capture of Fort Donelson, battle of Shiloh, and siege of Corinth; commanded a brigade at Hatchie River, Tennessee, under General Hmibut; commanded the advance of General Logan s Division on the march into Mississippi; was engaged at Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, and Champion Hills; commanded the Second Brigade, Third Division, Seventeenth Corps until July, 1865; was made pris oner near Atlanta; was exchanged September 24, in was Sherman s 1864; operations before A tlanta] and in the "march to the sea"; was Assistant Com missary from 1865 to 1868; was Governor of South Carolina from 1863 to 1871.

Thomas; was

a Representative in Con Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1791, and again from 1793 to 1795; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac.

Scott,

gress from

Scott, Thomas A.; was born at London, Frank County, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1824; was educated at the village school; while a lad was, at different times, employed in several village stores; in 1847 became Collector of Tolls on the Pennsyl lin

father, Gustavus Scott, was a Delegate from Mary land to the Continental Congress, and was appointed, first Commissioner of Public Buildings in the City of Washington; Mr. Scott received a common school education; was a Page in the National House of Representatives from 1840 to 1846; in 1848 settled at Erie, Pennsylvania, as a clerk in the shipping business; in 1850 engaged in the coal and shipping business, owning and employing steam and sailing vessels on the Lakes; subsequently

by President Washington, the

22,000 miles of completed road, probably the largest mileage in the management of which one man was ever interested; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1868 and 1880; was elected Mayor of Erie in 1866, and again in 1871; was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1884; by the union of Democrats and Inde pendent Republicans in 1884 was elected a Repre sentative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-ninth Con gress. "Winneld was born near Petersburg, June 13, 1786; attended the High School at Richmond, and William and Mary College; went through a course of law studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1806; his first military service was ren dered in 1807, when he joined a Militia company of

Scott,

;

Virginia,

horse, to repel the anticipated invasion of the British; in 1809, after having made an effort to settle in South Carolina as a lawyer, was commissioned a Cap tain, and joined the army at New Orleans; returned home in 1810, but rejoined the Army of Louisiana in 1811; in 1812 was raised to the rank of Major, and later to that of Lieutenant-Colonel, and ordered to Buffalo; in the affair of Qneenstown was taken prisoner by the British was exchanged early in 1813; before the close of that year captured Fort ;

George, and was commissioned a Colonel; in 1814 was made Adjutant-General, and during the summer of that year won the important battles of Chippewa and Lundy s Lane, in the last of which he was wounded; for these important, services was brevetted Major-General; received, with the thanks of the

,

BIOGKAPHICAL ANNALS.

441

medal from Congress, and was tenScranton, Joseph A.; was born at Madison, dered the appointment of Secretary of War, which he Connecticut, July 26, 1838; removed to Pennsyl declined; early in 1832 took part in the campaign vania in 1847; received an academic education; was against Black Hawk; before the close of that year Collector of Internal Revenue from 1862 to 1866; was ordered to Charleston, where, as a peacemaker, in 1867 founded the Scranton Republican newspaper; he did much to quell the excitement growing out of was a Delegate to the Republican National Conven Nullification; in 1837 was assigned to duty against tion of 1872; was Postmaster at Scranton, Pennsyl the Seminoles in Florida, and also against the Creek vania, from 1874 to 1881 was elected a Representative Indians; his presence on the Canadian frontier in from Pennsylvania to the Forty-seventh Congress; 18,58 and 1839 did much to quiet the troubles of that in 1884 was elected a Representative to the Fortyexciting period; in 1841, on the death of General ninth Congress. became Commander-in-chief of the Army; Macomb, took a prominent part in the War with Mexico; his Scruggs, William L.; was born near Knoxfirst service there was to invest Vera Cruz, which ville, Tennessee, September 14, 1834; received a surrendered to his arms; then defeated Santa Anna classical education; studied law, and was admitted at Cerro Gordo entered Jalapa; occupied the Castle to practice in 1869; was editor of the Columbus and town of Perote, and the City of Puebla; defeated (Georgia) Sun from 1861 to 1864; in 1865 became the enemy at Contreras and Cherubusco; carried, by editor of the New Era, at Atlanta, Georgia; in 1867 assault, the great fortification of Chapultepec, the severed his connection with the New Era, and estab key to the City of Mexico; entered the City of lished a paper in the interest of reconstruction; was Mexico as victor, and, the object of the war having again chief editor of the New Era from 1870 to 1872, been accomplished, peace wasconcluded in February, when he became editor of the Whig; in the latter part of 1872 was appointed United States Assessor of 1848; although an attempt was made by a rival Gen eral to injure his fame, he returned to Washington, Internal Revenue for the District of Georgia; in 1873 and resumed his position at the head of the Army; was appointed Minister of the United States to the was Secretary of War ad interim, in 1850, under United States of Colombia, remaining in that position until the mission was abolished, in 1876; in 1879 President Fillmore; in 1852 became the Whig candi date for the office of President, but was defeated in was appointed United States Consul at Chin Kiang, 185!) was honored with the brevet title of Lieu tenant- China, and a few months later was promoted to the Consulate at Canton, China; the Colombian mission General, the rank having been established by Con gress for his exclusive benefit, and so framed that it having been revived, Mr. Scruggs was, in 1882, should not survive him; on the breaking out of the transferred to that station. Eebellion again rendered important services by securing to the Government the possession of Wash Scudder, Henry J.; was born in Northport, ington City and the safe inauguration of President Suffolk County, New York, in 1825; graduated at Lincoln; on the last day of October, 1861, because of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1846; his declining health, he asked to be retired from studied law in New York City; was admitted to the active service; on the 1st of November the President, bar in 1848, and practiced in the State of New York; attended by all his Cabinet, waited upon him at his was elected a Representative from New York to the residence, and read to him the order which placed Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on him on the retired list, "without reduction in his War Claims. current pay, subsistence, or allowance," and on the Scudder, Isaac "W.; was born in Elizabeth, in same day Major-General George B. McClellan was ap 1818; studied law with his father; removed to Jersey pointed his successor in command of the army; sub and commenced practice there; was twice sequently made a brief visit to Europe; on his return City, Prosecutor of the Court of Common Pleas for Hudson settled at West Point, New York; published "In was elected a Representative from New fantry Tactics"; "Regulations of the Army," and County; an several biographies of him Jersey to the Forty-third Congress, serving on one Autobiography were issued during his life, by E. D. Mansfield and or more Committees. nation, a gold

i

;

;

;

;

others.

Died at West Point,

May

29, 1866.

Jonathan; was born

at Salisbury, Connecticut; received a good education; engaged in the business of mining and manufacturing iron at Canaan, Connecticut, in 1854; removed to Buffalo, and engaged in the manufacture New York, in of car wheels; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty -sixth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ray V. Pierce; was re-elected to the Forty -seventh Congress.

Scoville,

Scudder, John A.; was a native of New Jersey; was a physician by profession; served a number of years in the Assembly of his native State; was a

Representative in Congress from New Jersey for the unexpired term of James Cox, who died in 1810.

18;>0,

Scranton, George W.; was born

New Haven

County, Connecticut.

May

Congress.

;

in Madison, 23, 1811; re

ceived a common school education; when eighteen years of age removed to New Jersey; subsequently removed to Pennsylvania, and engaged in the iron and railroad business, having extensive interests at Oxford, New Jersey, and at Scranton, Pennsylvania; held the positions, severely, of President of the Dela ware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, and of the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railway; in 1858 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Manufactures; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh 24, 1861.

Scudder, Nathaniel; graduated at Princeton College in 1751 was a Delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1779, and was one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Died in 1781.

Died at Scranton, Pennsylvania, March

Scudder, Tread-well; was, for six years, a member of the New York Assembly; was a Repre sentative in Congress from New York, from 1817 to 1819. Scudder, Zeno sachusetts,

August

;

was born in Barnstable, Mas

18, 1807; filled

with credit vari

ous public positions; was President of the Massachu setts Senate; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts, from 1851 to 1854, when he was compelled, by failing health, to resign his seat; was a good lawyer, and enjoyed the confidence and re Died at spect of the community in which he lived. Barnstable, Massachusetts, June 26, 1857.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

442

Scurry, Richardson; was born in Tennessee; was elected a Representative in Congress from Texas, from 1851 to 1853.

Seabrook,

Whitemarsh

B.;

Luke

Seal,

s Parish, April 16, 1855.

Roderick was born

Mississippi; received a good education adopted thfi profession of the law; held no public position except that of a Representative in the Legislature; in 1875 was elected a Representative from Mississippi to the ;

Forty-fourth Congress.

Seaman, Henry J.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847.

Searing John A.; was born

in Queens County, York, May 14, 1814; his father died when he was young, and he was educated at the common schools of New York, by his grandparents; was bred a farmer; held several public positions previously to his election as a member of the State Legislature in was chosen a Representative from New York to 1

,

New

18">3;

the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions and Accounts.

Searle,

born in New York City was a merchant in the house of his

James; was

about 1730;

Constitutional Convention" of 1820;

March

1,

1844.

Seay, William A. in

was a resident of Louisiana; was appointed, by President Cleve Minister Resident and Consul-General of the

May,

land,

brother, in Madeira; settled in Philadelphia about 1763; signed the non-importation agreement of 1765 was one of the managers of the United States Lottery from 1776 to 1778, when he was, for a short time, a member of the Navy Board; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 178U, and was ;

Chairman of the Committees on Qommerce, Foreign in 1780 was sent to Affairs, and of the Marine Europe to negotiate a State loan for Pennsylvania, but returned unsuccessful in 1782. Died at Phila delphia, August 7, 1797. ;

Seaton, Charles W.; was a

resident of the Dis of Columbia; was, for some years, a clerk in the Census Bureau at Washington in November, 1881, was appointed Superintendent of the Census Bureau. trict

;

Seaton, William Winston; was born in King William County, Virginia, January 11. 1785; was chiefly educated by private tutors; early acquired a knowledge of printing; edited a paper in Petersburg, Virginia, and also another in Halifax, North Carolina; became connected with the Register, in Raleigh; in 1812 went to Washington City, and joined his brotherin-law, Joseph Gales, in the management of the Xntional Intelligencer, with which he was most honorably identified until his death in Washington, which oc curred June 16, 1866; held a great many local offices was frequently elected Mayor; was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; in con junction with Mr. Gales, was one of the L ublic Prin In the Federal city;

ters for very many years, and left a brilliant reputa tion for his merits as a man, and his character as an

and statesman; a few years after his death a sketch of his life, with correspondence, was published by one of his daughters, Miss Josephine Seaton; for a chapter of personal recollections, the reader is re ferred to "Haphazard Personalities," by the present editor

writer.

United Stales to Bolivia.

in 1763;

at Harvard University in 1784; was a btate Legislature from 1794 to 1802;

graduated

member of the was a member

in Vernon,

Tennessee; was educated at Columbia College, in that State; settled in Arkansas, in 1835, in the prac tice of law; was soon after appointed Prosecuting Attorney, and held the office until 1837; was Circuit Judge from 1840 to 1842; in the latter year was ap pointed a State Supreme Judge; was a State Senator, and President of the State Senate in 1846; was a Presidential Elector in 1848; was a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1847 to 1853; was reelected for the term ending in 1859, and, in the latter year, was re-elected for a term of six years, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and a member of the Committee on Territories; was ex pelled for disloyalty July 11, 1861.

James

A.; was born in Virginia; was Seddon, elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1849 to 1851 was a member of the Confederate Government, as a Rep resentative in Congress in 1861, having previously Peace Congress of that been a Delegate to the ;

year;

in

1862 became the Confederate Secretary of

War.

Sedgwick, C. B.; was born in Pompey, New York, March, 1815; adopted the profession of the law; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as Chairman of that Committee; in 1863 was appointed, by Presi dent Lincoln, a Commissioner to look after certain naval affairs. Sedgwick, Theodore was

born at West HartConnecticut, in May, 1746: was educated at Yale College, but did not graduate; in leaving this institution commenced the study of theology, but soon relinquished it and studied law; was admitted to the bar before reaching the age of twenty-one; ;

lord,

commenced

practice at Great Barrington, Massachu then settled at Sheffield, and afterwards at Stockbridge, in the same county; was a zealous pat riot in the Revolutionary War; was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1785 and 178(i; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Massachusetts, after the adoption of the Constitution, from 17S9 to 1796; was a Senator of the United States from 1796 to 1798J and served as President pro tern, during one session; in 1799 was again a member of the House, and was chosen Speaker; from 1H02 until his death was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; died at Boston, January 24. 1813; received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton College and Cambridge Uni As a statesman and jurist he was highly versity. valued by his country. His life was, in an uncom mon degree, varied and active; his industry was un wearied, and an ardent enthusiasm was the basis of setts;

his character.

Seeley, John E. was born in Ovid, New York, August 1, 1810; graduated in Yale College in 1835; studied law, and came to the bar in 1840; was elected County Judge and Surrogate in 1851, and served four years; was a Presidential Elector in 1860 and also in ;

Seaver, Ebenezer; was born

;

1885,

Sebastian, William K.; was born

in Harrison County,

;

"State

was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1813. Died in Roxbury, Massachusetts,

was born in

South Carolina in 1795; graduated at the New Jersey was College in 1812; served in the State Senate; President of the State Agricultural Society; was Gov ernor of South Carolina from 1848 to 1850. Died in St.

of the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was elected a Representative from New York Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Freedmen s Affairs. 1864;

to the Forty-second

Seely, Elias P. for

was Governor of

;

New

Jersey

a part of the year 1833.

Seelye, Julius H.

;

was born

in

Danbury, (now

Bethel) Connecticut, September 4, 1824; graduated at Amherst College in 1849; studied in Auburn Theological Seminary; was ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York, in 1853, and remained there until appointed Pro fessor at Amherst College in 1858; was the author of "Christian Memories," etc.; in 1874 was elected a

Representative

from Massachusetts to the Forty-

fourth Congress.

Segar, Joseph E. was born in King William County, Virginia, June 1, 1804; in 1836 was elected to the House of Delegates of Virginia, and continued for several years; was again elected to the ^to serve same position in 1848, and continued to serve almost uninterruptedly until the State rebelled against the Union; after Eastern Virginia was restored to the Federal authority, was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh Congress.

443

ble to office in Maryland; in 1829 was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from Maryland; was re-elected in 1831; his health failing soon after found it neces sary to retire at a time when there was no opposition to him in his district; again served in the State Leg islature in 1842 and 1843.

Semple, James ; was born in Kentucky in 1800; emigrated to Illinois in 1827; was elected a Repre sentative in the Illinois Legislature, and served six years, during four of which he officiated as Speaker of the House of Representatives; in 1833 was elected Attorney-General of the State; was appointed Charge Affaires to New Granada in 1837; was elected one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State in 1842; was a Senator in Congress from Illinois from 1843 to 1847. Died at Elsah Landing, Illinois, in January, 1867. 6;

Shannon, Peter C.; was born in Pennsyl vania; was appointed, from that State, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Territory of Dakota. Shannon, Thomas was a Representative in Congress from Ohio in 1826 and 1827. ;

:

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Shannon, Thomas B.; was born in Westmore land County, Pennsylvania, in 1827; emigrated to Illinois in 1844; in 1849 removed to California; from 1854 to 1861 was engaged in merchandising; served four sessions in the California Legislature; in 1863 was elected a Representative from California to the Thirty -eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Indian Affairs; was a member of the National Com mittee appointed to accompany the remains of Presi dent Lincoln to Illinois; was subsequently appointed Collector of

Customs at San Francisco.

447

Shaver, Leonidas; was an early emigrant to of Utah; in 1853 was appointed an Associate Justice the United States Court for the Territory of Utah.

Shaw, Aaron; was born New York, in 1811; received an

in Orange County, academic education;

taught school at Warwick, in his native county, at the age of sixteen; read law for three years; removed to Vincennes, Indiana, in 1831, and continued the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1833, when he removed to Lawrenceville, Illinois, and com menced practice in 1836 was chosen a Delegate to the first Internal Improvement Convention held in the State; was, soon after, elected, by the Legisla ture, State s Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Cir cuit; served one term and declined a re-nomination; served several terms in the State Legislature, and was an earnest advocate of internal improvements; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirtyfifth Congress, and served one term; was then elected Circuit Judge, and served six years; continued the practice of his profession at Olney, Illinois, to which place he gave its name, in honor of his friend, Na than Olney; was elected a Representative from Illi nois to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

Shannon,

"Wilson

February

ty, Ohio,

24,

was born in Belmont Coun 1802; was educated at Athens ;

Ohio, and Transylvania University, Ken tucky; adopted the profession of the law; in 1835 was Prosecuting Attorney for the State of Ohio; was elected Governor of Ohio in 1837, and again in 1842; in 1844 was appointed, by President Tyler, United States Minister to Mexico; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855; in 1855 was appointed, by President Pierce, Governor of the Ter ritory of Kansas. College,

Sharkey, "William L.; was Presiding Judge of the High Court of Errors in Mississippi; was Pro visional Governor of Mississippi in 1865 and 1866. Died in Washington. District of Columbia, April 29, 1873, in the eighty -third year of his age. Sharon, "William; was born at Smithfield, Ohio, January 9, 1821; received a good education; prepared himself for the legal profession, but relin quished it to enter the banking business; on remov ing to Nevada became largely interested in mining operations; the only public position of a political character he ever accepted, was that of a Senator in Congress from Nevada, to which he was elected for the term beginning in 1875 and ending in 1881; was largely interested in the financial affairs of the Pacific Slope; was Trustee of the Bank of California, and during the troubles of that institution, arising out of the death of the late President, he did more than any other man to bring its aifairs to a satisfactory settle ment. Died November 13, 1885.

Sharp, Solomon P.; was born in Virginia in 1780; removed to Kentucky when a child; received a limited education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar when nineteen years of age; served a number of years in the State Legislature; was Attorney-Gen eral of the State; was a Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1817; fell by the hand of an assassin, while a member of the Legislature, in November, 1835; a legislative reward of three thou sand dollars was offered for the arrest of the mur derer.

Shaw, Frank T.; was born at Woodsborough, Frederick County, Maryland, October 7, 1841; re ceived a common school education; graduated from the medical department of the University of Mary land in 1864; located at Uniontown, Carroll County, Maryland, where he practiced his profession until November, 1873; in that year was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County for the term of six years; was re-elected in 1879; in 1880 was nom inated for Representative in the Forty-seventh Con gress, but declined; was one of the managers of the Maryland House of Correction was, for many years, a member of the Democratic State Central Commit tee of Maryland; in 1884 was elected a Representa tive from Maryland to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

Shaw, Henry was born in Windham County, Vermont, in 1788; studied law with Judge Foot, in Albany, New York, and settled in practice in Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, at the age of twenty-two; was nominated for Congress before he was eligible; in 1816 was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress; voted for the Missouri Compromise, which prevented his re-election; was an intimate friend of Henry Clay, and a personal friend and acquaintance of ton of the Presidents of the United States; was a member of ;

the Massachusetts Legislature for eighteen years; was also a member of the Governor s Council; was the pioneer in the manufacturing prosperity of west ern Massachusetts in 1833 was a Presidential Elec tor; in 1848 removed to New York, and resided at Fort Washington, on the Hudson; was a member of the Board of Education in New York City, and two years in the Common Council; in 1853 was elected a member of the New York Assembly; removed to Newburg, New York, in 1854, where he resided until within a few months of his death, which occurred at ;

of New York Constitutional a Representative in the

Sharpe, Peter was a resident State; was a member of the State ;

Convention of 1813;

was

New York

Legislature from 1814 to 1820, serving, during several sessions, as Speaker of the House; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1821 to 1823; in 1827 was a member of the "Tariff

Convention."

Sharpe, "William; was born in Cecil County, Maryland, December 13, 1742; removed to Macklenburg, North Carolina, at the age of twenty-one; was a lawyer, and a patriot of the Revolution; was a Delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776; was Aid-de-camp to General Rutherford in the Indian campaign of 1776, and was one of the Commissioners who made a treaty with them in 1777; was a Repre sentative from North Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1782. Died in Iredell County, North Carolina, July, 1818.

Peekskill, October 17, 1857.

Shaw, Henry M.; was born November

at Newport,

Rhode

1819; studied medicine, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; re moved to North Carolina; was a State Senator in 1852; was a Representative from North Carolina to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and was a member of the Committees on Manufactures and Revolutionary Pensions; during the War of the Rebellion served as a Colonel in the Confederate Island,

Army, and was lina, in

20,

killed near

February, 1864.

Newberne, North Caro

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

448

Shaw, Samuel; was born in Dighton, Massa chusette, in December, 1768; removed to Putney, Vermont, at the age of ten years; received a limitec education; commenced the study of medicine at the age of seventeen; in two years entered upon the practice of his profession at Castleton, Vermont, anc" became eminent as a surgeon early entered into pol;

and was one of the victims of the Sedition law for his denunciation of the administration of John Adams was imprisoned; was liberated by the people without the forms of law; in 1799 was returned as a member of the Vermont Legislature; was, for some time, a member of the State Council was a Repre sentative in Congress from Venront from 1808 to 1813, having succeeded J. "\Vetherell, resigned; was a personal friend of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and gave his earnest support to the measures for the prosecution of the war with Great Britain: on his re tirement from Congress was appointed Surgeon in the army, and removed to the city of New York; was subsequently stationed at Greenbush, St. Louis, and at Norfolk, and held this office until 1816; as an in il^ics,

;

stance of his physical endurance, it may be men tioned that, on one occasion, he rode on horseback from St. Louis, Missouri, to Albany, New York, in twenty-nine consecutive days. Died at Clarendon,

Vermont, October

22, 1827.

Shaw, Tristam

;

was born in

New Hampshire

in 1787; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1839 to 1843. Died at Exeter, New

Hampshire, March

14, 1843.

Sheffey, Daniel

was born at Frederick, Mary ; in 1770; received a limited education; was bred to the trade of a shoemaker; settled in Augusta, Virginia; afterwards studied law, engaged in a lucra tive practice, and frequently represented his County in the House of Delegates; was a Representative in land,

Congress from Virginia from 1809 to 1817, and took a high rank his speech in favor of the renewal of the first Bank of the United States was a masterly pro duction; was opposed to the war of 1812. Died at ;

his

home, December

1830.

Kingston Academy, and then from a private tutor; studied law at Hartford University, and was admit ted to the bar in 1844; in 1841 and in 1842 was elected to Conventions called to frame a State Consti tution; in 1845 was elected, from his native town, a member of the State Assembly; removing his resi dence to Tiverton, was again elected to the Assembly in 1849, where he continued to serve until 1853, when he resigned his seat, and settled in Newport; that city he represented in the Assembly from 1857 to 1861, when he was elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the Thirty-seventh Congress,, serv ing as a member of the Committees on Commerce, and on Foreign Affairs; in 1869 was appointed one of the Commissioners to revise the laws of Rhode Island.

Shelabarger, Samuel; was born

in Clarke graduated at the University, Ohio, in 1841; adopted the profes sion of the law; was a member of the Ohio Legisla ture in 1852 and 1853; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Expenses in the Interior Depart in 1864 was elected to the Thirty-ninth Con ment; on the gress, serving Committees on Elections and Expenditures in the State Department, and the Committees on the Civil Service and the New Special Orleans Riots, and as Chairman of the Committee on the Provost Marshal Bureau was a Delegate to the

County. Ohio, December

Miami

Sheafe, James; was born in 1755; was a Rep resentative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1799 to 1801; was a Senator in Congress in 1801 and Died at Portsmouth, 1802, resigning June, 1802. New Hampshire, in 1829.

Sheakley, James ; was born near the village of Sheakleyville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1830; was reared on a farm, and educated at a common school; in 1850 went to California, where he spent three years; returned to Pennsylvania in 1854 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; was, for many years, extensively engaged in the petroleum trade; was, for fifteen years, a member of the School Board in Green ville,

3,

Sheffield., "William P.; was born at New Shoreham (Block Island) Newport County, Rhode Island, August 30, 1820; his education was obtained first at

Mercer County; in 1874 was elected a Repre from Pennsylvania to the

sentative

Forty-fourth

10, 1817;

;

was on the Committee on the Assassination of President Lincolnwas re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce. "Philadelphia

Loyalists Convention" of 1866;

re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving

Congress.

Sheats, Charles Christopher Walker County, Alabama, April 10,

;

was born in

1839; received a good education; was elected to the Secession Conven tion in 1860, and was one of the seventeen who refused to sign the ordinance of separation; was elected to the State Legislature in 1861; in 1862 was expelled for his adherence to Unionism; was indicted for treason to the

Confederate Government and im prisoned in 1862; could not obtain a trial, and was in close confinement until the close of the warkept was elected a member of the Alabama Constitutional Convention in 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1867was a Presidental Elector in 1868; was appointed Consul at Elsinore, Denmark, in 1869; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty- third Con on the gress, serving Committees on Mines and Min ing, and Department of Justice; in March 1875 was appointed Sixth Auditor of the United States Treas ury, but, in a few months, was requested to resign.

Sheffer, Daniel; was born in Pennsylvania- was a Representative to Congress from that State from 183 to 183!). 1

Shelby, Isaac; was born near Hagerstown Maryland, December 11, 1750; received an ordinary English education, and became a surveyor in West ern Virginia; in 1774 was Lieutenant in his father s company at the battle of Point Pleasant, Virginiawas a Captain in 1776; was made Commissary in 1777; was a member of the Legislature in 1779- was commissioned a Major by Governor Jefferson; in 1780 was made Colonel, and defeated Major Ferguson at he battle of King s Mountain; was at the action of Vlusgrove s Mills; served under Marion in 1781; then omed Greene; was a member of the Legislature of Slorth Carolina in 1781 and 1782; received a vote of thanks and a sword from that body; in 1788 settled Traveler s Rest," Kentucky; was Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796, after its separation from Virginia; in 1813 joined General Harrison, and was at the battle of the Thames, for which service he was granted a gold medal by Congress; was appointed, President Monroe, Secretary of War, but declined account of his age; in 1818 was a Commissioner, vith General Jackson, to treat with the Cherokee 11S a county in and a college in Kentucky i? ,, Mielbyville were named for him. Died in Lincoln County, Kentucky, July 18, 1826 >y

; .

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Sheldon, A. W.; was born at Granville, Ohio, July 18, 1842; was educated at Denison University und at Columbia College Law School; enlisted in the Union Army in April, 1861, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and being mustered out of service in March, 1866, engaged in journalism for two years, and then en gaged in the practice of law in New York City; was Attorney of the New York Prison Association from 1871 to 1878; was Judge Advocate of the First Divi sion of the National Guard of the State of New York, with the rank of Colonel, from 1875 to 1881; was Judge Advocate of the Department of New York, Grand Army of the Eepublic, in 1877 and 1878; in 1881 removed to Baltimore, Maryland, and became editor of the Baltimore Herald; in April, 1883, was appointed, by the President, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona Territory. Sheldon, Lionel A.; was born at Worcester, Otsego County, New York, August 30, 1829; went, with his parents, to Ohio in 1833; worked on a farm and acquired a common school education; taught school for several years; studied law, and came to the bar in 1851, after which he attended the Law School at Poughkeepsie, New York; served one term us Judge of Probate in Lorain County, Ohio; was a of 1856; Delegate to the "Philadelphia Convention in 1861 entered the volunteer army as a Captain; was soon promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and in that capacity served in eastern Kentucky, the Cumberland Gap expedition, and the Vicksburg ex pedition, participating in the battles of Chickasaw Bluffs and Port Gibson, in the latter of which he \vas wounded; also saw much service in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, and at the close of the war was brevetted a Brigadier-General; subsequently settled in New Orleans, Louisiana, and devoted him self to bis profession; in 1868 was elected a Repre sentative from Louisiana to the Forty-first Congress; was re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, serving on many Committees, and as Chairman of that on Militia; in May, 1881, was appointed, by President Garfield, Governor of the Territory of New Mexico. "

was born at Victor, Ontario York, September 29, 1831; studied law, and came to the bar in 1854; practiced his profession at Randolph, New York, until 1857, when he re moved to Rockford, Illinois, where he continued the practice of his profession until 1865, when he re turned to Chautauqua, in his native State; in 1862 was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Illinois; in 1868 was elected a Representative from

Sheldon, Porter

County,

;

New

the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Retrench ment.

New York

to

Shelley, Charles M.; was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, December 28, 1833; removed, with his father, to Alabama in 1836; received a lim ited education; became an architect and builder; en tered the Confederate Army in 1861, and rose to the rank of Brigadier-General; after the close of the war resumed his occupation at Selma, Alabama; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses; in May, 1885, was appointed, by Presi dent Cleveland, Fourth Auditor in the United States Treasury at Washington.

Shepard, Charles B.; was born in Newberne, North Carolina, December 5, 1807; graduated at Chapel Hill in 1827; was elected to Congress in 1837, where he continued to serve until 1841. Died in October, 1843.

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Shepard, "William; was born at Weatfield, Massachusetts, December 1, 1737; at the age of sev enteen enlisted in the military service; when twentyone years old was a Lieutenant in the command of General Abererombie, and a year later was promoted to a Captaincy under General Amherst; served six years in the French War, taking part in the battles of Fort William Henry, Ticonderoga, Isle aux Noix, St. Johns, and Montreal; at the close of the war re turned to Westfield and to civilian pursuits; at the commencement of the War of the Revolution, in 1775, he entered the Colonial Army as a LieutenantColonel; in 1777 was commissioned a Colonel, and in 1780 was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General under General Lafayette served under General Washington for a long time; participated in twentytwo engagements, and remained in the service until the close of the war, in 1783; after the war, was a Brigadier-General of Militia; in 1785 and 1786 was a Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature; in the latter year was appointed a Major-General, and in the same year was summoned from his farm to assume command of the National forces at Spring field, Massachusetts, on the outbreak of the Shay Rebellion; his gallant, and successful, defence of the Springfield Arsenal was largely instrumental in sup pressing the insurrection and, on February 5, 1^ 87, the General Court of Massachusetts passed a resolu ;

complimenting General Shepard and his com for their gallantry he was appointed, by the Governor of Massachusetts, to treat with the Penobscot Indians, and by the National authorities to treat with the Six Nations; was a Presidential Elector in 1788 and 1792; was a member of the State Executive Council from 1792 to 1796; was a Representative from Massachusetts to the National Congress from May 15, Died at Westfield, Massa 1793, to March 3, 1803. tion

mand

chusetts,

;

November

11, 1817.

Shepard, William

B.; was born at Newberne, North Carolina, in 1799; was educated at Chapel Hill; studied law, and became eminent in his profes sion was a Representative in Congress from 1827 to 1837, when he declined a re-election; in 1838 was elected to the State Senate, where he served five terms. Died at Elizabeth City, June 20, 1852. ;

Shepherd, Alexander B.; was born in Wash ington City, January 31, 1835; at the age of ten was apprenticed to a carpenter, and when seventeen, to the trade of a plumber; became a partner in the house of J. W. Thompson & Co., and finally succeeded to the business in his own name; when the Rebellion commenced was one of the first to volunteer hisT ser ashvices in 1861 entered the Common Council of ington, and became President of the Council; in 1867 was appointed a member of the Levy Court; in 1869 was one of a hundred appointed to draft a bill for the union of the District of Columbia; in 1870 became President of the Citizen s Reform Association, and was also elected an Alderman; in 1871 was appointed a member of the Board of Public Works, and was Vice-President; while he was in that office, Washing ton was transformed in its appearance, from an old into a new city, and to his energy, executive ability, and unflinching courage, the people of the United States are indebted for a Capitol which is the pride of the Nation; in 1873 was appointed the second Gov ernor of the District of Columbia; remained in office until the form of Government was again changed; it is claimed for him that he erected more than one thousand houses in Washington, at a cost of five mil ;

W

lions of dollars: lost all his property in real estate speculations in Washington; became interested in silver mines in Mexico, and personally superintended

the working of the mines.

BIOGKAPHICAL ANNALS.

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was born in Massachu ; 1737; served six years as a Cap tain in the Revolutionary Army, and distinguished himself at William Henry and Crown Point; in 1783 was chosen a Brigadier-General, having fought in

Shepherd,

setts,

"William

December

1,

twenty-two battles; was subsequently a Major-Gen of Militia; was a Representative in Congress rfrom 1797 to 1803. Died at Westfield, Massachu eral

setts,

November

11, 1817.

Shepley, Ether was born in Groton, Massachu Dartmouth setts, November 2, 1789; graduated at College in 1811; studied law, and commenced the ;

practice in Saco; subsequently settled in Portland, Maine; was in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1819; was a member of the Convention that framed the first Constitution of Maine in 1820; was, for thirteen years, Attorney of the United States for Maine; was a Senator in Congress from Maine from 1833 to 1836; after leaving the Senate of the United States was chosen a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and subsequently Chief Justice of the same, which latter position he held until 1855; while on the bench he furnished the materials for twenty-six volumes of Reports, and, as sole Commissioner, was appointed to revise the Statutes of Maine; was Trus tee of Bowdoin College, from which institution he received the degree of LL.D.

Shepley, Gecr Maine, January

1,

>

,

Foster; was born in Saco, at Dartmouth If); graduated

College in 1837; studied law at Harvard Law School. and at Portland, Maine; began to practice law at Bangor, Maine, in 1840; removed to Portland; was appointed, by President Polk, United States District when Attorney, which position he held until the Civil War broke out became Colonel of the Twelfth Maine Volunteers; acted as Commander of a brigade in General Butler s expedition was made Commandant of the City of New Orleans on its sur 18i>l;

;

render; was made Brigadier-General; was Military Governor of Louisiana from June, 1862, to 1864; was Military Governor of Richmond, Virginia, on its sur render in 1865; resigned July 1, 1865, and resumed the practice of law in Portland; in 1871 was United States Circuit Judge of the First Circuit. Died at his home July 21, 1878.

Sheplor, Matthias was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from ;

1837 to 1839.

Shepperd, Augustus H.; was born in Snrry County, North Carolina; was educated as a lawyer; seryd in the House of Commons of North Carolina from 1822 to 1826; was a Representative in Congress from 1829 to 1839, from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1851. Sherburne, John

was born in New Hamp Dartmouth College in 1776; attended the Law School at Harvard; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1793 to 1797; was United States District Attor ney in 1803, and Judge of the United States District Court from 1803 to 1830. Died in 1830. S.;

shire in 1757; graduated at

Sherburne, Moses; was an early emigrant to Minnesota; in 1853 was appointed an Associate Justire of the United States Court for Minnesota. Sheredine, Upton; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1791 to 1793.

Sherman, Buren R.; was born at Phelps, On County, New York, May 28, 1836; received a common school education; removed to Elmira, New tario

York, and was apprenticed to the trMe of a watch

maker; in 1855 removed to Iowa and settled in Tama County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and engaged in practice at Vinton, Iowa; in 1861 entered the Union Army as a private and rose to the rank of Captain; was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and left on the field to die; recov ered and returned to duty, but was compelled to re sign, in 1863, on account of his wounds; was, at dif ferent times, elected County Judge and Clerk of the Courts; in 1874 was elected State Auditor, and was twice re-elected, serving until 1881; in the latter year was elected Governor of Iowa for a term of two years,

and was

re-elected in 1883.

Sherman, Charles Taylor ; was born at Norwalk. Connecticut, February 3, 1811; was the eldest brother of William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman;

in his infancy,

was removed, by

his par

ents, to Lancaster, Ohio; received such early educa tion as the limited facilities of a frontier village afforded prepared for college at the Lancaster Acad ;

emy; in 1827 entered the Sophomore Class of the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio; graduated in 1830; immediately entered upon the study of law at Day ton, Ohio, where he passed one year; then removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and continued his studies; in 1833 was admitted to the bar and engaged in the practice of law at Mansfield; was very successful and soon secured a lucrative business; contributed large in money, labor, and personal influence, to the successful construction of the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark, and Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroads; was a Director in both organizations, and was, for a long time, General Solicitor of the latter company; at the breaking out of the Civil War, be came Commandant of a large military camp at Mans field, where he organized, and sent to the field, sev eral regiments of troops: was appointed, by President Lincoln, member of a commission to adjudicate war claims at St. Louis, Missouri; in 1866 became one of the first Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company; in March. 1867, was appointed, by President Johnson, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio; resigned in Decem ber. 1872, because of ill-health. Died at Cleveland, ly,

Ohio, January

1,

1879.

Sherman, John was born May 10, 1823; received a liberal

in Lancaster, Ohio, education; adopted the profession of the law, and came to the bar in 1844; in 1848 and 1852 was a Delegate to the Whig Conventions of those years; in 1854 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-fourth Con gress; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; on being returned to the Thirty-sixth Congress, was the Republican candidate for Speaker, and after an un precedented contest, lacked but one or two votes of election; during that Congress was Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means; in 18(i() was elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress; in 1861, on the resig nation of Senator Chase, was chosen a Senator in Con gress, serving as Chairman of the Committees on Agriculture, and on Finance, and as a member of those on the Pacific Railroad and the Judiciary; in January, 1866 was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1873, serving again at the head of the Finance Committee, and on those on the Patent Office and the Pacific Railroad: was re-elected for the terra ending in 1879; was Secretary of the Treasury, in the Cabinet of President Hayes, from 1877 to 1881, resigning his seat in the Senate to accept that po was sition; again elected United States Senator in 1880, for the term ending in 1887; December 7, 1885, was elected President;) fern, of the Senate, thus be the virtual Vice-President of the United coming ;

States.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. J. "W.; was boru in New York; was Representative from that State to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was a member of the Com mittee on Unfinished Business.

Sherman,

elected a

Sherman, Roger was ;

born at Newton, Massa

chusetts. April 19, 1721; had no advantages of educn1 ion, yet was eager in the pursuit of knowledge, and when apprenticed to a shoemaker, often had a book open before him while at his work; in 1743 removed to New Milford, Connecticut, carrying his tools upon his back; soon relinquished his trade, however, and was. for a time, engaged in mercantile pursuits; af terwards studied law; settled in New Haven, Con necticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1754; was

Judge of the County, Superior and Supreme Courts for a period of twenty -three years; was a member of the First Congress, in 1774, and continued in Con years; signed the Declaration of Inde pendence in 177(5, and also the Articles of Confedera tion and the Constitution; after the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, in regard to which lie took a prominent part, was elected a Representative in Congress from Connecticut; was chosen a Senator of the United States in 1791. continuing in that He was a pro station until his death, July 23, found and sagacious statesman, an able and upright

gress for

many

179:>.

Judge, and an exemplary .Christian; was made Master of Arts by Yale College, and was Treasurer of that institution from 1766 to 1776.

451

which great enterprise soon brought the war to a conclusion; was made Brigadier-General in the United States army in 1863, Major-General in 1864, Lieutenant-Gen eral in 1866, and General-in-Chief of the army in 18(59; September 9, 1869, was appointed Secretary of War, but retained the office but a short time; in 1875 published a "Memoir of his Life and Campaign," in two volumes, which attracted very great attention from the public press; in November, 1883, was placed upon the retired list of the army. Sherrill, Eliakim was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849, and was a member of the Committee on Manufactures; served as an officer in the Rebellion, and was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. ;

Sherrod, William O.; was born in Courtland, Alabama, August 17. 1835; was educated at Chapel Hill College, North Carolina; was a cotton planter; served in the State Legislature of Alabama in 1859 and 1860; was a member of the "National Demo cratic Convention" at Charleston in 1800; was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil war; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-first Congress, serving on several commit tees.

Sherwin, John C.; was born in Saint Lawrence County, New York, February 8, 1838; received an academic education studied law removed to Illinois, and was twice elected County Clerk of Kane County; was City Attorney of Aurora, Illinois; served three veal s in the Union army during the War of the Re bellion; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. ;

;

Sherman, Robert Minot was born ;

Massachusetts,

at

Wobum,

22, 1773; graduated at Yale Col a tutor in that institution in 1795;

May

was was admitted to the bar in 1796, and opened an office in Fairfic-M, where he resided during the remainder of his lilt-, and gained a lucrative practice; was a member of the General Assembly in 1798; was a member of the State Senate from 1814 to 1818: was a

lege in 17i)2;

Delegate to the Hartford Convention in 1814; re ceived the degree of LL.D. from Yale College in 1829; was a Judge of the Superior Court and the Supreme Court of Errors from 1840 to 1842. Died at Fairneld,

December

Sherwood, Henry was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, October 9. 1817; devoted himself to the practice of law during twenty -four years; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Com mittee on the Revision of Laws. ;

Sherwood, Isaac R. was born in Dutch ess New York, August 13, 1835; was educated ;

County,

30, 1844.

Ant ioch College. Ohio, and at the Cleveland Law Institute; in 1857 located at Bryan, Ohio, where he established the Williams County Gazette; in 1859 was elected Probate Judge of Williams County, which position he resigned to enter the army in 1861; after serving in the ranks for four months, in West Vir ginia, was appointed Adjutant in 1862; was commis sioned Major in 1863; participated in the East Ten nessee campaign; was promoted to Lieutenant-Colo nel in and commanded his regiment to the close of the war, receiving a brevet of Brigadier-Gen eral for gallant and meritorious services edited the Toledo Commercial, and was an editorial writer on the Cleveland Leader: was elected Secretary of State for Ohio in 1868, and re-elected in 1870; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-third Con at

Sherman, Socrates

N.; was born in Vermont; was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department.

Sherman, "William Tecumseh was born at Mansfield, Ohio, February 8, 1820: graduated at United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1840; entered the Artillery and served in Florida; became First Lieutenant in 1841: Captain in 1850; resigned in 185:5; subsequently removed to Cal ifornia and was a broker in San Francisco; afterwards ;

became Superin practiced law in Kansas; in tendent of a Military Academy founded by the State of Louisiana; in 1861 was appointed a Colonel of In fantry in the United States army and commanded a Brigade at Bull Run; was made Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and had command of the Kentucky De partment; having expressed the opinion that it would take two hundred thousand men to clear that region of rebels, he was considered insane and relieved of his command; in 1862 joined the army of Tennes see, and rendered very important aid at Shiloh, where he was wounded and had three horses shot 18(>0

under him; was made a Major-General and took a

leading part at Corinth, at Memphis, and in the Vicksburg Campaign, at Chattanooga, Knoxville, and indeed in all the important operations of that entire region; in 1864 made one of the most famous military marches of modern times, going from At lanta to the Savannah, with sixty thousand men,

18

Legislature. S.;

was born

at Baltimore,

Mary

land. June 14, 1842; received a classical education entered the at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania; Union Army in 1864, as First Lieutenant, Sixteenth New York Heavy Artillery; served in the army until

the second Expedition to Fort Fisher; was promoted to a Captaincy; in 1865 took charge of the Washing ton Count}/ Poxt, published at Cambridge; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee

on Invalid Pen

sions.

Smelt, Dennis

;

was a Representative in Con

gress from Georgia from 1806 to 1811. to this

John

December

15.

Smith, Ballard; was a Representative in gress from Virginia from 1815 to 1821. Smith, Benjamin; was

Con

a resident of Brunswick

County, North Carolina; was a member of the State Legislature in 1792; was a General of Militia; was Governor of the State from 1810 to 1811; his life was one of many difficulties; was engaged in many duels, but is kindly remembered because of his donation of twenty thousand acres of land to the State University

;

30, 1813,

Smith, A. Herr

Smith, Bernard; was born at Morristown, New Jersey, in 1776; held an office in Washington for a time, and was sent as a Special Bearer of Dispatches to Europe; was subsequently Collector and Postmas ter at New Brunswick; was a Representative in Con gress from New Jersey from 1819 to 1821 during the latter year was appointed Register of the Land Office in Arkansas, which office he held until his death, which occurred at Little Rock, July 16, 1835; during his residence in Arkansas he served the Government as an Indian Agent. ;

Smith,

was born in Ireland, emigrated country when a youth held many civil and ;

military positions during the Revolution; served in the Legislature of Pennsylvania, his adopted State; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1793 to 1795, and again from 1799 to 1813; in 1797 was a Presidential Elector. Died in Washing ton,

was born

in Igle of Wight 1785; was educated at the College of William and Mary; was a lawyer by profession, but never practiced; served with credit at the head of a Militia force at Norfolk, in 1812; was a member of the Privy Council of Virginia, and sub sequently a member of the State Legislature; was a Died Representative in Congress from 1821 to 1825. in Virginia. March 30, 1853. ;

in 1789.

Smart, James

Smilie,

Smith, Arthur

County, Virginia. November

aged seventy-six years.

was born in Manor Township. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1815; ;

graduated at Dickinson College in 1840; studied law in Lancaster; was admitted to the bar in 1842; was elected to the House of Representatives of Pennsyl vania in 1843 and 1844; in 1845 was elected to the State Senate; was elected a Representative from

Boardman

ham, Vermont, August

was born in Whitinggraduated at Wil

H.;

18, 1828;

liams College, Massachusetts, in 1847; studied law, and settled in New York; was appointed Judge of the Chemung County Courts in 1859. and elected to the same office in that year; was elected a Repre sentative from New York to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, servingion several committees, and as Chairman of that on Elections

Smith, Caleb B.; was born at Boston, Massa chusetts, April 16, 1808; emigrated, with his parents, to Ohio in 1814; was educated at the Cincinnati Col lege and Miami University; adopted the profession of the law, and settled in Indiana; in 1832 established and edited a Whig journal called the Indiana Senti

in 1833 was elected a member of the Legislature; re-elected in 1834, 1835, and 1836, during the latter year officiating as Speaker; in 1847 and 1848 nel;

Pennsylvania to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on War daiins;

was

was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Fortyseventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses.

was a member of the Board of Fund Commissioners; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from

Smith, Albert was born in Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, January 3, 1793; graduated at Brown University in 1*13; was admitted to the bar in 1816; removed to Maine in 1817; was sent to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1820; was, for many years, a Postmaster in Maine; from 1830 to 1838 was Marshal of the United States for Maine: was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1839 to 1841; in 1842 was appointed the United States Commissioner to settle the Northeastern Boundary, under the Ashburton Treaty, which business was in 1847. Died in completed Boston, May 29, 1867. ;

.

Smith, Albert; was born in New York; was a member of the New York Assembly, from Genesee County, in 1842; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1843 to 1847.

Smith, Alcock O.; was born in Kentucky; re moved to Washington Territory, from which he was appointed a Justice of the United States Court the Territory of Idaho.

1843 to 1849; was a Presidential Elector in 1840 and 1856; after leaving Congress, in 1849. was appointed, by President Taylor, one of the members of the Board for Investigating the Claims of American citizens against Mexico; subsequently practiced his profes sion in Cincinnati, Ohio; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Secretary of the Interior Depart Peace Congress ment; was a member of tiie held in Washington in in February, 1861; December, 1862, resigned the office of Secretary, and was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Dis trict of Indiana. Died January 8, 1864. "

"

Smith, Daniel

was one of the earliest emigrants General of Militia; was a Sena Tennessee during the year 1798, when lie was superseded by J. Anderson; was again i Senator from 18il5 to 1809. Died in July, 1818. ;

to Tennessee; was a tor in Congress froiu

was born at New Berlin, Smith, Delazon Dhenango County. New York; graduated at the Uberliu Collegiate Institute, of Ohio, in 1837; studied ;

for

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. law; becoming a writer for the press, was associated with the Rochester True Jeffersonian. in New York, and the Western Empire, in Dayton, Ohio; was ap pointed, by President Tyler, Special Commissioner to Quito; in 1846 removed to Iowa Territory, where he remained until 1852, when he emigrated to Oregon Territory; in 1854 was elected to the Assembly of Oregon, and was re-elected in 1855 and 1856; in 1857 was a member of the Convention which framed a State Constitution in July, 1 858, was chosen one of the Senators in Congress for the prospective State, and took his seat as such in February, 1859. Died in Portland, Oregon, November 17, 1860. ;

Smith, Dietrich Hanover, April

C.;

1841);

4,

was born in Ostfriesland, emigrated to the United

States in 1849, and settled in Pekiu, Illinois; entered the Union Army in 1861, and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of Captain; engaged in bank ing and manufacturing; was a Representative in the Legislature of Illinois; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-seventh Congress.

459

was elected a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. !

I

Smith, George "William was Governor of Vir ginia from 1811 to 1812; lost his life at the burning of the Richmond Theater, December 26, 1811. ;

Smith, Gerrit; was born

in

New

York; was a

Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855.

Smith, Green Clay; was born

in Richmond, 1830; graduated at Transylvania University in 1849, and in the Law Department of the same institution in 1852; was a School Commis sioner from 1853 to 1857, establishing a great iiumbor of schools; served as Second Lieutenant in the Mexican War; after the breaking out of the Rebel lion, in 1861, had command of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry; was elected to the State Legislature: was appointed a Brigadier-General in 1862, and subse quently promoted to the rank of Major-General was present at the battle of Ball s Bluff and about fifty other engagements; in 1863 was elected a Represent ative from Kentucky to the Thirty-eighth Congress. serving on the Committees on Elections, and on the Militia; his commission as General he resigned De cember 1, 1863; was a Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of 1864; was re-elected to the Thirtyninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Death of President Lincoln and Public Expendi tures, as Chairman of the Committee on the Militia, and as a member of the Committee on Debts of the Loyal States; w.as also a member of the National Committee appointed to accompany the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois; in 1866, while still in Congress, was appointed, by President Johnson, Gov ernor of Montana; subsequently became a preacher iu the Baptist Church.

Kentucky, July

2,

;

Smith, Edward Henry was born at Smithtown, Long Island, in 1809; received a good common school education; was bred a farmer, to which occu pation he devoted his life; in 1860 was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Agri culture, and Expenditures in the Post Office Depart ment. ;

Smith,

Edward P.;

Connecticut, June

3,

was born at South Britain, Dartmouth Col

1827: entered

lege, but graduated from Yale College in 1849, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1855; in 1856 was settled over a church in Pepperell, Massachusetts in 1862 was a Delegate under the Christian Commis sion was soon made Field Agent for the Army of the West, and then of the East; also acted as Secretary of tho Commission at Philadelphia; after the war entered the service of the American Missionary As sociation, and aided in establishing schools for Freedmen; in 1871 was appointed an Indian Agent among the Chippewas in Minnesota; in 1873 was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, without previous in timation; in December, 1875, was appointed Presi dent of Howard University. :

;

Smith, Edwin

B.; was born in Maine, about the year 1835; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1852; studied law, and, on coming to the bar, settled in Saco. Maine, where he practiced his profession with success; frequently served in the State Legislature; was chosen Speaker in 1871; was subsequently the Official Reporter of the Supreme Court; in August, 1875, was appointed First Assistant in the office of the Attorney-General of the United States.

Smith, Francis O.

J.; was born in Massachu was bred to the law; was elected to the As sembly of Maine in 1831; was President of the State Senate in 1833; was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1833 to 1839.

setts;

Smith, George; was a Representative

in

Con

gress from Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1813.

Smith, HezekiahB.; was born Vermont, July

26, 1816; received a

at Bridgewater, common school

education; learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, and became an inventor and manufacturer of wood ma chinery was elected a Representative from New Jer sey to the Forty-sixth Congress. ;

Hiram

Y.; was born at Piqua, Ohio, 1843; received an academic education; graduated from the Albany Law School, at Albany, New York, in 1866; was admitted to the bar and com menced practice at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1866; was District Attorney of the Fifth Judicial District of Iowa from 1875 to 1879; was a member of the State Senate of Iowa from 1882 to 1884; was elected a Rep resentative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of John A. Kasson.

Smith,

March

22,

Smith, Isaac

was a graduate of Princeton Col and a tutor in that institution was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1795 to 1797; was appointed, by President Washing to treat with ton, in the latter year, a Commissioner the Seneca Indians; was a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey. Died in 1807. ;

lege in 1755

;

Smith, Isaac was a native of Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State ;

was born in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, December 11, 1840; re ceived a collegiate education; served in the army; settled in Louisiana at the close of the Civil War and engaged in mercantile business; was elected a mem ber of the Assembly in 1870 and 1872; was proprie tor of the Shreveport Southwestern Telegram; was President of a Savings Bank and Trust Company;

Smith, George

L.;

from 1813 to 1815.

Smith, Israel was born in Connecticut, April 4, 1759; graduated at Yale College in 1781; studied law, and settled at Rupert, Vermont; subsequently settled at Rutland, and was sent to the State Legis lature from that town was a Representative in Con;

;

TUOGRAPRICAL ANNALS

460

was ap gress from 1791 to 1797, and again in 1800; of Ver pointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court mont in 1797; was a Senator in Congress during the he years 1801 and 1802, and from 1803 to 1807, when a resigned; was Governor of Vermont in 1807; was Presidential 1810.

Died December

Elector in 1809.

2,

Smith, James; was born in Ireland in 1713; came to America when H boy received a classical education, and studied law in Lancaster, Pennsyl vania; became interested in iron-work, and eminent in profession; on the approach of war took an active part in public affairs; raised a company and commanded it in the field, and was made a Colonel; ;

!

not only remained unimpaired, but even shone when he was near the close of his long life; few persons have been more widely known as statesmen and jurists, or have left behind them a more enduring reputation; his acquaintance with ineiits

forth

brightest

books was extensive, and his literary taste remarka bly correct and pure; he was highly esteemed, nol only as a lawyer and judge, but for his eminent social qualifications, and for all the attributes of a great and good man; he was a devoted friend of Dan iel Webster. Died at Dover, New Hampshire, Sep

tember

21, 1843.

"his

dependence; in 1780 entered the State Legislature; after retiring from that body devoted his whole at Died July tention to the practice of his profession.

Smith, John was a General of Militia in New York; was a member of the State Legislature from 1784 to 1799; was a member of the Convention which adopted the Constitution; was a Kepresentative in Congress from New York from 1799 to 1804, when he resigned; from 1804 to 1813 was a Senator in Con gress; in the latter year was appointed, by President Madison, United States Marshal for New York. Died

11, 1806.

in 1816.

also look

an active part

^ raising

additional troops;

was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778; was a signer of the Declaration of In

Smith,

James Milton;

of Georgia in 1872,

for

was elected Governor

the term ending in 1877.

Smith, James S.J was born in Orange County, North Carolina; was educated for the medical pro fession; was a Kepresentative in Congress from North Carolina from 1817 to 1821; served in the Legislature of North Carolina in 1821.

James

at Groton, Con age of seventeen removed to Providence, and engaged in the lumber business; in 1838 was a cotton manufacturer at Willimantic, Connecticut, and at Woonsocket, Rhode Island; was afterward a member of the Legislature of Rhode Island for several years; was Mayor of Providence in 1855 and 1857; was Governor of the State from 1863 to 1865; was a supporter of the Union Cause, and contributed from his own wealth, in aid of the soldiers and their families during the war.

Smith,

necticut,

September

Y.;

was born

15, 1809; at the

Smith, J. Hyatt; was born at Saratoga, New York, April 10. 1824; occupied several clerical posi tions; studied theology, and in 1848 was ordained a Minister of the Gospel; after having had several other charges, finally settled in Brooklyn, New York, in the prosecution of his calling; in 1880 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty -seventh Died December 7, 1886. Congress.

Smith, Jedediah K.; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 189, ftnd from 1*22 to 1825; held the office of Judge and Chief Judge of the Court of Co.nmon Pleas Ibr Hillsborough County from 1810 to 1814; was also a State Councilor.

Died in

18:28,

aged fifty-eight

years.

Smith, Jeremiah

was born in Peterborough Hampshire; graduated at Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1/80; received, from Harvard College, the degree of Doctor of Laws; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire in 1791, and continued there till 179,. being one of the last survivors of the distinguished men who participated with Washing ton in the administration of the Government; in 1801 was appointed, by President John Adams, a Judge of the United States Circuit Court, but did not serve ;

New

was soon afterwards abolished by Con gress; was chosen Governor of New Hampshire in 1809; served as a Presidential Elector in 1809 and as the ottice

was, for several years. Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the State; his extraordinary mental endow-

;

Smith, John was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1801 to 1815. ;

Smith, John; was born

in 1735;

was a Senatoi

from Ohio from 1803 to 1808, when h resigned was a warm personal friend of Aaron Burr, and though for a time suspected, was in reality inno Died in July, 1816. cent, of treasonable designs. in Congress ;

Smith, John

was born at Barre, Massachusetts, August, 1789; received a liberal education; re moved, in early life, to St. Albans. Vermont, where he was admitted to practice as a lawyer in 1810; rep resented St. Albans in the Legislature for nine suc ;

in

cessive years; was elected State s Attorney of Frank lin County in 1826, and served six years; in 1831, 1832, and 1833 was Speaker in the General Assem was a bly; Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1839 to 1841, after which he resumed the prac tice of his profession; received the degree of A.M.

from Middlebury College and the University of Ver mont; in 1816 became enlisted in important railroad projects, and was so engaged at the time of his sud den death, which occurred at St. Albans, November 26, 1858.

Smith, John A.; was born at Hillsborough, Ohio, September 23, 1814; graduated at the Miami University; studied and practiced law; was a mem ber of the Ohio Legislature in 1841 and Irt42; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1851; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the and Forty-second Congresses, serving on the Committee on Indian Affairs. Forty-first

Smith, John

Ambler

was born near Dinwid-

;

die Court House, Virginia, September 23, 1847; was educated at a high school; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1867; in 1868 was appointed Commissioner in Chancery of the courts of Richmond; was State Attorney of Charles City and New Kent

Counties for one year; was elected to the State Sen ate in 1869; was elected a Representative from Vir ginia to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Patents, and Railroads and Canals.

Smith, John B. was a Representative ;

gress from Louisiana

in

Con

from 1853 to 1855.

Smith, John Cotton

;

was born at Sharon, Con

necticut, February 12, 1765 graduated at Yale Col lege in 1783; studied law, and was admitted to prac tice, in Litchfield County, in 1786; was a member of the State Senate in 1793; from 1796 to 1800 was a ;

member

of the

Lower House;

in

1799 was elected

i

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Speaker; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1800 to 1806, when he resigned; was a Presidential Elector in 1809; was agiin a member of the Legislature until 1809, when he was chosen a member of the Council; was Governor of Connecticut from 1812 to 1817; was Lieutenant-Governor, and Judge of the Superior Court; received the degree of LL.D. from Yale College; was a member of the Northern Society of Antiquaries in Copenhagen, and of the Connecticut Historical Society, and also of various religious associations. Died at Sharon, Con necticut,

November

7,

1845.

Smith, John Cotton; was a

citizen of Con necticut; in 1858 was appointed Minister Resident to Bolivia; was recalled in 1861.

Smith, John Gregory was born at St. Albans, Vermont, July 22, 1818; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1838, and at the New Haven Law School; began to practice law with his brother John, in 1838, and at his death succeeded him as Chancel lor in 1858; was a member of the State Senate in 1858 and 1859; was a Representative in the State Legisla ture from 1860 to 1862, and Speaker in 1862; was Governor of Vermont from 1863 to 1865 was an active supporter of the Union Cause during the Civil War; in 1866 was made President of the North Pacific Rail ;

;

road.

461

tory; was made Prosecuting Attorney; was elected to the Territorial Legislature, and made Speaker in 1857: was, for two years, United States District At torney for the Territory, but resigned and returned to Oregon; was interested in the first woolen mill erected on the Pacific Slope, which was eminently retired from business and visited successful; in Europe; on his return was elected a Representative from Oregon to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Post Offices and Post Roads, and Revolutionary Pensions; in 1864 was nominated fora seat on the Supreme Bench of the State, but de clined. 18i>7

Smith, Josiah ; was born at Pembroke, Massa chusetts, in 1745; graduated at Harvard University in 1774; was a Representative in Congress from Mas sachusetts from 1801 to 1803; on his return from Washington, in March, 1803, took the small-pox in New York, and died at home before the close of the month.

Smith, Melancthon;

New York

to the Continental

was a Delegate from Congress from 1785 to

1788.

Smith, Merriwether; was born in Essex Coun. was long a member of the House of Bur. gesses; was a member of all the Virginia Convenj tions in 1775 and 1776 was a member of the Fed era

ty, Virginia;

;

Smith, John Q.; was born in Warren County, Convention of Virginia; was a Delegate to the Conti" nental Congress from 1778 to 1782. Ohio, November5, 1824; was educated at the com mon schools; was a farmer; was a member of the Ohio State Senate in 1860 and 1872; was a member of Smith, Nathan; was born at Roxbury, Con the State House of Representatives in 1862 and 1863; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortythird Congress, serving on the Committee on Claims; in December, 187"), was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Smith, John Speed

;

was born in Jessamine

County, Kentucky, July 31, 1792; served as a soldier under General Harrison, and was at the battle of Tippecanoe; was Aid-de-camp to the same General at the battle of the Thames, in 1813; in 1819 was elect ed to the Legislature of Kentucky; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Kentucky from 1821 to 1823; in 1827 was again elected to the State Legis lature, and was made Speaker of the House; subse quently served several terms both in the House and Senate; was appointed, by President Jackson, United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky; was, at one time, a commissioner to the Legislature of Ohio, on a mission of local interest; was Superintendent of Public Works in Kentucky, for several years. Died in Madison County, June 6, 1854.

Smith, John T.; was born in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845, and was a member of the Commit tee on Expenditures in the State Department. Smith, Jonathan B.; graduated at Princeton College in 1760; was a Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1778, and was a signer of the Articles of Confederation.

Smith, Joseph L.; was born in Connecticut; was well educated, and adopted the profession of the law; having become a resident of Florida, was ap pointed United States Judge for that Territory, serv ing as such until 1832.

Smith, Joseph S.; was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1824; received a common school education; adopted the profession of the law; removed to Oregon, and then to Washington Terri

necticut, in 1770; received his professional education at the Law School in Li tch field; was a member of

the Convention that formed the State Constitution; was, for many years, State s Attorney for the county of New Haven frequently served in the State Legis lature; was, for several years, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; was a Delegate to the "Hartford Convention in 1814; represented his na tive State in the Senate of the United States from ;

"

1833 to 1835; was long known as an eminent lawyer, Died at respected for his integrity and ability. Washington, District of Columbia, December 6, 1836.

Smith, Nathaniel; was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, January 6, 1762; his education was lim ited studied law, and settled in practice in his na ;

town in 1789; was, for many years, a member of the State Legislature, serving, at different times, in both houses; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1795 to 1799; in 1806 was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and held the office until 1819; was greatly esteemed for his

tive

integrity

and

piety.

Smith, Oliver

Died March

Hampton

;

9,

1822.

was born near Tren

New Jersey, October 23, 1794; studied law; in 1824 was Prosecuting Attorney for the Third District of Indiana; was elected to the State Legislature in 1822; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1827 to 1829; was a Senator in Congress from 1837 to 1848; was the author of a work giving his "Recollections of Congressional Life," originally published in the Indianapolis Journal; subsequently devoted much attention to the internal affairs of his adopted State. Died at Indianapolis, March 19, 1849.

ton,

Smith, Perry ; was born at Washington, Con necticut; attended the Litchfield Law School; settled in New Milford in 1807; was a State Representative for four years; was a Judge of Probate for two years; was a Senator in Congress from 1837 to 1843. Died in New Milford in 1852. "

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Smith, Richard; was a Delegate from New Jer sey to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. Smith, Robert; was born in 1757; served as a volunteer in the Revolutionary War, and was present at the battle of Brandywine; served as a member of the Maryland Legislature; was Secretary of the Navy from 1802 to 1805, in President Jefferson s Cabinet; was Secretary of the Navy under President Madison, which oflice he resigned and retired to private life. Died in Baltimore, Maryland, November 26, 1842.

Smith, Robert was born at Peterborough. New Hampshire, June 12, 1802; received a limited education; was a farmer by occupation until he at tained his twentieth year, but subsequently engaged in manufacturing and merchandising; removed to Il linois in 1832; served in the Illinois Legislature from 1836 to 1840; was Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk of the House of Representatives of Illinois from 1840 to 1843; was then elected to Congress, and served until March 4, 1849; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth ;

Congress, being Chairman of the Committee on Mile age; subsequently took an active part in organi/ing the railroads in his adopted State. Died at Alton, Illinois, December, 1867.

Smith, Samuel was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1752; was a distinguished merchant of Baltimore, Maryland, and contributed largely to the advancement of that city, of which he was once Mayor; rose from the rank of Captain to that of Brigadier-General in the Revolutionary War; in 1776 was a member of the Convention for framing the Constitution of Maryland: was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1793 to 1803. and again from 181(5 to 1822; was a Senator in Congress from 1803 to 1815, and again from 1822 to 1833, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Finance; ;

during apart of the Ninth and Tenth Congresses! officiated as President pro tern, of the Senate. Died suddenly, at Baltimore, April 25, 1839.

Smith, Samuel; was a Representative

in

Con

gress from Pennsylvania, from 18i5 to 1809.

Smith, Samuel

was born at Peterborough, Hampshire, in 1767; held many public posi tions; was, for many years, a manufacturer of paper; was a Representative in Congress from New Harnp ehire. from 1813 to 1815. Died in 1842. ;

New

Smith, Samuel A.; was born was a Representative

in Pennsylvania;

in Congress from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from 1829 to 1833, serving, during his second term, on the Committee on Agriculture.

Smith, Samuel A.; was born in Monroe County

Tennessee, June 26, 1822; lost his father when quite young, and, with limited opportunities for attending school, spent the most of his time on a farm until he became of age; at that time began to attend school in earnest; at the end of three months became a teacher, and for two years alternately attended and taught school in his native county; also taught school, fora while, during ten months that he studied was admitted to the bar in 1845; during that law; year was elected Attorney-General for the Third Judicial District of Tennessee, which office he held until 1848; was a Delegate to the "National Conven tion oi that year, held at Baltimore; was soon after wards elected a Presidential Elector; was again chosen a Presidential Elector in in 1850 took 1852; a deep interest in the affairs of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-third Congress- was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Con

and was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing; in 1859 was appointed, by President Buchanan, Commissioner of the General Land Office; gresses,

resigned in February, 1860.

Smith, Samuel Emerson was born at Hollis, Hampshire, March 12, 1788; graduated at Har ;

New

vard University in 1808; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Boston, and settled in Wiscasset, Maine, in 1812; was a Representative in the Legislature in

1819 and 1820; was Chief Justice of the Court of Pleas of Maine in 1821; was Justice of the State Court of Common Pleas from 1822 to 1830; was Governor of Maine from 1831 to 1834; was again Judge of the Court of ( ommon Pleas from 1835 to 1837; in the latter year was a Commissioner torevise the Public Statutes of Maine. Died in Wis

Common

casset,

March

3,

1860.

Smith, Thomas; was born

in Scotland; emi grated to America; was a lawyer by profession; in 1769 was appointed Deputy-Surveyor, and settled in Bedford, Pennsylvania; was Prothonotary Clerk of the Sessions and Recorder of Bedford County; was Colonel of Militia during the Revolution; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1776; was a member of the State Legislature; was a Dele gate to the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782; was President-Judge from 1791 to 1794; was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1794 to 1809. Died at Bedford, Pennsylvania, June, 1809. "

"

Smith,

Thomas

;

was a Representative

gress from Pennsylvania

in

Con

from 1815 to 1817.

Smith, Thomas; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Indiana from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1847.

Thomas

was born in Virginia; was was appointed Register of the Treasury, by President Jackson, in 1829, and continued in that position until 1845; in 1849 was appointed, by President Taylor, First Auditor of the Treasury, which office he held until his death, which occurred in Washington, December 4. 1871. During his protracted residence in Washington, as an

Smith,

a

man

official

L.

;

of superior culture;

of the Government, he

est regard of the

commanded

the high

community.

Smith, Truman; was born in Rocksbnry, Litchfield County, Connecticut, November 27, 1791 ; graduated at Yale College in 1815; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1818; was elected to the State Legislature in 1831, and re-elected in 1832 and 1834; in 1839 was elected a Representative in Con gress, and was re-elected in 1841 was a Presidential Elector in 1844; in 1845 was again elected a Repre sentative in Congress, and was re-elected in 1847; in 1849 took his seat in the United States Senate for a full term of six years; resigned in 1854; engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City; ;

was appointed, by President Lincoln, Judge of the Court of Arbitration in New York, under the Treaty of 1862 with Great Britain.

Smith, Walter H.; was born in Ohio; in 1871 was appointed an Assistant Attorney-General of the United States.

Smith,

was a Delegate to the Con from Maryland from 1777 to 1778 was a Representative in Congress, under the Coniitution, from 1789 to 1791, when he was appointed, by President Washington, Auditor of the Treasury n 1792 was a Presidential Elector. Died in Balti more, March 27, 1814, aged eighty-four years "William

tinental Congress

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Smith,

"William

;

was a Representative

in

Smith, William H.; was born

Con

gress from South Carolina from

on being appointed, Adams, United States Minister signed

1789 to 1799; re by President John

to Portugal.

Smith, "William \vas born in North Carolina in 1762; emigrated to South Carolina; was educated at Mount Zion College; studied law; and came to the bar in 1792; was a Senator in Congress from South Carolina from 1816 to 1823, and again from 1826 to 1831, officiating on two occasions as President pro lem. of the Senate; in 1837 received the electoral vote of Virginia for Vice-President of the United ;

States; served in the Legislature of South Carolina; was Judg of the Superior Court of that State; was a :

distinguished supporter of the doctrine of State Eights; was offered a Seat on the Bench of the Su preme Court of the United States, but declined it; passed the latter years of his life in Alabama, and died at Huntsville, in July, 1840.

Smith, ginia;

"William

;

was born]in

was a Representative from

Chesterfield, Vir that State to the

Nineteenth Congress.

Smith,

"William;

was born

in

King George

County, Virginia, September 6, 1797; after prosecut ing his studies at Plainfield Academy, in Connecticut, and at private schools in Virginia, studied law and commenced the practice in 1818; soon after was the means of establishing a line of post-coaches through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, by which he made a fortune; in 1836 was elected to the State Legislature; was re-elected in 1840; was a Repre sentative in Congress during the term of 1842 and 1843; in 1845 was elected Governor of Virginia for three years; in 1853 was again elected a Representa tive in Congress, in which position he continued until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861; was Chairman of the Special Committee on the Laws of Public Printing, and a member of the Committee on Territories in the Thirty -sixth Congress; subse quently served as a Brigadier-General in the Vir ginia Army, and was wounded at Antietam.

Smith, William Alexander; was born

463

in

County, North Carolina, January 9, 1828; received a limited education; was a farmer; was a member of the Secession Convention of North Caro lina in 1861; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1864; was a member of the Constitu tional Convention in 1865; was a member of the State Senate in 1870; was President of the North Carolina Railroad, and of the Yadkin River Railroad was appointed Receiver of the Western North Caro lina Railroad in 1873; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures. "Warren

;

Smith, William E.; was born at Augusta. Geor March 14. 1829; removed, with his father, to

gia,

Albany, in that State, in 1842; received an academic education: studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848; was elected Ordinary of Dougherty County in 1853; in 1850 was made Solicitor-General for the Southwestern Circuit; in 1861 entered the Confeder ate Army in the Fourth Georgia Regiment as First Lieutenant; was elected Captain in 1862; lost a leg in front of Richmond, which caused him to retire from the service and return to the practice of law; in 18(T? was elected to the Confederate House of Repre sentatives, and continued in that office during its ex istence; then engaged in agricultural pursuits and cotton planting; in 1874 declined the .Judgeship of the Albany Circuit; was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Fortysixth Congresses.

in Georgia, April 1826; received an ordinary English education; studied law, and came to the bar in 1852; removed to Alabama, and was twice elected to the Legisla ture; was a Presidential Elector in 1856; was ap pointed a Circuit Judge of the State; in 1868 was elected Governor of Alabama for the term of two 9,

years. I

Smith, William Loughton

;

was a statesman

of South Carolina; was a Representative from South Carolina to Congress from 1789 to 1799; resigned on being appointed, by President John Adams, United States Minister to Portugal was Minister to Spain in 1800 and 1801: published an oration July 4, 1796; a comparative view of the Constitutions of the States and the United States in 1797; a pamphlet against the pretensions of Jefferson to the Presidency; es says signed "Phocian," and an address to his constituents in 1794 his speeches and letters to his constituents were re-published in London in 1795; received the degree of LL.D. Died in 1812. ;

;

Smith, William N. H.; was born in Murfreesborough, Hertford County, North Carolina, Septem ber 24. 1812; graduated at Yale College in 1834; studied law in New Haven for two years, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1839; in 1840 was elected a member of the State House of Commons; in 1848 was elected to the State Senate; before the expiration of his senatorial term was chosen Solicitor of the First Judicial District, holding the office for eight years; in 1858 was again elected to the House of Commons, but resigned his seat; was elected a Rep resentative from North Carolina to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Commerce; took part in the Rebellion of 1861 as a member of the so-called Confederate Congress; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Con vention" of 1866, and the New York Convention of 1868.

Smith, "William B.; was a Representative in Congress from Alabama, his native State, from 1851 to 1855, where he acquired reputation by making demonstration against Kossuth; chiefly devoted him self to literature and law, and had a seat on the bench of Alabama. ;

Smith, William Stephens; was born

in

New

York

in 1755: graduated at New Jersey College in 1774: was Aid to General Sullivan in 1776; was Lieu tenant-Colonel of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regi

ment from November, 1778, to March. 1779; was sev eral times wounded; was then, for a short time, at tached to the Staff of Steuben, but

left

July, 1781, 1o

become Aid-de-camp to Washington: was Secretary of Legation under John Adams, in England, in 178.i; was Surveyor of the port of New York; served three as a member of the New York years Assembly; was President of the New York Cincinnati Society in was a in 1804; Representative Congress from 1813 1o Died at Lebanon, New York, June 10, 1816. 1816.

Smith, Worthington C.; was born in St. Albans, Vermont, April 23, 1823; graduated at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, in 1843; stud ied law, but abandoned the profession, and became an iron merchant and manufacturer; in 1863 was chosen to the Legislature of the State; in 1864 and 1865 was elected to the State Senate, officiating dur ing the last session as President of the Senate; was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, Weights and Measures, and ing and Currency.

Bank

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

464

Smith,

W.

J.;

was born in Birmingham, Eng

land; came to this country when quite young; York learning the trade of a painter, settled in New went City; when the war with Mexico commenced, to New Orleans and enlisted in the army; after tie war, spent ten years in Memphis, Tennessee, follow

after

to ing his business, after which he devoted himself was per agricultural pursuits; during the Rebellion secuted and arrested on account of his devotion to the Union cause; on being released, acted as a guide for the troops in Tennessee; enlisted in the Volunteer Army as a private, and rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General; was a member of the Convention to re-organize the State Government in Tennessee; was subsequently elected to the State Legislature; in 1867 was elected to the State Senate; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving on the Committees on Agricul ture, and Public Buildings.

came to Pennsylvania in 1838, where he taught school and was clerk in a store removed to Iowa iu 1844, and studied law; from 1848 until 1853 was Attorney for Linn County; was .fudge of the same from 1854 to 1857; in 1858 was appointed a Commissioner to codify the State laws; also held sev eral other appointments from the Governor; was a Colonel of Iowa Volunteers from 1862 to 1864, when he resigned was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Public Lands, and the Militia. cation;

;

;

Snapp, H.; was born in Livingston County, New York, June 30, 1S22; was educated in Rochester, arid in Homer. Illinois, in 1833; studied law in Joliet; was admitted to the bar iu 1843; practiced law for twenty-five years; was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1869, and served until elected to the For ty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on Railways and Canals.

Smithers, Nathaniel Delaware, October

8,

B.;

was born in Dover,

1818; graduated at Lafayette

College, Pennsylvania, in 1836; studied law, and came to the bar in 1840; was Clerk of the Delaware House of Representatives in 1845 and 1847; in Jannary, 1863, was appointed Secretary of State for Del aware, which position he resigned; was elected a Representative from Delaware to the Thirty-eighth

Congress, serving on the Committee on Elections; was a Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of 1864, and also to the Philadelphia Loyalists Con of 1866. vention

Smyth, Alexander; was born at Island of Rathlin, Ireland, in 1705; was a member of the Vir ginia Legislature was appointed a Colonel of Rifles in July, 1808; was appointed acting Inspector-Gen eral, with rank of Brigadier-General, July, 1812; un dertook the invasion of Canada in November, 1812, but proved incompetent and was removed from the ;

army; was a Representative in Congress from Vir ginia from 1817 to 1825, and from 1827 to 1830. Died in Washington, District of Columbia, April 26, 1830. He published Regulations for United States In fantry," in 1812, and a pamphlet on the Apocalypse. "

Smyth, Frederick; was Hampshire

for

two

years,

Governor of from 1865 to 1867.

Smyth, George W.; was

New

born in North Caro in Congress from

was elected a Representative Texas from 1853 to 1855. lina;

Smyth, John Henry

;

Columbia,

and

Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; studied law in Philadelphia and at Howard University, Washing District of

Columbia; while prosecuting his

was a Clerk iu the Executive Departments at Washington; was admitted to the bar at Washington in 1871, and to the bar of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1875; in the latter year was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention; was subsequently a Clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington; in 1878 was appointed Minister Resideut and Consul-General of the United States to Li beria; was recalled in 1881 and re-instated in 1882; was made a Doctor of Laws, by Liberia Colleee in duties

1882.

Smyth, William was

born in Tyrone County, 1824; received an academic edu ;

Ireland,

January

3,

from 1855 to 1857.

Snodgrass, John Pryall

;

was born

in Berke

ley County, Virginia, March 2, 1804; was a lawyer by profession, and practiced in Parkersburg, Virginia;

was a member of the Virginia

"Constitutional

Con

assembled at Richmond in 1850; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1853 until his death, which occurred while trying a case in court in Parkersburg, June 5, 1854. vention

"

Snow,

"William ^W.; was born in Massachu removed to New York; was elected a Repre sentative from that State to the Thirty-second Con

setts;

gress.

Snow, Zerubbabel was an early emigrant to the Territory of Utah; in 1850 was appointed a Judge of the United States Court for that District. ;

Snowden, James Ross was ;

born at Chester,

Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1810; was Speak er of the House of Representatives of the State from 1842 to 1844; was State Treasurer from 1845 to 1847; was Treasurer of the United States Mint from 1847 to 1850, and Director of the same from 1853 to 1861; published "Descriptions of Coins in the United States Mint," 8vo, 1860, Descriptions of Medals in the United States Mint," in 1861, "The Mint at "

Philadelphia,"

was born at Richmond. Virginia, in 1814; received an academic education at the Institute for Colored Yonth, under the patronage of the Society of Friends, at Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania, graduating therefrom in 1862; taught in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pottsville,

ton,

Sneed, "William H.; was born in Tennessee; was a Representative in Congress from that State

1861,

"Coins

of the

Bible,"

etc.,

Corn Planter Memorial," 1867; was the author of the Articles on Coins of the United States 1864,

"The

in the National

Almanac of 1873, and many pam Died March 22, 1878.

phlets on the subject.

Snyder,

Adam W.; was born in 1801; frequent

ly served in the State Legislature of Illinois; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837

was a candidate for Governor of the State at the time of his death, which occurred at Belleville Illinois, May 14, 1842.

to 1839;

Snyder, Charles

Philip;

was

born

near

Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, June 9, 1847; received a common school education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced prac tice in 1871; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County in 1876; was re-elected in 1880, and continued to serve until elected a Representa tive from West Virginia to the Forty-eighth Con gress, to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of John E. Kenna to the United States Senate; was re-

elected to the Forty-ninth

(

ongress.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUILDING, WASHINGTON.

NATIONAL MUSEUM BUILDING, WASHINGTON.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Snyder, John was born in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1841 to 1843, and was a member of the Com mittee on the Militia. ;

P. was born in Missouri, No vember 13, 1833; received an academic education; removed to Arkansas in 1853; was, for several years, engaged in scientific and literary pursuits; studied and practiced law; was a member of the General Assembly of Arkansas in 1864 and 1865; was elected a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1867; was a Presidential Elector in 1868; was. elected a member of the State Senate for four years; was appointed one of the three Commissioners to re vise and re-arrange the Statutes of Arkansas; was elected a Representative from Arkansas to the Fortysecond and Forty-third Congresses, and served on the Committees on Freedmen and the Militia; in March, 1875, was appointed Postmaster at Pine Bluff in Arkansas.

Snyder, Oliver

;

Snyder, Simon was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 5, 175!); rose from the posi tion of apprentice to the highest honors of the State; was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Pennsylvania; was several years Speaker of the House of Representatives of Pennsyl vania; in 1818 was a member of the State Senate; was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817. Died at Selin s Grove, in Northumberland County, ;

November

9, 1819.

Augustus B.; was born in Maryland; elected a Representative in Congress from his native State from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1853 to 1855; was a Presidential Elector in 1856. Sellers,

was

Solomon, Edward

;

was Governor of Wisconsin

from 1861 to 1863.

Somes, Daniel

E.; was a Representative from in the Thirty -sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Public Expenditures; from 1855 to 1857 was Mayor of Biddeford, Maine; from 1856 to 1858 was President of the City Bank of Peace Congress that city; was a member of the of 1861; subsequently settled in Washington as a Claim Agent. Declined all appeals for information. "

"

Soule,

member

Nathan New

was a Representative in Con York, from 1831 to 1833; was a ;

of the State Assembly from

Onondaga

in

1837.

was born at Castillion, in the Soule, Pierre Pyrenees, in 1801, during the First Consulate of Napoleon; was destined for the Church, and in 1816 was sent to the Jesuit s College at Toulouse; was af terwards sent to complete his studies at Bordeaux; at the age of fifteen took part in a conspiracy against the Bourbons, and the plot being discovered, was com pelled to take refuge in a little village of Navarre, where he remained for more than a year, following the occupation of a shepherd; was permitted to re turn to Bordeaux, but longed for a more exciting scene of action, and accordingly repaired to Paris; here, in conjunction with Barthelemy and Mery, he established a paper advocating Liberal Republican sentiments; this soon brought him under the eye of the authorities, and he was put upon trial; his advo cate appealed to the clemency of the court in behalf of the prisoner on the score of his youth this line of defense did not suit the prisoner, who rose from his tseat and addressed the Court, denying the criminality of his opinions and conduct; his eloquence did not ;

ji

;

30

Pelagic, whence he succeeded in to England; disappointed in his expectations of obtaining a situation in Chili, which had been promised him, and finding himself alone in

save him from St. making his escape

a strange country, wholly ignorant of the language, to France; at Havre met a friend, a Cap tain in the French Navy, who advised him to seek an asylum in the United States, and offered him a pas sage in his ship as far as St. Domingo; accepted the proposition, and arrived at Port-au-Prince in Septem ber, 1825; from this place took passage to Baltimore; removed to New Orleans in the fall of 1825; having determined to make the law his profession, first ap plied himself assiduously to the study of English; passed his examination for the bar in that language, and was admitted in 1847 was elected a Senator in

he returned

;

Congress from Louisiana, to till a vacancy, and was reelected in 1849 for the term of six years; resigned in 1853; in 1853 was appointed, by President Pierce, Minister to Spain; in 1862 was arrested in New Or leans for disloyalty to the Government, and, after an imprisonment of some months in Fort Lafayette, was released on condition that he would not return to Louisiana until the end of the Rebellion. Died in

New

Orleans,

March

26, 1870.

was born on Long Island, York, in October, 1749; when eight years of age his father removed to Baskinridge, in the Colony of New Jersey; received but an ordinary education, and as a day laborer, earned the money to buy a form; took an active part in the Revolutionary War; after the adoption of the Constitution served nine years in the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from New Jersey from 1801 to 1811, and from 1815 to 1821; a short time before retiring from Congress met his son in a Joint Committee, and they voted together on the Missouri Compromise. Dird

Southard, Henry

;

New

June

2,

1842.

He was

a

man

of superior talents and

remarkable memory.

Maine

gress from

465

Southard, Isaac gress from

tember

New

was a Representative in Con Jersey from 1831 to 1833. Died Sep ;

18, 1850.

Southard, Milton I.; was born

in Licking

Coun

Ohio, October 20, 1836; graduated at Denison University, Ohio, in 18S1; studied law. and was ad mitted to the bar in 1863; was elected Attorney for Muskingum County in 1867, 1869, and 1871; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-third Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty -fourth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Mines and Min ing, and on the Treasury Department; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Territories; was re-elected to the Forty -fifth Con ty,

gress.

Southard, Samuel Southard

;

L.; was the son of Henry was born in Baskinridge. New Jersey,

9, 1787; graduated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1804; soon afterwards removed to Virginia, where he was admitted to the bar; in 1811 returned to his native State; rose to a high position as a law yer; was, for several years, Deputy-Attorney; in 1814 was admitted as Counselor-at-law, and appointed, by the Legislature, Law Reporter; in 1815 was elected to the Legislature; in a week after taking his seat, was placed on the bench of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; in 1820 was a Presidential Elector; in 1821 was elected a Senator in Congress, serving as President pro tern, of that body; remained there until

June

when he was appointed, by President Monroe, Secretary of the Navy; was also acting Secretary of the Treasury, and. for a short period, acting Secre tary of War; in 1822 was elected a Trustee of Nassau

1823,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

466

Hall, and also of the Theological Seminary of Prince ton; in 18.!0 was elected Attorney-General of New Jersey; in 1832 was Governor of the State; in 1833 was again elected to the United States Senate, and served until 1842; on the death of President Harri son,

became the President of the Senate; he

membered that

.State.

is

26, 1842.

Southgate, William W.; was born

in

but declined the nomination. Ohio, October 18, 1856.

Ken

tucky; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839; was a Presidential Elector in 1840 and 1844.

Spangler, Jacob ; was born in 1768; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Pennsylvania in 1813; resigned; was again a Representative in Congress from 1816 to 1818; was subsequently Surveyor-Gen eral of the State. Died at York, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1813.

Sparks, William A.

J.;

Albany, Indiana, November

Sowden, W.

H.; was a resident of Allentown, Pennsylvania; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Spaight, Richard. D.; commenced his academic studies in Ireland, and finished his education at the University of Glasgow; joined the American Army in 1778, as Aid-de-camp to General Caswell, and was at the battle of Camden in 1780; in 1781 entered the House of Commons of North Carolina; from 178:3 to 1874 was a member of the Continental Congress, and also during the years 1785 and 1786; was one of the Delegates to form the Constitution of the United States, to which his name is appended; was a Presi dential Elector in 1797; in 1792 was again elected to the Local Legislature; was the same year elected Governor of North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from 1798 to 1801, after which he was elected to the State Senate. On Sunday, September 5, 1802, he fought a duel with the Honorable John Stanley, was wounded in the side, and died in about twenty hours.

Spaight, Richard D., berne,

Died in Coshocton,

re

New

Jersey as the "favorite son" of Died in Fredericksburg, Virginia, June

in

Spangler, David ; was a Representative in Con-1 gress from Ohio from 1833 to 1837; in 1844 was nom inated by the Whig party for Governor of the State,

Jr.; was born at NewNorth Carolina, in 1796; graduated at the

University of that State in 1815; studied law; served four years in the State Legislature; was a Represent ative in Congress from 1823 to 1825; subsequently served ten years in the State Senate; was Governor of North Carolina in 1835 and 1836; after retiring from that office, declined all public positions, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Died in 1850.

was born near Newt

19, 1828;

removed, with

his parents, to Illinois in 1836; attended country schools, labored on a farm, and taught school gradu-; ated at McKendree College, Illinois; studied lawi ;

and was admitted to the bar in 1850; was UnitedStates Land Office Receiver from 1853 to 1856; was{ Presidential Elector in 1855; was a member of the/ State Legislature in 1857 and 1858; was a State Sena-, tor in 1803 and 1864; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at New York in 1868; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Fortyfourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth,, and Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh Congresses; declined! are-nomination; in March, 18S5, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Commissioner of the General Land Office, in the Department of the Interior. ;

Spaulding, Elbridge GK; was born

at

Summer

Cayuga County, New York, February 24, 18i9; was educated at Auburn Academy; taught school; studied law, and was admitted to practice in Genesee County, New York; in 1834 removed to Buffalo, New York; in 1836 was Attorney of the Supreme Court of New York, and also Solicitor in Chancery; in 1S39 was Counselor of the same; in 1836 was appointed City Clerk of Buffalo; in 1841 was Alderman, and in 1847 was elected Mayor; in 1848 was a member of the Assembly of the State; from 1849 to 1851 was a Hill,

Representative in Congress from New York, serving! on the Committee on Foreign Relations; in 1853 was elected Treasurer of the State of New York; was a member of the Canal Board for two years; was Pres ident of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Gen-j

was

esee, at Buffalo;

also elected to the Thirty-sixth;

member

Congress, serving as a

of the Committee on

Spalding, Rufus Paine; was born at West Tisbury, Martha s Vineyard, Massachusetts, May 3, 1797; went, with his father, Rufus Spalding, to Con necticut when a boy received the rudiments of his education at the Plainfield and Colchester Acade

Ways and Means; was

mies; graduated at Yale College in 1817; studied law; removing to Ohio, commenced the practice of his profession in Trumbull County in 1821; in 1839 was elected to the Ohio Legislature; was re-elected in 1841, and was Speaker of the House; in 1849 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court for seven years, and held the position for three years, until the new State Constitution was adopted, when he re moved to Cleveland, and resumed the practice of law in 1862 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs and Revolutionary Pensions- was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Appropriations and the Bankrupt was re-elected to the Fortieth Law; Congress serv ing on the Committees on the Library and Revision of United States Laws; subsequently declined all Died August political honors. 1886.

College, Ohio, in 1855; removed to Michigan; was admitted to the bar in 1858, and, in that year, was elected a Regent of the University of Michigan; en-i

;

29,

enth Congress.

Spaulding, Oliver Hampshire, August

Thomas;

was a Representative

Congress from Georgia from 1805 to 1806.

in

2,

was born at Jaffrey, New 1833; graduated at Oberlin

L,.;

,

tered the Union Army, in 1862, as Captain, and served until 1865, rising to the rank of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General; was Secretary of State of Michigan from 1866 to 1870; was a member of the Republican State Committee from 1871 to 1878; was a Special Agent of the United States Treasury De partment from 1875 to 1881; was elected a Repre sentative from Michigan to the Forty-seventh Con-

i

gress.

Spear, Ellis was a citizen of Maine; was Commissioner of Patents, in the Department of the In ;

from January, 1877, to November, 1878; set tled in Washington City in the practice of law. terior,

Speed, James was born in Jefferson County Kentucky, March 11, 1812; graduated at St. Jos eph s College, in that State; was, for a time, em ployed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit and ;

Spalding,

re-elected to the Thirty -sev

I

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Couuty Courts; studied law at Transylvania Uni on being admitted to the bar, settled in the practice at Louisville, in 1853; in 1847 was

versity, and,

elected to the State Legislature; in 1861 -was elected to the State Senate; in November, 18G4, was ap pointed, by President Lincoln, Attorney-General of the United States, which office he resigned in July, ls6fi, and resumed the practice of his profession; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven tion of 1866, and was President of the Convention. "

Speed,

;

was a Representative in Con

gress from Kentucky, from 1817 to 1819.

Emory

;

Spencer, Elijah was born in Columbia County, York: was a member of the New York Assem ;

New

was born at Culloden, Georgia, 1848: received a classical education, graduating at the University of Georgia in 1869; en tered the Confederate Army at the age of sixteen, and served throughout the war; studied law; en tered upon its practice at Athens, Georgia, in 1869; in 1873 was appointed Solicitor-General for the Western Judicial Circuit of the State, and held the office three years; was elected a Representative from Georgia to the Forty -sixth and Forty-seventh Con gresses; in February, 1885, was appointed, by Presi dent Arthur, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia.

Speer,

1802 was Attorney-General for the State; in 1804 was chosen Judge: in 1809 was a Presidential Elector; in 1810 became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court oi the State; in 1823 retired from the bench and was en gaged at the bar; was elected a Representative in Congress from New York from 1829 to 1831 was Mayor of Albany one term; retired to the village of Lyons in 1839, and engaged in agricultural pursuitt; in 1^44 was President of the National Whig Conven tion at Baltimore. Died at Lyons, New York, March 13, 1848.

Thomas

September

467

;

3,

was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1821 to 1823.

bly in 1819;

Spencer, George E.; was born in Jefferson County, New York. November 1, 1835; was educated at the Montreal College, in Canada; studied law, and came to the bar of Iowa in 1856; was Secretary of the Iowa Senate in 1858; entered the army as a Cap tain in 1862; recruited the First Cavalry Regiment of Alabama in 1863; commanded a brigade of cavalry on Sherman s grand march was brevetted a Briga ;

dier-General for "gallantry in the field"; resigned in 1865; settled in Alabama; in 1867 was appointed a Register in Bankruptcy for the Fourth District of Alabama; in 1868 was elected a Senator in Congress from that State for the term ending in 1873, serving

Speer, Robert Milton was born in Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1838: was well educated; studied law. and was ad on the Committees on Commerce, Pensions, Military mitted to the bar at Huntingdon in 1859; was As Affairs, and the District of Columbia was re-elected sistant Clerk of the House of Representatives of for the term ending in 1879 in 1881 was appointed a Commissioner of the Pacific Railway. Pennsylvania in 1863; was a Delegate to the Demo ;

;

;

cratic

National Convention at Baltimore in 1872;

was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committee on Elections.

Speight, Jesse was born in Greene County, North Carolina, September 22, 1795; his education was limited, but his natural abilities were of a high order; in 1822 was a member of the House of Com mons of North Carolina; in 1823 was a member of the State Senate, where he continued until 1827, officiating several years as Speaker; was a Repre sentative in Congress from North Carolina, from 1829 ;

1837; declined a re-election; removed to Missis was elected to the Legislature there, and made Speaker; from 1845 to 1847 was a Senator in Cong ess from his adopted State. Died at Columbus, to

sippi;

Mississippi,

May

5,

1847.

Spence, Carroll; was a citizen of Maryland: in 1853 was appointed Minister Resident to Turkey, and in 1855 was empowered to negotiate a treaty with the Government of Persia.

John

Spence, S.; was a Representative in gress, from Maryland, from 1823 to 1825, and 1831 to 1833; was United States Senator from Died October 29, 1840. to 1840.

Con from 1837

Thomas

A.; graduated at Yale College Spence, in 1829; was a Presidential Elector in 1840; was elected a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1843 to 1845.

Ambrose was born at Salisbury, December 13, 1765; in 1779 entered Yale College, and remained three years; graduated at Harvard University in 1783; studied law, and set tled at Hudson, New York: was a member of the New York Assembly in 1793; from 1795 to 1798 was a State Senator; in 1796 was Assistant AttorneyGeneral of the counties of Columbia and Rensselaer, Spencer,

;

Connecticut,

and a member of the Council of Appointment; in

Spencer, James B.; served as a Captain in the war of 1812, and was in several engagements; was in the Legislature of New York in 1831 and 1832; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839; subsequently held the various positions of Elector, Magistrate, County Judge, Collector, and Indian Agent. Died at Fort Covington, New York, in March, 1848.

Spencer, John O.; was born at Hudson, New York, January 8, 1787; entered Williams College, but soon went to Union College, where he graduated in 1806; President Nott was then at the head of the college, and one of the last professional acts of Mr. Spencer was to defend, in court, the President s ad ministration, for many years, of the affairs of the col lege; Mr. Spencer was admitted to the bar in 1809,

and opened an office in Canandaigua; lived in Canandaigua until 1845, when he removed to Albany, where he resided until his death was Private Secre tary to Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, and, at the age of nineteen, became connected with public af fairs, and, from that time until his last illness, no prominent public event occurred in which he did not take an interest; in 1811 was made Master in Chan cery; in 1813 was Brigade Judge- Advocate, in active service on the frontier; in 1814 was appointed Post master of Canandaigua; in 1815 was Assistant Attor ney-General for the western part of the State; in 1816 was elected to Congress, where he remained two years while there was one of the Committee who examined into the affairs of the United States Bank, and their report was drawn by his hand; in 1820 was first elected to the Assembly, and was chosen Speaker: the next year was returned, but his party was in the minority; in 1824 was elected to the State Senate and served four years; joined the anti-Masonic party, and was appointed, by Governor Van Buren, Special Attorney-General, under the law passed for that purpose, to prosecute, those connected with the al leged abduction of Morgan; in 1832 was again elected ;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

468

to the Assembly; in 1839 was appointed Secretary o State and Superintendent of Common Schools, and did much to reduce them to a system; served for two years; was appointed Regent of the University in 1840; in October. 1841, was made Secretary of War, by President Tyler, and in March, 1843, was trans ferred to the Treasury Department; resigned in 1844, because of his opposition to the annexation of Texas; was a successful lawyer, but achieved his highest fame from his connection with the Revision of the Statutes of New York; not content with merely pre paring the Statutes, he followed them up with a se ries of essays, explaining their purposes; so great was the confidence reposed in him by the people, that he was selected to revise the whole body of the Law of the State, but his advancing age compelled him to de cline the task; was industrious, and a man of in tellect and intense energy. Died at Albany, May 18, 1835.

Spencer, Joseph was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1714; was Judge of Probate in 1753; joined the Northern Army in 1758, as Major under Colonel Whiting; was Lieutenant-Colonel in the two succeeding campaigns; was elected a member of the Council in 1766; was appointed Brigadier-General in the Continental Army in 1775; became Major-General in 1776; was in the expedition against Rhode Island in 1778, and assisted in Sullivan s retreat; re signed June 14, 1778, in consequence of an order given by Congress to inquire into the reasons of the failure on his part to carry out the plan of the expe dition against the British in Rhode Island, the pre ceding year; was a Delegate to the Continental Con gress in 1778 and 1779; in 1780 was again elected to the Council, and was annually re-elected until his death; was highly esteemed by General Washington. Died at East Haddam, Connecticut, January 13, ;

1789.

Spencer, Richard; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1829 to 1831. Spencer, William B.; successfully contested the seat of Frank Morey as a Representative from Louisiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; resigned January

8,

1877.

Spink, S. L.; was born at Whitehall, New York. March 20, 1831; was educated at the Castleton Acad emy, in Vermont; taught school, for several years, in

New

New

York, and Maryland; studied Iowa in 1856; in 186U removed to Illinois, and conducted the Prairie Bea con, at Paris, as proprietor; was elected to the State Legislature in 1864: was appointed Secretary of Da kota Territory, by President Lincoln, the day pre ceding his assassination, and continued in office un til 186 J, when he was elected the Delegate from Da kota to the Forty -first Congress.

England,

law, and

came

to the bar in

Spinner, Francis E.; was born in the town German Flats, Herkiiner County, New

of York, (where the village of Mohawk now stands), January 21 1802; received most of his instruction from his father

who was a highly educated German clergyman; for twenty years was the executive officer of the Mohawk Valley Bank; held all the Commissions, from the Governors of New York, from a Lieutenant to a Major-General of the State Artillery; was County Sheriff, and Commissioner for building the State Lunatic Asylum; from 1845 to 1849 was Auditor in the Naval Office at New York; in 1854 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress serving as a member of the Committee on Accounts

was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving Chairman of the Committee on Accounts; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, United States Treasurer, and continued in the position until 1875, as

when he

resigned.

was born December 10, 1756; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1783; was a law yer by profession was a Representative in Congress, from New Hampshire, from 1797 to 1799. Died in

Sprague, Peleg

;

;

1800.

Spoffbrd, Ainsworth Band was born at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, September 12, 1825; re ;

ceived a classical education by private tuition, his father being a clergyman; at the age of sixteen went into the business of bookselling and publishing in Cincinnati: in 1859 became associate editor of the Daily Commercial, of that city; in 1861 was appointed First Assistant Librarian in the Library of Congress at Washington; in 1865 became Librarian-in-Chief under his administration of that trust, the National Library has grown from ninety thousand to more than five hundred thousand volumes, and the amend ment of the law of Copyright has been effected, through which the whole business of recording and authenticating copyright is transferred to Washing ton, instead of being scattered through the District Courts of the States; as a result, the Government se cures a complete deposit of all copyright publica tions, and the citizen can rely on finding (with few and unimportant exceptions) every book published in the United States. ;

Spooner, Henry

J.; was born at Providence, Island. August 6, 1839; graduated at Brown University in 1860; studied law; served in the Union Army as a commissioned officer from 1862 to 1865; was admitted to the bar in the latter year, and en gaged in the practice of law in his native was a

Rhode

city;

member

of the State House of Representatives from 1875 to 1881, serving as Speaker the last two years; was elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the Forty-seventh Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nelson W. Aldrich was re-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress; was again elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

Spooner, John C.; was born at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana, January 6, 1843; removed, with his father s family, to Wisconsin in 1859. and settled at Madison; graduated from the State Uni versity of Wisconsin in 1864; was private in Com pany D, Fortieth Regiment, and Captain of Com pany A, Fiftieth Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Vol unteers during the Civil War; was brevetted Major

at the close of service; was Military and Private Secretary to Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wiscon sin; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807, and engaged in the practice of law; served as As sistant Attorney-General of the State from 1867 to 1870; then removed to Hudson, Wisconsin, where he continued to reside in the practice of his profes sion; in 1872 was elected a Representative in the

Wisconsin Legislature; was a member of the Board of Regents of the Wisconsin University; was elected United States Senator from Wisconsin for the term of six years

from March

Sprag-ue, Peleg

4,

1885.

was born

in Duxbury, Mas ; sachusetts, in 1792; graduated at Harvard Universty with honor in 1812; having adopted the profes sion of the law, settled in the practice, first at Au gusta, Maine, and then at was a member Ilallowell; of the Maine Legislature in 1821 and 1822was a Representative in Congress from Maine from 1825 to

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Sprigg, Samuel was born in Maryland; v,-;ia elected Governor of that State in 1819, remaining in office until 1822.

was a Senator in Congress from 18 -29 to 183 on completing his Senatorial term settled in Boston Massachusetts; in 1841 was appointed Judge of th District Court of the United States for Massachusetfc 1829;

;

Sprigg,

resigned in 1865; in 1841 was also a Presidentia Elector; in 1847 received, from Harvard University the degree of Doctor of Laws.

Thomas

was a Representative in Con

;

gress from Maryland, from 1793 to 1796.

Sprigg, William was a native of Maryland, and well educated; in 1805 was appointed, by Presi dent Jefferson, United States Judge for the Territory of Michigan; in 1806 was transferred to the same position in Orleans; in 1812 was transferred to Lou isiana; in 1813 to the Territory of Illinois; on the admission of Missouri into the Union as a State, re ceived the appointment of District Judge for that ;

Sprague, William; was born at Cranston Rhode Island, in 1800; when quite young was electe to the General Assembly, and in 183:2 was chosei Speaker of the House; in 1835 was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from Rhode Island; declined i re-election; was Governor of Rhode Island in 1838 and 183!); in 1812 was elected to the United States

Senate, serving two years; in 1849 was a Presidentia Elector; was a member of the State Assembly at th( time of his death, which occurred in Providence October 19, 1856.

Sprague, William

was born in Rhode Island was a Representative in Con Died soon gress from that State from 1849 to 1851. removing

;

to Michigan,

afterwards.

Sprague, William

was born at Cranston. Island, September 11, 1830, his ancestors having been, for several generations, honorably asso ciated with the manufacturing business of New En gland; was educated chiefly at the Irving Institute, ;

Rhode

Tanytown, New York, and subsequently spent sev room of an uncle, on the

State,

whom one of the largest manufacturing interests in the country came into his possession a taste for military affairs, he joined an artil having lery company in Providence in his eighteenth year, and became a Colonel; in 1859 visited Europe, and was friendly to the cause and person of Garibaldi; in 1861 was elected Governor of Rhode Island, and on the breaking out of the Rebellion took a great inter est in the National cause; was with the troops of Rhode Island at the first battle of Bull Run; in 1862 was elected a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island for the term ending in 1869, serving as Chair man of the Committee on Manufactures, and as a :

member

of the Committees on Commerce and Mili tary Affairs; was also President of several banks, and director in various insurance companies; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven tion of 1866, andalso to the Soldiers Convention at Pittsburgh; was re-elected to the Senate in 1868. for the term ending in 1875, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands; his uncle, bearing the same name, was also a Senator in Congress. "

"

Sprague, William

was born in Morgan County, Ohio, May 21, 1827; received a good educa tion; engaged in mercantile pursuits; was President of the First National Bank of McConnellsville; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio in 1860 and 1862; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions and Pub lic Buildings and Grounds. P.;

Sprigg, James O.; was born in Maryland; was elected a Representative in Congress from Kentucky, from 1841 to 1843. Sprigg, Michael O.J was frequently a member of the Maryland Legislature; was. at one time, Pres ident of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; was a Pres idential Elector in 1820; was a Representative in Congress from 1827 to 1831. Died at Cumberland, Maryland, in December, 1845.

Sprigg, Pdchard.

;

Con and from

Avas a Representative in

gress from Maryland, from 1796 to 1799, j.801 to 1802.

it

only for a short time.

Thomas

was born at Pelutno, Spriggs, Northamptonshire, England, April 5, 1826; emi grated, with his parents, to the United States in 1834, and settled at Utica, New York; graduated from Union College, New York, in 1848; was admitted to the bar in the same year, and engaged in the prac tice of law; was elected District Attorney in 1853; County Treasurer in 1856; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1864, 1872, and 1880; was elected Mayor of the city of Utica in 1868, and again in 1880; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-eighth Congress; was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress. J.

eral years in the counting

death of

but held

;

Springer, William M.; was born

in Sullivan

May 30, 1836; removed, with his parents, to Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1848; graduated

County, Indiana,

at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 18,18; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1859; in 1862 settled in Springfield, Illinois, where he practiced his profession that year was Secretary of the Illinois Constitutional Convention; was a member of the Legislature in 1871 and 1872; was elected a Repre sentative from Illinois to the Forty-fourth Congress; ;

in December. 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department; .vas re-elected to

the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Fortyand Forty-ninth Congresses.

seventh, Forty-eighth,

Spruance, Presley was born in Delaware in 1785; was devoted to mercantile pursuits; served in the State Senate and was President of that body; was i Senator in Congress from Delaware from 1847 to ;

1853. 1863.

Died

in

Smyrna, Delaware, February

13.

Bphraim George was New York, June 17, 1821

born at Bethgraduated at ^rinceton College in 1848; in his youth worked on a arm in summer and taught school in winter; next mblished a village newspaper, and studied civil en gineering; in 1841 and 1842 was associated with the Neio York State Mechanic, at Albany; published a volume on the Chinese in 1843; edited the Hartford Daily Journal from 1843 to 1845; from 1845 to 1848 edited the Scioto Gazette, at Chillicothe; was Clerk of he Legislature in 1847 and 1848; investigated the

Squier,

ehem,

;

;

tboriginal monuments of the Mississippi valley, the esults of which were published in the first volume

Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, and n the Transactions of the Ethnological Society; in 849 "Aboriginal Monuments of the State of New T ork, from Original Surveys and Explorations"; in 848 was Charge d Affaires to Central America; as secretary of the Honduras Inter-Oceanic Railway Company, went again to Central America in 1853; is observations are found in his "Nicaragua, its >f

J

eople, Scenery,

and

Monuments," in 1852;

"Notes

n Central America," 1854; Waikna," 1855; "QuesAnglo- Americaine," Paris, 1856; the "States "

ion

B1OGKAPHICAL ANNALS.

470

Monographs of Au of Central America," in 1857; thors who have written on the Aboriginal Languages Fibers and of Central America, "in 1861; "Tropical their Economic Extraction," with other publications on that region; received the medal from the Geograph a member of various ical Society of France, and was the editor scientific and literary societies, and Com Frank Leslie s publications; was United States the first missioner to Peru in 1863 and 1864; was ol President of the Anthropological Institute York, in 1871. "


3

serving

Stanton, William H.; was elected a, Represent ative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Winthrop W. Ketcham, taking

his seat

December

4.

1876.

Starin,

John

was born

at Sammonsville, New York, August 27, 1825; received an academic education; studied medicine; engaged in the drug and medicine business at Fultonville, New York; was Postmaster at that place from 1848 to 1852; in 1856 became largely interested in the business of transportation; became a Director in two banks, and also gave some attention to farming and stockwas elected a Representative from New raising;

York

H.;

and Forty-sixth Congresses.

to the Forty-fifth

Stark, Benjamin was born in the City of New Orleans, June 2(i, 1820; received an academic educa tion in New London, Connecticut, and a commercial education in the City of New York; in 1845 settled in Oregon, and established commercial relations with ;

the Sandwich Islands, and with California, then a Mexican Province; in that year erected, on the ground where Portland, Oregon. n:nv stands, the first building constructed in that place, which was a log trading-house; in 1850 abandoned commercial pursuits; studied law. and came to the bar in 1351; in 1852 was a member of the Territorial Legislature of Oregon in 18iJO was a member of the State Legis lature of that State; was a Senator in Congress from Oregon during parts of the years 18(il and 18:12, in the Thirty-seventh Congress;" was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention" of 1884 and the New York Convention of 1868. ;

Starkweather, David A.; was born

in Con was a lawyer by profession; was elected a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 18:5!) to 1841, and again from 1845 to 1847; was a Presi dential Elector in 1848; was Minister to Chili from necticut;

1854 to 1857.

Starkweather, George A.; was born

in Con was a Representatives in Congress from from 1847 to 184y, and was a member of the Committee on Accounts. necticut;

Committees on Territories, on Public Buildings and Grounds, and the Postal Railroad to New York; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Con "

vention"

of 1866.

St. Glair, Arthur; was born at Thurso. Caith ness County, Scotland, in 1734: was educated at the University of Edinburgh; studied medicine with John Hunter; inherited a fortune; came to America in 1758; was with Amherst at the capture of Louisburg; distinguished himself as a Lieutenant under at Wolfe, Quebec; resigned from the army in 1762. and in 1764 settled in Pennsylvania, where he erected in 1770 was made a District Surveyor and mills; Justice of Common Pleas; in 1771 was appointed to a number of local positions in Westmoreland County: in 1775 became a Colonel of Militia, and went to Fort Pitt to treat with the Indians; in 1776 was or

dered to Canada; acquitted himself with great abil ity, rose to the rank of Major-General. and then re signed all his civil offices; at once joined General Washington; took a leading part in the battles of Princeton, Ticonderoga, and Brandy wine; assisted Sullivan against the Six Nations; was a Commissioner to arrange a cartel with the British in 1780; was a member of the court martial which condemned Major Andre; after performing many other duties, partici pated in the capture of Corn wallis, at Yorktown; was also a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Cen sors; was a Delegate to Congress in 1785; was chosen President of the same in 1787; was made a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1786; was appointed Governor of the North-west Territory in 1788; made an Indian treaty in 1789; located the city of Cincinnati, and gave it its name; was ap pointed General-in-Chief of the army in 1791 re signed in 1792; was twice court-martialed, but, both tunes honorably acquitted: passed the latter years of his life in a log cabin; in 1813 was voted an annuity by Pennsylvania; received a pension of sixty dollars per month from Congress. Died at Greensbura Pennsylvania, August 31, 1818. He published a narrative of his campaign of 1791, and a memoir ol his life was published by A. T. Goodman. ;

New York

Starkweather, Henry

H.; was born in Preston County, Connecticut, April 29 1826adopted the profession of the law; served in the State Legislature; was a Delegate to the "Chicago Con vent of 1860; in 1861 was appointed Postmaster t Norwich, which office he held until 1865, when he was re-appointed, but resigned on the accession of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency; was subsequent made Cluurman of the Republican State Commit ly tee, and also a member of the Republican National

New London -.on"

Stearns, Ashael; was born at Lunenburg Mas sachusetts, in 1774; graduated at Cambridge Uni versity 1797; was educated as a lawyer; praced, with success, for many years, at Chelmsford; was several years County Attorney for Middlesex mnty; was a Representative in Congress from Mas sachusetts from 1815 to 1817; was appointed Profesr of Law at Cambridge in 1817, and continued in the office until 1829, when he resigned; in 1824 pub lished a volumeon "Real Actions

m

"a

learned

work; was afterwards appointed one of the Commissioners Commonwealth; after health declined, and he completed

for revising the statutes of the this work was his

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. continued very feeble until his decease. Died at Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 5, 1839.

Stearns, M. L.; was Governor of Florida from 1874 to 1877.

Stearns, Onslow was born in New Hampshire; became very prominent in the politics of his native of New Hamp State; in 1869 was elected Governor Died at his home, in shire; was re-elected in 1870. New Hampshire, December 28, 1878. ;

G.; was born in the city of in 1812; received a good education; was educated to the business of banking; was at one time

Henry

Stebbins,

New York

Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment of New York Mili of New York tia; was one of the Park Commissioners President of the Board City, and was, for a long time, of Commissioners; was one of the originators, and and an President, of the Dramatic Fund Association, active manager of the New York Academy of Music; in 1862 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Com mittee on Ways and Means; in October, 1864, re he had declared signed his seat in Congress, because himself in favor of the War, and therefore supposed that he did not represent the peace principles of hia constituents.

was born in Massachu in graduated at Harvard University a lawyer of ex 1784; came to the bar in 1787; was tensive practice; was, for several years. Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court at Worcester, Massachusetts; iu 1802 was a Representative in the State Legisla from Massa ture; was a Representative in Congress Died at Newburyport, chusetts from 1803 to 1810.

Stedman,

"William;

setts, in 1765;

Massachusetts, in 1831.

Steele, George W.; was born in Fayette County, Indiana, December 13, 1839; received a common school education; studied law, and was admitted to enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, the bar in and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of a Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1866 was commissioned First-Lieutenant in the Fourteenth United States to Indiana, and Infantry: resigned in 1876; returned engaged in farming and the business of packing pork; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the -ninth Con Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty 18(>1

:

gresses.

was born at Salisbury, North Steele, Carolina, November 1, 1764; was reared a merchant,

John

;

473

a Representative from New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on the District of Columbia and on Revolutionary Con Pensions; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth on the Committees for the Dis gress, again serving War trict of Columbia, and on Expenditures in the was killed by being thrown from a car

elected

Department;

riage, in Kingston,

24, 1866.

-New York, September

in Steele, John H.; was born in North Carolina from 1844 to 1792; was Governor of New Hampshire Died at Peterborough, New Hampshire, July 1846. 3, 1865.

Steele, John N.; was born in Maryland; was a Presidential Elector in 1832; was a Representative in from Maryland, from 1835 to 1837.

Congress

s Steele, "Walter Leak was born at Steele (now Little s Mills), North Carolina, April 18, at 1S23; received a collegiate education, graduating the University of North Carolina in 1844; studied and practiced law; was elected to the State House of ;

Mills,

in 1846, 1848, 1850, and 1854, and to the State Senate in 1852 and 1858; was a Delegate to the Democratic; National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; was Secretary of the State Seces sion Convention of 18:il; was elected a Representative from North Carolina to the Forty-fifth and Fortysixth Congi esses; declined a re-nomination.

Commons

Steele, "William G.; was born in Somerset edu County, New Jersey, December 17, 1820; was cated at the Somerville Academy; entered early into the mercantile business, to which he subsequently added that of banking; was, for several years, ap a State Di pointed, by the Governor of the State, rector for the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company; was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-sev enth Congress, serving on the Select Committee on Army Contracts; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth on Accounts, Congress, serving on the Committees and Enrolled Bills; was also a Delegate to the Chi of 1864. cago Convention "

Steele,

William

B.; was born in a

New York stud

good education; City, July 24, 1842; received ied law; served in the army as private and commis late sioned officer during the war, but chiefly as a staff-officer in the Army of the Potomac; was elected to the Legislative Council of Wyoming Territory in 1871: was elected to the Forty-third Congress as the

and was Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming,

but turned his attention to agricultural pursuits;

re-elected to the Forty -fourth Congress.

served a number of years in the Stat:- Legislature, was a member of the part of the time as Speaker; State Convention to consider the Constitution of the United States; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1790 to 1793, and was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Govern ment on the Potomac; in 1806 was a Commissioner to adiust the boundaries between the States of North and South Carolina; was a General of the Militia; held the office of First Comptroller of the Treasury

Steenrod, Lewis; was born in Virginia; was elected a Representative in Congress irom that State, serving from 1839 to 1845.

under Presidents Washington and Adams; on Aug ust 14, 1814 was again elected to the Legislature, but on that day he died. Delaware Steele, John B.; was born at Delhi, was educated at County, New York, March 28, 1814;

Delaware Academy and at Williams College, Massa bar in 1839; chusetts; studied law, and came to the in 1841 was appointed District Attorney for Otsego Ulster County, County; in 1847 removed to Kingston, and there practiced his profession; in 1850 was elected Judge of that County; in 1860 was Special

Stenger, William S.; was born at London, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1840; graduated at Franklin and Marshall College; adopted the profession of the law; was assistant editor of a newspaper in Chambersburg; was a candidate for the State Legislature, but was defeated: served, for a Penn time, as District Attorney for Franklin County, in 1874 was elected a Representative from sylvania; Pennsv vania to the Forty-fourth Congress; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.

was

re-

Stephens, Abraham P.; was born in New York; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853. Stephens, Alexander H.; was born

in Talia-

County, Georgia, February 11, 1812; was left an un: orphan at the age of fourteen, when kind friends, ferro

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

474

a solicited, furnished him with the means to obtain education, all of which he subsequently returnee with interest; prepared himself for college in nin months, and graduated at Franklin College in 1835 studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1834 after paying his debts, his first earnings were de voted to redeeming from the hands of strangers th Home of his childhood, which had been sold after hi lather s death; in 1836 was elected to the Lowe House of the State Legislature, where he served fiv years, devoting himself especially to the internal in terests of his native State; in 1839 was chosen i Delegate to the "Commercial Convention" a Charleston, where he is said to have made a deep im

pression by his peculiar eloquence; in 1842 was elected to the Senate of his State; in 1843 was electee a Representative in Congress from Georgia, to which position he was regularly re-elected to the close o: the Thirty-fifth Congress; served on many Commit tees, and it was while he officiated as Chairman o: the Committee on Territories, that the Territories o: Minnesota and Oregon were admitted into the Union became identified with the Rebellion of 1861, and was chosen Vice-President and member of Congres: of the so-called u Southern Confederacy"; was sub sequently confined as a Prisoner of State in Fort Warren; was released by order of President John son; in 1866 was chosen a Delegate to the Philadel National Union Convention," but did not at phia tend its sessions; in 1866 was elected a Senator in Congress, but was not admitted; was subsequently elected a Representative to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses; in December, 1875, was ap pointed Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures; was re-elected to the Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; in 1882 was elected Governor of Georgia, and resigned his seat in Congress to assume his gubernatorial duties. Died at Atlanta, Georgia, March 4, 1883.

received a common school and academic education; in 1845 removed to Milwaukee. Wisconsin; engaged in the lumber business at Escanaba, Michigan; in 1858 removed to Marinette, Wisconsin, continuing in the lumber business; was President of the Stepheuson Banking Company for seven years; was a Director in the Sturgeon Bay Canal Company was President of the Menomonee River Manufacturing Company, and of the North Ludington Company, one of the oldest lumber companies in the Northwest; held various local offices; was a Representative in the State Legis lature in 1866 and 1868; was a Delegate to the Re publican National Convention of 188 J; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Con ;

gress.

Stephenson, James was born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 20. 1764; removed to Virginia commanded a company in the cam paign of General St. Clair; was present at the quell of the Whisky Insurrection in ing Pennsylvania, and was promoted to the office of Brigade Inspector; served for many years as a Delegate to the Vir ginia Assembly; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1805, from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1822 to 1825. Died in August. ;

at an early day;

1833.

"

Stephens, John Lloyd was born at Shrews New Jersey, November 28. 1805; graduated at ;

bury,

Columbia College in 1822; studied at the Litchfield Law School, and practiced law in New York City about eight years; from 1834 to 1836 visited Europe and Egypt, and in 1837 published "Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland"; in 339 was appointed Special Ambassador to Central America, and on his return published Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan," and in 1843 another work on Yucatan; was a Di rector of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, which established the first American line of transAtlantic steamers, and went to Europe as the repre sentative of the Company, on the trial trip of its first vessel, the Washington; the latter part of his life was

Stephenson/ James S.; was born in York County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con gress in Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. Died at Pittsburgh, October 17, 1831. Stephenson, John

GK; was born in New to Indiana; in 1861 was appointed, that State, Librarian of Congress, serving as such until the appointment of A. R. Spofford, in 1865. shire;

Hamp

removed

Tom

Sterigere, John B.; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, from 1827 to 1831, and a member of the Committee on Private Land Claims.

was a native of New London Sterling, Ansel ounty, Connecticut; was a Representative in Con fess from that State from 1821 to 1825. ;

"

devoted to the construction of the Panama Railroad of which he was President; in 1846 was a Delegate to tjie State Constitutional Convention of New York.

Stephens, Philander

was a member of the in Congress, from Pennsyl from 1829 to 1833. vania, Died at Springfield Penn sylvania, July 8, 1842, aged fifty-four years.

Stephens, William; was a citizen of Georgiain 1801 was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Georgia.

Stephenson, Benjamin; was a Delegate in Congress, from Illinois Territory, from 1814 to when he was appointed Receiver of Public Monevs at Edwardsville, Illinois. 181(>

ton,

York County,

New

;

born at Lyme, Connectigraduated at Yale College in 1804; re moved to the State of New York, and was for some ears a member of the Legislature; was a Represent ative in Congress from 1821 to 1823. Died at Watertown, New York, April 10, 1844. in

1781

;

;

Samuel was a member of the House Representatives of the United States from Maryand from l*yi to 1793. Died at Baltimore, July 12 833, aged seventy-seven years. Sterrett,

;

f

;

House of Representatives

Stephenson, Isaac

Micah was

Sterling-,

.ut,

was born near FrederickBrunswick, June 18, 1829-

Stetson, Charles was born in New Ipswich Vew Hampshire, November 7, 1801; in 1802 removed! with his parents, to Hampden, Maine; graduated at Yale College in 1823; studied law, and practiced the jssion until 1833 when he moved to the City of 1834 was appointed iangor; Judge of the Court of that city; lumcipal subsequently held the ffice ol Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the ol .ounty Penobscot; in 1845 was elected a member the Executive Council of the State, and re-elected hree years succession; in 1*48 was elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-first Con;

m

m

Coinnercecame eminent; was appointed a Judge, both under Provincial Government and after the adoption of Constitution; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777, and signed the Declaralon of Independence. Died February 28, 1781. His on, bearing his name, a grandson, and great-grand son, succeeded him as members in the Federal Con .ege in

5

gress.

Stockton, Richard; was born

New

at Princeton, Jersey, April 17, 1764; graduated at Nassau

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Hall in 1779; on leaving college studied law, and was admitted to practice at the age of twenty; in 1792 and 1800 was a Presidential Elector; was a Senator of the United States from 1796 to 1799; was a Repre sentative in Congress from 1813 to 1815; in 1827 was a Commissioner for settling the boundary line between New York and New Jersey; was eminently distin guished for his talents, was an eloquent and profound lawyer, and during more than a quarter of a century was at the head of the bar in New Jersey. Died at Princeton,

March

7,

1828.

Stockton, Robert Field

was born at Prince Jersey, in 1795; early in life entered the United States Navy, and was actively engaged in some of the most important naval battles during the War of 1812; commanded the American squadron on the coast of Africa, and was one of the founders of the Colony of Liberia; was one of the first of our commanders to introduce and apply steam to naval purposes the famous sloop-of-war Princeton having been built under his supervision; when war was de clared with Mexico, he was placed in command of the United States fleet in the Pacific, and performed the duties of Commodore, General, and Governor; and the foundations of religion, education and social progress were laid by his instrumentality in many of the outposts of our Western world; soon after his return from the Pacific, resigned his commission in the Navy, and devoted himself to the internal im provements of his native State; was elected United States Senator for the term from 1851 to 1857, serving as a member of several Committees; resigned in 1853; the bill to abolish flogging in the Navy was intro duced in the Senate by him; was elected a Delegate to the Peace Congress in 1861; was President of ton,

479

law; served in the State Legislature; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1843, serving on two prominent Committees.

Stokes, John was a native of North Carolina; served as a Colonel in the Revolution and lost an arm in one of its battles; in 1790 was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for North Carolina; as a mark of respect, one of the Counties of his State was named for him; was the brother of M. Stokes, one of the early Governors. Died in Lafayetteville, North Carolina, in October, 1790. ;

;

New

"

"

the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company from the time he left the Senate until his death, which oc curred at Princeton, New Jersey, October 7, 1866.

Thomas

was a Captain in the Third Stockton, ; Artillery in 1812; was Major of the Forty-second In fantry in 1814; resigned in 1825; was Governor of Delaware from 1844 to 1846. Died at New Castle, Delaware, March 2, 1846.

Stoddard, Ebenezer was born at West Wood stock, Connecticut, May 6, 1786; graduated at Brown University in 1806; was a lawyer by profession, and practiced extensively; was, for several years, a ber of the State Legislature; was Lieutenant-Governor of the State for one year; was a Representative in Congress from 1821 to 1825. Died at Woodstock, August, 1848. ;

mem

Stokes, Montford

;

was born in North Carolina

in 1760; was, for several years, Clerk of the Superior Court; was subsequently Clerk of the State Senate, in which capacity he became so popular as to be elected to the United States Senate, which honor he declined; in 1816 was again elected United States Senator, and served until 1823; in 1826 went into the General Assembly of North Carolina as Senator; in 1829 was elected a member of the Commons; in 1830 was again elected to the Commons, and in the same year was elected Governor of the State; in 1831

was appointed, by President Jackson, Indian in Arkansas, where he died in 1842.

Agent

Stokes, "William B.; was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, September 9, 1814; received a limited education; devoted the greater part of his life to agricultural pursuits; served three sessions in the Legislature of Tennessee twice as a Represent ative and once as a Senator; was elected a Represent ative from Tennessee to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions; during the Rebellion of 1861 served as a Colonel in the Union Army; in 1865 was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but was not admitted to his seat until near the close of the first session of that Congress, when he was placed on the Committee on Elections; waa also a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Con vention" of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committee on Claims, and as Chairman of the Committee on the Ninth Census. "

Stone, Alfred

P.; was a merchant by occupa one time, Treasurer of the State of Ohio; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio, from

tion; was, at

1844 to 1845; was appointed, by President Lincoln, a Collector of Internal Revenue. Died, by poison, at Columbus, Ohio, August 2, 1865.

Stone, David was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, February 17, 1770; graduated at Princeton College in 1788; studied law, and rose to a high po sition at the bar; was, for four years, in the State Legislature; was a Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798; was a Representa tive in Congress, from 1799 to 1801; was a Senator in Congress from 1801 to 1807; was Governor of North Carolina in 1808; served a second time as United States Senator from 1813 to 1814, which posi tion he resigned on account of disagreements with his Died October 7, 1818. constituents. ;

Stoddart, John T.; graduated at Princeton College in 1810; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1833 to 1835, and a member of the Committees on Claims, and the District of Co lumbia.

Stoddert, Benjamin; was born

in Maryland;

served as a Major during the Revolution; was, for many years, extensively engaged in mercantile pur suits in Georgetown, District of Columbia, where one of the streets of the town still bears his name: in May, 1798, was appointed, by President Adams, Sec retary of the Navy, and was the first man who served in that capacity; although continued in the position by President Jefferson, was superseded in January, 1802; subsequently settled in Bladensburg, Mary land, where he died at an advanced age, universally respected for his high character.

Stokely, Samuel; was born in Ohio; received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the

Stone, Bben F.; was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1822; graduated at Harvard Uni versity in 1843, and in the Law School of that insti tution in 1846; commenced the practice of law at Newburyport in 1847; served terms in each branch of the State Legislature; served in the Union Army dur ing the War of the Rebellion, in command of a Regi ment; held various offices under the National Gov ernment; was Chairman of the Republican State

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

480

Charles County Court; was one of those who voted Government on the Potomac; was the brother of Thomas Stone. Died in 1812.

Committee for two years; was elected a Representa tive from .Massachusetts to the Forty-seventh, Fortyeighth,

for locating the Seat of

ami Fort3 -ninth Congresses. 7

Stone, Frederick was born in Maryland, his grandfather, Thomas Stone, having been in the Con tinental Congress, and another ancestor, William Stone, Deputy Governor of Maryland under Lord Baltimore; was liberally educated, chiefly in George town, District of Columbia; adopted the profession of the law; in 1851 was tendered the office of Deputy District Attorney for his County, but declined; in 1852 was appointed, by the Legislature, one of the Commissioners to revise and simplify the Rules of Reading and Practice in the Courts of Maryland; in 1855 and 1856 was a memberof the State Legislature; was elected a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention" of 1864. but declined; was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committees on Private Land Claims, Education and Labor, and the District of Columbia.

Stone,

;

Stone, William

Stone,

James

that State from

i

was a Representative

in

Con

from 1838 to 1839.

Stone, William H.; was born at Shawangunk, York, November 7, 1828; received a good edu cation: removed to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1848, and resided there as an iron manufacturer; was President of "The St. Louis Hot-pressed Nut and Bolt Com pany"; was a member of the Assembly, and of the St Louis Board of Water Commissioners; was elected Representative from Missouri to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Commit tee on Railroads and Canals; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committees on Manufac and on in the Post Office Depart tures, Expenditures a

Stone, James W.; was born in Kentucky in 1813; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1851 to 1852. Died October 13, 1854.

ment.

Stone, John Haskins

was, while quite young, Captain in Smallwood s Regiment, at an of the early period Revolutionary War; became Colonel in 177G; resigned in 1779; distinguished himself at the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Princeton and Gerrnantown, in the last of which he received a wound which disabled him from further service; in 1781 was a clerk in the office of R. R. Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, was subse quently a member of the Executive Council of Mary land; was Governor of Maryland from 1794 to 1897. Died in Annapolis. Maryland, October 5, 1804 the

at Pointon Manor,

New

was born in Kentucky; was a

;

was born

;

;

gress from Tennessee

"

Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845.

Thomas

Charles County, Maryland, in 1743; received a liberal education; adopted the profession of the law; early joined the patriots of the Revolution; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 17 9, and in 1784 and 1785; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; in 1778 was chosen to the Maryland Legislature; was elected a Delegate to the Conven tion which framed the Federal Constitution, but de clined to serve. Died October 5. 1787

Stone, William

;

first

!

May

was born in Madison Coun

J.;

1848; removed, with his par ents, to Missouri; was educated at the University of Missouri; studied law: was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Nevada, Missouri; was Prosecuting Attorney of Vernon County, Mis souri, in 1873 and 1874; was a Presidential Elector in 1876; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Missouri to the Forty-ninth Congress. ty,

Kentucky,

7,

Stone, William M.; was Governor of Iowa from 1864 to 1868.

W.

Stone, J.; was born in Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Kentucky, June 26, 1841; was educated in the common schools and at Tyler s Institute, Cadiz Kentucky; in 1861 enlisted in the First Kentucky John was born at Stone, "W.; Wadsworth, Ohio, Confederate Cavalry, serving in that regiment the July 18, 1838; received an academic education; re moved to Michigan in 1856; studied law; was elected Eighth Kentucky Cavalry and the Fifth Kentucky John H. Morgan s Brigade until Cavalry 1864, County Clerk of Allegan County in 1860; was ad when, at Cynthiana, Kentucky, he was wounded and mitted to the bar in 1862; was again elected County taken prisoner: as the result of his wound his Clerk in 1862; was elected right Prosecuting Attorney in leg was amputated near the hip ioint; was held a 18fJ4, and served six years; was elected President of prisoner until the close of the war, in 1865, when he Allegan Village in 1872; Circuit Judge in 1873; re was released and returned to his home in Kentucky; signed in 1874, and removed to Grand Rapids, where in 1867 was elected a Representative in the State he practiced law was elected a Representative from Legislature; was elected to the again Assembly in Michigan to the Forty-fifth Congress; re-elected to 1875, and was chosen Speaker of the House; in 1883 the Forty-sixth Congress. was, for the third time, elected a member of the Stone, Joseph O., was born at Westfort New Legislature; during this term was an earue^ advo cate of prison reform, and succeeded in York, July 30, 1829; received a limited education at securing the enactment of very important legislation in this direc the public schools; in 1844 removed to the Territory in 1884 was elected a Representative from Ken of Iowa; studied medicine, and graduated at the tion; Medical Department of the Saint Louis tucky to the Forty-ninth Congress. University in 1854; enlisted as a private in the First Iowa Stoneman, George was a conspicuous officer Cavalry in 1861, and became an Assistant Adjutantthe Union the Civil War, risin- to General, serving until the close of the war: resumed the rank of Army during Major-General; after the close of the war the practice of his profession after the was ttled war; California; in 1882 was elected Governor of elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-fifth that btate for four years from January, 1883. Congress. Stone, John M. was Governor of Mississippi from March, 1876, to January, 1882. ;

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Stone, Michael was born in Charles County Maryland, about the year 1750; was a Representative in Congress from his native State from 178!) to 1791 ;

was subsequently,

for

many

years,

Judge of the

Bellamy was born in Portland, Maine Stprer, about the year 1798; graduated at Bowdoin College from which he subsequently received the degree of LL.D.; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, when twentyone years of age, studied and ;

law,

practiced the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1835 to 1837; was a Presidential Elector in 1844; served three terms as a Judge of the Superior Court in the District of Cincinnati: was a Professor in the Cincinnati Law School. Died in Cincinnati, June 1, 1875. He took an interest in religious af fairs, and at the time of his death was Vice-President of the Evangelical Alliance. profession;

Storer, Clement; was born in 1760; was a United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1817 to 1819. Died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,

November

22,

1830.

Storm, John

was born in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1838; graduated at Dickinson College in July, 1861; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1863; was appointed Su perintendent of Public Schools in 1862; was elected a B.;

Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty -sec

ond and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Com mittees on the Militia, Education and Labor, and National Monument; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Congress from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1831; afterwards established himself in the city of New York, where he soon became eminent in his profession; was possessed of extensive and varied acquirements, un common powers of discrimination, great logical ex actness, and a ready and powerful elocution; as a de bater in Congress he stood conspicuous in the first Died at New Haven, Connecticut, July 29, rank. 1837.

Storrs, William L.; was born in Middletown, Connecticut, March 25, 1795; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1814; adopted the law as a profession; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1829 to 1833, and again from 1839 to 1841 was Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1840 to 1856; was Chief Justice of that court from 1856 until his death, which occurred at Hartford, June 25, 1861; was also Professor of Law in Yale College in 1846 and 1847. ;

was born at Marblehead, Mas 18, 1779; graduated at Harvard University in 1798; studied law; was a member of the State Legislature in 1805, and was elected Speak er; during the years 1808 and 1809 was a Represent ative in Congress; in 1811 was appointed, by President Madison, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, which office he held until his death; Story, Joseph

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he acquired a large fortune from his practice as a law yer, and it is said that his income from the sale of his legal writings, which were numerous and of the highest order, numbering twenty-seven volumes, with thirty-four volumes of Decisions, amounted to ten thousand dollars per annum; in 1830 was appointed Dane Professor in the Law School of Harvard University; subsequently published his Cornmentin aries on the Constitution of the United States early life was a writer of poetry, and in his latter the first of year was considered, even in England, received the degree of LL.D. living writers on law from the College? of Harvard, Brown, and Dart mouth. Died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Septem His life was published by his son, W. ber 10, 1845. "

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Story, William was an early emigrant to Arkansas; was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for thtt Territory. ;

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in Windsor Coun Vermont, in 1818; received a collegiate educa tion; removed to New York City in 1837; studied law; in 1840 was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of law in New York; attained to eminence in his profession and became prominent in politics; in 1877 was appointed, by President Hayes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia; resigned in 1879, and resumed the practice of his profession. Died January

Stoughton, E. W\; was born

ty,

7,

1882.

Stoughton, William L.; was born in New York, March 20, 1827; studied law, and, on coming to the bar, settled in Sturges, Michigan, in 1851; from 1856 to 1860 was Prosecuting Attorney; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, United States District Attorney for Michigan, which office he soon resigned; entered the Volunteer Army as LieutenantColonel; was promoted Colonel, and commanded in all the operations of his regiment until wounded at gal Atlanta; wasbrevetted a Brigadier-General for lantry on the field," and after the war was brevetted a Major-General; had the credit of firing the last gun at Chickamauga; commanded a brigade at Mission Ridge and in the Atlanta campaign ; lost a leg by a cannon ball at Rupps Station, in front of Atlanta; in 1866 was elected Attorney -General of Michigan; in 1868 was elected a Representative from that State to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees "

Storrs, Henry B.; was born at Middletown. Connecticut, in 1787; graduated at Yale College in 1804; practiced law some years at Utica, New York; during his residence there was a Representative in

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on Military Affairs and Revolutionary Pensions; was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on important committees.

Stout, Jacob ; while holding the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Delaware, in 18:20, was Act ing Governor of that State, serving one year. Stout, Lansing; was born at Pamelia, New York, March 27, 1828; received a limited education: commenced active life by working on a farm and teaching school; became a Superintendent of Public Schools, and studied law; went to California in 1851; in 1856 was elected to the California Legislature; in 1857 went to Oregon and turned his attention to the practice of law; in 1858 was elected Judge of Multnomah County; before the close of that year was elected a Representative from Oregon to the Thirtysixth Congress, serving as a member of the Commit tee on Expenditures in the State Department, and of the Special Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebel lious States; subsequently served in the State Legis lature.

Died in 1870.

Stover,

John

H.; was born in Aaronsbnrg, Cen

ter County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1833; received a

good English education; studied law, and came to the bar in 1857; in 1858 was chosen District Attor ney for Center County; in 1861 entered the Volun

Army as a private; was at once made a Captain; served as Major of the One Hundred and Sixth Regi ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers until 1864; was then Colonel of the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment until the close of the war; participated in the battle of Yorktown, the Seven Days battles, and those of Fredericksburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and was present at the final surren der of the Confederate forces; was several times hon teer

orably mentioned by his superiors in command; after the war removed to Missouri; was elected a Repre sentative from that State to the Fortieth Congress, for the unexpired term of J. W. McClurg, serving on the

Committee on

Elections.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

482

Stow, Silas from

New York

;

was a Representative

in Congress

from 1811 to 1813.

Stowell, William H. H.; was born at Windsor, the high 26, 1840; was educated at

Vermont, July

schools of Boston, Massachusetts; engaged in mer cantile business; settled in Virginia in 1865; was apFourth pointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the District in 1869; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-second, Forty-third, and Fortyfourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Post Offices

and Post Roads.

GK; was a Representative in Con York, from 1827 to 1829; was a State Senator from Madison County in 1833 and 1834.

Stower, John

gress from

New

Strader, Otto; was an early emigrant to Louis iana; in 1806 was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana. Strader, P. W.; was born in Warren, New Jer November 6, 1818; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio,

sey,

with his parents, in 1819, going down the great river in a flat boat; spent three years of his boyhood in a printing office; served as a clerk in Easton, Pennsyl vania, but returned to Ohio in 1835; from that year until 1848 served as a clerk and an engineer on the steamboats of the Ohio; was a general ticket agent for the Little Miami Railroad for many years, re signing the position in 1867; in 1868 was elected a Kepresentative from Ohio to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Coins, Weights and Measures, and Interior Department.

Strait, Horace B. was born in Potter County, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1835; received a good ed ucation; removed to Indiana in 1846, and to Minne sota in 1855; entered the Union Army in 1862 as Captain of Infantry; was promoted, serving at the close of the war as Inspector-General oa the staff of General Me Arthur; was elected Mayor of Shakopee in 1870, and re-elected in 1871 and 1872; was one of the Trustees of the Minnesota Hospital for the Insane; was engaged in the manufacturing and banking business, and was President of the First National Bank of Shakopee; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Weights and Measures and Public Buildings; re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; was again elected a Representa tive to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con gresses; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress. ;

Stranahan,

J. S. T.

and was a Representative from 1855 to 1857.

;

New York, from that State

was born in

in Congress

Strange, Robert; was born

in Virginia, Sep was educated at Hampden Sidney College; studied law, and removed to North Caro lina, where he took a high position in his profession;

tember

20, 1796;

served a number of years in the State Legislature; in 1826 was elected a Judge of the Superior Court; held the office until elected a Senator of the United States, in 1835; resigned his seat in 1840, having re ceived from his State instructions incompatible with

his ideas of duty; was subsequently appointed So the Fifth Judicial District of the State; toward the close of his life was wholly devoted to his profession; was the author of a novel, printed for private circulation, entitled "Eoneguski; or. the Cherokee Chief." Died in 1854.

licitor for

Stratton, Charles O.; was born in New Jersey in 1796; was an active politician; served a number of years in the State Legislature; was a Representa

tive in Congress from New Jersey, from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843; was a candidate for election to the Twenty-sixth Congress, but, although he appeared with a certificate under the the broad seal of his State, was not admitted was ;

a

member

of the "Constitutional Convention of 1844, and Governor of New Jersey from 1844 to 1848, after which he retired to his farm in Gloucester County, where he died, March 30, 1859.

Stratton,

"

John was ;

a Representative in Con

gress from Virginia, from 1801 to 1803.

Stratton, John L. N.; was born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, in 1817; graduated at Princeton College in 1836; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839; in 1858 was elected a Representa tive from New Jersey to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Elections, and the Special Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebellious States; was re-elected" to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Ways and Means, and on National Armories; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven tion of 1866. "

Stratton, Nathan T.; was born in New Jersey; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1855.

Straub, Christian M.; was born in Pennsyl vania; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855.

Strawbridge, James D.; was born in Montour County, Pennsylvania, in 1824; received a good edu cation at Princeton College, graduating in 1844; graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsyl vania in 1847; practiced medicine at Danville; entered the Army as a Brigade-Surgeon of Volun teers, and served throughout the war; was captured while medical Director of the Eighteenth Army Corps in front of Richmond, and remained three months in Libby Prison; resumed the practice of medicine after the close of the war; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committees on Civil Service and Invalid Pensions. Street, Randall S.; was born in Catskill, New York, in 1780; after receiving a good education, studied law, and settled in the practice of the profes sion at Poughkeepsie; in 1810 was appointed District Attorney for the State, and was re-appointed in 1813; soon afterwards, as Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, served in the army during the war with England; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1819 to 1821, and occupied a high position as such; Avas promoted to the rank of General of the Militia; in 1823 removed to Monticello, in Sullivan County, where he continued to reside, in the practice of his profession, until his death, which occurred in 1841. He was the father of the gifted poet, Alfred B. Street, and a relative, also, of Augustus R. Street, who founded the Fine Art Gallery of Yale College.

Streeter, F. B.; was born in Pennsylvania; in 1854 was appointed, from that State, Solicitor of the United States Treasury, remaining in office until 1857.

Strickland, O. P.; was an early emigrant to Utah; was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Court for that Territory.

Strickland,

Randolph was born at New York, February 4,

Steuben County,

;

Danville, 1823; re

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. ceived a common school education; engaged in teaching; removed to Michigan in 1844; studied law; came to the bar in 1849; was Prosecuting Attorney for Clinton County in 1852, 1854, 1856, 1858, and 1862; was elected to the State Senate in 1861 and

was a Provost Marshal from 1863

was a member of the State Republican Committee; was a Delegate to the National Conventions of 1856 and 1868; was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty -first Congress, serving on the Committees on Invalid Pensions, and Mines and Mining. 1862;

to 1865;

Strohm, John was born October 16, 1793, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in what is now Fulton Township; received a common school educa tion; taught school for six years; in 1831 was elected a member of the Legislature of his native State, serv ing three sessions in the House and eight in the Senate, during one term as Speaker; was a Repre sentative in Congress from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term ending in 1849; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866. ;

Strong Caleb was born in Northampton, Mas sachusetts, in January, 1745; graduated at Harvard College in 1764; in consequence of poor health did not commence the practice of law for eight years after wards; passed his life at Northampton, where his paternal ancestors had lived from the year 1659; in 1775 was a member of the Committee of Safety; in 1780 was chosen one of the Council of Massachusetts: in 1779 assisted in forming the Constitution of that State: in 1787 also assisted in forming the Constitu tion of the United States, but did not sign that in strument; from 1789 to 1797 was a Senator in Con gress; from 1800 to 1807 was Governor of the State; also from 1812 to 1816; was a Presidential Elector in 1809; was a man of unimpeachable moral character, and possessed a vigorous and well-cultivated mind. Died November 7, 1819. 1

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Strong,

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James

;

was born

in

1783; graduated at the University of Ver in 1806; was a Representative in Congress

;

1872.

Strong, Selah B.; was born in Brookhaven, Lone Island. May 1, 1792; graduated at Yale College in 1811; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1814; was at one time Attorney for Suffolk County; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1845; in 1847 was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of New York.

Strong, Solomon; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819; was a member of the State Legislature in 1812, 1813, 1843 and 1844; was Judge of the Court of Common Died September 6, 1850, Pleas from 1818 to 1842. aged seventy-one years.

;

member

of the State Legislature for eight years.

Strong, William

;

was born

at

Somers, Tolland

1808; was educated at Plainfield Academy, and at Yale College; after graduating, in 1828, taught school in Connecticut, and in New Jersey, meanwhile studying law; was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1832, and soon after began to practice law in Reading, Berks Coun ty, Pennsylvania; was elected from Pennsylvania to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses; on retiring from Congress, resumed the practice of his profession, in which he continued until 1857. when he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl vania for fifteen years; resigned that position in 1868 and returned to the bar; in 1870 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; in 1867 received from Lafayette College the degree of LL.D.. and the same honor from Yale College and the College of New Jersey.

County, Connecticut,

May

6,

at St. Louis, Missouri.

Strother, James F.; was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, September 4, 1811; received a col legiate education, and adopted the profession of the law; served ten years in the Legislature of Virginia, and was Speaker during the sessions of 1847 and 1848; in 1850 was a member of the Convention which framed the present Constitution of the State; was a Died Representative in Congress from 1851 to 1853. in Culpepper County, September 20, 1860.

Strong, Jedediah was a Delegate from Con necticut to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1784.

7,

was born in Windham Coun was a Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1811 to 1815, and again from 1819 to 1821; was, for eight years, Sheriff of Hart ford County; was Judge of the same County; was a Connecticut;

Moneys

1847.

September

Strong, William

ty,

Strother, George F.; was a native of Culpepper County. Virginia; was a lawyer by profession; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1820, when he was appointed Receiver of Public

Windham. Connecti

Strong, Julius L.; was born at Bolton, County of Tolland, Connecticut, November 8, 1828; went through a course of studies at Union College, but did not graduate, and attended the Law School at Ballston, in New York; studied law; came to the bar in J853. and settled in Hartford; was a member of the Connecticut Legislature for two years; in 1859 was elected a Representative from Connecticut to the jForty-First Congress; was re-elected to the Fortysecond Congress. Died in Hartford, Connecticut,

Strong, Theron R.; was born in Connecticut; served in the Assembly of New York from Wayne County in 1842; was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1839 to 1841.

States for that Territory.

from New York from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1831. Died in Chester, New Jersey, August 8,

Strong, Stephen; was born in Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.

Strong, William; was born in Vermont; was an early emigrant to the Territory of Washington, and was appointed an Associate Justice of the United

cut, in

mont

483

Strouse, Myer was born in Germany, Decem ber 16, 1825; came, with his father, to the United ;

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States in 1832, and settled in Pottsville, Pennsyl vania; received an academic education and studied law; from 1848 to 1852 edited a newspaper in Phila delphia called the North American farmer, after which he devoted himself to the practice of his pro fession in 1862 was elected a Representative from ;

Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Roads and Canals; was reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Territories, Expenses in the Interior Department, and Mines and Mining.

Struble, Isaac H.; was born near FredericksNovember 3, 1843 removed, with his parents, to Ohio in 1847, and to Iowa City, Iowa, in 1857; received a common school education, and attended the Iowa University one year; served in the Union Army throughout the war of the Rebellion; studied law in Illinois, and was admitted to the bar burg, Virginia,

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was elected a Representative to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

at Polo, in that State, in 1870; in 1872 removed to Le Mars, Iowa, and continued the practice of his pro to fession; was elected a Representative from Iowa the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth Congress.

years; in 1862

Stuart, Philip

;

was a Representative

in

Con

gress from Maryland, from 1811 to 1819.

Strudwick, William >

in Congress from

E.; was a Representative Maryland from 1796 to 1797.

Sturgeon, Daniel was born in Pennsylvania, October 27, 1789; was a Senator in Congress from Pennsylvania, from 1840 to 1851, serving on several Committees; in 1853 was appointed, by President Pierce, Treasurer at Philadelphia. ;

Stuart, Alexander; was appointed an Asso ciate Justice of the United States Court for the Terri tory of Illinois in 1809, and in 1814 was transferred to a similar position in the Territory of Missouri.

Sturgis, Jonathan ; was born at Fairfield, Con necticut, August 23, 1740; graduated at Yale College in 1759, and became a lawyer; in 1775 was chosen a Delegate to Congress; espoused and supported the

Alexander H.

H.; was born in Stauntou, Virginia, April 2, 1807; his early education was received at the Staunton Academy, and in 1824 he spent one session at William and Mary College; then commenced the study of law, which he finished at the University of Virginia, in 1828, and was admit ted to practice in Staunton in that year; his politi cal career began as a member of the Young Men s Convention" in Washington, in 1832; in 1836 was elected a member of the House of Delegates, of Vir ginia, from the County of Augusta, and was re-elected in 1837 and 1838; in 1839 declined a re-election, and pursued the practice of law; took an active part in the canvass of 1840 for President Harrison in 1841 was elected a Representative in Congress from Vir ginia, and served until 1843; in 1844 delivered the annual address before the American Institute in New York City; was Presidential Elector on the Clay ticket in 1844, having been, from the outset of life, a devoted personal friend of that statesman; was also a Presidential Elector in 1848; in 1850 was invited. by President Fillmore, to fill the office of Secretary of the Interior, which he held until 1853, and then returned to the practice of his profession in Staunton in 1856 was a member of the Convention which nom inated Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency; in 1857 was elected to the State Senate of Virginia for four years, and devoted himself especially to the subject of in ternal improvements; was a Delegate to the Phila delphia "National Union Convention" in 1866.

Stuart,

of Independence; was a Representative in Congress from 1789 to 1793, when he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut; con tinued in that office until 1805; was a Presidential Elector in 1797 and 1805; the degree of LL.D. was

cause

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New son

Sturgis, Lewis Burr; was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1762; graduated at Yale College in 1782; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1805 to 1817; subsequently emigrated to the State of Ohio. Died in Norwalk, Ohio, March 30, 1844.

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Stuart, Andrew; was born in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855.

Stuart, Archibald ; was born in Virginia; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839.

Charles

E.; was born in Columbia York, November 25, 1810; adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the Michi gan Legislature in 1842; was a Representative in the Thirtieth and Thirty-second Congresses; in 1853 was elected a Senator in Congress for six years, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention of 1866.

Stuart,

County,

New

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Stuart, David; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from Michigan from 1853

upon him by Yale College. Died at FairOctober 4, 1819. The prominent merchant of York, bearing the same name, was his grand

conferred

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Sullivan, George ; was born in Durham, New Hampshire, in 1772; graduated at Harvard Univers ity in 1790;

commenced, in early life, the practice of law at Exeter, which he continued for more than and forty years, acquired a high reputation was a Representative in the General Court in 1805 and was a 1813; Representative in Congress in 1811 and ;

was a member of the State Senate in 1814 and was twenty-one years Attorney-General of the Died in State, which office he resigned in 1836. Exeter, June 14, 1838, highly esteemed for his tal ents and public usefulness. 1812; 1815;

Sullivan, James ; was born at Berwick, Massa chusetts (now Maine), April 22, 1744; was educated by his father; was a lawyer by profession; settled at Biddeford, and was King s Attorney for the Co .nty of York; took an active part on the side of his coun try during the Revolution; in 1775 was a member of the Provincial Congress; in 1776 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782; was a member of the Executive Council, and Judge of Probate; in 1790

was appointed Attorney-General, which office he re tained till 1807, when he was elected Governor of the State; was the author of a History of Maine," a Dissertation on Banks, and on the Suability of States, History of Land Titles in Massachusetts, a "Dissertation on the Constitutional Liberty of the Press," and a "History of the Penobscot Indians." Died December 10, 1808. Had the title of LL.D. "

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Stuart, John T.; was born in Fayette County Kentucky, November 10, 1807; graduated at the Centre College, Danville, in 1826; having studied law, settled in Illinois, where he practiced his pro in 1832 and 1834 was a member of the Illi fession; nois Legislature; was elected a P presentative from Illinois to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving on the Committee on Territoriesin 1848 was elected to the State four Senate, serving

Sullivan, John; was born in Massachusetts, February 17, 1740; settled in New Hampshire as a lawyer; attained the rank of Major-General in the Revolutionary Army; was captured at the battle of Long Island; commanded a division at Trenton, Brandywine, and Germantown, and also an expedi tion against the Indians; was a Delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775, and again in 1780 and 1781; was, for three years, President of New Hampshire; in 1789 was ap-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. poiiited a Judge of the District Court, which office he held until his death. Died January 23, 1795.

Sullivan, Peter J.; was a citizen of Ohio; from 1867 to 1869 held the position of Minister Resident to Colombia; in 1868, in concert with Caleb Cushing, was instructed to negotiate a treaty with that coun Died March try for a ship canal across the Isthmus. 2, 1883.

born in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Alexandria; lived from in fancy in Kanawha County, in the western part of the State; was educated for the legal profession, and came to the bar in 1827; in 1830 was elected a mem ber of the House of Delegates, and continued to rep

Kanawha County

in the Legislature for sev to the National House of Rep resentatives in the spring of 1841, and re-elected in eral years;

was elected

1843, serving throughout the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses; in 1850 was elected a member of the State Convention which framed the present Constitution of Virginia; in 1851 was unani mously nominated as the Whig candidate for Gov ernor at the first election of the Governor by the people, that officer having been previously chosen by the Legislature, but was defeated; in May, 1852. was elected Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in Virginia; having served in that capacity for six years, resigned July 1, 1858, there being two years of the term for which he had been elected unexpired; was a Delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861. "

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born in Boston, Massa 1811; graduated at Harvard University in 1-30; spent the three succeeding years at the Cambridge Law School; for three years had editorial charge of the American Jurist; was admitted to the bar in 1834, and settled in Boston; was subse quently the Reporter of the United States Circuit Court, and published three volumes, which now bear his name; was, for three winters, a teacher at the soon afterwards edited Cambridge Law School "Dunlap s Treatise on Admiralty Practice"; about this time declined a Professorship tendered to him by bis Alma Mater; in 1837 visited Europe; was received with marked attention in England, and remained abroad until 1840; during the years 1844 to 1846 pro duced an edition of Vesey s Reports," in twenty volumes; from that time onward frequently appeared in public as a speaker on various philanthropic and literary subjects, and two volumes of his orations were published in 1850; in 1851 was elected a Sena tor in Congress from Massachusetts; in 1856, for words uttered in debate on the subject of slavery, was assaulted at his desk in the Senate Chamber, by Preston S. Brooks, a Representative from South Caro his health suffered, lina, from the effects of which and he again visited Europe, having been, just before his departure, re-elected to the Senate for a second ;

chusetts,

January

6,

;

"

White Slavery work on and in 1856 a volume of and Addresses"; in 1863 was re-elected

term; in 1853 published a in the

to the bar, but devoted himself almost exclusively to shorthand reporting and editorial duties; served in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion, aa Assistant Quartermaster United States Volunteers, and as Colonel of the First Nevada Infantry; was a member of the Nevada Senate from 1864 to 1868; President of the Senate in 1868; was elected a Rep resentative from California to the Forty-eighth Con gress.

Summers, George W.; was

resent

!

4R5

Barbary

"Speeches

"

States,"

to the Senate for the third term, ending in 1809, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and on several other important committees; was also a member of the National Committee ap pointed to accompany the remains of President Lin coln to Illinois; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Died in Wash Convention" of 1866. "Loyalists ington, March 11, 1874.

Sumner, Charles

A.; was born at Great Bar-

rington, Massachusetts, August 2, 1835; was edu cated at Cheshire Episcopal Academy, and at Trinity College, Connecticut; studied law, and was admitted

Sumner, Daniel H. was born at Malone, New York, September 15, 1837; removed to Michigan in 1843; received a common school education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868; in that year removed to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and en gaged in the practice of law; in 1871 settled at Waukesha, Wisconsin; in 1875 was elected District At torney and served two years; was unanimously renominated, but declined further service; was elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-eighth Congress. ;

at Roxbury, Mas 1746 graduated at Harvard University in 1767; taught school at Roxbury two years; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1770; commenced practice in Roxbury; became suc was a cessful, and received the degree of LL.D. State Representative from 1776 to 1780; a State Sena tor from 1780 to 1782; an Associate Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1782 to 1797; member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1779: in 1789 was a member of the Convention for the adop tion of the Federal Constitution; was Governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799. Died June 7,

Sumner, Increase

sachusetts,

November

;

was born

27,

;

;

1799.

Thomas

was a distinguished soldier Sumter, of the American Revolution; was a citizen of South Carolina; was promoted, by Governor Rutledge, in 1780, from the office of Colonel to that of BrigadierGeneral; for his services received the thanks of Con gress, and the applause of his country; was a Repre sentative in Congress from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793, and was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac; in 1801 was elected a Senator in Congress, serving until 1809, ;

when he was appointed Minister to Brazil; after spending two years abroad, returned home and was Died suddenly June 1, again elected to the Senate. The 1832, at Strasburg, aged ninety-seven years. a naming of Fort Sumter was tribute to his memory.

Thomas

D.; was born in Pennsyl Sumter, vania; was elected a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1840 to 1843.

Sutherland, Jabez G.; was born

New

in

Onondaga

1825; removed, with his father, to Michigan in 1836; studied law, and came to the bar in 1848; in 1849 settled in Saginaw City, and was made Prosecuting Attorney for that County; was a Delegate to the Constitutional Con vention of 1850; in 1853 was elected to the State Legislature; during the next ten years was wholly devoted to the practice of his profession; in 1858 waa the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the office of Attorney-General; in 1863 was elected Circuit Judge of the Tenth Circuit, and was re-elected to the same position in 1869 without opposition; his Circuit was, for a time, the largest in the State, and his writ ten decisions would fill many volumes; was a Dele gate to the Constitutional Convention of 1867; in August, 1870, was. contrary to his wishes, elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee

County,

on Naval

York, October

Affairs.

6,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

486

Sutherland, Joel B.; was a Representative in Congress from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, from 1827 to 1837, and was Chairman of the Commit tee on Commerce during the Twenty-fourth Congress. Died

in Philadelphia,

November

15, 1861.

in New New York

Sutherland, Josiah was born ;

from jwas elected a Representative

Thirty-second Congress; was subsequently of the Supreme Court of the State.

York; to the

a Judge

Swain, David Lowry; was born near Ashville, North Carolina, January 4, 1801; graduated at the to the University of North Carolina; was admitted bar in 1823, and soon entered upon a lucrative prac to represent Buncombe tice; in 1824 was elected in County in the House of Commons of the State; 1831 was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court; from 1832 to 1835 was Governor of the State; from that time until his death was President of the (i British University of North Carolina; published Invasion of North Carolina in 1776," 8vo, 185:5, and contributed many valuable papers on the His tory of North Carolina to the University Magazine. Died at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 3, 1868.

Swan, John was a Delegate from North Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1787 to ;

1788.

Swan, Samuel was born in Somerset New Jersey in 1771; was a Representative gress from New Jersey from 1821 to 1831. Brunswick, New Jersey, August 24, 1844. ;

County, in

Con

Died at

was born in Alexandria, Vir ginia; was educated at Columbia College, and the University of Virginia; studied law with his father in Washington; was appointed Secretary of the Nea politan Commission; in 1834 settled in Baltimore, Maryland; two years afterward was chosen a Director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; in 1847 was chosen President of the same, which office he resigned in 1853; was also President of the North western Virginia Railroad Company, disbursing in behalf of the two roads about thirteen million dol

Swann, Thomas;

a sojourn in Europe, was. in 1856, elected of Baltimore; was re-elected in 1858; was the originator of the Druid Hill Park in that city; eman cipated his slaves before the Rebellion; continued a Union man during the war; in 1863 was elected President of the First National Bank of Baltimore; in 1864 was elected Governor of Maryland; in 1866 was elected a Senator in Congress, but declined to leave the Executive chair; in 1868 was elected a Rep resentative from Maryland to the Forty-first Con lars; after

Mayor

serving on the Committees on Private Land Claims, and Foreign Affairs; was re-elected to the three subsequent Congresses, serving on the Commit tee on Appropriations and others of importance; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs; was re-elected to the Died July 24, Ir^rf3. Forty-fifth Congress. gress,

Swanwick, John was a Representative in Con gress from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1798; resigned before the expiration of his second term. ;

Swart, Peter was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1807 to 1809; was a State Sena tor from 18 17 to 1820. ;

Swayne, Noah H.; was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, December 27, 1804; while per forming the duties of a clerk in an apothecary store in Alexandria, acquired the rudiments of an English

classical education, and prepared himself for the medical profession; began the study of law, at \Varreuton; after his admission to the bar, in 1824, re moved to Ohio, and settled atCoshocton; in 1829 wan elected to the Legislature of that State; in 1830 wau appointed United States District Attorney for Ohio, holding that position nine years, and residing in Co lumbus; in 1834 was chosen Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but declined the office; in 1836 was again elected to the State Legislature, and took part in organizing Institutions or Asylums for the benefit of the blind, the insane, and the deaf and dumb of the State; in 1861 was appointed a Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States.

and

was born in Pennsyl was a Representative in Congress from Ohio

Swearingen, Henry vania;

;

from 1839 to 1841.

Swearing-en, Thomas V.; was born in Jeffer son County, Virginia; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1819 to 1822. when he died in Virginia.

Sweat, Lorenzo D. M.; was born at Parson ville, York County, Maine, May 26. 1818; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837, and at the Harvard Law School in 1840; during the next two years practiced law in New Orleans; in 1856 and 1860 was a City Solicitor in Portland; in 1862 was a member of the State Senate; was elected a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention" of 1866.

W.

Sweeney, N.; was born in Kentucky, May 5, 1832; received a good education; studied law; came and engaged in the practice of that pro 1868 was elected a Representative from to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Kentucky Committee on Invalid Pensions.

to the bar, fession; in

Sweeny, Gaorg-3 was a Representative

was born

;

in Pennsylvania; Congress from Ohio, from

in

1839 to 1843.

was born in Vermont; Sweetser, Charles was a Representative in Congress from Ohio, from ;

1819 to 1853.

Swift, Benjamin was born in Amenia, New York, April 5, 1781; received an academic educa tion; studied law, and was admitted to practice at Bennington in 1806; lived, for a time, in Manchester, and subsequently in St. Albans, where he rose to ;

eminence in his profession in 1813, 1814, 1825, and 182;i, was a Representative in the General Assembly; was a Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1827 to 1831; received the degree of A. M. from Mid dlebury College in 1820, and was a member of the Corporation of that institution from 1830 to 1839; in 1K33 was elected to the Seriate of the United States for six years, after which he retired to private life; while in apparently good health, died suddenly, in an open field on his farm, November 11, 1847. ;

Swift, Zephaniah; was born at Wareham, Massachusetts, in 1759; graduated at Yale College in 1778, and established himself as a lawyer at Windham, Connecticut, where his superior talents gained him a lucrative practice; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1793 to 1797; in 1800 was Secretary to Ellisworth, Davie, and Murray, in their mission to France; soon after his return was placed on the Bench of the Superior Court of the State, where he continued eighteen years, during the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. which he was Chief Justice; was after wards a member of the State Legislature, and was one of the Committee to revise the Statute Laws o Hartford Conven the State; was a Delegate to the several works; among them was a tion"; published Digest of the Laws of Connecticut, on the model o Died at Warren, Ohio, September 27 Blackstone."

unexpired term of Hon. William A. Duncan;

last five of

"

"

4H7

I

waa

re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Swrope, Samuel was a Representative

F.; was born in Kentucky; in Congress from that State

from 1855 to 1857.

Sykes, George was born in New Jersey; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1847. ;

1823.

Swinburne, John; was born at Deer River, New York, May 30, 1820; received e common school and academic education; graduated Lewis County,

from the Albany Medical College, at Albany,

New

York, in the spring of 1847, and commenced practice at Albany as a physician and surgeon; in 1861 was appointed chief medical officer on the staff of General John F. Rathbone, and placed in charge of the depot for recruits at Albany; in May, 1862, was appointed, by Governor Morgan, Auxiliary Volunteer Surgeon

at the front, with the rank of Medical Superintendent, and was re-appointed June 13, by Governor Seymour; was appointed Surgeon by the Surgeon-General of the Uni ted States, and assigned to duty at Savage s Station was taken prisoner June 29, 1862; in 1861 was appoint ed, by Governor Seymour, Health Officer of the port of New York; was re-appointed by Governor Fenton, in 1866, holding the position six years; was in charge of the American Ambulance Corps during the siege of Paris, France, by the Prussians, in 1870 and 1871; in 1882 was elected Mayor of Albany; in 1884 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty;

ninth Congress.

Swing, Philip B.; was born in Ohio; resided at Batavia, in that State, whence he was, in 1871, ap pointed United States Judge for the Southern Dis trict of Ohio.

Sykes, James

was a Delegate from Delaware

;

from 1777 to 1778; held various important positions in the State, before and after the Revolution. to the Continental Congress

Symes, George G.; was bom in Ash tabula County, Ohio, April 28, 1840; removed, with his par ents, to La Crosse County. Wisconsin, in 1852; re ceived a good education; in 1860 began the study of the law; before completing his course, in April, 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army was wounded at the battle of Bull Run on his recovery, he returned to service, but was soon afterwards attacked by lung fever, and was honorably discharged from the ser vice; returning home, he resumed his law studies; in May, 1862, he raised a Volunteer Company and reentered the service as Adjutant of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers; in 1863 was pro moted Captain; near Decatur, Alabama, was again wounded, and was again sent home; as soon as he recovered from his wound he returned to duty with the promotion of Colonel of the Forty-fourth Wis consin Regiment; in 1865 was, for some time prior to being mustered out of the service, in command of the forces at Paducah, Kentucky; engaged in restor ing the operation of the civil law; on being mustered out of the service, he began the practice of law at Paducah; in 1868 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress; in 1869 was appointed, by President Grant, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mon tana; in 1871 resigned, and resumed the practice of his profession, locating at Helena, Montana; in 1874 removed to Denver, Colorado, where he continued to practice law; in 1884 was elected the Representative from Colorado to the Forty-ninth Congress. ;

;

was born in Switzler, William Franklin Fayette County, Kentucky, March 16, 1819; removed, with his father, to Missouri in 1826; was educated at Mount Forest Academy; studied law, and came to the bar at Columbia, in 1841 in that year became editor of a paper called the Patriot; in 1843, estab lished the Missouri Statesman; in 1846 and 1848 was elected to the State Legislature, and again elected in 1856; was a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention of Symmes, John Cleves was born on Long Is I860; in 1862 was appointed Military Secretary of land, July 21, 1742; was a Delegate to the Conti State for Arkansas, under the Military Governor, nental Congress from Delaware in 1785 and 1786; John S. Phelps; in 1863 was appointed, by President was a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey; Lincoln. Provost Marshal in Missouri; was a Delegate was afterwards Chief Justice of New Jersey; in 1788 to the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1865; was of the Northwest appointed Judge Territory, in 1866, unsuccessfully contested the seat, in the and was founder of the settlements in the Miami Fortieth Congress, of George W. Anderson; in 1868 country. was elected to the Forty-first Congress; in March, 1868, and January. 1869, the Committee on Elections, Sypher, J. Hale was born in Pennsylvania, with only one dissenting voice, declared him entitled July 22, 1837; received a liberal education, and stud to a seat in the Fortieth Congress, but the House, by ied law; entered the army in 1861 as a private sol a vote of fifty-five to eighty-nine, rejected his claim; dier, and attained the rank of Brigadier-General; on in 1875 was elected a Delegate to the Missouri State being mustered out of military service, in 1865, was \dmitted to the bar, but devoted himself to planting Constitutional Convention; in 1885 was appointed n Louisiana; was elected a Representative from that Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, at Washington State to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com City. mittee on the Militia; was re-elected to the three suc Swoops, Jacob was a Representative in Con ceeding Congresses, serving on various Committees. from from 1809 to 1811. Virginia gress Taber, Stephen was born in Dover, Dutchesa Swope, John A.; was born at Gettysburg, County, New York, (his father, Thomas Taber, also Pennsylvania, December 25, 1827; graduated from served in Congress) received a good academic edu studied cation; in 1839 settled in Queen s County, on Long Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1847 medicine, but relinquished the practice after a few island, and engaged in farming; in 1860 and 1861 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1864 waa years in order to engage in mercantile pursuits; be lected a Representative from New York to the came President of the Gettysburg National Bank in Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on 1879; also engaged in manufacturing and agricultural J ublic Lands; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, pursuits; in 1882 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures. ;

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

488

Taber, 19, 1785;

a

member

Thomas

;

was devoted

was born

New York

of the

in

New

York,

May

was 1826; was

to agricultural pursuits;

Legislature in

a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1827 to 1829. Died March 21, 1862.

Tabert, Alfred, T. A.; was a citizen of Dela ware; in 1869 was appointed Minister Resident to Salvador, where he remained until 1871,

was appointed Consul-General

to

when he

Havana.

Tabor, Horace A. W.; was born

at Holland, 1830; received a common learned the trade of a stone-cutter

Vermont, November school education

;

26,

in Massachusetts; removed to Kansas in 1855, and thence to Colorado in 1859; became a merchant; was Mayor of Lead ville in 1878 and 1879; was Lieutenant-Governor of Colorado from 1879 to 1883; was elected a Senator of the United States from Colorado

unexpired term of Henry M. Teller, resigned, serving from February 1, to March 3, 1883. for the

J. W.; was born at Corinth, 1815; became an orphan in his eleventh year; received an academic education com menced active life by teaching school; wrote for the press, and published a work translated from the French; connected himself with a paper called the Beacon, in New York City, and also with the Sun; in 1837 removed to Ashfield, Massachusetts, and studied medicine: then had charge of a newspaper at North ampton graduated at the College of Physicians in New York in 1840, and practiced his profession until 1855; in the latter year removed to Iowa, and pub lished a paper called the Civilian; served several years as a County Judge, and also as County Treas urer and Recorder; in 1863 was appointed, by Presi dent Lincoln, Fourth Auditor of the Treasury; was fond of books; possessed a fine library, and an un surpassed collection of books on Tobacco, Tea and

Tabor, Stephen

Vermont, August

5,

;

;

Coffee.

Taffe,

January

John

;

was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, and

30, 1827; received a classical education,

adopted the profession of the law; after a brief dence in Illinois, removed to Nebraska

resi

Territory in 1856; was elected to the Territorial Legislature in 1858 and 1859: in 1860 was elected to the Council, and in the winter of 1861 was made President of that in I(i2 raised a regiment of cavalry for ser body; vice against the Indians, and was made a Major, in which capacity he fought at the buttle of White Stone Hills, in 1863; in 1866 was elected a Repre sentative from the new State of Nebraska to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Territories and Indian Affairs; was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serving on various Committees, and as Chairman of that on Territories; in 1875 was appointed Secretary of Col

orado

Taft, Alphonso was born at Townsend, Ver mont, Novembers, 1810; graduated from Yale Col lege in 18)53; was a tutor at the Ellington ;

(Connecti

cut) High School for two years, and then, for two years, tutor at Yale College; studied law, while teaching, and was admitted to the bar at New Haven Connecticut, in 1838; in 1839 settled at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the practice of law; was a member of the City Council for three years; was, for twenty-five years, a member of the Union Board of High Schoolsalso a member of the Board of Trustees of the Uni versity of Cincinnati, and of the Corporation of Yale College, from which latter institution he received the degree of Doctor of Laws in was an unsuccessfnl candidate for Congress in 1856; in 1866 was 18f>7;

ap

pointed to fill a vacancy on the Bench of the Superior Court of Cincinnati; was elected to that position, and was re-elected by the unanimous vote of both political parties; resigned in 1872 and resumed the 1876, was appointed, by President Grant, Secretary of War; in the succeed ing May became Attorney-General of the United States; in 1877, at the expiration of his term of office, resumed practice; in 1882 was appointed, by Presi dent Arthur, United States Minister to Austria. practice of law; in March,

Tagg-art,

Samuel was ;

born at Londonderry,

Massachusetts; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1774; studied for the ministry, and settled in Coleraine in 1777; was elected a Representative in Con gress from Massachusetts, serving from 1803 to 1817. Died in 1825, aged seventy-one years.

Tait, Charles was born in Louisa County, Vir ginia; removed, at an early age, to Georgia; was, for several years, a Judge of the Superior Court of Geor gia; was a Senator in Congress from that State from 1809 to 1819; distinguished himself as a supporter of ;

the administrations of Madison and Monroe; in 1819 to Alabama; was appointed a Judge of the District Court, when first established in that State, which office he resigned in 1826. Died in Wilcox County, Alabama, October 7, 1835, in the sixtyeighth year of his age.

removed

Talbot, Isham was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1773; received a good education; studied law, and practiced with success; was a member of ;

the Kentucky Senate from 1812 to 1815; from 1815 to 1819 was a member of the United States Senate, and for a second term from 1820 to 1825. Died near Frankfort, September 27, 1837.

Talbot, J. Fred. C.; was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, July 29, 1843; received a public school education; commenced the study of law in 1862; entered the Confederate Army in 1864, and served until the close of the war; was admitted to the bar in 1866; was Prosecuting Attorney for Balti more County from 1871 to 1875; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1876: was elected a Representative from Maryland to the For ty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Talbot, Mathew was born in Virginia in 1767; removed to Georgia in 1785; frequently served in the ;

Legislature; was a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Georgia; was, for many years, in the State Senate, and officiated as President of that body; was acting Governor of the State in 1819. Died in Wilkes County, September 17. 1827.

Talbot, Silas was a Representative in Congress New York from 1793 to 1794, when he was ap pointed, by President Washington, Captain in the Navy; served a number of years in the State Assem bly from Montgomery County. ;

from

Talbot,

Thomas;

was born at Cambridge, Wash

ington County, New York, September 7. 1818; left an orphan at the age of six years and in straightened circumstances, his educational advantages were lim ited; in 1831 settled at Bill erica, Massachusetts, and began the struggle of life in the carding-room of a woolen factory; four years later became an employe* in the broad-cloth factory of his elder brothers, at the same place; at the age of twenty became overseer in the finishing-room; attended the Cummington Acad emy during the winter terms, of six months each, of 1838 and 1839; in 1840 began business on his own account, in partnership with one of his brothers, and was very successful; was a Representative in the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Massachusetts Legislature for a number of years; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention; was a member of the Governor s Council for five years; in 1872 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts; on the election of Governor Washburn e to the United States Senate became Governor; in 1874 was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor; in 1878 was elected Governor of Massachusetts. Died at Lowell, Massachusetts, October 6, 1886.

Thomas

Talbot,

H.; was born in Maine; edu

cated for the bar; in 1869 was appointed Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, holding the position about one year.

Talbott, Albert GK; was born in Kentucky; was elected a Representative from that State to the Thir ty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and was Chair man of the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, and a member of that on Roads and Canals.

Taliaferro, Benjamin was a Representative in Died Congress from Georgia from 1799 to 1802. ;

September

3, 1821.

Taliaferro, John; was born in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, in 1768; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1801 to 1803, from 1811 to 1813, from 1824 to 1831, and from 1835 to 1843; in 1805 and 1821 was a Presidential Elector; for three years before his death was Librarian of the Treasury Department in Washington. Died at his residence in Virginia,

August

18, 1853.

Tallmadge, Benjamin; was born

in

Suffolk

New

York, February 25, 1754; his military services were very valuable; acted a prominent part in the capture of Andre; in 1780 planned and con ducted the expedition which resulted in the capture of Fort George and the destruction of the British stores on Long Island; was a member of Washing ton s military family; after the war, having attained the rank of General, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and acquired a large property; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1801 to 1817; was respected for his public services and private char Died in Litchfield, Connecticut, March 6, acter.

County,

1835.

Tallmadge, Frederick A.; was born

in Litch Connecticut, August 29, 1792; graduated at Yale College in 1811; having studied law, settled in practice in New York in 1814; in 1836 was elected an Alderman of the city, and also a State Senator; was subsequently, for five years, Recorder of the City; was a Representative from New York in the Thirtieth Congress; was again Recorder for three years; in 1857 was appointed General Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police; was subsequently appointed Clerk of the Court of Appeals; was the son of Ben

field,

jamin Tallmadge.

Died in Litchfield, September

16,

1869.

Tallmadge, James, Jr.; was born in Stanford. Dutchess County, New York, January 28, 1788; graduated at Brown University in 1798; was by pro fession a lawyer; early in life was Private Secretary to Governor Clinton, and during the War of 1812 commanded a portion of the force detailed for the defense of New York City; from 1817 to 1819 was a Representative in Congress from New York declined ;

a re-election: was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the State; in 1823 was elected to the Assembly from Dutchess County; from 1825 to 1828 was Lieutenant-Governor under General

489

Clinton; in 1846 was a member of the "Constitu tional Convention of New York; during the last twenty years of his life was President of the Ameri can Institute in New York; visited Europe, and ben efited the United States by his introduction of Amer ican machinery into Russia, by inducing that govern ment to adopt it in their manufacture of cotton goods; was one of the founders of the University of New York, and was President of the Council; was honored with the degree of LL.D. from that Institu tion. Died suddenly in New York City, September 29, 1853. "

Tallmadge, Matthias B.; was a native of New York; received a good education, and adopted the profession of the law; in 1805 was appointed, by President Jefferson, United States Judge for the Nor thern District of New York.

Tallmadge, Nathaniel P.; was born in Chat ham, Columbia County, New York, February 8, 1795; graduated at Union College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1818; was a meirber of the Assembly of New York in 1828; was a member of the State Senate from 1830 to 1833; was a Senator in Congress from New York from 1833 to 1844; was subsequently appointed, by President Tyler, Ter ritorial Governor of Wisconsin, where he resided, de voted to his profession. Died at Battle Creek, Mich igan,

November

1864.

2,

was born at Tiverton, Rhode in 1764; in 1778, at the age of fourteen, entered the privateering service; in 1780 had his left arm shot off; in 1781 was taken prisoner, and was confined in Ireland and England until the peace of 1783; soon afterwards became Commander of a mer

Tallman, Peleg

;

Island,

chant vessel;

after following a seafaring life for years, devoted himself to the business of a merchant, and acquired a large fortune; was a Rep resentative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1813. Died at Bath, Maine, March 8, 1841.

many

Taney, Roger Maryland, March

B.;

was born

17, 1777;

in Calvert County, graduated at Dickinson

College in 1795; studied law, and came to the bar in 1799; in 1801 was elected to the State Assembly and settled at Frederick; subsequently served four years in the State Senate; removed to Baltimore in 1822; in 1827 was chosen Attorney-General of Maryland; in 1831 was appointed Attorney-General of the United States in President Jackson s Cabinet; was also appointed Secretary of the Treasury, but was re jected by the Senate; was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but was again rejected by the Senate; in 1836 was appointed, by President Jackson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the place of John

Marshall, which

office

he

filled

with acknowledged T

W

ability until his death, which occurred in ashington City, October 12, 1864. Some of his decisions, as a Cabinet officer and as Chief Justice, excited great interest throughout the country. His life, written by his personal friend, Samuel Tyler, and published in 1872, attracted marked attention, and was con

sidered a

work of great

ability.

Tanner, A. H.; was born

at Granville,

Washing

New York, May 23, 1833; studied law, to the bar in 1853; in 1862 entered the

ton County,

and came

volunteer army as a Captain; as Lieutenant-Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment of Infantry, served until the close of the war first in the Army of the Potomac, and subsequently through out the Atlanta Campaign and that of the Carolinas; in 1868 was elected a Representative from New York

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

490

to the Forty-first Congress, serving on tees on Public Buildings and Grounds,

the

Commit

and War De

partment.

Tappan, Benjamin; was born at Northampton! the busi Massachusetts, May 25, 1773; was taught ness of copperplate engraving and printing; devoted some attention to portrait-painting; subsequently in studied and adopted the profession of the law; 1799 emigrated to Ohio, and was one of the earliest settlers there; in 18U3 was elected to the Legislature of the New State; served in the War of 1812 as Aidfor seven de-camp to General Wads worth; was, the Fifth Ohio Circuit; in years, President Judge of 1833 was appointed, by President Jackson, United States Judge for the District of Ohio; was a Senator as in Congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1845, serving Chairman of the Committee on the Library; was a Died at Steubeuville, Presidential Elector in 1833. Ohio, April 12, 1857.

Mason

W.; was born at Newport. Sul Tappan, livan County, New Hampshire; was prepared for Col was a member lege, and studied law as a profession; of the State Legislature in 1853, 1854, and 1855; was a Representative from New Hampshire in the Thirtyfourth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, as Chairman of the Committee on Claims, and as a member of the on the Rebellious Special Committee of Thirty-three States; wasa Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866. Tarbox, John Kemble

;

was born at Methueu,

Massachusetts, May 0, 1838; received an academic in education; was admitted to the bar in 1860; served the Union Army in the Fourth Regiment of Massa chusetts Volunteers; was a member of the Legisla ture of Massachusetts in 1870,and 1871, and of the State Senate in 1872; was Mayor of the City of Lawrence in 1873 and 1874; was elected a Repre sentative to the Forty-fourth Congress from Massa 186-4;

Jersey to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Telfair, Edward; was born in Scotland in 1735; educated at Kirkcudbright Gram mar School; removed to America at the age of twenty-three, and resided for some time in Virginia as Agent of a mercantile house; afterwards removed to Halifax, North Caro lina, and thence to Savannah in 1766, where he was a merchant; was an active promoter of the Revolu tion served on many of the important Committees of the time, and was one of the party who broke open the magazine at Savannah and removed the powder; was a Delegate to the old Congress in 1778, and from 1780 to 1783; in the latter year was one of the Com missioners to make a Treaty with the Cherokees. ;

Thomas

was a graduate of Princeton Telfair, in Congress College in 1805; was a Representative ;

Ten Eyck, Anthony was a citizen of Michi with the press of gan; was, at one time, connected that State; in 1845 was appointed a Commissioner, with diplomatic powers, to the Sandwich Islands, re maining there until 1849. ;

Ten Eyck, Egbert

;

was born

in

Rensselaer

County, New York, April 18, 1779; graduated at Williams College; studied law in Albany; was a member of the Assembly in 1812 and 1813, and the Constitutional Con Speaker; was a member of in Congress vention" of 1822; was a Representative from New York from 1823 to 1825; also held the offices of Judge of the Jefferson County Court, and President of a County Agricultural Society. Died at Watertown, New York, April 11, 1844. "

Ten Eyck, John

C.;

was born at Freehold, New obtained a classical educa

Jersey, March 12, 1814; tion under privateltutors; studied law, and was ad mitted to the bar in 1835; in 1839 was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Burlington County, hold was a member of the ing the position for ten years; "Constitutional Convention" of 1844; New

Jersey

was elected a Senator in Congress for the term com on the mencing in 1859 and ending in 1865, serving Committees on Commerce, and the Judiciary; was a Conven Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists tion"

of 1866

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

494

Tenney, Samuel was born in Byeiield Parish, Newbury, Massachusetts; received a collegiate edu cation at Harvard University, graduating In 1772; commenced the study of medicine; when the Revo asserters lutionary War began was found among the of his country s rights, and was present at the Battle of Bunker s Hill, where he was employed in attendang upon the wounded; was attached to the Rhode Island line of the Provincial Army, and served dur ing the whole war; at the close of the war retired from his profession and settled in Exeter, New Hamp shire; for many years was Judge of Probate; in 1800 was elected a Representative from that State in the ;

Congress of the United States, in the place of W. Gordon, resigned, serving until 1807. His death,

in 181(i, was universally regretted. ardent lover of his country, a faithful expounder of her laws and institutions, and an accomplished scholar, his memory is still fondly cherished by many \vlio knew him.

which occurred

An

was frequently a member ol Terrill, William the Georgia Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1817 to 1821; becoming tired of politics, he took a great interest in the pro motion of agricultural science, and in 1853 made a donation of twenty thousand dollars for the estab lishment of an agricultural professorship in the Uni versity of Georgia, which professorship bears his name; was one of the most accomplished and useful citizens of his State. Died at Sparta, Georgia, July ;

4, 1855.

Terry, Nathaniel was born at Enfield, Con necticut, in 1768; graduated at Yale College in 1786; resided in Hartford, Connecticut, and hel 1 various offices in his native State; from 1817 to 1819 was a Died in New Haven, Representative in Congress. June 14, 1844. ;

Terry, William was born in Amherst County, Virginia, August 14, 1824; graduated at the Univers ity of Virginia; taught school and read law at the same time; came to the bar in 1851, and settled in Wytheville; there edited a small newspaper and taught school; served in the Confederate Army, and became a General; was elected a Representative to ;

the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Commit tee on Military Affairs; in 1874 was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Test, John was a native of Salem, New Jersey emigrated to Indiana; was a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1823 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1831 was presiding Judge of one of the Cir cuit Courts of Indiana; afterwards removed to Mobile, Alabama, where he gained a high reputation for his learning and talents as a Died near lawyer; Cambridge City. Indiana, October 9, 1849. ;

;

;

Thacher, George; was born

in

Yarmouth,

Massachusetts, April 12, 1754; graduated at Har vard College in 1776; studied law, and established himself in practice in Biddeford, Maine; was a Dele gate to the old Congress; on the adoption of the Con stitution, served as a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1789 to 1801; in 1792 was elected a District Judge in Maine, serving until 1800, when he was chosen a Judge of the Supreme Court in Massachusetts; held the latter office uiitil Janu ary, 1824, when he resigned; was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Maine in 1819; was a man of superior abilities, and per formed all his duties to the entire satisfaction of the was famous for his public; wit, and when a bill was reported in Congress respecting the use of the eagle

on American coin, playfully recommended a goose, for which he was challenged by the member who re ported the bill, William Blount, and the challenge he ridiculed. Died April 6, 1824.

Thacher,

J.

M.; was born

in

Vermont; gradu

ated at the University of that State; adopted the profession of the law; was, for a time, connected with the bar of Virginia; served as a volunteer officer during the. war of the Union; in 1864 was appointed an Assistant Examiner in the Patent Office; rose by regular promotion, to the rank of Commissioner, to which he was appointed in 1874; in August, 1875, resigned his office to resume the practice of his pro fession, locating in the city of Chicago.

Thacher, Samuel was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 1, 1776; graduated at Harvard University in 1793; adopted the profession of the law; was a Representative in Congress from Massa chusetts from 1802 to 1805; served eleven years in the Massachusetts Legislature; was Sheriff of Lin coln County from 1814 to 1821; in 1866 was a resi dent of Bangor, Maine. Died in Baugor, July 19, ;

1872.

Thayer, Eli; was born at Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 11, 1819; graduated at Brown University in 1845; was a teacher in Worces ter Academy for three years; was a farmer by occu pation served as Alderman of the city of Worcester in 1853; was a Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature during the years 1853 and 1854; was elected a Representative to the Thirty -fifth Congress from that State, serving as a member of the Commit tee on Militia; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands; was the founder of the New England Emigrant Aid Society; was identified with other so cieties of a benevolent character. ;

Thayer, John M.; was born

in Bellingham,

Norfolk County, Massachusetts, January 24, 1820; graduated at Brown University; studied law, and practiced the profession removed to the Territory of Nebraska in 1854, where he soon became BrigadierGeneral of Militia; was a member of the Territorial Constitutional was subsequently Convention"; elected to the Territorial Legislature; commanded a regiment of infantry during the Rebellion, and, for meritorious services at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General ol Volunteers; also served with distinction at Vicksburg and Chickasaw Bayou, and for these services was promoted to the rank of Major-General of Volun teers; on the admission of Nebraska into the Union as a State, took his seat in Congress as a Senator for the term ending in 1871, serving on the Committees on Military Affairs, Indian Affairs, and Patents; was a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868; in 1875 was appointed Governor of Wyoming. ;

"

Thayer. M. Russell was born in Petersburg, Virginia, jJanuary 27, 1819; graduated at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania in 1840; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1842; was elected a Rep resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims; received from his Alma Mater ;

the two degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Bankrupt Law, and as Chair man of that on Private Land Claims; after leaving Congress, in 1859, became District Judge for Phila delphia, and published various papers connected with literature, law, and politics.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Thayer, William

was born

S.;

in Haverhill.

Massachusetts, in 1830; graduated at Harvard Uni versity in 1850; two years later became associated with the New York Evening Post as correspondent and assistant editor, in which capacity he acquitted him self with marked ability; in 1861 was appointed Consul General to Egypt, where he died April 10, 1864.

W. W.;

was born at Lima, New York, was reared on a farm; received a com mon school education; studied law: was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice at Tonawanda, New York; afterwards followed his profession in Buffalo, New York; in 1862 removed to Benton County, Oregon; in 1863 went to Lewiston, Idaho; was a Representative in the Territorial Legislature in in that year was elected District Attorney; re signed in 1867 and removed to Portland, Oregon; in 1878 was elected Governor of Oregon, and served four

Thayer,

July

15, 1827;

18(Ji>;

years.

Theaker, Thomas C.; was born in York County, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1812; received a good En glish education; removed to Ohio in 1830; devoted the most of his time to the occupation of a millwright and machinist; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committees on Militia, and Enrolled Bills; was subse quently appointed one of a Board of Commissioners to examine into the affairs of the Patent Office; in 1865 was appointed, by President Johnson. Commis sioner of Patents. Died July 16, 1883. Thifoodeaux, B. GK; was born in Louisiana; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term ending in 1849. Died in the Parish of Terrebonne, Louisiana, in March, 1866.

Thibodeaux, H.

S.;

was acting Governor of

Louisiana from 1822 to 1824.

Thomas, Arthur nois,

was born at Chicago, Illi was educated in the common of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; in 1879 was ap

August

schools

L.;

22, 1851;

pointed Secretary of the Territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City; in 1880 was appointed United States Supervisor of the Census for the District of Utah, in addition to his other duties; was acting Governor of the Territory during the legislative ses sion of 1879-80, during a part of the session of 1881-82, for three months in 1881, and again in 1883; in the latter year was re-appointed Secretary, for a second term.

Thomas, Benjamin S.; was born at Boston, removed to Massachusetts, February 12, 1813; Worcester in 1819; graduated at Brown University in 1830; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1833; was a member of the Massachusetts Legisla ture in 1842; was appointed Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester in 1844, resigning the office in 1848; was a Presidential Elector on the Taylor ticket in that year; in 1853 was appointed to the Bench of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, holding the office six years, when he resigned subsequently re turned to Boston to practice his profession, residing in West Roxbury; in 1861 was elected a Represent ative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh Con gress, serving as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Special Committee on the Bank ;

rupt Law.

Thomas, Charles B.; was born in Carteret County, North Carolina, February 7, 1827; graduated

495

at the University of North Carolina in 1849; studied and practiced law; was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court in 1868; was elected to the Fortysecond and Forty-third Congresses, serving on the Committee on Elections.

Thomas, Christopher Y.; was born in Pittattended a sylvania, Virginia, March 24, 1818; private academy; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1844; in 1859 was elected to the State Senate for four years; in 1867 was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia; in 1869 was again elected to the Legislature; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Invalid

Pen

sions.

Thomas, David was a Representative in Con gress from New York from 1801 to 1808; served four years in the Assembly of that State; also held the position of State Treasurer. ;

Thomas, D.

B.; after the close of the Rebellion,

was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but was not declared entitled to his seat until near the end of the first in 1865,

session of that Congress.

Thomas, Edward A.; was born in New York, from which State he was, in 1873, appointed an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court for the Territory of

Wyoming,

residing at Laramie City.

Thomas, Francis was born

in Frederick Coun 1799; was educated at St. John s College, in that State; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1820; was a member of the House of Delegates in 1822, 1827, and 1829, when he was chosen Speaker; was a Representative in Con gress from Maryland from 1831 to 1841 in 1839 was President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; was a member of the Maryland "Constitutional Conven tion" in 1850; was the author of the measure which resulted in the transfer of political power from the slave-holding counties in Maryland to those portions where the white population was generally located; during one term in Congress was Chairman oi the Judiciary Committee, and a report made by him led to the settlement of the boundary difficulties between ;

ty,

Maryland, February

3,

;

Ohio and Michigan; from 1841 to 1844 was Governor of Maryland; was, for the sixth time, elected a Rep resentative to the Thirty-seventh Congress: \vas reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Judiciary Committee; was also re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Death of President Lincoln, the Judiciary, the Bankrupt Law, and the Postal Railroad to New York; was one of the first men in Maryland to warn the people of the approaching Rebellion, and, after hostilities had commenced, raised a brigade of three thousand Volunteers, but declined all appointments connected with the organization was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress; in 1872 was appointed United States Minister to Peru; was killed by accident on a railroad at Frankville, Garrett Coun ty, Maryland, January 22, 1876. ;

Thomas, Isaac was ;

a Representative in Con

gress from Tennessee, from 1815 to 1817.

Thomas, James was Governor of Maryland man of great worth, and ;

from 1833 to 1836; was a

held many public trusts. Died in St. Mary s Countj, Maryland, December 25, 1845; aged sixty-one years.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

496

Thomas, James Houston; y a

\bo

22, dell County, North Carolina, September Columbia College, received the degree of A.B. from the profes Tennessee in 18:50; studied and adopted elected Attorney-Gen sion oTthe law in 1836 was ;

the office six eral for the State, holding

7* **,

law partner of James K. V from Tennessee, a Representative in Congress Elector in Jrom 1847 to 1851; was a Presidential from a elected was Representative 1859 in 1846on Tennessee to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving Pensions. the Committee on Revolutionary for

many

years, the

"as

to Congress Thomas, Jesse B.; was a Delegate to 1809; in from the Territory of Indiana from 18U8 States Judge of the latter year was appointed United the first Senators in Illinois Territory; was one of the position Irom Congress from Illinois, holding Committees. 1818 to 1829, serving on important Died in February, 1850. be Thomas, John A.; was born in New York; was came a resident of Washington City; in 1855 Died in of State. appointed Assistant Secretary

Washington

Thomas, Ormsby B.; was born at Sandgate, Benningtou County, Vermont, August 21, 1832; re in 1836; re moved, with his parents, to Wisconsin ceived a

common

school education; studied law,

and

at Poughgraduated at the National Law School, to the bar at Al keepsie, New York; was admitted the practice bany, New York, in 1856; entered upon of law at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; was District Attorney of Crawford County, Wisconsin, several Wisconsin Legis terms; was a Representative in the lature in 1862, 1865, and 1867; was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate in 1880 and 1881 was a Pres idential Elector in 1872; served as Captain of Com pany D, Thirty-first Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer a Infantry in the Union Army; in 1884 was elected Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-ninth ;

.

Thomas, John

O.; was a Representative

in

1799 to 1801. Congress from Maryland, from

Thomas, John

L., Jr.;

was born at Baltimore,

his education at Maryland, May 20, 1835; received the Alleghany County Academy; studied law, and came to the bar in 1856; in 1861 was appointed So licitor of the City of Baltimore, holding the office two years; in 1863 was elected State Attorney for the "State Maryland; in 1864 was a Delegate to in 1865 was elected a Constitutional Convention the Thirty-ninth Representative from Maryland to the resigna Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by tion of E. H. Webster, serving on the Committees on Commerce, Revolutionary Claims, and Retrenchment; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists ";

"

Convention"

the United States; on February 22, 1868, received, from President Johnson, the appointment of Secre Stanton refused tary of War ad interim, but Secretary to vacate the office, and the conflict of authority ^th us when Mr. Stanoccurring, continued until May 26, ton retired Irom the War Department; it was the ap as Secretary of War, pointment of General Thomas ad interim, by President Johnson, upon which the Articles of Impeachment, presented by the House of and of the leading Representatives, were grounded, the President was charges in which, after due trial, Died in Washington, March 2, 1875. acquitted.

Congress.

Thomas, Philemon was a native of North Caro ;

was where, during the Revolutionary War, he resided engaged in many skirmishes with the British; some years in Kentucky; was a member of the Leg islature of that State; afterwards removed to Louis the insurrection of iana; in 1810 and 1811, headed Baton Rouge, which threw off the yoke of Spain from West Florida; was a Representative in Congress from Louisiana, from 1831 to 1835. Died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 18, 1847, aged eightythree years. lina,

of 1866.

Thomas, Philip Francis was born in Talbot County, Maryland, September 12, 1810; was educated at Dickinson College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1831; in 1836 was a member of the "State Constitutional Convention"; in 1838 was elected to the State Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from 1839 to 1841; was subsequently Judge of the Land Office Court of the Eastern Shore of Maryland; in 1843 and 1845 was elected to the House of Delegates; in 1847 was elected Governor of Maryland; in the early part of 1860 was appointed, Thomas, Lorenzo was born in Newcastle, by President Buchanan, Commissioner of the Patent Delaware, October 20, 1804; graduated at the West Office; on the resignation of Ho well Cobb, as Secre Point Academy, in 1823, as a Second Lieutenant of tary of the Treasury, in December, 1860, was ap the Fourth Infantry, and served as such in Florida pointed Secretary of the Treasury, in Mr. Buchan among the Creek Indians, and in Washington; was an s Cabinet; in March, 1867, was elected a Senator commissioned a Captain in 1836; in 1838 was ap in Congress, for the term ending in 1873, but was re pointed Assistant Adjutant-General with the brevet jected; was subsequently elected a Representative to rank of Major; was Chief of Staff in the Florida war the Forty-fourth Congress. in 1839; was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1846, for Thomas, Richard was a soldier in the Revo gallant and meritorious conduct" at Monterey, in Mexico; in 1848 was made Assistant Adjutant- lutionary War; was a Representative in Congress General, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1801. Died in Phil assigned to duty in Washington; from 1848 to 1801 adelphia in 1832, aged eighty-seven years. was Chief of Staff under General Scott, command Thomasson, "William P.; was born in Henry ing the army of New York City; in 1861 was ap pointed Adjutant-General of the army, with the County, Kentucky commenced the study of law at brevet of Colonel, and was in the same year brevetted an early age, and when eighteen was licensed to a Brigadier-General; in 1863 was assigned to the practice at Corydon, Indiana, from which place he special duty of organizing colored troops in the was elected to the Legislature; removed to Louis southwest, and subsequently performed a number ville, Kentucky, about the year 1841; was chosen a of inspection tours connected with the Provost- Representative in Congress from Kentucky from 1843 Marshals, and with the national cemeteries of to 1847; afterwards went to Chicago, Illinois, where ;

R.; was born at Mount Vernon, received a common school Illinois, October 11, 1846; education; served in the Union Army during the war of the Rebellion, rising from the ranks to a Cap to the bar in taincy; studied law, and was admitted 1869; was State s Attorney from 1872 to 1876; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Fortysixth and Forty -seventh Congresses; was re-elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Thomas, John

;

"

;

;

BIOGKAPHICAL ANNALS. he was engaged in the practice of his profession until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he served in the Union Army as a Colonel of Volunteers.

Thompson, Albert

Clifton;

was born

at

Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1842; was educated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania; studied law, and was ad mitted to practice; served in the Union Army, rising from the rank of Sergeant to that of Captain; was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and again at the second battle of Bull Run; removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1865; was Probate Judge of Scioto County from 1869 to 1872; in 1882 was elected Judge of the

Common

Pleas for the Second Subdivision of the Seventh Judicial District of Ohio, and served until September, 1884, when he resigned; in Novem ber of that year was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Thompson, Benjamin was born ;

in

Massachu

1798; held many responsible offices in the town of Charlestown, and was several times a Repre sentative in the State Legislature; was twice elected to Congress from the Fourth District of Massachusetts, serving from 1845 to 1847, and again from March, 1851, until his death; he united mental cultivation and sound judgment with great business talent; his services upon the Committee on Military Affairs, dur ing the Mexican War, were especially valuable. Died in Charlestown, September 24, 1852. setts, in

Thompson, Charles

P.;

was born at Braintree,

Massachusetts, July 30, 1827; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854; was Second Assistant to the District Attor

ney until 1857, when he removed to Gloucester, where he engaged in the practice of his profession was a member of the State Legislature in 1871 and 1872; was elected a Representative from Massachu ;

setts to the

Thompson, Georg-e W.; was born in Ohio in 1806; graduated at Jefferson College in 1826; was United States District Attorney for Virginia in 1849; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State in 1851 and 1852; left Congress for the bench; was the author of "The Living Forces of the Uni Address on the Common Schools," verse," in 1866; 1841; "Right of Virginia to the Northwest Terri Life of Linn Boyd," and contributor to the tory"; Boston Quarterly Review. "

"

Thompson, Hedge was a New Jersey during ;

1828.

Died at Salem, July

Thompson, Jacob was born in Caswell Coun North Carolina, May 15, 1810; received his edu ;

ty,

cation at the University of Chapel Hill; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1834; during the suc ceeding y ear removed to the State of Mississippi; was elected to Congress, as a Representative from Mis sissippi, in 1839, and continued to serve in that capacity until 1851; on first taking his seat in Con gress was placed on the Committee on Public Lands, and was for some years Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs; was a defender of Mississippi, and the Democratic party, at the time the cry of repudia tion was ringing throughout the land; in 1845 de clined going into the United States Senate by ap pointment of the Governor of Mississippi, and in 1851 declined an election to the House of Representa tives; was appointed, by President Buchanan, in 1857, Secretary of the Interior; that position he re signed in January, 1861, and joining the Rebellion, served as Governor of Mississippi, and in the in surgent army. Died March 24, 1885.

Thompson, James; was born at Middlesex/Xt Butler County, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1806; re ceived a good education; commenced life as a printer; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828; was elected to the Assembly of his native State in 1832, 1833, and 1834, presiding during the last session as Speaker; in 1836 was a Presidential Elector; was presiding Judge of the District Court for six years; was a Representative in Congress from 1845 to 1851; in l*?\was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for fifteen years; in 1866 was as fi made Chief Justice.

J

/>

Thompson, Joel was a Representative from New York, from 1813 to 1815, ;

in

Con

having previously served one year in the State Assembly from Albany, and two years from Chenango County.

gress

Thompson, John was a member of the New York Assembly from Albany in 1788 and 1789, in 1827 from Delaware County, and in 1802 and 1841 from Dutchess County; was a Representative in Congress from New York, from 1799 to 1801, and ;

Forty-fourth Congress.

Congress from

497

Representative in the years 1827 and

20, 1828.

again from 1807 to 1811.

Thompson, John; was born at Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, July 4, 1809; was edu cated at Yale and Union Colleges; lived on a farm until sixteen years of age; devoted himself to the law; against his own wishes and consent was elected a Representative in Congress from New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving on the Committee on Roads and Canals.

Thompson, John was a citizen of the Territory of Orleans; in 1808 was appointed, by President Jefferson, United States Judge for the Territory of Orleans. ;

Thompson, Hugh

was born at Charleston, South Carolina, January 24, 1830; was reared in Greenville, in that State; received an academic edu cation, and graduated at the State Military Academy of South Carolina in 1856; in 1858 was appointed Lieutenant and Assistant Professor in that institu tion; in 1859 was made Professor of French in the branch of the Academy located at Columbia; in 1861 was promoted to the rank of Captain, and made Pro Letters in the Charleston branch of fessor of the Academy served in the Confederate Army as an officer of the Corps of Cadets; in 1865 was elected Principal of the Columbia Male Academy, which, under his charge, acquired a high reputation as a classical school; in 1876 was elected State Superintendent of Education; was re-elected in 1878 and 1880; in 1882 was elected Governor of South Carolina for the term of two years, from December, 1882; was l>elles

;

I

1

i

:

;

!

S.;

re-elected in 1884.

Thompson, John B. was born in Kentucky in 1810; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1840 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1851; in 1853 was elected a Senator in Congress for the long term was a member of the Committee on Pri vate Land Claims, and of that on Pensions. Died at Ff arrisonburg, Kentucky, January 7, 1874. ;

;

was born at Brook Thompson, John E. New York, in 1860; was educated in the com mon schools of New York and Rhode Island, at "W.;

lyn,

Weston Military Institute, Weston, Connecticut, and at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts; in 1879 entered Yale University, and in 1883 gradu ated from the Medical Department of that institution; in the latter year traveled in Great Britain, and then

J

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

498

1884 pi resided in Paris, France, until November, returning to t suing advanced medical studies; York City in the United States, he located in New was appointed, in May, 18 practice of medicine; J, and Con by President Cleveland, Minister Resident to St. Domingo. sul-General of the United States

Butler M.; was born in was edu

Thompson, John

Pennsylvania, January 4, 1829; at Witherspoon cated at fhe common schools, and and was admitted to pract.ce Institute; studied law, 1861, was in 1854; entered the Union Army several severe battles, and received many important P of Lieutenant-Colonel; wouJds; rose to the rank in the 1 ennserved two terms as a Representative as Speaker; was svlvania Legislature, the last term to the elected a Representative from Pennsylvania caused by Forty-third Congress, to fill the vacancy was elected the resignation of Ebenezer McJunkin; full term. to the Forty-fifth Congress for the

County

m

Thompson, Mark; was a Representative New Jersey, from 1795 to 1799.

i

in

Congress from

Thompson, Philip was a native of Kentucky, and a Representative in Congress from that State ;

from 1823 to 1825.

Thompson, Philip B., Jr.; was born atHarrodsthe pro burg, Kentucky, October 15, 1845; adopted Irom fession of the law; was elected a Representative and Kentucky to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth Congresses.

was

Thompson, Philip B.; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1801 born in 1766;

to 1807.

Died in Virginia, July

22, 1837.

Thompson, Richard W.; was born in Culpepreceived a good per County, Virginia, June 9, 1809; English and classical education; his love of adven ture led him into the wilds of Kentucky before he became of age; in 1831 settled in Louisville, and be came a clerk in an extensive mercantile house; tiring of this, removed to Lawrence County, Indiana; taught school for a few months, but again turned his atten tion to merchandise, selling goods, and studying law at the same time; was admitted to the bar in 1834, and was almost immediately elected to the Indiana Legislature; was re-elected in 1835; in 1836 was elected to the State Senate, served two years, and was, for a time, President pro tern, of the Senate, and acting Lieutenant-Governor; was a Presidential Elect

or in 1840, and voted for General Harrison, whose election he zealously advocated with his pen and on the stump; in 1841 was elected a Representative in Congress for the term ending in 1843; in 1844 was again chosen a Presidential Elector; was again a Rep resentative in Congress from Indiana from 1847 to 1849, when he declined a re-election; President Tay lor tendered him the appointment of Charge d Affaires to Austria, and President Fillmore the office of Re corder of the General Land Office, both of which he declined; in 1804 was elected a Presidential Elector; was also a Delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1868; was Secretary of the Navy, in the Cabinet of President Hayes, from 1877 to 1881 resigned to be come Vice-President of the Panama Canal Company. ;

Thompson, Robert A.; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849.

Thompson, Smith was born in Amenia, New York, in 1767; graduated at New Jersey College in 1788; studied law with Chancellor Kent; in 1801 was District Attorney in the Middle District of New York; ;

was Judge of the Supreme Court of New York from 1802 to 1814; was Chief Justice from 1814 to 1818; was Secretary of the Navy from 1818 to 1823; was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1823 until his death; received the degree of LL D. from Yale College in 1824, and from Harvard Died at Poughkeepsie, New University in 1835. York, December 18, 1843.

Thompson, Thomas

"W.;

graduated at Harvard

in Congress University in 1786; was a Representative from New Hampshire from 1805 to 1807; was State Treasurer in 1809; was a United States Senator from 1814 to 1817; was a neighbor, and one of the earliest Webster. Died at Concord, in friends, of Daniel

October, 1820, aged fifty-five years.

Thompson, Waddy; was born at Pickinsville, South Carolina, September 8, 1798; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1814; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819; served in the Legisla ture of his native State; was, at one time, Solicitor for the Western Circuit of South Carolina; was chosen a Presidential Elector; attained the military title of Brigadier-General; in 1842 was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, about which country he published an interesting work; was a from 1835 to 1841. serv Representative in Congress of the Committee on Mili ing in 1840 as Chairman Died in Tallahassee, Florida, Novem tary Affairs. ber 23, 18G8.

Thompson, Wiley; was a native of Amelia County, Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from Georgia from 1821 to 1833. Thompson, William; was born in Pennsyl a Repre vania; having settled in Iowa, was elected sentative in Congress from that State from 1847 to War of the Rebellion, 1851; served through the upwards of four years, as Captain, Major, and Colonel in the First Iowa Cavalry, and, as Brevet of a Brigade; was Brigadier-General, had command subsequently appointed a Captain of Cavalry in the Regular Army.

Thompson, William Gr.; was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1830; was reared on a farm; received a common school education, and attended Witherspoon Institute, Pennsylvania, for two years; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1853; in that year removed to Marion, Iowa; in 1854 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for two years; in 1856 was elected a State Senator for four years; entered the Union Army in 1862 as a Major, and was a Presidential Elector in 1864: served until was elected District Attorney for the Eighth Judicial District of Iowa, and served seven years; was ap pointed Chief Justice of the Territory of Idaho in January 1879, and resigned in April of the same year; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. 18(>4;

Thomson, Alexander; was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con Died at gress from Pennsylvania from 1824 to 18:26. his residence in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1848, aged sixty-three years. Thomson, Charles; was born at Maghera, Derry, Ireland, November 29, 1729; in 1741 landed, with his three sisters, at New Castle, Delaware, with no other dependence than their own industry; edu cated by D. Allison, he became a teacher at the Friends Academy at New Castle; removing to Phila delphia, obtained the advice and friendship of Dr. Franklin; in 1758 was one of the agents to treat

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. with the Indians at Oswego; the Delawares adopted and conferred on him an Indian name which means, "one who speaks the truth"; was Secretary of Congress from 1774 to 1789 was a good classical scholar; was the author of the "Harmony of the Five Gospels"; a translation of the Old arid New Testa ments, and an Inquiry into the cause of the Aliena tion of the Delawares and Shawnee Indians; re ceived the degree of LL.D. from New Jersey College hiiUp

;

in 1822.

Thomson, John was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1777; was a Representative in Con gress from Ohio from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1821) to 1837. Died at New Lisbon, Ohio, December ;

2,

1852.

R.; was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1800; entered Princeton College, but left in the junior year, and devoted him self to mercantile pursuits, making a voyage to China in 1817, and in 1820 established himself as a merchant in Canton, China; was appointed Consul of the United States at that port in 1823, and remained there until 1825; after the year 1830 engaged in the management of several railways and of the New Jer Constitu sey Canal; in 1841- was a member of the tional Convention of New Jersey; was United States Senator from New Jersey from 1853 to 1857; was re-elected for the term ending in 1863; was a member of the Committees on Naval Affairs, and on the Post Office and Post Roads; was offered a seat in the Cabinet of President Buchanan, which he de "

"

Died at Trenton, September

James

13, 1862.

in Ireland in to this country, with his father, in 1717; studied medicine in Massachusetts; settled to prac tice in New Hampshire; was appointed a Surgeon in the army commanded a regiment of militia in the

came

;

Revolutionary War; was President of the "Provin Convention" of New Hampshire; was, for six years, Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; wasaDelegate to the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence: also served, for several years, in the Gen eral Court and in the State Senate; was appointed Justice of the Peace and Quorum throughout the State. Died at Newburyport, Massachusetts, June cial

;

Thornburgh, Jacob M.; was born

in

New

market, East Tennessee, July 3, 1837; was educated at Holston College; read law, and came to the bar in 1861; in 1862 joined the Federal Army in Kentucky, and was promoted until he became Colonel of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry in 1863; served under Generals Rosecrans, Sherman, Thomas, and Canby until the close of the war, when he returned to East Tennessee, and resumed the practice of law; in 1867 removed to Knoxville, and was appointed AttorneyGeneral of the Third District of Tennessee; was elected to the same position in 1869 and 1870; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Military Affairs; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses.

Thornton, Anthony; was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, November 9, 1814; graduated at the University of Miami, in Ohio; adopted the pro fession of the law; in 1847 was a member of the Con vention which framed the Constitution of Illinois; in 1850 was a member of the State Legislature; in 18G2 was a Delegate to the Convention to revise the State Constitution; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee of Claims and the Select Commit tee on the Bankrupt Law; was a Delegate to the of 1866. National Union Convention Philadelphia "

"

Thornton, James B. was born

at Merrimac, Speaker of the State Legisla ture in 1829 and 1830; was the author of Digest of the Conveyancing, Testamentary, and Registry Laws in 1837; was Charge d Affaires of the United States to Peru in 1836; was a grandson of Matthew Thorn Declaration of Independence." ton, signer of the Died at Callao, January 25, 1838, aged thirty-seven ;

New Hampshire; was

"

"

"

Thornton, William; was born

in Tortola; set

Washington about the time the Seat of Gov ernment was established there; in 1802 was appointed tled in

Superintendent of the Patent Office, the title being afterwards changed to Commissioner; remained in the office until 1827, when he died; was the first man ap pointed to take charge of the Bureau, which has since become so important; was also one of the first to act as Commissioner of Public Buildings in Wash ington.

Thorp,

"William.

;

was a native of Delaware; was

elected Governor of that State in 1846, remaining in office until 1851.

Throckmorton, James W.; was born at Sparta, February 7, 1825; removed, with his Texas in 1841; was a member of the Texas Legislature in 1851, and served in that body until the Civil War in 1861; was elected a member of the Secession Convention of Texas, and was one of the Tennessee,

-was born in North Caro lina; removing to Iowa, was elected a Representative from that State to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Thorington,

years.

Thornton, Matthew; was born

1714;

24, 1803.

Thomson, John

clined.

499

father, to

seven who voted against that ordinance; in 1861 entered the Confederate service, and continued actively engaged until 1863; in that year was elected State Senator; was appointed Brigadier-General of State troops, and sent to command the north-west border of the State; at the time of the surrender was negotiating, for Texas and the Confederate States, with the Indians between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas Rivers; was a member of the Reconstruc tion Convention under President Johnson s procla mation, and chosen presiding officer; was elected

Governor of Texas in 1866, and was removed under the Reconstruction Acts of 1869; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty -fourth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; was also elected to the Forty-eighth Congress; was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Throop, Enos

T.;

was born in Johnstown, Mont

New York, August 21, 1784; while performing the duties of an attorney s clerk, acquired a classical education; studied law, and settled in Auburn; was a Representative in Congress during the years 1815 and 1816; in 1823 was elected Circuit Judge; in 1829 became Lieutenant-Governor of New York, and in 1831 was Governor of that State; in 1838 was appointed Charge d? Affaires to the Two

gomery County,

Sicilies.

Thruston, Buckner; was born in Virginia, about the year 1763; emigrated, in early life, to Ken tucky, and, being possessed of superior talents, was soon called into the public service; was appointed Federal Judge in the Territory of Orleans in 1805; was, the same year,- elected a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky for six years; resigned in 1809, on being appointed, by President Madison, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of the Dis-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

500

held until his of Columbia, which office he at Washington, August 30, occurred which death, trict

1845.

Thurman, Allen G.; was born

in Lynchburg, removed to Ohio in

Virginia, November 13, 1813; in 1835; was 1819- studied law, and came to the bar Con a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-ninth the Supreme Court of gress- was elected a Judge of from Ohio in 1851; was Chief Justice of the same for Gov 1854 to 1856; was the Democratic candidate a Senator ernor of Ohio in 1867; in 1868 was elected

in Congress from that State for the term commencing the Commit in 186U and ending in 1875, serving on and tees on the Judiciary, and Post Offices the term ending in It 181, Roads; was re-elected for

and as serving on the most important Committees, Chairman of that on Land Claims; resumed the practice of law.

Thurman, John B.; was a Representative 1849 to 1851. Died Congress from New York from New York, July 25, 1854.

in in

Thurston, Benjamin B.; was born

in HopkinJune 29, 1804; received a common school education; was bred a merchant; was elected fourteen years in succession to the Assembly of his native State; was a Presidential Elector in 1836; in 1838 was Lieutenant-Governor; was a Representative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1847 to 1849, and again from 1851 to 1857; was subsequently ele^ed a member of the Senate of Rhode Island; removed to New London, Connecticut, where he died May 17, ton,

Rhode

Island,

1886.

Thurston, Samuel B.; was born in Maine; in 1813; was a Dele graduated at Bowdoin College of Oregon from gate in Congress from the Territory 1849 to 185L Died on board the steamer California, on her passage from Panama to San Francisco, April

was appointed Commissioner of the General Land in 1812, by President Madison; resigned

Office, in

1815, west,

when appointed Surveyor-General of the Notfh-

which position he held until his death, which occurred in Chillicothe, August 9, 1829.

from Tift, Nelson was elected a Representative on the Com Georgia to the Fortieth Congress, serving mittee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department. informa Declined, by letter, to give the author any ;

tion about himself.

Tilden, Daniel B.; was born in Connecticut; a having settled in Ohio, was elected Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1847. Tilden, Samuel J.; was born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York, in 1814, of old Puritan received his education at Yale College, and the

stock;

of University of New York; adopted the profession the law; in 1846 was elected to the State Legislature; soon afterwards to the State Constitutional Conven that held in 1867, of which he was a tion, and also to the head of the State ruling member, as well as at Democratic Committee; was again elected to the State was elected Governor of Legislature in 1870; in 1874 New York, in which capacity he was called to grapple with some of the most noted corruptions of the State, winning the approbation of good men of all political in many important parties; as a lawyer, was engaged with many leading business en trials; was identified was the Democratic terprises of the country; in 1876 candidate for President of the United States, and re ceived a majority of the popular votes cast, but was defeated by one vote in the Electoral College; it was the outcry against the method of his defeat which caused the appointment of the Electoral Commission which decided in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, by a vote of 8 to 7. Mr. Tilden died at his country seat, "Greystone,"

August

4,

:

1886.

Tilgfhman, Matthew was a Delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress from 1774 to ;

9,

1851.

Tibbatts, John W.; was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1847; also served as a Colonel in the Mexican War. Died in Newton, Kentucky, July 12, 1852, aged fifty years.

Tibbetts,

George was a Representative in Con

gress from New ber of the State

1802 and 1820,

;

York from 1803 to 1805; was a mem Assembly from Rensselaer County in and of the State Senate from 1815 to

1818.

Tichenor, Isaac ; was born at Newark, New Jersey, February 8, 1754; graduated at Princeton Col was a lege in 1775; was an officer of the Revolution; Judge, and Chief Justice, of the Supreme Court of Vermont; was a Representative in the State Legisla ture; was a Senator in Congress during the sessions of 1796 and 1797,

resigned; was Governor of to 1800; was again in the Senate

when he

Vermont from 1798

from 1815 to 1821; was a member of the State Coun cil of Censors in 1792 and 1813; was a Boundary Commissioner, and a General Agent of the Govern ment. Died at Bennington, Vermont, December 11, 1838.

was born at Carlisle, England, emigrated to the United States in 1786, and settled at Charlestown, Virginia; removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1798; was Speaker of the Ter ritorial Legislature in 1799; was President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802; was elected first Governor of the State from 1803 to 1807; was United States Senator from Ohio from 1807 to 1809; Tiffin,

June

19,

Edward; 1766;

1777.

Tilghman, William was born in Talbot Coun ;

Maryland, August 12, 1756; removed to Philadel phia with his father; commenced the study of law in 1774; was admitted to the bar in 1783; began to prac tice in Philadelphia in 1793; was appointed Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court in 1801 be came President of the Court of Common Pleas in 1805; was appointed Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1806, in place of Edward, who de clined; was a member of the Legislature for several years, from 1788; received the degree of LL.D. from

ty,

;

.

Harvard University in 1814; was President of the Philosophical Society in 1824; in 1809 prepared a report of the English Statutes in force within the State; an eulogium on Dr. Wistar in 1818; an address before the Philadelphia Society for promoting agri Died in Philadelphia. culture.

Tillinghast, Joseph L.; was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1791 removed to Rhode Island in his boyhood; graduated at Brown University in 181 9, and received the degree of M. A. in 1833 was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of that institu tion; studied law, and devoted himself to its prac tice in Providence, with marked success for thirty years; was a Representative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1837 to 1843; was, for many years, a member of the State Legislature, and was elected Speaker on several occasions; to him was awarded the authorship of the free schools, and improved judi Died December 30, ciary system of his native State. 1844, at Providence, Rhode Island. ;

;

i

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Tillinghast,

Thomas

;

was born

in

Rhode

Is

land; was. for many years, a Judge of the Supreme Court of that State; was a Representative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1797 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1803.

Tillman, George D.; was born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, August 21, 1826; received an academic education, and studied for some time at Harvard College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848; practiced, for some time, at Edgefield Court House; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1854 and 1855, and again in 1864; served in the Confederate Army from 1862 to 1865; engaged in cotton planting; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1865, and a State Senator in that year; was an unsuccessful contestant for a seat in the Forty-fifth Congress; was elected a Representative from South Carolina to the Fortysixth Congress; was again defeated in the contest for a seat in the Forty -seventh Congress; was again elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con

Tillman, Lewis

Freedmen

;

was born

in Bedford County,

s Affairs.

was appointed, by President Tilton, Daniel Adams, in 1798, United States Judge for the Terri ;

tory of Mississippi.

James was born in Delaware, June 1, was a physician by profession, and became dis

Tilton, ;

;

tinguished as a Surgeon during the Revolutionary War; from 1777 to the close of the war, acted as Hospital Surgeon, and introduced the use of hospital huts; after the war resided for a few years on a farm in his native State; was a Delegate in the Conti nental Congress from 1783 to 1785; in 1785 was ap pointed Commissioner of Loans; in 1812 was ap pointed Surgeon-General of the United States Army; "Observations on Military Hospitals," and some papers on agriculture. Died May 14, 1822.

published

Tipton, John was born in Tennessee in 1785; removed to Indiana in 1806; was a Senator in Con Died at Logress from Indiana from 1831 to 1839. ;

gansport, of apoplexy, in 1839.

Thomas

was born in Franklin County, Ohio, August 29, 1833; removed to McLean County, Illinois, in 1843; studied and practiced law; was State s Attorney for the Eighth Judicial District elected Judge of the Eighth in 1867 and 1868; Judicial Circuit in 1870, and under the re-organiza tion of Circuits was elected Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit; was elected a Representative from

Tipton,

F.;

"was

Illinois to the

Forty -fifth Congress.

Tipton, Thomas W.; was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1817; spent his early life on a farm; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1840; studied law, and came to the bar in 1844; in 1845 was elected to the Ohio Legislature; was for three years at the head of a Division of the General Land Washington; removed to Nebraska Ter ritory, and was chosen a Delegate to the "Constitu tional Convention"; in 1860 was a Councilman in the Territorial Legislature; having studied theology, served during the Rebellion as Chaplain of the First Office

serving on the Committees on Agriculture, Pensions, and Public Lands.

Titcomb, Jonathan; was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1728; was a member of the Com mittee of Safety, and of the Provincial Congress in 1774 and 1775; was a Colonel of a Regiment in the Rhode Island Expedition in 1778; was a member of the Slate Convention in 1780; was a Brigadier-Gen eral of Militia; was Naval officer of Newburyport from 1789 to 1812. Died in 1817. Titus, John; was born in Pennsylvania; was ap pointed, from that State, an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Arizona; was subsequently appointed Chief Justice of the same Court for the Territory of Utah, presiding at Salt Lake City.

in

Obediah was a Representative New York from 1837 to 1839. ;

in

Con

gress from

Tennessee, August 18, 1816; received a common school education; devoted himself to farming; was Clerk of the Circuit Court frpin 1852 to 1860; of the Chancery Court from 1865 to 1868; was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the Forty-first Con gress, serving on the Committees on Patents, and

1751

Regiment of Nebraska Infantry; was elected a Sena tor in Congress from the new State of Nebraska for the term commencing in 1867 and ending in 1869,

Titus,

gresses.

501

Tod, David was born at Youngstown, Ohio, February 21, 1805; studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1827; practiced at Warren fifteen years; in 1838 was a member of the State Sen ate; in 1840 took the stump for Van Buren; in 1844 was nominated for Governor, but defeated by a small majority; was Minister to Brazil from 1847 to 1852; was a Delegate to the Charleston Convention in 1860, and was first Vice-President of that body; when the Southern wing of that party withdrew to Baltimore, he was its President; warmly advocated the Peace Measures before and after the Peace Congress at Washington; was elected Governor of Ohio in 1862, and gave his support to the Government during his term of two years. Died at Youngstown, Ohio, No vember, 13, 1868. ;

Todd, Charles S.; was born near Danville, Ken tucky, January 22, 1791; was educated at the best schools of the State; graduated at William and Mary College in 1809; studied law with his father, Judge Thomas Todd, and attended lectures at Litchfield; practiced at Lexington in 1811; entered the army in 1812 as Acting Quartermaster of the Northwestern Division; was on General Harrison s staff, and bearer of dispatches to General Winchester previous to the battle of the River Raison; was Captain of the Sev enteenth United States Infantry; then Aid to the Commander; was Deputy Inspector-General of the Eighth Military District; then Adjutant-General; in 1815 was Inspector-General, with rank of BrevetColonel of Cavalry; after the war practiced law in Frankfort; was Secretary of State under Madison in 1816; was a member of the Legislature in 1817 and 1818; was Charge d Affaires to Colombia from 1818 to 1823; on his return settled in Shelby County as a farmer; was Vice-President of the State Agricultural Society for several years; prepared sketches ol tin. life of Harrison in 1840; edited the Cincinnati Re publican; accompanied ^General Harrison to Wash ington in 1841; was selected by him as Minister to Vienna, but the death of the President prevented the appointment; received the mission to St. Petersburg, from President Tyler, in 1841, and held the position until recalled by President Polk, in 1845, after

which he retired to private at Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

life in

May

Kentucky.

Died

14, 1871.

Todd, John was born at Hartford, Connecticut; was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1824. Died March 28, 1830. ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

502

Todd, John B. S.; was born at Lexington, Ken of age tucky, April 4, 1814; when thirteen years West went, with his parents, to Illinois; graduated at Point in 1837; served in the army eighteen years, rendering much important service; after his retire ment from the army, became a trader with the In dians; in 1861 was elected a Delegate to Congress from Dakota; when the Rebellion commenced, was appointed a Brigadier-General, and commanded a division in the Army of Tennessee; was re-elected a Delegate to Congress, where he served until 1865; was one of the founders of Yankton, and claimed as Died at the leading citizen of Dakota in his time. Yanktou, January 5, 1872. He was connected, by marriage, with Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breck-

fifth

I

member

Congress, serving as a

of the

Commit

was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Military Af tee on the Militia; fairs.

Tomkins, Daniel D.; was -born in Westchester New York, June 21, 1774; his father was a

County,

and he was the seventh son; graduated at Columbia College in 1795; then studied law, and was admitted to practice in the City of New York in 1797; in 1821 was a member of the "Constitutional farmer,

of the State; also served in the State Legislature; was elected a Representative in Con gress from 1805 to 1807; resigned to accept an ap pointment as an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the State; in 1807 was elected Governor of the State, and held that office two years; his aid in support of the National Government during the War of 1812 gave him prominence as a statesman; he prorogued the State Legislature in 1812 for the space often months, to prevent the establishment of the Bank of America in the City of New York; his op position postponed, but did not defeat the measure, and a charter was granted in 1813: in 1817 resigned the office of Governor, and was elected Vice-President of the United States; served two years. Died in New York, June 11, 1825. Convention"

enridge.

Todd, Lemuel; was born at Carlisle, Pennsyl vania, July 29, 1817; graduated at Dickinson Col lege; studied and practiced law; was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress; served in the Rebellion as Major of the First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps, and afterwards as Inspector-General of Pennsylvania; was elected to the Forty-third Con gress, serving on the Committee on the Navy De partment and Elections. Todd, Thomas was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, January 23, 1765; was left an or phan at the age of eleven; received a good English education; was a soldier of the Revolution; emi ;

grated to Kentucky in 1786, and began to practice law at Danville was Clerk of the District Court of Kentucky until 1799; was Clerk of the Court of Appeals from 1799 to 1801; was Judge of that Court from 1801 to 1806: was Chief Justice of Kentucky in 1806 and 1807; Associate Judge of the Supreme Court from 1807 until his death, which occurred February 7, 1826. Was the father of Charles Scott

Tompkins, George was an early settler of Mis souri; was a Judge of the State Supreme Court from 1828 to 1840; was its Chief Justice from 1840 to 1846. ;

Died near Jefferson City, Missouri, April aged sixty-six years.

;

Todd.

Toland, George W.; was born in Pennsyl vania; graduated at Princeton College in 1816; was a Representative in Congress from 1837 to 1843.

Tomlinson, Gideon; was born at Stratford, Connecticut, December 31, 1780; graduated at Yale College in 1802; studied law, and practiced the pro fession in Fairfield; in 1818 was chosen a Representa tive in Congress, in which office he was continued till 1827; in that year was chosen Governor of Con necticut, and remained in that station until March, 1831, when, on being elected a Senator of the United States, he resigned his office as Governor; after six years service retired to private life. Died October 8, 1854, at Fail-field, Connecticut. Tomlinson,

Thomas

was born in New York; served in the State Assembly from Essex County in 1835 and 1836; was a Representative in Congress from 1841 to 1843. A.;

Tomkins, Caleb; was born in Westchester New York; was a member of the New York

was born

in

Ken

tucky; settling in Mississippi, was elected a Repre sentative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1849. i

Kemp

was born at Savannah, Toole, Joseph Missouri, May 12, 1851; was educated in the public schools of Saint Joseph, Missouri, and at the Western Military Academy, at New Castle, Kentucky; settled at Helena, Montana; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Helenn, Montana; in 1872 was elected District Attorney of the Third Judicial District in Montana; was re-elected, in 1874, without opposition; in 1881 was elected a member of the Council of the Twelfth Legislative Assembly of Montana, and was chosen President of the Council; was elected a member of the Constitu tional Convention which met in Helena in January, 1884; in 1884 was elected the Delegate from Montana to the Forty -ninth Congress.

Toombs, Robert was ;

Georgia, July

2,

1810; the

;

born in Wilkes County, first

three years of his

were spent at the University of left it during the senior year; went to Schenectady, New York, and graduated at Union read law at the University of Virginia, College; under Judge Lomas; was admitted to the bar of in and Georgia 1829, practiced until his election to collegiate

life

Georgia, but he

Congress in 1845; his first public service was as Cap tain of Volunteers in the Creek War, in 1836, under General Winfield Scott; in 1837 was elected to the Legislature from his native County, and, with the

a Representative

exception of 1841, continued a member of the lower branch until his election to the Federal House of Representatives, where he served during the Twenty-

Assembly from that County from 18J4

to 1806;

elected a Representative in Congress from

Tomkins, Christopher; was

"W.;

1846,

was York

County,

from 1817 to 1821.

Tompkins, Patrick

7,

New

in Congress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1835 at Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1845.

Died

Tomkins, Cydnor

B.; was born in Belmont County, Ohio, November 8, 1810; was educated at the Ohio University, at Athens; was bred a farmerafter wards studied law; practiced for twenty-two was elected a Representative from Ohio to the years-

Thirty-

ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses; entered the Senate during the Thirtythird Congress for six years, and was re-elected for a

second term ending March 4, 1865; was expelled March 14, 1861, and became Secretary of State in the Con federate Government; was also a Brigadier-General in the great Rebellion. Died December 1885. 14,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Toucey, Isaac; was born

in

Newtown, Connec

ticut, Novembers, 1796; received a thorough classi cal education; studied law, and commenced the prac tice at Hartford in 1818; was appointed State s Attor

ney in 1822, and continued to hold that office until 1835; was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut from 1835 to 1839; was Governor of the State from 1846 to 1847; was appointed Attorney-General of the United States by President Polk was a State Senator in 1850; was a Senator in Congress from 1852 ;

March of the dent Buchanan s Cabinet to 1857; in

latter year

went

into Presi

as Secretary of the Navy, serving as such until 1861; subsequently founded two scholarships in Trinity College. Died in Hart ford,

July

30, 1869.

at Taunton, En gland, in 1767; was a dissenting minister at Chorobert, Lancashire; came to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1793; was President of Transylvania University from 1794 to 1796; Secretary of State of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804; was appointed Judge of United States District Court of Mississippi in 1804; compiled Digest of Ter ritorial Laws of Alabama in 1823; assisted in fram ing the Constitution of Alabama in her Convention, and served in the Legislature; was the author of "Magis "Description of Kentucky," 8vo, 1802; trate s Assistant," 8vo; "Supposed Welsh Indians," Nic. Journal, 1809; "Collection of the Acts of Ken

Toulmin, Harry; was born

tucky,"

1802, and, with James Blair, "Review of Law of Kentucky," 8vo, 1804.

the Criminal

Towles, Thomas; was born in Ireland; WRS well educated; in 1815 was appointed United States Judge for the Territory of Illinois; after the State government had been organized, was appointed Dis trict Judge, but held the office only a short time. was born in Wilkes Coun was prevented, by illhealth, from receiving a collegiate education, and commenced life as a merchant; afterwards studied law; was admitted to the bar of Alabama in 1824,

Towns, George Georgia, May 4,

"W.;

ty,

1802;

and, for a time, edited a political paper; in 1826 re turned to Georgia, and settled in Talbot County; served, for several years, in the Legislature of that State; was a Representative in Congress from 1835 to 1839, and was again elected in 1846; his last public position was that of Governor of Georgia, to which office lie was elected in 1847, and was re-elected in Died at Macon, July 15, 1854. 1849.

born in Fayette Coun Pennsylvania, in 1831; removed to Cleveland, Ohio, at an early age; engaged in commercial pur ten years, seven suits; served in the City Council for years as President of the Council; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1873; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses.

Townsend, Amos; was

ty,

Townsend, Dwight was born in the city of New York in 1826; was educated at the Grammar ;

School of Columbia College; entered mercantile life when twenty-one years of age; retired from business in 1862; in 1864 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry G. Stebbins, serving on the Committees on Coinage, Weights and Measures; was also elected to the Forty-second on Commerce. Congress, serving on the Committee

Townsend, George; was a Representative New York from 1815 to 1819.

in

Congress from

Townsend, James was elected a Representa from New York to the Second Congress. Died ;

tive

.

1791.

Townsend, Martin

503

I.;

was born at Hancock,

1810; was educated at Williams College, and graduated in 1833; from 1818 to 1833 resided upon a farm with his parents, at Williamstown, Massachusetts; in 1833 began the practice of law at Troy, New York; was District Attorney of

Massachusetts, February

6,

Rensselaer County from 1842 to 1845; was a member of the Constitutional Convention for the State at Large in 1867 and 1868; for several years a Regent of the University of New York was elected a Represent ative from New York to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress; declined a re-nomination; in 1879 was appointed United States ;

District Attorney.

Townsend, N. in Ohio;

S.; was born in England; settled was elected a Representative in Congress

from that State from 1851 to 1853.

Townsend, "Washington ; was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, in 1813; in 1832 became a tel ler in the Bank of Chester County, during which ser vice he studied law, and came to the bar in 1844; served two terms as Deputy State s Attorney; was Cashier of the Chester County Bank, which position he resigned in 1857, to devote all his attention to the practice of law; was a Delegate to the Baltimore National Convention of 1852, and also to the Chicago Convention of 1800; in 1868 was elected a Represent ative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands, and Education and Labor; was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands.

Townshend, Richard W.; was

born in Prince County, Maryland, April 30, 1840; removed to Washington City, District of Columbia, when ten years of age, and there received a good education; in 1858 removed to Illinois; taught school; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1862; was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hamilton County from 1863 to 1868; was Prosecuting Attorney for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of the State from 1868 to 1872; in 1873 removed to Shawneetown, Illinois; was a mem ber of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1864, 1865, 1874 and 1875; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1872; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Fortyninth Congresses.

George

s

Tracy, Albert H.; was born

in Norwich,

Con

necticut, June 17, 1793; received a classical educa tion; studied medicine with his father; when eighteen years of age removed to New York State; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1815; served three terms in Congress from 1819 to 18 _ 5 as a Representative from a district comprising almost the

whole of that part of New York west of Seneca Lake; in 1829 was elected to the Senate of New York for four years; was re-elected for a second term of four years; was a supporter of Mr. Adams for President, and declined a seat in his Cabinet; also declined a Judgeship tendered by Governor Clinton. Died at Buffalo, September 19, 1859. Tracy, Andrew; was born in Vermont; was educated a lawyer; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855; served ten years in the State Legislature, a part of the time in each House, and was Speaker from 1842 to 1845. Died in Woodstock, Vermont, October 28, 1868.

Tracy, H. W.; was born in Luzerne Connty, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1807; was bred a farmer; devoted some attention to mercantile pur-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

504

1861 and 1862 was elected to the State was a member of the "Chicago Conven which nominated Mr. Lincoln for President;

suits; in

Legislature; tion"

elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Commit tees for the District of Columbia, and on Expendi tures in the Navy Department; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention" of 1866.

was

Tracy, Phineas L.; was born in Norwich, Con necticut; graduated at Yale College in 1806; was a Representative in Congress from Genesee County, New York, from 1827 to 1833, and was a member of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Build-

American Foreign Mission Society, and was a gen eral contributor to that and other charitable institu tions. Died August 19, 1823.

Treat, Samuel was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 17, 1815; was prepared for college at the Portsmouth High School, of which he was Assistant Principal for 1832-3; entered Harvard University in 1833, and graduated therefrom in 1837; in 1837-8 was tutor of mathematics and classics in the Weld School, at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; ;

was Principal of Temple Hill Academy, Geneseo, New York, from 1838 to 1841; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841; became assistant editor of the Missouri Reporter, at St. Louis, Missouri, and subsequently editor-in-chief of the

Tracy, Uri

was born in Franklin, Connecticut; graduated at Yale College in 1789; was a Representa tive in Congress from New York from 1805 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1813. Died in 1813. ;

Tracy, Uriah

was born at Franklin, Connecti February 2, 1755; graduated at Yale College in 1778; read law in Litchfield, and settled in that town; was often chosen a State Representative, and in 1793 was Speaker of the House; was a Representative in Congress from 1793 to 1796; from 1796 to 1807 was a Senator of the United States, officiating for a short time as President pro tan. of the Senate; was also a Major-General of Militia; commanded the respect and

St. Louis Union, practicing law in addition to his editorial duties; in 1849 was appointed Judge of the Court of* Common Pleas of St. Louis, and in 1851 was elected to that position; while holding that office, in 1857, was ap pointed United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.

;

cut,

enjoyed the friendship of the leading

men of his time.

Died at Washington City, July 19, 1807, and was the first person buried in the Congressional buryingground.

Trafton, Mark was born in Maine; was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty;

fourth Congress.

Train, Charles B.; was born at Framington, Massachusetts, in 1817; worked on a farm until the age of fifteen; graduated at Brown University in 1837; studied law, and finished his legal education at Cambridge, coming to the bar in 1841; was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1H47; from 1848 to 1851 was District Attorney for Northern Massachu setts; in 1852 was appointed, by President Fillmore, an Associate Judge of the United States Court in Oregon, but declined the office; was a member of the "State Constitutional Convention" of 1853; was a second time appointed District Attorney; in 1857 and 1858 served as a member of the State Council was elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds; was reelected to the Thirty -seventh Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildingsduring the autumn of 18(52 served in the army as a Volunteer Aid on the Staff of his ii-iend, General Gordon, and was present at the battle of Antietara; was a Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of 1864, and the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 1866; in 1875 was elected Attorney-General of Massachusetts. ;

Tredway, William M.; was born in Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847.

Tredwell, Thomas; was born in Smithtown, Suffolk County, Long Island, in 1742; graduated at Princeton College in 1764; was a member of the Pro vincial Congress of the Colony of New York in 1775 and 1776; was also a member of the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York in 1776 and 1777, by which the first Constitution of the State of New York was adopted, and was, for many years, the last surviving member of that body; also represented his native county in the Convention of 1788, to deliberate upon the adoption of the Federal Constitution, and, with the other "anti-federalists" of that body, voted against its adoption; from 1777 to 1783 was a member of the Assembly, and from 1786 to 1789 of the State Senate from the same county; was the first Judge of the Court of Probate of the State, serving from 1778 to 1787; was subse quently Surrogate of Suffolk County from 1787 to 1791; was a member of Congress from his native District from 1791 to 1795; was one of the original proprietors of Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York, to which place he removed in its infancy, near the close of the last century; in 1801 represented the counties of Clinton and Essex in the "State Consti tutional Convention" of that year, of which Aaron Burr was President; was again elected to the State Senate, and served from 1803 to 1807; was appointed Surrogate of Clinton County in 1807, nnd held that office until 1831, making an almost continuous term of public service of fifty-six years; his house and farm at Plattsburg were pillaged by the British dur Died at Platts ing their invasion, in July, 1813. His grandson, Thomas burg, January 30, 1832. Tredwell Davis, was a member of the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses.

"

Trapier, Paul

;

was a Delegate from South Caro

lina to the Continental Congress

from 1777 to 1778.

Tread well, John; was born at Farmington Connecticut, November 23, 1745; graduated at Yale College in 1767; studied law; filled the offices of Judge of Probate, and of other Courts; from 1785 to 178, J was a Delegate to the Continental Congress- in 1809 was elected Governor of Connecticut, and terved two years; was the first President of the

Tree,

Lambert

was born November

at Washington, Dis 1832; received a read law in the office of James Mandeville Carlisle, at Washington, for two years, and completed his law studies at the University of was admitted to the bar, at Washington Virginia; City, in October, 1855; a few months later settled in Chicago, Illinois, in the practice of law; in 1864 was elected President of the Chicago Law Institute; in 1870 was elected one of the Circuit Judges at Chica go to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected for a full term; in 1875 because of resigned ill-health, and passed several succeeding years in European travel j trict

of Columbia,

classical education

;

;

29,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. was a Delegate to the Democratic Nationa Convention; in 1885 was the candidate of the Dem ocrats in the State Legislature for United States Sen ator, but was defeated, by General John A. Logan, by one vote; in July, 1885, was appointed, by Presi dent Cleveland, United States Minister to Belgium. in 1884

was born at Durham, New 1819; received a liberal education came to the bar in 1840; was elected

Lyman;

Tremain, York, June

14,

studied law, and

Supervisor in 1842; was appointed District Attorney of Greene County in 1844; was elected County Judge and Surrogate in 1846; was elected Attorney-General of the State of New York in 1858; in 1866 a member of the Assembly from the city of Albany, and was Speaker in 1868; was elected to the Forty-third Con gress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary and other important Committees. "William Lee was born at Charles South Carolina, February 3, 1836; graduated from the South Carolina College in December, 1855; became partner in the commercial houses of John

Trenholm,

;

ton,

Eraser

&

Co.,

Charleston; Trenholm Bro.

s

&

Co.,

York, and Fraser, Trenholm & Co., Liverpool, England; lived in England two years; volunteered for service with the South Carolina State troops in December, I860; served in the Confederate Army throughout the War of the Rebellion; in 1865 re

New

sumed

business in Charleston; in November, 1885, was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Civil Service of the United States; in March, 1886, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Comptroller of the Currency in the Department of the Treasury; with two exceptions, never before held any public office, and was never a candidate for any place filled by election; on both these occasions he consented to run, and was elected one of the Aldermen of Charleston,

South Carolina, on tickets specially made up for an unusual occasion and supported distinctively by the business elements of the community.

William

H.; was born in South Caro 1852 was ap pointed Secretary of Legation to London; in 1860 received the appointment of Assistant Secretary of State in Washington; in 1880 was sent as a Special Envoy to China to negotiate a treaty with that country, in which mission he was successful; in 1881 was sent as a Special Envoy to Chili and Peru to ex ercise his good offices in arranging a peace between

Trescott,

lina; received a liberal education; in

those

two

countries.

Trezvant,

James

;

was born

in Sussex County,

Virginia; was a lawyer by profession; was Attorney for the State; was a member of the State Legislature and of the Constitutional Convention of 1830; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1825 to 1831, serving during his last term as Chairman of the Committee on Military Pensions. Died in 1838.

Trigg,

Abram;

was a Representative in Con

gress from Virginia from 1797 to 1809.

Trigg, Connally F.; was born in Virginia; re to Tennessee and settled in Bristol; in 1862 was appointed United States Judge for the Eastern

moved

District of Tennessee.

Trigg, Connally F.; was born in Abingdon, Virginia, September 18, 1847; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Abingdon; in 1872 was elected Commonwealth Attorney

for

Trigg,

505

John was ;

a Representative in Congress

from Virginia from 1797 to 1804.

Trimble, Allen ; was born in Augusta County, Virginia, November 24, 1783; settled in Highland County, Ohio, where he was Clerk of the Courts and Recorder from 1809 to 1816; commanded a mounted regiment under Harrison in 1812 and 1813; in 1816 was a State Representative; from 1817 to 1826 State Senator, and Speaker from 1819 to 1826; was acting Governor in 1821 and 1822; was Governor from 1826 to 1830; was President of the first State Board of Agri culture from 1846 to 1848. Died in Hillsborough, Ohio, February 2, 1870.

Trimble, Gary A.; was born at Hillsborough, Ohio, September 13, 1813; graduated at the Ohio University in 1833; studied medicine, and received a medical diploma from the Cincinnati Medical College in 1836; in 1837 was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in his Alma Mater, which position he held until 1841, when he settled in Chillicothe; in 1839, on account of his health, retired from his profession, and devoted himself to farming; was elected a Rep resentative from Ohio to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on Public elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress.

Lands; re-

Trimble, David; was born in Frederick County, Virginia, about the year 1782; was educated at Wil liam and Mary College; studied law, and when he came of age removed to Kentucky; was engaged in the War of 1812, serving two campaigns under Gen eral Harrison; in 1817 was chosen a member of Con gress from Kentucky, and served without interrup tion until 1827, being highly esteemed for the integ rity of his principles and his devotion to his public duties; after his retirement from Congress, became engaged in agriculture and iron manufacture, and in the latter interest did much to develop the resources of the State. Died at Trimble s Furnace, Kentucky, October 26, 1842.

Trimble, John; was born

in

Roane County,

Tennessee, February 7, 1812; graduated at the Nash ville University; studied law and adopted the pro fession; from 1836 to 1841 was Attorney-General of the State for the Nashville District; was a member of the State Assembly from 1843 to 1845; of the State Senate from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1859 to 1861; in 1862 was appointed, by President Lincoln, District Attorney of the United States for Middle Tennessee, which office he resigned in 1864; was again in the State Senate from 1865 to 1867, when he resigned; was elected a Representative from Tennes see to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Freedmen s Affairs, and Private Land Claims.

Trimble,

Lawrence

Kentucky, August

S.; was born in Fleming, 26, 1825; received a good English

education; studied law, and adopted that profession; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1851 and 1852; was Judge of the Equity and Criminal Court of the First Judicial District of the State from 1856 to 1860; from 1860 to October, 1865, was Presi dent of the New Orleans and Ohio Railroad Com pany; was elected a Representative from Kentucky bo the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Revolutionary Claims, on Manufactures, and Revenue Frauds; re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, and was placed on the Com mittees on Invalid Pensions and Indian Affairs.

Washington County, Virginia; held the

position, by successive re-elections, until 1884, when he resigned, having been elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Trimble, Robert was born in Berkley County, Virginia, in 1776; received a good plain education; came to the bar in 1803, and settled in ;

studied law;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

506

elected to the State Kentucky; was soon afterwards was chosen Judge ot the Lour Legislature; in 1808 in H of Appeals but soon resigned the position; became Chief Justice of the State; in 1813

was made

apthe State; in 1816 of Kentucky, by President pointed Federal Judge J. Presiident y. Madison; in 1826 was appointed, by the United Adams a Justice of the Supreme Court of for him. in Kentucky was named .States; a County District Attorney for

Died August

25, 1828.

Trimble, William was a native of Kentucky; was an was well educated, and a successful lawyer; of Arkansas, where he early emigrant to the Territory was appointed United States Judge for that Terri in office until 1832. tory, remaining ;

Trimble,

"William

A.; was born at Woodford,

1786; was educated at Transyl vania University; studied law with his relative, at Litchfield, Judge Robert Trimble, and afterwards Connecticut; settled to practice in Highland, Ohio, of his brother 1811; was Adjutant in the regiment was 1812; was Major of Ohio Volunteers in 1812; was brevetted Lieu Major Sixth Infantry in 1813; tenant-Colonel for gallantry at Fort Erie sortie in was Lieu 1814, in which he was severely wounded; tenant-Colonel of First Infantry from 1814 to 1819; was United States Senator from Ohio from 1819 to 1821 was Commissioner with General Cass to treat Died with the Northwestern Indians at Green Bay. in Washington, District of Columbia, December 13,

Kentucky. April

4,

m

;

1821.

Triplett, Philip was born in Virginia; was a from 183!) Representative in Congress from Kentucky ;

to 1843.

was born at Harmony, Maine, ; 1839; attended the district school until fifteen years of age; then taught school and earned the means with which to pursue his studies; was prepared for college at the academies at Hartland and Corinne, Maine; in 1857 entered Waterville Col lege; left in his senior year, in 1861, and went to Tripp, Bartlett

July

15,

was engaged in surveying, teaching, and studying law, in California, Nevada, and Utah, for four years; in 1866 took the Law Course at Albany, New York, and was admitted to the bar; in 1867 en gaged in the practice of law at Augusta, Maine, as the partner of Eben F. Pillsbury; in 1868 was elect ed an Alderman in 1869 removed to Yankton, Da kota, and continued the practice of his profession; in 1878 was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress; in 1883 was a Delegate to the first Constitutional Con vention of the Territory, and was elected President of that body; was also President of the new State Ex ecutive Committee; in 1883 was elected President of the Bar Association of the Second Judicial District, and, in 1885, was elected first President of the Senatorial Bar Association; in December, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory.

California;

;

Tripp, Robert P.; was born in Georgia; was elected a Representative in Congress from that State to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses. Tritle, Frederick A.; was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1833; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855; in the same year removed to Des Moines, Iowa, and commenced the practice of law; in 1859 emigrated to the Pacific Coast, settling at Carson City, Nevada, in 1860; in 1863 removed to Virginia City, Nevada, and became President of the

Belcher Mining Company, which position he filled until 1868; in 1866 was elected State Senator for an uuexpired term, and was re-elected, for a full term, in 18U8; was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1870; engaged in the brokerage business; in 1881 removed to Arizona; in 1882 was appointed, by President Arthur, Governor of the Territory of Ari zona for the term of four years.

Trotter, F. James was a Senator in Congress from Mississippi during the year 1838. ;

Troup, George M.; was born on the Tombigbee River, in Georgia, September 8, 1780; graduated at Princeton College; studied law; in 1800 was elected to the Legislature of Georgia; was three times re-

was a Representative in Congress from Geor from 1807 to 1815; was a United States Senator from 1816 to 1818, and from 1829 to 1834; from 1823 Died in Lauren* to 1827 was Governor of Georgia. County, Georgia, May 3, 1856. He was an advocate

elected; gia,

of State rights,

and a champion of State sovereignty.

Troup, Robert was born in New York in 1757; graduated at Columbia College in 1774; studied law in the office of John Jay; joined the Revolutionary Army at Long Island, as a Lieutenant, in 1776; was shortly after appointed Aid to General Woodhall; was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, and confined for some time in the Jersey prison-ship, and afterwards in the Provost prison in New York; was exchanged in 1777, and joined the army in Ne\v Jersey; joined General Gates, as Aid, at Saratoga, ;

Still water, and at the sur render of Bourgoyne, in 1777; was appointed, by Congress, in 1778, Secretary of the Board of War; in 1779 went to New Jersey, and completed his law studies; after the close of the war became Judge of the United States District Court of New York, and held that office many years; was a member of the State Legislature; in 1822 published a letter on the Lake Canal policy of New York; "Vindication of in 1821; "Remarks the Claim of Elkanah Watson on Trinity Church Bill" in 1813; was the warm personal friend of Alexander Hamilton; resided, ibr many years, at Geneva, New York, as agent of the Died in New York, January great Pulteney estate.

and was at the battle of

"

14, 1822.

Trousdale, "William; was born in Tennessee; was appointed Colonel of Tennessee Mounted Volun teers in the Florida War, in 1836; Colonel of the Fourth United States Infantry in 1847; Brevet Brig adier-General in 1848, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Chapultepec, where he was severely wounded; was Governor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1851; was Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil in 1853.

Trout, Michael C.; was born in Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 1853 to 1855.

Trowbridge, Rowland E.; was born at Elmira, New York, June 18, 1821; removed, with his parents, to Michigan, when a child; graduated at Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1841; devoted himself to farming; was elected to the Senate of Michigan in 1856 and 1858; in I860 was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serv ing on the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads; was also elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Claims and Agriculture; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia to the "Loyalists Convention"; was re-elected Fortieth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Com mittee on Agriculture. Died at Detroit, April 3,

1883.

,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Truett, George; was Governor of Delaware from Died in Camden, Delaware, October

1808 to 1811. 8,

1818, aged sixty-two years.

Trumbo, Andrew was ;

born in Montgomery

County, (now Bath), Kentucky, September 13, 1799; received a limited English education; at the age of fif teen went into the County Clerk s office, and afterwards became clerk; studied law, and commenced practice in 1824; was a Representative in the Twenty-ninth Congress; was one of the Presidential Electors of Kentucky in 1848.

507

Lyman

was born in Colchester, Trumbull, Connecticut, in 1813; adopted the profession of the law; removed to Illinois, and became a member of the Legislature of that State in 1840; was Secretary of the State of Illinois in 1841 and 1842; was a Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Illinois from 1848 to 1853; was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-fourth Congress; was elected a Senator in Congress for the term commencing in 1855 and end ing in 1861, serving as Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and as a member of the Commit ;

on Public Buildings and Grounds, and Indian was re-elected for the term ending in 1867; in 1864 was appointed a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia tees

Affairs;

Trumbull, Jonathan; was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, June 10, 1710; graduated at Harvard University in 1727; after a few years service in the ministry, studied law and became eminent in its practice; was a member of the Assembly at the age of twenty-three; was chosen Lieutenant-Governor in 1766, and Chief Justice of the Superior Court; re fused to take t .ie oath enjoined on royal officers; was made Governor from 1769 to 1783; was the only Co lonial Governor who took side with the people; was a Whig leader and was relied on by Washington as one of his firm supporters; the phrase sometimes used by Washington, Let us see what Brother Jonathan says," is supposed to have originated the term fre quently applied to the United States; he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale College in 1779, and from Edinburgh in 1785. Died August 17, 1785. "

Trumbull, Jonathan; was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, March 26, 1740; graduated at Harvard College in 1759; in 1775 was appointed, by Congress, Paymaster in the Northern Department of the army, and not long after was attached to the family of Washington as Secretary and first Aid, in which po sition he continued until the close of the war; was, for several years, a Representative in the State Legis lature of Connecticut, and Speaker of the House; was a Presidential Elector in 1797, 1801 and 1805; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1789 to 1795; was elected Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives in 1791, and continued in that station un til transferred to the United States Senate in 1795, where he served only one year; was elected Lieuten ant-Governor of Connecticut, and resigned the Senatorship; in 1798 was elected Governor, in which po sition he remained until his death, which occurred August 7, 1809. Trumbull, Joseph; was born March 11, 1737; graduated at Harvard University in 1756; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775; was a Commissioner for the Board of War in 1777; resigned the next year on account of ill-health; was Commissary-General in the Revolutionary Army from 1775 to 1777. Died July 23, 1778. Was the son of Jonathan Trumbull. In 1779 Congress made an eulogistic report on his services and voted to his heirs a commission on the sums received and issued, and the purchases made by him.

Trumbull, Joseph; was born in Lebanon, Con necticut, December 7, 1783 graduated at Yale Col lege in 1801; studied law, and practiced with success in Ohio; was President of the Hartford Bank for eleven years; served in the General Assembly in 1832, ;

1848,

and 1851

;

was President of a Railroad Com

pany; received from Yale College the degree of LL. D. was a Representative in Congress from Con necticut in 1834, for an unexpired term, and from 1839 to 1843; in 1849 was elected Governor of Con

of 1866; in January, 1867, Loyalists Convention re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1873, serving on the additional Committee on Pen "

"

was

sions.

Tuck, Amos was born in Maine; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1835; was for some time a ;

tutor in that Institution removing to New Hamp shire, was elected a Representative in Congress from that State from 1847 to 1853; was a member of the "Peace Congress" of 1861. ;

Tucker, Beverly was born in Virginia; re ceived a good education; was identified with the newspaper business in Washington; was chosen Superintendent of Public Printing in 1 853 during the Rebellion participated with zeal in the cause of the Southern States. ;

;

Tucker, Ebenezer

was born in Burlington, was a soldier in the Revolu and served at the battle of Long Island; tionary War, filled many offices of distinction and trust, among them those of Collector and Postmaster of New Jer ;

New

Jersey, in 1758;

sey;

was a member of Congress from New Jersey

from 1825 to 1829; also held the the

Common

offices

of

Judge of

Pleas, Justice of the Court of Quarter

Died at Sessions, and Judge of the Orphans Court. Tuckerton, New Jersey, September 5, 1845. in Bermuda in 1775; ; Virginia; graduated at William and Mary College in 1797; was a member of the Legisla ture; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1819 to 1845; was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in the University of Virginia; was the author of "Life of Jefferson," 2 vols., 1837; "Progress of the United States," 8vo, 1855; "Politi cal History of the United States in 1858, "Litera ture of the United States," 8vo, 1837, and other valuable works and essays on Taste, Morals, and National Policy, and financial subjects. Died at Charlottesville, Virginia, April 10, 1861.

Tucker, George was born

removed

to

"

Tucker, Henry St. George was born in Vir ginia in 1779; received a liberal education; became a prominent lawyer; was, at one time, President of the Court of Appeals; was also Professor of Law in the University of Virginia; was the author of several valuable works on law; was a Representative in Con Died at gress from Virginia from 1815 to 1819. Winchester, Virginia, August 28, 1848. ;

Tucker, John was a citizen of New York; held the position of Assistant Secretary of War during a part of the Rebellion, receiving the appointment January 27, 1862. ;

;

necticut.

Tucker, John Randolph; was born

in

Win

chester, Virginia, December 24, 1823; was educated at the University of Virginia; was admitted to the

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in 1852 and bar in 1845; was a Presidential Elector of the 1856- in 1857 was elected Attorney-General the State and was re-elected in 1859 arid 1863; by n issue of the Rebellion was deposed from office; Law in 1870 was elected Professor of Equity and

Life of James Otis," in 1820; Miscellanies in 1821; Gebel Teir," 1828; in 1809 delivered the ora 1823; tion at Boston, July 4, and in 1810 prepared the Phi Beta Kappa address for Harvard. Died at Rio Ja neiro, Brazil, March 9, 1830.

Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth Congresses.

Tufts, John Quincy was born in Aurora, In diana, July 12, 1840; was educated at the common schools and at the Cornell College; in the county of his residence held the positions of Clerk, Trustee, and Justice; was elected to the Iowa Legislature in 1869, and re-elected in 1871 and 1873; in 1874 was

"

and Lee Uni Washington College (now Washington himself a candidate, versity); without announcing to the ,was elected a Representative from Virginia re-elected to the FortyForty-fourth Congress; was Forth-eighth, and fifth,

Tucker, Starling was born in Halifax County, North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from the Laurens District of South Carolina from 1817 to 1831. Died February 4, 1834. ;

Tucker, St. George was born at Port Royal, Bermuda; removed to Virginia June 29, 1752; grad uated at William and Mary College; studied law; ;

took an early part in the Revolution, planning the capture of and aiding in capturing a large quantity of stores in a fort in Bermuda; at Yorktown, while

command of a regiment, was severely wounded; was a member of the Virginia Legislature; was one of the Committee to revise the laws of Virginia; was a Professor in William and Mary College; was a member of the Convention at Annapolis in 1786; was Judge in the State Courts nearly fifty years; was a Judge of the Court of Appeals from 1803 to 1811; was Judge of the United States District Court in 1813; was called "The American Blackstone"; was in

the celebrated poem Peter Pindar an essay on "How far the Common Liberty Law of England is the Common Law of the United in 1796; on the Alien States"; a treatise on slavery and Sedition Laws, 1799, and an annotated edition of Blackstone in 1803; also other poems and essays. Died at Edgewood, Nelson County, Virginia, No vember, 1827. He received the degree of LL.D. from William and Mary College in 1790. the author of

on

"

";

"

";

Tucker, Thomas Tudor was a patriot of the Revolution; was a Delegate to the Continental Con gress in 1787 and 1788; was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793; was United States Treasurer from 1794 to his death; de livered an oration at Charleston, South Carolina, be fore the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati in ;

1795.

Died

at

Washington,

May

2,

1828,

aged

eighty-three years.

"

;

elected a Representative from fourth Congress.

Iowa

to the Forty-

Tully, Pleasant B.; was born at Pleasant Ex change, Henderson County, Tennessee, March 21, 1829; emigrated, with his parents, to Arkansas in 1839; received a common school education; removed to Texas in 1850, and to California in 1853; engaged in mining; settled at Gilroy in 1858; studied law,

and was admitted to the bar in 1861 commenced practice at Gilroy; was a Delegate to the State Con stitutional Convention of 1879; was elected a Repre sentative from California to the Forty-eighth Con ;

gress.

Turner, Benjamin Steeling ; was born in Hal ifax County, North Carolina, March 17, 1825; was reared as a slave, and received no early education; removed to Alabama in 1830; obtained a fair educa tion; was a dealer in general merchandise; was elected Tax Collector of Dallas County in 1867, and Council man of the city of Selma in 1869; was elected to the Forty-second Congress as Representative from Ala bama, serving on several committees. Turner, Charles

;

was graduated from Harvard

University in 1752; studied for the ministry, and set tled in Duxbury, Massachusetts; was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from Massachusetts, serving from 1809 to 1813; was, at one time, Master of the Marine Hospital at Chelsea. Died in 1816, aged about sixty-six years.

Turner, Daniel was born in Warren County, North Carolina, September 26, 1796; commenced his education at Warrenton Academy; completed it at West Point; in 1814 was appointed a Lieutenant of Artillery; as such, served at Brooklyn Heights, and ;

resigned in 1815; after leaving the at William and Mary College; from 1819 to served in the Legislature of North Carolina; was a member of Congress from 1827 to 1829; subsequently had charge of the Warrenton at Plattsburg;

army spent two years 182:>

Tucker, Tilghman M.; was born

in North Car

was Governor of Mississippi from 1841 to 1843; was a Representative in Congress from Mississippi, from 1841 to 1845. Died at Alabama, April 30,

olina;

1859.

Tuckerman, Charles

T.;

was a

;

citizen of

was born in Boston, January

European letters in their Monthly Antholoyy Magazine; was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature; in augurated the ice traffic with tropical climes in 1805; was afterwards engaged in other commercial trans actions in Europe; was the originator of the Bunker Hill Monument, and one of the founders of the Boston Athanrcum in 1807; in 1823 was appointed Consul at Lima, Peru; in 1827 Charge d Affaires to Letters on the Eastern States" Brazil; published

B.;

was born at Putney, Vermont,

common school education, spent one year at an academy; in 1843 removed to Michigan; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848; in 1850 was elected Prosecuting Attor ney for St. Joseph County; in 1853 removed to Texas; in 1866 was appointed United States District Attor ney for the Western District of Texas; resigned, and

New and

28, 1779; graduated at Harvard University in 1796; visited Europe early in life, and on his return home, in 1814, first edited the North American Review; aided in founding the Anthology Club, and published his

"

Turner, E.

May

York; in 1868 was appointed Minister Resident to Greece, where he remained until 1871.

Tudor, William

Female Seminary. 24, 1825; received a

became Attorney-General of the State under the re construction acts; in 1871 was appointed Judge of the Thirty-second Judicial District of the State, serving until 1876; was then elected Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District; resigned in 1880 to accept the appointment of United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas.

Turner, George; in July, 1884, was appointed, by President Arthur, an Associate Justice of the Su preme Court of the Territory of Washington for tb term of four years.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Turner, George; was born in England in 1750; joined the Revolutionary Army at the breaking out of the war; was a Captain, and commanded in South Carolina; was distinguished at the battles in that State; was commissioned, by his personal friend, President Washington, Judge of the Northwest Ter ritory in 1789; in 1833 removed to Philadelphia, where he died March 16, 1843.

to Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he worked on a farm until fourteen years old; the destitute circum stances of his father compelled him to make unusual exertions to assist in the support of the family,

which he did by working as a laborer on the Pennsyl vania Canal, and giving his earnings to his father until the age of eighteen; leaving his father comfort

Henry G. was born in Franklin Coun North Carolina, March 20, 1839; took a partial course at the University of Virginia; removed to Georgia in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865, and engaged in practice at Quitman, Turner,

;

Georgia; was a Presidential Elector in 1872; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1876; was three times elected a Representative in the State Legislature; was elected a .Representative from Georgia to the Forty-seventh Congress; was reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con

went

to the Far West"; spent three years in County, Indiana; finally settled in Freeport, Stevenson County, Illinois; was made Justice of the Peace, which office he held for several years; in 1838 studied law as a profession; was admitted to the bar, and obtained a lucrative practice in 1 842 was elected Probate Justice of the Peace; in 1844 was appointed Postmaster; in 1845 was chosen State sAttorney for the Sixth Judicial District; in 1846 was elected a Representative in the Thirtieth Congress; in 1854 was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature, and was chosen Speaker; subsequently devoted himself to the practice of law. able,

Paul

St. ty,

509-

s

;

gresses.

Turner, James was born in Virginia in the year 1766; his education was such as could be afford ed by the common schools of the country served in the Revolution as a private soldier; entered public life in 1800 as a member of the Legislature of North Carolina; in 1802 was elected Governor of the State; was a Senator in Congress from North Carolina from 1805 to 1816. Died at Bloomsbury, January 15, 1824, much respected for his talents and personal worth. ;

;

Turner, James; was born

in

Maryland; was a

Representative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1837.

Turner, Turner; was born in Ohio; was ap pointed, from that State, Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Nevada, residing at

Carson City. A person bearing this name was also a Judge of the United States Court for the Northwest Territory, and the records do not state whether or not the persons are identical.

Turner, "William F.; was born in Pennsylvania; removed to Iowa, from which State he was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Ter ritory of Arizona.

Turney, Hopkins

L.;

was born in Smith Coun

Tennessee, October 3, 1797; in his boyhood was bound as an apprentice to a tailor, and served in that business several years; in 1818 entered upon the campaign against the Seminole Indians; did not learn to write until twenty-two years of age, and yet soon after studied law, and was very successful at the bar; from 1828 to 1838 served in the Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843; served in the Senate of the United Died in Winchester, Ten States from 1845 to 1851. nessee, August 1, 1857, leaving behind him a high reputation for ability and virtue. ty,

Turner, J. Milton; was a citizen of Missouri; in 1871 was appointed Minister Resident and ConsulGen eral to Liberia. was born at New Orleans, Lou 1825; removed, with his parents, to Kentucky in 1826; settled on a farm in Ballard County, Kentucky, in 1843; graduated from the Law Department of Transylvania University. Kentucky, in 1847; engaged in the practice of law; in 1851 was elected Commonwealth s Attorney and served four years; in 1861 relinquished the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits; in 1867 was elected State Senator and served four years; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-sixth, Forty -seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.

Turner, Oscar

isiana,

February

;

3,

Turner, Thomas in 1800 was appointed Ac countant of the Navy, which was the office subse quently called that of Fourth Auditor; remained in ;

the position until 1810.

Turner,

Thomas

;

was born

at

Richmond, Ken

tucky, September 10, 1821; received an academic education, and graduated at Centre College in 1840; studied law, and graduated at the Law Department of Transylvania University in 1842; commenced practice at Richmond; in 1854 removed to Mount Sterling; was Commonwealth Attorney from 1846 to 1849; was a Representative in the State Legislature from 1861 to 1863; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-fifth Congress; re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Turner, Thomas G.; was Governor of Island for one year, beginning in 1859. Turner,

Thomas

Rhode

J.; was born in Trumbnll 1815, where he resided until

County, Ohio, April 5, ten years of age, receiving all his education within that time; in 1825 removed, with his father s family,

Turney, Jacob ; was born in Greensburg, Penn sylvania, February 18, 1825; received his education at the Greensburg Academy; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1849; was elected DistrictAttorney for Westmoreland County in 1850; was reelected in 1853, and continued in that office six years;, was Presidential Elector in 1856; was State Senator in 1858, 1859, and 1860; was Speaker of that body in 1859; afterward resumed the practice of law; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyfifth

Congress.

Turpie, D.; was born

in

Hamilton County, Ohio r

1829; graduated at Kenyon College in 1848; studied law, and was admitted to practice at Logansport, Indiana, in 1849; was appointed, by Governor Wright, whom he succeeded in the Senate, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1854; was Judge of the Circuit Court in 1856, both of which offices he re signed; in 1852, and also in 1858. was a member of the Legislature of Indiana; in 1863 was elected a Senator in Congress for the unexpired term of J. D.

July

8,

Bright,

and immediately succeeding

who served by appointment

J. A. Wright, of the Governor.

Turpin, Edward A.; was a was appointed Minister

in 1858

he remained until 1861.

citizen of New York; to Venezuela, where

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

510

Turrell, Joel

;

was born

in

Vermont; graduate

gress, serving

at Middlebury College in 1816; was a member of th State Assembly from Oswego County in 1831; was Representative in Congress from New York from 183 to 1837. Died in Oswego, New York, December 26

in the Interior Department; was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Con Died July gresses, serving on various committees. 23, 1883.

1859, aged sixty-lour years.

County,

was a lawyer by profession; was a Representative from New York to the Twentyilton College in 1817;

eighth

Tweed, Charles A.; was born

in Massachusetts, to California; in 1870 was appointed an As pociate Justice of the Supreme Court for the Terri tory of Arizona, residing at Yuma.

m

to

England.

Tweedy, John H., was born in Connecticut graduated at Yale College; adopted the profession ot the law; removed to Wisconsin in 1837; was a raemthe

first "Constitutional Convention"

of that

Territory in 1846; was elected a Delegate to Congress from the same in 1847, serving one session.

Tweedy, Samuel; was born in Connecticut; n tlve iQ Con ress from that State S t la a nom looo to looo.

S?T

R; was

itf

Massachusetts, May 2, 1827; school and limited academic

born at Charlton, received a common

education;

graduated e

nbain

the bar in 18o3, and engaged in practice at Worcester Massachusetts; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1857; was City Solicitor of Worcester in 1863 and 1864; in 1865 removed to KansaTc ty Missouri, and continued in the practice of his profeV 6 in th State Legislature 3, 18,4, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878; resigned y Counsor for Uscal ^ ear ssociate Justice of the Su

iS^^^^^

"

th;

;

;

"Wadsworth, Jeremiah was a Delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress from to 1788; was a Representative in Congress from that Died in 1804, aged sixty Stata from 1789 to 1895. ;

178

years.

"Wadsworth, Peleg was born at Duxbury, Mas sachusetts, May 6, 1748; graduated at Harvard Uni versity in 1769; engaged in commercial pursuits; joined the army as Captain of a Company of Min ute Men, at Roxbury, in the beginning of the war, and by his skill and courage rose rapidly in the ser vice; was second in command of the forces sent to Penobscot by Massachusetts in 1799, on which oc casion he displayed great courage, and was taken prisoner; rose to the rank of Brigadier-General; after the war, in 1784. established himself in Port;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

520

was employed land, Maine, in mercantile business; in surveying, in which he was quite skillful; in 1792 was elected a Senator in the Legislature of the first Massachusetts; in the same year was chosen his District; was Representative in Congress from declined a successively re-elected until 1806, when he further nomination; in 1798 the citizens of Portland his con ;ave him a public dinner in approbation of in 1807 removed to duct as their

much

Representative; the County of Oxford, Maine, to improve a large tract of land granted to him by the Government for his services: here he passed the remainder of his days in retirement, enjoying the respect of a large circle of friends

and

fellow-citizens.

Died in 1829.

Wadsworth, William

H.; was born at MaysMason County, Kentucky, July 4, 1821; came of the old family of Wadsworths who founded the ville,

City of Hartford, Connecticut; received his education at the Maysville Seminary and the Augusta College of Kentucky; adopted the profession of the law; was a member of the State Senate of Kentucky in 1853 and 1855; was a Presidential Elector in 1860, presid ing over the Electoral College; was elected a Repre sentative from Kentucky to the Thirty-seventh Con gress, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving

on the Committee on Public Lands and the Joint Committee on the Library; after leaving Congress, was appointed a member of the Mexican Claims Commission; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Wagener, David D.; was born in Pennsyl vania; was a merchant, and for many years President of the Easton Bank; was a Representative in Con Died at gress from Pennsylvania from 1^33 to 1841. Easton, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1860.

Waggamann, George

A.; was Secretary of

the State of Louisiana under three administrations; held various other public positions; was a Senator in Died at New Orleans, Congress from 1831 to 1835. March 23, 1843, from the effects of a wound received in a duel, aged fifty-three years. "Wagner, Peter J.; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1839 to 1841.

Wait, John Turner

;

was born

at

New Lon

don, Connecticut, August 27, 1811; received a mer cantile training in early life, and was two years a Btudent at Trinity College; studied law; was admit ted to practice in 1836 and settled at Norwich, Con necticut; was State s Attorney for the county of New

London from 1842 to 1844, and from 1846 to 1854; was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857; was a Presiden tial Elector in 1864; was a State Senator in 18 J5 and 1866; President pro tern, the latter year; was a Rep resentative in the State Legislature in 1867, 1871 and 1873. serving the first year as Speaker; was an un successful candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in 1874; was elected a Representative from Connecticut to the Forty-fourth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by

the death of H. H. Starkweather, taking his seat April 12, 1876; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, For ty-sixth,

Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and

ninth Congresses.

Waite, Charles

Forty-

Waite, Morrison R. was born ;

the Counsel of the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva, under the treaty of Wash ington; in 1873 was unanimously elected a member of the Convention to Amend the Constitution of Ohio, and was made its President; in January, 1874, was nominated and confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, taking the oath of office on the 4th day of the following March; in 1875, when some of his friends in Ohio proposed that he should consent to be a candidate for the Presi dency, he wrote a letter declining the honor, and his opinions on the subject were universally applauded throughout the country.

Wakefield, J. B.; was born in Connecticut in 1828; graduated from Trinity College; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Ohio; commenced practice in Indiana; removed to Minnesota in 1854; was a member of the first State Legislature of Min nesota in 1857; was again a member of the Legisla ture in 1865, and was elected Speaker; was a State Senator in 1867, 1868, and 1869; in the latter year was appointed Receiver of the United States Land Office at Winnebago City; resigned in 1875, and was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Minnesota; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1868 and 1876; was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the Forty-eighth Congress; was reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress. in Wisconsin;

Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Nebraska.

Wakeman,

Abraham; was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, May 31, 1824; received a district school education; when sixteen years of age removed to New Rochelle, New York, and taught school; subse quently attended an academy in Herkimer County as a pupil, a part of the time working on a farm to pay his expenses; then went into the wilderness, and took charge of a saw-mill; after that went into the business of selling books by subscription, travel ing through much of the Union; in 1844 commenced the study of law in Herkimer County, New York;

went to New York City in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1847; in 1850 was elected to the Legisla ture; was re-elected in 1851; in 1854 was elected an Alderman in New York, serving two years; in 1856 was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress; also frequently served as a member of State Conventions.

Walbridge, David

S.;

was born at Benning

30, 1802; received his

education from the common schools of the vicinity; devoted himself to the various employments of the farmer, the merchant, and the miller; removed to Michigan in 1842; \vas elected a Representative in Congress from that State in 1854, and served until 1859. Died at Kalamazoo, June 15, 1868. ton,

Vermont, July

Congress from

Citv.

kins County,

to Illinois,

born in New York; was appointed an Associate

Wakely, Ebenezer; was settled

B.; was born in New York; re from which State he was ap pointed an Associate Judge of the United States Court for the Territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake

moved

Lyme, Con

in

necticut, November 29, 1816; graduated at Yale Col lege in 1837; studied law in his native place with his father, then a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors; removed to Ohio in 1838; was admitted to the bar in 1839; practiced his profession from that date until 1874 in Maumee City and Toledo; in 1849 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1871 was one of

Walbridge, Henry S.; was a Representative New York, from 1851 to 853.

in

1

Walbridge, Hiram was born at Ithaca, TompNow York, February 2, 1821; com;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. menced life by learning the trade of a mechanic; subsequently received a good education at the Ohio when twenty-three years of age was University elected a Brigadier-General of the Ohio Militia; re moving to New York City, was elected a Representa tive in Congress from New York, serving from 1853 to 1855; in 1865 was President of the "Commercial Convention held in Detroit; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention of 1866. Died ;

"

"

in

New York

"

City,

Walcott, O.

December

P.;

6,

1870.

was Assistant Secretary of War

during a part of the Rebellion.

was born in Rutland County, "Walden, Hiram Vermont, August 29, 1800; received a limited educa tion; removed, with his father, to New York; de voted himself to the business of cloth-dressing and wool-carding; took an interest in military affairs, and ;

attained the office of Major-General of Militia; in 1836 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1842 was elected a Supervisor in the County of Schoharie; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1849 to 1851.

was born in Adams "Walden, Madison M.; County, Ohio, October 6, 1836; was educated at the Denmark Academy; graduated at the Wesley an Uni versity, Ohio, in 1859; studied law; served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, as Captain of Infantry and Cavalry; had charge of a newspaper at Centreville, Iowa; was a member of the House of Repre sentatives of Iowa in 1866 and 1867; was a member of the State Senate in 1868 and 1869; was Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa in 1870; was elected a Repre sentative from Iowa to the Forty-second Congress, serving on the Committee on Patents.

Waldo, H. L.; in January, 1876, was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Ter ritory of New Mexico. Waldo, Lorin

P.; was born at Canterbury, County, Connecticut, February 2, 1802; received a thorough English education in the com mon schools, and pursued the study of the classics to some extent under private instructors; read law, and was admitted to practice in the courts of the State of Connecticut, in September, 1825; located in Tolland County, Connecticut, where he was State s Attorney from 1857 to 1849; was, for two years, Judge of the Court of Probate in his.district, and six years a mem ber of the Legislature of his State; in April, 1849, was elected to the Thirty-lirst Congress; in 1852 was elected Commissioner of the School Fund of Connecti cut; in March, 1853, was appointed, by President Pierce, Commissioner of Pensions; in June, 1855, was to the elected, by the Legislature of Connecticut, office of Judge of the Supreme Court; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention"

Windham

of 1866.

521

Wales, George E.; was born in Wyndham County, Vermont; served six years in the State Leg islature, and was Speaker in 1823 and 1824; was a Representative in Congress from Vermont from 1825 to 1829; was Judge of Probate for Hartford County from 1843 to 1848. Wales, John was a Senator in Congress from Delaware from 1849 to 1851, in place of John M. Died December 3, 1863. Clayton, resigned. ;

Wales, Leonard E.; was born at Wilmington, Delaware, November 26, 1823; received a classical education, graduating from Yale College in 1845; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and entered upon the practice of law at Wilmington, Del aware; in 1864 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware for New Castle County; continued in this position until March 20, 1884, when he re signed to accept the appointment of United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, which

had been tendered him by President Cleveland.

Walker, Amasa was born in Woodstock, Con May 4, 1799; received a common school ;

necticut,

education; engaged in mercantile business; in 1842 became Professor of Political Economy at the Oberlin College, Ohio; in 1843 visited Europe as a Delegate to the Peace Congress; went on the same mission iu 1849; was a member of the State Legislature in 1849; was a State Senator in 1850; was Secretary of State in 1851 and 1852; was a member of the State Con stitutional Convention" of 1853; was elected a Rep resentative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-seventh Congress, for the unexpired term of G. F. Bailey, de ceased; was a Presidential Elector in 1860; was a Loyalists Conven Delegate to the Philadelphia tion" of 1866; was the author of a work on the Died at North Brookfield, "Science of Wealth." He was the father Massachusetts, October 29, 1875. of F. A. Walker, formerly at the head of the Census Bureau in Washington. "

Walker, Benjamin was a Representative New York from 1801 to 1803. ;

in

Congress from

Walker, Charles M.; was born in Ohio; in 1863 was appointed, from Indiana, Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, serving until 1869. Walker, O. O. B.; was born at Drewsville, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. June 27, 1824; was educated at the Kimball and Keene Union Academies; removed to Corning, New York; waa made Supervisor of the town; was Postmaster of Corning from 1856 to 1860; was a Delegate to the "Charleston Convention" of that year; was an As sistant Quartermaster-General at Elmirain 1861 waa Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of 1872; was, for twenty-two years, a member of the New York State Democratic Central Committee; in 1874 was elected a Representative from New York to the ;

Forty-fourth Congress.

born at Albapy, New York, October 11, 1819; graduated at Rutgers Col in July, 1836; lege, New Brunswick, New Jersey,

Waldron, Henry; was

civil engineer by profession; was elected to Legislature of Michigan in 1843; served as a Rep resentative in Congress during the years 1855, 1856, 1857, and 1858, and was a member of the Committee on Mileage; was also elected to the Thirty-sixth Con the Committee on Territories; was gress, serving on elected a Representative to the Forty-second, Fortyon the third, and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving

became a the.

Committees on Banking, and Ways and Means, and Chairman of that on Mining.

Walker, David was a Representative in Con Died gress from Kentucky from 1817 to 1820. March 1, 1820, having sent a request to Congress that his death should not be officially noticed, which re ;

quest was complied with.

Walker, David

S.;

was Governor of Florida

from 1866 to 1868.

Walker, Felix ; was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, July 19, 1753; was the friend and com panion of Daniel Boone, when he explored Kentucky and founded Boonsborough; served as a soldier in the

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Indian wars in the Carolinas; settled in Tryon Coun North Carolina; was, for mauy years, in the State in Congress from Legislature; was a Representative North Carolina from 1817 to 1823; subsequently re Died there in moved to the State of Mississippi.

ty,

18 30. "Walker,

"Walker,

was a Representative in Con from 1793 to 1795.

Francis

gress from Virginia

;

Amasa

;

ton, Massachusetts, July 2, in 1343; father, to North Brookfield, Massachusetts, the graduated at Amherst College in 1860; began

adier-General in 1865; served in the

Army of the Po

was a Senator in Congress "Walker, Freeman from Georgia from 1819 to 1821, and resigned. ;

was a Senator in Congress "Walker, George from Kentucky from 1814 to 1815, by appointment of the Governor, and was succeeded by W. T. Barry, elected by the Legislature. ;

Gilbert C.; was born at Binghamton, York, August 1, 1832; entered Williams Col lege, Massachusetts; in 1854 graduated at Hamilton College, New York; came to the bar, and settled at Owego; in 1858 was a member of the "Democratic Convention"; in 1859 removed to Chicago, Illinois, "Walker,

New

there practicing law and participating in politics; in 1864 went to Norfolk, Virginia; very soon became President of the Exchange National Bank; held other positions of honor and trust; subsequently set tled in Richmond; in 186!) was elected Governor of Virginia by an unprecedented majority, serving four years; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-fourth Congress; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Con

Died

May 11, 1885. Henderson was Walker,

a lawyer, Judge of the Supreme Court, and President of the Cooncil, and introduced important reforms in the Judiciary was Governor of North Carolina from 1699 until his death. Died April 14, 1704, aged forty-four years. ;

-

"Walker,

Isaac

P.;

was a Presidential Elector

in

1841: was a Senator in Congress from Wisconsin, from 1848 to 1855, and Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Walker, James

D.; was born in Logan County December 13, 1830; was educated at private schools, and at Ozark Institute, Arkansas, to which State he removed in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and commenced practice

Kentucky,

at Fayetteville, Arkansas; served in the Confederate as a Colonel; was Solicitor General of the

Army

Walker, John vania;

H.; was a native of Pennsyl was appointed a Judge of the United States

Walker, John W.;

graduated at Princeton in Congress from Alabama, from 1819 to 1822; resigned on account of ill-health: it is said that he sometimes addressed the Senate when it was thought he would die before completing his remarks. Died in April, 1823. College in 1806;

"Walker,

made

prisoner at Ream s Station; was confined in Libby Prison; was exchanged in 1865; taught, for two years, in Williston Seminary; was, for one year, edi tor of the Springfield Beptihliettii; then took charge of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington; was Superin tendent of the Census of 1870; in 1871 was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs; was subsequently appointed Professor at Yale College; was again Su perintendent of the Census Bureau, during the tak ing of the Census of 1880.

gress.

;

Court for the District of Pennsylvania.

study of law; was made Sergeant-Major of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment in 1861; was, the same year, promoted to Assistant Adjutant-General of Couch s Brigade; in 1862 became Adjutant-Gen eral of Couch s Division; in 1863 was Colonel on the Staff of the Second Army Corps; was Brevet Brig tomac; was wounded at Chaucellorsville; was

Walker, John was a Senator in Congress from Virginia during the year 1790, by appointment, but was superseded by J. Monroe; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac.

was born in Bos 1840; removed, with his

Francis

State for a time; was a Presidential Elector in 1876; in 1879 took his seat as a Senator of the United States from Arkansas for the term of six years.

was a Senator

Joseph

;

was

elected

Louisiana in 1850, and held the

Governor of

office until 1854.

Walker, Percy was born near Huntsville, Alabama; received an academic education; in 1835 graduated in the medical department of the Univers ity of Pennsylvania, and removed to Mobile; served as an officer in a Volunteer company during the Creek War; afterwards studied law as a profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1842; was elected, by the Legislature, to the office of State s Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, which he held four years; in 1839, 1847, and 1853 represented Mobile County in the General Assembly; in 1855 was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Thirty;

fourth Congress; at the next election declined being a candidate, and resumed the practice of law.

Walker, Robert

J.;

was born in Northumber

land, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1801; entered the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1819; on leaving College settled in

Pittsburgh; studied law, and was admitted to prac himself in politics at a very early period, and became Chairman of the Democratic Committee, during a State election, when only twen ty-two years of age; a year or two later took part in the movement in favor of nominating General Jack son to the Presidency, and was instrumental in bringing about the action of the Harrisburg Con vention which nominated Jackson for that office in 1824; in the spring of 1826 removed to the State of Mississippi; uniformly refused political office until 1836, when he was chosen a Senator in Congress, serving until 1845; in that body was one of the leaders of his party; in March, 1845, on President Folk s accession to office, was called upon to take charge of the Treasury Department, which he ad ministered for four years; subsequently visited En gland, where he met with flattering attentions; after having been, for some years, out of politics, was ap pointed, by President Buchanan, in 1857, Governor of the Territory of Kansas, which office he re signed; in 1863 again went to Europe and negotiated bonds of the Government to the amount of two hun dred and fifty millions of dollars; his financial writ ings were numerous and highly appreciated; was a National Tnion Con Delegate to the Philadelphia vention of 1866. Died in Washington. November tice in 1821; interested

"

"

"

11, 1809.

Walker, Robert J. C.; was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1838; graduated at Dane Hall, Harvard University, in 1858; was ad mitted to the bar at Philadelphia in 1859; was elected a District School Director; twice elected a member

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. of the City Council; was, for some time, editor and proprietor of The Saturday Evening Post newspaper; in 1878 removed to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the lumber and coal business; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-sev enth Congress.

he held until elected to the Forty-first Congress; wasre-elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third, and For ty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committees on Invalid Pensions, Accounts, and Revolutionary Pen-

Wallace, Daniel was born in South Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from that State ;

"Walker,

William

New Hamp Congress from New in New York, De

A.; was born in

shire; was a Representative in York from 1853 to 1855. Died cember 18, 1861.

Garret

D.; was born in Monmouth Coun March 10, 1783; received an aca demic education; in 1798 commenced the study of law at Trenton; in 1804 was licensed as an Attorney, and in 1807 as Counselor-at-law; was appointed Clerk of the State Supreme Court in 1812, which "Wall,

ty,

New

office

Jersey,

for five years; commanded a Volunteer at the defense of Sandy Hook in the War

he held

Company

was Quartermaster-General of the State from 1815 to 1837; in 1827 was elected to the General As sembly; in 1829 was appointed United States Dis trict Attorney for New Jersey; the same year was elected, by the Legislature, Governor of the State, but declined the office; was a member of the United States Senate from 1835 to 1841 in 1843 his health was greatly impaired by a stroke of paralysis; in 1848 was appointed Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals, which office he occupied until his death, which occurred in Burlington, New Jersey, Novem His disease was dropsy on the chest. ber 22, 1850. of 1812;

;

James

was born at Trenton, New "Wall, "W.; Jersey, in 1820; graduated at Princeton College in 1839: studied law, and commenced to practice in Trenton; his first public position was that of Com missioner of Bankruptcy; in 1847 settled in Burling ton, and devoted some attention to literary pursuits; in 1850 was elected Mayor of Burlington; in 1854 visited Europe, and published a volume, entitled Foreign Etchings; or, Visits to the Old World s Pleasant Places during the early part of the War of the Rebellion wrote against the administration in power, for interfering with the freedom of the press; was imprisoned for a few weeks, in Fort Lafayette, and on his release was welcomed home with great enthusiasm by his fellow-citizens; in January, 1863, was elected a Senator in Congress from New Jersey, for the unexpired term of John W. Thompson, de ceased. Died June 9, 1872. "

";

"Wall,

March

was born in Philadelphia, served seven years as an apprentice

"William;

20, 1801

;

to a ropemaker; removed to Kings County, Long Island, in 1822, where he followed his business of ropemakingso successfully that when he relinquished it, in 1856, he had acquired a large fortune; while thus engaged in active business was called upon to fill a great number of local offices, such as Commis sioner of Highways, School Trustee, Supervisor, in 1860 was Commissioner of Water-works, etc. elected a Representative from New York to the Thir ;

ty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Claims, and Expenditures on Public Buildings; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loy alists Convention" of 1866. "Wallace, Alexander S.; was born in York County, South Carolina, December 30, 1810; received a liberal education; was a planter; was appointed a magistrate in 1838, and re-appointed until 1853; was elected a member of the Legislature, in 1852, as a

Union candidate, in opposition to all secession movements; was again elected in 1865; was appointed Ittternal Revenue Collector in 1866, which position

from 1847 to 1853.

Wallace, David; was born in Philadelphia,. April 4, 1799; graduated at West Point in 1821, and served for a time as Professor of Mathematics; in. 1828 was a member of the Indiana Legislature; waa elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State in 1830 and in 1833; was Governor of the State from 1837 to1840; was a Representative in Congress, from In diana, from 1841 to 1843; subsequently wa*$ Prosecut ing Attorney for the State; was a member of the Constitutional Convention"; in 1856 was "State elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas at In dianapolis,

where he

died,

September

5,

1859.

Wallace, James M. was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Con gress from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1821; it is said he always protested against the initial M. in his name, but never got rid of it in the Journals of Con ;

gress.

Wallace, John W.; was born

at Beaver Falls,

Pennsylvania, December 20, 1818; received a classical education; studied medicine, and graduated at Jef ferson Medical College in 1846; located at Darling ton, Pennsylvania; removed to Newcastle, Pennsyl vania, in 1850, and acquired an extensive practice;, was, several times, a Delegate to State and National Conventions; in 1860 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty -seventh Congress; was re-nominated in 1862, but was defeated; in 18G& was appointed Paymaster in the Army, and served until the close of the war; in 1870 was a Presidential Elector; in 1874 was elected a Representative from. Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Wallace, Jonathan H.; was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1828; was educated at Wash ington College, Pennsylvania; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1851; was elected Prosecut ing Attorney of Columbiana County; was re-elected in 1853; was elected a Representative from Ohio tothe Forty-eighth Congress; the certificate of election having been issued to William McKinley, Mr. Wal lace contested the election, and was finally his seat by the House of Representatives.

awarded

Wallace, Lewis; was born at Brock ville, In diana, in 1828; received a good education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he continued, thereafter, to reside; served as a Lieuten ant in the First Regiment of Indiana Volunteers during the war with Mexico; after its close, resumed the practice of his profession; served one term as a State Senator; at the outbreak of the Civil War was appointed Adjutant-General of Indiana; soon after became Colonel of a Regiment of Zouaves, with which he engaged in active service; afterwards was appointed Colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of In diana Volunteers; in September, 1861, was commis sioned a Brigadier-General; in March, 1862, was promoted to Major-General for conspicuous gallantry it the capture of Fort Donelson; was United States Minister to Paraguay; was Governor of the Territory

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

524

of New Mexico from 1878 to 1881; in 1882 was ap Minister to Turkey, serving pointed United States until 1885.

Wallace, William A.; was born at Clearfield, studied law, and Pennsylvania, November 28, 1827; came to the bar in 1847; in 1862 was elected to the State Senate, and served, by re-elections, until 1871, when he was made Speaker of that body; frequently served as chairman of political conventions; was elected a Senator in Congress for the term commenc ing in 1875.and ending in 1881. H.; was born in Miami life in County, Ohio, July 17, 1811; passed his early to Indiana; removed to Iowa in 1837; was elected the State Legislature of Iowa, and served as Speaker, and also as President of the State Council; was ap by President Taylor. Receiver of Public

Wallace, William

pointed,

at Fairfield, Iowa; removed to Washington Territory in 1853; served several sessions in the Ter ritorial Legislature; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Governor of Washington Terri tory; was elected a Delegate therefrom to the Thirtyseventh Congress; was appointed the first Governor of Idaho Territory; was re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress as a Delegate from Idaho; was a member of the National Committee to accompany the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Con vention" of 1866.

Moneys

W.

New

J.J was born at Syracuse, 14, 1838; received a classical education

Wallace, York, April

by a private tutor; studied law; was graduated from the Law School of Hamilton College, and admitted to the bar in July, 1859; was Mayor of Syracuse in 1873 and 1874; was appointed United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York in 1874; received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hamilton College in 1875, and from Syracuse University in 1882; in the latter year was appointed United States Cir cuit Judge for the Second Judicial Circuit.

Waller, Thomas M.; was born in New York City in 1839; received an academic education; re moved to Connecticut; studied law, and was admit ted to the bar in 1861; engaged in practice at New London, Connecticut; was a Representative in the Shite Legislature in 1867, 1868, 1872 and 1876; was Speaker of the House during the latter term; was Secretary of State in 1870; was State s Attorney from 1876 until January, 1883, when he resigned to enter opon the duties of Governor of Connecticut, to which office he had been elected the previous Novem ber for the term of two years.

Walley, Samuel H.; was born in Boston, Mas sachusetts, August 31, 1805; fitted himself for col lege at Andover Academy; graduated at Harvard University in 1826; studied law; officiated for twen ty years as Treasurer of a savings bank in Boston for the benefit of the seamen; was also, for a long time Treasurer of a railroad in Vermont, and one in New York; was also a member of the State for

Legislature eight sessions, and Speaker of the House for two years; was a Representative in Congress from 1853 to 1855; on his return from Washington was the Whig for Governor of Candidate Massachusetts, but was de feated; was a Bank Commissioner in 1858; in 1859 became President of the Revere Bank, of Boston.

Walling, Ansel

T.; was born in Otsego County York, January 10, 1824; removed, with his elder brother, to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1833; received an academic education; learned the printing trade; re

New

moved to Ohio in 1843 and was editor of the Mahoning Index and Coshocton Democrat, and, for a time, of the Keokuk Daily Times in Iowa; in 1851 was ap pointed a Clerk in the Ohio Legislature; was admit ted to the bar in 1852; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1856 from Iowa; in 1863 resumed the practice of his profession at Circleville, Ohio; in 1865 was elected to the State Senate; in 1867 was elected to the State Assembly and made Speaker; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-fourth Congress. W^alls, Josiah T.; was born in Winchester, Vir December 30, 1842 received a good education was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1868; was a member of the State Leg islature in 1868; was a member of the State Senate ginia,

;

;

in 1869; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, but his seat was successfully contested by Silas L.

Niblack.

Wain, Robert was ;

a prominent merchant in

Philadelphia; was a member of Congress from Penn sylvania, from 1798 to 1801, first for the unexpired term of John Swanwick, and was then re-elected.

Died January 24, 1836, aged seventy-one years.

Walsh, Mike

was born in Yanghull, Ireland; country when a child; spent his boyhood as a wanderer; conducted a paper in New York called the Subterranean, in which he published certain libels, for which he was imprisoned two years; was a Rep resentative in Congress from New York from 1853 to 1855; subsequently visited Europe and Mexico; on March 17, 1859, was found dead in the yard of a pub The cause of his death is lic house in New York.

came

;

to this

unknown.

Walsh, M. Robert; was born in Pennsylvania; was the son of Robert Walsh, the author; in 1841 was appointed Secretary of legation to Brazil, where he remained until 1847; between 1848 and 1850 acted in the same capacity, and also as Charge d Af faires to Costa Rica; in 1852 was instructed as a Special Envoy to obtain a settlement of disputes be tween Costa Rica and Nicaragua in regard to the boundaries which were obstacles to the commence ment of the canal across the latter country, after which he returned to the United States. Walsh, Thomas

Y.; was a native of Maryland; in Congress from that State

was a Representative from 1851 to 1853.

Walsh, William; was born in Ireland, May 11, 1828; emigrated to this country in 1842; was edu cated chiefly at St. Mary s College, in Maryland; studied law in New York and Virginia, and came to the bar in the latter State in 1850; settled for the practice of his profession at Cumberland, Maryland, in 1852; was a Presidential Elector in 1860, and also in 1872; was a member of the Maryland Constitu tional Convention of 1867; in 1874 was elected a Representative to the Forty-fourth Congress; was reelected to the Forty -fifth Congress. Walthall, Ed-ward Cary

was born at Rich 1831; removed, with his parents, to Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1838; re ceived an academic education at that place; in 1849 left school, and was employed as a copyist in the office of the County Clerk for one year; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and settled at Coffeyville, Yalobasha County, Mississippi, in the practice of law; in 1856 was elected District Attorney of the Tenth Judicial District of Mississippi; was remond, Virginia, April

elected,

;

4,

without opposition, in 1859; in April, 1861,

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. resigned and entered the Confederate Army as a Lieutenant in the Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment was soon afterwards elected Lieutenant-Colonel; in April, 1862, was elected Colonel of the Twenty-ninth Mississ -95 i Regiment; in December, 1862, was pro

moted a

iiriguctier-General; in June, 1864,

was com

missioned a Major-General; served in the Army of the West, under Generals Bragg, Hood, and John son; after the close of the Civil War resumed the practice of his profession at Coffeyville, Mississippi in 1868 was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and was one of its Vice-Presidents; in 1871 removed to Grenada, Mississippi, where he was Chairman of the c3

"Weeks, John "W; was a County Sheriff in New Hampshire from 1820 to 1825; was a State Senator in 1827 and 1828; was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833; was Judge

of Probate, in Coos County, in 1854.

Weeks, Joseph was born in Massachusetts; was a Representative in Congress from New Hamp shire from 1835 to 1839, having previously been, for two years, Judge of the County Court for Cheshire ;

County. "Weems, John O.; was born in Calvert County, Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1826 to 1829.

Weightman, Richard Hanson; was born in Maryland; was educated at tUp United States Mili Academy at West Point; was a Captain in the Missouri Battalion of Light Artillery Volunteers in the Mexican War and distinguished himself under Colonel Donophau in the battle of Sacramento; sub sequently held the position of additional Paymaster; was a Delegate to Congress, from New Mexico, from 1851 to 1853. tary

S.; was born in East Hamp 1821; removed to Michigan in 1839; graduated at the University of that State in 1846; studied law, but preferred teaching; had charge of a High School at Jonesville; visited California in 1849; on his return was Principal of the Normal School of Michigan for four years; in 1865 removed to Florida; in 1868 was elected a Senator in Congress from that State for the term ending in 1869, serving on the Committees on Agriculture, and Post Offices "Welch,

Adonija

ton, Connecticut, in

and Post Roads. "Welch, Frank; was a Representative from Nebraska to the Forty-fifth Congress. Died before

the expiration of his term.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

534

John was

born in Jefferson County, at Franklin Ohio, October 28, 1805; was educated and was admitted to the College, Ohio; studied law, bar in 18o3; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio in 1846 and 1847; was a Representative in Con was subsequently one of the gress from 1851 to 1853; Trustees of the Ohio University. "Welch,

;

H.; was a native of Connecti was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Ter ritory of Minnesota.

Welch, William

cut;

removed

to Minnesota; in 1853

Welch, William W.; was born

in Norfolk,

Con

necticut, December 10, 1818; received the rudiments of his education at the common schools and from instructors; having turned his attention to

private the science of medicine, received the degree of M. D. from the Medical Institution of Yale College in 1838; excepting when interrupted by his public duties, was a practicing physician; was twice elected to the House of Representatives, and twice to the Senate of Connecticut; was a Representative from that State

during the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Weldon, Lawrence was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1829; removed, with his parents, to Madison County, Ohio, when a child; was educated at the common schools, at the local academy, and at Witternberg College, Springfield, Ohio; read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1853; was a clerk in the office of the Secretary of State of Ohio in 18515 and ;

removed to Clinton, DeWitt Coun and engaged in the practice of law; in

1854; in that year ty, Illinois,

1860 was elected a Representative in the State Legis and was also a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket; in 1861 resigned his seat in the Legislature to accept the appointment of United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, tendered him by President Lincoln; resigned in 18.J6, lature,

and,

in

1867, removed

to

Bloomington, Illinois, where he continued the practice of his profession; in was November, 1883, appointed, by President Arthur, an Associate Justice of the United States Court of Claims.

Welker, Martin was born in Knox County, Ohio, April 25, 1819; received a good education by his own unaided efforts, while working on a farm or employed as a clerk in a store; studied law, and came to the bar in 1^40; from 1846 to 1851 was Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Holmes County; in 1851 was elected a Judge of the Common Pleas for the Sixth District, serving five years; in 1857 re ;

moved

to Wooster, Wayne County, and was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, declining a re-nomina tion; in 1861 was appointed a Judge Advocate, with the rank of Major, serving three months as a Staff Officer; was soon afterwards appointed Aid-de-camp and Acting Judge Advocate-General, with the rank of Colonel, under the Governor of the State; in 1862 was an Assistant Adjutant-General, and superin tended the draft of the State; in 1864 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-ninth Con gress, serving on the Committees on the District of Columbia, Revolutionary Pensions, and Free Schools in the District of Columbia; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866: was re-elected to the Fortieth and Forty-iirst Con gresses, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Re trenchment; in 1873 was appointed United States Judge for the Northern District of Ohio; in 1874 re ceived the degree of LL. 1). from Wooster (Ohio) Uni versity; afterwards became Professor of Political

Science, and of Constitutional in that institution.

and International

Law

Wellborn, M. J.; was born in Georgia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1851.

Wellborn, Olin was born at Gumming, Forsythe County, Georgia, June 13, 1843; was well edu cated; served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War; after the close of the war studied law, and was admitted to the bar, at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1866; removed to Dallas, Texas; in 1871; was elected a Representative from Texas to the Forty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-seven th, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. ;

Weller, John B.; was born in Ohio; was a Rep resentative in Congress from that State from 1839 to 1845; was the first United States Commissioner to Mexico, under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; having taken up his residence in California, was, in 1851, elected to the United States Senate for six years; was subsequently elected Governor of Califor nia; in December, I860, was appointed United States Minister to Mexico; was a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention in 1864. Died in New Orleans, August 17, 1875. "

Luman

H. was born in Litchfield, Weller, County, Connecticut, August 24, 1833; received a common school education, supplemented by a course at the State Normal School and the Literary Insti tute, at Suffield, Connecticut; taught school; re ;

to Iowa in 1859, and settled in Chickasaw County as a farmer; took an active part in politics; was successively elected Road Supervisor, Township Clerk, Justice of the Peace, County Coroner, and member of County Board of Supervisors; was ad mitted to the bar in 1867, and practiced law, in con

moved

nection with his farming interests, until 1876; in 1867 was an unsuccessful candidate for the State Legislature; in 1869 and 1877 was an unsuccessful candidate for State Senator; in 1878 was an unsuc cessful candidate for Congress; was elected a Repre sentative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Welles, Gideon was born at Glastenbury, Con July 1, 1802; was educated chieiiy at the Norwich University of Vermont; studied law; in 1826 became the editor of the Hartford Times; from 1827 to 1835 was a member of the Connecticut Legis lature; was subsequently appointed Comptroller of Public Accounts; from 1836 to 1841 was Postmaster of Hartford, having been appointed by President Jackson; in 1842 was made Comptroller of the State; in 1846 took charge of a bureau in the Navy Depart ment, where he remained until 1849; was a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention of 1860; in 1861 went ;

necticut,

"

into President Lincoln s Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. For thirty years before becoming Secretary he was an occasional contributor to the Hartiord Press, the New York Evening Post, and the Washing ton Globe and Union. Died February 11, 1878.

Wells, Alfred

;

was born

at Dagsborough, Sus

sex County, Delaware, May 27, 1814; adopted the profession of the law, and settled in Ithaca, New York; in 1858 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on the Militia; also held the positions of Deputy Clerk, District Attorney, and Judge of Tompkins County, New York. Died in the winter of 1857.

Wells, Daniel, Jr.; was born in Maine; received a good English education; removed to Wisconsin in 18 !6; became extensively engaged in the business of banking and lumbering at Milwaukee; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Wisconsin from 1853 to 1855.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Wells, David A.; was born

in

Springfield,

Massachusetts, in June, 1828; graduated at Williams College; became an associate editor of the Springfield Republican; while there invented a machine for fold ing books and newspapers; subsequently graduated at the Scientific School at Cambridge; established, and edited for several years, the Annual of Scientific Discovery; while residing in Troy, New York, in 1864, he came prominently before the public by means of a pamphlet on "Our Burden and Our Strength,"

which had an enormous circulation

;

after

the close of the Civil War was made Chairman of a Special Commission created by Congress to inquire into the resources of the country; was subsequently made a Special Commissioner of the Revenue, which office he held four years, and in which capacity he inaugurated many improvements in the Revenue Laws, and established the "Bureau of Statistics;" after leaving Washington was appointed, by the Governor of New York, to revise the Taxation Laws of that State, and made two important reports in 1872 and 1873; in the former year was made a lec turer at Yale College, and in the latter year visited England and there proclaimed his opinions; in 1875 took an interest in the politics of Connecticut, and was also made President of the American Association of Social Science; became a member of the French Academy; received from the University of Oxford, England, the degree of D.C.L., and from Williams College the degree of LL.D.

New

Ebenezer, T.; waa born in York; emigrated to Colorado; in 1871 was appointed one of "Wells,

the Associate Justices of the United States Court for the Territory of Colorado.

Supreme

Wells, Erastus; was born

535

Agriculture; in 1873, was appointed Constitutional Convention of eighteen

member

of

n,

persons; wns subsequently appointed Presiding Judge of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims.

Wells, H. H.; was born in Rochester, New York, 17, 1823; was educated at the Romeo Academy in Michigan; studied law, came to the bar

September

and practiced the profession there from 1846 to 1861; was a member of the Michigan Legisla ture from 1854 to 1856; served in the war for the Union from that State and became a in Detroit,

Brigadier-Gen

eral

by brevet; settled in Virginia; was military Governor of Virginia in 1868 and 1869 and resigned; was United States Attorney for the District of Vir ginia from 1869 to 1872, when he resigned; in Sep tember, 1875, entered upon the duties of United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, having been appointed to succeed George P. Fisher, removed.

Wells,

James

from 1864

to 1867.

M.; was Governor of Louisiana

Wells, John; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853.

Wells, John S. was a Senator in Congress from New Hampshire from January to March, in 1855, by executive appointment; filled many local offices. Died in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1860, aged fifty;

six years.

Wells, Robert W.; was, for nearly thirty years before his death, on the United States Bench of Mis souri, seldom, if ever, missing a term of the Circuit or District Courts; acquired a high reputation for hia legal knowledge, and his decisions were always re spected by the Supreme Court of the United States. Died at Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 22. 1864.

in Jefferson County, York, December 2, 1823; received a good edu cation was compelled to rely on his own exertions, and went to St. Louis, Missouri established the first omnibus line in that city, and the first street railroad company; was, for fifteen years, a member of the City Council; was President of the Missouri Railroad Company, and a Director in several incorporated companies; was elected a Representative from Mis

Wells, Samuel was born in New Hampshire, about 1805; was, for some years, Judge of the Super ior Court of Maine; was Governor of the State in 1856 and 1857. Died in Boston, Jnly 15, 1868.

souri to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty -fourth Congresses, serving on the Commit tees on the Pacific Railroad. Navy Department, Rail roads and Canals. Centennial, and Public Buildings and Grounds; was also elected to the Forty-sixth

Wells, William H.; was a Senator in Congress, from Delaware, from 1799 to 1804, when he resigned; was again a United States Senator from 1813 to 1817. Died .March 11, 1829.

New

;

;

Congress.

;

Welsh, John was born at Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, in 1805; received a liberal education; re ceived a good business training in the office of his ;

Wells, G-uilford Wiley

was born in Conesus, York, February 14, 1840; ;

Livingston County, New received a liberal education at the Geuesee College; graduated at Columbian College, District of Colum bia; adopted the profession of the law; entered the war for the Union as a Lieutenant of Volunteers, rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was twice wounded and brevetted for gallantry on the field; in 1870, was appointed United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; was re-appointed in 1874, and before the close of the year was elected a Representative from that State to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Wells, Hezekiah G.; was born in Steubenville, in 1812; was educated at Kenyon College;

Ohio,

studying law, emigrated to Kalamazoo, Michi gan; in 1833 was elected to the first Constitutional Convention of that State; in 1845, and for five years, was elected a Judge of the Circuit Court of the State; was elected a member of the Constitutional Conven tion of 1850: by his individual exertions raised a regiment of Volunteers during the Rebellion; from 1865 to 1875, was President of the State Board of after

who was a prominent shipping merchant in Philadelphia; engaged in the shipping business on his own account, and was very successful; in 1864 was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Sanitary Fair, and contributed largely to the success of the undertaking; was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Centennial Ex hibition of 1876, and devoted three years of his time to insuring the success of that great project; a sub scription of $50,000 was tendered him in recognition of his services in this connection, and, upon his de clining to receive it, the money was used in the en dowment of the John Welsh Centennial Professor ship of History and English Literature, in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania; in October, 1877, was ap pointed, by President Hayes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain; resigned in 1879; was, for fifteen years, a Commissioner of Fairmount Park; waa President of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany; served several terms as a member of the City Council of Philadelphia was, for many years, Presifather,

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

536

dent of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of Died at his home in Philadelphia, his native city. April

10, 1886.

Wee iple, Edward;

was born at Fnltonville,

Montgomery County, New York,

in 1844; received a

from Union College and then joined his father in the foundry business, in which he con tinued; was Chairman of the County Democratic General Committee in 1872, 1873, and 1874; was Town Supervisor in 1874, 1875, and 1876; was a Rep resentative in the State Legislature in 1877 and 1878; became President of the Fultonville and Fonda Street Railroad Company, and a Director in the Fultonville National Bank; was elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Forty-eighth Con classical education, graduating in 1866; studied law for a time,

gress.

Wendover, Peter H.; was born in New York City; was a member of the State Assembly from the city of New York in 1804; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1815 to 1821. John was born in Sandwich, Hampshire, March 5, 1815, and was the grand son of John Wentworth, Jr., who was in the old Con gress, and who signed the original Articles of Con federation for New Hampshire; was educated at "Wentworth,

;

New

Dartmouth College; shortly after graduating, in 1836, emigrated to the west, and settled in Chicago, Illi nois; was among the first who took an interest in securing a city charter for the town; in a short time connected himself with the Chicago Democrat, which was long the official journal of the city, and which he conducted as proprietor and editor for twenty-five years;

before

becoming fully engaged

in

politics,

studied law, and, having finished his course at Har vard, came to the bar in 1841; in 1837 became a member of the Board of Education, and continued in that position, when not in public life, for many years; was a Representative from Illinois to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, serving on the Com mittees on Territories and Commerce; in 1857 and I860 was Mayor of Chicago; was a member of the "State Constitutional Convention of 1861; in 1864 was appointed one of the Police Commissioners of Chicago; was subsequently elected for the sixth term to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Ways and Means, and Roads and Canals; in 1867 received, from Dartmouth College, the degree of LL.D., and subsequently made a donation of ten thousand dollars to the college.

Tappan

"Wentworth,

Hampshire, February

New

was born in Dover, 24, 1802: followed the law as ;

a profession; was President of the Common Council of Lowell in 1842; served four years in the State Sen ate, and eight years in the lower house of the Legis lature; was a Representative in Congress from Mas sachusetts from 1853 to 1855; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Convention" of 1866. Died in Lowell, June 12, 1875. "

was born in Devonshire County, "West, George England, February 17, 1823; received a common school education; came to the United States in Feb ruary, 1849; settled at Bullston Spa, New York, and ;

became a paper manufacturer; was a Representative in the New York Legislature from 1872 to 1877; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1880 and 1884; became President of the First Na tional Bank, ac Ballston Spa. New York; in 1S80 was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-seventh Congress; in 1884 was elected a Rep resentative to the Forty-ninth Congress.

"West, J. B.; was born in New Orleans, Septem ber 19, 1822; entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1836, but withdrew before graduating; served in the war against Mexico, as Captain; emigrated to

California in 1849, and engaged in commercial pur suits; at the outbreak of the Rebellion was proprie tor of the San Francisco Prices Current; entered the army as Lieutenant-Colonel of the First California

and attained the rank of brevet Major-(i enwent to Texas, and then removed to New Or leans; was Chief Deputy United States Marshal and Auditor of Customs, and Administrator of Improve ments; was elected to the United States Senate, for the term commencing in 1871 and ending in 1877, serving on the Committees on Appropriations and settled in Railroads; Washington City; served for several years as one of the Commissioners of the Dis Infantry,

eral;

trict of

Columbia.

"Westbrook,

John was ;

was a Representative from 1841 to 1843.

born in Pennsylvania; from that State

in Congress

"

John,

was born in Sommers1745; graduated at Harvard University in 1768; studied law and adopted the profession; settled at Dover early in life, and was, for a while, the only lawyer in his county; upon "Wentworth,

worth,

New

Jr.;

Hampshire, July

17,

the organization of Stratford County, received, from his relative, Governor John Wentworth, the appoint ment of Register of Probate, which office he held un til his death; was elected a Representative to the State Legislature from 1776 to 1780, when he took the place of his deceased father, also named John, in the Council, where he remained until 1784; was a from New Hampshire to the Continental Delegate Congress in the years 1778 and 1779, serving four ses arid was one of the signers of the Articles of sions, Confederation; was a member of the State Senate from 1784 until his death; was an active member of the Committee of Safety during the Revolution. Died at Dover, New Hampshire, .January 10. 1787, from consumption, growing out of an attack of small pox.

Theodoric B.; was a native of York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1853 to 1855. "Westbrook,

New

"Westcott,

James D.;

was born

in Alexandria,

Virginia, in May, 1802; removed, Avith his father, to New Jersey; was, at an early age, admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that State, where he practiced his profession until 1829; afterwards held, for a short time, a position in the Consular Bureau of the State Department at Washington; was

appointed.

by President Jackson, Secretary of the Territory of

Florida, and held the offic* four years, performing the duties of the Governor during his temporary

absence; was a

member of the

Territorial Legislature

was appointed United States District Attor middle district of the Territory, which ney office he held until 1836; was again a member of the Legislature, and a member of the Convention for a State Constitution in 1838 and 1839; on framing the admission of Florida into the Union as a S^ate, in 1845, was elected a Senator in Congress, and served in 1832;

for the

until 1849.

"Westerlo, Bensselaer was born in New was a Representative in Congress from that York; State from 1817 to 1819. ;

"Weston,

James

A.; was Governor of Nevada in

the years 1871 and 1872.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. James A.

was born

in Manchester, 1827; received a good education in the public schools and academies of his native place adopted the profession of a Ci.vil Engi neer; was extensively engaged in building and op erating Railroads and Water Works in New Hamp shire; was elected Mayor of Manchester in 1868, 1870, 1871, and 1874; was Governor of New Hampshire in 1871 and 1874. "Weston,

New

Hampshire, August

;

27,

;

John was

born in Maryland; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1843 to 1845. "Wethered,

;

Wetmore, George Peabody; was born, of American parents, in London, England, August 2, 1846; was educated at Yale College, and received the degree of A.M. from that institution in 1871; in 1866 became a Trustee of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, at Yale College, and continued in that po sition in succeeding years; in 18fi9 received the de gree of LL.B. from Columbia College; was First Presidential Elector for Rhode Island in 1880 and 1884; was a member of the State Committee to re ceive the French Representatives in 1881; in 1885 was elected Governor of Rhode Island, and was re-elected

in 1886.

537

educated at Hallowell s High School, at Alexandria, Virginia; at the age of sixteen entered the office of his father who was engaged in the lumber business as clerk; at the age of twenty, in connection with his brothers, succeeded to his father s business; never held public office until, in March, 1886, was appoint ed one of the Commissioners of the District of

Columbia.

Henry

was born

in Providence, 1785; graduated at Brown University in 1802; studied law both in this country and Europe; settled in New York City, where he wrote for the press while practicing his pro fession; in 1815 began the publication of his works on International Law, which took a foremost posi tion among that class of writings; in 1816 became Reporter of the "Decisions of the Supreme Court," and issued twelve volumes; wrote also for the lead ing Reviews; in 1821 was a member of the Conven tion which framed the Constitution of New York; in 1825 assisted in revising the Laws of New York; in 1826 published the "Life of William Pinckney"; in 1827 was appointed Charge d Affaire* to Denmark; in 1835 became Minister Resident to Prussia, and sub sequently Minister Plenipotentiary to the same coun try; one of his most popular books was the History of the Northmen," and his legal writings were num erous and very highly appreciated; in 1819 received, from Brown University, the degree of LL.D. received the same compliment from Hamilton College in 1843, and from Harvard College in 1845; died at Dorches "Wheaton,

Rhode

Island,

;

November

27,

1

"

Whaley, Kellian V.; was born in Onondaga County, New York, May 6, 1821; while yet a youth removed, with his father, to Ohio; received a limited education; when twenty-one years old settled in West ern Virginia, devoting himself to the lumber and mer cantile business; when the Rebellion broke out, took the Union side of the question, and was elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Commit tee on Invalid Pensions; afterwards acted as an Aid

Governor Pierpoint in organizing and equipping and was in command at the battle of Guyandotte, when he was taken prisoner, in Novem ber, 18(51; after traveling with his captors sixty miles toward Richmond, made his escape, and arrived safely at Catlettsburg, Kentucky; was soon able to resume his seat in the House of Representatives; was to

regiments,

re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as

Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and as a member of the Committee on Agriculture; was also a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention" of 1864: was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolu tionary Claims, and as a member of that on the Death of President Lincoln; was also a member of the National Committee appointed to accompany the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois; in 18G8 was appointed Collector at Brazos de Santiago, Texas.

was born in New Jersey; "Whallon, Reuben was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. Died in Essex County, New ;

York, April

15. 1843,

aged sixty-six years.

"Wharton, Jesse represented the State of Ten nessee in Congress from 1807 to 1809; was a United States Senator in 1814 and 1815, when he was super Died at Nashville, July 22, seded by J. Williams. 1833. ;

was born in 1732; signed "Wharton, Samuel the Non-Importation Resolutions of 1765; was a member of the City Councils of Philadelphia, of the Committee of Safety in the Revolution, of the Colonial and State Legislatures of Pennsylvania, and Died of the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783. about the year 1810. ;

Wheatley, Samuel town,

E.; District of Columbia,

was born at George March 27, 1844; was

;

His "Elements ter, Massachusetts, March 11, 1848. of International Law" is a work of the highest standard in its department of learning. "Wheaton, Horace; was born in New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State

from 1843 to 1847.

was born at Marshfield, "Wheaton, Laban Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard University in 1774; studied both theology and law; was a County Judge; was a Representative in Congress from 1809 to Ibl7; died at Norton, Massachusetts, March 23, 18 i6, aged ninety -two years. ;

Ezra was born in Shenango County, York, in 1820; emigrated to Berlin, Wisconsin, in 1849; adopted the profession of the law, in 1852 was elected to the Legislature of Wisconsin; in 1854 was elected to office of County Judge, holding the same for eight years; was elected a Representa tive from Wisconsin to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on the District of Columbia. "Wheeler,

;

New

the"

"Wheeler, Grattan H.; was a native of New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1831 to 1833; was a member of the State Assembly from Steuben County for four years, and was one year a member of the State Senate.

Hoyt H.; was born at Chesterfield, Hampshire, August 30, 1833; received an aca demic education, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859, and commenced practice at Jamaica, Vermont; was a Representative in the Vermont Leg "Wheeler,

New

and 1869; was a Judge of the State Supreme Court from 1869 to 1877, when he was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Vermont. islature in 1867; a State Senator in 1868

John was

born at Darby, Connecti good commercial education, and at the age of twenty entered the mercantile busi ness in New York City; subsequently engaged in "Wheeler,

;

cut, in 1823; received a

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

538

WTiidden, Benjamin F.; was a citizen of New Hampshire; in 1862 was appointed a Special Com missioner and Consul-General to Hayti.

he followed at the time of his hotel-keeping, which as a member of Lor election and during his service in Congress, from New gress; was a Representative from 1853 to 1857. York,

Wheeler, John H.; was born at Murfresborough, educa

North Carolina, in 1806; received a classical at Columbian College, near Washington City, and was which he graduated in 1820; studied law, of North Carolina in licensed by the Supreme Court as a member 18-27 entered the House of Commons suc from his native county, and served four years President Jackson, cessively; was appointed, by States Branch Mint in Superintendent of the United in 1842 was 1836, at Charlotte, North Carolina; in elected Treasurer of the State of North Carolina;

tion at

1852 was appointed Minister Resident to the Repub the in of Nicaragua, in Central America, during ot much vasion of Walker, and his position was one was the author of the and

lic

peril

"History

responsibility; of North Carolina,"

published in 18o2; for the State

Legislative Manual of North Carolina in 1874; resided also compiled a City,

"

and engaged

in.

"

m

Washington

condensing and collating the

Debates of Congress.

Wheeler, Joseph gia,

September

Whipple, Thomas; was born in Berkshire served County, Massachusetts; was bred a physician; ;he State of New Hampshire as a Representative in Congress from 1821 to 1829. Died at Wentworth, New Hampshire, January 23, 1835, aged fifty years.

Whipple, William; wasbornatKittery, was educated at a common English

Maine,

school; commenced active life as a sea captain; in 1759 set mercan in the tled at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tile business; in 1775 was a member of the Provincial Provincial Congress; in 1776 was a member of the

in 1730;

Council

;

was a Delegate from

New Hampshire

to the

Continental Congress from 1776 to 1779, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; in 1777 entered the army; served with distinction in several campaigns, and rose to the rank of BrigadierGeneral; in 1782 was appointed Financial Receiver

for New Hampshire, serving two years, when he re signed; also held the offices of Judge of the Superior Court, and Justice of the Peace and Quorum was a Commissioner on behalf of Connecticut to settle the land difficulties in Wyoming Valley. Died Novem ber 28, 1785. ;

;

10, 1836;

at Augusta, Geor graduated in the five-year

was born

course at the United States Military Academy at West Point, in 1859; was commissioned a Lieutenant of Dragoons in the United States Army; resigned in and was appointed a Lieutenant of Artillery in 1861,

Confederate Army; was promoted, and com Infantry brigade at the battle of Shiloh; and was ap was, soon afterwards, again promoted, of the pointed to the command of the Cavalry Corps Western Army, continuing in that position until the close of the war; by joint resolution of the Confed erate Congress received the thanks of that body for skill and gallantry in many engagements; for the successful defense of the city of Aiken, South Caro of the Legislature of the lina, received the thanks State of South Carolina; upon the death of General of the Con Stuart, became the senior Cavalry General federate Armies, and commanded all the forces in

the

manded an

in many important fantry, cavalry, and artillery engagements; in 1866 was appointed Professor of

Philosophy in the Louisiana State Seminary, which and cot position he declined; was a counselor-at-law ton planter; in 1880 received a-certiricate as a Repre sentative from Alabama to the Forty-seventh Con

but his seat was successfully contested by the decease of Mr. Lowe, a few months later, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by his death; in 1884 was elected a Representative to

Whitcomb, James was born in 1795; removed, with his father, to Ohio in 1806; received a country school education, and prepared himself for college by teaching school; graduated at Transylvania Univers ity with the highest honors; studied law, and settled in practice in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1824; in 18:26 was appointed Prosecuting Attorney; in 1830 was chosen a member of the State Senate, and served five years; was appointed Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office in 1836; in 1841 returned to the practice of his profession at Terre Haute, Indiana; in 1843 was chosen Governor of the State; was re-elected in 1846; in 1849 was elected a Senator of the United States for the term ending in 1855, which position he held until his death, which occurred in New York, October 4, 1852; was much interested in the Ameri can Bible Society, of which association he was Vice;

President.

White, Addison; was born in Kentucky; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853.

gress,

W. M. Lowe; upon

the Forty-ninth Congress.

Wheeler, William A.; was born

in Malone, York, June 30, 1819; was a member of the class of 1842 of the University of Ver mont, but did not graduate; adopted the profession of the law; in 1850 and 1851 was elected to the State Legislature; in 1857 and 1858 to the State Senate; in 1860 was elected a Representative from New York to

Franklin County,

New

White, Albert S. was born at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, October 24, 1803; gradu ated at Union College in 1822; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Newburg, in 1825; removed to Indiana in 1829; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1839; was a Senator in Congress from 1839 to 1845; during his service in ;

the Forty-first and three succeeding Congresses, serv ing as Chairman of the Committees on Commerce and the Pacific Railroad; in 1876 was elected Vice-Presi dent of the United States, and served the full term

Congress was instrumental in securing grants of land for the Wabash and Erie Canal; was President of the Wabash and Indianapolis, and of the Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad Companies; earlier in life was, for five years, Clerk of Jhe Indiana House of Representatives; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Chairman of the Select Committee on Emancipation j after leaving Congress, he was appointed, by Presi dent Lincoln, a Commissioner to settle certain claims against the Sioux Indians; in January, 1864, was ap pointed, by President Lincoln, Judge of the District Court of Indiana. Died in Stockwell, Indiana. Sep

of four years.

teinber

the Thirty -seventh Congress;

was, for

many

years,

engaged in the banking business; was President ol the Ogdensburg and Rouses Railroad Company; wa a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867, and was elected its President; was elected to "

"

4,

1864.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. White, Alexander

;

was a Delegate from Vir

ginia to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788; was a Representative in Congress from 1789 to 1793, and was distinguished for his eloquence and patriot ism; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Potomac; was a Commissioner to arrange for erecting the public buildings in Wash Died at Woodville, Berkeley County, Vir ington. ginia, in 1804, aged sixty -six years.

White, Alexander was born at Franklin, Ten ;

nessee, October 16, 1816;

removed

Alabama when

to

years of age; was educated at the University ofTennessee; volunteered for the Creek and Seminole War in 1836; studied law with h .s father, John White, late Circuit and Supreme Court Judge of Ala bama; practiced the profession twenty-five years; was a member of the Thirty-second Congress; was a member of the Alabama State Convention of 1865; was a member of the General Assembly in 1872; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Fortythird Congress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary; in 1875 was appointed an Associate Jus tice of the United States Court for the Territory of five

Utah.

White, Alexander Caldwell

;

was born near

Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, De cember 12, 1833; his youth was passed on a farm, in a hard struggle for a livlihood, his only school ad vantages being those of the public schools in his vi cinity; he was more than ordinarily studious, and, at the age of twenty, became a teacher in the public schools; he continued to teach school in winter, and attend some academy in the summer, until he had acquired a good education, his time during the spring and autumn vacations being occupied with farm labor and rafting timber; always took an active part in politics, and frequently represented his party in County and State Conventions; in 1860 removed to

Pennsylvania, and settled at Punxsutawney, where he taught school and studied law; in 1862 was admitted to the bar, and engaged in practice; in 1867 was elected District Attorney of Jefferson County; in 1868 removed to Brookville, the County Seat; in 1870 was re-elected; he continued the practice of his profession, in which he attained eminence; in 1884 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-ninth Congress. Jefferson

White, Benjamin was born in Maine; was a farmer by occupation; during the years 1841 and 1842 was a member of the Maine Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1844 ;

to 1845.

White, Campbell P.; was born in New York; many years, a prominent merchant in that

was, for

was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1829 to 1835; also took a leading part in the "New York Convention" of 1846. Died February 12, 1859, leaving an exalted reputation for ability and sterling qualities of heart and manners. city;

White, Chilton A.; was born at Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, in February, 1826; studied law with General Thomas

L.

Hamer, under

whom he

served one year as a private soldier in Mexico; was admitted to the bar in 1848, and settled in his native town in the practice of law; in 1852 and 1853 was Prosecuting Attorney for Brown County; in 1859 and 1860 was chosen a Senator in the State Legislature;, before the expiration of his second term, was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Ex penditures; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Con gress, serving on the Committees on Manufacturers, and Expenditures in the Post Office Department.

White, David was one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Kentucky; represented that State in Congress from 1823 to 1825. Died in Frank ;

lin

County, Kentucky, February

17, 1835,

aged

fifty

years.

White, Edward D.; was Governor of Louisiana from 1824 to 1830; was a Representative in Congress from 1829 to 1834, and from 1839 to 1843. Died in

New

Orleans, Louisiana, April 18, 1847.

County,

was born in Pennsylvania, WTiite, Allison December 21, 1816; received a common school educa tion; studied law, and practiced that profession for twelve years; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-fifth Congress from the Fifteenth Congressional District of that State, and was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on ;

the Public Buildings.

White, Andrew D.; was born at Homer, New York, November 7, 1832; graduated from Yale Col lege in 1853; prosecuted his studies in Europe for two years; in 1857 was elected Professor of History in the University of Michigan; in 1862 resigned be cause of ill-health, and in the same year was elected a member of the New York State Senate; was reelected in 1864; in 1866 became President of the Cor nell University in 1868 visited Europe in connection with his official duties in 1871 was one of the Gov ernment Commissioners to St. Domingo; in 1879 was appointed United States Minister to Germany; re ;

;

signed in 1882.

White, Bartow W.; was born in Westchester County, New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1825 to 1827.

White, Francis ; was a Representative in Con gress from Virginia, his native State, from 1813 to 1815. White, Harry; was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1834; received a col legiate education, graduating in 1854; studied law;, was admitted to practice in 1855, at Indiana, Penn sylvania; in 1861 entered the Union Army as a Major, and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General; while in service was elected a State Senator, and served during the session of 1862-63, returning to his com mand at the close of the session; soon after his re turn was captured by the enemy and imprisoned in Libby Prison, at Richmond, Virginia; his absence from his seat in the Senate made the vote in that body, upon political questions, a tie, and unavailing efforts were made to secure his release; he succeeded, however, in passing his resignation as State Senator through the lines concealed in a Testament, thus re lieving the complication; escaped from prison in 1864, and rejoined his command; was re-elected to the State Senate, for three years, in 1865, again in 1868, and again in 1871, serving as Speaker during the close of the latter term; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1872; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Fortyfifth and Forty-sixth Congresses. White, Hugh; was born in New York in 1799; followed the plow and the other occupations of a farm until nineteen years of age; was a Representa tive in Congress from his native State from 1845 Died near Troy, New York, October 6, 1870. 1851.

to>

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

540

was born in Iredell "White, Hugh Lawson County, North Carolina, October 30, 1773; removed, with his lather, to Kuox County, Tennessee, in 1786; volunteered as a private soldier during the Indian hostilities in 1792; in 1794 went to Philadelphia, and pursued a course of mathematical studies; then went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and studied law; ;

the practice of his profession at Knoxof the ville, in 1796; in 1801 was appointed Judge Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee, and served until 1807; in 1808 was appointed District Attorney: in 1809 was elected to the State Senate; again served six years in the Supreme Court as Judge; in 1815 was chosen President of the State Bank of Tennes see; in 1820 was again a member of the State Senate, and about that time was appointed, by President Monroe, a Commissioner to adjust the claims of our citizens against Spain; was elected a Senator in Con

Commenced

gress from 1825 to 1835, and from 1836 to 1840, serving on one occasion as President pro ton. of the Senate; at the election for President of the United States, in 1836, received all the votes (twenty-six) of Georgia and Tennessee for that office; resigned his seat in the Senate in 1839, having received instruc tions to vote against his own judgment. Died April 10, 1840, soon after reaching his home, in Knoxville.

gress

James

was a Representative in Con from Tennessee from 1792 to 1794.

"White,

;

"White, John; was born in 1805; served as a Eepresentative in Congress from Kentucky from 1835 to 1845; was Speaker of the House during the Twenty-seventh Congress; was Judge of the Nine teenth Judicial District of Kentucky at the time of his death, which occurred at Richmond, Kentucky,

suicide, September 22, 1815. tainments were of a high order.

by

His talents and at

John

D.; was born in Clay County, Ken" 1849; was educated at a private school, at Eminence College. Kentucky, and at the Kentucky University; graduated in law at the Michigan University in 1872; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty -fourth Congress; declined a re-nomination; was Chairman of the Republican State Convention of 1879; the same jear was elected a Representative in the State Legis lature; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1880; inthe sameyearwasan unsuccess ful candidate for Congress; in 1881 received the votes of his party in the Legislature for United States Sen but was not ator, elected; was again elected a Repre sentative to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses. "White,

tucky, January

16,

Joseph

was born at Valley New York; studied law in Utica, and Cherry settled in Indiana; was a Representative in Congress from Indi ana from 1841 to 1843; after leaving Congress settled in New York City, and practiced his profession with "White,

L.;

success; subsequently entered into an India-rubber speculation, and while on a business visit to Nicar agua, was shot by a drunken from the

of which he died

man,

White, Joseph M.; was born in ty,

effects

in January, 1861.

Kentucky; was

Franklin Coun

a

Delegate to Congress, from the lemtory of Florida, from 1823 to 1837. Died at St October Louis, Missouri, 18, 1839, while on a visit to

his brother. He for his eloquence

was an eminent lawyer, and noted and acquirements.

White Joseph W.; was born in Cambridge Guernsey County,, Ohio, October 2, 1822- studied law, and came to the bar in 1844; in 1845 and 1847

was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for his native County; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Commit on Mileage, and Expenditures in the Treasury

tees

Department.

White, Julius was a citizen of Illinois: served as a General in the Volunteer Army during the Re bellion; in 1872 was appointed Minister Resident to ;

the Argentine Confederation, but declined the posi tion; in about six months thereafter, was again com missioned to the same office, and went to South America; resigned in 1874, after which he settled in Chicago, Illinois.

White, Leonard; was

born at Haverhill, Mas 1767; wns a fellow-student of John Quincy Adams, and at Harvard they were of the class of 1787; was, for many years, Town Clerk and Treas urer; represented his town in the Legislature; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1813; was then appointed Cashier of the Merrimack Bank, which office he held until the infirmi ties of age compelled him to retire. Died at Haverhill, October 10, 1849. sachusetts,

in

White, Michael

D.; was born in Clark County,

Ohio, September 8, 1827; removed, with bis parents, to Indiana in 1829; passed his youth upon a farm; was educated at the common schools and at Wabash College; studied and practiced law; was elected Pros ecuting Attorney in 1854, serving two years; was State Senator for four years from 1860; was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Forty-fifth Con gress.

White, Milo was born at Fletcher, Vermont, August 17, 1830; received a cominon school educa tion; was reared on a farm; in 1845 became a mer chant s clerk, in which employment he remained un til when he removed to Chatfield, Minnesota, and engaged in merchandizing; was elected a State Senator in 1871, 1872, 1874, and 1880; was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty -ninth ;

18r>5,

Congress.

White, Phillips; was

a Delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783.

White, Philo was a citizen of Wisconsin; in 1853 was appointed Charge. Affaires to Ecuador and from 1854 to 1858 held the position of Minister ;



the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the

Forty-fifth Congress.

Wike, Scott; was born at Meachille, Crawford bounty, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1824; removed, with lia parents, to Quincy, Illinois, in 1833, and to Pike bounty, in that State, in 1844; entered Lombard University in 1854, and graduated in the Scientific Department in 1857; studied law at Harvard Uni versity; graduated, and was admitted to the bar in L859; commenced the practice of law at Pittsfield, [llinois; in 1862 was elected to the Legislature; was re-elected in 1864, serving until 1867; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Forty burth Congress. Wilber, David was born in Schenectady County, tfew York, October 5, 1820; received a common school education; worked as a farm laborer; culti ;

vated land on shares; became the owner of real jstate, and was interested in the lumber trade and in arming; was, for [several years, interested in the Second National Bank at Cooperstown, and the bank at Oneonta; was elected a Representative from New York to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the ommittee on Public Expenditures; was also elected o the Forty-sixth Congress.

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

544

Wilbur, Isaac was born in Rhode Island; was, many years, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ;

for

of the State; in 1806 was Acting Governor; was a from Representative in Congress from Rhode Island, 1807 to 1809.

born in New Hamp shire in 1769; was a Representative in Congress from 1813 to 1817. Died at Oxford, New Hampshire, in "Wilcox,

Jeduthun was

at Goshen,

New

York, February 23, 1845.

;

July, 1838. "Wilcox, John A.; was born in North Carolina; removed to Mississippi; was elected a Representa tive in Congress from that State from 1851 to 1853.

Wilcox, Leonard.

was a native of New

;

Hamp

graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817; was a member of the State Legislature; was a Judge of the Superior Court; was a Senator in Congress from New Hampshire during the years 1842 and 1843. Died in 1850, aged fifty years. shire;

Wilde, Richard Henry was born in the City of Dublin, Ireland, September 24. 1789; his child hood was passed in Baltimore, Maryland his father having died, he obtained the rudiments of learning from his mother and a private tutor, and in his eleventh year was placed as a clerk in a store; in ;

;

1802 went, with his mother, to Augusta, Georgia; obtained a livelihood by merchandising, in a small way, devoting all his leisure to books; under many difficulties, studied law; practiced with success; also devoted himself to polite literature; as an Advocate, rose to eminence; was made Attorney-General of Georgia; in 1815 was elected a Representative in Congress from that State; was again elected in 1823, and again in 1827, serving with marked ability until 1835: after leaving Congress, visited Europe, and on his return devoted himself to literature, politics, and law; in 1843 removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he added to his reputation as a lawyer, and was elected Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Louisiana; one of his lyrics, entitled attracted the "My Life is Like a Summer Rose, praise of Lord Byron; his literary productions were

quite numerous, and they all bear the impress of a gifted and highly educated inind; his principal work was a Life of Tasso which evinced his familiarity "

"

>

literature, and the best scholars. Died in

with Italian

gave him a rank among

New

Orleans, September

10, 1847.

Wilder, A. Carter

was born

;

in

Mendon, Wor-

chester County, Massachusetts, March 18, 1828; in 1850 removed to Rochester, New York, and in 1857 to Kansas, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits; was a Delegate to the "Chicago Convention" in in 1862 was elected a 1860; Representative from Kansas to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Indian Affairs; was a Delegate to the "Baltimore Convention" of 1864. Died in San Francisco, California, December 23, 1875.

Wildman, Zalmon was a native of Danbury, Connecticut; was elected a Representative in Con gress from that State from 1835 to 1836. Died at Washington, District of Columbia, December 10, before the of his term. 1835, expiration ;

Isaac

was born in New Jersey; was Wildrick, a Representative in Congress from that State from 1849 to 1853.

Wiley, James

;

S.|

was born

in Maine;

gradu

ated at Waterville College in 1836; studied law; a Representative in Congress from Maine from to 1849.

Wilkin, James W.; was born in 1762; gradu ated at Princeton College in 1785; was a member of the Legislature of New York in 1800; held many other places in the gift of his fellow-citizens; was a Representative in Congress from 1815 to 1819. Died

was

147

Wilkin, Samuel

J.; was born in New York in 1790; graduated at Princeton College in 1812; was a member of the State Assembly, from Orange County,

and 1825; was a Representative in Congress from 1831 to 1833; was the Whig candidate for Lieutenant-Governor on the ticket with Millard Fillmore. Died in Goshen, Orange County, New York, March 11, 1866. in 1824

from

New York

Wilkins, Beriah was born in Union County. Ohio, July, 10, 1846; was educated in the common schools at Marysville, Ohio; was engaged in mer cantile pursuits at that place until 188; then be came Cashier and General Manager of the Farmers and Merchants (now) National Bank at Urichsville, Ohio; held several minor offices in the village; was elected a State Senator in 187 ); was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1882; was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fonyeighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth ;

Congress.

was born in Pennsylvania; was "Wilkins, Ross educated for the bar in that State; removed to the West at an early day, with a commission in his pocket, from President Jackson, as a Federal Judge for the Territory of Michigan; in 18:57, and on several sub sequent occasions, was appointed a Regent of the State University; aside from exerting much influence in his judicial capacity, always took an interest in the public affairs of the State; presided over the first war-meeting held in Detroit after the commencement of the Rebellion; was, for a great many years. aCircuit fudge, remaining in office until the summer of 1870, when he voluntarily retired from the Bench; con tinued to reside in the City of Detroit. ;

Wilkins, William was born in 1779; was a Senator in Congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1831 to 1834; was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia in 1834; was a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1844; in 1844 and 1845 was Secretary of War under President Tyler; subsequently held the office of Judge of the United States District Court for Western Pennsylvania. Died near Pitts burgh, June 23, 1865. ;

Wilkinson, James was born near Benedict, Maryland, in 1757; studied at the Medical School of Philadelphia in 1773; entered the Revolutionary Army after the battle of Bunker Hill; was made Captain by General Washington in 1776, and served under Arnold in the Northern Army; became Briga dier-General, and bore to Congress the announce ment of Burgoyne s surrender; was appointed Secre tary of the Board of War, but being implicated in ;

the Con way Cabal, resigned that position and was appointed Clothier-General to the Army; after the war settled in Lexington, Kentucky, and engaged in mercantile pursuits; in 1791 was appointed to the command of an expedition on the Wabash; in 1792 commanded the right wing of Wayne s Army; re ceived Louisiana from the French in 1803, as joint Commissioner with Olaiborne; was Governor of Louis iana Territory from 1805 to 1807; was General-inChief of the Army, and remained at the head of the Southern Department until cotart-martialed in 1811;

was honorably acquitted;

in

1812 was appointed

Brevet Major-General; in 1813 became Major-Gen-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. era!, and, after effective service at Mobile, was ordered to the northern frontier; his service in Can ada was unsuccessful because of disagreement with General Wade Hampton, and he was again courtmartialed and acquitted after the war removed to

Clerk of the Monongalia County Court; was subse quently elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, holding the two positions, in all, fourteen years; in 1850 was elected to the Convention to Reform the Constitution of Virginia; in 1853 delivered a series of lectures on Methodism, acted with various local societies, lec tured on various topics, and wrote for the reviews; in 1858 was a Delegate to the National Convention" of that year; in the winter of 1860 and 1861 was a Delegate to the "Richmond Convention"; in 1861

;

Mexico, where he purchased large estates. near the City of Mexico, December 28, 1825.

>45

Died

"

Morton

was born at Skaneateles, Onoudaga County, New York, January 22, 1819; received an academic education, working occa sionally upon his father s farm; in 1837 removed to Illinois; for two years was employed upon the rail "Wilkinson,

S.;

was elected, by the reorganized Legislature of Vir ginia, a Senator in Congress; at the close of that year was a Delegate to the Wheeling "Constitutional

road works, then commenced in that State; returned to his native town; studied law, and was admitted to the bar, after which he again removed to the West, and settled at Eaton Rapids, in Michigan; in 1847 settled in Minnesota; in 1849, when that Territory was organized, was elected to the Legislature, and the laws adopted by the Territory as its code were of his draughting; in 1859 was chosen a Senator in Congress from Minnesota for the term ending in 1865, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolu tionary Claims, and as a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs; was also a Delegate to the "Bal of 1864, and to the Philadelphia timore Convention

Convention

was elected a Senator in Con Virginia, serving on the Committees on Naval Affairs, the District of Columbia, and En grossed Bills; in 1863 the degree of LL.D. was con ferred upon him by Allegheny College, Pennsylvania; in 1864 was re-elected to the Senate for the term commencing in 1865 and ending in 1871, serving as

gress from

tion"

;

was born

in Bolton, Ver liberal education;

mont, March 20, 1824; received a removed to Michigan; was, for two years, a Professor

Kalamazoo College; was editor and publisher of the Battle Creek Journal; was a member of the Mich igan Board of Education from 1857 to 1863; was made Regent of the University of Michigan in 1863; was a member of the State Constitutional Conven tion; was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872; was elected a Representative in

from Michigan to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures and Civil Service. "Willey,

Calvin; was born

at

East Haddam,

Connecticut, September 15. 1776; read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1798; served in the State Leg islature and Senate a number of years; was Post master at Stafford Springs eight years; was a Judge oi Probate for seven years; in 1824 was a Presiden tial Elector; was a Senator in Congress from 1825 to 18.51. Died at Stafford, Connecticut, August 23. 1858.

S.;

"Waitman T.;

tober 18, 1811; received a common school education; graduated at Madison College in 1831; studied law,

tnd came

35

to the bar in

1833; in 1841

was

elected

at Sajbrook,

j

troit; from 1843 to 1847 was proprietor, and editor, of the Detroit Daily Advertiser; served through the Mexican War as Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1849 was ap pointed, by President Taylor, Postmaster of Detroit; when the Civil War began, was made Major-General of Militia, and was President of the State Military Board; was subsequently appointed a BrigadierGeneral in the National Army, and performed much service on the i:pper Potomac; had command of a Di vision at Winchester; was at Cedar Mountain and Manassas; after the battle of South Mountain suc ceeded General N. P. Banks as Corps Commander; commanded the Twelfth Corps at Antietam; was in the battles of Chancellorville and Gettysburg, and

went through the Atlanta campaign; while with March to the Sea," was bre vetted Sherman, in the a Major-General, for gallant and meritorious services; was afterwards on duty in Arkansas; was mustered out in 1866; was a Commissioner to settle Military Claims for Missouri; from 1866 to 1869 was Minister Resident to San Salvador; in 1874 was elected a Rep resentative from Michigan to the Forty-fourth Con "

gress;

was

re-elected to the Forty-fifth 21, 1878.

Died December

Congress.

was born in Canada, Williams, Andrew August 27, 1828; received a common school educa tion; began business as a manufacturer of bloom iron in 1855, in which he became largely engaged; was a Director in the New York and Canada Rail road; ne\\r held any public office until elected a Rep resentative from New York to the Forty-fourth Con gress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. ;

Williams, Archibald; was born in Kentucky; settled in Illinois; was appointed Judge of the United States Court for the District of Kansas, re siding at Topeka. was a native of North was a patriot of the Revolution; was u member of Congress from 1793 to 1795; also served many years in the State Legislature; was twice elected Governor of North Carolina in 1799 and Died in Moore County, North Carolina. 1807.

Williams, Benjamin

was born in the valley of Buffalo Creek, Monongalia County, Virginia, Oc "Willey,

was born

Connecticut, September 20, 1810; graduated at Yale College in 1831; then traveled in Europe two years; settled in Detroit, Michigan, in 1836, and there prac ticed law; from 1840 to 1844 was Judge of Probate for Wayne County; was Recorder of the of De City

Willard, Ashbel P.; was Governor of Indiana from 1857 until his death, in 1861.

George

of 1866.

Williams, Alpheus

Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was subsequently elected to the Forty-first Congress as a Representa tive from Minnesota, serving on the Committeeg on Foreign Affairs and on the Ninth Census.

"Willard,

in 1863

Chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, and also of that on Claims; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Conven

"

"Willard, Charles W.; was born at Lyndon, Caledonia County, Vermont, June 18. 1827; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1851; studied law, and came to the bar at Montpelier in 1853; was elected Secretary of State in 1855, and declined a re-election; was elected a State Senator in 18J50; in 1861 became the editor of the Green Mountain Free man; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Ver mont to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Com mittees on Foreign Affairs and Revolutionary Pen sions; was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Revolu tionary Pensions and War of 1812.

";

West

Carolina;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

546

G-.; was born at Royalton, York, October 18, 1829; received a good educa to Wiscon tion; studied law at Rochester; removed sin in 185(5. and practiced his profession; was a Pres idential Elector in 1868; was elected to the State Sen ate for two years, and chosen President pro tern.; in 1870 was appointed Chairman of the Committee to inspect the various charitable and penal institutions of the State; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; was re-elected to the Forty-lifth,

Williams, Charles

New

Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses; in March, 1883, was appointed Register of a Land District in Southern Dakota; as Chairman of the C unnrittee on Foreign Affairs in the Forty -seventh Congress, he se cured the passage of a measure for the return, to

known as the Japanese Indemnity Fund, which had, for twenty years, been A serious drawback to the friendly relations of the two countries; his appeal to the House in behalf of this measure was one of the most eloquent addresses delivered in that body for many years, and resulted in the passage of the bill by the unanimous vote of the House, amid great applause from the members; the amount involved was $2,000.000. Japan, of the historical fund

Williams, Charles Kilbourne was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 24, 1782; gradu ated at Williams College in 1800; studied law, and practiced in Rutland County, Vermont; in 1812 served during one campaign on the Northern frontier; be tween 1809 and 1821 was several times Representa tive, and again in 1849; was State s Attorney in 1814 and 1815; was a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1822 to 1824, and from 1829 to 1842; was Collector of Customs for the District of Vermont from 1825 to 1829; received the degree of LL.D. from Middlebury College in 1834; was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont from 1843 to 1846, and ex-officio ;

Chancellor of the State; was President of the Coun cil of Censors in 1847; was Governor of Vermont from 1850 to 1852. Died at Eutland, Vermont.

March

9,

1853.

Williams, Christopher H.; was born

in

Ten

nessee; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1843, and again from 1849 to 1853.

Williams, David R. was a Representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1805 to 1809, and again from 1811 to 1813, in which year he was ap pointed, by President Madison, a Brigadier-General; was Governor of South Carolina from 1814 to 1816. ;

Williams, George H.; was born in Columbia County, New York, March 23, 1823; received an aca demic education in Onondaga County; studied law nad on being admitted to the bar, in 1844, imme diately emigrated to Iowa; in 1847 was elected Judge of the First Judicial District of that State; was a Presidential Elector in 1852; in 1853 received, from President Pierce, the appointment of Chief Justice of t .ie Territory of Oregon; was re-appointed, by Presi dent Buchanan, in 1857, but resigned; was a mem ber of the Constitutional Convention which pre ceded the formation of a State Government; in 1864 was elected a Senator in Congress from Oregon for the term commencing in 1865, and ending in 1771, serv ing on the Committees on the Judiciary, on Claims, on Private Land Claims, on Finance, and on the Spe cial Committees on the Rebellious States and Re and as Chairman of the Committees on trenchment, the Expenses of the Senate and Private Land Claimswas also a member of the National Committee to accompany the remains of President Lincoln to Illi "

"

nois; in 1871 was appointed a member of the Com mission to settle the Alabama Claims; in 1872 went into President Grant s Cabinet as Attorney-General; in 1873 was nominated for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, but his name was withdrawn resigned in May, 1875, and resumed the, practice of his profession. ;

Williams, Henry; was born

in Taunton,

Mas

sachusetts, in November, 1804; adopted the profes sion of the law; was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1839 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1845; was a State Senator for two years; was a Representative in the State Legislature for three years.

Williams, Hezekiah was born at Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, in 1798; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1820; studied law; was Regis ter of Probate from 1824 to 1838; was a State Sena tor from 1839 to 1841; was a Representative in Con Died October gress from Maine from 1845 to 1849. ;

24, 1856.

Williams, Isaac, Jr.; was a native of New York; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1813 to 1815, from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1823 to 1825.

i

Williams, James was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1825; attended school in that city; settled in Delaware, as a farmer, in 1814; in 1856 and 1862 was elected to the State Legisla ture; in 1866 was elected to the State Senate; was made Speaker of the Senate in 1869: was a member of the Baltimore Convention of 1872; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Delaware to the Fortyfourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth ;

Congress.

Williams, James D.; was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, Januarys, 1808; removed, with his parents, to Knox County, Indiana, in 1818; received a common school education, and engaged in the business of farming and stock-raising; was elected to the State Legislature in 1843, 1847, 1851, 1856, and 1868; was elected State Senator in 1858, and served four years; was re-elected in 1862 for four years, and again elected in 1870; was a member of the State Board of Agriculture for seventeen years, serving four years of the time as President; in 1874 was elected a Repre sentative from Indiana to the Forty-fourth Congress; in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Accounts; in 1876 was elected Gov ernor of Indiana for the term of four years from Jan Died November 20, 1880. uary, 1877.

Williams, James W.; was a native of Mary land; was, for many years, a prominent member of the Legislature of that State, being for a time Speaker of the House of Delegates in 1839; in May, 1841, was elected to Congress as a Representative, and con tinued a member of that body until the time of his death, in December, 1842; when on his way to Wash ington, December 2, 1843, was stricken with paraly sis, while in his carriage, and survived the attack but a short time. His age was about fifty-five years. Williams, Jared; was born

in Montgomery in 1811 was 4, 1766; House of Delegates of Virginia, and served a number of years; was a Representative in

County,

Maryland, March

elected to the

Congress from Virginia from 1819 to 1825; in 1829 was a Presidential Elector, voting for General Jack son, and was appointed, by the Electoral College, to convey the certificate of the vote to Washington;

j

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. when not in public life, was devoted to the pursuits of agriculture. Died in Frederick County, Virginia, January

2,

1831.

Williams, Jared W.; was born in New shire; graduated at Brown University in 1818; set tled in Lancaster as a lawyer; was a Representative in Congress from 1837 to 1841; was Governor of Hampshire from 1847 to 1849; was a Senator in Con gress from 1853 to 1854, by appointment, in place of C. G. Atherton, deceased; served several terms in the Died in Lancaster, New State Legislature.

Hamp

New

Hamp

shire,

September

29, 1864.

"Williams, Jeremiah N.; was born in Barbour County, Alabama, in April, 1829; graduated at the University of South Carolina; studied law and adopted the profession; entered the Confederate service as a Major, but ill-health forced him to retire; in 1872 was elected to the Legislature, but was not permitted to take his seat; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-

elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. "Williams,

John was ;

born in Hanover County,

Virginia; removed to North Carolina, and was one of the first Judges under the State Constitution from 1777 to 1790; was a Delegate to the Continental Con Died gress from North Carolina in 1778 and 1779. in Granville County, North Carolina, October, 1799.

Williams, John was a member of the New York Senate from 1777 to 1779, and from 1783 to 1795, from Washington County was a member of the Assembly from 1781 to 1782; was a Representative in Congress from New York from 171)5 to 1799. ;

;

Williams, John; was a Senator in Congress from Tennessee from 1815 to 18:23, and was highly Died at respected for his talents and character. Knoxville, August

7,

1837.

Williams, John; was a citizen of Tennessee; in 1825 was appointed Charge d Affaires to Central Amer ica, where he remained only about one year.

Williams, John; was born in Utica in 1807; re sided for a time in Sacketts Harbor, and then re moved to Rochester in 1824; although generally en gaged in mercantile pursuits, he was, in 1842, chosen an Alderman of Rochester; in 1852 elected Mayor of the City; was a Representative in Congress from 1855 to 1857; in 1871 was made City Treasurer, and was re-elected in 1873 and 1875; always took a great inter est in military affairs; was made a Major-General of militia, and rendered good service, during the Re bellion, in raising troops for the War. Died in Roch ester,

March

26, 1875.

Williams, John M.

was born in Richmond, Virginia, August 14, 1818; was well educated in Boston; was a merchant and shipowner; was a mem ber of the State House of Representatives in 1856, and of the Senate in 1858; was a Presidential Elector in 1868; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, serving on the Committees on Post Office and Post Roads, and Department of State. Died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1886.

Williams, John

S.;

S.;

waa born at Montgomery,

1820; graduated at Oxford College, Kentucky, Ohio, in 1839; studied law, and entered upon its practice at Paris, Kentucky; served in the War with Mexico, first as Captain and afterwards as Colonel; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 18V7; entered the Confederate service, in 1861, as in

Colonel,

and was promoted

to Brigadier-General,

547

serving throughout the war; was several times a Delegate to National Conventions, and Presidential Elector; in 1875 was again in the Legislature; was elected a Senator of the United States from Kentucky for the term of six years from March 4, 1879.

Williams, John S.; waa born in Niagara County, New York, December 14, 1825; received a liberal education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law; in 1853 re moved to Lafayette, Indiana, where he continued the practice of his profession; in 1856 was elected Mayor of the City of Lafayette; was re-elected in 1858; resumed the practice of law; was, for some time, editor of the Lafayette Daily American; in the fall of 1861 was authorized, by Governor Morton, to recruit the Sixty-third Regiment of Indiana Volun teers, and was commissioned Colonel of the regiment; was present, with the First Battalion of his regi ment, at the second battle of Bull Run; in July, 1863,

was compelled, by

ill-health, to

resign his

commission resumed the practice of his profession in 1866 was appointed, by President Johnson, Collec tor of Internal Revenue for the Eighth District of ;

;

Indiana; resigned in 1809; became the publisher of the Lafayette Sunday Times; in April, 1885, was ap pointed Third Auditor of the United States Treasury

Department.

Williams, Jonathan; was born in Boston in 1752; received a good education; was first in a count ing-house, and then made several commercial voy ages to the West Indies and to Europe; was a nephew of Dr. Franklin; was kindly received by him in En gland in 1770 and 1773, and was intrusted with letters of political importance; was in France in 1777, and was appointed United States Commercial Agent; in 1785 returned, with Franklin, to the United States; was, for several years, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in Philadelphia; was appointed Major of Artillery in 1801, and Inspector of Fortifi cations; was Superintendent of West Point Academy; was Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers in 1802; Colonel from 1808 to 1812; was General of New York Militia from 1812 to 1815; was elected a Representative in Congress from Philadelphia in 1814; was Vice-President of the American Philosophical Society; was the author of a work "On the Use of the Thermometer in Navigation," 1799; "Elements of Fortification, "

"

1801; 1808.

Kosciusko s Movements for Horse Artillery," Died in Philadelphia, May 16, 1815.

Williams, Joseph; was an early emigrant to Iowa; in 1838 was appointed a United States Judge for that Territory; was subsequently appointed to the same office in Kansas.

Williams, Joseph H.; was born in Maine; was Governor of that State from 1857 to 1858. Williams, Joseph L.; was born in Tennessee; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1837 to 1843; was appointed an Associate Judge of the United States Court for the Territory of Dakota, residing at Yankton.

Williams, Lemuel versity in 1765;

graduated at Harvard Uni was a Representative in Congress ;

from Massachusetts from 1799 to 1805. Died in 1827.

Williams, Lewis; was born in Surry County, North Carolina; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1808; entered the House of Com mons of his native State in 1813; was re-elected in 1814; was a Representative in Congress from 1815 to 1842, where, for his many good qualities and his long service, he was known as the "Father of tlie

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

548

Tonic Dictionary

"

Died in Washington, while representing 1842 aged nearly his State in Congress, February 23, of House."

He was, for fifteen years, sixty years. the Committee on Claims. Williams,

Marmaduke

;

Chairman

was born in Caswell

was a lawyer County, North Carolina, April 6, 1772; a Representative in Congress profession; served as in 1810 re from his native State from 1803 to 1809; Madison County, Ala moved, with his family, to in 1 bama, and thence to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was a was repeatedly elected to the Legislature, and to the Convention Delegate from Tuscaloosa County which formed the State Constitution; was a candi W. date for Governor, but was defeated by William a Commissioner to ad Bibb; in 1826 was appointed between Alabama and just the unsettled accounts their territorial relation Mississippi, growing out of of the County Court, ship; in 18:52 was elected Judge which office he held until April, 1842, when he re the age of seventy, which signed, having attained the Constitution declares a disqualification for the

V

d Affaires; in 1856 published

of

in 1858 assisted in the in 1859 went to Pekm to at Tientsen; negotiations I860 lectured before exchange the ratifications; in the the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere in United States; received the degree of LL.D. from Union College in 1850; returned to New York in been 1875 his last work before leaving China having a Dictionary of the Chinese to

the Chinese

Language";

publish

"Syllabic

Language."

Williams, Sherrod; was born was a Representative

in Congress

in Kentucky; from that State

from 1835 to 1841.

Thomas

was born at Greensburg, County, Pennsylvania, August 28, in 1825; stucl1806; graduated at Dickinson College ed law, and came to the bar in 1828; settled in 3 he was sent, as Senator ittsburgh, from which place to the State Legislature in 1838, and the three suc elected to the lower ceeding years in 1860 was again louse of the Legislature; in 1862 was elected a Rep Died in Tuscaloosa, October 29, 1850. resentative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-eighth bench. on the Judiciary; Congress, serving on the Committee Williams, Nathan; was born in New York; was"re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving was a Representative in Congress from New York, on the Committees on the Judiciary, and on Coinage, from 1805 to 1807; served in the State Assembly from Weights and Measures; was re-elected to the Fortieth and was one Onondaga in 1816, 1817, and 1818. Congress, serving on his old committees, of the Managers of the Impeachment of Andrew in Hallowell (now Johnson. Williams, Reuel was born received an aca Augusta), Maine, June 2, 1783; was a demic education; was a lawyer by profession; Williams, Thomas; was born in Greenville of removed Representative and Senator in the Legislature County, Virginia, August 11, 1825; in 1835 Maine for twelve years; was a Senator in Congress to Wetumpka. Alabama; received a limited educa from 1837 to 1843; received from Bowdoin College, tion; became a lawyer, and also engaged in farming; the degree of LL.D., and was a Trustee of that insti was a Representative in the State Legislature in Died at from Alabama to tution was a Presidential Elector in 1836. 1878; was elected a Representative the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Augusta in 1862.

Williams,

;

Westmoreland

;

;

;

was born at Findlay, Williams, Richard Ohio, November 15, 1836; removed- to Oregon in 1851; was educated at Willamette University; stud ied law; was admitted to practice in 1858; was elected a Representative from Oregon to the Fortynl th Congress.

Congresses.

;

Williams, Robert ty,

of

was born in Caswell Coun North Carolina; bred to the law; was a brother ;

Marmaduke Williams, and

attainments;

distinguished for his

was an Adjutant-General of North

Carolina: was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1797 to 1803; was appointed Com missioner of Land Titles in Mississippi Territory in 1803; was Governor of the Territory of Mississippi from 1805 to 1809; emigrated to Tennessee towards Died in Louisiana. the close of his life.

Williams, Samuel Wells

was born at Utica, York, September, 1812; studied at the Rensselaer School, Troy; in 1833 went to China as a printer for the Missionary Board at Canton, and assisted in editing the Chinese Repository; in 1837, while on a voyage to or from Japan, obtained, from some ship wrecked Japanese, a knowledge of their language translated a treatise on smelting copper from the original, and made a version of the Book of Genesi and the Gospel of St. Matthew into Japanese; con tributed to the Chinese Chrysfomafhy ; published Easy Lessons in Chinese," "English and Chinese Vocabulary," and a "Chinese Commercial Guide" returned to New York in 1845 and published The Middle Kingdom"; from 1848 to 1851 edited the Chinese Repository at Canton; in 1853 and 1854 wasinterpreter to Commodore Perry s Japan Expedi tion; in 1855 was Secretary and Interpeter to the United States legation; frequently served as Charg ;

New

"

Williams,

Thomas

Hill

;

was a native of North

Carolina: read law, but relinquished the profession for a clerkship in the War Department at Washing President Jefferson, ton; in 1805 was appointed, by for de Register of the Land Office, and Commissioner of Mississippi; ciding Land Claims in the Territory of Col subsequently, for a few years, held the office lector of the Port of New Orleans; was a Senator in Congress from Mississippi from 1817 to 1831; late in life removed to Tennessee, and there died.

Williams, Thomas H.; emigrated to the north ern part of Mississippi .soon after the cession of In dian Territory to that quarter; was a Senator in Con executive appointment, gress from Mississippi, by during the years 1838 and 1839.

Williams,

Thomas

Scott

;

was born

at

Weth-

Connecticut, June 26, 1777; graduated at Yale College in 1794; studied law at Litchfield; was admitted to the bar in Windham County in 1799, and ersfield,

practice at Mansfield, whence he removed to Hartford in 1803; in 1809 was appointed Attorney

commenced

of the Board of Managers of the School Fund rep resented the town of Hartford in the General Assem a bly for seven terms, from 1813 to 1829; was elected from Representative in Congress from Connecticut 1817 to 1819; in 1829 was appointed an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors; in 1834 was appointed Chief Justice, and in the same year re ceived the degree of LL.D. from Yale College; was Mayor of the city of Hartford from 1831 to 18:?5; in 1847 resigned his position as Chief Justice, his term having expired by constitutional limitation; was a Presidential Elector in 1848; was, for twenty years, President of the American Asylum for the Deaf and ;

BI

OGK APH ICAL

Dumb, and, for a long time, Vice-President of the In sane Retreat at Hartford, and of the Board of For eign Missions, and subsequently President of the American Tract Society; lived in retirement at Hart ford, until December 15, 1861, when he died, leaving a much-loved name for his benevolence.

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LS.

549

tutional Convention of 1867; in 1871 was appointed member of the Board for the Supervisory Control of the Charitable, Penal, and Beneficiary Institutions of the State; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Commit tees on the Pacific l.ai.road. and Pen

a

Revolutionary

sions.

Thomas W.;

was born in Stonington, Connecticut, September 28, ITS ); was educated at Plainfield and Stonington Academies; received a commercial education in New York City; Avas engaged in mercantile businesg in New London, Connecticut, for many years; was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut from 1839 to 1843; was a member of the Legislature in 1846: was chosen Presidential

Williams,

Elector in 1848.

Williams, William; was born

in Lebanon, County, Connecticut, Aprils, 1731; grad uated at Harvard University in 1,51: in 1755 was commissioned as a Staff Officer; after one campaign among the Indians, returned home and commenced the mercantile business; was soon after elected Town

Windham

Clerk, a member of the Assembly of Connecticut, and a Justice of the Peace, and was, for nearly one hundred sessions, member, Clerk, or Speaker of the I louse of Representatives; at the commencement of the War of the Revolution was a member of the Council of Safety was one of the signers of the Dec laration of Independence; was a Delegate to the Con ;

tinental Congress from 177(i to 1778, and again iii 1783 and 1781; when the Government Treasury v.as drained, he gave to his country what he called his

which amounted to more than two and was very fortunate in obtain ing donations from others; for forty years held the more honorable local offices of his town and county: was a member of the Convention which framed the first Constitution of Connecticut. Died August "last

mite."

thousand

dollars,

i.

,

1811, greatly lamented.

Williams, William was born near Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, May ;

Carlisle,

11. 1821: received a good English education; adopted the pro to removing Indiana, was cho sen Treasurer of Kosciusko County in 1850; in 1852 was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for LieutenantGovernor of the State; in 1860 was chosen, by the Legislature, Director of the Northern Indiana State Prison: in 1862 was commissioned, by the Governor, Commandant of Camp Allen with the rank of Colonel; in 1864 was appointed an additional Paymaster in the United States Army; in 1866 was elected a Rep resentative from Indiana to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on the District of Colum

fession of the law; on

Expenditures in the War Department, and Edu cation in the District of Columbia; was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving on various Committees; in 1882 was appointed Charge d Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay. bia,

Williams, William; was born

in Bolton,

Con

necticut, September 6, 1815; received a good educa tion; became a banker and railroad president; was elected to the Legislature of New York in 1866 and 1867; was elected to the Forty -second Congress, serv

ing on the Committees on Indian Affairs, and Terri tories, and District of Columbia.

Williams, William

B.; was born in Pittsford, York. July 28, 1826; graduated at the State and National Law School at Ballston Spa, in 1851; was admitted to the bar in 1851; removed to Michigan in 1855; was elected Judge of Probate in 1856 and 1860; was elected to the State Senate in 1866 and 1868, President ^ni tern, in 1869; was elected to the Consti

New

Williamson, G-eorge; was a citizen of Louis iana; in 1873 was appointed Minister Resident to Costa Rica, and also accredited to Guatemala, Nica ragua, and Honduras.

Williamson, December

Hugh

;

was born

in Pennsylvania,

1735; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1757; studied theology, and preached two years: in 1760 was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania; re signed in 1764, and went to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study medicine; on his return, in 1772, settled in practice in Philadelphia; again visited Europe, and had much to do with matters connected with the Revolution; subsequently engaged in commercial pursuits, and an accident took him to Edenton, North Carolina; with that State was long and honorably identified; served a number of years in the House of Commons; also served in the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1785. and from 1787 to 1788; was a Delegate to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, and signed the same; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1790 to 1793; was one of those who voted for locating the Seat of Government on the Po tomac; in 1811 published a work on the Climate of America; in 1812, a History of North Carolina; was associated with DeWitt Clinton, in 1814, in forming the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York; the enjoyed respect of all who knew him, and died universally lamented. Died suddenly, May 22, 1819. 5.

Williamson, Isaac H.; was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1769; received a common school education; studied law. and was admitted to the bar in 1791; was Prosecuting Attorney for Morris County; in 1817 was a member of the Assembly; was Governor and Chancellor of the State from 1817 to 1829; was President of the State Constitutional Convention of 1844; received the degree of LL.D. from New Jersey College in 1839. Died in Elizabethtown, July 10, 1844. Williamson, James Alexander; was born Adair County, Kentucky, February 8, 1829; re to Indiana in infancy, and thence to Iowa Ter ritory at the age of sixteen was educated at Knox College, Illinois; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1854; became a resident of Fort Des Moines, (now Des Moines), Iowa, in 1855, at which place he, thereafter, maintained a residence, although at times temporarily residing elsewhere; was ap pointed School Fund Commissioner of Keokuk Counby, Iowa, in 1852; entered the Volunteer Service of the United States in 1861 as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry; immediately after the battle of Pea Ridge was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and, a few days later, to Colonel of his Regiment; at the close of the Atlanta campaign was promoted to brevet Brig adier-General and Brigadier-General, and later to brevet Major-General; was appointed Chairman of the Iowa Delegation to the Republican National Con vention of 1864, but did not leave his place in the in

moved

;

to attend; was appointed Chairman of the Iowa Delegation to the Republican National Convention of 1868, and served as such; in June, 1876, was ap pointed, by President Grant, Commissioner of the

army

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

550 General Land

Office, at

the office until 1881, practice of law.

City, and held resigned to resume the

Washington

when he

Williamson, John

Q. A.;

in 1835. Charge d Affaires to Caraccas country August 7, 1840.

was appointed Died in that

William D.; was born in Canter at Connecticut, July 31, 1779; graduated Brown University in 1804; studied and adopted law at as a profession, commencing practice in 1807, in the Senate Bangor, Maine; was, for seven years, of Massachusetts, before the separation of Maine; was a Senator in the Maine Legislature in 1821: part of that year was Acting Governor of Maine; was a member of Congress from Maine from 1821 to 1823; was a Judge of Probate from 1827 to 1840; was a Bank Commissioner from 1838 to 1841; was the author of a History of Maine. Died at Bangor, [May "Williamson,

bury,

27, 1846.

;

was born

at Otto,

New

York,

P.; was born in New York; Pennsylvania; was appointed, from that State, an Associate Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Dakota.

Willoston, Lorenzo

removed

to

Willoug-hby, Westel, tive in Congress

Jr.;

New York

from

was a Representa from 1816 to 1817.

Wilmot, David was born at Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1814; was edu cated at Bethany Academy, and at Aurora, Cayuga County, New York; read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1834; was a member of Congress from 1845 to 1851; was subsequently President Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, which ;

Asa

H.; was born in Washington, Willie, to Washington Georgia, October 11, 1829; removed was re County, Texas, in 1846, and studied law; lieved of the disability of non-age, and admitted to the bar in 1848, and commenced the practice of law; in 1852 was elected Attorney of the Third District of the Texas; served in the Confe derate Army during of the war; in 1866 was elected one of the Judges Supreme Court of Texas, and held that office until authori 1867, when he was removed by the military ties; was elected to the Forty -third Congress, serving on the Committee on Commerce.

Willing,

Willits, Ed-win

April 24, 1830; removed to Michigan in 1836; grad uated at the Michigan University in 1855; located at Monroe, Michigan, in 1856; studied law; was admit ted to the bar, and commenced practice in 1857; was Prosecuting Attorney of Monroe County from 1860 to 1862; was a member of the State Board of Educa tion from 1860 to 1872; was Postmaster at Monroe from 1863 to 1866; was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-fifth, Forty -sixth, and Fortyseventh Congresses.

Thomas

;

was one of the

first

to sug

was Chair gest resisting the British in Pennsylvania; man of a Revolutionary meeting in June, 1774; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776.

Willis, Albert S.; was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, January 22, 1843; received a good educa tion; taught school for four years; graduated at the Louisville Law School in 1866, and commenced prac in 1870, and retice; was elected County Attorney elected in 1874, serving until he was elected to Con gress; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth. Forty-seventh, Fortyeighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Willis, Benjamin A.; was born in Roslyn, Queens County, Long Island, in 1840; graduated at Union College in 1861, and was at once admitted to the bar; in 1862 entered the army as Captain of a company raised at his own expense, which was as signed to the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, New York Volunteers; participated in the battles of

position he resigned, and to which he was re-elected; was the author of a slavery proviso, Avhich caused some excitement in Congress when he was a member; in 1861 was elected a Senator in Congress, where he remained until 1863, serving on the Committees on Foreign Affairs, on Claims, and on Pensions; was also a Delegate to the

of 18 il in "Peace Congress 1863 was appointed, by President Lincoln, a Judge of the Court of Claims. Died in Towanda, Pennsyl vania,

March

"

;

16, 1868.

Wilshire, William W.; was born in Gallatin County, Illinois, September 8, 1830; received a com mon-school ed ucation studied law served as a Ma jor of Volunteers in the war for the Union, and was at the siege of Vicksburg; after the war settled at Little Rock, Arkansas, and entered on the practice of his profession; in 1867 was appointed SolicitorGeneral of the State; in 1868 became Chief-Justice of one of the State courts, remaining in office until 1871 was a candidate for election to the Forty-third ;

;

;

Congress, and was declared elected by the Secretary of State, but was not admitted to the seat he claimed; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Arkansas io the Forty -fourth Congress.

Wilson, Alexander; was a Representative in Congress from Virginia from 1804 to 1809.

Wilson, Benjamin; was born in Harrison Lookout Mountain, and lounty, Virginia (now West Virginia), April 30, Wanhatchen, and was twice promoted; in 1864 was 1825; received an academic education; attended the honorably discharged, and resumed the practice of .aw school at Staunton, and was admitted to the bar law in New York City; was an advocate of Reform, in 1848; was attorney for the Commonwealth in Har and opened the correspondence in opposition to Tam rison County from 1852 to 1860; was a member of many Hall, which culminated in its overthrow; be the Constitutional Convention of Virginia in 1861; came a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; was Presidential Elector for the State at Large in was elected a Representative to the Forty-fourth 1868; was a member of the Constitutional Conven Congress from New York; was re-elected to the tion of West Virginia in 1871; was a delegate to the Died October 15, 1886. onvention at Baltimore in 1872; was elected a Rep Forty-fifth Congress. resentative from West Virginia to the Forty-fourth Willis, Francis was born in Frederick County, !ongress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth, Fortysixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. Virginia, January 5, 1725; received a good education removed to Georgia in 1784; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1791 to 1793; in 1811 Wilson, Bluford was born in Illinois; was edtook up his residence in Tennessee, and led the life jcated for the legal profession; in 1874 was appointed of a retired gentleman. Died in Maury County, Solicitor of the Treasury of the United States, at Tennessee, January 25, 1829. Washington. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,

;

;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Wilson, Edgar C.; was a native of Virginia; was a son of Thomas Wilson, of Virginia; was a Representative in Congress from that State from 1833 to 1835; died at Morgantown, Virginia, in May, 1860. "Wilson,

E. K.; graduated at Princeton College

was a Presidential Elector in 1804; was a Representative in Congress from Maryland from 1827

in 1789; to 1831.

"Wilson,

Ephraim King

Maryland, December

Hill.

;

22,

was born at Snow 1821;

received his

Union Academy, Snow Hill, and Washington Academy, Princess Anne, Maryland; early education at

graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1841 studied law; was admitted to the bar, and en gaged in the practice of law at Snow Hill; was a ;

Representative in the Maryland Legislature in 1847 was a Presidential Elector in 1852; was elected a Representative from Maryland to the Forty-second Congress; was Judge of the First Judicial Circuit of Maryland from 1878 to 1884; in 1884 was elected a United States Senator from Maryland, for the term ;

ending March

3,

1891.

was born in Morgan "Wilson, Eugene M.; County, Virginia, December 25, 1833; graduated at Jefferson College in 1852; studied law, and removed to Minnesota in 1855; was United States District Attorney for Minnesota from 1857 to 1861; served as a Captain in the war for the Union; was elected a Representative from Minnesota to the Forty-first Congress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands, and the Pacific Railroads. His father, Edgar C. Wilson, his grandfather, Thomas Wilson, of Vir and his great-grandfather, Isaac Griffin, were Representatives in Congress.

ginia, all

was born at Harper s Ferry, "Wilson, E. "Willis Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1844; received a common school and commercial college education; when a boy worked in the United States Armory at Harper s Ferry, and afterwards followed the trade of a mechanic; in I860 began the study of the law, and in 186!) was admitted to the bar of his native county; in 1870 was elected a Delegate in the State Legisla ture; in 1872 was elected State Senator; in 1874 re moved to Charleston, West Virginia, continuing the in 1876 was again elected to the practice of the law; Lower House of the State Legislature, and was elected a third time in 1880; during the latter term was elected, and served, as Speaker of the House of Delegates; in 1884 was elected Governor of West ;

Virginia.

5P1

the Militia of Massachusetts as Major, Colonel, and Brigadier-General; in 1861 raised the Twenty -second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, of which he became Colonel, and after joining the army of tb Potomac, was made a member of General McClellan s staff, on which he served until the meeting of Congress; from the commencement of the war was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, which had to pass on eleven thousand appointments, and to devise most important measures of legislation during the Rebellion; in 1856 was challenged by Preston Brooks, of South Carolina, for pronouncing his assault on Senator Sumner "murderous, brutal,

and

cowardly," but replied that, while believing in the right of self-defense, he declined the challenge, as duelling, in his opinion, was a violation of law, and the relic of a barbarous age; was again re-elected to the Senate for the term commencing in 1865 and ending in 1871, and was made Chairman of the Com mittee on Pensions, although continuing at the head of the Military Committee, and serving on the Com inittee of Appropriations; published a work entitled "Anti-Slavery Measures in Congress," and a "His tory of the Thirty -seventh and Thirty-eighth Con as well as one on the Congressional meas gresses, ures connected with the prosecution of the war for the Union; was the originator of the bill for abolish ing slavery in the District of Columbia, and also that establishing the American Academy of Sciences; was one of the Senators designated by the Senate to at tend the funeral of General Scott in 1866; was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists Conven of 1866; in 1872 was elected Vice-President of tion the United States on the ticket with U. S. Grant. Died in Washington City, November 22, 1875. The name of his father was Colbath, but having been adopted in early life by a man named Wilson, he preferred to take that name as his own. -

"

"

Wilson, Hiram V.; was a Judge of the United States District Court for the State of Ohio for many Died at Cleveland, November 11, 1866. years.

Wilson, Isaac; during the War of 1812 com manded a company of cavalry, and was in some of the severest actions on the northern frontier; was subsequently elected a member of the Assembly of New York, and also of the Senate; was elected a Representative in Congress in 1823, and at the end of his term, his seat having been successfully con tested by P. Adams, was appointed first Judge of Genesee County, and held the position until his re moval to Batavia, Illinois, where he died October 25, 1848.

Wilson, James; was born

Wilson, Henry

;

was born

in

Dauphin County,

Pennsylvania; was a Representative in Congress from that State, from 18:23 to 1826. Died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1826.

Wilson, Henry was born at Farmington, New Hampshire, February 16, 1812; was reared on a farm; when twenty -one years of age went to Natick, Mas sachusetts, where he learned to make shoes; in 1840 ;

was elected to the Legislature of Massachusetts, in which he served four years, and then four years in the State Senate, of which he was President during two sessions in 1848 became the proprietor and ed itor of the Boston Republican; in 1852 was the Free Soil candidate for Congress, but was defeated; in 1853 was a member of the "State Constitutional Convention," and afterwards took an active part in political Conventions; in 1855 was elected a Senator in Congress, and was re-elected in 1859 for a long term; from 1842 to 1851 was actively connected with ;

near

St.

Andrews,

Scotland, in 1742; received a classical education, and had for tutors Doctors Blair and Watts; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1766, and became tutor in the college of that city; adopted the profession of the law; re moved to Reading, Pennsylvania, and soon after wards to Carlisle, in the same State; lived a year in Maryland, and then settled in Philadelphia; was an active member of a war convention in 1773 was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, in 1782 and 1783, and from 1785 to 1787; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; on the commencement of hostilities was appointed a Colonel in the army, and was a Commissioner to treat with the Indians when not in Congress acted as AdvocateGeneral for the French nation; was a Director in the Bank of North America; was a member of the Con vention to form the Federal Constitution, and signed that instrument; was also a member of the Conven tion called to alter the Constitution of Pennsylvania; in 1789 was appointed a Justice of the Supreme ;

;

B I O (J K A P H I C A L Court of the United States;

ill

1790 was appointed

Professor of the University of Philadelphia; re Died on August 28, 1798, ceived the degree of LL. I).

Law

to

-

in Edenton, North Carolina, while upon a visit His writings on Politics and Jurispruthat place. dence enjoy a high reputation; he was the man who proposed that the President and Vice-President should be chosen in each State by Colleges of Electors.

James; was

born in 1757; graduated at Harvard University in 1789; was a lawyer by pro fession: was a Representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1809 to 1811. Died at Keene, New Hampshire, January 4, 1^3! "Wilson,

.

"Wilson,

James

;

was bora

in

York County (now

Adams

County), Pennsylvania, April 28. 177:1; re ceived a good English education; in his fourteenth year was bound to learn the trade of a cabinet maker in Maryland; from 1811 to 1822 was a Justice of the Peace; was a Representative from Pennsyl vania to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses, serving chiefly on the Committee on ( laims; soon after returning to private life, was again elected a Justice of the Peace, the duties of which office he continued to till until 1859; it is said of him that he never solicited a vote for an office, nor at tended a political meeting to promote his own ad vancement.

was born in New Hampshire; "Wilson, James graduated at Middlebury College in 1820; was Speaker of the State House of Representatives in 1828. and in the Legislature a number of years; practiced law at Keene; was a General of Militia; was a Representa tive in Congress from New Hampshire from 1S47 to Died May 1849; subsequently settled in California. ;

29, 1881. "Wilson, James; was born at Crawfordsville, Montgomery County. Indiana, April 9, 1822; grad uated at Wabash College in 1842; was admitted to the bar in 1845; went to Mexico in 1846 as a private in the Indiana Regiment, and before his return home was promoted to the office of Quartermaster; was

elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirtyfifth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on Elections; was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con

on the Committee on Naval Affairs: in 1866 was appointed, by President Johnson. Minister Resident to Venezuela. Died in August, 1867.

gress, serving

James

was born in Ayrshire, Scot "Wilson, land, August 16, 18:55; came to America in 1851; re ceived a liberal education; became a was a ;

farmer; of the Iowa State Legislature from 1867 to 1873, and Speaker two sessions; was a Regent of the State University; was elected to the Forty -third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on the Committees on Agriculture and War Claims; was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Forty-eighth Con

member

gress.

member

James J.; was born in Essex County, Jersey; was, for many years, editor of the True American, at Trenton; was a Senator in Congress from New Jersey from 1815 to 1821, when he re signed, and was appointed Postmaster at Trenton, was, for many years, Clerk of the State Assembly; was, at one time, Adjutant-General of the State, and always a man of influence. Died July 28, 1824. "Wilson,

New

was born in Warren "Wilson, Jeremiah M.; County, Ohio, November 25, 1828; received a good education; studied and practiced law: was Judge of Common Pleas from 1860 to 1865; was Judge of the Circuit Court from 1865 until elected to the Fortysecond Congress; was re-eleeted to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary and as Chairman of that on the District of Colum bia.

John was born

in 1777; graduated at in 1799; studied law and attained a high position in his profession; was a Representa tive in Congress from Massachusetts from, 1813 to Died at Belfast, Maine, 1816, and from 1817 to 1818. July 9, 1848. "Wilson,

;

Harvard University

John was born in York District, South was a Presidential Elector in 1809; was a Representative in. Congress, from that State, from "Wilson,

;

Carolina;

1*21 to 1827.

was born in Ireland, and the "Wilson, John brother of Joseph S. Wilson; settled in Washington at an early age; long held a clerkship in the Post ;

and Treasury Departments;

AVJIS Commissioner from 1852 to 1856; in 1864 was appointed Third Auditor of the Treasury, hold ing the position several years; was, at one time, ex tensively associated with the railroad interests of Illinois; subsequently settled in Washington City as a claim agent and attorney. Died in Washington. January, 1876, aged sixty-eight years.

Office

of the General

Land

Office

John L. was a native of South Caro was Governor of the State from 1822 to 1824.

"Wilson,

lina;

;

was born in Highland County, "Wilson, John T. Ohio, April 16, 1811; received a common school edu his cation; passed youth upon a farm; was twentyfour years engaged in mercantile pursuits, and then retired to a farm; in 1861 raised a company for the war, and was commissioned as its Captain; was sub sequently twice elected to the Ohio Senate; in 1866 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committees on Agriculture, and Roads and Canals; was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serv ing on various Committees, and as Chairman of that on Agriculture. ;

Joseph S.; was a native of Ireland came Washington when a boy; obtained a position as Messenger in the Treasury Department; soon became "Wilson,

;

to

a clerk; after the organization of the Interior Depart

"Wilson,

October

ANNALS.

19,

James

was born at Newark, Ohio, 1828; removed to Iowa in 1853; was a F.;

of the State Constitutional Convention of 1856; was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1857; in 1859 was elected State Senator, serving as President of the Senate in 1861; in the latter year was elected a Representative from Iowa to the Thir

ty-seventh Congress, to fill a vacancy; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Con gresses; in 1869 was appointed a Commissioner for the Pacific Railroad; was elected a United States Senator from Iowa for six years from March 188:5. 4,

ment became Chief Clerk of the General Land Oflice; in 1860 and again in 1866 was appointed Commis sioner of that Bureau, holding the office a number of years, and rendering important services to the De partment generally; was always fond of books, and by the unusual strength of his mind became a most Died

accomplished scholar.

Nathan New York,

"Wilson,

gress from

;

in

Washington.

was a Representative

in

Con

from 1808 to 1809.

was appointed a Senator in "Wilson, Robert Congress from Missouri, taking his seat in 1861, and ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. serving on the Committee on the Pacific Railroad; continued in the position until November, 1803; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention of 1866.

|

"

I

i

"Wilson, Stephen F.; was born in Columbia, Bradford County. Pennsylvania, September 4, 1821; passed his boyhood on a farm; received his education at Wellsborough Academy, where he was an assist ant teacher for one term; also, for a while, taught in a district school at Wellsborough; studied and adopted the profession of the law; was a borough assessor for one year; was a school director tor six years; was a Senator in the State Legislature in 1863 and 1 864, and although returned to the State Senate, was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Commit tees on Revolutionary Claims, and Public Buildings and Grounds; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills and on that on Education and Labor.

Thomas

"Wilson,

;

was a Representative in Con Died Jan

gress from Virginia, from 1811 to 1813. uary :24, 1826.

"Wilson, Thomas; was a Representative in Con Died at gress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817. Erie, October 4, 18:24, aged fifty-three years.

Thomas

was an early emigrant to 1838 was appointed United States

"Wilson,

S.;

Iowa Territory; in Judge for that District.

was a Representative in "Wilson, "William gress from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1819 ;

Con

was educated at Albion College, Michigan; left col lege in 1855, and went, overland, to California, where he engaged in mining; in 1858 returned to Michigan and engaged in farming; was a Representative in the State Legislature from 1861 to 1865; a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867; in 1876 was elected Probate Judge for Livingston County; was elected a Representative from Michigan to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Fortyninth Congress.

Winans, James January was

born at MaysKentucky, June 7, 1818; removed, with his father, to Ohio in 1819; received a common school education; worked on a farm, and acted as a clerk in Ohio, and also in Kentucky, until 1837; studied law, and came to the bar in 1841 in 1845 was appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Greene County, resigning in 1851; in 1857 was elected to the State Senate; in 1863 was elected a Representative in the Legislature; in 1864 was elected a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for two years; was re-elected, in 1866, for a full term of five years; in 1868 was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-first Con gress, serving on the Committees on Public Lands, ;

ville,

;

and Revolutionary Pensions. "Winans,

New

John; was born

at Vernon,

Sussex

Jersey, September 27, 1831; was edu cated in private and common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855, and engaged in practice; removed to Wisconsin in 1857, and settled at Janesville; was City Attorney five terms between 1865 and 1875; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1874 and 1882; was a member of the military staff of the Governor, with rank of Colonel, in 1874 and 1875; was elected a Rep resentative from Wisconsin to the Forty-eighth Con

County.

18f>4;

was born in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1827. Died in the "William;

"Wilson,

latter year, aged fifty-five years.

gress. "William

"Wilson,

L.;

was born in Jefferson

County. Virginia, (now West Virginia), May 3, 1843; received a classical education at Charleston Academy, Columbia College, District of Columbia, (where he received the degree of A.B. in 1860), and at the Uni versity of Virginia; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; was Professor of Latin at Columbia College from 1865 to 1871; in the latter year entered upon the practice of law at Charleston, West Virginia; in 1880 was a Delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention; also a Presidential Elector; in 1882 was elected President of the West Virginia University; soon afterwards was elected a Representative from West Virginia to the Fortyeighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

was born in the parish of "Winchester, Boyd Ascension, Louisiana, September 23, 1836; was edu cated at Centre College, Kentucky, and at the Uni versity of Virginia; graduated from the Law Uni in 1857; was versity at Louisville, Kentuck} admitted to the bar in the same year, and engaged in the practice of law at Louisville, Kentucky; in 1867 was elected a State Senator; was a Presidential Elector in 1868; in that year was elected a Repre sentative from Kentucky to the Forty-first Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress; in 1875 became President of the Farmers and Drovers In surance Company, in which position he remained until 1877, when he resumed the practice of his pro fession; in 1880 was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884 was President of the Democratic State Convention of Kentucky; in the same year was a Presidential Elector; in May, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, Minister Resident and Consul-General of the United States to Switzerland. ;

,

;

Wiltz,

Louis A.;

was born

in

Louisiana

received a liberal education; resided in the City of New Orleans, where he was Vice-President of the Louisiana State National Bank; served a term as Mayor of New Orleans; in 1874 was elected a Representative in the Louisiana Legisla ture; was elected Speaker, and was discharging the duties of this office when, in 1875, the Legislature was overthrown by the United States military authorities; in 1876 was elected Lieutenant-Go vernor of Louisiana; in 1879 was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention of Louisiana, and was President of that body; in November, 1879, was elected Governor of Louisiana. Died at New Or leans, October 16, 1881. in 1843;

"Winans,

York,

May

B.; was born at Avon, New removed to Michigan in 1834;

Ed-win

16, 1826;

was born in Maryland in "Winchester, James 1756; was appointed Judge of the District Court of the United States in Maryland in 1799; entered the army as a Colonel from Tennessee in March, 1812; was made a Brigadier-General in March. 1813; had command of a detachment under General Harrison, and met with great disaster on the River Raisin in January, 1813, when he was compelled to surrender to the British forces; became a prisoner, and was carried into Canada and confined about a year in ;

Quebec, with his subordinate officers*; was subse quently on duty in Mobile, Alabama, under General

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

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in Jackson; in March, 1815, resigned his commission the army, and after living in retirement in Tennes see,

usefulness.

died there, July 27, 1826.

"Winder,

Levin; was appointed Major

of the

was a Lieutenant-Col onel at the close of the Revolutionary War; prior to 1812 was Speaker of the House of Delegates, and from 1812 to 1815 was Governor of Maryland; in 1816 was a memher of the State Senate, and was a General of Militia, and Grand Master of Masons of Maryland. Died in Baltimore, July 7, 1819, aged Maryland Regiment

in 1777;

sixty-three years. "Winder,

William; was

the

first

man

appointed

to take charge of the office of Fourth Auditor, in 1798, at which time the officer was called Accountant

of the Navy.

was born in Belmont Coun ty, Ohio, May 10, 1827; received an academic educa tion; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1850; was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Knox County in 1852; removed to Minnesota in 1853; was elected a Representative from that State to the ;

Thirty-sixth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Public Lands, and of the Special Com mittee of Thirty-three; was re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Pub lic Expenditures; also to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and of the Special Committee to visit the In dian Tribes of the West in 1865; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Commit tee on the Death of President Lincoln, and again at the head of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and as Chairman of a Special Committee on the Conduct of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; was also a Dele gate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Convention" of 1866; was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serv ing on old Committees; in 1870 was appointed a Sen ator in Congress for the unexpired term of D. S. Norton, and subsequently elected for the term ending in 1877, serving as Chairman of the Committees on Enrolled Bills, and Transportation, and member of Appropriations; was re-elected for the term ending in 1883; resigned in March, 1881, to become Secretary of the Treasury; was re-elected to fill the

own

vacancy

resignation.

Winfleld, Charles H.; was born in Crawford Orange County, New York, April 22, 1822; studied law, and came to the bar in 1846; was for six years District Attorney for Orange County, from 1850 to 1856, in 1862 was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress; in 1865 was Chairman of the State "Democratic Convention" previous to organization; in the Thirty-ninth Congress

its final

served on the Committees on Foreign Affairs, on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and Ways and

Means.

Wing-, Austin E.; was born in Hampshire County, Massachusetts; was a Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Michigan from 1828 to 1832; re sided at Monroe, and was for many years a man in all its local affairs. Died at Clevelandleading Ohio August 25, 1849. E. Rumsey was born in Kentucky in 1845; well educated; adopted the profession of the law; from 186!) to* 1874 was Minister Resident to Ecuador. Died in Quito, October 11, 1874. He acquitted himself with great credit in South America

Wing,

Wingard, Samuel Cyrus was born in Hunt ingdon County, Pennsylvania, six miles west of Hunt ingdon, the County Seat, August 6, 1825; received a classical education, graduating from Dickinson Col lege in 1847; taught in an academy at Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, for two years; studied law; was ad mitted to the bar in 1851, and engaged in practice; served two terms as a Representative in the State ;

Legislature; removed to Washington Territory in 1870; in 1872 was appointed United States Attorney 1875 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory, and continued in that position by re-appointment.

for that Territory; in

Wingate, Joseph

Windom, William

caused by his

and was especially noticed by S. S. Cox, in a speech on the floor of Congress, for his ability and

;

F.; was born in Massachu was a member of the Legislature of that State in 1818 and 1819; was Collector of Customs at Bath, Maine, from 1820 to 1824; was a member of the Maine Legislature in 1825 and 1826; was a Repre sentative in Congress from Maine from 1827 to 1831. setts;

Wingate, Paine was born at Amesbury, Mas sachusetts, May 14, 1739; graduated at Harvard Uni versity in 1759; was ordained as a Congregational Minister at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, in 1763; afterwards removed to Stratham, and engaged in ;

was appointed a member of Congress under the Confederation in 1787; after the of the Constitution was elected a member adoption of the United States Senate, in 1789, and served un til 1793, when he was elected a Representative in Congress, serving until 1795; in 1798 was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and continued in office until May, 1809, when he at tained the age of seventy; survived all others who were members of the United States Senate at the time of his taking his seat in that body upon its tirst organization, and was, for some years, the oldest graduate of his college; was a man of talents and extensive information, highly esteemed and respected for his character and his honorable and useful life. Died at Stratham, New Hampshire, March 7, 1838. agricultural pursuits;

Winslow, Warren was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, January 1, 1810; entered Chapel Hill University, and graduated in 1827; havingstudied law, was soon afterwards admitted to the bar; in 1854 was appointed, by President Pierce, a confiden tial agent to Madrid, on business connected with the Black Warrior affair; during his absence abroad was nominated for the Senate of North Carolina; was ;

elected a member thereof, and placed in the chair of Speaker; while in that position, Governor Reid was elected to the United States Senate, and the duties of Governor devolved upon, and were performed by, Mr. Winslow; was elected to the Thirty-fourth Con gress, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, serving as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and on the Library, and on the Special Committee of Thirty-three on the Rebellious States; was offered, by President Buchanan, the mission to Died at Fayetteville in Sardinia, bat declined it. 1863.

Winston, Frederick H.; was born in Liberty County, Georgia, November 20, 1830; removed, with his parents, to Kentucky, in 1836; was educated in private schools; in 1848, his parents having died, re turned to Georgia and commenced the study of law at Greensboro, in that State; afterwards entered tho Law Department

of Harvard

University, at

Cam-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. bridge, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1852; then studied law in the office of Hon. William M. Evarts, in New York City; was admitted to the bar there in April, 1853, and settled at Chicago, Illi nois, in the practice of law; was, for fourteen years. Commissioner of Lincoln Park in Chicago, by ap pointment of the Governor of Illinois; in October, 1885, was appointed, by President Cleveland, United States Minister to Persia; remained at his post about eight months, when he resigned and resumed the practice of his profession at Chicago. "Winston,

from 1853

John

States, holding his office until 1829. after which he settled in Baltimore; in 1824 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Harvard College; he occupied a high rank as a public man and a citizen.

Died at Baltimore, Maryland, February

Rebellion; was Commonwealth Attorney of Rich mond, Virginia, from 1870 to 1880, when he resigned; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty -seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses; was re-

A.; was Governor of Alabama

elected to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Joseph was born in Virginia, in 1760 joined a company of rangers, and marched to the frontier of the State; in a battle on the Greenbrier, was twice wounded, and had a horse killed under him; had a pension granted him by the Legislature, for his gallantry in battle; in 1766 re moved to North Carolina; took an active part in the Revolution; raised a regiment, and marched against the Cherokee Indians; was appointed a Major in 1776, and had various actions with the forces of the Tories; commanded the right wing of the American ;

Wise, Henry, A.; was born in Drnmmondtown, Accomac County, Virginia, December 3, 1806; grad uated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, at the age of nineteen; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Winchester, Virginia, in 1828; the same year removed to Nashville, Tennessee, and practiced his profession for two years, when, from local attach ment, he returned to Accomac; became a Represent

1746; in

ative in Congress, serving from 1833 to 1844, when he resigned his seat for the mission to Brazil, which post he occupied until the fall of 1847; in 1843 was appointed Minister to France, and resigned his seat in Congress, but the Senate did not confirm him and he was immediately returned to Congress; in 1848 was one of the Presidential Electors of Virginia; in 1850 was a member of the Reform Convention of

troops in the battle of King s Mountain, and for his bravery had a sword voted to him by the Legisla ture; was elected to Congress in 1792, and again in 1803, and served until 1807; was a Presidential Elector in 1801.

Winter, Elisha Congress, from

New

J.; was a Representative in York, from 1813 to 1815.

Winthrop, Robert O.; was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 12, 1801); graduated at Harvard College in 1828; studied law with Daniel Webster; entered the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1835, and was Speaker of the House from 1838 to 1840; was a member of the United States House of Represent atives, from 1840 to 1842, when he resigned on ac count of domestic circumstances, but was re-elected the same year, and continued in that body until 1850; was Speaker during the Congress commencing in 1847; was appointed to the Senate of the United States to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna tion of Mr. Webster, and served from 1850 to 1851 was President of the Electoral College of Massachu setts which voted for General Scott; was President of the Historical Society of Massachusetts, and other literary and charitable associations; also President of the Commissioners chosen by the City of Boston for building a Public Library; delivered the Inau gural of the Franklin Statue in 1856, and also that of the Washington Monument in 1848; subsequently published a "Memoir of Nathan Appletou," and the Life and Letters of John Winthrop in 1866 was chosen a Delegate to the Philadelphia "National Union Convention," but did not take part in its

Virginia, which adopted the present Constitution qf the State; in 1852 was again a Presidential Elec tor; in 1855 was elected Governor of Virginia, which, office he held until I860; served in the great Rebel lion as a Brigadier-General.

Wise, John

:

|

I

I

Congress.

Wise, Morgan

B.; was born at West Bethle 7, 1830; received a limifed education; taught school in 1850 crossed the plains* to California, and engaged in mining there; return ing to Pennsylvania entered Waynesburg College, and graduated in 1856; was a Representative in the State Legislature from 1874 to 1878; was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses.

hem, Pennsylvania, June

;

"

";

Wise, Tully B.; was born in Virginia; in 1842 was appointed First Auditor of the Treasury, remain

proceedings.

William

Maryland, November

;

was born in Bladensburg, 1772, of Swiss and German

ing in that

office until 1844.

8,

obtained his early education at private was, for a time, a private tutor; studied law, and came to the bar in 1794, practicing at Culpepper, Virginia; in 1799 was chosen Clerk of the House of Delegates; in 1802 appointed Chancellor of the Eastern District of Virginia; in 1803 settled in British Spy in 1806 setNorfolk, and wrote the tied in Richmond; in 1812 wrote "The Old Bach in 1817 the Life of Patrick Henry in elor," and 1816 was appointed, by President Madison, Attorney of the United States for the District of Virginia; in 1817 was appointed Attorney-General of the United

Wisner, Henry was a

parents;

;

to the Continental Congress

schools;

Wisner, Moses County,

"

";

1

S.; was born in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, his father at the time filled the position of United States Minister, December 25, 1846; received a classical education at the Virginia Military Institute; was one of the Cadets of that institution who. during the Civil War, were engaged in the battle of New market, where he was wounded studied law at the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in 1867, and engaged in the practice of law; was elected a Representative from Virginia to the Forty-eighth

where

;

;

"Wirt,

18, 1834.

Wise, George D.; was born in Accomac County, Virginia, in 1835; graduated at Indiana University; adopted the profession of the law; served in the Con federate Army as a Captain during the War of the

to 1857.

"Winston,

555

"

";

)

New

Delegate from New York from 1774 to 1776.

was born in Aurelius, Cayuga York, in 1818; received a good educa ;

tion; removed to Michigan in 1839, and settled upon a farm near the town of Atlas, Lapeer County; in about a year afterwards removed to Poutiac, and studied law, coming to the bar in 1842; in 1843 was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Lapeer County; in 1844 resumed the practice of his profession, and continued in it until 1858, when he was elected Gov-

BIOGRAPHICAL ANKALS.

556

Continental Congress from 1776 to 1782, and signed ,he Articles of Confederation; served in the Legisla the te, and at the same time frequently occupied in 1782, and on his return pulpit; revisited Scotland Died at Princeton, November etired to private life.

for Circuit Judge ernor of the State; was a candidate little interest in pol iu 1832 but was defeated; took man of fine mind, and a most worthy itics; was a a Colonel in the Vol citizen: in 1862 was appointed the command of unteer Armv, and was assigned to while on his the Twenty-second Michigan Regiment; sickness in way to the seat of war, was prostrated by where he died, January o, Lexington, Kentucky,

;

He left numerous literary, political, and L5, 1794. as an orator, theological writings; was distinguished and left a name that will be always affectionately re the people of his adopted State. membered by

1863.

Witherspoon, Robert; was

Witcher, John S.; was born in Cabell County, was reared on a iarm; re Virginia, July 15, 1839; in 1861 was ceived a common school education; en elected Clerk of the Cabell County Circuit Court; tered the Volunteer Army, in 18i, as a Lieutenant, and rose by degrees to the rank of Brigadier-General, in 1865 was elected to serving to the end of the war; of State; in the State Legislature; in 1866,. Secretary West Vir 1868 was elected a Representative from on the ginia to the Forty-first Congress, serving Committees on Military Affairs, and Revolutionary Claims, Witherell, James; was born in Vermont;

in Congress

Withey, Solomon L.; was born at St. Albans, Vermont, April 21, 1820; removed to Ohio in 1835, where he obtained a good English education; in 1838 removed to Michigan, and located at Grand Rapids; bar in in 1839 began the study of law; came to the until 18:J3; in 1H48 1844, and continued in practice was elected Judge of Probate, and held the office four years; in 1860 was elected to the State Senate, and took an active part in promoting effective legis lation for putting

re

of ceived a limited education; adopted the profession the the law; from 1798 to 1803 was a member of a State State Legislature; two years a County Judge; Councilor from 1803 to 1807; was a Representative in Congress from Vermont during the years 1807 and Federal Judge 1808; in the latter year was appointed in the Territory of Michigan, where he long resided and died; he was a man of strong native powers of

mind.

Withers, Robert E.; was born in Campbell was educated County, Virginia, September 18, 1821 at a private academy and the University of Virginia; and began to practice graduated in medicine in 1841, in Danville, Virginia: at the breaking out of the Civil War entered the service as Major, when Virginia and was made passed the ordinance of secession, Colonel of the Eighteenth Virginia Regiment in 1861 was severely wounded in the battles around Rich mond in 1862; subsequently commanded the military to the Sixth post at Danville, which was surrendered Army Corps in May; was never a candidate for any to public office until after the war; in 1866 removed ;

;

Lynchburg and edited the News until 186S; was nomi

nated Governor, but withdrew in favor of Governor Walker; was Presidential Elector for the State at Large in 1873; was elected Lientenant-Governor in 18T3, and United States Senator for six years from

March

4,

1875.

"Withers, T. I.; was reputed to be one of the ablest jurists in the South; was, for a long time, Judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Died at Sumterville, in that State, December 8, 1865.

Witherspoon, John; was born

near Edinburgh,

Scotland, February 5, 1722, and was a lineal descend ant of John Knox; graduated at the University of Edinburgh in his twenty-first year, and was licensed as a preacher, assisting his father, who was also a preacher; in 1746, while witnessing the battle of Falkirk, was arrested and imprisoned; after his re lease, he declined a number of calls from all parts ol the kingdom, but in 1766, through the influence of Richard Stockton, was elected President of Princeton College, and came to America; in this new sphere he was eminently successful; at the commencement ol the Revolution, espoused the American cause, and took an active part on committees and in conven a member of the first Constitutional Con tions; vention of New Jersey in 1776; was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; was a Delegate to the "

a Representative

from South Carolina from 1809 to 1811.

down the Rebellion was appointed, ;

by President Lincoln. United States for the Western District of Michigan

;

District Judge in December,

President Grant, a commission 1869, received, from as Judge of the Sixth United States Judicial Circuit, but declined it; for that position was warmly sup the leading members of the bar in Michi ported by

gan and Northern Ohio, of

all political parties,

and

that fact alone made him reluctant to decline; was also President of the First National Bank of Grand Died April 25, 1886. Rapids.

Witte, William H.; was born in New Jersey; having settled iu Pennsylvania, was elected a Rep resentative in Congress from 1853 to 1855. was the son of Roger Wolan early Governor of Connecticut, and was born November 26, 1726; graduated at Yale College in his to twenty-first year; was immediately commissioned

Wolcott, Oliver

;

cott,

defend the frontier; after was chosen Sheriff of Litchfield County; in 1774 was appointed Coun was one of selor, and held the office twelve years; the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation; was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, and from 1780 to 1784; as a military man he rose to the grade of Major-General, and was present at the cap ture of Burgoyne, in 1775 was appointed Commis sioner of Indian Affairs for the Northern Department; iu 1785 was associated with Lee and Butler in nego was tiating a treaty with the Six Nations; in 1786 elected Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut, holding the office ten years; was Governor of Connecticut from 1796 until his death, which occurred in Decem him. ber, 1797, lamented by all who knew

command

a

company

to

ward studied medicine;

iu 1751

Wolf, George was born in Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, August 12, ;

1777; after pursuing a course of classical education own county, studied law, became eminent, and engaged in a lucrative practice; in 1818 was elected a member of the Legislature of his native State; was a Representative in Congress from Penn sylvania, from 1824 to 1829; was Governor of that State from 1829 to 1835; in 1836 was appointed First Comptroller of the United States Treasury; was subsequently appointed Collector of Customs at Philadelphia, in which city he died of an affection of the heart, March 14, 1840. in his

vvas>

"

Wolf, William Ohio,

December

1,

P.; was born iu Stark County, 1833; received a common school

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. education; studied law, and removed to Iowa in 185G; was admitted to the bar in 1859; was Superin tendent of Common Schools; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1863 and 1864; entered the army as Captain of Infantry; was se verely wounded in Tennessee; was re-elected to the State House of Representatives; was Assistant As sessor of Internal Revenue in 1865; was elected to the State Senate in 1867; was elected a Representa tive from Iowa to the Forty-first Congress to fill a

vacancy.

Wolfe, Simeon K.; was born in Floyd County, Indiana, February 14, 1824; graduated in the Law Department of the University of Indiana in 1850, and engaged in the practice of law; was a Presiden tial Elector in 1856; was elected to the State Senate in 1860, rind served four years; was a Delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore Democratic National Con vention in 1860; was Colonel of the Indiana Militia in 1861; was editor and proprietor of the Corydon Democrat from 1857 to 1865; in 1870 removed to New Albany; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, serving on the Committee on Railroads and Canals.

Wolford, Frank D.; was born

in

Adair County,

Kentucky, September 2, 1817; received a common school education; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of his profession was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1847, Ken 1848, 1865, and 1866; was Colonel of the First tucky Cavalry from 1861 to 1864; was a Presidential Elector in 1864 and 1868; was Adjutant-General of the State of Kentucky in 1867 and 1868; was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the Forty-eighth ;

Congress; was

re-elected to the Forty-ninth

Con

gress.

was a distinguished merchant of "Wood, Abiel Wiscasset, Massachusetts; from 1807 to 1811, and in 1816, was a member of the State Legislature; was a member of Congress from that State from 1813 to Constitutional Conven 1815; was a member of the of 1819; was a State Councilor in 1820 and tion" 1821. Died at Belfast, Maine, November, 1834, aged ;

Wood, Bradford R. was born in Connecticut; was well educated, and adopted the profession of the law; removed to Albany, New York; was a Repre ;

sentative in Congress from that State from 1845 to 1847; in 1861 was appointed, by President Lincoln, Minister Resident to Denmark.

Wood, Fernando of

was born in Philadelphia, Quaker parentage, June 14, 1812; removed to New

Alan was born at Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, July 6, 1834; resided there until seventeen years of age, when he graduated at the Polytechnic Delaware institute of that city; took charge of the Iron Works" of his father, and was there six years; removed to Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and as sisted in building the original mill of the Schuylkill Iron Works"; became interested in the two com panies; was President of the First National Bank of Conshohocken; in 1874 was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Wood,

;

;

York, with his father, in 1820; early turned his at tention to the shipping business, in which he waseminently successful, and from which he retired in 1850; in 1840 was elected a Representative from New York to the Twenty-seventh Congress; in 1854 was elected Mayor of New York, and was re-elected to the

same

position, serving five years; was also elected to the Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty -first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on many important committees; in 1875 his friends pro posed that he should be a candidate for Speaker, but he declined the honor; was re-elected to the Fortyfifth and Forty-sixth Congresses. Died at Washing

ton,

February

20, 1881.

Wood, George T.; was appointed Major of Georgia Three Months Volunteers in the Creek War in 1836; was Colonel of the Second Texas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers in the Mexican War, and was distinguished at the storming of Monterey; was afterwards member of the Texas Congress, and was Governor of Texas from 1847 to 1849. Died on Trinity River, Texas, September 5, 1858.

Wood, James;

was a native of Virginia; was a of the State Constitutional Convention of 1776; was a Colonel of the Virginia Militia in 1776; was Lieutenant-Governor and a member of the Exec utive Council; was Governor of the State from 1796 to 1799; a county in Virginia was named for him, to

member

commemorate

his patriotic services.

Wood, John; was born

"

sixty-two years.

557

in Philadelphia in 1816;

was educated for the counting room, in which he had an experience of twenty-five years, devoting himself chiefly to the manufacture of iron; never held any public position but that of Representative to the Thirty-sixth Congress Iroin Pennsylvania, to which he was elected contrary to his wishes, serving on the Committee on Public Expenditures.

"

Wood, John gress from

was a Representative in Con

J.;

New York

from 1827 to 1829.

"

Wood, Amos

B.; was born in Jefferson County, York, in 1810; in 1825 removed, with his in 18:53 settled per father, to Portage County, Ohio; manently in Woodville, Sandusky County; twice represented his district in the lower branch of the Legislature, and once for the term of two years in the State Senate; was elected a Representative in Con filled the unexgress from Ohio from 1850 to 1852; pired term of R. Dickinson; the farm upon which he Died lived and died was cleared by his own hands. in Fort Wayne, Indiana, November 19, 1850.

New

Wood, Benjamin was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, October 13, 1820; received a common school education; removed to New York City; pubJished and edited the Daily News newspaper; was a State Senator in 18(56 and 1867; was elected a Repre sentative from New York to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Forty-seventh Congresses. ;

Wood, John M.; was born in Minnisink, Orange County, New York, November 18, 1813; re ceived a good common school education; was a mem ber of the Legislature of Maine; was, for years, oc cupied as a constructor of railroads and other public works; in 1854 was elected a Representative from Maine in the Thirty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was a member of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Died in Boston, December 24, 1864. Wood, Joseph

;

entered the Revolutionary Army

Major of Second Pennsylvania Regiment, and was sent to Canada, July 4, 1776; rose to the rank of Colonel during that year; was a Delegate from as

Georgia to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1779; Diedjn March, 1789.

Wood, Reuben was born in Rutland County, Vermont, in 1792; served as Captain of the Vermont Volunteers in the war of 1812; after the war removed to Cleveland. Ohio, and settled there in 1817, to practice law; was a member of the State Senate from 1825 to 1828; was made President Judge of the Third ;

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS.

558

District of the State in 1830, serving until 1833,

when

he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio; continued to hold that office until 1845; was chosen Governor of Ohio for the term beginning in 1850 and ending in 1853; in 1852 was proposed by some of his Democratic friends as a suitable candidate for the to Presidency; was appointed United States Consul the end of Valparaiso in 1853; resigned that office at eighteen months, and returned to his adopted State. Died at Rockport, Ohio, October 2, 1864.

was born in Suffolk County, New "Wood, Silas York; graduated at Princeton College in 1789; was the author of a "History of Long Island;" was a Representative in Congress from New York from 1819 to 1829. Died at Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, March 2, 1847, aged seventy-eight ;

years.

Thomas

J. ; was born in Athens County. Wood, Ohio, September 30, 1844; was reared on a farm; taught school for two years; studied law; graduated from the Law Department of Ann Arbor University in 1867; settled in Indiana in the successful practice of his profession; was elected Prosecuting Attorney fora term of two years, and was re-elected; was a State Senator for four years; was elected a Repre sentative from Indiana to the Forty-eighth Congress, in every instance overcoming large opposition major ities. "Wood, "Walter

Hampshire, October

A.; was born at Mason, 23,

1815;

received a

New

common

school education; removed to New York and engaged largely in manufacturing; was elected a Representa tive from New York to the Forty-sixth and Forty-

seventh Congresses.

Woodbridge, Frederick B.; was born in Vergennes, Vermont. August 29, 1818; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840; studied law, and came to the bar in 1842; served three years in the State Legislature, two years in the State Senate, three years as State Auditor; in 1863 was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Judiciary; was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on the Judiciary and Private Land Claims; was a Delegate to the Philadelphia of 1866; was re-elected to "Loyalists Convention the Fortieth Congress, and made Chairman of the Committee on the Pay of Officials of Congress. "

Woodbridge, "William was born in Norwich, Connecticut, August 20, 1780; his father becoming one of the earliest emigrants to the Northwest Terri tory, removed to Marietta in 1791; received his earliest education in Connecticut; studied law at Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1806; in 1807 was elected to the Assem bly of Ohio; in 1808 was Prosecuting Attorney for his county, which office he held until 1814; during the same period was also a member of the State Sen in 1814 ate; received, from President Madison, unex pectedly, the appointment of Secretary of the Terri of Michigan, and removed to Detroit; in 1819 tory was elected the first Delegate from Michigan to Con gress, where he was very active in promoting the in terests of his constituents; in 1828 was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Michigan Territory, and held the office four years; in 1835 was a member of the Convention called to form a State Constitu tion; in 1837 was elected to the State Senate of Mich igan; in 1839 was chosen Governor of the State; was a Senator in Congress from 1841 to 1847; was a work ing member 011 many important committees, and his ;

and speeches were numerous; Daniel Web a note to his speech in defense of the Ashburton Treaty, attributed to Mr. Woodbridge the reports

ster, in

suggestion that was ever made to him of insert a provision for the surrender of fugitives, under certain circumstances, upon the de mand of foreign governments; for many years before his death he lived in retirement at Detroit. Died October 20, 1831. In 1867 a small volume was pub entitled the Life of William lished, Woodbridge," from the pen of the compiler of this work. first

ing, in that treaty,

"

Woodburn, William; was born in Wicklow was a student at St. County, Ireland, in 1833 Charles College, Maryland, for four years; emigrated to California in 1855; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1865; was District-Attorney of Storey County in 1871 and 1872; was elected a Representa tive from Nevada to the Forty-fourth Congress for the State at Large; in 1884 was elected to the Fortyninth Congress. ;

Woodbury, Levi

New

;

was born

Hampshire, December

in Francestown, graduated at

22, 1789;

Dartmouth College in 1810; attended the Law School law in Boston, Ex eter, and Francestown, and entered upon the prac tice in 1812, in which he was successful; in 1816 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of New Hamp shire, and in 1819 settled in Portsmouth; in 1823 was elected Governor of New Hampshire; was Speak er of the State House of Representatives in 1825; was a Senator in Congress from 1825 to 1831; was ap pointed, by President Jackson, Secretary of the Navy, in 1831; was transferred to the Treasury Department, as Secretary, in 1834, by President Van Buren, and served until 1841; was again a Senator in Congress from 1841 to 1845, when he was appointed, by Presi dent Polk, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; was tendered the appointment of Min ister to England, but declined it; received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth College and the Wesleyaii University of Connecticut, and was a member of vari at Litchfield, continued to study

ous literary societies.

Died at Portsmouth,

Hampshire, September

7,

New

1851.

Woodcock, David; was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts; was a member of the New York Assembly from Seneca County in 1814 and 1815, and from Tompkins County in 1826; was a Rep resentative in Congress from New York from 1821 to 1823, and again from 1827 to 1829. Woodruff, G-eorge

C.;

was born

in Litchfield.

Connecticut, December 1, 1805; graduated at Yale College in 125; studied law at the Litchfield School, and came to the bar in 1827; was, for fourteen years, Postmaster of Litchfield; was a Clerk and Represent ative in the State Legislature; was, for years, Presi dent of a bank; was a Judj^e of Probate for several years; in 1861 was elected a Representative from Connecticut to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Public Lands.

Woodruff, John; was born necticut,

February

in Hartford, Con was a member of the 1854; in 1855 was elected

12, 1826;

Connecticut Legislature in a Representative from Connecticut to the Thirty-

fourth Congress; was also elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving on the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads; subsequently held the position of Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of New Haven, in which city he died May 20, 1868.

Woodruff, Lewis

was born in Litchfield, and was the son of Gen eral Morris Woodruff; graduated at Yale College in Connecticut. June 19,

B.;

1H()

TABULAR RECORDS. 1774- 75 1784- 85 1784- 85 1784- 86 1774- 76 1780- 81 1786- 88 1785- 86 1780- 81 1778- 80 1787- 88 1774- 76 1782- 84 1780- 84 1783- 84 1776- 78 1774- 77 1778- 80 1782- 83 1785- 87 1787- 88 1777- 78 1774- 75 1777- 79 1774- 77 1776- 77 1778- 80 1778- 8a 1 77(5- 78 1777- 78 1780- 82 1785- 87 77 1775- 76 1775- 78 1782- 83 1785- 87 1779- 83 ;

L Hommedien,

Ezra .............

Livingston, Philip ................................... 177^_>77 R ............................. Livingston, Robert 17?9- 81

Livingston, Walter

Low,

Isaac

...

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........................... McDougall, Alexander

n?4-

7...177G-

88

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"
-

Gibbons, William Gwinnett, Button

1784-

Habersham, John

1785177517751784-

Hall,

1787- 88 1786- 87

17821786177717871774178417771781-

"

Lyman

Houston, John Houston, William

177fi-

88 78 7G 80 82 88 86 77 86 79 77 87

TABULAR RECORDS.

TABULAR year, with a power reserved to each State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead for the re mainder of the year. No State shall be represented in Congress by less

than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a Delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a Delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States; for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolutions of any kind. Each State shall Maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as mem bers of the committee of the States. In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Congress; and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons from arrest and im prisonments during the time of their going to and from and attendance on Congress, except for treason,

KECOK DS

.

and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United

States in Congress assembled shall determine other wise. ART. 7. When land forces are raised by any State for the common defense, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each State respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such State shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the State which first made the appointments. ART. 8. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general warfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a com mon treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States in proportion to the value of all land within each State granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall from time felony, or breach of the peace. ART. 6. No State, without the consent of the to time direct and appoint. United States in Congress assembled, shall send any The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter and levied by the authority and direction of the legis into any conference, agreement, alliance, or treaty, latures of the several States, within the time agreed with any king, prince, or state; nor shall any person upon by the United Stales in Congress assembled. ART. 9. The United States in Congress assembled holding any office of profit or trust under the United shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolu ment, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any determining on peace and war, except in the cases king, prince, or foreign state; nor shall the United mentioned in the sixth article of sending and re States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant ceiving embassadors entering into treaties and alli any title of nobility. ances; provided, that no treaty of commerce shall be No two or more States shall enter into any treaty, made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts confederation, or alliance whatever, between them, without the consent of the United States in Congress and duties on foreigners as their own people are sub assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for jected to or from prohibitiag the exportation or which the same is to be entered into, and how long it importation of any species of goods or commodities shall continue. whatsoever of establishing rules for deciding in all No State shall lay any imposts or duties which may cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval interfere with any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any forces in the service of the United States shall be king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties divided or appropriated of granting letters of marque already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and reprisal in times of peace appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the and Spain. No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and by any State, except such number only as shall be determining finally appeals in all cases of captures; deemed necessary by the United States in Congress provided, that no Member of Congress shall be ap assembled for the defense of such State or its trade; pointed a judge of any of the said Courts. The United States in Congress assembled shall also nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace except such number only, as in the be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differ judgment of the United States in Congress assembled, ences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise be shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts neces tween two or more States concerning boundary, juris sary for the defense of such State; but every State diction, or any other cause whatever; which author shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined ity shall always be exercised in the manner folio wing: whenever the legislative or executive authority or militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and have constantly ready for use, in public lawful agent of any State in controversey with another stores, a due number of field-pieces and tents, and a shall present a petition to Congress, stating the mat proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp ter in question, and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of Congress to the equipage. No State shall engage in any war without the con legislative and executive authority of the other State in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance sent of the United States in Congress assembled, un less such State be actually invaded by enemies, or of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then shall have received certain advice of a resolution be directed to appoint by joint consent commissioners being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such or judges to constitute a court for hearing and deter State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit mining the matter in question; but if they cannot of a delay till the United States in Congress assembled agree, Congress shall name three persons out of each of the United States, and from the list of such persons can be consulted nor shall any State grant commis sions to any ships or vessels of war nor letters- of each party shall alternately strike out one, the peti marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of tioners beginning, ttntil the number shall be reduced war by the United States in Congress assembled, and to thirteen; and from that number not less than seven nor more than nine names, as Congress shall then only against the kingdom or State, and the sub direct, shall, in the presence of Congress, be drawn jects thereof, against which war has been so declared, ;

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out by lot; and the persons whose names shall be so drawn, or any fiveof them, shall be commissioners or the controversy, judges, to hear and finally determine so always as a major part of the judges, who shall hear the cause, shall agree in the determination; and if either party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons which Congress shall judge sufficient, or being present snail refuse to three strike, the Congress shall proceed to nominate persons out of each State, and the Secretary of Con gress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing; and the judgment and sentence of the court, to be appointed in the manner before pre scribed, shall be final and conclusive; and if any of the parties shall refuse to submit to the authority of such court, or to appear, or defend their claim or cause, the court shall, nevertheless, proceed to pro nounce sentence or judgment, which shall, in like manner, be final and decisive, the judgment or sen tence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the Acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned provided, that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State, where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter iu ques tion, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward"; provided, also, that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States. All controversies concerning the private right of soil, claimed under different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdiction as they may respect such lands and the States which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the peti tion of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between ;

different States.

The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regu lating the alloy and value of coin struck by their

own

authority, or by that of the respective States fixing the standard of weights and measures through out the United States regulating the trade and

managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States; provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not in fringed or violated establishing and regulating postoffices from one State to another throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same, as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States excepting regimental officers appoint ing all the officers of the naval forces, and commis sioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces and directing their operations. The United States in Congress

assembled shall have authority to appoint a Committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated Committee of the and to consist of one States," delegate from each State; and to appoint such other "a

and

Committees

civil officers as may be necessary for mauagine the general affairs of the United States, under their direction to appoint one of their number to preside Provided that no person be allowed to serve in the office of president more than one year in any term of a years to ascertain the necessary sums of

to be raised for the service of the United to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States, trans mitting every half year to the respective States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted to agree upon the num to build and equip a navy ber of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State; which requisition

money

States,

and

be binding, and thereupon the Legislature of each State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men, and clothe, arm, and equip them, in a sol dier-like manner, at the expense of the United Statesand the officers and men so clothed, armed, ana equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled; but if the United States in Congress assembled, shall, on consideration of cir cumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered, clothed, armed, and equipped, in the same manner as the quota of such State, unless the Legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot safely be spared out of the same; in which case they shall raise, officer, clothe, arm, and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared. And the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled. The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the defense and welfare of the United States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appro priate money, nor agree upon the number of vesselsof-war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a Com mander-in-chief of the army and navy, unless nine States assent to the same; nor shall a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day, be determined, unless by the votes of a majority of the United States in Congress assembled. The Congress of the United States shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the United States, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six months; and shall publish the journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof re lating to treaties, alliances, or military operations, as in their judgment requires secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the Delegates of each State on any question shall be entered.on the journal, when it is desired by any Delegate; and the Delegates of a State, or any of them, at his or their request, shall be furnished with a transcript of the said journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the Legislatures of the several States. ART. 10. The Committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the re cess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States in Congress assembled, by the con sent of nine States, shall from time to time think ex pedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said Committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of nine States in the Congress of the United States assembled is requisite. shall

TABULAR RECORDS. ART. 11. Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to, all the advan tages of this Union; but no other colony shall be ad mitted in the same unless such admission be agreed to by nine States. ART. 1:2. All bills of credit emitted, money bor rowed, and debts contracted, by or under the au thority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confedera tion, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfac tion whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged. ART. 13. Every State shall abide by the decision of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which, by this confederation, are submit ted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislature of every State. And whereas it has pleased the great Governor of the world to incline the hearts of the Legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confed eration and perpetual Union; know ye that we, the undersigned Delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do, by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our respective c mstituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm e ich and every of the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, and all and singular the mat ters and things therein contained; and we do further solemnly pledge and engage the faith of our respect ive constituents, that they shall abide by the deter minations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which, by the said confederation, are submitted to them; and that the Articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respect ively represent; and that the Union be perpetual.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. Josiah Bartlett,

John Weutworth,

John Hancock, Samuel Adams,

Francis Dana,

James Lovell, Samuel Holton.

Elbridge Gerry,

RHODE ISLAND. William Ellery.

Henry Marchant, John

Collins.

CONNECTICUT. Oliver Wolcott,

Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington,

Titus Hosmer,

Andrew Adams.

NEW James Duane, Francis Lewis,

;

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our Done at Philadelphia, in the hands, in Congress. State of Pennsylvania, the ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independ ence of America.

Jr.

MASSACHUSETTS BAY.

NEW

YORK. William Duer, Governeur Morris. JERSEY.

John Witherspoon, Nath. Scudder. PENNSYLVANIA. Robert Morris, Jonathan Bayard Smith, Daniel Roberdeau, William Clingan, Joseph Reed.

DELAWARE. Thomas McKean,

John Dickinson,

Van Dyke. MARYLAND.

Nicholas

John Hanson,

Daniel Carroll.

VIRGINIA. Richard Henry Lee, John Banister,

Thomas Adams,

John Harvie, Francis Lightfoot Lee.

NORTH CAROLINA. John Penn,

Cornelius Harnett.

John Williams.

SOUTH CAROLINA. John Matthews, Henry Laurens, William Henry Drayton, Richard Hutson, Thomas Heyward, Jr. GEORGIA. George Walton,

Edward Telfair, Edward Langworthy.

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [CAREFULLY COMPARED WITH THE ORIGINAL.] We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranqnility, provide for the common de fence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America.

ARTICLE SECTION

I.

All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Repre 1.

sentatives.

SEC. 2. The House of Representatives shall be com posed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for elect ors of the most numerous branch of the State Legis lature.

No

person shall be a Representative

who

shall not

have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct taxes shall be ap portioned among the several States which may be in cluded within this Union, according to their respect ive numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such a manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not ex ceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made the State of New Hamp-

The

TABULAR Massachusetts shire shall be entitled to choose three, and Providence Plantations one, eight, Rhode Island

Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, South Carolina five, Virginia ten, North Carolina five,

and Georgia

three.

vacancies happen in the representation from thereof shall issue antf State the executive authority writs of election to fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their and other officers; and shall have the sole

When

Speaker

power of Impeachment.

.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by SEC.

3.

the Legislature thereof, for six years; and each Sen ator shall have one vote. Immediately after they shall be assembled in con divided as sequence of the first election, they shall be seats of equally as may be into three classes. The the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the class at expiration of the second year, of the second the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that onethird may be chosen, every second year; and if vacan cies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive

may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tcmpore in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all im When sitting for that purpose they peachments. shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualifica tion to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States; but the party con victed shall nevertheless be liable and subject to in dictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, accord ing to law. SEC. 4. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be thereof

;

RECORDS. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceed ings and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. Neither House during the session of Congress, shall without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. The Senators and Representatives shall SEC. 6. receive a compensation for their services, to be ascer tained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, from felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged arrest, during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House they shall not be questioned in any other place.

No

Senator or Representative shall, during the time

which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emolutions whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House during his con for

tinuance in office. SEC. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall origin ate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.

Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall, before it be comes a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections, to that

House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objection at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsidera tion, two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be recon sidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each

House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law; in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the con currence of the Senate and House of Representatives prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; may be necessary (except on a question of adjourn but the Congress may at any time by law make or ment), shall be presented to the President of the alter such regulations, except as to the places of United States; and before the same shall take effect, choosing Senators. shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by The Congress shall assemble at least once in every him, shall berepassed by two-thirds of the Senate and year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday House of Representative, according to the rules and of December, unless they shall by law appoint a limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. different day. SEC. 8. The Congress shall have power SEC. 5. Each House shall be the To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and ex Judge of the and elections, returns, qualifications of its own mem cises, to pay the debts and provide for the common and a of each shall constitute a quorum bers, majority defense and general welfare of the United States; to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform from day to day, and may be authorized ito compel throughout the United States; the attendance of absent members in such manner To borrow money on the credit of the United States; and under such penalties as each House may provide. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and Each House may determine the rules of its proceed among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; ings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and and, with the concurrence of two-thirds expel a uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies through member. out the United States;

TAK U LAK To

coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of coin, and fix the standard of weights and

foreign

measures; To provide for the punishment of counterfeit ing the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post offices

and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and invent ors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme

Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies commit ted on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and ;

water; of

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation money to that use shall be for a longer term than

two years: To provide and maintain a navy; To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and re

R ECOKDS

No title

of nobility shall be granted by the United no person holding any office of profit or them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State. SEC. 10. No State shall enter into any treaty, al liance, or confederation grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligations of contracts, or grant any title of nobility. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, ex States; and trust under

;

cept what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the re vision and control of the Congress. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships-of-war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or com pact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

pel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them, as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Con gress;

To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases what soever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square), as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Gov ernment of the United States, and to exercise like au thority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings; and To make all laws which shall be necessary and prop er for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any de partment or officer thereof. SEC. 9. The migration or importation of such per sons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Con gress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion, or invasion the public safety may require it. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be

.

ARTICLE SECTION

1.

II.

The Executive power shall be vested in

a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Repre sentatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or per son holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

[*The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of i,he Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Sen

The President of the Senate shall, in the pres ence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a ma jority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such major then the House ity, and have an equal number of votes, of Representatives shall immediately choose by bal lot one of them for President; and if no person have passed. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, un a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. less in proportion to the census or enumeration here But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken inbefore directed to be taken. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported by States, the representation from each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of from any State. No preference shall be given by any regulation of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to the choice of the Presi those of another; nor shall vessels bound to or from a choice. In every case, after one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in dent, the person having the greatest number of votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if another. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in there should remain two or more who have equal the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the consequence of appropriations made by law; and a votes, Vice-President. ] regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published *This clause within brackets has been superseded and an from time to time. nulled by the 12th amendment. ate.

TABULAR RECORDS. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States. No person except a natural -born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of Presi that office dent; neither shall any person be eligible to who shall not have attained to the age of thirtyfive years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resig Vicenation, or inability, both of the President and President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.

The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be in creased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation :

do solemnly swear (or affirm} that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and "/

will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, the Constitution of the United States."

SEC.

of the

2.

and defend

The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the United States, and of

Army and Navy

the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may re quire the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, upon any sub ject relating to the duties of their respective offices,

and he shall have power to grant reprieves and par dons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided twothirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other pub lic Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law, but the Con gress, may by law vest the appointment of such in ferior officers as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of law, or in the

Heads of De

partments. The President shall have power to rill up all vacan may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. SEC. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration "such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other pub lic Ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the offi cers of the United States. SEC. 4. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed cies that

from

office

on impeachment

for,

and conviction of, and misde

treason, bribery, or other high crimes

meanors.

ARTICLE The

III.

power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time The Judges, both of to time ordain and establish. the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stilted times receive for their services a compensation, which SECTION

1.

judicial

shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

SEC. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made under their authority; to all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers, and Consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime r jurisdiction; to controversies to w hich the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States: and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens, or subjects. In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have orig In all the other cases beibre men inal jurisdiction. tioned the Supreme Court shall have appellate juris diction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall

make.

The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeach ment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Con ;

gress

may by law have

directed.

Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in ad hering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. The Congress shall have power to declare the pun ishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except dur ing the life of the person attainted. SEC.

3.

ARTICLE

IV.

SECTION 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. SEC. 2. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.

A

person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the Ex ecutive authority of the State from which he lied, be delivered up to be removed to the State having juris diction of the crime. No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.

TABULAR RECORDS. SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by the Con gress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State, nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the con sent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress. The Congress shall have, power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular State. SEC. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of gov ernment, and shall protect each of them against in vasion; and on application of the Legislature, or of

this Constitu tion; but no religious test shall e\er be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

bound by oath or affirmation to support

ARTICLE

ratification of the Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Con stitution between the States so ratifying the same.

DONE

in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of Septem ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence IN of the United States of America the twelfth. WITNESS whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, President,

the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be con vened), against domestic violence.

ARTICLE

for

proposing

MASSACHUSETTS. Rufus King. Nathaniel Gorham, CONNECTICUT. William S. Johnson, Roger Sherman. NEW YORK. Alexander Hamilton.

which,

in either case, shall be valid to all intents and pur poses, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be pro

NEW William Livingston, William Paterson,

JERSEY. David Brearley, Jonathan Dayton.

PENNSYLVANIA. Thomas

posed by the Congress: Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses of the ninth section of the first article; and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

ARTICLE

Virginia.

Nicholas Oilman.

John Langdon,

V.

amendments,

and Deputy from

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The Congress, whenever two-thirds of the House shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the Legis latures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a convention

VII.

The

Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris,

Mifflin,

George Clymer,

Jared Ingersoll, Thomas Fitzsimons, Gouverueur Morris. James Wilson, DELAWARE.

Jacob Broom,

George Read,

John Dickinson,

VI.

Gunning Bedford,

Jr.,

Richard Bassett.

All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitu tion as under the Confederation. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be

MARYLAND. Daniel Carroll, Daniel Jenifer, of St. Thomas. VIRGINIA. James Madison, Jr. John Blair,

James McHenry,

NORTH CAROLINA. Hugh Williamson,

William Blount,

Richard D. Speight.

SOUTH CAROLINA. Charles C. Pinckney, Pierce Butler.

J.

Rutledge, Charles Pinckney,

GEORGIA.

Abraham Baldwin.

William Few,

WILLIAM JACKSON,

Attest:

Secretary.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION WHICH FORMED THE CONSTITUTION. IN CONVENTION.

I

!

MONDAY, September 17, 1787. Resolved, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States in Congress assembled; and that it is the opinion of this Convention that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their as sent and ratification; and that each Convention as senting to and ratifying the same should give notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled. Rewired, That it is the opinion of this Convention that, as soon as the Conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which Elect ors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which Electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the

for commencing proceedin.gs under Constitution; that after such publication, the Electors should be appointed, and the Senators and that the Electors should, Representatives elected meet on the day fixed for the election of the Presi dent, and should transmit their votes, certified, signed, sealed, and directed, as the Constitution re quires, to the Secretary of the United States in Con gress assembled that the Senators and Representatives should convene at the time and place assigned; that the Senators should appoint a President of the Senate, for the sole purpose of receiving, opening, and counting the votes for President; and that, after he shall be chosen, the Congress, together with the

time and place this

;

;

i

President, should, without delay, proceed to execute this Constitution.

By

the unanimous order of the Convention.

GEO. WASHINGTON, President.

WILLIAM JACKSON,

Secretary.

TAB U LAK KECORDS

.

LETTER OF THE CONVENTION TO THE OLD CONGRESS. IN CONVENTION. September 17, 1787. SIR: We have now the honor to submit to the con sideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable. The friends of our country have long seen and de sired that the power of making war, peace, and trea and regulating com ties; that of levying money, and judicial merce, and the correspondent executive vested in authorities, should be fully and effectually the General Government of the Union; but the im trust to one propriety of delegating such extensive body of men is evident; hence results the necessity of a different organization. It is obviously impracticable in the Federal Gov ernment of these States to secure all rights of inde pendent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the Individuals entering into interest and safety of all. to preserve society must give up a share of liberty the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must de fend as well on situation and circumstances as on the It is at all times difficult to object to be obtained. draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved; and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several

States as to their situation, extent, habits,

and par

In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the the consol greatest interest of every true American, in which is involved our pros idation of our Union, perity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national exist

This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and confession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every State is not, perhaps, to be expected; but each will doubtless consider that, had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others. That it is liable to as few exceptions as could reason ably have been expected, we hope and believe. That it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish. With great respect, we have the honor to be, sir, your Excellency s most obedient, humble servants. By unanimous order of the Convention. ence.

GEO. WASHINGTON, President. His Excellency, the PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

ticular interests.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE OLD CONGRESS. UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. FRIDAY, September 28, 1787.

New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey,

Massachusetts, Connecti Pennsylvania. Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia; and from Maryland, Mr. Ross. Congress having received the report of the Conven Present

cut,

Resolved, unanimously, That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several Legislatures, in order to be submitted to a Convention of Delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the Convention made and provided in that case.

CHARLES THOMSON,

tion lately assembled in Philadelphia,

Secretary.

STATE RATIFICATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION. The Constitution was adopted September by the Convention appointed

By By By By By 1787 By 1787 By 1787 By 1788 By

17, 1787,

pursuance of the reso lution of the Congress of the Confederation of Feb ruary 21, 1787, and was ratified by the Conventions in

of the several States as follows, viz. December 7, By Convention of Delaware By Convention of Pennsylvania... December 12, December 18, By Convention of New Jersey By Convention of Georgia January 2, :

ARTICLES IN ADDITION

TO,

Convention of Connecticut .January Convention of Massachusetts. .February Convention of Maryland April Convention of South Carolina. .May Convention of New Hampshire June Convention of Virginia June Convention of New York July Convention of North Carolina. November Convention of Rhode Island.. May

AND AMENDMENT

1788 1788 28, 1788 23. 1788 21, 1788 26, 1788 26, 1788 21, 1788 29, 1790 9,

6,

OF,

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROPOSED BY CONGRESS, AND RATIFIED BY THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES PURSUANT TO THE FIFTH ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE

grievances.

ARTICLE IL

A

ARTICLE

I.

Congress shall make no law respecting an estab lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to as semble, and to petition the Government for redress of

well regulated militia being necessary to the se curity of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

III.

No soldier shall,

in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

ARTICLE

IV.

The

right of the people to be secure in their per sons, houses, papefs, and effects, against unreason able searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and.

no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, sup ported by oath or affirmation, and particularly de

TABULAR RECORDS. scribing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.

ARTICLE

V.

No

person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private prop erty be taken for public use without just compensa tion.

ARTICLE

VI.

In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall en joy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an im partial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation to be confronted with the witnesses against him to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for ;

;

his defense.

ARTICLE In suits at

ARTICLE

law.

ARTICLE

VIII.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

ARTICLE The enumeration

IX.

in the Constitution of certain

rights shall not be construed to others retained by the people.

deny or disparage

ARTICLE X. The powers not delegated

to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the

people.

ARTICLE

;

VII.

common

law, where the value in con troversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the

common

then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist oi a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The per son having the greatest number of votes as VicePresident shall be the Vice-President, if such numberbe a majority of the whole number of Electors ap pointed and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitution ally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligi ble to that of Vice-President of the United States.

XI.

The

judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit, in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State.

ARTICLE XH. The

electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-Presi dent, and they shall make distinct lists of all per sons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the The President of the Senate shall, in pres Senate. ;

ence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Elect ors appointed; and if no person have such majority,

SECTION

XIII.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servi tude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to 1.

their jurisdiction.

SEC. article

2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this

by appropriate

legislation.

ARTICLE XIV. SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immu nities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive

any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respect ive numbers, counting the whole number of persona in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the exec utive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or i n way abridged, except for participation in rebel lion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole num ber of male citizens, twenty-one years of age, in such

my

State.

No

person shall be a Senator or Representa Elector of President and VicePresident, or hold any office, civil or military, under SEC.

3.

tive in Congress, or

United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judi cial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrecion or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, ay a vote of two-thirda of each House, remove such ihe

disability.

TABULAE RECORDS. SEC.

4.

The

of the validity of the public debt

debts in States, authorized by law, including curred for payment of pensions and bounties for ser vices in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall

United

not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obliga tion incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion im for the loss against the United States, or any cla or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts and obligations, and claims shall be held illegal void.

[The following

prefixed to the

is

first

SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XV. The

right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce

SECTION

this article

1.

by appropriate

legislation.

ten* of the preceding amendments.]

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK, ON WEDNESDAY, THE FOURTH OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE. The Convention of a number of the States having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, ex pressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added; and as extending the ground of public confidence in the government will best insure the beneficent end of its institution, Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representa tive* of the United States of America, in Congress as sembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitu tion of the United States, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said Legisla tures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, viz: Articles in addition to, and amendent of, the Con

[The following

is

stitution of the

United States of America, proposed

by Congress and

ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the Fifth Article of the original Constitution. The first ten amendments of the Constitution were ratified by the States as follows, viz: November 20, 1789. By New Jersey December 19, 1789. By Maryland December 22, 1789. By North Carolina By South Carolira January 19, 1790. 1790. By New Hampshire January By Delaware January 28, 1790. March By Pennsylvania 10, 1790. March By New York 27, 1790. June 15, 1790. By Rhode Island November 3, 1791. By Vermont December 15, 1791. By Virginia 2.">,

prefixed to the eleventh of the preceding

amendments.]

THIRD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE FIRST SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVA NIA, ON MONDAY, THE SECOND OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREK. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives several States as an amendment to the Constitution of tlie United States of America, in Congress assembled, of the United States; which, when ratified by threetwo-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the folarticle be proposed to the Legislatures of the

lowing

[The following

is

fourths of the said Legislatures, shall be valid as part* of the said Constitution, viz:

prefixed to the twelfth of the preceding amendments.]

EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE FIRST SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH OF OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THREE. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That in lieu of the third paragraph of the first section of the Second Article of the Constitution of the United States, the following be proposed as an amendment to the Consti tution of the United States; which, when ratified by three-fourths of the Legislatures of the several States,

shall

*Itmay be proper here to state that twelve articles of amend ment were proposed by the first Congress, of which but ten were ratified by the States the first and second in order not having been ratified by the requisite number of States.

Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than

These two were as follows: Article First After the first enumeration required by the First Article the Constitution, there shall be one Represent ative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regu lated by Congress that there shall not be less than one hundred >,f

be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, to wit: The ten first of the preceding amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress of the United States, September 25, 1789, and were finally ratified by the constitutional number of States, December 15, 1791. The eleventh amendment was proposed at the first session of the Third Congress,

two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representa

tive to every fifty thousand persons. Article SecondNo law varying the compensation for the ser ^ vices of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

TABULAR RECORDS. declared, in a message from

Eighth Congress, December 12, 1803, and was adopted

the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress, dated January 8, 1798, to have been adopted by the constitutional number of States. The twelfth amendment was proposed at the first session of the

by the constitutional number of States in 1804, ac cording to a public notice thereof by the Secretary of State, dated September 25 of the same year.

March

5,

1794,

and was

[The following

is

prefixed to the thirteenth of the preceding amendments.]

THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SECOXD SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE. Eesolvcd, by tlie, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the fol lowing article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by threefourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all in tents and purposes, as a part of said Constitution,

namely: This

amendment was

Be

day of December, 1865, at which time it had been ol duly ratified by the Legislatures of the States New Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, In Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio. Missouri, Nevada, diana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Geor gia

in

all,

twenty-seven States.

declared adopted on the 18th

[The following

AT THE FIRST

I

COLUMBIA, ON

is

prefixed to the fourteenth of the preceding amendments.]

THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX.

resolved by the Senate and House of Represent of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Consti tution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely This amendment was declared adopted on the 20th it

atives

:

[The following

is

COLUMBIA, ON

day of July, 1868, at which time it had been dulyby the Legislatures of the States of Connecti

ratified

cut,

New Hampshire, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, New York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia,

Vermont,

Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Minneso Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Ala

ta,

bama

in all, twenty-nine States.

prefixed to the fifteenth of the preceding amendments.]

FORTIETH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE LAST SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Off THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF FEBRUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives ratified by the Legislatures of the States of North of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring. That the fol lowing article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by threefourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely: This amendment, as appears from the Proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated March 30, 1870, was

West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Penn sylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, In diana, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas. Minnesota, Rhode Island, Nebraska, and Texas in all, twenty-nine States. It should be added that New York withdrew her vote, and Georgia took her place in the affirmative. Carolina,

TABULAE RECORDS. SESSIONS OF

THE FEDERAL CONGRESS.

(OFFICIALLY PREPARED FOR THIS WORK.)

STATEMENT Showing

the

Congress.

Commencement and Termination of each Session of Congress Mid under the number of Days in each.

the Present Constitution, \cith

TABULAR RECORDS. Congress.

xri

TABULAR RECORDS. PRESIDENTS PRO

TABULAK RECORDS. THE FIRST CONGRESS.

TABULAE RECORDS.

XXIV

REPRESENTATIVES.

TABULAR RECORDS. Sherburne, John T. Sitgreaves, Samuel. Skinner, Thomas J.7 Smith, Isaac. Smith, Israel. Smith, Jeremiah. Smith, Nathaniel. Smith, Samuel. Smith, William. Sprigg, Richard, Jr. 8

Swift, Zephaniah.

Chapman, John.

Tatom, Absalom.

Claiborne, Thomas. Claiborne, William C. C. Clay, Matthew.

Thatcher, George. Thomas, Richard.

Thompson, Mark. Tracy, Uriah. Van Allen, John E. Van Cortlandt, Philip.

Clop ton, John. Cochran, James. Coit, Joshua. Craik, William.

Varnum, Joseph B. Venable, Abraham.

Dana, Samuel W. Davenport, James.

Thomas. Wads worth, Peleg. Strudwick, William. 9 Williams, John. Swan wick, John. Wynn, Richard. 1. Elected in place of Jeremiah Crabb, resigned. 2. Elected in place of Uriah Tracy, resigned. 3. Elected in place of James Hillhouse, resigned. 4. Elected in place of Daniel Heister, resigned. 5. Elected in place of Benjamin Bourne, resigned. 6. Successfully contested the election of James Morris. 7. Elected in place of Theodore Sedgwick, resigned. 8. Elected in place of Gabriel Duvall, resigned. 9. Elected in place of Absalom Tatom, resigned. Sprigg,

THE FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATOES. Thomas

Anderson, Joseph. 1

Blount, William. Bradford, William. Brown, John. Chipman, Nathaniel. 2 Clayton, Joshua. 3 Cocke, William. Davenport, Franklin. 4 Foster, Theodore.

Goodhue, Benjamin. Greene, Ray. 5

Gunn, James. Henry, John. Hillhouse, James. Hobart, John S.6 Howard, John E.

Hunter, John. Jackson, Andrew. Langdon, John.

Latimer, Henry. Lawrence, John.

Livermore, Samuel. Lloyd, James. 7 Marshall, Humphrey. Martin, Alexander. Mason, Stevens T. North, William, 8 Paine, Elijah. Pinckney, Charles.9 Read, Jacob. Ross, James,

Rutherford, John. Schuyler, Philip. Sedgwick, Theodore. Smith, Daniel. 10 Stockton, Richard. Tattnall, Josiah.

Tazewell, Henry. Tichenor, Isaac. Tracy, Uriah. Vining, John.

Watson, James. 11 Wells, William H.I 2

Milledge, John.

Morgan, Daniel. Morris, Lewis R. New, Anthony.

Thomas T.

Nicholas, John.

Harrison G. Parker, Isaac. Parker, Josiah.

Dawson, John.

Otis,

Dennis, John. Dent, George. Edmond, William. 4 Ege, George. Eggleston, Joseph. 5 Elmendorph, Lucas.

Evans, Thomas. Findley, William. Foster, Abiel. Foster, Dwight.

Fowler, John. Freeman, Jonathan. Freeman, Nathaniel, Jr. Giles, William B. Gillespie, James.

Glen, Henry. Goodrich, Chauncey.

Gordon, William. Gregg, Andrew. Griswold, Roger. Grove, William B. Hanna, John A. Harper, Robert G. Harrison, Carter B.

Pinckney, Thomas. 7 Potter, Elisha R. Reed, John. Rutledge, John, Jr. Schureman, James. Sewall, Samuel. Shepard, William. Sinnickson, Thomas. Sitgreaves, Samuel. Skinner, Thomas J. Smith, Jeremiah, Smith, Nathaniel. Smith, Samuel. Smith, William. Smith, William. Spaight, Richard D.8 Spragne, Pel eg. 9 Sprigg, Richard, Jr. Stanford, Richard.

Sumter, Thomas. Swanwick, John. Thatcher, George.

Hartley, Thomas.

Havens, Jonathan N. Heister, Joseph. 6

Hindman, William. Holmes, David. Hosmer, Hezekiah L. Imlay, James H.

Thomas, Richard. Thompson, Mark. Tillinghast, Thomas. 10 Trigg, Abram. Trigg, John. Van Allen, John E. Van Cortlandt, Philip. Varnum, Joseph B.

Jones, Walter. Kittera, John W. Livingstone, Edward.

Venable, Abraham.

Locke, Matthew.

Williams, John. Williams, Robert.

Lyman, Samuel.

Wadsworth, Peleg. Wain, Robert. 11

Elected in place of Theophilus, Bradbury, re 2. Elected in place of Joshua Coit, deceased. 3. Elected in place of Samuel Sitgreaves, resigned. 4. Elected in place of James Davenport, deceased. 5. Elected in place of William B. Giles, resigned, (i. Elected in place of George Ege, resigned. 7. Elected 8. Elected in in place of William Smith, resigned. 9. Elected in place of Nathan Bryan, deceased. 10. Elected place of Jeremiah Smith, resigned. in place of Elisha R. Potter, resigned. 11. Elected in place of John Swanwick, resigned. 1.

Elected in place of William Blount, expelled. 3. 2. Elected in place of Isaac Tichenor, resigned. Elected in place of John Vining, resigned. 4. Appointed in place of John Rutherford, resigned. 5. Elected in place of William Bradford, resigned. 6. Elected in place of Philip Schuyler, resigned. 8. 7. Elected in place of John Henry, resigned. Appointed in place of John S. Hobart, resigned. 10. 9. Elected in place of John Hunter, resigned. Elected in place of Andrew Jackson, resigned. 11. Elected in place of John S. Hobart, resigned. 12. Elected in place of Joshua Clayton, deceased. 1.

signed.

THE SIXTH CONGRESS. SENATOBS.

REPRESENTATIVES. Thomas

Jonathan Dayton, Speaker. Allen, John. Baer, George

M

McDonald, Joseph.

Gallatin, Albert.

Jefferson, Vice-President.

Bingham, William. Bloodworthy, Timothy.

Davis,

Lyon, Matthew. Machir, James. Macon, Nathaniel. Matthews, William. Clenachan, Blair.

W.

Baldwin, Abraham. Bard, David.

Bradbury, Theophilus. Brent, Richard. Brooks, David. Brown, Robert. 3

Bartlett, Bailey. 1

Bryan, Nathan.

Bayard, John A. Benton, Lemuel. Blount, Thomas. Brace, Jonathan. 2

Bullock, Stephen. Burgess, Dempsey. Cabell,

Samuel

J.

Champlin, Christopher G.

Jefferson, Vice-President.

Anderson, Joseph. 1 Armstrong, John. 2 Baldwin, Abraham. Bingham, William. Blood worth, Timothy. Brown, John.

Chipman, Nathaniel. Cocke, William. Dayton, Jonathan.

Dexter, Samuel. Foster, Dwight. 3 Foster, Theodore. Franklin, Jesse.

Goodhue, Benjamin Green, Ray. Gunn, James. Hillhouse, James.

Hindman, William. 4

TABULAR RECORDS.

XX VI

Howard, John E. Langdon, Johu. Latimer, Henry. Lawrence, John. Livermore, Samuel. Lloyd, James. Marshall,

Humphrey.

Mason, Jonathan. 5 Mason, Stephen T. MWris, Gouverneur.6

Nicholas, William C.7 Ogden, Aaron. 8

Paine, Elijah. Pinckney, Charles. Read, Jacob.

j

Elected in place of Dwight Foster, elected Sena 2. Elected place of Samuel Lyman, resigned. 4. 3. Elected in place of Samuel Sewell, resigned. Elected in place of Jonathan Brace, resign en. 5. 6 Elected in piace of Thomas Hartley, deceased. 7. Elected in place of John Marshall, resigned. Elected in place of William Gordon, resigned. 1.

m

tor.

Ross, James.

Schureman, James. Tracy, Uriah.

.

Watson, James. Wells, William H.

Elected in place of Andrew Jackson, resigned. Elected in place of John Lawrence, resigned. 3. Elected in place of Samuel Dexter, resigned. 4. Elected in place of James Lloyd, resigned. 5. Elected in place of Benjamin Goodhue, resigned. 6. Elected 7. Elected in in place of James Watson, resigned. Tazewell, deceased. 8. Elected in place of

Territorial Delegates.

1.

2.

place of

Henry James Schureman,

Wm.

McMiller, William. 1 Harrison, 1. Elected in place of AVilliam H. Harrison, resigned.

THE SEVENTH CONGRESS. SENATORS.

REPBESENTATIVES.

Aaron Burr,

Theodore Sedgeicick, Speaker.

Jackson, George.

Baer, George. Bailey, Theodoras. Bartlett, Bailey.

Jones, James. Kitchell, Aaron. Kittera, John N. Lee, Henry. Lee, Silas, Leib, Mitchell. Lincoln, Levi.l

Bayard, James A. Bird, John,

Bishop, Phanuel. Brace, Jonathan.

Brown, John Brown, Robert. Cabell, Samuel J. Champlin, Christopher. Christie, Gabriel. Claiborne, William C. C. Clay, Mathew. Condit, John. Cooper, William. Clark, William.

Dana, Samuel W. Davenport, Franklin. Davenport, John.

Dav

s,

Thomas

F.

Daw son. John. Dem is, John. Dent, George. Dixon, Joseph. Edmond, William. Eggleston, Joseph. Elmendorf, Lucas.

Evans, Thomas. Foster, Abiel. Foster, Dwight.

Fowler, Johu.

Freeman, Jonathan. Gallatin, Albert.

Glenn, Henry. Goode, Samuel. Goodrich, Chauncey. Goodrich, Elizur. Gordon, William.

Gray, Edwin. Gregg, Andrew. Griswold, Roger. Grove, William B.

Clinton, DeWitt.2

Lyman, Samuel.

Cocke, William. Dayton, Jonathan. Ellery, Christopher. 3 Foster, Dwight. Foster, Theodore. Franklin, Jesse.

Lynn, James. Lyon, Mathew.

Macon Nathaniel. Marshall, John. Mattoon, Ebenezer.2 Morris, Lewis R. Muhlenbcrg, Peter.

Green, Ray. Hillhouse, James. Hindmau, William.

Howard, John E.

New, Anthony. Nicholas, John. Nicholson, Joseph H. Nott, Abraham. Otis, Harrison, G. Page, Robert.

Parker, Isaiah.

Pinckney, Thomas. Platt, Jones. Powell, Levin. Randolph, John. Reed, Nathan. 3 Reed, John.

Muhlenberg, Peter. Nicholas, William C. Ogden, Aaron. Olcott, Simeon. 5 Pinckney, Charles. Plummer, William. 6 Ross, James. Sheafe, James. Stone, David.

Sumter, Thomas. 7 Tracy, Uriah. Wells, William.

White, Samuel Wright, Robert. .

Bailey, Theodorus. Bayard, James A.

Bishop, Phanuel.

Foster, Abiel.

Bond, Thomas. Bowie, Walter.

Giles,

Fowler, John.

William B. Goddard, Calvin. Gray, Edwin.

Brent, Richard. Brown, Robert.

Sumter, Thomas. Talliaferro, Benjamin.

Claiborne, Thomas. Clay, Mathew: Clogston, John. Condit, John. Cutler, Manassah. Cutts, Richard.

Thatcher, George. Thomas, John. Thomas, Richard. Thompson, John.

F.

Dickson, William. Early, Peter. 1 Elmendorf, Lucas. Elmer, Ebenezer. Eustis, William.

Alston, Willis. Archer, John. Bacon, John.

Butler, William. Cabell, Samuel J.

Hartley, Thomas. Heister, Joseph. Henderson, Archibald.

Mason, Stephen

Morris, Gouverneur.

1. Elected in place of Elijah Paine, resigned. 3. Elected in place of John Armstrong, resigned. 3. Elected in place of Ray Green, resigned. 4. Elected in place of Peter Muhlenberg, resigned. 5. Elected in place of Samuel Livermore, resigned. 6. Elected in place of Joseph Sheafer, resigned. 7. Elected in place of Charles Pinckney, resigned.

Stanford, Richard. Stewart, John. 5 Stone, David.

Tenney, Samuel. 7

Jackson, James Logan, George H. 4 Mason. Jonathan.

REPRESENTATIVES.

Sewell, Samuel. Sheaf, James. Shepard, William. Smiley, John. Smith, John. Smith John C. 4 Smith, Samuel. Spraight, Richard D.

Tazewell, Littleton,

Vice-President.

Nathaniel Macon, Speaker.

Rutledge, John, Jr.

Harper, Robert G.

William H. Holmes, David. Huger, Benjamin. Imlay, James H.

Anderson, Joseph. Armstrong, John. Baldwin, Abraham. Bradley, Stephen R.I Breckenridge, John. Brown, John. Calhoun, John E. Chipman, Nathaniel.

Livingston, Edward,

Hanna, John A.

Hill,

H.

resigned.

Alston, Willis, Jr.

Williams, Lemuel. Williams, Robert. Woods, Henry.

Varnum, Joseph B. Wadsworth, Peleg. Wain, Robert.

Campbell, John.

\V.(j

Trigg, Abraham. Trigg, John. Van Cortland, Philip.

Dana, Samuel W. Davenport, John. Davis,

Thomas

Dawson, John. Dennis, John.

F.

Gregg, Andrew. Griswold, Royer. Grove, William B.

Hanna, John

A.

Hastings, Seth. Heister, Daniel. Heister, Joseph.

Helms, William. Hemphill, Joseph. Henderson, Archibald. Hill, William H. Hoge, William. Holland, James. Holmes, David.

TABULAR RECORDS. Huger, Benjamin.

Smith, Samuel.

xxviii

Trigg Abram.

TABULAR RECORDS. Walton, Matthew.

TABULAR RECORDS. Hillhonse, James.

Pickering, Timothy.

TABULAR RECORDS. REPRESENTATIVES.

TABULAR EECOKDS. Paulding, William. Pearson, Joseph. Pickens, Israel. Piper, William.

Ely, William.

Emott, James. Findley, William. Fisk. James. Fitch, Asa.

Pitkin, Timothy. Pleasants, James, Jr.

Franklin, Meshack. Gholson, Thomas. Goodwin, Peterson. Gold, Thomas R.

Pond, Benjamin. Porter, Peter B.

Goldsborough, Charles. Gray, Edwin. Green, Isaiah L. Grosvenor, Thomas P. 2

Potter, Elisha B. Quincy, Josiah.

Grundy, Felix.

Randolph, John. Reed William. Rhea, John. Richardson, William M.

Hall, Bollinger. Hall, Obel. Harper, John A.

Ridgeley, Henry M. Ringgold, Samuel. Roaue, John.

Hawes, Aylett.

Rodman, William.

Hufty, Jacob. Hungerford, John P.

Roberts, Jonathan. Robertson, Thomas B. Sage, Ebeuezer.

Hyneman, John M.

Sammons, Thomas.

Jackson, Richard. Jr. Johnson, Richard M. Kennedy, William. 3

Sawyer, Lemuel. Seaver, Ebenezer. Sevier, John.

Kent, Joseph. Key, Philip B. King, William R. Lacock, Abner.

Seybert,

Adam.

Shaw, Samuel. Sheffey, Daniel. Smilie, John.

Lafever, Joseph.

Law, Lyman.

Smith, George. Smith, John. Stanford, Richard. Little, Peter. Livingston. Robert Le Roy. Stowe, Silas. Lowndes, William. Strong, William. Stuart, Philip. Lyle, Aaron.

William B.

Roberts, Jonathan. 10

Gilmore, Nicholas. Gore, Christopher.7 Goldsborough, Henry R. Horsey, Outerbridge. Howell, Jeremiah B. Hunter, William. Kerr, Joseph.8 King, Rufus. Lacock, Abner. Lambert, John. Leib, Michael. Mason, Jeremiah. 9 Morrow. Jeremiah.

Robinson, Jonathan. Smith, Samuel. Stone, David.

Giles,

Sturgis, Lewis B. Sullivan, George.

McKim, Alexander. McCoy, William.

Taggart, Samuel. Talliaferro, John. 4 Tallmadge, Benjamin. Tallman, Peleg.

Metcalf, Arunah. Milnor, James. Mitchell, Samuel L.

Troup, George M. Turner, Charles, Jr.

Tracy, Uri.

Moore, Thomas. Morgan, James. Morrow, Jeremiah.

Van

Moseley, Jonathan. Nelson, Hugh.

Whitehill, Robert.

Cortland, Pierre, Jr.

Wheaton, Laban. White, Leonard. Widgery, William. Williams, David R. Wilson, Thomas.

New, Anthony. Newbold, Thomas. Newton, Thomas. Ormsby, Steven.

Winn, Richard.

Wright, Robert. 2. 1. Elected in place of Ho well Cobb, resigned. Elected in place of R. Le Roy Livingston, resigned. 4. 3. Elected in place of Thomas Blount, deceased. Successfully contested the election of J. P. Hangerford. Territorial Delegates.

Jennings, Jonathan. Poindexter, George.

Bond, Shadrack. Hempstead, Edward.

THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. SENATORS. ECbridge Gerry, Vice-President.

Anderson, Joseph. Barbour, James. 1 Barry, William T.2 Bibb, George M. Bibb, William Wyatt.3

Campbell, George. Chace, Dudley. Condit, John. Cutts, Charles. 5 Dana, Samuel,

Bledsoe, Jesse.

Daggett, Davis. 6

Brent, Richard.

Frementin, Eligiua. Gaillard, John. German, Obediah.

Brown, James. Bullock, William

B. 4

Talbot, Isham.ll Taylor, John.

Thompson, Thomas W.lli Turner, James. Varnum, Joseph B. Walker, George. 13 Wells, William H.14 Wharton, Jesse. 15 Worthington, Thomas.

Elected in place of Richard Brent, deceased. 2. Elected in place of George M. Bibb, resigned. 3. Elected in place of W. H. Crawford, resigned. 4. Appointed in place of W. H. Crawford, resigned. 5. Appointed to fill a vacancy. 6. Elected in place oi 7. Chauncey Goodrich, resigned. Appointed in 8. Elected in place of James Lloyd, resigned. of Thomas Worthington, resigned. 9. Elected foi six years, Charles Cutts having been appointed pn tern. 10. Elected in place of Michael Leib, resigned. 11. Elected in place of Jesse Bledsoe, resigned 12. Elected in place of Michael Gilman, deceased 13. Elected in place of George M. Bibb, resigned 14. Elected in place of James A. Bayard, resigned 15. Elected in place of G. W. Campbell, resigned. 1.

plac