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Adolphe E. Borie, the descendant of a Frene,
family (his father having settled in Philadelphia
from Bordeaux), was born in Philadelphia hi 1809.
and is now in the 60th year of his age. When. 16

years old he graduated -at the Pennsylvania Uni-

versity, and at 24 went to Paris, where he com-

pleted his education. After travelling in Europe
he returned to Philadelphia, and became a member
of ilia celebrated firm of M'Kean, Borie, and Co.,

doing business at No. 153, Dock-street. In this
position he has always shown tact, judgment, and
business capacity, and has succeeded in amassing a
large fortune. Politically be was an old-line Whig,

contenting himself with a determined opposition to
the Democratic party, and especially devoted to the
principles of protection to American industry, a
quiet and substantial following of Henry Clay.
After the election of Governor Seymour in 1862, a
number of the citizens of Philadelphia felt that it
was necessary to take semecteps to organize against
the threatened advance of Secession into the North.
From this determination arose the first Union
League in the country, known as the great Union
League of Philadelphia, of which he was the foun-
der. Ile was at Washington when nominated Sec-
retary of the Navy, and immediately left for Phila-
delphia, and many thought he would decline to act.

Ex-Governor Jacob Dolson Cox was born in
Montreal, Lower Canada, on the 17'1 of Octo-
ber, 1828. His parents were both natives of the
United States, his father being a master builder
in New York, who had taken the contract for the
carpenter work on the Cathedral of Notre Dame in
Montreal, and thus happened to be residing in that
city when his son was born. The next year he re-
turned to New York, where the childhood and youth
of the future Secretary of the Interior was spent. In
1846 he removed to Ohio, and in 1851—then a young
man of 23—hegraduated with distinction at Oberlin
College, the great headquarters of Ohio Abolition-
ists. He studied law, and, very soon after taking
his degree, began its practice in the village of War-
ren. Meantime he married the daughter of the Pre-
sident of Oberlin. For his brilliant military career,
he was elected Governor of Ohio, but heref used to be a
second time candidate on account of poverty, being
only worth, all told, $5,000. He removed to Cin-
cinnati, where he soon got up a handsome law
practice, refusing the Commissionersbip of Internal
Revenue when tendered by Andrew Johnson, and
he would also have refused the Secretaryship of War
had Grant succeeded in getting Johnson to end the
Stanton difficulty by appointing him. He is known
to be opposed to negro suffrage, and took the
trouble of visiting Washingto❑ to urge on the Ohio
Representatives the honesty and purity of Johnson's
purposes beseeching them to forego their opposition,
and to yield somewhat to his prejudices. He is one
of the most upright, studious, and practical men
in the country, and a great friend of both Grant
and Sherman ; but the appointment is the least
popular of all the President's nominations.
John .'Allister Schofield was born on the 29th
of September, 1831, in Chatanqua. county, New
York. In 1843, at the age of 12, he removed with
his father to Illinois, from which State, after having
received his primary education, he was admitted to
West Point. In 1853 he graduated and was
breveted Second Lieutenant in the 2d Artillery.
For two years he was stationed with his battery at

Fort Moultrie, afterward made memorable in the

War of the Rebellion, and subsequently at Fort
Cass, in Florida. Two years later he was appointed
Instructor in Natural Philosophy at West Point,
and held that position for five years. In 1860 he
was granted leave of absence to occupy the chair
of Natural Philosophy in Washington University,
St. Louis, and was engaged in the duties of his
position when the war broke out, and he commenced
the brilliant military career which has made him so
well known.
Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, President

Grant'; Attorney-General, was born at Concord,
Mass., in 1816. He entered Harvard College in
1831, graduating with distinction in 1835, and after

reading law with his father at Concord, he spent
two years at the Cambridge Law School. Imme-
diately after leaving college, however, he engaged
in teacling at Pittsburgh, Pa., and for two or three
years he lived in that and other western cities. He
was admitted to the bur about the year 1840, and
practised with great success in Aliddlesex and the
neighbouring counties. After a few years he was
appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
but he resigned and returned to the practice of his
profession, this time opening an office in Boston,
where he acquired an extensive and lucrative busi-
ness. In April, 1859, he was appointed a Justice of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and has since
held that office.
Mr. J. A. J. Cresswell in 1861 and 1862 was a mem-
ber of the Maryland House of Delegates, and in the
latter year he served for a time as au Assistant Ad-
jutant-General of the State. He was elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress from the Cecil District, his
native county, in 1862. After a sharp contest he
succeeded to Governor's Hicks's vacancy in the Se-
nate. He was a delegate to the Convention at
Baltimore in 1861, and to the Southern Loyalist
Convention in Philadelphia, where he led against
negro suffrage, though be afterwards changed his
views. He was chairman of the Maryland delega-
tion to the Chicago Convention, where they insisted
against his wish in naming him for the Vice-Pre-
sidency. He declared he was not a candidate, and
cast his own vote for Ben. Wade. He might, had
he liked, have succeeded Colonel Forney in the
Secretaryship of the Senate. He is a lawyer in
large practice, elcquent and skilful in politics, and
a Radical Republican.
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