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Adolphe E. Borie, the descendant of a Frenc.
family (his father having settled in Philadelphia
from Bordeaux), was burn in Philad,lphia in 18!)9.
and is now in the 60th year of his age. When 16
years old he igr7dua:ed at the Pennsylvania Uni-
versity, and at 24 went to Paris, where he com-
pleted his education. After travelling in Europe

be 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 he was an old-line Whig,
contenting himself with a determined oppoition to
the Democratic r arty, 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 18G2, a
number of the citizens of Philadelphia felt that it

was necessary to take some steps to organize against
the threatened advance of Seces3ion into the Not tit.
From this determination arose the first Union

League io the country, known as the great Union
League of Philadelphia, of which he was the foun-
der. Ile was at Washing',on when nominated Sec-
retary of the Navy, and immgdiately left for Phila-
delphia, and many thought he would decline to act.

Ex-Governor Jacob Dulson Cox was born in
Montreal, Lower Canada, on the 17th 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 0! 23—hegraduated with distinction at Oberlin
College, the great headquarters of Ohio Abolition-
ists. Ile 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 to!d, $5,000. lie removed to Cin-
cinnati, where he soon got up a handsome law
practice, refu,ing the Commissionership of Internal
Revenue when tendered by'Andrew Johnson, and
he would also have refused the Secretaryship of War
h td 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 Washington to urge on the Ohio
Representatives the honesty and purity of Johnson's
purposes beseeching them to forego their opposition,
and t o yisld 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 appoi❑tment is the least
popular of all the President's nominations.
John M'Allister Schofield was born on the 29th
of September, 1831, in Chatanqua county, New
I 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 Poliat. In 1853 he graduated and was
breveted Second Lieutenant in the 9,1 Artillery.
For two years he was stationed with his battery at
Fort Moultrie, afterward made memorable in the
War of ti.e 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 engage 3 in the duties of his '
position when the war broke out, and Le commenced
the bi illiant military career which has made him so
well known.
Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, President
Grant's 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 Laher at Concord, he spent
two years at the Cambridge Law Seheol. Imme-
diately after leaving college, however, he ingaged
in teaching at Pittsburgh, Pa., and for two or three
yews he lived in that and other we.stern cities. He
was ad nitted to the b.r about the year IS4O, and
bictl wf it h t c'aG C.L-t--taw LAuL awl we
neiLlthouring counties. After a few years he was
appoittied a Ju tai: of the Court of Common Picas,
but he tesigi:ed and returned to the pracice of his
profession, this time opening au office in Boston,
• where he aequirs.d an extensive and Inc-ative 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 an Assistant Ad-
jutant-General of the State. He was elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress from the Cecil District, Hs
native county, in 1862. After a sharp contest he
succeeded to Governor's Hicks's vacancy in the Se-
nate. He was a delkate to the Convention at
Baltimore in 1864, and to the Southern Loyalist
Convention in Philadelphia, where he led against
negro suffrage, though he 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 Vic.:-Pre-
sidency. lie declared he was not a candidate, and
cast his own vote for Ben. Wade. He might, had
he liked, have succeeded Colonel Foruey in the
Secretaryship of the Senate. He is a lawyer in
large practice, eloquent and skilful in politics, and
a Radical Republican.
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