Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-03-07
THE NEW CABINET.

Mr.. Seward was born in Orange county in
the State Of New York, on the 18Th of May,
1891. He was educated at Union College, in
that State, and took the degree Of Bachelor of
Arts in 1870, and Of Master Of Arts in 1924.
AT the age OF tventy-one he established him
self at Auburn in the profession of the law,
and soon acquired a lucrative and extending
practice. Early in his public and professional
life be travelled in the southern slave States,
and is supposed to have formed at that time
the opinions and principles hostile to slavery
10 which he has since given expression. Upon
other questions Mr.. Stewards policy may be
described as humanitarian. He is in favor of
the education of the people-Of the ameliora-
tion of the laws and of the development of the
material resources Of the United States In
these respects he has ever been among the
foremost of American statesmen and NAV
justly claim the praise bestowed upon him by
his friends, and scarcely denied by his oppo-
nents, Of being "the best and clearest head in
America" In 1880 he had acquired such in
fiuence and character that he was elected a
member Of the Senate IF the State of New
York, then the highest judicial tribunal of the
State, as well as legislative body. In 1884,
a; the close Of his term of four years. he was
nominated a candidate for the Governorship
OF the State of New York, in opposition to Mr.
Vim. l.. Marcy, the then Governor and later
the distinguished Secretary of State of the
United States. On this occasion Mr.. Seward
vas uCtCdIcu Ol I6dTIy
In 1889 his party becoming bolder and stronger
he was triumphantly elected in opposition to
Mr.. Marcy, the majority being greater than
his previous minority. Without having passed
through the lower stratum of the House of
Representatives, he was, in 1S49, elected 10
the Senate Of the United States for six years
lie gave so much satisfaction that he was re-
elected in 1855.
p. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY
Salmon Portland Chase was born at Cornish,
Y. Ii. on the npRpsite bank Of the Connecticut
river from Windsor, VT, in the year 1908
When nine years of age his father died, and
three years after this bereavement, in 1920
young Chase was found at the seminary in
WorthlngtOn, Ohio, then conducted by the
venerable Bishop Philander Chase his uncle
Here be remained until Bishop Chase accepted
the Presidency of Cincinnati College, entering
which, our student soon became a chief among
his peers. After years residence at Cincin-
natl, be returned to his maternal home in New
hampshire, and shortly after resumed his
studies in Dartmouth College, Hanover. where
be graduated in 1926. He she-tly after COM
mencea the study Of law in the city of Wash
1ngton, under the guidance of the celebrated
VIM. Writ, then Attorney General of the Uni
ted States. He sustained himself during the
years of his professional studies by imparting
instruction to a select school for boys, com.
posed in part Of the sons Of the most distin-
guished men of the nation. He was admitted
to he bar in Washington in 1922 and in the
following year returned to Cincinnati and en-
-ered upon the practice Of his profession, in
which be soon rose to eminence, and in which
he as distinguished for industry and patient
Investigation He was subsequently elected a
member Of the United States Senate, and upon
the expiration Of his senatorial term he was
put In nomination for Governor of Ohio and
elected. He was again put in nomination for
Governor, and was again elected to that posi-.
tion.
SIMON CAMERON, SECRETARY OF WAR.
Gen. Simon Cameron was born in Lancaster
county, Pa. Reyerses and misfortunes in his
fathers family cast him very early in life ON
the world to shape and carve out his own for
tune. After having removed to Sunbury in
Northumberland county, his father died while
Simon was yet boy. In 1917 he came to Har-
risburg and bound himself as apprentice to
the printing business to James Peacock who
is still a resident Of Harrisburg and one of its
most worthy and respected citizens. During
this time he won the regard and esteem of Mr.
Peacock and all his fellow-Horkmen by his cor
rect department, his industry, intelligence.
and fsithfulness. His days were devoted to
labor and bis nights to study. Having COM
pleted his apprenticeship, he came to Wash
ington city, and was employed a journey
man printer. In 1924, though scarcely of COM
petent age, he attained such q position and in
huence that his party-then in the ascendancy
IN the Congressional district proposed to
nominate him for Congress. an honor which he
promptly declined, as interfering with the en-
terprise in which he was then engaged. He
was appointed dAdjutant-General Of the State
in 1923, an Office which he filled creditably and
aeceptably during Gov. Shultzs term, and in
1881, unsolicited, he was appointed by Gen
Jackson as a visitor to West Point. a compli.
ment, at that time, rendered only to the most
prominent citizens
To no single man within her berders is Penn
sylvanis more indebted for her great systems
of public improvement and public instruction.
Nor did he hesitate to invest his own means.
when prosperity and fortune dawned upon
him, In enterprises of great public mportance.
In 1884 be originated and carried to successful
completion the Harrisburg, Mount Joy and
Lancaster Railroad, surmounting difficulties
and prejudices which would have appalled, and
paralyZed man Of ordinary energy and de-
termination. In 1898 be was nominated for
Congress, but declined. He was engaged in
public enterprises from which he would not
permit himself to be drawn aside by any con-
sideration Of Office or personal elevation. In
1881 be was mainly instrumental in the forma-
tiOn Of the Susquehanna Railroad Company,
by which the upper valleys of the Susquehsn-
na are connected with the capital of the State.
There was still another link wanting to form
direct and continuous railroad to New York
city. the great commercial metropolis of the
Union. Gen. Cameron's practical mind soon
Suggested the mode and manner of supplying
this want; and the Lebanon Valley Railroad
Company Was organized, and that road built
and now consolidated with the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad. In 1892 Gen Came
ron was elected Cashier Of the Middletown
Bank-s position which he held for twenty
seven years. So that about the year 1854 he
was at the same time President of the Susque-
hanna Railroad Company, President of the Le-
bsnon Valley Railroad Company, President of
the Commonwealth Insurance Company, and
Cashier Of the Middletewn Bank, besides be-
ing director and manager in several other in
stitutions, and having large private business
Of his own to manage and superintend. Yet,
notwithstanding the vast labor and RESPONSE
bility of these positions, he performed the du-
ties ofthem all satisfactorily and successfully.
GIDEON wELLEs, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
Mr.. Gideon Welles, Of Conn, is the North
ern Secretary Of the Navy. Mr.. Welles has
been for upwards of thirty years leading re-
publican in Connecticut, and for much of that
time has been connected, directly and indi-
rectly, with the public press. He for some
time held the Office Of Postmaster Of Hartford,
under Mr.. Van Buren's Administration, and
Isft the Office so0n altar the election Of Gan