The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-03-15

As matter Of interest to our readers,
we publish the following brief sketch of
the lives Of President LINCOLN and the
several members of his Cabinet:
ABRAHAM LIscoLy, PRESIDENT.
| Abraham Lincoln, President Of the
United States, was born in Kentucky, Feb.
II, 1909. His ancestors. belonging to
the Society of Friends, originally settled
in Bucks county. Pennsy lvania, whence
they removed to Virginia, and subsequent
ly in Kentucky, where the subject of this
memoir was first introduced on the stage
o. life. Mr.. Lincoln imbued with the wan
dering proclivties Of his ancestry, soon
removed to Spencer county, Indiana,where
he remained for fourteen years. He here
received a fair education. In 1880 our
subject removed to illinois. Shortly after
wards he served as captain in regiment
of volunteers in the war against Black
Hawk. After sustaining defeat, in 1882,
for the Legislature, he was elected to that
body for the three succeeding terms by the
Wing party. During his term he studied
law, and subsequently engaged in practice
at Springfield, although still devotng great
attention to politics, serving as Wing elec
tor In several Presidential elections. He
was elected to Congress in 1916, and
served three years, distinguishing himself
by his position in sustaining the WiImot
Proviso, in connection with other members
and his opposition to the Mexican War
In lS4S he supported the nomination
of Gen. Taylor, and in 1852 was very ac.
tive for the success of Gen. Scott. In
1o49 he was defeated by Gen. Shields for
the United States Senatorship, anu again
in 1885 by Judge Trumbull. In 1856
Mr.. Lincoln's name headed the Fremont
electoral ticket. He was first, however,
brought into public notice by his mem ora
be campaign against Mr.. Douglas for the
Sena.orship.
! HANNIBAL HAMLIN, VICE PRESIDENT.
Hannibal Hamlin, the Vice President, was
born in Paris, Oxford county, Maine on
the 29lh of August, 1909; is lawyer by
profession was member Of the Maine
Legislature from 1916 to 1910; was cleo
ted representative to the Twenty eighth
Congress, and was reelected to the Twen-
" ninth Congress; was member of the
House of Representatives of the State Leg
islature in lS47, and elected to the United
States Senate, May &c, 1S4S, for four years
to fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
John Fairfield. He was reelected for
six years, July 25, 1851, and elected Gov
ernor Of Maine, January 7, 1857. resi- On
ing his seat in the Senate and being inau-
gurated as Governor on the same day On
the 10Th of the same month he was cleo
ted as United States Senator for six years
and resigned the office Of Governor, Feb
20, 1857. Mr.. IIamlin was formerly a
Democrat, but prior to his election as
Governor of Maine, he changed his politics
and attached himself to the Republican
party.
WIN. II. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mr.. Seward was born in Orange County,
in the State of New York, on the 10th
day of May, 1901. lie was educated at
Union College, in that State, and took the
degree Of Bachelor Of Arts in 1920, and
Master of Arts, in 1924 At the age of
twenty one he established himself a. Au-
burn, in the profession of the law, and
soon acquired lucrative and extensive
practice. Early in his public and profes
sonal life he travelled in the southern
slave States, and is supposed at that time
to have formed his opinions and principles
in regard to slavery, to which lie has
since given expression. To greater de-
gree than IS known of any other American
statesman-Mr Sumner, perhaps, excepted
the object Of his life seems to have
been to counteract the extension of slave
ry.
He is in favor of the education Of the
people, the amelioration of the laws and
of the development of the material re-
sources of the United States. In these
respects he has ever been among the fore
most Of American statesmen, and may lust
ly claim the praise bestowed on him by
his friends, and scarcely denied by his op
ponents, of being "the best and clearest
head in America In 1880 he had acquir
ed such influence and character that he
vas elected member of the Senate of The
State of New York, then the highest judi
cial tribunal Of the State, as we'll as leg
islative body. In 1884, at the close of
his term of four years, he was nominated a
candidate for the Governorship of the
State, in opposition to VIM. L. Marcy, the
then Governor, and later the distinguished
Secretary of State of the United States.
On this occasion he was defeated by a
majority of nearly 10000. In 1889, his
party becoming much stronger, he was
triumphantly elected in opposition to Mr..
Marcy. the majority being greater than his
previous minority Without having pass
ell through the lower stratum OF the House
of Representatives, be was in to49 elected
to the Senate Of the United States for six
years. lie gave so much satisfaction that
he was reelected in 1855.
9. p. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY.
Salmon Portland Chase was born at
Cornish, Now Hampshire, on the opposite
bank of the Connecticut river, from Wind
sor, 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 Sem
mary in Worthingtou, Ohio, then conduct