Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-13
sketches OF the Members of the Re-
publican administration.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT.

sketches of the Members of the Re-
publican administration.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT.
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Northern
confederation, was born in Kentucky, February
u, 1909. His ancestors belonging to the society
of Friends. originally 'set.ledin Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, whence they removed to Virginia,
and subsequently settled in Kentucky, where the
subject of this memoir was first introduced on the
stage of life. Mr.. Lincoln, imbued with the
wandering proclivities of his ancestry, soon re-
moved to Spencer county, Indiana, where ne re-
mained for fourteen years. He here received
limited education. In 1880 our subject removed
to Illinois Shortly afterwards 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 Spring
field; although still deyoting great attention to
politics, serving Wing elector in several Presi-
dental elections. He was elected to Congress in
le49, and served three years, distinguishing
himself by his pertinacity in sustaining the Will
mot Proviso, in connection with Seward, Chase,
& Co., and his opposition to the Mexican war.
In lS45 he supported the nomination of Gen.
Taylor, and in 1852 was very active for the sue
cess of Gen. Scott. In l649 he was defeated by
and again 1855 by Judge Trumbull. In 1856
Mr. Lincolns name headed the Fremont cleo
toral ticket. He was first, however broeght in
public notice by his memorable campaign against
Douglas for the Senatorship.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN VICE PRESIDENT.
Hannibal Hamlin the Vice President. was born
in Paris, Oxford county, Maine, on the 9th of
August 1909; is lawyer by profession; was a
member of the Maine Legislature from 1896 to
1910, was elected a Representative to the
Twenty eighth Congress, and was re elected to
the Twenty ninth Congress; was member of the
House of Representatives of the State Legisla-
ture, in 1S47, and elected to the United States
Senate, May 26, lS46, for four years, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John Fairfield.
He was reelected for six years, July %, 1851
and elected Governor of Maine, January Z, 1857,
resigned hil seat in the Senate and being inaugu-
rated as Governor on the same day. On the 10th
of the same month he was reelected as United
States Senator for six years, and resigned the
Office of Governor February 20 1857. Mr.. Ham
lin was formerly a Democrat, but prior to his
election as Governor of Maine he changed his
politics and attached himself to the Republican
party.
wM. H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mr.. Seward was born in Orange county, in the
State of New York, on the 10th of May, 1901
He was educated at Union College, in this State
and took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1890
and Master of Arts in 1924. At the age oi
twenty one he established himself at Auburn, in
| the profession of the law, and soon acquired
lucrative and extending practice. Early in his
public and professional life he travelled in the
Southern slave States, and is supposed to have
formed at that time the opinions and principles
hostile to slavery, to which he has since given ex
! preston. To greater degree than is known o.
any other American statesman-Mr. Sumner, per
haps, excepted-the object of his life seems t
have been to counteract the extension of slavery
Upon other questions Mr.. Stewards policy may b.
described as humanitarian. He is in favor of tn
education of the people, of the ameloration o
the laws and of the developement of the materia
resources of the United States. In these respect
he has ever been among the foremost of American
statesmen, and may Justly claim the praise be
slowed upon him by his friends, and scarcely de
MED by his opponents, of being "the best an
! cearest head in America" In 1880 he had ac
quired such influence and character that he wa
elected a member of the Senate of the State 0
\ New York, then the highest judicial tribunal O
the State, as we'll as legislative body. In 1884
at the close of his term of four years, he wa
nominated a candidate for the Governorship Q
the State of New York, in opposition to MI
William L. Marcy, the then Governor, and later
the distinguished Secretary of State of the Unite
States. On this occasion Mr.. Seward was de
feated by majority of nearly 10, 900. III 1885
his party becoming bolder and stronger, he wa
triumphanty elected, in opposition to Mr.. Marcy
the majority being greater than his previou
minority. Without having passed through tn
lower stratum of the House of Representative;
he was in le49 elected to the Senate of the Unite
States for six years. He gave so much satsfaC
ton that he was re- elected in 1855.
s.P. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY.
/, Salmon Portland Chase was born Cornish,
H., on the opposite bank of the Connecticut rive
from Windsor, VT, in the year 1903. When mir
years of age his father died. and three years aft,
: this bereavement, in 1890, young Chase wa
! found at the seminary at Worthington, Ohio, the
conducted by the venerable Bishop Philand,
Chase, his uncle. Here he remained until BishO
Chase accepted the Presidency of the Cincinna
College, entering which, our student became
chief among his peers. After years residenC
Mt Cincinnati, he returned to his maternal home
New Hampshire, and shortly after resumed his stu,
t les in Dartmouth College Hanover, where he gra,
E uated in 1896. He shortly after commenced Il
study of law in the city of Washington, under Il
guidance of the celebrated William Writ, the
Attorney General of the United States. He su
tanned himself during the years of his profession
studies by impartng instruction to a select scho
for boys composed in part of the sons of the mo
distinguished men of the nation. He was a,
mitted to the bar at Washington in 1899, and in Il
/ upon the practice of his profession, in which
4 soon rose to emnence and in which he was di
f tinguished for industry and patient investigatio
He subsequently elected a member of Il
r United States Senate, and upon the expiration
: his Senatorial term. he was put in nomination {
Governor of Ohio, and elected. He was aga
q put in nomination for Governor, and was aga
n elected to that position.
II SIMON CAMERON, SECRETARY OF WAR.
Gen. Simon Cameron was born in Lancast
county, Pennsylvania. Reverses and misfortun
= in his fathers family cast him very early in Ii
! on the world to shape and carve out his own fc
! tunes. After having removed to Sunbury,
i Northumberland county. his father died. viii
Simon was yet boy. In 1917, he came to Ha
risburg and bound himself as an apprentice 10 {
| printing business to James Peacock who is still
:, resident of Harrisburg, and one of its most wort
- and respected citizens. During this time he w
% the regard and esteem of Mr.. Peacock and all
=, fellow workmen by his correct department, his
= dustry, intelligence and faithfulness. His da
- were devoted to labor and his nights to STUD
IA Having completed his apprenticeship he went
I, Washington City, and was employed as iournt
IN man printer. In 1924. though scarcely of CO.
n petent age, he had attained such position n
20 influence that his party-then in the ascendan
in NTH the Cor Congressional res Dct.PrOpOsed to no
q. promptly declined, as interfering with the ent
;f prise in which he then engaged He was
pointed Adjutant General of the State in 1928,
:, Office which he filled creditably and acceptat
y during Gov. Shultzs term and in 1921 unsolicit'
~ he was appointed by Gen. Jackson as a visitor
=, West Point, compliment, at that time, tender
on only to most prominent citizens. To single m
III within her borders is Pennsylvania more inde5t
%, for her great system of public Improvement a
~ public instruction. Nor did he hesitate to inv
no his own means, when prosperity and fortu
no dawned upon him, in enterprises of great pub
ri importance. In 1884 he originated and carried
~ successful completion the Harrisburg, Mount
,;s and Lancaster Roilroad, surmounting difficult
ON and prejudces which would have appalled, a
20 paralyzed a man of ordinary energy and deter
r nation. In 1888 he was nominated for Congrt
ON but declined. He was engaged in public ent
at prises from which he would not permit himself
10 be drawn aside by any consideration of office
-, personal elevation. In 1851 he was mainly
Nc strumental in the formation of the Susquehanr
o Railroad Company, consolidated with
nd Northern Central Railway, by which the up
valleys Of the Susauehanna are connected v