The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-12-07

Lands, and also that on Expenses in the Wa
Department. Reelected to the Thirty -nintl
Congress.
AMAsA COBB. hsh
Born in Crawford county, Illinois, Sept
81, 1928; received common school educs
ton emigrated to Wisconsin Territory il
1912; spent five years IN the lead mining
district served in the Mexican war as a
private soldier, during which time he occa-
sionally read law, aud at the end of the wal
he commenced the legal profession. In 1850
he was elected district attorney and SER
we'd four years in 1854 he was elected to
the State Senate and served two years; in
the latter part of 1855 he was appointed
Adiutant General of the State, and again in
1857; was elected to the State Legislature
in 1860; reelected in 1860, and chosen
speaker; in 1862 he served in the volunteer
service as Colonel of the Fifth Wisconsin
regiment, and was elected a Representative
from Wisconsin to the Thirty eighth Con-
gress, and as member of the Committee
on Militia, and chairman of the Joint Com
mittee on Enrolled Bills Re elected to the
Thirty ninth Congress.
CHARLES A. ELDKEDaE.
He was born in Bridgeport, Addison, Co.,
Vermont, Feb q, 1927 When child he
removed with his parents to st. Lawrence
Co., New York studied law in that State,
and came to the bar in 1916; in 1848 re-
moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1854
and 1856 he was a member OF the State Sen
ate and in 1862 he was elected repre-
sentative from Wisconsin to the Thirty
eighth Congress, serving Oh the committee
on revolutionary claims. Reelected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress.
PHILETUs SAWYER.
was born in Whiting Addison county, Vt;
received good common school and business
education removed to Wisconsin and de-
voted himself to the lumber trade; he was
elected to the legislature of that state in
1857 and 1861 in 1863 lie was elected
Mayor of Oshkosh, and reelected in 1864; ;
and was elected representative from Wis
consin, to the 39th Congress.
WALTER D. MoINDoR.
He was born in Scotland, March 80, 1919 !;
emigrated to New York city III his fifteenth
year, was clerk in a large mercantile
house in that city, followed the same pur-
suit in Charleston, South Carolina, and in
st. Louis, Missouri, and subsequently set
tied in Wisconsin, engaging in the lumber
business. He served in the Wisconsin Leg
in 1850. 1854 and 1856; was a
Presidential elector in 1856 and 1860, and
was elected Representative from Wiscon-
sin to the 37th Congress,in place of L. Han
chett, deceased, and was re elected to the
38th Congress, serving on the committee on
Indian Affairs and Revolutionary Pensions
also reelected to the 39th Congress.
RemOvaI.-Col. Jas II. HOWE. finding thai
il ia difficult to transact business at one end of
II road 2i0 miles long, and maintain residence
at the other, takes his departure this week with
his family for keDoshs, where We understand
he hiss pnf chased pleasant home. This makes
y vacancy i'll Green Bay which viii be seDsibly
et in our social circles. They will always re-
tain warm friends here-whO will be glad when
hey have had enough OF ruraliz.ng in that pref
y provincial town, 30 welcome them back again.
Green Bay AdU0cate
We shall be happy TO welcome the Col. and
his family to kenosha. 1t is little on the gro
Iesque though, when the editor of the Green
Bay paper talks of ''ruralIzing" in this pretty
provincial town" Col. II. since he has been
10 the war and eeen something of the world has
evidently tired of rursiizing, about the hyper
borean regions of Green Bay, and he has ib ere
fore selected Kenoshs as the prettiest, healthi-
est, smartest and most intelligent town he
has found anywhere. A-&