The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-04
WILLIAM MOORE.

He was born in Montgomery county, Pa, De-
cember 25, 1910; received n common school
education; worked on a farm, and was a clerk
in a country store for some years; was subse-
ouently devoted to mercantile pursuits in At
Iaptic county, N. j.; spent nineteen years as
agent of the Weymouth Iron Works; was for
time engaged in ship building and the coasting
trade; was twice elected judge of the Court
of Common Pleas for Atlantic county, serving
I'm ali ten years; and In 1866 he was elected
Representative from New Jersey to the Fortieth
Congress.
WILLIAM MUNGEN.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. May
70 1921; removed with his parents to Ohio IN
1870: he received the Iudiments of his educa-
tion from his mother, but afterwards obtained
q knowledge of the Latin aud German Ian
guares; spent his youth engaged in agricul-
iural pursuits; adopted the profession OF law;
was for some years the publisher and editor of
the Democratic Courier, published In Findlay,
Obio.i i'm lS46 and 1848 he was chosen County
Gndi'or, i'm 1851 he was elected to the State
Senate and declined reelection; was q dele
gate TO the Democratic Cincinnati Convention
of 1856 to the Charleston and Baltimore Con-
ventons of 1860, and to the Ph1ladelphia
National Union Convention of 1866. He served
during the Rebellion under General Sherman,
az Colonel OF the 57th Ohio Volunteers, which
he raised, from 1861 to 1868, when he resigned
on account of ill-health. On recovering his
heath he was appointed the State agent to
visit all the Ohio troops in the Department OF
Tennessee with poll-books and taly-sheets.
In 1864 he was appointed TO perform the same
duty for the Ohio troops in the Army Of the
Potomac; on his return he held a number OF
township offices, and in 1865 he was elected a
Representative from Ohio in the Fortieth Con.
gress.
He was born in Golconda, Pope county, I'LL
| nols, December 3, 1929; received good educa
| ton and adopted the profession of the law; in
1861 he participated in the war for the Union es
| major Of the 56th Illinois Volunteers; was pro
| IL. nWNNy ~ In1H nnI In, N.k l.,
| rank of brevet brgadier-general in 1864; to the
| full rank of brigadier IN 1866, serving in the
| Army of the Tennessee, until January of the
| latter year; he commanded brigade during the
| siege of Vicksburg, with General Mcpherson
went with General Sherman to Chattanooga in
| 1863 commanding brigade; was at the battle
| of Mission Ridge, and commanded a brigade
| during the great march through Georgia tC
| Savannah, in 1864; in 1866 he was elected 6
| Representative from Illinois to the Forfeit
| Congress.
WILLIAM II. ROBERTSON.
He was born In Bedford, Westchester county
| New York, october 10, 1880; received an acade
| meal education in that town; studied law, anC
came to the bar in I847, at Poughkeepsie; in
| lS48 he was elected to the Assembly, and re
| elected in l849; in 1854 he was elected to the
| State Senate; in 1856 he was elected for foul
| wears Judge of Westchester county; reelected
| in 1859. and also in 1868, serving eleven year
in all; in 1860 he was Presidential electOr; wa
| a delegate to the Baltimore Convention OF 1856
| which renomin9ted President Lincoln; and IL
| 1866 he was elected Representative from NeV
| York to the Fortieth Congress.
WILLIAM e. ROBINSON.
He was born near Cookstown, Tyrone county
| Ireland, Mayo 1874; received good Englisl
| and classical education: emigrated to this coun
| try in 1886; entered Yale College, and received
the degree of A. NJ. in 1S4l; was a student TO
| two years at the Yale law school; between tht
! years 1888 and 1874 he was frequent writer fo
| the New York Herald; during the latter year b.
became identified with the New York Tribune
signing his communications "Richelieu;" il
| 1S4S-49 he became identified as editor with
| weekly paper called The People; in 1859 HI
| visited his native land and the continent o
| Europe; practsed law in New York from 1856;
! to 1862; in 1862 he was appointed United State.
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the city O.
Brooklyn; and in 1866 he was elected Repre-
sentative from New York to the Fortieth Con
gress. In addition to his extensive writings or
the politics of the country, published in a great
variety of journals, he has occasionally delivered
| addresses on literary topics, and is also the
| author of a number of poems which have be
come popular with the people.