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

New York to the FOrtieth Congress-
JOHN CovoDB
He was born In Westmoreland county. Penn
sylvania, March II, 1908; farmer and manu-
iacturer bv occupation, and extensively engaged
in the coal business. He was elected from Penn
syvania Representative TO the Thirty-fourth
Congress- and reelected to the Thirty-dfth Con-
gress serving on the Committee on Public Ex-
penditures. Was also re elected to the Thirty
sixth Congress, and was made chairman of a
special committee to investigate certain charges
made against President Buchanan and his Ad-
ministration. Reelected to the Thirty-seventh
Congress, and made chairman of the Committee
on Public Expenditures. Was delegate to the
Philadelphia "LOyalists' Conventionn of 1866,
and reelected to the Fortieth Congress.
J. LAWRENCE GRTz.
He was born in Reading Pa, September Ia,
1921; his father was an officer in the navy, and
fought under Captain Lawrence in 1872; he
received an academical education in Reading
and in Nottingham, Md; read law and came to
the bar 10 1886 and, having turned his atten-
ton to the newspaper business, he was for
twenty years the editor of the Reading Gazette
and Democrat; in 1866 he was elected to the
state Legislature; reelected in 1867 and made
Speaker of the House, and in 1866 he was elected
q Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Forteth Congress.
JOHN CoBURN.
He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana 0cto-
Der ~, 1926; graduated at Wabash College in
l046; adopted the profession of law; was men,
DCI VI Tue OIdte LcBlSlhJuT6 IN l0OU anu loOlt
was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the
Twelfth District from 1859 and 1861; resigned,
and served in the army during the Rebellion,
first as Colonel of the 33d Regiment Indiana
Volunteers, when he was promoted to the rank
of Brigadier-General for gallant and merito-
rious services; was with the Army of the Cum
berland, and having gone with General sher-
man to Atlanta, received in person the sur
render of that city; in October, 1865, he was
elected Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit
OF Indiana, which he resigned in August, 1866;
and in the subsequent autumn he was elected
Representative from Indiana to the Fortieth
Congress.
c. M. DODGE.
He was born in Danvers, Massachusetts,. April
IL, 1881; graduated at the Norwich University
of Vermont in 1850; adopted the profession of
civil engineer, and was employed on several i'm
portant railroads in the West, and is now Chief
Engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad; in 1861
he entered the military service as captain; raised
the 4th Regiment Iowa Infantry and was made
Colonel; in 1862 he was appointed Brigadier-
General for services at Pea Ridge; after various
services in Middle Tennessee, at Vicksburg, and
Corinth, he took an active part in the Atlantic
campaign, and was promoted to be a Major
General on the recommendation of Generals
Grant, Sherman, and Mcpherson, and was sub
sequently In command OF the Departments OF
Wisconsin, Kansas, and the Plains, and soon
after, resening his commission in the army, he
was elected Representative from Iowa to the
Fortieth Congress.
JOSEPH j. GRAVELY.
He was born In Henry county, Virginia, in
1928; received q common school education; spent
his youth chiefly on a farm. In 1853 and 1854
he was elected to the Virginia Legislature;
during the latter year he removed to Missouri;
was elected to the Convention of that State in
1860; inblS62 he was elected to the Senate of the
State, and reelected in 1864; had command
during part of the Rebellion as Colonel of the
StL regiment of Missouri cavalry. After the
close oil the war he turned his attention to the
practice of the law, and in 1856 he was elected
a Representative from Missouri to the Fortieth
Congress.
WILLIAM A. PILE.
He was born near Indianapolis Indiana,
February IL, 1929, received good English and
classical education, was clergyman of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and member of
the Missouri Conference at the commencement
OF the Rebellion. In 1861 he joined the Missouri
Volunteers as Chaplain. In 1862 he had COM
mand OF battery of artillery as Captain; was
soon afterwards promoted to the rank of Colonel
Brigadier-General of United States Volun-
teers. He was in the Missouri campaign
under General Lyon; with Generals Grant and
Halleck at Corinth; also at Vicksburg and near
Mobile, and his command was the first to break
the enemy's line at the capture of Fort Blakely.
In 1866 he was elected a Representative from
Missouri to the Fortieth Congress.
MORTON C. HUNTER.
He was born in Versailles, Ripley county, In
diana, February s, 1926; went through a scien-
Versity; studied law, and graduated as lawyer
at the above institution In 1858 he was
elected to the State Legislature; in 1860 he was
a Presidential elector; in 1852 he raised the 92d
Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and as
Colonel commanded it until the fall of Atlanta
in 1864; he also had command of brigade
under General Sherman in his march to the sea,
and continued with the 14th Army Corps
1865 he was breveted Brigadier-G General, and
in 1866 he was elected a Representative from
Indiana to the Forneth Congress.
GEORGE W. MORGAN.
He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania,
September 20, 1920; in 1886 he left college, and,
as private, joined company commanded by
his brother, and went to assist Texas in gaining
her independence, in which service he rose to
the rank OF captain; in l843 he was settled IN
Mount Vernon, Ohio, and adopted the profes'
sion OF law; served in the Mexican war as
colonel OF the I'd Ohio Infantry, and tor his ser
vices at the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco
| he was breVeted brigadier.general in the
| regular army; in 1855 he was appointed consul
at Marseilles; in 1858 he was appointed minister
resident at Lisbon; on the break ing out of the
Rebellion, as brigadler-general of volunteers, he
| had command OF the Seventh Division of the
Army OF the Ohio; was with General Sherman
at Vlcksourg; was assigned TO the 18Th Army
| Corps, and was in command at the taking OF
Fort Henderson, in Arkansas, and, on account
| OF his loss OF health, resigned his command in
| 1868. In 1865 he was the unsuccessful candi
| date Tor Governor OF Ohio, and in 1866 he was
| elected Representative from Ohio TO the
Fortieth Congress.
DANIEL j. MoRRELL.
He was born in North Berwick, Maine
August &, 1921; received common school edu
! cation; settled IN Philadelphia in 1886 and fol
| lowed the mercantile business as clerk anC
| Prlnclpai until 1855, when he entered into the
business OF manufacturing iron at JohDstown
pennsylvania; served for time in the Councils
OF the town, and in 1866 he was elected Repre-