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

nj Columbia: reelected 70 the Thirty-seventh
Congress, serving as chairman of the committee
ON a bankrupt law, and also as chairman Of that
on the District of Columbia; reelected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress-. His father, Alfred
Conkiing, and his brother Frederick A., were
also Representatives in Congress. In the
Thirty-ninth Congress he was a member of the
Committees on Ways and Means and Recon-
struction. He was reelected a Representative
20 the FOrtieth Congress, but in January 1867
was chosen Senator in Congress for the term
ending in 1873.
CORNELIUS COLE.
he was born in Lodi, New York, september
IL, 1922; bred TO the business OF farmer;
necdcut; adopted the profession of law: emf
grated to California in 1sl9, and worked in the
mines for gold one year; subsequently prose-
cuted his profession Ia San Francisco and Sacra-
mento; was District Attorney at the latter place
for two years; and in 1868 he was elected a
Representative from California to the THIRTY
eighth Congress, serving on the Committee of
Post Offices and Post Roads. From 1856 to 1860
he was member of the National Republican
Committee, and during the Presidential cam
paign of 1860 was the editor of a newspaper in
California. Was elected to the Senate of the
United States for the term commencing in 1867
and ending in 1873; and was delegate to the
Philadelphia Loyalists' Convention Of 1866.
henry W. CoRBErT.
He was born in Westboro, Mass, February Is,
1927. When quite young he removed to Wash
ington county, New York; was educated chiefly
when sixteen years of age he removed to New
York city, where he remained nearly eight
years engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1850
he shipped stock of goods to Portland in
Oregon, and removed to that territory in the
following year, where he has since followed the
mercantile business. He took an active part in
politics, and was identified with the organiza-
tion of the Republican and Union parties in the
State; was a delegate from Oregon to the Chi
cago Convention which nominated Abraham
Lincoln for the Presidency, and in 1866 he was
elected Senator in Congress from Oregon, for
the term commencing in 1867, and ending in
1878.
CHARLES Q. DRAKE.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. April IL
1911; received an academical education; in 1927
he entered the Navy as a midshipman, and re-
mained in it until 1880; he then proceeded to
study law, and was admitted to the bar in 1888:
in 1884 he removed to St. Louis, where he prac-
tised his profession; in 1869 he was elected to
the Missouri Legislature; in 1861 and 1862 he
took an active and conspicuous part against the
secession movement; in 1853 he was elected to
the Missouri State Convention; was Presiden-
tial elector in 1864; in 1866 he was q member
and Vice-President of the convention that
formed the present Constitution of Missouri;
and in January, 1867, he was elected Senator
in Congress from Missouri for the term ending
in 1873.
OLIVER p. MORTON.
He was born in Wayne county, Indiana, Au-
gust 4, 1925 was educated at the Miami Univer-
sity studied law and came to the bar in 1s47; in
1852 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Fifth
Judicial Circuit of Indiana; in 1856 he was
nominated by the Republicans for the Office of
Governor of Indiana, but defeated; in 1860 he
was elected Lieutenant Governor of Indiana;
and in 1861, on the transfer of Governor H. s.
Lane to the Senate, he assumed the Office of
Governor and held it four years; in 1864 he was
elected Governor for a second term; and in 1865,
on account of his having been stricken with
paralysis, he visited Europe in the hope of i'm
proving his health, but returned in 1866, and in
orNifa NJ
tive duties. In june 1866, he delivered politl-
cal speech while seated in his chair, which
created much enthusiasm in the State, and of
which more than million copies were pub
Iished in pamphlet form; and on the subsequent
meeting of the Legislature in January, 1867, he
was elected by remarkable vote Senator in
Congress for the term ending in 1873
JAMES W. PATTERSON.
He was born in Henniker, Merrimac county,
New Hampshire June 2, 1928; was educated at
Dartmouth College, graduating in l848. From
1858 to 1861 he was a school commissioner ior
Grafton county, and at the same time was Sec
retary of the Board of Education tor the State.
In 1862 he served in the State Legislature, and
was elected a Representative from New Hamp-
shire to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on
the Committee on Expenditures In the Treasury
Department and for the District of Columbia.
In 1864 he was appointed Regent of the Smith
Sonian Institution, and was reappointed in 1865.
Reelected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving
on the Committee on the Death OF President
cation, and Free Schools in the District of
Columbia. In June, 1866, he was elected a
Senator in Congress tor the term commencing
in 1867 and ending in 1873. He was also a
delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' Conyen-
tion of 1866.
EDWARD G. ROSS.
He was born in Wisconsin, received good
English education, and, having commenced
life as printer and been foreman in the Office
of the Milwaukee Sentinel, soon became an
editor in his native State. On the breaking out
of the troubles in Kansas in 1856 he removed to
that State, and took an active part in its local
affairs; was a member of the Kansas Constitu
tional Convention in 1859; from that time until
1851 he served in the State Legislature; enlisted
as private soldier in Kansas regiment during
the Rebellion, attaining the rank OF Major and
subsequently became the associate editor OF
the Lawrence Tribune. In July, 1866, he wa:
appointed by the Governor a Senator in Con
gress from Kansas, Tor the uneXpired term o.
James ii. Lane, deceased serving on the Com
mitteeS on Pensions and Printing. In January
1867, his appointment to the Senate was con
frmed by the Legislature, his term expiring il
1871.
JUSTIN s. MORRILL,.
He was born in STAFFORD, VT, April IA, 1910
received an academic education, and engages
IN mercantile pursuits until the year l64S,kWhe
he turned his attention to agriculture. He wa
elected Representative from Vermont to tn
Thirty-tourth Congress, and reelected to tn
ThirtV-ffth the Thirty-siXth, the Thlrty-seventh
and the ThiIty-eighth Congresses, serving o.
fhe snecial committee on the sale of Fort Smell
inc and on the regular Committees on Agricu
tuTe and on Ways and Means. He was also
member of the special committee OF thirty-thre
ON the rebellious States in the Thlrty-siXt
Congress- Reelected to the Thirtyninth Cor
rress serving as chairman OF the Committee o
Ways and Means and as a member OF those Q
the death of President Lincoln and on Recol
structiOn. He was delegate to the Pnllade