The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-16
THE CABINET.
Biographical Sketches of the Members of
President Hayes Ministerial Council.

Bogra phical Sketches of the Members of
President Hayes Ministerial Council.
WILLIAM maxwell EvARTs,
Secretary of State, is native of Boston. He
was born ON the 9th of February, 1916. He was
educated in Yale College, and was member of
the class of 1887 In 1841, after a course of
study in the Harvard Law School. he was adj
mitted to the bar of New York, where he very
soon rose to prominence which he has since
found himself able to improve upon. He re-
ceived the degree of ILL., ID. from Union College
in 1857; from Yale i'm 1865, and from Harvard in
1870 Mr.. Evarts has never until this appoint
ment. held but one public position that could
in the usual sense of the word be called an
Office. In 1868, he was the leading counsel for
the defense of Andrew Johnson, who was then
| President of the United States, and under i'm
parchment and from the close of that trial
until the end Of Mr.. Johnsons term he was
the Attorney General. He was counsel for the
United States in the Alabama arbitration at
| Geneva in 1872. His name has frequently been
mentioned in connection with high posts Of the
Government, but until the present instance,
he has never held any except that already
alluded to.
l JOHN SHERMAN,
of Ohio, Secretary Of the Treasury. was born at
Lancaster. Ohio, in MAY, 1923. He studied in
the Mount Vernon school while, and then at
the age of IA was sent out to earn his own liv-
ing. He earned it on the Musllingum. in the
employ of the Muskingm Improvement Com
pany where he became acquainted with the
science of engineering. At 10 years of age he
dissolved partnership with the Muskingum
Company, and went to Mansfield, where, in the
office of his brother Charles, he applied him.
self to the study of the law. When he reached
his majority he was regularly admitted to the
bar, and for eleven wears thereafter was part
| ne will fbar ri no mi si1 do lus
ness for the firm. Sherman first got into
political notice as member of the Wing Ma
tional Conventions in 1S4S and 1852. In the latter
year he was a Presidential eector Two years
later he was elected to Congress, and was sub
| sequently re-elected--twice. In 1861 he was
again sent to Congress, and in the following
year the Legislature of the State lifted him up
into the Senate, in which body he was put upon
the Finance Committee. To him is largely due
the existence, in its present shape, of the green
back, well of national banks. In the
| Thirty-ninth Congress he fathered the Recon-
| struction law. In the Fortieth Congress he was
again put upon the Finance Committee, and in
troduced the measure known as the Sherman
Resumption act.
RICHARD W. THOMPSON
Secretary of the Navy was q Wing politician of
the old school, and is little known to the pres
ent generation outside of his own State. He
was born in Culpepper county. Va. and is about
7S years of age. Before he was II he emigra-
ted into the wilds of Kentucky, and i'll 1881
settled in Louisville, where he was clerk in a
mercantile house. He subsequently removed
to Indiana, and taught school in Lawrence
county. He studied law and was admitted to
the bar in 1894. His first political service was
as Representative in the Indiana Legislature,
to which he was elected III 1884 and reelected
in 1885. In 1886 he became State Senator. and
served two years, acting a portion Of the time
az President of the Senate and Lieutenant
Governor. In 1910 he was q Presi-
dental elector the Harrison ticket,
and labored zealously for the success
of his party, both on the stump and by
articles in the newspapers The next wear he
was sent to Congress, serving at that time one
term, and was subsequently reelected to serve
during the term from 1S47 to 1S49, at the close
of which he voluntarily withdrew from the can
didacy. In 1874 he was again Presidential
electOr. In 1864 he was chosen TO be Presi-
dental elector for the third time. Thompson
was a delegate from Indiana to the Cincinnati
Convention of last year, and was the spokes-
man OF his State. He was put forward to place
Senator Morton in nomination, and his speech.
with the exception Of that of Col. IngersoI,
was probably the most effective of any made on
that occasion. Thompson is man of exceed
ingly fine presence tall straight, with white
hair, and countenance denoting great de-
cision of character. He il considered one of
the best stump-orators in Indiana.
Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, was
|
Of Cologne, Gernahy. At II years of age he
entered the University of Bonn, to which insti-
tuition he went from the Gymnasium Of Cologne.
He was obliged to leave in 1S48 for trying to
incite Bonn to instruction. He proceeded to
the Palatinate and there assisted in the defense
OF Rastadt, whence he escaped to Switzerland,
leaving his bosom friend and co-conspirator,
one Gottfried Kinkel, in the hands of the enc
N.Y. In 1850 he surreptitiously went back again
and assisted kinkel to escape. Two years later
he came to America, and almost instantly took
up with the anti-savery people When the war
broke out he was Minister to Spain. position
which he resigned in order to come home and
enter the army, where he rose to the rank of
Major General. Two years after the close of
the war he was elected to represent Missouri in
the United States Senate. His course from that
time to the present is too well known 10 need
recital here.
CHARLES DEvEss,
Attorney General, residesin Worcester, Mass. He
served during the war in the army of the Po-
tonac, rising to the rank of Brigadier General
He lost leg in the service. Since the close of
the war he has been most of the time on the
bench, and was at the time of his present APP
pointment member Of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts.
GEORGE W. M'cRARY,
Secretary Of War, il n resident of Keokuk
Iowa. He was born in Evansville Ind in
August, 1895, and went with his parents to Iowa
ni iooo' Inc ihnlly hctteu IN heokuk. where
George received his education, and where, at
the age OF 20, he was admitted TO the bar. In
1857 he was sent to the Legislature, and in 1863
he went to the State Senate for four years. In
1868 he was elected to Congress, and was twice
reelected. The most widely-known move he
accomplished during his Congressional career
was the introduction Of what was known as the
McCrary Railway bill.
DAVID NJ. KEY.
the new Postmaster General. was born fifty
four years ago in Green county, Tennessee. OF
his early life little is known. He was Colonel
in the Confederate service. In 1870 and from
that to 1875, he was Chancellor of the Chatta-
nooga Circuit. In 1875 Gov. Porter, of Tennes-
see, appointed him 10 fill the vacancy in the
United States Senate, caused by the death of
Andrew Johnson. He was an unsuccessful
candidate before tho Iepislaturo Of his State