New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-16
THE CANDIDATES.
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General Henry Martin Hoyt, the Republican
candidate for Governor or Pennsylvania. was born In
Luzerne County Penn, June 2. 1880 His parents were
natives If Connecticut AID a'aong the early set
tiers in the Wyoming Valley. General Uoyt remained
upon his fathers farm until 1914. when he en-
tered the Wyoming Seminary, where he prepared
himself to enter Williams College. He graduated
from the latter institution in 1919. During the next
year he opened select school at ToDawanda,
where he remained until 1851, when he was
elected Professor Of Mathematics IN the Wyoming
Seminary position which he filed for two years.
In 1853 ne went Memphis, where he taught IN the
graded schools until called home by his fathers death
On his Pennsyvani4 General Hoyt began the
study OF law and after the Fremont campaign OF S5G lin
which he took an active ;parO no opened law
Office at Wlkesbarre In the Summer OF 1861 he took
active part raising the 524 Pennsylvania Regiment
Of which he afterward made Lieuten
ant-COlonel. In the Peninsula campaign OF
1862 his regiment took prominent part
After the close of this campaign he went South aud
took part In the OF Fort Wagner the trst serious
obstacle the reduction of Charleston. In June,
1864, a plan was devised to capture Charleston
hy surprising the outlying garrSOns at night. General
HOyt led the division Of coats which 10 capture
Fort Johnson He succeeded in entering the fort only to
find that his unsupported by the cXpcctdFe-
be- useless and the detachment surrendered prisoners
of The skill and daring there displayed by General
and foe. General Hoyt was confined some time
MSe9h o was aTcn and CHARGES
ton with some her officers but was recaptured with
tne aa 9I poounTun s Ai'oT UriH. MIN ~
until the close OF the war. lie then resumed the
him as additional Law Judge Of the Nth District,
a position I'm which he discharged his dates with
1875 and 1876 he was chairman OF the Republican
state Committee and conducted the campaigns those
years with great He was married in 1893.
Personally he popular of tine presence aud pleasant
JUDGE JAMES P. sTEBRETTi
Tho oondido+a for Ju1pn of tbp Cuurpmp
Court James p sterrett born in Juniata County,
November z, 1922. His ancestors Of Scotch
Irish descent. In 1912 he entered Jefer-
sob College, where he graduated i'll 1916. He then
filed for year the position of principal Of the Pre-
paratoTy Department OF the college. III 1913 he was
admitted TO the bar at Richmond, Va, and in
his native county, after completing his legal studies
at the University of Virginia. During the
following year he went to Pittsbnrg, where he
practised his profession until 1851, when he
Revenue Laws OF tic state HIS judicial career began
in 1862 when he filed the vacancy caused by the death
of tue President Judge of Allegheny County. Later in
the year ne was elected. as Republican, TO the
same position By, large majority, aud III 1872
OF botn parties In 1877, Governor Iartanft appointed
bin to MI a vacancy on the siate supreme
Court bench, and in the year the Republicans nom
mated him Tor ;he same position lie was defeated by
Jndge Irunkcy D.m9 Daring the ex,s'enGe OF ine
CHARLES W. STONE.
Charles w. stone, inc nominee IOf LlcuIcH-
ant-Governor born Grotan Mass. June 90 1s43
Very early in life he left, by the death
Of his father, 10 make his way in the world by
his own exerOns. From the common school
he went to Lawrence Academy, and from there
TO Williams College, from which he graduated in
1868 Soon afterard he became principal OF the Union
Academy, at Warren Penn, remaining in that
position until March, 500, when he appointed SUI
nerntendu The Public schools of the place III sep
tcmber following ne was elected principal of the
Erie Academy During the summer OF 1866 he studied
law, and in 1867 admitted % the bar. He
elected TO the Legislature IN 1863, aud reelected
in 1870 without opposition. In 1876 he was elected
10 the State senate, where he served chairman OF the
Judiciary Committee
AARON X. DUNKEL.
Aaron X. Dunkel, the nominee for Secre-
tary of Internal Affairs, born in Ian
easter County, Penn, May 90 1887 He
attended the common schools until he fifteen years
OF age when entered The LancdsterGn office. In 500
he became q cOmpOsltOr fhe DGiy Pemisyi
rGlitn, i'll Philadelphia, remaining there until the
outbreak OF the war, when he enlisted as private; lie
rus the rank OF captain. In 567 nc became inter
ested IN the publication OF e Sunday Repp5le Of Phla-
delpha. In 1874 he elected 10 the state Senate
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