The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-28
Congressional Personals.

Senator Sargent was a printer in early
life.
Senator Oglesby was once a Califor-
MIA miner.
Senator Ben Hill was prisoner at
Fort Lafayette in 1865.
1t was Senator Bayard's original in
tention to be merchant.
Hon. Thomas w. Ferry has the finest
Senatorial beard in Congress.
The parents of Hon. Benjamin A. Will
lis, of New York, are Quakers.
Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, has
been the President of a tool company.
Hon. Clarkson N. Potter has the de-
gree of LII. d. from Columbia College.
Senator Mcpherson made his fortune
as farmer and dealer in live stock.
Senator Whyte, of Maryland, was
once banking clerk of George Pea
body's.
Senator Lamar is a fine mathema-
tician, and has been a professor of
mathematics.
Senator Jones, of Florida, was 10
years old when he left his native Emer-
aid isle.
Senator Conkling will not allow him
self to be called out of the Senate dur
ing session.
Hon. Jacob d. Cox was born in Can
ada, and paroled the troops of Gen. Joe
Johnston.
Hon. Benoni S. Fuller, of Indiana,
commenced life as school teacher and
Sheriff
Hon. James B. Beck can never be
President, having been born in Dunn
friesshire, Scotland.
Senator Mcmillan, of Minnesota, was
law student in the office of the late
Edwin NJ Stanton.
Hon. William w. Garth, of Alabama,
is graduate of Emory and Henry Col.
lege, Virginia. 20.
Senator Edmunds' vinegar cruet is or
namented with figure of Moses turn.
ing his rod into serpent.
Hon. A. III. Buckner, of Missouri, was
n student at Georgetown College, in the
District of Columbia.
Hon. Ohio r. Singleton is a native o.
Kentucky, and has been in public life
for over a generation.
Senator Mitchell was once professor
of medical jurisprudence in Willamette
University, Oregon.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina
was Attorney General of that State il
1852, at the early age of %.
Senator Burnside resigned from tn
army in 1852 to manufacture breech
loading rifle of his own invention.
Hon. George A. Bickne)l, of Indiana
is doctor of laws, was fence-viewe
one year, and Judge for twenty-fou
years.
Hon. William A. Phillips, of Kansas
graduated into the politics of that Stat
from the staff of the New York Trib
une.
Hon. Horace Davis, of California,
the only man who ever fitted himsel
for a miller by graduating at Harvar
University.
Hon. Fernando Wood commenced lif
as a shipping merchant at 10, and re
tired at 3S with an ample fortune.
Senator Thomas @. McCreery, of Ken
ucky, has that happy expression whic
settles on the face of cat after it ha
eaten the canary.
Hon. Thaddeus @. Pound, of Wiscon
sin, is the only member of the Congress
sional delegation from that State who
not lawyer.
Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, of Penn
sylvania, was Chairman of the Demo
cratic Convention which met in Bait
more in 1874 and nominated Polk an
Dallas.
Senator Armstrong was q schoc
teacher for seventeen years, havin
opened and conducted at st. Louis tin
first public school ever established i
Missouri under the laws of that State.
Senator Kirkwood, of Iowa, is
Southern man by birth, and receive
his scholastic education in Washington
None of the Congressional delegatio
from Iowa were born in that State.
Hon. r. p. Bland, of Missouri, prac
ticed law in Nevada during the /" tlus
times" when the Coroner charged 81 90
for holding an inquest and had to en-
ploy three deputies to help him keep u
the days work. Washington Post.