Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-07-03
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z OTHER MATTERS.
/ General Hancock is a member @
4 the Protestant Episcopal Church
The lady whom he married when
q young lieutenant was of splendiC
4 family. Mrs. Hancock is 81 blonde
4 speaks several languages, notably ;
4 fine French scholar, and POSSESSED
: of elegant and attractive manners.
]. WILLIAM H. ENGLISH,
: The candidate for the vice presi
! dency, is one of Indiana's foremost
l sons. He stands To the state ol
Indiana in somewhat the same
: light that Hon. George II. Pendle.
2 ton does to Ohio. While Pendle.
: ton is the Gentleman George of the
? Buckeye State, English is in every
. way splendid specimen Of a pop
, ular gentleman of and from the peo-
pie. He may be said to represent
} the ihard-money democracy Of Hoo
sierdom in the same way that Mr..
Pendleton did the greenbackers of
Ohio. He IS a thoroughly practical
man, was born in Scott county,
i Indiana, August q, 1922. He re-
| ceiYed a good deOmmen-schoOl educa-
tion and afterwards a classical one,
passing three years at the Univers7
II ity of'South Hanover. He studied
law, was admitted topractice at the
bar in 1916, but devoted most Of his
time to agricultural pursuits. In
| 1913 he, was clerk in the state house
4 of Representatives During the adj
4 ninistration Of James X. Polk,
! 1874 to I84S, he was clerk in the
treasury department of the United
States. In the constitutional con-
verition Of 1850, of his own state, he
| officiated as clerk. In 1851 he was
/ tsentativeS, and from \ his efficiency
as a parliamentarian, was chosen
| speaker. In 1852 he was elected
from the New Albany district to
the thirty-third congress as a demo-
crat, receiving 8,654 votes against
1904 votes. for Ferguson, Whig. In
1854 he was reelected to the thirty
Fourth congress, receiving S,93r
votes against s, ,345 votes for Schaul-
ter, republican, In 1856 he was
| elected to the thirty-fifth congress,
receceiving 10, SIT votes against 7 ,927'
votes for Wilson, republican. He
had also been made Regent of the !
! Smithsonian Institute, high and
well-merited honor. He was elect
ed to the thirty-sixth congress, re-
ceiving 1888 votes, against 7, 431 for
j. M. Wilson, republican, having
served from December D, 1858, to !
March 8, 1861. He won his great
honors during the first session of the
thirty-fifth congress, when he took |
an active part in the Kansas COM
promise measure, and officiated at |
the same time as chairman of the |
committee on post-officeS and post !
roads, a position that he afterWard |
held in the thirty-sixth congress-
He is known in Indiana as father |
of the compromise bill. In person.
al appearance he is tall, of COM
manding and imposing figure, fully |
six feet in height, dark, curly hair,
wearing full beard cut close. His 1
appearance is always genteel, being |
what would be considered a we'll |
dressed gentleman of wealth the
world over. He is president of the
First National Bank of Indianapo- I
lis, which he started as compara- !
lively poor man. He is now ac-
counted as the happy possessor of
several millions. He was recently
president of the Association of Ma
tional Bankers, and is now engaged |
in building the magnificent Grand |
Opera-house in the city OF Indian
ap0lis. His nomination was a most
fortunate and Opportune one, since
it secures the state of Indiana, as all
the Germans are hard-money men, /
and the greenbackers are content to
elect General Landers to a promi-
nent state position. Mr.. English's
father was Major Elisha G.. English,
one of the pioneers of Scott county, /
who came to it about the time it
was organized, and continued to re-
side there until the time of his
death in 1874. Major English serv-
ed the people of Scott county as
sheriff, as far back as 1928, and was
repeatedly their representative in
the state legislature. For many
years he represented Scott, Jackson
and Clark counties as senator. He
served the people as a faithful pub
lie servant for thirty-fiye years.
This is the stock that the coming
president comes from. VIM.
II. English was married in Wash
ington in 1850, during the memo
rial session of the compromise, to
Miss Emma M. Jackson, an aceomp- ;
lished lady from Virginia. Mr.,
English was a member of the first
legislature that was held under the
new constitution, and many of the
useful, brief and now popular re-
forms, were directly due to NJ:
English's cool, severe and business
judgment. TO him is especially i
due the substitution of the short
forms of deeds and mortgages and
other legal instruments, instead of
the old, outrageously long and tech
nical barbarities of the English
common law. While speaker of
the legislature, no appeal was ever ,
taken from any of his decisions
showing a confidence in his ability
and integrity rarely accorded to the
officer of any body.