The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-18
THE HON. CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

The Hon. Chester A. Arthur, of New York,
who is the Republican candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, was born Oct 49, 1880, at Franklin, VT,
and is now in the 50th year of his age He
is about six feet two inches in height, rather
portly, with most dignifed and gracious
presence. His hair is slightly gray, and he
wears side whiskers and mustache, both
and bis face is very winning. Probably no man
in America has a larger circle of personal
friends, and no man better deserves them, for
be is as steadfast to them as the needle to the
pole. While yet very young lad, his parents
removed to the State of New York. and he at
tended school at Greenwich, on the Hudson,
until he was H. at which early age he entered
Union College, and graduated well up In his
class at Is. In few months he went to the
city of New York and entered the Office of the
Hon. E. d. Culver, then member of Congress
from the First district of that State. Mr..
Culver was at that time one of the leading
anti-slavery men of the day, and it was
here that Mr. Arthur imbibed those firm Re
publican sentiments and principles which he
has since SO ably and boldly maintained in
good and evil report. At the age of % he was
delegate to the first Republican convention ever
held in the State, which met at Syracuse and
he almost Immediately took a position as an
earnest, active. and determined worker in the
Republican cause. When the celebrated Lemon
slave case came UP in the State and United
States Court there, young Mr.. Arthur was the
unanimous selection of the anti-slavery people
for the defense of the fugitive and the prosecu-
ton of those who sought to force him into
slavery. This thing he fought to the bitter
end and when it was over he was already
marked man. Up to the beginning of the war
he was engaged in the practice of law and was
on the way to a competency when the war
broke out. At that time the militia of the State
OF New York, as, in fact, most of the various
States, was in very poor condition. 1t be-
came necessary to at once put it in shape, and
Gov. Morgan called upon the energetic young
lawyer to abandon his practice and come to the
aid of his State. He was made Quartermaster
and Inspector General, and with his usual i'm
petuosity threw himself with heart and soul
into his work, and within less than month
the troops from New York began to go forward
armed equipped, and supplied in manner
that was as gratifying to themselves as it was
to the military authorities at Washington. For
nearly three years he worked night and day at
this task, andmade amost satisfactory recorder
himself and his State. At the close of the war
he returned to his practice and was known as
a hard-worker, persistent student, and as a citl-
zen who always took prominent part in poll
ieve that every American citizen, old and
young, should bear his share of the political
burden, and not only inform themselves re-
garding municipal and national affairs, but
should also take an active working interest in
everything that tends to insure good govern
ment, and that affects for good or evil the in
terests of the people. He was selected by
President Grant in 1871 as Collector of the Port
of New York, which position he filed until
1878, when he was removed by President Hayes
for, as was alleged, violating the civil-seryice
rules, though an investigating committee re-
ported that his Office was a model, and not the
slightest complaint was heard against it. He
is now engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession. He has two children, son of IA and
daughter of 8 years of age. He had the mis-
fortune to lose his devoted wife last January,
whose death was sudden and unexpected. Mrs.
Arthur was daughter of the late Capt Hern-
don, of the United States navy, the intrepid ex-
plorer of the River Amazon, who was lost at
sea while in command of the steamship Central
America on her trip between Havana and New
York in 1857
Cen Arthur will add strength TO the ticket,
and when elected will fill the high position for
which he has been nominated with ability, dig
pity and integrity.