Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-09-23
s,e,eh Of President GarneId.

.fu.k and his mother, WHO Il SUI Nv.
10, was especially noted for her strong
viii stern principles and more Than
.,.,.,,,. e,rce Of character. Ills father
died in 1893. leaving four caiidree,.I M
whom James was the young
means or support except 2 small lirh
and tho unnisls-d exertions their mother
Fortunately he mother knew how to
bring up her children, aud even more
fortunately James was made Of that
stern stuff which TIC moldiug hand Of
adversely only fashions into higher forms.
He took 10 work almost instinctively,
toicd hard on the farm il summer aud
worked at the carpenters bench in the
winter. He had an absorbing ambition to
get an education, and to obtain the ne
cessary funds he entered the service Of the
Ohio canal, which paid better wages
than could be earned at farming, became
driver on the towpath, and with his
innate tendency to rise, soon promoted
to higher position, and held the heum
Of 'ouc Of the boats He had made up
his mind to ship as a sailor on the lakes,
when sn attack of sickness frustrated his
plans aud sent him back to the old home
stead. When he recovered his mother
Who seems to have fully shared in all
his ambition, gave him small sum of
money to enable him to attend the
Gcauga Academy in an adjoining coun-
ty and helc, cooking his own food, work
ing at the carpenters bench and teach
ing country schools in the winter to Gu
able him to pay his expenses, he set out
on the road Of knowledge in humble
fashion, but with royal heart and cour
age. His splendid physical constitution
stood him in good stead, not only in
strain of this arduous work, but when !
be left tac academy, rendered him an
other service in assisting him to the
necessary means to enter college. lie
iad but little money. but lie had tl,..
physique Of Il young giant, aud the in
surancc companies were glad to issue
aim a policy, which he assigned as a
security for loan to make up the amout
hat he lacked, Thus pledging the body
for the brain, he entered the junior class
If Williams College, Mas achusetts, in
1851, and graduated in 1856 with the
metaphysical honors of his class. Be
2orc going to college he had become a
member of the Christian or Disciples
Church, and when he returned to Ohio
he became professor Of Latin and Greek
at the College of the denomination a
Hiram, in Portage county, near his boy
hoods home, aud two years afterwards
became president Of the institution ~
Among the Disciples any one can preach
pleases, and it was while profess
sor ut tho. s1i-q-r.-.i-.rt AZ Gsrnnid de-
livercd those Sunday dscoufscs which
afterwards procured for him the reputa-
ton of having been regularly ordain-
ID minister. During his professorship,
he married Miss Lucretia Rudolph,
laughter of farmer in the ncghbor-
hood, who had eMigrated from Hartford
county, Maryland, and whose acquaiut-
lnce he had made while at the academy,
where she was also pupil. In 1859
he college president was elected to the
State Senate from the counties Of Port
ge and Summit. During the winter
# 1861 he was active in the passage of
measures fer arMing the State militia,
nd early in the following summer was
elected colonel of an infantry regiment
the forty -second) raised in Northern
Ohio, many Of the members Of which
nad been students at Hiram lie com
menecd his military career in Eastern
kentucky, where he was soon put in
command of brigade, and where he
distinguished himself by the defeat of
Marshall at Plketon. lie
subsequently, participated in the second
lays fight ing at Pittsburg Landing, in
he seige of Coriuth, and in the opera
ions along the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad In January, 1868, he was
ppointed chief of staff of the Army of
he Cumberland, and bore prominent
hare in all the campaigns in Middle
Tennessee in the spring and summer of
hat year His last conspicuous m,eis.u..
y service was at the battle 9ecbicka-
nauga, where his conduct earned him
naior-g eneralship. In 1868 he was
lected to Congress from the Ashtabula !.
istrict. and believing that the war would ;
Don be over he accepted the honor, and
quickly acquired leading and infiuen- {
ial position in the natl NAL counsels.-
From that period until his election to the
United State Senate he was regularly
.enomiuated and elected to Congress
rom the Ashtabula district, encounter |
ng opposition in his own party only in
1866, when he was nominated by accla-
nation in spite of an earnest canvass by {
lis opponent. In all the political struG- !
yles in Congress he bore leading part i
md was reckcned one of the ablest de-
'atcrs in either house. When Mr.
Blaine was elected to the Senate, in 1877
he mantle of republican leadership in
he House was by common consent