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THE CABINET.


Brief Biographical Sketches OF the PresI-
dents OnleInl FamIly-Who the Secretn-
rlcs Are, Where They Game From, and
What They Have Heretofore Accom-
plIshed.
The following are brief biographical
sketches of the members of the new
Cabinet:
JAMES G. BLAlNE-SECRErAR OF STATE.
Mr. Blaine was born in Washington County,
Pa, January 81, 1880; graduated at Washington
College, pennsylvania; adopted the editorial
profe ssioi, and went TO Maine, wherehe edited
the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec
Journal; was member Of the Maine Legisa-
ture in 1859, go, 81 and '62, serving the last
two years as Speaker OF the House; was
elected TO the Thirty-elghth, Thirty-nnth,
Fortieth, Forty-frst, Forty-second and Forty.
third Congresses lserving in the Forty
first, the Forty-second and the Forty
third as Speakers; was re-oledted 10 the
Forty-fourth Congress as q Republican;
was elected TO the United Ttates Senate TO
I'LL the vacancy occasioned BY Tie resignation
of Lot NJ. Morrill,, appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, and was elected for the ensuing
term, which will expire March 8, 1888. The
people are familiar with his great campaigns
FOR nomination for the Presidency.
THOMAS L. JAMES-PosTMAsTER GENERAL.
Mr. James was born at Utica, N. Y, March
20, 1881; was educated at the Utica Academy,
and at the age Of fifteen was apprenticed TO
learn the printing business to Wesley bailey,
the veteran abolition editor of the Liberty
Press. He served with MIR. Bailey for five
years, and then purchased the Madison County
Journal, then Wing paper published at Ham
ilton. When the Republican party was
formed he made the Journal a Republican pa
per and labored for the election of Fremont.
For five years he held the position of Collector
of Canal Tolls at Hamilton, and then removed
to New York City, where he secured an ap-
pointmeat as Inspector Of Customs under
Hiram Barney, Collector of the Port. In 1884
he was made Weigher, and In 1869 Deputy
Collector. Upon the Inauguration Of the Civil
| Service Reform he was made President of the
Board OF Examiners for the Custom-House.
In 1873 he was appointed Postmaster of New
York by President Grant, ana held the posi-
ton until his appointment as Postmaster-Gen-
eral.
ROBERT T. LINC0LN-SECRETAR OF WAR.
Mr.. Lincoln, the eldest son and only surviv-
! ing child of Abraham Lincoln, was born in
| Springfield, ILL.,, August |, 1913. He prepared
for college ut Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.
H., and, having entered Harvard, graduated
the summer OF 1854. Four months subse-
Quently he became a member of tho Harvard
Law School. But before finishing the course,
he went into the army and was on General
Grants stat with the rank Of Captain, from
February 20 to June 10, 1865, serving until the
war closed. He then returned to his law.
books, and completed his studies. He located
In Chicago, and was admitted to the Bar by
the Supreme Court of the State, February
70, 1867. In September of the following year
he was married in Washington, by Bishop
Simpson, to Mary Harlan, daughter of ex-Sen
ator Harlan. of Iowa. He and his wife spent
six months of the summer and fall of 1872 III
Europe, and, on returning TO Chicago, he asso
catcd himself with Mr. Edward $. Isham, In
INV practice and the two have been partners
| over since, tho firm being one OF the bes
known in the city. and doing a largc aud lucra
tive business. MIR. lsincflife isalitioaiiy. FOL
lowed in the Footsteps Of his illustrious father
M / is a "stalwart' Republican, though, with
local exceptions, he has taken no active par
IN politics. Hcwas Presidential Elector a
the last election.
WAYNE MACVEAGH- MISUNDERSTANDING
llr. MacVeagh was born at Phpnixville,
Chester County, Pa, April 10, 1888 and is thus
in his forty-eighth year. He was named after
Isaac Wayne. He received his early educa
ton in Chester County, but was prepared for
college at Freeland Seminary, in Montgomery
County, under the instruction OF j. w. sun
derland, LID. He graduated at Yale College
in the famous class of 1853, and then studied
law with the Hon. Joseph j. Lewis, of West
chester and was in that borough ad
mitted to the bar April 26 1856. SooI
after his admission to the bar he wa
elected District Attorney of Chester County
ana served in that capacity for three years
During the war for the Union Mr.. Mcyeagl
was twice in the service, first as Captain o
Il company of cavalry which was in the serv
ice for two weeks only, when the invasion o
the State was threatened, in September, 1862
and as a Major on the staff of MajorG enera
Couch during the emergency OF the following
year. In early lie Mr.. McVeaeh married
daughter Of Mr.. Lewis, his law preceptor, an,
after her death, in 1867 he married daughte
of ex-senator Simon Cameron. In 1870 he wa
appointed to succeed E. Jay Morris as Ministe
10 Constantinople, position which he he'll
until the close Of 1871.
WILLIAM WINDOM-SECRETARY OF TIL
TREASURY.