The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-18
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The following are brief biographical
sketches of the members of the new
Cabinet:
JAMES G. BLAINE-SECRErARY OF STATE.
Mr.. Blaine was born In Washington County,
Pa, January 81, 1880; graduated at Washington
College, Pennsylvania; adopted the editorial
profession, and went to Maine, where he edited
the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec
Journal; was a member Of the Maine Legisla-
ture in 1858, go, 81 and '62, serving the last
two years as Speaker of the House; was
elected to the Thirty eighth, Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, Forty-drst, Forty-second and Forty.
third Congresses serving in the Forty
first. the Forty-second and the Forty
third as Speaker); was reelected to the
Forty-fourth Congress as q Republican;
was elected to the United States Senate to
ill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Lot NJ. Morrill,, appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, and was elected for the ensuing
term, which will expire March 3. 1888. The
people are familiar with his great campaigns
for nomination for the Presidency.
THOMAS L. JAMES PosrMAsrER-GENERA
Mr.. James was born at Utica, N. Y. March
%, 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 a 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-
pointment as Inspector of Customs under
Hiram Barney, Collector of the Port. In 1854
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, and held the posi-
ton until his appointment as POstmaster-Gen-
eraL
Mr.. Lincoln, the eldest son and only surviv-
ing child of Abraham Lincoln, was born in
Springfield, ILL.,, August l, 1s43. 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 member of the Harvard
Law School. But, before finishing the course,
ne went into the army and was on General
Grants STAFF with the rank of Captain, from
February 20 to June 10, 1866, 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
25, 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 in
Europe, and, on returning to Chicago, he asso-
ciatcd himself with Mr.. Edward S. Ishan, in
law practice, and the two have been partners
ever since, the firm being one of the hes,
known in the city, and doing large and lucra
tive business. MIR. Lincoln, politically, fol
lowed in the footsteps of his ilustrious father.
ami is "stalwart" Republican, though, with
local cXccp; ions, he has taken no active par,
IN politics. He was Il Presidential Elector Al
the last election.
WAYNE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mr.. Macveagh was born at Ph9nixville,
Chester County, Pa, April 10, 1888, and is thus
in lis 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 1858, and then studied
law with the Hon. Joseph ]. Lewis, of West
chester, and was in that borough ad
mtted to the bar April 2S, 1856. Soon
after his admission to the bar he was
ELECTED District Attorney Of Chester County.
and served in that capacity for three years.
During the war for the Union Mr. McVeagh
was twice in the service, first as Captain OF
a company of cavalry, which was in the serv-
ice for two weeks only, when the invasion of
the State was threatened, in September, 1862,
and as Major on the staff of MaiorGeneral
Couch during the emergency of the following
year. In early life Mr.. McVeash married
daughter of MIR. Lewis, his law precep,or. and
after her death, in 1867 he married daughter
of ex-senator Simon Cameron. In 1870 he was
appointed to succeed E. Jay Morris as Minister
TO COnstantinople, position which he held
until the close of 1871.
WILLIAM WINDOM-SECRErARY OF rHH
TREASURY.
Mr.. Window was born in Belmont County, |
Ohio, May 10, 1927; received an academic edu- |
cation; studied law at Mount Vernon, Ohio; |
practiced his profession in Ohio and in |
minnesota until 1859; WAS elected Prosecuting |
Attorney for Knox County in 1859: removed |
to Minnesota in 1855; was Representative in |
the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty |
eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses; |
was appointed by the Governor Of Minnesota, |
in July, 1870, to I'LL the unexpired term of the |
Hon. Daniel S. Norton, deceased, in the Senate |
of the United States: was subsequently elect |
ed as II Republican, and was reelected in 1871 |
His term Of service would have expired March |
3, 1853.
SAMUEL ]. KIRKWOOD-SECRErAR Oh
THE INTERIOR.
Mr.. Kirkwood was born in Hartford County, |
Maryland, December 20. 1873; received a |
limited education at the academy Of John |
Mcleod in Washington City; removed to |
Richland County, Ohio. in 1885, and studied law |
there; was admitted to the bar in 1913; was |
elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1S45 and again |
in 1877: was in 1881 a member of the Con- |
ventiOn that formed the present Constitution |
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