Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-17
THE CABINET.

Ca0lnoC:
JAMES G. BLAINE-SECRErARY or STATE.
Mr.. Blaine was born in Washington County,
Pa, January 81, 1880; graduated at Washington
College, Pennsylvania: adopted the editorial
profe ssion, and went to Maine, whereh he edited
the Portland Advertiser and the kennebec
Journal; was q member Of the Maine Legisla-
ture in 1859, GO, 81 and 81, serving the last
two years as Speaker of the House; was
elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-secoud 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 8. 1888 The
people are familiar with his great campaigns
for nomination for the Presidency.
THOMAS L. ES-PosrMAsrER-GENER
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 Mr.. Bailey for five
years, and then purchased the Madison County
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 rs 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-
cral.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN-SECRETARY OF WAR
Mr.. Lincoln, the eldest son and only surviv-
ing child of Abraham Lincoln, was born In
Springfield, ILL.,, August I, 1s43 He prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.
H., and, having entered Harvard, graduated
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 staff 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
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. Ishum, in
iaw practice, and the two have been partners
ever since, the firm being one of the hes,
known i'm the city, and doing u large und lucra
tive business. Mr.. Lincoln, politically. fol
lowed in the footsteps of his illustrious father.
un | is a "stnlwart' Republican, though, with
local exceptions. he has taken no active part
IN politics. He was Presidential Elcctor nj
the last election.
WAYNE INTERPRETATIONS
Mr.. Macveagh was born at Ph9nixvills,
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 Ches County, but was prepared for
college at Freeland Seminary, in Montgomery
County. under the instruction of j. w. sun
derland. LID. He graduated ut Yale College
i'm the famous class of 1853. and then studied
law with the Hon. Joseph J. Lewis, OF West
chester, and was in that borough nd
mitted to the bar April 20, 1856 Soon
after his admission to the bar he was
elected District Attorney of Chester County.
During the war for the Union Mr.. Mcveagh
was twice in the service, first as a 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 ls62.
and as Major on the staff of MajorGeneral
Couch during the emergency of the following
year. In early life Mr.. Mcveagh married a
daughter of Mr.. Lewis, his law preceptor, and
after her death, in 1857 he married a daughter
of Com Tn, ba
appointed to succeed L. Jay Morris as Minister
TO Constantinople, a position which he held
until the close of 1871.
WILLIAM wINDOM-SECRErARY or THE
TREASURY.
Mr.. Window was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, May 10, 1897; 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,
I'm July. 1870, to fill the unexpired term of the
Hon. Daniel 8. Norton, deceased, in the Senate
of the United States: was subsequently elect
ell as Il Republican, and was reelected in 1877.
His term Of service would have expired March
8, 1883.
SAMUEL ]. KIRKwOOD-SEcRErARY or
THE INTERIOR.
Mr.. Kirkwood was born in Hartford County,
Maryland, December 20. 1873; received
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 1915 and again
in lS47: was in 1881 a member of the Con-
vention that formed the present Constitution
of the State of Ohio; removed to Johnson
County. Iowa. in 1855; was elected to the
State Senate in 1856; was elected Governor in
1857 and again in 1851: was i'm 1853 nom mated
by President Lincoln and confirmed as Minis
ter to Denmark, but declined the appoint
ment; was i'm 1866 elected to the United States
Senate 10 fiji the unexpired term of the Hon.
James Harlan; was in 1875 again elected Gov
ernor of Iowa and resigned that office January
81, 1877: was elected in January. 1876, to the
United States Senate a Republican To
succeed George q. Wright, Republican. His
term of service would have expired March 3,
1888
WILLIAM H. HUNT-sEcRErARY OF THE
NAVY.
Mr.. Hunt IS a native OF Louisiana, and
comes OF a prominent family. When the war
broke out he adhered to the Union side.
and remained q steadfast supporter of the
cause to the end. For this reason he was os-