The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-03-25
THE NEW CABINET.
Biographical Sketches Of It's Members.
Personal and Political Antecedents OF
blaine, Window, KlrkwOod, LincOIn,
Hunt, James and nacveagh.


Hunt. James and AEacveagh.
New York Herald,
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE, SECRETARY
OF STATE.
Few public men in America are better
known than Senator James G. Blaine,
ex-Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, and few are likely to maintain
themselves SO steadily in the forefront of
the political battle field for many years
to come. AS Premier of the new ad-
ministratien Mr.. Blaine will share with
President Garfield the chief responsible
tiles Of policy which will be largely
his own, at least to degree unusual in
the annals Of recent governments. Mr..
Blaine, as is we'll known, is a citizen Of
Maine and native of Pennsylvania, but
it is not 10 well understood that he may
be considered in geographical sense as
II "0hio man." having been born in the
center Of the Ohio Valley, much nearer
the Beautiful River" than either Hayes
OF Sherman. He comes Of Revolution
ary stock, his great-grandfather, Col.
Ephriam Blaine, native Of Scotland,
having fought with prince Charley at
Culloden in the '45, and afterward par
ticipated in the American Revolution, as
commissionary general of the Middle de-
partment during the Revolutionary war.
His maternal grandfather, James GILES
pie, settled upon a large tract Of land in
the Monongahela Valley soon after the
Revolution, that region being considered
then a part of Virginia. His father,
Ephriam Il. Blaine, married Miss Gill
lespie, and James CT Blaine, one Of seven
children, was born Jan. 81, 1880, on
Indian Hill farm, West Brownsville
Union township, on the Monongahela ~
Washington county, Pa. The county
seat was the thriving village Of Wash
ington- usually known as Little Wash
ngton"-a town which has become
prominent of late years by its cremation
furnace and by the visits Of Gen Grant
to the members Of his family who reside
there. Little Washington" Is also no
| ted as the seat Of one of the oldest cot
leges Of the Ohio Valley, and there,
after preparation at 4 school in Lancas-
ter, o., where be resided with his uncle,
Senator Thomas Ewing, the future
Premier graduated in 1S47, with the
highest honors Of a class Of thirty-three
members, at the early age Of seventeen
years. In 1850 he went TO Georgetown
KY, as a teacher at military academy,
and married, about 1858, Miss Harriet
Stanwood, lady who taught an adioin
ing district school. She belonged to a
prominent family of Maine, and this
marriage was the occasion of the remoyr
al of Mr.. Blaine to that State. He had
previously taught (1S52) in the Penn.
sylvania Institution for the Blind at
Philadelphia, at the same time studying
law and writing for the Philadelphia
Inquirer. He speedily became connected
with the Kennebec Journal, published at
Augusta, the State Capital, and was for
time editor Of the Portland Advertiser,
but soon returned to his former post at
Augusta. In 1857 he was elected to the
State Legislature, where he sat for five
years, during two Of which he served a,
Speaker. In 1862 he was elected tC
Congress, to which he was regularly re
elected until 1876, when he was choser
to the Senate in place of ex-senator Lot
NJ. Morrill,. In December, 1869, he wa
elected Speaker Of the Forty-first. Con
gress, was reelected in 1871 and 1877;
and was defeated in 1875 by his Demo
cratic competitor, Michael Q. Kerr, tn,
Democrats having clear majority il
: that House. AS every one knows, Mr.
Blaine was brilliantly successful as
T Speaker, having complete command o
parliamentary rules, and possessing tina
gift Of personal magnetism which mark
: the leaders of men. AS an orator ant
!, legislator he was one of the notable fig
! ures of Congress long before he becam
its presiding officer, and began TO b
; mentioned as possible President 500
s after his first election to the Speaker
t ship. At Cincinnati in 1876 he narrow
i ly escaped the Republican nomination
and at Chicago in 1880 was the leadin
: candidate until almost the last momen
q when his followers threw their votes fC
= James Abram Garfield, thus securin
his nomination. He occupies fin
house at Washington, where he dispens,
hospitality; has six children, Two Of h
sons already practicing law, and has
9 uatural taste for diplomacy, for whiC
e his character eminently fits him. +
> has an imposing personal presence,
u phenomenal memory and a reputatic
!, for steadfast loyalty to political friend
y y WILLIAM WINDOW, SECRETARY OF III
: TREASURY.
e The second prize in the Garfield Cal
> net falls to Senator William Window,
e Minnesota, who had some following
d the Chicago Convention of 1880 as
d possible dark horss." Mr.. Windol
of like many other meritorious politician
as was originally an "0hio man." havil
p first seen the light May 10, 1927 in b
e, mont county, O., almost on the banks
J. the "Beautiful River near WheeIir
ID West Va, not fifty miles, @as the crC
DO flies," from the birth place of James
st Blaine His parents were both fro
r. Virginia, his paternal grand parer
~ we're from North Carolina, and his n
ty ternal grand parents were Pennsylvar
Y Quakers named Spencer. William w
dom was brought up on a farm.
clearing up the "claim, splitting ra
- oho,,,sna, 6rautaod he uriaifiSd I