Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-05-01

the principalship Of the Rev. Samue
Miller at Mount Holly, N. j. He tool
up the study Of medicine under the pre-
ceptorship of DR.. Lewis P. Bush In 184t
and graduated from the med ical depart
ment Of the University Of Pennsylvania
In 1859. 't s.l h". ''7
After spending . year In the city and
county hospital of Baltimore. Mary
land, DR.. Wales located at Rising Sur
on the Brandy wine, and engaged in the
active practice of his profession. HI
continued his professional duties unit
the spring Of 1861, when he was COM
missioned captain in the Seventeenth
United States Infantry. He participa.
.ed with his regiment, which formed
part of the Second Brigade, Sykes
Division, Fifth Army Corps, in the
Peninsula campaign snd in all the sub
equent movements of the Army Of the
Potomac until the fall OF 1864, when /,
was reduced to thirty. Ave men, with.
drawn from the field and ordered to
Fort Lafayette. After . short term OF
service at Fort Lafayette, Captain
Wales was ordered TO Trenton, N. j.,
on recruiting service where he remain.
ed until he resigned his commission in
the spring of 1865. DIR. Wales then To-.
Gated in Wilmington and has since
been actively engaged in the practice
Of his profession.
HARRY. c.. CONRAD, ESQ.
Henry G. Conrad, the nominee for
President of City Council, was born in
Bridesburg, Philadelphia, April 20,
1852. He IS the son of the late Aaron
Conrad, a former member of City Coun-
Gil and an extensive real estate owner
in tho western part of the city. Mr..
Conrad moved TO this city in 1856.
Henry was educated in the public
schools of this city and in 1871 he ma
at the Harvard Law School,
whence he was graduated in 1873. His
legal preceptor was Anthony Higgins,
Esq, and he was admitted to the bar
in November, 1874. He at once engag.
cd in the practice Of his profession in
Wilmington.
in 1876 he was delegate to the Re.
publican Convention that nominated
Levi G Bird, Esq for Congress ard in
1877 he was chairman of the Republi-
can City. Executive Committee. In
March, 1878, he was elected member
of the Board of Public Education to fill
tho uIexpired term of DIR. G. Elton
Buck, and at the regular election of
1879 he was re elected for term of two
years. He was elected President Of the
board in 1882, and having been again
elected n,elnb Der of the board in 1881,
was a second time called upon to pre-.
side over body containing a decided
Democratic majority.
J. ELDRIDGF PIERCE.
j. Eldridge Pierce, the nominee for
city treasurer, was born in Whining
ton, Del, May II, 1S49.
The nominee was educated in the pub
lie schools Of his native city, and also
attended for some time at the Friends
5 chool, Fourth and West streets, andthe
the academy of the late T. Clarkson Tay-
lor, at the age Of eighteen he became .
clerk in the National Bank of Whining.
ton and Brandy wine, where he remain
ell about two years when he resigned
and accepted u clerkship in the count
ing house of Garrett, Kent & Co. After
a few years spent in their employ he
accepted the position of discount clerk
in the Union National Bank which he
held some two or three years. In 1877
be formed a co.partnership with j. A.
Bond under the firm name Of Bond &
Pierce and engaged in the real estate
business. The firm namo was changed
to j. A. Bond & Co., in the spring of
1879, lwhen Z. II. Gregg was admitted
TO mem bership and in 1880 the present
firm of Gregg & Pierce was organic cd.
For number of years Mr.. Pierce has
been regarded as an expert bookkeeper
and his services are frequently in de-
nand as an auditor Of accounts for loan