The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-15

Pe.<Ss sA.es1S0 ~ Outy tQ36 ua(
| gained the admiration and respec
Of all men, he was mustered out o
the army in 1866.
GENERAL BEAVER IN PRIVATE LIFE.
Az soon as he agaim became 4
citizen he resumed his place in th,
legal firm Of McAllister & Beaver
at Bellefonte, and turned his atten,
ton as actively and earnestly ID
civil pursuits as he had to miitary
life during the war. On the 26th d
January be married Miss Mary Nc.
Allister, the daughter of his partner
and preceptor. Three boys are the
living issue of tie marriage, the eld.
est thirteen years and the youngest
seven. His talents, integrity and
his brilliant military record gave
him q high position in his own
community, and indeed, through
out the State. Since the war he has
taken an active part in politics. be-
ing an outspoken and progressive
Republican. Living in a strong
Democratic county he has had no
chance for political preferment at
the hand of his immediate censtit-
uents. He has, however, taken a
prominent part in the affairs of the
State and Nation.
He is fine speaker and his SER
vices have been in command upon
the stump in nearly all the North
ern States in every National CAM
paign since the war. In 1865 he
was candidate for the Legislature
in Centre county, which usually
gives 800 to 600 Democratic major
ity. Without making an effort to
be elected, 80 great was his personal
popularity that he was defeated by
only 141 votes. He was one of the
commission which supervised the
building of the Insane Hospital at
Warren, Pa. He is member of the
Board of Trustees of the Peennsyl-
yania State College in Centre coun-
ty, formerly the State Agricultural
College. lie is also o member of
the Board of Trustees of WASH
ington and Jefferson College at
Warrington, Pa. the institution
from which he was a graduate. He
is a member Of the Board of Trus-
tees of Lincoln University, at OK
ford, Pa, where colored young men
are educated. He has ever taken a
great interest in the State militia,
and was commissioned by General
Geary rs Major General in the Ma
tional Guard. He now commands
the Fourth Brigade, which compris-
es all in the western section of the
State. He was a delegate to the
last National Convention at Chica-
go, and was unanimously chosen
Of the Pennsylvania dele
CATION, and in the exciting contro-
versy which arose in that delegation
over the unit rule conducted him
self with en- impartiality which won
the respect of all.
He was the unanimous choice of
the delegation from his native State
as its candidate for the Vice-Presi-
dency, as he was of the Ohio, Ten
nessee and several other State dele
cations. He could have been NOM
mated upon the ticket with General
Garfield had he not peremptorily
declined to be a candidate. In the
exciting Senatorial contest of last
winter he was made a candidate
for the United States Senate after
Mr.. Oliver withdrew. The temper
which the Independents displayed
his election, although
but for the feelings engendered by
the acrimonious contest he would
have been the unanimous choice of
The Republican party.
To this brilliant military and
civil record he adds.powers of mind
and expression second to few
men in the State. His social life
and personal character is without a
aaw. No friend or foe has ever
questioned his valor, integrity, pur-
Ity of character or broad intelli-
yence. What more need be said Of
man ?-Philadclphia Press.