The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-16

DEAR EDIroR.-A Happy New Year TO yo'
and your readers. New Years day wa
pretty generally observed here, notwith
standing abe inclemeney of the weather
Calling, as it is technically termed, was al
the rage of the day, especially at the Whit
House. A more brilliant reception was no
known 10 the Oldest inhabitants than wa:
given by the President to the people who
paid their respects to him. thus fully dem
onstrating the popularity and high esteem
in which our Chief Magistrate is held by the
people.
Congress has reassembled under the Dem
ocratic organization. The party in power
has already commenced TO blow the bugle
of Reform, but if the programme of that
party savors of the past, the people may
confidently expect that it will prove dead
failure in bringing about n real, true reform
that will be of any immediate benefit to the
country at large.
Hon. Jacob NJ. Campbell has returned
from his holiday vacation, and perhaps, Mr.
Editor, it may not be out of place to give d
brief history OF the honoreble Representative
Of the 18th District.
Hon. Jacob Miller Campbell, of Johns
town, Cambria County, Pa. was born in
Allegheny township, Somerset county, on
November 20. 1921 received q common
school education learned the art of printing
in the office of the Somerset Wing; from
IS4I to Is47 was engaged in steamboating Oh
the lower Mississippi and its tributaries in
1850 was gold mining in California; in 1853
aided in building the Cambria Iron Works
at Johnstown, and remained in the employ
of that Company until the breaking out of
the war in 1861, when he entered the mill
tary service as lst Lieutenant of Company
G., Third Pennsylvania Volunteers in the
fall of same year recruited the 54th regiment
three years volunteers, and commanded it
as Colonel was breyetted Brigadier Gener-
al June 5. 1864 was elected Surveyor
General tnow called Secretary of Internal
Affairs of Pennsylvania in 1865 tor term
of three years. and was reelected in 1868
for like term; was a delegate TO the Re-
publican National Convention held in Phil
adelpha in 1865 is Trustee of the Penn
sylvania State College was member ofthe
45th, Congress and was elected to the 47th and
18th Congress. which is now in session. As
a Represe ntatiye Hon. Jacob NJ Campbell
stands high in the estimation of his breth-
ren. He discharges his duties faithfully.
and has an eye single to the interests of his
as well as to the interest of his
country. He is always punctual, is hard
worker at the capital, and when at his pri-
vate residence deprives himself of that rest
which his mental and physical nature re-
quires. in order TO attend to business relating
to others. Whilst his voice is not heard
much in debate, yet he never speaks with
out adding something TO the subject under
consideration YES. when he speaks he
speaks &c the point, and not for the purpose
of consuming time or wishing himself to be
heard. After all, it is in the Committee
room that the hard work IS done, and there
he is an indefatigable worker He is reli-
able man his yea is yea and his nay is nay,
there is no dissenting with him. Long may
he live to be JOY and homer to the district
which he has and still is so faithfully
serving. J.
WAsHrNGTox. D. C., January 10, 1881.