The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1885-03-26
RUssELLvILLE, POPE CO. ARK, MARCH 26 1886.

her of the provisional Confederate
i Congress that subsequently met the
| same year at Montgomery, Ala. he
served in the House and the Senate
OF the Confederate Congress, being
in the Senate when the war closed
He was elected from Arkansas to
the United States Senate March A.
1867, but was not admitted To his
seat. He made the test-oatb case as
to lawyers in the Supreme Court OF
the United States and gained it. He
practiced law at Little Rock with
success TIL 1874, when he was elect
cd Governor Of Arkansas without
opposition, and at the expiration OF
his term was elected to the United
States Senate, again having no op
position, and succeeded Powell Clay
ton. He has taken high rank as q
Ilawyer from the day he entered the
Senate, and has for some time been
member of the Judiciary Commit
tee. He is of medium height and
speaks with clearness, deiiberation
and force. His wife died soon after
he was elected to the Senate, and he
has since remained widower.
WIN. c. ENDICoTT.
William Crowninshield Endicott,
M. Cleveland's Secretary of War,
was born in Salem in 1927, and is
the son of William Putnam Endicott
and Mary, daughter of Hon. Jacob
Crowninshieid, who was Represen
tative to Congress. He attended
the Salem schools, and was gradu-
ated from Harvard College in the
class IS47. He married his cousin,
daughter Of George Peabody, and
has two children, son and daugh
ter. Judge Endieott studied at
Harvard Law Scheel, and read law
| in the office of the late Nathaniel j.
Lord. He was admitted to the bar
about 1850, and few years later
formed partnership with the late J..
w. Perry, and continued with him
until his appointment by Gov. Wash
burn to seat on the Supreme Bench
in 1873. This position &c held un
til 1882, when he resigned on ac
count of his health. In 1882 be
made an extended tour Of Continent.
He was a member OF the Salem Com
mon Council in 1852, 1858 and 1857,
when he was elected president of
that board. He was City Solicitor
from 1858 to 1868. He is a mem
ber Of the Historical Society and OF
the Board Of Overseers Of Harvard
College. The new Secretary of
War is a direct descendant from Gov.
John Endicott. Politically Mr.. En-
dicott is of Wing antecedents, his
affi!iation with the Democratic party
dating from the Bell Everett cam
pagn of 1860, but he has never been
an active politician. Last fall, 1T
may be recalled, he was the candid
ate of his party for Governor IN the
State, but did not himself appear in
the canvass, and received compar
atively small vote. As lawyer and
Judge, Mr.. Endicott holds high
rank, and personally he is gentle
man Of the highest character. The
object of the appointment is mani
testify to crafty the independent
allies of the Democracy, and may be
accepted as an indication of Mr..
Cleveland's purpose to make them,
if possible, permanent supporters OF
himself and his party. The rank
and file of the regular Democracy
appear to acquiescc in that idea, as a
shrewd and polite thing to do,
though there are, unquestionably,
dozen leading New England Demo
Gratis the selection of any one of
whom for the Cabinet they would
have hailed with a warmer and more
sincere satisfaction.
WILLIAM f. Villas.
Mr. Villas was born at Chelsea,
Orange County, VT, July 8, ls40.
When he was eleven years old went
to Wisconsin, where, few months
after. he was entered a pupil of the
preparatory department of the Uni
yersity of that State. In 1858 he
matriculated in the Freshman class
of that institution, and was gradual
ed there in 1858. After taking his
academical degree he studied law in
Albany, N. Y, and was graduated
from the law school of that city in
1860. After his admission to the
Supreme Court of New York he re-
moved to Wisconsin, where, on his
birthday, July 9, 1860, he made his
first argument before the Supreme
Court of that State. In the same
year. 1860, he became partner with
Charles L. Wakely, lawyer Of good
standing. Upon the outbreak of the
war Mr.. Villas entered the army as
Captain in the Twenty third Wis
consin Volunteers, and rose to be
Major and Lieutenant Colonel. He
resigned his commission and resum-
ed the practice OF the law January l,
1864 In 1872 Gen. @. f. BRYANT
Joined him in partnership, and in
1877 his brother +. Z. Villas, alss
became partner in the firm. The
Supreme Court OF Wisconsin ap-
pointed Colonel Villas one of the re
visors of the statutes of the State in
1875, and the revision of 1878 adopt
ed by the State, was partly made by
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