Connecticut western news., 1885-03-11
WM. c. ENDICOTT.

William Crowninshield Endicott was born in
 Salem, Mass, in 1927. He graduated from
 Harvard College in the class of 1847. Judge
 Endicott studied at Harvard Law School, and
 read law in the office of the late Nathaniel J.
 Lord. He was admitted 10 the Bar about 1850,
 and few years later formed a partnership
 with the late J. W. Perry and continued with
 him until his appointment by Gov Washburn
 to a seat on the Supreme Bench in 1873. This
 position he held un il 1882. when be resigned
 on account of his health. In 1882 he made an
 extended tour of the continent. He was &
 member Of the Sa'em Common Council in
 1852, 1853 and 1857, when he was elected
 President of that board. He was City Solicitor
 from 1858 to 1863. He is a member of the
 Historical Society and of the Board of Over
 seers of Harvard College He is di ect de-
 scendant from Gov. John Endicott. Politically
 Mir. Endicott is of Whig antecedeuts, his affil-
 ialion with the Democratic party dating from
 the Bell-Everett campaign of 1860, but he has
 never been an active politician. Last fall he was the candidate of his party for Governor in Massachusetts, but did not himself appear
 in the canvass, and received a comparatively
 small vote.
 WILLIAM c. WHITNEY.
 William Collins Whitney, of New York city was born in Conway, Mass in 1889. He graduated from Yale College and from Har-
 yard Law School. He was admitted to the
 bar in New York city, and was counsel for a number of prominent corporations. His po- htical activity began during th~ campaign against the Tweed Ring in 1870 and 1871. In 1872 he was elected District Attorney. On August 9, 1875, Mayor Wickham appointed him Counsel to the Corporation. Mir. Whitney was twice re-appointed to this position, which 1 he resigned on November 6, 1882, while his term had nearly two years to run. Since his resignation as Corporation Counsel Mir. Whit
 ney has attended to private law practice and his persona! affairs. He is a son-in-law of ex- Congressman Henry B. Payne, of Ohio. WILLIAM F. VILLAS.
 Mir. Villas was born at Chelsea, Orange Co |, 1 Vt, July g, 1S40. When he was eleven years | old he went to Wisconsin. 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 removed to | Wisconsin, where, on his birthday July 9, | 1860, he made his first argument before the | Supreme Court of that State. In the same 1 year, 1860, be became a partner with Charles | T. Wakeley, lawyer of good standing. Upon | the outbreak of the WAT Mir. Villas entered the | army as captain in the Twenty-third Wisconsin 1 Volunteers and rose to be Major and Lieuten- | ant Colonel. He resigned his commission and
 resumed the practice of the law Jan. 1, 1864.
 The supreme Court of Wisconsin appointed | Col Villas one of the revisors of the statutes of | the State in 1875, and the revision of 1878, l adopted by the Sta'e, was partly made by him. | In 1879 MT. Villas refused the use of his name
 as candidate for the Governorship of Wis consin.
 | AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND,
 Mir. Garland was born in Tipton county, | Tenn, June Il, 1882. The following year hIs | parents moved to Arkansas, where he has
 made his home ever since, and which State he
 has represented in the Senate since 1876. He | studied law and was admitted to practice at | Washington, Ark, the place where his parents
 had originally settled. in 1853. He removed l to Little Rock, where his home is in 1856. He
 was delegate to the State Convention that 1 passed the ordinance of secession in 1861, and
 was also member of the provisional Confed- | crate Congress that subsequently met the | same year at Montgomery, Ala. He served in i both the House and Ihe Senate of the Confed- | crate Congress, being in the Senate when the l war closed. He was elected from Arkansas to l the United States Senate March f. 1867, but
 was not admitted to his seat. He made the | test-oath case as to lawyers in the Supreme | Court of the United States and gained il. He | practiced law at Little Rock with success till | 1874, when he was elected Governor of Arkan- | sas without opposition, and at the expiration | of hIs term was elected to the United States | Senate, again having no opposition, and sue | ceeded Powell Clayton. He has taken high
 rank as lawyer from the day he entered the | Senate, and has for some time been member | of the Judiciary Committee. He is of medium i height and speaks with clearness, deliberation
 and force.