St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

he remained five years. He then removed
to Iowa, and in 1878 settled on his farm in
the Red river valley. He is Al years OF age.
1t was left to Ramsey county to furnish the
most striking figure in personal appearance
in the present body The member is w. D.
Cornish. Mr.. Cornish is full six feet in
height, as straight as an Indian,
his frame surmounted by good face
and head, the latter covered by black hair,
and his face smothered in whskers.in the style
of Johnny Bull. Add to this plain black
suit and spotless linen, and the reader has
the general appearance of man who will
attract attention in almost any gathering.
Mr.. Cornish is not politician, though it is
a fact he is now in the enjoyment OF two Of
fees, being member of the legislature and
of the city council as he was also two years
ago this winter. He was first elected
to the council in 1879, being taken up by his
party without solicitation on his part, and
has been retained there ever since. His first
election to the legislature two years ago came
about much the same way. Last fall a deter
mined effort was made to beat him, but his
friends carried him through successfully.
His only defeat thus far in his political
career occurred when he started IN late in the
day to contest for the speakership with
John l.. Gibbs. Though late in the field. and
having the opposition OF some OF the party
managers here, at his home he made good
fight so sharp that it was not until few
hours before his party caucus was held, the
best informed of Mr.. Gibbs supporters felt
confident of success. He is not what can be
called ''rustler'' in legislative work. In
deed, he is liable to be rather inattentive, ex-
cept in the case of general measures of i'm
portancc, or of those in which his
immediate constituents are especially
Interested. Though good-l ooking, and
having striking appearance, he does
not aspire to pose before his fellow
members and the spectators, and so it hap
pens that he never undertakes to speak un-
less he has something that he believes will
be of use in aiding others to form correct
opinions of the matter under consideration.
When he does speak it is directly to the
point and without resort to any of the clap
trap devices of many so-called orators to
misead and befog their hearers.
Mr. Cornish is native of Middlebury,
Mass, where he received an academic edu
cation. He read law in an off ce at Bing
hampton, n. Y, where he was admitted to
practice. In 1870 he located in st. Paul in
the practice of his profession, in which he
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is Puritan, running back to Miles Standish,
his direct ancestor in the male line settling
in this country in 1910. He is 80 years of
age and married.
Capt. S. P. Snider little thought Sept 20,
1868, he would be on this 1st day of March,
1855, one of the representatives in the Min
nesota legislature from the goodly city of
Minneapolis. But so it is The bullets that
ON that Goth day of September, 1868, in the
far-famed battle of the Chicamauga, perfor-
ated one of his lungs and shattered one of
his shoulders, were not quite sufficient to
muster him out of the present and into the
hereafter. In fact, those wounds and another
received at Stone river did not do their ap-
pointed work SO completely as to leave be-
hind the wreck Of a man. On the contrary
Capt. Snider is to-day a fresh looking and
vigorous appearing specimen of manhood.
having a well-knit frame and broad should
ers, in hight about five feet ten inches, broad,
full face, high forehead, black eyes and hair,
brown mustache and the general appear
ance and movement of well-preserved man
of 80 years. And why should he not present
such an appearance, as he was only 16 years
of age when he laid aside his books in Ober-
lin, o., college and enlisted as private in
the Sixty-ffth Ohio infantry, md with it
went TO ''the frontr with that laned and va :
lorous section Of the army known as