The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-03-18

New jersey NJ utual AiN Ausuianoo
Company. the Metropolitan Steam
ship Company, the Tredegar Com
pany, of Richmond, Va, and several
other corporations. For more than
two vears he had the sole manage
rnent Of the Dayton and Union Rail
road Of Ohio, as trustee under the
mortgage. He gained some celebri-
ty by his successful defense of fChas.
II. Sweetzer, editor of the Round
Table. in the libel suit brought by
Charles Reade. the novelist. In 1870
II he was prominent among tbe
Democrats who rallied against the
Tweed ring. La 1872 he was In
spector of Schools, and in the same
wear was defeated for the office OF
District Attorney on the Apollo Hall
ticket. He afterward joined the re-
organized Tammany party and was
one Of the principal organizers OF the
County Democracy and the Young
Mems Democratic Club. On August
8, 1875, Mayor Wickham appointed
him counsel to the corporation IN
place Of T. Delafeld Smith, remov-
ed. He was twice re-appointed to
the position and resigned November
6, 1882, on personal grounds, while
his term had nearly two years to
run. Since that time ne has attend
ed to private law practice and his
personal affairs. =
LAMAR, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
rLucius .. c. Lamar vas born at
Oxford, Putnam county, Ga, Sep
tsmber IL, 1925. He received his
early schooIing in his native town
and then graduated from Emory
College, Georgia, in 1S45. He then
studied law under Hon. a. ID. Chap
peIl, at Macon, Ga, and was admit
ted to the bar in 1S47. In lS49 he
moved to Oxford, Miss, and was
elected Adjunct Professor of Mathe-
matics in the State University, as as
sistant to DR.. A. T. Blodsoe, editor of
the Southern ReUie,c. In 1850 he
resigned and moved to Covington,
Ga, where he resumed the practice
of law. In 1853 he was elected to
the Legislature of the State. The
following year he moved to his plan
tation in Lafayette county, Miss. and
was elected to the 35th and Both
Congresses, but resigned in 1850 to
take seat in the secession conven-
ton of his State. In 1861 he enter
ed the confederate service as lieu
tenant colonel OF the nineteenth Mis-
sissippi Volunteers, aud soon wa
promoted ~ the coIonelcy. La 1868
he went to Russia on u diplomatic
mission for the confederate govern
ment. At the close of the war he
returned to Mississippi and IN 1866
was elected Professor of Political
Economy and Social Science in The
University of that State. In 1867 he
was transferred to the professorship
of law. He was elected to the For
ty-third Congress of the United
States, and reelected to the Forty
fourth Congress. In the winter OF
1851 he was elected to the Uni
ted States Senate to succeed James
Lusk Alcorn, Independent, and took
his seat March 8, 1877. He was re-
elected in 1882 for a term which ex-
pires March 3, 1889.
Villas, POSTMASTER GENERAL.
William Fremont Villas is the son
ofthe late Judge Levi D. Villas. who
was a member of the Vermont Legis-
lature. He was born in Chelsea
Orange county, Vermont, July 8
lS40. In 1851 bis father moved to
Madison, Wisconsin, and held the
positions of Regent of the Wisconsin
University, Mayor of Madison, and
Speaker of the State Assembly
Young Villas was educated in the
Wisconsin State University, and
graduated in 1859. He then spent
two years at the Albany Law-school
New York, and on his twentieth
birthday, July 8, 1860, he graduated
from that school and entered on the
practice of law at Madison, Wiscon'
sin. During the same year he form
ed q partnership with Charles I
Wakeley, a lawyer in good standing
In 1862 be lald down his Law books
and recruited Company A. Twenty
third Wisconsin regiment, and wal
elected captain in August of tina
year. The regiment was at once or
dered to the front, and he was one o
the prominent officers in the attacl
on Vickshurg, under Gen. Sherman
He rose to be major and Lieutenant
colonel, but resigned his commission
and resumed the practice of law a
Madison, January l, 1864 In 1S7:
Gen. G. Z. Bryant Joined him il
partnership, and in 1877 his broth
er, E. P. Villas, became member o
the firm. He was one of the thre'
revisers of the statutes of the State
appointed by the Supreme Court 0
Wisconsin in 1875, and was the au
thor of much of the revision adopt
ed in 1878 In-1S79 he was solicit
ed to become the candidate for Gov
ernor, but declined the use of hi,
name. He was a delegate from
Wisconsin to the Democratic Con
vention at Chicago last year, anC
was made permanent chairman. o.
the death of his father in 1879, n.
inherited a fortune of about 100000
He is a professor of the Ltw-schoo
of the Wisconsin State University
and lectures there regularly or
practice, pleading and evidence.
GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Augustus h. Garland wasborn il
Upton county, Tennessee, June III
1882, but his parents removed to Ar
kansas in the following year, and h'
has been a resident Of that State eve
since. He was educated at St. Ma
rvs College and st. Joseph's College
Bardstown, Kentucky. He then
studied law and was admitted to tn
bar at Washington, Arkansas in 90
In 1856 he moved to Little Rock
his present home. He was dele
gate in 1861 to the convention thai
passed the secession ordinance, and
was q member of the Provisional
Confederate Congress that met a
j Montgomery, Alabama, in May o