The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-03-14

tied on plantation in Lafayette cOul
ty. He was elected to the Thirty
Fifth and Thirty-Sixth Congress an
resigned in 1860. lie entered tn
Confederate army in 1861 as Lieuter
ant Colonel of the 10th Mississippi
| Volunteers, and was soon promote
to the Colonelcy. In 1868 he wa
sent to Russia by tho Confederat
Government on an important diplo
matte mission. lie returned to Missis
sippi at the close of the war, and i
1866 was elected Professor of Political
Economy and Social Science in tn
University Of that State. A year late
he was transferred to the ProfcssorshiI
of Law. He was elected to the Forty
Third Congress anl reelected to tn,
Forty-Fourth. In the winter of 1876
he was elected to the Senate, where h
has since served,
AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND.
Mr.. Garland was born in Tiptor
county, Tenn, June II, 1882. The
following year his parents moved tc
Arkansas, where he has made his
home ever since, and which State he
has represented in the Senate since
1876. lie was educated in St. Mary's
College and st. Joseph's College in
kentucky, He studied law and was
admitted to practice in Washing,
ton, Ark, the place where his parents
had originally settled, in 1853. lie
removed to Little Rock, where his
home now is, in 1856. He was a dele
gate to the State Convention which
passed the ordinance Of secession in
1861, and was also a member of the
Provisional Confederate Congress,
which subsequently met the same
year at Montgomery, Ala. lie served
in both the House and Senate of the
Confederate Congress, being in the
Senate when the war closed. He was
elected to the United States Senate
March 4, 1867, but was not admitted
to his seat. lie made the test oath case
as to lawyers in the United States Su-
premo Court and gained it, lie prac
ticod law at Little Rock with success
till 1874, when he was elected Governor
of Arkansas without opposition, and
at the expiration of bis term was
elected to the United States Senate,
again having no opposition, and sue
ceeded Powell Clayton. He has taken
high rank as lawyer frcm the day
he entered the Senate, aud has for
some time been a member Of the Ju-
dietary Committee. He is of medium
height, and speaks with cIearncss, de-
Liberation and force. HIS wife died
soon after he was elected to the Sen
ate, aud he has since remained a
widower.
WILLIAM c. ENDICOTT.
William CrowninshieId Endicott,
Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of War, was
born in Salem, Mass, in 1927, and is
the son of William Putnam Endicolt
and Mary, daughter of Hon. Jacob
CrowninshieId, who was Repre-
sentative to Congress. lie attended
.hc Salem schools, and was graduated
from Harvard College in the class of
l847. He married his cousin, daugh-
Ter of George Peabody, and has two
a son and a daughter. Judge
Endicott studied at Harvard Law
School, and read law in the Office of
be late Nathaniel J. Lord. He was
admitted to the bar about 1850, aud
'ew years later formed a partnership
with the late J. W. Perry and con
.inued with him until his appointment
~ Gov. Washburn 10 seat on the
Supreme Bench in 1873. This posi-
ion be held until 1889, when he re
signed on account Of his health. In
1882 he made an extended tour of the
continent. He was . member of the
Salem Common Council in 1862, 1858
md 1857, when he was elected Presi-
lent of that board. He was City |
solicitor from 1858 to 1868. He is
member Of the Historical Society |
md Of the Board of Ovorscers of /.
Harvard College. The coming Secre-
airy of War is a direct descendant
rom Gov. John Endcott, Politically |
dr. Eudicott is of Wing aUtecedents,
lis afiiliation with the Democratic
,arty dating from the Bcll-Everett
Of 1860, bnt he has never
,een an active politician. Last fall,
t may be remembered, he was the
of his party for Governor
n the State, but he did not himself
ppear in the canvass, and received a
comparatively small vote. As q law
-er and a Judge, Mr.. Endicatt holds
Ugh rank, and personally be is a gen
leman of the highest character. The
biact of the appointment is mani
estly to crafty the independent allies
# the Democracy. and may be ac-
cpted as an indication of Mr.. Cleve-
lnd's purpose to make them, il pcs
ible, permanent supporters Of himself
nd his party. The rank and file Of
be regular Democracy appear to ac.
pipscc in that idea, as q shrewd and
olitic thing 10 do, though there are,
nqnestionably, dozen leading New
,ugland Democrats the selection of
fhom for the Cabinet "they would
ave hailed with a warmer and more
incere satisfaction.
WILLIAM p. Villas.
Mr. Villas was born at Chelsea,
,range county, VT, Jply 9, 1870.
When he was 4 years old he went 20
Wisconsin, where, few months after,
q was entered a pupil Of the prepare
lfy department "a the UpiYeriiy IN
lat Slate. III 1853 be wgi,icplared
! the freshman class Of that instiiq-
on, and was graduated there in 1858.
.fter taking his academical degree be
aided law IN Albany, N. ", and was
raduated from the law school in that
ty in 1860. After his admission TO I