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National Republican., 1886-08-01

John James ingalls,, of Atchison, VIII; horn
ut Middleton, Essex county, Massachusetts,
December ~, 1883; graduated at Williams
College Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1853,
and received the degree of Ii. u. in 1854 ;
admitted to the bar in 1887 removed TO
Kansas in October, 1853; II delegate to the
Wyandotte constitutional convention in
1859; secretary of the Territorial council in
1860; secretary of the State senate in 1861 ;
member of the State senate of Kansas from
Atchison county in 1862; major, lieutenant
colonel, and judge advocate Kansas volun-
tccrs in lSG3-'Gj; elected to the United
States Senate aS Il Republican, TO succeed
). {. Pomcroy, Republican; took his seat
March t. 1873, and has been twice reelected.
His term Of service will expire March 3,
1891,
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Benjamin Harrison, of indianapolis, was
born at North Bend, Hamilton county, Ohio,
August %, 1888; received classical cducu-
ton, graduating at Miami University, Or
ford, Ohio, in 1852; studied law at Cncin-
nati Ohio; removed in March, 1851 to In
dianapolis, where he has since resided and
has been engaged in the practice of law; was
elected in October, 1860 by the people, re-
porter of the decisions of the supreme court
of the State; was commissioned in july
1862, as second lieutenant of Indiana voun-
teers; raised Company A of the Scvcnticth
Indiana Volunteer infantry, was commits
stoned captain, and ON the organization of
the regiment was commissioned colonel in
August went with the regiment to Kentucky,
and served until mustered out in June, 1865 /;
was breycttcd brigadicr-gcncrul in February,
1865; in October, 1864, while in the field,
was reelected reporter of the supreme court,
which office he had lost by accepting his
commission in the Army; after having been
mustered out he entered upon the duties of
reporter and served for four years; in 1876
he was the candidate of the Republican
party for Governor of Indiana, but was de-
featcd was appointed amcmbcr of the Mis-
sissippi River Commission in 1870; was
elected to the United States Senate as Il
Republican, to succeed Joseph T.. Mcdonald
Democrat, and took his seat March /, 1881. a..
His term ofservice will expire March B. 1887.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Charles W, Jones, Of Pensacola, was born
in Ireland in 1881 emgratcd to the United
Statesin 1874, and, after residing temporarily
in different parts of the South while work;
ing at his trade, settlcdat Pensacola in 1854
is selEeducated; studied law, and was ad,
mitted to the bar in 1857, and has since
was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate
for Congress in 1872; was member of the
state house Of representatives, Of Florida in
1874; was elected to the United States Senate
as II Conservative Democrat, to succeed Abb,
iah Gilbert, Republican; took hissea March
5, 1875, and was reelected in 1881. His term
ofseryice will expire March 3, 1887.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Daniel w. Voorhees,, of Tcrre IIaute, was
born in Butler county, Ohio September 26,
1927; graduated at the Indiana Asbury Uni
versity in 1919; studied law and commenced
its practice in 1851; was appointed United
States district attorney for Indiana in 1855
and held the office for three years; was
elected to the Thirty-scvcnth, Thirty eighth
Thirty-nnth Gn which his seat was success
fully contcstcd), Forty-iilst, and Forty-scc-
ond Congresses; was defeated as Demo
cratic candidate forthe Fory-lifth Congress /;
was appointed to the United States Senate
the death of Oliver F. Morton, Rcpun,;con
took his seat November II, 1877, and was
subsequently elected by the Legislature for
the uneXprcd term and for the full term
ensuing; was reelected in january, 1883,
and his term of service will expire March 8,
1891
National Republican., 1886-08-01

james Il. EustiS, of New Orleans, was born
at New Orleans, August -, 1881; received
classical education; was ut the Harvard Law
School in 1858 and 1851; was admitted To
the bar in 1896, and practiced at New
Orleans; entered the Confederate service at
the commencement of hostilities as Judge
advocate ON the staff of General Magruder,
and after one years service was transferred
10 the staff of General Joe Johnston, with
whom he served until the close of the war;
resumed practice ut New Orleans; was
elected Il member of the State Legislature
prior 10 the reconstruction acts; was one of
the committc sent To Washington to confer
with President johnson on Louisiana affairs;
was nominated for Congress in 1872 as a
candidate at large, but was left off by the
fusion of tickets; was II member of the State
house of representatives in 1872; was elected
Il amcmbcrUfthcS State senate for four years in
1874; was II United States Senator from
December 10, 1877, to March 3, 1879; at the
time of election to the Senate in 1884 was
professor of civil law in the University of
Louisiana, and was again elected to the
United States Senate us II Democrat, to sue
cccd Benjamin +. Jonas, Democrat, and took
his seat March I, lSSl. His term of service
will expire March 3, 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01
PRESTON u. PLUMB.

Preston Il. Plumb of Emporia, was born in
Delaware county, Ohio, October T., 1887; ; re-
Ccivcd Common-school education; learned
the art Of printing; removed to Kansas in
1856; was II member of the Lcavcnworh
constitutional convention in 1859; was adj.
mittcd to the bar in 1851, served in the
lower house of the Legislature in 1862, and
was chairman of the judiciary committee
and subsequently reporter of the supreme
court in August of the same year entered
the service us second lieutenant in the
Eleventh Kansas infantry, and served sue,
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Joseph C. $ Blackburn, of Versailles, was
born in Woodfurd county, Kentucky, Octo.
Der |, 1888; was educated at Sayres Institute,
Frankfort, Kentucky, and at Centre College,
Dunyllc, Kentucky, whence he graduated
in 1857; studied law with George b. Kincaid,
Esq. at Lexington, was admitted to the bar
in 1858, and practccd until 1861 entered
the Confederate army in 1861, and served
throughout the war; resumed practice in
10 the House in the Forty y.fourth, Forty fifth,
Fory-siXth, Forty.scventh, and Forty-cighth
Congresses; was elected to the United States
Senate Us Il Dcmocat, to succeed John 5.
Williams, Democrat, and took his seat
March 1, lSSI. His term of service will ex-
pirc March >. 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

at the Western Reserve College, Ohio !;
studied law and practiccd in Ohio until lac
removed to Iowa in 1857; served on the
staff of the Governor Of Iowa, and aided in
organizing volunteers in the beginning of
the war the suppression of the rebellion !;
was elected Representative in the Thirty
eighth, Thirty.ninth, Forticth, and Forty
first Congresses, and was elected to the
United States Senate as u Republican, to
succeed james Harlan, Republican took
his seat March /, 1873, and was reelected in
1873 and in 1854. His term Of service will
expire March 3, 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Joseph r. Hawley, of IIartfort, was born
at Stewartsville, Richmond county, North
Carolina, October 81, 1926; graduated at
Hamilton College, New York, in 1917 was
admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford,
Connecticut, where he has since resided /;
practiced law six and half years; became
editor of the Hartford Ercning Press, Febru-
AIRY, 81, which was consolidated with the
Hartford C0urdnt, of which he is editor, in
1867; enlisted in the Union army AS lieu
tenant April 10, 1861; became brigadicr
and brcvet maior-gcneal was mustered out
January u, 1866 was elected Governor of
Connecticut, April, 1866; was Presidential
eIector in 1868; was president of the Ma
tional Republican Convention of 1868; was
secretary of the committee on resolutions
in the esimilarcOnvention of 1872; was chair
man of the committee on resolutions in the
convention Of 1876 was president of the
United States Centennial Commission from
its organization, in March, 1873, to the com
pletion of the work of the Centennial EXhi-
bition; was elected a Representative in the
Forty-secOnd Congress in November, 1872,
10 fill u vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
J, l.. Strong; was reelected to the Forty
third Congress, and was elected to the Forty
sixth Congress; was elected to the United
States Senate as Il Republican, to succeed
William w. Eaton, Democrat, and took his
seat March 1, 1881. His term of service will
expire March 8, 1887.
National Republican., 1886-08-01
KENTUCKY
JAMES II. BECK.

James b, Beck, Of Lexington, was born in
DumiricsShirc, Scotland, February l3, 1922
received I'm academic education in Scotland
graduated as II lawyer ut Pennsylvania Uni
1916 and practccd there, never holding any
office until elected Representative in the
National Republican., 1886-08-01
ILLINOIS.
JOHN A. LOGAN.

The subject of this skctch-bon February
., 1926, of Irish and Scottish ancestry, where
Murphysboro, Illinois, now stands-has
lived so many active lives in one and at
tanned in each such emnencc that it seems
almost absurd to attempt within these brief
limits, to make more than the merest allusion
to him and his life work. Before his major
ity he entered the American Army and
served with distinction during the Mcxi-
can war. At its close he read law, was adj
mittcd to the bar of Illinois, and soon was
engaged in II lucrative practice. Subse-
quently elected district attorney, and to the
Illinois Legislature, he distinguished himself
so greatly both as lawyer and legislator that
he was nominated and elected Representa-
tive in the the Thirty-sixth Congress (lS5S-
| 'GO), by the largest majority ever given
in the Ninth Illinois district, which then
comprised sixteen southern counties of
that State.
He forced listening to Loveioy, and
side by side with Douglas insisted, when
Fort Sumter fell, that every man must de-
clare himself for or against his country.
| Then, leaving the House without quorum,
he crossed the Potomac and bravcly fought
as u private at Blackburns Ford during the
first battle of Bull Run. At the close of the
session he hurried back 10 Southern Illinois
and so inilamed its people by his fervid
| upptiIS itS W convert lncn from lnclr SYM
| pathy with secession to II strong and active
adherence to the Union. He quickly raised
II regiment for himself, the Thirty-frst
| Illinois, and helped raise others, besides in
ducing another to re-enlist for three years
or the war;" under the colonclcy of U. S.
Grant. lie greatly distinguished himself at
Belmont, where he thrice cut his way through
the enemy, and in II successful bayonet
charge his horse was shot under him and a
pistol at his side shattered to bits by the
enemys hot fire.
Promoted to n brigadier-generalship on
Grants declaration that he had fully
earned the position on the field of battle y
General Logan distinguished himself in the
movement against Corinth, ,refused re.
nomination as RepresentatGe-at-large for
Congress, declaring that hy had "entered
the field to die if need be sor this Govern
mcnt," and adding: "Should fate so ordain
it, | shall esteem it the highest privilege a
Just Dispenser can award to shed the last
drop of blood in my veins for the honor of
that flag whose embems are justice, liberty,
and truth, and which has been, and as /
humby trust in God ever will be, for the
right"
So much for Logan's military side. Much
more remains unsaid. But during the war
National Republican., 1886-08-01

took his seat December 1, 1876; was re-
elected December II, 1876, and served
until April II, 1882, when he was appointed
Secretary of the Interior by President Ar
thur, and served until March 3, 1885; was
elected to the United States Senate as a Re-
publican, to succeed Nathaniel p. Hill, Re-
publican and took his seat March 4, 1885.
His term of service will expire March g.,
1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

colonel of that regiment; was member and
speaker Of the Kansas house of representa-
tivcs in 1867, and also member in the fol-
lowing year; was elected to the United
States Senate as Republican, TO succeed
James NJ. Harvey, Republican; took his seat
March 1, 1871 and was reelected in 1883.
His term of service will expire March 3,
lSSn
National Republican., 1886-08-01
GEORGE GRAY.

George Gray, of New Castle, was born at
New Castle, Del, May 4, 1910 he graduated
at Princeton College when nineteen years
old, receiving the degree of A. b., and in 1862
the degree of A. NJ; after studying law with
his father, Andrew G. Gray, he spent II year
in the Harvard Law School, and was admit
ted to practice in 1868; he was appointed
attorney general of the State of Delaware in
1879 by Governor Hall, and re-appontcd
attorney general in 1884 by Governor Stock
ley; he was u delegate to the National Dem
National Republican., 1886-08-01

he occupied the intervals between cam
paigns by some of the most effective political
campaigning that was done in States whose
loyalty was then doubtful. Since the war
no Congressional campaign has passed with
out finding him engaged with characteristic
power and tirclcss energy on the stump in
behalf of his party and his country. From
the army he s.cppcd back to the House of
Representatives, and subsequently was de-
servcdly promoted to the Senate.
lie graduated at the Louisville Univer-
sity; enlisted as private in the Illinois Vol
unteerS and became quurtermaster in the
war with Mexico; was elected clerk of the
jackson county court in 1910 studied and
prcticcd law; was elected TO the Legislature
of Illinois in 1852, '53, $50, and '57; was
prosecuting attorney from 1853 to 1857 was
Presidential elcctor in 1886 was elected
to the Thirty-siXth and Thirty-scvcnth Con-
grcsses; resigned and entered the Union
army as colonel, and reached the rank of
major-gcncnl in the war for the suppression
of the rebellion; was appointed minister TO
Mexico in 1865, but declined; was elected TO
the Foricth and Forty,llNt Congresses was
elected to the United States Senate as Il Re-
publican, TO succeed Richard Yates, Rcpub-
lican serving from March 4, 1871, TO March
!, 1877; resumed the practice of law at Chi
cago; was again elected tOthe United States
Senate as II Republican, to succeed II. ].
Oglesby, Republican, and was reelected in
1855. His term of service will expire March
3, 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01
GEORGIA.

Oliver II. Prince.
Alfred Cuthbort.
John Z. King.
Wilson Lumpkln.
Walter n. COlqultt
Herschell V. Johnson,
william @. Dawson.
Robert NJ. Charlton.
Robert TOombs.
Alfred Ivorson.
Joshua Hill.
II. V. NJ. Miller.
Thomas Manson Norwood
John b. Gordon.
Benjamin II. Hill.
Pope Barrow.
Joseph T.. Brown.
Alfred II. Colquitt.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Wilkinson Call, of Jacksonville, was born
at Russellvillc, Logan county, Ky, January
8, 1884; is by profession a lawyer; was
elected to the United States Senate after the
war, but was not allowed to take his seat
was elected to the United States Senate as
Democrat in the place of Simon B. Como
yer, Republican took his seat March Is,
1879, and was reelected. His of service
will expire March 3, 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

William Few.
James Gum.
James jackson.
Josiah Tattnall.
George Walton.
Abraham Baldwin.
John Milledgc.
william II. Crawford.
George Jones.
Charles Tait.
William Wyatt Dlbb.
William u. Bullock.
George NJ. TrOup.
John Forsyth.
John Elliott.
Freeman Walker.
Nicholas Ware.
Thomas W. Cobb.
John Mcpherson Berrien
National Republican., 1886-08-01

tion at Philadelphia in 1872 being chairman
of the Illinois delegation, and placed Gen
eral Grant in nomination; was adclcgatc to
the National Republican Convention in
1884, and chairman of the Illinois dccga-
ton; was elected Governor of Illinois i'm
1876, and succeeded himself in 1880. serving
from January s, 1877, until February ., 1883,
when he resigned, having been elected to
the United States Senate as II Republican, To-
succeed David Davis, Independent Demo.
crat. lie took his seat December 1, 1883
Histcrm of service will expire March ,, 1852.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Orville II. Platt, of Meriden, was born at
Washington, Connecticut, July 10, 1927; re-
coived an academic education; studied law
ut Litchfeld; was admitted to the bar in
lS49, and has since practiced law at Meriden /;
was clerk of the State senate of Connecticut
in 1866 and '56; was secretary of state of
Connecticut in 1857; was member of the
State senate in 1861 and '62; was member
of the state house of representatives in
1864 and 1869, serving the last year as
speaker; was elected to the United States
Senate as u Republican, to succeed Will
liam ii. Barnum, Democrat (who had
been elected TO fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Orris S. Ferry, Republican, I;
took his seat March IS, 1879, and was re-
elected. His term of service will expire
March 8. 1901.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

ocratic Conventions at st. Louis in 1876 at
Cincinnati in 1880, and at Chicago in 1884 (;
was elected to the United States Se:ate as Il
Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the
appointment of Thomas +. Bayard as Secre-
tary of State, and took his seat March 10,
1885. His term of service will expire March
q 1897
National Republican., 1886-08-01
SHELBY NJ. CULLOM,

Shelby NJ. Culom, of Springfield, was born
in Wayne county, Kentucky, November %,
1920; his fAthcrremoycd to razewcll county,
Illinois, the following year; he received an
academic and university education; went TO
Springfield in the fall of 1853 to study law,
and has since resided there; Immediately
upon receiving license practice was elected
cily attorney; continued To practice law un-
I'll he took his seat in the House of Repre-
scntatiycs, in 1865; was Presidential eIcc-
tor in 1896 ON the Fillmore ticket; was
elected member of the house of reprcscn-
tativcs of the Illinois Legislature in 1886
1860, lS72, and 1874, and was elected speaker
in 1861 and in 1873 was elected Rcprespn.
tativc from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth, For
teth, and Forty-ilrst Congresses, serving from
December !, 1860, to March 3, 1871; was a
National Republican., 1886-08-01
DELAWARE,

Henry Latimer. John NJ. Clayton.
John Vlning Arnold Naudain.
Joshua Clayton. Richard II. Bayard.
william Hlll Wells. Presley SpruanCo.
Samuel white. John Wales.
James A. Bayard. Joseph p Comegys.
Outerbridge HOrsey Martin w. Bates.
Nicholas Van Dyke. Willard salisbury.
Cwsar A. Rodney. George Read Riddle.
Thomas Clayton Thomas Francis Bayard.
Daniel Rodney. Ell salisbury.
Henry NJ. Rldgely. George Gray.
Louis McIRne,
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Perry Smith.
Thaddeus Belts.
Jabcs W. Huntington.
Roger s. Baldwin.
Truman Smith.
Isaac TOucoy.
Francis Gillctt.
Lafayette s. Foster.
James Dixon.
Orrls S. Ferry.
william A. buckingham.
william W. Eaton.
william II. Barnum.
James +. English.
Orville II. Platt.
Joseph II. Hawley.
National Republican., 1886-08-01
CONNECTICUT.

oliver Ellsworth.
Roger Sherman.
stephen Nix Mitchell.
James HlllhOuse.
Urlah Tracy.
Chauncey Goodrich.
Samuel W. Dana,
David Daggctt.
James Lanman.
Elijah Boardman.
Henry W. Edwards.
Calvin Wiley.
Samuel A. Foot.
Gideon TOmllnson.
Nathan Smith.
John NJ. Niles.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
personal am POLITICAL


THE Upper House of the Prussian Land
tag has accepted the Ecclesiastical bill
with the amendments offered by DR.. Kopp,
Bishop of Fulda.
THE German Reichstag has adjourned
until May IS.
THE election returns in Peru indicate
that Caceres is elected to the Presidency.
Lima and Callao voted unanimously in his
favor.
THE Earl of Shaftesbury shot himself
through the brain in London recently. He
was suffering from mental depression at
the time. He succeeded to the title last
year, at the death of the well known phi
lanthropist of that name.
JOHN II. MOVES, founder of the Oneida
community of New York State, died on
the 18th at Niagara Falls, Ont
DR. PAUL PAQUIN, the Missouri Veterin-
arian, now in Paris studying under Prof.
Pasteur, has written letter to the st.
Louis R,sra, World in which he advocates
the immediate destruction of pleuro-pneu-
monia affected cattle.
MINISTER MCLANE presided at banquet
in Paris on the l4th in honor of N. Pasteur.
NJ De Lesseps made a speech clarifying
the Panama canal
DR.. j. II. ARNETT superintendent of the
American Express Company, died at Nj
agara Falls, Ont, recently, from the effects
of a stroke of apoplexy. He was seventy
years of age.
THE upper house of the German Diet has
adopted the bill for Germanizing Poland.
THE Austrian Reichsrath, by,a large ma
jority, has rejected a motion to shelve the
Landsturm bill.
In the New York State Senate bill has
been introduced to annul the charter of the
Consolidated Gas Company of New York
and to wind up its affairs. This company
has monopoly of the gas business in
New York, being made up of a union of
several companies.
THE King of the Sandwich Islands has
issued an order that no Chinese should
hereafter be permitted to enter the king
dom without return certificate.
Mr.. GLADSTONE introduced his Irish land
purchase scheme into the Commons on the
10th The scheme involved a loan of $50,
100000.
The sons of the late William H. Wander
bilt have given S25O,OO0 to the New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons to
build and endOw a building to be used ex-
clusively for clinics. The building will
cost Sl50,0O0. 1t will be known as the Van
derbilt clinic in honor of their father
THE rumOr that President Cleveland is to
marry Miss Folsom this summer has been
confirmed by the Presidents brother.
COLONEL THOMAS II. RUGER, Eighteenth
Infantry, whose nomination as Brigadier
General was pendinp before the Senate has
been placed in command of the Department
of the Missouri, relieving BrIgadier General
Miles.
The President has appointed Mrs. Vir-
ginia c. Thompson postmistreSS at Louis
vile, KY,
The Greek Chamber of Deputies has
voted all the bills for military prepara-
tions.