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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-03-05

madame, rcuiled the Doctor, refusing
it with gesture
Il repeal that it never belonged to
me
"But if Pierre Bathory can use it"
my son will lind the situation for
which he is hit, aud can trust him as
can trust myself
He will not refuse what his fathers
friend insists on his accepting.
HE will refuse.
AT least, madame. will you allow me
TO try"
Il beg you will do nothing, Doctor,
answered Madame Bathory. MY son
does not know that have received this
money, and | do not wish him ever to
know II.
BE it so madame | understand
your feelings, although | am a stranger
and unknown to you Yes, | under
stand and admire them! But repeat,
! if the money ~ not yours it is not mine. :"
Doctor Antekirtt rose There was
nothing in Madame Bathorys refusal to
annoy him personally; and her delicacy
only filed him with feeling ofprofound
respect He bowed to the widow. and
was turning 70 leave, when another ques-
ton stopped him.
"Sir." said Madame Bathory, You
have told he Of some miserable proceed
ings which sent to their deaths LHdislas
Zathmar, Stephen Bathory and Count
Sandorf p
II said what was true, madame.
! "But does any one know these people q
National Republican., 1886-08-01
HENRY l.. DAWES.

Henry J.. Dawes, of Pittsfeld, was born at
Cummington, Massachusetts, October 80,
1916; graduated ut Yale College; was a
school-tcachcr, and edited the Greenfield
Gdzctte and Adams Transcript; studied and
practiccd law; was member of the house
of representatives of MASSACHUSETTS, in lS4S,
10, and -; was mcu.',er of the senate of
Massachusetts in 1900; was Il member of the
State Constitutional convention of NIassachu-
3etrs in 1858; was district attorney for the
western district of Massachusetts from 1858
until 1857; was elected u Representative in
the Thirty-ffth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty
first, Forty second, and Forty-third Con
gresses, and declined being candidate for
election to the Forty-fourth; he was elected
to the United States Senate as Republican,
to succeed Charles Sumner (whose uncXpired
term had been filled by William b. Wash
burn); took his seat March H. 1873, and was
reelected in 1881. His term of service will
expire March ,, 1887.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

George i. IIoar of Worcester, was born
at Concord, Massachusetts, August %, 1926
studied in early youth at Concord Academy;
graduated at Harvard College in 1916;
studied law, and graduated at the Dane Law
School, Harvard University; settled at Wor-
ccster, where he practiccd; was member of
the State house of representatives in 1852,
and of the State senate in 1857; was elected
II Representative to the Forty-frst Forty.
second, Forty-thrd and Forty fourth Con-
grcsscs; declined u denomination for Repre-
sentative in the Fory-flth Congress; was
an oversccr of Harvard College lS7lJSO;
presided over the Massachusetts State Re
publican conventions of 1871, II, 'S2, and 'S5; ;
was II delegate to the Republican National
Conventions of 1876 at Cincinnati and of
1880 and 1884 at Chicago, presiding over the
convention of 1880; was one of the managers
on the part Of the House of Representatives
of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876; /;
was Il member of the Electoral Commission
in 1876; was regent of the Smithsonian In
stitution in 1880; was vicc-prcsident and is
now president of the American Antiquarian
Society; is trustee Of the Peabody Museum
of Archaeology; has received the degree of
Doctor of Laws from William and Mary,
Amherst and Yale Colleges was elected to
the United States Senate as Il Republican,
to succeed George S. Boutwell,; took his seat
March b, 1877, and was reelected in 1883
His term of service will expire March >, 1882
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Charles f. Manderson, of Omaha, was
born in Philadelphia, Pa, February 8, 1887 I;
was educated in the schools and academies
of his native city; removed to Canton, Ohio,
in 1856, where he studied law, and was SCALED
to the bar in 1859; was elected city solicitor
of that city in 1860, and in April, 1861, en-
tered the army as first lieutenant, Company
A, Nineteenth regiment, Ohio infantry; par
ticipated in the campaign under Gen
Mcclellan, in West Virginia, in the sum-
mcr of 1861, and afterward in the cam
paigns of the Army of the Cumber-
land; rose through the grades of captain,
major, licutenant-coloncl, and colonel of the
Nineteenth Ohio infantry, being in COM
mand of the regiment from the date of the
battle of Shiloh; on September 1864, Mt the
battle of Lovejoys Station, he was severely
wounded, and, because of disability from
such wounds, resigned in April, 1865; in
March, 1865, he was brcvetted brigadier-gen-
eral of volunteers, United States Army, "for
gallant, long-continued, and mcritorious SER
vice during the war of the rebellion;" he
continued the practice of law at Canton,
Ohio being twice elected as district attorney,
until November, 1869, when he removed to
Omaha, Ncb, where he has since resided
and practiccd law; for six years he was city
attorney ut Omaha, and in 1871 and again in
1874 was elected by both political particsas q
member of the constitutional convention for
those years; he was elected to the United
States Senate as q Republican, to succeed
Alvin Saunders, Republican, and took his
seat December 3, 1883. His term of service
will expire March 3, 1889.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

John Rhodcric Mcpherson, of Jersey City,
was born ut York, Livingston county, n. Y,
May 8, 1888; received common-schoOl and
N. j., in 1859; was elected u member of the
board of aldermen of Jersey City in 1864,
and held that Office for six years. serving for
three years as president Of the board; was
president of the Peoples Gas-light Company
during the years 1SGS-'GO; was n member of
the State senate of New jersey in lS7l-'73;
was Presidential elcctor on the Tildcn and
Hendricks ticket in 1876; was elected tothe
United States Senate as Democrat to sue
ceed +. 7. Frelinghuysen, Republican; took
his seat March 8, 1877, and was reelected in
January, 1888. His term of service will ex.
pire March 3, 1889.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Henry w. Blair, of Manchester, was born
ut Campton, n. H., December O, 1874; re-
ceivcd u common-school and academic edu-
cation; studied law with William Leverett,
at Plymouth; admitted to the bar in May,
1852 and hassince pacticcd; was appointed
prosecuting attorney for Grafton county in
1860; served in the Union Army as lieuten-
ant-colonel of the Fifteenth New HAMPSHIRE
volunteers; wasa member of the Statehouse
of representatives in 1866, and of the State
senate in lS67-GS; was elected Rcpresen-
tative in the Forty-fourth and Forty-ffth
Congresses as Republican, and declined a
denomination to the House of Representa-
tives of the Forty-siXth Congress; he was
elected to the United States Senate as Re
public lean, TO succeed Charles III. Bell, who
had been temporarily appointed by the exec
utive of New Hampshire, and took his seat
June 20, 1879; his term expiring March 3,
1889, he was appointed to ill the vacancy
until the next session of the Legislature, in
the month of June following, when he was
elected to serve the balance of the term,
which will expire March 3, 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

John P. Jones, of Gold Hill, was born in
Herefordshire, England, in 1880, and came
with his parents to this country when he was
less than year old, settling in the northern
part of Ohio, where he attended public
school in Cleveland for few years; in the
early part of the California excitement he
went to that State, and engaged in farming
and mining in one of the inland counties,
which he subsequently represented in both
houses of the State assembly; went to Ne
vada in 1867, and since then has been en-
tirely engaged in the development of the
mineral resources of that State; was elected
to the United States Senate as a Republican,
to succeed j. w. Nye, Republican; took his
seat March 4, 1873, and was twice reelected
His term of service will expire March B.
1891
National Republican., 1886-08-01

William j. J.Sewcll, of Camden, was born in
Ireland in 1885; left an orphan at an early
age, he came to the United States in 1851,
and engaged in business in the city of New
York; shortly thereafter he entered the
merchant marine, making several voyages;
abandoning the sea after q few years, he To-
Gated in Chicago and rc-entercd upon busi-
ness life; returning East just previous TO the
rebellion, he entered the service as captain
in the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers; he was
mustered out at the close of the war with
the rank of brevet major-gencrl he served
nine years in the State senate of New Jersey,
three years of which he was president of
that body; he was delegate at large from
that State to the Republican National Con-
ventons at Cincinnati in 1876 at Chicago in
1880, and at Chicago in 1854; he was elected
to the United States Senateas u Republican,
to succeed Theodore +. Randolph, Democrat,
and took his seat March 4, 1881. His term
of service will expire March 3, 1887.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Samuel j. r. Mcmillan, of st. Paul, was
born ut Brownsville, Pa, February -, 1926 !;
received II classical education, graduating at
led law with Shalcr q Stanton, was admitted
to the bar in 1919, and commenced practice
at saltwater, Mimi, in 1852; was elected
judge of the first judicial circuit in 1857 was
appointed associate justice of the supreme
court in 1864, to fill II vacancy; was elected
and reelected, and resigned in 1874 was ap-
pointed in 1874 and aitcrward reelected
chief justice Of the supreme court, and re-
signed when he was elected to the United
States Senate as Il Republican, to succeed Al
exander Ramsey, Republican; he took his
seat March /, 1879, and was reelected. His
term Of seryice will eXpire MNrch 3, 1857.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

William Window, and took hsseat March 3,
1888. His term of office will expire March 3,
1889.
lie is q man ofextraordinary business ex-
periencc, and is known at the Capitol IA the
business man of the Senate" He is very
hard worker, and puts in on an average OF
sixteen to eighteen hours of tho twcnty-four
Mr.. Sabin is not a specch-makcr, but his
fairness in dealing with all questions, party
or otherwise, has created u feeling of trust
among his brother Senators which adds
greatly to the success of measures fathered
by him.
lie was married TO Miss j.. Amelia Hutch.
ins, of Dannelsonville, Conn, n beautiful
blonde, who has made many friends among
all classes since her arrival at Washington
They have no children of thcrown but have
undertaken the care of the two little orphan
girls, O and Z years old, of the late Delegate
John B. Raymond, of Dakota, whose wife
died u year ago last January and he follow.
ing her TO the grave Il year later.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Arthur r. German, of Laurel, was born in
Howard county, Maryland, March II, 1889;
attended the public schools in his native
county for II brief period; in 1852 was ap.
pointed page i'm the Senate Of the United
States, and continued in the service of the
Senate until 1866, at which time he was
postmaster; on the first of September of
that year he was removed from his position
and Immediately appointed collector of in
ternal revenue for the ii1h district of Mary
land, which office he held until the ncom-
ing of the Grant administration in 1869; in
June, 1863, he was appointed Il director in
the Chesapeake AMI Ohio Canal Company,
and in November was elected u member of
the house of delegates of the Maryland
Legislature asa Democrat; hc was reelected
in 1871, then elected speaker Of the house
ofdclugltrs ut the ensuing session in June,
1872, he was elected president Of the Chcsn-
pcukc and Ohio Canal Company; in 1875 he
was elected 10 represent Howard county in
the Maryland State senate, and was reelected
fora term of four years in November 1879; (;
wac elected i'm January, 1850, to the United
StatrS senate asa Democrat to succeed Hon
William lIukncy Whytc, and took his seat
March T. lssl. His term of service will cX-
pire March g. 1887.
EPIIRAIM KING WILSON.
Ephum King Wilson, of Snow Hill, was
born at Snow Hill, Maryland, December 22d,
National Republican., 1886-08-01
MISSISSIPPI.
Walter Ienlge.
EDWARD CARY wALTHALL.

Edward Cary Walthall, of Grenada, Miss,
received an academic education at Holly
Springs, Miss studied law mt Holly Springs;
was admitted to the bar in 1852, and COM
mcnced the practice of law the same year in
Coileeville, Miss; was elected in 1856 dis
trict attorney for the tenth judicial district
Of Mississippi, and reelected in 1859; re-
signed that office in the spring of 1861, and
entered the Confederate service as lieuten-
ant in the Fifteenth Mississippi regiment; /;
was soon after elected lieutcnant-colonel OF
that regiment; in the spring of 1862 was
elected colonel of the Twenty-ninth Missis-
sippi regiment, was promoted to brigadier-
general in December, 1862, and major-gen-
eral in June, 1864; after the surrender prac-
National Republican., 1886-08-01

1921; was prepared for college at Union
Academy, Snow Hill, and at Washington
Academy, Princess Anne, Maryland, and was
graduated ut Jefferson College, Pennsylvania,
in 1871 studied law and practiccd in that
profession for 20 years in his native State !;
was n member of the Maryland House of
Delegates in 1917; was elected an elector for
President and Nice-Prcsidcnt in 1862, and
cast his vote for Pierce and King; was Il
Representative in the 42d Congress from the
lst Congressional district of Maryland and
declined to be n candidate for the 43d Con-
gress, though the nomination would have
been conceded to him by his party, which
was in II large majority in the district; was
judge of the first judicial circuit of Maryland
from 1873 to 1885 and was elected to the
United States Senate as n Democrat to sue
ceed James Il. Groome, Democrat, and took
his seat March 4th, 1885. His term of SER
vice will expire March 3, 1891.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Warner Miller, of IIerkimer, N. Y, was
born in Oswego county, that State, August
H. 1885. He graduated at Union College in
1860, and this year was made LII. ID. by
that college. On the breaking out of the
war he enlisted as private in the Finh New
York cavalry, and served in the Shenandoah
valley; was promoted TO scrgeant-major and
lieutenant, and was taken prisoner at the
battle of Winchester; is now farmer and
manufacturer of paper.
Senator Miller was elected to tho Senate
debates fthe Senate until the wintcrof 1850
when he delivered very elaborate speech
on the taritfquestion. This speech brought
National Republican., 1886-08-01

ticed law at Coffeevile until January, 1871,
when he removed to Grenada, and has con-
tinued the practice there until March, 1885;
was delegate at large to the National Demo
aratic Conventions in 1865, 1876, 1880, and
1884; in 1868 was one of the vice-presdents
of the convention, and in 1876, 1880, and
1884 was chairman of the Mississippi dele
cation ; was appointed to the United States
Senate as Democrat, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Hon. l.. q. G.
Lamar, appointed Secretary of the Interior,
and took his seat March IL, 1885; was elected
by the Legislature in January, 1886, for the
unexpired term. His term of service will ex-
pire March 8. 1889.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

cal survey and mineral explorations of the
Lake Superior copper and iron regions in
1915, 'I6, ~ in 1913 engaged in the practice
of law at Port Huron Michigan, where he
has since resided; was elected judge of the
Saint Clair county court in 1850, and senator
in the Michigan Legislature for the biennial
terms of 1855, 81, and 80, and was elected
president pro tcwpore of the senate in 1859
was elected in 1866 member of the Consti-
National Republican., 1886-08-01

James Graham Fair, of Virginia City, was
born DcCcmhcr3, 1881, near Belfast, Ireland ;
he came to this country with his parents in
1913, and settled in Illinois, whore he at
tended tho public schools, completing his
education in Chicago, where he received a
thorough business education, paying special
attention 10 scientific studies; on the break
ing ont Of the gold fever, in 1910, hemoved to
California and engaged in mining until 1860
when he removed to Nevada, where he has
ever since resided, and where he has at all
times been extensively engaged in mining,
constructing huge quartz-mills, building
waicr-works, etc; in 1867 he formed part
nership with John W. Mackay, j. G. Flood,
and VIM. s. O'Bren. The firm purchased
thecOntrol ofthe Bonanzas and various other
wcll-known mines, the yield of gold and sill
yer from which, while under thesupcrnten-
dency of bIr. Fair, is estimated at about two
hundred million dollars; he is also extern
sively engaged in real estate and buildings
in San Francisco, and is largely interested in
the various manufactures of the Pacific
coast; he was elected to the United States
National Republican., 1886-08-01
MICHIGAN.
OMAR ID. CONGER.

Omar D. Conger, of Port Huron, was born
in lSlS, at Coopcrstown, New York; re-
Huron county, Ohio in 1924 pursued his
academic studies at Huron Institute, Milan,
Ohio, and graduated in 1879 at Western Re
serve College, was employed in the geologi-
National Republican., 1886-08-01
DWIGHT MAY sABIN.

Dwight May Sabin was born at Marcelle,
Illinois, April 9th, 1914.
lie never sought political prcfcrmcnt, but
was taken up us II compromise candidate
for the State senate on the Republican
ticket the first year he was inStillwdtcr, and
was elected by Il good round majority. He
was again elected to the senate in 1871
National Republican., 1886-08-01

tutional convention of Michigan; was n
Presidential olcctor on the Republican ticket
in 1864; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty
second Forty-thirl, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth,
Forty.siXth, and Forty-scvcnth Congresses; (;
was elected to the United States Senate as
Republican, TO succeed Hon. Henry =. Bald
win, Republican, and took his seat March 4,
1881. His term of service will expire March
3, 1887,
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Charles II. Van Wyck, of Nebraska City,
was born ut Poughkccpsie, N. Y, November
=, 1924; graduated at Rutgers College, New
Jersey; studied and practiced law; was dis
trict attorney ofSullivan county, N. Y, from
1850 TO 1856; entered the Union Army as
colonel of the Tenth Legion, or Fifty-sixth
New York volunteers, and commanded it
during the war for the suppression of the re-
bcllion, receiving the rank of brgadier-gen-
eral; was elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty
seventh, Foricth, and Fory-iirst Congresses;
removed to Nebraska in 1874; was elected Il
delegate TO the constitutional convention in
1876; was u member of the State senate for
cced Algcrnon 5. Paddock, Republican, and
took his seat March 4, 1881. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1887.
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Senate as a Democrat, to succeed William
Sharon, Republican, and took hisseat March
a., 1881. The judgment, zeal, and success
which attended him previous to his advent
lcssencd here. Great ability in the manage
ment of ones own affairs, while at the same
National Republican., 1886-08-01

William p. Frye, of Lewiston, was born at
lewiston Maine, September 9 1881 grad
uatcd at Bowdoin College Maine, 1850;
studied and practiccd law; was member of
the State Legislature in 1861 G2 and 'G7:
was mayor of the city of Lewiston i'm 1860
and 81 was attorney-gencral of the State of
Maine in 1867, '6S, and 80: was elected
member of the National Republican Exccu-
tive Committee in 1872 reelected in 1876, and
reelected in 1850; was elected trustee of
Bowdoin College in June, 1850; received the
degree of LII. ID. from Bates College in
July, 1881; was Presidential eector in
1861; was delegate to the National Repub.
lican Convention in 1872, '76, and 80; was
elected II Representatives. the Forty-sccond,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-ffth, Forty
sixth, and Furty-scventh Congresses; was
elected To the United States Senate as a Re
publican to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of James c. Blaine, appointed
Secretary of State; took his seat March Is,
1881, and was reelected in 1883. His term
ofservicc will expire March 8, 1889.
EUGENE HALE.
Eugene Hale, of Ellsworth, was born at
Turner Oxford county. Maine, June 9, 1896;
received an academic education; studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1857, and com
mcnCCd practice; was for nine successive
years county attorney for Hancock county:
was u member of the Legislature of Maine in
1867, 'GS and 80; was elected to the Forty
first, Fory-second, and Forty-third Cong
resscs; was appointed Postmaster-G General by
President Grant in 1874, but declined; was
reelected to the Fony-fourth and Forty-fifth
Congresses; was rendered u cabinet appoint
ment by President Hayes and declined; was
National Republican., 1886-08-01
JAMES Y, GEORGE.

James n Gedyge, Of Jackson, was born in
Monroe countyNGa October 20, 1926; his
father having died in his infancy, he re-
moved, when eight years of age, with his
mother to NoXubee county, Miss, where he
resided two years; he then removed to Car
roll county, where he was educated in the
common schools then existing; he volun-
teered as private in the First Regiment of
Mississippi Volunteers in the Mexican war,
commanded by Col. Jefferson Davis, and
was at the battle of Monterey; on his re-
turn he studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in Carroll county; he was elected re-
porter of the high court of errors and APP
pcals in 1854, reelected in 1860, and prepared
and published ten volumes of the reports of
the decisions of that court, and atcrward
prepared and published digest of all the
decisions of the supreme court and high
court of errors and appeals of that State from
the admission of the State into the Union to
and including the year 1870; he was MEM
Der of the convention in Mississippi in 1861
which passed the ordinance of secession, and
he voted for and signed that instruments; he
was q captain in the Twentieth Regiment of
Mississippi Volunteers in the Confederate
States army; altcrward brigadier-general
of state troops, and afterward colonel of the
Fifth Regiment of Mississippi cavalry in the
Confederate States army; was chairman of
the Democratic State Executive Committee
of Mississippi in 1875 and 1876; in 1879 was
appointed one of the judges of the supreme
court of Mississippi and elected chief Justice;
resigned his seat on the supreme bench in
February, 1881, to take his seat in the Senate
on the 4th of March of that year. His term
ofservice will expire March 3, 1887
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Thomas Wthcrcll Palmer of Detroit, was
born at Detroit, Michigan, January %, 1880 I;
was educated in the public schools, at
Thompson's Academy, at Palmer now Saint
Clair, Michigan, and ut the Michigan Uni
vcrsity; is and has been manufacturer and
farmer; has served on the board of estimates
of Detroit, and as State senator in 1S70-'S0;
was elected to the United States Senate as a
Republican, upon the cighty-iirst joint ballot
of the Legislature, to succeed Hon. Thomas
w. Ferry, Republican, and took his seat
December 3, 1883. From that time to the
present, with continual increase, his ability,
industry and patriotism have been promi-
nent in the Senate. Not only his own State,
but the Union looks confidently to his
course foi the public welfare. Even before
h, election here reliability, a marked trait
of his character, strongly indicated, in vari-
Gus lesser though important situations, how
invaluable would prove his aid in II higher
and more comprehensive position, such as
now engages his efforts His term ofservice
will expire March g. 1889
National Republican., 1886-08-01

Aaron Burr.
Rufus King.
John Lawrence.
John SlOss Hobart.
william North.
Philip Schuyler.
James Watson.
John Armstrong.
GOuverneur Morris.
Dewitt Clinton.
TheOdorus Bailey.
Samuel l.. Mitchell.
John Smith.
George Clinton.
Obadiah German.
Nathan Sanford.
Martin Van Buren,.
Charles J.. Dudley.