Wichita eagle., 1888-07-15

| was fnaugurated. Geners.i Brown is fifty
four years old, and this is hh second term in
= Congress.
Elihu S. Williams was born - the Buck
eye State; was a student in Antioch Col
lege; read law at Dayton, and served in the
Union army throughout the war. At the
surrender he found himself stationed at
Carthage, Tenn; there he made his home,
becoming Acknowledgement for the Sixth
Judicial district for the State, and in 1867
treceivIng an election to the State Legs
,iature. Mr.. Brown is now fifty-three years
Old, and this is his first term in Congress.
Yoder is the peculiar name of the gentle
man from the Fourth district. 1t is a Swiss
nomen-ancient, rugged and pure as the
Alps. There are no better-hearted or more
thrifty people than the SWISS settlers in
D Ohio, and they furnished some of the brav-
Fest soldiers in the war. Mr.. oder was
born in Holmes County, o. He enlisted as
n private in the One Hundred and Twenty
eighth Ohio Infantry, rose to the rank Of
Lieutenant, and served till the end of the
war Then he studied medicine and
practiced his profession for eighteen years.
He was elected mayor of Bluffton, O.;
served as member Of the State Democratic
Executive Committee; was elected Judge
of the Probate Court of Allen County, o.,
and served from February, 1852, till Octo-
ber, 1856, when he resigned, and was elected
to the Fiftieth Congress.
Judge George Ebbert Seney, of the Tffin
reistrict is one of the six Con gressnen in
the delegation who are not natives of Ohio.
He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1882, but
. remained q resident of the Keystone State
only short six months, when his parents
moved to Ohio. He was admitted to the bar
in Thin, and has practced there thirty-hve
years. He was an elector on the Buchanan
and Breckenridge ticket, and the year fol-
lowing was made Judge of the Third judi
cial district He held a quartermaster's
position during the last two years Of the
Xar; this is his fifth year in Congress.
S9udge Seney is man of decided character,
and he wields an Important influence in
State and National politics. He has been q
Democrat all his life.
n II. Boothrlan is . self made Ohio boy,
who was brought up on farm until the war
called him away from his home. In charge
on the rebel works at Jonesborough in 1864
. he received bad gun-shot wound which
\ lost him his left leg; he went home pretty
well sick OF the war and hardly knew what
to do for livelihood The quiet and rest
made necessary by his wounds he turned
to account by studying law: by alternate
teaching, working and studying, for he was
without the funds necessary to secure
good education, he finally secured his de-
gree as law graduate OF Michigan Uni
versity. He was elected treasurer Of Will
Jams County in 1873 and held the Office six
years; he was practioing law when he was
elected to the Fiftieth Congress.
James z. Campbell, of Hamilton, was
horn in Middletown, O., in 1913 He served
In the navy during the war; was prosecut-
ing attorney of butler County, O., from
.JS7s to 1850, and was elected 10 the Forty
l.ghth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
Ear. Kennedy, the member from the
Eighth district, is solid, well-read lawyer.
Hewas born in Bellefoutaine, O., in $50.
At the frat call for troops in 1861 he en-
Neted e. private in company OF three
Aaths' men. He was Afterwards trans
.f6d to staff duty and appointed Assist
IT Adiutant-General OF yolnnteera with