The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-06-30
A iShOrt Sketch of the Republican
Nominees,
Memrhis AYalanche.1

Memphis Avalanche.l
Benjamin Harrison, grandson of Presi-
dent William Henry Harrison, son of
john Scott Harrison, the nominee of the
Republican convention for President of
the United States, was born in North
Bend, o., August 20, 1888 studied law in
Cincinnati, and in 1854 removed to In
diansFo'is, Ind, ,where'he has since resided
lie wa3 c.uc.cI reporter of the state su>
pgeme court in 1860, and III 1862 entered
the army as second licutant Of Indiana
volunteers, After q short service he
organ.@-d Z company of the Scvent:etA
Indiana regiment, and served through
the war. receiving the brcvet Of tr;rcd:5r-
Genci&. tIroIuLtecT5 IN January %. 1865.
He ,Aen returned to Indianapolis and
resumed his Office of supreme co4rt res
porter. 20 which lie had been reelected
during his absence in 1864 In 1875 he
was The Republican candidate for Covers
nor Of -ad.Jna, but w2s defea I'D Oy a
small plurality. President Hayes ap~
pointed him on tie Mississippi river
commission il 1873, ard in 1880 he was
elected United Sta.es So0ator, taking lis
seat On March 4, 1881. He was not talk
ed up seriously for President until few
week. eco, and so little earnest work WIS
done tAat "Aol Ike delegation oils own
state arrived at Chicago it was not solid
for I'm, two Or three breaks bl.ag made
for Grclham and oilers. On tie first bal-
lot lie received 50 vot"s, second 81, third
"a, fourth 217, fifth ballot 219. It was
believed on Saturday night that he was
beaten BY the Blaine men, but he recciy,
ed 23l votes on the FIST ballot Monday,
gaining steadily on the second, and re.
ceiving the nomination on the next.
Levi P. Morton, the Republican nomi-
nee for Vice>Prcsident of the Uni.ed
States, was born in Shoreham, Vt, May
l6, 1924. He became clerk in a coun-
try store, soon developed aptitude for
business and rose. rapidly. In 1850 he
was made me1Iber OF the firm of Becba.
Morgan 4 Co., merchants Of Boston, and
in 1854 he removed to New York, vie.
he established the firm Of Morton d Grin,
nell. In 1878 lie fou-d,d the banking.
house of Morton, Bliss & Co., in New
York, and that Of Morton, Rose & Co.,
in London. The latter were the fiscal
agents of the United States Government
from 1878 III 1884. The firms Of when
Mr.. Morton is the head were active in the
syndicates that negotiated United States
bonds and in the payment of the Geneva
award Of $l5,500,000 and the Halifax
fishery award of$5,5000OO. Mr.. Morton
was appointed honorary commissioner to
the l"s.s Exposition in 1873. In the
same year be was elected to Congress as
a Republican, and lie was reelected in
1880. In the latter Year be declined the
nomination for President on the
Republican ticket. President Garfield
offered to nominate Mr.. Morton for Secre-
tary of the Navy or Minister to France
He chose the latter post, and filled it from
1881 to 1885. Though his intercession
the restrictions upon the importation of
American pork were removed, and
American corporations obtained legal
status in France. He was American
Commlssioner-General to the Paris Elec-
trical Exposition, the representative of
the United States at the submarine cable
convention, and publicly received, in the
name of the people of the United States,
the Bartholdl Statue of Liberty Enllght-
ening the World. Mr.. Nor ton, in 1887,
purchased "Elerslie," the estate of Will.
liam Kelly, at Rhinebeck, on the Hudson
The degree of LII. D. was conferred upon
him by Dartmouth in 1881 and by Mid
dlebury in 1882. In 1887 he was cand,
idate for United States Senator.