Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-07-12

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clerk Of the district court Of Scott county,
year was elected and held the Office for
four years, making five years in all; at
end OF term was admitted to the bar and
entered the firm OF SOuthw0rth & Marri-
Office under the firm name of Marrinan &
Hill; after Cleveland's. election was by
Judge McC Connell appointed clerk Of the
district court Of Walsh county, and holds
same office at present time; IS q member of
the territorial central committee and chair
man OF the county committee on the demo-
schools Of Grafton, D. r; is at present en-.
gagged in mortgage, loans, abstracting and
clerk district court; was elected to the
constitutional convention as democrat,
receiving 788 votes. against 7l9 votes
for Joseph TOOmbs, republican.
j. 81. MATHEWS, Of Larimore, Grand
Forks county, was born October 10th, 1848.
IN Ireland, Of Protestant Irish parents;
States in 1848, when he was less than one
year and q half old, came to New York
and settled at Newburgh, in that state: at
tended the academy and was educated at
that place; when II years old enlisted in
the Seventh New York Independent bat
ts tsry Of light artillery and remained until
the close of the war; was discharged July
~, 1855; was attached to the Army of the
Potomac and James, and participated with
them in the several engagements that the
corps to which his battery belonged was
engaged in before Richmond and Peters,
burg in the different campaigns; after the
war closed returned to Newburgh. n. 81.
ness, in which he remained until falling
health caused him to retire: in 1878 he came
to Grand Forks, where he purchased some
property and opened up some farms, inn
proving and operating the same; his fam
ily remained in New York until March.
Grand Forks county; has always been a
republican, but never held any political
office. prior to the present one; is engaged
and trotting horses and also cat
tie at LarimOre, on what is known as
the New York farm, and has cattle ranch
on Mouse river, McHenry county, N. d.:
was elected to the constitutional conven.
tion as republican. 3
OLNEY G. MEACHAM, of Darlington,
Foster county, was born in the county of
Seneca. state of Ohio, on the 18th day Of
April, 1847, of English ancestry, who set
tied in Green Springs, Ohio. about 1910;
was educated at public schools in Green
Springs, Ohio;f came to Carrington and set
tied IN Dakota in April, 1888; previous to
coming to Dakota was engaged fifteen
years in the grain ana produce commission
business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; was
the first county treasurer of Foster county,
Dakota; is at present engaged in banking:
was elected to the constitution c0nven-
tl0n as republican, receiving 447 votes
against 27O for d. D. McDaniels, democrat.
JOHN MCBRIDE, of Alma, Cavalier
county; was born in the county of Peel,
Province Of Ontario, on the 22d day Of
May, 1850. Of Irish and Scotch ancestry,
who settled in Ontario about sixty or
seventy years ago; was educated at COM
mon schools in Ontario, at Bradford insti-
tute; came to and settled in Dakota in 1882:
has held minor ofices-county commits
followed farming and teaching in Ontario,
and is at present engaged in farming in
Dakota; was elected to the constitutional
convention as a democrat, receiving 7S9
votes, against 5S2 votes for John Cans
lee, republican.
HENRY FOSTER MILLER, of Fargo,
Cass county, was born in the county of
Rock, state Of Wisconsin, on the 18th day of
September, 1916, of New England ancestry,
who settled in Vermont; was educated at
Milton collie e, Wisconsin,; settled in Da-
kOta in February, 1879; commenced the
practice of law in West Mitchell, Mitchell
county, state of Iowa, in 1871; removed
from there to Fargo in February, 1870, and
opened q law office of which he is still
partner in the Bank of Fargo until Jan
uary LIST, 1887, when he organized and be-
came president Of the Citizens National
bank of Fargo, which Office he still holds;
has never held political Office except.
city attorney for three terms, but has al
ways been republican, and taken an ac-
tive interest IN politics; is at present en-
gagged in banking and law business; was
elected to the constitutional convention as
q republican. S
Monre county. was born in the county Of
Mills; state Of Iowa, on the 2lst day
cestry, who settled in New York and
Pennsy sylvania in 18OO;was educated at Mich
tgan university. Iowa college and New
Haven, Connecticut; settled in Dakota in
october, 1882; commenced the practice of
law in 1877 at Grinnell, Iowa; was elected
city oat attorney in Grinne!l in 1880 and again
I1aMoure county in 1884, and is at present
engaged in the practice Of law; was elected
to the constitutional convention as re-
publican, receiving III votes. against $40
votes for L. NJ. Elliott, republican on
same ticket. 4 9I3
JAMES D. MCKENZIE Of Milnor, Sar-
gent county, was born in the county Of
the sSth day Of March, $40, Of Scotch Scotch an. m
cestry, who settled in county above named
about 1928, coming directly from scotiaQd;
was educated al ST. Francis college. Cam
ada; settled in Dakota in 1880; received
medical education in Ann Arb0r, Mich.;;
and graduated in 1889; practiced his pro-
fession III Vermont till the autumn of 1874,
when he went to Iowa, where he continued
in his profession until he came to Dakota
In 1880; never held political Office except
local; was superintendent of schools in
Vermont for three years; was member Of
the territorial convention at Grand Forks
in 1882 from Trail county; since coming to
Dakota has combined drug business with
the prac ice of medicine in which he is
still engaged; was elected to the cOnstitu-
tiOnal convention as a republican.
PATRICK McHUGH, of Langdon, Cav.
alier county, was born In the county of
Victoria, Canada, on the 2Sd day of Sep
tember, 1846, of Clan-na-Gael ancestry, who
settled in Canada about 1923; was educated
at public schools; came to the United
States in 1853 and settled in Dakota in
1875; was in the hotel business in Dead
wood and Custer City until 1888; came to
LangdOn and was register of deeds five
years; was 9 member of the territorial leg
islature in 1885 and again in 1889: is at
present mayor of LangdOn, and engaged
In banking and farming: was elected to