Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-28

Murat Halstesd, of Ohio, Minister to
Germany; Allen Thorndyke Rice, of
New York, Minister to Russia; Patrick
Egan, of Nebraska. Minister to Chill /;
Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, Minister to
Mexico.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
Among those confirmed by the Senate
this afternoon were the following: Fran
els F. Warren, Governor of Wyoming
Territory; Benjamin F. White, Gov
ernor of Montana; Robert V. Belt,
Assistant Commissioner of Indian AT
fairs, and number Of Postmasters.
SKETCHES OF NOMINEES.
Robert Todd Lincoln, who was to-day
nominated to be Minister to England, is
45 years of age and is son of Abraham
Lincoln. He graduated from Harvard
College, served through Grants Virginia
campain as Captain, practieed law in
Chicago and became Secretary OF War
under President Garfield, remaining in
that post under President Arthur. Since
his retirement in 1885 he has been prac-
ticing law in Chicago.
Allen Thorndyke Rice, nominated to
sachusetts. He is a graduate OF Oxford
University, England, and since 1876 has
been editor and proprietor of the North
American Review" He also holds a
controlling interest in the prominent
Partisan newspaper, lie Matin, and has
contributed largely to literature, while
taking an active part in politics.
George Bailey Loring, of Massachu-
eetts, is best known because of his con-
neetion with the Department of Agricul-
ture, of which he was commissioner from
1881 to 1885. He is " years OF age and
is Harvard graduate. Loring has been
long in public life, beginning as surgeon
in the Maine hospital at Chelsea in 1913
and at other times being postmaster, cen.
tennial commissioner and Congressman.
Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, who has
been named as Minister to Mexico, is q
native of New York, where he WAS born
in 1887. He served during the war as q
volunteer, was severely wounded and
emerged as captain in 1861. Since that
time he has held various legal positions
in Kansas, and been a Representative in
six successive Congresses.
James o. Churchill, the new Surveyor
at st. Louis, entered the war as private
in the Eleventh Illinois Infantry, and
rose to the rank of Colonel. He was
severely wounded in an engagement and
still carries several bullets in his body.
For many years past he has been
United States Commissioner and Clerk
of the United States District Court at st.
Louis.
Patrick Egan, nominee for Minister to
Chill, has for many years been well
known as leader of the Irish people.
He was born in Ballymahan, county
Longford, Ireland, in 1S41. When quite
young he went into the grain business.
His business relations brought him into
contact with the great mass of
the people, and he very early
displayed a deep interest in
the Irish cause, becoming an
active member of the advanced ma.
tional party, He took a part in the
revolutionary movement which cul-
minated in the attempted insurrection of
1867. He was one of the organizers and
a member of the Council of the Home
Rule League formed in 1871. When
Davitt, in 1873, started his Land
League movement, Egan, together
Will OObcpn DlBBdT anu VIII
liam H. O'Sullivan, members OF
Parliament, became trustees of the
League, and the work of the League, in
its principles and aiding
evicted tenants in 1880, led to the prose-
cution of Parnell, Dillon, Sexton, Egan
and others. The prosecution failing to
secure conviction, the English Govern
ment suspended the operation of the
habeas corpus act, and also devised a
scheme to seize the funds of the League.
At the urgent request of the leaders
Of the movement, Egan went to France
in order to protect the money entrusted
to his care and also to act as intermedi-
ary between the branches of the League
in America and Australia and the Ma
tional Leaguers in Ireland and England.
In 1882 he returned to his native
country, but fearful of op-
preston and unfair treatment
On the part of the government
Of Great Britain, he, in 1888, came to
America and went to live in Nebraska,
where he has since resided. He has
been engaged in the grain trade while in
his country and has also taken an active
part in politics as member of the Re-
publican party. Mr.. Egan is still an
active worker in the Irish cause and has
he confidence of its leaders in the old
John Hicks, who will go to Peru, as
Minister of the United States, is a native
American, AZ years Of age. He comes
rom Oshkosh, the home of Senator Saw
yer, and is proprietor and editor of the
Oshkosh Northwestern. He has several
lines been elected President of the Wis
,onsin State Press Association, but has
lever before held public office.
Murat Halstead, nominated for
United States Minister to Germany, was
,orn in 1929, at Ross, Butler county.
ohio, and spent his minority on farm.
1t the age of 13 he began writing for
newspapers, at first contributing the
ighter class of romances. In 1861 he
Inished his schooling at Farmers Col
ege near Cincinnati and then did local
newspaper reporting on several Cincinnati