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county. was born in Monroe county. N

L OTK cavalry, WAS pIOmOteu CEIOuB1
all the grades until he was commission
ed colonel of that regiment. He served
under Buford, Pleasanton, Wilson ane
Custer, and for gallant conduct in &C
ton was breveted brigadier general
and then appointed Inspector genera
of the Third Cavalry division. on the
brave Clusters staff. The general IT,
Gated at Mankato in 1873, where be is
one Of the leading business men. lie
is member and Past 2. G. Of Wilkin
Post G. A. f.; also one of the leading
principal organizers Of the Minnesota
Veterans Right union, being the first
president Of the same.
Hon. a.. j. Whiteman was born at
Dansville, n. Y ..June 19, 1860. He at
tended the seminary at Dansville and
the State Normal school at Geneseo;
then he entered Hamilton college at
Clinton, N, Y, and graduated there
from with honor; he also attended the
Columbia Law school at New York
city for year. He went to Duluth IN
1889, where he was teller in bank for
a time before embarking in business
for himself as dealer in pine lands and
real estate, and in which he has been
remarkably successful. Mr.. Whiteman
is the first Democrat who has been pop
nlar enough to secure seat in the SEN
ate from the Forty-sixth district.
| Hon. A. Anderson is 49 years old and
came to America from Sweden IN 1855,
settling III Minnesota, where he Gu
gagged in mercantile pursuits. August
16, 1861, Mr.. Anderson enlisted as a
private in the Ninth Minnesota lnfan-
try; be was promoted sergeant, CON-
missary and second lieutenant. He was
taken prisoner at Gunuown, Miss, and
was confined at Andersonyllle aud Mil
len until Nov. 22. when he WAS released
and rejoined his regiment, being mus
tered out at Fort Smelling in August
1865 Since the war Mr.. Anderson has
been one Of the leading merchants of
Carver county, and is now running an
EXTENSIVE ge Drickyard.
lion, J. G.. Oswald is native of
Switzerland now in his 64Gh year. He
received a common school education
and worked at farming and clerking
until lSl7, when he came to they United
States. Mr.. Oswald has lived in Min
nesota since 1857, and has amassed q
comfortable fortune by stri It attention
to business in his line and shrewd in~
vestmest in realty. He has held the
Offices OF captain and major 10 the state
militia, and has been member CT the
Minneapolis Park commission during
several years.
Hon. Matthias Nachbar was born in
Germany, June 10, 1544. When he was
about ten years old his family came to
Minnesota; he was sent to the public
schools and the cathedral schools in St.
Paul For a number of Years he has
been engaged in farming and stock
raising at Jordon. Scott county; he was
town treasurer there for ten years and
was one of the county commissioners
during three years. In 1855 he repre-
sented his district in the house of rep
resentatives, and was elected to the
senate in 1886 He is also treasurer OF
the State Farmers alliance.
Hon. III. Keller first saw the light Of
this mundane sphere in Hesse-Darm-
stadt, Germany, Oct. l. 1915; he re-
ce1ved a common school education there
aud came; to America in 1864, and
shortly after his arrival ne enlisted as
private IN tue Tenth Regular infantry
and served three years. He settled in
Minnesota in 1868 and is now residing
at Sauk Center. Stearns county, where
he is in the banking business and in
terested somewhat in manufacturing.
Senator E. a. Child was born at
Paris, Me-, Aug. S. 1850. He received
a common school education and worked
on his fathers farm until his Goth year.
when he left for the West. He.was en-
engaged III business in California aud
Montana before coming to Minnesota
in 1876. Mr.. Child Is an extensive
dealer in agricultural implements,
buggies, etc. He represented his dis
trict in the house during the sessions Of
1881 and 1885. and was elected to the
senate III 1886.
Hon. Thomas S. Hayden was born in
Elgin county, n. Y, April 10, 1881. he
received common school education.
then went to Wisconsin and engaged in
numbering, which he successfully car
ried on for several years. Mr.. Hayden
has lived in Winona since 1878, where
he devotes most of his time III looking
after the interests of the street railway
and the electric light plants, of which
he is one of the projectors and pA -lcipal
owners.
Hon. Peter Nelson was born in Swv-
den, April IA, 1s43. After receiving a
common school education and working