The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-16
THE NEW CABINET.
Sketches Of Men Who will Advice
Mr.. Harrison.
Blaine Leads and Window is Secretary
Of the Treasury-The Slate the
Same rs Indicated Several
Days Ago.

i Days Ago.
j Secretary Of State--James G..
Blaine, of Maine.
| Secretary Of the Treasury-Wil-
| liam Window, Of Minnesota.
4 Secretary of War-Redfield Proc
tor, of Vermont.
4 Secretary of the Nayy-Benjamin
F. Tracy, Of New York.
! Secretary of the Interior-John
w. Noble, of Missouri.
j Postmaster General--John Wana-
maker, Of Pennsylvania.
Attorney General-W. H. H. Mil
Ter, of Indiana.
Secretary Of Agriculture-Jere-
miah Rusk, Of Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON, March 5-FolIowing
are brief sketches of the men whom
President Harrison has selected as
members Of his Cabinet:
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State, was born in the
village of West Brownsville, Wash
ington county, Pennsylvania, Janua-
ry 81, 1880. He had the advantage
of excellent teachers at his own
house, and for part of the year
IS41 he was at school in Lancaster,
o., and at the age of thirteen he en-
tered Washington college in his ma
tive county, where he was graduated
in 1847. Some time after graduation
he became teacher in the Western
Military Institute at Blue Lick
Springs, Ky. He soon returned to
Pennsylvania, where after some study
Of the law, he became a teacher in
the Pennsylvania Institute for the
Blind at Philadelphia. In 1854 he
removed to Augusta, Me-, where he
made his home. In 1856 he was a
delegate to the Republican National
Convention. In 1858 he was elected
to the Legislature, remaining a mem
Der for four years, serving the last
two as speaker. In 1852 he was elect
ed to Congress, where he served for
eighteen years. He was candidate
for the Presidential nomination in
1876 and 1880, und was the Republi-
can nominee in 1884, being defeated
by the Democratic nominee, Grover
Cleveland, for President. He was
Secretary of State under President
Garfield. Immediately after the
convention of 1876, on the resigna-
ton Of the Secretaryship of the
Treasury, Mr.. Blaine was appointed
Senator to ill the unexpired term,
and the following winter he was
chosen by the Legislature for the
full ensuing term.
WILLIAM WINDOW,
Secretary of the Treasury, is a ma
tive of Belmont county, Ohio, and
was born nearly sixtytwo years ago,
and gained some prominence there
before moving to Minnesota in 1868.
He served in the House as Repre-
sentative during the Thirty-sixth
Congress, and successfully in the
Thirty seventh, Thirty eighth, Thir-
ty ninth and Fortieth, and was APP
pointed to fill an unexpired term in
the Senate and subsequently elected
to a full term. When Garfield be-
came President he was made Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. He had but q
short term of this office, but in that
time is regarded as having demon
strated his capacity as financier
Since then he has been practicing
law in New York, and has not been
much in Minnesota. He dropped
out of Minnesota politics altogether
He is close friend Of Gen. Harri-
son.
JOHN WILCOX NOBLE,
Secretary of the Interior, was born
, in Lancaster, o., October 26, 1881.
He was the eighth of nine children.
Among his brothers is Henry C. No
BILE, prominent lawyer of Columbus,
@. He passed his early days in
! Columbus and Cincinnati, where he
enjoyed good educational advanta-
ges. He attended Miami University
and afterwards Yale College, grad
uating from that institution in 1851.
Upon his graduation he studied law,
first in the office of his brother and
in that of Heny Stanberry, subse-
, quently distinguished as Attorney
General of the United States under
: President johnson. Mr.. Noble set
, tied first in St. Louis in 1856. Not
meeting with the success in the prac-
tice oflaw that he expected, he RENE
ed the following year to Keokuk, Iowa,
where he became prominent. at the
bar. At the breaking out of the war
he enlisted as private in the Third
Iowa cavalry This regiment was
actively engaged from the beginning
to the close of the war, and distin-
guished itself in many battles. Mr..
: Noble steadily rose in it until he
| became Colonel He was in the bat
tie of Pea Ridge, was present at the
surrender of Vicksburg and took
part in the cavalry raid into Ala
bama and Georgia. At the close
! of the war he was promoted to
, Brigadier General for meritorious
services. He was mustered out in
1865 After the war General Noble
settled in St. Louis, where on the
: recommendation of Attorney Gener-
al Stanberry, he was made United
States District Attorney by Presi-
: dent johnson. He resigned his po-
sition in 1870, and has since been
engaged in the private practice OF
Q law. His firm is that Of Noble 4
J Orrick. He has lived in st. Louis
since 1867.
, JOHN wANAMAKER,
Postmaster General, was born in
! Philadelphia about seventy five years
I ,on HE IN rorto wowo ,,ocr ord y q