Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-01-11
BIOGRAPHICAL.

BIOGRAPHICAL.
TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
LOUIS KossUTH CHURCH. GOVERNOR, Of HUI
state The OG1 Of DeesmSe
ef English Welsh and Irish ancestry, who settled II
HUDSON River institute 1 Hudson New York. set
a Rak1a il No S Always n
s SsT Sn se%aE sa}s E Jss % 5 Sa 5 o%
ssss sssSs "a sssesas es;s
before the democratic convention in New York
the ss ge .:
oon state BY ~ his g the first enas
he % district BEING Strongly Democratic 0 nomination
therein considered equiya!ant to an election; in No
December 1856 was appointed governor Of the territory
NJ N. I. McCoRMAcK SECRETARY, of Grand Forks
Grand Forks county was b born in county
educated at the public schools; came to Minnesota in
ls52 While Minnesota was territory and settled on
in 1871 commanded one OF the steamers of the Red
ISL known as CITIES 4 Co. is one OF the
stoekhoider and director thereof established 1882
the Grand Forks roller mills of which he is at this time
nsTss ii and nd a d4s
National bank. of which he is still presidents is of
Grand @ the hotel IN Dakota
at cost Of $5oOoo was one of the commissioners ap.
county of Grand Forks and locate the county seat and
served alderman the city of Grand Forks of which
city 1882 and reelected two succeeding TERMS serving
until 1885; member of the school board from 1877
1882 and elected treasurer of Grand Forks county
in 1876; was the democratic nominee for congress in
1880; delegate to the Chicago convention in 1884, at
which Grover Cleveland was nominated for the pres
dency and was one of committee appointed to notify
Mr. Is se his in g wS
took charge OF the Office December TO- 1885; is married
and has two children both of whom are Dakotans by
JAMES A. WARD; AUDITOR, of Sioux Falls, Min
@ o SSRY S% on in the s s HG"y Of
zSi of Scotch and English ancestry was educated at
uase Of the law department Of the State university Of
Iowa; came Yankton and settled in Dakota in 1885,
airy during last two yeafs q the War ea!istng st
the age OF sXteen is democrat in politics. and has al
member of both constitutional conventions for South
Dakota was chairman OF the committee OH corporations
era other important committees and succeeded in av
ing the minority representation clause adopted by that
tive in the effort looking to the division Of Dakota and
The admission of two states: was appointed auditor of
s. beelaavE sf Tfa SUE s
Dawson county, was born in Erie county, New York,
1887 came Dakota 1882 where he has since resided;
IS e Wa G9S Of in
kota by Governor Church, October 81, 1887.
TRlSTREM L. SKINNER, ENERAL
OF DeadwOOd, born in Chester county, Pennsyl-
vana of southern parentage, July 1884, educated
principally by private tutors and at Norwood high
school. Virginia; raised in Mississippi where he
studied law and admitted to the barr was city at,
torney of Greenvlle when twenty years of and
held this position two years. left Mississippi on
account of political Disturbances moved California in
1875 where he married in 1875 held the position of
assistant district attorney Of the city of San Francisco
years. moved to Dakota in 1882 and of the
leading mining lawyers of the territory since coming
to the territory Mr.. Skinner has confined himself to
mining practice exclusively. representing numerous
large mining corporations is at present attorney and
general manager of the Caledonia Gold Mining COM
pany. and Clara Consolidated Gold Mining company of
California and the Pierce Gold Mining company of New
York: is democrat and has always taken lively in
teres in local politics, and declined nominations of his
general of Dakota November 90 1885, the resigna-
ton of Hon. Charles Templeton.
p F. MCCLURE. COMMISSIONER OF INIMIGRA-
TION. Pierre, Hughes county, born Franklin
t state of Indiana the 9Th day of August 1853 of
American ancestry educated at Cornell university,
Ithaca New York and settled in Dakota in the fall OF
$780, began the study Of law and it in order to
devote all his time and energies to the perfection and
sale Of his patented improvements on harvesting ma
chnery: in 1879 the representative in Europe of
wel-known Ohio agricultural implement mandatory
and afterwards represented the firm in Minnesota
and the northwest; engaged in the hardware and imple
ent business at Pierre. Dakota in November $780,
Hughes county, and elected one of the members of the
board OF county commissioners of the county al
the first regular election after organizations elected
mayor OF the city of Pierre in April 1885 and was re
elected in April. 1885, was appointed commissioner Of
immigration by Governor Church in March, 1887.