The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-02
INDIANA CoNGREssMEN.

short Autobiographies of the New Members
Who Will Enter Upon Their Duties To-Day.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The Journal cor
respondent was tonight permitted to ex-
anime the advance pro0f-sheets of the Con-
gressional Directory for the first session of
the Fifty-frst Congress. The Directory
Will appear at the end of this week. 1t
contains. beside general congressional,
executive and routine information, the
autobiographies of all the Senators and
members of Congress. Six of the thirteen
members from Indiana begin their con-
gress0nal career tomorrow. Messrs.
O'Neall of the Second. Holman of the
Fourth, Browne of the Sixth, Bynum of the
Seventh, Cheadle of the Ninth. Owen of
the Tenth, and Shiveley of the Thirteenth
district, served in the last Congress. From
the autobiographies of the new members
take the following:
William +. Parrer. of Evansville, First
district. was born on q farm near Blairsville,
POsey county. Aug. 10. 1925: was raised and
educational course at Asbury (now De-
Pauwl University. He received business
training In the old Branch Bank at Evans
Vile, and began law under Governor Baker,
at Evansville, in 1S47. In 1852 he removed
Years rssnda sna and p ana hsn fGe
to Evansville. He practiced law
at Boonville and was Judge of
the Fifteenth circuit in 1859 for six years,
when he returned to Evansville, where he
and resigned to form partnership with
Senator James Nj. Shackelford. He was
elected to the Fifty-first Congress as DEM
ocrat. receiving 2o,647 votes, against 2O62
votes for Francis b. POsey, Republican; 442
votes for Dewhurst, Prohibitionist, and 157
votes for j. }. Chapman, Labor candidate:
Jason Breeyort Brown, of Seymour, Third
district, was born at Diflsborough, Ind.
Feb. 26 1899. He. was educated. in
the common schools, with a short
born county. studied law at lndianap-
oils in 1853 and 80, was admitted to the
bar in 1860. and located in jackson county.
where he has since resided and practiced
his profession. Mr. Brown was elected to
the Indiana Legislature in 1862. reelected
in 1864, elected to the State Senate in. 1870
from Jackson and Brown counties. and re-
elected in 1880 from Jackson and jennings
He was elected to the Flfty-irst Con-
grssS votes as secsgns d0as s
Stephen. D: Sayles, Republican; 272 for
$50 votes for w. II. Carr, Labor candidate.
George William Cooper. OF Columbus,
Il T.,
county, Indiana. May 21. 1851. He received
a preliminary education in the public
schools, and took a four-years course at the
Indiana State University, graduating in
the literary and law course in 1872. Since
attorney in ISL, Mayor Of Crawfordsville
IN 1877, city attorney for four
Fifty-f first Congress as Democrat,
receiving 1920 votes, against 1896 votes
votes for w. g. Beckett. Prohibitionist
aud 22l vOtesffor John Harryman, Labor
Elijah voorhees, Brookshire. of Craw-
fordsville. Eighth district. was born near
Aug. 15, 1856. He graduated in scien-
titic course, in Central Indiana Nor
NAL College, Ladoga, August, 1878. and
engaged in farming and scbool-teach-
ing until 1883. when he studied law
elected to the Flfty-first Congress as
a Democrat, receiving % 153 votes.
against 23.0S4 votes for James K. Johnston.
Republican; 5S2 votes for Lewis H.. John
son, Union Labor, and 469 votes for John Il.
l.. Myers. PFOhibitionist.
Augustus N. Martin, of Bluffton. Eleventh
district, was born at Whiteside. Butler
county. Pennsylvania, March %, 1S47. He
was educated in the common schools, and
at Witherspoon Institute. Butler, Pa. Mr..
Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Militia. which assisted in the capt
ure of Gen. John Morgan's command.
He was discharged from the service for
disability. June ~. 1869, he located in
Wells county. Indiana, worked on farm.
and railroad until he began to study law in
Bluffton in 1862 and was adnitted to prac-
tice in 1870. He was elected Reporter of
the Supreme Court of Indiana in 1876 and
served four years He was elected to the
Fifty-tirst Congress as Democrat, receiv-
ing 22,375 votes. against 21,900 votes for
Major George w. Steele. Republican,; .435
votes for Rev. NJ. Ryker. Prohibitionist,
and So votes for DR.. William L. Shull, La
Dor candidate.
Charles A. o. Mcclellan. of Auburn,
Twelfth district, was born at Ashland. O.,
May %, 1885. He located in Auburn in 1856.
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1860, but has been in the banking busi.
ness since 1865. He served as judge of the
Fourth circuit of Indiana in 1879 and 1880
Mr.. Mcclellan was elected to the Fifty-first
Congress as Democrat, receiving 20.13s
votes. against 1S.S2S votes for Hon. James
Il. White. Republicans: S65 votes for Rev
George Il. Butler. Prohibitionist. and 1T
votes for p. p. Minor, Labor Union candi
date.