Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-06
THE NEW SECRETARIES.
Facts I'm the Lives of Some of the
Least Famous.

THE NEW SECRETARIES.
Facts I'm the Lives of Some of the
Least Famous.
William Window, the new Secretary
of the Treasury, was born in Belmont
county, Ohio, May 10, 1927. His par
ents were poor and he was early appren-
ticed to a tailor, but soon abandoned
that trade for the study of law, and at
the age of 23 was admitted to the bar and
began practice in Mount Vernon. In 1852
he was elected prosecuting attorney for
Knox county, as a Whig overturning
the previous Democratic majority. In
1866 he moved to Winona, Mimi, where
he has ever since resided. He was
elected to the 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th and
40th Congress, and was afterwards ap-
pointed to fill the unexpired term of
Senator Morton, and was twice reelected.
In 1881 he was chosen by Garfield as
Secretary of the Treasury, but after Gar
fields death he devoted himself to law
and business, chiefly in New York.
Ex-Governor Redfeld Proctor, Secre-
tary of War, was born in Vermont in
June, 1851, was educated at Dartmouth
College, and, in 1868, began to practice
law. In 1869 he engaged in the marble
quarrying business, and now controls the
output OF the Vermont quarries. He
was elected Governor of Vermont in
1878, and headed the delegation from
that State at the Chicago Convention,
casting the vote of that delegation for
Harrison from the first.
Benjamin F. Tracy was born in o.
wego, N. Y, and is about 80 years of
age. He obtained common school
education and atter#ards studied law.
In 1853 he was elected District Attorney OF
Tioga county and later was reelected. tie
was elected to the Assembly in 1851,
recruited a regiment of militia during
the war and was commissioned Colonel.
He led his regiment in the battle Of the
Wilderness and at Spottsylvania, and at
the latter was borne exhausted from the
field. He afterwards resumed the prac.
tice Of law in New York, the firm being
Benedict, Tracy & Benedict. He was
one of the counsel for the defense in the
celebrated Beecher trial. In 1878 he was
appointed Judge of the Court of Appeals
and served one year.
John Wilcox Noble, Secretary of the
Interior, was born in Lancaster county,
Ohio, October 26, 1881. He attended
Miami University and Yale College,
graduating from the latter institute in
1851. He studied law in the Office of his
brother and subsequently in that of
Henry Stanberry, Attorney-General OF
the United States under President
johnson. At the outbreak Of the
war he enlisted as a private
in the Third Iowa Cavalry, and was
steadily promoted till he reached the
rank of Colonel. AT the close of the war
he was promoted to be Brigadier- General
for meritorious services. After the war
he settled in st. Louis, where he was
made United States District Attorney by
President johnson. He resigned the
position in 1870, and since that time has
been engaged in the private practice OF
law.
John Wanamaker, the new Post
master General, comes Of Pennsylvania
Dutch stock, and went to Philadelphia
from Franklin county as boy. In the
morning, before school time, he burned
500 bricks for his father, thus earning
few cents a day. He afterwards
worked in book store at $1.25
a week, walking four miles each
morning and evening to and from work.
In 1861, in partnership with his brother
in-law, he began business on small cap
ital loaned by his wife's father, few
blocks from where his vast establishment
at Thirteenth and Market streets now
stands. The Bethany school, where half
thousand boys and girls are taught
practical branches, and which is a per-
feet organization, having its own pastors,
teachers, orchestra and sections, COM
prising a total of 2,303 persons, origi-
mated in small Sunday school started
by Wanamaker in a shoemaker's shop
twenty-one years ago.
VIM. Henry Harrison Miller, the new
Attorney General, was President HaTi-
sons law partner for many years. He
was born in Augusta, N. Y, in 1S41 i,
entered Harrison College at is, and
graduated at 20. He studied law under
the late Chief Justice Waite, and first
practiced in Fort Wayne, Ind, where he
frequently met with Gen. Harrison, and
in 1876 accepted an offer OF partnership
with the latter.
Jerem iah M. Rusk, the First Secretary
of the new Department of Agriculture,
was born in Morgan County, Ohio, in
1880, and worked on his fathers farm
until he reached his majority. At the
age of % he removed to Wisconsin,
where he took up farm. His services
during the war gained him successfully
the titles of Major and Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Twenty Fifth Wis
consin, and Brevet- -Brigadiey- General.
He was elected to the Forty-second Con-
gress, and served three terms. He was
rendered the appointment of charge
dAfaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, and
Chief of the Bureau of Printing and En-
craving, by President Garfield, but de.
clined both. In 1881 he was elected
Governor OF Wisconsin, and in May
1886, gained national reputation by his
firmness in suppressing the Anarchis
riots in Milwaukee. He was a Presi
dental candidate at the last convention