The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-03
Especial Correspondence

round head of Senator Hoar, who of late
has attracted so much attention as the
champion of the federal election bill and
as the writer of a quaint letter concerning
his life and his income, | am led to the re-
lection that blood will tell. George Frisbie
| Hoar has been forty years in public life.
| His father, Samuel Hoar, was the famous
lawyer who was sent by the Massachusetts,
legislature to Charleston, S. c., to test the
constitutionality of certain slave laws, and
who was expelled from the state by the
governor. Samuel Hoar was once mem
Der of congress. Ebenezer lockwood Hoar,
brother of the senator, was attorney
general under Grant, and also served in
congress. Here are three statesmen in one
family-father and two sons. On the ma
ternal side George Frisbie and Ebenezer
lockwood Hoar are grandsons Of Roger
| Sherman.
Side by side in the senate chamber sit
| Senators Hoar and Sherman, the latter di-
| rectly descended from the Shermans of
| New England Roger Sherman, native
Of Massachusetts,, settled in Connecticut,
where he worked as a shoemaker, with an
open book before him on the bench. He
was a member of the First congress, signed
| the Declaration of Independence and be-
came a senator. One of his grandsons was
| Charles r. Sherman, who migrated to
! Ohio in 1910 and became judge of the SUI
preme court of that state. Three sons
were born to him. One, Charles T. Sher-
man, became United States district judge
| in Ohio. Another is Gen. William Te-
cumseh Sherman, and the third John
| Sherman, the veteran senator who sits by
the side of his distant relative, George FRS
bic Hoar.
BY another curious coincidence Sena-
| tor Evarts, of New York. sits within arms
reach of Senators Hoar and Sherman. Mr..
Evarts was the son of jeremiah Evarts, a
lawyer and writer of note in Boston, and
on his mothers side was grandson of the
same Roger Sherman mentioned above
whose statue stands in Statuary hall.
Mention of the senator from New York re-
minds me of New York's greatest senator,
Roscoe Conkling Mr. Conkling's father,
Alfred, was q member of congress and min
lister to Mexico, and his brother, Frederick
A, was a member of congress. In the
Thirty-seventh congress both Roscoe Conk-
ling and his brother were members.
Senator Don Cameron, who sits near by
Hoar and Sherman, married daughter of
Judge Charles Z. Sherman. Senator Cam
eron's father was the famous Simon Cam
eron, who was four times elected to the
senate, and who was succeeded by his son.
Don Cameron's chum is Senator Butler, of
South Carolina. Senator Butler studied
law with his uncle, Andrew Pickens But
Ter, who was for fifteen years a senator
from that state Another of the present
Ter, who served in congress and who mar
ried sister of Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry Still another Butler, Samson H.,
represented South Carolina in congress a
half century ago.
All the Buffers of that state were de-
scendants of Pierce Butler, who was of the
family of the Dukes of Ormond of Ireland.
Before the Revolution he was a major in
British regiment in Boston, but afterward
became a citizen ofthis country, and a Re-
publican instead of a royalist. He was a
delegate to the first congress, signed the
constitution, and was a senator in congress
at the same time Roger Sherman was.
Moreover, the two men were good friends.
Pierce n. Butler, son of Pierce Butler, was
a gallant general in the Mexican war, fall
ing at Cherubusco. Thus the Butler fam
lily of South Carolina has produced three
United States senators. The Buffers and
the Pickenscs are intermarried. Three of
the Pickenses have been in congress, and
il was a Pichens who demanded the sur
render of Fort Sumter by Mai. Anderson.
Senator Barbour, of Virginia, comes
from family of statesmen. His GRANDPA
ther was speaker of the house of represen-
tatives three-qUarters of a centuryag and
two other members Of his family served in
congress. Perhaps the most remarkable
case of family craftsmanship is that of the
Bayards, of Delaware. James \. Bayard
was senator from 1904 to 1913 His son,
Richard II. Bayard, was senator from 1885
10 1899, and again from lS41 to lS45. Rich
ards brother, James A, was senator from
1851 to 1854. In 1867 he was again elected
senator aud on the same day his son,
Thomas F., was also elected senator from
the same state, the only instance of the
kind which ever occurred.
Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, comes
of a notable family of statesmen. His
father, Cadwalader c., was in congress six
or eight years from Wisconsin. His uncle,
Israel, Jr., was for ten years member of
congress from Maine, and afterward gov
ernor Of that state. Another uncle, Elihu
b. spelling his name with final &C." was
in congress fourteen years from Illinois,
finally becoming 10y his long experience
"the father of the house, He was after
ward the American minister to Paris dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war. His son,
Hampstead Washburne, is ambitious TO
come to congress from Chicago, where he
has held several important local offices.
Senator Allison, of Iowa. traces his de-
scent directly from the Allisons of Penn
sylvania. James Allison was member of
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth congresses.
His brother Robert was a member one
term and his son John two terms.
One of the most remarkable families OF
congressman this country has ever known
were the Holsters, of Pennsylvania. Dan
lei Hester. of Berks county, was mem
Der of the First, Second, Third and Fourth
congresses. He then removed to Maryland,
and was elected member of the Seventh
and Eighth congresses. His brother,
Joseph Hester, equipped a company from
his private fortune and joined the Revolu-
tionary army. lie was a member Of the
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh. Eighth, Ninth, Four
teenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth congresses,
and was afterward elected governor of
Pennsylvania. John Hester, Daniels
brother, was a member of the Tenth con-
Crcss. and his son Daniel succeeded him in
the Eleventh congress. William Hester,
a nephew Of John aud Daniel. was a mem
Der Of the Dwcnty-third and Twenty-fOurth
congresses. Williams son Isaac, who
changed the spelling OF his name TO HES
ter, was member Of the Thirty-third con.
grcss. making six Holsters in congress up
10 date
Senator Eugene Hale, Of Maine, comes