Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
FIVE POPULAR CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
The Democratic Lightning Will Strike One Of Them if il
Doesn't Bring Down Dark Horse.

pletes the family, and as they gather about
the wood-fre in the study or cluster IN the
drawing room, they comprise a group which
might divert the mind of any man from
politics and implant that spirit of happiness
and contentment which is the ruling char
.acteristic of the place. His sons are ) ere
miah s., leader in athletics and scholar
ship at Princeton College; Dawson, who has
recently entered the Farquhar Shops, at
York, preparatory to mechanical and
scientific career, and ChaunceY F., Jr., who,
with his books. is acquiring a rudimentary
education under the watchful care Of his
father and mother.
Chauucey Forward Black. is descended
from famous ancestry. His grandfather,
Henry Black, served the public as mem
Der OF the Legislature, an Associate Judge
and in Congress, and in each field he left
record for ability and integrity that is price
less heritage. His father, the late Judge } ere
miah s. Black, left = record which to the
end of time will adorn the pages of history
and lend luster to the period in which he was
an actor on the stage of life. His maternal
ancestors were the Forwards, his grandfather
being ChaunceY Forward, man of distin-
guished, ability and brother of President
Tyler's Secretary of the Treasury, Walter
Forward. Both families resided in Somerset
county, WQere A0du0c6N fOIhdIO DAStSh vas
born on November "a, 1889.
Mr.. Blacks education was obtained in
various institutions Under the direction
of his distinguished father and within the
watchful care of his loving and pious
mother, he attended select schools in his
childhood at Somerset, and subsequently
spent some time at the academy in that
town, the college at Hiram, o., where the
late President Garfield was tutor, at the
Monongahela Academy, Morgantown, w.
vs., and at Jefferson College, at Canons-
burg. Washington county, Pa. He began
the study of law in the Office of the late
Edwin NJ. Stanton, the special counsel for
the Government under Attorney General
Jeremiah S. Black, and afterward the great
Secretary of War during the War of the
Rebellion. After one year spent in Mr..
Stanton's Office he went to Fayette county,
where he was admitted to the bar.
But his tastes were in another direction.
During his residence at Uniontown he be-
gan writing for the county paper, and de-
yejoped. not onIy remarkable ability but
wonderful facility in this line of labor, and
after contributing to various journals and
periodicals he became an editorial writer on
the New York Sun in 1873, relation
which he maintained until in 1882, when he
was elected Lieutenant Governor of the
State.
Mr. Black has always had fondness for
politics, and even before he had reached the
age of majority had won a widespread repu-
taIion as political writer. For many
years he had been an attendant at State con-
ventions and aided in the drafting of plat
forms and the framing of party doctrines.
In 1879 he was a delegate to the State Con-
vention, and in 1880 was one of the dele
gates from the Nineteenth Congress district
of the State to the Presidential Convention
which nominated General Hancock for Pres
ident. He voted on the first ballot for his
personal friend, Justice Stephen j. Field,
but on the second Joined with the other
members of the Pennsylvania delegation in
support of Hancock.
His election to the office of Lieutenant
Governor in 1882 opened up for him new
6eld of usefufaess aud be had displayed
such ability in the Office that at the expira-
ton of his term he was made the candidate,
without his own effort or even suggestion, of
a large proportion of the party for the Chief
Executive Office of the State, and was nomi-