The critic., 1891-03-02
MEN OF PROMINENCE.
GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME
NOTED MEN
In the Senate and House OF Representa-
tives-Senators Squire, Sawyer AMI
wolcott; Representatives Townsend,
Smith, Formau and Qujun,


Senator Squire comes from the famous
town of Seattle, Washington. Hon. Wat.
son G.. Squire was born in New York in
1885, graduated from the Wesleyan Uni
versty of Connecticut in 1859; was presi-
dent of the Moravia Institute ut Moravia,
n. y; was member of Company f,
Nineteenth New York Infantry in 1861,
known as three months" men; was mus.
tered out after five months service; read
law and was admitted to practice before
the Ohio Supreme Court in 1862.
He raised a company of sharpshooters,
of which he was captain; crossed into
Dixie; took an active part at Chicamau-
gua around Chattanooga; was at Nash
Vile and at Resaca, Ga Senator Squire
was promoted three times FOR gallantry
in the field and was made Judge-Adyo-
cate of the District of Tennessee, with
headquarters at Nashville. (The writer's
home was at Murfrcesboro, thirty miles
| dstant.
Senator Squire was for thirteen years
| with the Remington Arms Company, Gil
| gagged in the study of breech-loading arms,
Of which company he became manager.
| He represented the company in New York
and made contracts in the principal cities
| of Europe for the company. In 1876 Sena-
tor Squire purchased large interests in
Washington Territory, and located at
| Seattle in 1870; was appointed Governor of
| the Territory on July ., 1891, three years
| in Office.
During the anti-Chinese riots he distin-
guished himself by his course as Execu-
| tive.
He was prominent advocate, and con-
| tributed largely to the admission of WASH
| ington as a State.
Was elected to the United States Senate
as Republican in 1885, under the provis-
ions of the act Of Congress admitting
Washington Territory and other Statcs
into the Union. His life has been full of
adventures, and crowned with success.
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Senator Sawyer has one of the hand
soonest residences in Washington, at 17Ol
Connecticut avenue, and is one of the
wcalthiest men in the United States
Senate. His home Is at Oshkosh, Wis.
He was born in 1916 in Vermont, remov-
| ing with his father to New York the fol-
lowing year. In 1917 he went to Wis
consiD and engaged in thelumber business;
was member Of the General Assembly
| in that State in 1S57-Gi.
In 1861 he was Mayor of that city;
was delegate to the Republican National
| Convention ut Baltimore in 1864, and at
| Cincinnati in 1866 and in 1880 to the one
| held in Chicago In the Thirty-ninth,
| FOrtieth, Forty-iirst Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses, was member of
| the Lower House.
Was elected to the United States Senate
as Republican to succeed Hon. Angus
| Cameron and took his seat on March 1.
1881. Was reelected in 1887. Senator
| Sawyer owns extensive properties all over
the West, and is largely interested in
some gold mines in Maryland. He is n
| typical Western man, but Is full of gencr-
| osity and has lent many helping hand
| to young men who would have fallen by
the waysidc in the struggle of life.
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Edward Oliver Wolcott, Colorado.
Senators Wolcott, Teller, Stewart and
Stanford are immensely popular with the
Democrats. The Western men are grand.
| They are as broad and liberal in their
| ideas and as far reaching as their vast
| prairies across which the winds sweep all
day long. These men have gone out
West in their early youth and have been
| prominent factors in the development of
that magnificent country. They have
amassed large fortunes and occupy high
| positions.
senator wolcott of Denver City is
native of Massachusetts; was born in Long
Meadow on the 2Gth of March, 1916.
| He was private soldier in the volun-
teers, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio,
for short time in 1861.
In 1866 he attended Yale College. He
| graduated from the Harvard Law School
| in 1871 and moved out to Colorado, where
| he has an extensive and lucrative prac-
tice. Senator Wolcott stands at the head
| ofthe Denver Bar He is alert, shrewd,
individual and aggressive. Was elected to
| the Senate in 1889.
| Hon. Hosea Townsend, Representative
at-Large, Colorado.
| There is not finer or more aristocratic-
looking member in the House than the
| Colorado Representative. His home is at
Silver Cliff. He was born in Huron
| County Ohio on June l6, 1910. He en-
| tered the Western Reserve College in Ohio
in 1860; left college and entered the Fed
eral Army, in Second Ohio Cavalry, in
1861; was promoted for gallantry, but re-
signed bis position on account of disability.
He applied himself to the study of law,
and was admitted to the Bar in Cleveland,
gagged in the practice in that city, and was
elected as Republican to the Tennessee
Legislature in 1860. Ten years later he re-
moved to Colorado; was elected to the
Fifty.irst Congress as a Republican by
5000, against 37,725 for his Democratic
| opponent.
| ~
| Hon. George w. Smith. Twentieth
| District, Illinois.
| Representative Smith is man of fine
personal appearance. He,is native of
Putnam County, Ohio, having been born
on the 18th Of August, 1916. His father
! removed to Wayne County, H., in 1850.
He graduated from the literary depart
| nj nf Mo anlraa (n11a,,a NJ \ oh
H., in 1865 and from the law department
of the University of Bloomfield, Ind, in
1870, and was admitted to the practice be-
fore the Supreme Court of Illinois the
ssme year, since which time he has
achieved great prominence at the Bar.
He was the Republican elector for his
| Congressional district and cast the vote
Of the district for Garfield and Arthur.
lie was elected to the Fifty-first Congress
by 1900 votes against H. 1856 votes for his
| opponent, Mr.. Robinson, Union Labor
and Democratic candidate.
There is something particularly striking
in his personal appearance.
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Hon. william s. Forman, Eighteenth
District, Illinois.
Hon. William $. Formap of Nashville
H., was born in Natchez, Miss, on Janu-
ary 20, 1s47, In 1851 his father removed
to Illinois, where he has since resided.
Mr.. Forman is one of the ablest lawyers
in the section where he lives. He was
member of the State Senate in the Thirty
| fourth and Thirty-iifth General Assem-
| blios. He is straightout Democrat and
was elected on that ticket to the F'ifty-frst
Congress, receiving twenty-six votes over
his Republican opponent.
| Congressman Forman Is quiet and
gentlemanly in dress and manner, re-
sponsive and sympathetic, and has one of
the plcasantest faces you ever saw.
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Hon. John Quinn, Eleventh District Of
| New York.
Representative Quinn of New York City
oyerilows with brilliant wttcsms and
perpetual good humor. He was born on
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