St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-03-11
SUBSCRIPTION, $3.50 A YEAR.

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til 1872, when he removed to Mont
gomery, his present home. His first
important political Office was that Of
congressman, and he has served as a
member of the Forty-ifth, Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty
ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty
second Congresses. Mr.. Herbert is a
widower. His family consists of a
married daughter, an unmarried daugh-
ter and son at school.
| HoKE SMITH,
secretary of the interior, was born 3S
years ago in North Carolina He re-
moved to Georgia with his parents,
and after receiving his education in
the Atlanta schools became the prin-
cipal of the girls high school. While
instructing pupils there he studied
law and was admitted to the bar in
| 1876. In the practice of his profession
he was frequently retained in suits
against railroads, and for years he has
been known as fearless enemy of
grasping corporations. Having made
fortune out of his practice, Mr.. Smith
purchased the Atlanta Journal and
made it one Of the leading daily news
papers of the South.
He is known as the Original Cleve-
land man from Georgia." having es-
poused the presidents cause when he
had need of friends in that state His
most recent political feat was to trans
form the Georgia delegations to the
presidential convention at gChicago
from Hill to Cleveland delegation.
He is over 6 feet tall and weighs 260
pounds. He was originally named
| Machael Hoke Smith, but early in life
he dropped the Michael and signed
| himself Hoke Smith. Mr.. Smith has
beautiful wife and three children.
WILSON SHANNON BIssELL,
postmaster general, is physically the
biggest man in the cabinet, with the
possible exception of Mr.. Smith, but
he is fully as we'll equipped with brain
as he is with brawn. Mr.. Bissell has
long been known as "Bosom Friend"
Bissell Eecause of his nearness to Mr..
Cleveland and because of the fact that
he was for some time the presidents
law partner at Buffalo. He was born
in Oneida county, N. Y, 46 years ago
and is graduate of Yale. He studied
law at Buffalo with A. P. Laning, who
later formed partnership with Grover
Cleveland and Oscar Folsom. In 1872
Mr.. Bissell was admitted to the bar
and soon became partner in the firm
of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell, composed
of Lyman K Bass, Grover Cleveland
and Wilson S. Bissell.
In very few years Mr.. Bissell be-
came a well known railroad lawyer.
| Mr. Cleveland and Mr.. Bissell were
very intimate friends in Buffalo. They
occupied apartments in the same build
ing, and when Mr.. Cleveland was mar
ried Mr. Bissell officiated as best man.
| Mrs. Bissell was Miss Louise Fowler
Struges of Geneva, N. Y, before her
marriage about three years ago to
Bachelor Bissell, and the couple have
a little girl named Margaret, who was
born a few days before baby Ruth
Cleveland.
| RICHARD oLNEY,
attorney attorney, is one of the best
known corporation lawyers in New
England, and for several years he has
been attorney for the Boston and
Maine railroad. He is well known
Boston Democrat and a man of large
wealth. His income from his practice
is said to be $4,000 a year. His win
ter residence is in the fashionable part
of Boston, and he has summer place
near Gray Gables oh BuZzard's bay,
where he has been the friend and COM
panion of President Cleveland. Mr..
Olney has twice refused the proffer of
seat on the supreme bench of Massa-
chusetts. One year, merely to oblige
his party friends, he accepted the
Democratic nomination for attorney
general, but was defeated. The only
time he ever bolted the Democratic
ticket was when General Butler ran
for governor.
j. STERLING MORTON,
secretary of agriculture, was born at
Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y, April
%, 1892 He was graduated from
Union college. Removing to Nebras-
ka. he became the editor of the Ne
braska City News, was twice elected to
the territorial legislature and in 1858
became the acting governor. He ran
three times for governor of the state,
but was defeated. For years he has
devoted himself to the cultivation of
trees and the preservation Of forests.
He is the father of what is known as
Arbor Day. His wife died II years
ago, but he has four bright sons-Paul,
who receives $4,000 a year as vice.
president of a big coal company at
Chicago; Joy, Mark and Carl. Each
one of the young men has already been
very successful in some branch of bust