The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-05-31
Sketch OF Gresham's Csr.o,

Sketch of Gresham's Career.
waiter Quinton Gresham was Httls
more than sixty-three years old when
MS record as soldier iurist and states
man was closed by death. He was es-
sehtlally an lndianian, though of late
years claiming residence in Illinois
porn N Harrison county Indiana, March
H. 1862, and resolving all his early edu-
cation and legal training in that state.
ne abandoned prosperous law practice
ana membership in the state legisla.
ture In August, 1861, to throw his whole
energies into the prosecution of the war
lor the protection of the Union. His
gallant and cOnspicuously able services
Ia mat capacity secured him the strong
friendship of General Grant and the re-
spect OF his confederate opponents which
was frequently manifested in after life
Wounded at Atlanta.
He entered the service as lieutenant
colonel OF the SSth Indiana volunteer.
was breyeted. brigadier general for gal
lantry In the siege Of Vicksburg and rati-
ned as major general In the operations
before Atlanta, Ga, while commandinq
division in General Frank Blair's corps
he received wounds while charging At
the head of his brigade which put him
in the hospital for nearly year and to
considerable extent incapacitated him
up to the eud OF his life.
Declined a Pension.
He was awarded pension for this
disability but after he became secretary
OF state declined to receive it, although
the constant nd IN
ing from those injuries undoubtedlyaug-
mented the physical ailments which con
tributed to his death
APPOINTED District Judge
After the war closed he was brouahA
forward prominently as a political candi-
date. He ran for congress In the New
Albany, Ind, district in 1856 as a republi-
can aud was defeated. Then he was ap-
pointed financial agent of his state in
New York city, and while holding this
position was selected by President Grant
for appointment as United States dis
Irict judge in his native state.
Defeated by Harrison for Senator.
In 1880, when one of the customary
changes in the complexion OF the Indiana
Legislature made it possible to elect re-
publican to succeed Joseph Z. Mcdonald
to the United States senate, Judge
Gresham and Benjamin Harrison were
the leading candidates for the position,
and Mr.. Harrison secured the election.
As Postmaster General.
After the death of Garfield in 1882
Judge Gresham was rendered tho posi-
ton of postmaster general in President
Arthlr's reorganized cabinet and re-
signed his district judgeship to accept it.
When Secretary Folger died in 1884 az
ter his defeat as candidate for governor
OF New York by Grover Cleveland, Mr..
Gresham was transferred to the treasury
portfolio thus vacated.
Circuit Judge.
The duties of cabinet officer and the
exacting requirements involved in the
disposal of the patronage Of one of the
greatest executive departments Of the
government were not to his taste, and at
his own request President Arthur nomi-
mated him, after barely three months
service as secretary of the treasury, to
thei position of circuit Judge for the
seventh judicial circuit, which embraces
the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wis
consn. He retained this position until,
at Mr.. Cleveland's urgent personal re
quest, he joined Mr.. Cleveland's second
cabinet as secretary of state