The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-19


torney for Mason county, and served
two terms in the legislature.
! ALFRED MILNES.
The third Michigan district, so long
represented by Julius Caesar Burrows
of Kalamazoo, is represented by Alfred
Mines, who was elected lieutenant gov
ernor of the State, and as such presided
over the deliberations of the State SEN
ate last winter He was elected to.
congress last spring 20 succeed MIR. Bur
rows, whom the legislature promoted to,
the senate, 10 succeed ad interim Sena-
tor John Patton, Jr, the latter appointed
by Governor Rich to succeed Senator
Stockbridge, deceased. Mr.. Mines is
an Englishman, and, with his parents.
came to this country in 1854 to join the
Mormon colony in Salt Lake City. the
Old folks having become converts to the
Brigham Young doctrines of salvation.
The old folks, however, did not adopt
the polygamy end of the faith, and after
few years residence in Utah came east
ana eventually landed in Michigan, and
located at Coldwater. where the son still
hyes, engaged in trade and grown
wealthy. Mr. Mines has served sew
eral terms in the State legislature, and,
while. he is not an orator. he is a sub
stantlal business man IN business way.
He served through the war with the
OLD Stonewall regiment, the seventeenth
Michigan, and was in every battle par
ticlpated in by that regiment, from that
of South Mountain. in 1862, to the sur
render at AppomattoX. He has always
been Republican.
II. G, SHOWER.
Mr.. Horace G.. Shower represents the
Seventh Michigan district and is a law
yer and educator He was born in,
Macomb county. in Michigan, and re-
ceived his education in public schools
and Dickinson Institute, at Romeo. He
was sent to the University of Michigan.
however, TO complete his studies, and
graduated in the literary and classical
course in 1860. Two years later he.
graduated from the law department and
was admitted to the bar He was prin-
cipal OF the public schools of Port Aus
Tin, Mich, and was probate judge Of
Huron county. He has been engaged
III the practice of law at Port Austin for
many years, and is known and highly es-.
teemed in legal circles throughout the.
State. He has not abated the interest
in literature and the classics which he
took in his early youth, and is man OF
extensive reading and of culture.
VIM. A. SMITH.
, Mr. William Alden Smith of the.
Fifth Michigan district began his
first, public, services as a page.
in the Michigan house of represent
tatives in 1879. Three years later he
: came to the front again as assistant secre-
tary of the Michigan State senate Then
he studied law and was admitted to the.
bar in 1888. About this time he began
to take active part in politics, his interest
being whetted by his own experience with
the legislators Of his own State. He was
u member of the Republican State CEN
tral committee in 1888, 1890 and 1892,
and built up a large acquaintance among
the political leaders of his State. So pop
ular was Mr.. Smith that his candidacy
for congress in 1894 resulted in his cleo
ton by plurality Of 0765 and n majority
over all of 5S15. Mr.. Smith has just
turned 80, is ambitious and energetic, and
his friends in Michigan pfophesied when
he was elected that he would come rap
idly to the front when he reached con-
gress.
DIR. ]. u. HUBBARD.
DR.. Joel ID. Hubbard, the man who beat
Bland in the Eighth Missouri district.
was one of those who got surprised into
congress during the recent landslide. He
was born in 1860, graduated in medicine
in 1888. He gave up medicine to go to
railr0ading, and, as his biographer says,
returned after a time to the practice OF
medicine and succeeded admirably" He
has served through two or three terms
as county clerk, and has been president of
the Morgan County bank and at present
Is the editor of the Statesman. His cleo.
ton to congress was no less a surprise
to him than to anyone else. He took the
nomination to fill out the ticket, all other
prominent Republicans having declined
TO make the hopeless" race against
Bland.
GEO. @. CROWTHER.
The Fourth Missouri district is repre-
sented by a printer, George G. Crowther
of St. Joseph. When he was 10 years old
he quit the public school to become o.
printers apprentice, and continued in the.
printing Office until he had mastered his
trade. During the war he served In the.
Federal army After that he went to,
Kansas and engaged in newspaper work.
continuing this line Of labor until 1873.
In January, 1869, he was elected secretary
of the Kansas State senate, and was re-
elected in 1871 and 1873. From 1876
to 1856 he was engaged on newspapers
and in the printing business, and in 1887
was appointed deputy sheriff of buchanan
county, Missouri; in 1883 was elected city
treasurer of st. Joseph. and re-electeda
in 1890. He was unanimously nominal
ted in 1892 by the Republican congress
HlOUul tOlNfnllOn VI TIE EOuTtH ulHlTlctss
but was defeated. He was elected to the.
Fifty-fourth congress as Republican.
CHAS. G. BURTONs
Charles G. Burton of Missouri, Eff
tenth district, is represented as a free
silver man. He is lawyer of high stand
ing, has been circuit judge and is very
active in politics. He has been frequently
mentioned in connection with the nomi--
nation for governor, and it Is said that "
the Republicans hold Missouri he will
have q career before him. Ohio il biz
native State, and he is As years of age.
He has military record and has long
been active in politics. In 1861 he en-
tered the army, was discharged on ac-
count of disability and re-entered the SER
vice for the ''hundred-day campaign" in
1854 Two years after the war he was
admitted to the bar and began the prac.
| tice Of law. In 1868 he located In Mir
souri,. Afterwards he lived In Kansat
for a short while and then returned To-
! Missouri
w. s. KNOX.
| w. s. Knox, Mr.. Stevens successor
! from the fifth Massachusetts, was borns
in Connecticut in 1913 and has lived ins
| Lawrence, Mass, since he was nine years;
old. Since 1866 he has practiced law
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