The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-26
william mckinley.

William Mckinley comes OF q sturdy
Scotch.Irish ancestry, and Was born on
January Goth, 1s4S. at Miles, in Trum.
bull county, Ohio. He was educated
at the public schools and at the Poland
Academy. The wal of secession inter
rupted his plans and ambitions, aud IN
May 1861, he enlisted. He was but
three months past his seventeenth
birthday when mustered in as a private
in the Twenty.third Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. of which General Rosecrans
was then Colonel, and which General
Rutherford b. Hayes a little later COM
manded. The boy became a corporal,
and thence, by regular promotion
through the several grades, a captain.
He was brevetted Major by President
Lincoln for gallant and meritorious SER
vices at the battles of opequan, Fish
er's Hill and Cedar Creek. He served
on the staff of General Hayes, Major
General George Crook and Major Gem
eral Hancock. He was with the Twen-
ty.third in all its battles, and was mus
tered out with it on July 10th, 1850.
AT the close Of the war Major Nc
Kinley returned to Ohio. At twenty
n he found himself without a pro-
fession, and he took to the study OF law.
He was elected to Congress in 1915.
When General Garfield was nominated
for the Presidency Mr.. Mckinley was
assigned to the Committee on Ways
and Means in his place. La 1852 ne
was a candidate for Speaker OF the
House. but was beaten by Thomas b.
Reed. who appointed him chairman OF
the WAYS and Means Committee. The
task fell to him to become the leaaer
in framing a new tariff law in 1890,
which was designated by his name and
gave him fame,
That year the people uprose against
the law and Mckinley was defeated for
Congress. In 1891 lie was elected Gov
erpor of Ohio and reelected in 1898.
GARRET A. HOBART.
MI, Hobart was born at Long Branch
in 1874. He took his college degree at
Rutgers before he wa twenty. His
preceptor in legal study was the late
Socrates futile, of Paterson, whose
daughter Mr.. Hobart afterwards mar
Iied.
In 1866 he wal admitted to the bar,
and in 1871 was chosen City Counsel of
Paterson, In 1872 be was elected to
tile Assembly. and was re elected. He
was chosen Speaker on his second cleo
ton.
In ISL Mr.. Hobart entered the State
Senate, and was twice reelected. The
Senate also chose Mr.. Hobart as its pre-
siding officer until he declined re-elec-
ton. Iu1SS4 he was the nominee OF
the Republican caucus for United
States Senator.
Mr.. Hobart has always been an earn
! est, active and influential party work
er. Up to a few years ago lie served
continuously as chairman of the Repub-
I.can State Committee. In 1884 he
was made a member Of the National
Committee and has been siLce.
The character of Mr.. ilobart's busl-
ness career may be judged somewhat
from the positions which he has held.
lie has been receiver Of a number OF
railroad companies, including the New
Jersey Midland, the Montclair road
and the Jersey City and Albany line,
and of the First National Bank OF
Newark. lie is now President of the
Passaie Water Company, the Paterson
Railway Company, and all It's allied
lines, the Morris County Railroad and
the Peoples Gas Company. lie is dr.
rector of a number Of the leading banks
and saving institutions in the State,
and Of the New York, Susquehanna
and Western, the Lehigh and Hudson
River, and other railroads, the Edison
Electric Illuminating Company and
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