The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25


Der of the class with Secretary Meyer
of the Navy. He is a graduate of Co
lumbia Law School, and has practiced
law at Worcester. where he resides.
William H. Wilder. Republican,
Fourth Massachusetts,, succeeds the
late CONGRESSMAN Tirrell. He is ma
tive of Maine, born in 1856, but went
to Massachusetts, in 1866, when he be-
came interested in manufacturing.
When 40 years old he took up the
study of law, as he needed it in his
business He was first admitted in the
courts of the District of Columbia,
where he has quite practice in patent
law, and maintains offices in the city
of Washington. He practices in the
circuit courts and before the Supreme
court.
Anderson in Tawney's Seat.
Sydney Anderson, First Minnesota,
IS the man who defeated James A
Tawney, chairman of the House COM
mittee on appropriations. He is only
80 years old, but a man of grit and te-
naclty of purpose, having worked his
way through law school and the Uni
versity of Minnesota, paying his ex-
in the Fourth Minnesota volunteers for
the Spanish war and finished his edu-
cation after he returned from that
service. He is lawyer, and has been
practicing at his home in Lanesboro
for five years. AS his name implies,
he is of Scandinavian origin, but a ma
tive of Minnesota. Anderson is an in
surgent Republican.
Theron E. Catlin, Eleventh Missouri
district, enjoys the rather strange po-
sition of being Republican who de-
feated a Democratic member. The
genial Patrick F. Gill went down in
the big Republican vote of st. Louis,
and young Catlin, Harvard graduate,
and who has been practicing law in ST.
Louis few years, was elected. Cat
/ a the
Missouri general assembly.
Leonidas c. Dyer (Republican) sue
| ceeds H. M. Coudrey. of the same
party, in the Twelfth Missouri district.
He is So years old and a lawyer. He
| is native of Missouri, and gained his
education while teaching school and
attending the Washington University at
st. Louis. He has been admitted to
practice in the courts of the District
| of Columbia, where he lived for few
sistant secretary in the treasury de-
partment. For a year or more he has
been assistant attorney in St. Louis and
made reputation as prosecutor of
several notorious criminals. He be-
longs to a dozen different organizations
of a benevolent character.
John j. Russell (Dem ocrat), Four
teenth Missouri. has been playing see
saw with Charles A. Crow (Repub-
| lican), whom he succeeds. Russell was
| in the Sixtieth Congress. and was de-
feated by Crow for the Sixty-frst.
Now he has defeated Crow for the
Sixty
Jefferson NJ. Levy defeated Herbert
Parsons in the Thirteenth New York
district, which he represented several
years ago. He is a Democrat and Par
sons a Republican. In the Fifty-sixth
| Congress Levy was very active, eSpe-
cially in opposition to the Nicaragua
Canal. He is graduate of the Uni
versity of New York, a lawyer, and
author of a law book. Mr.. Levy is the
| owner of the Jefferson home at Month
cello, Va, which he inherited from an
uncle, and which has been in the Levy
family since the death of Thomas JEFF
ferson.
Hamilton Fish Drops Out.
Richard E. Council, Democrat, who
succeeds Hamilton Fish. Republican,
in the Twenty first New York district,
| is one of the several newspapermen
/ elected to the new House He also has
the unique distinction of being grad
uated trained nurse. His father vas
dead before he was born, and at the
age of IA he had to leave school to
support his mother. He adopted the
trade of carriage painter. but broken in
health he had to abandon it, and he
became an attendant at the Hudson
River State Hospital, where he learned
to be trained nurse. Then he was a
reporter upon the POughkeepSie News,
and is now editor of that paper.
Theron Aikon. Democl at, who de-
feated Cyrus Durey in tie Twenty-fifth
New York district, is one of the sur
prises of the late campaign, as Durey
years ago. Akin is doctor, and
never held any public office, save presi-
dent of the village council, which bears
| his name Once he set his automobile
square across the track of trolley,
and with a garden hose held up the
whole line He was after his rights,
which he subsequently, acquired.
| Charles M Stedman. Democrat,
| Fifth North Carolina, is the successor
of J. M Morehead, Republican. He is
/ the only Confederate soldier in the
North Carolina delegation. He has a
fine war record, beginning at Bethel
and ending at Appomattox, being
wounded in the Wild erness at Spottsyl-
vania, and Squirrel Level road. He
! was born in 1S41, and is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina. At
| ter the war he engaged in the practice
of law He has been lieutenant gov
ernor of his state and delegate to the
national conventions.
James M. Gudger, jr.. Tenth North
Carolina, who succeeds John G. Grant
Republican, is one of the men who
can come back" He was a member
of congress in the F'ifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth terms. He is native of
North Carolina and lawyer.
The Fourth Ohio district keeps up
its reputation for odd names. William
Tou Velle is succeeded by ]. Henry
Cooke of Wapakoneta. Both are
democrats Like nearly all the men
| elected to congress, Mr. Cooke is a
lawyer He has been city solicitor and
prosecuting attorney of Auglaize coun-
/ ty.
Ex-Speaker Keller Retires.
/ The man who succeeds General j.
Warren Keifer, in the Seventh Ohio
district, is J. D. Post. He is a Demo-