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BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES

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INTRODUCTORY.

For the gratification of commendable curiosity on the part of
the public, the Sentinel recently published an eight page supple-
ment containing short sketches of the members of the General
Assembly. That enterprise met with such general favor as lo
warrant the thorough revision of those sketches and their repro-
duction under cover, together with the members of the Executive
and Judicial departments of the State Government of Indiana,
outgoing and incoming. The preparation of these sketches for
publication was beset with obstacles not easily surmounted. Some
most meritorious subjects were sketched but briefly because the
necessary data was not accessable. So far as they go, however,
all may be regarded as reliable. It has been the purpose of the
publishers to be impartial and non-partisan, giving each subject
sketched the full benefit of all the material at hand,!

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THOMAS A. HENDEICKS,

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF INDIANA.

To write the history of the political and public life ot
Governor Hendricks would require a book. It should not
be attempted here and now, for another reason, viz : That
he is yet in the middle of his public career and the proper
time has not arrived to comment upon it. A mere outline
of the facts on this point may be given as follows : Pro-
fessionally, a lawyer, and a successful one ; he was in the
Indiana Legislature from 1845 to 1849, an active member
of the Constitutional Convention of 1850 from Shelby
county, twice elected to Congress, in 1851 and the succeed-
ing term, in 1855 appointed Commissioner of the General
Land Office by President Pierce, which position he held
four years, in 1863 chosen to the Senate of the United
States, and in 1872, against his wishes, elected Governor
of the State of Indiana for the term ending January 13
1877. Within this condensed summary is contained a
political history of great activity, and a brilliance which
attracts national attention. There are exciting campaigns,
years of service, memorable acts and speeches which
together mark the man as one of the foremost living states-
men. As such, he is looked upon in the present and
counted on for the future by a people whose confidence
and affection, also, he enjoys in the highest degree. Gov
Hendricks is altogether an Indiana citizen. Born, it is
true, in Ohio, Muskingum county, September 7, 1819
before the end of his first year his father and mother had
come into the Hoosier State, and his first step in life was
probably made within the present city of Indianapolis.
The family went to Shelby county in 1822 and assaulted

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nature in her fortresses yet unimproved, It was a rougt
fight, but liealthtul to character. The Governor made the
most of the common schools, and pursued his studies
further in a college of his own State at Hanover, Jeffeason
county, which is now proud of her eminent son. Only
once he left the State in search of learning, and that was
to complete a course of law study with a near relation at
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. This done, he retuned to
his life work in his own State. So tenacious is he of util-
izing and relying on home resources, that lately in seek-
ing a head officer for the Purdue University, he set his face
steadily against going outside of Indiana.

The magnetic charm of Gov. Hendricks lies in his per-
sonal character. All men and women and children, too,
are attracted to his presence. In his society political pre-
judice and partisan hostility are inevitably destroyed. They
flee away before the genial influence of cordiality, good
nature and engaging conversation. Although he always
maintains a genteel dignity, the humble,timid, and con-
sciously uncultured, find ease in his society and pleasure
at his presence. No man of the people feels restraint in
approaching him the second time. He is the life of an
excursion party, a reception, or a good time where " two
or three are met together." Temperate, sprightly, witty,
need it be said that the ladies find in him a companion for
travel or the social circle worthy their refined tastes and
agreeable at all times. In his disposition, the Governor is
by nature conservative. He clings to the old and distrusts
the new. Consulting his feelings rather than judgment,
he would be inclined to discourage chaDges and innova-
tions. This comes of nature and is indicative of strong
home influences extending back in the family. But they
err most egregiously who, not studying him personally,

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asstiTne that the Governor is non -combative, timid, or
vacillating. He is cautious, but if arou3ed, the impulses of
his nature rise to absolute fury. This fact is none the less
real, because his strong judgment and will restrain rash
demonstrations. It is unnecessary to say that the
subject is of handsome face and figure. Most people know
that. His manner of speech in private and public is
enchanting, and on the political rostrum he is clear, sharp
and statesmanlike in stylo. He is exceedingly happy in
short addresses on miscellaneous occasions, having a habit
not universally known, of being carefully prepared, when
it is supposed the speech is strictly impromptu. One
point more must not be omitted in this inadequate sketch.
That is the staunch devotion of G-ov. Hendricks to the pub-
lic schools of Indiana. On these he builds all expecta-
tions of a worthy citizenship and a prosperous State.
Intelligent himself in spite of the adversities of a pioneer
history, he demands education for the people and insists
upon it everywhere, and at all times. It is not, therefore,
unworthy for Indiana to be proud of her own rearing,
when her greatest son is known still more widely for his
integrity, purity and intrinsic goodness.

LEONIDAS SEXTON,

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,

Is a native of Rushville, this State, having been born there
May 19th, 1827. His father was born in Massachusetts,
his mother in North Carolina, and they moved to Indiana
in 1821. Mr. Sexton has lived at Rushville all his life,
with the exception of a brief period of time spent at

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school. He graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1846, and then he read Idw in the office of the
Hon. A. W. Hubbard, late member of Congress for three
terms, from the sixth Iowa district, but now engaged in
banking at Sioux city, in that State. In politics Mr. Sexton
was a Whig until the organization of the Republican party.
The first vote he ever cast was for President Taylor which
was on the second Tuesday of November, 1848. Immediate-
ly afterward, on the same day, he took a state room on a
palatial boat on the White Water canal, enroute to Cincin-
nati to attend law lectures by Messrs. Groesbeck and Til-
ford, the former a prominent politician and eminent
jurist, yet living, the latter, then his partner, now deceased,
having acquired the necessary legal lore for a beginning,
he returned to Eushville and entered upon the practice of
his profession, and he has continued to be so engaged ever
since then except when in public life. In 1856, he was a
candidate for Legislative honors, his opponent being
Samuel McBride, Esq. A contest case which lasted all
through the session and never was settled, was the result
and Eush was not represented in the law-making branch
of the government during all that time, yet both contes- <
tants drew their pay as regular members. Such cases
were then very rare and served to spice the sessions which
otherwise might have been monotonous.

In 1872, his friends, without his knowledge and consent
in State convention, entered him for the race for the Lieuten-
ant Governorship, and the peoj^le. at large, elected him.
By virtue of that call and election, he is now the incum-
bent of that office and as such. President of the Senate.
As a lawyer, he has a high standing in his section of the
State, and indeed, throughout the State, and has a host of
friends at the bar, and among the people. In fact, he pos-

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seeses all the elements of personal popularity. At homd
f.nd abroad, he is uniformly kind and generous to the poor.
Law students are always anxious to read for the pro-
lession in his office. Unlike most members of the bar,
he is particularly delighted to assist and advance all worthy
young men who show a disposition to help themselves.
He never discourages anybody when seeking to step
higher upon the ladder of life.

He possesses quick perceptive power, amounting almost
to intuition, and at the same time is cool and collected,
qualities that peculiarly fit him for wielding the gavel
over a deliberative bodv.

JOHN ENOS NEFF,

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SECRETARY OF STATE — INCOMING.

The young and brilliant incumbent of the Secretary of
State's office comes down from the tip-top of Indiana.
That is to say, he is a native of Winchester, Randolph
county, which is the highest land in the State. His parents,
the father from Ohio and the mother from Pennsylvania,
are Scotch-Irish and German by descent and the family
hold a leading position in Randolph county. Mr. Neffs
father was the first treasurer of the county, and also a
quartermaster with the rank of captain, in the Mexican
war. The son is a bright and successful lawyer, having
like the State Auditor, laid the foundations of his educa-
tion at the State University of Bloomington. , That Mr.
Nefif possesses the abilities of a successful politician is
strongly assured by his achievements already made. Born
Oct. 26, 1846, he was less than 29 years old when elected

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to his present important office. Two years earlier he was
a candidate for Congress in the then Ninth District in com-
petion with the Hon. J. P. C. Shanks, and received, beyond
doubt, a majority of the votes. But the contest was so
close that Mr, Shanks, a Republican, had the advantage in
Congress, to which the decision was referred by Gov. Baker,
and held his seat. In the last campaign upon the stump,
Mr Neff was a full match for Mr. Curry, his antagonist,
who was the champion debater of his party. They met
before the same assemblies, and the popular judgment sus-
tained this view. Mr. Neff possesses the elements of pop-
ularity in a high degree in personal intercourse, is shrewd
and discreet in all his movements and very effective as a
political orator. Perhaps the only objection that can be
laid at his door is the circumstance that he is still unmar-
ried, thus setting before the young men of the State, a bad
example in high places. But as it is not yet too late, it is
to be hoped that this mistake will be speedily remedied.

WILLIAM W. CURRY,

SECRETARY OF STATE — OUTGOING,

Was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 15th, 1824i
His genealogy is American on both sides so far back as he
can trace his ancestry. All the education he was able to
acquire was through the medium of the common schools.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a cabintet maker
and served five years. When twenty-one he entered the
ministry of the Universalist Church, since which time he
hafi had charge of congregations in Columbus, Dan-
ville, New Albany, Logansport and Terre Haute. For

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several years past, however, he has divided bis time
between the pulpit and the stump. In 1864 be made a
spirited canvass for Congress in the New Albany district,
but in as much as he had a most popular opponent, (Mr.
Kerr), both politically and personally, and an overwhelm*
ing majority to overcome, it is hardly necessary to add
that he did not go to Congress on that occasion. There is
no doubt that he came nearer going than any one else of
his political principles could have gone. In 1868 he was
made a member of the Boad of Directors of the State
Prison South and served four years. He was elected
Secretary of State in 1872, from which position he recently
retired with the well earned plaudits of all parties. Gov-
ernor Hendricks complimented him highly in his message.
He was ably assisted in his official duties by his daughter,
Miss Cory Curry. Mr. Curry is universally recognized as
one of the most ready debaters and able stump orators in
Indiana. Very few have the hardihood to meet him in
joint canvass. He has a way of arranging statistics and
raining them down upon an opponent like shots from a
Gatling gun. His sallies and repartees usually arouse an
opponent to manifest displeasure, in which respect Mr.
Curry is not wholly unlike the gods who first make mad
whom they would destroy. He is a stauch Republican and
an ardent advocate of temperance and morality. Though
he is now out of office he is still a citizen of Indianapolis.

EBENEZER HENDERSON,

AUDITOR OF STATE — INCOMING.

Mr. Henderson is not the traditional self-made man. He
had a good start, and it is as much to his credit, and posai-

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-bly more so, that a good fortune inherited from his parents,
did not make a fool of him as it would have been to have
-climbed out of poverty by hard work. Both results
prove that a man is made of good material. He was born
in Morgan county, where his elegant home, property and
•business interests still remain. The date was June 2, 1833,
-and h^ is consequently 42 years old, in the flower and
•vigor of manhood. He is the only child of parents who
eame from Kentucky to this State in 1831. He is also a
SDn, but not the only son, by some hundreds, of the State
-University at Bloomington. There is a fitness in this cir-
■.cumstance, that the State fitted him for her own service.
Being possessed of a handsome estate from his father, it
was both natural and wise that Mr. Henderson should give
that his attention instead of running off to a profession
because he was fitted for it by native talent and education.
Happy will it be for Indiana when more of her well edu-
cated sons shall devote their energies to industry, and
-crown labor with intelligence and mental culture. Besides
farming on a large scale, Mr. Henderson has given a great
deal of attention to dealing in stock, and is one of the
leading pork packers of the State. His own county hon-
ored him in 1860 with the custody of her funds as Treasu-
rer, which duty he discharged faithfully one term. In
1868 he was a member of the State Senate, and one of its ,
active workers. He is a shrewd and effective manipulator!
of the political tides and currents and makes a sure thing
of what he undertakes. In his late campaign he was the
nominee of both the Independents and the Democrats, and
was strongly supported by both parties. He possesses in
a large degree, the elements of personal popularity, especi-
ally among the body of the working people. He brings to
the duties of his important office as Auditor of State, a

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wide and extended bnsineBS experience, a clear record of
integrity and great energy ; in short all the elements which
guarantee success and honorable service for the State.

JAMBS A. WILDMAN,

AUDITOR OF STATE — OTTTGOINO,

Every inch of Mr. Wildman, and there are about ser-
enty-five of them in the clear, is Hoosier. He was born
in the State, grew up on the Indiana plan, not of finance,
but of hard, honest labor, and he represents in his charac-
ter and style the true Western man. A gentleman in
every sense, he acts on the rule, without any exception, to
treat every other man as a gentleman. This habit, united
with a genial and cordial temper, has made him as popu-
lar with the people as a man can well become. The people
like Mr. Wildman, for he is one of them. No elevation of
official position can make him forget the days of manual
labor, or divorce his sympathies from that class among
whom his career began. He is a native of Jefferson
county, born May 22, 1834, of American parentage, and
received his education in his own county,, beginning on
the puncheon-floor of the common school house, and fin-
ishing off at Hanover College. He spent a couple of years'
in Iowa, 1855-6, and then came back and set his stake in •
Howard county, when Kokomo was a crude and muddy
town. He has seen a wagon with one milk can mire down
in front of his own door ; helped to lay the first flat stonei
sidewalk, put some monej' in every one of her churches, •
built or helped build her fine school, and in short been a':
part and parcel of that now thrifty and bright city.

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Twice elected County Auditor, he developed in that office
the qualities which the event has proved fitted him so well
to oversee the financial economy of the State. In 1868 he
represented his county in the Legislature, and in 1869 was
made Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, in which fraternity he stands among the first. H©
leaves the office of State Auditor with the unqualified
approbation of all, irrespective of party. Mr. Wildman is
a staunch Eepublican, always working squarely in the
traces, but committed to a fair fight, and in public service
treating all alike impartially as citizens of equal rights.
In a campaign he is not by any means negligent of politi-
cal tactics, and as a hand-shaker he has few equals and no
superior. It is not time yet to sum up his public service
for he is always conspicuous in a crowd, and may get hit
again. Indeed, it will be strange if he does not. But
whether in public service or in private lite, he will honor
the State which claims him, and never lack a host of
friends.

BENJAMIN C. SHAW,

TREASURER OF STATE — INCOMING.

Was born at Oxford, Ohio, February 3d, 1831. His
parents were natives of North Carolina and Ohio respec-
tively. His educational opportunities were confined to an
old log school-house, and the first twelve years of his exis-
tence in his native State, where in his thirteenth year, he
was apprent6nced to a carriage maker, and in due time
learned that trade and has followed it closely and suooess-
fuliy ever since, except during a part of the period of the

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war, when he waB in the army. From April 1861 until
July, 1863, between which dates he served his country a«
2d and Ist Lieutenant, Captain and Major of the 7th
Indiana, camp commander of the 4th Congressional Dis-
trict, and Lieut. Colonel of the 68th Indiana regiment. He
came to the State in 1848, since which time he has resided
at Eushville, Laurel, Wabash, Greensburg and Indianapo-
lis respectively. He has been a Democrat all his life,
except the eleven years intervening between 1854 and
1865, and he was elected by Democrats and Liberals to the
office he now holds, at the last election.

JOHN B. GLOYEE,

TREASUREE OP STATE — OUTGOING,

Was born in Orange county, Indiana, March 4th, 1833.
His parents were both natives of this country; his father
removing to Orange county from Kentucky, in October
1814. He was reared on his father's farm in his native
county, goinng to school when the weather forbid working
in the field. When approaching maturity he attended
school at JSTew Albany and elsewhere. After completing
his course, he secured the situation of teacher in New
Albany, and afterwards taught in the Salem High School.
At the beginning of the war he organized a company and
was assigned to duty in the 38th infantry. He was elected
Captain of the company, aud was promoted to Major of
the regiment, and he served in that capacity until the
war was over. Upon his return from the army his
services received recognition by his being elected to the
office of County Treasurer. At the close of his term he

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was re-elected. In 1872 he was elected Treasurer of State
by the Republicans, of which party he has been a life long
member. He was defeated as a candidate for re-election,
and but recently retired from that office to the regret of all
his personal friends in Indianapolis and in Indiana, regard-
less of party.

CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK,

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF STATE — INCOMING.

Is a native of New York. He was born in the beautiful
little village of Friendship, Allegheny county, Nov. 8th,
1842. His father's family were descended from Holland!
and his mother was of Scotch and Irish ^ ancestry. The
son received the rudiments of his education at Friendship
academy in his native village. Then he came West and
completed his course of studies in the University of Michi-
gan, - Having read law with Messrs. Balch & Smiley at
Kalamazoo, and attended law lectures at Ann Arbor, he
was admitted to the bar in 1865. The year ensuing,' h©
removed to tkis State and located at Princeton. His legal
ability and admirable social qualities soon gave him a first
place in the hearts of the people of that section of the
State. In 1872 he was nominated for a seat in the Legis-
lature, and was elected. He served on the Judiciary and
other important committees, with credit to all concerned,
through the special and regular sessions, as appears by the
reports. Suffice it to say that he served the State so satis-
factorily in that capacity that he was nominated in 1874 for
the more responsible office of Attorney-General. Again he
was elected and by a large majority. In politics ho has
always been a Democrat, and an able and ardent champion
of the principles of that party. Personally he is a man of
imposing appearance and engaging manners.

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JAMES C. DENNY,

ATTORNEY GENERAL — OUTGOING.

Was born in Knox county, Indiana, August 8th, 1829.
His father was from Kentucky, and his mother from Ten-
nessee, the former removing to this State in 1804, and the
latter in 1818. The elder Denny was Clerk of Knox county
from 1852 to 1860, and was re-elected in 1860, but under
the ruling of the Supreme Court, that such clerks could
only hold two terms, he could not serve. He then
entered the army as Captain of Company E., 51st Indiana
Infantry, but died the same month he was assigned to duty.
General Denny was educated in the common schools of
Knox county, in private schools and in the University of
Vincennes. He was reared on his fathers farm. When
about of age, however, he entered a store in Yincennes
and remained there as clerk for four years, reading law at
night, the last two years, of his service there. Then he
secured the situation of deputy county clerk, and read law
two years longer. Soon afterwards he was admitted to the
bar and began the practice of his profession, having Judge
Judah for a partner. The partnership lasted six years, being
dissolved by mutual agreement in 1860. Since then he
has been judge of the Circuit and Common Pleas Court
and Attorney General, from which office he recently
retired. During the time since the dissolution above alluded
to, when not in official position, General Denny has resided
in Yincennes and practised his profession. He makes his
home in Indianapolis now ; has an office on Washington
street and resides on North Tennessee.

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JAMES H. SMAET,

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION — INCOMING,

Was born in Center Harbor, N. H., in 1841. He received
an academic education in the East and came West about
twelve or thirteen years since. In 1863 he was engaged
in a responsible position in the Toledo public schools,
where he taught two or three years Then he removed to
Fort Wayne, and was elevated to the superintendency of
the schools of that city, and soon became identified with
the educational interests of the State at large ; so much
80 indeed, that when the Democratic party had an oppor-
tunity to elect a Superintendent of Public Instruction
they selected him as the favored one. He had then long
been an active member of the State Board of Education,
where his rare executive ability was first recognized and
appreciated. Those who know him best claim that his
strong point is in organization, a quality that eminently
fits him for the office of Superintendent of the schools of
the State. The ability he displayed in the management
of the Fort Wayne schools augurs well for the educational
interests of Indiana for the next two years. Added to
other good qualities he is an indefatigable worker, never
wearying of well doing in his chosen profession. He has
labored incessantly to fit himself and others, for the re-
sponsible duties devolving upon those who have the
responsibility of training the young.

ALEXANDER C. HOPKINS,

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION — OUTGOING.

This gentleman, son of the late Hon. Milton B. Hop-
kins, was appointed by Governor Hendricks, the successor

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of his father aa Superintendent of Public Instruction in
August, 1874. Previously to his father's death he had
been engaged in the office, and thereby had become famil-
iar with all its duties and details of business. In the com-
pletion of the annual report on the public schools of the
State, he has given to the public one of the most valuable
documents ever issued on the subject in Indiana. In all
the duties of the office, he has been faithful and untiring
in the service to which he was called, under circumstances
peculiarly sad. Mr. Hopkins is professionally an educa-
tor, having been identified with the Howard College at
Kokomoand before that had charge of the Ladoga Academy.
He was born in Kush county. Nov. 11, 1843, but educated in
the University at Lexington, Ky. He returned to Indiana
in 1870. since which time he has been an assiduous worker
in the cause of education, achieving therein an honorable
distinction Mr. Hopkins is a scholar, excelling in math-
ematical studies, and is also a good singer and musician.
In his personal relations, he is genial and courteous to all,
and will leave the position to which he was so unexpectedly
summoned in the possession of universal respect.

SAMUEL H. BUSKIEK,

CHIEF JUSTICE OP THE SUPREME COURT.

Is an Indianian of noble birth, his family one of the old-
est and best in the State. His father was an associate
Judge of the Court, and Postmaster of Bloomington under
the admioistration of President Yan Buren. The Judge
was born at Kew Albany, January 18, 1820. The first
twelve years of his life were whiled away on a farm. There

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he laid the foundation for the line physical health he has
since enjoyed, and served as a superstructure for his supe-
rior mental attainments. His education was acquired in
the State University. When he had completed the classi-
cal course, he read law and graduated from that depart-
ment of the same institution of learning. His career in
the literary and law departments was an honor to him-
self and a credit to the college. His public services have
been many and valuable to the people of the State. He
has been instrumental in making and interpreting the laws
under which the people of the State have been so prosper-
ous for more than a quarter of a century. The Judge was
a member of the Legislature during the sessions of 1848,
1851, 1855, 1863 and 1865. He served as Speaker in
1863. The reports of proceedings during these various
terms are replete with with his words of wisdom. When
not engaged in the discharge of the duties of office, he
has been practicing his profession in the courts of this and
other States ; for his reputation as a lawyer was not
bounded by State lines. In 1872 he was nominated for
Supreme Court Judge by the Democracy, of which party he
has been a life long member, and was elected by a major-
ity that was flattering, the closeness of the contest
considered. For two years he has been upon the Bench.
In that time he has rendered some of the most important
decisions ever delivered in the State, notably that con-
cerning mixed schools. His decisions are based upon firm
conviction, supported by most exhaustive research into the
authorities bearing upon each case that comes before him.
Popular clamor nor any other outside influence can swerve
him from his high resolve to be right though the heavens
fall

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HOEACE P. BIDDLE.

SUPREME COURT JUDGE— INCOMING,

Is a native of Ohio, and is about sixty-two years of age.
Since 1836 he has been a citizen of Cass county. He lives
on an island in the city of Logansport. To reach his resi-
dence one must cross, not one, but two Wabash rivers, for
liere this frisky old stream, as if enamored of the valley,
opens its arms and embraces a portion and holds the
emerald gem upon its bosom. The place is known to cul-
tivated people as the island home of Judge Biddle. That
gentleman is, in many respects, a most remarkable
man. For thirty-five years he was prominently before
the public, and as popular as prominent. From 1846
10 1852, and again, after an interval of eight years,
from 1860 to 1872. he served the Eighth Judicial District
as Judge of the Circuit Court. On the occasion of his last
election, he received every vote cast for' the office, having
no opposition, for there was not even a politician who was
so wholly devoid of discretion as to appear before the peo-
ple to contest the honor with him. He was a member of
the Constitutional Convention of Indiana in 1850, and par-
ticipated prominently in the proceedings of that able body.
In 1857 he was elected to the Supreme bench, though,
through a misconstruction of the iaw by the executive, he
never received his commission.

When not engaged in the discharge of the duties of
office Judge Biddle has been busy in the practice of his
profession, with marked ability and marvelous success.
Three years ago he abandoned active professional life,
resolute in his determination to enjoy the comforts of his
sunny home, free from the cares and perplexities that
attach to business* This resolution was only shaken by the

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nomination of two State Conventions (Democratic and Inde-
pendent) for the Supreme Bench, to which he was elected
last October, by a majority unprecedented in the annals of
Indiana politics.

Then, Judge Biddle is known to fame as an author. Be-
sides being an extensive contributor to leading newspapers
and magazines, he published in 1858, a volume of poems?
in 1860 a treaties on the Musical Scale, with a revised edi-
tion ; in 1867 a scientific work, purchased in copyright by
Oliver Ditson of Boston, and held as a standard work ; in
1868 another volume of poems, with a second edition of the
same in 1872, in 1871 "A Review of Professor Tyndal'a
work on Sound," and in 1873 a large volume of poetry
entitled " Glances at the World," besides many other poems
and prose productions that take high rank in literature.

ALEXANDER CUMMINS DOWNEY,

SUPREME COURT JUDGE,

Was born of English and Irish parentage, near Cincin-
nati, Ohio, September 10, 1817. With his parents he
removed to this State when quite young. Indiana waa
then in her infancy, and of Judge Downey, it can truly be
said, he grew up with the western country ; and he and
the country are alike creditable to each other. He worked
on his father s farm in summer, until eighteen years of
age, attending the district school in winter. About the
age of eighteen he enjoyed the rather exceptional advan-
tage of attending the County Seminary. Then he learned
a trade which he followed for a time. Possessing an active
mind he drifted into journalism and ascended to the edi-

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torial chair of a newspaper. Afterwards he read law. In
1844 he settled at Eising San, and his star of destiny
began to a ascend the horizon of his ambition. In 1850
he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court, and served with
distinction, until 1858. Meanwhile he was Professor of
Law at dsbury four years. He was elected- State Senator
in 1862 and served the succeeding four years, and
was one of the first Coinmissioners of the House of Refuge.
In 1870 he was elected to the Supreme Bench, and entered
upon the discharge of the duties of that position the ensu-
ing year, and he is yet an honored as he is a honorable
member of that distinguished body of jurists. Judge
Downey is what he has been all his life, a conscientious
and a consistent Democrat, from principal and not from
policy.

JOHN PETTIT,

SUPREME COURT JUDGE.

"Was born at historical Sacketts Harbor, in the State of
New York, July 24, 1807. He traces his genealogy to the
Scotch and those antagonistic antecedents, English and
French. He was educated in the Academy of New
York, and through studies prosecuted by himself. The
Judge removed to this State in 1831 and he has been part
and parcel of its government, legislative and judicial,
pretty much all the time. His has unquestionably been
the busiest life ever led by an Indianian, at home or
abroad. From 1835 to 1 839 he was a member of the Legisla-
ture of this State ; for three years he was United States Dis-
trict Attorney ; then he spent six years in Congress as a
member of that body from Indiana ; was then a member

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of the Constitutional Convention ; elector at large for
President of the United States; three years United Stater
Senator, and Circuit Judge several years ; Judge of
Supreme Court of Kansas two years, and mayor of the
city of Lafayette. In 1870 he was elected to the Supreme
bench of this State for six years and is now serving in
that capacity, with credit to himself and honor to all con-
cerned. Probably no man in the country is clearer headed
on the law bearing upon any case that comes before him
than Judge Pettit. His decisions are based upon the law
and the evidence weighed in the balance of Justice, and are
seldom reversed by the Court above. He has been a Dem-
ocrat all his his life and has held all the positions of prom-
inence enumerated, through the power of that party, elec-
tive or appointive. But his decisions have never indicated
party bias.

JAMES L. WOEDBN,

SUPREME COURT JUDGE,

Was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, May 10, 1819. His
parents were of English extraction, but of American
birth. When the Judge was a mere child, his parents
removed to Portage county, Ohio, and he received the
rudiments of his education in the common schools of that
State. He had a strong, clear, logical mind, and steady,
studious habits, upon which to base an education, and an
ambitious and impulsive spirit to impel him to excellence
in whatever profession he should settle upon for a life's
practice. The profession of law, if successfully prose-
cuted, required those qualities in the eminent degree pos-
sessed by him, and he happily hit upon that profession.

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His taste as well as talent, led him into law. Having
qualified himself for practice, in two years' reading, in
Cincinnati, he opened an office at the early age of twenty-
two years. After a year and a half spent in that cityi
however, he resolved to remove to Indiana for the prac-
tice of his profession. So 1844 found him established in
Whitley county, this State. He had not been there long
until his talent was observed and appreciated. He was
elected Prosecuting Attorney several terms in succession.
In 1853 he was appointed, by G-overnor, Wright Judge of
the Tenth Judicial Circuit, and at the ensuing election he
was elected to that bench. Subsequently he was appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court by, Governor Willard. The
ensuing election he was elected to that position by the
people for the term of six years. When that term of ser-
vice had expired he resumed the practice of his profession,
entering into a copartnership with Judge Morris, of Fort
Wayne. In 1870, after having enjoyed six or seven years
of successful practice, he was nominated for the position
of Supreme Judge by the Democratic State Convention,
and was elected by a large majority, and he took his seat
for six years in October, 1871, and by virtue of that call
of his constituency, he is still on the bench in the full and
deserved enjoyment of the confidence of the bar and peo-
ple of Indiana.

ANDEEW L. OSBORNE,

EX-SUPREME COURT JUDGE — OUTGOING,

Was born in New Haven county, Connecticut, May 27,
1815. He was educated in his native State, and removed
to Indiana in 1836. Having learned the law, he located

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at Laporte, for the practice of his profession, which he
pursued with ability and success until 1844, when, having
turned his attention to politics, he was elected to the Legis-
lature. After having served the term through he was
re-elected. When that term of service had expired in the
Lower House, he was elevated to the Senate. In 1857 he
was elected Judge of the Laporte Circuit (the 9th Judicial
District). He served until 1863, when he was re-elected.
His term of service expired in 1869. Ln 1872 he was
appointed Judge of the Supreme Court, which term of ser-
vice expired on the 16th of January, 1875. Last fall he
was a candidate before the people on the Eepublican
ticket and for the same position. He was defeated by
Judge Horace P. Biddle. Politically Judge Osborn was
an old line Whig, until the disintegration of the party —
then and since a conservative Eepublican. However, ho
was never influenced an iota in his opinions, when on the
bench, by party considerations.

JAMES BUCKLEY BLACK,

SUPREME COURT REPORTER,

Is a New Jersian by birth. He was born at Morristown,
July 21, 1838. His parents were natives of Ireland. He
came to Indiana in 1846. Since then he has resided in
Wabash, Hartford City, Winchester, Camden, Bluffton>
Muncie, Greencastle and Bloomington. He was educated
at Asbury University and Indiana State University, at
Bloomington. He commenced teaching school when six-
teen years of age, and thus acquired the necessary means
to defray his expenses at college. During the last term of

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his junior year the flag was fired upon at Fort Sumpter.
His spirit of patriotism asserted itself over his ambition
then, and he enlisted as a private in the Union army, in
response to the first call of President Lincoln for volun-
teers. He did not long remain in the ranks however, for
he was promoted from time to time until he held the com-
mission of Lieutenant Colonel before he had served the
three years and eight months that he was in the army.
In 1868 he was elected Supreme Court Reporter, and he is
holding that office now. He published the Indiana
reports from volume 30 to 45 inclusive. In politics, he hae
always been Republican, and by profession, a lawyer.

CHARLES SCHOLL,

CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT,

Was born in Cologne, Prussia, December 27th, 1832. He
was educated at the Royal Institute at Munich. At the
age of nineteen, liberal political views entertained and
expressed by Mr. SchoU forced him into exile. He deter-
mined to come to this country, where every man has a
right to think and express his thoughts, and at the same
time receive the respectful attention of his fellow men,
instead of official ostracism. So Mr. Scholl sailed for
America, and landed in New York, Nov. 21st, 1851. His
landing there marked a new epoch in his life. He wa«
then on free soil, and in a land where a man could carve
out his own fortune, untrameled by custom and undis-
turbed by the minions of royalty. He remained in New
York and Newark, N. J., but two years, then removed to
Indiana. Settling in Washington county, he taught school

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for a season. Then, in 1860, he engaged in business
at Henr^^ille. Subsequently he was elected trustee of
Monroe township, Clarke county, for four successive terms,
and Clerk of the Supreme Court in 1872, and is still in
office, giving general satisfaction.

WILLIAM BAXTEE.

THE SENATOR FROM WAYNE,

(Subject to the contest case with Jeffers) was born in York-
shire, England, February 11th, 1824, the same county in
which were born John Wickliff, "the morning star of the
Eeformation," Captain Cook, the daring navigator, William
Wilberforce, the brilliant advocate of the abolition of slav-
ery, and also the birthplace of the ancestors of George
Washington, and of Constantine, the great Koman Emper-
or. Mr. Baxter was born of English parentage, and is of
the same lineage as the eminent non-conformist divine,
Eichard Baxter, who was imprisoned in the reign of
Charles the First, because he would not conform to the
established Church, not even when they offered him
Bishopric ; the same Eichard Baxter who, while he was
in prison, wrote the " Saints' Everlasting Eest," and " The
Call to the Unconverted." William Baxter, the subject of
this sketch, was educated at the grammar school of
Burnsall, in the division of Evanen, in the West Eiding of
Yorkshire. While yet a young man, not liking the
monarchical form of government prevalent in England,
Mr. Baxter left his native land for the United States, being
enamored of free institutions, and ours especially. Before
leaving, however, he took an active part, with Eichard

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Cobdeu. John Bright, George Thompson, Henry Vincent,
and many other reformers, in battling against the iniq-
iiitous corn laws, in favor of the repeal of the oppressive
o-ame laws, and for the disestablishment of the Established
Church of England. It was in February, 1848, that Mr.
Baxter left the land of his nativity for the land of his
adoption, arriving in America after an uneventful voyage.
Upon his arrival in America, Mr. Baxter traveled
through the country on a tour of observation for nine
months, and then he embarked in business as a wool mer-
chant on Market street in the city of Philadelphia, which
business enterprise he prosecuted successfully for fifteen
years, amassing quite a competency. In 1856, he married
Miss Mary Baker of Wayne county this State and in 1864,
retired from business in Philadelphia and moved to
Wayne county, and purchasing a farm near Eichmond,
engaged in rural pursuits. To use his own language:
"Seeing the blighting influences of intoxieating liquors
upon, men, society and the nation, threatening the dis-
ruption of civilized society and the ultimate destruction
of my adopted country, I have for the past ten years
been devoting my energies to the removal of that accursed
traffic from our midst; and believing that we never can
put down intemperance by moral suasion alone — any more
than we can put down any other great public evil, simply
by moral suasion— I have been earnestly advocating the
paramount necessity of Legislative restriction on the
traffic in alcohol. It was in order to accomplish this that
in 1872, I consented to become a candidate for the General
Assembly of our State and it was while a member of that
General Assembly that I introduced the bill which. is now
better known as the Baxter Law. This is the only public

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position I ever held and that single term satisfied my
political aspirations. I would prefer never to hold another
public office. I was elected to the State Senate at the last
election but it was thrust upon me. I would much prefer
the privacy of my farm to the Halls of Legislation."

Mr. Baxter is a Eepublican in politics. His father was
a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Society for nearly
forty years in England, and died there.

JAMES KUFUS BEARDSLEY,

* SENATOR FROM ELKHART,

Was born in Ohio, of American parentage, in 1829. With
his parents he removed to Indiana in 1830, he being but
one year old at that time. His father was the founder of
the town of Elkhart. The son was educated in the com-
mon schools of the county. When he had arrived at the
age of maturity, he engaged in the manufacture of flour
and paper, and he is now the principal proprietor of the
well known Elkhart paper manufactory. He knows how
to apply the business principles that achieve success in
individual transactions to the treatment of public affairs.
This is the second term that he is serving as Senator,
which would indicate that his constituents have confidence
well lounded in him. When he shall have served the ter
through, they will no doubt honor him further, unless the
people hold him responsible for the many misdeeds of the
Republican party, of which he has been a prominent
member since its organization.

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Daniel kobeets bearss,

SENATOR FROM MIAMI AND HOWARD.

Was born in Geneseo, Livingston county. New York, August
25, 1809. His parents were English. Mr. Bearss was educa-
ted in the common schools of Western New York, and De-
troit, Michigan, and has since been engaged in farming. He
came to this State in 1828. Since then he has lived at Fort
Wayne, Logansport, Groshen. and resides at present, as for a
long time past, near Peru. He has been honored by, and
has honored, the people of that section of the State many
times. He has held the office of School and County Commis-
sioner two or three terms each. Twice has he been elected
to the lower branch of the Legislature, and thrice to the
Senate. Originally he was a Whig in politics, then a Eepub-
lican, and lately a Granger. His son is now a member
of the House of Representatives for Kosciusko and Fulton.
So it would seem that the genius of office-holding has
been handed down from father to son.

EGBERT C. BELL,

SENATOR FROM ALLEN.

Was born in Clarksburg, Decatur county, this State, July
13, 1843. of American parentage, both parents having been
born in Kentucky, and having removed to this State in early
life. Senator Bell was educated in the common schools, at
the Academy at Muncie, and in the law department of the
University of Michigan. He served his country as a sol-
dier in the 134th Regiment Indiana Volunteers during the

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latter part of the late war, and subsequently in the civil
service at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1867 and 1868, as Assis-
tant United States Attorney for Indiana, then United
States Commissioner for the District of Indiana. For the
last two years he has been Attorney for the county of
Allen, and a member of the firm of Coombs, Morris &
Bell, Fort Wayne. In political principles Senator Bell claims
to have been born and bred a dyed in the wool Democrat,
and for the last fifteen years has fought the power of
darkness in the shape of Eadicalism without fear, favor,
aifection, reward, or the promise or hope thereof. Now
he proposes to fight it out on this line if it takes him a
life time.

ANDEEW J. BOONE,

SENATOR FROM BOONE AND CLINTON,

Was born in Preble county, Ohio, July 17, 1820. Hispar-
ents were of German and Welch extraction, but both were
born in Ohio, and removed to this State in 1827, first locat-
ing at Union, and living there until 1833, when they
moved to Rush county. Residing there until 1838, they
took up their abode at Lebanon, Boone county, where the
Senator has since resided. Mr. Boone is a direct descend-
ant of Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky, he of his-
torical renown. During the earlier days of his life, Mr.
Boone was a farmer and a miller, subsequently studying
law, first having acquired an admirable education through
the common schools, and a two year's course in Indiana
University. In that Institution, he was a schoolmate of
the late and lamented Prof. M. B. Hopkins, and many
others, of Indiana's elder and noblest sons. Like Mr.

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Hopkins, Mr. Boone devoted much of his life to the training
of the '■ hope of the Slate," teaching in several seminariea,
notably, Lebanon and Leavenworth. Having learned the
law at an earlier date, Mr. Boone did not proceed to prac-
tice his profession until 1851, the same year that he mar-
ried Miss McLaughlin, making it a very eventful epoch in
his history. Securing a large practice, he devoted himself
too assiduously to the discharge of his duties, and in leas
than a decade he had so materially impaired his health
that he ht-d to abandon his profession and return to hia
first love — farming.

Not content with the quiet of rural life, he resumed the
practice of law in partnership with Hon. R. W. Hanna
four or five years afterwards, taking a six or seven mile
walk, for exercise, each day. By proper precaution he
recovered his health, and is now a hale and hearty man.
In politics he has always been a Democrat, and has held
many positions of trust and profit through the popular
partiality for him. In 1841. he was elected Auditor of the
county, and held the office for a term of two years. Being
elected Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives
Indiana Legislature in 18-49, he was retained in that official
capacity until 1852, thoroughly familiarizing himself with
the routine of Legislative labor. Elected to the Senate in
1872, he is still the incumbent of that office, and serves
both parties to their satisfaction.

Senator Boone is emphatically one of the self-made men
of the State, a genuine Western production, and one
whom we should all be proud to honor. His father before
•him, was a prominent personage, having served in the
Legislature. The Senator lives at Lebanon, where he is
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known of all men and universally esteemed for his many
good qualities. When the history of Indiana has been
written it will not be complete unless one chapter at least,
is devoted to the Senator from Boone and Clinton.

JOHN A. BOWMAN,

SENATOR PROM WASHINGTON AND JACKSON,

Was born in Blount county, East Tennessee, April 7, 1818.
His father was a native of Virginia, his mother of Penn-
sylvania. Both the grandfathers of the subject of thia
sketch served as soldiers in the revolutionary war. As
early as 1824, Mr. Bowman came to this State with his
parents, having spent two years in New Orleans and one
in Pennsylvania previously. What education he was
able to acquire was in the common schools of his adopted
State. 'He began business for himself as a farmer and a
horse and mule trader, when he was but eighteen years
of age. For years, he was in the habit of taking two or three
droves south every season, and selling them in the States of
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Indeed, he continued
in this branch of business until the breaking out of the^civil
war and the unhealthful heat of the climate that resulted
therefrom. He took but little part in the war until the
Morgan raid, when he came to regard it as a part of his
funeral as it were, then he raised a company and assisted
in securing that daring depredator. In politics he has
ever been a Democrat of the unswerving kind, and still
adheres to the old Jeffersonian principles. He was elected
to the House of Eepresentatives in 1867, without opposi-
tion, and in 1859 he was re-elected. So well did he serv©

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as Representative, his constituents elevated him to the
Senate in 1864, where he represented Washington and
Harrison counties; and in 1872 he was re-elected, and
again without opposition. For fifteen years he has held
office almost constantly, and was never defeated when a
candidate. Under the new apportionment he serves the
counties of Washington and Jackson.

Senator Bowman is a bachelor, and his address is Salem,
Washington county.

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WILLIAM BUNYAN,

SENATOR FROM NOBLE AND LAGRANGE,

Was born in Saratoga county, in the State of New York,
October 20th, 1833. His parents were of American birth
and Scotch descent. Mr. Bunyan was reared on a farm,
and continued to work upon it until he was twenty-
four years of age ; then he engaged in trade, thus
amassing a competency. The only educational advantages
he ever enjoyed were the district schools in the vicinity
where he resided during boyhood. In 1854 he came West
and grew up with the country in and around about Lima,
for four or five years ; then he removed to Kendallville,
where he has resided for the last sixteen years. During
the short and stormy period of his more mature manhood,
he amassed quite a competency in a worldly way, and
can well afford to devote a part of his time and talent in the
illy -paid service of the State. Before he was elected Sen-
ator, in 1872, Mr. Bunyan had never held any position of
trust or profit through political preferment. He is now,
and has been since the organization of the party, an ardent

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Republican. When he shall have served through the ses*
eion. Senator Bunyan will retire to private life, conscious of
having, to the best of his ability, discharged the duties of
his position with a view of doing the greatest good to th©
greatest number

PETER CARDWELL,

SENATOR FROM HAMILTON AND TIPTON,

Was .born in Rockingham county. North Carolina, Decem-
ber 20. 1825. His parents were of English descent, and
they removed to Hamilton county, this State, in 1829.
Senator Cardwell is a self-educated man, and follows the
occupation of a farmer and stock -raiser. In early life he was
thrown on his own resources and though almost penniless,
educated himself to the extent of being qualified to teach
school for several years. He served as a School Trustee in
1864, and was. an appraiser of real estate in Hamilton
county in 1869. During the war he became Captain of
a home company, and thus served until the close of the
war. Formerly a Republican, he now glories in the polit-
ical freedom of an Independent. He may be heard from
by addressing him at Noblesville.

CHARLES W. CHAPMAN,

SENATOR FROM KOSCIUSKO AND WHITLEY.

Was born at Richmond, Indiana, September 19, 1828. His
father was American born, but of German extraction ; hia
mother was born and reared in Ireland. Mr. Chapman

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has always resided in Indiana ; at present at Warsaw.
The foimdation of his education was laid in the common
schools of his native county, and completed, no far as a col-
legiate course could accomplish it, in Asbury University.
By profession he is a lawyer, and has been more or less
prominent in the politics of the State. Early in the war
he entered the army, and ascended to the colonelcy of the
Fourth Indiana volunteers. In 1861 he was elected Eep-
resentative, and Senator in 1864. He was then appointed
Kegister in Bankruptcy. He is now a Senator, having
been elected to that position in 1872. A Whig until the
disruption of that organization, he has been a Eapublican
since.

R. H. CEEE,

SENATOR FROM MADISON AND DELAWARE,

Was born in Warren county, Ohio, December 24, 1820.
He traces his lineage back to Ireland, though his parents
were of American birth. In 1841 he came to this State,
settled down in Madison county and began business as a
farmer and dealer in live stock, having only enjoyed the
advantages of the common school system of Ohio and
Indiana. Politically he was a Republican until the rank
corruptions of that party drove him from it, and then he
became independent in politics. In the last campaign the
Independents nominated him for the Senate and the
Democracy indorsed the nomination, Williams, their can-
didate, withdrawing, that the two parties might unite on
and thus insure the defeat of the Republicans and the
election of "an anti-Administration, anti-Morton, and an

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anti-Pratt Senator," as a local paper put it. For a time a
contest case was canvassed, Mr. Cree's opponents claiming
the seat for Orr, who had been chosen to fill out the
unexpired term of a deceased member. After a careful
reading of the Constitution and mature reflection, they
concluded it would end in smoke if attempted, and they
therefore abandoned the project, only having hope in the
first place of being able to take advantage of a technical-
ity to defeat the will of the people and the ends of justice.
Senator Cree's postoffice address is Alexandria, Madison
county.

WILLIAM CULBERTSON,

SENATOR FROM RIPLEY, OHIO AND SWITZERLAND,

Was born in Switzerland county, December 16, 1827. His
parents were from Scotland, but America was the land of
their adoption. Mr. Culbertson was educated at home.
After he had completed his education he served an appren-
ticeship at blacksmithing, and followed that business until
1870, when he engaged in the art agricultural. He has
been a resident of Switzerland county all his life, except
during two or three years, some twenty years ago. In 1860
he was elected Justice of the Peace, and held the office one
year, resigning to enlist in the army. On the organization
of the 140th regiment, he was commissioDed captain of Com-
pany B, and so seiTed until mustered out in 1865. Politi-
cally Mr. Culbertson was a Whig until 1861, since when
he has been a Democrat. He was elected to the Senate
in 1872 and is yet a member of that body, by virtue of
his election. Near Moorefield is where he resides.

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ADDISON DAGGY,

SENATOR FROM PUTNAM AND HENDRICKS,

Was born in Augusta county, Virginia, February 26th,
1824. His parents were G'^rman-Americans. The Daggys
settled in Putnam county, when he was but twelve
years of ago. After attending the schools at Greencastle
for a season, the son entered Wabash College, at Craw-
fordsville, where he subsequently graduated with honor to
himself and credit to his class. Then he read law, and for
the last twenty -four years, has practised that profession,
sixteen years of that time as the junior member of the
firm of Williamson & Daggy, Greencastle, one of the best
known and most successful law firms in Western Indiana,
Mr. Williams, the senior partner, having once served the
State as Attorney-General. In 1832 Mr. Daggy was elected
Prosecuting Attorney for the Common Pleas Court of
Putnam and Hendricks and acted in that capacity for two
years. He represented Putnam in the lower house of the
Indiana Legislature, session of 1867-8. In 1872 he was
elected to the position he now holds, as Senator from Put-
nam and Hendricks.

In politics Senator Daggy was a Whig while that party
was in existence ; a Republican now and ever since the
abandonment of that old organization.

JASPER DAVIDSON,

SENATOR FROM POSEY AND GIBSON,

Was born in Pike county, Indiana, October 13, 1838. His
parents were natives of Virginia, and removed to Indiana
in 1861, and settled in Gibson county. Mr. Davidson

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received none but a common school education. Having
acquired that, he taught the young idea how to shoot in
winter, and in the summer trained the aboriginal cereal to
tassel and performed other rural duties. i£c has been a
Democrat all his life, and a member of the Methodist
church, and yet he has never darkened the door of a saloon
or indulged in the noxious weed. He also has the honor
of raising the best wheat in G-ibson county — 43 bushels to
the acre — last season.

DAYID DAE WIN DYKBMAN,

SENATOR FROM CASS AND CARROLL,

Was born in Wayne county, New York, January 16, 1833,
of English and German parentage, and has lived in Indi-
ana over twenty years past, having resided for a short
time in Kentucky and Iowa. He received his preparatory
education at that staunch old Methodist seminary in Caze-
novia, New York, which has sent out armies of brilliant
students. His finishing course was had at Falley Univer-
sity. His residence is in Logansport, where he stands
among the foremost lawyers of the place. For five years
he held a seat in the common council of the city, and was
on the bench of the Common Pleas Court three years.
Politically he is a life member of the Democratic party,
and an active worker in public affairs. Judge Dykeman
is a man who relies wholly on his own resources, is ner-
vous, fiery, plucky, and never holds still for his enemy to
pound him. In personal appearance he is one of the finest
looking men in the Senate, with a clean, smooth face, fair

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complexion, and firm lip. He speaks readily, distinctly
and agreeably. He is among the leading spirits of the
Senate, disposed to be fair, positive and earnest. It takes
but little to wake him np, for he is not apt to be caught
very sound asleep, and it is not advisable to tread too care-
lessly or heavily on his corns. Being only forty -two years
old. and a diplomatist in politics, it is not to be presumed
that either his ambition or career will end in the State
Senate. It is plain enough to be seen that his political
history is mainly yet to be both made and written.

GEOKGE W. FRIEDLBY,

SENATOR FROM LAWRENCE AND MONROE.

Was born in Harrison county. Indiana, June 1, 1839, of
G-erman and Scotch parentage. He resided with his par-
ents on the farm until he was sixteen years of age. and then
in Bartholomew until the war, when he enlisted in the
69th regiment, Indiana volunteers, and served therein
until its consolidation with the 24th regiment. He served
in the latter regiment until the close of the war, with
the exception of a period during the siege of Vicksburg,
when he was engaged on the staff of General Burbridge.
He also served on that of General Richard Owen, a part of
the time. After the Vicksburg campaign, he was elected
Colonel of the consolidated regiment, there being but two
dissenting voices. It was decided that there was no vacancy,
however, and Colonel Friedley never received his commis-
sion. He participated in the capture of Fort Gaines and
the storming of Fort Blakely, Mobile Bay, in 1865.

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read law, and is by profession and practice, a lawyer. In
1870, he was elected to the lower House, from Law-
rence county, and in 1872, to the Senate, and he is now
holding over, by virtue of that election. He has always
been a radical Eepublican and does not now give up the
ship. As a candidate he has heretofore been successful in
everv instance. His address is Bedford, Lawrence county.

jonatha:n^ heney fkiedley,

SENATOR FROM SCOTT, JENNINGS, AND DECATTJR,

Was born in Harrison county, Indiana, April 25th, 1827.
His father was of G-erman and his mother of English and
Irish descent. The elder Friedley was once Postmaster at
Comargo, Jefferson county, and is now Postmaster at Woos-
tertown, Scott county, where the son receives his mail.
Senator Friedley, was educated in the district schools of
Harrison and Jefferson counties. Though the facilities were
not first-rate he secured an average education. He began
business as a farmer and a miller, but of late years has
been at the head of the leading store of his adopted vil-
lage. He is always head-centre in Church and Sunday
school movements in the M. E. denomination, of the same
place. He has been a member of the Methodist Church
ever since he was fifteen years of age, and for more than a
quarter of a century has sustained the relation of a Stew-
ard. In the meantime he has been Class Leader, Sunday
School Superintendent, Trustee and Delegate to National,
Stat« and County Conventions of Church and Sunday
School. He has also always been a teetotaller and an advo-
cate of the temperance reform. He has ever taken a deep

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interest in his country's welfare, and has never been
ashamed to work openly and above-board for his political
principles, holding his country in his affection next to his
G-od. standing up for that which he believed to be right,
against all that seemed to him wrong, whether in politics
or religion. He is also an avowed champion of reform and
retrenchment. He served in the Senate in 1872 in the inter-
est of Scott and Jennings He claims to be one of the people,
and, while not seeking office, he seeks to serve the people
and let the office seek him.

H. C. GOODING,

SENATOR FROM VANDERBURGH,

Was born at Greenfield, Indiana, June 14:, 1836. His
parents were American-born. His grandfather on his
father's side. Colonel David Gooding, of Kentucky, com-
manded a regiment from that State in the famous fight
known as the Battle of the Thames, and the men under his
command claimed for him the distinction of having taken
Tecumseh's scalp, about which there have been so many
accounts, each at variance with all the others. The
Colonel died in Madison county, this State, several years
since. Senator Gooding's father, Asa Gooding, was a
hotel keeper and merchant in Greenfield up to the time of
his death, in 1842. The Senator, himself attended school
there for a while and then entered upon a classical
course at Asbury University which he completed in 1859,
Upon graduating, he read law and settled down to the
practice of his profession in Illinois. When the war broke
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the service he was promoted to Adjutant and acted Sif>
Judge Advocate. At the close of the war he practiced
law in Washington for a season. Then he moved to
Evans vi lie, where he has lived and practiced his professiou
ever since. In 1870. he was nominated by the Republi-
cans of that district to run against the Honorabh? VV. E.
Niblack for Congress, his opponents before the convention
being Colonel G. M. Allen, Greneral Laz. Noble of Yin-
cennes. Judge Asa Iglehart of Evansville and other
prominent politicians of the "Pocket" and "Old Post."
He was defeated by Mr. Niblack, as any one would have
been. In 1872, he was elected Senator and served through
both regular and special sessions. He is a brother of the
Hon. Dave S. Grooding and G-eneral O. B. Gooding and a
nephew of the late M. B Hopkins, our lamented Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction. His political principles are
Republican.

JOHN BRIGHT GRQYB,

SENATOR FROM BROWN AND BARTHOLOMEW,

Was born in Augusta county, Virginia, August 22d, 1829,
and was cradled in the lap of luxury of the F. F. Y.s so to
speak His ancestors were Irish and German. He was
educated at Shemariah Academy. University of Pennsyl-
vania, and read, medicine until he had perfected himself for
the practice of that profession. In his time he has held
many po.-*itions of prominence under the government. State
and national, besides many others of trust and profit. In
1849 he was surgeon of the good ship Ralph Cross, from
Philadelphia to San Francisco, and upon his arrival at the

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G^olden Gate City he was appointed Inspector of Customs
for the said city. Then for sixteen months he was resident
physician to the Yuba County Hospital, situate on the
Slope. This was in 1856 and 1858, including a part of
each of these years. In 1862 he was post surgeon to the
Union army at Marshall, Mo. After the war he settled
at Columbus, and in 1871 and 1872 he was a member of
the Common Council of that city from the Third Ward.
It would seem that Senator Grove enjoys the confidence of
the powers that be — both elective and appointive — in a
large degree. In politics he has been a Democrat since
the old line Whig organization disorganized, lie was
elected to the Senate by the Democracy, but represents all
the people, the just and the unjust alike. His home is in
Columbus.

ELIJAH HACKLEMAN,

SENATOR FROM HUNTINGTON AND WABASH,

Was born at Cedar Grove, near Brook vi lie, Indiana, Octo-
ber 18, 1817. His parents and grandparents were of
American birth, but his great grandparents were natives
of Germany. Abraham, father of Elijah Hackleman, was
a native of North Carolina. Ho removed to Scott county,
Kentucky, in 1802, and in J 807, came to what was then
known as a part of the Territory of Indiana, now Frank-
lin county. During the war of 1812. he served as a Fed-
eral officer. In 1821, he moved to Eushville, though the
town was not then laid off. At that time, this was the
extreme settlement and the West was an unbroken wilder-
ness. With his trusty ax he here began at an early

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age to carve out his own fortune. The narrow limits of
educational facilities peculiar to pioneer time did not
prevent his acquiring an education. He mentally
devoured all the books accessible and it was often said of
him that he was never known to be without a book in his
pocket even when at work, availing himself of every oppor-
tunity to stock his mind with its contents. When near-
ing the age of maturity the sire saw that the son was not
cut out for a hewer of wood, etc , and sent him to school
at the Connersville Seminary where he soon became quite
proficient in mathematics and astronomy. He wag for
«ometime a student of the Honorable Benjamin F. Reaves
and read law with General P. A. Hackleman, his
cousin, now deceased. In the earlier days of his man-
hood Senator Hackleman taught school and acted as
Justice oi the Peace. In May 1849, he moved to Wabash
county and improved a farm through habits of industry
acquired in earlier life. He has been in his time elected
County Surveyor, twice receiving every vote cast, in the
county for that office. Twice elected Clerk of the Circuit
Court, he served to the satisfaction of all. At the last
election he was elected to the Senate from Wabash and
Huntington by the Eepublican party, a member of which
he has been since the disruption of the Whig party.

JAMES F. HARNEY,

SENATOR FROM MONTGOMERY,

Is a native of Shelby county, Kentucky. He was born
March 1, 1824. His father was of Scotch and his mother
of German descent. Thev came to Indiana and located

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at Ladoga in 1825. The father was a minister of the
gospel, of the Christian or Campbellite denomination, and
a well educated and cultured gentleman. He was a
brother of T. K. Harney, of the old Louisville Democrat.
Senator Harney, the son, was educated at Wabash College,
taking a thorough classical course, something very
rare in those days. At the incipiency of the Mexican
war, he volunteered in th© service, and was assigned
%Q duty in the First Indiana. Upon reaching Matamoras,
on his way to the front, he was stricken down by disease,
and was forced to return on account of continued ill
health. "Misfortunes never come singly," as he realized
through an awful affliction, which he sustained in the
meantime, losing his father and only brother by well damp.
This calamity left his widowed mother and four children
solely to his support. This imjjelled him to engage in
something for the speedy support of the surviving mem-
bers of his father's family, and he became a manufacturer
of woolen goods at Ladoga, where he still lives. But
being a man of magnificent mind and personally very
popular, he was elected to the Legislature in 1849, also
in 1858, and again in 1862. During these various terms he
served with such distinction that he was elected to the
Senate in 1872, and by virtue of that election is now here
serving in the Senate during the pending session. He is
known as an able speaker, fluent and logical. From
the first, he has voted uniformly with the Democratic
party.

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RICHAED M. HAWORTH,

SENATOR FROM PAYETTE, UNION AND RUSH,

Was born in Union county, Indiana. October 14, 1821,
His father was of English, and his mother of Irish descent,
the former having been born in Tennessee and the latter
in North Carolina. They removed to this State about the
year 1814, Senator Haworth did not enjoy the advantages
accruing from a collegiate course, but made the most ol
his opportunities, and managed to receive a good English
education in the common schools of his native county.
By occupation he is a farmer. In 1860 he was elected to
the Lower House of the Indiana Legislature, and State
Senator on the Eepublican ticket in 1872, and is now hold-
ing over ; when his time shall have expired he will
have served the State six years. In politics he was a
Democrat in early life, but principle led him to espouse
the cause of the Liberty party, and he became a Free
Soiler, and subsequently a Eepublican. Throughout all
his public and private life Mr. Haworth has been found in
advance of the age in movements for the improvement of
the minds and the morals of man. The spirit of independ-
ence and justice which impelled him to desert Democracy
in the interest of the enslaved, also led him to champion
the temperance cause, and to take advanced grounds in
educational matters. He lives at Liberty, Union county.

. JOSEPH HENDEESON,

SENATOR FROM ST. JOSEPH AND STARKE,

Is a native Indianian. He was born in Wayne county,
near the town of New Port, July 6, 1829. His father 4ind
mother were from North Carolina ] emigrated to Indiana

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at an early day. His father died while he was about ten
years old. His mother lived until about ten years ago.
He was a student for a while under Barnabas C. Hobbs, at
Richmond, in said county. Shortly after leaving said
school he entered Wittenberg College at Springfield, Clark
county, Ohio, and remained in said college for several ses-
sions. He taught school some after leaving college. While
teaching school at Marion, Grant county, he commenced
the study of the law under the Hon. Isaac Yandervanter,
a prominent young lawyer of that town. After spending
a summer in Marian he emigrated to South Bend, St.
Joseph county, where he now resides. He continued the
study of law at his adopted home in the office of Judge
Elisha Bebert, now deceased, who was one of the purest and
best men that ever lived. He also attended a law class
taught by the Hon. Thomas S. Stanfield, several winters
in succession. Judge Stanfield is known to the people of
Indiana as one of her ablest Judges. He was a partner
for several years of the late lamented Norman EddJ^ He
was elected to the House of Kepresentatives in 1870 ;
re-elected in 1872 ; elected to the Senate in 1874. He was
born in the Democratic church, but he was never radical
on any subject. His address is South Bend, St. Joseph
county, Indiana.

JAMES B. HENDRICKS,

SENATOR PROM WARRICK AND PIKE,

Is a native Indianian and not ashamed of his nativity-
He was born in Hanover, Jefferson county, May 25, 1840.
His father was a prominent Presbyterian preacher of the
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old school, and the son received a careful training. He was
educated in the common schools and engaged in the drug
business, in which he has been eminently successful.
Though he never aspired to political position, he was nomi-
nated by the Democracy of Warrick and Pike last fall and
elected by the vote of men of all parties, being a man of
personal popularity. However, he has always been a Dem-
ocrat of liberal tendencies. Personally the Senator is
affable and agreeable. Petersburg is his post offiee address.

WILLIAM EUFUS HOUGH,

SENATOR FROM HANCOCK AND HENRY,

Was born on the 9th da^ of October, A. D. 1883, in the
village of Williamsburg, Wayne county, Indiana. He is
the eldest son of Alfred and Anna Hough. His father is a
native of Surrey county, North Carolina, whence in
the year 1813, at the age of three he emigrated with
his father, Ira Hough, who was a prominent member o*
the Society of Friends, to the territory of Indiana, and
settled -at New Garden, in Wayne county. The mother,
whose maiden name was Anna Marine, is a native of
Marlboro District, South Carolina, and is the daughter of
the late Rev. John Marine, who, together with his family,
emigrated to the State of Indiana, and settled in Wayne
county about the year 1823. Senator Hough resided in
his native village until he was eight years of age, when
with his parents he removed to Hagerstown, in the same
county, where they remained about one year. In the fall
of 1842, they emigrated to what was then known as the

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" St. Joe Country," arriving on the first day of November
at the village of Middlebury, in Elkhart county, where they
still reside. His opportunities for obtaining an education
were such as were afforded by the common schools of the
villages in which his parents resided, the ^'Middlebury
Seminary," and a few months' study in the " La Grange
Collegiate Institute," which was originally chartered as a
manual labor school, located at Ontario, La Grange county,
Indiana. The leisure hours of his school days he occupied
principally in assisting his father in the prosecution of his
business, cabinet making, finishing furniture, painting,
etc; but having determined, when but a boy, to adopt a
different avocation, he didn't take enough interest in it to
•' learn the trade." He taught school two terms in La
Grange county, the last of which was during the winter
of 1855-6, and left the home of his parents during the fol-
lowing summer to "try his fortune in the world." In the
latter part of the same year he began the study of law in the
office of Captain R. A. Riley, in the town of Greenfield,
the county seat of Hancock county. While prosecuting
his legal studies, he was, without solicitation on his part,
appointed to the office of School Examiner of Hancock
county, and having performed the duties of that office to
the satisfaction of the Board of Commissioners for one
term, at the expiration thereof he received the appoint-
ment for a second term, which he accepted, and again
satisfactorily discharged the duties of the trust. Then he
began the practice of his profession.

In the fall of 1860 he was elected District Attorney for
the judicial district comprising the counties of Hancock,
Madison, Henry, Rush and Decatur, almost without oppo-
sition, and faithfully discharged the duties of said office

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for one term, at the end of which he resumed and applied
himself zealously to his professional business, with a view
to building up his home practice, confining his labors to
his own county principally. Yet he has made a reputation
as a lawyer that is known and envied throughoi^t his sec-
tion of the State, combining the qualifications of counsel
and advocate. He is possessed of a good share of finan-
cial ability, which has enabled him to so husband the pro-
ceeds of his practice that, although he is yet comparatively
a young man, he has accumulated an amount of property
that would by most people be regarded as a competency,
and he is at this time one of the largest tax-payers
in Hancock county. He has never been an office-seeker,
but has since attaining his majority been an active
member of the Eepublican party. As a citizen and a leg-
islator he has been an ardent supporter of our free school
system, and in favor of the adoption of such measures as
will the most rapidly develop and perfect the same, believ-
ing the individualizing effect of education upon the
citizens of a free government essential to its perpetuity.
He served industriously during the special session of 1 872,
and the regular session of 1873 of the General Assembly,
and during the latter session was a member of the follow-
ing Standing Committees : On Education, Benevolent
Institutions, State Library, Claims, Organization of Courts,
Eights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of theS tate, and
on the Joint Committee on State Library and Claims, on
all of which he was characterized by ability and faith-
fulness to the trusts of his position. He is serving on
several important committees this session.

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WASHINGTON IRVING HOWARD,

SENATOR FROM STEUBEN AND DE KALB,

Was born in Jamaica, Windham county, Vermont, May 7,
1837. His remote ancestors were English, but his parents
were both of American birth. The foundation of Senator
Howard's education was laid at Leland Seminary, in the
State of Vermont ; then he graduated from Darmouth
College, and read law. In 1854 he removed to Indiana,
and located at Angolia, where he practiced the profession
of law until a short time preceding his election to the Sen-
ate, when he engaged in the sale of hardware. From
1863 to 1867, however, he was treasurer of Steuben county.
His father was for several terms a member of the Vermont
Legislature, and for forty years a Justice of the Peace in
that State. Office holding, therefore, is not wholly
unknown to the family circle of the Howards. Senator
Howard was a Democrat until the organization of the
Republican party, when his political faith underwent a
marked change, and he has been a member in good stand-
ing of the Republican party since. His home is in
Angolia, Steuben county.

ANDREW HUMPHREYS,

SENATOR FROM DAVIESS AND GREENE,

Was born in Anderson county, Tennessee, March 30
1821. His father was a native of Tennessee, and his mother
of Virginia. He moved to Indiana in 1827. Senator Hum-
phreys resided for a season in Putnam county, and then
removed to Linton, Greene county, where he now lives.

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He received a good common school education, the best
that con Id then be had without the expenditure of a great
deal of money, for that article was not so plentiful then as
now. As early as 1849 Mr. Humphreys was elected to the
Legislature, and was kept there by his constituents in
some capacity until 1857. Two years afterwards, in 1859,
President Buchanan appointed him Indian Agent for the
Territory of Utah, and he so served until 1861, at which
date he resigned, and returned to his home in Indiana.
Senator Humphreys has always been an ardent Democrat,
and in times of great political excitement, violently so.
He is a man of strong convictions, and resolute to assert
the principles he conceives to be right. He regarded the
rebellion as a revolution ; and, conceding the South's right
of secession, he desired that those sister States should pass
out of the Union at pleasure and in peace. When not
in office the Senator from Greene and Daviess, tills the soil
of the latter county.

FKANKLIN CONSTANTINB JOHNSON,

SENATOR PROM FLOYD,

Was born at Constableville, Lewis county, New York,
June 23, 1836. He is the second son of Judge Horace
Johnson, a well known lawyer and jurist, and also a prom-
inent Democratic politician of Central New York, now
and for many years a resident of Syracuse. 3Ir. Johnson
was educated at the academies of LowviJle and Eome, in
his native State. Leaving New York in 1852 he came
direct to Indiana and attended the first State Fair, at

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Indianapolis. There he got a glimpse of the varied and
vast resources of our State, and he resolved to add one to
its population by locating in it. So he settled in New
Albany and engaged in business as a clerk in the whole-
sale hardware establishment of Brooks & Brown, and was
thus employed until he had attained the age of twenty-one
years, when he became a member of the firm of Brown,
Johnson & Crane. He continued a partner in the business
of that firm until 1861, when he sold his interest in the
concern to purchase the Southwestern Nurseries, of which
he is now and has since then been the proprietor. He at
once became identified with the horticultural and agricul-
tural interests of Indiana, and has been active in their
advancement ever since. He has been for many years
Vice-President of the State Horticultural Society. In 1871
he was commissioned by Governor Baker to represent
Indiana at the organization of the National Agricultural
Congress at Nashville, and in the ensuing year was chosen
a member of the State Board of Agriculture. Last year
he was re-elected. In January, 1873, he was nominated
by Governor Hendricks as one of the Indiana members
of the Centennial Commission, and in February he was
commissioned by President Grant. In May Mr. Johnson
attended the first annual meeting of the American Cheap
Transportation Association in New York, as the represen-
tative of the National Agricultural Congress, and assisted
in its organization, besides otherwise prominently partici-
pating in its organization. This, coupled with the addi-
tional circumstance of his having organized more Granges
in Indiana than any one else, must in a measure account
for the fact that in June ensuing he was ousted from the
Centennial Commission to give place to General Passenger

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Agent Boyd, of the Pennsylvania Eailroad Company, who
had not been a citizen of the State since early boyhood.
And, added to the above enumerated incentives for casting
Mr. Johnson off the Centennial Commission, is the fact that
a year ago last summer, in answer to a letter from Senator
Wyndom, inquiring into the grievances of the farm-
ers of this State, he (Mr. J9hnson) in behalf of
the agricultural classes of Indiana, stated such grievances
succinctly and strongly, and he then avowed himself in
favor of the establishment of a Bureau of Commerce and
Transportation, providing for a Commissioner from each
State, selected by the State Legislature in joint session,
thus vesting the power of control within easy access of the
people.

In politics Senator Johnson is a Democrat, and has been
such all his life. In 1870 he was elected to the City Coun-
cil of New Albany, and served two years in that official
capacity. At the Cincinnati Convention in 1 872 he repre-
sented the New Albany district and supported the lamented
Greeley, first, last, and all the time, and upon returning
home he urged the claims of that gentleman on all who
loved honor in high places, most warmly and ably, until
the close of the canvass.

JAMES T. JOHNSTON,

SENATOR PROM PARKE,

Is a native of Putnam county, this State. He was born
January 19, 1839. His parents were natives of North
Carolina, and removed to Indiana in 1820. They settled
in Washington county, but did not remain there more than

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two or three years. They then located in Putnam county.
The date of their settlement there was anterior to the laying
off of the town of (xreencastle. In 1861 the senior was
Sheriff of the county. Senator Johnston was educated in
the common schools of the county, and read law in the
office and under the careful instruction of Williamson &
Daggy. This was in 1860-'61. Hardly had he completed
his course of reading when he felt called upon by the most
vital interests of his country to bear arms in her behalf,
and he responded by enlisting in Company " C," 71st
Indiana. He served in that regiment until 1863, when he
was transferred to the 8th Tennessee cavalry, where he
was commissioned Lieutenant. Subsequently he was
Quartermaster Sergeant of the 133d Indiana, a one hun-
dred day regiment. When his term of service therein has
expired he became Quartermaster of the 149th Indiana.
In September, 1865, he was mustered out of the service
and returned home. The year following, he removed to
Parke county and located at Eockville and engaged in the
practice of the law. He is now a resident of Eockville
and a member of the legal firm of Eice & Johnston, and
in the enjoyment of a remunerative practice. For two
years Senator Johnston was Prosecuting Attorney for the
Parke, Vigo and Sullivan Circuit. In politics he is a
Eepublican, living in the very Gibralter of the party in
Indiana.

JOHN M. LA EITE,

SENATOR FROM TIPPECANOE,

Was born near Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio Novem-
ber 24, 1826, of French and German descent, his father,

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however, having been born in New Jersey, and his mother
in Pennsylvania. Mr. La Eae resided in Hamilton county,
Ohio, until September 30th, 1830, when he removed to
Tippecanoe county, this State, where he has since
resided. Taking a course in Asbury University, he
graduated in 1849. Subsequently he studied law, and.
having acquired that profession, has been practicing for
many years. In 1856 he was elected to the Lower House,
from Tippecanoe county, and served satisfactorily through
the term. He was chosen Common Pleas Judge in 1868
and served satisfactorily until the abolition of that office,
in March, 1873. Mr. La Hue is Eepublican in politics and
has been since the disorganization of the Whig party, to
which organization he had before belonged, only deviating
from it to support Van Buren, the Free Soil candidate, yet
not voting, knowing it would do no good, inasmuch as he
(Van Buren) could not be elected. Senator La Eue lives
in Lafayette, and is regarded as one of the leading citizens
of the Star City.

GEOEGE MAJOE,

SENATOR FROM BENTON, NEWTON, JASPER AND WHITE,

Was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, September 18,
1819. His parents immigrated to Pennsylvania from Ire-
land before the Eevolution, and removed to Hamilton
county, Ohio, in 1816. The father of the subject of this
sketch never held office, but his brother, Andrew, has rep-
resented Carroll and Clinton in the Senate, and Clinton
in the Lower House, of the Indiana Legislature. The son

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was educated at private school, and removed to this State
in 1831 and settled in Clinton county, where he continued
to reside until 1861, when he removed to Jasper county,
where he has since lived on his farm. Politically, he was
educated a Jackson Democrat ; voted for Van Buren, Polk,
Cass and Pierce ; opposed the repeal of the Missouri com-
promise; took part in the anti- Nebraska movement in
1854; voted for Fremont and Lincoln, and supported the
administration of the latter during the war of the rebell-
ion ; he was dissatisfied with the McCuUoch financial pol-
icy and favored the nomination of Pendleton in 1868, but
eventually voted for Seymour : in 1872 he was a delegate
to the Cincinnati Convention, and supported Trumbull, but
voted for Greeley and the Democratic State ticket at the
polls ; at the inauguration of the independent movement
he took a prominent part, and was elevated to his present
position by the Independents. In a district that had before
given a Republican majority of eight hundred, Mr. Major
was elected by six hundred and sixty-two votes. He
resides at Remington, in Jasper county.

JAMES JAY MAXWELL,

SENATOR FROM MARION AND MORGAN,

Was born in Morgan county, Ind., February 27, 1839. His
parents were Irish and Scotch, respectively. His father
was born in Ireland, and came to this country when he
was but six weeks old. His mother was reared in the High-
lands, Mr. Maxwell has lived all his life between the two
Indian creeks, and all he knows he learned at home, never
having enjoyed to any considerable degree the advantages

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of the school system of the State. The first vote he ever
cast was for Douglass and the Democratic ticket in 1860,
but during the war he acted and voted with the Eepublicans»
regarding that organization as the party of patriotism. In
1872, after having seen the Eepublican party outlive its
mission and its usefulness, he became a Liberal and support-
ed the noblest Republican of them all for the Presidency,
though the ticket on which he run was a mixed one. He is
now opposed to the administration of public affairs by the
Grant dynasty. During his whole life Mr. Maxwell has
been a farmer, and can conscientiously claim to have acted
honorably in his dealings with his fellow men. In fact his
relations with those who have had business to trans-
act with him have been so amicable and agreeable
that he has never had a suit at law. If the world were all
like Mr. Maxwell the law would be the poorest profession
in all the land, whereas it is the most remunerative. Win-
chester is Mr. Maxwell's address.

ANDREW J. NEFF,

SENATOR FROM WAYNE,

Was born in Preble county, Ohio, November 30, 1825 ;
parents of German descent ; the father from Pennsylvania,
the mother from Maryland. In 1839 Mr. Neff came to
this State and settled in Wabash county, then moved
to New Castle, thence to Hartford, and subsequently
to Winchester, where he now resides. He was educated at
the academies in New Castle, Muncie and Winchester, and
read law with Judge Bundy ; was appointed Circuit Pros-

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ecutor by Governer Wright, in 1855, and in 1856 was
elected Eepresentative from Blackford county. Early in
the late war, he enlisted in the service in the capacity of
Major of the 84th Indiana volunteers ; was promoted to
Lieut. Colonel, and subsequently Colonel, and finally Brevet
Brigadier G-eneral by Andrew Johnson, then President.
In 1864, his term of service in the army having expired,
Mr. Neff began to publish and edit the Journal, at Win-
chester, and continued so to act until 1869. In 1872 he
was elected to the Senate from Eandolph county, by the
Eepublicans, with whom he had been acting since he left
the Democratic party in 1858; and he is now holding over.
For his services to the State during his legislative career,
the reports of the various sessions through which he has
served, speak in terms of glowing praise. His war record
is a part of the history of the country. Winchester is Mr.
Neff's address.

DANDKIDGE HALLADAY OLIYEE,

SENATOR FROM MARION,

Is a Kentuckian by nativity, but an Indianian by adoption.
He was born in Henry county, Kentucky, November 11,
1822, and came here in October, 1836. He is a worthy
son of a noble sire, and bears as a given name the maiden
name of the worthy wife of the father of his country. His
grandfathers fought for the liberties we enjoy through the
well won victories of the Kevolutionary war, participating
with particular prominence in the decisive battle of York-
town. His father, John H. Oliver, wore the eagles in the

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militia service for many years, besides serving his country
as a postmaster. Upon the occasion of the lamented
Statesman, Henry Clay, visiting Indianapolis, when his
(Clay's) star of destiny was a blaze of glory, the elder
Oliver was a most prominent member of the committee of
reception. The son studied medicine, and after having
acquired as good an English education as could be had in
the schools of this section of the State at that time, hav-
ing read the books prescribed by his professional adviser,
he attended and graduated from the medical department of
the University of Louisville, winning honors for himself and
credit for his class. Then he commenced to practice, and
at once began to reap a rich harvest of business in
reward for the care he had taken to first thorougly qualify
himself

During the war, while he did not go to the front and
fight, as his brothers did with great credit to the family
fame in military matters, he performed professional service
in the families of soldiers gratuitously. In that way he
served his country to a greater advantage than had he
drawn the sword in her defence. Politically, Dr. Oliver
was formerly a Whig, now a Eepublican. In 1872, he
was elected to the State Senate, and is serving as such
still.

HENEY A. PEED,

SENATOR FROM MARTIN, DUBOIS AND ORANGE COUNTIES,

Was elected by a majority of two thousand two hundred
and twenty -five on the Democratic ticket, the principles of
which party he always professed and practiced. He had

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served the State as Eepresentative for the counties of Mar-
tin and Dubois, having been elected to that position in 1872,
serving in special and regular session on the Committee
of Ways and Means. Mr. Peed is of English and Scotch
extraction ; having been born in Johnson county, Indiana,
seven miles northeast of Franklin, November 9, 1845. Edu-
cational facilities in that neighborhood in those days were
limited to an old log school house, and the elder Feed's
means being limited, the subject of this sketch could
only receive a common school education, which, however,
he made the most of. Mr. Feed worked on his father's
farm until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion,
and then he shouldered arms and served his country in the
army of the northwest, as long as his services were
required. Then he returned to this State and repaired to
Columbus, where he located, and there he learned the art
preservative, in the office of the Union, meantime reading
law with G. W. Eichardson, of Hill & Eichardson. Hav-
ing acquired both professions, his fortune was made.
Leaving Columbus he went to Martin county and estab-
lished the Herald, in 1868, since which date he has devo-
ted his time and talent to the practice of the profession of
law, and editing the Herald, making a large, general and
local reputation, especially as an editor.

In politics Mr. Feed is now and always has been a
Democrat. He never held office but once until elected to the
Legislature, and then was School Examiner of Martin
county, for one year. The postoffice address of the Senator
from Dubois, Orange and Martin, is Shoals, Martin
county.

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WILLIAM p. KHODES,

SENATOR FROM FOUNTAIN AND WARREN,

Was born in Tippecanoe county, July 17, 1833. His father
was of German and his mother of English and French
descent. He was educated at Fort Wayne College,
and read law. He made his home in Tippecanoe county
until 1859, and then removed to Williamsport, Warren
county, and entered upon the practice of his profession.
In the winter of 1860, he removed to Kankakee, Illinois,
but returned again in the ensuing spring and resumed his
practice. During the war he served in the 135th Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, as Captain of Company K. At the
close of the war he returned to WilliamspOrt and resumed
the practice of his profession there. In 1870 he was
elected to the Lower House of the Legislature, and dis-
charging the duties of the trust to the satisfaction of his
constituency, he was elected to the Senate in 1870, and is
now holding over. He is Eepublican in politics.

MOEGAN BEYAN EINGO,

SENATOR FROM OWEN AND CLAY,

Was born in Henry county, Kentucky, March 23, 1818.
With his parents, who were also native Kentuckians, Mr.
Eingo removed to Indiana in the spring of 1833. In early
manhood he identified himself with the agricultural
interests of Clay county, where he has lived so long. He
has farmed his landed estate with more than ordinary
care and intelligence, devoting much of his time to the
improvement of his stock, as well as to the improvement

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of his farm, setting a good example to that large class of
farmers who allow their land and stock to become alike
impoverished. By industry and intelligent labor and
rigid economy Mr. Ringo has accumulated quite a com-
petency. The only educational facilities he enjoyed were
in the common schools of Kentucky and Indiana, but he
acquired an education of which he should not be ashamed.
In 1872 he was elected to the Senate on the Democratic
ticket, of which party he has been a member since 1860,
having been a Whig the twenty years preceding. How-
ever, he is very liberal in his views, differing with the
majority of Democrats on the temperance question.
Poland is his P. O. address.

J. D. SARNIGHAUSEN.

SENATOR FROM ALLEN, ADAMS AND WELL3,

Was born in Hanover, Germany, October 31, 1818. He
came to this State and settled at Fort Wayne, in 1862, and
has resided there ever since. Before coming to this coun-
try he received a college and university education. Mr.
Sarnighausen is and has long been a newspaper editor by
profession, and as editor of the Staats Zeitung at Fort
Wayne, has wielded great influence among his G-erman-
American fellow citizens in the community where he lives.
In 1870 Mr. Sarnighausen's claims to the Senatorship, for
the county of Allen, were urged by the German and Amer-
ican friends he had made by the manly manner in which
he conducted his jDaper. The election was so close that a
contest resulted and Mr. Sarnighausen lost his seat,
though on the first count he was ahead one hundred and
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seventy-one votes. J^ot discouraged, however, his friends
prevailed upon him to become a candidate for the counties
of Allen and Adams, and he consented. This time he
was elected by six thousand one hundred and eighty -four
majority, indicating great political and personal popular-
ity. He is a Democrat.

The county of Wells was admitted to the Fort Wayne
district under the last apportionment law.

Senator Sarnighausen's father held a high civil office
under the former kingdom of Hanover, but notwithstand-
ing the favors royalty heaped upon the sire, the son
recognizes the republican as the best form of government
the world has ever witnessed.

HAEYEY D. SCOTT,

SENATOR FROM VIGO,

Was born in Milford Union county, Ohio, December 18,
1819. His parents were natives of the United States. His
infancy was spent in Union, but his childhood days were
whiled away in Ashtabula county, a part of the beautiful
Buckeye State known as the Western Eeserve. In 1838,
however, he moved to Indiana, and, as fortunate fate would
have it. located in the fruitful valley of the Wabash, at
Terre Haute. He was educated at Asbury University,
G-reencastle, and subsequently became learned in the law.
Then he became skilled in politics. He has held, in his
time, the office of Prosecuting Attorney one term, County
Treasurer of Yigo county two terms, Representative in
the Lower House of the Indiana Legislature one term,

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member of the National Congress one term, and one term
State Senator, and he is serving in the latter capacity still.
His record of public service is a long one, and one of which
neither he nor his constituents are ashamed. During the
last session of the Legislature he was generally regarded
as one oi the ablest members of the higher branch of
that honorable body. Politically, he was first an Anti-
Slavery Whig, then American, and no\t a Republican. In
private, as well as public life, he has ever been found in
the very van of all movements that could tend to the
advancement of the moral and mental condition of the
community and country. When not engaged in official or
professional life, his time, for years, has been occupied in
horticulture, at his country residence, in the suburbs of the
city of Terre Haute. He is an ardent friend of the agri-
cultural class of the country, and aids in all ways he can
to advance their interests. He is more or less identified
with the Grange movement through this sympathy. The
purity of his private life is one of his many virtues.

DE FORREST L. SKINNER,

SENATOR FROM LAKE AND PORTER,

Is a native of Vermont. He was born in Hardwick, Cale-
donia county, in 1853. His father was one of the leading
lawyers in that State. The son was educated at a private
acadamy, and acquired an extraordinarily good English
education, his opportunies cons.dered. When but eleven
years of age, he came to Indiana with his parents, and
had been here but a year when he was bereft of his father
by death, and was, at that early age, thrown upon his own

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resources, and they proved equal to the emergency. His first
business venture was in the dry goods line and he at once
secured the support and confidence of all with whom he
had dealings. His business undertakings have all been
crowned with success, and he is now about as well off in a
worldly way as any man of his age in Indiana. For many
years he has been regarded as a leading spirit in inaugura-
ting movements for public improvement in his section of
the State, especially rail road enterprises. He was one
of the most extensive contractors for the construction of
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago, Chicago and
Lake Huron, and the Cincinnati and Chicago, all of which
were successfully built, and are now in active operation.
In 1864, his health failing him, he took a trip across the
plains, and after having endured many physical privations,
and passed through great peril, he returned home in robust
health. While absent, he had many adventures with the
Indians. He even had the rare satisfaction of reading his
own obituary in his home paper ; and the joy unspeakable
of comforting his estimale wife in her supposed widow-
wood. The writer might dwell upon the romance of the
Senator's eventful experience, but leaves that to J. Fen-
nimore Cooper's graphic and prolific pen.

Politically and personally. Senator Skinner is very pop-
ular in the north western part of the State, as is indicated
by his election from such a stronghold of Eepublicanism
as he rej)resent, he being a Democrat. In 1866 he was
nomina,ed by the Democracy of Porter county, for the
lower house of the Legislature but was defeated, though
he ran far ahead of his ticket. Last fall he received the
Democratic nomination for Senator from Lake and Porter,
and. was elected by a handsome majority, overcoming a

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Republican predominence of over eleven hundred votes.
The Senator is now in the prime of life, with a flattering
future before him. He resides at Valparaiso where he is
Vice President and principal stock-holder of the First
National Bank, the financial bulwarks of the beautiful and
prosperous little city where it is established.

MAJOR ROBERT SLATER,

SENATOR FROM JOHNSON AND MORGAN,

Was born in an old log cabin in Dearborn county, Indiana'
January 5, 1833. He is the son of a French Canadian
father and a Vermont Yankee mother, and he claims to have
been educated in "the wind-shaken garret of dilapidated
fortune." By virtue of this education he became a printer
by occupation, but he was not destined to stick type all
his life. He had a penchant for pushing the pencil ; so in
1859 he began to edit the Franklin Democratic Herald,
and has been so engaged, when not in office, since that
time. In 1856 he lived in Aurora, and was elected City
Clerk. During the administration of Andrew Johnson he
was appointed mail agent on the Jefl:ersonville, Madison
and Indianapolis Railroad. Politically he has always been
a Democrat of the most ultra type, and was elected to the
Senate from Johnson and Morgan by a larger majority than
any other Democratic Senator ever received. He served
in regular and special session with distinction, holding
important positions on committees, and is now a member
of the State House Committee from the Senate.

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GEOKGE B. SLEETH,

SENATOR FROM DECATUR AND RUSH,

Is a native of New York where he was born on the
natal day of our Kepublic, (July 4th,) 1837; His parents
were of Irish nativity and had arrived in America but
three months before the birth of the son who is made the
object of this sketch. When he was nine years of age
Senator Sleeth had the melancholy misfortune to suffer the
loss of paternal protection, through the death of both his
loved and loving parents. For the three succeeding
years, he was cared for by friends of the family in Pitts-
burgh. Then, at the tender age of twelve, he left them to
seek his fortunes in the then " far west." It was in 1852,
that he first set foot upon Indiana soil, and he stuck to it
tenaciously from the start. He first located at Laurel,
Franklin county, and followed farming for a livelihood,
working for a farmer named Winship. Meantime he
neglected no opportunity for the acquirement of an educa-
tion either in or out of school. Indeed, he never ceased
his educational endeavors until he had taken a thorough
course in Farmers' College, Ohio. Having thus laid a
firm foundation on which to base a profession, in 1862,
he entered the law office of the Hon. Leonidas Sexton,
(now Lieutenant-Governor of the State and President of
the Senate,) at Rushville. where he still resides. There he
prosecuted his studies with that intelligence and steadfast-
ness of purpose that has characterized his whole life, and
led him from poverty to plenty, and to professional and
political prominence. In 1872 he was elected to the State
Senate from the counties of Decatur and Rush, and served
with marked ability through the succeeding session, and is
now a member of that honorable body. He is one of but

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few men in his profession who would prefer his practice
to political preferment, but is willing to respond to the
call of his constituents. That the office should seek the
man and not the man the office, is one of his firmest con-
victions. His reputation as a lawyer is the gratification
of all the ambition that animates him to strive to obtain
and maintain a prominent position in the hearts of the
people of his adoj)ted State. As a politician, he is con-
scientious, and is true to his conscience when an unscrupu-
lous measure of legislation is being urged in the interest of
party.

MILO E. SMITH,

SENATOR FROM MARSHALL, TULTON AND PULASKI,

Was born in Logansport, Cass county, July 1, 1820. His
father was born near Harper's Ferry, on the old Virginia
shore, and his mother in Kentucky. They moved to Indiana
in 1810, first locating in Harrison county, and remaining
there until 1824, when they removed to Crawford county.
Eesiding there four years, they removed to Cass county,
where the father had received the appointment of Govern-
ment Blacksmith to the Miami and Pottowattamie Indians
at a salary of $500 per annum. The elder Smith was a black-
smith during the week, and a Baptist minister on Sunday.
He organized the first church of that denomination ever
established in Logansport.

Senator Smith's lines of life were not cast in pleasant
places, yet he is as " happy as a big sun flower," to use his
own happy expression. His father died in 1831. Adopted
by his sister, he was taken to Knox county, Illinois, where

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he was suffered to grow up with the country until 1840,
when his sister moved to Gralena, taking him along. There
and elsewhere, he was knocked about among his relatives
until 1846, when he began business for himself as cabin
boy on a Mississippi steamer, where his moral education
was no longer neglected. Serving two years in that capac-
ity, without being blown up, he returned to Indiana and
abided at Rochester for a season ; then settled in Logans-
port and sold goods there for eight years. He returned to
Eochester in 1856, where he has since resided. His school-
ing was of that practical character that makes the man.
Senator Smith is a lawyer, and practices that profession
when not engaged in the service of the State.

STROTHEE M. STOCKSLAGER,

SENATOR TROM CRAWFORD AND HARRISON,

Was born in Mauckport, Harrison county, Indiana, May 7,
1842, of American parentage, both mother and father hav-
ing been born and reared in Shenandoah county, Virginia*
He is now and always has been a resident of Harrison
county, his present postoffice address being Corydon. After
having taken a course of instruction at the academy near
Corydon, Mr. Stockslager entered the Indiana State Uni-
versity at Bloomington. but did not graduate, having to give
up his collegiate course. In 1861 he assisted in raising a
company for the 13th Indiana Volunteer Cavalry ; and in
1864 entered the service himself as 2d Lieutenant of the
same company, and he served with such skill as secured
for him promotion to the captaincy of the company, in
which capx'iifcy h ) sorvod until the conclusi )ii of thi war .

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He displayed great daring and presence of mind at the
battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, during Hood's desper-
ate advance in 1864. Mr. Stockslager read law with the
Hon. Simeon K.Wolfe, Member of Congress from the Third
District; served Harrison county as Deputy Clerk from
1856 to 1860, and as Clerk from 1867 to 1869 He
is now, and has always been, a Democrat. His father was
the first Democratic Sheriff ever elected in Harrison county,
and he served from 1856 to 1860.

WILLIAM CLINTON THOMPSON,

SENATOR FROM MARION,

Is a native of Butler county, Pennsylvania. His parents
were born at Philadelphia, of Scotch, Irish and German
extraction. His father was a farmer by occupation, and
to that avocation he trained the son in early life. But
before he had attained his majority, the subject of this
sketch suffered the loss of both father and mother, and
was thrown upon his own resources; but he was equal to
the emergsncy. He managed to amass means enough to
attend school in Cannonsburgh and Pittsburgh, in Penn-
sylvania .and afterwards to graduate from the Cincinnati
Medical College. In 1847 he came to Indiana and located
in Indianapolis, and entered upon the practice of his pro-
fession, in which he exercised such skill and fidelity as
won for him the confidence and support of all with whom
he eame in contact. Professionally he has been very suc-
cessful, and the same is true of all his undertakings. This
is duly attested by the fine property he has around him,
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Democrat until 1850, when he became a Bepublican, and
has remained so since, though he is not the kind ot a man
to sacrifice principle to party or persons. His record is
that of an Independent Republican. For eight years he
was a member of the citj' council, and when he shall have
served through this term will have served the State in the
Senate six sessions. During the war he was a Brigade
Surgeon, and discharged the duties of the trust to the satis-
faction of superiors, subalterns and patients. In the begin-
ning he was assigned to duty in the Army of the Potomac,
and acted there until after the battle of Antietam, when he
resigned on account of failing health. It is not inappro-
priate to add here that Dr. Thompson has been the family
physician of all the Governors of Indiana, from Wright to
Baker — quite a distinction, indeed. He has been continu-
ously a citizen ol Indianapolis for nearly a quarter of a
century, except six years spent in St. Charles, Missouri.
The Doctor is a genial gentleman, one whom it is worth a
day's journey to meet in social converse.

ROBERT TOBra,

SENATOR FROM SPENCER AND PERRY,

Was born in Tobin township, Perry county, Indiana,
December 17, 1815. His parents were both of American
birth, but of foreign extraction, the father of Irish and the
mother of German descent The elder Tobin was Judge of
the County Court one term, and Justice of the Peace for
nearly a quarter of a century. Robert was educated in the
common schools of his native county, and after graduating
therefiom, he engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which

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avocation he has spent about all his life to the date of his
call to the Legislative halls of the State. However, he had
before held several township offices, but they did not inter-
fere with the management of his farm. In politics, he was
first a Whi«r. then a Rej^ublican, and is now identified with
the Working Men's party, through the influence of which
he was elected to the Senate of the State of Indiana. His
address is Tobin sport. Perry county.

ISAAC UNDERWOOD,

SENATOR FROM GRANT, BLACKFORD AND JAY,

Was born of Welsh parentage, in Clinton county, Ohio,
July 21, 1821. He graduated at the old log school house,
and then he turned his back upon his alma mater, and
engaged in agricultural pursuits — and the pursuit of good
bargains in the stock trade. In December, 1856, he came
to Indiana, and after sojourning in Randolph county two
years and Fort Wayne one year, he settled down to busi-
ness in Jay county, where he has since lived. In 1861 he
represented Jay county in the Lower House of the Legisla-
ture. He was once Treasurer of that county. These two
positions are the only ones he has hitherto held by polit-
ical preferment. However, he has held quite a number of
responsible positions of a public character. For one year
he was Treasurer of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort
Wayne Railroad, and for a time Vice-President of the
Lake Erie and St. Louis Railroad. In politics Senator
Underwood was a Whig until the organization of the
Republican party, then he joined that party and acts with

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it still. He is an avowed champion of such legislation as
shall result in the greatest good to the greatest number
and does not believe that there is any antagonism between
capital and labor, and thinks those giant interests would
be harmonious were they properly managed.

HENEY M. WILSON,

SENATOR PROM SULLIVAN AND KNOX,

Was born in G-reene county, East Tennessee, January 12,
1815, of Scotch parentage ; was educated in that State,
and removed to Sullivan county in 1831, and has resided
there ever since ; by occupation is a farmer. Mr. Wilson
has held office and played a prominent part in local politics
for the last twenty-two years. During that time he served
the county of Sullivan as Trustee, Justice of the Peace,
School Commissioner, Auditor, Clerk, and Eecorder, In
1860 he was elected to the State Senate, and served four
years. He was elected by the Democratic party, of course
as every official must be who comes from that stronghold of
the Democracy. Mr. Wilson has ever been a consistent
member of that organization, and was a delegate to the
Charleston Convention in 1860. His father was an officer
holder before him, having been a Justice of the Peace,
Postmaster, etc.

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JOHN H. WINTERBOTHAM,

SENATOR FROM LA PORTE,

Was born at Humphreysville, now Seymour, Connecticut,
November 13, 1813. His parents were-^nglish by birth,
but American by adoption. At the time of Senator Win-
terbotham's birth his father was manager of a woolen
manufactory for General Humphreys — Washington's Min-
ister to Portugal, and the first importer of merino sheep.
Under the supervision "of the elder Winterbotham, the
Humphreys mills turned out blankets and clothing for the
army of the United States during the war of 1812. At
the close of the war G-eneral Humphreys admitted Mr.
Winterbotham to the firm as junior partner, which relation
was not dissolved until by the death of the G-eneral, in
1818. Continuing the business until 1828, Mr. Winter-
botham was overwhelmed with business reverses, and
became a bankrupt through protective legislation. Then
he came West to grow up with the country, locating in the
then wild woods of the State of Ohio. It is said that the
feeling of all the surviving members of the family is to
walk a mile to kick a sheep — or a protective legislator.
Owing to these reverses Senator Winterbotham could only
graduate from the old log school house in the district
where the family settled, near Fredericktown. He
spent several years in farming, when he left school, after
which he began the sale of agricultural implements through
the Western States, for Eastern manufacturers. In 1849
he became the junior member of the firm of Pinney,
Lamson & Co., manufacturer of agricultural tools, Columbus
Ohio. They contracted largely for convict labor in the
Ohio State Penitentiary. In 1853, Mr. Winterbotham sold
his interest in, and retired from the firm. Immediately

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thereafter he formed a copartnership with Gen. Gr. A. Jones,
of Mt. Vernon. Ohio, and with him leased the Iowa Peni-
tentiary for the term of ten years, and engaged in the
manufactory of agricultural implements in that institution
until the expiration of the lease. Soon afterward, in con-
nection with Gen. C. E. Wever, he established the Fort
Madison National Bank, and he was president of this
sound financial institution until his removal to Michigan
City, where at the earnest solicitation of the Warden and
Directors, he contracted for 150 men in the State Prison
North, and employed them in the manufacture of cooper-
age for the Chicago market ; also made carriage bodies and
gearing, which were sold extensively throughout the United
States. In 1871 he made a contract for the service of 200
men in the Illinois State Prison at Joliet, and he is now
carrying on an extensive manufactory in the Illinois and
Indiana Penitentiaries, under the firm name of J. H. Win-
terbotham & Sons. He is withal a gentleman of remarka-
ble executive ability, firm, and resolute, and he has been
successful in all his undertakings.

He is also a man of marked mental ability, and is des-
cended from an intellectual family. His great uncle,
William Winterbotham, will be remembred by literary
people, as an author of American history. His works can
be found in the older libraries. The Senator's sister, Mrs.
Ann S. Stephens, has an enviable reputation as an authorese.
During the last session of the Legislature, the Senator
served the State with distinction.

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DAVID TUKPIE,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND REPRESENaTIVE FROM

MARION,

Says Lanman's Congressional Dictionary, " was born in
Hamilton county, Ohio, July 8, 1829 ; graduated at Ken-
yon College in 1 848 ; studied law, and was admitted to
practice at Logansport, Indiana, in 1849; was appointed
by Governor Wright, whom he succeeded in the Senate,
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1854, and
was Judge of the Circuit Court in 1856, both of which
offices he resigned. In 1852 and also in 1858, he was a
member of the Legislature of Indiana, and in 1863, he
was elected Senator in Congress for the unexpired term
of J. D. Bright, and immediately succeeding J. A.
Wright, who served by appointment of the Grovernor."

For years Judge Turpie has been prominently before
the public as a politician. At one time he was a candidate
for congressional honors, and gave the Hon. Schuyler
Colfax an enlivening race, and it was in the palmiest days
of that lamented Christian statesman. For sometime he
has-been a member of the Indianapolis bar. Last fall he
was^elected to the lower branch of the Legislature. It is an
anomoly in American politics that a former United States
Senator should consent to the use of his name as a county can-
didate. Judge Turpie did that because he is a man who
holds himself in readiness to go where the people call,
without regard to his own personal preferences. Upon the
organization of the House, he was elected Speaker, and
already he has the members trained to familiarity with par
liamentary practice. He is a positive man and one born
and bred to command.

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SAMUEL AMES,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM LAKE,

Was born in the State of New Hampshire, of English and
German parentage, July 14, 1814. He was educated a
civil engineer, in New Hampshire, and removed to Penn-
sylvania in 1838. There he lived until 1856, when he
removed to this State. He settled down to farm life in
Lake county, near Lowell, and lives there still. Before
the present, he has never held any office of prominence in
county or State. However, his father was a member of the
Legislature of New Hampshire as early as 1824, and served
the State with distinction. The gentleman from Lake
responds at roll call from the Eepublican side of the House,
but he is not a violent partisan.

JOSEPH HARE ANDERSON,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM TIPPECANOE,

Was born near Fairview, G-uernsey county, Ohio, Novem-
ber 15, 1838. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, of
English extraction ; his mother was a native of Ohio, and
of Scotch descent. They removed to this State April 15,
1866. The senior Anderson was for eighteen years a Jus-
tice of the Peace, but devoted himself to agricultural pur-
suits, training his son in that avocation, insisting that it
was the surest way of making a living. Representative
Anderson, not content with the quiet walks of his father's
rural retreat, and inspired by the official career of his
paternal progenitor, as Justice of the Peace, worked
in the harvest at the age of fifteen years, lor means with

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which to pay his way at school, and pave the way to future
greatness. By this means he acquired an average English
education, and finally concluded that physicians made it
pay, and didn't have hard work to perform, so he studied
medicine with Dr. McPherson, of Fairview. Subsequently
he took a course in the Cincinnati Medical College, gradu-
ating therefrom. In 1862 his country called, and he
enlisted in the ranks of the 40th lowaRegiment, but was
soon promoted to the medical staff of the 1st Iowa, where
he served and dispensed the enlivening pill for eight
months, and received another promotion, this time to the
General Hospital, where he served until the close of the
war. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of
his profession at Coburn, Tippecanoe county.. He was
elected Township Trustee in 1872, and served two years.
Dr. Anderson was born and bred a Republican, always
lived a Republican, and he expects to fight it out on that
line, as he expresses it, in the language of our excellent
Executive.

JAMES W. ARNOLD,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM PIKE,

Was born in Warwick, July 4th, 1817. His parents were
American and had removed to Warwick county but three
years previous to his birth. Schools were scarce when the
subject of this sketch was a school boy, yet he managed to
secure a very creditable education, the circumstances con-
sidered. When with his father on the farm, he worked in
the cornfield but at a subsequent period in life, he felt called

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into the vineyard of the Lord, and for the last few years
he has been engaged as a minister of the Grospel. Last
October, however, having received a call from the people,
he is now serving the State for a season, in the Halls of
Legislation. Eepresentative Arnold is a real representa-
tive of the true blue Democracy, a credit to the party and
the county he is here to serve. Stancel is his post office
address.

G^EOEGE T. BAENEY,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM NOBLE AND ELKHART,

First optically observed the wonders of this wicked world
in New York, April 10, 1822. His parents were also
natives of New York. The subject of this sketch came
West and located in Ohio in 1837, and there remained
until 1844, when he removed to Indiana, and settled at
Elkhart. Living there until 1852, he pulled up stakes
and pitched his tent in Michigan, and there remained
until 1860, when he returned to Elkhart, where he
has since continued to reside. In early manhood he-
graduated from Oberlin College, in Ohio ; and, after read-
ing law, he practiced until his health failed him, when he
returned to the rural regions and pursued the avocation of
a farmer. He has, however, held a number of offices in
his time, amongst others that of Constable, Justice of the
Peace, Township Assessor, Sheriff, and United States
Marshal under President Buchanan. In politics, he is
what he always has been — Democratic.

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GEORGE RUSSEL BEAESS,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM KOSCIUSKO AND PULTON,

Was born at Peru, Miami county, November' 24, 1834,
and of American parentage. He was educated at Kenyon
College, but has heretofore followed the avocation of farm-
ing, and hitherto has held no official position. His father,
however, has been a member of both branches of the
Legislature and is now a member of the Senate. In poli-
tics Eepresentative Bearss is a Eepubiican. He has resid-
ed in Peru and Eochester, but the latter place is now
his postoffice address.

T. S. BELLOWS,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM CLARKE,

Was born near Lyme, in the State of Connecticut, Novem-
ber 7, 1816. Mr. Bellows is a direct descendant of one of
the oldest families of Yankee land, and can trace his lin-
eage back almost in sight of Plymouth Eock, "on the wild
New England shore." Before he can remember, however,
he lost his father by death, and when but three years of
age he moved to Indiana with his mother. She settled in
Clarke county, and there the subject of this sketch has
lived since. All the education he ever received was
through his own exertions. When he began business for
himself, it was as a farmer, and all the money he has or
ever had, he earned by the sweat of his own brow. He
has held most of the offices within the gift of his neighbors,
who know him best. He has served two terms as Sheriff
of Clarke county ; also, one term as County Commissioner.
In politics, he is and ever has been, a sound Democrat.
New Providence is his post office address.

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GEOKGE WOETH BEl^CE

REPRESENTATIVE PROM CLAY,

Was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, November 11,
1846, of American parentage. With his parents he removed
to Putnam county, this State, November 1, 1853. He
worked in the summer on his father's farm, and attended
school in the winter, until he had attained the age of 23.
Then he read medicine with Dr. Wilcox, at Greencastle.
After having read there until he had a fair knowledge
of the restorative art, he attended lectures in the medical
department of the University of Virginia, until he gradu-
ated in 1871. As a Physician, Dr. Bence takes high rank
in his section of the State. His course of reading with
Dr. Wilcox was a thorough training of itself, to say noth-
ing of his attendance at the University of Yinginia, one
of the standard medical institutions of the country. Last
fall he was urged to accept the nomination of the Democ-
racy of Clay county, for Representative ; and at last he
accepted, though he was well aware that he had a Repub-
lican majority of three hundred to overcome. After
making a vigorous canvass, he had the satisfaction of being
elected by nearly that majority. As a Legislator, he is
making a record that should be satisfactory to his con-
situtents.

GEORGE H. BROWN,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM JASPER AND WHITE,

Was born of American parentage, in Jackson county,
Ohio, May 11, 1816. When he was but eleven years of
age, his parents removed from Ohio to Tippecanoe county.

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Indiana. There he was educated in the district school
nearest his father's farm, and there he lived until 1840,
when he removed to Jasper county, where he has resided
ever since. By occupation he is a farmer and stock dealer.
He was born for an office-holder, however, for he had not
lived in Jasper county three years before the dear people
besieged him with persuasion to serve them as County
Commissioner. He consented, and they kept thrusting
the honor upon him for a decade. In 1860 he became a
Republican in politics, and continued to act with that
organization until 1870, since when he has been indepen-
dent in politics, and was elected to the Legislature on that
ticket. Eensselaer is his post office address.

BARKER BROWN,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE PROM RIPLEY, DECATUR AND

RUSH,

Was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, December 5,
1824. His parents were also native Kentuckians. When
the son was but ten months old his parents removed to
Indiana. Those were pioneer days, and even log school
houses were few and far between. But there was one in
the community where the Browns located even then, and
to that the subject of this sketch walked in winter, acquir-
ing what was then regarded •' a right smart education,"
as that part of the country was a waste a and wil-
derness. Farming was the fashion in those days as
everybody got along in harmony and there was no
need ot lawyers and newspaper editors and reporters and

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other disturbers of the public peace. Upon the settle-
•ment of the county and the advent of lawyers, Justices of
the Peace were a necessity and Mr. Brown was elected.
Then as civilization advanced, Legislators were required
and now Squire Brown, in response to the call of his con-
stituents in the counties enumerated above, comes to the
Capital. The Squire is a Democrat and has been ever
since the Whig party "went into Know-Nothingism."
His home is at Milroy, Kush county, Indiana. By occu-
pation he is a farmer.

GEOEGE BUESON,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM FULTON, PULASKI AND STARKE,

Was born of American parentage, but Irish descent, in
Columbiana county, Ohio, February 24, 1827, and came
to this State in 1853. He was educated in the common
schools of the State of Ohio, and read law, adopting that
as his profession. Since learning the law he has practised
his profession, with the exception of two or three years
that he spent in the army. In the service he was 1st
Lieutenant and then Captain of Co. H. 40th Indiana vol-
unteers, and subsequently was made Major of a regiment
of colored troops and assigned to duty in Arkansas, where
his health failed him, and in consequence he resigned in
the fall of 1863. In 1864 he was elected to the position of
Assistant District Attorney of the 25th Judicial Circuit,
and served in that capacity, until 1866.

His father was Treasurer of Yan Wert county, Ohio, for
several years.

In politics Eepresentative Burson has been a Democrat
since 1864, but was a Eepublican before that, after the war
began.

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FRANK D. CALDWELL,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM CLINTON,

Was born in Butler county, Ohio, of Scotcli and Irish par-
entage, September 13, 1823. He came to this State with
his parents in 1830, and first settled in Fayette county, and
then in Clinton county, where he has since resided. From
youth to manhood he enjoyed one continuous course in
"Brush College," and graduated with the first honors of
his class. But he bears his honors with becoming meek-
ness. In 1856 he was elected Sheriff of Clinton county,
and served to the satisfaction of all concerned, until 1861.
When his term of service had expired, he resumed rural
pursuits until 1863, when he assumed the editorship of the
Frankfort Crescent, and so acted one year. He was
engaged in mercantile business at Kilmore, and also
in the stock trade for a season. TTie first office he ever
held was that of School Trustee. He was elected Repre-
sentative in 1870, and again in 1874. Politically, he has
been a Democrat ever since the abandonment of the Whig
organization, and is now encouraged to always remain
such.

JOHN ALEXANDER CANTLEY,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM CASS,

Was born in Monroe county, West Virginia, February 13,
1825. His parents were of German descent. His grand-
father, Linely, was a Captain in the Revolutionary war,
and fought with Washington for American independence.
Mr. Cantley came to Indiana and stopped in Henry

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county in 184J:, Leaving there five years afterwards, ha
traveled and taught school seven years in various parts of
the State, finally settling down at Logansport, where he
served eight years as Justice of the Peace. Originally a
farmer, he had but poor opportunities for obtaining an
education, but he succeeded admirably under the circum-
stances. In politics Mr. Cantley is and has ever been a
Democrat. He cast his first vote for General Lewis Cass;
voted for Douglass in 1856, but wintered his vote in 1872,
not having an appetite adequate to the consumption
of crow.

DAYID CHARTEES,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM MIAMI,

•

Was born in Milton county, Pennsylvania, January 25,
1821. His father was of Irish and his mother of German
descent. He was educated in the common schools of the
old Key Stone State, and adopted the avocation of a far-
mer for a living. When twenty-three years of age he
left the hampering confines of the old homestead and came
West in the pursuit of fame and fortune, and he found
them both in Indiana. As a farmer he is prosperous, and
has the honor of representing the count}'' of his adoption
in the Legislature. In politics he was first a Whig, and
followed the fortunes of that party to the end, but he is a
Kepublican now. Peru is his postoflS.ce address.

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NATHAN HUNT CLARK,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HAMILTON,

Is a native of North Carolina, as also were his parents.
He was born in Randolph county, in that State, Septem-
ber 10, 1825. After attending the common schools of that
State and acquiring as much of an education as they could
afford him he removed to Indiana and engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits. Mr. Clark is a member and a minister of
the religious society of Friends, and a full believer in salva-
tion by and through J esus Christ, as all his fathers were.
Politically he is and all his life has bten, a believer in the
universal brotherhood of man, and that all men of every
nationality, color or clime, ought to have the same right
before the law. Therefore he has always adhered to the
original Abolition, Free Soil, and Republican parties, and
he now avows his belief to be that the salvation of this
nation, so far as human agency is concerned in such salva-
tion, depends upon carrying out to its entire legitimate
conclusion the great doctrine of the equality of all men
before the law. He is therefore still a Republican, and
expects to see far more gloomy days than those of 1861 if
he lives to see the party that was victorious last fall come
into full possession of the the General Government of the
United States. He is also an advocate of advanced tem-
perance ideas, and has already offered a bill to further this
reform. He lives at Eagletown.

ALFRED B. COLLINS,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM WASHINGTON,

Is a native of Indiana, having been born in New Albany,
September 10, 1835. His parents were both natives

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of Virginia. His father, the Hon. James Collins,
represented Floyd county in the Legislature for several,
sessions, and served as Senator for the same county one
term. He also acted as Agent of State for two years, and
was well known as an eminent lawyer. Eepresentative
Collins was educated at G-reencastle, and read law. In
March, 1873, Governor Hendricks appointed him Prose-
cutor for the Third Circuit. In politics Mr. Collins was a
Eepublican until the candidacy of Mr. G-reeley on the
Democratic ticket, when he observed that about all there
was true to Eepublicanism in the party had left it. Then
he experienced a change, and became Liberalised. So
when the time came, in 1874, to dispense with the services
of the stewards of that party, the Democratic Central
Committee of Washington county called upon Mr. Collins
and asked him to assist, and tendered him the nomination
for Eepresentative. Though he had not sought, and did
not desire the distinction, he accepted the nomination,
made a most thorough canvass, and carried the county by
a handsome majority. He had to contend against a com-
bination of Eepublican 8 and Independents, but every
effort was made to break the Democratic line without avail-
It was the warmest canvass ever made of the county, and
as Mr. Collins was the only county candidate experienced
in public speaking, the great burden thereof devolved upon
him. Mr. Collins resides at Salem, and is a member of the
law firm of T. & A. B. Collins.

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CHAELES E. CRANE.

REPRESENTATIVE FROM KNOX,

Was born in Wayne county, New York, February 14,
1836. His parents were Americans by nativity. When
the son was but two years of age, the Cranes migrated
t® Michigan. When he had attained the age of four-
teen he launched his bark upon the waters of life and
began thus early to " paddle his own canoe." Having, by
his own exertions acquired a good general English education,
he taught school in Tennessee, whither he went from Michi-
gan, when he left the paternal roof. By general reading
and' persistent application to study he also acquired a fair
knowledge of the classics. In 1861 he felt called upon by
his country to return to Michigan, and attach himself to the
cause of the preservation of the Union. His patriotism
being of the practical kind, he entered the army and
served until the close of the war. Then he returtied to
the State of Michigan and embarked in the lumber busi-
ness. Remaining there until 1868, he removed to Knox
county, this State, and engaged extensively in the walnut
lumber business as a specialty. He is now one of the
most enterprising men of that county, having in less than
six years assisted in clearing the timber from a large tract
of very valuable land, and in bringing it under cultivation,
giving employment to hundreds of worthy men. He has
also aided materially to advance the prosperty of the town
of Sandborn, a flourishing little village on the Indianapo-
lis and Yincenneg Railroad, thirty miles this side of the
latter place. Although a life-long Democrat, when he
became a candidate, which was not at his own solicitation.
Republicans as well as Democrats rallied around his stand-

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ard, at the polls, and sent him, in a " triumphal car of vic-
tory," to the Legislature to represent the county, and not
the Democracy merely. He lives in Sand born.

THEOHPALUS CEUM PACKED,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM PORTER.

Was born in Eedford county, Virginia, January 18, 1823,
of German parentage. When eight years of age, the son
came West with his parents to grow up, etc, and abided
for a season of seven years in Union county, in this State
They then removed to Laporte county, where they con-
tinued to reside until 1863. At that time Mr. Crumpacker,
having had a hard time of it in his hand to mouth struggle
with poverty, settled down to rural pursuits in Porter
county, where he has since lived, and to some purpose,
having surmounted the obstacles that thickly beset the
path 01 youth and early manhood. In 1872, without seek-
ing political position he was elected to the Legislature,
and re-elected again last October, and on the Eepublican
ticket, the Democratic candidate for State Senator carry-
ing the county by two hundred majority. He is and has
been a Eepublican since the inception of the movement
that resulted in its organization. Before that he was a
Whig. He resides at Valparaiso.

HIRAM DALE,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WABASH

Was born of American parentage, at Warrensburg, Fayette
• county, this State, July 30, 1826. His father was a promi-

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nent citizen of his county, serving three years as Director
of the Whitewater Yalley Canal when the company was
first organized, and two or three terms as County Commis-
sioner. Hiram however, had but limited opportunities for
an education. Yet, by his own exertion, he qualified him-
self for teaching and taught ten or twelve terms during the
winter months, farming through the summer season. He
claims to have contributed his mite to the advancement
of the material and moral interests of his community and
county. Before the disorganization of the Whig and the
organization of the Kepublican party, he belonged to the
first named organization ; since then and now, to the latter.
His postoffice address is Dora, Wabash county.

JAMES MILTON DARNELL,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HOWARD,

Is a native of Kentucky. He was born in Jessamine
county, June 28, 1817. His father was a native of Mary-
land and his mother of North Carolinia. The elder Darnell,
not recognizing the divine right of man to enslave his
fellow-man, as was maintained by the supporters of the
slave system of the South, removed to the free State of
Indiana in the fall of 1821. The son was then but
four years of age. He lived and worked on the farm with
his father until he was twenty years old ; then he was per-
mitted to provide for himself, and succeeded so well that
in a few years he had secured a splendid education at Han-
over College. He accumulated the means to acquire this
edu -nation by teaching school in the winter, and working

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on a farm in the summer. Then he studied medicine in the
office of Dr. Brown, of Connersville, now of Indianapolis.
In 1842 he commenced the practice of medicine in Carroll
county, and continued the same until 1864, when he
removed to Kokomo and engaged in the drug business, at
which place and in which business he is yet engaged. In
politics he first professed the principles of the Whig party,
and voted with that organization until 1848, when he
espoused the principles of the Free Soil party, and voted
for Yan Buren for President. When the Eepublican party
was organized he thought he properly belonged to that,
and became a Eepublican in principle and practice, and he
is still true to the party tenets. Twice he held the office
of Councilman for the city of Kokomo, through the favor
of men of all parties, and was elected Eepresentative at
the last election over a Democratic and Independent can-
didate.

ALEXANDEE A. DAVISON,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM JACKSON,

Was born at Dupont Powder Mills, in the little State of
Delaware, on the 28th of June, 1836. His parents were
natives of, and were married in Ireland. They came across
the salted sea and settled at Seymour in 1864. The son
lived on a farm, and attended district school until of law-
ful age to take care of himself. Then he entered the State
University, but did not complete a collegiate course, merely
spending two sessions in the preparatory department. Hav-
ing served as Clerk in the city of Seymour in 1865, and

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subsequently serving satisfactorily as Councilman, and
eventually as Mayor, in 1868 Mr. Davison was elected Treas-
urer of the county of Jackson. In 1872 he was re-elected
and served another term. He was nominated for the office
he now holds without his consent, and was elected without
opposition, and then he consented to serve. In the earlier
part of his career, Mr. Davison taught school and was clerk
in a dry goods store. Latterly he engaged in the hard-
ware business, devoting a part of his time and talent to
editing the Seymour Democrat, which newspaper he owns.
He is a graceful and a logical writer. In politics he is,
and always has been a Democrat, though he did not take
hold of crow in 1872 with real relish. However he did
dine upon the corvine biped on election morn of that year.
As a Democrat to-day he is not in favor of inflating the
currency, nor can he see Democracy through greenback
glasses, He is a tried and true Democrat of the Jackson
and Jeffersonian school, modernized. Above all, he is hon-
est in his political professions, and practices what he
preaches.

JOHN STEELE DAVIS,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM FLOYD,

Was born at Dayton, Ohio, November 14th, 1814, and
coming to Indiana in 1836, located at New Albany, where
he has since continued to reside. His father was at'one
time a captain in the Federal army. The son was educa-
ted at Dayton and Troy, Ohio, and read law and has prac-
ticed that profession since. He began his political career

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as a Whig ; was a member of the electoral college on the
ticket for General Taylor, and was a member of the last
Whig convention that ever convened, representing his
adopted State, at large. After tlie disintegration of that
organization he espoused the Democratic cause. He has
spent six sessions in Indianapolis as a member of the House
and two sessions as a member of the Senate, serv-
ing the State as a Legislator for fourteen years in all.
He has also served the city of New Albany as a Council-
man, City Clerk and Attorney, and the Democracy of the
State four years as a member of the Central Committee.
The gentleman from Floyd, is a man of magnificient
mien and noble bearing. When he addresses the House
all is attention, for he has something to say when he
speaks. He is familiar with all the forms and details of
Legislative proceedings and new members find it to
their advantage to keep an eye set on the chair of the
member from New Albany,

JAMES GLASGOW EDWAEDS,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM PUTNAM,

Was born in Clayborne county, Tennessee, June 13, 1815.
His parents were American born, of Irish descent. When
a babe in arms James Glasgow accompanied his parents to
the then territory of Missouri, and in consequence he had
for the companion of his early youth the fiery, untamed
papoose. When he was six years of age, his parents
picked him up and took him back to old Tennessee, where
he was educated in a log cabin. In 1831 he came to this
State, and locating in Putnam county assisted in clearing

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the forest from the rich soil of that blue grass region of
Indiana, and lent a helping hand toward rearing all the
log cabins of his community. In those days " log rolling
bees" were as fashionable as apple parings and corn husk-
ings and quiltings have been since. He attended twenty-
seven log rollings, to say nothing of house raisings, in one
spring. So you see when it came to political log rolling,
he proved himself to be no slouch of a hand at the busi-
ness. So successful was he at the business, he rolled into
office the first attempt. Besides he is not a stranger to
mauling rails. He even entertains the opinion that if rail
mauling made Lincoln President, then he should have
been Yice President. Politically Mr. Edwards has always
been a Democrat, and can now see no necessity for a
change in political principles.

JAMES EMEESON,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM BENTON AND NEWTON,

Was born in Piqua county, Ohio, December 9, 1820. His
parents were of American birth, but foreign lineage; on
his father's side Irish, on his mother's side German. When
James was but eight years of age his parents removed
from Ohio to Indiana. When he had attained the age the
law regards as responsible and amenable to it he set-
tled in Benton county, where he has since resided. The
only education he was able to acquire was in the common
or district schools of the rural regions where he was
reared, so he adopted the avocation of a farmer, and followed
that occupation all his life except when in office through
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the elective or appointive powers of country and county.!
Twice he has held the position of Township Trustee, and
once that of Treasurer of Benton county. For several years
he served his country in the discharge of the arduous duties
of postmaster at Catalpa Grove. A Democrat, until
recently, he became liberalized and drifted into indepen-
dence of party and was elected to the Legislature on the
Independent ticket. Aydeylotte. Benton county is his
address.

EDWARD EVANS,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM LAPORTE,

Was born in Meigs county, Ohio, July 25, 1819. His
parents were natives of Maryland. In 1829 the elder
Evans removed to Indiana, and with his family settled in
Vermillion county, where they lived until 1832, when they
removed to Laporte county. The son followed farming
with his father in the summer, and attended such schools
as were accessible in those early days, in the winter. His
life, up to 1861, was that of a well-to-do, quiet farmer, and
in fact s@ continued until 1874, notwithstanding the fact
that he was elected Township Trustee in 1861, and served
in that capacity until 1866. But it was not until 1874 that
his life became lively. Then, being a candidate for Repre-
sentative, he began to learn what a mean man he was — in
the eyes of his opponents. He had always been a Demo-
crat, and had kept the faith and was fighting the fight
faithfully, and as the sequel showed successfully.

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JAMES CALVEKT FAVOEITE,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HUNTINGTON,

Is a native of the county of that name, having been born
there February 21, 1842. His parents were of American
birth, his father a Pennsylvanian and his mother an
Ohioan. The son was educated in the common schools of
his native county, and in the collegiate institute at
Marion in this State. Soon after the breaking out of
the war, he enlisted in Co. H 75th Indiana, and served
with his regiment during the rebellion, ably assisting to
dispel the delusion under which the nation had labored
since the Mexican war, that Indiana volunteers would not
fight. With the gallant 75th, this Favorite of the people
of Huntington participated prominently in the bloody and
disastrous battle of Chickamauga, and also in the bloody
but brilliant victory of Missionary Eidge, and then
marched in triumph with Sherman to the sea. Since
those historical days he has been engaged in teaching
school and farming alternately, earning an honest living
and living honestly. These two occupations he lays
aside for a season now, to serve the State in the Legisla-
tive halls. In the distant future he will dandle his grand-
children on his knee and tell them how, in his early man-
hood, he served his country and State. In politics he is
and has been from the beginning of the party organiza-
tion a Eepublican. Post office address, Huntington.

MAEK E. FOEKNEE,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HENRY,

Is a native of Indiana. He was born in Henry county.
January 26. 1846, and is the youngest appearing member

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of the House as he is one of the ablest in debate. Hifl
parents were residents of Indiana as early as 1819. The
son was educated al Newcastle Academy, always standing
at the head of his class, being both an apt and a studiou^
scholar. Having concluded his course of study at the
Academy he read law with Judge Mellett. He was admit-
ted to the bar at the early age of twenty years, and for
three years enjoyed the privilege of practicing, with
Judge Millett for a partner.

MAETIN CALVIN FtJLK,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM GREENE,

Was born in Surrey county, North Carolina, March 15,
1823. His parents were German on his father's and Scotch
on his mother's side. They were poor, and left North Car-
olina when the son was a mere child, for the free
State of Indiana, though it was then a wilderness. They
did this because they were determined that their children
should not do as they had done, compete with slave labor
in a poor country, for thus they had been kept in poverty.
So in October, 1829, the Fulk family set out for the State
of Indiana. They first stopped in Monroe county, and
remained there a year and a half Then they settled in
Greene, where three or four years afterwards the wife and
mother died, leaving the husband and seven children. The
subject of this sketch was the eldest, and he had to help
support the family from that time until he had arrived at
the age of twenty-one. It was on this account that he did
not receive the full benefit of even such very common schools
as were then established in that unsettled section of the

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State. When of age he began business for himself as a
farmer, and followed that occupation until 1850, when he
united with the Baptist Church and entered the ministry.
Since then his time has been about equally divided between
his plow and his pulpit.

In politics Mr. Fulk was a Democrat for the ten years
preceding the war, though he exercised large discretion in
voting for men and measures, always aiming to support
such as would best advance morality. In 1861 he thought
the truest interest of the country required his support of
the Eepublican party in its struggle to maintain the union
of the States. With that organization he acted through-
out the war then inaugurated, and until its corruption
drove him from it, recently. Not being able to see any
hope of deliverance through the Democratic party he
became independent in politics and favored the organiza-
tion of a new party, one which would give the necessary
relief He was elected by the Independents of Grreene,
Parke postoffice is his address.

JOSEPH GILBEKT,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM VIGO,

Was born at Terre Haute, January 2, 1839. His father,
Curtis Gilbert, was a native of Connecticut, and coming to
Indiana in early life, he located in Vigo county, becoming
one of the pioneers of the State. He at once became
thoroughly identified with the interests of Indiana in gen-
eral and Terre Haute in particular. He was the first Clerk
of the county, and served three terms of seven years each,

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in succession. For fourteen years, he was President oi
the Terre Haute Branch of the old Indiana State Bank.
The son was born on a seven acre farm (though not with
silver spoon in his mouth), corner Sixth and Main streets,
now near the very heart of the beautiful little city o;
Terre Haute. There he lived three years, and moved
with his parents, to what is now known as the Gilberi
homestead, in the eastern environs of the city. He livec
there until he had attained manhood's estate, having in th<
meantime acquired a good education at Wabash College
Crawfordsville. Then he began business for himself as ai
agriculturist and horticulturist, on his own farm, neai
the city, where he was born and reared. He has beeB
identified with those interests ever since, and is now known
and recognized throughout the State as a leader in all that
tends to advance agriculture and horticulture. He has
served as Secretary of the Terre Haute Horticultural
Soci,ety seven years since its organization, ten years since,
and also as Secretary of the Yigo Agricultural Society six
out of the eight years of its existence. For two years he
was Corresponding Secrectary of the Indiana State Hoi'ti-
cultural Society, and at the last annual meeting, a few
weeks since, at Plainfield, he was elected President of that
organization.

In politics Mr. Gilbert is a Democrat of the more con-
servative class, and prominently identified with the Grange
movement, which, while it is not a political organization
for political purposes, is nevertheless an organization that
has more or less political effect. Mr. Gilbert was initiated
into the first Grange of Patrons of Husbandry organized
in this State, which event transpired in his native county,
jc December, 1870. He is Master of the County Council

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there now. Mr. Grilbert in ii temperance man, and
will not vote for the repeal of the Baxter bill until he is
assured that something better can be secured in its stead.
For four years he was Chairman of the Yigo County Dem-
ocratic Central Committee, and at the last election was
chosen Eepresentative by eight hundred and five majority,
quite a number of Granger and temperance Bepublicans
voting for him. Withal, the State can not have too many
citizens of the character of the gentleman from Vigo-

EUGENIUS B. GLASGOW,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM STEUBEN,

Was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 28th, 1834.
His parents were of Scotch, German and Welsh descent.
The son was reared on his fathers farm. In the summer
he worked, and in the winter, attended school as boys now
do in the country. At the age of twenty, however, he
attended Oberlin College, in Ohio, and afterwards taught
school a while, studying law in the meantime. In 1859,
he removed to Illinois, and in 1860, was admitted to the
bar at Mount Yernon, that State, in 1861 he removed to
Benton county, this State, and in 1863, he enlisted in
the army, and was assigned to duty in the 128th Indiana
Infantry, where he served until the close of the war.
Then he settled down to the practice of law in Angolia,
where he now resides and practices his profession. He
was elected to the Legislature from Steuben in 1872, and
served through his term so satisfactorily to his constituents
that he was re-elected last fall for another term. He is
now, what he has been since the organization of the party
— a Republican.

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ANDEEW JACKSON GOSSMAN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM MARTIN AND DUBOIS,

Was born on the Atlantic ocean, between Bremen and
Baltimore, on the 19th of October, 1830. His parents
were Germans from Bavaria. He came to Indiana in
1853, and although formerly a miller by trade is a farmer
at present. After arriving in this State, Mr. Gossman
lived in Wayne, and afterward in Henry county. In
December, 1855, he married, and in 1863 removed to
Dubois county. Here he bought a farm of 180 acres,
where he is still living. After keeping store for five
years, he resumed rural pursuits, in which he is still
engaged. Mr. Gossman has always been a Democrat.
His parents were able to give him only about six months'
attendance at a district school. He held the oflftce of
Justice of the Peace nearly five years. His residence
is in Dubois county, and his postoffice address Jasper.

SAMUEL HAEPEK.

REPRESENTATIVE FROM LAGRANGE,

Was born in Ireland in the merry month of May, 1824.
His parents were Irish and Scotch. In early life he
saluted the Blarney Stone and started for the new world
on a voyage of discovery. He traveled in Canada, Ohio,
and Michigan, staying in the latter State long enough to
receive a classical education at the State University. In
1850 he discovered Indiana, and liking the State he set-
tled therein. He has been living in Lagrange county ever
since, as near as the writer is able to ascertain. Hois, and

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has been a farmer during all that time, and hitherto has
held no office but that of Township Trustee for Greenfield
township, his adopted county, from 1872 to 1874. He has
preferred the quiet walks of private to the turbulent
boulevards of public life. Before the fall of the institu-
tion of slavery in the South, he was an avowed Abolition-
ist, but is now a Eepublican. He lives near Orland,

GEORGE W. HARRIS.

REPRE81NTATIVE FROM MADISON.

Was born in Ross county, Ohio, on the 4th of J uly, 1822.
His father and mother were natives of Augusta county,
Virginia, the former of English, the latter of Irish
descent. They came to this State and settled in Henry
county in 1833, but for the last thirty -three years, have
resided in Madison county. Representative Harris was
reared a farmer, never graduated from any school, and
never held any office until elected to the one he now holds.
But he has exalted ideas of honesty, and fixedness of pur-
pose, and while he may not electrify his fellow members
and the country with unchained eloquence, he can always
be relied upon to record his vote for the right. His
address is Anderson, Madison county.

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BRANSON L. HAREIS,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WAYNE,

Was born in Green Township, Wayne county, Indiana
April 21st, 1817. His parents were natives of North Car-
olina. They removed to the State in 1811, when it was an
Indian Territory. In 1812 the elder Harris enlisted in the
Federal army, and served in the war with England, which
was then inaugurated. When that " cruel war was over,"
he returned to Indiana and settled in Wayne Township,
where for many years he was a Justice of the Peace. He
was educated in the common schools, such as were then
accessible. He followed farming for a livelihood, as did
his father before him. But Cincinnatus-like, he was
taken from the plow and carried on the shoulders of the
populace, as it were, into the halls of State, twenty -two
years ago, where he served one session in the Lower
House. Politically he was a Clay Whig so long as there
were any. Since then and now, a Republican. Greenfork
postoffice is his address.

BENJAMIN F. HAVENS.

REPRESENTATIVE FROM VIGO

Was born in Burlington, Rush county, this State, July 24,
1839. He descended from the older families of Virginia
on the one side, and Connecticut on the other; but his
parents direct came to Indiana from Kentucky and Ohio.
His grand father, Havens, was the Peter Cartwright of
Indiana Methodism about a half century ago, and his name
was a household word in every well-regulated family of

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that faith for many years after he had passed to the
reward of the righteous.

The father of the subject of this sketch was a mechanic
and was only able to give the son the benefit of one year
at Asbury University. So at the age of nineteen years.
Mr. Havens was thrown upon his own resources for the
acquirement of the collegiate education he coveted. But
he was equal to the emergency. By close application,
teaching school and studying alternately, he was able to
finish up his education at the State University. He then
read law and became quite proficient in the profession.
For two years he was City Attorney of Terre Haute
and discharged the duties of the trust with distinguished
ability throughout his term of service.

Politically Mr. Havens is a Democrat, of firm convic-
tions, as to the correctness of his principles. In this
respect he does not follow in the footsteps of his fathers,
for he is the first and only Democrat of the family, He
learned his Democracy in the school of Willard, Eobinson
and Hendricks, and like them he will never falter in the
faith. Personally, the gentleman from Yigo is very pop-
ular and universally commands the attention of an often
listless House, when he arises to address the Assembly
upon matters of moment to the State.

JOHN HENRY HAYNES,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM PERRY,

Was born in Breckenridge county. Kentuck}', August
15, 1832. His father was born in Virginia ; his

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mother was a native of Kentucky. He received a common
school education in his native State and emigrated to Indi-
ana in 1857 ; he then studied medicine, graduating from
the medical department of the University of Louisville.
He settled down to the practice of his profession in
Spencer county and subsequently in Perry county, where
he has since resided. During the war, however, he served
his country as Captain of what was known as the Clarke
Township Company, Indiana Legion — the 5th regiment —
from 1862 to 1864.

Politically. Mr. Haynes was a Whig, voting for Bell and
Everett in 1860. Now and since then he has been a Dem-
ocrat, and was elected to the Legislature on the Demo-
cratic ticket. Address the gentleman from Perry at
Adyeville.

JOHN D. HIGHWAY,

REPRESOMTTATIVE FROM KOSCIUSKO,

Was born in Warner county, Ohio. December 15th, 1811.
His parents were American born, of English extraction,
and his father was for many years a Justice of the Peace
in his native State. In 1831 the son was married to Miss
Sarah Antram. also of Warren county. State of Ohio. In
1843 they removed to Indiana, and located in Kosciusko
county, and to date have reared a promising family of six
children besides helping to level the primitive forest, and
otherwise, bring order out of the original chaos of their
adopted county. Since 1856 Mr. Highway has almost
constantly served his county as Commissioner, and in that

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capacity he has had many highways beside his own to
care for. So well did he discharge all the trusts committed
to his care, that his coimly concluded to send him to the
Legislature last fall. LTke so many of our legislators,
he was a Whig in early life, but, unlike the majority
of them this session, he is a Kepublican now. Beseige
him with letters in his stronghold at Sevastapol.

MAHLON HELLER,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM ALLEN,

Is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born at Bushkill,
Pike county, February 24, 1831. His parents were of Ger-
man descent but American birth. His father was a promi-
nent citizen of the noble old Key Stone Commonwealth.
For five years he was Associate Judge of the Pike County
Court, and for two years he was treasurer of the county.
Besides, he was a justice of the peace for thirty years.
Representative Heller was educated in the common schools
and the more practical school of active business life, both
public and private. He is emphatically a self-made man.
He was auditor of his native county two terms. In 1868,
he removed to Indiana and settled in Allen county, where
he at once commanded attention and favor. In 1872, he
was elected to the Legislature, and served with distinction
through the session of 1872-3. He is now one of the most
active members of the House. There is not a man in that
body better versed in the routine of legislative proceed-
ings. He is ever on the alert for the tricks of the opposi-
tion to smuggle some odious measure of legislation through.

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The democracy of Allen county and the State may well
put their trust in him, for he will watch their interests
with ceaseless vigil, and advocate their cause ably and
eloquently. If there is a true Democrat in the House, the
gentleman from Allen is the man. Monroeville is his post
office address.

MOETIMEE L. HENDEESON,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM RIPLEY,

Was born in Eipley county, this State, JS'ovember 1st,
1830, of Virginia and Kentucky parentage. He was
educated in the district school, near the farm of his father,
on which he was reared, and in Moro Hill College, but
when not traveling, he has followed farming for a living
In 1852 he crossed the Plains for the benefit of his health,
being then affected with the. yellow or gold fever. Two
years effected a permanent cure, and he returned healthy
and happy in 1858. Once in his life he was clerk on a
steamboat which ploughed the waves of the Ohio and the.
Cumberland. He has traveled too much to be caught nap-
ping. In politics he had been identified with the Democratic
party all his life until just before the last election, when
he refused to act with the old time honored organization
any longer on account of local corruptions. In his own
language, he " bolted the Democratic county convention
in consequence of local corruptions, was taken up by the
Independents, and by them nominated for Eepresentative,
but was elected by both parties over his opponent, Frank
Alexander, a lawyer."

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JAMES HOPKINS,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM MARION,

Was born a Yankee, on Sourthern soil, in the halcyon
days of human slavery. In other words, the subject of
this sketch was ushered into life at Newport, Kentucky,
June 15, 1815, and his parents were natives of Yankee
land, his father of Massachusetts and his mother of Con-
necticut. For ten years, immediately following the incor-
poration of Covington, the elder Hopkins was President of
the City Council. The son was the eldest of eleven chil-
dren, and at a tender age was regarded as the second staflf
of support for the family. His father was a brick moulder,
and he moulded his first progeny into a brick maker.
During the winter, when the brick yards could not be
operated, he was allowed to attend school if one w^as
within reach, and tuition was not too altitudinous for the
paternal purse. At the lawful age of twenty he left the
parental protection, and stalked out upon the stage of lifie
for himself. Thinking he would like brick-laying better
than making, he applied for an apprenticeship, was
engaged, and in three years had learned the trade. After
following it for two years, he married a most estimable
Christian lady, with whom he lived in liarmony for thirty
years, rearing six out of nine children born to them,
whom they educated to be useful members of the com-
munity, both business and social. In his life Mr. Hopkins
has himself been an exemplary member of the Methodist
Church. He has lived in the South, at Grreencastle, and
now in this city. Thrice he has amassed a competency of
the world's wealth and thrice has he lost all, the last time
by the Greencastle fire, and a short time before, the
greatest loss of his life — his wife.

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Now, at the advanced age of 55, with a clear recoi-d and
a clear conscience, he begins the battle of life anew.
Politically he was a Clay Whig during the life of the great
>^tatesman, a Union man during the war, and now an oppo-
nent of the Administration and a Trades Unionist of the
deepest dye. He claims that through the unions and
through no other agency can the laboring masses of the
country find relief fi-om the oppression by which they are
environed. He is also an avowed temperance man from
principle.

PATRICK HORN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM ALLEN,

First knew this life on March 16, 1819, in Kings county,
Ireland. His parents were of Scottish and Irish descent,^
and died when he was yet young. Young Horn inherited
a small estate, the sale of which enabled him to emigrate
to this country, landing in New York City in 1830. He
soon apprenticed himself to a baker, and followed that
business until his removal to Fort Wayne in 1837. At
this time Fort Wayne was only a small town, and Mr.
Horn bought a small farm, and commenced immediately
its improvement. In 1845 he married a daughter of
Robert Baird, Esq., and the twain lived " as one flesh " a
happy life until 1873, when the wife died. Representative
Horn received his education in Ireland, and in Fort
Wayne, it being necessarily rudimentary. He has held
the office of Town Trustee and Township Assessor. This
gentleman has always been a Democrat, and never has
been false to the principles of the party. He lives at
Huntertown.

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EDWAED TONY JACKSON,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM VERMILLION,

Was born in Clearmont county, Ohio, July 29,
1 1807. His father was of Irish and his mother of
1 German descent. His opportunities for schooling were
confined to a house without a shingle roof, a glass window
or a plank floor. Fitted by education for farming, he
adopted that avocation. Since 1830 he has resided in
Vermillion county and held all the offices within the gift
of the citizens of that county, except constable, and to
that he did not aspire; and yet he never sought office;
" waiting for the wagon," as he would express it. Always
opposed to corruption, he had to abandon the Eepublican
party sometime since, and now he is independent in
politics. His home is near Hilsdale.

JAMES LEWIS JOHNSON,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM CARROLL,

Was born in Carroll county, July 4, 1849. His parents
were natives of Virginia, but of Irish and Scotch ancestry.
He came to this State in 1834. Mrs. Johnson died while he
the subject of this sketch was too young to know of the
inestimable boon of a mother's living presence. His
father, however, is a wealthy farmer, and gave him the
advantages of a good education, at Asbury University. For
the last six or seven years, he has taught school, more or
less, and regards that as his profession. He was known at
college, and is now known in Carroll county, as an able
debater, and he will probably make his mark during the
session. He has always been a Democrat, and acts uni-
formly with that party.
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COLUMBUS JOHNSTON,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM DEARBORN,

Was born in Manchester township, Dearborn county, Indi-
ana, January 7, 1832. His parents were both American,
his father from Virginia and his mother from Kentucky,
they coming to this State as early as 1811. The son was
reared in his father's mill, and only had such school accom-
modations as the common or district school afforded.
When he had made the most of them, he settled down to
the business he had followed for his father, in his own
interest. He is one of the honest hard working members
of the House. Early in the session he was appointed one
of a committee of three to investigate the affairs of the
Ohio and Mississippi road, and to ascertain if the com-
pany was complying with the conditions of its charter.
Being of an investigating turn of mind and a man of
unflinching integrity, he may be said to be the right man
in the right place. In politics he is a staunch Democrat.
Johnston's Mills is his post office address.

ELIJAH T. KEIGHTLY,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM MARION AND SHELBY,

Was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, July 7, 1833, of
American parentage. He came to Indiana July 18, 1849,
at the age of sixteen, having first received an education
thus early in life at Funk's Masoni-c College, Lagrange,
Kentucky. Next he located at Franklin, then at Nobles-
ville, and subsequently in Greencastle, and was elected

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Auditor of Putnam county for four years in 1862. He
moved to Indianapolis soon after his term of service had
expired. Last fall he was elected to the Legislature by an
aggregate majority of 2,019, receiving 1,356 of that major-
ity in Marion and the balance in Shelby. In politics Mr.
Keightly is a Democrat of the old school, having held the
proud position of Postmaster under President Jackson, in
the halcyon days of honest government, home rule, hard
money, and sound sense generally. To be an office-holder
in those days was not to be subservient to the whims
and caprices of any man or set of men on the ground of
party expediency or necessity. The gentleman from
Marion and Shelby resides in Indianapolis.

EYENDEE CHALANE KENNEDY,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM MARION,

Was born in Muncie, Delaware county, February 14, 1842.
His parents were from the classical town known to fame
as Killarney, in the county of Kerry, situated in the
beautiful Emerald Isle, by the deep sounding sea ; but
they came to this State in 1831. Thus it happened that
Evender had the honor of a Hoosier birthright. His
father, Hon. Andrew Kennedy, was for four years a mem-
ber of the General Assembly of this State, and six years
a Member of Congress from the 5th and 10th Districts, res-
pectively. With all he was a well known Indiana politi-
cian. The son was educated at Asbury, and after a
thorough course of reading and study of law, he entered
upon the practice of his profession. Hardly had he time

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to consult a client when grim visaged war stalked forth in
the land, and aroused the martial spirit within him. He
enlisted early and entered active service speedily. During
the sharp and decisive struggle that ensued he rose from
the ranks to staff service, with commission as a Captain.
It is needless to add that he made a rattling record in the
service. At the close of the war he went to Kansas, and
was elected to the Legislature. The experience he received
in legislative work there he brings to the discharge of his
duties here. Politically he is a Democrat, and descended
from a race born and cradled in the faith for four genera-
tions. Mr. Kennedy has also made quite a literary record,
being the author of the epic poems, '-Osseo" and "Code of
Blood," besides others, and numerous prose productions,
romantic and rollicking in their character. Though yet
a young man, his life has been an eventful and a spirited
one. He lives in the thirteenth ward, in the city of Indi-
anapolis.

PETEE S. KENNEDY,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM MONTGOMERY,

Was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, July 10th, 1829,
of Irish, Dutch and Welsh descent. He came to this State
in 1853; resided first at Danville until 1865, then he removed
to Crawfordsville, where he now lives in luxurous ease, in
the suburbs of the city. He began business in life as a
blacksmith, but through his own exertions he acquired a
good education, and attained eminence in the practice of
the profession of law. In 1856 he was elected Prosecuting

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Attorney of the Indianapolis Circuit, and proved a terror
to evil doers in the district bounded by his official limits.
Though he has never befoie been in the Legislature,
he has influenced Legislation in a large degree. His
friends claim that he is the real author of the law, permit-
ting criminals to testify in their own behalf, and giving
the prosecution the closing speech in the case; and also
the law revising the judicial system of this State, besides
several others, in the interest of the public. Before 1856,
he was a Whig in politics, but a rank Anti-Slavery advo-
cate. Since then he has been a Eepublican, seeing the
evils of the Slavery system in the South. He was an
Abolitionist from his earliest boyhood. He is an able
advocate of the temperance reform and leads his party
in the House generally.

JOHN KENNEDY,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM MORGAN,

Was born in Lamb's Bottom, that county, September 30,
1833. His father was of Irish descent, though born in
Kentucky ; his mother of German descent, but a native
of Kentucky. Both reside in Morgan county, where they
settled when they first came to the State in 1830.

Eepresentative Kennedy received his education through
private teaching at his home, though he took a partial
course at Bellville Academy in Hendricks county, and also
at the Edinburg Grammar School, securing an engage-
ment as assistant teacher in the latter institution in 1855.

During intermissions he read medicine under the
tutelage of Dr. Clarke, of Edinburg. In the spring of

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1856, his health having failed, he returned to the
farm, where he soon regained his health, and then
soon afterward engaged in teaching a school in Sangamon
county, Illinois, near Springfield. During the time he
taught there he devoted spare houi-s to the acquirement of
his chosen profession. Eeturning to Indiana in the spring
of 1858, he spent the summer in the study of medicine
under the instruction of Dr. Osgood, of Gosport. That
winter he attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical Insti-
tute, Cincinnati. When he had completed his course he
engaged in the practice of his profession within three
miles of the old homestead, where he still resides, taking
rank among the wealthiest citizens of the county. It is
said that as a member of the Christian church, a worker in
the Sunday school cause, and a leader in good works, Dr.
Kennedy has exerted a benign influence wherever he has
been, especially in Morgan county. Politically he is a
Republican.

JAMES WAREBJSr LANHAM,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM JEFFERSON,

Was born in Milton township, that county, January 31st,
1832. Both his parents and all his grand parents, were
born on American soil, but his remote ancestors repre-
sented four nationalities, viz : English, Welsh, Irish and
German. With the exception of two brief intervals, his
home has always been in his native county. He was edu-
cated in Hanover College, and then taught school for a
number of years, subsequently becoming a disciple of

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Christ and a member of His ministry, in the Christian
Church. Of late years, however, owing to a throat
affection, and an over weening desire to serve the State,
perhaps, he has not devoted himself so assiduously to
ministerial dutes as in the earlier days of his ministra-
tions. He has not sought, as some, to introduce politics
into religion, but to infuse the spirit of religion into politics-
In politics he has been aEepublican since the candidacy
of Fremont, voting for the Eocky Mountain explorer in
1856, when he did not expect another man in the town-
ship to do so. When the votes were counted, his surprise
to see twelve votes counted out for Fremont, can be better
imagined than described. He is not the kind of a politi-
cian to deny his principles when his party is in the minor-
ity. He is an unflinching advocate of temperance, and an
avowed champion of the local option feature of that great
reform, and advocates a license for the school fund as well.
He is also an open advocate of economy and education,
and in short, of all State and national mental and
moral advancement. Mr. Lanham makes his home at
Moreville.

LEWIS C. LAW,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM SCOTT, JENNINGS AND
JEFFERSON,

Was born in Graham township, Jefferson county, Indiana,
February 14, 1838. His parents were native born. He
spent all but the last four years of his life in his native
county. Until he was of age he worked on his father's
farm in summer and attended the district school in winter:

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and as his father's family was not of the office holding
kind, little did he dream, as the country pedagogue applied
the limp twig to train the youthful spine, that he would
ever represent three such counties as Jefferson, Jennings
and Scott in the halls of State at the city of concentric
circles. But such is the history of current events, and so
let it be recorded. Mr. Law has been a Democrat at all
times, in all places, under all circumstances, and he is not
ashamed of it. He has to take his mail at G-raham poat-
office of a Grant Postmaster, however, which humiliation
he hopes to do away with after 1876.

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DAYID EOHEEE LEEPEE.

REPRESENTATIVE FROM ST. JOSEPH,

Was born in St. Joseph county January 12, 1832. His
father, Samuel, is of English descent, and was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania. His mother, now
deceased, was of German extraction, and was born in
Montgomery county, Ohio. The father, an energetic, suc-
cessful farmer, now lives in the enterprising city of South
Bend, where the subject of this sketch also resides, and
near which place he owns and carries on a farm. When
seventeen years old, Mr. Leeper got the California fever,
and among the earliest pioneers crossed the plains, with
an ox team, to the Pacific Slope, where, engaged in mining
and lumbering, he remained until 1854, when he returned
via of the Isthmus, to his native home. He then attended
school two years, in his county, at the Mishawaka Institute;
(taught by Prof Bellows, now of Ann Arbor University)'

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where, with his former schooling, he acquired a tolerably
fair English education. Montana Territory found him a
citizen of her borders from 1864 to 1868. He was here
engaged with twenty-five to thirty heavy teams, in freight-
ing and in logging in the lumber woods.

Originally a Whig and Republican, Mr. Leeper now
battles under the Liberal banner. His parents have never
sat in official chairs, and the present Eepresentative now,
for the first time, sits in Legislative halls. Two years ago
he was nominated by the Liberals and Democrats for
Eepresentative, but declined on account of his businesg
relations. Again, last fall, he was nominated and elected
by the same political elements, being the first Representa-
tive ever elected in the county m opposition to the Whig
or Republican party. The Democrats, having no candi-
date of their own. generally supported Mr. Leeper, his
opponent being the regular Republican nominee. The
gentleman from St. Joseph is afflicted somewhat with a
weakness for the quill, and. for the past fifteen or twenty
years, has occasionally contributed to the local newspapers
political articles, editorials, and letters of travel written
while on his frequent pleasure rambles in various parts of
the country.

JOHN CRAWFORD LINCOLN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WARREN,

Was born in Preble county, Ohio, November 20, 1819. His
parents were English. When John Crawford was but ten
years of age, his parents removed to this State. That was
before Indiana had attained the celebrity of having the

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best common school system and the largest school fund of
any State in the Union, and in fact long before she enjoyed
that proud distinction by right. Therefore the subject of
this sketch was able to acquire but a limited education.
Since his sparse school days, he has been a farmer in War-
ren county. By favor of the Eepublicans, to which party
he belonged until recently, he has held the office of Trustee
of township and county most of the time since 1863)
though but one at a time, of course. He is now an Inde-
pendent, and was elected to the Legislature on that ticket
West Lebanon is where he lives.

JOHN S. MAETIN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM FRANKLIN,

Was born in Brookville, November 24, 1835. His parents
were of the old pioneers of Franklin county, having
removed there early in life, from the Carolinas. With
such surroundings, the son had but poor opportunities for
securing even the semblance of a common school educa-
tion. But he became an active student in the great school
of practical life, a training that the collegiates of the pres-
ent day lack. When his tew school days, so far as books
were concerned, had concluded, he did not, Macawber-like,
and like the young men of this degenerate day, wait for
something to turn up, but proceeded at once to turn some-
thing up. He engaged in farming and turned up the soil
of his native county, and he has been engaged in that pur-
suit, with the purpose of making an honest living by the
sweat of his brow, for seven years. He lives now where

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he has lived since his birth. His coDstituents, recognizing
his honesty and integrity in private life, concluded last
fall to call him into public prominence; so they elected
him to the Legislature. He is and was always a Demo-
crat.

AUGUSTUS I^EWTON MAETIN,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM ADAMS AND WELLS,

Was born at Whitestown, Butler county, Pennsylvania,
March 23, 1847. His parents were of American birth
and Irish descent. His father was Auditor of Butler
county, Pennsylvania, three years. Mr. Martin was
educated at Withersi^oon Institute, in his native county,
and at Eastman's Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. In the earlier part of the war he enlisted in the 58th
Kegiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and participated in
the cheerful chase after John Morgan through the border
States, and assisted in his capture in Ohio. He was then
but 16 years of age. Soon afterwards, he entered the 78th
Kegiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served
therein until discharged for disability from disease, in
August, 1865. In 1869 he came to Indiana and located at
Bluffton, where he begun the practice of the law in 1870,
and he now has a large practice and a large acquaintance
throughout the section of the State where he lives. Con-
sidering the vicissitudes in life with which Mr. Martin has
had to contend, he is far advanced on the high road to
prosperity. He was born a Democrat and never knew a
change in political faith.

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HENKY M. MAEVIN,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM BOONE,

Was born in Putnam county, New York, November 6,
1821. His father was of English extraction, and his
mother of German descent. He was educated in the com-
mon schools of New York, and at Yermilyea Academy, in
Carmels. New York State. At the age of nineteen, he was
released from the paternal apron strings, and slid out for
New York city, to see the sights of that mighty metropo-
lis. In two years he saw all the sights he cared to see
there, and after a close communion with the columns of
the Tribune, he concluded to come West. And it came to
pass that in 1813 he was at the opening of the White
Water Valley Canal, at Connersville. There he heard the
first speeches, to which he listened in this State. The
first was from Grovernor Biggler, a Whig, and he was fol-
lowed by Governor Whitcomb, a Democrat, who was
elected in 1843, the same year the Democrats first came
into power in Indiana. Their motto then was retrench-
ment and reform, and Mr. Marvin says that is the watch-
word now, and if the party does not live up to it, it will
have its reward. He claims that he was educated an old-
fashioned Whig, but is a square-toed Democrat now. He
represented Boone in the Legislature from 1850 to 1856,
and has held many county offices, in which county he has
lived since 1843. His address is Northfield.

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JESSIE MAEVm,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM FOUNTAIN,

Is a native of Mason county, Kentucky, where he was
born May 17, 1807. His parents were of American birth
and English extraction. They died when the son was not
yet able to take care of himself on account of his extreme
youth. For years afterwards he was buffeted about hj
the hard hand of fortune. All the education he was able
to acquire was of that practical character that comes alone
through the experience of the self-made man of the times.
Mr. Marvin was always blessed with good health and
amply able to care for his physical necessities. By dint
of perseverence in labor and economy he has accumu-
lated considerable property. Knowing how hard it is to
earn money, he is not inclined to expend it lavishly. He
is a firm believer in the principles that public business
should be transacted on the bases of private business as
to expenditures. His vote will be recorded accordingly
upon all appropriations. While Mr. Marvin may ndt
make many speeches during the session, he can be relied
upon for some substantial voting. Attica is his postoffice
address, and he is a Democrat.

JOHN L. MEGINITY,

Joint representative from orange and crawford,

Was born in Henry county, Kentucky, July 31, 1833.
His father was of Irish and his mother of French descent.
Having received a good common school education, he
taught school in the counties of Henry, Oldham, and

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Trimble, in the State of Kentucky. In the meantime he
read law. In 1861 he removed to Orange county, this
State, and had been in the State but two or three years
when he was elected surveyor of his adopted county. In
1864 he was elected to the office of Clerk of the Circuit
Court, and in 1868 was appointed to fill a vacancy. In one
way and another he continued to hold that office until
October, 1874.

Since his removal to this State, when not engaged in
the discharge of the duties of office, he has practiced the
profession of law. He has been a Democrat all his life and
he is so still. Paoli is his postoffice address.

JOHN K. MILLBK,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM PARKE AND MONTGOMERY,

Is a native of the first-named county. He was born in
Kaccoon township, February 10, 1825. He traces his
lineage back to Germany and Ireland, though his parents
were American born. They were among the earliest pio-
neers, of Parke county, and the Miller family is known all
through Western Indiana and Eastern Illinois, and uni-
versally respected. The elder Miller was a resident of
Parke county for more than a half century, and did not
die until some three years since. In his life time he was
Justice of the Peace fifteen years. County Commissioner
eight years. Township Trustee several years, and always a
Democrat. General Jackson was his patron saint, politi-
cally, and when Old Hickory died there was not one left
to take his place. Mrs. Miller, the mother of John E,, is

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still living on the old homestead and she has lived in
Parke county longer than any other person now living
in it. The subject of this sketch was educated in the
common schools of his native county and at Asbury
University. He has always been a farmer, and now lives
on the oldest settled farm in Parke county. The first
and second houses ever built in Parke county were built
on that same farm, the first in the spring and the second
in the fall of 1816. Mr. Miller, was elected Treasurer
of his native county in 1855, and so satisfactorily did
he serve he was re-elected for the second term. In
politics he, like his father, always was a Democrat.
He avows himself now as not being in favor of return-
ing to specie payments while sueh an enormous indebt-
edness is hanging over the American people, especially
since that indebtedness was incurred under a great
greenback inflation. But he is in favor of a paper money
issued directly to the people by the government, based on
the faith and resources of the nation, to be made a full
legal tender in the payment of all debts within the United
States, both public and private (except such as were, by
the laws or contracts originally creating them, made pay-
able otherwise) ; the volume of such currency to be made
adjustable to the business wants of the eountry. He
inclines to the opinion that to make it interchangeable
with government bonds, at an equitable rate of interest, at
the option of the holder, will determine the needed volume.
As will be observed, Mr. Miller has a Plan, to which the
writer would invoke the attention of Jefferson and Jack-
son, if they can materialize. The address of the gentle-
man from Parke and Montgomery is Bridgeton, Parke
county.

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WILLIAM H. MILLEB,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM VANDERBURGH,

Was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, of American
ancestors, November 20, 1824. William only received a
common school education, and so he concluded that he had
best learn a trade, and selecting that of machinist, he
applied himself closely and soon acquired a thorough
knowledge of the business. During the war he served in
the 24th Ohio Infantry, and was wounded three times,
first at Green Eiver in the side, second at Pittsburg Land-
ing or Shiloh in the right arm, and third at Chickamauga,
in the left arm. In 1864 he first came to this State, and in
1871 stopped for a season in Indianapolis, going to Evans-
ville the same year. There he has been ever since engaged
at his trade. Last fall, the Republicans, with whom he
had voted previously, and the Independents, who had con-
fidence in him, agreed among themselves to elect him their
Eepresentative, and they did. Though nominated without
his knowledge and consent, Mr. Miller was elected by
that coalition.

JACOB WARWICK MONTGOMERY,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM GIBSON,

Was born on the banks of Black river, February 11, 1811,
within a mile and a half of where he now lives. His parents
were prominent pioneers in that part of the great State of
Indiana. His father had come from Virginia and his
mother from South Carolina. Those were the days of
hard work and poor schools, and he got more than his

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share of the former and less than his share of the
latter. He did not even graduate from the old log school
house. Having helped to clear a tract of land, it was lux-
ury and ease to live the life of a^farmer thereon, afterwards.
So the subject of this sketch has always been a farmer,
though of late years he has made a specialty of stock deal-
ing. He was born and bred a Democrat, and was one of
the faithful few dui-ing fourteen years of disaster and
defeat, and now that the faith of his fathers has reasserted
itself he can stand it still. True to party in times that
tried the true Democratic soul, when the time of success
had again arrived, it was fit and proper that Mr. Mont-
gomery should be selected to represent the Democracy of
Gibson in the halls of State. He was so selected. Owens-
ville, Gibson county, is his address.

JAMES WESLEY MOKGAN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HENDRICKS,

Was born in West Virginia, December 23, 1831, of Ameri-
can parentage. The same year of his birth his parents
removed to Indiana, and located at Danville, in Hen-
dricks county, where the subject of this sketch has always
lived, thoroughly identifying himself with the interests of
the county. Trained a farmer, Kepresentative Morgan
has since followed that occupation, dealing largely in stock.
He was educated in the common schools of that county.
He professes and practices the political faith ef the
Republican party, and was elected under the auspices of
the managers of that party in Hendricks county. Mr.
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Morgan is an energetic member and would be mistaken
for a professional man when participating in legislative
proceedings.

SMITH McCOED,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HANCOCK,

Was born in Clearmont county, Ohio, November 12, 1819.
Both his parents, though American by birth, were of Irish
descent. He was educated in the common schools of Ohio
and Indiana, removing to this State with his parents in
1831. Like other young men of the olden time he attended
the district school in the winter and worked on his father's
farm in the summer. When he had attained the age of
maturity he engaged in farming for himself. Before his
election to the Legislature he had never held any office
except that of Justice of the Peace, which he has held
since 1860. He professes the political principles of
Democracy and his practice conforms thereto. His post-
office address is McCordsville, in his adopted county, that
town having been named in honor of the McCords.

COENELIUS McFADDEN,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM JOHNSON,

Was j^orn of American parentage, in Boone county, Ohio,
January 8th, 1832, and was educated in the common
schools of that county and State. Having attained his
majority in 1853, he left Ohio and came West to Indiana,

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where he has since been busily engaged in growing up
with the country and with average success. He located,
upon his arrival, in Johnson county, and lives there still.
Farming is, and has always been his occupation. He was
a Democrat until he could see no hope of relief from the
administration of the party in power, through the old-time
honored party of the past. He has been independent in
politics of late years, and favored the organization of a
new party on new issues. The majority of the people of
Johnson, it seems, were of the same way of thinking, for
they sent him to the Legislature on the Independent ticket.
He lives at Trafalgar.

WILLIAM C. McMICHAEL,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM ST. JOSEPH AND MARSHALL,

Was born in Harris township, St. Joseph county, this State,
April 27, 1841. His parents were pioneers of American
nativity. The son had a hard row to hoe in early life?
being the eldest of thirteen children. In his boyhood he
had to work on his father's farm. In 1855 he discharged
the duties pertaining to the position of devil in the print-
ing office of the Mishawaka Free Press, with such skill
and fidelity as won for him the confidence and kindly con-
sideration of his employer, and he was privileged to attend
school during the winter months of the year, which he did
for four seasons in succession. In this way he got a start
in literary life. Never neglecting an opportunity for study
he succeeded so well in the acquirement of knowledge
that he had the honor, in 1873. of having conferredjupon
him the degree of Bachelor of Laws, by Notre Pame

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University, at South Bend. He has never held any office
before the one he holds now, is, and always has been, a
Democrat. Present postoffice address, Mishawaka.

JAMES L. NASH,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM SULLIVAN,

Was born in Sullivan county, March 16, 1829. His parents
were of Welsh descent, but American birth. The son was
educated at Carlysle, in his native county and at honie.
There he engaged in the avocation of his father — agricul-
ture. He has now one of the finest farms in Indiana, and
is President of the Agricultural Society of Sullivan. It is
said of him that ever since he stepped upon the stage of
action, he has been an ardent and an active worker for
the good of the community in which he lives, his efforts
being the elevation of the standard of education, morality
and religion. He has kept pace with the car of progress,
and to-day holds a royal position among the workers and
encouragers of education. He has had for his watchword,
"higher, still higher;" and he has so successfully managed
his public career, that not a blot or stain can be found
upon his public record. Yet Mr. Nash has held official
position for nearly a decade. He is and always was a
Democrat, and time and again has he helped roll up the
mighty majorities for Democracy that invariably come
from old Sullivan county, rendering her a joy forever in
the memory of the tried and true. The address of the
gentleman from Sullivan, is Paxton.

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ALBEET OSBOENE,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM ELKHART.

Is a native of New York. He was born in Otesajo county,
in 1824, of Grerman and English ancestry. His father
was a minister in the Methodist Church. In 1835 the
family removed to Michigan, where the son was educated
in the common schools. He remained in that State until
1863, when he came to Indiana. Since then he has been
a resident of this State, and engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. Politically he was first a Democrat, then a Eepub-
lican, and now a Democrat. He remained a Eepublican
until 1872, when he became Liberalised, supporting Mr.
Greeley for the Presidency. He was the Liberal and Dem-
ocratic nominee for the position he now holds in 1872, but
was defeated by the stay at home vote, though the majori-
ity against him was not large. Being again nominated
for that position at the last election, he was sent here by
the votes of men of all parties, though he was most stren-
neously supported by Independents and Eepublicans.
Goshen is his address.

WILLIAM T. PATE,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM SWITZERLAND AND OHIO,

Was born in Dearborn county, of American parentage,
April 17, 1815. His early education, such as he was able
to secure, was acquired at the old log school house on
Saugheny Creek. When he had graduated, Mr. Pate
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and also in the distilling
business, and yet follow^s those avocations. For four years,

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however, he was Sheriff of Ohio county. During the war
he was a candidate for the State Senate, but was defeated
by the Hon. A. C. Downey. In 1868 he was a delegate to
the National Convention, and under instructions of his
constituency supported Pendleton until his name was
withdrawn, and he had the satisfaction of having his
course in that 'convention indorsed, upon his return, a sat-
isfaction that some did not enjoy. As appears above, Mr.
Pate has been a Democrat, and he is faithful still. Patrol
is his postoffice address.

WILLIAM patteeso:n^,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM SHELBY,

Was born in that county, February 11, 1827, and has
resided there all the time since the day of his birth. His
father was of Scotch descent, but, like his mother, of
American birth. William never enjoyed the educational
advantage that the average youth of the present day
regards so irksome, but he did jjrecisely what many boys
of the present day fail to do. He availed himself of all
the advantages for acquiring an education that could be
had, and now he has more to show for it than many men
who have attended school all their lives. He is now repre-
sentative of the county of Shelby in the Indiana Legisla-
ture. This was a clear case of the oflSce seeking the man,
too. He had never before held an office and had no such
aspirations, prefering the privacy of his farm in Jackson
township.

In politics he is what he has been all his life, an

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unflinching and a consistent Democrat. Mr. Patterson

is a fit example for youth and manhood. He lives at Mt.
Auburn.

NATHAN PEYBATT,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WARRICK,

Is a native of Warren county, Kentucky, where he was
born November 25, 1807. He descended from the French on
one side, and from the Irish on the other. When ten years
old he went to Illinois. He remembers distinctly to-day
that the country was then a territory inhabited by wild
beasts and Indians. He grew up with the country there
until 1831. During his stay in the Sucker State he lived
in the counties of Wayne, White, Edwards, Lawrence and
Wabash. This was after the territorial government had
given place to that of the State, and while the capital was
at Yandalia. In 1831 he removed to Indiana, but in the
following year he returned, married, and again repaired to
Indiana and located on the farm in Warrick county, where
he continues to date. From the densest woods he has
fashioned a farm which it would excite the envy of an Eng-
lish lord to look upon. Mr. Peyeatt was educated in the
common schools of the State of Illinois, and advanced to
the rule of three in arithmetic, though he never saw a
grammar in his school days. Such books were wholly
unknown to the common schools of that day. He has
reared a family of seven children, however, whom he has
educated up to the times. Several of them are graduates,
one ol the State University, and he is now a practicing
lawyer. Like all the other members of his father's family

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he lives in Warrick county. In politics Mr. Peyeatt has
been a Democrat all his life. He cast his first Presidential
vote for General Jackson, which should be a passport into
any true Democratic caucus in the country. The gentle-
man from Warrick lives at Yankeetown.

SAMUEL EAMSEY,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM HARRISON,

Was born in Whitley county, Kentucky, January 24, 1830,
of American parentage and Irish descent. With his
parents he removed to Monroe county, in this State, when
he was but one year old. There they remained until 1836,
when they again removed, this time to near Fairdale, Harri-
ison county,where the son still lives. He was trained to farm
life, and continued to till the soil until he had reached
manhood's estate; then he engaged in business as a mer-
chant. Pour years' experience in that business ended his
mercantile pursuits, and he tried his hand at the mule and
horse trade. That business he followed until he was
thirty, when he began the study of law, which profession
he practices now. He has hitherto held no office but that
of Justice of the Peace three years, from 1855 to 1859.
Politically he has been a life-long Democrat, steadfast in
the faith, first, last and all the time. His legislative record
is to make and to be written yet.

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JOSEPH CLAYTON RATLIFF,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WAYNE,

Is a native of that county, having been born there J uly 6,
1827. His parents were American. Joseph Clayton was
educated at Richmond Academy, then took a course in the
"Western Reserve Medical College, in Cleveland, in 1851-2.
For a time he practiced medicine and also dentistry. Then
he returned to his farm and devoted himself to agricultural
and horticultural pursuits. For six years he was President
of the Wayne County Horticultural Society ; for three
years chief executive of the State Society. Three years he
acted as President of the Wayne County Turnpike Com-
pany, and four years as Justice of the Peace.

He is known all over the State and the country as one
who has done much to advance the agricultural and hor-
ticultural interests of Indiana.

Politically, he is Republican, but rather inclined to be
liberal in his views, political and otherwise. His address
is Richmond.

WILLIAM HENRY RAGAN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM PUTNAM AND HENDRICKS,

Was born in Putnam county, this State. His parents were
of Irish descent, but both were born in Virginia. The
elder Ragan was one of the pioneers of Putnam
county and of the State, having located near the
present village of Fillmore, in 1823. Securing a tract of
land, the senior Ragan began business as a nurseryman
and fine fi'uit grower. Representative Ragan was edu-
cated partly in an old log school house near Fillmore,

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but mainly in the great school of nature — farming and
horticulture. In 1860 he began the business of his
father, for himself, on a part of the old homestead set
apart for his culture. In 1865 he enlisted in the 11th
Indiana infantry, then stationed at Baltimore City, and
joining his regiment, he served therewith until the close of
the war. In 1869 Mr. Eagan removed to Indianapolis,
where he formed a co-partnership with J. C. Weinberger,
in the management of the Bluff Road fruit farm, and
there remained until 1871, when failing health admonished
him that he had better return to rural life at the old home-
stead, and be relieved of the arduous cares of the fruit
farm, near this city. He has held quite a number of posi-
tions of trust. In 1869 he served as Secretary of the Indi-
ana Horticultural Society, and in 1873 was a member of
the State Board of Agriculture. The same year he became
editor of the Horticultural Department of the Indiana
Farmer. In politics Mr. Ragan was a Democrat until
1861, when he became a Republican, and as such has acted
since.

JACOB REDICK,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM RUSH,

Was born of Pennsylvania Dutch parentage, in Montgom-
ery county, Ohio, Aj^ril 14, 1814. His parents being poor,
Jacob was apprenticed to a carpenter, and in the shop
acquired his education. For fifteen years he pursued the
phantom of prosperity with square and compass ; then he
turned his attention to farming. In his boyhood days,
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not a thought of wielding so much influence as he does this
winter over the destinies of his fellow men. He has been
a resident of Indiana since 1832. and ought to have a
pretty clearly-defined idea what his constituency and the
State need in a legisative way.

MARTIN A. REEDER,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM RANDOLPH,

Was born in Warren county, Ohio, November 18th, 1819.
His parents are reported as Pennsylvania Dutch and Mas-
sachusetts Yankee. The elder Reeder distinguished himself
raising hair from the heads of the red skins in the times of
Wayne and Harrison and under their commands. In
1822 the son, with his parents, removed to Indiana, where
he was educated in a log school house, twenty feet square
and seven feet high. This stupendous structure of primi-
tive times, cost two or three days labor, and fifty cents in
money, hard money of the blessed by-gone days of Demo-
cratic and Whig domination. The little debt was liqui-
dated in one night, by the big boys who went coon hunt-
ing and secured the scalps of four coons. The pelts were
disposed of to the Ewings of Fort Wayne, and the proceeds
were applied to the payment of the debt incurred
in erecting the said school house and the purchase of
ammunition for a general Christmas deer hunt. In poli-+
tics Mr. Reeder claims to have been a Jackson Democra
until 1836, a Free Soiler Whig thence to 1856, acting as
underground railroad conductor, then a Republican, and
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decided advocate of the laboring classes, and in tossing
up for choice of partners in a bear hunt would prefer an
engineer to a railroad president, a section hand to a super-
intendent, and that he is decidedly opposed to giving a
railroad President $40,000 per year and an everyday
laborer on the road but $1 25 per day. Ke is an advocate
of the equalization of salaries, and would vote in favor of
paying school teachers more, State and county officers
less. The gentleman from Randolph is evidently an anti-
salary grabber. His postoffice address is Winchester

JESSE H. RENO,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM OWEN,

Is a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where he was
born in 1825. His parents were Americans. With them
he removed to the West when he was quite young, and
settled in Indiana. He managed to secure a substantial
education in the common schools and through his own
exertions at home. Nearly all his life he has been a resi-
dent of the sterling county he represents. During the last
special and regular sessions of the Legislature he was a
member of the House and served on several committees,
and he is now Chairman of the Mileage Committee of that
body. Politically he was always a Democrat of the posi-
tive kind Quincy is his address.

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WILLIAM EIBBLE,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM DELAWARE,

Was born, of German parentage, in Montgomery county,
Virginia, October 10, 1819. He came to this State in 1830,
and settled near Selma, Delaware county, and has resided
there on his farm ever since. He had none but a common
school education. In 1844 he held the office of Justice of
the Peace ; was a Whig then, but is a Republican now.
His life heretofore has been the uneventful one of a far-
mer— "at peace with all the world, and the rest of man-
kind." In the year 1835-'36 his father represented Dela-
ware county in the State Legislature. Having followed
the avocation of his father in private life it seems that he
is destined also to follow in his footsteps in public life.
Those who would like to know what he knows about farm-
ing can address the gentleman from Delaware at Selma.

JAMES EOMINE,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM SPENCER,

Was born in the county of Spencer, March 12, 1832. His
father was from Missouri and his mother from Kentucky.
They removed to Indiana as early as 1816, and settled in
Spencer. They were among the very first settlers in
Spencer county. The elder Eomine held, in his time,
about all the offices made and provided for in that county.
The son was educated in the common schools of his native
neighborhood, and has a very fair English education to
show for it. Farming has been his occupation all his
life, and he has followed it faithfully with the exception

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of four or five years, a decade ago, when he filled the
office of Eecorder of Spencer county. He must be a very
popular personage, for his county has been llepublican
for years, and, though he had always been a Democrat,
he was elected to the Legislature last fall by 541 votes,
running ahead of the State ticket throughout the county.
Even a Democrat who could keep up with the ticket
at the last election is no sluggard in a race, to say noth-
ing of running ahead of it, as Mr. Eomine did. Gen-
tryville is his postoffice address.

WILLIAM NEWTON EOSBBEEEY,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM MONROE,

Was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 8, 1814.
His father and mother were born at Cane Eidge, Bourbon
county, Ky., and of American parentage. Nathaniel Eog-
ers, one of the members of the old Constitutional Conven-
tion of Kentucky, and the last who died, was a grandfather
of the gentleman whose name appears above. William
Newton only enjoyed such educational facilities as the
common schools of Kentucky and Indiana, in pioneer
times, could give. He came to this State with his parents
and settled in Monroe county in 1827, and there he still
lives. He was a tiller of the soil until 1840, when he was
elected Justice of the Peace, and served until 1855. Since
then he has been speculating in mules. Politically, Mr.
Eoseberry is a Democrat of the square-toed stamp. His
post office address is Eosecreek.

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A. H. SHAFFER, M. D.,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WABASH AND HUNTINGTON,

Was born in Starke county, State of Ohio, January 15,
1829. His parents were of American birth, but of German
extraction. He was educated in the University of Michi-
gan and "Western Eeserve Medical College, ot Ohio. In
1856 he came to this State and located at Huntington, and
commenced the practice of his profession. Entering the
army early in the war, he was assigned to duty as assist-
ant surgeon, and was subsequently promoted to the posi-
tion of surgeon of the 75th Ohio, and served therein until
the close of the war. Since then he has practiced his pro-
fession at Huntington, as before. He is Eepublican in
politics and expects so to remain. His home is at Hunt-
ington.

JOHN NEWTON SHAW,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM DECATUR,

Was born in Campbell county. Kentucky, January 29,
1817. On his father's side his ancestors were of Irish des-
cent, but Welsh on the side of his mother. Both parents
were born in America, and their fathers were soldiers in
the Revolutionary War. They were known to fame as
James Shaw and Edward Moran. Mr. Shaw's father
and mother removed to Kentucky from Pennsylvania and
Virginia, respectively, in the olden times. From thence
they removed to Missouri, and thence came the subject of
this sketch to Decatur county in 1844, where he has con-
tinued to reside since then. Heretofore he has been a far-

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mer, serving some sixteen years as Justice of the Peace
when resting from rural pursuits. 'Squire Shaw is known
throughout Decatur county as one of the most substantial
citizens of the county, and a life-long Democrat.

SAMUEL SHOETKIDGE,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM TIPPECANOE

Is a native of that county, for which he has the honor to
speak in the Legislative session of 1874-75. He was born
in 1830, August 4, which places him at this writing in the
forty -fifth year of his age. Mr. Shortridge comes of one
of the substantial families of Indiana farmers. His father
was one of the early Sheriffs of Tippecanoe county, in
which office he served altogether eight years and repre-
sented his county in the General Assembly two terms.
The present incumbent has acted as Trustee of his town-
ship eleven years in succession. He is first cousin of
President A. C. Shortridge, of the Purdue University, and
himself a farmer of means and progressive habit. As
may be presumed, the foundation of his education was laid
in the public school, which is honored and vindicated by
its graduates in the highest council of the commonwealth.
The paternal branch of the family is English, and the
maternal side leads back to both Irish and German blood.
In Mr. Shortridge as a law-maker the people are certain
of an honest and trustworthy friend, who will use all the
influence he possesses to promote the best good of society
and the prosperity of his native State, to whose public
service he has been called. Lafayette is his address.

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CORNELIUS SHUGART,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM GRANT,

Was born in Wayne county, Indiana, February 9, 1820.
His parents were of American birth and English extrac-
tion. The Sun was educated at Richmond, where he passed
the first fourteen years of his life. Then he removed to
Grant county, where he has lived for forty years, and has
had the happiness of seeing that portion of the State
become, from a howling wilderness, great and populous.
For the first few years of his life in the county, Mr. Shu-
gart was a teacher ; since, a farmer. He claims to be " but
a small man of limited ability," yet a full believer in the
adage, "Duty is ours ; consequences belong to God ;" and
also a strenuous advocate, as well as believer in, temper-
ance in all things.

He has heretofore held no office but that of Supervisor
of a very muddy road, to which position of trust he
was unanimously elected. Politically speaking, he is a
Republican; but strictly, not a strenuous politician.
Jonesboro is the address of the gentleman from Grant.

MATTHEW ALEXANDER SMITH,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM JAY AND DELAWARE,

Was born in Brunswick county, Yirginia, March 28, 1819.

His parents were of English extraction. His education was

received in the common schools of Greene county, Ohio, and

he removed to Indiana in 18-iO. He had been in this State

but two years before he was elected Justice of the Peace,

and he served fourteen years. Then he was elected County
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Commissioner, and so served until 1862. In 1865 he was
elected again, and served until 1871. When not engaged
exclusively in the discharge of official duties he has been
engaged in farming. Politically he was a Whig until 1856,
then a Eepublican, and a Eepublican still. He has always
been an advocate of temperance, and at the same time has
been strictly temperate. His addres? is Albany, Delaware
county.

DESIGNEY ALBEET SNYDEE,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM MARSHALL,

Was born in Marshall county, Indiana, November 17, 1847.
His father was a farmer of the old Yirginia school, and
trained his son in the way he had been taught to earn a
livelihood. The son's educational opportunities in boy-
hood were confined to the common schools of the State.
But he demonstrated the fact that the system of com-
mon schools in Indiana is capable of givirg a good.
education to those who will apply themselves assiduously
they having brains to begin with. Learning the law
several years since, and proceeding to practice his profes-'
sion, Mr. Snyder succeeded so well that he has been called
upon by the Democrats of his native county to represent
them in the Legislature. The gentleman from Marshall
is a young man of ability and ably represents one of the
best counties in the State.

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HAEYEY TAYLOE,

REPRESENTATJVE FROM DAVIESS,

Was born in Eockcastle county, Kentucky, April 10, 1821.
His parents were of American birth, and natives of Virginia,
He took a course in the common schools of Kentucky,
and at the age of twenty he left his native State, and emi-
grated to Indiana. Once in the State, he worked about
from farm to farm for four or five years, when he com-
menced the study of medicine with Dr. John Hill, of
Monroe county, and after reading there one year, he left
and located in Lawrence county, where he entered the
office of Dr. Free, and continued to prosecute his pro-
fessional studies. In 1849 he removed to Daviess
county, and resumed practice. There he has lived and
flourished ever since, a living monument of the self-made
men indigenous to Western soil. He is now a bright and
shining light of the Daviess County Medical Society, and
the Indiana Legislature.

Dr. Taylor has served the State on the field of battle
too, and when life's fitful fever is over, his posterity can
point with pride to the record he made there as well as in
the halls of State. His military career was inaugurated
by his enlistment in and elevation to the Second Lieuten-
antcy of a company in the 14th Indiana. In 1863 he
entered the 65th regiment, where he ascended the scale of
commissioned promotion to the third degree, retiring to
his rural home in 1865, covered all over with glory, and
a brace of bars on either shoulder.

The only office he ever held in civil life, before the one
he now holds, was Township Assessor, in 1855 to 1856.

Politically, he was a Whig, so long as the organization

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was perpetuate, then a Republican until his honesty and
self respect rebelled against its corruption, since when he
has been a Democrat. He resides near Eugglesville.

SAMUEL M. TAYLOR,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM HAMILTON AND TIPTON,

Is a native of Wayne county, Lidiana, where he was born
April 19, 1829. He can trace his lineage back to England,
Germany and the Emerald Isle, but don't care to go back
beyond his native State, being well satisfied with it. He
was educated in the common schools and at the academies
of Muncie and ]!^ewcastle. At the conclusion of his aca-
demic course, he read law with Messrs. Elliott & Mellett, but
never engaged in the practice of his profession, preferrrng
mercantile life to the traditional nine years of starvation
preceding the renianerative practice of law. During the
war he served in the 101st Regiment Indiana Yolunteers.
Again engaging in active mercantile pursuits, with the
added occupation of trading, at the close of the war, he
has been so engaged since. He has held about all the
offices within the gift of the people of his adopted village,
but the county was too Democratic for a Republican to
become Clerk, as he learned upon second trial. Eut he is
a Republican still, having kept the faith. He lives at
Tipton. '

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DANIEL THOMAS,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM PARKE.

Was born at Saratoga Springs, New York State, February
15, 1814. His parents were Welsh and German. With his
father's family he removed to Indiana in 1825. When
he had attained his majority he removed to Parke county,
where he has resided thirtj^-eight years. He was educated
in the common schools of the State and has followed farm-
ing all his life, having held none but township offices. In
politics he was a Jackson Democrat during the last term of
old Hickory. But he was an anti-Yan Buren man, and he
swears that the social relations of old Dick Johnson were
too dark for him to follow in his footsteps, politically
speaking. He is a Eepublican now, having been trained
to follow in the dark and dubious party paths. Portland
Mills, Parke county, is his address.

ADDISON K. A. THOMPSOI^,

JOINT REPRBBiE.NTATIVE FROM HENRY AND MADISON,

Was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, March 29th,
1818. His parents were natives of Virginia. In 183^^,
Addison first set foot upon the soil of this, his adopted
State. He took his first lessons in the alphabet under the
tutelage of John Purdue, now of Lafayette. In 1838,
while making his home at Covington, he traveled one-
thousand miles on horseback, visiting Iowa, then a vast
wilderness. Notwithstanding this remarkable equestrian
feat of his earlier manhood, Mr. Thompson would hesitate
before attempting to ride two horses running in opposite

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directions around the political arena. In fact he did hesi-
tate and picking out the Independent horse he abandoned
to the crows the spavined and otherwise " stove up "
Eepablican horse which ho had before ridden. Thus
he rode slowly but surely into the public crib. But
this is digression. In the spring of 1840, Mr. Thompson
embarked in a flat boat at Covington, and made a trip to
the Crescent city. At Nachez, he cast anchor for a few
days, to view the wreck wrought in the city by the whirl-
wind that year. It was something like the tidal wave of
last fall, in violence.

During the existence of that organization, Mr. Thomp-
son was a Whig, then a Eepublican, now an Independent.
He never held any office other than the one to which he
was Utely elected. Blountsville is his address.

JAMES LEE THOMPSON,

REPRESENTATIVE PROM MARION,

Was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1818. His parents
were both American, and his father represented Fayette
county in the Legislature two years, having removed to
Indiana with his family in 1833. The son was reared
upon his father's farm in Fayette, and afterwards followed
farming for a livelihood. All the education he ever
received was secured in the common schools of the county,
such as they were at that early day. Since beginning
life for himself he has lived in Eush, Clinton and Howard
counties, but is now located for life, most likely, near
Acton, in Marion county. In his time he has held office

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eight years — before the present. In politics he is a staunch
Democrat, one not ashamed to stand up before the world
and avow the principles of his party through good and
through evil report.

MILTON TEUSLEE,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM FAYETTE AND UNION,

Was born in Franklin county, Indiana, August 31, 1825.
His parents were from Virginia and removed to Indiana
in 1812. He was educated in the common schools, and
engaged m agriculture, as he had been trained on his
father's farm. He followed that uneventful avocation
until the spring of 1861, when he was elected Trustee for
Jackson township, and continued to hold the office through
repeated partiality on the part of the people until last
August, when he resigned and was elected to the Legisla-
ture soon afterwards. When the Whig party was in exist-
ence he professed the principles of that faith, and acted
with that party. Upon the organization of the Eepublican
party he joined that, and he is now, as he has been since
then, a Eepublican, and was elected as such to the office he
now holds. His home is Everton.

WILLIAM TWIBILL,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM GRANT AND BLACKFORD,

Was born in Whitsit county, Yirginia, October 29, 1831.
His parents were of American birth. They left old Vir-
ginia and removed to Indiana in 1834, and settled in Black-

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ford county. There the son was educated in the common
schools and settled down near the old homestead to the
slow but honest occupation of an agriculturist. In 1856
he tired of the toil of farm life, and engaged in the dry
goods trade, in which business he remained until the war,
when he enlisted in the 34:th Indiana Infantry and was
commissioned Captain of Company "I," over which he
exercised such command until mustered out ot the service.
When he had returned from the war he engaged in the
hardware busincFS, meantime speculating in stock, grain,
produce, and anything in which there was any money. In
politics he has been a Republican from the beginning, and
will continue faithful to the end if the party is true to
itself Montpelier is the postoffice address of the gentle-
man from Blackford and Grant.

JOHIS" WALTZ,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM POSEY,

Was born at Aberwistadt, in the G-rand Duchy of Baden,
February 28, 1829. Mr. Waltz was educated in the Poly-
technic School at Menheim, Baden. After having taken
part in the revolution of 1848 in the old country, he left it
for free America, landing in New York City in March,
1851. Leaving the metropolis in the fall, and setting out
for the West, he stopped off at Cincinnati, but hearing
there of Indiana, he of course left for the promised land
at once, and located at Bvansville. Subsequently he set-
tled down at New Harmony, in Posey county ; but he
didn't go into the hoop-pole business, as might be charged
xi the writer were not more explicit. He began business

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there as a boot and shoe manufacturer, and is yet so
engaged. During his stay in the capital in the service of
the State, his business is in charge of a trusty fore-
man. He is one of the tried and true citizens of the
community in which he lives. He is now Treasurer of
the Workingmens' Institute ; Treasurer of New Harmony
Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; has been three or four times Trustee
o'f Posey County Agricultural Association, and is at pres-
ent; and he has held other positions of trust, if not profit.
Since his advent into this country he has been a Democrat.
The first vote he ever cast for President was for Franklin
Pierce, and the last, for Horace Greeley. Hitherto he has
not held any position through political preferment. For
the office he now holds he was nominated without his
knowledge and consent. He is a widower, and his post-
office address is New Harmony.

THOMAS WASHBUEN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM WHITLEY,

Was born in Harrison county. West Virginia, July 28,
1805. His family before him had descended from the
Welsh. In 1843 he came to this State and settled in
Whitley county, having first spent several years in the
State of Ohio, before he had heard of the promised land,
and in Whitley he has abided ever since. By occupation
he is a carpenter, surveyor and merchant. In Ohio and
Indiana he held the office of Justice of the Peace, and
discharged the duties of the office with the dignity becom-
ing that exalted office. He was Auditor of Whitley county
four years from 1844, and State Senator in 1852. He is
Democratic first, last and all the time. Mr. Washburn
resides near Columbia City.

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MILES WATBKMAN,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM DEKALB,

Was born in the town of Camillus, Onondaga county, N.
Y., December 22, 1818. His father was a descendant from
Plymouth Eock and his mother, like his father, fi-om Mas-
sachusetts, but of Irish extraction. In 1837, Miles, likg
the star of empire, Westward wended his way, having first
received a common school education, however. He had
heard of Indiana, and of course came here direct, loca-
ting in DeKalb county. Immediately upon his arrival, he
adopted the vocation of farming. In 1846 he was taken
from the plow and put into the Auditor's Office of his
adopted county, and he did so well that he was kept there
until 1855. In 1858-9 he was a member of the House,
Indiana Legislature, representing DeKalb county. This
was a special session. In 1863 he was elected a member
of the House and served in the regular session. Besides ,
he has represented his county in many minor offices.

Politically Mr. Waterman was, until of late years, a
Democrat of Douglas and Lecompton principles. He is
now a Granger. In the canvass for the Legislature in
1862, for the session of 1862, the war then being in pro-
gress, he took the position that the government was legally
in the hands of the Republican party, and that the war for
the suppression of the rebellion should be energetically
prosecuted, but did not believe the leaders of that party
were honestly prosecuting the war for the suppression of
the rebellion and the restoration of the union simply, there
then being too many union-sliders among them. On the
financial question he claims to be, nominally, a hard-
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inflated it should be reduced very gradually. He also
entertains the opinion that the too sudden contraction of
the currency since the war has been the main cause of our
financial troubles. He contends that contraction at the
North has been much greater than most people seem to
suppose, the drain to supply the South having caused a
large share of this contraction. He thinks an increase of
a few millions at this time would be beneficial. Then, he
believes that greenbacks should be the currency of the
country ; else, banking should be free. Mr. Waterman is
a resident of Waterloo.

OLIYEE D. WILLETT,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM NOBLE,

Was born in Kichland county, Ohio, March 23d, 1835.
His parents were natives of Maryland, of English descent.
When he was only sixteen years of age Mr. Willett left the
paternal roof and courted fickle fortune in Williams county,
Ohio. He remained there until 1870, when he moved to
Noble county, this State. He has been prosperous in
business from the beginning and is now managing head
of the extensive marble manufactories of O. D. Willett &
Co., Noblesville. Mr. Willett is a gentleman of fine pres-
ence and admirable social qualities. Politically he is a
Democrat and has been all his life.

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ALFRED WILLIAMS,

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM BROWN AND BARTHOLOMEW, .

Was born in Overton county, East Tennessee, November
6, 1822. His parents were of American birth. His grand-
father, Jolm J. Williams, was a soldier of the Revolution,
and was twice or thrice taken prisoner by the minions of
King Creorge III. His name was on the pension rolls
until the date of his death in 1849. at the advanced age of
95 years. He wms a native of the State of North Carolina,
but died in Georgia His son was a native of Sur-
rey county, North Carolina, and served in the war of
1812, as Second Lieutenant in a Federal regiment, parti-
cipating in the battle of New Orleans, June 8, 1815. In
1825 Mr. Williams removed to this State and settled, where
the surviving members of the family now reside. He was
the first Treasurer appointed for Brown county, before a
permanent organization was perfected, and also the first
one elected by the people of the county after its organiza"
tion.

' Alfred, himself, had but poor opportunities for securing
an education, yet he has all the book learning necessary,
as well as the experience of an active business life. He
became a practical surveyor through his own teaching,
from such text books as he could secure. In 1854 he had
so thoroughly mastered the science of surveying that he
was made Assistant Surveyor of 13rown county, and as is
the case with assistants generally, he had to j)erform the
duties of the office. In 1856 he was elected Surveyor and
re-elected in 1858. In 1862 he was elected County Treas-
urer, served two years, and was again elected. In 1866
he was elected. Representative to the Lower House of

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the Legislature from Brown count}', and at the last election,
as appears above, Joint Kepresentative from Brown and Bar-
tholomew. He is, and always has been, a Democrat of
the conservative character. For " recollections of a busy
life." address Mr. Williams, at Nashville, Indiana.

ANDREW JACKSON WILLIAMS,

REPRESENTATIVE FROM LAWRENCE,

Was born in Blount county. East Tennessee. June 5, 1815.
He was only two years old when, with his parents, he
came to Indiana and located in Lawrence county. The
county was new at that time, and it is indelibly impressed
upon the tablets of his memory that potatoes were mighty
scarce that season. They arrived there in the fall, and he
avers that he can remember how his mother cried, during
the winter that ensued, because they had no potatoes.
Late in the summer following that winter, however, his
mother was made happy by the mature growth of a
bountiful crop. For the period of a year preceding they
had to subsist on venison andjbear meat and hogs, which
they then hunted like bear. Those were regarded as
hard times, but Mr. Williams still lives. Though he never
married he had the responsibility of rearing twenty -two
children. It came about in this way : Many of his near
relatives died at different times during the last quarter of
a century, and he assumed the care and culture of their
children, clothing and educating them. As a raiser of
crops and stock, he has been equally successful. His farm,
near Fayetteville, is one of the finest in the State. But

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he has not been a farmer all his life, having taught school
for a few years when a " peart young man." Politically
the gentleman from Lawrence was a Democrat until the
repeal of the Missouri compromise, since when he has been
a Republican.

SAMUEL WOODY

JOINT REPRESENTATIVE FROM HOWARD ANB MIAMI,

Is a native of North Carolina, having been born in Orange
county in that State. April 14th, 1828. With his parents
he removed to Indiana and settled near Bloomingdale, in
Parke county, in 1829, and was educated in the conamon
schools of that county. His father lost all in the financial
panic, which debarred the realization of the expectation of
the son's boyhood days, a collegiate education. With his
aged parents and an afflicted sister, he settled where he
now lives, in the then wilderness of the Miami Reservation,
and there he has hewn from the forest, his fine farm of three
hundred acres. In politics he was formerly a Whig but is
a Republican now, and has been since the organization of
that party. Of offices he has held those of Township Trus-
tee and Representative. Four years ago he was a candi-
date for the State Senate, but was defeated by the Hon. A,
F. Armstrong on the reform cry of the cunning candidate.
Last election he was nominated for joint representative
from Miami and Howard, and having had some experience
as a candidate he "whipped the fight" and won the race.
He has been through the mill and is now competent to
imitate the aspiring young politician. His address is
Russiaville, Miami county.

LEGISLATIVE. 169

JAMES MAECELLTJS WYNN,

REPRESENTATIVE EROM JENNINGS,

Was born in Franklin county, Indiana, February 19, 1833.
His parents were both English. The elder "Wynn came to
this country and settled at Brook ville when but eighteen
years of age (this was in 1818). He was friendless and
alone, and had but one single shilling at his command.
Having a good, general, and a first class mathematical
education, he secured the situation of teacher for a season
and subsequently that of surveyor of Franklin county.
He received his remuneration for teaching in the consid-
eration of the county, such as oats and other products of
the soil. He was elected surveyor several times ; was then
chosen Cashier of the Brookville Bank, and Secretary of a
prominent local railroad, besides many other positions of
trust and profit. He died in Jennings county in 1861,
leaving a large family and an ample fortune for their
maintenance.

James Marcellus, the one of these children made the
subject of this sketch, moved from the house where he was
born to the one in which he now lives. He has been a
farmer all his life, though he acquired a very fine educa-
tion in his early days. For two years he was County Sur-
veyor. In 1872 he was elected to represent Jennings
county in the Lower House, and last fall re-elected, running
ahead of his ticket. He claims to be a black Eepublican,
a temperance man, by example as well as precept — having
never tasted whisky — and a Methodist. When young, his
wife thought him a handsome man. Scipio is his postoffice
address.