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Republican. When he shall have served through the ses- sion, 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 the 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 ; his mother was born and reared in Ireland. Mr. Chapman
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has always resided in Indiana ; at present at Warsaw. The foundation of his education was laid in the common schools of his native county, and completed, so 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 Rep- resentative, and Senator in 1864. He was then appointed Register 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 Rupublican since.
R. H. CREE,
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 commissioned captain of Com- pany B, and so served 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 bis 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 Gorman-Americans. The Daggys settled in Putnam county, when he was but twelve years of age. 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. He 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 Gibson county-43 bushels to the acre-last season.
DAVID DARWIN DYKEMAN,
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. Ho is among the leading spirits of the Senate, disposed to be fair, positive and earnest. It takes but little to wake him up, 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.
GEORGE W. FRIEDLEY,
SENATOR FROM LAWRENCE AND MONROE.
Was born in Harrison county. Indiana, June 1, 1839, of German 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.
Mr. Friedley was educated at Hartsville University. and
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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 Republican and does not now give up the ship. As a candidate he has heretofore been successful in every instance. His address is Bedford, Lawrence county.
JONATHAN HENRY FRIEDLEY,
SENATOR FROM SCOTT, JENNINGS, AND DECATUR,
Was born in Harrison county, Indiana, April 25th, 1827. His father was of German 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, State 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 God. 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 out he enlisted as a private but before he had been long in
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the service he was promoted to Adjutant and acted as Judge Advocate. At the close of the war he practiced law in Washington for a season. Then he moved to Evansville, 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 Honorable W. E. Niblack for Congress, his opponents before the convention being Colonel C. M. Allen, General Laz. Noble of Vin- 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. Gooding and General 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 GROVE,
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. V.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 positions 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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Golden 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. He 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 Brookville, 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. He removed to Scott county, Kentucky, in 1802, and in 1807, 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 Rushville, 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 mathematies and astronomy. He wag for sometime 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 of 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 Republican 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. They 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. H. 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 the service, and was assigned to 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 continned 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 impelled 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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RICHARD M. HAWORTH,
SENATOR FROM FAYETTE, 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 of 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 Republican 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 Republican. 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 HENDERSON.
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 and 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 Vandervanter, 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 Eebert, 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 Eddy. He was elected to the House of Representatives 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 FROM 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 4
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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 office address.
WILLIAM RUFUS HOUGH,
SENATOR FROM HANCOCK AND HENRY,
Was born on the 9th day of October, A. D. 1833, 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 of 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 throughout 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 Republican 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 effeet of education upon the citizens of a free government essential to its perpetuity. He served industriously during the special session of 1872, 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, Rights 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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