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DAVID BREMNER HENDERSON.
R IPE experience and sound judgment are no less essential than intel- lectual strength and force of character in the man who would be a leader of men. It is a combination of all these qualities that gives David B. Henderson, of Iowa, his power and influence in the National House of Representatives. Mr. Henderson was born at Old Deer, Scotland, March 14, 1840. He was brought to the United States when six years of age, settling first in Illinois, but removing in 1849 to Iowa, where he was educated in the public schools and at the Upper Iowa University. He was reared on a farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when the Civil war breaking out, he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Iowa regiment, in September, 1861. He was soon after commissioned first lieutenant, and served with his regi- ment until the loss of a leg caused him to be discharged, February 16, 1863. In May of that year he was appointed commissioner of the Board of Enrollment of the Third district of Iowa, serving as such until June, 1864, when he re-entered the army as colonel of the Forty- sixth Iowa regiment, and served until the close of hostilities. He was collector of internal revenue for the Third district of Iowa from Novem- ber, 1865, until June, 1869. In the mean time he had been admitted to the bar, and in 1869 he became a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson. He was Assistant United States District Attorney for about two years, resigning in 1871, and is now a mem- ber of the law firm of Henderson, Daniels & Kiesel, of Dubuque. He was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Republican, and has since served continuously in that body, where he is distinctly one of its leading forces.
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HILARY A. HERBERT.
A MONG the Southern men who have come into prominence by reason of their sturdy integrity, great force of character and superior accomplishments, is the Secretary of the Navy, Hilary A. Her- bert. During an unusually long career in Congress he has distin- guished himself in many ways, and especially by a thorough knowl- edge of the intricate affairs of the navy. Mr. Herbert is a native of Laurensville, S. C., where he was born March 12, 1834, but while he was yet a child his father removed to Greenville, Ala. He was educated in the universities of Alabama and Virginia, studied law and was admitted to the bar. Entering the confederate service as a cap- tain, he was rapidly promoted until he became colonel of the Eighth Alabama volunteers, and was disabled in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. He continued the practice of law at Greenville until 1872, when he removed to Montgomery, where he has since resided. Colonel Herbert was first elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, and has been re-elected seven times, so that he was, when appointed Secretary of the Navy, about to enter upon his fifteenth continuous year in the National House of Representatives. He is known as a profound thinker, a forcible speaker in debate, and one of the few men in Con- gress who could be assigned to any kind of work with the assurance that it would be accomplished promptly, intelligently and thoroughly. He is particularly qualified to perform the duties of the high position he now occupies, and he enjoys the confidence of the administration, as well as the respect of all who have been associated with him in his public life. His course in the cabinet has been such as to retain for him the confidence of all parties.
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HILARY A. HERBERT.
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ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT.
TF there were to be selected from among all men a typical American, 1 in the broadest sense of that term, the choice might justly fall upon Abram Stevens Hewitt. He is a cultivated man, and has such talent, such practical ability, and such force of character, that he has made a distinct mark in the world. He was born in Haverstraw, N. Y .. July 31, 1822. During his college course at Columbia he sup- ported himself by teaching, and after his graduation, in 1842, remained in the college as acting professor of mathematics. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855, but abandoned that profession to become associated with Peter Cooper in the iron business. In 1862 he went to England to learn the process of making gun barrel iron, and, at a heavy loss to his firm, furnished the United States Govern- ment with material during the war. The introduction of the Martins- Siemens or open hearth process for the manufacture of steel in this country is due to his judgment. The plan of the Cooper Union was devised by its own trustees, with Mr. Hewitt as their active head, and as secretary of this board he directed its financial and educational details. He was active in politics, but left Tammany, joined the Irv- ing Hall society, and was one of the organizers of the County Democ- racy in 1879. He was elected to Congress in 1874 and served con- tinuously, with the exception of one term, until 1886. In that year he was elected mayor of New York, defeating Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt. Columbia College gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1887. The firm of Cooper & Hewitt owns and controls the Tren- ton, Ringwood, Pequest and Durham iron works. Mr. Hewitt has a record to be proud of.
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ABRAM STEVENS HEWITT.
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THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
T HE prominent position which Thomas Wentworth Higginson has held in the ecclesiastical, literary and political world for more than a generation gives a special value and interest to his portrait and biography. Born in Cambridge, Mass., December 22, 1823, he was graduated at Harvard in 1841, and at the divinity school in 1847, becoming in the last-named year pastor of the First Congregational church in Newburyport, Mass. He resigned his pastorate in 1850 to become a candidate for Congress on the Free-soil ticket, but failed of election. From 1852 until 1858 he was pastor of a Free church in Worcester, Mass., after which he left the ministry to devote himself to literature, and became conspicuous as an anti-slavery agitator. In 1856 he aided in organizing parties of free-state emigrants to Kansas, and served as brigadier-general on Gov. J. H. Lane's staff in the free-state forces. Entering the Civil war as captain in 1862, he was soon made colonel of the Thirty-first South Carolina volunteers, the first regiment of freed slaves mustered into the National service. He took Jackson- ville, Fla., was wounded at Wiltown Bluff, S. C., in August, 1863, and resigned from the army in 1864. From that year until 1878 Colonel Higginson dwelt in Newburyport, Mass., and then removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he has since resided, engaged in literary occu- pation. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1880 and 1881. He has written extensively on educational and other top- ics for Harper's periodicals, the "Atlantic Monthly" and other maga- zines. His first publication was "Thalatto," a compilation of poetry. He is noted for his broad-minded liberality, his keen insight into human nature, and his general knowledge.
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THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
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GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR.
N TOTED for his legal acumen, his broad statesmanship and his extended and diversified culture, Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is regarded as one of the truly great men connected with the government at Washington. Born in Concord, Mass., August 29, 1826, he was graduated at Harvard in 1846, studied law and began the practice of his profession in Worcester. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1852 and of the State Senate in 1857. He was elected as a Republican to four suc- cessive Congresses, serving from March 4, 1869, until March 3, 1877. He was elected United States senator to succeed George S. Boutwell, taking his seat March 5, 1877, and was re-elected in 1883, 1889 and 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. Senator Hoar was a delegate to the Republican National conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1888, presiding over the convention of 1880. He was one of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876, and was a member of the electoral commis- sion in that year. From 1874 to 1880 he was an overseer of Har- vard College, and in the latter year was regent of the Smithsonian Institution. He has been president, and is now vice-president, of the American Antiquarian Society, trustee of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, trustee of Leicester Academy, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Historical Society, the Historic-Genealogical Society and the Virginia Historical Society. The degree of LL. D. has been conferred upon him by William and Mary, Amherst, Yale and Harvard Colleges. Senator Hoar is a typical Amer- ican statesman.
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GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR.
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MARY JANE HOLMES.
F "OR stories of domestic life that are pure in tone and free from sensational incidents, without having an avowedly moral purpose, no living American author enjoys a wider popularity than Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. It may be added that no woman novelist, with the possi- ble exception of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, has received so large profits from her copyrights. Mrs. Holmes, whose maiden name was Hawes, was born in Brookfield, Mass., and is described as a very precocious child, who studied grammar and arithmetic at the age of six, and taught school at thirteen. While yet a child she was pos- sessed with an inspiration to write, and was only fifteen when articles from her pen began to appear in print. She was subsequently mar- ried to Daniel Holmes, a prominent lawyer and graduate of Yale, and lived for a period in Versailles, Ky., where she gained the knowledge of Southern life and Southern character portrayed in some of her sto- ries. But she ultimately made Brockport, N. Y., her home, and there she and her husband now reside in a lovely place which they call " Brown Cottage." Mrs. Holmes' first book was "Tempest and Sun- shine," and it has been followed by twenty-five or thirty others. That they are popular is proven by the fact that about two million copies have been sold, and that there is a continued demand for them. In addition to her novels she has written many articles and stories for papers, magazines and syndicates. Her long stories are usually printed serially in a periodical before appearing in book form, and as she never sells a copyright her revenues from her work are very large. Mrs. Holmes has traveled extensively in almost every part of the world. She is an untiring worker.
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HARRIET G. HOSMER.
T THE name of no sculptor in the United States is more widely known than is that of Harriet Hosmer. The quality of her art has long been recognized and her work has at all times sus- tained a reputation early acquired. She was born in Watertown, Mass., October 9, 1830. Her father was a physician; she was left motherless and led largely an outdoor life. Her genius showed itself when she was but a mere child, much of her time being spent in a clay pit near her father's home where she amused herself by modeling horses, dogs, and other creatures. She was given a good education and took art lessons with her father, and later took a medical course in St. Louis, Mo. In 1851 she executed her first important work, an ideal head of "Hesper." In 1852 she went to Rome with her father and Charlotte Cushman and there became a pupil of Gibson. After two years of study she produced two busts, "Daphne" and "Medusa," which were exhibited in this country. Her success thenceforth was rapid and her rank in the art world fully recognized. Her first full- length figure, "Oenone," was produced in 1855. Then followed "Will o' the Wisp," "Puck," "Sleeping Fawn," "Waking Fawn," "Zenobia," a statue of Marie Sophia, queen of the Sicilies, Beatrice Cenci and other works as noted. Among these a bronze statue of Thomas H. Benton is in St. Louis, where Miss Hosmer spends much of her time. Among her patrons have been distinguished people abroad, including the Prince of Wales, and various great societies. She executed a statue of Queen Isabella for the Columbian Exposition. Miss Hosmer is a clever writer and has contributed valuable art studies to the magazines.
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HARRIET G. HOSMER.
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OLIVER OTIS HOWARD.
P RESENTING as he does a combination of the soldier and scholar in a degree that is unusual in this country, Gen. O. O. How- ard, of the United States army, has both a military and a literary record. He was born in Leeds, Me., November 8, 1830, and was graduated at Bowdoin in 1850. In 1854 he graduated at West Point, becoming first-lieutenant, but resigned in 1861 to take command of the Third Maine regiment in the Civil war. For gallantry at Bull Run he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He was twice wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, losing his right arm June 1, 1862, but participated in many succeeding engagements, being again wounded at Pickett's Mill. In November, 1862, he became major-general of volun- teers, and in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general for gallantry in various battles. General Howard was commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau from March, 1865, until July, 1874, when he was assigned to the command of the department of the Columbia. In 1877 he led the expedition against the Nez Perces Indians, and in 1878 the campaigns against the Brannocks and Piutes. He was commissioned major-gen- eral in 1886, and is now in command of the department of the Atlantic. He has contributed many articles to magazines, has pub- lished "Donald's School Days," "Chief Joseph, or the Nez Perces in Peace and War" and "Isabella of Castile," and is the author and translator of "Life of the Count De Gasparin." The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Bowdoin College, and that of LL. D. by Waterville, Shurtleff, and the Gettysburg Theological Seminary. He was made chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French govern- ment in 1884.
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OLIVER OTIS HOWARD.
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VINNIE REAM HOXIE.
TN the realms of art America furnishes no greater name, perhaps, certainly not among women, than that of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, the famous sculptor, who enjoys the distinction of being the first woman who ever received an order from the United States Government for a statue. Mrs. Hoxie was born in Madison, Wis., September 23, 1846. A portion of her early life was spent in Washington, D. C., where her father held an office, but her family afterward lived in the West, and she was educated at Christian College, Missouri. During the war her family returned to Washington, where she was for a time employed in the postoffice department, but subsequently studied art, and soon devoted her whole attention to sculpture. Her work in this line was so successful that she made busts of General Grant, Reverdy Johnson, Albert Pike, John Sherman and Thaddeus Stevens, besides producing "The Indian Girl," a full-length figure cast in bronze, the marble "Miriam," etc. But her most important piece at this time was the statue of Abraham Lincoln, ordered by the Government and placed in the Capitol at Washington. Miss Ream spent three years abroad, and produced medallions of many eminent men. On her return, she mod- eled a bust of Lincoln for Cornell University, a life-size statue of "Sappho," "The Spirit of the Carnival," etc. Her later works include a statue of Admiral Farragut, which was cast in bronze from metal obtained from the flagship "Hartford," and placed in Farragut Square, Washington. She was married May 28, 1878, to Capt. Richard L Hoxie, of the United States Corps of Engineers. Mrs. Hoxie does not allow her devotion to act to interfere with her family duties. She has a wide circle of friends and admirers.
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JOHN JAMES INGALLS.
T THE student and writer in politics, has, in the man who so long represented Kansas in the United States Senate, proved a dis- tinguished figure. John James Ingalls was born in Middletown, Mass., December 29, 1833. He graduated at Williams College in 1855, stud- ied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He removed to Atchi- son, Kan., in 1858, and there engaged in the practice of his profes- sion. He was a member of the Wyandotte convention in 1859, sec- retary of the territorial council in 1860, and of the State Senate in 1861, and was a member of the latter body in 1862. In the same year he was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant-governor of Kan- sas. After his defeat he accepted the editorship of the Atchison "Champion," which he retained for three years. At about this time he won almost national reputation by a series of brilliant magazine articles. He was again defeated for the lieutenant-governorship in 1864, but was elected to the United States Senate for the term beginning in 1873. This office he held by successive re-elections for three terms, and in 1887 was chosen president pro tempore of the Senate. He ranked among the ablest debaters in that body. He was defeated by the Populist party in Kansas when a candidate for re-election for a fourth term, but has remained a political factor of importance, delivering many addresses, contributing important articles to the reviews, and losing none of his prestige as one of the most brilliant of orators and writ- ers. In the Senate his keen logic, his wonderful gift of sarcasm, and his political audacity made him especially dreaded by all opponents. He is not surpassed as a debater of the aggressive type and a master of scathing criticism.
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JOHN JAMES INGALLS.
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WILLIAM LYNE WILSON.
M ANY a congressman who opposed with his voice and vote the so-called "Wilson bill" will cheerfully testify to the brilliant intellect and engaging personality of its author. Few men in the National House of Representatives were personally more popular than William L. Wilson, of West Virginia. Mr. Wilson entered Congress from the study of a college president. He was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, May 3, 1843, and was educated at the Charlestown Academy, Columbian College and the University of Virginia. During the Civil war he served in the Confederate army, and for several years after the war was a professor in Columbian College, but on the over- throw of the lawyer's test oath in West Virginia he resigned his chair and entered upon the practice of law in Charlestown, where he still resides. He has taken an active part in various political campaigns, and was permanent president of the National Democratic Convention, at Chicago, in 1892. He was elected president of the West Virginia University in 1882, but resigned during the following year to take his seat in the Forty-eighth Congress. Mr. Wilson was a member of Congress for twelve successive years. From the first he has advanced steadily to the front ranks, until now he is the Democratic leader on the floor, made so by force of character and ability, and against the preference of the Speaker. His hard work during the winter of 1894, in behalf of his favorite tariff measure, the "Wilson bill," so affected his health that for a time after the passage of the bill by Congress he was seriously ill and spent several months under a physician's care, traveling in Mexico. Upon the resignation of Mr. Bissell, from the office of Post- master-General, Mr. Wilson was appointed his successor.
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WILLIAM LYNE WILSON.
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EDWARD KEMEYS.
B ECAUSE of his taking the great wild animal life of this country at this time, and turning it into enduring marble or bronze and so illustrating its very pulse and spirit and personality, Mr. Edward Kemeys is a great man. He has done other things. He has made men's faces and forms and is a sculptor of note in such direction, but, after all, what is greatest about Mr. Kemeys is that he has recognized the interest and the importance in art of representing the wild animals, more particularly the carnivora, of the continent, and that he has seized upon that life while still existing, transforming it into something perma- nent. He is a naturalist, a history-maker, a sympathizer with nature as well as a sculptor, who has done this thing. A strong, rude poem is one of Mr. Kemeys' wild animals put into marble. He makes the great cats as they have lived in our wilds something to wonder over and to study and enjoy. He was born in Savannah, Ga., in January, 1843. He was at school in New York when the Civil war began, but entered the army at once and came out as a captain. After the war he farmed in Illinois, then was one of the Engineer Corps in Cen- tral Park, N. Y., then, somehow, got to modeling things in clay. He succeeded as a sculptor. He went West and studied the animals, shot and dissected the buffalo, shot and dissected mountain lions, saw all these animals playing or fighting and then, finally, came back east- ward and began to make those figures of our wild beasts, just as they are, which have attracted the attention of the cultivated world. He is potent in a great field, one of those who are giving to American art a character of its own and what will compare favorably with the original productions of other nations.
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EDWARD KEMEYS.
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GEORGE KENNAN.
T O be an intelligent traveler and explorer, and to be able to graph- ically describe what one sees, is to be a useful contributor to the history and geography of the world. Such a person is George Kennan. He was born in Norwalk, Ohio, February 16, 1845, and obtained a high-school education by attending school during the day while working at night as a telegraph operator. In 1864 he was assistant chief operator in the telegraph office at Cincinnati, and in December of the same year went to Kamchatka, by way of Nicaragua, California and the North Pacific. As a leader of one of the Russo- American Telegraph Company's exploring parties in Northeastern Siberia, in 1865 and 1866, and as superintendent of construction for the middle district of the Siberian division from 1866 until 1868 he explored and located a route for the Russo-American telegraph line between the Okhotsk Sea and Behring Strait. In 1870 he went again to Russia to explore the mountains of the Eastern Caucasus, proceeded down the Volga River to the Caspian Sea, made extensive explorations on horse- back in Daghestan and Chechnia, crossing the great range of the Cau- casus three times in different places, and returned to America in 1871. In 1885 and 1886 he made a journey of fifteen thousand miles through Northern Russia and Siberia for the purpose of investigating the Rus- sian exile system, visited all the convict prisons and mines, and explored the wildest part of the Russian Altai. On his return to the United States, Mr. Kennan published a series of magazine articles, afterward issued in book form, and lectured extensively on Siberia He is also the author of "Tent Life in Siberia and Adventures Among the Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamchatka and Northern Asia."
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GEORGE KENNAN.
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CHARLES KING.
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HOEVER has failed to read the delightful army stories of Capt.
W V Charles King is not fully competent to discuss current litera-
ture. Captain King is a resident of Milwaukee, Wis. He was born in Albany, N. Y., October 12, 1844, being the only son of Gen. Rufus King, grandson of Charles King, LL. D., president of Columbia Col- lege, and great-grandson of Rufus King, of New York, who was twice Minister to England and twenty years United States senator. In 1845 Gen. Rufus King settled in Milwaukee, and in 1862 his son was sent by President Lincoln to West Point, where he became adjutant of the Corps of Cadets and was graduated in 1866. He served twice as instructor of tactics at West Point; was aide-de-camp to General Emory during the reconstruction days in New Orleans; commanded his troop of the Fifth regiment of cavalry during the Apache campaign, and was severely wounded in action at Sunset Pass. Captain King served through the Sioux and Nez Perces campaigns of 1876, and 1877 as adjutant of the Fifth cavalry. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1879, and placed on the retired list because of wounds received in the line of duty. For ten years he was inspector and instructor of the Wisconsin National Guard and colonel of the Fourth Wisconsin infantry, and is now making a study of the European armies. He is best known as an author of military history and sol- dier stories. His novels, "The Colonel's Daughter," "Marion's Faith," "Captain Blake," "Between the Lines," "Dunraven Ranch" and oth- ers, have been widely read throughout the United States and abroad. While in the army Captain King was known as a gallant soldier. He is now regarded as an able teacher of military tactics.
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DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT.
T HERE was probably no member of President Cleveland's Cabinet who possessed more influence with the executive than did the man who, within a few years, developed from a private secretary into that prominent official, the Secretary of War. During Mr. Cleve- land's first administration Daniel S. Lamont was his confidential man, and at that time his imperturbable manner and chilling politeness gave White House visitors the impression that his chief characteristics were secretiveness and discretion. Mr. Lamont was born in Cortland County, New York, February 9, 1851, and was the only child of a country merchant. After completing an academic course he entered his father's store as a clerk, but soon abandoned that occupation to seek a political career. He was a delegate to Democratic State conventions before he was of age, and was a member of the New York Assembly in 1870, 1871 and 1875. He was afterward chief clerk in the New York State department under John Bigelow, and was confidential secretary to Samuel J. Tilden during the latter's term as governor of New York. From 1875 until 1883 Mr. Lamont was secretary of the Democratic State Committee of New York, and as such displayed a marvelous acquaintance with the details of state politics, as well as knowledge of public men and politicians. His ability to remember persons and call them by name was quite remarkable. He introduced into the management of the War Department a shrewdness and tact that was of more value than mere statesmanship. Mr. Lamont is a business man and a methodical one. He acquired a reputation for ability and sterling honesty, and without seeking it made many friends and admirers while in office.
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