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£ crime service in woot as Meatenant-colonel OF the Nuotoouth Regiment, and was 500h . We Want China. In Ihop President Davis appointed hier to an important diplo- matic mission to Russia. in 2000 he was social science in the State University, and was such afterward transferred to the pro- presunto this district in the forty-third and ti yatton congresses, and was elected Valor States sombor from Mississippi in 1977, and re-Checked MY 1882. In 2005, De- ure the expiration of his tern, he Was a pulmed by President Cleveland as secre- Lazy of the interior, which position he held
und als a polarment as associate justice of , con years. His first works were portraits, and Chied States supreme court, in 1888, in which capacity he served until his death,
TASTMAN JOHNSON stands first amon, _ painters of American country He. He was born in Lovell, Maine, in Ides, and be- gan his work in drawing at the age of eight- and, as he took up his residence in Wash- ington, the most famous men of the nation : were His subjects. In 1846 he went to Bos- ton, and there made crayon portraits of Longichow, Emerson, Semner, Hawthorne and other noted men. In isz9 he went to Europe. He studied at Dusseldorf, Ger- many; spent a year at the Royal Academy. and thence to The Hague, where he spent
DEN AMIN PENTALLOW SMILLA- DER won late in the world of Lunchists under the name of "Mrs. Parting -. to ... " He was born in 1341 at Portsmouth, Now Cheap. hife, and started out in iffe as a partner. Mr. Sindaber went to Dover, , four years, producing there his first pictures
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what we eat your hate lived some than; The Endhas of Lake Superior. in Var produced his famous picture. .. The Saludy Hoaje." He took up his ..
Among His our great Works are Collab, ' "Crossing a Stream,' Elin Sweep, " ".On Stage Coach," ....... New Beat .. .. The Drummer Boy," "undloon of Lincoln, " and a great vari-
DIEACE GUSTAVE TOUTANT BEAU- KELAND, one of the most dischi- ....... peteras in the Confederate army, .M. Hear New Orleans, Louisiana, 20. 1818. He graduated from. West "Mary Academy in 1838, and was KENAY GEORGE, one of America's I _ most celebrated political economists, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1839. He received a common- school education and entered the high school in 1053, and then went into a mer- cantile ofice. He made several voyages on the sea, and settled in California in . S58. He then worked at the printer's trade for a number of years, which he left to follow the editorial profession. He edited in succession several daily newspapers, and attracted at- tention by a number of strong essays and speeches on political and social questions. In 1871 he edited a pamphlet, entitled " Our escova! lieutenant of engineers. We MAM General Scott in Mexico, and dis- ished Himself at Vera Cruz, Carro a.), and the battles near the City of no, for which he was twice brevetted. " the Mexican war closed he was placed mate of defenses about New Orleans, .. 1860 was appointed superintendent e Cated States Military Academy at Ph ... he held this position but a withouths, when he resigned February 20, !, Chu accepted a commission of briga- - enerd in the Confederate army. He wed the track on Fort Sumter, the ." hement of and Civil war. He was Land and Policy," in which he outlined a
force of buli Rt, and for tills victory was anadie general. m 1362 he was placed in. cenahand of the Army of the Missis ippi, Que planned the attack upon General Grant at shiioh, and upon the death of General johnston he took command of the army and was only deter to by the timely arrival
Was a command in Virginia, deleting Gren- en. Buur and resisting Gold's Black www. Petersburg and Fehltbreed ito ... Rick- lowed de was sent to check General Sher- man's march to the sea, and was with Gen- era joseph B. johnston when that general surrendered in 1865. After the close of the war he was largely interested in Filtroad management. In 1866 he was offered chief command of the Army of Roumania, and in INGy, that of the Army of Egypt. He de- clined these offers. His death occurred February 20, 1893.
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was the next your chosen vice-president of the road. This position at once brought the, which has been extensively translated. where he must his home, though he fre- Humil, Australia, and throughout the Called States. An Tene ne was nominated. him before the public, and the enterprise and ability displayed by him in its manage- ment marked him as a leader among the chen y addressed audiences in Great britain, . rallroad men of the country. At the Shi- break of the rebellion in 1861, Mr. Scott was selected by Governor Cartin as a men- ver of His staff, and placed in charge of the equipment and forwarding of the state tro pa w the sent of war. On April 27, 1861, the Was counttime of the Cala Labor party for serait state of New York. These cam- paigas served with the the idea of a single www. po. Altrize the Australian ballot sys- will. M. George becathe a free trader in webb, and it rage supported the election of Cher Cleveland. His political and eco- completed in a marvelously short space of nomie lucas, known as the "single tax," .... comme to this country monte. He Wiele makerous miscellaneous articles in "The Land Question, " " Social Problems," .where are getting support, but are stored colonel of volunteers, and on the 23d secretary of what desired to establish a new The of road between the national capital and Philadelphia, for the more expeditloss transportation of troops. He called upon Mi. Scott to direct this work, and the road by the way of Annapolis and Perryville was ume. On May 3, 1861, he was commis- of the same month the government rafiroads and telegraph Anes were placed in his charge. support of his principles, and also phosished: | Jr. Scott was the first assistant secretary "Protection of Free Trade," "The Condi- ! of this new post August 1, 1361. In juni-
Con of Labor, all Open Letter to Pope Leo ; MIff., " and " Perplexed Philosopher."
THOMAS ALEXANDER SCOTT. - This 1 name is indissolably connected with the History and development of the railway systems of the United States. Mr. Scott was bort December 28, 1823, at London, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. He was Arst Regularly employed by Major James Patton, the collector of tolls on the state road be- wenn Philadelphia and Columbia, Pom- sylvanla. He entered into the um doy of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1850, ..... went through all the derent branches of work until he had mastered all the details
of war ever appointed, and he took charge ary, 1862, he was directed to organize transportation in the northwest, and it March he performed the same service on the western rivers. He resigned June .. 1362, and resumed his direction of affairs on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Colonel Scurt directed the policy that secured to his road the control of the western roads, and be- came the president of the new company as operate these lines in I871. Forone year. from March, I8;1, he was president of the Union Pacific Railroad, and in Isz4 he suc- ceeded to the presidency of the Penasyi- vania Company. He projected the Texas Pacific Railroad and was for many years its president. Colonel Scott's health filled
mit of a toy was born in Wakes coun- Culversty of Georgia, that gradumed USTIN CORDIN, one of the greatest F- Away magnates of the United States, wass bort july 11, 1827, at Newport, Now Kongelige. He bundled law with Chick Je de Calling tan Governor Raph Met- c .... , the Hut ton a course in the Harvard Semi, where he graduated the 1045. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced Rw, with. Coverfor Mach us Mis parter, anth Getober 12, ENEl. Mr. Corbin the removed to Davenport, Iowa, Where he To- mined until 1865. It rage he was a part- nor in the banking Arm of Mucki att Cor- bha and later he cegailived the First Na. tional bank of Davenport, Town, which commenced business June 29, 2005, and which was the first national bank open for business in the Chited States. Mr. Corbin sold out his business in the Daven port bank. and removed to New York in 1865 and com- menced business with partners under the to the United States sendte, ...... In Logy, but When His native state . ... Behind his sent in the same " is sites on the west authority ad it not been for a misunderstanding will not be explained til too late he Have been elected president of the .racy. He was appointed secretary .we by President Davis, but resigned i a few months and was commissioned For-general in the Confederate army. wohl distinction at the second battle of Run and at Sharpsburg, but resigned winston soon after and returned to 1 style of Cortina Banking Company. Savi. after his removal to New York the budete interested in allroads, and became one of the leading andfond then of the country. The development of the west hall of Coney Ist and as a summer resort Hast brought him into general prominence. He ballt & ral- Fond from New York to the island, and built great hotels on its ocean front. He next turned his attention to Long island, and secured all the railroads and consoli- dated them under one management, became president of the system, and under his con- trol Long Island became the great ocean suburb of New York. His latest public as He organized the militia of achievement was the rehabilitation of the cia to resist Sherman, and was made , Reading Railroad, of Pennsylvania, and
Trage the dra at his home in dent the country at the close of the war and bur 15, 1885.
. Fre paying in his paslesst ion, attracting ation of the leading statesmen and For that time. Me raised a Voltmeter hay for the Creek war, and served as wat to the Cl se. He was elected to the Fulegislature in 1837, re-elected in 1842, ... It was elected to congress. He . both brought up as a Jeffersonian crat, but voted for Harrison in Isto In congress on the Oregon question,
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MARTES GORDON BENNETT. SR., PERFETTO New MM, near Ket, Scot- At the age of Fourteen .. . this sent to Abeslied to study for the priesthood. bat, convinces that he was mistaken in his vocation, be determined to emigrate. He landed at Hallex, Nova Scotia, in :Sig, where he attempted to earn a living by teaching bookkeeping. Falling in this he went to Boston and found employment as a rolf renter. Mr. Bennett went to New York about 1822 and white for the news- papers. Later on the Dechine assistant Counter" but Returned to New York In 1824 and natural to suit a commercial schoon out was maisacces ful in this, and ..... returned to newspaper work, He continued in newspaper work with varying success with, at his suggestion, the .En- Fa :" was consolidated with another paper, and became the -Counter and En- golfer," with James Watson Webb as estive and Mr. Bennett For assistant. At this time this was the leading American Hogypes de. However, severed his con- action with the newspaper and tried, with at success, other ventures in the line of journalism unth May 6, 1835, when he issued the first number of the "New York ATerath." Ma. Bennett wrote the entire paper, and made up for lack of news by his own imagination. The paper becathe popu-
The Icons derived from has paper white want one hundred thousand dollars. De ing the Civil war the " Meraki " had on its staff sixty-three war correspondents and the dieaktion was conbied. Mr. Dette & was int rested with John W. Medany Ar that are Efterpris which is now known as the M.c- i. b's pages over By thousan : biographies,
say-Bennett Cable. He had coffeet .friss sketches and all manner of information re- sitting every well-known man, will it are sall kept in the archives of the Herald office. He died in the city of New York in 1872, and left to his son, james Gordon, Jr., one of the greatest and most profitable journals in the United States, or even in the world.
LIVER WENDELL HOLMES, a noted American., won distinction in the Bad of literature, in which he attained a world-wide reputation. He was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29. 1805. He received a collegiate concation and , rad- unted from Harvard in 1829, at the age of twenty, and took op the study of law and later studied thedicine. Dr. Holmes at- tended several years in the hospitals of
he became professor of anatomy and pays- Colony in Dartmouth in 1838, and 20- matinal there until w87, when he was called to the Massachusetts Medical Se ... at Boston to Peergy the Stand Chair, was. position he resigned in 1882. The Ant collected edition of his poems appeared. ... 1836, and his " Phi Beta Kappa Poets, "Poetry," in 1836; "Terpsichore, " in 1843; "Urania," in 1846, and "Astrica, " won for him many fresh laurels. His series of papers in the "Atlantic Monthly." were:
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EUROS CHOATE, one of the Most On- When of America's great lawyers, was ... vet Mer ., 17,, at Essex, Massachu- He entered Dartmouth I 18. 5, wtor taking Mis degree he remained as Har in the college for one year. He up the study of law in Cambridge, ani greatly studied under the distinguished r, Mr. Wire, who was then United sattorney-general at Washington. Mr. "bugin the practice of law in Danvers, .chusetts, and from there he went to , and afterwards to Boston, Massa-
younger members of the profession with all infection that almost amounted to a rever- Mr. Choau's powers as all orator
than the feelings and stir the passions tire I from native Me in usgs, and was on Als way to Europe, his physician having ordered a acht voyage for his health, but had o.fly reached Halifax. Nova Scotia, when he died, July 13, 1858.
WIGHT L. MOODY, one of the most Hotel and effective pulpit orators and evangelsts America has produced, was born in Northheld, Franklin county. Massachu- solls, February 5, 1837. He received but a meager education and worked on a farm until seventeen years of age, when he Be- crime clerk in a boot and shoe store in Boston. Soon after this he joined the Con- gregational church and went to Chicago, where he zealously engaged in missionar; work among the poor classes. He met with great success, and in less than a year he sulle up a Sunday-school which numbered over one thousand children. When the war broke out he became connected with what was known as the "Christian Com. suite. While living at Salem he was to congress in 1832, and later, in he was chosen United States senator mission, " and later became city missionary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Chicago. A church was built there for his Would Daniel Webster, Mr. Webster , converts and he became its enordained pas- Been appointed secretary of state r William Henry Harrison. tor. In the Chicago fire of 1871 the church and Mr. Moody's house and furniture, which Wtor the death of Webster, Mr. Choate, and been given him, were destroyed. The
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1875 they returned to America and nek! Haye meeting in various cities. They
He evictedistic work, melting everywhere with a warm Except . and success. M. Monty produced a malliber of works, some of which had a wide circulation.
" CAN PIERPONT MORGAN, a financier of world-wide reputation, and fellous is the head of one of the largest banking . was in the world, was Lom April 47. Happy at Hartford, Connectiont. He re- ceived his early education in the English Month this with a course in the University En Suite : States, in vagy, tand entered the ottotiny Arm of Dancan, Sherman & Co .. of New York, and, in 1860, he became Jem and attorney, in the United States, For Hoffe Peabody & Co., of London. Me became the flater partner in the banking Arm of Dabney, Morgan & Co., in 1804, At. EMMENT Market, Morgan & Co., in 1871. The House was among the chief negotiators railroad bonds, and was active in the re- orarization of the West Shore Railroad, che ks absorption by the New York Contral AGEroad. It was conspicuous in the re- palliation of the Philadelphia & Read- : A Railroad, in 1887, which a syndicate of Capitalists, formed by Mr. Morgan, placed off a sound Andneid! basis. After that thine
Hat enterprise. were bro, ale ander Ma Morgan's comtrol, and in some respecto k may be a tis he becaate the foremost financier of the century.
THOMAS BRACKETT REED, One O. - the most continent of American states Ha, Namey where he received His early city, and prepare? Mansich fur college. Mr. Rend graduated from Bow the Change in 1860, und woh one of the Highest honors of the college, the prize for excellence in Bag- lish composition. The blowing four years
were spent by him in teaching and in the study of law. Before his admission to the bar, however, He was acting assistant pay- master in the United States navy, and served on the .tin-clad" S.bh, which po- trolled the Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi rivers. After his Mediante in 1865, He Polarned to Portland, was a Bit- ted to the bar, and be in the practice vilis . profession. He entered into political the. und in 1838 was elected to the legislature of Mathe as a Republican, and in 180, he was re-elected to the house, and in 8855 was made state schater, from which he passed to attorney general of the state. He retired from this office in IN73. .... until 1877 he was soleitor for the city of Portland. In 1876 he was diector to the forty-ffth congress, which assemband in 1877. Ma. Reed sprang into prominence in that body by one of the first speeches which he delivered, and His long service ... congress, coupled with his ability, gave him
a national reputation. Ils Influence euch year became more strongly marked. and the leadership of His party was finally concerned to him, and in the forty-ninth and Anicth
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de gress the complimentary nomination for the speakership was tendered him by the Republicans. That party having obtained Me ascendency in the fifty-first congress he was elected speaker on the first ballot, and " was again chosen speaker of the nity- warth and fifth-fifth congresses. As a writer, Mr. Reed contributed largely to the Magazines and periodicals, and his book woon parliamentary rules is generally rec- ghized as authority on that subject.
C LARA BARTON is a celebrated char- actor among what might be termed as the highest grade of philanthropists Amer- ica has produced. She was born on a farm At Oxford, Massachusetts, a daughter of Captain Stephen Barton, and was educated . Clinton, New York. She engaged in teaching early in life, and founded a free hool at Bordentown, the first in New Jer- ny. She opened with six pupils, but the tendance had grown to six hundred up to . 45% when she went to Washington. She sms appointed clerk in the patent depart- mit and remained there until the out- Bak of the Civil war, when she resigned Arposition and devoted herself to the al- aion of the sufferings of the soldiers, ring, not in the hospitals, but on the bat- ) . .. She was present at a number of 1. 3, and after the war closed she origi- 1, and for some time carried on at her expense, the search for missing soldiers. How for several years devoted her time poturing on " Incidents of the War." ht 1868 she went to Europe for her an, ana settled in Switzerland, but on the vak of the Franco-German war she ac- ed the invitation of the grand duchess . aler to aid in the establishment of her ads, and Miss Barton afterward fol- : the German army She was deco-
rated with the golden cross by the grand duke of Baden, and with the iron cross by the emperor of Germany. She also served for many years as president of the famous Red Cross Society and attamed a world- wide reputation.
C ARDINAL JAMES GIBBONS, one of the most eminent Catholic clergymen in America, was born in Baltimore, Mary- land, July 23, 1834. He was given a thorough education, graduated at St. Charles College, Maryland, in 1857, and stadied theology in St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland. In isor he became pastor of St. Bridget's church in Baltimore, and in 1868 was consecrated vicar apostolic of North Carolina. In 1872 our subject be- came bishop of Richmond, Virginia, and five years later was made archbishop of Bal- timore. On the 30th of lune, ISSO, he was admitted to the full degree of cardinal and primate of the American Catholic church. He was a fluent writer, and his book, "Faith of Our Fathers, " had a wide circulation.
C HAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW .- This name is, without doubt, one of the most widely known in the United States. Mr. Depew was born April 23. 1834, at Peekskill, New York, the home of the Depew family for two hundred years. He attended the common schools of his native place. where he prepared himself to enter college. He began his collegiate course at Yale at the age of eighteen and graduated in 1856. He early took an active interest in politics and joined the Republican party at its for- mation. He then took up the study of law and went into the office of the Hon. Will- iam Nelson, of Peekskill, for that purpose. and in 1858 he was admitted to the bar.
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He was sent as a delegate by the new party in the Republican state convention of that year. He began the practice of his profes- sion in 1850, but though he was a good worker. His attention was detracted by the campaign of 1800, in which he took an act- ive part. During this campaign he gained his best laurels as a public speaker. Mr. Depew was elected assemblyman in 1802 front a Democratic district. In 1863 he se- ; curso the nomination for secretary of state, . attd gamed that post by a majority of thirty thousand. In :866 he left the field of pol- ties and entered into the active practice of his law business as attorney for the New York & Harlem Railroad Company, and in roog when this road was consoli- dated with the New York Central, and called the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, he was appointed the attor- Rey for the new road. His rise in the rail- road business was rapid, and ten years after Lis entrance into the Vanderbilt system as attorney for a single line, he was the gen- eral counsel for one of the largest railroad systems in the world. He was also a director in the Lake Shore & Michigan
and eloquence as an orator and "after-din. ner speaker," and it has been said by emi- Bent critics that this country has never pro- duced his equal in wit, fluency and eloquence.
CONILIP KEARNEY. - Among the most dashing and brilliant commanders in the United States service, few have outshose the talented officer whose name heads this sketch. He was born in New York City, June 2, 18:5, and was of irish ancestry and imbned with all the dash and bravery of the ( chic race. He graduated from Columbia College an i studied law, but in 1837 ac- cepted, a commission as lieutenant in the First United States Dragoons, of which his uncle, Stephen W. Kearney, was then colo- nel. He was sent by the government, soon after, to Europe to examine and report upon the tactics of the French cavalry. There he attended the Polytechnic School. at Samur, and subsequently served as a voi- unteer in Algiers, winning the cross of the Legion of Honor. He returned to the United States in i84o, and on the staff of General Scott, in the Mexican war, served with great gallantry. He was made a cap-
Southern, Michigan Central, Chicago & \ tain of dragoons in 1846 and made mais
Northwestern, St. Paul & Omaha, West for services at Contreras and Cherabesco. 1 In the final assault on the City of Mexico at the San Antonio Gate, Kearney lost an Shore, and Nickel Plate railroad companies. In 1874 Mr. Depew was made regent of the State University, and a member of the , arm. He subsequently served in California commission appointed to superintend the . and the Pacific coast. In 1851 he resigned erection of the capitol at Albany. In 1882, . his commission and went to Europe, where on the resignation of W. H. Vanderbilt he resumed his military studies. In the Italian war, in 1859, he served as a volun- teer on the staff of General Maurier, of the French army, and took part in the battles of Solferino and Magenta, and for bravery was, for the second time, decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor. On the opening of the Civil war he hastened home. [ and, offering his services to the general gov- from the presidency of the New York Cen- tral and the accession to that office by James H. Rutter, Mr. Depew was made second vice-president, and held that posi- uon until the death of Mr. Rutter in 1885. In this year Mr. Depew became the execu- uve head of this great corporation. Mr. Depew's greatest fame grew from his ability
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Great was made brigadier general of nominated Zachary Taylor. In Logo the vop aleers and pineed in command of a bu- | gade of New Jersey troops. In the cam- paign under MeClellan he commanded a di- vision, and at Williamsburg and Fair Oaks his services were valuable and brilliant, as well as in subsequent engagements. At Harrison's Landing he was made major-gen- i eral of volunteers. In the second battle of Ball Run he was conspicuous, and at the battle of Chantilly, September 1, 1862, 1 while leading in advance of his troops, Gen- eral Kearney was shot and killed.
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