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July 27, over which Col. Lane presided, and at which resolutions were passed, favoring the immediate organization of the Democratic party on "truly National ground, and pledging the participants in the meeting to use all honorable exertions to secure such result " The proceedings received no countenance from the great majority of Kan- sas Democrats, and the Democratic press, most intensely pro-slavery, decried the movement. Lane at once saw the futility of further efforts in that direction. With wonderful discrimination, tact and cunning, he decided to cast his lot with the Free-State movement, and win there the distinction he coveted. All paths to the Senate seemed alike to him until his choice was made; once made, he consistently and faithfully defended the newly espoused cause through evil and good repute, only vacillating temporarily to catch the ever-varying tide of popular favor. He became the acknowledged leader of the most radical Free-State men, often rousing them, by his rough elo- quence, to such a furor of excitement as to lead to most serious appre- hension, that through over zeal, without discretion, the cause would fail. He was chosen president of the Free- State Territorial Commit- tee before the formation of the Topeka State government, and, under it, when formed, he was elected United States Senator. All through the years that followed, he was the recognized leader of the aggressive fighting Free-State men, who, under his inspiration and the prestige of his name, more than his deeds, met the border ruffians in their chosen mode of aggressive warfare of words and deeds, giving abuse for abuse, threat for threat, robbery for robbery, murder for murder, and accepting the open wage of battle whenever offered. The State being, after the long struggle, admitted as a free State, James H. Lane was elected a member of the United States Senate by the first State Legislature, in 1861. The Rebellion having broken out, he or- ganized a brigade and commanded it for several months as a brigadier- general, before he held such a commission. He was subsequently appointed to that rank. His somewhat irregular, but quite charac- teristic, method of raising troops on his own responsibility, and regard- less of the prescribed modes and methods of the State government, led to serious disagreement, and an open rupture between him and Gov. Carney, which resulted in much ill feeling; the Governor refus- ing to appoint such officers to command as Lane and his troops de- sired. In 1863 he received from the United States Government an independent recruiting commission, as recruiting commissioner for the Department of Kansas, and, under its authority, raised five regi-
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ments of infantry, one of which was of blacks, and was claimed to be the first colored regiment put in the field. In 1864-65 he was re- elected to the United States Senate, and on taking his seat, took sides with President Johnson in the open rupture which occurred between him and the Republicans on the Freedman's Bureau and Civil Rights Bill. He thought he saw the popular tide drifting that way, and with his accustomed alacrity, he anticipated what he believed would prove the popular sentiment of the people. For once he was deceived. He visited his home in Kansas early in June, 1866. He was met coldly by nearly all his old friends and followers, who had, up to this time, given him an unquestioning and unqualified support, stopping a little short of homage. He saw the scepter of his power irrep- arably broken. He was no longer the autocrat of political affairs in Kansas. He could not brook the change, and without delay, set out on his return to Washington. He was debilitated in physical health, and in the depths of despondency. His mental condition rapidly grew worse, and, on his arrival at St. Louis, it was deemed imprudent to continue the journey farther, as his delirium was such as presaged the worst form of insanity. June 29 he returned, and stopped with his brother-in-law, Capt. McCall, at the Government farm, near Leavenworth. July I he committed suicide. The cause of his rash act is attributable, doubtless, in a great measure, to his intense disappointment, humiliation and grief, consequent on the desertion of his friends. He was buried at Lawrence. Col. Lane was married to Miss Baldridge, in Lawrenceburg, Ind .. in 1843. They had three children-a son (Lieut. James H. Lane, of the United States army) and two daughters.
Samuel J. Crawford, third governor of the State of Kansas, was born in Lawrence County, Ind., April 15, 1835. His early life was spent on a farm, and his early education acquired in the district schools of the neighborhood. By application and unwearied indus- try, young Crawford had studied law sufficiently to gain an admission to the Indiana bar at the age of twenty-one years. Continuing his studies, he entered the law school of Cincinnati College in 1858, and directly after graduating from that institution, came to Kansas, and commenced practice at Garnett City, Anderson County. Mr. Craw- ford was elected a member of the first Kansas State Legislature, which convened at Topeka, March, 1861, but resigned his seat in May, and returned to Garnett to organize a company of volunteers for the pend- ing war. He was chosen captain of the company, and a few days
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later assigned to the Second Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Col. Robert B. Mitchell. In July, the Second went into active service in Missouri, participated in the campaign under Gen. Lyon, and won enviable dis- tinction in the hard-fought battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861. The Second was mustered out in October, 1861, Capt. Craw- ford being retained in the service. On the re-organization of the Second, as cavalry, he was assigned to the command of a battalion, and took part in the battles fought by the " Army of the Frontier," in 1862-63, having command of the regiment from May, 1863, until November of the same year, when he took command of the Second Kansas Colored Regiment, and with his command participated in the Camden expedition under Gen. Steele. He led the expedition from Fort Smith through the Indian country, in July, 1864, and in Octo- ber of the same year took part in the campaign against Gen. Price in Missouri. He was elected governor of Kansas, in November, 1864, resigned his commission in December, and was inaugurated January 9, 1865. He was re-elected in the fall of 1866, and served until November 4, 1868, when he resigned to take command of the Nine- teenth Kansas Cavalry Regiment, which was raised to fight the Indi- ans on the plains. At the close of the campaign, Gov. Crawford re- sumed the practice of his profession, locating in Emporia, Lyon County. He was afterward State claim agent, with headquarters at Washington, D. C., where he attended to the interests of Kansas in the matter of the claims of the State for expenses incurred in repell - ing invasion and Indian hostilities on its border.
Hon. James R. Hallowell, long familiar as United States district attorney, came to Kansas and located at Columbus, May 17, 1869, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of law. Since his residence in the State he has served two terms in the House of Representatives, and four years as State Senator. He was also, for three years, member of the board of regents of the Agricult- ural College at Manhattan, being appointed United States district attorney in June, 1879. Mr. Hallowell was born in Montgomery County, Penn., December 27, 1842. When a youth of six or seven years, his father moved to Indiana, in which State James R. received his general and legal education, attending Asbury University, at Greencastle, and reading law with P. M. Rice, of Rockville. April 11, 1861, he enlisted in Lew Wallace's Zouave Regiment, Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in on the 17th of the same month, for three months' service. At the expiration of his term
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he re-enlisted in Company I, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was promoted immediately to first lieutenant; June, 1864, to major; the following day to lieutenant-colonel, having previously served as adjutant of the brigade, and October, 1864, to colonel of the regiment. He was mustered out January 16, 1866, and returned to Indiana, where he remained until his removal to Kansas. He was married in Mont- gomery County, Ind., November 28, 1871, to Samantha H. Montgom- ery, of that county. They have one son, named Montgomery.
The first Democratic governor ever elected in Kansas, Hon. George W. Glick, was inaugurated on January 8, 1883. He was born at Greencastle, Fairfield County, Ohio, July 4, 1827. On the paternal side, he is of German descent. Henry Glick, his great grandfather, was one of five brothers, who left their beautiful Rhine in the ante- Revolutionary War period, and settled in Pennsylvania, all of them being soldiers in the War of the Revolution. George Glick, the grandfather of the governor, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was severely wounded in the battle of Fort Meigs. Isaac Glick, Gov. Glick's father, resided at Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, a promi- nent farmer and stock-raiser, who for three consecutive terms held the office of treasurer of Sandusky County. George Sanders, his grand- father on the maternal side, was of Scotch origin. He was a captain in the War of 1812, and bore the marks of his bravery in bodily wounds of a serious nature. Mary (Sanders) Glick, his mother, was a lady of high culture. George W. Glick was a studious boy. His scholastic attainments embraced a good knowledge of the higher mathematics, and of the languages, which substantial superstructure enabled him to become a "man of affairs," and to succeed in his gen- eral undertakings. The family removed to Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), when George was five years of age, and after completing his school education, he entered the law office of the firm of Buckland (Ralph P.) and Hayes (Rutherford B.), studying there two years. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Cincinnati, Ohio, having passed a thorough examination in connection with the Cincin- nati Law School students. He began the practice of law at Fremont, and soon acquired the fame of a conscientious, painstaking, indus- trious lawyer, which secured him a large practice at Fremont, and later at Sandusky City, where his residence was prior to coming to Kansas. The Congressional convention of the Democratic party of his district placed him in nomination for Congress in 1858, but he de- clined the honor in presence of the convention, but later accepted the
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nomination for State Senator, his preceptor, Mr. Buckland, being his op- ponent. Though defeated, he ran nearly 2,000 votes ahead of his party ticket. He was elected judge advocate-general of the Second Regiment of the Seventeenth Division of the Ohio Militia, with the rank of colonel, and commissioned by Gov. Salmon P. Chase. He came to Kansas late in 1858, located in Atchison, and entered upon the practice of law, asso- ciating himself with Hon. Alfred G. Otis, who was a man well versed in human jurisprudence, and who, as judge of the Second Judicial District from January, 1877, to January, 1881, won golden opinions as an administrator of justice. The firm of Otis & Glick lasted for fifteen years, Mr. Glick abandoning his lucrative practice in 1874, in consequence of a throat affection. Mr. Glick was the Democratic candidate for judge of the Second Judicial District at the first election held under the Wyandotte Constitution, December 6, 1859. His vote was larger than that of any candidate on his ticket. He was elected a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from the city of Atchison in 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1867, 1875 and 1880. In the Legis- lative sessions of 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1868 and 1881 he was a mem- ber of the judiciary committee, and was made chairman of the same in 1865, 1866 and 1868, by the Republican speakers of the House, Hon. Jacob Stotler, Hon. John T. Burris and Hon. Preston B. Plumb. He was on the ways and means committee in the session of 1864; on the State library committee in 1868; on the committees on assessment and taxation, and on Federal relations, and chairman of the railroad committee in the session of 1876, and on banks and banking in the session of 1881. In the session of 1876 Mr. Glick was speaker pro tem. of the House. In May, 1874, Mr. Glick served as a member of the State Senate, having been elected to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Joseph C. Wilson. July 28, 1866, he was one of the delegates elected by the Democrats to attend the Union Convention at Philadel- phia, August 14, 1866; was a member of the Democratic State central committee, appointed September 15, 1870; was appointed a member of the State central relief committee, November 12, 1874; Gov. Thomas A. Osborn commissioned him a Centennial manager, March 3, 1876, and he was elected treasurer of the board of managers, and he was present at the first meeting of the board at Philadelphia, at their office in the Kansas building, June 4, 1876, when the arranging of the display was completed. July 29, 1868, he was made, by acclama- tion, the Democratic candidate for governor, and at the election re- ceived some support outside of his party.
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Preston B. Plumb, United States Senator, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 12, 1837. He received merely a common- school education, and at the age of twelve years entered upon an ap- prenticeship to the printing business in the office of the Western Episcopalian, at Gambier, Ohio. In 1853, in connection with J. W. Dumble, he established the News at Xenia, Ohio. He came to Kan- sas, June 17, 1856, locating first near where the city of Salina now is, but afterward working at the printer's trade in Topeka, and became foreman of the Herald of Freedom office at Lawrence, during the winter of 1856-57. He was a member of a company of five persons who laid out Emporia in February, 1857, and established the Em- poria News, the first number of which was issued June 6, 1857. He took a prominent part in several Free-State Territorial conventions, always advocating the most radical measures of the Anti-Slavery party. He was elected a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention in 1858, and, though one of the youngest, was among the most active, influential members. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, and opened a law office in Emporia, having previously attended two terms at the Cleveland, Ohio, Law School. In 1862 he was elected a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, and served as chair- man of the judiciary committee, and shortly afterward was appointed reporter of the Supreme Court, but resigned to engage in enlisting troops, and he recruited two companies for the Eleventh Kansas In- fantry and was mustered into service as second-lieutenant of Company C, and served successively as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel in that regiment, having command of the regiment the greater part of its term of service. He was again elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1866, and was re-elected in 1867, serving the first term as speaker. He resumed the practice of the law in 1868, and continued in it until 1872, when he relinquished the profession on ac- count of ill health. From 1873 to 1887 he was president of the Em- poria National Bank. He was elected to his present position as Sen- ator of the United States January 31, 1877, and was re-elected in 1883 and 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.
Rev. John Tecumseh Jones (Ottawa Jones) was born in Canada in January, 1808. His father was an Englishman, his mother an In- dian woman of the Chippewa nation. He was taken when quite young by a sister, living with her husband, a blacksmith, on the island of Mackinac. While yet a little boy, he was accustomed to board vessels stopping at the island. A certain Capt. Conner, taking a fancy to
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him, asked him to take a trip to Detroit on his vessel. Young Jones failing to obtain the consent of his sister to this proposed voyage, ap- parently gave up the project, but next day went down to the vessel and sailed away for Detroit. While in the family of his new-found friend, Jones learned the English and French languages and forgot his own. After a few years Mrs. Conner died, and young Jones was thrown out of a home. About this time the Baptists were collecting together isolated Indians to go to Carey Station, Mich., to receive the benefits of the mission there. In his destitute condition, Jones was found by them and taken to this school, of which Rev. Isaac McCoy was at that time superintendent. Here he reacquired his native language, and, being diligent in his studies, became thoroughly famil- iar with the rudiments of an English education, and also became a convert to the Christian religion. He remained here four or five years. At that time the Pottawatomies were educating a great many of their young men at Hamilton, Columbia and other Eastern colleges. Jones attended Hamilton College four years, when, owing to failing health, he was advised by the faculty to give up study in order to rest. He then went to Choctaw Academy, Kentucky, as a teacher, remaining about one year, later going to the station at Sault Ste. Marie, where he was chosen interpreter. For some time, he served in the capacity of interpreter for different tribes, and when the Pottawatomies were moved to Kansas Territory he came with them, and was a member of their tribe until the two Pottawatomie bands were consolidated on the tract of thirty miles square on the Kansas River. He was then invited to join, and joined the Ottawas, of which tribe he remained a member until his death. The farm known as the John T. Jones' place was pur- chased by him of the trader to the Ottawas for $1,000. In 1850 he built a dwelling and a store. His home, some four miles northeast of the present city of Ottawa, was a distinguished landmark, and in the early settlement of the Territory was the main stopping place between Lawrence and Fort Scott. He had the main country hotel in Eastern Kansas, and many of the pioneers of Kansas found temporary shelter under his hospitable roof. The assistance rendered to the cause of freedom by both John T. Jones and his estimable wife, during those early "times that tried men's souls," was of inestimable value. In 1856 his dwelling and store were burned down by border ruffians. February 23, 1867, the United States Congress made an appropriation of $6,700, to be paid to him as an indemnity for this loss. He afterward erected a large two-story stone residence, at a cost of $20,000. Mr.
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Jones was a man to lend a helping hand to every good work. He was a prominent member of the Baptist Church of Ottawa, and rendered valuable assistance in founding the "Ottawa University." He died in 1873. Mr. Jones was married June 2. 1845, to Miss Jane Kelley, of North Yarmouth, Me., who, in 1843, had come to Kansas as a teach- er and missionary to the Indians. After her husband's death, she remained on the farm until 1876, when it was sold. By the terms of Mr. Jones' will, the whole of his estate, estimated at $25,000, was left in trust to Ottawa University.
Chief Justice Albert Howell Horton, the subject of this sketch, second son of Dr. Harvey Horton and Mary Bennett, was born near Brookfield, in the town of Minnisink, Orange County, N. Y., March 12, 1837. He attended the public schools of West Town, N. Y., until thirteen years of age, and then was prepared for college at the "Farmers' Hall Academy," at Goshen, Orange County, N. Y .; in 1855, entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Mich., as a freshman, and remained two years. In 1858 he entered the law office of Hon. J. W. Gott, at Goshen, N. Y., as a law student, and remained there until December 15, 1858, when he was admitted as a counselor and attorney at law, at a general term of the Supreme Court, held in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1859 he came West with his brother, Dr. Harvey A. Horton, and selected Atchison as his home. In 1860 he was appointed the city attorney of Atchison by the mayor, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the elected city attorney. In the spring of 1861 he was elected city attorney of the city, upon the Republican ticket. In September, 1861, he was appointed district judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Kansas, by Gov. Charles Robinson. He was twice elected to the same office, and then resigned, to resume the practice of his profes- sion. In 1868 he was elected one of the electors on the Republican State ticket of Kansas, and was selected as the messenger to take the vote of Kansas to Washington. From 1861 to 1864, in addition to attending to the duties of judge of the district court, he assisted in editing the Weekly Champion. In May, 1869, Mr. Horton was ap- pointed by President Grant United States district attorney for Kan- sas, and held the office until his resignation on July 18, 1873. In November, 1873, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Kansas, from Atchison City, and in November, 1876, was elected State Senator to represent Atchison County. January 1, 1877, he resigned the office of State Senator to accept the appoint-
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ment of chief justice of Kansas. Under this appointment he held the office of chief justice until the regular election in the fall of 1877, when he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his predecessor, Hon. Samuel A. Kingman, In November, 1878, he was elected chief justice of the State. At the session of the Kansas Legislature, held in 1879, the Republicans had a large majority of the members, but were unable to agree upon a caucus nominee for the United States Senator. His name was presented as one of the Repub- lican candidates to be voted for, and upon the final ballot in the joint convention of the Legislature, he received eighty votes. John J. Ing- alls received eighty-six votes, and was declared elected. On May 26, 1864, he was married in Middletown, N. Y., to Anna Amelia Robert- son, daughter of William Wells Robertson and Adeline Sayer.
John Speer was born in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Penn., De- cember 27, 1817, the oldest son of Capt. Robert and Barbary (Lowrey) Speer. John was bred a farmer, and received only the early educational advantages wbich the district schools of the vicinity afforded. His father, while he was a small lad, bought a farm near Kittanning, and to insure the payment for it took a contract for carrying the United States mail between Kittanning and Curwensville. The distance was seventy miles, and the entire route was sparsely settled, with long reaches of unsettled wilderness. Over this lonesome route John was put to carrying the mail on horseback, at the early age of twelve years. For several years he continued faithfully to perform the weary work. His mother died while he was yet a lad. At the age of eighteen years he was indentured to the printing trade, with William Morehead, of the Indiana Register, Indiana, Penn. Having served his time, he re- turned home, and after six months' work as a journeyman on the Kit- tanning Gazette, in 1839, made his first journalistic venture, publish- ing for six months the Mercer and Beaver Democrat, at New Castle, Penn., and vigorously supporting Harrison for the presidency. He was identified with journalism in the States of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, for fifteen years thereafter, during which time he was connected with the Portsmouth, Ind , Tribune, the Harrison Gazette (which he established at Corydon, Ind.), the Mount Vernon, Ohio, Times, and the Democratic Whig, which he established September 12, 1843, and which he edited and successfully published for nearly twelve years thereafter. On the passage of the Nebraska bill, he sold out his paper and other effects, and with his brother, Joseph L., came to Kansas. He arrived September 27, 1854. Here he established the first Free-
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State newspaper published in the Territory-the Kansas Pioneer, after- ward the Kansas Tribune. He was one of the most fearless and able champions of the Free State cause in the early days, and has held consistently and faithfully through a long political career to his early affiliation with the Republican party. He has been deservedly hon- ored with many positions of honor and trust. He was a member of the first Free-State Territorial Legislature in 1857. In 1864 he was a member of the national convention which nominated Lincoln and Johnson, and the same year was a member of the Kansas State Senate. He was also elected State printer under the Topeka government. He held the office of United States revenue collector from 1862 to 1866. The general statutes of 1868 were printed by him. He was elected State Representative from the Lawrence district in the fall of 1882. Few men have labored harder or suffered more than the subject of this sketch for the good of the commonwealth. In addition to the ordinary sacrifices and hardships which fell in common upon all the outspoken Free-State men during the early struggles, the last venge- ful stroke of the slave power in Kansas fell with cruel force upon him. In Quantrell's raid on Lawrence, August 21, 1863, he lost two promis- ing sons, one cruelly shot and his body recovered; the other never found, and supposed to have been burned in the conflagration. Fur- ther, the Government vouchers of the office he then held were de- stroyed, adding the burden of anxiety and business troubles to his already overburdened soul. He married Miss Elizabeth Duplisses McMahon, daughter of John and Martha (Withers) McMahon, at Corydon, Harrison County, Ind., July 14, 1842. She died at Law- rence, Kas., April 9, 1876.
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