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Walter A. Burleigh, a delegate from Dakota Territory; born in Waterville, Maine, October 25, 1820; attended public schools; studied medicine in Burling- ton, Vt., and in New York City, and began practice in Richmond, Maine; moved to Kittanning, Pa., in 1852; declined a foreign mission tendered by President Lincoln in 1861; Indian agent, Greenwood, Dakota Territory, 1861-1865; elected a delegate to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); elected to the upper house of the Territorial Legislature in 1877, and served two terms; removed to Miles City, Montana Territory; member of the state convention that framed the constitution of Montana; served in the first State Legislature; prosecuting attorney of Custer County; state senator from Yankton County in 1893; died in Yankton, S. D., March 8, 1896.
Solomon L. Spink, a delegate from Dakota; born in Whitehall, N. Y., March 20, 1831; completed preparatory studies; taught school several years; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Burlington, Iowa, in 1856; moved to Paris, Ill., in 1860, and began the publication of the Prairie Beacon; served in the State Legislature; secretary of the Territory of Dakota, 1865-1869; elected as a republican delegate to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869- March 3, 1871) ; resumed the practice of law in Yankton, S. D., until his death there, September 22, 1881.
Moses K. Armstrong, a delegate from the Territory of Dakota; born in Milan, Ohio, September 19, 1832; attended the Huron Institute and Western Reserve College, Ohio; moved to the Territory of Minnesota in 1856; elected surveyor of Mower County, and assigned to survey of the United States lands
DR. WALTER A. BURLEIGH
United States agent to Yankton Indians, 1861-1865. Delegate to Congress from 1865 to 1869
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in 1858; went to Yankton, then a small Indian village, when the territory was admitted as a state; was a member of the First Territorial Legislature; re-elected in 1862 and 1863, and served as speaker; edited the Dakota Union in 1864; appointed clerk of the Supreme Court in 1865; elected to the territorial council in 1866, and in 1867 chosen speaker; acted as secretary of the Indian Peace Com- mission in 1867; established the great meridian and standard lines for United States surveys in Southern Dakota and Northern Red River Valley; again elected to the territorial council in 1869; elected as a democrat a delegate to the Forty- second and Forty-third congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875) ; moved to St. James, Minn., and engaged in banking and real estate business ; died in Albert Lea, Minn., January 1I, 1906.
Jefferson P. Kidder, a delegate from Dakota Territory; born in Braintree, Vt., June 4, 1818; attended the common schools; farmed and taught school ; pursued classical studies and was graduated from Norwich University ; studied law and was admitted to the bar; member of the State Constitutional Conven- tion of 1843; state attorney, 1842-1847; member of the State Senate, 1847-1848; lieutenant governor, 1853-1854; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1857; member of the State House of Representatives of Minnesota in 1861, 1863 and 1864; appointed by President Lincoln associate justice of the Supreme Court for Dakota Territory, February 16, 1865; reappointed by President Grant, April 3, 1869, and reappointed March 3, 1873; elected as a republican, a delegate from Dakota Territory to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879) ; died in St. Paul, Minn., October 2, 1883.
Granville G. Bennett, a delegate from the Territory of Dakota; born in Butler County, Ohio, October 9, 1833; spent his youth in Fayette County, Ohio; his parents moved to Fulton County, Ill., in 1849, and to Washington, Iowa, in 1855, attended Howe's Academy, Mount Pleasant, and Washington College, Iowa; studied law and in 1859 began practice in Washington; served in the Union army as a commissioned officer from July, 1861, to August, 1865; elected a member of the State House of Representatives in 1865 for two years, and to the State Senate in 1867 for four years; appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota, February 24, 1875; elected a dele- gate as a republican to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881) ; after leaving Congress, resumed the practice of law in, Yankton, S. D.
Richard F. Pettigrew, a delegate and a senator from South Dakota; born in Ludlow, Vt., July, 1848; moved with his parents to Evansville, Rock County, Wis., in 1854; attended the academy; entered Beloit College in 1866; member of the law class in the University of Wisconsin in 1869; went to Dakota in July, 1869, in the employ of a United States deputy surveyor ; located in Sioux Falls ; engaged in Government surveying and the real estate business until 1875; engaged in the practice of law; elected to the Dakota Legislature as a member of the council in 1877 and re-elected in 1879; elected as a republican to the Forty- seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); elected to the territorial council in 1884 and 1885; elected to the United States Senate, October 16, 1889, under the provisions of the act of Congress admitting South Dakota into the Union, and served from December 2, 1889; re-elected in 1895, and served until March 3, 1901; moved to New York City and practiced law ; removed to Sioux Falls, S. D.,
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John B. Raymond, a delegate from Dakota Territory; born in Lockport, Niagara County, N. Y., December 5, 1844; moved to Tazewell County, Ill., in 1853; enlisted as a private in the Thirty-first Illinois Infantry in 1861 ; pro- moted to captain of Company E of that regiment after the siege of Vicksburg in 1863; served through the war and remained in Mississippi; published the Mississippi Pilot at Jackson, Miss., during the reconstruction of that state and until 1877; appointed United States marshal of Dakota Territory; declined a reappointment; elected as a republican delegate to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885) ; died in Fargo, N. D., January 3, 1886.
Oscar S. Gifford, a delegate and a representative from South Dakota; born in Watertown, N. Y., October 20, 1842; attended the common schools and pur- sued an academic course; served in the Union army as private in the Elgin (Ill.) Battery, 1863-1865; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1870, and practiced ; elected district attorney for Lincoln County in 1874; mayor of Can- ton, S. D., 1882-1883; member of the Constitutional Convention of Dakota which convened at Sioux Falls, September 7, 1883 ; elected as a republican, a delegate to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889) ; elected a representative upon the admission of the state into the Union and served from December 2, 1889, to March 3, 1891 ; resumed the practice of law in Canton, S. D.
LIST OF POSTOFFICES IN OPERATION IN NORTH DAKOTA WHEN STATE WAS FORMED, NOVEMBER 2, 1889
Barnes County-Alderman, Ashtabula, Barnes, Dailey, Dazey, Eckelson, Ells- bury, Hackett, Minnie Lake, Odell, Oriska, Sanborn, Uxbridge, Valley City, Svea, Svenby, Binghamton.
Benson County-Abbottsford, Minnewaukan, Fort Totten, Obern, York, Pleasant Lake, Leeds, Knox, Viking.
Billings County-Medora, Sentinel Butte.
Boreman Coutny-Fort Yates.
Bottineau County-Bottineau, Lordsburg, Tarsus, Sausahville.
Buford County-Williston.
Burleigh County-Bismarck, Cromwell, Menoken, Painted Woods, Sterling, Stewartsdale, Wogansport, Conger, Edberg, Slaughter, Wales, Crofte, Glascock, McKenzie.
Cass County-Amenia, Argusville, Arthur, Aye, Buffalo, Casselton, Daven- port, Durbin, Eldred, Erie, Everest, Fargo, Gardner, Grandin, Harwood, Hick- son, Horace, Hunter, Kindred, Leonard, Mapleton, Noble, Norman, Page, Ripon, Tower City, Trysil, Watson, Wheatland, Wild Rice, Gill, Embden, Woods, Addison.
Cavalier County-Hannah, Maida, Beaulieu, Alma, Easby, Elkwood, Gertrude, Milton, Mona, Olga, Osnabooch, Ridgefield, Romfo, Langdon, Mount Carmel, Woodridge, Vang, Soper, Byron, Ellerton, Stilwell.
Grand Forks County-Arvilla, Belleville, Gilby, Grand Forks, Inkster, Johns- ton, Larimore, Manvel, McCanna, Niagara, Northwood, Ojata, Reynolds, Thomp- son, Turtle River, Walle, Ori, Emerado, Holmes, Merrifield, Kempton, Mekinock, Bean, Cable, Kellys.
OSCAR SHERMAN GIFFORD Pioneer of Lincoln County. Delegate to Congress from 1885 to 1889
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Emmons County-Buchanan, Emmonsburg, Gayton, Glencoe, Livona, Roop, Williamsport, Winchester, Winona, Omio, Armstrong, Exeter, Danbury, West- field, Hampton, Hull.
Foster County-Barlow, Carrington, Larrabee, Melville, Glenfield.
Dickey County-Ellendale, Lorraine, Ludden, Merricourt, Wright, Yorktown, Monango, Oakes, Glover, Guelph, Hillsdale, Silverleaf, Clement, Westboro, Ful- lerton, Boynton.
Eddy County-New Rockford, Tiffany, Morris, Sheyenne.
Griggs County-Cooperstown, Gallatin, Jessie, Helena, Ottawa, Romness, Hannaford.
Garfield County-Fort Berthold.
Kidder County-Dawson, McGuire, Steele, Tappen, Langedahl.
Lamoure County-Dickey, Grand Rapids, La Moure, Russell, Litchville, Medbery, Griswold, Verona, Edgeley, Adrian, Newburg.
Logan County-Napoleon, Steidl, King.
McHenry County-Pendroy, Villard, Mouse River, Towner, Wines, Ely, Granville.
McIntosh County-Coldwater, Youngstown, Jewell, Ashley.
McLean County-Coal Harbor, Conkling, Ingersoll, Washburn, Weller, Fal- coner, Turtle Lake, Hancock.
Mercer County-Causey, Slaton, Stanton, Hazen, Deapolis, Krem.
Morton County-Fort Abraham Lincoln, Glen Ullin, Mandan, New Salem, Sims, Hebron, Sweet Briar, Kurtz, Cannon Ball.
Nelson County-Adler, Aneta, Baconville, Bue, Crosier, Harrisburgh, Lakota, Lee, Mapes, Michigan, Ottofy, Petersburg, McVille, Ruby, Sogn.
Olive County-Hensler, Sanger, Harmon, Klein.
Pembina County-Bathgate, Bay Center, Carlisle, Cavalier, Crystal, Drayton, Ernest, Gardar, Hallson, Hamilton, Hyde Park, Joliette, McConnell, Mountain, Neche, Pembina, Pittsburgh, Saint Thomas, Tyner, Walhalla, Nowesta, Stlkes- ville, Mugford, Welford, Glasston, Eyford, Prattford, Shepard, Thexton, Leroy, Backoo, Hensel, Bowesmont.
Ramsey County-Bartlett, Crary, De Groat, Devils Lake, Grand Harbor, Jerusalem, Locke, Jackson, Church, Kildahl, Starkweather, Churchs Ferry, Scha- pera, Rutten, Fox Lake, Penn.
Ransom County-Bonnersville, Buttzville, Elliott, Englevale, Fort Ransom, Lisbon, Owego, Plymouth, Scoville, Sheldon, Shenford.
Richland County-Barnes, Christine, Colfax, Dwight, Fairmount, Fort Aber- crombie, Kougsberg, Mooreton, Wahpeton, Walcott, Wyndmere, Kloeppel, Power, Farmington, Hankinson, Lidgerwood, Seymour, Great Bend, De Villo.
Rolette County-Dunseith, Island Lake, Saint Johns, Laureat, Belcourt, Bol- linger, Twala, Rolla.
Sargent County-Brampton, Forman, Hamlin, Milnor, Ransom, Sargent, Tewaukon, Verner, Nicholson, De Lamere, Rutland, Harlem, Havana, Straub- ville, Cayuga, Genesee, Mohler.
Stark County-Dickinson, Gladstone, Richardton, Taylor, Antelope, Belfield, South Heart.
Steele County-Bellevyria, Colgate, Hope, Pickert, Golden Lake, Sherbrooke, Mardell, Sharon.
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Stevens County-Fort Stevens.
Stutsman County-Atwill, Corinne, Eldridge, Esler, Gray, Jamestown, Pin- gree, Spiritwood, Windsor, Ypsilanti, Albion, Edmunds, Montpelier, Horn, Shar- low, Rio, Arrowwood, Medina, Karlopolis.
Towner County-Cando, Coolin, Snyder, Cecil, Sidney, Pieton, Gleason, Han- son, Perth.
Traill County-Bellmont, Blanchard, Buxton, Caledonia, Clifford, Cumings, Galesburg, Hague, Hatton, Hillsboro, Kelso, Mayville, Portland, Quincy, Weible.
Ward County-Burlington, Saint Car!, Minot, Des Lacs, Logan, Lone Tree, Echo, Mckinney.
Walsh County-Acton, Ardoch, Auburn, Conway, Edinburgh, Forest River, Galt, Grafton, Latona, Medford, Minto, Park River, Praha, Richmond, Saint Andrew, Silvista, Vesta, Walshville, Lambert, Kinloss, Tomey, Pisek, Cashel, Voss.
Wells County-Sykeston, Oshkosh.
Pierce County-Denney, Hurricane Lake.
Hettinger County-New England City.
Renville County-Joslyn, Mckinney.
Dunn County-Oakdale.
FIRST HOUSE BUILT IN BURLINGTON IN APRIL, 1883. JAMES JOHNSON IN FOREGROUND
FIRST POSTOFFICE IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA Established at Burlington. James Johnson, first Postmaster
CHAPTER XXV
THE NORTH DAKOTA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION- ENABLING ACT
The admission of a state to the Union has in some instances been decided by Congress upon political considerations. The right to admission when a ter- ritory has sufficient population and material resources to support a state govern- ment did not weigh with Congress as much as the political advantage to the party then in control of the National Government.
To illustrate: When Virginia passed an ordinance of secession, the people living in the mountains in the western portion repudiated secession and loyally adhered to the Union. Congress rewarded them by creating the State of West Virginia and admitted it to the sisterhood of states. The vote of an additional state was required to ratify the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery through- out the Union, and Congress carved out Nevada from California and admitted it as a state, and it cast the needed vote. The thirteenth amendment was ratified and slavery was forever abolished in the United States.
In recent years an enabling act has, however, been deemed an essential prerequisite to admission. It is the general rule, and Congress has jealously guarded it. It has held that no inherent right existed in the people of a ter- ritory to form a constitution and apply for admission to the Union without its consent, consequently it refused to recognize the constitution adopted by the people of South Dakota, prior to the enactment of the omnibus bill, approved February 22, 1889.
States can change their constitutions independently of Congress, but such constitution must conform to the requisite compact, and establish a government, republican in form and consistent with the national constitution.
The omnibus bill, which was the enabling act for the Dakotas, Montana and Washington, prescribed that the area in the Territory of Dakota should be "Divided on the line of the seventh standard parallel projected due west to the western boundary of said territory."
The area lying north of this line to the boundary of Manitoba, Canada, to constitute the State or Territory of North Dakota, as might be determined by the inhabitants of this area, who were qualified voters of the Territory of Dakota. It further prescribed that this area should be apportioned into twenty- five districts, three delegates to a constitutional convention to be elected from each district by the qualified voters of the district, but "no elector shall vote for more than two persons for delegates to such convention." The governor, chief justice and secretary of the territory were to designate the districts in proportion to the population, as near as practicable "from the best information obtainable."
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The territorial Legislature of 1885 by law authorized the taking of the decennial census under the provision of the Federal census law, which provided that any state or territory could take a census of its inhabitants at the expense of the Federal Government at the end of five years from the last preceding census, the census when completed to be transmitted to the National Census Bureau, to be compiled and published by counties.
The territorial Legislature divided the territory into two districts; one dis- trict comprised the area of North Dakota, the other the area of South Dakota. This census was the basis of the districts from which delegates were chosen.
Upon the formation of such districts, the governor of the territory was authorized to proclaim an election to be held on Tuesday after the second Monday in May to choose the delegates to a constitutional convention, to be held at Bismarck, then the capital of the territory, on July 4, 1889, to "Form a consti- tution and State Government for a State to be known as North Dakota."
It was a condition precedent before the formation of the constitution "that the convention should declare on behalf of the people of the proposed state that they adopted the Constitution of the United States." The constitution framed was to be "Republican in form, making no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians not taxed, and be not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence."
The convention was required to provide in the constitution by "ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of the pros- pective state," to secure perfect toleration of religious sentiment, and that no inhabitant of the future state should be molested in person, nor deprived of his property on account of his mode of religious worship; to disclaim any right or title in any of the unappropriated public lands, or to any lands within the con- fines of any Indian or military reservation. These lands to remain within the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the United States ; that lands of non-resi- dents should not be taxed at a higher rate than lands belonging to residents ; that no taxes be imposed upon lands or property belonging to the United States, or that might thereafter be purchased, or reserved for its use; that the debts and liabilities of the territory shall be assumed and paid by the states; that provision be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools open to all the children of the state, and free from sectarian control."
In accordance with the provisions of the enabling act the following persons who had been elected delegates at the election held in May, 1889, pursuant to the call of the governor on the 15th day of April, 1889, assembled at Bismarck on the 4th day of July, 1889, at noon.
MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE NORTH DAKOTA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1889
R-republican ; D-democrat.
Allin, Roger, R., Walsh County; postoffice, Grafton; occupation, farmer ; born Dec. 18, 1848.
Almen, John Magnus, R .; Walsh County ; postoffice, Grafton; occupation, farmer; born April 13, 1850.
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Appleton, Albert Francis, D .; Pembina County ; postoffice, Crystal; occupa- tion, farmer ; born Jan. 14, 1850.
Bean, Therow W., R .; Nelson County; postoffice, Michigan City; occupa- tion, lawyer ; born Oct. 17, 1859.
Bell, James, D .; Walsh County ; postoffice, Minto; occupation, farmer ; born Aug. 24, 1850.
Bennett, Richard, R .; Grand Forks County; postoffice, Grand Forks; occu- pation, lawyer ; born Dec. 4, 1851.
Bartlett Lorenzo D., D .; Dickey County ; postoffice, Ellendale; occupation, farmer ; born Oct. 19, 1829.
Bartlett, David, R .; Griggs County ; postoffice, Cooperstown; occupation, lawyer; born Oct. 23, 1855.
Best, William D., D .; Pembina County ; postoffice, Bay Centre; occupation, farmer ; born Aug. 23, 1853.
Brown, Charles V., R .; Wells County ; postoffice, Sykeston ; occupation, publisher ; born Nov. 28, 1859.
Blewett, Andrew, D .; Stutsman County ; postoffice, Jamestown; occupation, merchant ; born Sept. 13, 1857.
Budge, William, R .; Grand Forks County ; postoffice, Grand Forks; occupa- . tion, merchant; born Oct. 1I, 1852.
Camp, Edgar Whittlesey, R .; Stutsman County; postoffice, Jamestown ; occupation, lawyer ; born Feb. 27, 1860.
Chaffee, Eben Whitney, R .; Cass County ; postoffice, Amenia ; occupation, farmer; born Jan. 19, 1824.
Carland, John Emmet, D .; Burleigh County ; postoffice, Bismarck; occupa- tion, lawyer ; born Dec. II, 1854.
Carothers, Charles, R .; Grand Forks County ; postoffice, Emerado ; occupa- tion, farmer ; born Aug. 22, 1863.
Clark, Horace M., R .; Eddy County ; postoffice, New Rockford ; occupation, farmer ; born Sept. 6, 1850.
Clapp, William J., R .; Cass County; postoffice, Tower City; occupation, lawyer ; born Nov. 28, 1857.
Colton, Joseph L., R .; Ward County ; postoffice, Burlington ; occupation, merchant ; born March 24, 1840.
Douglas, James A., D .; Walsh County ; postoffice, Park River; occupation, farmer; born Feb. 13, 1847.
Elliott, Elmer E., R .; Barnes County ; postoffice, Sanborn ; occupation, mer- chant ; born Dec. 25, 1861.
Fancher, Frederick B., R .; Stutsman County ; postoffice, Jamestown; occu- pation, farmer ; born April 2, 1852.
Fay, George H., R .; McIntosh County; postoffice, Ashley; occupation, lawyer ; born Feb. 24, 1842.
Flemington, Alexander D., R .; Dickey County ; postoffice, Ellendale; occu- pation, lawyer ; born April 7, 1856.
Gayton, James Bennett, R .; Emmons County ; postoffice, Hampton ; occupa- tion, farmer; born Nov. 10, 1833.
Glick, Benjamin Rush, D .; Cavalier County ; postoffice, Langdon ; occupation, merchant ; born March 29, 1856.
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Gray, Enos, D .; Cass County ; postoffice, Embden; occupation, farmer ; born Feb. 4, 1829.
Griggs, Alexander, D .; Grand Forks County ; postoffice, Grand Forks ; occu- pation, banker; born Oct. 27, 1838.
Haugen, Arne P., R .; Grand Forks County ; postoffice, Reynolds ; occupation, farmer ; born June 7, 1845.
Hegge, Marthinus F., D .; Traill County ; postoffice, Hatton; occupation, merchant; born Nov. 27, 1856.
Holmes, Herbert L., R .; Pembina County ; postoffice, Neche; occupation, banker ; born May 29, 1853.
Harris, Harvey, R .; Burleigh County ; postoffice, Bismarck ; occupation, real estate; born Dec. 12, 1852.
Hoyt, Albert W., R .; Morton County ; postoffice, Mandan ; occupation, real estate ; born July 5, 1846.
Johnson, Martin N., R .; Nelson County ; postoffice, Lakota; occupation, law- yer ; born March 3, 1850.
Lauder, William S., R .; Richland County ; postoffice, Wahpeton ; occupation, lawyer ; born Feb. 9, 1856.
Leech, Addison, R .; Cass County ; postoffice, Davenport ; occupation, farmer ; born Feb. 20, 1824.
Lowell, Jacob, D .; Cass County ; postoffice, Fargo; occupation, lawyer ; born May 7, 1843.
Linwell, Martin V .. R .; Grand Forks County ; postoffice, Northwood; occu- pation, lawyer ; born April 2, 1857.
Lohnes, Edward H., R .; Ramsey County ; postoffice, Devils Lake; occupa- tion, farmer ; born April 22, 1844.
Marrinan, Michael Kenyon, D .; Walsh County ; postoffice, Grafton ; occupa- tion, lawyer ; born Nov. 4, 1853.
Mathews, James H., R .; Grand Forks County ; postoffice, Larimore ; occupa- tion, farmer ; born Oct. 10, 1846.
Meacham, Olney G., R .; Foster County ; postoffice, Carrington ; occupation, banker : born April 12, 1847.
McBride, John, D .; Cavalier County ; postoffice, Alma ; occupation, farmer; born May 22, 1850.
Miller, Henry Foster, R .; Cass County ; postoffice, Fargo; occupation, law- yer : born Sept. 13, 1846.
Moer, Samuel H., R .; Lamoure County ; postoffice, LaMoure; occupation, lawyer ; born June 21, 1856.
Mckenzie, James D., R .; Sargent County ; postoffice, Milnor ; occupation, doctor ; born March 28, 1840.
McHugh, Patrick, R .; Cavalier County ; postoffice, Langdon; occupation, banker ; born Sept. 23. 1846.
Noble, Virgil . B., D .; Bottineau County ; postoffice, Bottineau ; occupation, lawyer ; born Dec. 7, 1859.
Nomland, Knud J., R .; Traill County ; postoffice, Caledonia; occupation, farmer ; born Oct. 16, 1852.
O'Brien, James F., D .; Ramsey County ; postoffice, Devils Lake ; occupation, lawyer : born July 6, 1853.
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Parsons, Curtis P., R .; Rolette County ; postoffice, Rolla; occupation, pub- lisher ; born May 6, 1853.
Parsons, Albert Samuel, R .; Morton County; postoffice, Mandan; occupa- tion, railroading ; born Aug. 16, 1856.
Paulson, Engebret M., R .; Traill County ; postoffice, Mayville; occupation, farmer; born May 15, 1855.
Peterson, Henry M., R .; Cass County ; postoffice, Horace; occupation, farmer; born July 11, 1857.
Pollock, Robert M., R .; Cass County ; postoffice, Casselton ; occupation, law- yer ; born Dec. 16, 1854.
Powers, John, D .; Sargent County ; postoffice, Havana ; occupation, farmer ; born Nov. 4, 1852.
Powles, Joseph, R .; Cavalier County ; postoffice, Milton ; occupation, farmer ; born Dec. 6, 1850.
Purcell, William E., D .; Richland County ; postoffice, Wahpeton ; occupation, lawyer ; born Aug. 3, 1858.
Ray, William, D .; Stark County ; postoffice, Dickinson; occupation, real estate; born Sept. - , 1852.
Richardson, Robert B., R .; Pembina County ; postoffice, Drayton ; occupation, farmer : born April 20, 1840.
Robertson, Alexander D., R .: Walsh County ; postoffice, Minto; occupation, merchant ; born July 27, 1833.
Rolfe, Eugene Strong, R .; Benson County ; postoffice, Minnewaukan; occu- pation, lawyer ; born Dec. 15, 1854.
Rowe, William H., R .; Dickey County ; postoffice, Monango; occupation, merchant ; born Oct. 26, 1853.
Sandager, Andrew, R .; Ransom County ; postoffice, Lisbon ; occupation, mer- chant ; born Oct. 31, 1862.
Shuman, John, R .; Sargent County ; postoffice, Rutland; occupation, farmer ; born July 13, 1836.
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