practice.

Three years later he removed to Colorado, and when, in December, 1876, the latter State was admitted to the Union, he was elected to look after her interests in the United States Senate, and served until April 17, 1882, when he became Secretary of the Interior under President Arthur. His appointment came about in the following way: The President, who had been talking with him anent Mr. Chaffee, whom Senator Teller was recommending for the position, expressed his desire to appoint a Westerner. He described the sort of man he wanted at length, declaring that he should have a knowledge of Indian affairs and similar matters, and that he would also have to be a lawyer. Senator Teller, meanwhile, was turning over in his mind what individual the President had in view, and was presently astonished to hear, after all the qualifications were mentioned, that he-Teller-was the only man whom the President knew would fill the bill. Teller at first declined to accept, but after some days and at the urgent request of Mr. Chaffee, in whose behalf he had come to Washington, he consented, and remained in office until March 3, 1885, when he was again returned to the Senate.

SENATOR EDWARD OLIVER WOLCOTT, of Colorado, was born in Long Meadow, Mass., March 26, 1848, and served for a few months as private in the 150th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, in 1864. Two years later he entered Yale College, but did not graduate. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1871, and removed to Colorado; was elected district attorney and a member of the State Senate in the same year. In 1888 was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed Thomas M. Bowen, and took his seat March 4, 1889. Senator Wolcott bears the proud distinction of being the only man on the Republican side of the Senate who served as a private in the war.

SENATOR JAMES F. WILSON, of Iowa, was born at Newark, Ohio, October 19, 1828. He early learned the trade of a harness-maker, and worked at it for eight years, during which time he pursued his educational studies and acquired a thorough education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1851, and commenced the practice of his profession in his native town. He removed to Iowa in 1853; was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Iowa in 1856; was a member of the State Legislature of Iowa in 1857, 1859 and 1861, serving the last year as President of the Senate; was elected a Representative in Congress from Iowa, in 1861, for the unexpired term of General S. R. Curtis; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, serving from December 2, 1861, to March 3, 1869; was a member of the Judiciary Com

mittee of the House during the entire period of his service, and was its chairman during the last six years of his membership; was elected to the United States Senate in 1883, and was re-elected in 1888.

SENATOR WILLIAM DREW WASHBURN, of Minnesota, was born at Livermore, Androscoggin Co., Me., January 14, 1831. He was reared on a farm and attended the common schools in the winter and worked on the farm in the summer until twenty years of age. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1854; and after studying law for two years at Orono, Me., removed to the West, locating in Minneapolis in 1857. He was appointed Surveyor-General of Minnesota by President Lincoln in 1861, and held the office for four years; and has been actively engaged in various manufacturing industries in the city of Minneapolis since that time. He was elected to the Legislature in 1858 and 1871, and served for three terms in the House of Representatives before he was transferred, in 1889, to the Senate.

CONGRESSMAN JAMES E. ATKINSON, of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania District, was born in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Penn., April 16, 1841; studied medicine, and graduated at the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, March 4, 1861; entered the Medical Department, United States Army, September 5, 1861; served as assistant surgeon of the First Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry and surgeon of the One Hundred and Eightyeighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and was mustered out in December, 1864; was disabled while in the army, and, being unable to practice medicine, studied law; was admitted to the bar in September, 1870; was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and re-elected up to the present time.

CONGRESSMAN CHARLES ADDISON BOUTELLE, of Maine, was born at Damariscotta, Lincoln Co., Me., February 9, 1839. He was educated in the public schools at Brunswick, and at Yarmouth Academy, and early adopted the profession of his father, a shipmaster, and on return from a foreign voyage in the spring of 1862 volunteered and was appointed acting master in the United States Navy, in which capacity he served in the North and South Atlantic and West Gulf squadrons; was honorably discharged at his own request, January 14, 1866. He engaged in commercial business in New York; but subsequently returned to his native State and was a district delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1876; was delegate-at-large and chairman of Maine delegation in the National Republican Convention of 1888; was unanimously nominated in 1880 as Republican candidate for Congress; was elected representative-at-large to the

Forty-eighth Congress, was elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-first Congress.

CONGRESSMAN NELSON DINGLEY, JR., of the Second Maine District, was born in Durham, Androscoggin Co., Me., February 15, 1832; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1862, '63, '64, '65, '68 and 73; was Speaker of the State House of Representatives in 1863 and '64; was Governor of Maine in 1874 and '75; was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1876; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress in September, 1881, to fill the

vacancy caused by the election of Hon. William P. Frye to the United States Senate; was re-elected a Representative at large to the Forty-eighth Congress, and re-elected successively.

CONGRESSMAN HENRY CABOT LODGE, of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Mass., on May 12, 1850; served two terms as a member of the House of Representatives in the Massachusetts Legislature; was elected to the Fiftieth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses. He has written, among other works, a life of Alexander Hamilton.

CONGRESSMAN THOMAS BRACKETT REED, of Maine, attained great distinction as Speaker of the House. Born at Portland, Me., Oct. 18, 1839; graduated at Bowdoin, 1860, and prepared himself for the bar; but the war breaking out, he was appointed acting assistant paymaster in the navy. Admitted to the bar in 1865, he was elected to the Lower House in the Legislature in 1868-9, and to the State Senate in 1870. He was Attorney-General, 1870-2, and solicitor for Portland, 1874-7. He was elected to Congress in 1876, and has been re-elected continuously. HON. THOMAS H. CARTER, of Montana, the chairman of the Republican Na

THOMAS H. CARTER, CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

tional Committee, was born at Junior Furnace, Scioto Co., Ohio, in 1854. The family moved to Pana, Ill., in 1865. In 1875 he settled at Burlington, Ia. He was admitted to the bar at Louisville, Ky., and from Iowa he went to Nebraska, subsequently emigrating to Montana. He was a delegate from Montana to the first session of the Forty-first Congress, and upon the admission of that Territory as a State (Nov., 1889) became a Representative in the same Congress. He was defeated for re-election in 1890. In March, 1891, he was appointed Commissioner of the Land Office, and July 16, 1892, elected chairman of the Republican National Committee.

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR 1892.

LIFE OF BENJAMIN HARRISON.

I.

Ancestry-Birth-Religious Training-Early Tutors-Juvenile Impressions - Farmers' CollegeMiami University-The Presbyterian Church-Becomes Engaged-Graduates-His Commencement Oration-L. W. Ross's Reminiscences-Studies Law in Cincinnati-Marriage-Moves to Indianapolis-Birth of Russell Harrison-Appointed Clerk of the United States District Court.

RESIDENT HARRISON'S great-grandfather, Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was prominent in public affairs from 1764 until his death in 1791, being for four years a member of Congress and three times Governor of Virginia. He entered upon his public career in 1764, soon after reaching his majority, as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and he took an active part in the pre-Revolutionary movements. General William Henry Harrison, his son, served his country almost continuously from 1791 to 1841, both in military and civil places. He fought the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, was a member of Congress, a United States Senator from Ohio, Minister to the Republic of Colombia, and for one month (March 4 to April 4, 1841, when he died) President of the United States. His son, John Scott Harrison, who was a member of Congress from 1853 to 1857, died on May 26, 1878, at his home near North Bend, Ohio.

Benjamin Harrison, the second son of John Scott Harrison, was born on August 20, 1833, at the home of his grandfather, at North Bend, Ohio, on the bluffs overlooking the Ohio River, fifteen miles below Cincinnati. His early life was passed in the usual occupations of a farmer's son-feeding the cattle and