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 D. of D. 
 
JOHN P. ALTGELD, 
 
 Governor of Illinois. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 THE GOVERNOR. 
 
 It is an honor to be the chief execu- 
 tive over four millions of people. It 
 is a greater honor to be chosen chief 
 executive under the peculiar conditions 
 that maintained during- the tierce cam- 
 paig"n of 1892 in Illinois. Illinois v^as 
 admitted to the Union in 1818, and im- 
 mediately its sparse population decid- 
 ed almost unanimously for the princi- 
 ples of Jefferson and Madison and 
 Monroe. There was no break in the 
 phalanx of democratic victories from 
 that time until '56, when a combina- 
 tion of slavery, knownothing-ism and 
 restlessness at the arrogance of dem- 
 ocratic leaders turned the state over to 
 the Republicans — which party almost 
 immediately after the election absorb- 
 ed the majority of the "American" 
 element, which was a considerable 
 factor in the campaign of '56. Buchan- 
 an's electors carried the state, also. 
 From that day to Jan. 10, 1893, there 
 was no serious break in the republi- 
 can column, except in '62. To be sure 
 the legislature was democratic until 
 '65, and a fusion with the greenbackers 
 enabled them to elect a superintendent 
 of public instruction in '74. But for 
 over thirty years Illinois was set down 
 as good for 25,000 to 50,000 republican 
 plurality. The result of last fall's 
 election dazed republicans and dem- 
 ocrats. While Michig-an, Iowa, Kan- 
 sas, Wisconsin, Ohio and other rock- 
 bound republican states had at times 
 wandered from the path of republi- 
 canism, it was believed that nothing- 
 could affect Illinois. 
 
 And so the democrats entered the 
 campaign of '92 without hope. Gov. 
 John P. Altgeld expected to be elect- 
 ed, and those nearest him predicted it 
 with confidence. The energy, ability 
 and talent for organization, possessed 
 b}^ the democratic candidate for gov- 
 ernor in a great measure decided the 
 contest. Judg-e Altgeld's promise to 
 the convention that his "would be a 
 strictly business administration," if 
 elected, is being- carried out. He is a 
 business man who applies business 
 principles in the discharg-e of his offi- 
 cial duties. And he demands qualifi- 
 cations other than party service — al- 
 though that is also necessary — from 
 the men he appoints to office. He has 
 filled the more important places with 
 men who will carry out his policy, and 
 the press has generally endorsed them. 
 
 John P. Altgeld was born in Prus- 
 sia in 1848, and came to this country 
 
 with his parents when a boy, the 
 father settling on a farm near Mans- 
 field, Ohio. At this early date he be- 
 gan to show those studious traits and 
 mental powers that have since raised 
 him to eminence. He worked hard 
 and studied his books when he could 
 steal a few minutes. He attended the 
 schools when work on the farm was 
 not pressing, and at the age of 16 en- 
 listed in Co. C, 164th O. Inf., and went 
 to the front, participating in the cam- 
 paign of Grant that closed the war. 
 Returning home he spent the next few 
 years alternately teaching school, 
 studjdng and working- as a farm hand. 
 Then he went west to St. Ivouis where 
 he read law in a destxltory waj'. and 
 afterwards in the office of Haven & 
 Rea, Savannah, Mo. His industry 
 and faculty for diving to the heart of 
 his subject broug-ht clients, fame and 
 prosperity. In '74 he was elected pros- 
 ecuting attorney of Andrew county, 
 but in October, '75, he resig-ned his 
 office, sold his furniture and moved 
 to Chicago. He took little interest in 
 politics for several years, but in '84 
 ran for cong-ress in an overwhelming- 
 republican district. He was defeated, 
 but cut down the republican majority. 
 In '86 without solicitation on his part 
 he was nominated for superior judge 
 of Cook county, at that time about 
 12,000 republican. He hesitated some 
 time before accepting-, but finally did 
 so, and so thorough a canvas did he 
 make, and so perfect was his org-aniza- 
 tion, that notwithstanding- defections 
 from the democratic party and quar- 
 rels within the ranks, he was elected 
 by a large majority, the laboring men 
 being- especially active in his interest. 
 A mtxltiplicity of private interests 
 compelled him to resig-n his place on 
 the bench in August, '91. He has be- 
 come quite wealthy, principally by 
 shrewd buying- and sellings of real es- 
 tate in Chicago, a proper field for a 
 man with capital and sharp business 
 instinct. He also has been interested 
 in street railways in various cities. 
 He was nominated for governor on the 
 first ballot in the democratic conven- 
 tion in April, '92, and made two hard 
 canvasses of the state — one a prelimi- 
 nary trip in which he visited every 
 county to learn the conditions, and 
 g-ive instructions for organization, and 
 another to address the people on the 
 issues of the dcLj. In '78 he married 
 Miss Bmma Ford, an accomplished 
 ladj' who has already become very 
 popular in Springfield society. 
 
LKC.ISLATIVK SorVKNIK. 
 
 THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 
 
 Joseph B. Gill, President of the Sen- 
 ate and lyieutenant Governor, served 
 two terms in the house in '89 and '91 
 and was nominated on the first ballot 
 in April, '92, for lievitenant g-overnor 
 b^' the democratic state convention. 
 He was born on a farm near Marion, 
 Williamson connt.y, Feb. 17, 1862, and 
 is the young-est lieutenant governor 
 ever elected in this state. In '63 his 
 family moved to De Soto, Jackson 
 county, and in '68 to Murphysboro, 
 
 About the first office he asked from 
 his party was to the house in '88 
 and it was given him, also a return for 
 faithful services in '90. In both gen- 
 eral assemblies he was a strong anti- 
 corporation man, and championed the 
 cause of the laboring people on every 
 measure that came up of interest to 
 them. He was instrumental in secur- 
 ing the passage of the gross weight 
 bill, the weekly pa^^ bill, the anti- 
 truck store bill, and did all he could to 
 advance the arbitration bill to a suc- 
 cessful issue. His efforts to benefit a 
 class of people who have few friends 
 
 where he has lived ever since. He 
 was educated in the public schools, at 
 the Christian Brothers Colleg-e in St. 
 L,ouis, and at the Southern Illinois 
 Normal, at Carbondale, graduating 
 from the latter in June, '84. Then he 
 completed a law term of two 3'ears at 
 Ann Arbor, g-raduating in July, '86, 
 and was admitted to the Michigan 
 bar, passing an examination before 
 the supreme and circuit courts of that 
 state. He never practiced his pro- 
 fession, but returning home engaged 
 in newspaper work, bu^-ing- an inter- 
 est in the Murphysboro Independent, 
 which he conducted and edited up to 
 Jan. 1, '93, 
 
 in the leg"islature, were appreciated, 
 and soon after the legislature of '91 
 adjourned, there was a demand for 
 him to go on the state ticket. Resolu- 
 tions were adopted in many lodges and 
 unions commending Gov. Gill to the 
 democratic state convention and urg- 
 ing his nomination. An unusual in- 
 terest was taken in his election be- 
 cause of the close relations between the 
 candidate and the class whose cause 
 he had championed in the legislature. 
 He was triumphantly elected, running 
 ahead of most of his colleagues on the 
 Democratic state ticket. He is an im- 
 partial presiding officer, and has won 
 the respect of the senators already. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 
 
 William H. Hinrichsen, Secretary- of 
 State, was born in Franklin. 111., Maj^ 
 27, 18.S0, and educated at the Illinois 
 Universit3^ His father was born in 
 the Grand Duch3^ of Mecklenberg", and 
 emigrated to America when a boy. 
 His mother was born in Morgan coun- 
 t3% and her father, who was a soldier 
 of the war of 1812, came from Virginia. 
 After leaving the Universit}^ Mr. Hin- 
 richsen entered the office of the gen- 
 eral stock agent of the Wabash rail- 
 
 Hinrichsen returned to Jacksonville to 
 resume editorial charge of The Courier, 
 but the democratic caucus in Jan. '91 
 chose him bj' acclama.tion for clerk of 
 the house, and after the legislature 
 adjourned he entered into the work of 
 the campaign of '92 with his ustial 
 vigor and discretion. As a member of 
 the executive comnaittee of the state 
 committee, he made a careful canvass 
 of ever^- counts' in the state, paving 
 the waj' b^' an intelligent observation 
 of the condition of the party and sug- 
 gestions as to organization, for the 
 sweeping triumph of '92. He was named 
 
 road, remaining for four years and re- 
 signing to become deputy sheriff of 
 Morgan county in '74. He was there 
 for three terms, and was elected sheriff 
 in '80. Two years later he bought an 
 interest in The Bvening Courier with 
 Geo. E. Dojdng, and declining a re- 
 nomination for sheriff, he entered the 
 newspaper business with vigor. He 
 edited The Courier until '86, when the 
 firm purchased The Ouincy Daily Her- 
 ald, and he went over to take charge 
 of it. He soon raised it to the front 
 rank among provincial dailies, and 
 made its influence as a democratic 
 organ felt all over western Illinois. 
 In '90 The Herald was sold and Mr. 
 
 for secretary of state on first ballot. He 
 had charge of the press bureau during 
 the campaign. When he was 21 he was 
 elected justice of the peace in a strong 
 republican precinct. He has been a 
 delegate to every democratic state 
 convention since he was old enough to 
 vote. He has been a member, and 
 chairman or secretary most of the 
 time, of the Morgan and Adams county 
 committees since he reached the vot- 
 ing age. He was on the executive 
 committee of the state committee dur- 
 ing the campaign of '90, and resigned 
 when nominated for secretary of state. 
 In '73 he married Miss Louise Sparks, 
 and has two sons and one daughter. 
 
I.KOISr.ATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 THE STATE TREASURER. 
 
 An epitome of the life of Rufus N. 
 Ramsay, State Treasurer, will con- 
 tain no failures as a politician and no 
 scars as a servant of the people. His 
 life has been that of an honorable and 
 industrious g-entleman who accepts of- 
 fice as a duty, and who discharg-es 
 his official responsibilities with fidel- 
 ity, honesty and energ"y. Popular, 
 of course, for he always ran ahead 
 of his ticket. As a member of the 
 house in '89 and '91 he was a safe 
 
 ated from the State Universit}' at 
 Blooining'ton, Ind., in '64. Then he 
 .studied law with Gov. French and also 
 with Judg-e Underwood at Belleville; 
 admitted to the bar in '65, and prac- 
 ticed for .several years in Carlyle. He 
 g-radually became interested in farm 
 lands and real estate, and quit the law 
 at a time when he had a large and 
 lucrative practice. In '70 the banks of 
 Ramsa3' & Seiter, of Carlyle, and 
 Seiter & Ramsay, of lycbanon, were 
 organized and prospered until '80, 
 when the partnership was dissolved, 
 the resident partner in each city tak- 
 
 leader, with a strong following of the 
 best element. He saw the objection- 
 able features in the compulsory educa- 
 tion law of '89, and was denied the 
 privilege of explaining his vote bj' the 
 house. He did say during the confu- 
 sion and objections that he was a 
 friend of compulsor3^ education, but 
 the present bill possessed several ob- 
 jectionable features, and he could not 
 vote for it. He is a quiet, unostenta- 
 tious man, shrewd as a politician, and 
 a tireless worker. 
 
 Rufus N. Ramsay was born on a 
 Clinton county farm May 20, 1838, and 
 spent three years at Illinois College, 
 some time at McKendree, and gradu- 
 
 ing complete control. He was elected 
 county clerk in '65 when every county 
 officer was a republican, and was re- 
 elected. He has done as much or more 
 than any other one man to make Clin- 
 ton county democratic by 900 to 1,100. 
 He is a Presbyterian. In '64 he mar- 
 ried Miss Julia Toney, and has two 
 daughters and one son. Is largely in- 
 terested in farm lands and Chicago 
 and St. Louis real estate. His father, 
 who came to Illinois in '16 from South 
 Carolina, is strong- and vigorous at 88, 
 and was in Springfield inaug-uration 
 day. He is the oldest democrat in the 
 state, and a man whose whole life has 
 been above reproach. 
 
IvEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 
 
 There have been few democrats in 
 the office of Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction of the state of Illinois 
 since 1857, when the republicans took 
 control of the state g^overnment. In 
 fact Henry Raab, of Belleville, is the 
 only democrat that has ever been 
 elected to the office on a straight party 
 platform and ticket. He was elected 
 in '82 by about 3,000 plurality. The 
 state went republican by 40,000 in '80. 
 He declined a renomination in '86 but in 
 
 vention, but it was discouraged by Mr. 
 Raab, who has little taste for political 
 life. 
 
 Henry Raab was born in Wetzlar, 
 Rhenish Prussia, June 20, 1837. He 
 was educated in the Kindergarten, 
 public school and Royal Gymnasium 
 of his native city ; also by private tu- 
 tors. After leaving school he learned 
 the trade of a currier in his father's 
 shops and emigrated to the United 
 States in '53, finding work at his trade 
 in Cincinnati. The year following he 
 went to St. Ivouis and later on to 
 Belleville, where he was for a time en- 
 
 ■was named against his will and was 
 elected by a plurality of over 34,000 
 running far ahead of the ticket. 
 
 In his capacity of superintendent of 
 public instruction he took a firm stand 
 for the better supervision of schools 
 and the better education of teachers. 
 He discharged his duties in a quiet un- 
 ostentatious manner, yet with an en- 
 ergy and ability that made him many 
 friends among the school teachers and 
 ■educators in the state. At the close of 
 his first administration he returned to 
 Belleville to superintend the public 
 schools of that city. His name was 
 urged in many quarters for governor 
 ■before the last democratic state con- 
 
 gaged in clerking. During all this 
 time he was a close student of political 
 and economic questions, and in '57 be- 
 came a teacher in the public schools of 
 Belleville. In '60 he was elected libra- 
 rian of the St. Clair county library, an 
 office which he held until '83, when the 
 city of Belleville assumed control of 
 that institution. In the teaching pro- 
 fession he rose to be a principal, and 
 in '73 was made city superintendent of 
 schools of Belleville, which office he 
 held until he was elected superinten- 
 dent of public instruction in '82. In 
 '59 he was married to Miss Mathilda 
 Von Ivcngerken, and has one son and 
 two daughters. 
 
I,EGISI,ATIVK SOUVrCNIK. 
 
 THE ATTORNEY=QENERAL. 
 
 Maurice T. Maloney, Attorney-Gen- 
 eral, was born in County Kerry, Ire- 
 land, July 26, 1849. After a thorough 
 course in the common schools he en- 
 tered Listowel Seminary, graduating- 
 in the classical course. He moved to 
 America in '67, and began a course of 
 study in moral philosophy in the 
 Niagara Falls Seminary of Our Lady 
 of Angels. Afterwards he studied 
 theology in Wheeling, and taught 
 school for a time iu Wytheville, Va. 
 
 election he has commenced suit against 
 Ex-Auditors I^ippincott, Swigert and 
 Pavey and their bondsmen to recover 
 fees alleged to be illegally diverted 
 and retained. 
 
 Although he has been in office less 
 than three months at this writing Mr. 
 Moloney has rendered several opinions 
 of great importance. And the best 
 legal talent as well as the great news- 
 papers — republican and democratic — 
 agree with his conclusions. The opin- 
 ion in regard to the right of the canal 
 commissioners of the Illinois & Michi- 
 gan Canal to turn over to the trustees 
 
 In '69 he entered the University of 
 Virginia, near Charlottesville, founded 
 by Thomas Jefferson, from which he 
 graduated in '71 with the Bachelor of 
 L,aws degree. He then moved to Ot- 
 tawa, 111., where he has since lived and 
 had a very successful practice. 
 
 He was city attorney of Ottawa for 
 four years, states attorney of LaSalle 
 county from '84 to '88, and prosecuted 
 all the boodlers, recovering some 
 $50,000 for the county. He was legal 
 advisor to the board of supervisors for 
 seven years. He was nominated for 
 attorney-general in the democratic 
 state convention in '92 on the first bal- 
 lot with four candidates. Since his 
 
 of the Chicago Drainage District a 
 portion of the canal for sanitary pur- 
 poses, is probably the most important 
 one. Important, also, are his careful- 
 ly prepared views on the right of the 
 state auditor to retain a part of the 
 fees from the insurance companies; in 
 regard to the right of the auditor to 
 employ a Chicago attorney, and in re- 
 gard to treasurers loaning public funds. 
 He is a man of indomitable energy, 
 and has made a very favorable im- 
 pression already on the people of the 
 state. In 1873 he married Miss 
 Annie J. Graham, of Ottawa, and has. 
 five children — three sons and twe» 
 daughters. 
 
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 IvEGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 THE ADJUTANT=GENERAL. 
 
 Gen. Alfred Orendorff,Adjutant Gen- 
 eral of the state of Illinois, was born 
 July 29, 1845, in Logan county, and 
 was educated at the Wesle^^an Univer- 
 sity, Blooniington, and the military 
 school at Fulton, Illinois. In '6(3 
 Gen. Orendorfp graduated from the 
 Albany, N. Y., Law School, with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Laws. He be- 
 gan practice in Springfield in '67 with 
 the firm of Herndon & Zane. The 
 firm was successively Herndon & Oren- 
 
 and ratified by the democrats, for the 
 Illinois house, and was elected. He 
 took an active part as a member of the 
 judiciary committee in revising the 
 laws of the state in conformity with 
 the constitution of '70. He has been 
 chairman of the democratic state com- 
 mittee for several years, and was dele- 
 gate to several national democratic 
 conventions. In '82 as candidate for 
 state treasurer he pulled a republican 
 majority of 40,000 down to about 5,000, 
 and four years later he made another 
 splendid run for the same office. He 
 is vice president of the German- Amer- 
 
 dorff and Orendorff & Creighton. 
 When Judge Creighton was elected 
 to the circuit bench, he formed a 
 partnership with Robert H. Patton, 
 under the firm name of Orendorff & 
 Patton, which still exists, and is one 
 of the strongest in Central Illinois. 
 
 Originally he was a republican, he 
 took the first step towards democracy 
 in '72, when so many republicans of 
 liberal views joined the struggling 
 party of the common people. In '72 
 he was a delegate to the democratic 
 national convention, and heartily 
 favored the nomination of Judge 
 Lyman Trumbull for president. In 
 '73 he was nominated hj the liberals 
 
 ican Loan association and of the 
 Franklin Life Insurance company of 
 this city, and has large interests in 
 real estate. He has held the highest 
 offices within the gift of the Odd Fel- 
 lows ; has been representative to the 
 sovereign grand lodge of the world 
 every year since 1880. In 1870 he 
 inarried Julia, the daughter of Col. 
 John Williams, one of the wealthiest 
 and most respected pioneers of Illi- 
 nois, and has two daughters and one 
 son. He was appointed adjutant-gen- 
 eral by Gov. Altgeld Jan. 20, 1893, an 
 appointment that was most cordially 
 received in every quarter of the state, 
 as well as elsewhere where he is known. 
 
 ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY. 
 
I.KGISLATIVK SOrVKNIK. 
 
 11 
 
 SUPREHE COURT REPORTER. 
 
 The oldest Supreme Court Reporter 
 in the United States is Norman L. 
 Freeman, of Illinois, and there is none 
 more accurate or more satisfactory to 
 the lawyers and judges. The position is 
 one of peculiar difHculty, and requires 
 qualifications above that of a lawyer, 
 or even a judjj;-e. Indeed, Illinois law- 
 yers frequently cjuote the sylkibus of a 
 supreme court decision in preference 
 to the words of the justice. Judg-e 
 Freeman has a happy faculty pos- 
 
 secrets of the court. He has a hand- 
 some home in Springfield, and is a 
 democrat of the old school. 
 
 Norman L,. Freeman was born in 
 Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., Miiy 
 9, 1823. His parents, Truman and 
 Hannah (Dow) Freeman, trace their 
 ancestry back to the early pioneers. 
 In '31 he accompanied his widowed 
 mother to Ann Arbor, and six years 
 later they moved to Detroit. He 
 worked in his brother's store in Cleve- 
 land for a time, and in '40 entered an 
 academy in that city. From there he 
 went to the Ohio University, at Athens, 
 
 sessed by few men, of extracting the 
 kernel from the shell of a decision, 
 and painting it in short terse sentences. 
 It is this that renders him so valuable 
 in his capacit^^ of reporter of the su- 
 preme court, and makes his reports 
 models of excellence and reliability. 
 He has edited and published 106 vol- 
 umes of Illinois Reports, embodying 
 over 7,000 cases. He is the personifi- 
 cation of courtesy and accommodation. 
 By nature of his office he is close to 
 the justices of the court. No doubt 
 he has been approached many times 
 by interested litigants for information 
 in regard to pending cases, but he was 
 never known to violate the sacred 
 
 and had for fellow students S. S. Cox 
 and Milton Latham. In '43 he moved 
 to Kentucky and taught school to pay 
 his expenses while studying law. In 
 '46 he began the practice of lais profes- 
 sion in Morg-anfield, Ky. The g"reat 
 strug^'gle between the north and south 
 compelled him to move to a more 
 peaceful state than Kentucky, for he 
 inherited many Quaker principles from 
 his mother's family. In '62 he moved 
 to Shawneetown, and it; April '63, was 
 appointed reporter of the supreme 
 court, and has held the office ever 
 since. In December, '49, he married 
 Miss Tranquilla Richeson, and has four 
 children — a son and three daughters. 
 
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 LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 SUPREME=APPELLATE COURTS. 
 
 The state of Illinois was divided 
 half a centtiry ago into three grand 
 divisions of the supreme court. The 
 seat of the Central Grand Division is 
 located at Springfield. 
 
 E. A. SNIVBLT. 
 
 BTHAN A. SNIVEI.Y, Clerk of the 
 Supreme Court, Central Grand Divi- 
 sion, was born in Cuba, Fulton, Co., 
 111., Feb. 17, 1845, and received a com- 
 mon school education. In '60 he en- 
 tered the office of The Squatter Sover- 
 eign, at Havana, to learn the printing 
 business. Before he was 21 years old 
 he assumed editorial and business 
 management of The Rushville Times, 
 and conducted the paper for over two 
 years. In July, '68 he beg-an the pub- 
 lication of The Galesburg Times, and 
 for nearly a year he preached radical 
 democracy in a county that gave near- 
 ly 3,000 republican majority. Then he 
 edited The Pekin Register for a few 
 months, resigning in the fall of '69 to 
 become city editor of The Peoria Daily 
 National Democrat. In Oct. '71 he as- 
 sumed control of The Macoupin En- 
 quirer at Carlinville, which he con- 
 ducted until April, '77, when he relin- 
 quished it and engaged in the agricul- 
 tural implement business. In '79 he 
 assumed editorial control of The Ma- 
 coupin Herald at Carlinville, and in 
 '80 this paper was consolidated with 
 The Fnquirer, which he edited until 
 '83, when he sold it. In '78 he was 
 elected clerk of the supreme court, and 
 was re-elected in '84 and '90 by in- 
 creased majorities, the last two times 
 having no opposition in the democratic 
 convention. He was president of the 
 
 Illinois Press Association in '79 and 
 '80, and is a very active honorary 
 member now. The first work he did in a 
 printing office was to assist in getting 
 out an extra — on Sunday — annotmcing 
 the first nomination of Abraham Lin- 
 coln for president. There were few 
 railroads and no telegraph in the west 
 then, and it took three days for the 
 news to reach Havana. 
 
 The Appellate Court, Third District, 
 comprises the same counties as Central 
 Grand Division, Supreme Court; it was 
 organized in '77; the present incumbent 
 is the first clerk elected by the people. 
 
 GEORGE W. JONES, Clerk of the 
 Appellate Court, Third District, came 
 to Illinois with his parents when a. 
 child and was raised at Griggsville 
 and in Pike county, one of the most 
 fertile and beautiful counties in the 
 state. He received a good common 
 school education, and was clerk of the 
 circuit court of Pike county from '60' 
 to '64, and '72 to '76. He also held 
 several minor offices, member of the 
 board of supervisors, the board of ed- 
 ucation, etc. In '78 he was elected 
 clerk of the appellate court, and was 
 re-elected in '84 and '90 by increased 
 majorities ; was nominated by accla- 
 mation in the democratic convention 
 in '84-'90. He is a strong democrat. 
 
 and an enthusiastic Cleveland man. 
 In '50 he was married to Miss Celia 
 Bennett, of Marshall Co., 111., and has 
 two sons — Frank H., member of the 
 last house of representatives and a 
 promising young attorney of Spring- 
 field, and Fred. B., of the Adams & 
 Westlake Manufacturing Co., Chicago. 
 
I.KC.ISI,ATI\'K SOUVENIK. 
 
 13 
 
 THE RAILROAD COnniSSION. 
 
 Probably the most important board 
 littached to the state administration is 
 the Railroad and Warehouse Commis- 
 sion, org-anized in 1870. It is composed 
 of three members, who draw $3,500 
 
 WM S. CANTRELL. 
 
 each per annum, and expenses, and a 
 secretary at $2,500. Term of office two 
 years ; Gov. Altg^eld appointed the 
 present board Jan. 23, '93, and they 
 were immediately confirmed by the 
 senate. The board consists of Wm. S. 
 Cantrell, of Benton, Charles F. Lape 
 of Springfield and Thomas Gahan of 
 Chicag-o, with John W. Yantis of Shel- 
 t)3'ville as secretary. 
 
 WIIvLIAM S. CANTRELL, Chair- 
 man of the Board, was born in Benton, 
 111., Feb. 6, 1851, and educated at the 
 State University, Blooming^ton, Ind., 
 taking- the scientific course. He at- 
 tended the Law School, at Shaw- 
 neetown, conducted by Judg-e A. D. 
 Duff, and was admitted to the bar 
 in June, '74, and has practiced his 
 profession ever since. He was states 
 attorney of Franklin county for four 
 3'ears. He was married in March, '82 
 to Miss Jennie Burnett, of Shaw- 
 neetown, and they have two chil- 
 dren, a boy and a g^irl. He always 
 has been very active in politics, 
 and was a delegate to the National 
 Democratic convention of '88, and took 
 a lively interest in the campaign of 
 '92. He was an enthusiastic friend of 
 ■Gov. Altg-eld before the democratic 
 state convention, and devoted his tal- 
 ents and time to the election of the 
 democratic state ticket, in the triumph 
 
 of which he contributed not a little. 
 He is a member of the g^rand lodge of 
 Illinois, A. F. & A. M. and was on the 
 law committee of the lodge — the com- 
 mittee on appeals and g^rievances — for 
 ten years. He is also one of the su- 
 preme officers of the Knig-hts of Hon- 
 or. He was strong-l\' endorsed for his 
 present place, aud devotes his entire 
 time to the duties of the office. 
 
 CHAS. F. LAPE, was born in Zanes- 
 ville, O., Nov. 22, 1842, and received a 
 common school education while work- 
 ing- on a farm up to the time he was 
 14 years old. Then he entered a boiler 
 shop in Zanesville and learned the 
 trade, remaining- until '60, when he 
 beg-an braking for the Cincinnati, 
 Wilmington & Zanesville railroad, 
 now a laranch of the Pennsylvania. 
 In the spring- of '61 he enlisted in 
 Co. A, 3d O. Inf., but being under 
 age his mother had his name stricken 
 from the roll. Then he went on the 
 L. & N. as brakeman, between Louis- 
 ville and Nashville remaining until 
 the spring of '62, when he accepted a 
 place in the Ft. Wayne shops of the 
 Wabash railroad. In '63 he worked for 
 the I. & St. L., now the Big Four, at 
 Litchfield, and in the spring'- of '64 he 
 changed to the Illinois Central shops 
 at Centralia. He was promoted to be 
 assistant foreman and remained until 
 '73, when he returned to the Ft. 
 
 Wayne shops as foreman. In '82 he 
 was made general foreman of the An- 
 drews shops by J. B. Barnes. In '83 
 he removed to Danville, and assumed 
 charge of the Tilton shops. Soon after 
 he was made assistant master me- 
 chanic with headquarters at Mt. Car- 
 mel, and in '85 received his last pro- 
 
14 
 
 I^EGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 motion, being made master mechanic 
 of the Springfield shops, which place 
 he held until appointed to his present 
 position. He married Miss Nancj^ 
 Brown in Centralia, in '66, and has 
 had four children, two of whom sur- 
 vive — a boy and girl. He is a Mason, 
 an Klk, a director in two building and 
 
 TH08. GAHAN. 
 
 loan associations, and in the Franklin 
 Ivife Insurance company. He is a 
 lyutheran in religion, and never took 
 a very active part in politics, being 
 appointed to his present place on ac- 
 cotmt of his knowledge of railroading 
 — an appointment that met with gen- 
 eral satisfaction. 
 
 THOMAS GAHAN was born in Cook 
 county, near Chicago, in 1849, and re- 
 ceived a good common school educa- 
 tion. In '66 he began life for himself 
 as stock shipper for Nels Morris, and 
 from '68 to '69 he represented Cragin 
 & Hancock, packers in the Red River 
 country. He was appointed patrolman 
 of the Town of I^ake in '70 when the 
 force consisted of only three men; was 
 promoted to be sergeant in '74; in '77 
 was made captain, which office he held 
 until '84 when he was elected super- 
 visor, treasurer and chief of police of 
 the Town of Ivake, three offices at that 
 time consolidated. During the two 
 years he held this office he handled 
 $6,000,000 of the people's money. In 
 '86 under the firm name of Gahan & 
 Burns he engaged in the business of 
 contracting for the building of sewers, 
 laying water mains, etc. In '89 was 
 elected alderman from the 29th ward, 
 and started the fight to clear the Lake 
 Front of the old exposition building 
 and the B. & O. depot, in which he 
 was successful. He was re-elected in 
 
 '90, and resigned to accept his present 
 office from Gov. Altgeld. When he 
 entered the city council there was not 
 a paved street in his ward, and when 
 he left it, every street in his ward that 
 was sewered had been paved or con- 
 tracted to be paved. He is a member 
 of the Iroquois Club, the Cook County 
 Democracy, and the Marching Club, 
 also of the I. O. F. and the A. O. U. 
 W. He is a shrewd politician and con- 
 tributed greatly to the success of the 
 democratic ticket in the recent elec- 
 tion. 
 
 JOHN W. YANTIS, Secretary of the 
 Board, was born in Shelby county, 
 May 13, 1855, and was educated at 
 Westfield College and Bryant & Strat- 
 tan's Business College, Chicago. He 
 began life as clerk in a mercantile 
 store in Shelbj^ville, and in '77 formed 
 a partnership with his brother-in-law 
 and bought a stock of dry goods, boots 
 and shoes, which continued until '89,. 
 when he went into the real estate, loan 
 and insurance business, which was his 
 occupation, when he was appointed 
 secretary of the board, March 1, '93. 
 He was chairman of the county board 
 for three years, and after his first race 
 was elected without opposition. He 
 was a member of the state board of 
 equalization froin '86 to '90. In '82 he 
 married Miss Cordelia A. James, of 
 Shelby county, and has four children. 
 
 three girls and one boy. He attends 
 the Christian church. He is a Mason, 
 an Odd Fellow, an A. O. U. W. a 
 Modern Woodman, and has been a 
 representative to the grand lodge of 
 Odd Fellows. Was on the committee 
 on appeals for several years, and was 
 chairman the last term. He is also on 
 
I.KOISI.ATIVK SOl'VKNIK 
 
 15 
 
 the Cenniiiittee on the state of the or- 
 der in the Grand Encampment. Is 
 chairnrin of the committee on appeals 
 of the grand lodge, A. O. U. W., and 
 is one of the trustees of the Odd Fel- 
 lows Orphans' Home, at Lincoln. He 
 has always been a working democrat 
 in his section of the state. 
 
 JAS. H. I'ADDOUK. 
 
 JAMES H. PADDOCK, of this city, 
 retiring secretary of the board, is one 
 of the best known men connected with 
 the politics of Illinois. For twenty- 
 eight years past he has been in 
 Springfield during the sessions of the 
 general assembly. He was born in 
 Lockport, 111., May, 29, 1850, and re- 
 ceived a good common school educa- 
 tion. He was page in the senate in '65. 
 In '67 he was assistant postmaster of 
 the senate, and in '69, '71, '73 and '75 
 he was assistant secretary of the sen- 
 ate. In '77, '79 and '81 he was secre- 
 tary of the senate. From '81 to '89 he 
 was assistant secretary' of state, and 
 early in '89 he was appointed secretary 
 of the railroad and warehouse commis- 
 sion, which position he filled until 
 March 1, '93, when the change in ad- 
 ministration permitted all the republi- 
 can officials to retire. In '77 Mr. Pad- 
 dock received the entire vote of the 
 senate for secretary, when the farmers 
 held the balance of power, and in '75 
 the democrats had the organization of 
 the senate and they made him assist- 
 ant secretary. He has never swerved 
 from republicanism. Undoubtedly he 
 has a wider acquaintance among the 
 public men of Illinois than any other 
 man in the state, and in every position 
 he has occupied he has discharged his 
 duties with an energy and faithfulness 
 that commended him to his superiors. 
 
 In "73 he married Miss Mary L. Craw- 
 ford, of Kankakee, and they have two 
 children — a boy and girl. 
 
 THE PRINTER EXPERT. 
 
 Arthur L,. Hereford, Printer Expert, 
 was born in Secor, Woodford Co., 111., 
 April 1, 1858, and educated in the com- 
 mon school. He graduated from the 
 Union College of Law, Chicago, in '78 
 and was admitted to the bar at Mt. 
 Vernon in '79. He went west, and 
 practiced for a short time at Concor- 
 dia, Kan. In '80 he was nominated by 
 the democratic state convention for 
 attorney general of Kansas. He was 
 prominent in Kansas politics for sev- 
 eral years, and was vice president of 
 the Leagtie of Democratic Clubs of 
 that state in '80. But dollai's were 
 nearly as scarce as democrats in the 
 Grasshopper state, and Mr. Hereford 
 returned to Illinois, purchasing The El 
 Paso Journal in Jan. '81, which he ran 
 until Jan. '85, when he went to Chi- 
 cago, and worked as a reporter on the 
 staffs of The Chicago News. Tribune 
 and other papers until '88. Then he 
 returned to Woodford count}' and 
 started The Metamora Herald, a dem- 
 ocratic paper, which he ran until 
 '91, when he sold out and purchased 
 
 A. L. iu;kei"oku. 
 
 The Mattoon Star, which he owns at 
 this time. He was an enrolling and 
 engrossing clerk of the house in the 
 session of '91, and was appointed 
 printer expert by Gov. Altgeld Jan. 
 19, '93. In Nov. '79, he married Miss 
 Helen M. Jacqitin, of Metamora, and 
 has one son and one daughter. 
 
I,}<;(",I.SI,ATIVK SCniVKNIK. 
 
 17 
 
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 For the first time in exactly thirty 
 years a democratic j^eneral assembly 
 convened in vSprinf,'-field on the 4th day 
 of January, 1893. It was more note- 
 worthy from the fact that every de- 
 partment of the state g-overnment, and 
 every office was filled or soon to be 
 fillecl by democrats. The General As- 
 sembly for the State of Illinois oper- 
 ates under a constitution adopted by 
 the people in 1870— the fourth instru- 
 ment of the kind that has been sub- 
 mitted to the people, and the third that 
 has been ratified and adopted — the 
 constitution of 1862 having-- been re- 
 jected at the polls. The general a.s- 
 sembly meets biennially at noon on 
 the first Wednesday after the finst 
 Monday in January in odd-numbered 
 years. It consists of a senate and a 
 house of representatives numbering- 
 on joint ballot, 204. This is the 
 Thirtv-eig-hth General Assembly. In 
 the biog-raphies that follow the dis- 
 tricts are not g-iven, because it is ex- 
 pected that the present legislature will 
 reapportion the state. 
 
 THE SENATE. 
 
 The Senate consists of 51 members, 
 who are elected for four years, or two 
 regular sessions. Senators from the 
 odd numbered districts are elected at 
 the same time as state treasurer and 
 sviperintendent of public instruction — 
 1886, 1890, 1894, etc. Senators from 
 even-numbered districts are elected in 
 presidential years— 1888, 1892, 1896, 
 etc. Senators receive $5 per diem 
 during the session, $50 for stationery 
 and 10 cents a mile for the actual dis- 
 tance from their homes to the state 
 capital. The districts represented in 
 the present general assembly were 
 organized in 1881 by the republicans. 
 The senate of 1893 consists of 29 demo- 
 crats and 22 republicans. 
 
 THE OFFICERS. 
 
 Next to the President of the Senate 
 the most influential officer is the Sec- 
 retary. Indeed, he is often charged 
 with passing or killing more bills than 
 the senators. The present secretary, 
 however, is above reproach, and never 
 hastens or delays a roll call to permit 
 the lobby to work, or stragglers sent 
 for. This was almost a rule in the past. 
 
 Downing, Finis E., (dem.), Virginia; 
 editor-lawyer. Secretary' of the Sen- 
 ate. Born in Virginia, Aug. 24, 1846, 
 and received a common school edu- 
 cation. He left the farm when 16 
 and clerked in a dry goods store, after- 
 wards going into the same line of 
 trade for himself. In '69 he went to 
 
 SKCKETAKY DOWNING 
 
 Butler, Mo., engaging in the grocery 
 and dry goods business, in which he 
 continued until '75. Then he returned 
 to Cass county and was elected circuit 
 clerk in '80, was re-elected in '84 and 
 again in '88, his last term expiring last 
 December. He was chosen secretary 
 of the senate by the democratic caucus, 
 and fills the place although the duties 
 are entirely new, to the satisfaction of 
 every senator. Is naarried. In Sept. 
 '91 he bought The Virginia Enquirer, 
 which is edited in his absence by his 
 son, Harry F. 
 
 Davis, Robert H., Sergeant-at-Arms 
 of the senate, lives in Harrollton, and 
 was born in Mercer Co., Ky., about 55 
 years ago. In '32 his father moved to 
 Greene Co., 111., where he was a prac- 
 ticing ph3'sician, and very successful. 
 Robert was educated in the district 
 schools, and finished at Center College, 
 Danville, Ky. He was salesman in a 
 wholesale drj' goods store in St. Louis 
 for a time, and afterwards in a whole- 
 sale grocery and commission house. 
 In '70 he went into the business of buy- 
 ing grain, selling- flour and coal in 
 Carrollton, and continued it until 
 elected sergeant-at-arms. He was vice- 
 president of the Mercantile Library, 
 St. Louis, for two years and a director 
 for four years; is a life member now; 
 was a member of the board of educa- 
 
18 
 
 LEGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 tion of CarroUton for twelve succes- 
 sive years, and was president of the 
 board for six years. He was elected 
 to the senate in '85 to succeed F. M. 
 -Bridges, deceased, and was returned 
 
 SEKGEANT-AT-AKMS DAVIS. 
 
 to the house in '86 and '88. He was 
 chosen seargeant-at-arnis by acclama- 
 tion in the democratic caucus. 
 
 Allen, Sylvester, (dem.), Oxville, 
 Scott Co.; farmer and merchant. Born 
 in Jackson Co., O., Sept. 2, 1847, and 
 received a common school edtication. 
 He volunteered in the 7th Ohio cavalry 
 and was rejected on account of his 
 youth, but he was determined to g-o to 
 the war, and was finally accepted as a 
 teamster. After the war he settled in 
 
 SYLVESTER ALLEN. 
 
 Scott Co., 111., on a farm near Oxville. 
 Is married. He held the office of jus- 
 tice of the peace several times, and 
 was postmaster of Oxville under Pres- 
 
 ident Cleveland. He was elected to 
 the house in '88 and to the senate in 
 '90, receiving 6,132 votes to 2,285 for 
 B. B. Hamilton, rep., and 1,574 for R. 
 T. Brock, bolting rep. In the house 
 he took an active and honest interest 
 in farmer legislation, and the record 
 was continued in the senate in '91, 
 when he was recognized as the cham- 
 pion of the interests of the agricultur- 
 ists. Is a valuable member of the, 
 present senate. As a member of the 
 faithful "101" in the last legislature 
 Senator Allen was faithful and stead- 
 fast, regarding the voice of the people 
 as a peremptory command. 
 
 Committees: Senatorial apportionment 
 (chairman;, visit charitable institutions 
 (chairii)an), railroads, revenue, municipali- 
 ties, charitable institutions, roads and 
 bridges, military, building and loan associa- 
 tions, waterways and drainage, agriculture. 
 
 Anderson, Perry, (rep.), Alexis; lum- 
 ber merchant. Born in Nasum Socken, 
 
 PERRY ANDERSON. 
 
 Christianstads Lan, Sweden, Oct. 5, 
 1853, and at the age of 19 determined 
 to come to America. He did so, set- 
 tling in Warren county and hiring out 
 as a farm hand. His education in the 
 English language was acquired in the 
 high school of Alexis, and his com- 
 mercial training at Davenport Busi- 
 ness College. He rented a farm and 
 followed agriculture for a time, but in 
 '81 he engaged in the lumber business, 
 and in that has been successful. In 
 '92 he was instrumental in organizing 
 the Alexis Stoneware Manufacturing 
 Co., and is now serving as president 
 of that enterprise. He has received 
 many favors regardless of party; has 
 been on the board of education many 
 years, and is still a member; was on 
 the board of village trustees and was 
 
IvKCISI.ATIVK SOUVENIR. 
 
 19 
 
 president of the board, resij^ning-when 
 he was elected to the senate in '90. Is 
 married. Is chairman of the present 
 republican senate caucus. 
 
 C'omniittees: .ludicial department, ware- 
 houses, finance and elainis, appropriations, 
 inuniciiialit ics, charitable institutions, penal 
 and rcfiirniatory , world's tair, congressional 
 apportionTueiit, labor and manufactures. 
 
 Arnold, John W., (deni.), Lockport; 
 merchant. Born on a farm in Wash- 
 ing-ton coutity, New York, Feb. 14, 
 1852, and came to Illinois with his 
 parents in 1855. Enlisted in the 4th 
 111. Cav. under Col. Dickey, Sept. 16, 
 '61; was discharged for disability in 
 '62, re-enlisted in the Chicag-o Mercan- 
 tile Battery, and was finally mustered 
 out June 16, '65; was for 14 months a 
 prisoner of war in Texas. After the 
 war he eng-ag^ed in business in Lock- 
 port. Was postmaster during- the lat- 
 
 JOHN W. ARNOLD. 
 
 ter part of Cleveland's term. Is mar- 
 ried. His popularity is evidenced from 
 the votes he received for senator in '90, 
 carrj^ng Will county (the district) by 
 172, while his predecessor, a republi- 
 can, was elected by a majority of 1,250, 
 and in '92 Harrison carried it by 400. 
 In the senate he is a hard worker and 
 closely watches all measures. 
 
 Committees: Military (chairman), water- 
 ways and drainage (chairman), warehouses, 
 revenue, municipalities, corporations, penal 
 and reformatoiy, senatorial apportionment, 
 world's fair, canals and rivers, agriculture, 
 mines and mining, labor and manufactures. 
 
 Aspinwall, Homer F., (rep.). Free- 
 port; farmer. Born in Stephenson 
 county, Nov. 15, 1846, and was edu- 
 cated in the common schools, graduat- 
 ing from the Freeport high school. 
 Then he clerked for two years in a 
 wholesale notion store. Afterwards 
 he began farming-, and now owns 265 
 
 acres of land and is married. lias 
 been on the board of supervisors for 
 four years and held minor offices. Ho 
 is a g-ood specimen of a successful 
 Illinois agriculturist, and takes g-reat 
 
 HOMER F. ASPINWALL. 
 
 interest in matters that affect his con- 
 stituents. Was elected in '92, receiv- 
 ing- 8,748 votes to 7,905 for William 
 Stewart, dem. 
 
 Committees: Elections, insurance, judicial 
 department, agriculture, wareliouses, reve- 
 nue, penal and reformatory, state librarv, 
 world's fair, senatorial appi">rtionment. 
 
 Bacon, George E., (rep.), Paris; law- 
 yer. Born on a farm near Madison. 
 Ind., Feb. 4, 1851, and in '54 his par- 
 ents moved to Coles Co., 111., and in '76 
 he moved to Paris. His education was 
 
 GEORGE E. BACON. 
 
 finished at Northwestern University', 
 Indianapolis, and the Union Lta.w 
 School, Chicago; was admitted in '79 
 at Ottawa. In a bar that possesses 
 
20 
 
 I.EGISI<ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 many great minds he has been as suc- 
 cessful as any. Is married and has 
 three children. Was elected to the 
 senate in '86, and again in '90; was 
 chairman of the republican caucus in 
 '89. In '91 he refused to vote for any 
 but a republican for U. S. senator — a 
 position endorsed by the best element 
 
 
 
 
 
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 CHAKLKS N. BARNES. 
 
 of his party. He is a man of fine 
 physique, with a clear voice, and is 
 one of the most effective and pleasing 
 orators in the senate. His eulogy of 
 Gen. IvOgan in '87 is referred to by 
 those who heard it as an eloquent trib- 
 ute, yet it was little better than his 
 remarks on the death of Mr. Blaine 
 and his old friend and colleague, Sen- 
 ator Matthews, during- the present ses- 
 sion. Few lawyers in Illinois, and 
 probably none in the senate are the 
 equals of Senator Bacon as a platform 
 orator, a jury pleader or a lecturer. 
 His services are in demand from all 
 quarters of the state. 
 
 Committees; Judiciary, agriculture, edu- 
 cation, elections, railroads, insurance, con- 
 gressional apportionment, license and mis- 
 cellany, labor and manufactures. 
 
 Barnes, Charles N., (dem.), Ivacon; 
 lawyer. Born in Marshall county, 
 March 25, 1860, and was educated in 
 the Washburn high school, at Iowa 
 City College and the Chicag-o Ivaw 
 School; admitted to practice in '84. 
 He has had a very successful run of 
 cases ever since; was manager for the 
 Springer Ivand Irrigating company in 
 New Mexico for a time. He is married 
 and owns 380 acres of land. He has 
 represented his township three times 
 on the county board, was states attor- 
 ney of Marshall county for two years, 
 and held various minor offices. He 
 
 was elected to the senate in '92 by a 
 vote of 8,039 to 6,325 for Iv. C. McMur- 
 trie, rep. His colleagues in the senate 
 have honored him with committee 
 places far above those usually g^iven a 
 new member. 
 
 Committees: Canals and rivers (chairman), 
 to visit penal and reformatory institutions 
 (chairman), judiciary, judicial department, 
 railroads, building and loan associations, 
 world's fair, penal and reformatory, water- 
 ways and drainage, expenses of the general 
 assembly, senatorial apportionment. 
 
 Bartling, Henry C, (dem.), Chicago; 
 commission merchant and wholesale 
 book dealer. Born in Springfield, 111., 
 July 4, 1867, and moved with his par- 
 ents to Chicago in '70. He was edu- 
 cated in the IvUtheran parochial 
 schools. He was ledg-erman at Mar- 
 shall Field's for some time; has been 
 in the commission business (grain and 
 produce) for four years, and at the 
 same time handles church and school 
 books — books of the Ivutheran chiirch 
 and the public schools. He is not mar- 
 ried. He was elected supervisor for 
 the North Town in '91, being second 
 on the ticket, although the district is 
 safely republican. He was a delegate 
 to the last state convention and mem- 
 ber of the committee on resolutions. 
 He is very popular in his own district; 
 elected in '92 by a vote of 20,801 to 
 17,181 for J. H. Muhlke, rep. The dis- 
 trict was overwhelmingly republican 
 
 in '88. Senator Bartling is one of the 
 youngest members of the legislature, 
 and is honored with good committees. 
 Committees: License and miscellany 
 (chairman), municipalities, public biiild- 
 ings, education, fees and salaries, printing, 
 elections, building and loan associations, 
 world's fair, waterways and drainage, con- 
 gressional apportionment, canals and rivers. 
 
IvEGISI.ATIVK SOUVENIK. 
 
 21 
 
 Bass, George, (rep.), Chicag-o; law- 
 yer. Born ill Williainstown, Vt., Dec. 
 10, 1847, and moved to Chicago in '60. 
 He was educated in the public schools 
 and graduated at Harvard in '71. 
 Holds a high place as a member of the 
 Chicago bar, served as South Town 
 collector in '90; was a republican pres- 
 
 GEOKGK BAIS.S. 
 
 idential elector in '80, and was elected 
 to the senate in the fall of '90 by a 
 vote of 4,464 to 4,225 for Lawrence P. 
 Boyle, dem. Is not married. He takes 
 little interest in the lower strata of 
 politics, and yet is reg'arded by all ele 
 ments as a safe leader in a campaign 
 
 Connnittees: Judiciary, warehouses, seiia 
 torial apportionment, tinance and claUiis 
 munieipalities, insurance, building and loan 
 associations, corporations, world's fair, con 
 gressional apportionment, lici'nse and mis 
 cellany. 
 
 Berry, Orville F., (rep.), Carthage; 
 lawyer. Born in McDonoug-h county, 
 Feb. 16, 1852, and was early left an 
 orphan. He received a common school 
 education, and at 16 beg"an life's bat- 
 tle for himself, and after working- as a 
 farm hand and running- a farm, he 
 removed to Carthage, where he read 
 law; admitted to the bar in '77. In '79 
 formed a partnership with his brother 
 M. P., and they have had a very suc- 
 cessful practice ever since. In '83 he 
 was elected mayor of Carthag-e and 
 was twice re-elected without opposi- 
 tion. He was secretary of the Han- 
 cock county agricultural board for 
 four years, and acted as superinten- 
 dent one year. He has been grand 
 master workman of the A. O. U. W. of 
 Illinois, and has been supreme repre- 
 sentative from Illinois at several ses- 
 sions of the supreme lodge. From the 
 
 supreme lodge he has been delegate to 
 fraternal cong-resses. He is also a 
 Modern Woodman and a Royal Arch 
 Mason. Is married. Was elected to 
 the senate in '88, and ag-ain in '92, 
 running ahead of his ticket both times; 
 in '92 he received 7,260 votes to 7,016 
 for Edward L. Wolf, dem. In the leg- 
 islature of '91 he strong-ly advocated 
 compulsory edttcation and the reten- 
 tion of the compulsory teaching- of 
 Eng-lish in all the schools of the state, 
 and a vindictive fig-ht was made on 
 him at the polls last year in conse- 
 quence. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
 ment, railroads, corporations, charitable in- 
 stitutions, education, elections, senatorial 
 apportionment, world's fair, canals and 
 rivers. 
 
 Bogardus, Charles, (rep.) Paxton; 
 farmer and stock raiser. Born in 
 Cayuga Co., N. Y., March 28, 1841, and 
 left an orphan at 6 years old. He had 
 to carve out his own future, succeed- 
 ing- as the record shows. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools and be- 
 g-an working- in a store at 12 years of 
 ag-e. In '62 he enlisted in the I51st N. 
 Y. Inf.; was elected first lieutenant, 
 and came out of the service as a lieu- 
 tenant-colonel, brevetted colonel "for 
 gallant and meritorious services before 
 Petersburg." He came to Illinois in 
 '72 and has since resided in Ford 
 county, dealing in lands and operat- 
 
 OKVILLK F. BERKY. 
 
 ing many splendid farms and raising- 
 fine stock. Is married. He was a 
 member of Gov. Oglesby's and subse- 
 quently Gov. Fifer's military staff, 
 with the rank of colonel. He declined 
 to give the number of acres of land he 
 owns, but his Illinois holdings are not 
 far from 5,000 acres, as learned from 
 
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 I^EGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 other sources. Was elected to the 
 house in '84 and '86, and to the senate 
 in '88 and '92. He is a man of g-reat 
 force of character, indomitable energ-y 
 and quick business instinct, and no 
 
 CHAKLKS BOGARDUS 
 
 man in the general assembly is mora 
 popular or influential. He was chair- 
 man of the republican caucus in '87, 
 and chairman of the committee to 
 make up the republican membership of 
 the senate committees in '89 and '93. 
 
 Committees: Revenue, penal and reforma- 
 tory, military, roads and bridges, senatorial 
 apportionment, building and loan associa- 
 tions, world's fair, congressional apportion- 
 ment, agriculture. 
 
 Brands, Albert L., (dem.), Prai- 
 rie du Rocher; physician. Born on 
 
 ALBEHT L. BRANDS . 
 
 a farm in St. Genevieve Co., Mo., 
 April 26, 1856. He received a common 
 school education, followed by a term 
 at DeSoto academy, Missouri. His 
 
 medical education was obtained at the 
 Missouri Medical colleg-e in St. lyouis, 
 g-raduating in '80, and moved the same 
 year to Ivy I^anding, Monroe, Co., 
 111., and thence to his present home in 
 Sept. '81. Is married. He has never 
 held office before, and was elected in 
 '92 to the state senate over James Bos- 
 ton, rep., by a majority of 850. He is 
 consistent in his opposition to any leg-- 
 islation that will be likely to foster 
 trusts or monopolies, and is a farmer 
 champion. 
 
 Committees: Expenses of the general as- 
 sembly (chairman), library, building and 
 loan associations, canals and rivers, mines 
 and mining, county and township organiza- 
 tion, senatorial apportionment, roads and 
 bridges, charitable institutions, appropria- 
 tions, education, military, penal and re- 
 formatory. 
 
 Caldwell, Ben F., (dem.), Chatham; 
 farmer and banker. Born near Car- 
 
 BEN. F. CALDWELL. 
 
 ronton. 111., Aug. 2, 1848, moving with 
 his father to Sang^amon county in 'S3. 
 Most of his youth was spent on a farm; 
 was educated in the Chatham schools. 
 After his marriage he made a tour of 
 Europe. He is a Past Master in Ma- 
 sonry, and has taken the 32d degree; is 
 an Elk and a Past Noble Grand in the 
 Odd Fellows. He was a member of 
 the house in '83 and '85, and accom- 
 plished more for his constituents than 
 any representative the capitol district 
 ever had in the legislature. He has 
 served two terms as member and one 
 as chairman of the county board of 
 supervisors. He is one of the wealth- 
 iest members of the leg-islature and is 
 in politics for recreation and to do 
 g'ood. He is a very industrious and 
 influential member. His farming- in- 
 terests are very large. Is president of 
 
LKOISr.ATlVK SOrVKNIK. 
 
 23 
 
 the Farmers' National bank of this 
 city, of the Bank of Virden, and the 
 Bank of Chathtini. During the session 
 of '91 he introduced and successfully 
 advocated the bill rediicinj,'- the rate of 
 interest from 8 to 7 per cent., notwith- 
 standin<^ he is a banker and capitalist. 
 His popularity is attested by the fact 
 
 JAMES K. CAMPBELL. 
 
 that he ran away ahead of his ticket 
 in '90, having- been elected senator 
 over P. H. Donnelly, rep. by 7,106 to 
 5,340 — the district being- democratic by 
 about 900. 
 
 ( "omniitti'i's: IJanks and banking (chair- 
 man), railroads, finance and claims, reve- 
 nue, insurance, corporations, public build- 
 ings, printing, roads and bridges, senatorial 
 apportionment, state library, agriculture, 
 mines and mining. 
 
 Campbell, James R., (dem.), Mc- 
 Leansboro; editor-lawj'er. Born in 
 Crook township, Hamilton Co., May 4, 
 1853. His ancestors emig-rated from 
 County Armag-h, Ireland, and Crook 
 township was named after his great- 
 g-randfather. He was reared on a 
 farm, educated at Notre Dame, and 
 taught school after completing his ed- 
 ucation. In the meantime he read law 
 and was admitted to the bar in '77. 
 In '78 he purchased The McLeansboro 
 Times, the only democratic paper in 
 the countj', and has since edited it, be- 
 sides being- an extensive breeder of 
 Percheron horses and a large land 
 owner. He was elected to the house in 
 '84 and '86, and advanced to the senate 
 by a constituency that appreciated his 
 work, in '88, and again in '92. In '85 
 he rendered valuable assistance to 
 Speaker Haines in selecting- the house 
 committees. In the senate in '91 he 
 introduced and secured the passage of 
 a bill reducing- one-third the maximum 
 
 price on public printing, and making- 
 it impossible for a combination to con- 
 trol the bidding- on state contracts. 
 He has been energ-etic this year in an 
 endeavor to carry out the pledges of 
 the democratic platform in reg-ard to 
 covering- the interest on state monies 
 into the treasur3'. 
 
 <'ominittees: Printing (cliairman) , fed- 
 eral relations (chairman), judiciary, rail- 
 roads, revenue, insurance, charitable insti- 
 tutions, education, senatorial apportion- 
 ment, agriculture, license and miscellany, 
 county and township organization. 
 
 Chapman, Pleasant T., (rep.), Vi- 
 enna: lawyer and banker, was born in 
 Johnson county on a farm Oct. 8, 1854, 
 where he lived until he was 19 years 
 old. He g-raduated from McKendree 
 college in '76, and was admitted to the 
 bar at Mt. Vernon in '78. In '77 he 
 was elected stiperintendent of Johnson 
 county's schools, and reappointed for 
 a short term in '81; next year was 
 chosen county judg-e, and ag-ain in '86, 
 his term expiritig'- Dec. 1, '90. In Nov. 
 '90, he was elected to the senate, re- 
 ceiving- 6,622 votes to 6,048 for C. M. 
 Farris, dem. He is married and is 
 larg-ely interested in real estate and 
 farms, besides being- president of the 
 First National bank of Vienna. He 
 latight school during- vacations while 
 attending- college and for two years- 
 afterwards, and has been eng-ag-ed in. 
 
 PLEAS T. CHAPMAN. 
 
 banking-, the law, mercantile business 
 and farming- for the past twelve j^ears 
 in Johnson county, meantime mixing- 
 in politics to some extent as the above 
 proves. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, railroads, reve- 
 nue, insurance, banks and banking, public 
 buildings, roads and bridges, federal rela- 
 tions, senatorial apportionment. 
 
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 I.EGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Coon, Reuben W., (rep.), Waukeg-an; 
 editor and publisher. Born May 31, 
 1842 at Frankfort, Clinton Co., Ind. 
 In '48 his father, who was a ininister, 
 moved to Peoria Co., 111., where he re- 
 mained until '55, when he moved to 
 Alton, and here Senator Coon received 
 his education at ShurtlefF Colleg-e. He 
 lived in Pana from '61 to '70, and in 
 '69 was assistant secretary of the state 
 senate. While in Pana he practiced 
 law, and had one-half interest in The 
 Gazette. In '70 he moved to Belvidere 
 and bought The Belvidere Northwest- 
 ern, which he owned and made very 
 influential until '85 when he sold it and 
 bought The Waukegan Gazette, one of 
 the best country papers in the state, 
 and one of the most powerful republi- 
 can organs in Northern Illinois. He 
 was' states attorney of Boone county 
 from '80 to '84, and was elected to the 
 
 KKUiSEN-W. COON. 
 
 senate in '92 by a vote of 8,143 to 4,764 
 for Charles N. Smith, dem. He has 
 always been a republican and active in 
 all campaigns. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, appropriations, 
 municipalities, banks and banking, printing, 
 senatorial apportionment, building and loan 
 associations, worlds fair, revenue, enrolled 
 and engrossed bills, joint committee on en- 
 rolled and engrossed bills. 
 
 Coppinger, John W., (dem.), Alton; 
 stone contractor. Born in Alton Jan. 
 12, 1852, and was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Alton, St. Mary's College, 
 Perry ville. Mo., and at Notre Dame. 
 He read law and was admitted to the 
 bar in '72. He has been mayor of 
 Alton. Is married. He is popular 
 with his colleagues and has a very 
 extensive and valuable acquaintance 
 throughout the state. He was elected 
 to the house in '86, and to the senate 
 
 in '90. In the session of '91 he intro- 
 duced a bill and was largely instru- 
 mental in securing its enactment re- 
 pealing "the Merritt Conspiracy Act." 
 He was chosen president pro tem of the 
 
 JOHN W. COPPINGER. 
 
 senate this year by the unanimous 
 voice of the democratic caucus, and 
 while Lieut. Gov. Gill was acting 
 governor, filled the chair in the senate 
 with dignity and satisfaction. 
 
 Committees: Mines and mining (cliair- 
 maii), rules, judicial department, railroads, 
 municipalities, military, elections, congres- 
 sional apportionment, canals and rivers, 
 labor and manufactures. 
 
 Craig, Isaac B., (dem.), Mattoon; 
 lawyer. Born in Coles county April 
 28, 1857. He was educated in the pub- 
 
 lic schools and at Ann Arbor. He has 
 been a very successful practitioner at 
 Mattoon for twelve years. He has 
 j.lways taken great interest in politics, 
 
ivEGi,si<ATiv:c sonvKNiK. 
 
 25 
 
 and has filled various local offices. He 
 was elected to the house in '88, and 
 ag"ain in '90, and jjronioted to the sen- 
 ate in '92, running- ahead of his ticket, 
 the district beinj;- republican on the 
 head of the ticket. Is married. Was 
 chairman of the caucus, and appointed 
 the steering committee of democrats 
 that manag-ed the Palmer contest for 
 United States senator in '91. He is a 
 •member of the same committee in the 
 senate this year, and is one of the 
 democratic leaders on the floor. Mr. 
 Craig is an earnest and effective orator, 
 and one of the best members of the 
 senate. 
 
 Committees: Corporations (chairman), ju- 
 diciary, judicial department, revenue, ap- 
 propriations, insurance, senatorial appor- 
 tionment, building and loan associations, 
 state library-arts and sciences, county and 
 township orjjanization. 
 
 Crawford, William F., (rep.), Taylor 
 Ridge, Rock Island Co.; farmer. Born 
 in Clark Co., Ind., July 7, 1835, and 
 moved to Rock Island county with his 
 parents in '42. His father died when 
 he was 8 years old, and he went out to 
 work on a farm, receiving only $6 a 
 month. He continued this until he 
 was 18, when he was able to make a 
 full hand. During this time he at- 
 tended the district schools as best he 
 could. He is married and is a success- 
 ful farmer, owning 320 acres of splen- 
 did land which he accumulated b}' his 
 
 WILLlAiM ¥. C'KA\VFUUL>. 
 
 own industry. He has held various 
 local offices of minor importance, and 
 vi^as elected to the house in '86 and '88, 
 and promoted to the senate in '90, re- 
 ceiving 7,720 votes to 6,309 for R. H. 
 Hinman, dem. He enlisted in the 
 army in Aug. '61 in the 9th 111. Cav., 
 and served over three years. He par- 
 
 ticipated in the battle of Tupelo and 
 
 saw a great deal of hard service. He 
 
 is a strong representative of the far- 
 mers' interests in the legislature. 
 
 Committees: Expenses of the general as- 
 semby, corporations, charitable institutions, 
 public buildings, roads and bridges, federal 
 relations, canals and rivers, agriculture, 
 mines and mining, county and township 
 organization. 
 
 HENRY M. DUNLAP. 
 
 Dunlap, Henry fl., (rep.), Savoy; 
 farmer and fruit grower, was born in 
 Cook county, Nov. 14, 1853, and four 
 years later his parents moved to Savoy, 
 where he has lived ever since. He 
 was educated in the University of Illi- 
 nois at Urbana, graduating in the 
 class of '75 in the scientific course. Is 
 married and owns 320 acres of land, 
 200 of which are in bearing apple 
 orchards. Represented for six years 
 Champaign township on the county 
 board, has been president of the State 
 Horticultural society, and is a K. P. in 
 good standing. He takes great inter- 
 est in all matters pertaining to agri- 
 culture and horticultvxre. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations, revenue, ag- 
 riculture, roads and bridges, county and 
 township organization, banks and banking, 
 waterways and drainage, penal and reform- 
 atory, fees and salaries, building and loan 
 associations. 
 
 Evans, Henry H., (rep.), Aurora; 
 real estate capitalist. The oldest mem- 
 bsr of the legislature in consecutive 
 service. Born in Toronto, Canada. 
 March 9, 1836, and moved to Aurora in 
 '41. Mr. Evans' father was for ten 
 years foreman of the car building 
 shops of the Burlington system Is 
 married. Was elected to the house in 
 '76 and to the senate in '80, '84, '88, '92, 
 the last time by a vote of 10,278 to 7,929 
 for Chester D. Bartlett, dem. Was the 
 
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 I^EGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 republican nominee for president pro- 
 tena, is by virtue of it the leader of his 
 party, and as such was conceded a 
 chairmanship with clerk and room 
 where his party colleagues can retire 
 for consultation. Is financially inter- 
 ested in real estate and corporate prop- 
 erty to a larg-e extent. He is one of 
 the most influential members, and is 
 reg-arded as a man of ability. Opposed 
 the election of Streeter to the U. S. 
 senate in '91 by the republicans and 
 refused to vote for him, although will- 
 ing- to abide by caucus action if a 
 straig-ht-out republican was selected. 
 His constituents endorsed his position 
 by retitrning- him to the senate in '92 
 by an increased majority. 
 
 Committees: State library-arts and scien 
 ces (chairman), railroads, revenue, insur 
 ance, corporations, banks and banking- 
 printing, military, building- and loan associ 
 atlons, agriculture, license and miscellany 
 
 HKNKY H. EVANS. 
 
 Farmer, William M., (dem.), Van- 
 dalia; lawyer. Born in Fayette county, 
 June 5, 1853; lived on a farm and at- 
 tended district school until he was 18 
 years old, when he entered McKendree 
 college. Then he taught school and 
 began reading law in the office of 
 Henry & Fouke in Vandalia. In '75 
 he entered the Union College of I^aw 
 in Chicago in the junior class and 
 graduated next year. He was imme- 
 diately admitted to the bar and began 
 active work as a lawyer in Vandalia, 
 where he has met with almost pheno- 
 menal success. For ten years he has 
 been senior member of the firin Farmer 
 & Brown. In '80 was elected states 
 attorney, and in '88 to the house, his 
 constituents promoting him to the sen- 
 ate in '90, although his district was the 
 
 hotbed of the F. M. B. A. movement in 
 that year, and a' tremendous effort was 
 made to defeat him. He is deservedly 
 popular and is one of the leaders in the 
 senate. His tastes run in the way of 
 
 WILLIAM M. FAKMER. 
 
 judicial honors rather than political 
 office. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary (chairman), judi- 
 cial department, expenses of general assem- 
 bly, banks and banking, building and loan 
 associations, state library, agriculture, con- 
 gressional apportionment, world's fair. ..^ I 
 
 Ferguson, Virgil S., (rep.), Sterling; 
 lawyer. Born in Lawrence Co., Ind., 
 Sept. 18, 1844. Five years later his 
 father, who was a descendent of one 
 of five brothers who emigrated from 
 Scotland before the revolutionary war. 
 
 VIKGIL S. FERGUSON. 
 
 located in Whiteside county, and en- 
 gaged in farming on a large scale. 
 Senator Ferguson attended the public 
 schools and graduated from the law 
 
I.K('.rSI,ATIVK SOl'VKXIK. 
 
 27 
 
 department of the University of Chi- 
 cago in '68; was admitted to the bar 
 the same year, and has since been 
 in successful practice in Sterling-. Is 
 married. He is a strong- advocate 
 of compulsory education, and just 
 as strong-ly in favor of the teaching- of 
 English in all the schools. He served 
 on the board of supervisors for ten 
 years or more; is now and has been 
 for fifteen years on the board of edu- 
 cation; was elected to the senate in '90 
 by a vote of 5,711 to 4,449 for J. M. 
 Eaton, dem. He never missed a roll 
 call for II. S. senator in '91, although 
 so ill part of the time that his life was 
 despaired of by his friends and physi- 
 cians. He is a g-ood representative, 
 faithful and prompt in his attendance. 
 
 Committees: Judichiry, judicial depart- 
 ment, appropriations, penal and reforma- 
 tory, education, world's fair, congressional 
 apportionment, canals and rivers, mines 
 and minintf. 
 
 Ford, Thomas E., (dem.), Carlyle; 
 lawyer. Born on a farm in Clinton 
 county, May 24, 1848. His father was 
 a member of the assembly of '63 — a 
 democrat, of course. From a news- 
 paper in his district it is learned that 
 Senator Ford's history is that of one 
 of the most remarkable men in Illinois, 
 illustrating- the wonderfvil qualities of 
 pioneer manhood. Born and reared on 
 a farm, with most meag-er opportuni- 
 ties for learning, he somehow con- 
 
 THOMAS E. FORU. 
 
 trived to acquire a fair editcation. As 
 a youth he was a leader in local debat- 
 ing societies, which led to an extensive 
 practice before justices of the peace of 
 the vicinity, and afterwards to a large 
 law practice; admitted to the bar in 
 '79. He has begn active in politics 
 
 since '74, aud has held various local 
 offices. Is married. Was elected to 
 the senate in '92 over J. H. Fricke, 
 rep., by a vote of 5,711 to 4,877. 
 
 Committees: Education (chairman) , judi- 
 ciary, judicial department, railroads, finance 
 and claims, revenue, puljlic buildings, fees- 
 and salaries, pi inting, military , building and 
 loan associations, world's "fair, congres- 
 sional apportionment, agriculture. 
 
 KEED GREEN. 
 
 Green, Reed, (dem.), Cairo; lawyer. 
 Born in Mt. Vernon, 111., Sept." 22, 
 1865, and educated in the Southern 
 Illinois Normal University'. On com- 
 pleting his education he taug-ht school 
 for two years in Cairo. He attended 
 the Wesley an I^aw School at Bloom- 
 ington, g-raduating in '84, was admit- 
 ted to the bar the same year, and has. 
 ])racticed since he was 21 years old, 
 meeting- with decided success. He is 
 at present a member of the law firm of 
 Green & Gilbert, of Cairo, one of the 
 oldest and most famous in all "Eg-ypt."^ 
 He was elected to the house in '88, re- 
 turned in '90, and advanced to the sen- 
 ate with no effort on his own part to 
 secure the nomination in '92, receiving- 
 7,205 votes to 6,465 for J. E. N. Ed- 
 wards, rep. He was chairman of the 
 house committee on elections in '91, 
 and practically drafted the present 
 Australian electioti law. He is one of 
 the most eloquent and forcible speak- 
 ers in the leg-islature, and a leader on 
 the floor. Is not married. Senator 
 Green made an exceptionally brilliant 
 record while in the house in '89-'91. 
 
 Committees: Roads, highways and bridges- 
 (chairman) ; visit educational institvitions 
 (chairman), judiciary, railroads, municipali- 
 ties, insurance, education, elections, build- 
 ing and loan associations, congressional ap- 
 portionment, labor, license, county and 
 township organization- 
 
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 IvEGISLATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Hamer, Thomas, (rep.), Vermont; re- 
 tired merchant. The oldest member 
 of the general assembly. Was born in 
 Union Co., Penn., June 1, 1818, and in 
 '46 he moved to Illinois and established 
 himself in business in Vermont. Re- 
 ceived a common school education. Is 
 married. In August, '62, he assisted 
 in recruiting- the 84th Illinois regiment, 
 and was made lieutenant-colonel. He 
 ^wa.s wounded in the left breast and 
 shoulder at Stone River, but the 
 w^otxnds healing over, he continued in 
 active service tintil they broke out and 
 incapacitated him for further service. 
 He returned home and resumed busi- 
 ness until '78, when he retired. He 
 w^as offered the place of post com- 
 mander at Franklin, Tenn., but he de- 
 clined, preferring home to anything 
 but service in the field. He was elect- 
 ■ed to the house in '86 and to the senate 
 
 THOMAS HAMER. 
 
 in '88 and '92, the last time receiving 
 10,704 votes to 8,298 for Levi K. Byers, 
 ■dem. He is highly respected by his 
 -colleagues-. 
 
 Committees: Charitable institutions, pub- 
 lic buildings and grounds, military, visit 
 charitable institutions, waterways and 
 drainage, congressional apportionment, 
 •canals and rivers, mines and mining, labor 
 and manufactures. 
 
 Higbee, Harry, (dem.), Pittsfield; 
 lawyer. Born in Pittsfield Dec. 13, 
 1854, the son of the late Judge Chaun- 
 •cey Lr. Higbee. Finished his educa- 
 tion at Yale, entering in '71 and grad- 
 uating in '75, and completed his law 
 studies at the Columbia I^aw School, 
 New York, and the Union College of 
 Ivaw, Chicago, from which he gradu- 
 ated in '78. He then traveled in Fu- 
 Tope for nine months accompanied by 
 Congress-man Scott Wike, and on re- 
 
 turning formed a law partnership with 
 Mr. Wike, which still exists. Was 
 married in '79, and lost his wife in '81. 
 Has held various local offices, and was 
 elected to the senate in '88 and again 
 
 HAEliT HIGBEE. 
 
 in '92, running ahead of his ticket 
 each time. He is largely interested in 
 farm lands. Is chairman of the demo- 
 cratic senate caucus, and the leader of 
 his party on the floor. Is strong in 
 debate, an indefatigable worker, a 
 good parliamentarian and very popu- 
 lar with political friend and foe. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations (chairnaan), 
 judiciary, banks and banking, fees and sal- 
 aries, state library, world's fair, congres- 
 sional apportionment, canals and rivers, 
 agriculture. 
 
 VINTON E. HOWELL. 
 
 Howell, Vinton E., (rep.), Blooming- 
 ton; farmer, was born in Licking Co., 
 O., Nov. 30, 1840. and moved to Mc- 
 Lean county in '52. He was educated 
 
I.HOISI.ATIVE SOUVKNIK. 
 
 29 
 
 in the coniinon schools, with one term 
 in the Normal college. When the war 
 broke out he enlisted in Co. C, 33d 111. 
 Inf., and served over three years. 
 After the war he eng-ag-ed in farming 
 and stock raising, in which he has 
 been very successful. He was elected 
 sheriff of McLean county in '86 for 
 four years without opposition. He has 
 been a member of the county board for 
 five years, is married and owns consid- 
 erable land. He was elected to the 
 senate in '92 over his old neighbor, 
 Hon. Simeon H. West, dem., bv a vote 
 of 7,391 to 6,478. Senator Howell is a 
 hard worker in the senate, and informs 
 himself of the merits of every bill that 
 conies up. 
 
 Conuiiittecs: Revenue, municipalities, fees 
 and suUirles, state institutions, roads and 
 bridges, building and loan associations, 
 visit penal and refortuatory institutions. 
 
 Humphrey, John, (rep.), Orland; 
 lawver. Born in the countv of Nor- 
 folk, England, June 20, 1838," and was 
 broug-ht to this countrj' b^^ his parents 
 a lad of ten years. The family settled 
 in Cook county, where he received a 
 common school education. He read 
 law in the office of Hon. James P. 
 Root, and was admitted to the bar in 
 '72. He has lived in Orland for many 
 years, and practices his profession 
 with an office in Chicago. Is married 
 and owns 280 acres of land in Cook 
 county. He has been treasurer of Or- 
 land for twentj' years and supervisor 
 
 JOHN HOMrHKEr. 
 
 for twenty-four years. He was once a 
 bailiff under Sheriff' Bradley. He was 
 elected to the house in '70, also in '80, 
 and again in '84, and was advanced to 
 the senate in '86, and returned in '90 in 
 the face of a determined opposition, b}' 
 a vote of 8,772 to 7,939 for Louis Wag- 
 
 ner, dem. Senator Humphrey's long 
 service has not been without recogni- 
 tion, for he is on the most desirable 
 committees. He is one of the most in- 
 fluential members. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
 ment, railroads, warchonscs, municipal- 
 ities, senatorial api)i)rtii)nnicnt, w atciways 
 and drainage, congressional ai)portionment, 
 license and miscellany. 
 
 DANIEL D. HUNT. 
 
 Hunt, Daniel D., (rep.), DeKalbr 
 farmer. Born Sept. 19, 1835, in Wy- 
 oming Co., N. Y., and came to DeKalb 
 county in '57. For the last twenty 
 years he has been a successful farmer 
 and has held various local offices, such 
 as supervisor, school trustee, etc. He 
 was educated in the public schools. Is 
 married. Was elected to the house in 
 '86 and '88, and to the senate in '90. 
 In the last senate he was chairman of 
 the committees on agriculture, horti- 
 culture and farm drainage and live 
 stock and dairying. He has at all 
 times served his state and district 
 creditably, and has introduced and se- 
 cured the passage of numerous import- 
 ant measures. Was the champion of 
 the dairy interest in both house and 
 senate. 
 
 Committees: .Judicial department, insur- 
 ance, corporations, fees and salaries, sena- 
 torial apportionment, building and loan 
 associations, world's fair, mines and mining, 
 labor and manufactures, county and town- 
 ship organization. 
 
 Hunter, David, (rep.), Rockford; far- 
 mer. Was born in Wyoming Co., N. 
 Y., Jan. 15, 1836, and came to Illinois 
 with his parents in '44. His father 
 settled on a farm six miles from Rock- 
 ford, which Mr. Hunter still occupies. 
 He was for three years a private in Co. 
 C. 15th 111. Inf., enlisting May 24, '61. 
 He was educated in the common. 
 
30 
 
 IvEGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 schools of pioneer Illinois; is married, 
 and owns 160 acres of Winnebag'O 
 ■county land. He has held various 
 minor offices, and has been continu- 
 ously a member of the Illinois leg"isla- 
 ture since '84, when he was elected to 
 the house, and was returned in '86, '88, 
 '90, and in '92 he was advanced to the 
 senate. Senator Evans and Speaker 
 Crafts are the only two members who 
 have served longer continuously, while 
 Senators Campbell, Bog-ardus and Ma- 
 honey began in the house the same 
 session as himself. He is one of the 
 best members of the legislature, and 
 is always present during sessions. 
 
 Committees: Revenue, penal and reform- 
 atory, municipalities, military, elections, 
 agriculture, county and township organiza- 
 tion, flnance and claims. 
 
 
 
 
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 DAVID HDNTER. 
 
 Johnson, C. Porter, (dem.), Chicago; 
 lawyer. Born in Vermilion Co., 111., 
 Aug\ 15, 1866. His path was not 
 strewn with roses in early life, and 
 every step on the ladder has been 
 earned b}' hard work and close appli- 
 cation. His ability as a lawyer and 
 his usefulness as a legislator were not 
 advertised in advance of his time. 
 This is his first public office, and he is 
 already recognized as one of the most 
 fluent public speakers and the equal in 
 debate bf any senator. He was educa- 
 ted at Ivce's Academy in Coles county, 
 and was admitted to the bar in '87, 
 opening an office in Chicago the same 
 year, and has a large and profitable 
 practice. He was town attorney for 
 the Town of I^ake in '90, and in '92 
 was tendered the nomination for con- 
 gress, but declined, and was elected 
 senator from the Second district, 
 "which gave an overwhelming republi- 
 
 can majority for Harrison in '88, re- 
 ceiving 28,326 votes to 27,367 for Perry 
 A. Hull, rep. 
 
 Committees: Enrolled and engrossed bills 
 (chairman), elections (chairman), joint com- 
 
 V. PORTEK JOHNSON. 
 
 mittee on enrolled and engrossed bills 
 (chairman), judiciary, railroads, revenue, 
 municipalities, banks and banking, penal 
 iind reformatory, visit charitable institu- 
 tions, world's fair, congressional apportion- 
 ment, agriculture. 
 
 Knopf, Philip, (rep.), Chicago; real 
 estate and loans. Born at Ivong 
 Grove, Lake Co., 111., Nov. 18, 1847, 
 and moved to Chicago in '66. He was 
 educated in the public schools and at 
 Bryant & Stratton's Business College, 
 where he spent one year. Is married. 
 
 PHILIP KNOPF. 
 
 In the spring of '65 he enlisted in Co. 
 I, 147th 111. Inf., when not quite 16 
 years old. He was elected to the sen- 
 ate in '86 and re-elected in '90 by a 
 
I,EGISLATIVI<; SOl'VKNIK. 
 
 31 
 
 vote of 7,209 to 5,782 for Thomas J. 
 Diven, deni. He was chief deputy cor- 
 oner of Cook county for eig-ht years 
 under Henry L. Hertz. Has taken 
 prominent part in all leg-islation, par- 
 
 AKTHDK A. LEEPER. 
 
 ticularly as affecting- Cook county; he 
 is always in attendance. 
 P5C<)iiiinlttees: Judicial department, educa- 
 tion, ralh-oads, municipalities, fees and sal- 
 aries, military, federal relations, waterways 
 and drainage, congressional apportionment, 
 license and miscellany. 
 
 Leeper, Arthur A., (dem.), Virg-inia; 
 lawj'er. Born on a farm near Chand- 
 lerville, Cass county, Aug. 21, 1855. 
 He was educated in the common schools 
 and at Eureka Colleg-e, and graduated 
 from the law department of the State 
 
 GEORGB R. I/ETODKNKAU. 
 
 University at Iowa City in '75. Is 
 married. Senator Leeper was states 
 attorney of Cass county from '76 to 
 '80, and was elected state senator in 
 
 "88 for four years, and was re-elected 
 in '92 by a vote of 7,998 to 5,979 for W. 
 M. Grimwood, rep. The Senator is a 
 man of firmness and recog^nized ability' 
 as a lawyer and parliamentary tacti- 
 cian. He stands high with his col- 
 leag"ues in the senate, and was chosen 
 chairman of the committee on rail- 
 roads this session but declined. 
 
 CouHiiittees: Railroads, judiciary, judicial 
 department, corporations, insurance, rules, 
 roads and bridges, canals and rivera, sena- 
 torial apportionment. 
 
 Letourneau, George R., (rep.), Kan- 
 kakee; lumber and coal dealer, retired. 
 Born in St. Thomas, Canada, Feb. 2S, 
 1833, and in '47 came alone to Illinois. 
 After remaining a 3'ear in Chicago, he 
 caught the gold fever and struck across 
 the plains for California. In '52 he re- 
 turned and settled at Bourbonnais 
 Grove, then in Will county, now in 
 
 JOSEPH p. MAHONEY. 
 
 Kankakee, where he remained until 
 '83, when he moved to Kankakee. He 
 received a g-ood common school educa- 
 tion. He was elected circuit clerk in 
 '72, sheriff in '82, and county treasurer 
 in '86, and in '92 was elected senator, 
 receiving- 7,387 votes to 6,672 for A. Iv. 
 Grang-er, dem. Is married but lost his 
 wife six years ag'-o. He has had twelve 
 children and all are living. 
 
 Committees: Railroads, appropriations, 
 public buildings, canals and rivers, license 
 and miscellany, mines and mining, labor and 
 manufactures', printing, county and town- 
 ship organization. 
 
 riahoney, Joseph P., (dem.), Chicago; 
 lawyer. Born in Osweg-o, N. Y., Nov. 
 1, 1863, and moved to Chicag-o with his 
 parents in '66. He was educated in 
 the public schools and g-raduated at the 
 West Side hig-h school. Then he read 
 law in the office of Hon. John N. Jew- 
 
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 IvEGISLATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 ett, and was admitted to the bar in '84, 
 and elected the same year to the house, 
 being 21 years of age the Saturday pre- 
 ceding election day. He was re-elected 
 to the house in '86 and '88, and ad- 
 vanced to the senate in '90 by a vote of 
 7,946 to 3,707 for James Monahan, rep. 
 He is one of the oldest members of the 
 legislature in continuous service. Is 
 not married. Senator Mahoney is one 
 of the readiest debaters and best par- 
 liamentarians in the state; quick in re- 
 tort and apt in repartee. He was ap- 
 pointed to the board of education in 
 Chicago last year by Mayor Wash- 
 burn, but resigned. He has an exten- 
 sive law practice and is very success- 
 ful in his profession. 
 
 Committees : Penal and reformatory (chair- 
 man) , jvidiciary, warehouses, appropria- 
 tions, municipalities, insurance, corpora- 
 tions, banks and banking, education, elec- 
 tions, senatorial apportionment, world's 
 fair, waterways and drainage, license and 
 miscellany. 
 
 rianecke, Harmon, (dem.), Oakley, 
 Macon Co.; farmer. Born in Hancock 
 Co., O., Dec. 16, 1850, and at 11 years 
 of age was left an orphan. He worked 
 on a farm and attended district school 
 and the high school at Fostoria sev- 
 eral terins. In '68 he moved to Macon 
 county and worked as a farm hand un- 
 til '72, when he commenced farming 
 for himself. Was elected town clerk 
 of Oakley in '74 and served three terms 
 and has represented his township on 
 
 
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 the board of supervisors for eleven 
 terms. Is married. Was elected to 
 the senate in '90 by a majority of over 
 1,000, although the district was strongly 
 republican, receiving 6,927 votes to 
 5,902 for James Milliken, rep. In '72 
 he became a democrat, when war taxes 
 
 and protective tariffs were first dis- 
 cussed since the war. There is no more 
 conscientious nor industrious inember 
 of the legislature. 
 
 Committees: Agricvilture (chairman), ju- 
 dicial department, appropriations, munici- 
 palities, charitable institutions., railroads, 
 roads and bridges, congressional apportion- 
 ment, mines and mining, county and town- 
 ship organization. 
 
 WILLIAM A. MUSSETT. 
 
 Mussett, William A., (rep.), Gray- 
 ville; teacher. Born in Grayville Jan. 
 2, 1865, and educated at the Danville 
 (Ind.) Normal and the Indiana Univer- 
 sity at Bloomington, graduating as 
 the president of the class of '89, and 
 was second in the oratorical contest of 
 that year. Was superintendent of the 
 Grayville schools from '89 to '92, and 
 brought theiTL up to a high point of 
 efficiency. Is not married. He has 
 made a particularly good impression 
 on the senators, and will ultimately 
 make the law his profession. Was 
 elected to the senate in '92, receiving 
 6,964 votes to 6,198 for the old veteran 
 politician and democratic war horse, 
 James C. Allen — a decided compliment 
 to Mr. Mussett's popularity and ability. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department, ware- 
 houses, expenses of general assembly, cor- 
 porations, education, elections, senatorial 
 apportionment, to visit educational institu- 
 tions, state library. 
 
 Niehaus, John fl., (dem.), Peoria; 
 lawyer, was born in Warendorf , West- 
 phalia, Feb. 15, 1855. The Senator's 
 father, who was a hardware merchant 
 in the old country, emigrated to 
 America the same year and the fam- 
 il3^ followed a year later, stopping first 
 at Pittsburg for a year and then re- 
 moving to Peoria, where the family 
 has lived ever since. John M. was 
 
I.EOISLATIVK SOUVKNI K. 
 
 33 
 
 educated principally in i)rivate Ger- 
 man schools, having- special instruc- 
 tion in Latin and the classics; he also 
 spent a term in a business collejjfe. 
 graduatinj,'- in "71. Read law with 
 
 .JOHN M. NIEHAUS. 
 
 O'Brien & Harmon, was admitted to 
 the bar in '74, and began practice in 
 '77. Was elected to the house in '80 
 and was chosen state's attorney' of 
 Peoria county in '83 to fill an unex- 
 pired term, being- re-elected in '84 and 
 again in '88; elected senator in '92. 
 
 Coniiiiittees : Congressional apportion- 
 ment (ehairnian), judiciary, warehouses, 
 revenue, municipalities, penal and reforma- 
 tory, fees and salaries, building and loan as- 
 sociations, world's fair, waterways and 
 drainage, canals and rivers, agriculture. 
 
 h:l>\\ AKI) T. NOONAN. 
 
 Noonan, Edward T., (dem.), Chicago. 
 Born in Macomb, 111., October 23, 1861. 
 His father, an officer under Sherman, 
 was killed in the battle of Atlanta. 
 
 He moved to Chicago with his mother 
 in '68, and now resides at 398 Washing- 
 ton boulevard. Received the degree 
 of L. L. B. from the University of 
 Michigan, and read law with Judge 
 Van H. Higgins, and Hon. C. C. Bon- 
 ney. Was admitted to the bar in '82, 
 and is now engaged in the practice of 
 real estate and corporation law. Was 
 appointed aid-de-camp, with rank as 
 colonel, on the staff of Governor Alt- 
 geld. Is president of the Building 
 Society' Secretaries' Club, and is a 
 member of the Iroquois, Ashland, 
 White Chapel and Sheridan clubs of 
 Chicago, and is not married. Was 
 the first democratic senator ever elect- 
 ed from his district and was one of the 
 noble "101". 
 
 Senator Noonan is a member of sev- 
 eral important committees. 
 
 ANDREW .1. O CONOK. 
 
 O'Conor, Andrew J., (dem.), LaSalle; 
 lawj'er. Born in LaSalle, Juh' 19, 
 1852, and received his education in the 
 schools of that city and at Niagara 
 College. Taught school two years 
 and read law at the same time; was 
 admitted to practice in '76. He formed 
 a law partnership with Hon. James W. 
 Duncan, whose sister he married the 
 same year. The partnership con- 
 tinued until '86, when Mr. Duncan 
 moved to Chicago. Mr. O'Conor has 
 the faculty of attracting to him friends 
 who are with him to the death. Has 
 held minor offices at home, mayor, city 
 attorney, school treasurer, etc., and 
 when he entered the senate in '91 he 
 assumed a commanding position as 
 democratic leader. Senator O'Conor 
 possesses the confidence of Governor 
 Altgeld probably more than any other 
 man outside the governor's family. 
 
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 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 and had a g^reat deal to do with shap- 
 ing- the work of the last democratic 
 state convention, and he could have 
 had the nomination for attorney g^en- 
 eral in '92 without asking- for it. 
 
 Coimnittees: NA^orld's Columbian exposi- 
 tion (chairman), labor and manufactures 
 (chairman), iuclieiary, judicial department, 
 appropriations, penal and reformatorj', 
 education, federal relations, elections, con- 
 gressional apportionment, canals and ri-vers, 
 mines and mining. 
 
 O'Malley, John F., (dera.), Chicago; 
 clerk. Born in Chicago, April 12, 1860. 
 Educated in Chicago's public schools. 
 Began earning a living for himself in 
 the coal yards of the north side, and 
 afterwards entered into partnership in 
 the sale of coal with Mr. MuUins. Is 
 not married. Was elected supervisor 
 for the North Town in '84, and was re- 
 elected in '85. For several years he 
 was clerk in the office of North Town 
 Assessor Samuel B. Chase. He is a 
 staunch deinocrat and never wavered 
 in his fidelity to Gen. Palmer during 
 the senatorial fight of '91. Was elected 
 state senator in '90 over Michael F. 
 Garrity, rep. by a vote of 5,218 to 3,035. 
 Senator O'Malley is one of the best 
 workers in the democratic party in 
 Cook county, and is generally a winner 
 
 Committees: Warehouses (chairman), ju- 
 dicial department, expenses of the general 
 assembly, corporations, charitable institu- 
 tions, penal and reformatory, public build- 
 
 JOHN F. O MALLEY. 
 
 ings, federal relations, senatorial apportion- 
 ment, world's fair, license and miscellany, 
 labor and manufactures. 
 
 Paisley, George W., (dem.), Hills- 
 
 boro; farmer, coal operator and law- 
 3'er, was born in Montgomery county, 
 March 1, 1838, and was educated in the 
 common schools and at Hillsboro 
 Academy. Entered the army in '62 
 
 and served three years in Co. I, 122d 
 111. Inf., and on his return from the 
 war was elected county surveyor. 
 Then he studied law and was admitted 
 in '70, and practiced for about six 
 years, when he founded The Mont- 
 gomery News, a democratic news- 
 paper of wide influence. Was chosen 
 
 GEORGE W. PAISLEY. 
 
 inaster in chancery and served from 
 '68 to '79. Was elected to the house in 
 '80, and in '85 was appointed one of 
 three inspectors of surveyors of the 
 general and district land offices by 
 President Cleveland, and resigned in 
 May '89, after opening one of the land 
 offices in Oklahoma. Is married. Is 
 one of the best posted men in Illinois 
 on revenue and taxation questions. Is 
 a careful and indvtstrious member, of 
 pronounced ability, arid was elected to 
 the senate by a vote of 7,331 to 5,842 
 for W. W. Weeden, rep. 
 
 Committees: Rules (chairman), revenue 
 (chairman), judiciary, appropriations, cor- 
 porations, printing, visit educational insti- 
 tutions, congressional appoi'tionment, mines 
 and mining. 
 
 Reavill, Andrew J., (dem.). Flat 
 Rock, Crawford Co.; farmer and stock- 
 man. Born Dec. 24, 1834, on the farm 
 he now owns, one mile and one-half 
 from Flat Rock. His father located 
 there in '17, and nobody will dispute 
 Senator Reavill's claim as a pioneer of 
 the state. Senator Reavill's education 
 was limited to the rudiments of learn- 
 ing, taught in the district schools of 
 that primitive time. Is married. Was 
 a member of the house in '77 and '79, 
 and chosen to represent his district in 
 the senate in '86 and again in '90. The 
 senator has been a life-long democrat, 
 and enjoys the confidence of his con- 
 
I,i:C.ISI.ATlVIC SorVKNIK. 
 
 35 
 
 stitueiits. Ho has accumulated a coiii- 
 peteiicY by close application, uutirini^ 
 iiulustrN' and shrewdness. Was one of 
 the most important fig'ures and did not 
 a little to insure the election of Gen. 
 
 . KEAVII.L, 
 
 Palmer to the senate in '91. He is a 
 quiet, unostentatious, yet a very shrewd 
 member. 
 
 Coniuiittees : County and township organi- 
 zation (cluiirnian), railroads, warehouses 
 finance and claims, expenses of general as 
 senibly, Insuranee, Ijanks and banlsing 
 penal and reformatory, roails and bridges 
 senatorial apportionnient, world's fair, ag 
 riculture. 
 
 Salomon, floses, (dem.), lawyer and 
 manufacturer. Born in Peoria, Dec. 
 13, 18,S7, and four years later his father 
 
 MOSES SALOMON. 
 
 moved to Chicago with his famil}'. 
 Was educated in the common schools 
 and at the Union College of Law in 
 Chicago, after which he read law in 
 
 Allen C. Story's office and was admit- 
 ted to the bar in '80. Is not married. 
 Is president of the Chicago Architec- 
 tural Iron Works, one of the largest 
 industries of its kind in the United 
 Sates; 150 men are employed. Is in- 
 terested in legislation that will pro- 
 tect the people from the greed of mon- 
 opolies and trusts, and advocates the 
 opening of all markets to fair com- 
 petition, and just and equal taxation. 
 Senator Salomon is ver^' popular 
 atnong his constituents, having been 
 elected in '92 in a strong republican 
 district, the first democrat to break 
 the republican majority, receiving 
 12,721 votes to 11,691 for Alexander 
 White, rep. 
 
 Committees: Insuranee (eliairman; , judi- 
 ciary, railroads, corporations, pul)lie l)uild- 
 ings, federal relations, congressional ai)por- 
 tionment. li(H!nse and miscellany, labor and 
 manufactures, municipalities, revenue. 
 
 THOMAS U. SUEKIUAN. 
 
 Sheridan, Thomas H., (rep.), Gol- 
 conda; lawyer. Born in Pope county 
 Dec. 16, 1860, and has had a hard row 
 to hoe, but is now past the rockiest 
 part of the journey of life. The sen- 
 ator's father died when he was 6 years 
 old, leaving a widow and six children, 
 two girls and four boys. It is said that 
 he was born in a cave, and Pope county 
 has many of them, his father being too 
 poor to build a log hut on their rocky 
 tract of land. About the time of the 
 father's death the mother with her de- 
 pendent little ones moved to Golconda, 
 and for several years she took in 
 washing and supported them the best 
 she could, taking care that they at- 
 tended school. In '71 the yotingest 
 son, then 9 years of age, was drowned, 
 and in "76 the eldest, the then support 
 of the family, met the same fate. The 
 
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 I.EGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 same year the second oldest went to 
 California, and Senator Sheridan, then 
 16 years old, quit school and went to 
 work in a spoke factory at $2 a week, 
 and worked at that and in a brick yard 
 and printing office until September, 
 '79. The senator then received a teach- 
 er's certificate, taug-ht school in the 
 winter and ran a confectionery store 
 in summer. Meantime he studied law, 
 was admitted to practice in '83 and 
 practiced and taught school for two 
 years; was elected county superintend- 
 ent of schools to fill a vacancy and re- 
 elected in '86. Is married, and was 
 elected senator in '90 over John Blan- 
 chard, dem., after a terrific fight b3' a 
 vote of 6,104 to 5,974. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
 ment, tinanee and claims, education, elec- 
 tions, building and loan associations, state 
 library, congressional apportionment. 
 
 Seibert, Peter, (dem.), Fayetteville; 
 farmer. Born in the Grand Duchj^ of 
 Hesse Darmstadt, April 24, 1844. Emi- 
 grated to America with his parents 
 who moved on a farm 3yi miles east of 
 Belleville in '52. There he was raised 
 and educated, although he spent some 
 time at the Belleville high school. 
 Has been a member of the board of 
 supervisors and was a member when 
 St. Clair county was organized under 
 township organization. Is married. 
 Never sought an office and was elected 
 senator in '90, receiving 6,054 votes to 
 
 PETER SEIBERT. 
 
 S. C. Smiley's (rep.) 4,951, running sev- 
 eral hundred ahead of his ticket. Sen- 
 ator Seibert was a republican until '80, 
 and began voting the democratic ticket 
 in '82, the tariff policy of the republi- 
 cans being too much for him. He has 
 been a democrat ever since. 
 
 Committees: Charitable institutions (chair- 
 man), revenue, appropriations, roads and 
 bridges, agriculture, congressional ap230r- 
 tioniiient, militaiy, penal and reformatory, 
 mines and mining, county and township or- 
 ganization. 
 
 Thiele, Emil, (dem.), Chicago; drug- 
 gist. Born near Cologne on the Rhine, 
 March 2, 1859, and emigrated to Chi- 
 
 EMIL THIELE. 
 
 cago soon after the great fire. Served 
 for a time while a boy in a drug store, 
 and graduated from the Chicago Col- 
 lege of Pharmacy in '80. He has owned 
 his present drug store on Archer ave- 
 nue for about seven years, and has an 
 interest in another one. Is not mar- 
 ried. Was nominated as a representa- 
 tive of the strong German element in 
 his district, and his popularity among 
 his neighbors is attested by the fact 
 that he was elected in '90 over Richard 
 Burke, rep. and lab., the preceding 
 senator, by a vote of 8,601 to 4,930. 
 Senator Thiele has always voted with 
 that element in the senate that has 
 sought to restrict the powers and priv- 
 ileges of corporations and monopolies, 
 although he does not go to an extreme. 
 Is always in attendance. 
 
 Committees: Municipalities (chairman), 
 judicial department, revenue, expenses of 
 the general assembly, charitable institutions, 
 penal and reformatory, education, elections, 
 senatorial apportionment, library, labor and 
 manufactures. 
 
 Wall, Hampton W., (dem.). Staun- 
 ton; retired farmer. Born Nov. 10, 
 1832, on a farm near Staunton. Re- 
 ceived a common school education. Is 
 married. Has filled the offices of jus- 
 tice of the peace and member of the 
 board of supervisors, and was a mem- 
 ber of the House of Representatives in 
 '77 and '79. Was elected to the state 
 senate in '92 over James H. Hackett, 
 
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 37 
 
 rep., by a vote of 9,1)96 to 7.287, runnitis^- 
 ahead of his ticket. Senator Wall 
 stands plump on the democratic plat- 
 form and insists that all ])led<^es onyht 
 to be fulfilled. The senator has mad." 
 
 HAMPTON W. WALL. 
 
 a strong"- fight this session for economy 
 in the expenditure of public money. 
 
 Committees: Finance and claims (chair- 
 man), warehouses, revenue, appropriations, 
 insurance, public buildings, roads an i 
 bridges, senatorial apportionment, building 
 and loan associations, mines and mining, 
 county and township organization, federal 
 relations. 
 
 Wells, Albert W., (dem.), Ouincy; 
 law3^er. Born in South Woodstock, 
 Conn., May 9, 1841. Received an 
 academic education, and spent his 
 early days on a farm. Taught school 
 
 ALBERT W. WKLLS. 
 
 in New Jersey for several 3^ears, re- 
 signing to enlist in the Union army. 
 Senator Wells took a full law course at 
 Columbia college, and was admitted to 
 
 the bar in New York city. He moved 
 to Ouincy in '70, has been a successful 
 lawyer ever since, and stands high at 
 the bar. Has held various offices of 
 trust, and has been a member of the 
 board of education of Quincy for sev- 
 eral years, and is president of the 
 board now. Is a director and the at- 
 torney for the Ricker National bank, 
 and holds a like position in the Ouincy 
 Gas company and other companies. 
 Is married and has a famiU'. Was 
 elected to the house in '86 and again 
 in '88; advanced to the senate in '90 
 practically without opposition, the re- 
 publicans not naming a man against 
 him. The senator has been a leader in 
 every legislature of which he has been 
 a member; was chairman of the house 
 caucus in '89, and of the senate caucus 
 in '91, and has served on the most im- 
 portant committees in both branches. 
 
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 Committees: Judicial department, (chair- 
 man), judiciary, railroads, appropriations, 
 penal and reformatory, education, printing, 
 elections, congressional apportionment, 
 license and miscellany, labor and manufac- 
 tures. 
 
 Wright, Samuel W., Jr., (dem.), Sul- 
 livan ; farmer. Was born in Moul- 
 trie counly, June 30, 1850, and is now 
 an extensive farmer and stock raiser, 
 owning a fine farm about three miles 
 from Sullivan. Was educated in the 
 public schools and finished in Bastian's 
 Seminary, Sullivan, at that time an 
 institution of considerable celebrity. 
 Is a representative farmer, and has 
 served several terms on the board of 
 supervisors from Sullivan township, 
 and was chairman most of the time. 
 Is a good substantial representative of 
 the farmer class in the legislature. Is 
 married. Was elected to the senate in 
 
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 I.EGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 '90, when the farmers' moveinent was 
 rampant in Central Illinois, and when 
 his district, usually reliably demo- 
 cratic, was in doubt; he polled 6,694 
 votes to 3,250 for Wm. G. Cochran, 
 rep., and3,107for Georg-e Kincade, peo. 
 
 Committees: Railroads (chairman), pub- 
 lic buildings and grounds (chairman), fei s 
 and salaries (c-hairman), judicial depart- 
 
 ment, warehouses, appropriations, corpora- 
 tions, cliaritable institutions, senatorial ap- 
 portionment, visit penal and reformatory, 
 world's fair, agriculture, county and town- 
 ship organization. 
 
 Zearing, Louis, (rep.), Ladd; farmer. 
 Born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Sept. 
 10, 1827, and moved with his parents to 
 Bureau county in '36. Was educated 
 in the district schools of primitive Illi- 
 nois. One of his early experiences 
 was the marketing- in Chicago of a load 
 of wheat taken to the einbryo metrop- 
 olis by ox team. In '50 he crossed the 
 plains to California and in that state 
 cast his first vote, for a republican, of 
 course — Winfield Scott for president 
 in '52. Returning from California in 
 '54, he married and beg^an farming-, 
 and has held various local offices. Was 
 elected to the senate in '90 by a vote 
 of 5,018 to 4,641 for Simon Elliott, dem. 
 Is one of the most reliable and indus- 
 trious members, and is held in high 
 esteem. Mr. Zearing never misses a 
 session, and his record in the general 
 assembly of '93, as well as in that of 
 '91, will bear the closest investig-ation. 
 The Senator is a staunch republican, 
 and acts on his own judgment on all 
 questions not of a purely party nature. 
 
 Committees: Expenses of general assem- 
 bly, charitable institutions, penal and refor- 
 matory, public buildings, printing, roads 
 and bridges, state library, canals and rivers, 
 agriculture, labor and manufactures. 
 
 Taylor, Rev. Frederick Wm., D. D., 
 
 Chaplain of the Senate, is the eldest 
 son of Maj. Alfred Taylor, M. D., and 
 Helen M. lyconard, and was born in 
 Toledo, O., Jan. 11, 1853. Both his 
 paternal and maternal g"randfathers 
 were army officers in the war of 1812, 
 and his father was surg-eon with the 
 rank of major in the 2d O. Cav. during- 
 the late war from '61 to '63. Rev. Dr. 
 Tajdor's early life was passed in 
 Cleveland, of which his g-randfather 
 Blisha Taylor, was one of the earliest 
 settlers and most prominent citizens. 
 Rev. Dr. Taylor g-raduated from West- 
 ern Reserve University in '73 and from 
 the General Theolog-ical Seminary in 
 New York in '76. After two years' 
 ministry in Ohio and New York, he 
 was appointed Rector of Holy Trinity 
 Parish, Danville, 111., in '78, where he 
 remained until Sept. '86, when he be- 
 came Rector of St. Paul's Pro-Cathe- 
 dral, in the See City of the Diocese, 
 Spring-field. Here he has led a busy 
 life as a Parish Priest, and in the af- 
 fairs of the Diocese as one of the 
 Archdeacons, and as a member of var- 
 ious diocesan boards, and editor of the 
 diocesan paper. He has sat in four 
 successive General Conventions of the 
 lypiscopal church, as one of the Clin- 
 ical Deputies from the Diocese of 
 Spring-field, and has taken an active 
 part in the debates and leg-islation of 
 that dig-nified body. He is the first 
 
 CHAPLAIN TAXLOR. 
 
 Priest of the Episcopal Church who 
 has been Chaplain of the Senate. He 
 is a strict churchman in relig-ion, and 
 a democrat in politics. * He is a plain, 
 clear and forcible preacher, and is 
 well known in his church as a tren- 
 chant writer. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOtiVENlK. 
 
 39 
 
 THE SPEAKER. 
 
 The Speaker of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, Hon. Clayton E. Crafts, is 
 now serving' his sixth consecutive term 
 as a member of the lower branch of 
 the g^eneral assembly, having been 
 elected in '82, '84, '86, '88, '90, '92. This 
 is his second term as speaker — the only 
 two sessions when his party has been 
 in a clear majority in the house since 
 1863. Mr. Crafts was born in Auburn, 
 Geanga Co., O., July 8, 1848. His 
 father and his grandfather were far- 
 
 of the Iroquois Club and the County 
 Democracy, and is one of the most 
 skillful leaders in the state. As a par- 
 liamentarian he is the peer of any 
 man. He was the candidate of the 
 democrats for speaker in the session 
 of '87, and also in '89, '91, and '93, and 
 has been regarded as the democratic 
 leader in every session after his first. 
 He is earnest, incisive and forcible in 
 debate, and there is no one to compete 
 with him in shrewd manipulation of 
 parliamentary law. As speaker his 
 fairness and impartiality are conceded 
 even by his political enemies. To Mr. 
 
 niers, and the latter was about the 
 only man in his neig-hborhood that was 
 capable of drawing up legal documents 
 while the former was the only demo- 
 crat in Auburn for many years. Mr. 
 Crafts was educated at Hiram College, 
 one of the most famous educational in- 
 stitutions of Ohio, and is a graduate of 
 the Cleveland Law School, and was 
 admitted to the bar in '68. A portion 
 of his legal study was pursued in the 
 office of John J. Van Allen, a cele- 
 brated lawyer and politician of New 
 York. He moved to Chicag-o in '69, 
 and has had a most extraordinarily 
 successful practice ever since. He is 
 a member of the Presbyterian church, 
 
 Crafts more than any man is due the 
 credit for the successful contest made 
 by the democrats in the last g'eneral 
 assembly for the election of Gen. Pal- 
 mer to the United States senate. 
 
 As a delegate to state and national 
 democratic conventions Mr. Crafts has 
 had a g^reat deal to do in shaping- the 
 policy of his party, as well as selecting- 
 candidates for the endorsement of the 
 people. He is a strict party man, and 
 believes in a strong organization of 
 his party in the leg-islature, with a rig-- 
 orous espionage on those who neglect 
 their duties. Mr. Crafts lives in the 
 suburban villag-e of Austin, in Cook 
 county, is married and well to do. 
 
LKGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 41 
 
 THE HOUSE. 
 
 The House of Representatives con- 
 sists of 153 members elected every two 
 years. They receive $5 per diem dur- 
 ing- the session, $50 for stationerj^ and 
 10 cents a mile for the actual distance 
 from their homes to the state capitol. 
 The present house of representatives 
 was chosen in November, 1892, and 
 consists of 78 democrats and 75 repub- 
 licans, with the seat of Mr. Bisli, re- 
 publican, of Chicago, contested by Sol 
 Van Praag-, democrat. Hon. Ernst 
 Meyer died in Spring-field May 11, '93. 
 
 Biog-raphies marked thus * are not 
 accompanied by portraits. 
 
 It is fortunate that the executive 
 officers of the house are intelligent 
 and cool-headed. Otherwise the jour- 
 nals would exhibit evidences of some 
 of the exciting scenes enacted on the 
 floor, and the confusion and wrangles 
 "that take place frequently would end 
 in broken heads. Speaker Crafts, 
 Clerk Ross, Doorkeeper Browne, As- 
 sistant Doorkeeper Rives and their 
 assistants are good officers, reliable 
 and courteous. The house is gener- 
 ally a placid body, but occasionally a 
 storm breaks on the floor that bids 
 fair to annihilate many members. 
 
 THE STEERING COMMITTEES. 
 
 Indispensable in the conduct of a 
 campaign in which party advantages 
 are to be won or lost through legisla- 
 tive action, are the advisory or "steer- 
 ing" committees of each party. The 
 leadership is entrusted to these com- 
 mittees for the session, and the rank 
 and file are expected to obey orders, 
 even to the point of resigning their 
 seats. In the senate these committees 
 are made up thus : 
 
 Democrats: Caldwell (ch airman ),Ma- 
 lione3% Craig, Salomon and Green. 
 . Republicans: Berry(chairman),Bass, 
 Aspinwall, Sheridan and Knopf. 
 
 The house steering committees are 
 composed of the following : 
 
 Democrats: McKinlay (chairman), 
 Morris, Johnson of Whiteside, Wilson 
 of Ogle, O'Donnell, Mclnerney, Don- 
 nelly, Smith of Livingston, Merritt, 
 Carson, Ferns and Farrell. 
 
 Republicans : Hawley (chairman). 
 Paddock, Warder, Anderson of Hen- 
 ■derson, Meyer of Cook, O'Connell, 
 McKnight, Langhenry, Berry. 
 
 Ross, Robert W., (dem.), Vandalia ; 
 real estate dealer and Clerk of the 
 House. Was born in Fayette county, 
 Dec. 31, 1843, of Scotch-Welsh parents, 
 who moved to Illinois from Kentucky. 
 He was educated in the common schools 
 and at Tuscarora Academy, Penn., 
 which he left in March '63 to enter the 
 county clerk's office of Fayette county. 
 He entered the army, enlisting in Co. 
 F, 143d 111. Inf.; was mustered out in '64 
 and resumed his position in the county 
 clerk's office. After a year he went 
 into the drug business and kept it up 
 for three years, when he sold out and 
 became a deputy in the circuit clerk's 
 office. He was elected clerk of the 
 House of Representatives in '75, and 
 was elected circuit clerk of Fayette 
 county in '76, and re-elected in'80 — 
 eight years in all Then he served 
 
 CLEKK ROSS. 
 
 two more years in his successor's of- 
 fice. He was appointed by President 
 Cleveland recorder-general of the land 
 office and resigned when President 
 Harrison assumed charge. Has since 
 been engaged in the real estate busi- 
 ness. He was nominated for clerk of 
 the house last January by acclamation 
 in the democratic caucus. He is not 
 married and own 160 acres of land. 
 
 Browne, Edgar S., Doorkeeper of 
 the House, of Mendota, was born in 
 Mason. Me., May. 11, 1851, and is a 
 lawyer by profession. Mr. Browne 
 was educated at the Norway, (Me.) 
 Normal Institute, and graduated from 
 Gould's Academy, Bethel, and the 
 State Normal School at Farming-ton ; 
 was admitted to the bar in '70, when 
 he was 20 years old. Practiced at 
 Portland for five years, and moved to 
 Chicago, where he remained for a 
 
42 
 
 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 year, and in '77 moved to LaSalle 
 county. He was State Commissioner 
 of Deeds in Maine ; has been city at- 
 torney of Mendota, and was a member 
 of the house of representatives in 
 
 DOOKKKEl'EK I!R(n\ NE. 
 
 Illinois in '87 and '89 ; was chosen 
 doorkeeper of the house in '91, and 
 was again complimented last Janu- 
 ary, and has organized a system for 
 each branch under him, so that all the 
 employes under his supervision dis- 
 charge their duties without friction. 
 In the session of '89 he succeeded as a 
 member of the house in getting the 
 Chicago Drainage scheme amended so 
 as to protect the Illinois Valley people. 
 He is married and has two children. 
 
 CONKAD A. AMBROSIUS. 
 
 Ambrosius, Conrad A., (dem.), Col- 
 linsville ; merchant. Born in Hesse 
 Cassel, Germany, Jan. 18, 1839, and 
 emigrated to America in Jan. '41 with 
 
 his parents, arriving at New Orleans- 
 and coming up the Mississippi, the 
 route all western settlers took in the 
 early days, there being no railroads,, 
 and travel overland being attended 
 with difficulties and dangers. His par- 
 ents stopped in St. Louis until Jan. '49 
 and then moved to what is now Col- 
 linsville, an Indian transporting the 
 family with four oxen. Mr. Ambro- 
 sius has lived near and in Collinsville 
 ever since. His education was limited; 
 he hardly knew what a public school 
 was, and obtained most of his educa- 
 tisn by his own efforts. He remained 
 on the farm until '74, when he went 
 into the coal business, being elected 
 president and general superintendent 
 of the Canteen Coal Mining Co. He 
 continued in this until '87, when he 
 sold out and went into the real estate 
 business. He afterwards opened a. 
 
 JAMES J. ANDERSON. 
 
 general merchandise store under the 
 firm name of Ambrosius & Sons, and 
 it is one of the most substantial con- 
 cerns in the city, doing a large and 
 safe business. Is married and finan- 
 cially independent of the world. Has. 
 been supervisor for several years, was 
 alderman fourteen years, and has held 
 other offices. He was nominated for 
 representative a little against his will, 
 but like a true democrat, bowed to the 
 will of the party and accepted, mak- 
 ing a thorough and successful canvass.- 
 He never sought an office in his life. 
 
 Committees: Mines and mining, public 
 charities, building and loan associations, 
 retrenchment, drainage, soldiers' home,, 
 farm drainage. 
 
 Anderson, James J., (dem.), Nash- 
 ville; lawyer. Born in Nottoway Co., 
 Va., Dec. 13, 1849, and moved with his- 
 
I,KC.ISI,ATr\'K SOUVKNIK. 
 
 43 
 
 feither to St. Louis two years later, re- 
 ineiiniiif;" there until he was 23. He 
 -was educated in the public schools of 
 St. Louis and the City University. He 
 moved to Richview, 111., in '72, and 
 learned teleg-raphy, accepting' a place 
 on the Iron Mountain railroad in Mis- 
 souri. He read law in Richview and 
 in his new position when his duties did 
 not demand his attention, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in '75, beg-inning- the 
 practice of his profession at (ilasg^ow, 
 Mo. In '76 he moved to Nashville, 
 bought The Democrat from Fornian 
 Brothers, and run it in connection with 
 his legal business until last July, when 
 he sold the paper and devoted himself 
 entirely to his profession. He has 
 been master in chancery of Washing-- 
 ton county for many years, and was 
 city attorney of Nashville for a term. 
 He made The Democrat second to none 
 in power and standing- while he had 
 charge of it, and stands very close to 
 Col. Morrison, Congressman Forman 
 and other prominent democratic lead- 
 ers in the state. He has been one of 
 the ruling spirits in the Illinois Press 
 association, and the Southern Illinois 
 Press association. Is married. 
 
 Conunitlees: Penal and i-eforniatory (chair- 
 man), congressional apportionment, judi- 
 ciary, judicial department, finance, retrencli- 
 inent. 
 
 Anderson, James O., (rep.), Decorra; 
 farmer. Born in Henderson countv. 
 
 .TAMKS O. ANDERSON. 
 
 Aug. 1, 1845, was raised on a farm, re- 
 ceived a common school education, and 
 left Monmouth Colleg'e when a student 
 to enlist in the 28th 111. Inf., in which 
 he attained the rank of second lieuten- 
 ant. Returning from the war he mar- 
 ried and eng-ag-ed in farming-, which is 
 
 his present occupation. He was sheriff 
 of Henderson county for ten j'ears, 
 and gained considerable notoriety by 
 the pursuit of two desperadoes, one of 
 whom being- taken to Durand, Wis., 
 was lynched. He was elected to the 
 house in '88, '90, and '92. His value as 
 a leg-islator has been increased with 
 
 MICHAEL HAKTOX. 
 
 each return to the house, and he is in- 
 fluential and popular with his col- 
 leag-ues. 
 
 Committees: Af^ricultuie, to visit penal 
 and reformatory institutions, world's fair, 
 congressional apportionment, steering com- 
 mittee. 
 
 •^-Armstrong, Fowler A., (rep.), Mas- 
 sac Creek ; teacher and farmer. Born 
 in Massac county, March 18, 1847. 
 Served on the Tennessee and Cumber- 
 land rivers on a g-un-boat during the 
 war. Was county superintendent of 
 schools from '84 to '88, and was elected 
 to the house in '90 and '92. Is married 
 and owns 160 acres of land. 
 
 Committees: County and township organi- 
 zation, agriculture, federal relations, sold- 
 iers' home, horticulture. 
 
 Barton, Michael, (dem.). Spring Val- 
 lej-; bank cashier. Born in County 
 Kerry, Ireland, Sept. 1, 1834, and came 
 to America in '49 with his parents, 
 who settled in Kentucky. Moved to 
 Illinois in '54. Learned the trade of 
 a harness maker, and worked at it for 
 some time. In '64 accepted a place as 
 clerk in the Rock Island railroad offi- 
 ces at Ottawa; was promoted to be 
 station ag-ent of the same road at La 
 Salle in '66, and in '86 he resig-ned to 
 accept the position of cashier of the 
 Spring Vallev National bank. He is 
 one of the best and most reliable mem- 
 bers of the leg-islature. Is married. 
 Was elected to the house in '90 and 
 
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 IvEGISLATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 again in '92. He bent his energies in 
 the last legislature towards the enact- 
 ment of an arbitration law that would 
 prevent strikes. 
 
 Committees: Mines and mining (chairman), 
 canal -river improvement and commerce, 
 penal and reformatory, manufactures, state 
 and municipal indebtedness, insurance. 
 
 * Baldwin, Leverett S., (dem.), 
 Windsor; farmer. Born in Hinesburg, 
 Vt., Oct. 28, 1839, and is self-educated. 
 Was with the I. & St. L,. R. R. as train 
 boy, brakeman, baggageman and 
 freight conductor. Moved to Windsor 
 27 years ago, and has held minor offi- 
 ces. Is married and owns 500 acres of 
 land. 
 
 Committees: Railroads, live stock and 
 dairying, labor and industrial affairs, judi- 
 cial department, drainage, farm drainage, 
 Wann investigation (special.) 
 
 Beals, Reuben F., (rep.), Galva; far- 
 mer. Born near Cleveland, O., Aug. 
 12, 1832, and for nineteen years he 
 lived there, working on the farm and 
 attending district school as oppor- 
 tunity offered. He started out for 
 himself at 19, as a woodchopper, which 
 he followed for a short time, and then 
 learned the carpenter trade. He was 
 a good workman, clever with his tools 
 and industrious, and soon branched 
 into business for himself, taking con- 
 tracts to erect houses. In '55 he emi- 
 grated to Oneida, 111., and a year later 
 moved into Clover township, where he 
 lived for 36 years. He built houses for 
 
 REUBEN r. BEALS. 
 
 his neighbors for two years, and in '58 
 bought 80 acres and began farming. 
 By close application, economy and 
 hard work he has accumvilated 250 
 acres of splendid land. In Aug. '62 he 
 enlisted in Co. I, 102d 111. Inf., and 
 participated in all the battles of the 
 
 Atlanta campaign, serving faithfully 
 for three years and receiving one 
 wound; he commanded a company sev- 
 eral times. He returned to the farm 
 after the war. He is an Odd Fellow, 
 a Mason, and is past commander of 
 Holden Post, G. A. R. He was a 
 supervisor for six years, and is mar- 
 
 KOBERT J. BECK. 
 
 ried. He was a member of the legisla- 
 ture of '91, and is highly regarded by 
 his colleagues. 
 
 Committees: State institutions, county and 
 township organization, state and municipal 
 indebtedness, senatorial apportionment. 
 
 Beck, Robert J., (rep.), Chemung; 
 contractor and builder. Born iii 
 County Armagh, Ireland, Dec. 17, 1851, 
 and emigrated with his parents to 
 America in '52, going direct to Mc- 
 Henry county, where he has been ever 
 since. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools. Has been justice of the 
 peace for twenty years and supervisor 
 for ten years, and his long service jus- 
 tifies the statement that he was a faith- 
 ful servant of the people. Was elected 
 to the house in the spring of '89 to fill 
 the vacancy caused by the death of 
 E. M. Haines, dem. He is married 
 and owns 140 acres of land. Mr. Beck 
 is not an orator, but accomplishes 
 more by hard work in committee rooms 
 than many a man with a loud voice 
 and rhetorical effects. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river improvement and 
 connnerce, state institutions, public build- 
 ings, llsli and game, farm drainage. 
 
 Berry, Daniel S., (rep.), Savanna; 
 lawyer. Born in Sterling, 111., May 
 13, 1858, and educated in the public 
 schools. Taught school for four years 
 in Whiteside county, read law at Mor- 
 rison and was admitted to practice in 
 
LKC.ISI.ATIVK SOrVKNIK 
 
 45 
 
 ■"82. The following-- .s])riiii,'- lie located 
 at Savanna, where he has had a very 
 successful career. He has been city 
 attorney of Savanna and president of 
 the board of education. He has alwavs 
 
 DANIEL S. BEKKY. 
 
 eloquently contended that children 
 should be compelled to attend school, 
 and compelled to learn the Eng-lish 
 languagfe, and is a staunch friend of 
 the public schools of Illinois. Is mar- 
 ried. Was elected to the house in '90, 
 and re-elected in '92. Is one of the re- 
 publican leaders in the legislature and 
 stands hijfh in party councils in the 
 Illinois. He introduced and forced 
 throug'h the house a bill prohibiting- 
 pool selling in the steite. 
 
 JAMES E. BISH. 
 
 Committees: .Judiciary, railroads, educa- 
 tion, elect ions, libraries, "steering committee. 
 
 Bish, James E., (rep.), Chicago; real 
 estate. Born in St. Francis Co., Mo., 
 of slave parents, Oct. 1, 1859, and after 
 
 nian3' wemderings settled in Chicago 
 in '81. He received a common school 
 education, principally in the Belleville 
 schools. Is married. He began hus- 
 tling for himself when he was 11 years 
 old, and was night clerk of the Com- 
 mercial hotel at Alton for several 
 years ; studied law with Judge Alex. 
 W. Hope for a time ; learned telegra- 
 phy, and finally went to Chicago, 
 where he worked for Price's Baking 
 Powder Co. for nine years, and has 
 held his present position with F. C. 
 Vierling, real estate agent, for over a 
 year. He has dabbled in politics to 
 some extent, but never held a political 
 office until last year, when he was san- 
 itary policeman for his ward. His seat 
 is being contested by Sol Van Praag, 
 dem. He is writing "The Past, Pres- 
 ent and Future of the Negro," and the 
 
 EDWIN BLACK. 
 
 work is nearing- completion. It will 
 be an important addition to historical 
 literature. 
 
 Committees: Manufactures, state institu- 
 tions, contingent expenses, state and muni- 
 cipal indebtedness. 
 
 Black, J. Edwin, (dem.), Bridgeport; 
 farmer. Born in Lawrence county, 
 March 10, 1846, and was raised on a 
 farm with all its disadvantages in 
 early daj's and its hard work. Edu- 
 cated in the country schools, and at 19 
 taught school for a time. Then he 
 went to Shurtleff College, finished his 
 education, returned home and again, 
 taught school for three j'ears. He 
 then entered the circuit clerk's office 
 as chief deputy, remaining three 3'ears. 
 During President Johnson's adminis- 
 tration he was a clerk in the treasury 
 department at Washington. He re- 
 turned to Illinois in '69, married and 
 
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 I.EGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 settled down on a farm, where he has 
 been ever since, respected by all. 
 When Dr. Lyon resigned his seat in 
 the house in '90 to accept a postoffice, 
 Mr. Black was elected to fill the 
 vacancy, and he was re-elected in '92. 
 He has always discharged his duties 
 like an honest man, and to the best of 
 his ability. Is married, and owns over 
 300 acres of land. He is especially 
 interested in legislation that will ben- 
 efit farmers, in the way of improved 
 roads, and his sympathies lean toward 
 the weaker classes, for he favors a re- 
 form school for girls and charitable 
 institutions for the needj^ 
 
 Committees: Senatorial apportionment 
 (chairman), agriculture, visit charitable in- 
 stitutions, drainage, libraries, executive 
 department, horticulture, 
 
 Brandt, John N., (dem.). Polo; far- 
 mer and stock raiser. Born in Wash- 
 ington Co., Md., Aug. 26, 18S1, and 
 moved with his parents to Illinois in 
 '61, settling in Ogle county, near For- 
 reston. A year later they moved to 
 Carroll county, where he now lives, 
 although his postoffice is in Ogle. He 
 was educated in the common schools 
 and taught school for one year. Then 
 he went into the windmill, pump and 
 well business, following it successfully 
 for ten years. He ran a democratic 
 newspaper in Morrison for some time — 
 The Dispatch — and during the cam- 
 paign of '80 made things lively for the 
 
 JOHN N. BRANDT. 
 
 repvxblicans with his Campaign Demo- 
 crat. In '81 he returned to farming 
 and stock raising. He is not married 
 and owns over 200 acres of fine land. 
 He has been a school trustee ever since 
 he went to Carroll county, and was 
 elected supervisor one term when the 
 
 township was fovir to one republican. 
 He is interested in raising Morgan 
 horses and Chester White hogs, and 
 owns splendid specimens of each. He 
 is always in attendance. 
 
 Committees: Military affairs (chairman), 
 state institutions, agriculture, executive de- 
 partment, roads and bridges, soldiers' home. 
 
 CHARLES p. BET AN. 
 
 Bryan, Charles P., (rep.), Elmhurst; 
 city address. University club, Chicago; 
 journalist. Born in Chicago, Oct. 2, 
 1855. Was educated at the Univer- 
 sity of Virginia and the Columbia Law 
 School ; was admitted to practice in 
 '78, and in '79 moved to Colorado. Was 
 elected to the legislature of that state 
 in '80, and was urged for higher prefer- 
 ment. Returned to Chicago in '83 and 
 has since lead a literary life. Was a 
 member of Gov. Oglesby's and Gov. 
 Fifer's military staff — also of Gov. 
 Altgeld's — with the rank of colonel, 
 having previously served in the 1st 
 regiment. I. N. G., and in the Guard of 
 Colorado. Elected to the Illinois leg- 
 islature in '90 and re-elected in '92. Is 
 deeply interested in the success of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition and in 
 military matters. Is not married. He 
 is on several important committees. 
 
 Mr. Bryan is independent in his ac- 
 tions, except on party questions when 
 he bows to the will of the majority. 
 
 * Bonney, Joel W., (dem.), Quincy; 
 physician. Born in Strong, Maine, 
 Feb. 23, 1828. In '48 he moved to 
 Clark Co., Mo., where he remained 
 until the fall of '59, when he went to 
 Quincy. His education was meagre. 
 Graduated from the State Medical 
 University, St. Louis, in '57. Is mar- 
 ried. 
 
 Committees: Education, flsli and game, 
 banks and banking, public charities. 
 
I,KGISr<ATIVK SOIVKNIR. 
 
 47 
 
 Burke, William, (dem.), Chicag-o; 
 wholesale wine and licjuor dealer. Born 
 in Chicag'o June 15, 1859, and educated 
 in the public schools. He learned the 
 trade of a carpenter early in life, and 
 
 WILLIAM Hl'KKK. 
 
 followed it for five years. Then he 
 went into the wholesale liquor busi- 
 ness, and has been eng-ag^ed in it for 
 nine years. He is interested in three 
 establishments in Chicago, and does a 
 larg-e business. He is not married, 
 and is comfortably well off in this 
 world's gfoods. He was elected to the 
 house in '90, and was returned in '92, 
 running- ahead of his ticket nearly 
 2,500 votes. Was a member of impor- 
 tant committees in the session of '91, 
 
 PETEK CAHILL. 
 
 and is especially interested in labor 
 leg-islation, but looks after the inter- 
 ests of the people reg^ardless of their 
 station. 
 
 Committees: Warehouses (chairmiin), iiui- 
 nieipal corporations, railroads, sanitary 
 affairs, roads and L)rid|t?(^s, revenue, live 
 stock and dairying. 
 
 Cahill, Peter, (dem.), Brimfield; far- 
 mer. Born in County Meath, Ireland, 
 Feb. 12, 1843, and canie to Illinois with 
 his parents, landing- at New Orleans 
 and taking- the Mississippi and Illinois 
 rivers to Peoria, arriving- in June '47, 
 where he has lived and farmed all his 
 life. He was educated in the coininon 
 schools. Has been a member of the 
 board of supervisors for the last four- 
 teen years, and for the last three years 
 he has been chairman of the board, a 
 position which he now fills to the 
 credit of himself and his township. 
 He is not married, and owns 500 acres 
 of Peoria land, and there is none 
 richer on the face of the g-lobe; he ac- 
 cumulated it all himself by industry, 
 frugalitv and intellig-ent farming-. He 
 
 BTHELBERT CALLAHAN. 
 
 is honest and straig-htforward in his 
 dealing-s with his fellowman, and pos- 
 sesses the confidence of the people of 
 Peoria. 
 
 Conniiittees: Canal-river improvement and 
 commerce, roads and bridges, sanitary af- 
 fairs warehouses, farm drainage, history- 
 geology and science. 
 
 Callahan, Ethelbert, (rep.), Robin- 
 son; lawyer. Born near Newark, O., 
 Dec. 17, 1829, and educated in the pub- 
 lic schools. In '49 he moved to Craw- 
 ford County, 111., and for two years 
 farmed in summer and taug-ht school 
 in winter; another year was spent as 
 clerk in a g-eneral store; then for a 
 year he was editor of The Wabash 
 Sentinel, and during- the campaig-n of 
 '54 he edited The Marshall Teleg-raph, 
 the only anti-democratic paper in his 
 cong-ressional district. He joined the 
 
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 IvEGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 republicans and entered into the Fre- 
 mont canipaig-n with ardor. His 
 speeches were bold and uncompromis- 
 ing, and attracted wide attention. In 
 '60 he was the recognized leader of the 
 republicans of Southern Illinois, and 
 in '64 he was his party's candidate for 
 congress. Gov. Oglesby appointed 
 him a member of the first state board 
 of equalization; he was also a member 
 of the house in '75, which was con- 
 trolled by the independents; in '80 was 
 an elector at large, and in '88 a dis- 
 trict elector. Was admitted to the bar 
 when past 30 years of age, and was 
 president of the state bar association 
 in '89. In '90 he was elected to the 
 hovise again, and returned in '92. In 
 the session of '91 he offered an amend- 
 ment in the house to the Australian 
 election bill permitting laboring men 
 to be absent from work for two hours 
 ■without loss of pay on election day. 
 He is championing this session a bill to 
 protect brakemen, by compelling rail- 
 roads to block their switches and frogs. 
 He is one of the ablest and best mem- 
 bers of the general assembly. Is mar- 
 ried and comfortably wealthy. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, revenue, retrench- 
 ment, senatorial apportionment. 
 
 Campbell, Albert, (rep.), Effingham; 
 dry goods merchant. Born Nov. 1, 
 1855, in Somerset, O., and was edu- 
 cated in the common schools, at the 
 same time working at whatever he 
 
 ALBERT CAMPBELL. 
 
 could get to do. He moved to Kffing- 
 ham in '71, and worked in a planing 
 mill in St. Louis in '74. Returning to 
 Kffinghani in '87, he married and set- 
 tled down for good. He is regarded 
 with respect by the people of Btfing- 
 ham, and is liberal and popular. He 
 
 has always been a strong, hustling 
 republican, and has contributed of 
 time and money towards the success of 
 his party. Mr. Campbell gives the 
 steering committee no trouble, for he 
 is alwa3^s present during sessions. 
 
 Committees: RcTenue, finance, sanitary 
 affairs, roads and bridges, public charities. 
 
 DASIKJ. A. CAMl'BELL. 
 
 Campbell, Daniel A., (rep.), Chicago; 
 lawyer. Born in Elgin June 23, 1863, 
 and was educated in the common 
 schools and at the Chicago Union Col- 
 lege of L,aw. Was admitted to the bar 
 in '86, and has been in active practice 
 ever since, principally in the real 
 estate and commercial lines. Has met 
 with very flattering success in his 
 legal career. Is not married, and this 
 is the first office he ever held. He is 
 held in high esteem by his colleagues, 
 and is a hard worker in committees. 
 Mr. Campbell is one of the youngest 
 members, and one of the most diligent 
 and best informed. He performs his 
 duties unostentatiously, but creditably 
 to himself, his party and his constit- 
 uents. In Cook county politics he is 
 an active and efi^ective worker. He 
 believes in a strong party organiza- 
 tion of the republican members of the 
 general assembly. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department, munici- 
 pal corporations, education, fees and sal- 
 aries, flsh and game. 
 
 Carlin, Stephen E., (dem.). Canton; 
 lawyer. Born in Fulton county, Feb. 
 8, 1849. Educated in the public schools 
 and at Ann Arbor University, gradu- 
 ating in '68. Then he taught school 
 until he got tired of it, stood an exam- 
 ination for admission to the bar, and 
 passed in '77. He has been practicing 
 with decided success ever since. Is 
 
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 49 
 
 married and possessed of a comforta- 
 ble competence. Mr. Carlin never 
 held public office before, but made a 
 splendid camijaig'n of the state in '90 
 for the democratic state central com- 
 
 •STKrHEN K. CAKLIN. 
 
 mittee. He does not talk to the press 
 g-allery, and is never on his feet unless 
 he has g'ot something- to say. He has 
 taken a prominent place in the house 
 and is a radical in politics but conser- 
 vative in other matters. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, miscellaneous sub- 
 jects, mines and mining, state institutions, 
 farm drainage, fish and game. 
 
 Carmody, Henry P., (dem.), Chicag-o; 
 contractor. Born in Simcoe, Canada, 
 March 19, 1861, and moved with his 
 
 HENRY P. CAKMODV 
 
 parents to Chicago three months later. 
 Received a common school education 
 until 12 years old, when he beg-an to 
 earn his own living- by working in the 
 
 brick yards, packing- houses and lum- 
 ber yards of Chicag-o. Is married. 
 Was elected to the house in '88, re- 
 elected in '90 and again in '92 by in- 
 creased majorities. He is industrious 
 as a legislator and one of the hardest 
 workers in Chicag-o for the democratic 
 ticket. He is very popular with his 
 constituents, and has been on some of 
 the most important committees in the 
 house every session. 
 
 Committees: Labor and industrial affairs 
 (chairman), corporations, municipal corpo- 
 rations, senatorial apportionment, canal- 
 river improvement and commerce, public 
 buildings and others of less imjiortance. 
 
 Carson, Thomas B., (dem.). Urbana: 
 salesman. Born in Urbana, 111., March 
 6, 1843, and received a g-ood common 
 school education. He was reared on a 
 farm and left the harvest field in '61 
 to join the 25th 111. Inf., with which he 
 
 THOMAS B. CAKSON. 
 
 served to the close of the war. He is 
 an uncompromising democrat, and has 
 been an active participant in the cam- 
 paig-ns in eastern Illinois for years. 
 In '85 he was elected doorkeeper of the 
 house by the democrats, and during- 
 the fierce Morrison-Logan senatorial 
 contest, he filled the position with dig-- 
 nit3' and to the entire satisfaction of 
 everybody. During- Cleveland's first 
 term he was a special ag'-ent of the in- 
 ternal revenue department. Is mar- 
 ried. Was elected to the house in '90 
 and ag-ain in '92, and in both sessions 
 has taken an active part in leg-islation. 
 In the session of '91 Mr. Carson was 
 assig-ned to important committees. 
 
 Committees: IJanks and banking (chair- 
 man), municipal corporations, federal rela- 
 tions, history-geology and science, drainage, 
 enrolled and engrossed bills, steering com- 
 mittee. 
 
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 IvEGISIvATlVE SOUVENIK. 
 
 Carter, Robert S., (dem.), Peters- 
 burg-; fire insurance. Was born in L,a 
 Grang-e, Fayette Co., Texas, Julj' 26, 
 1855, and moved to Petersburg in '73. 
 He received his education in the public 
 
 EOBEKT S. CARTER. 
 
 and private schools of Texas. Is mar- 
 ried. He beg-an life for himself in '7J 
 as a drug- clerk, filling prescriptions 
 until '73. He was deputy circuit clerk 
 of Menard county for four years, from 
 ''73 to '77, and then he went into the 
 abstract, loan, real estate and insur- 
 ance business at Petersburg^, and has 
 been exclusively in the line of general 
 insurance since '81. Is master in chan- 
 cery of Menard county now. Mr. Car- 
 ter is a staunch democrat and is always 
 in his seat. 
 
 GEORGE S. CAUGHLAN. 
 
 Committees: Insurance, education, appro- 
 priations, claims, flsh and game, and others 
 of less importance. 
 
 Caughlan, George S., (rep.), Tren- 
 
 ton; student of law. Born in St. 
 L/Ouis Jan. 22, 1865, and is a son of a 
 Methodist minister, whose duties as a 
 minister of the g-ospel necessitated a 
 frequent change of residence, and Mr. 
 Caughlan acquired a good common 
 education in various cities of Southern 
 Illinois. He entered McKendree Col- 
 lege at lycbanon, when he made up for 
 lost time by energy and application. 
 Although a member of the legislature, 
 he is now taking a course of law at 
 that college. Is married and has held 
 several minor offices. He is an in- 
 cisive speaker, and when he claims 
 the floor, which is not often, he com- 
 mands the attention of the house. 
 He is too young to have a record in 
 the past, but bids fair to carve out a 
 promising future. He displayed con- 
 siderable ability in the debate on the 
 report of the special committee to in- 
 vestigate the Wann disaster. 
 
 CHARLES T. CHERRY. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department, ware- 
 houses, mines and mining, building and loan 
 associations, miscellaneous, executive de- 
 partment, to investigate the Wann disaster 
 
 (special). 
 
 Cherry, Charles T., (rep.), Oswego; 
 farmer. Born in Oswego Feb. 20, 1858, 
 and was educated in the public schools. 
 He owns a magnificent tract of Ken- 
 dall county land, which he farms 
 himself, and on which he raises fine 
 Poland-China hogs, Cotswold sheep 
 and road and draft horses. He is pop- 
 tilar with his colleagues on both sides 
 of the house; is always at his seat, and 
 is particularly interested in legislation 
 affecting the farmer, stock raiser and 
 republican party. Was elected to the 
 house in '90, and again in '92. Is 
 married and has one son. Mr. Cherry 
 takes an active interest in legislation, 
 
LKOISI.ATIVp; SOUVENIK. 
 
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 and his value increases with his leni4"th 
 of service. 
 
 ('ouimittees : Coriioriition^, live stock and 
 dairyiiin', lianUs and l>anlviiif^, agriciUture, 
 loan aiKl homcslcad a-^sociations. 
 
 Claggett, Bernard J., (deni.), Lexinj^. 
 ton; banker. Born in Lexing-ton, Feb. 
 12, 1861, and is indebted to the careful 
 and systematic training- of his father 
 for his success as a man. He was edu- 
 cated at Wesle^'an Universit}', and at 
 Notre Dame, Ind., taking- the literary 
 course at the latter; g-raduated at Jones' 
 Commercial CoUeg-e, St. Louis, in '80. 
 Then he returned home and entered 
 his father's store as clerk. In '82 he 
 ■was admitted to the firm, and in De- 
 cember, when the First National Bank 
 was org'-anized, he was made cashier, 
 a position he has held ever since. In 
 addition to his connection with the 
 bank and the larg-e business interests 
 of his father's estate, he is larg-ely in- 
 terested in farming-, stock raising-, and 
 is a partner in the mercantile business 
 of Clag-gett Bros. & Co., and Clagg-ett 
 & Stevens, liverymen. In '88 he was 
 elected to the city council, and althoug'-h 
 the young-est member, was made presi- 
 dent, which office he filled with much 
 credit. When the city reorg-anized he 
 was chosen first mayor without oppo- 
 sition, and was honored by a unani- 
 mous re-election. He resig-ned to take 
 his seat in the house, but the council 
 refused to accept it. He has alwa^'s 
 been a democrat, and always took a 
 
 BERNARD J. CLAGGETT. 
 
 deep interest in politics, contributing- 
 liberally to the campaig-n. Is married 
 and owns considerable valuable land. 
 Comniittees: I'rinting (chairnian) , penal 
 and reformatory, banks and banking, state 
 and municipal "indebtedness, claims, mili- 
 tary. World's fair. 
 
 Clark, William O., (rep.), Peoria; 
 hotel proprietor. Born in Lynn, Mass., 
 Jan. 18, 1844, and was associated with 
 his father in the hotel business up to 
 the time of the death of the latter. 
 He has been proprietor of hotels in 
 Rock Island, Geneseo, Mattoon. Bush- 
 nell, Charleston, Spring-field, Bloom- 
 
 WILLIAM O. CLARK. 
 
 ing-ton and Peoria, and is well known 
 to the traveling- public. Received a 
 public school education, and is mar- 
 ried. Enlisted in Co. A, 143d 111. Inf., 
 and was in tl:e arm3' of the southwest. 
 He has been a member of the city 
 council of Peoria, and is interested in 
 the welfare of his constituents, and it 
 can be said that a better servant 
 Peoria never sent to Springfield. He 
 is an Elk, a Modern Woodman and a 
 member of the Royal Leag-ue. 
 
 Committees: Railroads, agriculture, canal- 
 river improvement and commerce, state and 
 municipal indebtedness, claims. 
 
 Conway, Bryan, (dem.), Chicag-o; 
 employed by Armour & Co. Born in 
 Chicag-o, Oct. 14, 1861, and has grown 
 up as one of the most popular young 
 democrats In his district, being espe- 
 cially liked b^' the laboring men. Re- 
 ceived a fair education at the public 
 and parochial schools of Chicago. He 
 has been employed in nearly every de- 
 partment of Armour's & Co.'s great 
 butchering and packing establishment, 
 and has held responsible positions 
 with that firm for the last twelve 
 years. Was elected to the house in '90, 
 and again in '92 by an increased ma- 
 jority'. During'- both sessions he took a 
 prominent part in all legislation, being 
 especially active on measures that con- 
 cerned Cook covxntv and his own con- 
 
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 LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 stituents. He is one of the niost 
 effective workers in the democratic 
 party in Cook county. He is married 
 an in independent circumstances finan- 
 cially. 
 
 BKTAN CONWAY. 
 
 Committees: Sanitary affairs (chairman), 
 railroads, warelionsey, municipal corpora- 
 tions, canal-river improvement and com- 
 merce 
 
 Creighton, Thomas H., (rep.), Fair- 
 field ; teacher. Born on a farm in 
 Wayne county, Nov. 29, 1865, and was 
 educated in the common schools and 
 at Hayward CoUeg-iate Institute in 
 Fairfield, graduating in the class of 
 '90. He is too young to have a politi- 
 cal record and does not seek one, being 
 quiet and retiring. His tastes rather 
 
 
 
 
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 XHUilAS H. CilKIGUTON. 
 
 run in the direction of literature and 
 learning. He was superintendent of 
 the Fairfield city schools for two years, 
 resigning on his nomination to the 
 
 house. He was named by acclama- 
 tion in the republican convention last 
 spring. He is very anxious for the 
 passage of a uniform text book bill, 
 and is a hard working, conscientious 
 member who can be relied on to be in 
 his seat during sessions. Is not mar- 
 ried. 
 
 Committees: Education, fees and salaries, 
 history-geology and science, libraries, exec- 
 utive department. 
 
 Cusey, John, (rep.), mechanic; Far- 
 mer City. Born in Richland Co., O., 
 April 9, 1822, and moved to McLean 
 Co., 111., in '36, and to DeWitt county 
 in '83, and has lived there ever since. 
 He is a self-educated man, having no 
 chance to attend the district schools of 
 his native state. He has a good com- 
 mon school education, however, thanks 
 to his ambition and pluck. He is mar- 
 ried, and was state senator from '72 to 
 '76, and member of the state board of 
 
 JOHN CU>ET. 
 
 equalization from '80 to '84. He has 
 been township assessor nine times, and 
 member of the county board for both 
 McLean and DeWitt counties, repre- 
 senting the latter now. Mr. Cusey 
 was a member of the first republican 
 state convention, which met in Bloom- 
 ington in '54, and nominated Jesse O. 
 Norton of Will county for congress, 
 the first republican congressman from 
 Illinois. In the same convention he 
 seconded a resolution that named the 
 new party "Republican." He has al- 
 ways voted in opposition to the demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 Committees: Revenue, drainage, federal 
 relations, history-geology and science. 
 
 *Dazey, Mitchell, (dern.), Lima; far- 
 mer. Born in Bourbon Co., Ky., Oct. 
 2, 1820. Educated in common schools, 
 
I.I'X'.ISLATIVK SOUVKNIK. 
 
 S3 
 
 and was elected to the house in '89 to 
 fill a vacancy. Is married and owns 
 305 acres of kind. 
 
 Conmiittees : Drainaj^e, farm drainage, rf- 
 trenchniciit, ai)|)ropriati<)HS, libraries. 
 
 * Dean, William C, (deni.), Ava; 
 miller and farmer. Born in Randolph 
 Co., 111., Dec. 10, 1838, and moved to 
 Ava in '76. Was educated in the com- 
 mon schools; was in the mercantile 
 business until two years ago, when he 
 purchased a roller mill. Is married 
 and owns 3,000 acres of land. 
 
 i.Coniiiiittees: Agriculture, to visit educ-a- 
 tioiial institutions, state institutions, roads. 
 
 Dearborn, Luther fl., (dem.), Aurora; 
 lawyer. Born at Geneva, 111., Aug. 5, 
 1858, and educated at Bishop Whipple's 
 School, Fairbault, Minn., and at Ra- 
 cine, Wis. He read law in the office 
 of Hon. John N. Jewett; afterwards 
 
 LUTUEl; M. UK.VIUiliKN. 
 
 spent two 3'ears at Harvard L,aw 
 School, and was admitted to practice 
 in '82. He remained in Chicago for 
 three years in the law office of his 
 father, Hon. Luther Dearborn, and 
 John B. Cohrs, and then formed a 
 partnership with Judge Annis in Au- 
 rora. Is not married. He was elected 
 to the house iu '90 and again in '92, 
 and in both he held important com- 
 mittee assignments. 
 
 Committees: Roads and bridges (chair- 
 man), judiciary, railroads, manufactures, 
 insurance, contingent expenses, to investi- 
 gate tlie sweat shop evil (special). 
 
 Deneen, Charles S., (rep.), Chicago; 
 lawyer. Born in Edwardsville May 
 4, 1863, and moved to Chicago in the 
 fall of '85. He was educated at Mc- 
 Kendree College, Lebanon, in which 
 institution his father was a professor 
 for nearly thirty years. Mr. Deneen 
 
 graduated in law in '85 and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Jan. '87, and has 
 had a very successful and profitable 
 practice ever since. Is married and 
 this is his first office. He taught in a 
 
 CHARLES S. DENEKN. 
 
 night school in Chicago for three 
 years. Was attorney for Representa- 
 tive Bish in the contested election 
 case of VanPraag vs. Bish, and his 
 skillful handling of the case attracted 
 the attention of the older political 
 leaders. Mr. Deneen is a young man 
 with flattering prospects for a splendid 
 future, and is highh' regarded by those 
 who know him. 
 
 Conmiittees: Corporations, drainage, ju 
 dicial department, laljor and industi'ial af- 
 faiis, to investigate the sweat shop evil 
 
 JOHN C. DONNELLY. 
 
 Donnelly, John C, (dem.); Wood- 
 stock; clerk. Was born in Wood- 
 stock, Nov. 3, 1855, and educated in 
 
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 LEGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 the coiiimon schools with a finishing 
 course at Notre Dame. For two years 
 he was clerk in the office of the circuit 
 clerk of McHenry county. He also 
 has represented the Northwestern 
 railroad in the south. He was deputy 
 collector of internal revenue under 
 Cleveland. Mr. Donnelly is one of 
 the most popular and affable members 
 of the g-eneral assembly. Was elected 
 to the house in '90, and althoug-h the 
 district is the strongest republican 
 district in the state and an independ- 
 ent democrat was running against 
 him he received more votes than either 
 of the republicans or the independent. 
 He is the first democrat that has been 
 returned from the district a second 
 time immediately following the first. 
 He is very influential in northern Illi- 
 nois democratic politics, and takes a 
 prominent part in all important legis- 
 lation. 
 
 Committees: Corporations (chairman), 
 banks and banking, live stock and dulvying, 
 sanitary affairs, Insurance, misCfUaneous 
 subjects, enrolled and engrossed bills, sena- 
 torial apportioment, steering- comniittee. 
 
 Douglas, John J., (rep.), Chester; 
 farmer. Born in Chester Aug. 17, 
 1849, and was educated in the common 
 schools and McKendree College. Then 
 he learned the trade of miller. His 
 parents came from Scotland and when 
 he was 22 years old he visited the 
 crags and moors of the Land of the 
 Thistle. Returning home he married 
 
 JOHN J. DOUGLAS. 
 
 in '72, bought a farm and settled down, 
 and has farmed ever since. In this 
 occupation he has been successful, 
 owing more to his own intelligence 
 and industry than to the fertility of 
 the soil. He owns 340 acres of good 
 land, and is one of the most reliable 
 
 and substantial members of the house. 
 
 Committees: Mines and mining, fees and 
 salaries, roads and bridges, horticulture. 
 
 Dow, Augustus, (rep.), Pittsfield; 
 flour manufacturer. Born in South 
 Coventry, Tolland county, Connecti- 
 cut, Oct. 9, 1841, and in '58 moved to 
 Pittsfield, where he has lived ever 
 
 AUGUSTUS DOW. 
 
 since. He received an academic edu- 
 cation in his native town and from '62 
 to '65 was connected with the pay de- 
 partment of the United States army. 
 After the war he returned to Pittsfield 
 and engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness, continuing it iintil '70, when he 
 sold out and started the manufacture 
 of flour on a large scale. Pittsfield is 
 a democratic district, but he has been 
 elected to the county board several 
 times, and mayor of the city four 
 3'ears. Mr. Dow has been connected 
 with all the improvements of a local 
 nature, and is regarded as one of the 
 foremost and most liberal citizens. He 
 is an uncompromising republican, is 
 a director in the First National Bank 
 and is married. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river improvement 
 and commerce, drainage, state and muni- 
 cipal indebtedness, to visit charitable insti- 
 tutions . 
 
 *Drury, Joseph W., (dem.), Water- 
 loo; farmer and dair3'man. Bom in 
 St. Louis Feb. 5, 1832, and educated at 
 McKendree College. Moved with his 
 parents to Monroe county when three 
 years old; was provost marshal of Mon- 
 roe count}' during the war. Was 
 sherifi^ from '66 to '74, excepting two 
 years; has held several school offices, 
 is married and owns 645 acres. 
 
 Committees: Congressional apportion- 
 ment, world's fair, horticulture, fees and 
 salaries, penal and reformatory, live stock. 
 
I.KOISLATIVE SOUVKNIK. 
 
 * Duncan, John H., (rep.), Marion; 
 teacher. Born in Marshall Co., Ky., 
 June 27, 1858, and moved with his 
 parents to Williamson county in '65. 
 Educated at Shurtleff College; taught 
 school 3 years; elected county sviperin- 
 tendent of schools in '82 and '86; elect- 
 ed to the house in '90 and '92; married. 
 
 Coniniittees: Mines and iiiininfj, revenue, 
 labur, license, senatorial apportionment. 
 
 * Dyer, John, (rep.), Fulton; shoe- 
 maker. Born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 
 March 6, 1824. Enlisted in Co. F. 52d 
 111. iind Co. F 93d 111. Inf. Received a 
 meager education; is married and has 
 been justice of the peace and on the 
 county board 16 years. 
 
 ("omniittees: State institutions, public 
 buildinj^s, soldieis' lionie. 
 
 Edmiston, John D., (rep.), Olney ; 
 merchant and farmer. Born in Rich- 
 land county' June 13, 1861, and was 
 educated in the Olney high school, 
 after which he learned the painter's 
 trade and then went into the mercan- 
 tile business with his father. This he 
 sold out and is now running a fruit 
 farm of apples and peaches. Is mar- 
 ried. Has been an alderman and has 
 held other minor offices. He is an Odd 
 Fellow, a Modern Woodman and an 
 A. O. U. W. He didn't seek the nom- 
 ination last year for his present of- 
 fice, nevertheless was chosen by accla- 
 mation and ran 500 ahead of his ticket; 
 has been in politics and a delegiite to 
 state conventions ever since he voted. 
 
 JOHN D. ED.MI8TON. 
 
 Mr. Edmiston is constant in attend- 
 ance and informs himself on the 
 merits of every measure that comes up. 
 
 Committees: Railroads, state institutions, 
 manufactures, sanitary affairs, enrolled and 
 engrossed bills, horticulture. 
 
 Ellsworth, Urbin S., (rep.). Deer 
 Park, LaSalle Co.; farmer. Born in 
 South Ottawa. April 19, 1851, and five 
 years later his parents moved to Deer 
 Park township. He completed his 
 education at Jennings Seminary, 
 Aurora, graduating in the classical 
 course in '74. Two years afterwards 
 
 ITKBIN S. ELLSWORTH. 
 
 he married. Has represented his 
 township three times on the board of 
 supervisors. Is a meinber of the 
 Farmers Alliance, and is a loyal re- 
 publican. He received his political 
 education froin his g-randfather, John 
 Clark, who was dismissed from church 
 in '39 because of his abolition views. 
 Was elected to the house in "90 and '92. 
 In the session of '91 he strongly advo- 
 cated a bill for an insane hospital 
 northwest of the Illinois river, in 
 order to relieve the county poor houses 
 of their insane charges. He is inter- 
 ested especially in legislation that 
 affects the Illinois river vallej^ 
 
 Committees: Corporations, education, 
 revenue, agriculture, sanitary affairs, in- 
 surance. 
 
 Erickson, Samuel E., (rep.), Chi- 
 cago; depvity sheriff". Born in Lind- 
 koping-, Sweden, March 4, 1860; parents 
 emigrated to Chicago when he was 
 four 3'ear-; old, and five years later 
 the father died leaving a widow and 
 several small children without means 
 of support. The son left school and 
 worked in a chair factory to help sup- 
 port the f ainily ; then he engaged with 
 Allen, Mack«S: Co., and advanced from 
 errand boy to a more responsible 
 place, when the firm failed. He began 
 as messenger boy for the Western 
 Union and worked up to the operating 
 room, where he remained until he re- 
 
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 I^EGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 signed to accept a place in the abstract 
 department of the county, and during- 
 his six years' service he held almost 
 every position in the recorder's office. 
 Blected to the general assembly in '90 
 
 SAMUEL B. BRICKSON. 
 
 he energ-etically worked in the inter- 
 ests of his constituents. He is now a 
 deputy under Sheriff Gilbert, who con- 
 siders him one of the brig-htest and 
 most trustworthy of his men. He has 
 shown marked ability as a dramatic 
 reader. Is not married. Ten years 
 ag-o he traveled extensively in ISurope. 
 In '92 was urg-ed for cong-ress ; named 
 for temporary speaker but declined. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department, muni- 
 cipal corporations, live stock and dairying, 
 military, printing, drainage, world's fair. 
 
 THOMAS F. FBKNS. 
 
 Ferns, Thomas F., (dem.), Jersey- 
 ville ; lawyer. Born in Jersey ville 
 July 27, 1862. Graduated from the 
 Jerseyville high school in '82, and 
 
 from the St. Louis Law School in June, 
 '85, having been admitted to the bar 
 March 20 previous. Mr. Ferns' suc- 
 cess as a practitioner was pronounced 
 from the start. He was city attorney 
 of Jerseyville for three consecutive 
 terms from '85 to '91, and was elected 
 to the legislature in '90, and has a 
 record that justifies his constituents' 
 wisdom in sending him here. During 
 the session of '91 he introduced and 
 pushed to enactment a stringent law 
 forbidding the organization of trusts 
 and combinations to control markets 
 and prevent open and fair competition. 
 Although young he is one of the lead- 
 ers in the house and has quite a repu- 
 tation for ability and oratory. In past 
 campaigns in western Illinois he has 
 taken conspicuous part. He is already 
 being urg-ed for congress next year, 
 and his record in the past justifies the 
 opinion that he will get there. 
 
 JAMES p. FLETCHER. 
 
 Committees: Railroads (chairman), 
 
 judiciary, judicial department, senatorial 
 apportionment, education, finance, federal 
 relations, steering committee. 
 
 Fletcher, James P., (rep.). Ridge 
 Farm, Vermilion Co.; farmer. Born 
 Feb. 14, 1855, almost on the spot where 
 his house now stands. He was educated 
 at Vermilion Academy and at Penn 
 College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Is married 
 and has farmed all his life. He owns 
 a fine herd of Chester White hogs, of 
 which he is an extensive breeder. Is 
 a Royal Arch Mason and has been 
 worshipful master of his lodge for five 
 terms ; is also a Modern Woodman ; is 
 business manager of his lodge and was 
 a delegate to the last state convention 
 at Peoria. He is interested in any 
 legislation that will benefit the farm- 
 
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 'Crs, particularly permanent roads. He 
 has never held office before, and is in 
 •constant attendance. 
 
 Coinniittees: Canal-river iniproveineut 
 and commerce, manufactures, public build- 
 ings, visit educational nistitutioas, farm 
 •drainage, to investigate the Wann disaster. 
 
 Farrell, James H., (dem.), Chicag-o ; 
 real estate. Born in the Isle of Jer- 
 sey, Nov. 19, 1842; his father was born 
 in the Isle of Guern.sey. Victor Hug-o's 
 birthplace, and his mother in Dublin. 
 All the schooling he had was obtained 
 before he was 10 years old. He arriv- 
 ed in New York in '51, and began life 
 as a clerk. When 19 he enlisted in Co. 
 H of the famous 5th N. Y. Inf., Col. 
 Jud.son Kilpatrick, commanding-, 
 beginning with the battle of 
 Bethel he was in nearly every 
 portant battle and skirmish of 
 Army of the Potomac during the war. 
 When he was mustered out he entered 
 the largest wall paper manufacturing- 
 concern in the union as clerk, and re- 
 mained there until '68 when he moved 
 to Chicago, continuing- in the same 
 line for two years. He has been in 
 the real estate business for the past 
 ten years. He has always taken g-reat 
 interest in politics, and is now serving- 
 his fourth consecutive term in the 
 house. He organized and commanded 
 the Cook County Democratic March- 
 ing club, the best drilled and most 
 .famous political marching organiza- 
 
 and 
 Big 
 iin- 
 the 
 
 JAMES H. FARKELL. 
 
 'tion in the country. He is al.so grand 
 marshal of the democratic marching 
 
 •clubs for Illinois, having been elected 
 in '84. He has been a leader in the 
 house since his first election, and has 
 
 ;served on all the most important com- 
 
 imittees, and while he does not push 
 
 himself forward is regarded as a man 
 of ability and influence. He is mar- 
 ried and in independent circumstances. 
 
 Committees: World's fair (chairman— al80 
 chairman in tlie last legislature), judicial 
 department, penal and reformatory, finance, 
 municipal corporations, revenue, military, 
 senatorial apportionment, steering com'ittee 
 
 DAVID FOKSYTHE. 
 
 Forsythe, David, (dem.), Elwood, 
 Will Co.; farmer. Born in County 
 Antrim, Ireland, April 25, 1850, and in 
 his eleventh year the family emigrated 
 to America — an elder son and brother 
 — the late John Forsythe, of Chicago, 
 having preceded them by several 
 years. David Forsythe resided with 
 his brother in Chicago until he had 
 completed his education in Chicago 
 schools. He moved to Will county in 
 '65 'and has since been engaged in 
 farming and shipping live stock, in 
 which he has been very successful. 
 He is married and owns 960 acres of 
 land, gathered by his own industry and 
 shrewdness. He has been supervisor 
 of his township for three years, and 
 has held minor offices. He was elected 
 to the house in '90, re-elected in '92 and 
 has served on important committees 
 and taken an active interest in legis- 
 lation each session. 
 
 Committees: Live stock and dairying 
 (chairman), corporations, canal-river im- 
 provement and commerce, mines and 
 mining, agriculture, sanitary affairs, re- 
 trenchment, miscellaneous subjects. 
 
 Fowler, H. Robert, (dem.),iFlizabeth- 
 town; lawyer, was born in Pope coun- 
 ty about 35 years ago, and was edu- 
 cated in the common schools, finishing 
 at the Northern Normal, graduating 
 in "78. He taught school eight years; 
 has been principal of the schools at 
 Flizabethtown and Cave-in-Rock, and 
 was very successful, raising the 
 
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 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 schools in Hardin county several de- 
 grees in efficiency. He graduated in 
 law at Ann Arbor University in '85 ; 
 was admitted to practice in Michigan 
 in '84 and in Illinois in '85. He was 
 states attorney of Hardin county for 
 four years. Mr. Fowler has had to 
 fight for every step of vantage ground 
 since early boyhood, and in the face of 
 almost unsurmountable obstacles has 
 attained a place of influence and 
 standing. He made a record for 
 energy as chairman of the special 
 committee to investigate the accident 
 at "Wann that commends him to his 
 colleagues, who recognize his ability 
 and honesty. He is championing a co- 
 employe bill to protect railroad 
 employes, and one introduced by him- 
 self to secure state uniformity of text 
 books. 
 
 H. KOU I 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, world'sfair, elec- 
 tions, fees and salaries, roads and bridges, 
 revenue, visit educational institutions, 
 county and township organization 
 
 Qoodall, Samuel H., (dem.), Marion; 
 lawyer. Born in Marion Feb. 7, 1866, 
 and graduated at the Southern Illinois 
 Normal University in '87 ; taught 
 school for two years in Williamson 
 county and received a state certificate 
 to teach. Graduated from the Ann 
 Arbor I^aw School with the degree of 
 L. L. B. in '90; was quiz master in the 
 school in '90 and '91, and in this latter 
 year received the degree of L. L^. M. 
 Was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 
 '90 and began practicing his profession 
 next year, iu which he has been suc- 
 cessful. He has been city attorney of 
 Marion. He is not married. He is 
 very anxious to cut down the usurous 
 rates for tax sales, and get his county 
 
 into democratic congressional and 
 senatorial districts. Is an aggressive 
 and independent member with nerve 
 enough to demand and insist that his. 
 section be jriven fair treatment. 
 
 SAMUEL H. GOODALL. 
 
 Committees: Miscellaneous subject® 
 (chairman), judiciary, judicial department, 
 education, mines and mining, claims, 
 
 Qleeson, James F., (dem.), Chicago r 
 telegraph operator. Born in Chicago" 
 Jan. 17, 1859, and graduated in the 
 commercial course of the Watertown 
 (Wis.) branch of Notre Dame Univer- 
 sity. He had charge of the West 
 Division police telegraph system as 
 superintendent for over six years, and 
 in '84 helped put up the first police 
 boxes in the citv. He was elected to- 
 
 JAMES F. GLEESON. 
 
 the house in '86 and returned in '92, 
 Is not married. He is a strong worker 
 in the democratic party in Chicago,^ 
 and Speaker Crafts has recognized. 
 
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 his ability by placing- him on several 
 important committees. In the legis- 
 lature of '87 he was active in the in- 
 terest of labor legislation. 
 
 Coiniiiittees: Municipal corporations, for 
 poriitions, labor ami industrial affairs, mili- 
 tary affairs, printiiiff. 
 
 Gill, Michael J., (dem.), Alton; glass- 
 worker. Born in New York City Dec. 
 5, 1866, and is one of the promising- 
 j'oung men of the house. His parents 
 moved to Kentucky in '68 and he went 
 to Alton in '82, where he has since re- 
 sided, although he learned his trade in 
 Wellington, O., in '81. His schooling 
 was entirely at night, as he could not 
 afford the time during the day; he 
 learned German unaided. He is mar- 
 ried, and already has made his influ- 
 ence felt in the house as a champion 
 of the rights of the laboring classes. 
 Is aggressive in their behalf. 
 
 MICHAEL J. GILL. 
 
 Committees: World's fair, mines and 
 mininji, Uibor and industrial, public build- 
 ings, fish and game, and others of less im- 
 portance. 
 
 Qo-wer, Bailey A., (rep.), Odell; 
 farmer and stock raiser. Born in 
 Franklin Co., Me., Oct. 27, 1835, and 
 moved to Livingston Co., 111., in '56, 
 where he has lived and earned a stand- 
 ing and reputation second to none. 
 His education was completed at the 
 Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at Kent's 
 Hill. He taught school for a time 
 when a young man, but has farmed 
 nearly all his life. He has filled vari- 
 ous offices of minor importance. Is 
 married and owns 950 acres of Living- 
 ston county land, and there is none 
 better in the wide world. In the way 
 of live stock he makes a specialty of 
 road and carriage horses and thor- 
 oughbred cattle. He is regarded as one 
 
 of the substantial and reliable men of 
 the house. He has always voted the 
 republican ticket, casting his first vote 
 for Lincoln in '60. He is always in 
 attendance when the house meets. 
 
 BAILEY A. GOWEK. 
 
 Committees: Alines and mining, conting- 
 ent expenses, fish and g.iiiu', public build- 
 ings. 
 
 Griggs, Edward H., (rep.), Chicago; 
 fire insurance. Bora in Dedham, 
 Mass., March 19, 1835. Came to Illi- 
 nois in '56 and was educated in the 
 common schools. He was clerk of 
 what is now the Second National Bank 
 of Rockford from '56 to '65. In '65 he 
 bought an interest in The Rockford 
 Register, which he ran successfully as 
 a republican paper until 1874, when he 
 
 EDWARD H. GRIGGS. 
 
 relinquished it and moved to Chicago,, 
 where he has since resided. For the 
 past ten j^ears he has been connected 
 with the western department of the 
 
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 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Niagara Fire Insurance company of 
 JSIew York. He was secretary of the 
 senate in '71, and was a committee 
 ■clerk in the senate of '69. Was elected 
 to the house in '90, and kept tall)' for 
 the republicans on the clerk of the 
 house during" the long- and exciting 
 contest for United States senator in 
 '91. He is a quiet man, a hard worker 
 in committee and a staunch repub- 
 lican. He is married: 
 
 Committees: Insurance, education, en- 
 rolled and engrossed bills, fish and game, 
 senatorial apportionment. 
 
 Quffin, Washington I., (rep.), Paw 
 
 Paw; grain and coal dealer. Born in 
 Carlisle, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1840, and 
 moved to Illinois in '69, settling on a 
 farm near Mahigin's Grove, Lee coun- 
 ty, where he went into the dairy and 
 ■cheese industry. In '72 the Burlington 
 railroad ran a branch through the 
 county, and established the town of 
 Compton, where Mr. Guffin built an 
 elevator, also one at Paw Paw, and 
 engaged in the grain business, with 
 his home at Compton. Sixteen years 
 later he moved to Paw Paw. He was 
 educated in the common and select 
 schools near his boyhood home, owns 
 real estate in Paw Paw and Evanston, 
 and is married. He was on the county 
 board in '72; but never was on a jury, 
 v^^as a witness in court only once, and 
 never had a case in court as plaintiff 
 or defendant. He is very independ- 
 
 WASHINGTON I. GUFFIN. 
 
 ent in his utterance and a good legis- 
 lator. He was nominated for the leg- 
 islature by the Lee county convention 
 by acclamation. Is always present. 
 
 Committees: Congressional apportion- 
 ment, revenue, appropriations, municipal 
 corporations, municipal and state indelited- 
 ness. 
 
 QuthrJe, Noah H., (rep.), Aledo; 
 farmer. Born in Green Co., Pa., 
 March 6, 1842, and received a common 
 school education. He worked on a 
 farm until '61, when he answered the 
 summons to arms, enlisting in Co. A, 
 7th W. Va. Inf., and served with credit 
 for over three years. He was in all 
 
 NOAH H. GUTHRIE. 
 
 the great battles of the Army of the 
 Potomac, and was wounded in the 
 right leg at Spottsylvania, necessitat- 
 ing the removal of eight inches of the 
 tibia. It is not apparent in his gait, 
 and is regarded as one of the wonders 
 of surgery. In Dec. '64, he came to 
 Illinois and was appointed to the Illi- 
 nois Soldiers' College at Fulton, 
 remaining from '67 to '70. He took 
 the U. S. census for his county in '70; 
 was elected sheriff the same year, and 
 re-elected in '72, and has farmed most 
 of the time since. Is married and 
 owns 280 acres of land, all finely im- 
 proved. He took the censu s of his 
 township in '80 and was elected to the 
 house in '92. 
 
 Committees: Mines and mining, live 
 stocls and dairying, sanitary affairs, fish 
 and game, contingent expenses. 
 
 Hanker, Charles, (rep.), Toledo; con- 
 tractor and builder, was born in Wit- 
 tenberg, Prussia, May 4, 1843, and 
 moved with his father to America in 
 '62 settling first in Freeburg, St. Clair 
 Co., 111., where he learned the carpen- 
 ter trade. He moved to Cumberland 
 county in '67 and engaged in the fur- 
 niture business. He is married and 
 owns considerable city property. He 
 has held various minor offices and has 
 been chairman of the republican coun- 
 ty central committee. Opportunities 
 for education were not as plentiful as 
 
I.KOISLA'riVE SOUVKN I w . 
 
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 now, and he received the common 
 school education of the time in which 
 he was a youth. He is a quiet and 
 modest member but watches closeU' 
 the moves of the leaders on the floor, 
 
 CHARLES HANKEK. 
 
 and is faithful in eittendance. He is 
 a g'ood, reliable representative. 
 
 Comuilttees: Fees and salaries, public 
 buildiiij^s, labor and industiial, inannfac 
 tures, military. 
 
 lianna, D. Caswell, (rep.), Monmouth; 
 farmer and stock raiser. Born in War- 
 ren Co., June 8, 1836, and received a 
 common school education. In '60 he 
 went to Colorado and New Mexico, 
 spending- over a year mining-, teaming, 
 etc. He returned home and enlisted in 
 
 D. CASWELL HANNA. 
 
 Co. C 91st 111. Inf., in Aug-. '62; was 
 elected first lieutenant. Saw his first 
 service in Elizabethtown, K3'., where 
 the rebel Gen. John Morgan captured 
 
 his command Dec. 2.S, '62. He remained 
 in Benton barracks. Mo., on parole 
 until June '63, when he wasexchang-ed 
 and sent to Vicksburg-, arriving- a few- 
 days after the surrender. After a 
 scouting service of several weeks he 
 reached New Orleans in August, was 
 promoted to the command of his com- 
 pany, and participated in the principal 
 battles of the Arm3' of the Gulf, in- 
 cluding Banks' campaig-n to Texas and 
 the Rio Grande, winding- up his ser- 
 vice in Mobile after taking- part in the 
 siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blake- 
 ly. He was discharged July 27, '65 
 and returned home. Was married Oct. 
 17. '66 to Miss Martha E. Heaton, and 
 li as a family of five girls and four boys. 
 He lived in Henderson county for 
 many years and in '69 was elected 
 county clerk, and re-elected in '73 ; 
 was also mayor of Oquawka one term. 
 
 JAY L. HASTINGS. 
 
 In '76 he moved to Monmouth : is in- 
 terested chiefly in agricultural and 
 educational measures. 
 
 Committees: 
 drainaee. 
 
 Worlds fair, license, farm 
 
 Hastings, Jay L., (rep.), Galesburg-; 
 lawyer. Born June 6, 1858, twelve 
 miles north of Ottawa, 111. His father 
 is now a lumber merchant in Bay City, 
 Mich. Mr. Hastings remained on the 
 LaSalle county farm until he was 12. 
 years old, when his parents moved on 
 a Michigan farm. Afterwards he en- 
 tered L/ombard University, at Gales- 
 Inirg-, maintaitiing- himself by corres- 
 ]jondin,g for Chicago, St. Louis papers 
 and the Associated Press. He gradua- 
 ted in '76 and while in school earned a 
 flattering- reputation for ability and as 
 an orator. He was on The Chicag-o 
 Tribune for a time, and then entered 
 
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 LRGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 the law office of Hon. O. F. Price, and 
 in two years was admitted to the bar. 
 He earl}' took great interest and be- 
 came prominent in local and county 
 politics. He was public administrator 
 of Knox county for four years and has 
 been alderman many years. Marred. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, municipal corpor- 
 ations, county and township organization, 
 building and loan associations, elections. 
 
 Hawks, James A., (rep.), Atwood; 
 g-rain and lumber dealer. Born in 
 Osweg-o, N. Y., July 19, 1847, and edu- 
 cated at Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. 
 Y., and Hamilton College, graduating 
 in '69. He enlisted in the 3d N. Y. 
 Art. when but 17 years old, and was 
 captured and placed in lyibby prison, 
 from which place he was released when 
 Gen. Grant captured Richmond. After 
 the war he resumed his studies and 
 moved to Piatt Co., 111., in '69 and 
 
 JAMES A. HAWKS. 
 
 started in the general merchandise 
 business. In '87 he branched off into 
 grain and lumber, and has been deal- 
 ing in these two ever since. He is 
 married and owns 1,280 acres of land. 
 He has been supervisor and held vari- 
 ous minor offices. He was elected to 
 the house in '82 and returned in '92, 
 and no man stands higher among his 
 colleagues. He has no hobbies, and 
 scans closely every measure that 
 comes up. He is a good legislator. 
 
 Committees: Banks and banking, finance, 
 drainage, claims. 
 
 Hawley, Edgar C, (rep.), Dundee; 
 merchant and stock raiser. Republi- 
 can leader of the house. Born in Bar- 
 rington, 111., Feb. 20, 1850, and was 
 educated in the public schools and 
 Elgin Academy. Is married. Was 
 cashier of the State Grain Inspector's 
 
 office in Chicago for a time, and at 
 present carries on a large business at 
 Dundee. Was elected to the house of 
 representatives in '88, '90, and '92. 
 Was the republican caucus nominee 
 
 EDGAE C. HAWLBT. 
 
 for speaker in the present general 
 assembly, and as such became the 
 party leader and was conceded a chair- 
 manship with clerk and room for use 
 of republican members He has taken 
 an important part in the legislation of 
 the general assemblies of which he has 
 been a member; is a strong party man 
 and a very shrewd politician. 
 
 Committees: Riglits of the minority— the 
 steering committee— (chairman) , railroads, 
 finance, penal and reformatory, banks and 
 banlving, agriculture, live stock and dairy- 
 ing, rules. 
 
 EDWARD J. HAYES. 
 
 Hayes, Edward J., (dem.), Chicago; 
 merchant. Born in Ansonia, Conn., 
 July 9, 1863, and moved to Chicago 
 with his parents when four months 
 
LKCtISLATIVK souvkni k. 
 
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 old. He \Yas educated in the public 
 schools and worked in a stove foundry 
 for ten years. The first public office 
 he has held is the present one. Al- 
 thou",--!! one of the 3'oung-est members, 
 Mr. Hayes has been complimented by 
 places on several important commit- 
 tees. Is not married. 
 
 Coiiiniittees: Municipal c-orporatioiis, 
 elections, ri-vi'mie, license, retrencliincnt, 
 <<xcciitive department, labor and industrial 
 affairs. 
 
 * Holtslaw, Daniel W., (dem.). luka; 
 farmer. Born in Marion county, Feb. 
 5, 1849 ; educated in the county schools. 
 Is married and owns 400 acres. 
 
 Coiiiniittees: Visit educational institu- 
 tions, (cliairnian), eoiisiressioiial apportit)n- 
 ment, ajipropiiations, mines and mining. 
 
 Henning, Edgar L., (dem.), Piano; 
 banker and merchant. Born in Ken- 
 dall county, April 8, 1849, and educated 
 in the common schools, at a commer- 
 cial collej^-e and Ann Arbor. He 
 started in life on a farm, then beg-an 
 clerking-- in a store, and in '75 engag-ed 
 in the mercantile line himself, con- 
 tintxing- it up to the present da3'. He 
 started E. L,. Henning's Bank in '79, 
 and it is one of the most substantial 
 and safe institutions in the state. He 
 is married, and owns 600 acres of land 
 besides town and city property. He 
 has held various local offices, and has 
 been on the board of education for 
 nine years, and president of the board 
 for four. He is a very industriotts 
 
 EDGAR L. HENNING. 
 
 member, and for his fir.st session is 
 well posted on legislative work. He is 
 a good democrat and valuable member. 
 Coiiiniittees : Executive department (ehaii- 
 man), banks ami bankiiiif, appropriations, 
 canal river improvement and commerce, 
 agriculture, building and loan associations, 
 state and municipal Indebtedness. 
 
 Herdman, Alexander B., (dem.). Mor- 
 risonville; miller and grain dealer. 
 Born in Orange Co., N. Y., Jan. 5, 
 1837, and moved to Illinois with his 
 parents in '42, settling first in Ran- 
 dolph county, where he remained for 
 12 years; they he moved to Jersey 
 cotmty, remaining tmtil '67; then to 
 
 ALE.VAJSUEK B. HERDMAN. 
 
 Brighton, where he remained until '71, 
 and from '71 to the present time he has 
 been a resident of Morrisonville and 
 engaged in his present business. He 
 always voted the democratic ticket. 
 Was educated in the common school 
 branches in public and select schools, 
 and finished his edtication at West- 
 minister College, Fulton, Mo. Is mar- 
 ried and owns 160 acres in Jersey 
 county. Has been connected with 
 school offices all his life; has been on 
 the board of supervisors for several 
 years and was chairman one year and 
 has been on town boards and president 
 of the same. He desires verj' much to 
 see democratic pledges of economy 
 and reform fulfilled, and every time 
 the opporttinity occurs votes in that 
 direction. 
 
 Committees: To visit state charitable in- 
 stitutions (chairman), appropriations, 
 revenue, county and township organization, 
 world's fair, canal and river improvement 
 and commerce, state institutions. 
 
 Higgins, Richard T., (rep.), Vanda- 
 lia ; banker. Born in Cass count}', 
 111., June 9, 1842, and left an orphan 
 at the age of 12. When 15 he left the 
 farm to make his home with his 
 brother-in-law. Dr. F. B. Haller, of 
 Vandalia. He took a full academic 
 cotxrse at Ttiscarora Academy, Pa., 
 and obtained a complete medical edu- 
 cation at the Chicago Medical College, 
 and Jeffer^^on Medical College. Phila- 
 
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 LEGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 delphia. He entered the union service 
 as a hospital steward and was pro- 
 moted on his merits to be assistant 
 surgeon. In '64 he returned home and 
 entered into partnership with Dr, 
 
 RICHARD T. HIGGINS. 
 
 Haller. Althongh very successful in 
 his profession he was compelled to 
 abandon it to take care of his large 
 business interests. In '75 he was elec- 
 ted president of the Farmers and Mer- 
 chants National Bank, which place he 
 now fills. He is married and owns 
 1,500 acres of farm land in addition to 
 considerable city real estate. He has 
 held various offices of minor import- 
 ance; was nominated by acclamation. 
 Committees: Railroads, appropriations, 
 worlds fair, sanitary affairs. 
 
 JOHN HOLMES. 
 
 Holmes, John, (dem.), Medina; far- 
 mer. Born in County Ivondonderry, 
 Ireland, June 15, 1824, and emigrated to 
 Canada with his parents in '27, stop- 
 
 ping for a short time and moving on 
 to New York, where the family 
 remained for eight years. In '35 they 
 located on a wild piece of land within 
 a mile of Mr. Holmes' present home. 
 He has farmed all his life, is healthy, 
 vigorous, and owns 2,500 acres of mag- 
 nificent land — farming has paid under 
 his careful guidance, energy and 
 thrift. He is married and has a family 
 of ten children, and if they carry their 
 character in their faces as does their 
 father, they can borrow all they want 
 without making a note. He received 
 an indifferent education in district 
 schools. He is popular and respected 
 by his neighbors or he would not have 
 held office for 32 of the 35 years he has 
 lived in Medina township since he was 
 21; he was postmaster seven years and 
 member of the county board for five 
 years, being chairman one term. Mr, 
 
 ARCHIBALD W. HOPKINS. 
 
 Holmes was too modest to permit the 
 telling of how he saved Peoria county 
 thousands of dollars in the building of 
 the new court house in the 70's. 
 
 Committees: Canal and river improvement 
 and commerce, public buildings, claims, 
 agriculture, soldiers' home, horticulture. 
 
 Hopkins, Archibald W., (rep.), Gran- 
 ville, Putnam Co.; farmer. Born 1% 
 miles east of Granville, and has lived 
 on the same spot ever since, his father 
 having settled there fifty-eight years 
 ago. He was educated in the public 
 schools and at Hillsdale College, Mich. 
 Is not married. Hon. Joel W. Hopkins, 
 his father, was a republican member 
 of the 27th General Assembly, and is 
 79 years old. They own and operate a 
 great deal of valuable land inPutnain 
 and Bureau counties, Mr. Hopkins de- 
 clined to give the number of acres. He 
 
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 has a record as a leg'islator that will 
 bear the closest scrutiny, and is one of 
 the hardest workers in the house. In 
 '78 he spent five months travelinj,'- in 
 Europe, and has visited about every 
 point of interest in the west and a 
 g-reat deal of the south. He was elec- 
 ted to the house in '90 and '92. 
 
 ■Coniinittees: Appropriations, siinitary af- 
 fairs, military, to visit educational institu- 
 tions, worlds fair. 
 
 Johnson, Caleb C, (dem.). Sterling-; 
 lawyer. Born on a farm in Whiteside 
 county May 23, 1844. Educated in the 
 common schools iind spent a term in 
 the military acadenn' at Fulton. Ad- 
 mitted to practice law in '67 and 
 began practice in '69. Was in the army 
 as a member of Co. C, 69th Illinois, and 
 Co. D, 140th Illinois. Whiteside county 
 is overwhelmitig-ly republican, and 
 the opportunities for preferment of a 
 
 democrat are few and far between; has 
 been a member of the board of super- 
 visors, and was deputj' collector of 
 internal revenue during- Cleveland's 
 administration. He was a deleg^ate to 
 the national democratic convention in 
 '88. In '85 and '87 was a member of 
 the house and was one of the dem- 
 ocratic leaders. It was the session of 
 '85 that Col. Morrison and Gen. Log-an 
 foug-ht for the U. S. senatorship, and 
 Mr. Johnson was a firm friend of the 
 Waterloo statesman. Is married. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department and 
 practice (chairman), rules, steering com- 
 mittee, municipal corporations, federal rela- 
 tions, miscellaneous subjects, joint commit- 
 tee on enrolled and engrossed bills, 
 congressional apportionment, county and 
 township organization. 
 
 Jones, Alba M., (rep.), Milford; 
 merchant. Born in Stockland town- 
 
 ship, Iroquois Co., May 23, 1856, and 
 was educated in the common schools 
 with finishing- touches at Valparaiso 
 University. Is married and well-to-do 
 iti this world's troods. He has been a 
 
 Al^ilA M. .JUJSiSS. 
 
 member of the board of supervisors 
 for seven years, and on the board of 
 education for five years, and was 
 chairman of the board in '90-'91. Has 
 no hobbies or fancies to work off dur- 
 ing- the session, but favors any leg-is- 
 lation that is beneficial to the people 
 of the state. Is present at every ses- 
 sion and is a good representative. 
 
 Committees: World's faii-, roads and 
 bridges, building and loan associations, 
 military, farm drainage, senatorial appor- 
 tionment. 
 
 NOKMAN L. JONKS. 
 
 Jones, Norman L., (dem.), Carroll- 
 ton; abstracts and loans. Born in 
 Patterson, 111., Sept. 19, 1870, and is 
 the "baby" of the general assembly. 
 
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 LEGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 His father moved his family to Car- 
 roUton in '72 and here Mr. Jones was 
 ■educated in the high school, graduat- 
 ing in '88, and completing his studies 
 at Valparaiso and West Point Militarj^ 
 Academy. He taught school for two 
 -winters in Fayette, 111. Is not mar- 
 ried, and has not been a voter long 
 enough to have a record as a servant 
 of the people. Although it is early in 
 "the session he gives promise of be- 
 coming a useful and influential mem- 
 b)er, and is a credit to his constituents, 
 liis party and himself. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department, appro- 
 priations, education, military, executive de- 
 partment, manufactures, library. 
 
 *Johnson, Richard fl., (rep), Levings; 
 farmer. Born in Morgan Co., Ky., 
 Feb. 24, 1842; educated in common 
 schools and served in the Union army 
 in Co. A, 22d Ky. Inf. Is married and 
 owns 200 acres. 
 
 Committees: Warehouses, world's lair, 
 federal relations, miscellaneous. 
 
 Kaiser, Louis, (rep.), Bushnell; re- 
 tired merchant. Born in Vacha, King- 
 dom of Saxony, July 29, 1841, and in 
 ""SS emigrated alone when 17 years old 
 to Burlington, Iowa, whera he remain- 
 ed until April, '61, when he started in 
 business for himself in the dry goods 
 line at Young America, now Kirkwood, 
 111. He remained there until '65, when 
 he moved to Bushnell continuing the 
 same business until '91, when he 
 
 LOUIS KAISER. 
 
 retired to enjoy the accumulations 
 of thirty years' close application to 
 business. He went into business for 
 himself at 19, was married at 21, and a 
 grandfather at 45; is possessed of an 
 independent fortune, including 1,600 
 acres of land, the fruit of hard work 
 
 and shrewdness. He has been mayor 
 of Bushnell for three terms, one term 
 on the board of education, and presi- 
 dent of the Bushnell fair for several 
 years. He received a common school 
 education, and is bending his energies 
 toward securing a uniform text book 
 law for Illinois, and also advocates a 
 
 LAWKENCM KELLX. 
 
 law that permits the payment of 
 taxes semi-annually, to benefit the 
 farmer. 
 
 Committees; Appropriations, finance, 
 warehouses, horticulture, elections. 
 
 Kelly, Lawrence, (dem.), Martins- 
 ville; farmer. Born in County West- 
 meath, Ireland, Dec. 15, 1837, and on 
 the death of his father his mother 
 started with him for the new world in 
 '48, but she died on the ocean. He 
 landed in New Orleans friendless and 
 alone and drifted around until '50, 
 when he settled in Clark Co., 111., in 
 the same school district that is now 
 his home. Mr. Kelly has had only a 
 fair education. Is comfortable so far 
 as this world's goods go, having 
 accumulated over 200 acres of fertile 
 land by industry, frugality and close 
 attention to business. His main 
 characteristic is a sturdy spirit of self- 
 reliance. Is married. He has repre- 
 sented his township in the count)' 
 board, and was elected to the house in 
 '90 and '92. In the session of '91 he 
 stood in the front rank for Palmer for 
 U. S. senator; is a conservative and 
 careful member, and is very popular 
 among his colleagues. 
 
 Committees: Contingent expenses (chair- 
 man) , live stock and dairying, agriculture, 
 railroads, horticulture, state institutions, 
 roads and bridges, executive department, 
 retrenchment. 
 
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 King, William H., (rep.), Chicag-o; 
 real estate and loans. Bom in Erie 
 Co., N. Y., Feb. 25, 1844, and moved to 
 Chicaj^o in Aug'. '68, and has lived 
 there ever since. He practicallj' edu- 
 cated himself in the common school 
 branches. President Lincoln's call 
 for troops in '61 aroused his piitriotisni 
 
 wilham h. king. 
 
 and he responded bv enlisting' in 
 Co. B, 14th Wis. Inf.", in June, '61, 
 and served for nearU' four years, par- 
 ticipating- in the battles of Fort 
 Donelson, Shiloh (where he was 
 wounded in the head and left leg), 
 Corinth, luka, Jackson, Vicksburg 
 {where he was wounded in the right 
 arna), the Red River expedition, and 
 was in the campaign from Nashville 
 to Savannah with Sherman. He re- 
 ceived five g-unshot wounds. Is mar- 
 ried. Learned the carpenter's trade 
 before the war. He is a 32d degree 
 Mason, and past post commander of 
 the G. A. R., and has also been treas- 
 urer of the Veteran Union League for 
 the past eight years. 
 
 Comniittees: Municipal corporations, 
 penal and reformatory, insurance, flsh and 
 game, executive deijartnient. 
 
 *Kroh, Philip H., (dem.), Anna; 
 preacher. Born in Frederick Co., Va., 
 Feb. 10, 1824; educated at Woodward 
 Colleg-e, Cincinnati, and at the 
 Columbus Theolog-ical Seminary; was 
 chaplain of the 109th 111. Inf. Fleeted 
 county superintendent of schools in 
 '63; is married. 
 
 Comniittees: History (chairman), public 
 charities, public buildings, manufactures, 
 claims, roads and bridges. 
 
 Kent, William E., (rep.), Chicag-o; 
 real estate. Born in County Cork, 
 Ireland, Jan. 6, 1861, and emig-rated 
 
 with his parents to Middletown, Conn., 
 in '64. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Connecticut, working 
 on the farm meantime. He moved to 
 Chicago in '81; learned the carpenter's 
 trade and followed it for two years. 
 Then he went into the Custom House 
 as clerk under Jesse Spaulding-, re- 
 maining- for another two years, and 
 was deputy coroner of Cook county 
 for four 3'ears. He studied civil eng-i- 
 neering- and took contracts for sinking- 
 mines and erecting- shafting-s, and 
 other work in that connection. He 
 was in this line when he lost his eye- 
 sig-ht in Feb. '92, a man who was crazy 
 drunk blazing away at him with both 
 barrels of a shot-g-un. To the surprise 
 of everyone he recovered, but lost both 
 eyes. Since then he has dabbled in 
 real estate to some extent. He has 
 always been very active in republican 
 politics, and is one of the shrewdest 
 republican workers in Cook county. 
 He was deleg'-ate to national republican 
 conventions in '84 and '88, and alter- 
 nate-at-larg'-e in '92; has been on the 
 Cook county committee for niatiy years 
 oif and on. He was a member of the 
 house in '89. 
 
 Committees: Corporations, mmiicipal cor- 
 porations, warehouses, license, retrench- 
 ment. 
 
 Kwasigroch, John A,, (dem.), Chi- 
 cag-o; real estate. Born in Polish 
 German^' Jan. 18, 1866 — was the second 
 
 WILLIAM K. KEJSX. 
 
 young-est member of the 37th g-eneral 
 assembU', and was re-elected to the 
 present legislature by an increased 
 majority. Moved to Chicago in '71 and 
 educated in the St. Stanislaus Kostka 
 parish school. After the death of his 
 father was employed as messeng-er by 
 
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 I.EGISI<ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 the American District Telegraph com- 
 pany, and is now engaged in the real 
 estate business. He was one of the 
 "101" who stood by Gen. Palmer from 
 start to finish without flinching- in '91, 
 
 
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 JOHN A. KWASRiKOCH. 
 
 and had several important committee 
 assignments. Is very prominent in 
 ,Cook county politics; is not married. 
 
 Committees: Corporations, warehouses, 
 sanitary affairs, printing, miscellaneous sub- 
 jects, license, world's fair. 
 
 Langhenry, Qodfred, (rep.), Chi- 
 cago; lawyer. Born in Chicago April 
 1, 1861, and has lived in the metropolis 
 all his life. Was educated in the com- 
 mon schools, and at the ag-e of 15 went 
 into the wholesale house of Marshall 
 
 GODFRED LANGHENin 
 
 Field & Co., where he remained until 
 he was 29, being promoted from stock 
 boy to charge of a section of the no- 
 tion department. During the last two 
 
 years he was there he attended even- 
 ing classes in the Chicago College of 
 Law, graduated in June, '90, and im- 
 inediately began practicing his pro- 
 fession, devoting himself exclusively 
 to civil business, and has had more 
 than ordinary success. He is also 
 secretary-treasurer of the Eagle Ivitho- 
 graphing Co., one of the largest con- 
 cerns in Chicago; is married. 
 
 Committees: Kailroads, judiciary, muni- 
 cipal corporations, executive department, 
 libraries, steering committee. 
 
 Leavitt, Thomas N., (rep.), Maroa; 
 merchant and banker. Born in Rock- 
 ingham county, N. H., October 6, 1838, 
 and moved to Peoria with his parents 
 in '44, and to Maroa in '61, rented a 
 farm and settled down. The call for 
 troops aroused his martial ardor and 
 he enlisted in Co. C, 66th 111. Inf., and 
 after three years' hard service he 
 
 THOMAS N. LEAVITT. 
 
 returned to the plow and sickle. After 
 two years' farm work he started a 
 grocery store in Maroa, and gradually 
 added farm implements and other 
 lines; then went into the lumber and 
 coal business, and in '91 assisted in 
 organizing the State Bank of Clinton, 
 of which he is president; is also presi- 
 dent of the Leavitt & Oglevee Co., 
 dealers in farm implements and lum- 
 ber. For a few months he was a fire- 
 man on the first railroad that ran 
 into Peoria — the present Peoria divis- 
 ion of the Rock Island. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and finished 
 at the Northern Illinois institute, then 
 a thriving institution at Henry. Is 
 married, and besides bank stock, etc., 
 and real estate, owns 1,000 acres of 
 land; was postmaster of Maroa for 17 
 
I.RGISI.ATIVE SOrVKNIK. 
 
 69 
 
 years, and has been supervisor and 
 chairman of the Macon county board. 
 
 C'oniniitiot's: Kevenue, warehouses, 
 
 banks and banking, manufactures, misi-el- 
 laneous. 
 
 *Lewis, Albert W., (rep.)- Harris- 
 
 burj,"-; lawyer. Born Nov. 30, 1856, in 
 Clinton Co., C). Educated at Wihnini,^- 
 ton (().) Collef,''e and was admitted to 
 the bar in '82. Is married, and has 
 held minor offices — city attorney', 
 state's attorney, etc. 
 
 Coniniittees: Judicial department, fees and 
 salaries, building; and loan associations, 
 con/jfressional ai)p()iti()nmciit. 
 
 Lyman, William H., (dem.), Clii- 
 caj^o; contractor. Born in Chicaj^^o 
 June 27, 1861, and was educated in the 
 public schools of that city. He after- 
 wards traveled four years for M. 
 Shields & Co. Is married. He is now 
 a partner with his father as a con- 
 tractor, and they do a larg-e and profit- 
 able business. He was elected to the 
 g'eneral assenibU' in '88, '90, and was 
 returned in '92 by an increased major- 
 ity. In the session of '91 he partici- 
 pated in the stirrinjf scenes incident 
 to the election of Gen. Palmer to the 
 U. S. Senate, and risked his life for 
 many days in order to cast his vote in 
 the joint assembly, having been car- 
 ried into the house in an invalid's 
 chair. He pays particular attention 
 to the wants of the laborini;- man. and 
 
 WILLIAJl H. LVMAN. 
 
 in '91 had charg-e in the house of the 
 bill to prevent non-union cigar fac- 
 tories using union labels or imitations 
 thereof, which became a law. 
 
 Committees: Municipal corporations 
 
 (chairman), railroads, fees and salaries, 
 labor and industrial affairs, libraries, con- 
 gressional apportionment. 
 
 flcQee, J. Park, (dem.), Tuscola; 
 physician and stock raiser. Born in 
 Clark Co., Ind., Jan. 5, 1848, and 
 uK^'ed to Douglas county in '74 and 
 has been there ever since. He was 
 educated in the public schools and at 
 Wabash college. His medical educa- 
 tion was obtained in Cincinnati. Rush 
 
 ■I. I'AUK M <;ee. 
 
 Medical College conferred a compli- 
 mentary degree on him for services 
 rendered the medical profession in the 
 legislative session of '85. When only 
 16 years of age he enlisted in the 
 army as a private in Co. K, 137th Ind. 
 Inf. Is not married, owns 350 acres of 
 land, and is extensively engaged in 
 raising trotting horses. He has been 
 nominated to the house three times — 
 every year that Cleveland ran for 
 president found Dr. McGee on the 
 democratic ticket for representative — 
 and he was elected ever)' time, and 
 served on the appropriations commit- 
 tee eeich session. 
 
 Committees: lUiildinji and loan associa- 
 tions ("chairman), appropriations, educa- 
 tion, warehouses, tinance, to visitpenal and 
 reft)rmatoi-y institutions. 
 
 *r\cClure, Samuel H., (dem.), Eureka; 
 farnrer. Born in Danville, 111., Nov. 
 2, 1827; educated in common schools; 
 was in the mercantile business fourteen 
 years. Is married, and owns 800 acres. 
 He has held various township offices. 
 
 Committees: County and township organi- 
 zation, public charities, roads and bridges, 
 farm drainage, horticulture. 
 
 ricGinley, James E., (dem.), Chi- 
 cago; plumber. Born in Chicago 
 March 6, 1866, and educated at a 
 Catholic parochial school and the 
 West Division High School, graduat- 
 ing from the latter. He learned his 
 
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 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 father's trade; is a member of the firm 
 of J. McGinley & Sons, plumbers. He 
 is a young man with a bright political 
 future before him. Was one of the 
 first to be elected on the ward coinmit- 
 
 JAMES E. M'GINLET. 
 
 tee under the new constitution of the 
 Cook County Democracy. Is not mar- 
 ried. Was elected to the house by a 
 labor constituency, and pays especial 
 attention to their wants; he also advo- 
 cates any legislation that will compel 
 the railroads to elevate their tracks 
 in Chicago, and has a bill in the house 
 which will accomplish that result. 
 
 Committees: Corporations, license, sani- 
 try affairs, libraries, retrenchment. 
 
 Mclnerney, flichael, (dem.), Chi- 
 cago; mantifacturer. Born in Ireland 
 
 MICHAEL M'INERNEY. 
 
 Feb. 2, 1857, and moved to Chicago 
 "when 14 years old. Received a com- 
 mon school education and has always 
 teen known as one of the working 
 
 democrats of Cook county. He 
 amassed a fortune by shrewd opera- 
 tions in real estate, and is secretary- 
 treasurer of one of the largest brick 
 manufactories in the state. He has 
 been collector of the Town of L^ake. 
 Is married. He was elected to the 
 house in '90 and re-elected in '92. In 
 the first session he took an active 
 interest in the election of Gen. Paltner 
 to the senate, and contributed not a 
 little to the general's success. Mr. 
 Mclnerney has been a leader in both 
 sessions. 
 
 Committees : Enrolled and engrossed bills 
 (chairman), warehouses, corporations, 
 penal and reformatory institutions, munici- 
 pal corporations, banks and banking, live 
 stock and dairying, loan and homestead 
 associations, senatorial apportionment, 
 steering committee. 
 
 ricKinlay, Robert L., (dem.), Paris; 
 lawyer. The democratic leader in the 
 
 EGBERT L. Jl'KlNLAY. 
 
 house. Born in Cincinnati July 14, 
 1839, and moved to Paris in '68. He 
 was educated in the common schools 
 of Cincinnati, gradviating in the high 
 school, and spent some time at the 
 Annapolis naval academy. Obtained 
 his legal education at the Cincinnati 
 Law School, graduating in '61, being 
 admitted to the bar the same year. He 
 was captain of Co. A, 59th, and adju- 
 tant of the 22d O. Inf.; saw hard ser- 
 vice in West Virginia and west Ten- 
 nessee. Returning from the army he 
 took up the practice of his profession, 
 and is regarded as one of the most suc- 
 cessful lawyers in Eastern Illinois. Is 
 married and owns considerable prop- 
 erty in Paris. He was city attorney of 
 Paris for many years, and was elected 
 to the house in '76, '78, '86 and '92. 
 He made a magnificent canvass of the 
 
I,EOISI,ATlVE SOUVENIK. 
 
 71 
 
 state in '84, as democratic candidate 
 for attorne3'-g"eneral, and ran a hope- 
 less race aj^eiinst J. G. Cannon for con- 
 gress in '88. He is one of the strong-est 
 men in the house, and as chairman of 
 the committee on apjiropriations 
 has charg-e of that important subject 
 in the house. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations (chairman), 
 steering eomniittee (chairman), rules, judi- 
 ciary, municipal corporations, joint rules, 
 education, tinance, fcdci'al relations, county 
 and tt)wnslilp organization. 
 
 *McCrone, George C, (rep.), Quincy; 
 hiwyer. Born near Hartford, Conn., 
 Aug-. 22, 1857, and spent two years as 
 a western cattle herder; educated at 
 Dartmouth Colleg^e and Ann Arbor. 
 Elected to the house in '90 and '92. Is 
 married. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, municipal cor- 
 porations, claims, reti enchment. 
 
 *r\cMurdy, Robert, (rep.), Chicag-o; 
 lawyer. Born in Frankfort, Ky., 
 March 8, 1860, and received a coUeg^iate 
 education. Is married. 
 
 Connnittees: Judiciary, municipal cor- 
 porations, elections, congressional appor- 
 tionment, M'orld's fair. 
 
 McKenzie, John C, (rep.), Elizabeth; 
 lawyer. Born in Woodbine township, 
 Jo Daviess Co., Feb. 18, 1860. He re- 
 ceived a common school education and 
 studied law with Judg^e W. T. Hodson, 
 of Galena, and was admitted to prac- 
 tice in '89. He worked on a farm 
 when not at school in his youth. He 
 
 JOHN C. MKENZIK. 
 
 has practiced his profession since '89 
 and is also interested in the shipping- 
 of live stock, in which he is exten- 
 sively eng-ag-ed. He has been super- 
 visor and has held various minor 
 oflfices. Is married and is in comforta- 
 ble circumstances. Mr. McKenzie is 
 
 not a silent member of the house. Nor 
 does he make many speeches — he fills 
 a mean between the two extremes. 
 
 Committees: Roads and bridges, insur- 
 ance, tish and game, miscellaneous subjects, 
 judicial department, printing. 
 
 McKnight, Sargeant, (rep.), Girard; 
 real estate. Born in Macoupin Co.,. 
 
 SAKGKANT M KNIGHT. 
 
 111., Jan. 6, 1844; parents were Vir- 
 g-inians. He was educated in common 
 schools, and enlisted as a private in 
 Co. H., 122d 111. Inf. in Aug-., '62. Was 
 elected first serg-eant and promoted to 
 second lieutenant Dec. 31, '62. Served 
 as inspector on the staff of Col. Hicks, 
 commanding post of Paducah, Ky.,. 
 and participated in the repulse of Gen. 
 Forrest on Fort Anderson in March, 
 '64. Later he served as provost mar- 
 shal of the city of Paducah. In Dec. 
 '64, he was appointed aide-de-camp on 
 the staff of Gen. Garrard, commanding- 
 second division, 16th army corps, and 
 participated in the battle of Nashville 
 Dec. 15-16, '64. Promoted to captain by 
 brevet by the presidenf'f or g-allant and 
 meritoriotis services during- the cam- 
 paign against the city of Mobile and 
 defenses"; was mvistered out of service 
 in July, '65, and rettirned to Girard, en- 
 gaging- in the dry goods business and 
 the manufacture of woolen goods, and 
 remained in active business until '89. 
 In May, '66, was married to Miss Vir- 
 g'-inia A. Boggen. Served as member 
 of the board of supervisors of Macou- 
 pin countj^; for four A'ears was captain 
 in the 5th regiment, I. N. G.; was aide- 
 de-camp on the staff of Gov. Fifer 
 with rank of colonel. He is past com- 
 mander of Luke Mayfield post, G. A. 
 R., and was representative from Illi- 
 nois to the national encampment at 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Boston; in '93 was ag^ain selected — as a 
 delegate-at-large — to the national en- 
 campment. "Was aide-de-camp on the 
 staff of Gens. Veazey and Palmer, com- 
 manders-in-chief, G. A. R. He was 
 chosen minority candidate for repre- 
 sentative from the 38th district without 
 opposition. 
 
 Committees : Steeringcommittee,railrof,ds, 
 county Mild township organizatioii, live 
 stocK and dairying, claims, retrenchment, 
 senatorial apportionment. 
 
 ricMillan, James T., (dem.), Jack- 
 sonville; lawyer. Born on a farm 
 near Spring-field Jan. 27, 1840, and 
 when 13 years old his father moved on 
 a farm near Jacksonville, permitting- 
 Mr. McMillan to attend the Jackson- 
 ville schools. He graduated from the 
 hig-h school while Hon. Newton Bate- 
 man was principal. Then he sjetit 
 three years in Illinois College and one 
 year in the literar}^ department of Ann 
 Arbor Univer^itj^ He graduated from 
 Union College, New York, in '63, and 
 took a term of medicine at Columbia 
 College and eight months at Bellevue 
 Hospital. He was one of a number 
 who volunteered to g-o to the battle 
 field of AntietaiTL and care for the sick 
 and wounded, but the labor was too 
 arduous and he had to g-ive it up. Still 
 thirsting- for the highest medical edu- 
 cation, he returned to Ann Arbor for 
 another term and graduated in medi- 
 cine. But he discovered that he could 
 
 JAMES T. M MIL LAN. 
 
 not stand the night work and hard life 
 of a physician, so he quit it and took 
 up the law, and after g-raduating at 
 Ann Arbor located in Detroit, remain- 
 ing about a year, and then he returned 
 to Jacksonville, where he has been ever 
 since. He gives a g-reat deal of atten- 
 
 tion to 600 acres of land owned by his 
 wife and himself. He is married and 
 a member of the g-rang-e org-anization. 
 Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
 ment, elections, banks and banking, public 
 buildings, roads and bridges. 
 
 Martin, John S., (rep.), Bridg-eport; 
 teacher. Born Oct. 29, 1861, on aLaw- 
 
 JOHN S. MAKTIN. 
 
 rence county farm, and educated in 
 the common schools. Attended the 
 Central Normal Colleg-e of Indiana, 
 paying his tuition by teaching. This 
 illustrates the character of the man, 
 full of pluck and energy. Never held 
 an office before and did not seek the 
 present place in the house. Is married. 
 He is a strong- advocate of compulsory 
 education and is decidedly in favor of 
 state uniformity of text books. Mr. 
 Martin is always present and is a 
 useful and able legislator. 
 
 Committees: Education, printing, libra- 
 ries, history-geology and science, flsh and 
 game, state and municipal indebtedness. 
 
 Merritt, Edward L., (dem.), Spring-- 
 field; journalist. Was born in New 
 York City. While yet a child his parents 
 moved to a farm near Lebanon, 111. 
 Schools were of a poor quality then, 
 and he only attended one for twelve 
 months, being apprenticed in the print- 
 ing business at the ag-e of 11. The 
 family removing- to Salem, the father 
 started The Advocate, Edward L*. g-o- 
 ing with him, and becoming a g-ood 
 practical printer. For about four 
 3'ears he was civil eng-ineer on the O. 
 & M. R. R. In '58 he boug-ht an inter- 
 est in The Salem Advocate, and edit- 
 ed it until '65, when he bought an in- 
 terest in The Springfield Register. 
 He was identified with this paper for 
 fifteen years as editor and publisher, 
 
IvECISr^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 73 
 
 and made a great reputation for the 
 paper and himself throughout the 
 union. He was a member of the state 
 committee for twelve years at this 
 time, and was secretary for several 
 campaig-ns. In '74 and '76 he was prac- 
 tically the manag-er of the democratic 
 campaign. He has alwaj's been in ad- 
 vance of his party on the tariff, being 
 practically a free trader, taking that 
 position in the state convention of '71, 
 and succeeding after a hard fight in 
 having a plank adopted that was clear 
 and emphatic. In '66 President John- 
 son appointed him pension agent at 
 Springfield, but the senate rejected 
 him on account of his political views; 
 he was reappointed twice and rejected 
 each time. He was elected to the 
 house in '90 and again in '92, and was 
 a leader and on the steering committee 
 
 
 
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 EDWAUI) L. MEHKITT. 
 
 in each. His family is one of the most 
 prominent in the state in politics, jour- 
 nalism and war. Is married. 
 
 Coimuittees: Insuiaiife (ehuiriiian) , edu- 
 cation, appropriations, military, world's 
 fair, agricultiuf, sen itorial apportionment, 
 penal and reformatory, steering eommittee. 
 
 May, Stephen D., (dem.), Chicago; 
 lawyer. Born in Balvidere, 111., June 
 3, lS-61, and educated at Illinois Col- 
 lege. Jacksonville, and Ann Arbor, 
 g-raduating- from the latter in '84. > He 
 was admitted to practice in '86 and has 
 attained a commanding position at the 
 Chicago bar. He is not married. He 
 v^as elected to the house in '90 from a 
 strong republican district and was re- 
 turned last fall. Mr. May was one of 
 Gov. Palmer's staunchest friends 
 during the memorable senatorial con- 
 test of '91, and in the same session in- 
 troduced and championed with energy- 
 
 a bill giving the laboring people a 
 Saturday half-holiday, which failed of 
 passage throug-h no fault of Mr. May. 
 He is very active in important legisla- 
 tion and closely watches measures per- 
 
 STEPHEN D. MAT. 
 
 taining- to the interests of his con- 
 stituents. 
 
 Committees: License (oliairman) , judi- 
 ciary, judicial department, finance, building 
 and loan associations, insuiance, contingent 
 expenses, congressic)nal apportionment. 
 
 Meyer, Charles F., (rep.), Kirkland; 
 farmer. Born in Hanover, Germany, 
 Jan. 1, 1843, and in '60 emig-rated to 
 the New World, coming direct to the 
 garden spot, northern Illinois. En- 
 listed in Co. A, 153d 111. Inf. He 
 
 CHAULES F. JIEYEi;. 
 
 taught school at various points in 
 northern Illinois for several years, and 
 in '67 commenced farming, is at it j^et 
 and has made it pay, for he owns 345 
 
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 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 acres of splendid land in DeKalb 
 county. Is married and has held 
 several town and school offices. Mr. 
 Meyer is a quiet member, but posts 
 himself on every measure that comes 
 up and votes intelligently. 
 
 Committees: Revenue, public charities, 
 mines and mining, congressional apportion- 
 ment. 
 
 Meyer, Ernst, (dem.), Deer Plain, 
 Calhoun Co.; farmer. Born Nov. 26, 
 1831, in Prussia, and received his edu- 
 cation at the Berlin High School. He 
 came to the United States in '60 and 
 worked as a laborer on the Delaware 
 & Lackawanna railroad; also on a 
 farm. In June, '62, he enlisted in the 
 Army of the Potomac, and served 
 until the close of the war. He partici- 
 pated in the battles of the Wilderness, 
 Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Pe- 
 tersburg. Was wounded at Ream's 
 Station, Va., and limps in conse- 
 
 BRNST MBTEK. 
 
 quence. He never applied for a pen- 
 sion. He moved to Calhoun Co., 111., 
 in July, '65, and engaged in farming. 
 He was county commissioner four 
 years, and as a school director had his 
 district adopt the system of providing 
 the school children with necessary 
 text books free. As a member of the 
 house in '91 he helped elect Senator 
 Palmer, and on no roll call was he 
 "absent or not voting." In May, '76, 
 he married Miss Amelia Dinkier, has 
 three sons and lives on his extensive 
 farm of 2,800 acres at Deer Plain. 
 
 Committees: Soldiers' home (chairman), 
 canal-river improvement and commerce, 
 education, military, drainage, fish and 
 game, liorticulture. 
 
 Miller, Joseph E., (dem.), Belleville; 
 farmer and stock raiser, was born in 
 St. Clair county June 8, 1842. He was 
 
 educated in the common schools and at 
 the Christian Brothers University, St. 
 lyouis, graduating in '59. He has al- 
 ways been a farmer, is married and 
 owns 250 acres of splendid land. He 
 
 JOSEPH K. MILLEK. 
 
 was a member of the county board for 
 two terms and has held various minor 
 offices. He inaugurated his work in 
 the house by defeating the aim of a 
 number of the older members, who 
 sought to kill the dairy commissioner 
 bill, which is in the interest of the 
 farmer and dairyman. He is particu- 
 larly strong in committee work. 
 
 Committees: Fees and salaries, live stock 
 and dairying, drainage, fish and game, sol- 
 diers' home, world's fair, horticvilture. 
 
 JOHN MEYER. 
 
 rieyer, John, (rep.), Chicago; law- 
 yer. Born in the Kingdom of Hol- 
 land Feb. 27, 1852, emigrated to Chi- 
 cago in '67 and has lived there ever 
 
lp:oisi^ative souvknik. 
 
 75 
 
 since. Received his education at the 
 Northwestern University and the 
 Union Colleg"e of Law, yraduatinj^ in 
 '79 ; was admitted to the bar the same 
 year, and has had a very successful 
 practice every since, almost exclus- 
 ively in civil cases. Is married and 
 was elected to the house in '86, '88, '92. 
 He is one of the republican leaders in 
 the present house; is a quick, forcible 
 speaker and a splendid parliamen- 
 tarian. In the session of '89 he handled 
 the measure crediting- the Chicag'o 
 Sanitary District for drainag-e pur- 
 poses, and to his skillful g'eneralship 
 is attributed to a great extent the suc- 
 cess of the measure. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, corporations, in- 
 surance, elections, senatorial apportion- 
 ment, steering committee. 
 
 Mitchell, Benjamin Marion, (dem.), 
 Chicayo; printer and publisher. Born 
 in (juincy Jan. 30, 1869. When he was 
 seven months old his parents moved to 
 Chicag'o, and he was educated in the 
 public schools of that city, g'raduating- 
 from the Brown school on the West 
 Side. Is a member of the Cook 
 County Democratic, the Chicag"o 
 Bachelors and County Democracy 
 Marching clubs. He has worked for 
 the Western Union, for Marshall 
 Field, Schlesing-er & Mayer and Pard- 
 ridge; was chief bundle wrapper in 
 Coutant & Co.'s, filled the same posi- 
 tion and was promoted timekeeper in 
 
 BENJAMIN M. MITCHELL. 
 
 the Bee-Hive. Then he was general 
 city agent for the Cable Cigar Co. 
 He was elected at 19 secretary of the 
 regular Thirteenth Ward Democratic 
 Club, which he held until '90, when he 
 was made president of the club, and 
 has taken an active part in all cam- 
 
 paigns. Is not married. Lives at 75 
 Columbia place, near Garfield Park, 
 and is a good speaker. 
 
 Committees: Municipal corporations, 
 revenue, warehouses, fees and salarieSv 
 ))uildinfd; and loan associations, military, 
 miscellaneous, printin;^. 
 
 Moore, William A., (dem.), Morton; 
 farmer. Born in Todd Co., Ky., Nov^ 
 
 WILLIAM A. MOORE. 
 
 1, 1839, and when but seven years old. 
 his parents moved to Illinois and set- 
 tled in Woodford county, near the 
 present site of Eureka. There he spent 
 his youth and obtained an education, 
 the opportunities for which in that 
 early day were exceedingly limited. 
 However, pluck and energy with suffi- 
 cient ambition to attract spurred him 
 on, and by hard knocks he learned the 
 common school branches. He worked 
 in daylight and studied by the light of 
 a tallow dip. At the age of 19 he ob- 
 tained a certificate to teach. In '62 he 
 married, and in '63 moved to Morton 
 township, where he now resides on his. 
 farm ; he owns 400 acres of as good 
 land as the sun ever shone upon. He 
 has always been a stalwart democrat, 
 and has been honored with many minor 
 offices, and was a member of the house 
 in '77, declining a unanimous renomi- 
 nation in '78 on account of sickness in 
 his family. He is one of the best rep- 
 resentatives of the agricultural class 
 in the general assembly and his former 
 experience has been of value to him 
 this session. The interests of the ag- 
 riculturist are carefully guarded by 
 him. Mr. Moore is always in his seat 
 during sessions. 
 
 Committees : Horticulture (chairman), 
 canal-rivei improvement and commerce, 
 penal and reformatory, state institutions^ 
 revenue, federal relations, claims, drainage 
 
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 I^EGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Morris, Freeman P., (dem.), Wat- 
 seka; lawyer. Born in Cook county, 
 March 19, 1854, and when 20 years old 
 moved to Watseka. He received his 
 education in Chicag"o and his legal 
 education at the Union I^aw College; 
 "was admitted to the bar in '74. Is 
 married, and owns a handsome home 
 with splendid appointments in Wat- 
 seka besides other valuable real estate. 
 April 21, '93, Gov. Altgeld appointed 
 Mr. Morris on his staff with the rank 
 of colonel. He has held various local 
 offices and was elected to the house in 
 '84, '88 and '92, and has had a great 
 •deal to do in moulding legislation at 
 ■every session. He is one of the best 
 lawyers in this session, so prolific in 
 g-reat legal minds, and possesses an 
 •easy, graceful delivery in speaking that 
 is pleasing and effective. Is chairman 
 
 FREE. p. MORKIS. 
 
 of the caucus, is one of the democratic 
 leaders and is on the steering com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary (chairman), judi- 
 cial department, ibunicipal corporations, 
 insuraace, license, world's fair, federal re- 
 lations, rules, joint rules, enrolled and en- 
 grossed bills, steering committee. 
 
 riounts, William L., (dem.), Carlin- 
 ville; lawyer and banker, was born in 
 Carlinville Aug. 31, 1862, and educated 
 at Blackburn University, graduating 
 in the scientific course. Is married and 
 owns and controls 2,000 acres of farm 
 and coal land. He has held the offi- 
 ces of city treasurer, city attorney 
 and is the present mayor of Carlin- 
 ville. He was secretary of the dem- 
 ocratic committee of Macoupin county 
 for eight years, and stands high in 
 the estimation of his constituents. 
 He believes that pledges are not made 
 by politicians and parties to be 
 
 broken, and insisted on the house or- 
 dering an investigation of the state 
 auditor's and state treasurer's offices, 
 carrying the point against very influ- 
 ential members — republican and dem- 
 
 WILLIAM L. MOUNTS. 
 
 ocratic. He believes all interest should 
 be covered into the treasury. 
 
 Committees: State and municipal indebt- 
 edness (chairman), municipal corporations, 
 judiciary, insurance, state institutions, fees 
 and salaries, military, federal relations. 
 
 Muir, Robert H., (rep.), Clyde, Cook 
 Co.; clerk. Born in Glasgow, Scot- 
 land, April 17, 1848, and emigrated 
 with his parents to America in '50, 
 stopping first at Syracuse; then in 
 tnrn his father moved to Quebec, 
 Stratford and Naponee, Canada, 
 
 EOBERX H. MUIK. 
 
 finally settling in Chicago in '66. He 
 received a good education in the com- 
 mon schools and at Naponee Univer- 
 sity, graduating in '65; he also grad- 
 
LKGISI.ATIVK SOUVKNIK. 
 
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 uated from the Union College of Law, 
 Chicago, in '79, and was admitted to 
 practice in '81. He did not practice 
 long, however. He has been trustee of 
 the town of Cicero, president of the 
 school board and school trustee, and 
 has been a deputy clerk in the Cook 
 county circuit clerk's office fourteen 
 years, a place which he now fills to 
 the satisfaction of those with whom 
 he comes in contact. He is n careful 
 and painstaking legislator, and exam- 
 ines all measures that come up. Is 
 married. 
 
 ("'oininittees: Senatorial apportionment, 
 lifcnse, warehouses, lahor and industrial 
 affairs, agrieulture, judieial department. 
 
 riuIHgan, Joseph H., (dem.), Kewa- 
 nee; railroad agent. Born in Ken- 
 tucky Sept. 12, 1855, and a 3'ear later 
 his parents moved to Young America, 
 afterwards Kirkwood, 111., where he 
 received what education he has in the 
 public schools. Is married and began 
 life as a farm hand, quitting this to 
 work as laborer on the present Rock 
 Island branch of the Burlington road ; 
 then he worked on a section for sever- 
 al years, and got a job switching in the 
 Biggsville yards in '73. Here he picked 
 up telegraphy and was made night op- 
 erator at Biggsville in '76; promoted to 
 be agent four years later, transferred 
 to Kirkwood, and finally settled in the 
 Kewanee office of the Burlington in 
 '85. It is one of the most important 
 
 JOSEPH H. MULLIGAN. 
 
 offices on the road in Illinois, standing 
 about sixth in volume of business done. 
 He strongly advocates a uniform text 
 book bill, is always present and votes 
 intelligently on all measures. 
 
 Committees: Retrenchment (chairman), 
 corporations, building and loan associations, 
 
 labor and indnsti'ial affairs, mines and min- 
 ing, world's fair. 
 
 Murdoch, Frank, (rep.), Oneida; 
 banker. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, 
 Sept. 2, 1843, and came to America in 
 '52 with his parents, stopping first in 
 Trumbull Co., O. Moved to Knox Co., 
 111., in '57, and settled on a farm near 
 
 FRANK MURDOCH. 
 
 Oneida. He was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and farmed until '73, 
 when he went into the banking busi- 
 ness and has been in it ever since. 
 The Exchange Bank of Oneida is 
 owned by Anderson & Murdoch. He 
 is highly regarded by his neighbors, 
 for they elected him alderman for 
 eight 3^ears and mayor for four years, 
 and he has been a member of the 
 school board for six or seven years; 
 was chairman of the republican 
 county committee for two years. Is 
 married. He is a 32d degree Mason; 
 been master of his lodge for eight or 
 ten years; High Priest of the chapter; 
 Past Commander of Galesburg Com- 
 mandery No. 8, K. T., and a Past 
 Grand in the Odd Fellows. 
 
 Committees: Banks and banking, finance, 
 insurance, live stock and dairying, military- 
 affairs. 
 
 Murphy, Joseph L., (dem.), Pinck- 
 neyville; grain dealer. Born on a 
 Perry county farm, Dec. 31, 1840, and 
 educated in the public schools. Is 
 married and owns about 600 acres of 
 land. He began life in the mercantile 
 business, and afterwards dealt in lum- 
 ber and grain. He finally dropped 
 the lumber business and added real 
 estate and has been very successful in 
 it as well as in his grain business. He 
 has been mayor of Pinckneyville for 
 the past fifteen or sixteen years and is. 
 
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 I.EGISI,ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 mayor at this time. In September, 
 '62, he enlisted in Co. D, 110th 111. Inf., 
 and most of his fig"hting was done in 
 Palmer's Fourteenth Corps. He was 
 in the campaig-n before Atlanta and 
 
 JOSEPH L. MURPHY. 
 
 the march to the sea of Sherman's le- 
 g^ions. He went in as a private and 
 -came out a captain, being promoted 
 "for g-allant conduct. He has no pet 
 •schemes to foster, but is anxious to do 
 his share towards the general good of 
 the people. Mr. Murphy is one of the 
 Tnost reliable representatives. 
 
 Committees: Federal relations (cliair- 
 iQian), revenue, railroads, penal and re- 
 formatory, public charities, state and muni- 
 ■cipal indebtedness, senatorial apportion- 
 ment. 
 
 GEORGK MURRAY. 
 
 Murray, George, (rep.), Elmira, 
 'Stark Co.; farmer. Born in Rexbury- 
 shire, Scotland, May 1, 1840, and moved 
 to America with his parents in 'S3, 
 
 coming direct to Stark county, and 
 has been there ever since. He received 
 a common school education and is mar- 
 ried. He began farm work when 14 
 years old and has been on a farm ever 
 since, and owns over 800 acres of Stark 
 county land. He has held several 
 township and school offices, and is a 
 typical farmer. He is willing that the 
 democrats shall have free swing to in- 
 stitute the "reforms" they have in- 
 sisted were necessary. Mr. Murray is 
 always in his seat and informs himself 
 as to the merits of all bills. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river improvement 
 and commerce, labor and industrial affairs, 
 drainage, horticulture. 
 
 Myers, William H., (dem.), Terre 
 Haute, Henderson Co.; blacksmith- 
 farmer. Born in Jennings Co., Ind., 
 Feb. 28, 1849. The family moved first 
 to Ivcwis Co., Mo., thence to Terre 
 Haute, 111. At the age of 7 years he 
 met with an accident that crippled 
 
 WILLIAM H. MYERS. 
 
 him for life, but with indomitable 
 energy and a pluck that has been 
 a characteristic of his life, he pro- 
 ceeded to carve out a future. He was 
 educated in the common schools and is 
 in independent circumstances. He 
 was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
 elected in '92, running ahead of his 
 ticket each time, and no man in Hen- 
 derson county is more popular. He is 
 a good servant of the people and his 
 two terms in the house have demon- 
 strated the fact that no mistake was 
 made in his election. 
 
 Committees: Agriculture (chairman), 
 corporations, live stock and dairying, labor 
 and industrial, drainage, contingent ex- 
 penses, farm drainage, congressional appor- 
 tionment. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
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 *Noling, Lars M., (rep.), Rockford; 
 real estate. Born in Sweden May 4, 
 1843, and emigrated to Rockford in '64. 
 Common school education. Married. 
 
 Coniniitteos: History, uianufuctures, 
 federal relations, horticulture. 
 
 Nohe, Augustus W., (rep.), Chicag-o; 
 broker. Born in Baden, Germany, 
 Nov. 27, 1846, and came to this country 
 in '51. He .settled In Freeport, where 
 he remained until '75, when he moved 
 to Chicago. He received a common 
 school education and is married. He 
 was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
 turned in '92 bj' an increased majority. 
 He has represented his ward in the 
 Chicag-o city council. During- the war 
 he was connected with the military 
 teleg-raph and did valuable service for 
 the union armies. He was with Gen. 
 
 AUGUSTUS W. NOHE. 
 
 Scholield for a time and joined Sher- 
 man at Goldsboro, N. C, finishing his 
 field service at Raleigh. The govern- 
 ment required his aid after the war, 
 however, and he was sent to Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., where he remained on 
 dut3' for Uncle Sam until '67, when he 
 was mustered out of the volunteer ser- 
 vice, being probably the last war tel- 
 eg-rapher to retire. Then he eng-ag-ed 
 in the same profession in Chicago, and 
 is now in the brokerag-e business. He 
 is one of the most forcible and agg'-res- 
 sive members of the house, and is en- 
 deavoring to pass his bill removing the 
 $5,000 limit for damag-es for death bj' 
 railroad accidents. He also strong-ly 
 favors municipal control of gas and 
 electric lighting plants, and has a bill 
 before the house that will accomplish 
 that object. 
 
 Oonniiittees: Corporations, municipal cor- 
 porations, banks and bankinj;:, buildlnff and 
 loan associations, congressional ap'^'^irtion. 
 
 O'Connell, Edmund, (rep.), Bloom- 
 ington; lawver. Born in Franklin 
 Co., N. Y., Nov. 20, 1848. Educated in 
 the district schools and at Franklin 
 Academy, Malone, N. Y., and coming- 
 
 EDMUND O CONNELL. 
 
 to Illinois in '71 he taught school and 
 studied law until '74, when he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. He began the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Bloomington, 
 where he settled in '73, and is regarded 
 as one of the best lawyers in Central 
 Illinois, being- particularly strong- as a 
 jury pleader. He is a leader in the 
 present house, as he was in the last 
 g-eneral assembly; is strong- in debate, 
 an eloquent, forcible speaker; married. 
 
 Committees: Corporations, education, 
 building and homestead associations, elec- 
 tions, license, steering conunittee. 
 
 EDWARD .7. NOVAK. 
 
 Novak, Edward J., (dem.), Chicago; 
 real estate. Born in Chicag-o Nov. 2, 
 1869, and with probably one exception 
 
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 LEGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 is the young-est member of the g-eneral 
 assembly. He was educated in the 
 public schools and at the Metropole 
 Business College, graduating from the 
 latter. He entered the office of the 
 county treasurer of Cook county when 
 George R. Davis was treasurer and has 
 been there ever since, the office now 
 being in charg-e of Charles Kern. He 
 is an energ-etic worker in Cook county 
 politics. This is the first office to 
 which he has been elected, but if he 
 keeps up the record he has made thus 
 far it will not be his last. Is not 
 married. Is interested in measures 
 that will benefit the laboring people. 
 
 Committees: Manufactures (chairman), 
 appropriations, insurance, sanitary affairs, 
 world's fair, libraries, history-geology and 
 science. 
 
 O'Connor, James, (dem.), Chicago; 
 professor of music, was born in Lib- 
 erty ville, Lake Co., Illinois, Oct. 2, 
 1848, and was educated at the district 
 schools. When 19 j^ears old he went 
 to Chicago and learned the trade of 
 mechanical engineer. Afterwards he 
 moved to Louisiana and worked at his 
 trade there. In '73 Gov. Wm. Pitt 
 Kellogg appointed him justice of the 
 peace for St. Bernard's Parish, a sub- 
 urb of New Orleans. In '74 while 
 hunting he lost his sight by an unfor- 
 tunate accident and has been totally 
 blind ever since. Terrible as is such 
 an affliction he did not lose courage. 
 
 JAMES O'CONNOR. 
 
 but battled against the world with 
 more persistency than ever. He re- 
 turned to Chicago and took up the pro- 
 fession of music, which he has followed 
 ever since. Through his talents and 
 intelligence there has been opened up 
 to the blind an entirely new field. He 
 
 is the only blind man in the world that 
 has successfully lead an orchestra and 
 done his own prompting. His especial 
 mission here is to have the legislature 
 reappropriate the $100,000 he succeeded 
 in g-etting from the leg-islature of '87 
 to establish in Chicago an Industrial 
 Home for the Blind. This bill he got 
 
 JOSKPH A. O'DONNELL. 
 
 throug-h the session of '87, of which he 
 was a member, but Gov. Og-lesby failed 
 to appoint a board of triistees and the 
 money lapsed into the treasury. He 
 is a man of talent and ability outside 
 his profession, and takes an active 
 part in all legislation. He succeeded 
 in securing from the city council of 
 Chicago last vear an appropriation of 
 $50,000 to establish a Mental and 
 Manual Training School for the blind. 
 He is married. 
 
 Committees: Public charities, appropria- 
 tions, corporations, license, manufactures, 
 history-geology and science. 
 
 O'Donnell, Joseph A., (dem.), Chi- 
 cag-o; lawyer. Born inBallina, County 
 Mayo, Ireland, Dec. 23, 1860. Educated 
 in the public schools and began the 
 battle of life on his own account when 
 11 years old as an employe in a machine 
 shop, and was promoted to a foreman- 
 ship when 20 years old. Meantime he 
 studied law, perfected himself in his 
 studies, was admitted to the bar in '87 
 and began practice in Chicag-o, where 
 he has been very successful. He was 
 elected to the house in '88, '90, '92, and 
 is one of the most eloquent defenders 
 of the rig-hts of the common people in 
 the g-eneral asseinbly. Is married. 
 
 Committees: Elections (chairman) , judi- 
 ciary, corporations, congressional appor- 
 tionment, steering committee, loan and 
 homestead associations, and others. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
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 pL.O'Loughlin, nichael, (dem.). Senecei; 
 farmer. Born in Count}' Clare, Ire- 
 land, Nov. 18, 1845. Eniig-rated to 
 Wiscotisin with his parents in '49, and 
 to LaSalle Co., 111., in '66. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Wis- 
 consin and taugfht district school in 
 Illinois for five years. Is married and 
 owns 640 acres of land. He was a su- 
 pervisor for twelve years and school 
 treasurer for his township for ten years. 
 He is one of the quiet, substanti.al men 
 of the house, and closely watches leg- 
 islation, particularly that which per- 
 tains to ag-riculture and the Illinois 
 river valley. He was one of the most 
 reliable members of the last house, as 
 he is of the present. As one of the 
 "101" who elected Palmer senator, Mr. 
 O'Loughlin never faltered. 
 
 Coininittees: Canal river iinprovenient 
 and commerce (chairman), live stock and 
 
 MICHAEL O LODGHLIN. 
 
 dairying, revenue, railroads, agriculture, 
 county and township organization, insur- 
 ance, farm drainage. 
 
 Paddock, Daniel H., (rep.). Kankakee; 
 lawyer. One of the republican leaders 
 in the house, was born in Lockport, 111., 
 April 5, 1852; is a son of Col. John W. 
 Paddock, and of ancestr}- on both sides 
 that runs back to the Plymouth colony. 
 Educated in Illinois" public schools 
 and at the Albany Law School, grad- 
 uating in '74, and admitted to the bar 
 the same year in Illinois. His home 
 has been in Kankakee since Nov. 6, 
 '53, where his father was a practicing 
 law3'er. Mr. Paddock is prominent in 
 republican politics in the state, and a 
 man of influence and high standing. 
 After two terms as states attorney' for 
 Kankakee county, he was elected to 
 the legislature in '88, and returned in 
 
 '90 and '92. Is one of the ablest par- 
 liamentarians and probably the best 
 debater on the republican side. Is 
 married. Mr. Paddock has been a 
 leader in the three last legislatures. 
 
 DANIEL H. PADDOCK. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, railroads, penal 
 and reformatory, education, insurance, 
 rules, steering co'nniiittee. 
 
 Painter, Oscar, (rep.), Metamora; 
 stock raiser and farmer. Born in 
 Northumberland, Pa., March 10, 1846, 
 and moved with his parents to Wood- 
 ford Co., 111., in '48, and has been there 
 ever since. Ten years of his life were 
 spent teaching school, and the balance 
 farming and stock raising. He was 
 educated in the common schools and is 
 not married. He stands high where 
 
 OSCAR PAINTER. 
 
 he is best known, for in a race for the 
 shrievalitj' once he ran several hun- 
 dred ahead of his ticket, although the 
 overwhelming democratic majority 
 
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 I.ECISLATIVK SOUVENIR. 
 
 "was loo much to overcome. He pays 
 particular attention to the needs of 
 the farmer, and makes a good repre- 
 sentative. He is in comfortable cir- 
 ctimstances. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river Improvement 
 and commerce, public charities, public 
 buildiags, federal relations. 
 
 Payne, William, (rep.), Osborn; far- 
 mer. Born in Scott Co., lov^^a, March 
 4, 1841, and lived on a farm for the 
 first ten years of his life and then 
 moved with his parents to Hampton, 
 111. Was educated in the public schools, 
 and at 18 taught school, leaving that 
 occupation to shoulder a musket to 
 battle for his country, enlisting in the 
 13th 111. Inf., the first 3-year regiment 
 in the service. For four j^ears he 
 escaped the bullets of the enemy and 
 returned to Illinois, spending a year 
 in a commercial college, and then 
 
 WILLIAM PAYJSE. 
 
 entered the county treasurer's office, 
 Rock Island. From '66 to '70 he was 
 deputy sheriif, and was sheriff from 
 '70 to '74, and in '74 he moved on a 
 farm in Zuma township and has been 
 there ever siiice, as farmer, breeder 
 and shipper of stock. Is married, and 
 owns 540 acres. Fleeted to the house 
 in '91 to fill vacancy caused by the in- 
 eligibility of W. F. Collins, he was re- 
 elected in '92, having been re-nomi- 
 nated by acclamation. He is one of 
 the most reliable and best members. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river improvement and 
 commerce, revenue, federal relations, re- 
 trenchment, roads and bridges, farm drain- 
 age. 
 
 Parrott, Walters., (dem.) lyitchfield; 
 journalist. Born in Raymond, Mont- 
 gomery Co., 111., May 4, 1865, and is 
 •one of the youngest members in the 
 house. He was educated at Blackburn 
 
 University and at the Northern Indi- 
 ana Normal at Valparaiso. Is mar- 
 ried. Has had considerable experi- 
 ence on the country press, and pub- 
 lished a paper at Raymond for several 
 
 years. He lived in Raymond for 25 
 years, and got every democratic vote 
 cast in that township. Although 
 young, Mr. Parrott has already familar- 
 ized himself with the technicalities of 
 legislative life, and his farmer con- 
 stituents have no cause to apologize 
 for his youth, nor will it be necessary 
 to excuse his votes. 
 
 Committees: To visit penal and reforma- 
 tory institutions (chairman j, congressional 
 apportionment, senatorial apportionment, 
 building and loan associations, manufac- 
 tvires, roads and bridges, printing. 
 
 BERNARD P. PRESTON. 
 
 Preston, Bernard P., (dem.), Little- 
 ton, Schuyler Co.; farmer. Born at 
 Ithica, N. Y., March 27, 1838, and came 
 to Illinois with his parents in '52. His. 
 
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 education, which commenced on the 
 site of Cornell University', was com- 
 pleted at St. Louis, after which he 
 returned to the Schuyler county farm. 
 He has a large farm, and raises the 
 best breeds of horses and cattle. Is a 
 g-ood representative of the farming 
 class in the legislature, advocates 
 measures in their interest, and is 
 always in his seat. Is married. Was 
 elected to the house in '90 and again 
 in '92, and has taken an active part in 
 all important legislation 
 
 Connnittees: Fai'iii drainage (chairman), 
 penvil and reformatory, state institvitions, 
 revenue, banks and banking, agriculture, 
 live stock and dairying. 
 
 ■•Ramey, Thomas T., (rep.). Brooks; 
 farmer. Born in Caldwell Co., Ky., 
 March 6, 1823, and was educated in dis- 
 trict schools. Is married and owns 
 200 acres; was elected to the house in 
 '72, '88 and '92. 
 
 Ramsey, Charles A., (rep.), Hills- 
 boro; retired merchant. Was born 
 near Lewistown, Pa., Jan. 8, 1845, and 
 was educated in the common schools 
 with a short academic course. In Aug., 
 '62, when only 17 years old, he left 
 school and enlisted in Co. D, 148th 
 Penn. Inf.; was appointed sergeant- 
 major, and afterwards promoted to 
 adjutant of the regiment. After three 
 Years of hard service he was mustered 
 
 CHARLES A. RAMSET. 
 
 out and moved to Shelby Co., 111., 
 where he remained two years and then 
 moved to Irving, Montgomery county, 
 where he engaged in the drug business 
 until '77. Then he went to Hillsboro 
 and engaged in the hardware and agri- 
 cultural implement lines until Jan., 
 '92, when he disposed of his stock. He 
 was made president of the Hillsboro 
 
 National Bank when it was organized 
 in '82 and is still at the head of it. He 
 never was an office-seeker, but was 
 elected three times to the county board 
 and was chairman for one term. He 
 is present mayor of Hillsboro. Is mar- 
 ried and owns 700 acres of land. 
 
 Committees: Reveinie, contingent ex- 
 peiises, mines and mining, fi.sli and game. 
 
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 Reed, George, (rep.), Belvidere; far- 
 mer. Born in Westfield, Mass., May 
 26, 1824, and moved to Illinois in '47, 
 stopping in Boone county. Afterwards- 
 he moved to Winnebago county, re- 
 maining there for two 3'ears and then 
 returned to Boone. He was educated 
 in the common and district schools of 
 his youth, gaining more by his own 
 efforts than through teachers. He has. 
 farmed all his life, and is a good ex- 
 emplification of what can be accxDinp- 
 lished by pluck, sagacity and industry, 
 for he owns 525 acres of as good land 
 as the sun ever shone upon. Illustrat- 
 ive of the difficulties under which he 
 labored it may be said that he patented 
 120 acres from the g-overnment and 
 had to borrow the money to pay for it,, 
 paying 50 per cent, for the loan. He 
 is married and credits his wife with 
 much of his success. He has held 
 nearly everj' township office and was 
 supervisor for twelve years, and was 
 chairman of the board several limes; 
 has been on the county agricultural 
 board 25 years and president of it for 
 8 3'ears ; was a member of the state 
 board of agriculture for two terms ; 
 was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
 elected in '92. He is interested in two 
 creameries that manufacture a quarter 
 of a million pounds of bvitter annually. 
 Is director in the Peoples bank of 
 
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 I^EGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Belvidere. He is always in attendance 
 during- sessions. A g-ood legislator. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations, roads and 
 bridges, county and township organization, 
 live stock and dairying, miscellaneous sub- 
 jects. 
 
 Rohrer, Louis, (dem.), Somonauk; 
 farmer. Born in Alsace-Lorraine, 
 France, Jan. 6, 1837, and emig-rated 
 with his parents in '45, coming to La- 
 Salle county. He was educated in the 
 common schools. Has never been an 
 officeholder to any extent and never 
 sought an office. He has been on the 
 county board of La Salle countj- and 
 was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
 turned in '92. Is married and owns 
 over 8oo acres of fine land. He is 
 anxious to see some of the reforms 
 promised by the democratic state con- 
 vention carried out, and especially is 
 he in favor of the enactment of a 
 uniform text-book law. 
 
 LOmS EOHKKK. 
 
 Committees : Drainage (chairman) , canal- 
 river improvement and commerce, flsh and 
 game, live stock and dairying, warehouses, 
 agriculture. 
 
 Rottger, Frederick W., (dem.), Mt. 
 
 Sterling ; lumber and grain merchant. 
 Born near Menden, Prussia, Aug. 8, 
 1844, and emigrated with his father in 
 'SO, coming via New Orleans. They 
 took a boat up the Mississippi and Illi- 
 nois rivers to Naples, thence by the 
 old Naples & Jacksonville strap rail- 
 road to Jacksonville. After remaining 
 in Jacksonville two years he was 
 bound out to E. S. Hinrichsen, who 
 owned a farm seven miles east of 
 town. Mr. Hinrichsen afterwards 
 moved to Alexander and was made 
 agent of the Great Western railroad, 
 now the Wabash, and Fred, was office 
 boy. He was finally promoted to take 
 
 complete charge of the station, and in 
 '65 was sent to Mt. Sterling to take 
 charge of that office. He has held it 
 ever since. He gradually became in- 
 volved in farming and added lumber 
 
 FREDERICK W. KOTTGER. 
 
 and grain buying and horse buying 
 and selling. He was successful at 
 everything he touched, and is now well 
 off. He is married and owns 945 acres 
 of land. Never an office seeker he has 
 been mayor of Mt. Sterling and on the 
 county board. He educated himself. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations, fees and 
 salaries, roads and bridges, county and 
 township organization, claims, charitable 
 institutions. 
 
 Seawell, Charles W., (dem.), Green- 
 ville; mercantile business. Born on a 
 
 CHARLES W. SBAWELL. 
 
 farm in Washington Co., 111., Oct. 19, 
 1853, and received his education in the 
 district schools. He was raised on a 
 farm and his earl)' manhood was spent 
 
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 85 
 
 in the hard work of a farmer. After- 
 wards he went into the mercantile 
 business, wholesale and retail, at 
 which he was very successful. He is 
 one of the hardest workers and 
 shrewdest politicians in Illinois, and 
 was a member of the house in '87. 
 Durinj,'- that session, as well as the 
 present one, he took an active part in 
 all lec,^islation, and wiis on some of the 
 most important committees. Is mar- 
 ried. He is stroni;- in his political 
 views, and has always been a democrat. 
 
 t'omiiiittees: State institutions (chair- 
 man), senatorial apportionnu'nt, corpora- 
 tions, mines and mining;, warehouses, mili- 
 tary, contingent expenses. 
 
 Smith, James A., (dem.). Chats- 
 worth; editor. Born in Vermilion, O., 
 Aug-. 6, 1845, and came to Illinois with 
 his father a year later. He owns The 
 Chat.sworth Plaindealer, one of the 
 best country newspapers in northern 
 Illinois. Mr. Smith received a good 
 
 JAMES A. SMITH. 
 
 common school education. Was elec- 
 ted to the house in '88 and '90. In both 
 sessions his ability as a leader was 
 recognized and his advice sought. He 
 works quietly but effectively. Is a 
 strong party man and believes in 
 strong party organization. Was mar- 
 ried, but lost his wife two years ago. 
 
 Committees: Congressional apportionment 
 (chairman), education, public charities, 
 banks and banking, county and township 
 organization, insurance, contingent expen- 
 ses, enrolled and engrossed bills, license, 
 steering committee. 
 
 Smith, Washington S., (dem.), Mt. 
 Zion; farmer. Born in Bath Co., Ky., 
 Sept. 27, 1850, and came with his par- 
 ents to Illinois in '57, settling in 
 Macon county, where Mr. Smith has 
 resided ever since. He has filled vari- 
 
 ous township offices, and was supervisor 
 for six years, and was chairman of the 
 board for two years, resigning in '90 
 to enter the house. Is married and 
 owns and operates a fine farm. He is 
 
 WASHINGTON S. SMITH. 
 
 a strong democrat, and in advance of 
 his party on economic questions. He 
 was elected to the house with a demo- 
 cratic colleague in '90, and both were 
 re-elected in '92, a sufficient evidence 
 that the services of both were appre- 
 ciated. 
 
 ('onmiittees: Fish and game (chairman), 
 mines and mining, penal and reformatory, 
 agricvilture, labor and nidustrial affairs, 
 farm drainage. 
 
 Snedeker, Orville A., (rep.), Jersey- 
 ville ; real estate and lawyer. Born 
 
 ORVILLE A. SNEDEKER. 
 
 in Jerseyville June 11, 1848, and edu- 
 cated in the public schools of the 
 county, such as they were at that time 
 and at Shurtleff College ; also a term 
 
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 LEGISIvATIYE SOUVENIR. 
 
 at a commercial colleg^e. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in '71. Is married 
 and has two boys, Isaac and Frank. 
 He owns valuable real estate and farm- 
 ing- lands. This is the first elective 
 office ever held by him. He has fre- 
 quently been nominated by conven- 
 tions but declined to accept ; his nomi- 
 nation last year for the house was the 
 third time — he declined on two former 
 occasions. The district from which he 
 w^as elected included Jersey, Green and 
 Scott counties — the 37th. 
 
 Committees: Worlds fair, egriculture, fin- 
 ance, printing, public charities and otheis 
 •of less importance. 
 
 Snyder, William H., (dem.), Belle- 
 ville; law3^er. Born in Belleville 
 June 29, 1858, and the third g-eneration 
 that has filled a legislative office in 
 Illinois, his grandfather, Adam W. 
 Snyder, being- a member of the state 
 senate in '35, and his father, the late 
 Judge Wm. H. Snyder, being- a member 
 of the house in '51. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Belleville and 
 at Washington University, St. Louis. 
 He read law with Hay & Knispel, 
 Belleville, was admitted to the bar in 
 '82 and began practicing his profession 
 shortly afterwards. He has been city 
 attorney of Belleville, and is not mar- 
 ried. As a member of the special com- 
 mittee to investigate the accident at 
 Wann he took an active and leading 
 
 WILLIAM H. SNTDKU. 
 
 part, and also as a member of the elec- 
 tions committee. 
 
 Committees: Libraries (chairman), judi- 
 'Ciary, judicial department, elections, penal 
 andrel'ormatory, history, Wann investiga- 
 tion (special). 
 
 Sparks, Thomas J., (dem.), Bush- 
 nell ; lawj'er. Born in Clinton Cc, 
 
 Ind., Aug. 16, 1843, and moved with 
 his father to Illinois in '45, coming 
 direct to Fulton county. He spent his 
 youth on the farm and at 20 went to 
 Lombard University, Galesburg, and 
 afterwards to Howe's Academy, Mt. 
 Pleasant, Iowa, graduating from the 
 latter in '69. He then tauerht school 
 
 THOMAS .1 . SPARKS. 
 
 for eight years, reading law in the 
 meantime. Was admitted to the bar 
 in Nebraska in '71, and after practic- 
 ing in that state for six years came to 
 Illinois settling in Buslinell where he 
 has lived ever since, and has built up 
 a good practice. Is married and owns 
 240 acres of land. His recent eulogy 
 in the house, of Justice Scholfield of 
 the supreme court, attracted attention 
 to his oratorical powers and his hard 
 work in committees and on the floor 
 has g-iven him the reputation of be- 
 ing- one of the ablest members of this 
 general assembly. 
 
 Committees: Fees and salaries (chairmaTi), 
 judiciary, judicial department, railroads, 
 education , senatorial apportionment, to visit 
 penal and reformatory institutions. 
 
 Spellman, Tliomas L., (rep.). Dan- 
 ville, also office in Owings Building-, 
 Chicago; mine operator. Born in Lo- 
 gan Co., O., Oct. 12, 1849. Leaving 
 home at the age of 18 he learned tele- 
 graphy and was a railroad oper itor 
 for several years. In '72 he married 
 the daughter of William Tennery, one 
 of the oldest and best known citizens 
 of Vermillion county. He settled in 
 Danville in '80 and has been very suc- 
 cessful in business. He is a Mason of 
 high degree, an Odd-Fellow, a Pythian, 
 a Modern Woodman, a member of the 
 Royal Arcanum and of the Mystic 
 S.irine. Educated in the public schools. 
 
LEGISIvATlVK SOUVENIR. 
 
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 Elected to the house in '90, and ag^ain 
 in '92. Is a g'ood member, and iil- 
 though a coal operator, was willing- to 
 concede to miners legislation to which 
 they were justly entitled. He is a 
 
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 THOMAS L. SPELLMAN. 
 
 staunch republican and believes in a 
 strong- party org-anization in the house. 
 
 Conimittet's : Itailroads, penal and refor- 
 matory, inunicii>al eorporations, claims. 
 
 *Straight, Rufus C, (rep.), Fairbury; 
 farmer. Born on a farm in Chautau- 
 qua Co., N. Y., June 28, 1835; came to 
 Illinois in '54; was a member of the 
 school board for 25 years; is married; 
 owns 1,500 acres. Member in '91 also. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river improvement 
 and commerce, penal and reformatory, pub- 
 lic charities, soldiers' home, agi iciiltiire. 
 
 LAWKKNCE B. SI l;lN(.i:i;. 
 
 Stringer, Lawrence B., (dem.), Lin- 
 coln; editor. Born in South Ambov. 
 N. J., Feb. 24, 1866. He moved to Illi- 
 nois with his parents in '76, and gradu- 
 
 ated in '82 at Gitting-'s Seminary, La- 
 Harpe, and in '84 went to Lincoln, 
 entering- the college there, graduating- 
 in the classical course in '87. Then he 
 acted as city editor of The Lincoln 
 Times, and'studied law. He frequently 
 represented his college in oratorical 
 contests; and in '88 stumped the state 
 for the democratic ticket, winning new 
 laurels as an orator and debater. He 
 was of republican antecedents, but 
 joined the democracy on the tariff 
 issue in '88. Was elected to the house 
 in '90 and ag^ain in '92 by an increased 
 majority. Mr. Stringer was the young- 
 est member of the leg-islature of '91. 
 He takes prominent part in all import- 
 ant leg-islation, is popular with his col- 
 leag'-ues, and his frisnds predict a bril- 
 liant future for him. Is married. 
 
 Committees: Kducation (chairman), mines 
 and mining-, labor and industrial affairs, 
 elections, history, printing. 
 
 EDWAKD SXCHBLEFIELl). 
 
 Stubblefield, Edward, (rep.), Mc- 
 Lean ; farmer. Born in McLean coun- 
 ty Aug. 15, 1834, and received a limited 
 education, principalh' by absorption 
 in contact with the world. He has 
 farmed all his life. The Stubblefield 
 family is inter-married with the Funks, 
 another great McLean county family, 
 Edward Stubblefield's mother being- a 
 Funk. The Stubblefields came from 
 Virginia, Edward's father moving- 
 from Virg'-inia to Ohio and thence to 
 Illinois in '24. He has held various 
 township offices, is married and owns 
 over 800 acres of McLean counts' land, 
 as valuable as any in the wide world. 
 Mr. Stubblefield has always been a 
 strong republican. He is reg-arded as 
 a good, substantial farmer legislator. 
 
 Committees: Agriculture, drainage, horti- 
 culture, soldiers home. 
 
IvEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Taggart, Captain T., (dem.), Cisne ; 
 physician, was born in Brown Co., 
 Ind., Dec. 28, 1846, moved to Cisne in 
 '86. He was educated in the common 
 schools and received a first-class medi- 
 cal education at the Indianapolis Med- 
 ical CoUeg-e, graduating- in '79, al- 
 though he took a first course of lecture 
 in '74. When he became convinced 
 that a real live war was upon the 
 country he offered his services, enlist- 
 ing June '61 in Co. G., S5th Ind. Inf., 
 when he was not yet 15 years old, and 
 remained until the close of the war, 
 participating in the battles of Rich- 
 mond, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chat- 
 tanooga, Missionary Ridge and the 
 Georgia campaign. He was wounded 
 twice — at Richmond in Aug. '62 his 
 left leg was broken and in March '65 
 at Kingston, N. C, he was shot through 
 the left arm. Is married and has held 
 
 
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 CAPTAIN T. TAGGART. 
 
 various minor offices. He is a strong 
 advocate of an economical government. 
 Committees: Public buildings and grounds 
 (chairman), state institutions, penal and re- 
 formatory, soldiers home, education, sani- 
 tary affairs, history-geology and science. 
 
 Talbot, Prescott H., (rep.). Linden- 
 wood, farmer. Was born in Killingly, 
 Windham Co., Conn., Dec. 17, 1842, of 
 parents who were descendants of the 
 Puritans. In '62 he enlisted in Co. G, 
 74th 111. Inf., and foug-ht like a true 
 patriot until the close of the war. He 
 was severely wounded in '63 and had a 
 hard fight for life, but was assisted by 
 a strong and wiry constitution and an 
 indomitable will. When his country 
 3ieeded him no longer he returned home 
 and went to Rockford to complete his 
 education, which had been interrupted 
 by the war. Then he settled in Lynn- 
 
 ville. Ogle Co., on a bleak prairie, 
 which under his skillful handiwork 
 soon bloomed with fruit of the soil. 
 His energy, perseverance and thrift 
 have enabled him to accumulate a com- 
 
 PRESCOTT H. TALBOT. 
 
 pentency, for he he owns 331 acres of 
 splendid Ogle county land. Although 
 not seeking preferment, he has been 
 honored many times by his neighbors 
 with minor offices, and served for 
 three years on the county board of 
 supervisors. He was elected to the 
 house in '90 and rendered valuable 
 assistance to the farmers in legisla- 
 tive matters. Is married. He is one 
 of the most valuable members. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations, military af- 
 fairs, license, soldiers home. 
 
 HOMER J. TICE. 
 
 Tice, Homer J., (rep.), Greenview; 
 farmer. Born in Menard county, Feb. 
 5, 1862. Educated at Lincoln Univer- 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR 
 
 89 
 
 sity, graduating- in the scientilic course 
 in '82 and also took a course in a busi- 
 ness college in Bloouiington. Was 
 married and made a tour of Europe in 
 '83 returning to his splendid farm of 
 500 acres near Greenview. Was nomi- 
 nated for the house in '90 on the 96th 
 ballot and elected the same year, and 
 was returned in "92. He is particularly 
 active in the interest of the farmers. 
 He is interested in the improvement of 
 the Illinois river and after a hard fig'-ht 
 g-ot resolutions through the house with 
 that object in view. Mr. Tice is one 
 of the most reliable and ablest repre- 
 sentatives the republicans of his dis- 
 trict ever sent to Spring-field. 
 
 Committees: Appropriations, penal and 
 reformatory, agriculture, labor and indus- 
 trial affairs, horticulture. 
 
 Wallace, William H., (rep.). Hum- 
 bolt; farmer. Born in Ripley Co., 
 Ind., Oct. 11, 1840, and moved to Coles 
 Co., 111., in '74. Educated in the com- 
 mon schools and at a commercial 
 colleg"e and graduated in medicine at 
 the Ohio Medical CoUeg^e, Cincinnati, 
 in '67. After practicing'- his profession 
 for nine years he turned his attention 
 to farmings, with flattering'- results. In 
 the fall of '61 he enlisted in Co. F, 37th 
 Ind. Inf., and served as a private, cor- 
 poral, company clerk, regimental 
 postmaster, assistant division postmas- 
 ter, and division postmaster. The last 
 two Years of his service were in Louis- 
 
 WILLIAM H. WALLACE. 
 
 ville, where he had charg-e of the 
 distribution of the military mail, a 
 responsible and arduous position. He 
 is married and owns over 860 acres of 
 land. He was elected supervisor from 
 his township by a majority of 19, 
 although the township is democratic 
 
 by 100, evidencing that he is best liked 
 where he is best known. He is a faith- 
 ful representative, always in his seat. 
 
 Committees: Li-ve stock and dairying, 
 state institutions, executive department,, 
 warehouses. 
 
 Warder, Walter, (rep.), Cairo; law- 
 yer. Born at Maysville, Ky., April 7, 
 
 WALTER WARDER. 
 
 1851, his father moving to Johnson Co., 
 111., next year. He was raised on a. 
 farm and participated in the hardships 
 of a farmer boy in the 60's. He at- 
 tended the public schools and complet- 
 ed his education at Illinois University, 
 Champaign. Returning home he 
 worked on the farm, taught school 
 and studied law, applying'- himself in- 
 dustriously, and was tidinitted to the 
 bar in Sept. '74, and immediatly began 
 practice at Marion. In '76 he married 
 Miss Dora Bain, daug'-hter of John. 
 Bain, of Vienna, one of the wealthiest 
 and luost prominent citizens of South- 
 ern Illinois. In '80 he removed to 
 Cairo. In '83 he was appointed states, 
 attorney of Alexander county' to fill a. 
 vacancy; in "85 he was appointed mas- 
 ter in chancery and has held the office 
 ev^er since. Although of southern 
 birth and democratic antecedents he 
 has always been a republican, and is- 
 reg-arded as one of the strongest men 
 in "Eg-ypt." He has earned the repu- 
 tation of being'- a conscientious and in- 
 dustrious member. He was the caucus 
 nominee for temporary speaker last 
 January'; served on the leading com- 
 mittees of the session of '91, including 
 the steering- committee, and was re- 
 elected by an increased vote in '92. 
 
 Committees: .Judiciary, mines and min- 
 ing, banks and banking, insurance, road* 
 and bridges, congressional apportionment, 
 steering committee. 
 
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 LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 ■^Thiemann, William, (rep.), Itasca ; 
 farmer. Born in Hanover, Germany, 
 Feb. 11, 1849, and in '57 emigrated 
 with his parents to DuPage county. 
 He was elected to the house in '90 and 
 '92 ; common school education. Is 
 married and owns 290 acres. 
 
 Committees: Corporations, education, 
 public charities, live stock and dairylns^-. 
 ■claims. 
 
 "Warren, James P., (dem.). Rose 
 Hill, Jasper Co.; farmer, was born in 
 Bartholomew Co., Ind., Sept. 25, 1842; 
 in '52 the family settled in Jasper 
 -county; common school education; is 
 married and owns 420 acres. Enlisted 
 in Co. D, 97th 111. Inf., and served 
 three years. 
 
 Committees: Congressional apportion- 
 ment, farm drainage, pul:)lic buildings, state 
 institutions. 
 
 Watson, James H., (dem.). Wood- 
 lawn, Jefferson Co.; physician. Born 
 in Mt. Vernon July 31, 1846, and re- 
 ceived a common school education. 
 In '62 enlisted in Co. E, 70th 111. Inf. 
 After his discharge he was in the U. 
 S. secret service under Gen. Palmer 
 until the surrender of Lee. Then he 
 studied medicine and graduated from 
 the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, St. Ivouis, and has successfully 
 practiced his profession ever since. 
 He has been supervisor, trustee of 
 Woodlawn several times and for six 
 years was on the board of pension ex- 
 
 JAMES H. WATSON. 
 
 aminers at Mt. Vernon. He has been 
 •delegate to conventions without num- 
 iDer and was chairman of the senatorial 
 -committee of his district for four years. 
 He was elected to the house in '90 and 
 and again in '92, and in a quiet, unos- 
 tentatious way acts well the part of a 
 
 legislator. His investig-ation of 
 abuses in the Anna insane asylum last 
 session created a sensation. 
 
 Committees: Public charities (chairman), 
 railroads, elections, military affairs, re- 
 trenchment, sanitary affairs, senatorial ap- 
 portionment. 
 
 Wheelock, William W., (rep.), Chi- 
 cago; lawyer. Born in Eelts Mills, 
 
 WILLIAM W. ANHKLLOCK. 
 
 Jefferson Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1864, 
 and educated at St. Lawrence Uni- 
 versity, Canton, N. Y., and at the 
 Northwestern University Law School, 
 Chicago. Moved to Chicago in '86, 
 was admitted to the bar in '89, and 
 was in Corporation Counsel Miller's 
 office for a number of years, but is 
 now practicing alone, and is very suc- 
 cessful. Is not married. He was as- 
 sistant attorney for the Chicago 
 Drainage Board up to Jan. 1, '93, when 
 he resigned to take his seat in the 
 House. Chicago has three republican 
 clubs for the three divisions of the 
 city — the Lincoln, the Hamilton and 
 the Marquette clubs. He was the 
 founder of the first, has been its sec- 
 retary since it was organized and his 
 shrewdness and ability in political 
 matters is conceded. He is anxious to 
 secure an amendment to the constitu- 
 tion that will permit the abolishment 
 of the justice courts in Cook county, 
 and the substitution therefor of dis- 
 trict courts, and is heartily backed 
 by the Supreme Court, the Chicago 
 judges and the Chicago Bar associa- 
 tion, and has good show of success. 
 
 Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
 m(!nt, drainage, state institutions, military 
 affairs, roads and bi idges 
 
 "Weckler, Frederick S., (rep.), Fay- 
 etteville; farmer. Born in Peru, Ind., 
 Sept. 10, 1848, and moved to Fayette- 
 
i,EGisi,ATivE souvb;nii<. 
 
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 ville in '69; educated at Notre Dame. 
 Lost his wife three years a^o, and 
 owns 420 acres. Is justice of the peace. 
 Uoinmittee.s: Af^rUMilturc, mines and min- 
 ing, labor and indiisti ial affiiirs, license. 
 
 Whitley, Langley St. A., (dem.). 
 Spring-held; physician. Born in 
 Spring-held July 21, 1863, and educated 
 in the public schools. Educated in 
 the medical profession at St. Louis, 
 at the Colleg-e of Phj'sicians and 
 Surg-eons, New York, at the Long- 
 Island Medical Colleg-e in Brooklyn, 
 and beg-an to practice his profession 
 in Spring-field in '83, and was very 
 successful. Is married and is inter- 
 ested in real estate. Is very strong- 
 with labor org-anizations and cham- 
 pions their cause in the house. He 
 was a pag-e in the house in "75, and has 
 been chief surg-eon of the Wabash 
 railroad, middle division, in charg-e of 
 
 LANGLEY ST. A. WHITLEY. 
 
 their largfe hospital in Spring^field, 
 and has a great reputation for saving- 
 limbs when amputation seems almost 
 a necessity. 
 
 Committees: Finance (chairman), ap 
 propriations, fish and game, pnblic build- 
 ings, revenui!, railroads, agriculture, con- 
 gressional apporli(inment, miiies and 
 mining. 
 
 Wilkening, Conrad, (dem.), Crete; 
 merchant. Born in Crete March 24, 
 1856, and educated at parochial and 
 public schools and at Bryant & Strat- 
 tan's Business Colleg-e, Chicag-o, g-rad- 
 uating: when only 17 ^-ears of ag-e. He 
 has been eng-ag-ed in the mercantile 
 business for 23 years, and is the senior 
 member of the firm of C. Wilkening'- & 
 Co. They deal in general merchandise 
 with a banking- attachment. It is not 
 only the largest department store in 
 Crete, but the larg-est in Will county. 
 
 He never sought office in his life; has 
 been school treasurer for ten or twelve 
 years, and was nominated for the house 
 against his protest. He lived in Chi- 
 cago for a time. He is married and in 
 
 CONRAD WILKENING. 
 
 comfortable circumstances. He was 
 interested in the repeal of the Edwards 
 law and favors the enactment of an- 
 other compulsory law with the objec- 
 tionable features removed. He is quiet 
 and accommodating and has made 
 many friends. 
 
 Committees: Education, penal and re- 
 formatory, banks and banking, printing, 
 libraries ."world's fair. 
 
 Wilson, H. Clay, (rep.), Springfield; 
 lawyer. Born in Davis Co., Ky., July 
 2, 1856, and on the outbreak of the 
 
 H. (.LAY WILSON. 
 
 civil war his father removed with his 
 family to Enterprise, Ind., in which 
 state Mr. Wilson resided until '82, 
 when he came to Sangamon Co., 111. 
 
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 LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 At the ag^e of 12 he began working- on 
 his father's farm and continued at it 
 until he was 20, when he started to 
 school at Danville, Ind., and grad- 
 uated in the teacher's and commercial 
 course. Then he came to Sangamon 
 county and taught in the public 
 schools for seven years, in the mean- 
 time studying law and was admitted 
 to the bar in '88. Was nominated by 
 the republicans for county judge in 
 '90, but the overwhelming democratic 
 majority was too much to overcome. 
 He was unanimously nominated for 
 the legislature in the spring of '92. 
 Is married and has two interesting 
 children. He takes great interest in 
 fraternal and beneficiary societies, 
 being a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a K. 
 of P., an Elk, a Maccabee and a Mod- 
 ern Woodman. He is very popular 
 and stands well with his colleagues. 
 
 Committees: Judicial department, cor- 
 porations, labor and industrial affairs, build- 
 ing and loan associations, congressional ap- 
 portionment, printing, penal and re- 
 foxnnatory. 
 
 Wilson, James P., (dem.), Woosung; 
 farmer. Born in Blair Co., Pa., June 
 7, 1854, and in '56 moved with his par- 
 ents to Dixon, 111. After attending 
 Knox College, Galesburg, he taught 
 school, and in '77 moved to Woosung, 
 the heart of an agricultural paradise, 
 where he has become a successful 
 farmer, owning 160 acres of as good 
 
 JAMES p. WILSON. 
 
 land as the rain ever pattered on. He 
 was a member of the Ogle county 
 board of supervisors for many years 
 and its chairman for one year. He 
 was a member of the House in '77 and 
 again in '91. As chairman of the 
 committee on appropriations last ses- 
 
 sion he made a record that will serve 
 as an example for future leader s in a 
 fight for an economical government. 
 He is an orator of no mean ability as 
 those who listened to his speech in 
 Rochelle in '90 in presenting Gen. Pal- 
 mer with a cane can testify, yet he 
 seldom airs his eloquence in the house. 
 
 JACOB ZIMMEEMAN. 
 
 Committees: Revenue (chairman), agri- 
 culture, flnance, live stock and dairying, 
 elections, contingent expenses, senatorial 
 apportionment, steering committee. 
 
 Zimmerman, Jacob, (dem.). Mount 
 Carmel; farmer. Born on a farm near 
 Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 27, 1831, and 
 nine years later moved with his 
 father's family to Stark Co., O., 
 where they remained for three years, 
 when they went to Upper Sandus.ky, 
 and from there he moved to Marshall, 
 111., in '52. Here in connection with 
 the late James C. Robinson he estab- 
 lished and published The Eastern Illi- 
 noisan, a paper of wide circulation 
 and influence in democratic circles in 
 that day. It was here in '53 that he 
 introduced the plan of a primary elec- 
 tion instead of delegate conventions 
 for nominating county officers; he 
 was the pioneer in this innovation 
 which was necessary in that early 
 day on account of the trading and 
 combinations of candidates. He ran 
 The Eastern lUinoisan for four years 
 and then moved to Urbana, where he 
 established The Constitution, a demo- 
 cratic paper, of course, which he ran 
 for four years, through the panic of '57;; 
 was legislative correspondent for The 
 State Register in '57. In '60 he movedl 
 to Mt. Carmel and established The 
 Democrat, which ran during the cam- 
 paign as a red hot Douglas champion.. 
 After the election he abandoned' jour- 
 
T.KOI.SLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
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 nalisiu for the farm except occasional 
 contributions to the press. He was a 
 successful tobacco fanner for nianj' 
 years, but now farms in a j^^eneral way 
 includin.i,'- live stock. While at Mar- 
 shall he bought two printing offices; 
 one was used in establishing The 
 Eastern Illinoisan and the other was 
 taken to Greenup to start The Cum- 
 berland County Democrat; it was the 
 first paper that county had. He was 
 educated in the common and select 
 schools, is married and owns abut 350 
 acres of land. He has been on the 
 county board and held minor offices, 
 and was elected to the house in '78. 
 He is anxious to see this legislature 
 amend the revenue law by changing 
 the time for taking final judgment 
 against delinquent taxpa^-ers to July, 
 so that farmers can realize on their 
 crops before their taxes are collected. 
 He is on more important committees 
 than any other member. 
 
 Committees: Countj^ and township organ- 
 ization (chaiiman), rules, appropriations, 
 revenue, judicial department, roads and 
 bridges, drainage, federal relations, horti- 
 culture. 
 
 * Wilke, Fred, (rep.) Beecher; farmer. 
 Born in Westphalia, Germany, March 
 17, 1829, and emigrated to Will county 
 in '60. Common school education; is 
 ■married; elected to the house in '88, '90 
 and '92. He has been supervisor 
 since '71. 
 
 Committees: Canal-river improvement and 
 commerce, penal and reformatory, roads and 
 bridges, drainage. 
 
 *Wiwi, Philip, (dem.), Montrose; 
 merchant. Born in Rhenish Bavaria, 
 June 10, 1833, and emigrated to Indiana 
 in '50; moved to Illinois in '67; educated 
 in common schools; elected to the 
 house in '90 and '92. Is married and 
 owns 1,100 acres. 
 
 Committees: Claims (cliairman), public- 
 charities, public buildings, elections, sol- 
 diers' home. 
 
 In the "make-up" it wasnecessarj' to 
 change a few of the biographical 
 sketches from their true alphabetical 
 position. An effort was made to get 
 every portrait in its place — in the biog- 
 raphy, or immediately preceding it. 
 It is no fault of the compiler and pub- 
 lisher that the House of Representa- 
 tives is not represented by a complete 
 portrait gallery. Povertj^ on the part 
 of those whose sketches are marked 
 with a * is no good reason, for without 
 exception, almost, the biography indi- 
 cates a degree of prosperity above the 
 average citizen and legislator. 
 
 THE PRESS GALLERY. 
 
 Some of the brightest stars in the 
 journalistic firmament have sent us 
 as "hot stuff" from Springfield as thej' 
 ever will send in this world. The 
 writer's experience as a legislative 
 correspondent dates from the session 
 of '83, when the little unpleasantness 
 over Mr. Rook and the passage of the 
 Harper High License Bill, furnished 
 gingery sensations for weeks. The 
 next legislature — that of '85— contained 
 
 101 democrats and E- M. Haines and 
 
 102 republicans, and the correspond- 
 ents wanted plenty of space. Guns, 
 knives, clubs and grim death were only 
 ordinarj' diurnal incidents of both ses- 
 sions until the jjoints at issue were 
 finally adjusted. The meetings in '87 
 and '89 were comparatively peaceful, 
 but '91 was hot enough. No ordinary' 
 material could cope with the events of 
 these sessions of the Illinois General 
 Assembly, and the managing editors 
 appreciated the gravity of the assign- 
 ment by detailing their best men. 
 Among others who have burned the 
 wires the following are noted: R. W. 
 Ransom, now night editor of The Tri- 
 bune; V. B. Kelly, lately of The New 
 York Sun; Charles M. Pepper, now 
 chief of the Washington staff of The 
 Chicago Tribune; Walter Wellman, 
 now chief of the Washington staff of 
 The Chicago Herald; John P. Ballan- 
 tyne, afterwards managing editor of 
 The Chicago Herald and Daily News; 
 Charles R. Tuttle, now managing 
 editor of The Chicago Dispatch; Pho- 
 cion Howard was an omnipresent and 
 indispensable adjunct — peace to his 
 weary bones; Brand Whitlock, now 
 chief clerk of the index department of 
 the Secretary of State's office; Dan 
 Ambrose, now running a paper in Mis- 
 souri; L. W. Busby, now assistant 
 editor on The Inter Ocean; E. L. Mer- 
 ritt, now a representative in the house 
 from Sangamon county' ; Will Connelh', 
 now owner of the Danville Daily Press, 
 and others whose names are not now 
 recalled. John A. Corwin, on duty in 
 '81-3 for The Times, switched to The 
 Herald, and finallj' landed with The 
 Tribune; is now in charge of that jour- 
 nal's legislative bureau, and has had 
 it for several sessions. Mr. Corwin is 
 the oldest correspondent in consecu- 
 tive service with the Illinois General 
 Assembly. T. C. MacMillan, now in 
 charge of the The Inter Ocean staff, 
 was a member of the legislature from 
 '85 to '91 inclusive. J. C. Hollman's 
 
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 LEGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 first session was in '83, and the veteran 
 W. K. Sullivan has represented The 
 Evening Journal "off and on" for 
 many years. Sketches of late arrivals 
 and several old friends are submitted 
 below. At every session the legislative 
 press gallery has been filled with con- 
 spicuously bright, able and untiring 
 news-gatherers. 
 
 MR. HOLLMAN. 
 
 HOIvLMAN, JOSEPH C, in charge 
 of The Chicago Record Bureau is a na- 
 tive of southwestern Wisconsin, and 
 was born in 1846. He learned the 
 printer's trade in a country newspa- 
 per office, and with the exception of a 
 brief service in the army, has been 
 continuously in newspaper work since 
 '60. He was typo and telegraph editor 
 on the Milwaukee Sentinel from '66 to 
 '74, and then accompanied a retiring 
 proprietor of that journal to Quincy, 
 111., where, during fourteen years, he 
 served in every reportorial and edito- 
 rial position on The Daily Whig. 
 In the meantime he had become 
 familiar with legislation and politics 
 in Illinois, representing The Chicago 
 Tribune in the lower house of the 
 general assembly in '83 and being 
 in attendance upon all subsequent 
 sessions. In '88 he removed to Chicago 
 and became a reporter on The Morn- 
 ing News— now The Record— and has 
 since reported four sessions of the 
 legislature for it and has done state 
 politics during the campaigns. 
 
 MacMIEEAN, THOMAS C, in 
 charge of The Chicago Inter Ocean 
 Bureau, was born at Stranraer, Scot- 
 land, Oct. 4, 1850, and in '57 moved 
 with his parents to Chicago, where 
 he attended the public schools for 
 
 a time, leaving to serve as an ap- 
 prentice to a machinist. Poor health 
 compelled him to abandon this, and 
 he returned to school, graduating from 
 the high school. Then he entered 
 the Chicago University. In January, 
 '73, he became a reporter on The 
 Inter Ocean. In '75 he went as cor- 
 respondent of that paper with the 
 Black Hills exploring expedition, and 
 in '75-6 he represented his paper with 
 Gen. Crook in his campaign against 
 Sitting Bull and his hostile Sioux. In 
 '78 he made an extensive tour of Eu- 
 rope and in '80 succeeded Robert P. 
 Porter as editor of "Our Curiosity 
 Shop," an important department of 
 The Inter Ocean. In '82 he succeeded 
 George B. Armstrong as city editor, 
 and two years later returned to the 
 "Curiosity Shop." In January, '83 he 
 married Miss Mary C. Goudie of 
 Na-au-say, Kendall county. He has 
 served as a member of the Cook 
 County Board of Education for three 
 years and for five years has been sec- 
 retary and director of the Chicago 
 Free Kindergarten association, and is 
 also a director of the American Educa- 
 tional Aid association of Illinois; was 
 director for two terms in the Chicago 
 Public Library. Mr. MacMillan was 
 elected to the house in '84 and '86, and 
 advanced to the senate in '88, his term 
 
 MR. MACMILLAN. 
 
 expiring in '92; he was named by the 
 republicans for congress last year, but 
 was defeated. He was a charter mem- 
 ber of the Chicago Press Club, and is 
 first vice president of the Illinois St. 
 Andrews Society. In June, '85, Illi- 
 nois College at Jacksonville conferred 
 on him the degree of Master of Arts. 
 He is a quiet, but energetic worker. 
 
I.RCISI.ATIVK SOrVKNIK. 
 
 95 
 
 BURUETT, SAM M., in charg-e of 
 The ChicHf^'o Herald Bureau, was born 
 in Boyle county, Kentucky, February 
 5, 1854. He studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in '76. In '78 he 
 was elected prosecuting- iittorney of 
 Rockcastle county in his native state, 
 holding- the office for four years. 
 While eng-ag-ed in the practice of law 
 he developed a taste for journalistic 
 work, which he cultivated by making- 
 occasional contributions to the col- 
 umns of The Ivouisville Courier- Jour- 
 nal. In '84 Mr. Burdett was g-iven a 
 position by Mr. Henry Watterson on 
 the editorial staff of The Courier- 
 Journiil. In November, '87, he was 
 appointed a special ag-ent of the 
 United States Internal Revenue de- 
 partment under President Cleveland 
 and was assig'-ned to duty in the north- 
 west with headquarters at Omaha. He 
 resig-ned the office of revenue ag-ent 
 soon after the accession of President 
 Harrison and returned to Kentucky. 
 March 24. '90, Mr. Burdett was mar- 
 ried to Miss Clara B. Russell, daugh- 
 ter of A. A. Russell, of Massillon, 
 Ohio. Immediately after his mar- 
 riage he went with his wife to Denver, 
 Col., where they resided for one year, 
 removing- to Chicago in May, '91. In 
 the following Aug'-ust he was em- 
 ployed as an editorial writer on the 
 
 MK. BURDETT. 
 
 staff of The Chicago Herald, and last 
 January Mr. Burdett was sent to 
 Springfield and placed in charge of 
 The Herald's legislative bureau. 
 
 GRAHAM, WILLIAM A. S., in 
 charge of The Chicag-o Times Bureau, 
 ■was born inNewtownhamilton, County 
 Armagh, Ireland, Feb. 6, 1863, and re- 
 
 ceived a good common school educa- 
 tion. In '79 he came to America and 
 was employed as office boy in The 
 Philadelphia Press. Subsequently he 
 became a copy-holder and g-raduated 
 as a writer under the tutelage of Maj. 
 Moses P. Handy, the present chief of 
 the Bureau of Publicitv and Promo- 
 tion of the World's Fair. In '82 he 
 
 MR. (UiAHAJI. 
 
 went to Denver, and two years later 
 moved to Chicag'-o, prior to the demo- 
 cratic national convention of '84, and 
 has been doing politics for Chicago 
 newspapers ever since. He was with 
 The Times in '84; The Tribune in '89, 
 reporting the legislative session that 
 3'ear, and on the adjournment of the 
 leg'-islature was made secretiiry of the 
 press bureau by the Chicago newspa- 
 pers, and assigned to the task of work- 
 ing up sentiment through the press 
 for Chicago as the world's fair city. 
 At this time he was attacked with 
 typhoid fever and nearly died. On 
 recovering, he reported the special 
 session of the leg'-islature for The 
 Herald, continuing with that journal 
 until after the election of '90, and has 
 since been with The Times. He had 
 charg-e of the leg-islative bureau of 
 that paper in '91, and in the campaign 
 of '92 was a very valuable and discreet 
 aid to Gov. Altgeld and the demo- 
 cratic ticket. His labors were recog- 
 nized, for he was made commissioner 
 of the Illinois & Michigan canal by 
 the governor. He took an active in- 
 terest in the campaign of Carter H. 
 Harrison, editor of The Times, for 
 mayor of Chicago this spring and was 
 selected as private secretary to the 
 mayor by Mr. Harrison, a position for 
 which he is eminently qualified. 
 
LEGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 Jan. '88 he was married to Miss Caro- 
 line Brown, of Evanston, and they 
 have had two boys, one of whom is 
 living-. 
 
 SUIvIvIVAN, WIIvLIAM K., in 
 charge of The Chicago Evening Jour- 
 nal Bureau, was born in Waterford, 
 Ireland, Nov. 10, 1843. He was edu- 
 
 MR. SULLIVAN. 
 
 cated at the Waterford Model School 
 and in Dublin. In his youth he was 
 intended for a Methodist minister, but 
 he preferred to seek his fortune in 
 America and in another pursuit. He 
 emigrated in '63, and his career for a 
 time was somewhat varied. He served 
 in the 141st III. Inf.; taught school for 
 a time in Kane and Kendall counties; 
 ran an engine in West Virginia dur- 
 ing the oil excitement there. Then he 
 ■went \o Europe, and when he returned 
 stopped in New York for a time, con- 
 tributing to Gen. Halpin's (Miles 
 O'Reilly) Citizen. Then he read 
 proof and became a reporter on the 
 New York Sun under Moses Beach, 
 and served under Charles A. Dana be- 
 fore he returned to the west and Chi- 
 cago. He was first connected with 
 The Tribune, and afterwards The 
 Evening Journal. He has been with 
 this reliable chronicler of events for 
 eighteen years as city editor, manag- 
 ing editor and correspondent. He was 
 a representative in the 27th General 
 Assembly; was appointed by Maj^or 
 Colvin on the Chicago Board of Edu- 
 cation, and served three years, two 
 years as president of the board; was 
 United States consul to the Bermudas 
 during President Harrison's adminis- 
 tration, and resigned in Oct. '92. In 
 '64 he was married to Miss Amelia 
 Shackelford, of Evanston, and has 
 
 one son and one daughter. Mr. Sul- 
 livan has been on duty at every Illi- 
 nois legislative assembly for over 
 twenty years, and is almost as well 
 known as the state house to public 
 men of both parties. 
 
 JONES, ALEXANDER J., in 
 charge of the Associated Press Bureau, 
 was born in Sangamon Co., 111., July 11, 
 1860. He was raised on a farm, and 
 in 1877 entered the United States 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis, on the 
 nomination of Congressman Wm. M. 
 Springer, as a cadet midshipman. 
 After one year's service he resigned 
 and, proceeding to Eondon, shipped 
 aboard a merchant vessel as seaman 
 for Australia. He spent several 
 months in Australia, traversing ex- 
 tensively the provinces of Victoria and 
 New South Wales. Then he shipped 
 at Sydney as an ordinary seaman on 
 a Bolivian vessel for San Francisco. 
 After two years' absence, and having 
 sailed around the world as sailor before 
 the mast, he returned to Illinois, and 
 in '80 began teaching school. Three 
 years later he entered the newspaper 
 business, spending two years in 
 Erance and other European countries 
 to perfect his knowledge in literature 
 and acquire proficiency in the French 
 language. In '84-5-6 he was employed 
 successively on The New York Tribune, 
 The Chicago Times and The Chicago 
 
 MK. JONES. 
 
 Inter Ocean, finally going to Wash- 
 ington as clerk of the Committee on 
 Claims of the house of representatives. 
 He was married in '85 to Miss Agnes 
 S. Chalmers, of Springfield, 111., and 
 they have one child, a boy. In '88 he 
 was appointed by President Cleveland 
 
I,KC.ISI<ATIVp; SOUVKNIK. 
 
 97 
 
 as United States consul at Barran- 
 quilla, Colombia, South America and 
 held this office until the expiration of 
 the Cleveland administration. He 
 then returned to the newspaper pro- 
 fession accepting- a position on The 
 Chica,<,'-o Times, and finally became 
 the manager of the Springfield Legis- 
 lative Bureau of the Associated Press 
 in '89. For the past four years he has 
 been the political correspondent of the 
 Associated Press and has reported 
 nearly all the great events, political 
 and otherwise, in the United States 
 since that time, including the Johns- 
 town horror, the Cronin trial, the 
 Homestead riots, many state conven- 
 tions, and three national conventions. 
 During- the sessions of the last con- 
 g"ress he represented the Associated 
 Press at Washing-ton, D. C, returning 
 to Springfield every alternate year to 
 take charge of the Illinois Legislative 
 Bureau. 
 
 FITZMAURICE, D. C, in charg-e 
 of The St. Louis Republic Bureau at 
 the sessions of '91-'93, was born in 
 Cincinnati, May 12, 1855. His early 
 education was in the schools of Illi- 
 nois, at Kansas and Charleston, and 
 completed bj' taking the full course 
 at Hughes' High School, Cincinnati. 
 His first newspaper work was on The 
 Cincinnziti Star, then a new daily pa- 
 
 Mli. I'lTZMAUKlCl!;. 
 
 per, since consolidated with The 
 Times. Later he was on the local 
 staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer. In 
 June, '76, he took the editorial man- 
 agement of a new democratic daily 
 which the democrats of Alton were 
 anxious to establish after several fail- 
 ures by men who have since become 
 
 eminent in journalism, politics and 
 commerce. The first number of The 
 Alton Democrat appeared under his 
 manag^ement June 17, '76, and he re- 
 mained the editor of the paper for 
 twelve years. In "88 he contributed a 
 series of letters to The St. Louis Re- 
 public, developing the practical oper- 
 ation of the taxation and revenue sys- 
 
 MK. KIDl) 
 
 tems of Illinois. After the close of 
 the campaign of that year he was at- 
 tached to the staff of The Republic 
 as staff correspondent. In that capa- 
 city he has seen wide and varied ser- 
 vice in all parts of the country'. 
 
 KIDD, THOMAS W. S.. editor and 
 proprietor of The Daily Monitor, of 
 Springfield, was born in New Castle, 
 Del., Oct. 22, 1828. His parents were 
 natives of Delaware, but of Irish de- 
 scent. Both Capt. Kidd's parents died 
 when he was ver^' young-, and he was 
 raised by an aunt. He attended school 
 but six weeks during- his life. In '40 
 the family moved to Philadelphia and 
 Thomas served two years as errand boy 
 in a merchant tailoring establish- 
 ment. Here T. S. Arthtir and other 
 literary- celebrities frequently met and 
 young- Kidd in listening to their con- 
 versation first conceived the idea of 
 learning- something- of books and the 
 world. He learned the trades of printer 
 and stereot^'per and subsequently' that 
 of blacksmith and machinist, and was 
 with locomotive builders at Wilming- 
 ton until '49, when he removed to 
 Chicago and took charge of extensive 
 iron shops. He soon tired of this and 
 accepted a place as traveling- ag-ent 
 for an agricultural implement firm, 
 remaining in this line until '57. Iti 
 
98 
 
 LEGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 February, '56, he moved to Spring-- 
 field; in '57 was bailiff in the U. S. 
 marshal's office; in '58 was elected 
 coroner and appointed deputy sheriff; 
 in the winters of '58-'59 and '59-'60 he 
 served as sheriff of the Supreme 
 Court; in '60 he was made crier of the 
 U. S. District Court by Judge Treat, 
 which he held until '77; he was 
 assessor of Springfield for fifteen 
 years and collector for two years; in 
 '58 he read law and was admitted to 
 the bar. He established the Sanga- 
 mo Monitor May 1, '73 and The 
 Morning Monitor June 28, '77. In 
 July, '54, he married Miss Charlotte 
 Janney, of Cecil Co., Md., and six 
 children have been born to them, of 
 whom one — a daughter — survives. As 
 a writer Capt. Kidd has a peculiar 
 style of his own. He uses very plain 
 English without frills and everybody 
 knows what he means. 
 
 MK. DAVIS. 
 
 DAVIS, JOHN McCAN, in charge 
 of The St. Ivouis Globe-Democrat 
 Btireau, is a native of Fulton County, 
 this state. His first journalistic expe- 
 rience was in Canton, 111., where he 
 was engaged in newspaper work for 
 several years. He came to Spring- 
 field in '88 and connected himself with 
 The Illinois State Journal. He has 
 been in charge of the legislative work 
 of The Globe-Democrat for two ses- 
 sions — the Thirty-seventh and Thirty- 
 eighth General Assemblies. Mr. 
 Davis, at different times, has repre- 
 sented a number of metropolitan pa- 
 pers at the state capital, being now 
 the resident correspondent of The 
 Chicago Times and several eastern 
 papers, including The New York World. 
 He represents several journals. 
 
 MITCHEI.lv, HENRY ROBEY, rep- 
 resenting several prominent dailies, 
 was born in Illinois and was educated 
 as a practical farmer. He entered 
 the United States service at the 
 
 MK. MIXCllELL. 
 
 age of twenty years, and since the 
 war has been engaged in newspaper 
 work of different kinds. For the past 
 fifteen years he has been connected 
 with The Chicago Inter Ocean most of 
 the time, and has been a reporter in 
 the Illinois legislature since the mem- 
 orable Eogan-Morrison contest in 1885. 
 VAUGHN, JOHN E., in charge 
 of The Springfield Morning Mon- 
 itor, was born in Belleville, 111., 
 Sept. 17, 1870. He received a good 
 
 MR. VAUGHN. 
 
 common school education in the Belle- 
 ville schools. He came to Springfield 
 about six years ago, and began on The 
 Monitor as police and justices' courts 
 
I.KC.ISLATIVK SOrVKNIK. 
 
 99 
 
 reporter, and uiade this department of 
 The Monitor a feature of the paper. 
 He reported the leg-islature of '91 and 
 was assigned to "do" the state conven- 
 tions and local and state politics for 
 Capt. Kidd's agg'ressive journal. He 
 did his work well, and is a reliable and 
 able reporter and writer. He is the 
 youngest correspondent in charge of 
 the work for any newspaper this ses- 
 sion. The Monitor publishes the best 
 and most comprehensive reports of the 
 legislative proceedings of any local 
 paper. 
 
 PICKERING, JOHN L., of Spring- 
 field, who has represented various 
 metropolitan papers during legislative 
 sessions, and is the compiler of this 
 book, was born near Neoga, 111., Sept. 
 12, 1860, and spent his boyhood in 
 Areola. In '75 he was train boy on 
 the Illinois Central, and afterwards 
 switched to the position of brakeman 
 
 MR. PICKERING. 
 
 on a freight train, which he followed 
 a year or more. He started to learn 
 the printer's trade when 10 yezLm 
 old, and in '78 quit railroading for a 
 "slug"" in The Peoria National Demo- 
 crat office, attending- the Peoria high 
 school at the same time. In '80-'82 he 
 solicited subscribers for The Chicago 
 Herald throughout the northwest, and 
 worked as news compositor in the 
 same office. Reported the legislature 
 of '83 and '85 for The Springfield Reg- 
 ister, and was telegraph editor of the 
 same paper for several years. In '87 
 he established in Springfield a polit- 
 ico-society weekly, The Capital Idea, 
 which he conducted for three j'ears, 
 and then sold it. He has contributed 
 letters on Illinois politics since '84 to 
 The Herald, The Times, The Republic 
 
 and The Tribune; during the cam- 
 paigns of '86, '88 and '90 was con- 
 nected with The Herald and The 
 Republic, and was with The Tribune 
 in '92; was on The Times staff during 
 the sessson of '91, and wont on the 
 Washington staff of that paper in 
 Dec. '91. He is a practical printer in 
 all departments. In Dec. '83, he mar- 
 ried Miss Etta Rountree, of Nashville, 
 111., and they have three children, a 
 boy and two girls. 
 
 GRAIN INSPECTION. 
 
 In '71 the legislature passed laws 
 providing for state inspection of grain 
 in Chicago and placing it under the 
 supervision of the railroad and ware- 
 house commission. The g-rain inspec- 
 tion and warehouse registrar depart- 
 ments of Chicago were organized in 
 July, '71, and since then the following 
 have been chief inspectors: W. F. 
 Tompkins, W. H. Harper, J. C. Smith, 
 J. P. Reynolds, P. Bird Price and 
 George P. Bunker. The chief inspector 
 is appointed by the governor. The 
 registrar is appointed by the railroad 
 and warehouse commission, and the 
 following have filled the office since 
 '71: Stephen Clary, T. H. Tvndale, B. 
 F. Cnlver, H. S. Dean, P. Bird Price, 
 J. W. Burst, J. M. Turn bull and Louis 
 Wagner. Messrs. Bunker and Wag- 
 ner are the onl3' officers of democratic 
 faith that ever filled these positions. 
 Although new to the duties thej' have 
 given satisfactory ovidence of the wis- 
 dom of Gov. Altgeld in selecting them. 
 
 BUNKER, GEORGE P., Chief Grain 
 Inspector, although active in politics 
 for a number of years, is a successful 
 business man. For fifteen years he 
 has been a manufacturer of vinegar 
 and pickles. In all the political cam- 
 paigns in Chicago during the last 
 seven ^^ears he has been a member of 
 the executive committee of the county 
 central committee, in every case acting 
 as treasurer. The only political posi- 
 tion he has held was that of alderman 
 from the Eighth ward. He was for 
 two years in the council and two years 
 ago refused the office for a second 
 term. Mr. Bunker was born in Frank- 
 lin county. New York, forty-three years 
 ago and at the age of eighteen moved 
 to Chicago. The second day after his 
 arrival he became a conductor on the 
 West Division railway and remained 
 there about a year. He then secured 
 
100 
 
 LEGISIvATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 employment with William Goldie & 
 Co., contractors, and was with that 
 firm five years, when he embarked in 
 the pickle and vineg^ar business. His 
 abilities as a business man are unques- 
 
 GEO. p. BUNKEE. 
 
 tioned, and while in the council he 
 served his ward and the city well. Mr. 
 Bunker is a member of the Iroquois 
 Club, and the Cook County Democracy 
 and Marching- Club. 
 
 WAGNER, lyOUIS, Warehouse Reg-- 
 istrar, was born in Watertown, Wis., 
 Jan. 28, 1858, and has lived in Chicago 
 since '66. He was educated at North- 
 "western University, Watertown, at 
 Concordia Gymnasium, Fort Wayne, 
 g-raduating- in '76, and at Concordia 
 
 LOUIS WAGNEK, 
 
 (Saxon) University, St. Ivouis, gradti- 
 ating- in '79. He has been editor of 
 German daily papers in St. Louis and 
 Chicago for ten years. In '90 he was 
 
 nominated for the state senate by the 
 democrats of the Seventh district, and 
 was defeated by only 833 votes, al- 
 though his opponent was a prominent 
 republican, and had been elected in 
 '86 by a majority of over 2,300. Mr. 
 Wagner made a tour of the state last 
 year, speaking at forty-five places in 
 English, German and Low German, 
 for the democratic ticket. He devoted 
 himself principally to exposing the 
 iniquities of the Edwards Compulsory 
 School Eaw, and is the author of the 
 pamphlet, "A Brief History of the 
 Edwards Eaw," a tract that provoked 
 a great deal of newspaper controversy, 
 and was circulated as a campaign doc- 
 ument. He was appointed warehouse 
 registrar March 13, 1893, a selection 
 that was well received in the state. 
 
 PHOTOGRAPHER ANDERSON. 
 
 ANDERSON, E. S., the well known 
 Springfield photogra|)her, was born in 
 Madison Co., N. Y., April 30, 1847, and 
 received a good common school educa- 
 tion. He came to Northern Illinois 
 with his parents in '52, and spent most 
 of his time until '67 in Rockford. where 
 he learned his profession. He com- 
 menced business in '69 and has had a 
 ver3' sttccessful experience. He estab- 
 lished a studio in Springfield in '74, 
 and in '84 was compelled to romove to 
 larger quarters — to his present loca- 
 tion, north side of the square — on 
 account of increased business. He has 
 negatives for every legislator since 
 and including '85, when he made the 
 Eogan "103" group under contract with 
 that statesman's friends. He keeps up 
 with the latest improvements in his 
 line, and that insures him the best 
 trade. ^ 
 
i.KoiSLATivH soi'vp;nik. 
 
 101 
 
 SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 
 
 Joint coiinnittee to iiivestig'ate the 
 "sweat shop" evil — Senators Noonan 
 (chairman), Mahoney and Chapman; 
 Representatives O'Donnell, Dearborn, 
 Deneen emd May. 
 
 Joint committee to investig^ate the 
 Whisky Trust — Senators Salomon 
 (chairman), Evans and Mahone^'; Rep- 
 resentatives Smith of Living-ston, Mc- 
 Inerney, Carlin, Paddock and Cherry. 
 
 Joint committee to ascertain what 
 additional accommodations are needed 
 for the Appellate Court, First district 
 — Senators Johnson (chairman), O'Mal- 
 lev and Humphrey; Representatives 
 Donnelly, Mclnerney and O'Connell. 
 
 Senate committee to investig"ate 
 charg-es ayainst the former manag^e- 
 nient of the Joliet penitentiary — Sen- 
 ators Green (chairman), O'Conor, 
 Allen, Arnold, Manecke, Bacon and 
 Howell. 
 
 Senate committee to investigate the 
 School Book and School Furniture 
 Trusts — Senators Arnold (chairman), 
 Noonan, Ford, O'Malley, Ferg-uson, 
 Mussett and Humphrey'. 
 
 House committee to investig-ate the 
 "Big Four" railroad wreck at Wann — 
 Representatives Fowler (chairman), 
 McMillan, Snyder, Baldwin, Caug^hlan, 
 Fletcher, Snedeker. 
 
 HOLD=OVER SENATORS. 
 
 The following state senators were 
 elected in 1892 and hold over during 
 the session of 1895: 
 
 Aspinwall, rep., Stephenson. 
 
 Barnes, dem., Marshall. 
 
 Bartling-, dem.. Cook. 
 
 Berr^', rep., Hancock. 
 
 Bogardus, rep.. Ford. 
 
 Brands, dem., Randolph. 
 
 Campbell, dem., Hamilton. 
 
 Coon, rep., Lake. 
 
 Craig, dem., Coles. 
 
 Dunlap, rep.. Champaign. 
 
 Evans, rep., Kane. 
 
 Ford, dem., Clinton. 
 
 Green, dem., Alexander. 
 
 Hamer, rep., Fulton. 
 
 Hig-bee, dem.. Pike. 
 
 Howell, rep., McLean. 
 
 Hunter, rep., Winnebago. 
 
 Johnson, dem.. Cook. 
 
 Leeper, dem., Cass. 
 
 Letourneau, rep., Kankakee. 
 
 Mussett, rep., Edwards. 
 
 Niehaus, dem., Peoria. 
 
 Paisley, dem., Montgomery. 
 
 Salomon, dem.. Cook. 
 
 Wall, dem., Macoupin. 
 
 The re-apportionment of senatorial 
 districts will not affect the position of 
 the above senators. They are all from 
 even-numbered districts, and are di- 
 vided politically 14 democrats and 11 
 republicans. 
 
 MEMBERS RETURNED. 
 
 The following members of the pres- 
 ent General Assembly were members 
 of the legislature of 1891: 
 
 Senators — 
 
 Berry, Green, 
 
 Bogardus, Hamer, 
 
 Campbell, Higbee, 
 
 Craig-, Hunt, 
 
 Evans, EeeiDer. 
 
 Representatives — 
 Anderson, J. O., Mclnerney, 
 
 Armstrong, May, 
 
 Barton, Merritt, 
 
 Beals, Meyer, Ernst, 
 
 Berry, Myers, 
 
 Bryan, Nohe, 
 
 Burke, O'Connell, 
 
 Callahan, O'Donnell, 
 
 Carmody, O'Loug-hlin, 
 
 Carson, Paddock, 
 
 Cherry, Payne, 
 
 Conway, Preston, 
 
 Crafts, Reed, 
 
 Dearborn, Rohrer, 
 
 Donnelly, Smith, J. A., 
 
 Duncan, Smith, W. S., 
 
 Ellsworth, Spellman, 
 
 Erickson, Straig-ht, 
 
 Farrell, Stringer, 
 
 Ferns, Talbot, 
 
 Forsythe, Thiemann, 
 
 Griggs, Tice, 
 
 Hawiey, Warder. 
 
 Hopkins, Watson, 
 
 Kelly, Wilke, 
 
 Kwasigroch, Wilson, J. P., 
 
 Eyman, Wiwi, 
 McCrone, — 65. 
 
 This is the first General Assembly 
 since that of 1881 that has not chosen 
 a United States Senator. Shelby M. 
 Cullom was elected in 1883 to succeed 
 David Davis. John A. Logan was 
 elected in 1885 to succeed himself after 
 a four months' battle roval with Wm. 
 R. Morrison. In 1887 Charles B. Far- 
 well was chosen to succeed Gen. Logan 
 who died in 1886. Senator Cullom was 
 re-elected in 1889, and in 1891 John M. 
 Palmer broke the republican record. 
 
102 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 STATE OFFICERS. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ■Governor John P. Altgeld, Dem,, Chicago 
 
 Lieutenant=Qovernor Joseph B. Gill, Dem., Murphysboro 
 
 -Secretary of State William H. Hinrichsen, Dem., Jacksonville 
 
 State Treasurer Rufus N. Ramsay, Dem., Carlyle 
 
 Attorney General flaurice T. flaloney, Dem., Ottawa 
 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction Henry Raab, Dem., Belleville 
 
 Auditor of Public Accounts David Gore, Dem., Carlinville 
 
 Private Secretary to Governor Wm. F. Dose, Dem., Chicago 
 
 SENATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES. 
 -^ 
 
 PRESIDENT Joseph B. Gill, Murphysboro 
 
 PRESIDENT PRO TEM John W. Coppinger, Alton 
 
 SECRETARY '. Finis E. Downing, Virginia 
 
 First Assistant E. P. Kimball, Virden 
 
 Second Assistant R. S. Bayne, Varna 
 
 Reading Clerk Mrs. Phocion Howard, Danville 
 
 President's Private Secretary CD. Tufts, Centralia 
 
 Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk Fred J. Kern, Belleville 
 
 First Assistant Harvey J. Jones, Carlyle 
 
 Second Assistant Gerhart Weber, Hillsboro 
 
 Sergeant-at-Arms Robert H. Davis, Carrollton 
 
 First Assistant Edwin Bowen, Decatur 
 
 Second Assistant Robert Welch, Chicago 
 
 ■Chaplain Rev. Dr. F. W. Taylor, Springfield 
 
 Postmaster Mrs. M. O'Conner, Springfield 
 
 Assistant Postmaster Miss Mary Turner, Mattoon 
 
 Superintendent of Ventilation J. E. Judy 
 
 Assistant W. H. Duckstein, Springfield 
 
 HOUSE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES. 
 ''^^ 
 
 SPEAKER Clavton E. Crafts, Chicago 
 
 CLERK ROB'T W. Ross, Vandalia 
 
 First Assistant W. E. Handy, Tolono 
 
 Second Assistant W. B. Morris, Golconda 
 
 Third Assistant James E. Vail, Macomb 
 
 Bill Clerk H. B. Lichtenberger, Freeport 
 
 Custodian of Printed Bills Chas. T. Bouillon, Carlinville 
 
 Doorkeeper E. S. Browne, Mendota 
 
 First Assistant John N. Summers, Chicago 
 
 Second Assistant John McDarrah, Rock Island 
 
 Third Assistant B. W. Rives, Kankakee 
 
 Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk ." A. E. Simonson, Dixon 
 
 First Assistant Adam Gard, Marshall 
 
 Second Assistant Louis I. Hutchins, Keithsburg 
 
 Postmaster Miss Mollie McCabe, Springfield 
 
 Asssistant Miss Kathryn Gallagher, Springfield 
 
 Chaplain Rev. Joseph Hawkins, Lincoln 
 
 Speaker's Private Secretary Will E. McGurren, Chicago 
 
 Press Messenger George R. Berriman, Springfield 
 
 Superintendent of Ventilation Theodore Adelman, Alton 
 
 Chief Page Phocion Howard, Jr., Danville 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 103 
 
 NAFEW, JOHN A., chief clerk of 
 the St. Nicholas Hotel, and one of the 
 ino.st popular and best known men in 
 Illinois, was born in Troy, N. Y., Sept. 
 17, 1837, and is the oldest son of John 
 
 CUIKI'" (Jl^KKK ftAl.'JbN\ . 
 
 S. and Mary H. (Weaver) Nafew. He 
 received a common school education, 
 and begfan life as a drngg-ist in Albany, 
 continuing it for four years. In '55 he 
 moved to Chicago, and soon afterwards 
 
 to Wisconsin, where he clerked in a 
 hotel for a year. For three years he 
 was clerk of the old Pike House, Bloom- 
 ington. 111., and in '60 he entered the 
 ot¥ice of the St. Nicholas, at Spring- 
 held, remaining until '65, when he was 
 made general ticket eigent of the Jef- 
 fersonville railroad. In two years he 
 returned to the St. Nicholas, and then 
 took charge of the American House, 
 which he ran acceptably for three 
 years, and returned to the old reliable 
 St. Nicholas, where he has been ever 
 since. In '63 he married Miss E. 
 Frank Mclntire, of Springfield, and 
 one daughter has been born to them. 
 He is a Royal Arch Chapter Mason; 
 was master workman in Lodge 37, A. 
 O. U. W., for two \'ears and has been 
 a member of the Hotel Men's associa- 
 tion for years. December 17, '92, his 
 friends among the traveling public and 
 guests of the St. Nicholas compli- 
 mented his uniform courtesy and 
 efforts to please by tendering him a 
 complimentary banquet, at which he 
 was presented with a handsome watch 
 charm of virgin gold, in tablet form, 
 with large star set in diamonds. On 
 the tablets were engraved the names 
 of about fiftv friends of Mr. Nafew. 
 
 MAIX DIXING ROOM, ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL. 
 
104 
 
 LEGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 ITALIAN MARBLE STATUE, CUT FROM PHOTO, BY RICHTER 
 & DOEAND, ARTISTIC MONUMENTS, SPRINGFIEED. 
 
I,KC.ISI,ATIVE SOUVKNIK. 
 
 105 
 
 THE CAPITOI,. 
 
106 
 
 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
LEGisr.ATivp; sorvKNiK. 
 
 107 
 
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 THE IJXCOLN MONUMENT. 
 
108 
 
 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
 OUTFITTERS TO THE STATESMEN OF ILLINOIS. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIK. 
 
 109 
 
 EXECUTIVE MANSION —GOV. ALTGEI<D'S RESIDENCE. 
 
 THE LINCOLN HOME. 
 
110 
 
 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
LKGISI.ATIVE SOUVEN'IK. 
 
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112 
 
 I^EGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
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 5th, 6th, 7th 9th, /N'Yq^"' 
 
 ith, 13th, 15th, / NyTy 
 
 17th, 19th, 2 1 St, t monroe"j, 
 23d. " 
 
 SENATORIAL DISTRICTS 
 
 AS FIXED BY THE 
 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 
 OF 1833 
 
LKC'IS NATIVE SOUVENIR. 
 
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I N EjEX 
 
 State Officers— 
 
 Altg-eld, John P 4 
 
 Gill, Joseph B 5 
 
 Hinrichsen, William H 6 
 
 Maloney , Maurice T 9 
 
 Raab, Henry 8 
 
 Ramsay, Ruf us N 7 
 
 The Senate — 
 
 Davis, Robert H., Sergeant-at-Arms 17 
 
 Downing-, Finis E., Secretary 17 
 
 Taylor, Rev. Dr. F. W., Chaplain 38 
 
 Senators, arranged alphabetically, beginning 18 
 
 The House — 
 
 Browne, Edgar S., Doorkeeper 42 
 
 Crafts, Clayton E., Speaker 39 
 
 Ross, Robert W., Clerk 41 
 
 Representatives, arranged alphabetically, beginning- 42 
 
 Other Sketches — 
 
 Freeman, Norman E., Reporter Supreme Court 11 
 
 Hereford, Arthur E., Printer Expert 15 
 
 Jones, George W., Clerk Appellate Court 12 
 
 Orendorff, Alfred, Adjutant General 10 
 
 Paddock, James H., Ex-Secretary Railroad Commissioners 15 
 
 Snively, Ethan A., Clerk Supreme Court 12 
 
 Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners — 
 
 Cantrell, William S., Chairman of Board 13 
 
 Gahan, Thomas 14 
 
 Eape, Charles F 13 
 
 Yantis, John W., Secretary 14 
 
 Bunker, George P., Chief Grain Inspector 99 
 
 Wagner, Eouis, Registrar 100 
 
 The Press Gai,i.ery — 
 
 Burdett, Sam. M 95 
 
 Davis, J. McCan 98 
 
 Hollman, J. C 94 
 
 Fitzmaurice, D. C 97 
 
 Graham, W. A. S 95 
 
 Jones, A.J 96 
 
 Kidd,T. W. S 97 
 
 MacMillan, T. C 94 
 
 Mitchell, H. R 98 
 
 Pickering, J. E 99 
 
 Sullivan, W. K 96 
 
 Vaughn, J. E 98 
 
 Matters of Interest — 
 
 Brief mention of past newspaper correspondents 93 
 
 Hold-over Senators ' 101 
 
 House officers, Eist of 102 
 
 Eist of Chief Grain Inspectors and Registrars 99 
 
 Map showing new senatorial districts 114 
 
 Members Returned in 1892 101 
 
 Representatives, compensation, etc 41 
 
 Special Committees, Joint and Senate and House 101 
 
 Senate officers, Eist of. 102 
 
 Senators, compensation, etc 17 
 
 State officers, Eist of 102 
 
 Steering committees, Senate and House 41 
 
 The general assembly, facts in regard to . . , 17