was a private soldier in Company I, One hundred and eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; read law with Amos & Spriggs, of Woodsfield, Ohio; was admitted to the bar in September, 1868, and commenced the practice of his profession at Woodsfield, where he has since resided; was Prosecuting Attorney of Monroe County for three successive terms; a member of the State Senate for two years; was Probate Judge of Monroe County for six years; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,928 votes, against 14,224 votes for C. L. Poorman, Republican, and 812 votes for L. C. Crippen, Prohibitionist. EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, and Jefferson. Joseph Danner Taylor, of Cambridge, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, November 7, 1830; was educated in the public schools and at Madison College; was School Examiner and taught school for a time; was admitted to the bar in 1859; graduated at the Cincinnati Law College in 1860; served on military committees by the appointment of the Governor from the opening of the war until June, 1863, when he entered the Army as Captain of the Eighty-eighth Ohio Regiment, from which he was soon detached and made Judge-Advocate, and subsequently Judge-Advocate of the District of Indiana, which position he held until the close of the war, when he was employed by the Government to try important cases at Indianapolis, Indiana, where he remained until April, 1866; was twice brevetted for meritorious services in the discharge of his official duties; served two terms as Prosecuting Attorney of his county; had control of a Republican newspaper from 1860 to 1870; was President of the Cambridge School Board seven years; has been President of the Guernsey National Bank since its organization in 1872; represented his State in the Philadelphia Loyalists' Convention in 1866, and his District in the National Conventions of 1876 and 1880; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. J. T. Updegraff; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,993 votes, against 11,783 votes for H. H. McFadden, Democrat, and 1,568 votes for S. W. Wilkins, Prohibitionist. NINETEENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Ashtabula, Geauga, Mahoning, Portage, and Trumbull. Ezra B. Taylor, of Warren, was born at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, July 9, 1823; was admitted to the bar in 1845; except while on the bench and in the Army has practiced his profession ever since; was elected to fill a vacancy in the Forty-sixth Congress; was elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,419 votes, against 11,972 for T. E. Hoyt, Democrat, 1,753 votes for Richard Brown, Prohibitionist, and 58 votes scattering. TWENTIETH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Huron, Lake, Lorain, Summit, and the townships of Bedford, Chagrin Falls, East Cleveland, Euclid, Mayfield, Newburg, Orange, Warrensville, Solon, Brecksville, Brooklyn, Dover, Middleburg, Olmstead, Parma, Independence, Rockport, Royalton, ana Strongsville, in Cuyahogo County, and the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 27th wards of the city of Cleveland, as they are now constituted, shall compose the Twentieth District. Vincent Albert Taylor, of Bedford, was born in Bedford December 6, 1845; was educated in the common schools; enlisted May, 1864, in Company H, One hundred and fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in August of the same year in Company H, One hundred and seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that regiment until the close of the war, when he began business as a manufacturer and has been so engaged up to the present time; served two years, 1888 and 1889, in the Ohio Senate; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,672 votes, against 14,748 votes for H. L. Stewart, Democrat, and 1,613 votes for A. S. Root, Prohibitionist, and 2 votes scattering. TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTY.-The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th wards of the city of Cleveland, as they are now constituted, shall compose the Twenty-first District. Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, was born in Scott County, Kentucky, July 18, 1854; was educated in the public schools of Evansville, Indiana; was Secretary and subsequently Superintendent of the Central Passenger Railroad Company of Louisville, Kentucky; in 1876 became the owner of the Indianapolis (Indiana) Street Railway; in 1879 purchased the Brooklyn Street Railway of Cleveland, Ohio, and is President of that company at this time; in 1884 established the Johnson Company, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, for the manufacture of steel rails; was the Democratic nominee of his district for the Fifty-first Congress, but was defeated; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,646 votes, against 14,256 votes for T. E. Burton, Republican, 178 votes for F. W. Cramer, Prohibitionist, and 259 votes for E. C. Vail, Union Labor. OREGON. SENATORS. John H. Mitchell, of Portland, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1835; received a public-school education and the instruction of a private tutor; studied and practiced law; removed to California and practiced law, first in San Luis Obispo and then in San Francisco; removed to Portland, Oregon, in 1860, and there continued his profession; was elected Corporation Attorney of Portland in 1861, and served one year; was elected as a Republican to the State Senate in 1862, and served four years, the last two as President of that body; was commissioned by the Governor of Oregon in 1865 Lieutenant-Colonel in the State Militia; was a candidate for United States Senator in 1866, and was defeated in the party caucus by one vote; was chosen Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Willamette University, at Salem, Oregon, in 1867, and served in that position nearly four years; was elected to the United States Senate September 28, 1872, and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; received the caucus nomination of the Republican party for United States Senator in 1882, receiving the votes of two-thirds of all the Republicans in the Legislature on first ballot, but was finally, after a contest lasting until the close of the session, defeated in joint session; was again elected to the United States Senate November 19, 1885, as a Republican, to succeed James H. Slater, Democrat, for the term commencing March 4, 1885, and took his seat December 17, 1885; was re-elected January 20, 1891. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897. Joseph N. Dolph, of Portland, was born at what was then called Dolphsburgh, in Tompkins (now Schuyler) County, New York, October 19, 1835; received a common-school education, private instruction, and for a time attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York; after arriving at the age of eighteen years taught school a portion of each year while acquiring an education and his profession; studied law with Hon. Jeremiah McGuire at Havana, New York, and was admitted to the bar at the General Term of the Supreme Court of that State held at Binghamton, November, 1861; practiced his profession in Schuyler County, New York, during the winter of 1861-'62; in 1862 enlisted in Captain M. Crawford's company, known as the Oregon Escort, raised under an act of Congress for the purpose of protecting the emigration of that year to the Pacific Coast against hostile Indians, filling the position of Orderly Sergeant; settled in Portland, Oregon, in October, 1862, where he has since resided; in 1864 he was elected City Attorney of the city of Portland, and the same year was appointed by President Lincoln District Attorney for the District of Oregon; held both positions until he resigned them to take his seat in the State Senate of Oregon; was a member of the State Senate in 1866, '68, '72, and '74; has been actively engaged since his removal to Oregon in the practice of his profession, and at the time of his election had a large and lucrative law practice, and was actively engaged in various business enterprises; he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Lafayette Grover, Democrat, and took his seat March 3, 1883, and was re-elected in January, 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895. REPRESENTATIVE. COUNTIES.-Baker, Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Linn, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Umatilla, Union, Waliowa, Wasco, Washington, Yam Hill-31 counties. Binger Hermann, of Roseburgh, was born at Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland, February 19, 1843; was educated in the rural schools of Western Maryland and at the Independent Academy (afterwards Irving College), near Baltimore City; removed to Oregon, taught country schools, studied law, was admitted to the Supreme Court of Oregon in 1866, and has practiced law continuously since; was elected to the Oregon Legislature (lower house) in 1866, and was State Senator in 1868; was Deputy Collector of United States Internal Revenue for Southern Oregon, 1868-'71; was Receiver of Public Moneys at the United States Land Office at Roseburgh, Oregon, under appointment by President Grant, 1871-'73; was Judge-Advocate, with the rank of Colonel, in the Oregon State Militia, 1882-'84; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 40,176 votes, against 30,263 votes for Robert A. Miller, Democrat, and 2,856 votes for James A. Bruce, Prohibitionist. PENNSYLVANIA. SENATORS. James Donald Cameron, of Harrisburg, was born at Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1833; graduated at Princeton College in 1852; entered the Middletown Bank, now the National Bank of Middletown, as Clerk, became its Cashier, and afterwards its President, which position he now fills, was President of the Northern Central Railway Company of Pennsylvania from 1863 until 1874, when the road passed under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; was Secretary of War under President Grant from May 22, 1876, to March 3, 1877; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1868 and at Cincinnati in 1876; was Chairman of the Republican National Committee and a Delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1880; was elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, as a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his father, Hon. Simon Cameron, in March, 1877, and took his seat October 15, 1877; was re-elected in 1879; and was again re-elected in 1885 and in 1890. His term of service will expire March 3, 1897. Matthew Stanley Quay, of Beaver Court-House, was born in Dillsburgh, York County, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1833, was prepared for college at Beaver and Indiana Academies; was graduated from Jefferson College in 1850; was admitted to the bar in 1854; was elected Prothonotary of Beaver County in 1856 and re-elected in 1859; was a Lieutenant in the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves; was Colonel of the One hundred and thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Commissary-General; was military State agent at Washington; was Private Secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania; was Major and Chief of Transportation and Telegraphs; was Military Secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania, 1861-'65; was a member of the Legislature, 1865-'67; was Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1872-'78; was Recorder of the city of Philadelphia, and Chairman of the Republican State Committee, 1878-'79; was Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1879-'82; was Delegate at large to the Republican National Conventions of 1872, '76, and '80; was elected State Treasurer in 1885; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to succeed John I. Mitchell, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was selected a member of the Republican National Committee, and chosen Chairman thereof, and ex officio Chairman of the Executive Committee when the committee organized, in July, 1888, and conducted the successful Presidential campaign of that year. Ilis term of service will expire March 3, 1893. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—1st, 2d, 7th, 26th, and 30th wards. Henry H. Bingham, of Philadelphia, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1841; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1862; studied law; entered the Union Army as a Lieutenant in the One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was wounded at Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1863, Spottsylvania, Virginia, in 1864, and at Farmville, Virginia, in 1865; mustered out of service July, 1866, as Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers; was appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia in March, 1867, and resigned November, 1872, to accept the Clerkship of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the Peace at Philadelphia, having been elected by the people; was re-elected Clerk of Courts in 1875; was Delegate at large to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872, also Delegate from the First Congressional District to the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876 and Chicago in 1884, and also in 1888; was elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fiftysecond Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,166 votes, against 14,497 votes for Edwin G. Flanagan, Democrat, 87 votes for Samuel M. Kennedy, Prohibitionist, and 4 votes scattering. SECOND DISTRICT. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, and 20th wards. Charles O'Neill, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, March 21, 1821; graduated at Dickinson College in 1840; studied and practiced law; was a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania in 1850, '51, '52, and '60; was a member of the State Senate of Pennsylvania in 1853; was elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Fortythird, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty second Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,324 votes, against 9,785 votes for Edwin F. Lott, Democrat, and 133 votes for John B. Jones, Prohibitionist, and I vote scattering. THIRD DISTRICT. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th, 16th, and 17th wards. is William McAleer, of Philadelphia, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, January 6, 1838; immigrated to Philadelphia with his parents in 1851; attended public and private schools; a flour merchant, having engaged in business with his father and brothers in 1861; was elected a member of Common Councils from the Fifth Ward in 1871 for a term of two years; was elected by Councils in 1873 a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor for a term of three years and re-elected five consecutive terms; was Vice-President and President of the Board; is a member of the Commercial Exchange; has held the position of Director, Vice-President, and President of the same; was a Director of the Chamber of Commerce in 1880; was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania in 1886 for a term of four years, and received the nomination for President pro tempore by the Democratic members in 1889; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,121 votes, against 10,037 votes for Richard Vaux, Independent Democrat, and 33 votes for F. G. Percival, Prohibitionist. FOURTH DISTRICT. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—15th, 21st, 24th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 32d, and 34th wards. John Edgar Reyburn, of Philadelphia, was born at New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio, February 7, 1845; was educated by private tutor, and at Saunders Institute, West Philadelphia; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1870; was a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, sessions 1871, '74, '75, '76; was elected a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania for a term of four years from December 1, 1876, and re-elected November, 1880; was elected President pro tempore for the session of 1883; was re-elected Senator November, 1884, and again elected November, 1888, for a term of four years; was elected as a Republican to fill the unexpired term of Hon. William D. Kelley to the Fifty-first Congress, February 18, 1890, and was re-elected to the Fifty second Congress, receiving 33,253 votes against 20,988 votes for William M. Ayres, Democrat, and 395 votes for Alvin G. Walker, Prohibitionist. FIFTH DISTRICT. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.—18th, 19th, 22d, 23d, 25th, 31st, and 33d wards. Alfred C. Harmer, of Philadelphia, was born in Germantown (now part of the city of Philadelphia), Pennsylvania; was educated at public schools and at Germantown Academy; was engaged in mercantile pursuits; is identified with railroad enterprises, and is largely engaged in mining and land operations; was elected a member of the City Councils of Philadelphia in 1856 and served four years; was elected Recorder of Deeds for Philadelphia in 1860, and served three years; was elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 30,616 votes, against 19,213 votes for J. Henry Taylor, Democrat, and 173 votes for J. Baker Stewart, Prohibitionist. COUNTIES.-Chester and Delaware. SIXTH DISTRICT. John B. Robinson, of Media, was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1846; graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868; is a lawyer; was elected to the State Legislature from Delaware County in 1884, and re-elected in 1886; was elected to the State Senate in 1889, and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,447 votes, against 13,342 votes for Thomas W. Pierce, Democrat, 930 votes for J. Simons Kent, Prohibitionist, and 4 votes scattering. SEVENTII DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Bucks and Montgomery. Edwin Hallowell, of Willow Grove, was born in Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1844; was educated in the public schools; was brought up on a farm, and has always been a farmer; was elected a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1876, and re-elected in 1878; was elected Chairman of the Democratic County Committee of Montgomery County in 1886; was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,810 votes, against 20,623 votes for I. P. Wanger, Republican, 572 votes for Oliver H. Holcomb, Prohibitionist, and 3 votes scattering. EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Carbon, Monroe, Northampton, and Pike. William Mutchler, of Easton, was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1831; received an academic education; is a lawyer by profession; was Prothonotary of his native county from 1860 to 1866; was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue by President Johnson in March, 1867, and held the office until May, 1869; was Chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Pennsylvania in 1869-'70; was a member of the Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Fifty-first Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,424 votes, against 10,549 votes for George M. Davis, Republican, II votes for George W. Gross, Prohibitionist, and 2 votes scattering. COUNTIES-Berks and Lehigh. NINTH DISTRICT. David B. Brunner, of Reading, was born in Amity, Berks County, Pennsylvania, March 7,1835; received a good common-school education; learned the carpenter's trade; taught school from 1853 to 1856, during which time he studied the classics and entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1856, and graduated in 1860; opened an academy in his native place, and in 1862 located in the city of Reading, and taught a classical academy until 1869, when he was elected County Superintendent of the public schools of the county, which office he filled until 1875; taught private school until 1880, when he opened the Reading Business College, and has since been the Principal of that institution; is the author of an elementary work on English Grammar and Analysis, and a work entitled "The Indians of Berks County, Pennsylvania;" has devoted much time to mineralogy and microscopy, and has large collections of specimens in those departments of science; is married; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 26,627 votes, against 15,434 votes for Daniel H. Wingered, Republican, 330 votes for W. D. Cross, Prohibitionist, and 3 votes scattering. COUNTY.-Lancaster. TENTH DISTRICT. Marriott Brosius, of Lancaster, was born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1843; received a common-school and academic education; enlisted as a private in Company K, Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in October, 1861, for three years, and March 6, 1863, while engaged on the Edisto River, was promoted to Sergeant; participated in the seige of Charleston and the assault on Fort Wagner, and on the 28th of February, 1864, re-enlisted as a veteran; on May 20, 1864, participated in the brilliant charge at Green Plains, in the Bermuda Hundred; in this encounter he sustained a severe wound, from the effects of which he has been a life-long sufferer; no bone now connects his right arm with his shoulder; was discharged December 28, 1864, and on February 28, 1865, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant for bravery on the field of battle; after the war he finished his education at the Millersville Normal School, and took a course of law at Ann Arbor University; was admitted to the bar in 1868, and has practiced his profession since, is married; in 1882 was the Republican candidate for Congressman at large, and although running over 7,600 votes ahead of his ticket, was defeated; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,126 votes, against 9,358 votes for D. F. Magee, Democrat, and 336 votes scattering. COUNTY.-Lackawanna. ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Lemuel Amerman, of Scranton, was born near Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1846; was brought up on a farm; was educated in the common schools, Danville Academy, and Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; taught school three years; was professor of ancient languages and English literature in the State Normal School at Mansfield, Pennsylvania, for three years; read law in Philadelphia with Hon. Lewis C. Cassady; was admitted to practice and located in Scranton in 1876; was engaged in the practice of his profession when elected; was County Solicitor for Lackawanna County, 1879-'80; was Representative in Pennsylvania Legislature, 1881-'84; was City Comptroller of Scranton, 1885-'86; was Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1886-'87; is largely interested in the construction and operation of water works; was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,336 votes, against 9,033 votes for Joseph A. Scranton, Republican, and 839 votes for Samuel Hockenbury, Prohibitionist. COUNTY.-Luzerne. TWELFTH DISTRICT. George W. Shonk, of Plymouth, was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1850; was educated at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1873; was admitted to the bar of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1876, and has practiced his profession at Wilkes Barre since; has also been interested in mining coal, and in railroads connected with the development of mining properties, and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,558 otes, against 13,074 votes for John B. Reynolds, Democrat, and 764 votes for Benjamin Harding, Prohibitionist. |