death of his father, in December, 1893, he has managed the business in the interests of the estate; is also interested in a number of enterprises, and is prominent in public affairs in Shamokin and vicinity; although frequently urged to do so, never was a candidate for public office until his nomination for the Fifty-fourth Congress, to which he was elected; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,195 votes, against 14,073 votes for A. Walsh, Democrat, and 1,052 votes for M. P. Lutz, Prohibitionist. EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES. Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder, and Union (7 counties). THADDEUS M. MAHON, of Chambersburg, was born at Greenvillage, Franklin County, Pa., in 1840; received a common-school and academic education; enlisted as a private in Company A, One hundred and twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, in August, 1862; after term of service in this regiment reenlisted as a veteran in January, 1864, in Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry; served until September, 1865; participated in most of the engagements with Army of Potomac, Fifth Corps; was seriously wounded at Boydton Plank Road, Virginia, on November 4, 1864; read law, and was admitted to practice in 1871; has been actively engaged in his profession in southern Pennsylvania ever since his admission to the bar; was a member of Pennsylvania legislature in 1870, 1871, and 1872; served as chairman of general judiciary committee; was a candidate for Congress in the Eighteenth district in 1876 and was defeated by Hon. W. S. Stenger (who received the support of the Greenbackers) by the small majority of 49; has always been a Republican and has always taken an active part in State and national politics; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fiftyfourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,455 votes, against 14,222 votes for W. F. Kearns, Democrat. NINETEENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Adams, Cumberland, and York (3 counties). GEORGE JACOB BENNER, of Gettysburg, was born April 13, 1859, at Gettysburg; was educated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, graduating in the class of 1878; after several years devoted to teaching, was admitted a member of the Adams County bar December 31, 1881, since which date has followed the practice of the law; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22,160 votes, against 21,382 votes for Frank E. Hollar, Republican, 529 votes for William H. Albright, Prohibitionist, 498 votes for Charles A. Hawkins, Gold Democrat, and 3 votes for James A. Stahle, not a regular nominee. TWENTIETH DISTRICT. (Population, 213,202.) COUNTIES.-Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Somerset (4 counties). JOSIAH D. HICKS, of Altoona, was born in Chester County, Pa., August 1, 1844, and removed to Blair County in the year 1847; received his education principally at the common schools of Blair and Huntingdon counties; removed to Altoona in the spring of 1861; enlisted in the Union Army as a private soldier from that place in the fall of 1862 and served nearly eighteen months; was admitted to practice law in his county and State courts in 1875; has always been an active Republican; served his party as county chairman and also as member of the State committee; in 1880 he was elected district attorney of Blair County, and in 1883 was accorded a unanimous renomination and was reelected; in 1884 he formed a law partnership in Altoona with his former preceptor, Hon. Daniel J. Neff; this partnership continues at the present time under the firm name of Neff, Hicks & Geesey; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,974 votes, against 17,297 votes for R. A. McNamara, Democrat, 781 votes for J. W. Bracken, Prohibitionist, 104 votes for C. Pietsch, Populist, and 7,468 votes for J. E. Thopp, Protectionist. TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, and Westmoreland (4 counties). EDWARD EVERETT ROBBINS, of Greensburg, was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., September 27, 1860; was educated in the public shools, in Indiana Normal School, and Eldersridge Academy; graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in the class of 1881; was registered as a law student at Greensburg in the same year, and in 1882 entered the Columbia Law School in New York; took the course there under Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, and was admitted to the Westmoreland bar April 8, 1884, and at once engaged in the practice of law; was nominated for district attorney in 1886; was elected in 1888 to the State senate, and served in that body till 1892; was chairman Republican county committee in 1885; is major and quartermaster of the Second Brigade, State Militia; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 32,149 votes, against 19,464 votes for Samuel S. Blyholder, Democrat, 1,063 votes for John B. Bair, Prohibitionist, and 1,968 votes for St. Clair Thompson, People's Party. TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT. CITY OF PITTSBURG and all townships and boroughs lying between the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, except the borough of McKeesport and boroughs and townships lying between the Youghiogheny and Monongahela rivers, in the county of Allegheny. JOHN DALZELL, of Pittsburg, was born in New York City, April 19, 1845; removed to Pittsburg in 1847; received a common-school and collegiate education, graduating from Yale College in the class of 1865; studied law, and wa.. admitted to the bar in February, 1867; has since practiced his profession; at time of his election was and for years had been one of the attorneys for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and for all its Western lines; was also attorney for many corporations in Allegheny County; never held any office until he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress; was elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 28,860 votes, against 12,788 votes for John F. Miller, Bryan Democrat, and 166 votes for Edwin Z. Smith, Jeffersonian Democrat. TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT. (Population, 164,215.) CITY OF ALLEGHENY and all the townships and boroughs lying north of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers in the county of Allegheny. WILLIAM ALEXIS STONE, of Allegheny, was born in Delmar Township, Tioga County, Pa., April 18, 1846; was educated at the State Normal School, Mansfield, Tioga County; served in the war as second lieutenant of Company A, One hundred and eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers; after the war was lieutenant-colonel in the National Guard of the State; studied law with Hon. S. F. Wilson and Hon. J. B. Niles at Wellsboro, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1870; has practiced law at Wellsboro and Pittsburg since his admission to the bar; has been district attorney of Tioga County and United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 21,379 votes, against 6,191 votes for Morrison Foster, Democrat, and 139 votes for Judson J. Brooks, Gold Democrat. TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Fayette, Greene, and Washington, all boroughs and townships lying south of the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, the boroughs and townships lying between the Youghiogheny and Monongahela rivers, and the borough of McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny. ERNEST F. ACHESON, of Washington, was born in Washington, Pa., September 19, 1855; was educated at Washington and Jefferson College; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1877; in 1879 purchased the Washington Observer, of which he has since been editor; was elected president of the Pennsylvania Editorial Association in January, 1893, and in June of the same year was chosen as recording secretary of the National Editorial Association; was for ten years a member of the Republican State committee; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions at Chicago in 1884 and at St. Louis in 1896; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fiftyfifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 36,554 votes, against 26,538 votes for Dr. John Purman, Democrat and Populist, and 903 votes for B. C. McGrew, Prohibitionist. TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT. (Population, 198,677.) COUNTIES.-Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, and Mercer (4 counties). JOSEPH B. SHOWALTER, of Chicora, was born February 11, 1851, near Smithfield, Fayette County, Pa.; educated at public schools and Georges Creek Academy; taught school in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois; engaged in the 55-2D SPECIAL ED- -8 oil business with his brothers in Butler County, Pa., in 1873; has been and is now largely interested in the production of petroleum; studied medicine at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, and College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, graduating from that institution; practiced for a number of years at Chicora, Butler County, Pa., where he still resides; was elected to the Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1886 for a term of two years; elected to the Pennsylvania State senate in 1888 for a term of four years; was chairman of committee on health and sanitation; secured the passage of the medical examiners bill through the senate, and other important measures; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican at a special election held April 20, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. J. Davidson, Republican, receiving 12,221 votes, against 6,222 votes for Salem Heilman, Democrat. TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Crawford and Erie (2 counties). JOHN C. STURTEVANT, of Conneautville, was born in Spring Township, Crawford County, Pa., February 20, 1835; received a common-school education; was engaged in teaching and farming for a number of years; was frequently elected to various local offices; in 1861, 1862, and 1864 was an officer in the house of representatives at Harrisburg; was elected a member of the house of representatives for the session of 1865 and relected for the session of 1866; in 1865 was elected delegate to the Republican State convention and reelected for six times, the last in 1890; was Presidential elector for this district in 1888; removed to Conneautville in 1867, his present residence, where he engaged in the hardware business, which he followed until 1873; was engaged in manufacturing and milling until 1888; in 1874 was appointed cashier of the First National Bank of Conneautville, and in 1875 was elected president of the same bank, and has held the position continuously since; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,840 votes, against 18,114 votes for Joseph C. Sibley, Democrat and Populist, and 361 votes for Benjamin Mason, Prohibitionist. TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Cameron, McKean, Venango, and Warren (4 counties). CHARLES W. STONE, of Warren, was born in Groton, Mass., June 29, 1843, fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, and graduated at Williams College in 1863; was admitted to the bar in 1866, and has been engaged in the practice of law since that time, and in later years to some extent in lumbering, oil production, and farming; was appointed county superintendent of schools of Warren County in 1865; was a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1870-71; was a member of the Pennsylvania senate in 1877–78; was lieutenant-governor of that State from 1879 to 1883; was appointed secretary of the Commonwealth January 18, 1887, which office he resigned November 30, 1890, to take his seat in the Fifty-first Congress, to which he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. L. F. Watson, and at the same election was elected to the Fifty-second Congress; was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fiftyfifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,777 votes, against 10,058 votes for W. J. Breene, Democrat and Populist, and 1,131 votes for John E. Gill, Prohibitionist. TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Center, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, and Forest (5 counties). WILLIAM CARLILE ARNOLD, of Du Bois, was born in Luthersburg, Clearfield County, Pa., July 15, 1851; was educated in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and has practiced law continuously since his admission; had never held any public office before his election to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,295 votes, against 18,090 votes for Jackson L. Spangler, Democrat, and 1,035 votes for John Brennan, Prohibitionist. RHODE ISLAND. SENATORS. NELSON WILMARTH ALDRICH, of Providence, was born at Foster, R. I., November 6, 1841; received an academic education; is engaged in mercantile pursuits; was president of the Providence common council in 1871-1873; was a member of the Rhode Island general assembly in 1875-76, serving the latter year as speaker of the house of representatives; was elected to the House of Representatives of the Forty-sixth and reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Ambrose E. Burnside, Republican, took his seat December 5, 1881, and was reelected in 1886 and in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. GEORGE PEABODY WETMORE, of Newport, was born during a visit of his parents abroad, at London, England, August 2, 1846; was graduated from Yale College in 1867, receiving the degree of A. B., and that of A. M. in 1871; studied law at Columbia College Law School and was graduated in 1869, receiving the degree of LL.B.; was admitted to the bar of Rhode Island and of New York in 1869; is a trustee of the Peabody Museum of Natural History in Yale University, and was nominated a fellow of the university in 1888, but declined; is a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund, president of the Newport Hospital, and a director of other associations; was first Presidential elector of Rhode Island in 1880 and in 1884; was a member of the State committee to receive the representatives of France on the occasion of their visit to Rhode Island in 1881; is a member of the commission to build a new statehouse; was governor of Rhode Island in 1885-86, 1886-87, and was defeated for a third term in 1887, receiving, however, a greater number of votes than at either of the two preceding elections when successful; was defeated on the eighth ballot for United States Senator in 1889; was elected to the Senate to succeed Nathan F. Dixon June 13, 1894, receiving the unanimous vote of the general assembly in the senate, house, and joint assembly. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES.-Bristol, Newport, and part of Providence, including the city of Providence. MELVILLE BULL, of Middletown, was born at Newport, R. I., in 1854; prepared for college at Philips Academy, Exeter; graduated at Harvard College in 1877; upon graduation engaged in farming and is still so engaged; was representative from Middletown in State legislature 1883-1885, senator 1885-1892, lieutenant-governor 18921894; member of Republican State central committee 1885 to 1895; was delegate to the Republican national convention in 1888; while in the legislature was chairman of the militia committee, on the joint special committee to investigate State institutions, and chairman of the special committee to select, purchase, and fit up permanent camp grounds for the State militia; took an active part in establishing the naval reserve militia of the State; has been one of board of managers of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Experiment Station since its establishment in 1888; in November, 1892, was a candidate for Congress, receiving 640 plurality, but, the laws of Rhode Island requiring a majority at that time, was not elected; was elected to the Fifty-fourth and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,378 votes, against 8,542 votes for George T. Brown, Democrat, 684 votes for James A. Williams, Prohibitionist, and 664 votes for George A. Ballard, Socialist Labor. SECOND DISTRICT. CITIES AND TOWNS.-Cities of Pawtucket and Woonsocket and the towns of Lincoln, Cumberland, North Providence, Smithfield, North Smithfield, Burrillville, Gloucester, Scituate, Foster, Johnson, Cranston, Warwick, Coventry, West Greenwich, East Greenwich, North Kingston, South Kingston, Exeter, Richmond, Charlestown, Hopkinton, and Westerly. ADIN BALLOU CAPRON, of Smithfield, Providence County, R. I., son of Carlile W. and Abby (Bates) Capron, was born in Mendon, Mass., January 9, 1841; educated at Woonsocket High School and Westbrook Seminary, near Portland, Me.; is engaged in milling and dealing in grain; enlisted as sergeant in Second Rhode Island Infantry May, 1861; promoted to sergeant-major July 11, 1861; commissioned lieutenant September, 1861, and ordered on detached service in the Signal Corps December, 1861; served in the Signal Corps until the close of the war, having been commissioned first lieutenant in the Signal Corps, United States Army, March 3, 1863, and receiving promotion to the rank of captain and major by brevet; elected representative to the general assembly of Rhode Island in 1887, and reelected in 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1892; was speaker of the house in 1891 and 1892; was Republican candidate for Congress in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,612 votes, against 8,088 votes for Lucius F. C. Garvin, Democrat, 1,207 votes for Henry B. Metcalf, Prohibitionist, and 254 votes for James Jefferson, Socialist Labor. SOUTH CAROLINA. SENATORS. BENJAMIN RYAN TILLMAN, of Trenton, was born in Edgefield County, S. C., August 11, 1847; received an academic education under the instruction of George Golphin at Bethany, in the same county; quit school in July, 1864, to join the Confederate army, but was stricken with a severe illness, which caused the loss of his left eye and kept him an invalid for two years; followed farming as a pursuit and took no active part in politics till he began the agitation in 1886 for industrial and technical education which culminated in the establishment of the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Calhoun's old home, Fort Hill; the demand for educational reform broadened into a demand for other changes in State affairs, and he was put forward by the farmers as a candidate for governor in 1890; after an exciting and heated canvass he received the nomination in the Democratic convention by a vote of 270 to 50 for his opponent, and was elected in November following; this was his first political office, and he was reelected in 1892 by an overwhelming vote; his term as governor was signalized by the passage of the dispensary law for the control of the liquor traffic by the State and by the establishment of another college, the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College for Women, at Rock Hill, an institution which bids fair to lead all similar schools in the South; entered the race for the Senate against General Butler and the two canvassed the State, county by county, with the result that Tillman was elected as a Democrat by the general assembly by a vote of 131 to 21 for Butler. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. JOHN LOWNDES MCLAURIN, of Marlboro County, was born at Red Bluff, that county, May 9, 1860; was educated at the village school of Bennettsville, at Bethel Military Academy, near Warrenton, Va., at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, at the Carolina Military Institute, and at the University of Virginia; studied law at the lastnamed school, and was admitted to the bar in 1882; in 1890 was elected to the general assembly of South Carolina; was elected attorney-general of that State the following year; was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat; was appointed United States Senator May 27, 1897, by Governor Ellerbe, of South Carolina, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph H. Earle, and took his seat June 1. REPRESENTATIVES. FIRST DISTRICT. COUNTIES -Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort, and the townships of Anderson, Hope, Indian, Kings, Laws, Mingo, Penn, Ridge, Sutton, and Turkey, of the county of Williamsburg, the townships of Collins, Adams Run, Glover, Frazier, Lowndes, and Blake, of the county of Colleton, and all of the county of Berkeley except such townships as are embraced in the Seventh Congressional district. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, of Beaufort, was born'in Beaufort, S. C., September 3, 1838; was educated at Beaufort College, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar at Charleston, in April, 1861; entered the Confederate service and served as an officer throughout the war; in 1866 was elected a member of the South Carolina legislature and intendant of Beaufort; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876 and 1888; was Democratic Presidential elector for the State at large in 1880; was elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-second Congresses; received the certificate of election to the Fifty-first Ĉongress, but was unseated by the House; was given the certificate of election to the Fifty-fourth Congress, but was unseated June 4, 1896, and the seat given to his Republican opponent; was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4,652 votes, against 2,478 votes for Geo. W. Murray, Republican, and 173 votes for Cecil Cohen, Regular Republican. |