Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1878 — Congressional Personals. [ARTICLE]

Congressional Personals.

Senator Sargent was a printer in early life. Senator Oglesby was once a California miner. Senator Ben Hill was a prisoner at Fort Lafayette in 1865. It was Senator Bayard’s original intention to be a merchant. Hon. Thomas W. Ferry has the finest Senatorial beard in Congress. The parents of Hon. Benjamin A. Willis, of New York, are Quakers. Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, has been the President of a tool company. Hon. Clarkson N. Potter has the degree of LL. D. from Columbia College. Senator McPherson made his fortune as a farmer and dealer in live Btock. Senator Whyte, of Maryland, was once a banking clerk of George Peabody’s. Senator Lamar is a fine mathematician, and has been a professor of mathematics. Senator Jones, of Florida, was 10 years old when he left his native Emerald isle. Senator Conkling will not allow himself to be called out of the Senate during a session. Hon. Jacob D. Cox was born in Canada, and paroled the troops of Gen. Joe Johnston. Hon. Benoni S. Fuller, of Indiana, commenced life as a school teacher and a Sheriff. Hon. James B. Beck can never be President, having been bom in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, was a law student in the office of the late Edwin M. Stanton. Hon. William W. Garth, of Alabama, is a graduate of Emory and Henry College, Virginia. Senator Edmunds’ vinegar cruet is ornamented with a figure of Moses turning his rod into a serpent. Hon. A. H. Buckner, of Missouri, was a student at Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia. Hon. Otho R. Singleton is a native of Kentucky, and has been in public life for over a generation.

Senator Mitchell was once a professor of medical jurisprudence in Williamette University, Oregon. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, was Attorney General of that State in 1852, at tlie_early age of 26. Senator Burnside resigned from the army in 1852 to manufacture a breechloading rifle of his own invention. Hon. George A. BickneM, of Indiana, is a doctor of laws, was a fence-viewer one year, and a Judge for twenty-four years. Hon. William A. Phillips, of Kansas, graduated into the politics of that State from the staff of the New York Tribune. Hon. Horace Davis, of California, is the only man who ever fitted himself for a miller by graduating at Harvard University. Hon. Fernando Wood commenced life as a shipping merchant at 19, and retired at 38 with an ample fortune. Senator Thomas C. McCreery, of Kentucky, has that happy expression which settles on the face of a cat after it has eaten the canary. Hon. Thaddeus C. Pound, of Wisconsin, is the only member of the Congressional delegation from that State who is not a lawyer. Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, was Chairman of the Democratic Convention which met in Baltimore in 1844 and nominated Polk and Dallas. Senator Armstrong was a school teacher for seventeen years, having opened and conducted at St. Louis the first public school ever established in Missouri under the laws of that State. Senator Kirkwood, of lowa, is a Southern man by birth, and received his scholastic education in Washington. None of the Congressional delegation from lowa were born in that State. Hon. R. P. Bland, of Missouri, practiced law in Nevada during the “flush times,” when the Coroner charged SI,OOO for holding an inquest and had to employ three deputies to help him keep up the day’s work.— Washington Post.