Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — OCR PORTRAIT GALLERY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Miss Rose E. Cleveland. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of President Cleveland, and mistress of the White House, is, by virtue of that relationship and position, the first lady of the land. She has, however, a celebrity entirely independent of these accidents, one due to a circumstance never before occurring to any person in the world. Her book, “George Eliot's Essays and Other Studies, ” went to the sixth edition before it was published—an honor hitherto unknown in the history of literature. The seventh edition was issued within a week after the first publica-

tion. Miss Cleveland is the youngest of nine children. She was bom in Fayetteville, N. Y. She was carefully educated, graduating at Houghton Seminary. Then she became a teacher in that institution; then Principal of Lafayette Collegiate Institution, Indiana, and then taught a private school in Pennsylvania, after which she commenced lecturing before classes. After her mother’s death, which occurred in 1882, she resided at the old homestead at Holland Patent, which she purchased out of the earnings of her own labor, and continued the work of lecturing until called upon by her brother to assume the duties of mistress of the White House. Hon. A. E. Stevenson. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, the newly appointed First Assistant Postmaster General, was bom in Kentucky in 1835, and removed to Bloomington, HL, when sixteen years of age, where he studied law. He held various State judicial offices, and was a candidate for Presidential Elector on the McClellan ticket in 1864. In 1874 he was elected to

Congress, serving one term. He is a man of stalwart health, under fifty years of age, with business habits, nnd is a thorough-go-ing Democrat. He is a great personal friend of Postmaster General Vilas. He is an eloquent orator, a fine lawyer, and an accomplished gentleman. He is a worthy descendant of the best Kentucky stock, possessing frank and cheery manners which ever win and make friends. Persons coming before him on department business Mill always feel easy in his presence. James B. Kimball. James B. Kimball, the newly appointed Director of the Mint, was born in Salem, Mass., in 1836. He graduated at Harvard University and at the Mining School of Freiburg, Saxony, and in 1857 graduated with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the famous University of Gottingen.

During the war he served as Assistant Adjutant General on the staffs of Generals Patrick, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, respectively. His reputation as a mining engineer and metallurgist is established and widespread. At one time Dr. Kimball was Vice President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. When he received his present appointment he was Professor of Economic Geology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. He is President of the Everitt Iron Company, Pennsylvania.