Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — WESTERN GOVERNORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WESTERN GOVERNORS.

Gov. Martin, of Kansas. John A. Martin was born March 10, 1839, at Brownsville, Fayette County, Pa. While a mere lad he learned the trade of printing in the office of the Brownsville Clipper. In the spring of 1857 he went to Pittsburgh and worked at his trade for a short time. In October of the same year he emigrated to Kansas. He located in Atchison, and for a short time set type for the columns of the Squatter Sovereign. He purchased the Squatter Sovereign in Februaiy, 1858, changed its name to Freedom's Champion, and on the ,20th of the same month commenced his long editorial career in Kansas by the issue of the first number of the paper with which he has since been so honorably identified. Since that time he has been elected to several offices, filling them to the utmost satisfaction of his constituents. He was Secretary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, and was elected State Senator before he was twenty-one. He served as delegate to the Territorial Convention, at Lawrence, of April 11, 1860. During the summer of 1861 he assisted in organizing the Eighth Kansas Infantry, of which he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel. Early in 1832 he was appointed Provost Marshal of Leavenworth, and in March of the same year his regiment was ordered to Corinth, Miss., and thereafter during the whole war it served in the Army of the Cumberland.

Lieut. Col. Martin was promoted to be Colonel on the Ist of November, 1832, and was Provost Marshal of Nashville, Tenn., from December, 1862, to June, 1863. The regiment under his command took part in the battles of Perryville, Ky., and Lancaster, Ky.; the campaign against Tullahoma and Chattanooga; the battle of Chickamauga; the siege of Chattanooga; the storming of Mission Ridge; the campaign in Eastern Tennessee in the winter of 1863-4; the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta; and the subsequent pursuit of Hood northward. Col. Martin commanded the Third Brigade during the siege of Chattanooga; and commanded the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, from August, 1864, until his muster out at Pulaski, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1864. Returning home, he resumed control of the Atchison Champion early in January, 1865. He has been Commander-in-chief of the State Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic; a delegate from Kansas to the National Republican Conventions of 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880; a member of the United States Centennial Commission and one of the Vice Presidents of that body; was elected by the two houses of Congress ope of the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers’ Homes in 1878, and re-elected in 1882, being Second Vice President of that body until 1884, and was elected Mayor of Atchison in 1865. He was elected Governor of Kansas in 1884, defeating ex-Gov. Glick, the Democratic candidate, by 40,000 majority. Gov. Dawes, of Nebraska. James W. Dawes, Governor of Nebraska, was bom at McConnellsville, Ohio, on Jan. 8, 1845. Removed from Ohio to Wisconsin in 1856, locating in the town of Newport. Received a common-school education; worked on farm summers, attending school winters. From October, 1834, to October, 1868, clerked for G. J. Hansen & Co., general merchants, at Kilbourn City, Wis. Studied law at Fox Lake, Wis., and was admitted to the bar Jan. 10, 1871. Was married at Fox Lake, May 11, 1871. Located at Crete, Neb., Sept. 5, 1871. En-

gaged in mercantile business from Sept. 5, 1871, to March, 1877. Was elected State Senator in 1876. Engaged in the practice of law since 1877. Held the position of Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Nebraska from May, 1876, to September, 1882. Elected delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, June, 1880, and was named by delegation as member of National Republican Committee for Nebraska for term of four years. Trustee and Secretary of Doane College, at Crete, Neb., since 1875. Elected Governor of Nebraska November, 1882, and re-elected November, 1884.

“Oh, missus, I’s tarible sheered. Las’ night I dreamed mos’ all night I wuz a-dyin’, an’ I’s ’feared I ain’t long fer dis world.” “"Why, you shouldn’t be alarmed; you know dreams work by the rule of contraries. ” “No, missus, I kan’t see dat, coz night fo’ last I dreamed I felled down a well, an’ shuah I doan’ understan* how I could fall up one.”— Harper’s Bazar.