Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — MEN OF NOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN OF NOTE.

Hon. A. G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania. Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is the only surviving member of the trio of famous war Governors, of whom Wm. Dennison, of Ohio, and Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana, wore the other two. He is now sixty-nine years old, having been born in his present home, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, in 1817. It is a satisfactory comment on any man’s abilities and strength of character to know that ho can live a long life in the village where he was born and be honored to the last with the best offices within the gift of his fellow citizens. Governor Curtin has grave faults, and always has had, but the fact that ho stood by llie Union in its

hour of need, and was so efficient in the discharge of all the duties of Governor of one of the great Northern States, answers for them all. He was educated for and practiced law. He was made Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Governor of the State. After the war he was sent as Minister to Rnssia, and was elected as a member of the convention that made the present Constitution of the State. In 1880 he was nominated by the Democrats of the Twentieth Congressional District of Pennsylvania for Representative. He was elected again in 1882 and 1884. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Forty-eighth Congress, and as Speaker Carlisle failed to appoint him to that place in the present Congress, he declined to serve ns Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, which was tendered him. When it was decided to investigate the strikes by a Congressional committee, he was placed at the head of said committee, and is now serving in that capacity.