Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — SOME NEW GOVERNORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOME NEW GOVERNORS.

iA BRIEF HISTORY OF EXECUTIVES RECENTLY ELECTED. Kloh, Altgeld and Matthew* Are Farmer*’ Bon*—Feck Wa* a Printer—Crouse, Stone and NeUon Were Lawyer*—Began Life Poor. Governor Peck. George W. Peck, who has been reelected Governor of Wisconsin, was jborn in Jefferson County, New York,

(Sept. 28, 1840, his (family moving to Wlsjconsin three vears la|ter. He attended the (Common schools until 'ls years old, when he [learned the printer’s ftrade. In 1861 he [became a newspaper [proprietor, but later, ■entered the army and ■served till the close

of the war. After a three years’ journalistic career in New York City he [returned to Wisconsin, and shortly afterward started the paper which not only brought him a comfortable [fortune but made his name a household word. He is said to fully indorse Mr. Cleveland's views upon all leading questions. John T. Rich.

Hon. John T. Rich, the Governorelect of Michigan, is a farmer. His parents, originally from Vermont, re-

moved to Crawford County, Pa., where he was born. Coming to Michigan in 1848, when only 7 years old, he began life for himself, and has •won both position and fortune. In 1872 Mr. Rich was elected to the lower house of the

state Legislature, and during his six years’ service in that body served upon the most important committees. During the sessions of 1877 and 1879 he occupied the position of Speaker of the House. In 1880 he was a prominent candidate before the convention for Governor. In the same year he was elected to the State Senate, which position he resigned upon his election to Congress to succeed Mr. Conger. He served but one term in Congress, being deleated for reelection by a few votes. Returning to private life, he has been active in agricultural circles. In 1890 Mr. Rich was appointed by Secretary Foster, of the Treasury Department, as a member of the commission to revise the standard of wool samples of the Government. In 1886 Gov. Luce appointed him State Railroad Commissioner, and reappointed him to the same position two years later.

Governor-elect Alt "eld. John P. Altgeld, who is to succeed Gov. Fifcr as Chief Executive of Illinois, was burn in Germany in 1847,

but was reared on a farm in Ohio. When 16 years old he entered the Union army and carried a musket for six months in the around Richmond. Afterward he' taught school in Ohio. In 1669, when 21 years old, he started West to

seek his fortune. After working for awhile in St Louis, he went to Southern Kansas, where he taught school and studied, and in 1872 was admitted to the bar. He was elected State's Attorney of Andrew County, soon becoming recognized as one of the fbreujfcst lawyers of the State. In 1875 he went to Chicago. He soon built up a large practice, his connection with the Storey will case bringing him ibto prominence. Drifting into politics he was nominated in 1884 to Congress from the Fourth District, but was defeated. In 1886 he was nominated for a Superior Court Judgeship, indorsed by the Knights of Labor, and after a hot fight was elected by 15,000, the Knights of Labor giving him 26.000 votes. Will Govern Hooaiers. Claude Matthews, the Indiana gov-ernor-elect, was born Dec. 14, 1845, in Bath County, Kentucky, and was

graduated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, in the class of MS67. He moved to Indiana in 1869 and settled on a .Tarm three miles west of Clinton, where he has ever since resided, engaged in farming

and stock raising.

He was elected a member of the legislature in 1870. In 1890 he was. elected Secretary of State. He has taken an active part in all interests relating to agriculture. He has been an promoter and member of of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association.

Nebraska's Choice. Lorenzo Crounse, the successful . gubernatorial candidate in Nebraska, was born Jan. 27, 1834, in Schoharie County, New York. One of his great .grandfathers had come to this country from Wuttenberg, famous in the history of the world since the time of Luthey. Young Crounse went through that early training from which so many great Americans have graduated—a common school education,

followed by several years of work as the head' of a country school. Mr. Crounse began his career as a teacher at the age 17. ..He then read lawsat Fort Plain, in tihe same State, I and - was admitted

to jfractiice in the

year 1856. Four years later he was married to Hies Mary E. Griffiths. He served through the war, .and asTerritorial Legislature in 1865, and Is 1866 was cho.'-eu to the Supreme

Bench of the State. Congressional honors were next thrust upon him, and he served through both theFortythird and Forty-fourth Congress. In 1891 he was induced to accept the position offered him by President Harrison," Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. MisHonri'* New Executive. W. J. Stone, who has been elected Governor of Missouri, was born May 7, 1848, in Madison County, Ky. He

went to Missouri in 1863, and in--1872 was. elected Prosecuting Attorney of Nevada, Mo. In 18 8 4 Mr. Stone was nominated and elected to; the Forty-ninth! Congress from the; Twelfth District’ o f Missouri. He served three terms i n succession i n Congress. In 1890

he declined to be renominated to Congress. Though not a candidate for any office that year, he made over thirty speeches in Missouri and other States. His record in Congress was excellent. He took a prominent part in the passage of the law by which the railroad land grants made twentyfive years ago were forfeited and the land restored to the people. Hon. Knute Nelson. Knute Nelson, the man whom the Republicans of Minnesota have

elected to the Governorship, is a Norwegian, having been born in Norway in 1843, and his career has been a strangely varied one. When but 9 years of age he - came with his parents to this country, where, after ob-

taining an ordinary education, he studied and began the practice of law. At the breakihg out of the civil war he enlisted as a private in a Wisconsin regiment until the close of the strife. He served as a member of the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1868-’69, and in 1870 removed, Douglas County, Minnesota. Here he was Elector on the Garfield ticket, and served four years in the State Senate. 1 He served in the Fortyeighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, being elected by very large majorities, but he was finally given a political rest by a combination which had been effected for his defeat.

JOHN T. RICH.

CLA UDE MATTHE WS

GOV. PECK.

JOHN P. ALTGELD

LORENZO CROUNSE.

KNUTE NELSON.

W. J. STONE.