Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1914 — Distinguished Political Career. [ARTICLE]

Distinguished Political Career.

Elbridge Gerry Lapham, who represented New York'ln the United States senate In the early ’Bo’s, was born in the town of Fanningham, N. Y, 10P yean the profession of a civil engineer* Later he studied law and in 1844 was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the constitutional convention of* New York In 1867; a representative fat congress from 1876 until 1881, la which latter year he was elected Us the United States senate to take tb» place of Roscoe Conkllng, who had resigned. Senator Lapham was a Republican In politics. He died at Canandaigua Lake, N. Y., In 1890. The people -wink indulges In honeyedS phrases seldom have any fear of ashing their own words. Talk Is cheap, yet some people have a .mania for trying to monopolize It.,