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Andrew L. Harris, President.

Elbert L. Lampson, President pro tem.
Alexander C. Caine, Clerk.

R. F. Hayward, Sergeant-at-Arms.

1-Edward N. Clingman, George B.

Fox and John R. Von Seggern....Hamilton.

2 and 4-Joseph J. McMaken

3-Henry C. Marshall......

5 and 6-Frank G. Carpenter.
7-Dudley B. Phillips.....
8-Jeremiah L. Carpenter...
9 and 14-John Q Abbott...
10-Aaron R. VanCleaf..
11-Douglas W. Rawlings.
12-Thomas A. Burns..
13-John Bain..

..Butler.

Montgomery.

Fayette.

.Adams.

Meigs.

. Morgan. .Pickaway.

.. Clarke.

.Darke.

. Marion.

Brown-Robert P. Fisher. Butler-Thomas Goldrick. Champaign-Samuel

M. Taylor.

Resigned.

Thomas E. Hunter, successor.

Clarke-John F. McGrew.

Clermont-Harry W. Paxton.

Clinton-Elias D. Harlan.

Columbiana-Joseph I. Brittain and Alexander H.

McCoy.

Coshocton-Brisbin C. Blackburn.

Crawford-Benjamin F. Taylor.

Cuyahoga-Joseph C. Bloch, William T. Clark, Martin Dodge, Edward W. Doty, Milo S. Haynes, Milan Gallagher, Morris Porter and William D. Pudney.

Darke--Harvey C. Garber.
Defiance- John W. Winn.
Delaware-Rollin K. Willis.

Erie-John J. Molter.

Fairfield-James M. Farrell.

Fayette-Harry M. Daugherty.

Franklin-Philip H. Bruck, David P. Boyer and

Benjamin F. Gayman.

Fulton-Lafayette G. Ely.

Gallia-Jehu Eakins.

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Holmes-Edward E. Olmstead.

Huron-Lewis C. Laylin.

Jackson-Samuel Llewellyn.
Jefferson-Samuel B. Taylor.
Knox-William Welsh.

Lake and Geauga-Elverton J. Clapp, of Geauga.
Lawrence John W. McConnell.
Licking-William Beaumont.
Logan--Charles M. Wanzer.
Lorain-Joseph T. Haskell.

Lucas-Charles A. Flickinger, Charles P. Griffin
and Oliver P. Heller.

Madison-Joseph S. Martin.
Mahoning--John R. Davis.

Marion and Morrow-Edmund Conley, of Marion. Medina--Henry P. Camp. Died; Calvin S. Ganyard, successor.

Mercer-Louis N. Wagner.
Miami--John A. Sterrett.
Monroe-Reuben P. Yoho.
Montgomery-Daniel W. Allaman, Harvey H.
Iams and William A. Reiter.

Morgan-Charles H. Dunn.
Muskingum--Thomas D. Adams.

Noble-Thomas C. Williams.

Ottawa-William Kelly.

Paulding-Francis B. DeWitt.
Perry John D. Axline.
Pickaway--Daniel Haas.

Portage Ransom B. Richards.
Preble-Elam Fisher.
Putnam-Milton E. McClure.
Richland-Charles N. Gaumer.
Ross-Byron Lutz.
Sandusky-George F. Aldrich.

Scioto--Anselm T. Holcomb.

Seneca--Charles Flumerfelt.

Shelby-Harris N. Harshbarger.

Stark-John Thomas, Benjamin F. Weybrecht. The latter's seat was successfully contested by William H. Rowlen.

Summit-Charles O. Hale.
Trumbull-Charles H. Strock.
Tuscarawas-David A. Lambright.
Union-Leonidas H. Southard.
Van Wert-Edward B. Gilliland.
Warren-Alexander Boxwell.
Washington-Gustavus A. Wood.
Wayne Michael J. Carroll.
Williams-Joseph W. Williams.
Wood-Benjamin F. James.
Wyandot-Josiah J. Smith.

Andrew L. Harris, Lieutenant Governor, was born in Butler County, Ohio, November 17, 1835, but when three years old was taken to Preble County, which has since been his home. Until he was of age he worked on a farm and attended the district schools in winter. In 1856 he entered Miami University, graduating early in 1860. On April 17, 1861, he enlisted in the Union Ariny as a private soldier for three months. On the organization of the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment he was commissioned Captain, but when the three-months term was ended returned to his farm, but almost immediately re-enlisted, for three years, in the Seventy-fifth Regiment. On November 9, 1861, he was commissioned Captain, Major on January 12, 1863, and Colonel on May 3, 1863. At the close of the war he was brevetted Brigadier General. He was severely wounded at the battle of McDowell, Virginia, May 8, 1862, and again at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. His wounds so disabled him for farm labor that he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. In July, 1875, he was elected Probate Judge of Preble County. On leaving that office he went to farming, and is still engaged in that occupation as well as in the practice of law. In 1866-67 he was a member of the Ohio Senate, and subsequently served two terms in the House of Representatives 1886 87 and 1888-89. In 1891

he was elected Lieutenant Governor, and, what is a rare occurrence in Ohio since the organization of the Republican party, was renominated by the Convention of 1893 and reelected, serving with ability and distinction.

William T. Cope, Treasurer of State, was born in Columbiana County in 1837. His ancestors came over to America with William Penn. He has been either a coal operator, merchant or banker all his life. He represented Columbiana County in the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth General Assemblies, and during his first term was a member, and in the second was Chairman of the Finance Committee, one of the most important in the Legislature. Captain Cope's service in the army was in Company A, of the One Hundred and Forty-third Volunteer Infantry. In 1891 he was elected State Treasurer and reelected in 1893. After his term in the General Assembly he removed to Cleveland, where he engaged as a wholesale dealer in coal. After his retirement from the State Treasury he became connected with a National banking institution in Columbus.

John Kelvey Richards, Attorney General, was born at Ironton, Ohio, March 15, 1856. His ancestors were Pennsylvania Quakers. He was educated first in the public schools of his native city, but in 1870 went to Swatmore College, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1875, and then to Harvard, graduating in 1877, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1879. From December, 1880, to January, 1882, he was Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence County, and from 1885 to 1889 was City Solicitor of Ironton. In the Sixty-ninth General Assembly he represented the Eighth Senatorial district. In 1891 he was elected Attorney General on the Republican ticket and was

reelected in 1893 by a greatly increased plurality. In 1897 President McKinley appointed him Solicitor General of the United States, with headquarters in the city of Washington.

Oscar Taylor Corson, Commissioner of Common Schools, was born in Somers Township, Preble County, Ohio, May 3, 1857. He was educated in the common schools of the county and at the high school in Camden; entered the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1878, but attended irregularly, and in 1888 received the degree of A. M. He held no office except County School Examiner previous to his appointment as Commissioner of Common Schools. He was elected to that office from Guernsey County, where he was residing in 1891, and reelected in 1894. Immediately previous to his incumbency there appeared to be a fatality connected with the office. Commissioner Eli T. Tappan died in 1889 during his official term, and John Hancock became his successor. He in turn was elected for a full term, but died in office in June, 1891. Charles C. Miller, a Democrat, was appointed as his successor by Governor Campbell, but resigned. Mr. Corson having been elected to the office for a full term was appointed to the vacancy.

Charles E. Groce, Member of the Board of Public Works, was born in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, July 26, 1851. He attended the public schools of his home city until he was fifteen years of age and was then sent to a military school at Dayton, Ohio, for two years. After leaving school he entered into partnership with his father in the business of pork-packing. Mr. Groce has resided in a Democratic county all his life, and never held an elective office, except City Councilman, until elected to the State

Board of Public Works in 1891. He was reelected in 1894, his term ending in 1898. He served on the military staffs of Governors Foster and Foraker.

Frederick B. McNeal, Dairy and Food Commissioner, was born in Miami County, Ohio, October 31, 1840. His father's ancestry were Scotch-Irish and those of his mother Pennsylvania Dutch. He enlisted in 1862 as a member of Company B, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was commissioned as a Lieutenant and continued in the service until 1864. In 1891 he was

elected Dairy and Food Commissioner, having the honor of being the first incumbent of that office to be elected by the people. He was reelected in 1893, and, as the term of office had been extended one year, served five years in all. Dr. McNeal received his education in Linden Hill Academy at New Carlisle, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1862, and from Bellevue Medical College in New York City, from which he received a diploma and the highest honors of his class in 1868.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

THE

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1892.

HE Fifty-second Congress met for organization on Monday, December 7. 1891. The Senate was composed of 47 Republican, 39 Democratic and two Farmer's Alliance members. In the House, there were 236 Democrats, 88 Republicans and eight members of the Farmer's Alliance. The House organized on the 8th by choosing Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia, Speaker, over Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, by the vote: Crisp 228, Reed 83 and Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, 8-13 members not voting. The President's message, which he transmitted to Congress on December 9th, was very lengthy and dealt mainly with the tariff and silver questions, although the pension and other important measures received generous treatment. A measure to encourage American shipbuilding" was passed by the Senate on May 2d and by the House on May 9th, the President approving it on the 11th. The bill was championed by William P. Frye, of Maine, and opposed by Roger Q. Mills, of Texas. On April 4th, a ChiOn April 4th, a Chinese exclusion act was introduced by Mr. Geary, of California, and passed the House under a suspension of the rules, but a measure much milder in its provisions was substituted by the Senate, which a conference committee subsequently amended, and it became a law, passing the Senate on May 3d, the House on the 4th, and receiving the

President's approval on the 5th. Congress also appropriated $5,000,000 for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, but not without serious opposition. The tariff question occupied the attention of Congress to a great extent, but a Republican Senate stood in the way of free-trade legislation. A Free Wool Bill passed the House April 7th by the following vote: Yeas 194-Democrats 186, Farmer's Alliance 8; Nays 60-Republicans 58, Democrats 2. A bill to admit free of duty bagging for cotton, machinery for manufacturing bagging, cotton ties and cotton gins--a strictly Southern measure, passed on April 9th, by the vote of 167 to 46, 159 Democrats and eight Farmer's Alliance members in the affirmative and 43 Republicans and three Democrats in the negative. A bill to place binding twine on the free list passed the House on May 2d, receiving the votes of 173 Democrats, 7 Alliance members and three Republicans-44 Republicans and three Democrats voting in the negative. Many of the Republicans and a number of Democrats refused to vote on either of the tariff bills. A bill to admit tin-plate free of duty passed the House on July 8th, receiving the affirmative votes of all the Farmer's Alliance members and 199 Democrats-61 Republicans voting in the negative. The principal argument used in support of the measure was that tin-plate could not be manu

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