ity in his fifteenth year, and was a clerk in that city,
and afterwards in Charleston and St. Louis. He subsequently settled in
Wis-' cousin, and engaged in the lumber trade. In 1850 he was a member
of the Wisconsin Legislature, and was twice re-elected. In 1856, and
in 1860, he was a Presidential Elector. In 1862 he was elected a
Representative from Wisconsin to fill a vacancy in the Thirty-Seventh
Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth
Congresses. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is Cadwalader C.
Washburn.

SAMUEL McKEE was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, November 4,
1833. In 1858 he graduated at the Miami University, Ohio, and
afterwards at the Cincinnati Law School in 1858. He subsequently
practiced law until 1862, when he entered the Union army as Captain of
the Fourteenth Kentucky Cavalry. He was thirteen months a prisoner in
Libby Prison. In 1865 he was elected a Representative from Kentucky to
the Thirty-Ninth Congress.--152, 361, 441.

DONALD McRUER was born in Maine in 1826. He received an academical
education, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Removing to California,
he settled in San Francisco. He held for some time the office of
Harbor Commissioner for that State. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from California to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. He was
succeeded by _Samuel B. Axtell_ in the Fortieth Congress.

ULYSSES MERCUR was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1818. He
graduated at Jefferson College, in 1842, and was admitted to the bar
in the following year. In 1861 he was elected President Judge of the
Thirteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, for a term of ten years,
but resigned in 1864 when he was elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. In 1866 he was re-elected
to the Fortieth Congress.

GEORGE F. MILLER was born in Chilisquaque, Northumberland County,
Pennsylvania, September 5, 1809. Having obtained an academical
education, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He was
for several years Secretary of the Lewisburg University. He took an
active interest in local politics, but frequently declined nominations
for County and State offices. In 1864 he was elected a Representative
from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected in
1866.--443, 510.

JAMES K. MOORHEAD was born in Pennsylvania, in 1806. He spent his
youth on a farm and as an apprentice to a tanner. He was a contract