ary 4, 1812. He
was bred a farmer, taught school for a time, and finally became a
lawyer. Having been District Attorney for Yates County, and member of
the State Legislature, he was in 1862 elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and in 1864 was re-elected.
His successor in the Fortieth Congress is William H. Kelsey.

SAMUEL W. MOULTON was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, January 20,
1822. Having acquired a common-school education, at the age of twenty
he emigrated to the West, and spent a year at Covington, Kentucky,
where he commenced the study of law. He subsequently went to
Mississippi, where he taught school, and continued the study of law.
In 1845 he settled in Illinois, and soon after commenced the practice
of law. In 1852 he was elected to the Legislature of Illinois, and was
continuously re-elected until 1859. He was the author of the
Free-School System of Illinois. He held the position of Chairman of
the Board of Education for a number of years. He was a candidate for
Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket in 1856. On the breaking
out of the Rebellion he joined the Republican party, and was in 1863
elected President of the Union League of Illinois. In 1864 he was
elected Representative from the State at large to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress, and was succeeded by John A. Logan in the Fortieth
Congress.--149.

LEONARD MYERS was born in Attleborough, Pennsylvania, November 13,
1827. Having entered the profession of law, and settled in
Philadelphia, he became Solicitor for two municipal districts in that
city. He digested the ordinances for the consolidation of the city,
and has translated several works from the French. In 1862 he was
elected a member of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to
the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses.

_JAMES W. NESMITH_ was born in Washington County, Maine, July 23,
1820. When quite young, he removed to New Hampshire, emigrated to Ohio
in 1838, subsequently spent some time in Missouri, and finally settled
in Oregon in 1843. In 1853 he was appointed United States Marshal for
Oregon. In 1857 he was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
Oregon and Washington Territories. In 1861 he became United States
Senator from Oregon for the term ending in 1867, when he was succeeded
by Henry W. Corbett.

WILLIAM A. NEWELL is a native of Ohio, and a graduate of Rutger's
College. He studied medicine, and took up his residence in Allentown,