ngress. His successor in the
Fortieth Congress is _Thomas L. Jones_.--509.

HAMILTON WARD was born in Salisbury, New York, July 3, 1829. He worked
on a farm until nineteen years of age, and was favored with but few
facilities for acquiring education. In 1848 he began the study of law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1851. In 1856 he was elected District
Attorney for Alleghany County, and was re-elected in 1862. At an early
period of the war he was appointed by the Governor a member of the
Senatorial Military Committee, and in that capacity aided in raising
several regiments of volunteers for the army. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
re-elected in 1866.--306, 361.

SAMUEL L. WARNER was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1829. He
received an academical education, and having studied law at the Yale
and Harvard Law Schools, was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was soon
after appointed Executive Secretary of State. In 1857 he was a member
of the Connecticut Legislature. In 1860 he was a delegate and a
Secretary of the Baltimore Convention. In 1861 he was elected Mayor of
Middletown, and served two terms. In 1865 he was elected a
Representative from Connecticut to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. His
successor in the Fortieth Congress is _Julius Hotchkiss_.--507.

ELLIHU B. WASHBURN was born in Livermore, Maine, September 23 1816.
After serving an apprenticeship in the printing-office of the
"Kennebec Journal," he studied law at Harvard University. He
subsequently removed to Illinois, and settled in Galena. In 1852 he
was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-Third
Congress. He has been elected to every succeeding Congress including
the Fortieth, and has been longer in continuous service than any other
member of the House.--30.

HENRY D. WASHBURN was born in Windsor, Vermont, March 28, 1832. In his
youth he served one year as an apprentice to the tanner's trade, and
subsequently was employed as a school-teacher. In 1853 he graduated at
the New York State and National Law School, and settled in Newport,
Indiana. In 1854 he was appointed Auditor of Vermillion County, and in
1856 was elected to the same position. In 1861 he raised a company of
volunteers, of which he was elected Captain. He was soon after made
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eighteenth Indiana Infantry, and was
commissioned Colonel June, 1862. He saw much active service, and was
breveted a Majo