bed him of manly ambition, or
lowered his estimate of a worthy and honorable life.

--Stewart L. Woodford entered from one of the Brooklyn districts.
Graduating at Columbia College in 1854, he was soon after admitted to
the bar, but left his practice to enlist in the Union service when the
civil war began. He was a good solider, and reached the rank of
Brigadier-General. He was elected Lieutenant-Governor of New York in
1866 at thirty-one years of age. He has acquired wide popularity as
a platform speaker. He enjoys the unlimited confidence and respect of
friends and neighbors,--the best attestation that can be given of a
man's real character.

--Stephen B. Elkins was for four years a most efficient delegate in
Congress from New Mexico. He was a distinguished graduate of Missouri
University, and though reared in a community where Southern influences
prevailed was an earnest Union man. He went to New Mexico soon after
attaining his majority, served in the Legislative Assembly, became
prominent at the bar, was Attorney-General of the Territory, and
afterwards United-States District Attorney. He entered Congress in his
thirty-second year.

--Two other delegates who were in Congress at the same time, Richard
C. McCormick of Arizona, and Martin Maginnis of Montana,--the one a
Republican and the other a Democrat,--became distinguished for the
zeal and ability with which they guarded the interests of their
constituents.

The long and honorable service of Edward McPherson as Clerk of the
House, terminated with the close of the Forty-third Congress. He had
held the position for twelve consecutive years--a period which followed
directly after four years of service as representative in Congress
from the Gettysburg district. When first elected to Congress he was
but twenty-eight years of age. The Clerkship of the House is a highly
responsible office, and no man could discharge its complex duties with
greater intelligence, fidelity and discretion than did Mr. McPherson
throughout the whole period of his service.(2) Beyond his official
duties he rendered great service to the public by the compilation of
political handbooks for Presidential and Congressional elections. The
facts pertinent to political discussion were impartially presented and
admirably arranged. Mr. McPherson's larger works, the histories of the
Rebellion and of Reconstruction, are invaluable to the political student.

On Friday, the sixth day of Ma