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Page 197 - ... 1. Resolved, That there are questions connected with the foreign policy of this country which are inferior to no domestic question whatever. The time has come for the people of the United States to declare themselves in favor of free seas, and progressive free trade throughout the world, and by solemn manifestations to place their moral influence at the side of their successful example.
Page 43 - Aurora, 111.; was State's attorney of Kane County from 1872 to 1876; was a member of the Republican State central committee from 1878 to 1880; was Presidential elector on the Blaine and Logan ticket, 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses; was nominated for the United States Senate in State convention and elected to succeed William E. Mason, Republican, and took his seat March 4,...
Page 294 - DO THEY MISS ME AT HOME? Do they miss me at home, do they miss me ? 'T would be an assurance most dear To know that this moment some loved one Was saying, " Oh, were she but here ! " To know that the group at the fireside Were thinking of me as I roam...
Page 238 - He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and to that in St.
Page 336 - Reeves then addressed the convention as follows : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : I want to say to this convention that the presentation of this resolution is not a perfunctory performance.
Page 238 - ... his work would naturally suggest. Mr. Goodell's life was practically spent in Essex County. He was born, it is true, in Cambridgeport, on the first day of October, 1831, but when he was a child of six years of age, his father moved to Salem, and thenceforward claimed Salem as his home. There Goodell received his education in the public schools, graduating from the High School at the head of a class in which he had as classmates the brothers William G. and Joseph H. Choate. The conspicuous careers...
Page 93 - I am of the opinion that there is nothing in the Constitution or laws of the Commonwealth which in any way interferes with such officers sitting as delegates in the Constitutional Convention.
Page 91 - HAAS 1870-1939 Edward F. Haas, who died on April 13, was a native of Stockton, the son of a pioneer merchant. He received his education in the public schools of that city and at the University of California, from which he graduated in 1892. He spent a year in postgraduate work at Columbia University and then returned to California to practice his profession of civil engineering. This was just as the last era of reclamation in the Sacramento and San Joaquin deltas was in full swing.
Page 152 - ... Lorain county, Ohio, in 1834. and was graduated from Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1857, in its first class, when that institution was under the direction of Horace Mann. He was elected clerk of the court of common pleas of Lorain county, in 1857, and re-elected in 1860, serving until 1863. He studied law in the meantime, and was admitted to the bar in Ohio, in 1863, and practised law in Elyria, Ohio, 186365. He removed to southeastern Missouri in the spring of 1866, and engaged in...
Page 125 - Treasurer, being elected in 1900. He was one of the organizers and is an active member of the Swedish-American Republican League of Illinois and was its president in 1897. He...