tice of law at Lebanon, Pa. He has served as a trustee of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Erie, a commissioner of the Soldiers' Orphan Schools, and a commissioner of the Gettysburg Monument Association. He assisted in organizing the Grand Army of the Republic and in 1886 was elected grand commander and in 1897 commander-in-chief of the organization in the United States. He is an active member of the Loyal Legion and the Sons of the Revolution. He has been grand commander of the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, grand captain general of the Grand Encampment of the United States, grand generalissimo, deputy grand commander and grand master of the United States. In Odd Fellowship he is a past grand patriarch of the State. He has been brigadier general of the Third brigade, N. G. P., since 1885. During the Spanish-American War he was a brigadier general of volunteers. He served as State Senator continuously from 1884 until January, 1899, when he resigned to enter upon the duties of Lieutenant Governor, to which office he was elected on the Republican ticket in November, 1898.

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

W. W. GRIEST, the present Secretary of the Commonwealth, was born September 22, 1859, in the village of Christiana, Lancaster county. He was graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1876, and during the three years following taught in the public schools of his native county. For several years he was one of the editors of the Lancaster Inquirer. He was also chief clerk to the county commissioners of Lancaster county, being elected to that position by five successive boards of commissioners, during which period he was a member of the Pennsylvania Tax Conference Commission, by appointment of the State Association of County Commissioners. He is serving his fifth term as a member of the Lancaster City School Board. He was a delegate-atlarge from Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention of 1896, and since 1895 has been a member of the executive committee of the Republican State committee. He was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth by Governor Stone January 17, 1899. His family consists of his wife, formerly Elizabeth P. Smith, of Bucks county, to whom he was married in 1888, and two children, a boy and a girl.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

JOHN P. ELKIN was born in West Mahoning township, Indiana county, Pa., January 11, 1860; received his early education in the common schools and subsequently graduated at the Indiana State Normal School; at the age of fifteen he began teaching, which he followed for

several years; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1884 and was admitted to the bar of Indiana county where he has since been practicing his profession. In 1884, when but twentyfour years of age, he was elected to the House of Representatives and re-elected to that body in 1886; he was president of the Indiana School Board for many years, has been a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Normal School and has taken an active interest in advancing the cause of education throughout his entire life. In politics he has been an active Republican and was chairman of the Republican State convention in 1891, and has been chairman of the Republican State committee for several years; was Deputy Attorney General for nearly three years under Attorney General McCormick, and in January, 1899, was honored with the appointment of Attorney General by Governor Stone.

AUDITOR GENERAL.

LEVI G. McCAULEY, of West Chester, was born in Chester county, September 2, 1837; was educated in the public schools and at Abington Centre and Wyoming Seminary. When the war broke out he was mustered into the State service June 13, 1861, as first sergeant, and was on duty with his company every day until November 20, 1861. On that day he was promoted to first lieutenant of company C. It was at the battle of Charles City Cross Roads that he lost his right arm, the elbow having been shattered by a rifle ball.

He was captured on the night he was wounded and taken to Libby prison. He was subsequently paroled and sent to David's Island hospital, in New York harbor, where he remained until November, 1862, when he was ordered to report for duty at Harrisburg on recruiting service. In January, 1863, notwithstanding his maimed condition, he rejoined his regiment. He was promoted to captain of his company in the February following, and did duty with his regiment and company until December, 1863, when he was transferred to the Veteran Relief Corps, being finally discharged January 30, 1866.

Ever since the close of the war he has been an active Republican worker; was elected register of wills of Chester county in the fall of 1869, and was chairman of the Republican county committee of that county for four years-from 1886 to 1890. In 1897 he was nominated by the Republican State convention for Auditor General and elected to that office at the ensuing election by a large majority.

STATE TREASURER.

James Elder Barnett was born at Elders' Ridge, Indiana county, Pa., August 1, 1856. Graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1882; and is a lawyer by profession. Was appointed