wounded at Spottsylvania, discharged from the service on account of gun shot wound; was actively engaged in the produce and commission business for twenty-five years; retired in 1878; is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church; also the Masonic order, of which he is a Royal Arch Mason; also of the Grand Army of the Republic, having served in 1892 in the department commander's staff; he is largely identified with the charitable institutions of West Philadelphia; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

JAMES W. ADAMS, Susquehanna county, was born in Ashburnham, Worcester county, Mass., October 21, 1839; moved with his parents to Brooklyn, Susquehanna county, Pa., in March, 1850; was educated in the public schools; has followed the occupation of a farmer; on September 15, 1862, enlisted in company A, One hundred and Fifty-first regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers; served as sergeant in said regiment; was discharged July 29, 1863; member of Lieutenant Rodgers' Post 143, G. A. R.; has been commander of post for seventeen years; has served his township in offices of supervisor, school director and poor master; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896, re-elected in November, 1898.

SYLVANUS COBB AIMAN, Philadelphia, was born at Jarrettown, Montgomery county, Pa., October 31, 1859; came to Philadelphia at the age of two years; was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia; left school to engage in the newspaper business as Philadelphia agent of New York Graphic; afterwards served seven years indentured apprentice in the building and brick laying trade; at the age of twentyfour years he began business as a contractor and builder, with offices in Philadelphia and New York; has built mills, factories and houses in all of the Middle States; served two full and one unexpired term as a member of the city councils of Philadelphia; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER, Clearfield county, was born in Woodward (now a part of Bigler) township, that county; is engaged in farming and lumbering; on the 14th of August, 1862, enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Bucktails, and served until the close of the war; was engaged in many battles and wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, where he was taken prisoner, and abandoned by Lee on July 4, 1863; held the offices of town clerk, auditor, road supervisor, poor overseer and twice assessor in Woodward township; was assessor and school director in Bigler township: was census enumerator in his district in 1880; was jury commissioner for three years; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

ABRAHAM L. ALLEN, Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia, September 30, 1857; educated in the public schools; engaged in the real estate business; in 1890 elected school director in the Thirty-second ward, serving continuously since and has been president of the school board since 1892; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

WILLIAM ANDERSON, Schuylkill county, was born at Mt. Laffen, that county; when three years old moved with his parents to New Boston, said county, where he now resides; educated in the common schools: worked in the mines from boyhood; was school director one term; has been identified with organized labor and is now secretary and treasury of the United Mine Workers of the First district of Schuylkill county; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898. RICHARD JACOBS BALDWIN, Delaware county, was born in East Bradford township, Chester county, Pa., March 1, 1853; educated in common schools and Maplewood and Kennett Square Academies; spent his early life on a farm; learned the carpenter trade; and entered the mercantile business at the age of twenty-three, in which he is now engaged; was postmaster at Chadd's Ford during Harrison's administration, which position he resigned upon the election of Cleveland; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1895 and 1897; re-elected in November, 1898. JOHN S. BARE, Huntingdon county, was born in Shirley township, April 3, 1847; attended public schools; graduate of Quaker City Business College; spent greater part of his youth in the store of his father, Peter M. Bare, and later engaged in the mercantile and lumber business; was elected register and recorder of Huntingdon county in 1884, and re-elected in 1887 without opposition: was a member of House of Representatives, session of 1893; organized company A, Fifth regiment, N. G. P., May 20, 1889: has been in command of the company continuously; served in the war with Spain, as captain of company A. Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

WARD R. BLISS, Delaware county, was born at Lewisburg, Union county, Pa., December 15, 1855; was educated at Lewisburg (now Bucknell) University, graduating in 1874; taught school one year; was admitted to the Delaware county bar in 1878, and has practiced law since that time; in 1881 began the publication of The Weekly Reporter, the official legal paper of the county, which he has since edited; from 1882 to 1893 he owned and edited the Delaware County Republican, the oldest newspaper in the county; has published a "Digest of the Special Laws Relating to Delaware County, and seven volumes of "Delaware County Reports;" member of the House of Representatives sessions of 1889, 1891, 1893, 1895, and 1897; re-elected in November, 1898.

PATRICK J. BOYLE, Luzerne county, was born in Ireland, May 16, 1864; came to America and located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he now resides; was educated in the public schools of that city; is engaged in the general blacksmithing and wagon making business; was elected to council in 1895 and re-elected in 1898; took an active part in obtaining a third class charter for his city; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

WILLIAM H. BRICKER, Beaver county, was born in West Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, Pa., August 6, 1837; was raised on a farm, and attended public schools in that township: at the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in company H, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry; was promoted to first sergeant of that company, and on May 1, 1863, to lieutenant of company B, same regiment; August 22, 1863, was captured by the rebels, and confined in the following rebel prisons: Libby and Danville, Va., Macon, Ga., and Charleston and Columbia, S. C.; after sixteen months imprisonment was exchanged and his term of enlistment having expired was honorably discharged January 25, 1865; returned to the farm and was there engaged until 1570; was then appointed a U. S. storekeeper, which office he resigned in 1875; moved to Beaver county, Pa., March, 1876, and engaged in the book, stationery and news business; was a delegate to the Republican state conventions of 1881 and 1894; in 1884 was elected register and recorder of Beaver county, Pa., and re-elected in 1887; since 1891 has been engaged in the real estate and fire insurance business; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

WILLIAM WARREN BRITTON, Franklin county, was born in Upper Strasburg. Pa., January 12, 1833; was educated in the public schools; served as justice of the peace over thirty years; was a member of the House, session of 1881; was engaged in farming and butchering, retiring from both in 1890; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected November, 1898.

JOHN B. BROOKS. Erie county, was born in Greenwood township, Crawford county. Pa., March 29, 1871; attended the common schools, and taught one year at Harmonsburg, Pa.; was graduated from the Conneautville High School in 1889, and from the Ann Arbor, Mich., High School in 1891; received from the University of Michigan the degree of A. B. in 1895 and that of L. L. B. in 1896; was admitted to practice law at the Erie bar in July, 1897; is a member of law firm of Benson & Brooks; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

T. M. BROPHY, Allegheny county, was born February 22, 1859, at Pittsburg, Pa.; educated in common schools; occupation hotel keeper; member of select council eleven years: member central board of education five years; member of Allegheny county Democratic committee for ten years; attended as delegate to all State conventions since 1887; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

FRANCIS ELIAS BROWN, Union county, was born near Lewisburg, that county, September 11, 1857; educated in the public schools; established the Lewisburg Stock Yards as well as a retail meat market in that town; has been director in the Home Telephone Company and president and vice president of the Union County Agricultural Society; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

THOMAS BROWN, Clarion county, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, January 27. 1850; came to the United States when a boy and located in Hickory township. Mercer county, Pa.; was educated in the public schools went to Pardoe, Mercer county, in 1870 and engaged in mining and contracting; removed to Stoneboro, same county, in 1874; has been identified with the different miners' organizations; was elected councilman and auditor of the borough but did not serve; went to Clarion county in 1877 and operated the Edinboro Water Works until 1880; then opened and operated coal mines; was a member of the school board a number of times and acted as president and secretary thereof; was elected justice of the peace in 1890 and re-elected in 1895; has been a member of the Democratic county committee many times; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

ROGERS LEVERING BURNETT, Monroe county, was born at Stroudsburg, Monroe county, October 25, 1856; received a common school education in his native town, and entered the West Point Military Academy, July 1, 1874, graduating therefrom in 1878: studied law in the office of his father, ex-Senator Charlton Burnett, and was admitted to the bar of Monroe county, February 28, 1882; was elected district attorney of that county in 1884; and re-elected in 1887; was chairman of the Democratic county committee in 1893 and 1894; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

GEORGE H. CALDWELL, Mercer county, was born in Deer Creek township, Mercer county, Pa., December 9, 1845; was educated in the public schools; at the age of sixteen enlisted and served three months in the War of the Rebellion; learned the carpenter trade and followed it for ten years; contracted for erection of county bridges for eight years; in 1886 was appointed steward of the Mercer County Almshouse, serving four years; was a delegate to the Republican state convention in 1890: since that time has been farming; has always been a staunch Republican; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

H. BURD CASSEL, Lancaster county, was born in Marietta, Pa., October 19, 185: educated in the public and private schools of the county; has been a member of town council for twelve years; was chairman of the Republican county committee of Lancaster county in 1893 and 1894; is engaged in the lumber business, and interested in a number of manufacturing and contracting companies; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

LEWIS M. CASTNER, Lycoming county, was born in New Jersey. December 25. 1852; educated in the public schools of that state; removed to Williamsport, Pa., in 1882, and engaged in the manufacture of looking glass and oval picture frames, which business he still follows; served four terms as a member of the common councils of Williamsport, and was president of council three years; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

DAVID S. B. CHEW, Philadelphia, was born in that city March 3, 1866; was educated at the William Penn Charter School and the University of Pennsylvania, from which latter institution he graduated in 1886; read law and later became identified with manufacturing interest; was a member of the Eighth section school board from 1889 to 1892; was a member of common council from February 20, 1894 to October, 1898; has been a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania for ten years, having entered the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, as a private, and has served as aide-de-camp, captain, quartermaster and major of the First Brigade, N. G. P., and is at present major in Twentieth Infantry, N. G. P.; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

WILLIAM CHRISMAN, Columbia county, was born in Pottsville, Pa., forty-five years ago; at an early age he removed with his parents to Montour and then Columbia county: was reared upon a farm; began the profession of teaching at the age of seventeen years; graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1877; afterwards took an extended course of instruction and then taught in the Bloomsburg High School; admitted to the bar of Columbia county in 1882, and has since followed his profession; elected town treasurer in 1882, serving three terms; school director in 1888, serving as treasurer of the board during said term; district attorney in 1890, serving his term and declined a re-election; chairman of the county committee 1888, 1859, 1895, 1896 and 1897; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1836; re-elected in November, 1898.

JUSTIN LOOMIS CHRISTIAN, Sullivan county, was born near Millville, Columbia county, Pa., August 18, 1866; educated at the Millville Seminary; taught three years in the public schools of Columbia county, Pa.; studied medicine and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, Md., in March, 1890; located at Hillsgrove, Sullivan county, Pa.. in May, 1830; removed to Lopez, same county, in January, 1897, where he now resides; is a member of the Lycoming County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association, and pension examining board for Sullivan county; local surgeon for Lehigh Valley Railroad Company; has been a member of the Republican county committee for six years and was a member of the Republican state committee in 1896; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

JAMES CLARENCY, Philadelphia, was born April 1, 1849, In Allegheny City; at the death of his father in 1856, he was removed with his mother to Philadelphia, where he has resided ever since; he has, with the exception of a short term of service (1872-3-4) in the Philadelphia fire department, been engaged in the mercantile business all his life; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1893, 1895 and 1897; re-elected in November, 1898.

J. VEMER CLARK, Washington county, was born in Mt. Pleasant township, Washington county, Pa., July 26, 1856; moved with his parents to West Middletown, said county, in 1863; educated in the public schools of West Middletown and at Washington and Jefferson College; is engaged in farming and store keeping; was sheriff of Washington county from 1895 to 1897; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

FRANCIS COLE, Adams county, was born September 13, 1826, in the village of Berkannan, Hessen Dermstat, Germany; in 1830 he came to America with his parents who settled near Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pa.; was educated in the public schools: moved to Adams county in 1841 and engaged in farming, lumbering and coopering; was a member of the House of Representatives, session of 1889; was again elected in November, 1898.

ALEXANDER COLVILLE, Philadelphia, was born in that part of the old district of Spring Garden, now known as the Fifteenth ward of Philadelphia, January 26, 1847; was educated in the public schools; entered the office of Richard Smethurst and John B. Squires in 1863 to learn the business of conveyancing and real estate; since 1867 has been engaged in the same business on his own account; represented the Fifteenth ward in common council of Philadelphia from 1890 to 1894; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

HARRY H. CONSTEIN, Schuylkill county, was born at Millersville, Lancaster county, Pa., May 8, 1869; attended the Millersville State Normal School; moved with his parents to Ashland, Schuylkill county, Pa., where he has been engaged in the clothing business with his father since 1989; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

E. A. CORAY, Jr., Luzerne county, was born at Monroeton, Bradford county, Pa., September 8, 1858; educated in the common schools and at Keystone Academy, Factoryville; learned the printer's trade, and was engaged as reporter in the office of the Pittston Evening Gazette until 1588; served as chairman of the Republican legislative district committee and was a member of the county committee for several years; is at present engaged in the real estate business; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1889, 1891 and 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

THOMAS B. CRAIG, Carbon county, was born at Lehigh Gap, Pa., April 6, 1867; attended the public schools of Lehigh Gap and Slatington, Pa., Wyoming Seminary and Wyoming Commercial College, Kingston Pa.; since 1885 has been engaged with his father in general store, lumber and coal business; was school director for six years, and served as secretary of the board; was twice elected chairman of the Democratic committee of Carbon county; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

WILLIAM TRENTON CREASY, Columbia county, was born in 1856, in Catawissa township, Columbia county, Pa., on the farm he now occupies; was educated in the common schools; Catawissa Academy, and graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School; taught school at the age of sixteen and followed it for nine terms; is at present engaged in farming and fruit growing; was mercantile appraiser in 1593; is serving his fourth term as school director of his native township; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1895 and 1897; re-elected in November, 1888 PETER J. CRISTE, Northumberland county. was born at Summit, Cambria county, Pa.; educated in the common schools; learned the carpenter trade and is now an architect and builder at Milton, Pa.; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1891 and 1893, and re-elected in November, 1898.

WILLARD WILLIAM CRITTENDEN, Potter county, was born in Oswayo, Potter county, Pa., September 6, 1853; received a limited education; his earliest occupation was farming, next he was a mill-hand, then a lumber jobber; from that he advanced to a contractor and finally to the position of Superintendent of the New York and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which position he now holds; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

PHILIP M. CUTSHALL, Crawford county, was born in Randolph township. Crawford county, Pa., January 16, 1840; educated in the public schools and Meadville Academy: began teaching in the district schools in 1856, and continued in that business during the winter seasons for thirty-five years; farming is his principal occupation; held the office of assessor, school director and auditor in his township; in 1892 was a candidate of the Democratic party for the Assembly, but withdrew his name from the ticket; in 1893 was the nominee of the Democratic party for county treasurer; has been a member of the Grange for the past twenty-three years; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

RICHARD A. DEMPSEY, McKean county, was born in Venango county, Pa., April 26, 1837; received a common school education; followed farming and lumbering until 1862; August, 1862, enlisted in company E, One Hundred and Twenty-first Pennsylvania volunteers, as a private; promoted to first lieutenant January 1, 1865; taken prisoner October 1, 1864; escaped from Salisbury prison, North Carolina, and on January 25, 1865, found Union lines at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee; at close of war returned to Venango county and engaged in mercantile business and producing and refining oil; in 1877 he moved to McKean county where he engaged in the oil business and the manufacturing of high explosives; has served two terms as postmaster, one in Venango county and one in McKean county; has been supervisor of roads, township auditor, coroner, water commissioner and two terms mayor of Bradford city: was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

T. ROBB DEYARMON, Fayette county,

county, Pa., November 5, 1847; educated in the public schools of his native county: was born in Jefferson township, Fayette studied dentistry and medicine and in July, 1870, engaged in the practice of dentistry at Dawson, Pa., where he still resides; was also engaged in the drug business for a number of years; was burgess, justice of the peace, councilman and school director in the borough of Dawson; is one of the proprietors of the "Genius of Liberty," one of the oldest Democratic newspapers in Western Pennsylvania; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1875 and 1876; was again elected in November. 1898.

JOHN DINDINGER, Franklin township, Beaver county, Pa.; was educated in the common schools of his Butler county, was born the 26th day of December, 1839, in native township; in 1861 he began clerking in a store which he left in 1862 to enlist in company G, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers; he served nine months; at the expiration of his term he returned to Beaver county; in 1864 he engaged in merchandising in Lawrence county; in 1874 he moved to Zelienople and established his present mercantile business; he served as postmaster under Garfield's administration; he is a member of Colonel Jos. H. Wilson Post 496. G. A. R., of Zelienople, Pa.; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; reelected in November, 1898.

GEORGE R. DIXON, Elk county, was born in the town of Neversink, Sullivan County, N. Y., July 23, 1848; graduated from Monticello June 28, 1868, at the head of his class, delivering the valedictory oration at the commencement exercises. In the fall of 1868, he entered Rutger's College Gram(New York) Academy mar School, and in September, 1869, he entered Rutger's College, New Brunswick, N. J., from which he graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1873, the same institution conferring upon him the degree of M. A., in June, 1876; in September, 1873, he came to Ridgway, Elk county, where he was principal of the public schools for the next two years. In 1875 he was elected county superintendent of the public schools of Elk county, which office he held for four successive terms; while in school work he attended educational conventions as instructor and lecturer; in 1876 he wrote and published a complete educational history of the county; May 30, 1878, he was admitted to practice as attorney in the courts of Elk county; he served for several years as chairman of the Democratic county committee of Elk county: was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1895 and 1896; re-elected in November, 1898. EDMUND SOUTHARD DOTY, Bedford county, was born at Miffintown, Juniata county, May 14, 1851; was educated in the public schools of that town, Alry View Academy, Port Royal, Pa., and at Lafayette College from graduated in 1872; read and practiced law with his father: was for some time an assistant district solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; turned his attenwhich institution he tion to the banking business and in 1890 removed to Bedford, becoming the cashier of

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the First National Bank of that town, which position he now holds; with his brothers controls the Wilkinsburg Banking Company, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., of which his brother, Edgar N. Doty, is cashier, and the First National Bank of Kensington, Pa., of which his brother, D. B. Doty, is cashier; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

HENRY ELLSWORTH DRASE, Berks county, was born in Reading, September 19, 1862; was educated in the common schools of that city; learned the trade of machinist in the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Locomotive Works; served as letter carrier four years and nine months under President Cleveland's first administration; has been active in politics fifteen years; was twice chairman and secretary of the Democratic city committee; for the last six years has been engaged in newspaper work and is now serving on the reportorial staff of the Reading Telegram; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

HORATIO S. DUMBAULD, Fayette county, was born May 15, 1869, in Salt Lick_township, that county; was educated in the public schools of his township and at Mount Union College, Alliance, O.; taught school a number of years and is at present a student in the law office of Judge S. L. Mestrezat, at Uniontown, Pa.; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

CHARLES H. DUTTERA, Adams county, was born in Germany township, Adams county, Pa., July 9, 1859; was educated in the public schools; was engaged in farming and the tanning business for a number of years; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1894, defeated for the same office in 1896 and again elected in November, 1898.

ROBERT SCOTT EDMISTON, Bradford county, was born at Milan, Pa., April 24, 1841; worked during the day and studied diligently evenings and acquired a thorough business education; in September, 1861, he enlisted in company H. Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania volunteers for three years or during the war; with his regiment he took part in the battles of the Army of the Potomac; was badly wounded in the head at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862, and for bravery displayed (when his regiment was resisting a charge after he was wounded), he was promoted to lieutenant; has been Interested in the improvement of stock and has made agriculture a special study; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1896; re-elected in November, 1898.

FRANK G. EDWARDS, Bucks county, was born in Bristol, Bucks county, Pa., September 1, 1858, where he now resides; educated there in the public schools; has been connected with the line of steamers plying between Philadelphia and Bristol, Pa., and elected to the House of RepreTrenton, N. J., since 1874, holding the positions of receiving clerk, steward, purser and captain, and is now manager of the line; sentatives in November, 1898.

JOHN ENGLER, Lycoming county, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, February 26, 1841; while a child his parents came to America and located in Limestone township, Lycoming county, Pa., where he has since resided: was educated in the public schools; is engaged in farming and the manufacture of lumber and flour; has been a school director for the past fourteen years; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

E. H. FAHEY, Philadelphia, was born at Kennett Square, Chester county, Pa., February 28, 1865; educated in the public schools; graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and engaged in the drug business, being at present the proprietor of two drug stores in the city of Philadelphia: has been a member of the Republican city committee and is at present a member of the Tenth ward executive committee; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898.

JOHN R. FARR, Lackawanna county, was born in Hyde Park, Scranton, Pa., July 18, 1857; after receiving an ordinary public school education learned type setting; on the completion of apprenticeship prepared himself in classical course for college, and entered Lafayette but did not complete course; afterward was city editor Scranton Republican; is now editor and proprietor Courier-Progress, Scranton, Pa.: served for four years on board of control, of which he was assistant secretary part of two years and sercetary one year; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1891, 1893, 1895 and 1897; re-elected in November, 1898; was chosen Speaker of the House, January 3, 1899.

THOMAS J. FAY, Philadelphia, was born in the Fourth ward of that city, September 1, 1857, and has resided there all his life; was educated in the public schools; was engaged in business with his father until 1885. when he accepted a position as deputy collector of Internal Revenue under Colonel Frederick Gerker, which position he resigned September 1, 1889, subsequently being appointed to a position in the office of the county controller: on May 15, 1894. was appointed to a clerkship in the United States Pension Agency under General Mulholland and served in that capacity until December 31, 1898; was elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1898. HENRY H. FETTEROLF, Montgomery county, was born in Perkiomen township. Montgomery county, Pa., September 24, 1839; was educated in the public schools and Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College; taught school from 1858 to 1862; enlisted in company I, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; was made first sergeant and subsequently promoted to first lieutenant of the company; participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; recruited company C. Thirty-fourth emergency regiment and was commissioned its captain; is a director of the National Bank of Schwenksville; member of the board of managers