The magic name of Cleveland failed to win in the Cass and Shelby Senatorial district in 1893. and the Hon. Julian Phelps of Atlantic was elected. He was born in South Hero, Vermont, April 4, 1839. After finishing the course in the common schools of his home he went to Burlington, Vermont, to attend the State University. He completed an academic course in that institution and then went to Albany, New York, law school, from which he received a diploma. He had just started to practice his profession when the war broke out, and hastening home he lost no time in enlisting in Company K, 11th Vermont Volunteers; he served throughout the war with, that company as a private. In 1865 he came west and located at Atlantic, Iowa, to practice law. Ever since then his time has been devoted to his profession to the exclusion of everything else. He has always been a Republican. Having been one of those who endured the privations and hardships of the life in the army in war time he has sought to keep alive the memory of those days by joining the Grand Army. He attends the Congregational church. Senator Phelps is married. Two years ago he was chairman of the committee on enrolled bills and a member of the committees on judiciary, insurance, labor, schools, compensation of public officers.

The magic name of Cleveland failed to win in the Cass and Shelby Senatorial district in 1898, and the Hon. Julian Phelps of Atlantic will hold the seat for four years. He was born in South Hero, Vermont, April 4, 1839. After finishing the course in the common schools of his home he went to Burlington, Vermont, to attend the State University. He completed an academic course in that institution and then went to Albany, New York, law school, from which he received a diploma. He had just started to practice his profession when the war broke out, and hastening home he lost no time in enlisting in company K, 11th Vermont volunteers; he served throughout the war with that company as a private. In 1865 he came west and located at Atlantic, Iowa, to practice law. Ever since then his time has been devoted to his profession to the exclusion of everything else. He has always been a Republican. Having been one of those who endured the privations and hardships of the life in the army in war time he has sought to keep alive the memory of those days by joining the Grand Army. He attends the Congregational church. The campaign to which he contested last fall was a hot one, but his personal popularity and hard work in the field and on the stump won the day.