Came from St. Lawrence county, New York, and settled in Maquoketa in 1870, and engaged in the practice of the law. He was first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, New York Volunteers, and lost his right arm while in service in South Carolina. In 1881 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly, and in 1883 he was elected senator for Jackson county, serving as such in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, and was an active and influential member. He has frequently represented the democrats of Jackson county in district and state conventions, and when the additional judge was provided for the Seventh Judicial District it was generally understood that he would be the first incumbent, but in the inscrutable manner in which conventions are conducted, the prize went to another and the subject of this article has continued at his work as Counsel.

Came from St. Lawrence county, New York, and settled in Maquoketa in 1870, and engaged in the practice of the law. He was first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, New York Volunteers, and lost his right arm while in service in South Carolina. In 1881 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly, and in 1883 he was elected senator for Jackson county, serving as such in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, and was an active and influential member. He has frequently represented the democrats of Jackson county in district and state conventions, and when the additional judge was provided for the Seventh Judicial District it was generally understood that he would be the first incumbent, but in the inscrutable manner in which conventions are conducted, the prize went to another and the subject of this article has continued at his work as Counsel.

Came from St. Lawrence county, New York, and settled in Maquoketa in 1870, and engaged in the practice of the law. He was first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, New York Volunteers, and lost his right arm while in service in South Carolina. In 1881 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly, and in 1883 he was elected senator for Jackson county, serving as such in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, and was an active and influential member. He has frequently represented the democrats of Jackson county in district and state conventions, and when the additional judge was provided for the Seventh Judicial District it was generally understood that he would be the first incumbent, but in the inscrutable manner in which conventions are conducted, the prize went to another and the subject of this article has continued at his work as Counsel.