Philo History: Chronicles and Biographies of the Philosophian Literary Society of McKendree College

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Wm. Dudley Paul Farthing, Chester Farthing
Published for the Society, 1911 - 214 pages

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Page 65 - ... Illinois, where he remained until the fall of 1844, when he was elected Principal of the Georgetown (Vermilion County) Male and Female Seminary. While holding this position he was licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, having held membership in that church from ^his boyhood, and in the fall of 1846 was received on trial in the Illinois Annual Conference, and by appointment from Conference was continued as Principal of Georgetown Seminary. In September, 1848, he was, BRIGADIER-GENERAL...
Page 85 - Father of the Park System of Chicago." In 1848 Mr. Scripps bought a one-third interest in the Chicago Tribune, which had been established the preceding year, Messrs. John E. Wheeler and Thomas A. Stewart making up the trio of ownership. William Bross in his history says that "Mr. Scripps was its principal writer and editorial manager. The press of Chicago was then in its infancy. He at once, by his dignified labor, gave tone and character to it.
Page 87 - Not eloquence, nor logic, nor grasp of thought ; not statesmanship, nor power of command, nor courage ; not any nor all of these have made him what he is, but these, in the degree in which he possessed them, conjoined to those qualities comprised in the term character...
Page 126 - ... entered the Law Department of the university at Bloomington, Ind., from which he graduated in 1870; was admitted to the practice of law by the supreme court of Illinois the same year, since which time he has resided in Murphysboro, in the active practice of his profession; in 1880 he was the Republican elector for his Congressional district (then the Eighteenth) and cast the vote of the district for Garfield and Arthur; is married; was elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second...
Page 138 - In 1900 he was a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a member of the University Senate of the same denomination from 1896 to 1904.
Page 130 - Ill., in 1878; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1880; was elected city attorney of Galesburg in 1881; was chairman of the Republican county central committee of Knox County in 1884; was elected a member of the lower house of the general assembly of...
Page 74 - The next year he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Southern District of...
Page 140 - Society ; the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Glasgow in 1806; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the French Institute.
Page 154 - Pennsylvania, from 1791 to 1801, when he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Page 95 - ... twelve years. In 1872 he was nominated for Congress upon the Democratic ticket, receiving the endorsement of the Greenback party. He was defeated by a plurality of 240 by General James Martin, Republican candidate. As a member of the convention of 1872, which framed the present Constitution of Illinois, he introduced a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the convention that all offices, legislative, executive and judicial, provided for by the new Constitution, should be filled by elections...

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