Show Appointments WASHINGTON November 4The President today appointed Alfred P Ed erton of Fort Wayne Ind civil service commissioner in place of Dor I man B Eaton resigned and William J Trenholm of Cnarleston S C in pace of John M Gregory resigned Mr Edgerton was in early life a clerk in a mercantle house in New York City but while still a young man removed to Northern Ohio as agent of the Northern Land Company He then served four years in Congress as a Democrat and was financial agent of the State of Ohio with anoffice in New York City In 1858 he moved to Indiana and in 1868 was Democratic candidate Lieutenant Governor VicePresident Hendricks being a candidate for Governor They were both defeated As a Democrat he refused to support Greeley in 1872 and came within six votes of being nominated nomi-nated for VicePresident on the OConor ticket over John Quincy Adams Jr He was then nominated as a straight out Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana but I declined in a letter which urged all the D mocrat to support Mr Hendricks and the latter was elected For fifteen years he has been unanimously elected by the Common Council of Fort Wayne as President of the Board of Education of that city and by the appointment ExGovernor Potter as a director of the Pardue University Hehasbe engaged iujmany successful business enterprises and is in easy circumstances and is a practical student of public affairs He was for many years an intimate friend and associate of Chief Justice Waite who together with Senator H B Payne Governor Gray of Indiana VicePresident Hendricks and many leading citizens of Ohio and Indiana warmly endorsed him as possessing the qualities peculiarly fitting him for the work of Civil Service Commissioner with which ne la iu mil sympathy I |