Show f fert ill WiB Correct Correa Many Mary Z S ors By I 7 JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN y h IG 10 librarIes of the country i- i iBre are Bre waiting Impatiently for forthe f ff the tile publication of the forthcoming CongressIonal Directory For the book Is Isy I IsI y r rin S1 In m great demand on the ret refs reference tables and there has l not been an nn edition since that of lUll lOlL Congress has hns made considerable history in the last 14 years ears so the 1011 1 edition can hard hardly har ly Iy be called up to date Moreover there are ore many errors in the last edl- edl edItion edi edition tion and ned It Is s promised that these will willbe willbe willbe be corrected ThIs Tills Biographical CongressIonal DIrectory should not he conCul confused ed with the Official Congressional DIrectory which Is published during each con con- congress congress gress ress for the use of ot that congress and deals almost entirely with con con- contemporaneous contemporaneous natters mutters As appears by hy the title page of or the he 11 1011 edition of the larger larer work here herCo here here- herewith with reproduced it contains material whIch makes it a valuable reference hook It will be noted that the edi edl- edition edition tion of ot 1011 1911 was printed as Senate Document No o 1 l second session ot of the Sixty-first Sixty congress The title page bears the Imprint of ot the Government Go Printing Office ONice at Washington and the fete of 1013 1913 It zany have hn been heen re ICo and ond corrected to the die Sixty Sixty- Sixty cond congress Nevertheless Ne there are astonishing breaks In It som some or of which are arc apparent to lo the Hie most usual render reader However er probably It was ns nn an Im- Im im improvement provement on am previous volumes of or the kind There was no effort t so Sit fur far ns as an nn he be discovered to keep nn any sort on Jf a history of congress or a directory of Its members before LeCon the year far 1820 In that year the lie first publication n 1 producing till the tin dl dignity of or u II congressional n res directory appeared It was om plied and edited It b by Daniel Rapine ItI who gent gent gent win it er he lip ma may have ha n ii-n ln n It Is a n email volume of about forty Curt es and contains the names mimes of or Ih the tin of congress on ress wit with h home 1 mind nil ton addresses s the names mimes anti 1111 local addresses of the lends of tile llie lie t e department rum 1111 incomplete list of American ministers abroad mind an alphabet alphabetical list of or lun hoarding boarding houses hOlles Tills publication and others similar appeared nl froni Fromm time flame to time lime during succeeding sessions of ingress lOn They They were private enter enterprises enterprises In congress took tool up the thc work vork of publishing I a congressional di III directory rectory Blo Biographical sketches first appeared In the directory of the third of the Fortieth con congress less In The Joint committee on print prInt- printing lag ing suggested that It is desirable ling that no gentleman shall occupy over oer Ten tn lines In print I IA A permanent congressional tHree tHree- lor tory to comprehend all the con con- congresses congresses preceding was first brought out by Charles diaries Lanman In n 1850 1859 and the work bears the title DIctionary ot of the United States Congress Thera have been at least six editions edI- edI edItions edi editions each cach Intended to bring brine the mn- mn material ma material to date Tho The committee responsIble responsible responsible sible for the 1011 lOll edition of ot the he Bio Illo BIo graphIcal Congressional DIrectory has bas this to say among other things I Since Mr Ir Lanman's latest volume the succeeding compilers appear to have done little more than to add to the permanent volume such cuch information Information tion as could be obtained from rom the pe- pe perIodical pe periodical Congressional Directories Thorn Thero seems to have havo been boen little effort to correct revise or perfect the work ot of the earlier compilers compiler and thus end ond- endless ond-lc ond less s errors error crept In The present committee has ha under under- undertaken undertaken undertaken taken the work of ot general c revision and verification It has ha not only care care- carefully carefully tull fully scanned the Journals Journal and records ot of debates but It has also consulted all the available biographical works has bas made special pedal appeals appeal to government depositories public libraries historical state slate tato county and municipal municipal pal officers as a well as to Individuals for tor specific and general Information It Is unfortunate that some rec- rec records records rec records that might bo be of ot great croat value especially as a bearing upon earlier con con- contested contested con contested tested election cases casu and their deterred deterred- determination determination nation were burned by time the British In 1814 The present joint committee on printing In charge of the new edItion talks the same only way way only more so 80 Senator Geor George e II U Moses of New HampshIre Is chairman The Ice chairman Is Representative Edgar Edar R n Kless of Pennsylvania The other members are Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas Senator Duncan U Fletcher fetcher of Florida Representative Albert Johnson of ot Washington ton and Representative c William l P Stevenson Ste ot of South Carolina Ansel Wold Is clerk Tills ThIs joint committee It tee has been work work- workIng working working Ing on the forthcoming edition since March of or 12 1025 under a n concurrent res- res res resolution According to reports the com con committee committee has been pretty thorough h and among other thIngs bus lius written man many thousands of letters lettel's In Its search for It Is known that some ot of oft the lit lit- glaring errors have Iu been detected lord amI corrected Possibly the llie most astonishing error in time the lUll 1011 edition is concerning I L I The lime blo biography or of orI I lids his member of or the house reads Dunham Cyrus I 1 I- I Ia representative a 1 from Indiana native n lv of ot New loew York educated elf moved to Indiana and In Salem studied law and was vas admitted to the tho bar member of ot the tate state house of or representatives 7 1 7 engaged In agriculture elected aa as a to time llie Slet and congresses March 4 18 March 1149 9 3 1855 defeated as n a candidate for tor the tho congress again elected a member ut of the stale state house of ot representatives died In alley Valley Farm Ind lad October 16 15 1856 1556 As n a matter of or fact tact Cyrus I L Dun Dun- Dunham ham Dun ham served ser through time the lie Civil war ns as colonel of the Fiftieth Indiana Vol Yol- Volunteers Volunteers and tiled died In In lad November 22 2 1877 lie lac Is hurle hurled In the Walnut Ridge cemetery In hl that city Note that the War department has had the ilie Dunham record all these years Heres Here's n a curious sort of mistake with nn an absurdly simple explanation One day In setting time tIle type of some someone someone someone one of the time various arlaus directories a compositor compositor picked up from the case coso coson cason n a capital R n Instead of ot n a capital capita L E Thereupon time the type read Rd nd Instead of or Ed In consequence somewhat later Inter Edward Ed became Rich Rich- Richard Richard ard So we find In the time 1011 1911 edition of time the Directory the following bi- bi biographies bi bl biographies McGaughey Edward Wilson a II representative from Indiana born In Green Green- Greencastle Green CAstle castle cl Ind lad January 16 19 1817 1117 attended the p schools studied law was vas admitted to tho the bar bu In 1836 1835 and practiced practiced practiced member of ot the tho state slate senate In 1842 elected as a Whip Whig to the congress March 4 March ins 3 1147 1847 re-elected re to the 1st congress March 4 March 1849 3 1851 1151 unsuccessful candidate for tor re election to the tho Undo congress died In San Francisco Cal August 6 0 1852 1152 y McGaughe-y Richard W a 1 representative from Indiana resident of ot nock flock Rock v yule III t Ind elected eJected to lo the congress March 4 March 1849 3 1851 1151 Yes ris you have ha already guessed these two are one and the same man and his name was Ed Ed- Edward Edward war ward WIlson McGaughey McCaughey A study of the house journal for the ThIrty first Thirty congress disclosed ll time the mistake Page of or the 1011 lOll edition Is large large- largely largely IJ ly taken talen up with biographies of or the Bayards of Delaware Almost con contiguous are biographies of of James Asheton Jr and Bayard Baard James Asheton They are one and time the same who man man who represented Dela Dela- Delaware Delaware ware In time the senate nate from 1851 1551 to with the exception of a short tIme The new edition of or course will add another the the present senator Thomas Francis Bayard The sena sena- senatorial senatorial record of or the Bayards Is unique The father of or the time present senator Thomas Francis 18 1828 08 his grandfather Asheton Bayard 1880 1790 his great uncle Rich Richard ard hear Henry Bayard his grandfather great great James Asheton Bayard 1815 1707 and his great grent- great grandfather great grandfather Richard Bassett 1815 1745 were nil mill United States senators from Delaware Roger Sherman delegate representative and und senator from Connecticut rota the thc First Continental congress to his death In the Second United States congress Is set forth as having glen given unique service In that lint he helped prepare pre pre- prepare prepare pare and aDd signed nil all four of or the great documents Articles of AI Association t l 1771 Declaration of Independence 1770 Articles of Confederation 1778 ConstitutIon of or time the United States 1787 1781 |