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Show go. His uncle. BcveHir'ri " Tears ago public rint J"' Wns thirt editor and poHtWan SP WeU known Henry St. GZ Cke?' lUather' tative in comrres,. ,'-Was a reP"en. eral rtta iXtsf t0 lm Sev" the army and the inw Prminent in cavalry whose disci Lnd 1 U ' Zaf ing at racted the attention of Gen Go Itr bj' Whom he wanTn time pS Washing deathhe ueTr $ delivered the TuTtgy on UashlnRton in the house of represent i tD-es His brother, Charles at Pted general of the uSiSS States by President Washington. Arthur Lee, of another branch of the family was Francis Lightfoot Lee was a delegate to the Continental consress, and signed the Declarafon of Independence. His brother Richard Henry Lee, was tho first to p po resistance to the British stamp act and first proposed to congress the DecW tlon of Independence, which he afterward signed. Y iHiam Lee was sent to London as the agent of Virginia, and became a merchant there. On the breaking out of the revolution he heartily joined his brothers in aiding the struggle for independence, inde-pendence, and going to France was there of great service to the colonists. Thomas Ludwill Lee, another of the brothers, was a conspicuous patriot during the Revolution. Revolu-tion. There are in the house two representatives representa-tives of another famous southern family tho Breckinridges. Congressman V C P Breckinridge, of Kentucky, was the son of J ohn C. Breckinridge, who was elected vice president on the ticket with Buchanan. Th latter's father.-John Cabell, was an eminent emi-nent lawyer, and his uncle, Robert I., a distinguished Presbyterian divine. The father of John Cabell and Robert, John Breckinridge, was a Virginian, author of the celebrated "Resolutions of 1788-90" in the legislature of that state, and afterward senator from Kentucky and attorney general gen-eral of the United States. Clifton R. Breckinridge, Breck-inridge, now member of congress from Arkansas, Ar-kansas, is descended from another branch of the family. . Henry Cabot Lodge, the litterateur and congressman from Massachusetts, is a scion of the Cabot family of that state. George Cabot served in the United States senate from 1791 to 17'JC, and was one of the most distinguished members of that body a confidential friend of Washington and Hamilton. John Forester Andrew, another an-other young statesman from Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, is the son of John A. Andrew, the famous fa-mous war governor. Elijah Adams Morse, now a member of congress from Canton, Mass., claims to be a relative of the Adams family, and represents repre-sents the same district once represented by John Qiiincy Adams. The grandfather of Senator Wilson, of Maryland, was a delegate dele-gate to the Continental congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. An American family which ranks with the Adamses is now represented in the White House. Six Harrisons of the stock whence the president comes have been conspicuous in the public service, two as senators and presidents and the others as representatives representa-tives in congress or members of state governments. ! hiirt blood. Iter Suggested to tho Author by Oon-'00 Oon-'00 Bideration of the Condition of I Senator Hoar. Lj OF BENATOS SHERMAN as' I 1 Lf Other Well Known Members of the t p House of Congress What it Amounts to. I Special Correspondence.! LsHisoTOjr, Aug. 25. Sitting in the fe gallery, looking down upoa the X j lead of Senator Hoar, who of laib 4 Ijttfacted so much attention as the loion of tho federal election bill and t writer of a quaint letter concerning feand his income, I am led to the re--Ion that blood will tell. George Frisbie has beeu forty years In public life, lather, Samuel Hoar, was the famous iti jr n-iio was sent by the Massachusetts Mature to Charleston, S. C, to test tho litutionality of certain slave laws, and i I was expelled from the state by tho l-oor. Samuel Hoar was once a mem-L mem-L congress. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, lother of the senator, was attorney :al under Grant, and also served in Ifjss. Here are three statesmen in one y-father and two sons. On the raa-;1 raa-;1 side George Frisbie and Ebenezer ' IVood Hoar are grandsons of Roger man. Ic by side in the senate chamber sit Itors Hoar and Sherman, the latter di-r di-r descended from the Shermans of I England. Roger Sherman, a native liussachusetts, settled in Connecticut, e ho worked as a shoemaker, with an I book before him on the bench. He a member of the First congress, signed IJeclaration of Independence and belt be-lt a senator. One of his grandsons was ties R. Sherman, who migrated to I in 1S10 and became judge of the su-lie su-lie court of that state. Three sons Iboru to him. One, Charles T. Sher-I. Sher-I. became United States district judge mhio. Another is Gen. William Te-Isth Te-Isth Sherman, and the third John man, the veteran senator who sits by hide of his distant relative, George Fris-flour. Fris-flour. v f another curious coincidence Sena-" Sena-" fcrarts, of New York, sits within arm's Ih of Senators Hoar and Sherman. Mr. Irts was the son of Jeremiah Evarts, a I cr and writer of note in Boston, and lis mother's side was a grandson of the in Roger Sherman mentioned above ise statue stands in Statuary hall. I Ition of the senator from New York re-' re-' Ids me of New York's greatest senator, looe Coukling. Mr. Conkling's father, led, was a member of congress and min-h min-h to Mexico, and his brother, Frederick I was a member of congress.. In tho l-ty-seventh congress both Roscoe Conk-l Conk-l and his brother were members. Inator Don Cameron, who sits near by rand Sherman, married a daughter of ge Charles T. Sherman. Senator Cam-I's Cam-I's father was the famous Simon Cam-m, Cam-m, who was four times elected to the kte, and who was succeeded by his son. I Cameron's chum is Senator Butler, of lib. Carolina. Senator Butler studied I with his uncle, Andrew Pickens But-I But-I who was for fifteen years a senator ti that state. Another of the present lator Butler's uncles was William But-I But-I who served in congress and who marls mar-ls sister of Commodore Oliver Hazard Congressman Richard P. Bland, the well known silver specialist of Missouri, comes from Btock in which "blood tells." His grandfather was a delegate to the Continental Conti-nental congress. His great-grandfather, Theodoric Bland (who was also the uncle of John Bandolph), was a member of the First congress, and the first member of congress whose death was announced in that body. He enjoyed the confidence of George Washington, and bis correspondence correspond-ence with eminent men was published in 1843 as "The Bland Papers." One of his sons, also Theodoric Bland, became United States judge in Maryland. In the veins of Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, flows some of the bluest blood of New England. His father, Nathan F. Dixon, was between 1840 and 1800 one of the most prominent men of the little state, serving constantly in the general assembly or in congress. Tho present senator's grandfather grand-father was also a Rhode Island statesman, serving seventeen years in the genoral assembly as-sembly of the state and six years in the United States senate. Here we have the somewhat remarkable case of son, father and grandfather representing a state in the national legislature, and all were named Nathan F. Dixon. All lived at Westerly, R. I., all were lawyers and all graduated from Brown university. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is directly descended from the famous Wolcotts of Connecticut. His great-grandfather, Oliver Oli-ver Wolcott, Bigned the Declaration of Independence In-dependence and the Articles of Confederation, Confedera-tion, was a delegate to the Continental congress, became a major general in the Revolution, and died the governor of his state, which his father, Roger Wolcott, had been before him. Senator Brown, of Georgia, comes from that branch of the Brown family which contributed many eminent men to the ros-r ros-r of fame in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky. Among his relatives were Aaron V. Brown, who served in congress from Tennessee, and who was postmaster general under Buchanan: Albert (x. Brown, who went from Virginia to Mississippi, and there became judge, congressman and senator; James Brown, of Virginia, who was senator from Louisiana and minister to France, and John Brown, of Virginia, who left Princeton college to join tho army of Washington and who afterward became member of congress nnd United States senator from Kentucky. This Brown's son, Mason Brown, wasaprorainent judge, and' Mason Brown's two sons, B. Gratz and J. M., became noted men, the former as senator from Missouri and the latter us a brigadier general. ROBERT G HAVES. ry. .Still another Butler, Samson H., tsented South Carolina in congress a I century ago. ' II the Butlers of that state were do-idants do-idants of Pierce Butler, who was of the ilyof the Dukes of Ormond of Ireland, ire the Revolution he was a major in a iish regiment in Boston, but afterward me a citizen of this country, and a Ro-Jican Ro-Jican instead of a royalist. He was a gate to the first congress, signed the stitution, and was a senator In congress the same time Roger Sherman was. reover, the two men were good friends, ra 51. Butler, son of Pierce Butler, was illant geucral in the Mexican war, fall-at fall-at Cherubusco. Thus the Butler fam-( fam-( South Carolina has produced three ted States senators. Tho Butlers and Pickenses are intermarried. Three of Pickenses have been in congress, and - a Pickens who demanded the. surlier sur-lier of Fort Sumter by Maj. Anderson, tiiator Barbour, of Virginia, comes a family of statesmen. His grandfa-t grandfa-t was speaker of the house f represents represen-ts three-quarters of a century ago, and 1 other members of his family served in sress. Perhaps the most remarkable ! ot family statesmanship is that of the ards, of Delaware. James A. Bayard senator from 1804 to 1813. His son, wd II. Bayard, was senator from 1830 , and again from 1841 to 1845. Rich-s Rich-s brother, James A., was senator from I to 1864. In 1867 he was again elected ptor, and on the same day his son, mas F., was also elected senator from same state, the only instance of the ' which ever occurred inator Washburn, of Minnesota, comes II "otablo family of statesmen. His w, Caxhvalader C, was in congress six 'KM years from Wisconsin. His uncle, ,cl Jr., was for ten years a member of -TOs from Maine, and ufterward gov- f that state. Another uncle, Elihu gelling his name with a final "e," was ingress fourteen years from Illinois, Jy becoming by his long experience gather of the house." He was after-J after-J tne American minister to Paris dur-we dur-we Franco-Prussian war. ' His son, 'pstead Washburne, is ambitious to '"to congress frorr. Chicago, where he Mid several important local offices. oator Allison, of Iowa, traces hi3 i3e-Jt i3e-Jt directly from the Allisons of Pcnu-'ania. Pcnu-'ania. James Allison was a member of wghteenth and Nineteenth congresses, brother Robert was a member one j" nd his son John two terms. 3e of the most remarkable families of -essmen this country has ever known a tieisters, of Pennsylvania. Dan-''ster. Dan-''ster. of Berks county, was a mem-01 mem-01 the First, Second, Third and Fourth j516-. He then removed to Mainland, ;s elected member of the Seventh I . congresses. His brother, Ph Heister, equipped a company from Private fortune and joined the Revolu-' f? -army. He was a member of the ,h r -th' Seventl. Eighth, Ninth, Four-j Four-j ' Flfte-th and Sixteenth congresses, afterward elected governor of nvania. John Heister, Daniel's was a member of the Tenth con-s, con-s, ana his son Daniel succeeded him in eventh congress. William Heister, of John and Daniel, was a mem- tae twenty-third and Twenty-fourth ' Wilh-m's son Isaac, who the spelling of his name to Hies- a member of the Thirty-third con-Caismakiagsi,cHeister8 con-Caismakiagsi,cHeister8 congress UP nTv EuSene Hale, of Maine, comes ' V tW Ea-1ui family that has had ; "Sat of its scions in congress from 'f' -w Hampshire and Vermont In congres.s Daniel Voorhees was a ?0f Rebranch, and his son of the last congress Isaac Stephen-F Stephen-F her e member from Wisconsin. His feL f u a member of .the present i -tjT Irom Michigan. Henry St. George hL Oow congresa from Virginia, j L f,..1 8 notable family of lawmakers, j fcjf1' John Randolph Tucker, waa ( j w ablest man in congress ten years |