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Show A WESTERN MAN'S RECORD. Tlie Active Career of Serg-eant-at-Arnu Valentine. Hon. Edward K. Valentine, of West Point, Neb., who has been elected by the Republican senatorial caucus sergeant-ut-arms of the United. States senate, to succeed Mr. William P. Canaday, whose resignation will tako effect at the close of the fiscal year, is a pleasant, genial man. He was born at Keosauqua, Van Buren county, la., forty-seven years ago. Ho is a printer by trade, and worked on The Burlington Hawkeye before Frank H a 1 1 o n took hold of it. While sticking type he employed his spare moments mo-ments in studying study-ing law, and when he left the case to go to the t war he took his composing rule with him. He ctill carries this E- K- valentine. implement of his trade, and proposes never to part with it, saying jocularly that he will always be ablo to fall back upon it to earn a living in case of necessity. neces-sity. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted en-listed in the Sixty-seventh Illinois infantry in-fantry and was promoted to be a second lieutenant. Being honorably discharged he re-onlistod in 1883 as a private in the Seventh Iowa cavalry, and was promoted pro-moted to be the adjutant of the regiment. regi-ment. Ho served until June, 1868, having hav-ing been twice breveted for ''efficient and meritorious services." He went to Nebraska in 1860 and was appointed three years later register of the United States laud office at Omaha. While in this position ho finished the study of law and was admitted to tho bar and engaged en-gaged actively in practice until the fall of 1875, when he was elected judge of the sixth judicial district. Three years later he came to congress and served through the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh con-err con-err esses. |