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Show IlKATII OF KENATOIl 1'I.l'Mn. With the demise of Senator I'kkstos 15. I'LLMitt a noble spirit has gone to tho realms of tho great Beyond. His loss will I e deeply felt by tho entire nation, nnd to h'.s slate, his friends aud his family it will bo most keen. The senator was born at Delaware, Ohio, October 1-J, ho received a common school education, removed to Kansas in VVG, during the trying times experienced in that then territory at an eventful period of tho contest between freedom and slavery; served as a member mem-ber of tho Leavenworth convention in lb.VJ; was admitted to the bar in Mil; served in the lower houso of tho Kansas legislature in in which he was chairman of tho judiciary committee. In August of the same year ho entered military servieo as second lieutonant of the Eleventh Kansas infantry, in which he served successively as captain, major and lieutenant-colonel; after the close of tho war, while the troops were being be-ing mustered out, ho was commissioned colonel, but could not bo mustered for tho reason that no ollicerfor that purpose pur-pose could bo reacliVd. jfe was spealfcr of tho Kansas hoiii!of representatives representa-tives in 18GT, aud was elected a member of the same body irV tho Irvllowing year" In 1877 ho was elected United Slides sonator to succeed James M. Harvey; re-elected in and again in ls,s. Such in brief is the history of this eminent man. Secretary Sklls, who knew him intimately, having served with him on tho Kansas republican central cen-tral committee, speaks of him as a man whom to know personally is to prize as a friend on account of his statesmanlike statesman-like qualities, his splendid business capacity, ca-pacity, his integrity of character and his unsurpassed duvotiou to country, friends and family. |