GEORGE HUNT PENDLETON OF HAMILTON COUNTY.

George H. Pendleton began his public career as a state senator in 1854. and ended it in 1889 as United States minister to the German empire. He was born in Cincinnati, O., July 25, 1825.

He was descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and married the daughter of Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner." He died of apoplexy on the 24th of November. 1889, in Brussels, Belgium, and at nearly the same time his accomplished wife was killed in an accident in Central Park, New York, where she was riding. The remains of both were subsequently interred in Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati.

While still a member of the Ohio Senate in 1856, Mr. Pendleton was, elected to the Thirty-fifth congress,

the Thirty-sixth,

Thirty-eighth.

house continuing from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1865, and covering the period of the civil war. Although an uncompromising and consistent Demoocrat, he supported all measures looking to a vigorous and successful prosecution of the war, although differing with the most of the Republican leaders on questions of constitutional policy. His services in the house were of a high order, and always dictated by a conscientious sense of his public duties, and he was prominent on the committees of ways and means, the judiciary, foreign relations and military affairs.

On the 16th of January, 1878, he was elected United States senator for the term beginning March 4, 1879, and ending March 4, 1885. In the senate he occupied the same high position he had filled in the house, and was assigned to important committee positions. As chairman of the committee of civil service reform he formulated a system of civil service appointment and promotion in the appointive positions under the various departments of the government.

In 1885 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to the court of the Emperor of Germany by President Grover Cleveland, and discharged the duties of that exalted position with honor to himself and his country. He

was on the eve of returning to his native country at the time of his sudden and unexpected death.

Mr. Pendleton was a candidate for re-election to the senate in 1884 before the Democratic members of the legislature, but was defeated for the caucus nomination by Henry B. Payne of Cuyahoga county, who was elected as his successor in that body.

He was a man of lofty ambitions, fixing his aim upon the presidency itself, with a reasonable hope of realization at the hands of his party, which was gradually recovering from the effects of the civil war. In 1864 he was nominated for the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with General George B. McClellan of New Jersey.

In 1868 he was the choice of a large section of his party in the west and south for the presidency, on the issue of legal tender notes issued from the national treasury as the basis of a national currency, but met with a chilling disapointment at the hands of his party in the east.

The national Democratic convention for that year was held in New York and presided over by Horatio Seymour, one of the most distinguished public men of that state. Against his repeated personal protests and refusals to be considered a candidate, the nomination was forced upon Mr. Seymour, and Mr. Pendleton was nominated for the vice presidency.

A spiritless campaign and a disastrous defeat followed, and Mr. Pendleton abandoned his hope of reaching the presidential office and turned his thoughts to other political fields.

A man of polished education and suave and engaging manners, he was surrounded by warm and admiring friends as well as implacable enemies. Some of his enthusiastic friends gave him the title of "Gentleman George," which was rather whimsical in view of his strong and aggressive character and virile characteristics.

He was an eloquent and forceful public speaker, and a lawyer of far more than average ability among the greater members of the bar.

HENRY B. PAYNE OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY.

Henry B. Payne was born in Hamilton, New York, in 1810, and migrated to Cleveland, O.. in 1833. A horn politician, he was likewise a man of broad and comprehensive business ideas, and

never neglected either his profession, that of the law, or his other diversified business interests for the game of politics. He was from the beginning to the end of his public career a Democrat, and received many distinguishing honors at the hands of that party.

In 1851, in conjunction with Alfred Kelly and Richard Hilliard, he proJected the Cleveland and Columbus railroad, was its first president, and most largely entitled to the credit of its construction at a time when the railway system was largely experimental. He took an active part in all of the manufacturing enterprises of Cleveland, and became a large stockholder in more than a score of them, and, with scarcely an exception, they were successful.

He began his public career in 1849 as a state senator, serving for two years. While a member of the state senate he was selected by his party associates as the Democratic candidate for United States senator in the memorable contest which resulted in

the election of Benjamin F. Wade of Ashtabula to his first senatorial term The balloting began on the 30th of January, 1851, was adjourned to March 13th, and continued on the 14th and 15th, 37 ballots being taken before an election was reached.

He was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1859 against Salmon P. Chase, Republican, and the result was unusually close, the vote for Chase being 160,568, and for Payne 159,065. In 1874 he was elected to congress, serving a single term, from the 4th of March, 1875, to the 4th of March, 1877. The last session of this congress was unusually exciting, the result of the contest for the presidency between Hayes and Tilden. Mr. Payne was chair

man of the house committee to act in conjunction with a committee of the senate to devise a plan of settlement. The electoral commission, which seated President Hayes by a strict party vote of 8 to 7, was the result of the deliberations of the two commitees.

While not openly a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, his name was strongly urged in that behalf prior to and pending the national conventions in 1876, 1880 and again in 1884. He stood high in the legal profession, possessing great forensic power, and was a logical and analytical reasoner. As a platform orator in political campaigns he had but few equals. He was the father-in-law of William C. Whitney, secretary of the navy under President Cleveland.

An ample fortune was the result of Mr. Payne's lucrative law practice and early investment in manufacturing enterprises, and he passed his declining years in ease and affluence, the liberal patron of the arts, science and literature, and the promoter of all great public enterprises in his adopted state and city.

CALVIN STEWART BRICE OF ALLEN COUNTY.

The early years of Calvin Stewart Brice were marked with a fierce and unremitting struggle against adverse and untoward circumstances, over

which he triumphed in early manhood, carving out for himself a handsome fortune in this world's goods, and achieving great political honors.

His father was a Presbyterian minister who came from the state of Maryand to Ohio in 1840, settling in the little village of Denmark, Morrow county, where his son, the future railway magnate and United States senator, was born September 17, 1845. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Stewort, of Carroll county, Ohio.

Up to 1858 young Brice attended the public schools of his neighborhood, and then entered the preparatory department of the Miami University at Oxford. He was barely 16 years of age when President Lincoln issued his first and second calls for troops, in response to which he enlisted in Captain Dodd's

company of students, which was assigned to garrison duty at Camp Jackson, Columbus, Ohio.

In April, 1862, anxious to participate in active campaigning, he..was enrolled in the Eighty-sixth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served during the summer campaign of that regiment in West Virginia. Having been mustered out of the service he returned to the university at Oxford and completed his education, graduating in June, 1863.

After his graduation he located at Lima, Allen county, and began teaching, for the purpose of acquiring means to secure the benefits of a course in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The renewed demand for troops soon changed his plans, and he recruited Company E of the One Hundred and Eightieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, which was later assigned to the Twenty-third corps and did duty in the campaigns in Tennessee, Georgia Alabama and the Carolinas until July, 1865, when it was mustered out. For distinguished gallantry in action and meritorious service, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of his regiment on the day of his majority.