CHARLES H. EATON, of Park County, is a native of the State of Maine, where he was born, in Warren, in 1858. He graduated from the Warren High School, and then was sent to Dartmouth College, where he graduated from the Chandler Scientific Department in 1879. In 1880 he went to Leadville, Col., and was engaged in mining there for two years, when he came to Montana and has since engaged in mining enterprises, operating now at Cooke City. Mr. Eaton is unmarried, and his first public office was his election on the Republican ticket to the first House of Representatives. He is a brother of General George O. Eaton, present Surveyor General of Montana; he is a Republican of decided convictions upon public issues.

H. L. FRANK, of Butte, Silver Bow County, one of the leaders of the Democratic forces of the House of Representatives, was born in Ironton, Ohio, in 1851, of American parentage; received a common school education in Ohio, which he has supplemented by a fund of practical knowledge obtained by close observation and experience; he is a self-made man and has the courage of his convictions. Mr. Frank has resided in Montana thirteen years, and in that time, by honesty, perseverance and pluck, he has succeeded in amassing a fortune; was Mayor of the city of Butte for two terms, and under his administration the city made rapid strides in the matter of public improvements, for which he was highly complimented. Mr. Frank is a man of broad and liberal views, beside being an indefatigable worker, as evidenced by his legislative career. He is a single man.

E. H. GOODMAN, of Townsend, Meagher County, the Republican Representative for that district, was born in Miantowoc County, Wis., and is 36 years old. He is a lawyer by profession, and has been a resident of Montana for six years past. His parents removed to Chicago when he was eight years of age, and there he passed through the common schools. At the age of eighteen he removed to a farm in Iroquois County, Ill., and lived there for five years, engaged in the labors of the farm. Ambitious to become a lawyer, he left for Valparaiso, Ind., where he took a two-year scientific course in the college, previous to taking up the study of law. He then attended the law school from which he graduated in 1883, and immediately went to Kansas where he spent one year. He then removed to Montana, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He was never in public office until his election as Representative from his county on the Republican ticket in 1889.

THOMAS LOCKMAN GREENOUGH, of Missoula, Missoula County, was born in Davis County, Iowa, October 25, 1851, of American parents. His first schooling was in Iowa in 1863-64, but his knowledge comes chiefly from contact with the world. In 1857 his family moved to Atchison, Kansas, and in 1868 a second move was made, this time to Southern Kansas. In 1870 the subject of this sketch and a brother began railroad contracting on the M., K. & T. road, and worked with that line till it was completed to Denison, Texas. In 1872 the death of his partner and brother, John Greenough, changed the plans, and after some contracting in Texas T. L. Greenough went to New Mexico, arriving there in 1874, but he moved with the excitement of the time, and during 1874-5 mined in various parts of New Mexico and Arizona. In 1876 he joined the Black Hills stampede, but after reaching Colorado he engaged with his father in mining operations. From Colorado he went to Montgomery County, Kan., arriving there in 1877; he again started for the Black Hills, arriving there June 11, 1878; for four years he worked in the Father De Smet mine near Deadwood. In 1879 he was married at Terryville, Dakota, to Miss Tennie Epperson, of Independence, Kansas; three children-two boys and one girlwere born to him; in 1882 he arrived in Montana, and immediately began contracting for the Northern Pacific, in which business he is still engaged; he was nominated by the Republicans of Missoula County, and elected to the first State Legislature, serving at the first and second sessions. He won a reputation as the most genial man in the body, and was popular on both "sides of the House."

CHARLES KELLY HARDENBROOK, of Deer Lodge, Deer Lodge County, was born at Mt. Gilead, Knox County, Ohio, November 7, 1847; his parents removed to Warren County, Ill., in the spring of 1848, where he spent his early life on a farm; attended the public schools until 1866, when he entered Monmouth College; attended that institution two years; started West in the spring of 1870, arriving at Deer Lodge in April; went thence to Cedar Creek, Missoula County, where he spent the summer working at placer mining; crossed the Coeur d'Alene Mountains with a pack train in October; visited Oregon and California, returning to Montana early in the spring of 1871; was at the Frederickson stampede in the early part of the summer; went to the Black Hills in 1876, and after having visited the States returned to Montana; was out with the Montana Volunteers during the Nez Perces Indian war in 1877; was elected County Superintendent of Schools in Deer Lodge County; was Principal of the Public Schools of Deer Lodge in 1878-79; went to Butte in 1881. where he engaged in the Commission for two years; then moved back to Deer Lodge County, locating on a ranch near Race Track; was elected to the first State Legislature as a member of the House of Representatives; was married to Jennie Brice at Corinne, Utah, and has a family of two boys and three girls.