W. B. HARLAN, of Como, Missoula County, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, forty-three years ago; received only a common school education, but contact with the world has added much to his fund of information and knowledge not to be found in books; at an early age went to Minnesota, and at breaking out of the war went to the front, serving with the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery; soon after the close of the war he removed to Montana, where he has since resided; was, Postmaster at Como, his present home, for eight years; was married in 1875, and is the father of three children. Mr. Harlan was elected by the Republicans to represent the interests of Missoula County in the House of Representatives.

FAYETTE HARRINGTON, of Virginia City, Madison County, was born at Quincy, Ill., January 7, 1843; attended the High School at Aurora, Ill.; also took a course at Commercial College; came to Montana from Wisconsin September 9, 1864, and has resided here ever since; clerked for a while in Virginia City and then in Helena, after which he engaged in the stock business and merchandising; organized the banking house of Hall, Harrington & Company in 1879, at Virginia City, selling out in 1889, and later became a stockholder and cashier in the Silver Bow National Bank of Butte; was elected as a Representative in the Legislature at the first State election from his district by the Republican party. He is a married man.

EDWARD D. HASTIE, of Sun River, Cascade County, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, December 13, 1855; after attending the common schools he entered the Iowa State University at Iowa City, graduating with the class of '73. Mr. Hastie is a well-informed man and has the reputation of being well posted on the political history of the country, which ably qualifies him to sit in legislative halls; was Commissioner for Cascade County in 1888, and at the first State election was chosen by the Republicans to represent his county in the House of Representatives; for the past decade he has been a stock raiser of this State, his present occupation. He is a single man.

FRANK G. HIGGINS, of Missoula, Missoula County, is a native of Montana, and is the first native-born citizen of this State to occupy a seat in the Legislature; he was born at a point known as Hell Gate, near the present site of Missoula, December 28, 1863, and is the eldest son of the late C. P. Higgins, the founder of the City of Missoula; was educated at Phillips' Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and at Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from the law department of the latter school; returning to Missoula he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, but was compelled later to give up practicing on account of the duties imposed upon him as President of the Higgins Bank. Mr. Higgins was the first native-born citizen to be admitted to the Bar of Montana; was elected Representative at the first State election, being the only Democrat elected from his county; he is a member of the State Democratic Committee, and is an indefatigable worker in the interest of Missoula and Missoula County; he is unmarried.

FRANK HOLLYWOOD, of Granite, Deer Lodge County, was born in Armagh, Ireland, and is thirty-three years of age; emigrated to America when quite a youth, and has spent most of his life in the West; resided in California seven years, principally at Bodie, where, in 1882, he was elected President of the Miners' Union; leaving Bodie he went to Lake Valley, N. M., where he remained a year, after which he came to Butte, and was elected President of the Miners' Union, which office he filled most acceptably; was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat. Mr. Hollywood is a miner by occupation, and his only schooling was received at the public schools. He is married.

ANTON M. HOLTER, of Helena, Lewis and Clarke County, is a native of Norway; was born in 1831; came to America at the age of twenty-eight, having received a public school education in his native country; after working at the carpenter trade in Iowa for one year he went to Colorado, where he first engaged in mining; in 1863 he moved to Virginia City, and two years later moved to Helena, where he engaged in the lumber business; in 1867, in partnership with his brother, he opened a hardware store; in 1887 his brother retired and the business was carried on under the name of the Holter Hardware Company, one of the best known business houses throughout the State to-day. Mr. Holter has engaged extensively in other enterprises throughout the State, principally mining; is President of the Montana Lumber & Manufacturing Company, also the Holter Lumber Company, besides being a Director in various other corporations. Mr. Holter has always been a zealous worker for the interest of this State, and has aided materially in its development; was elected a member of the Helena Board of School Trustees in 1868, serving three terms; was elected to the Territorial Council in 1878; was elected to the City Council of Helena in 1880, and was elected President of that body; he served two terms as President of the Helena Board of Trade; was again honored by the Republicans by being elected to the first House of Representatives. Mr. Holter is one of the sturdy pioneers of Montana. He was married in 1867.

F. H. HOFFMAN, of Butte, Silver Bow County, was born in Erie County, Ohio, in 1834. When quite a child his parents moved to Beloit, Wis., where he attended the High School. At the age of fourteen he entered the railroad service, which he has followed ever since, having seen forty-two years of service. In the first two years of the war he was railroading in Mississippi and Alabama, and has since then been employed in nearly every State of the Union, but has seen most of his service in Wisconsin and Colorado. In 1885 he was foreman of the Wabash shops at Council Bluffs, from where he went to St. Paul to take charge as foreman of the shops of the C., B. & N. at St. Paul. In July, 1886, he was sent out here, entering the service of the Montana Union, where he has remained since, and is now Superintendent of Water Service on that road. Mr. Hoffman has been a Republican in politics since there was a Republican party, having cast his first vote for Fremont in 1856. In 1860 he was in Mississippi and voted for Bell and Everett, there being no Lincoln ticket then to vote for. He lives in South Butte, where he is well known and highly respected.

JOHN HORSKY, of Helena, Lewis and Clarke County, is a native of Austria; was born May 16, 1838; his early education was obtained in his native country; came to America at the age of seventeen, settling in Iowa, where he attended Weston College; he subsequently moved to Nebraska, and in 1864 came to Virginia City, remaining there about a year, when he moved to Helena. He has made that city his home ever since; is a brewer and a large property owner; was one of Helena's first Aldermen, serving four years in the City Council; was elected on the Republican ticket to a seat in the House of Representatives in the first State Legislature; was a member of the Iowa Home Guards in 1863.