W. J. PENROSE, of Butte, Silver Bow County, one of the Democratic representatives from that county, was born in Camborne, County of Cornwall, England, August 16, 1857. He is a self-educated man; he never attended school, and all his knowledge has been acquired from contact with the world; his early life was spent in the mines; came to America in 1874, settling first in Vermont, where he worked in the mines; went from there to Illinois, where he was employed in the coal mines; in 1877 he caught the gold fever and went to Nevada, settling in Eureka County, where he remained until 1885, when he moved to this State. Deciding to enter the field of journalism, Mr. Penrose obtained a position as mining editor on the staff of the Butte Daily Miner. Leaving that paper he established the Mining Journal at Butte, of which he is now editor and proprietor. He is a married man.

CHAS. Z. POND, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, was born in New York City, November 16, 1860, of American parentage. He is a graduate and a post graduate of Mount Washington Collegiate Institute of New York City; also attended the New York University one year; came to Montana, October 17, 1877, locating at Jefferson City. Mr. Pond was elected as the Chief Clerk of the Democratic House during the "deadlock," and when the compromise was effected still retained that position, being the unanimous choice of his party. He is married.

GUSTAVUS ELGIN POOL, of Radersburg, Jefferson County, was born in Adrian County, Mo., May 19, 1858, of American parents; at the age of sixteen graduated from the Missouri State Normal School, when he commenced teaching school; was Superintendent of the Adrian County Schools, and a member of the Missouri State School Book Commission during his residence in his native State; eleven years ago he came to Montana, where he taught school in Meagher and Jefferson Counties; in 1887 he purchased a drug store in Radersburg, which he is now conducting. Mr. Pool is a married man; was elected on the Democratic ticket to a seat in the House of Representatives at the first State election; is an absolute free trade man and liberal in his political views.

WILLIAM H. ROBERTS, of Walkerville, Silver Bow County, who occupies a seat on the Republican side of the House of Representatives, was born in Devon, England, March 28, 1839; received his first lessons in a Sabbath school in his native country, and the rest of his schooling was found in the broad world; served for ten years and seven months in Her Majesty's Royal Navy; tiring of naval life he retired from the service and immigrated to America in 1873; resided in New Jersey and Colorado before locating in Montana ; was Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate in Silver Plume County, Colorado; was first married to Jane Friend in 1859; again married March 16, 1889; has one son, who resides in Colorado; is a miner by occupation, and his present address is Walkerville, Silver Bow County.

LEOPOLD SCHMIDT, of Butte, Silver Bow County, is a native of Germany, and is now forty-four years old; received a collegiate education in his native country, after which he went to sea and studied navigation; tiring of the sea he came to America, settling first in Missouri; twenty-one years ago he came to this State, engaging in the mining business; in 1875 he started a brewery at Butte-the Centennial, which is now one of the leading industries of the State; was elected County Commissioner in 1887 on the Republican ticket, but resigned before the expiration of his term; was a member of the Constitutional Convention; was elected by the Democratic party of his district to the House of Representatives of the first Legislature.

CHARLES H. STEBBINS, a member of the lower house from Park County, has a record to make in politics, as he has never before held public office. He is a merchant by occupation and a Republican by inclination. Mr. Stebbins is one of the youngest members of the Legislature, being now only in his twenty-fifth year. He was born in Florence, Italy, of American parentage. When quite young he came to America, where, to quote his own words, he received a "scrub education," and while obtaining it had to do lots of hard work and had but little time to play. He was thrown upon his own resources at a tender age, and seems to have started out with the purpose of making a mark for himself. Mr. Stebbins has been a resident of the State for three years, and is a married man. He came to Montana from the Black Hills of Dakota.

JOHN R. TOOLE, of Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, was born at Westr Aroostook County, Maine, July 3, 1850. He came to Montana in December, 1884, and is engaged in mining; was elected to the Legislature upon the Democratic ticket in 1889.

J. C. TWOHY, one of the Democratic members from Jefferson County, was born in Northern Michigan in 1856; received a common school education; remained in his native State until he became of age, when he was attracted to the Black Hills by the gold excitement. After spending four years in the Hills he came to Montana; has resided in this State since 1882; became a railroad contractor soon after arriving here, and is now engaged in that business. Mr. Twohy is a married man.

WILLIAM THOMPSON, of Butte, Silver Bow County, was born March 1, 1838, at Cobourg, Ontario County, Ireland, coming to America at the age of eleven, locating in Michigan, where he remained until 1856, when he moved to Wisconsin, his father having died a few years before; two years later moved to Minnesota, and in 1860 went to Dakota, where he remained three years, or until about the time of the Alder Gulch excitement, when he went to Virginia City, arriving there in 1863. Mr. Thompson entered politics in 1876, and was elected Alderman in Virginia City. Removing to Silver Bow County, he was shortly afterward elected by the Republicans to represent his district in the Fifteenth Territorial Assembly in the lower house, and was returned to the Council the following election, serving in both sessions with such credit that he was elected to the first State Legislature as a member of the House of Representatives. He was married in 1867, and is a lumber merchant.