be fully endorsed by the suffrages of the great majority of American citizens. We have selected the following sketch of his life:

Benjamin Harrison is the descendant of one of the historical families of this country. The head of the family in England was a General Harrison who was a very prominent figure in the civil wars of that country. The family came to Virginia in the early part of the eighteenth century. Benjamin Harrison-after whom the President was named-was his greatgrandfather. Benjamin Harrison was a member of the Continental Con

gress during the years 1874, 1875 and 1776. He was the brother-inlaw of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the American Congress. When Randolph died, the Southern members chose Harrison to succeed him; but the latter, to secure harmony between the North and the South, withdrew his claims in favor of John Hancock of Massachusetts. Harrison was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence, and Chairman of the committee which reported the Declaration to the Continental Congress.

William Henry Harrison, the son

of this distinguished patriot of the

Revolution, after a successful career as a soldier during the war of 1812, and with a clean record as a Governor of the enormous North-west Ter

ritory, known then as Indiana, be

came President of the United States.

John Scott Harrison, the son of William Henry Harrison, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was all his life a farmer in Southern Ohio.

He served four years in Congress,

from 1852 to 1856, as a member from the Cincinnati district. He died about eight years ago.

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

President Benjamin Harrison was

His

born at North Bend, Hamilton Co., Ohio, August 20, 1833. His life, up to the time of his graduation from the Miami University, at Oxford, in that State, was the comparatively uneventful one of a country lad belonging to a family of small means. father was able to give him a good education, and nothing more. He graduated from college when he was eighteen years of age. He became engaged at that time to the daughter of Rev. Dr. Scott, Principal of a female school at Oxford. After graduating, he decided to enter the study of the law. He went to Cincinnati

and studied there for two years. At the expiration of that time, Mr. Harrison received the only inheritance of his life. An aunt, dying, left him a lot in Cincinnati, which was valued at $800. Young Harrison regarded this legacy as a fortune. He decided to be married at once, to take this money and go to some western town and begin the practice of law-he having been admitted to the bar in this year.

EARLY STRUGGLES.

In 1854 he settled as a lawyer in Indianapolis. About this time he was enabled, through a fortunate acci

dent, to have an opportunity to appear before a jury in an important case, which attracted at that time a The result great deal of attention. was that Harrison formed a law partnership with Governor Wallace's son. The two young men worked along together, not much more than making a living, until 1860, when Wallace bebecame a candidate for clerk of the circuit court, and Harrison a candipreme court, the salary of which was date for the reportership of the su$2,500 a year for four years.

HIS WAR RECORD.

When the war broke out Harrison was in debt for the little house in which he lived, and his young wife and

two children were solely dependent upon his earnings. But in 1862 the western armies had been defeated, recruiting had ceased, and the copperheads were rampant in Indiana. Harrison called on Governor Morton one day and found him in a gloomy mood over the situation. He said to him that he felt certain he could raise a regiment and that he would go to work that very day. Within a very brief space of time company A of the seventieth Indiana regiment was raised by Harrison, and in a few weeks a full regiment was organized. He was elected colonel of the regiment. Within thirty days from that time he was at the head of a full regiment of troops at Bowling Green, Ky., to assist in the repulse of General Kirby Smith, who had been threatening southern Indiana with guerrilla raids. The regiment participated in numerous engagements, and particularly distinguished itself while with Sherman on his march to the sea. Except for one furlough, when his children were ill, its commander did not see his home again until the war was over. He was then a brigadier general, as the result of his bravery in the Atlanta campaign.

AGAIN IN CIVIL LIFE.

After the civil war he settled down again as a lawyer, and was re-elected reporter. He took an active part in the Grant campaigns of 1868 and 1872. In 1876 and in 1878 he led the republicans in their hopeless contest against greenbackism, running ahead of his ticket. The same year Presi dent Hayes appointed him a Mississippi river commissioner. In 1880 he was chairman of the Indiana delegation to Chicago. He declined the use of his name for a presidential nomination and threw the vote of his

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state for Garfield. That year head and front of the two campaigns in his state, and after they were over General Garfield offered him a cabinet position, which he declined. His friends wanted to make him a senator. It was never to his taste, but in his party caucus, in 1880, he received every vote. So it was that when he came to Washington it was as a new but not untried man. At the end of his term of six years he was defeated for re-election and returned to the practice of the law. Meanwhile, in 1884, he had been mentioned as candidate for president.

In 1888 Harrison agreed to the presentation of his name as a presidential candidate before the republican national convention at Chicago. On the first ballot he received 84 votes of the 416 necessary to a choice. Sherman had the greatest strength at the start, his highest vote being on the second ballot, 249. Gresham came next, his highest vote being 133 on the third ballot. Harrison gained steadily on each successive ballot, except the fifth, when he fell back four. On the eighth ballot he received 544 votes and was nominated. At the election in the following November he carried every one of the so-called northern states, except Connecticut and New Jersey. In the electoral college he received 233 votes to 168 for Grover Cleveland. He was inaugurated president March 4, 1889. His excellent administration during the last four years, by its sound principles and policy, has fully justified his renomination for another term. It is the best guarantee possible of another period of good government, and should have great influence with American citizens in general to secure his re-election to the high and responsible position of President of the United States.

WHITELAW REID. Whitelaw Reid, the Republican candidate for Vice President was born near Xenia, Ohio, October 27, 1837. He graduated from Miami University, the very institution of which President Harrison is an alumnus, in 1856. In the latter year he made speeches on the Republican side in the Freemont campaign, and soon after became editor of the Xenia News. At the opening of the civil war he became Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette. His letters in this paper under the signature of "Agate" attracted much attention because of their information relative to current political and other events and their pungent style. From Washington he made excursions to the army whenever there was a prospect of active operations. In the Western Virginia campaign of 1861 he served as General Rosecrans' aid-de-camp, and was subsequently present at the battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg. For three years from 1863 he served as librarian of the House of Represen

tatives.

After the war Mr. Reid engaged in

cotton planting in Lousiana and embodied the results of his cbssrvations in a book, "After the War." In 1868 he published another book, "Ohio in the War," which he considered the standard state history relating to the great conflict. He subsequently published several other interesting books.

On the invitation of Horace Greeley he went to New York in 1868 as an editorial writer on the Tribune. On the death of that paper's founder, in 1872, Mr. Reid succeeded him as its editor and principal owner.

He declined both President Hayes' and President Garfield's offer of an appointment as minister to Germany, but accepted an appointment as minister to France by President Harrison. He recently resigned the position to be succeeded by T. Jefferson Coolidge. Mr. Reid while representing the United States at Paris did signal service. His succesful efforts in removing the embargo on American pork constituted his most noticeable achievement. He moreover satisfied most liberally the social requirements of the position. In fact he was one of the most popular ministers this country has sent to France.

As editor of the New York Tribune, Mr. Reid has done most faithful and effective service for the Republican party. He is a man of broad culture and comprehensive grasp of public affairs. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE WELSH CHURCH.

BY MR. WILLIS BUND.

[Continued from June number.] The Churches that were founded during the first period of dedication i. e., to founders, were rightly said to belong to the mohasteries of which they were offshoots. All Churches colonized from Menevia would belong to that monastery and so to St. David as the head of it. So also churches colonized from Llandaff would belong