WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT.

Born Nov. 19, 1827.

THE prominent lawyer and statesman, William Crowninshield Endicott, is a native of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts. He is a direct descendant of ex-gov. John Endicott, and a grandson of Jacob Crowninshield. Graduating at Harvard in 1847, he studied in the law school and with Nathanael J. Lord, and was

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defeat, although he was very popular, and polled quite a large vote.

In March, 1885, he was appointed secretary of war, which position he still holds (1888). The war department was established by act of congress in 1789. The secretary of war is at the head, and performs the duties respecting military affairs, subject to the wishes of the president, of whose cabnet the secretary is a member. The duties of this office are manifold, requiring a general supervision of army affairs.

JOHN M. HARLAN.

Born in 1833.

THE subject of this sketch, John M. Harlan, before he became a justice of the supreme court, was well known as a politician and public speaker.

Judge Harlan is a native of the state of Kentucky, and still remains one of the citizens of that state. Early in life he studied law, and before he had attained his thirtieth year was elected attorney general of his

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state.

In 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes to the position of justice of the supreme court of the the United States, which he still retains.

The duties of the supreme court are very arduous, and the increase of appeals made to it grows larger every year. Justice Harlan says: "In 1803 the whole number of cases on

the docket of the supreme court was fifty-one. In 1819 there were one hundred and thirty-one cases. But in 1860 the number had increased to three hundred and ten, of which ninety-one were determined during the term. In 1870 the docket contained over six hundred cases; in 1880, over twelve hundred; and in 1886, nearly fourteen hundred, of which four hundred and fifty-one cases were disposed of during the term." This shows the heavy work that falls to the lot of the justices of the supreme court,

HENRY L. MULDROW.

Born about 1835.

THE lawyer and politician, Henry Loundes Muldrow, is a native of the state of Mississippi. After studying law he was admitted to the bar in 1859.

When the war broke out, he entered the confederate army and served four years, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1875 he was elected to the state legislature, and two years later was sent to congress. Here he continued until 1885, when he was chosen for the first assistant secretaryship of the interior department.

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The department of the interior was established by act of congress in 1849. At the head of the department is the secretary of the interior, who is charged with the supervision of public business relating to the following subjects: Public lands, including mines; the Indians; pensions and bounty lands; patents for inventions; the custody and distribution of publications; education; the census; government hospital for the insane; Columbia asylum for the deaf nnd dumb; and the territories of the United States. There are two assistant secretaries and a large clerical force in the general office, to say nothing of the employes in the different bureaus of the department. Some idea can, therefore, be seen of the work that would naturally fall upon the shoulders of Mr. Muldrow,

JOE MULHATTAN.

Born about 1845.

IN 1884, as a joke, Joseph Mulhattan was nominated for president of the United States, by the drummers' national convention, held in Louisville, Kentucky, on the ticket of the "business men's reform party."

Mr. Mulhattan professed not to regard his nomination as a joke, but spoke of it quite seriously. In an interview at the time he said: "There

are two hundred and fifty thousand drummers in the United States, and though we do not expect a large vote this time, we shall make a good showing, and organize for the next campaign. This year we had to do everything inside of a week, and we did not have time to get properly organized. The drummers are good canvassers, and they will stump the country from Maine to California; so, you will see, we shall have lots of stump speakers on the road. We may carry a state or two, and

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thus throw the eiection into the house, and in that case the present political parties will have to compromise with us. I have always been a democrat, but now I suppose I shall have to call myself the leader of the business men's reform party. In 1888 the drummers propose to down the bummers."

Joseph Mulhattan was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a presbyterian minister. He was educated at Pittsburgh, and graduated with honor in the high school of that city. Upon leaving school he began business life with a hardware firm in Pittsburgh, and in a short time he was sent on the road as a drummer for the house Subsequently he en tered the employment of a firm of wholesale hardware merchants, Louisville, Kentucky, and began to travel in their interest. His peregrinations were extensive, over the southern and southwestern part of the United States, and had been continued six years for one concern, when he accepted an engagement from a Louisville house who had an establishment at Galveston, Texas, which was made Mr. Mulhattan's headquarters. Having traveled about a year in Texas and Mexico in this position, he returned to the service of the Louisville firm who first employed him, with whom he still remains. His experience as traveling salesman has been a great success.

Mr. Mulhattan is a remarkably bright and clever business man, is genial and tender-hearted, sunny of disposition, truthful, excepting in joke, and a practical philanthropist. A year ago he organized the Kentucky humane society, and has worked hard since to promote the success of this benevolent enterprise.

He is a

He is still a bachelor, having, as he says, refused all offers of marriage and never made one. In personal appearance this ex-presidential candidate is very pleasing. small, and shapely man, about five feet five inches in height, and weighing one hundred and thirty-five pounds. His hair and beard are dark, and heavy dark eye-brows reach across his nose. He speaks with astonishing rapidity, and is quick in all movements. His blue eyes give the impression of comprehensive observation. Slanderous attacks on Mulhattan would fail of their purpose; he is a good man, and is highly esteemed wherever he is known.