ed States
Senator from New Jersey having been elected for the unexpired term of
_William Wright_, deceased, which will end March 4, 1869.--492, 497.

JAMES A. GARFIELD was born in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November
19, 1831. He graduated at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1856,
and was for some years principal of a flourishing Seminary of learning
at Hiram, Ohio. In 1859 and 1860 he was a member of the Ohio Senate.
In 1861 he entered the army as Colonel of the Forty-Second Regiment of
Ohio Volunteers, and in the following year was commissioned a
Brigadier General. He served as Chief of Staff to General Rosecrans.
He fought at the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Chicamauga. For
gallant service in the last named battle he was promoted to the rank
of Major General. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from Ohio to
the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and
Fortieth Congresses.--144, 438, 450, 524, 540, 538, 553, 557.

_ADAM J. GLOSSBRENNER_ was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, August 31,
1810. He was apprenticed at an early age to the printing-business.
When seventeen years of age he journeyed westward, and became foreman
in the office of the "Ohio Monitor," and afterwards of the "Western
Telegraph." In 1829 he returned to Pennsylvania and settled in York,
and there published the "York Gazette." In 1849 he was elected
Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-First
Congress, and held the same office through the four following
Congressional terms. In 1861 he was private secretary to President
Buchanan. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to
the Thirty-Ninth Congress.

_CHARLES GOODYEAR_ was born in Schoharie County, New York, April 26,
1805. He graduated at Union College in 1824, and entered upon the
practice of law in 1827. In 1839 he was elected to the New York
Legislature, and in 1841 was appointed First Judge of Schoharie
County. In 1845 he was elected a Representative to the Twenty-Ninth
Congress, and twenty years after was elected to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress. During the interval he devoted his attention to the business
of banking. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is _John V. L.
Pruyn_.

_HENRY GRIDER_ was born in Kentucky, July 16, 1796. He was a private
in the last war with England. He subsequently divided his attention
between agriculture and law. In 1827 and 1831 he was elected to the
Legislature of Kentucky, and in 1833 to