ssouri, and learned
the printing business in Jefferson City. He subsequently published a
weekly newspaper at Bowling Green, Missouri. At the age of twenty-five
he entered the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and
after preaching for a time in Missouri, he accepted the pastoral
charge of a congregation in Pennsylvania. Having held this position
eight years, he resigned in 1851, and soon after emigrated to Oregon.
There he engaged in agricultural pursuits, but was active in preaching
and lecturing against slavery, intemperance, gambling, and other
popular vices. He was elected to the office of Superintendent of
Common Schools for Oregon. In 1864 he was elected the Representative
from Oregon to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. He was succeeded by Rufus
Mallory.

JOHN B. HENDERSON was born in Virginia, November 16, 1826, and at ten
years of age removed with his parents to Missouri. He taught school as
a means of support while attaining an academical education. He studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He was subsequently twice
elected to the Missouri Legislature. In 1856 he was a Democratic
Presidential Elector, and was a delegate to the Charleston Convention
of 1860. On the expulsion of Trusten Polk from the United States
Senate, he was appointed to fill the vacancy. In 1863 he was elected
for the full term, ending in 1869.--161, 377, 382, 386, 388, 461, 530,
531, 533, 534, 559.

_THOMAS A. HENDRICKS_ was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, September 7,
1819. He was educated at South Hanover College. He studied law at
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and settled in Indiana for the practice of
his profession. In 1848 he served in the State Legislature, and was a
prominent member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850. In
1851 he was elected a Representative in Congress from Indiana, and
served two terms. In 1855 he was appointed Commissioner of the General
Land Office, and held that office until his resignation in 1859. In
1860 he was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, and was
defeated by Henry S. Lane. In 1863 he was elected United States
Senator from Indiana, for the term ending in 1869.--28, 108, 136, 211,
218, 296, 306, 395, 432, 455, 459, 460, 491, 498, 531, 532, 533, 535,
548.

WILLIAM HIGBY was born in Essex County, New York, August 18, 1813. He
graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840, and practiced law in
New York until 1850, when he removed to California. Three years af