devoted many years to the uninterrupted
practice of his profession. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress of
1861, and was in the following year elected a United States Senator
from Maryland for the term ending in 1869.--24, 36, 96, 136, 163, 198,
203, 264, 270, 271, 384, 427, 454, 455, 461, 492, 528, 532, 533, 534,
547.

_MORGAN JONES_ was born in New York City, February 26, 1832, and was
educated at the school of St. James' Church. He adopted the business
of a plumber, which he conducted in the City of New York. He served as
a City Councilman for several years, and was subsequently elected a
member of the Board of Aldermen, of which he was made President. In
1864 he was elected a member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by _John Fox_.

GEORGE W. JULIAN was born in Wayne County, Indiana, May 5, 1817. After
spending three years as school-teacher, he studied law, and commenced
the practice of the profession in 1840. In 1845 he was a member of the
State Legislature. Having become an earnest advocate of anti-slavery
principles, he attended the Buffalo Convention of 1848, which
nominated Van Buren and Adams, and subsequently, as a candidate for
Presidential Elector on their ticket made a laborious canvass of his
district. In 1849 he was Representative in Congress from Indiana. In
1852 he was a candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the
ticket with John P. Hale. In 1860 he was re-elected Representative in
Congress, and has since been a member of the Thirty-Eighth,
Thirty-Ninth, and Fortieth Congresses.--31, 74, 364, 516, 553, 554.

JOHN A. KASSON was born near Burlington, Vermont, January 11, 1822.
Having graduated at the University of Vermont, he studied law in
Massachusetts, and practiced the profession for a time in St. Louis,
Missouri. In 1857 he removed to Iowa, and was appointed a Commissioner
to report upon the condition of the Executive Departments of Iowa. In
1861 he was appointed Assistant Postmaster-General, but resigned the
position in the following year, when he was elected a Representative
to Congress from Iowa. He was re-elected in 1864 to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is Grenville M.
Dodge.--72, 363, 525.

WILLIAM D. KELLEY was born in Philadelphia in the spring of 1814. He
was left an orphan when very young, dependent for support and
education wholly upon his own resources. Having been errand-boy in a
book-store,