agricultural pursuits. In 1849
he was elected a Representative in the Tennessee Legislature, and was
re-elected in 1851. He was elected to the State Senate in 1855. In
1859 he was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirty-Sixth Congress. At the close of his Congressional term he took
a bold stand and made numerous speeches against secession in
Tennessee. In 1862 he recruited and commanded a regiment of cavalry,
which saw much hard fighting and did valuable service. At the close of
the war he was brevetted Brigadier General. In 1865 he was elected a
Representative from Tennessee to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
admitted in July, 1866. He was re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress.--480, 536.

_MYER STROUSE_ was born in Germany, December 16, 1825. He came with
his father to America in 1832, and settled in Pottsville,
Pennsylvania. Having received an academical education, he studied law.
From 1848 to 1852 he edited the "North American Farmer," in
Philadelphia, and subsequently devoted himself to the practice of law.
In 1862 he was elected a Representative to the Thirty-Eighth Congress,
and was re-elected in 1864. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is
Henry L. Cake.--444.

CHARLES SUMNER was born in Boston, January 6, 1811. He graduated at
Harvard College in 1830, spent three years in the Cambridge Law
School, and was admitted to the bar in 1834. For three years he edited
the "American Jurist," and was subsequently Reporter of the United
States Circuit Court. He published several volumes of Reports, and has
devoted much attention to literary pursuits. He published in 1850 two
volumes of "Orations;" in 1853 a work on "White Slavery in the Barbary
States;" and in 1856 a volume of "Speeches and Addresses." In 1851 he
was elected a United States Senator from Massachusetts. In 1856 he was
assaulted in the Senate Chamber by Preston S. Brooks, of South
Carolina, and so seriously injured that he sought restoration by a
temporary absence in Europe. Just before his departure he was elected
to the Senate for a second term, and in 1863 was re-elected for a
third term ending in 1869.--15, 26, 28, 99, 108, 373, 374, 380, 386,
392, 406, 413, 435, 453, 483, 499, 540, 541, 563, 571.

_STEPHEN TABER_, whose father, Thomas Taber, was a Member of Congress,
was born in Dover, Dutchess County, New York. Having received an
academical education, he devoted himself to agriculture in Queens
County, on Long Island. In 1860 and