tate Senate. In
1860 he was a Representative in the State Legislature. In 1862 he was
elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Eighth
Congress. He was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth
Congresses.

HENRY WILSON was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, February 16, 1812.
His parents were in very humble circumstances, and at ten years of age
he was apprenticed to a farmer till he was twenty-one. On attaining
his majority, he went to Natick, Massachusetts, where he learned the
trade of shoemaking, and worked at the business nearly three years. He
then secured an academical education, and, after teaching school a
short time, engaged in shoe-manufacturing, which he continued for
several years. In 1841 and 1842 he was a Senator, and in 1844, 1845,
1856, and 1850, a Representative, in the Legislature of Massachusetts.
In 1851 and 1852 he was re-elected a member of the State Senate, of
which he was President. In 1855 he was elected a United States Senator
from Massachusetts to succeed Edward Everett, and in 1859 was
re-elected for the full term. In the recess of Congress in the summer
of 1861, he raised the Twenty-Second Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers, of which he was commissioned Colonel. He subsequently
served on General McClellan's staff, until the meeting of Congress in
December. During the war he occupied the arduous and responsible
position in the Senate of Chairman of the Committee of Military
Affairs. At the opening of the Thirty-Ninth Congress he entered upon
his third Senatorial term, which will end in 1871.--15, 95, 97, 101,
135, 214, 402, 410, 431, 435, 437, 487, 491, 498, 530, 531, 532.

JAMES F. WILSON was born in Newark, Ohio, October 19, 1828. He entered
upon the profession of law, and removed to Iowa in 1853. In 1856 he
was elected a member of the Iowa Constitutional Convention. In 1857 he
was elected a Representative, and in 1859 a Senator, in the State
Legislature. In 1861 he was President of the Iowa Senate. In that year
he was elected a Representative from Iowa to fill a vacancy in the
Thirty-Seventh Congress. He was re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth,
Thirty-Ninth, and Fortieth Congresses.--31, 51, 230, 237, 239, 288,
294, 325, 536.

STEPHEN F. WILSON was born at Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 4,
1821. He received his education at Wellsboro' Academy, where he
subsequently engaged for a short time in teaching. He finally became a
lawyer, and was, in 1863, elected a State Se