and then, seeking a wider field, came to New York and established the firm of Morton & Grinnell. The young and prosperous merchant remained at the head of this firm till 1863, when he founded the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co., of which he is the senior member. At the same time the house of Morton, Rose & Co. was established in London as the English correspondents of the New York house. From 1873 to 1884 the London firm acted as financial agents of the United States Government. The two firms took a leading position as members of the syndicate that negotiated United States bonds in payment of the Geneva award of $15,000,000 and the Halifax fishery award of $5,500,000. Political Career. Mr. Morton has always taken an active interest in politics, and though he has never been known as an office-seeker he has at the call of his fellow-citizens filled with honor several public positions. In 1878 he was appointed Honorary Commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and in the fall of the same year he was nominated and elected by the Republican party to Congress. He was re-elected in 1880. During his service in the House of Representatives Mr. Morton was known as a careful and conservative thinker on all public questions, and his opinions were much respected by his fellow-members. In the Republican National Convention of 1880 Mr. Morton was a staunch ally of Roscoe Conkling, an advocate of the renomination of Gen. Grant for a third term to the Presidency. When the split came and President Garfield was nominated, Mr. Morton was offered the second place on the ticket. He declined the honor, and after the triumphant success of the ticket President Garfield offered him the portfolio of Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Morton also declined the Cabinet offer, saying he preferred to accept the appointment of Minister to France, in which office he was confirmed by the Senate soon after President Garfield was inaugurated. Mr. Morton's career as representative of the American Government to the French Republic was one of which he may justly feel proud. No American Minister was ever more respected abroad. Through his intercessions the restrictions on the importation of American pork into France were removed and American corporations received a legal status in France. Since the expiration of his term as Minister to France Mr. Morton has had no official position. Private Life. Mr. Morton's private life is exemplary. In the winter he occupies a large mansion at No. 85 Fifth Avenue, now the residence of Allen Thorndike Rice. In the summer he resides at his summer seat Emlerslie, at Rhinebeck on the Hudson. His wife, a remarkably beautiful and accomplished woman, is several years his junior. She has always been most popular in society. Levi P. Morton is a typical American and a protectionist to the core. GROVER CLEVELAND. Democratic Candidate for President. Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, Essex county, New York, March 18, 1837. He is the son of a Presbyterian minister, and was named in honor of Rev. Stephen Grover, the former occupant of his father's parsonage. When Grover was four years old his father had a call to Fayetteville, near Syracuse, N. Y., where the young boy received an academic education. He afterward served as a clerk in a country store. In The removal of the family to Clinton, Oneida county, gave Grover additional educational advantages in the academy there. He taught school at seventeen and aided his uncle, Lewis T. Allen, in the compilation of a volume of the "American Herd-Book" 1855 he began the study of the law with the firm of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, in Buffalo, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, but remained with the firm for three more years, acting as managing clerk at a salary of $1000. Being the sole support of his sister and widowed mother, he was unable to enlist and fight for his country in her time of need; but he borrowed money to pay a substitute, and it was not until long after the war that he was enabled to repay the loan. In 1869 he became a partner in the law firm 410 She was the daughter of President Cleveland's deceased friend and partner, Oscar Folsom of the Buffalo bar. Except the wife of Madison, Mrs. Cleveland is the youngest of the many mistresses of the White House, having been born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1864. Grover Cleveland enjoys the renown of being the first bachelor President, and also, of being the first President married in the White House. ALLEN G. THURMAN. Democratic Candidate for Vice-President. On June 8, was the strong man in his party. The election for State officers was held in Mr. Thurman has distinguished himself as a lawyer and jurist. He rendered valuable services as a member of the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives. He represented the American Government. in the International Congress at Paris in 1881, and afterwards visited France, Switzerland, the Rhine, Belgium and England. He has been confessedly pure and upright in public life, and in personal character is amiable and lovable. · LIVES OF PROHIBITION CANDIDATES. MAJOR-GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK. THE REV. RICHARD WHEATLEY, D. D. LINTON Bowen Fisk, one of the most prominent and influential advocates of the great Temperance Reform, is a winter resident of New York, at No. 175 West 58th street. His home is at Seabright, N. J., where he is a citizen and laborer with God for men. Born in the town of York, Livingston County, New York, on the 8th day of December, 1828, he derived physical being from the best type of New England ancestry. His earliest American progenitor emigrated hither from the Dano-Saxon county of Lincoln, on the east coast of England, somewhere about the year 1700. Bacon's Genesis of the New England Churches conclusively shows that in that section were born the mightjest movements of modern civilization. Lin conshire is not only the remote parent of the American Republic, but of the great Methodistic revival, which is its strongest conservative force. True to the patriotic and military instincts of his forefathers, the great-grandfather of Clinton B. Fisk entered the Revolutionary army under General Washington, served with great efficiency, and rose to the rank of Major-General. His descendants have distinguished themselves in other fields of warfare than that of the sword. Wilbur Fisk, the profound theologian, and able President of the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., was a first cousin of Benjamin B., and father of Clinton B. Fisk. The latter married Lydia Aldrich, a New England lady of Linconshire descent, and by her became the father of six sons, of whom Clinton B. was the fifth. A manufacturer and contractor by occupation, he was an intimate friend of Governor De Witt Clinton, whom he assisted in building the Erie Canal, and whose patronymic he bestowed upon his fifth child to serve as a given designation. Removing to Michigan in 1830, he there established the town of Clinton, Lenawee County, naming it after his friend and son. There, too, he died in the prime of life -cut off by the malarial fevers incident to the settlement of a new country. Early Life. His In the struggles and hardships necessary to life in primitive surroundings, Clinton B. grew up to a sturdy and resolute manhood. parents were of Baptist antecedents, but the training of their children, through the presence and labors of itinerant preachers, was Methodistic. At the early age of nine years he was converted to God, and duly received into the membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Educated in the common schools of the neighborhood until he had reached his sixteenth year, he then repaired to Albion Wesleyan Seminary, and there prepared to enter the Sophomore Class of Michigan University. Greek and Latin were studied while engaged in agricultural labors, with such diligence as to threaten the total loss of eyes ght. Health failed, and a collegiate career was, therefore, abandoned. Commercial pur |