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 GARLAND

GARLAND

Ark., when he was nine months old and there spent his boj-hood days. He was graduated at St. Joseph's college, Bardstown, Ky., in 1849 and returned there in 1831. taking the degree of A.M. in July, 18.V.2. He was admitted to the bar in 1853, practised a few years at Washington, Ark., and in 1856 removed to Little Rock, the state capital, where he gained renown in his profession. He was au elector on the Bell and Everett pi'esidential ticket in 1860 and afterward opposed the secession of the state and was elected to the consti- tutional convention of . I Arkansas in 1861 as a

-^'5^77 ^*-'<-^«-''--"^ Union delegate, but when the ordinance of . secession was passed he upheld the movement and was elected to the Confederate provisional congress at Montgomery, Ala., and to the 1st and 3d Confederate congresses at Riclunond, Va., as a representative from Arkansas, resigning his seat in the house to accept one in the senate which he held during the remainder of the exist- ence of the Confederacy. On resuming the practice of his profession he was denied the right to appear before the U.S. courts, because he could not take the test oath. He appealed to the U.S. supreme court who, upon listening to his argument and that of the cause, decided in his favor. This incident gave him national reputa- tion as a constitutional lawyer. In 1867 he was elected to the U.S. senate by the legislature of Arkansas, but was denied a seat, as the state had not then been rehabilitated. In 187-t he was elected governor of Arkansas without opposition, and his administration of the affairs of the com- monwealth brought order out of cliaos, paved the way for rapid development of its great natural resources, re-established the credit of the state, and gave a good market value to Arkansas secur- ities. In 1877 he was again elected a U.S. senator and took his seat as successor to Powell Clayton, Republican. March 4, 1877. He was reelected in 1883, resigning. March 4, 1885, to accept the position of attorney general in President Cleve- land's cabinet. He attained high rank as a member of the judiciary committee of the senate and as attorney in the cabinet, his knowledge and interpretation of constitutional law and in- sistence on its enforcement marking his career in both positions. At the close of Cleveland's ad- ministration he resumed the practice of law in "Washington, and in 1893 he supported the renom-

ination of Mr. Cleveland. He was married to Sarah Virginia, daughter of Simon T. and Zenobia Sanders. He studiously avoided society while senator and a cabinet officer, his eccentricity e.xtending even to the refu-sal to read the daily newspapers. His mother presided over his house- hold after the death of his wife and besides his house on Rhode Island avenue in Washington, he maintained a summer home at "Hominy Hill," near Little Rock, Ark. After leaving public life he engaged in the practice of law. He published Experience in the Supreme Court of the United States (1898), and in collaboration with Robert Ralston of the Philadelphia bar, Federal Practice (1898). While addressing the U.S. supreme court in Washington he was stricken with apo- jjlexy and died a few minutes later, Jan. 36. 1899. QARLAND, Hamlin, author, was born in West Salem, Wis., Sept. 14, 1860; son of Richard Hayes and Charlotte Isabelle (McClintock) Gar- land; and grandson of Richard Garland of Ox- ford county, Maine, and of Hugh McClintock, a Scotchman, born in the North of Ii-eland. He was taken by his parents to Iowa in 1868 and there attended for a brief time the public schools. He was graduated from Cedar 'Valley semi- nary. Osage, Mitchell county, Iowa, in 1881 and in 1883 made a trip to the east. He taught school in Illi- nois m 1883-83; was engaged in hold- ing down a claim in Dakota in 1888-84, and in the autumn of 1884 removed to Boston, Mass.. where he devoted his time to literary work. He lectured, wrote and conducted private classes in and around Boston until 1893, when he removed to New York city. In 1893 he removed to Chi- cago. He was married, Nov 18, 1899, to Zulime Taft of Chicago, a sculptor of ability and repu- tation; daughter of Prof. Don Carlos Taft (for- merly of the University of Illinois), and a sister of Lorado Taft, the sculptor. His published works include: Main Trarelled Boudt: (1891). A Spoil of Office (1893), A Member of the Third House (1893); Prairie Folks (1893; new edition. 1893). Jason Edwards (1893); A Little Norsk (1893) - Prairie Songs (1893); Crumbling Idols (1894). Pose of Dutrher's Coolly (1895); Wayside Courtships (1897); The Spirit of Sweetioater (1898): Life of Genrrnl Grant (1898): The Trail of the Goldseekers (1899); Boy Life on the Prairie (1899) and many magazine articles.

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