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of art, taking up oil and water-color, and was a student at tlie Art league in New York, later spending a year in Rome. He received honorable mention at the Paris salon of 1881, and a second- class medal at Municli in 1883. He organized the American Society of Wood Engravers, and was secretary of the society, 1881-83, and vice-presi- dent of the Art Students' league, 1882-83. His more important engravings include : A Horse Hospital, drawn on the wood by William Kelly; The Professor, by Frank Duveneck ; The Voices of the Sea, by Arthur Quartley ; and among his paintings are : The Intruder (1884); Westivard Bound (1884); In the Street (1886). He died in New York city, Dec. 31, 1889.

JULIAN, George Washington, representative, was born near Centerville, Ind., May 5, 1817 ; son of Isaac and Rebecca (Hoovei-) Julian ;. grandson of Isaac and Sarah (Long) Julian, and a descend- ant of Rene St. Julian, a native of Paris, France, who came to Amer- ica near the close of the seventeenth century, and settled on the eastern shoi'e of Maryland. His parents, who were Quakers, early in the century went from North Carolina to Indiana Territory, where his father died, Dec. 12, 1823. He attended the district schools of Center- ville ; taught school for three years ; was admitted to the bar in 1840, and practised in Centerville. He was a Whig representative in the state legislature in 1845, but soon after, be- coming an abolitionist, he severed his party rela- tions and became one of the founders of the Free-Soil party. He was a delegate to the Buffalo national convention of 1848 ; represented Indiana in the 31st congress, 1849-51, and was the candidate of the Free Democrat party for Vice-President in 1852, with John P. Hale for President, the ticket receiving 156,149 popular votes. He was a delegate to the Republican na- tional convention, June 17, 1856, at Philadelphia, the first national convention of the Republican party ; was a Republican representative in the 87th, 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st congresses, 1861-71, and served on the committee on the conduct of the war, on the special committee to prepare articles of impeachment against President John- son, and on the joint committee on reconstruc- tion. He proposed a constitutional amendment in 1868, forbidding the denial of the ballot to any.

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citizen on account of race, sex or color. He joined the Liberal Republicans in 1872, support- ing Horace Greeley for President, and thereafter occupied the position of an Independent in pol- itics. He was a champion of the homestead bill and of the preservation of the public lands for the people. He was surveyor-general of New Mexico, 1885-89, appointed by President Cleve- land. He was married to Laura, daughter of Joshua R. Giddings, the abolitionist. He is the author of : Speeches on Politiccd Questions (1872); Political Recollections (1884); Later Speeches (1889); Life of Joshua R. Giddings (1892). He died at Irvington, Ind., July 7, 1899.

JULIAN, Isaac Hoover, author and journalist, was born near Centerville, Wayne county, Ind., June 19, 1823 ; son of Isaac and Rebecca (Hoover) Julian, natives of Randolph county, N.C. His first paternal ancestor in America, Rene St. Julien, born in Paris, France, was a soldier under William III. at the battle of the Boyne. He settled in North Carolina near the close of the seventeenth century, removed to Maryland, and then to near Winchester, Va. One of his sons. Isaac Julian, prominent in the colonial history of Virginia, fled to North Carolina after the defeat of Braddock in 1755, and Isaac's grandson, Isaac, with his future wife, Rebecca Hoover, settled in Indiana Territory, locating near the site of the city of Richmond. He was a representative in the Indiana legislature in 1822, removed to the Upper Wabash valley in the fall of 1823, and died there, Dec. 12, 1823. His widow returned to Wayne county, and their son, Isaac Hoover Julian, was brought up on a farm, and attended the dis- trict school winters. He began to write for the press in his boyhood, and in 1846 removed to Iowa Territory, and in 1850 returned to Center- ville, Ind. He was an anti-slavery and temper- ance advocate, and a champion of i^ublic schools, land and labor reform, and impartial suffrage. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, but did not practise law. He became editor and proprietor of the True Repnhlican, at Centerville, in 1858, and some years after removed the paper to Rich- mond, Ind., changing the name to the Indiana Radical. He was jiostmaster at Centerville, 1861-65 ; at Richmond, 1869-71, and in 1872 he re- linquished the charge of the Radical, and re- moved, in 1873, to San Marcos, Texas, where he established and conducted the Free Press, 1873- 90, and the People's Era, 1890-1900. He was married, in 1859, to Virginia M. Spillard, of Cot- tage Hill, Ohio, who died in San Marcos, Texas, in 1873, leaving a family of young children ; and secondly, in 1893, to Mrs. Isabel McCoy Harvey, of Wisconsin. He contributed both prose and verse to his own and contemporaneous period- icals.