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Newport, N.H. On his mother's side he descend- ed from Elijah Janes, an officer of dragoons and afterward paj'master in the Revokitionary army. Until 1852 he Uved on his father's farm, and attended the district school and a local academy. "While book-keeper for a lumber milling company in Michi- gan, 1853-56. he stud- ied evenings, and was a student at Oberlin college, 1857- 61, being meantime active in autislavery agitation. In April, 1861, on the fall of Fort Sumter, he volunteered in a company of students, but Ohio's quota being full they were not mustered. In August, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 2d Ohio cavalry, was elected first lieutenant of his company, was promoted through the intermediate grades to colonel of the regiment, and served contin- uously in the field to the close of the war, be- ing miistered out in June, 1865. His most active service was in Custer's division of the cavalry corps, Army of the "Potomac, mcluding Grant's battles of the Wilderness, Sheridan's several raids and his Shenandoah campaign and the siege of Richmond and Petersburg. His army record shows him to have served in fourteen states and one territory; to have participated in seventy- t%vo battles and minor engagements; to have had three horses shot under him in action, and to have been brevetted brigadier-general by the President for gallant and meritorious services under Sheri- dan. He was married, in 1863, to Melissa, daugh- ter of Dr. Luman Tenney of Ohio, and had two daughters and one son. He received liis diploma in arts from Oberlin in 1863 and his A.M. degree in 1866; was a trustee of Oberlin college, 1870-92, and a trustee of Carleton college (Minn.), 1885-6. He studied law at Albany Law school, 1865-6; was editor and joint owner of the Sandusky Daily Register, 1867-9; published the Chicago Ad- vance, 1869-70; was managing editor of the Phil- adelphia Enquirer, 1878, and founder, editor and proprietor of the Minneapolis Daihj Tribune, 1880- 85. He resided in Philadelphia and was associ- ated with Jay Cooke in the projection and con- struction of the Northern Pacific railroad, 1870- 76, and in mining and other enterprises, 1875-80; removed to Minnesota in 1880, and in 1890 was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury and served tlirougli President Harrison's administra- tion. He was acting secretary of the treasury

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from the death of Secretary Windom, Jan. 29, 1891, until the accession of Charles Foster in March following. He was the financial member of the board of management of the government department, Columbian exposition, 1890-93. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- vention, 1868; a member of the anti-saloon Re- publican national committee, 1884-89, and in 1900 became joint owner of extensive sugar plan- tations in Sinaloa, Mexico. He was a contributor to magazines and author of: Trusts or Competi- tion (1900).

NEUENDORFF, Adolph Henry Anthony Magnus, musician and composer, was born in Hamburg. Germany, June 13, 1843. He came to New York with his parents in June, 1855, and began immediately the study of the violin with Matka, and theory and composition with Gustave Schilling. In the spring of 1859 he made his first appear- ance as a pianist in a concert at Dodworth Hall, New York. He also became connect- ed with orchestras as a violinist. In 1860 he accompanied his father to Brazil, where he gave violin recitals in every im- portant town in the empire. On his re- turn to the United States in 1863 he became musical director of the German theatre in Mil- waukee, Wis., remaining there until the spring of 1864, when he studied tlieory and composition under Carl Anschuetz in New York cit}', who trained him as chorus-master and operatic con- ductor. In the fall of 1864, NeuendorfiF succeeded Anschuetz as conductor of the German opera, which he directed, 1864-67. He was director of the New York Stadt-Theatre, 1867-71, and pro- duced a large number of operas, including some of Wagner's works, notably, "Lohengrin" in its first production in the United States. In the fall of 1871 he brought Wachtel. the tenor, and Pauline Lucca to America, and in the fol- lowing year was associated with Carl Rosa in the management of a season at the Academy of Music, when he presented Parepa-Rosa, Ade- laide Phillips, Wachtel and Santly. He man- aged the Germania theatre in New York, 1872-84. In 1875 he gave another long season of opera at the Academy of Music, introducing Wachtel and Mine. Pappenheim, and in 1876 conducted the Beethoven centennial performances there. In the summer of 1876 he went to Bayreuth to

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