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Rh in mathematics, English literature, and botany; and with his taste for Nature he is something of a hunter and a good deal of a fisherman. In 1866, a year after his admission to the bar, the Republicans made him prosecuting attorney; the Democrats afterward sent him to the State Senate and ran him for Attorney-General. He has been lately looked upon as the hope of his adopted party in the coming campaign for governor. He was a very gallant soldier, entering the army in 1861 as a private in the Sixteenth Michigan, and fighting in the Peninsula and at Antietam and Chickamauga, and losing his arm at Mission Ridge. He was in Morell's division of Fitz-John Porter's corps at Second Bull's Run; and he is one who plainly says that "they did n't treat Pope right."

Charles Dean Long was born at Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Mich., June 14, 1841. He had a common-school training and was prepared for the university, when the war broke out, and he enlisted as a private in the Eighth Michigan. His war record is short, for in the fight at Wilmington Island, Ga., on the 16th of April, 1862, he lost his arm and received in the groin a wound from which he has never recovered. He is the picture of robust health, and no one would imagine that this hurt, received now nearly thirty years ago, has to be dressed twice every day, and that if it closes, as it sometimes does, he is sure to be ill. The summer following his injury he entered a law office; in 1864 he was made county clerk, and held that post for four successive terms; in 1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and served six years in that capacity. He was one of the four census supervisors of Michigan in 1880, and had thirty counties and 413 enumerators under him; and in 1885 he was department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for Michigan.



Claudius Buchanan Grant, who was born Oct. 25, 1835, at Lebanon, Maine, came to Michigan as accidentally, almost, as his father-in-law Governor Felch. He was thinking of going to college, and some one suggested the University of Michigan, which he found to offer the opportunities that he desired. He was graduated from that institution in 1859, taught for a while, and then went into the war as a captain in the Twentieth Michigan. He was with Burnside at Fredericksburg; and when that commander led his Ninth Corps to the West, he followed its fortunes in Kentucky and before Vicksburg and at Knoxville, and in 1864, having risen in rank, he went through the bloody Wilderness campaign under his great namesake. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, and began practice with Governor Felch; he was recorder of Ann Arbor and also postmaster, and at the sessions of 1871 and 1873 he was a conspicuous member of the Legislature; from 1872 to 1880 he was a regent of the State University, and having removed to the Upper Peninsula he became