American soldier, born in Hubbard, Trumbull County, OH, on the 5th of October 1833, and entered the mercantile business. He was elected to the state legislature as a Democrat in 1858, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency. During the war he served in the Union army. He was made brigadier-general in 1864 for “special gallantry,” restored discipline at Fort Smith, where he was given command, and in 1865 was brevetted major-general. He has been in business in St. Louis and New Orleans since the war, and in 1881 removed to New York. He was for six years president of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, and was chairman of the committee from that body which secured from Congress the appropriation for Captain Eads’s jetties at the Mississippi River’s mouth.
