American publicist and Prohibitionist lecturer, born in Brookville, Franklin County, IN, on the 25th of February 1833; clerked for a time in a store; moved to California, where he took part in the Indian disturbances; made voyages to Mexico, South America and Sandwich Islands; in 1860 removed to Charleston, IL, to study law; served in the Civil War, rising to the rank of colonel; removed to Kansas in 1869, and served in the state senate (1873–74). He was Republican governor of Kansas (1879–83), being elected on a temperance platform, and was the candidate of the Prohibition party for President in 1884.
