American Congressman, born at Hartford, KY, on the 19th of August 1835, and received an academic education. Migrating to the West he became a lawyer at Virginia City, NV, and also an investor in local and California mines. In 1865 he returned to Missouri, finally settling down to his profession at Lebanon, and was elected from that district successively to every Congress since the Forty-third. Mr. Bland became noted for his vehement advocacy of free coinage of silver, and was author of the “Bland Bill” of 1878. See also “The Parting of the Ways.”
