VOORHEES, DANIEL WOLSEY Ameri can lawyer and political leader, was born in Butler county, 0., on Sept. 26, 1827, of Dutch and Irish descent. During his infancy his parents removed to Fountain county, Ind., near Veedersburg. He graduated at Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) university, Greencastle, Ind., in 1849; was admitted to the bar in 185o, and began to practise in Covington, whence in 1857 he removed to Terre Haute. In 1861-66 and in 1869-73 he was a Democratic representative in Congress; and in 1877-97 he was a member of the U.S. Senate. During the Civil War he seems to have been affiliated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, but he was not so radical as Vallandigham and others. He was a member of the
committee on finance throughout his service in the Senate, and his first speech in that body was a defence of the free coinage of silver and a plea for the preservation of the full legal tender value of green back currency, though in 1893 he voted to repeal the sil ver purchase clause of the Sherman Act. He had an active part in bringing about the building of the Congressional Library. He was widely known as an effective lawyer, especially in jury trials. In allusion to his unusual stature he was called "the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash." He died in Washington, D.C., on April io, 1897.