Joseph Clay Styles, American lawyer and statesman: b. Woodford County, Ky., 1 Oct. 1838; was graduated at Center College, Danville, Ky., in 1857; ad mitted to the bar of Kentucky in 1858, and practised law in Chicago until 1860. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and after the war resumed practice in and in 1868 returned to Kentucky. In 1871 and 1873 he was elected to the Ken tucky legislature, and in 1874 to Congress, serv ing five terms in the House of Representatives; served in the United States Senate 1885-97, and was again elected for the term 1901-07, being elected chairman of the Democratic cau cus of the Senate, which office carried with it the leadership of the Democratic party in the Senate. He was a leader of the silver wing of the Democratic party and took a conspicuous part in the fight for free silver in the National Democratic Convention of 1896, when his name was presented by the Kentucky delegation as its choice for In 1907 was appointed a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and was designated civil governor of the Canal Zone. Resigned in 1909. On 7 Feb. 1914 he was appointed by act of Congress the special resident commissioner of the construction of the Lincoln Memorial at Washington.
Luke Pryor, American physician: b. Woodford County, Ky., 16june 1816; d. 14 1887; was graduated at ran sylvania University, Lexington Ky., in 1834; began practising in the town of Versailles and gave his services free during the great epi demic. In 1846 he went to Natchez, Miss., and in 1848, when yellow fever ap eared in New Orleans, he established the first quarantine against New Orleans that had ever been knoHln in the Mississippi Valley. During the Civil War he was a surgeon on the staff of General Price. In 1875, when yellow fever broke out in Memphis, he hastened to the city and or i+anized a corps of physicians and nurses, and in 1878 gave his services to the yellow fever sufferers at Hickman, Ky. He was elected
governor of Kentucky in 1879, and as such is remembered for his prison reforms. He founded the Blackburn Sanitarium for Nervous and Mental Diseases in 1884.
William Maxwell, Amer ican Presbyterian clergyman and educator: b. Carlisle, Ind., 30 Dec. 1828 ; d. 1900. He be came president of the Territorial University of North Dakota in 1884, and of Pierre University, South Dakota, in 1886 (now Huron College). He wrote Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots'; 'Ulrich Zwingli, the Patriotic Reformer'; Historical Sketch of North and South Dakota,> and the Uncle Alick' series of juvenile stories.
municipal, par liamentary and county borough in Lancashire, 24 miles from Manchester. There is a free grammar school, founded by Queen Elizabeth in a free school for girls founded by William Leyland in 1765, and a technical school. The town-hall and other pub lit buildings, including the library, museum, Gothic Exchange and Drapers' Hall, are all modern and handsome buildings. There are two public parks, one beautifully situated on the declivity of Revidge Hill. The railways all converge and pass through one large railway station belonging to the Lancashire and Y. Rail way Company. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal gives valuable connections. The corporation owns all the public utilities. Blackburn is one of the chief seats of the cotton manufacture, there being upward of 140 mills, as well as works for making cotton machinery and steam engines. Blackburn is believed to have been the birthplace of James Hargreaves, who in vented the spinning jenny in the neighborhood in 1764; but the operatives, fearful for their employment, would have none of it, and a mob destroyed (1768) both his jenny and his loom. Lord Morley of Blackburn is another dis tinguished native. Pop. 133,052.