A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . I2th £>is/.] question at issue in that campaign, was drawn to theDemocratic party, and the support of Mr. Douglas forthe presidency. In 1S62 Mr. Edgerlon was elected toCongress on the Democratic ticket, in the Tenth Dis-trict, by four hundred and thirty-six over WilliamMitchell, Republican candidate, who had been electedin i860 by nearly three thousand majority. In 1S64 hewas a candidate for re-election against Joseph H. De-frees, but wa
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . I2th £>is/.] question at issue in that campaign, was drawn to theDemocratic party, and the support of Mr. Douglas forthe presidency. In 1S62 Mr. Edgerlon was elected toCongress on the Democratic ticket, in the Tenth Dis-trict, by four hundred and thirty-six over WilliamMitchell, Republican candidate, who had been electedin i860 by nearly three thousand majority. In 1S64 hewas a candidate for re-election against Joseph H. De-frees, but was defeated by five hundred and eighty the Thirty-eighth Congress he was a member of theCommittee on Naval Affairs. At that time tiiis commit-tee was one of the most important in (he House. Itregulated the expenditures and determined the efficiencyof our national fleet. In 1866, on a large tractof land which he owned in Allen County, he establishedthe Woodburn Lumber and Stave Mills. These millswere destroyed by fire in .August, 1867, and were notrebuilt. In July, 1866, he became president of theGrand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company, th
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