The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 302 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. FEBEINS, Bishop W., senator, was bom inRochester, Lorain county, O., Oct. 18, 1841. Heattended Knox academy at Galesburg, IlL, for ashort time, read l
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . 302 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. FEBEINS, Bishop W., senator, was bom inRochester, Lorain county, O., Oct. 18, 1841. Heattended Knox academy at Galesburg, IlL, for ashort time, read law at Ottawa, 111., was admittedto the bar, and commenced practice there in served four years as a soldier in the Union array,going out as sergeant in the 83dIllinois infantry, and was adju-tant and captain of the 16th U. infantry for two yearsand six months. He was attorney of Labette county, Kan., in1869, was elected probate judgeof the county in 1870, and againin 1872. In February, 1873, hewas appointed judge of the elev-enth judicial district of Kansas,and in November of the sameyear was elected for the unex-pired term. He was re-electedin November, 1874, and again inNovember, 1878, holding the oflHcefor nearly ten years. Judge Per-kins was elected congressman-at-large from Kansas in 1883, se-curing the nomination after anobstinate struggle with three ri-vals in the state convention, andso well did he please his con
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