Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ster toMexico. He had reached New Orleans on his wayto his post, when he was recalled, in consequenceof charges mad- against him by William H. Craw-ford, then secretary of the treasury. He was againelected governor of Illinois and served from 1826to 1830. See History of Illinois and Life ofXinian Edwards. by Xinian W. Edwards (1870);and •• The Edwards Papers, being of theChi-cago historical societys collections (Chicago, 1884).— Hi- son, Xinian Wirt, lawyer, b. in Frankfort, 15 April, 1809. was taken by his father, whenan infant, to Ka
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ster toMexico. He had reached New Orleans on his wayto his post, when he was recalled, in consequenceof charges mad- against him by William H. Craw-ford, then secretary of the treasury. He was againelected governor of Illinois and served from 1826to 1830. See History of Illinois and Life ofXinian Edwards. by Xinian W. Edwards (1870);and •• The Edwards Papers, being of theChi-cago historical societys collections (Chicago, 1884).— Hi- son, Xinian Wirt, lawyer, b. in Frankfort, 15 April, 1809. was taken by his father, whenan infant, to Kaskaskia, then the capital of Illinoisterritory. He was graduated at the Transylvaniauniversity, and at its law department in 1833. Be-fore his graduation he was married to Elizabeth , a sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Ed-wards began the practice of law in 1 H>>->, and in1834 was appointed attorney-general of Illinois,but resigned in 1835, and removed to 18:j0 he was elected to the legislature, and with. £ <Z^~Z+/~CL*sc9^ Abraham Lincoln and others was active in secur-ing the removal of the capital to Springfield. remained a member of the legislaturecontinuously till 1852. During that period he wasalso a member of the convention that framed theState constitution in 1848. In 1854 he was ap-pointed by the governor attorney before the boardof commissioners whose duty it was to investigatethe claims of canal contractors against the state,amounting to over $1,500,000. From 1854 till1857 he served as superintendent of public instruc-tion, and drafted a bill regarding free schools,which afterward became a law. In August, 1801,he was appointed by President Lincoln captaincommissary of subsistence, which appointment heheld until 22 June, 1865. In the latter year retired almost entirely from the practiceof his profession. At the request of the Statehistorical society, he prepared a volume entitled The Life and Times of Nin
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