ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1881, By BEN: PERLEY POORE, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON. NOTE BY THE COMPILER. The publication of this edition has been postponed, by direction of the Committee, until after the appointment of the committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The next edition will be published about the first of February, when any errors in this one can be corrected. Senators, Representatives, and Delegates who have not furnished the desired "Statistical Sketches" will please supply them at their earliest convenience. These "Statistical Sketches" are not biographies, and the compiler is directed to publish nothing; except what answers the following questions: The Senator, Representative, or Delegate's full name; home post-office address; place and time of birth; education; professional studies; profession or business; and all civil or military offices held, with dates of holding them. Representatives and Delegates will add their vote on their last election to Congress; the name of their opponent and the vote given him; and the politics of each. Members of Congress will also please furnish the "signs" showing what ladies accompany them. The designates those whose wives accompany them; the § designates those whose daughters accompany them; the || designates those having other ladies with them. Senators, Representatives, and Delegates will each receive one bound copy and twenty pamphlet copies of this edition. Room of the Senate Committee on Printing, Southeast corner, upper story, Senate wing. FALDE BEN: PERLEY POORE, Clerk of Printing Records. |