GARLAND
GARLAND
Ark., when he was nine months old and there
spent his boj-hood days. He was graduated at
St. Joseph's college, Bardstown, Ky., in 1849 and
returned there in 1831. taking the degree of A.M.
in July, 18.V.2. He was admitted to the bar in
1853, practised a few years at Washington, Ark.,
and in 1856 removed
to Little Rock, the
state capital, where
he gained renown in
his profession. He
was au elector on
the Bell and Everett
pi'esidential ticket in
1860 and afterward
opposed the secession
of the state and was
elected to the consti-
tutional convention of
. I Arkansas in 1861 as a
-^'5^77 ^*-'<-^«---"^ Union delegate, but when the ordinance of . secession was passed he upheld the movement and was elected to the Confederate provisional congress at Montgomery, Ala., and to the 1st and 3d Confederate congresses at Riclunond, Va., as a representative from Arkansas, resigning his seat in the house to accept one in the senate which he held during the remainder of the exist- ence of the Confederacy. On resuming the practice of his profession he was denied the right to appear before the U.S. courts, because he could not take the test oath. He appealed to the U.S. supreme court who, upon listening to his argument and that of the cause, decided in his favor. This incident gave him national reputa- tion as a constitutional lawyer. In 1867 he was elected to the U.S. senate by the legislature of Arkansas, but was denied a seat, as the state had not then been rehabilitated. In 187-t he was elected governor of Arkansas without opposition, and his administration of the affairs of the com- monwealth brought order out of cliaos, paved the way for rapid development of its great natural resources, re-established the credit of the state, and gave a good market value to Arkansas secur- ities. In 1877 he was again elected a U.S. senator and took his seat as successor to Powell Clayton, Republican. March 4, 1877. He was reelected in 1883, resigning. March 4, 1885, to accept the position of attorney general in President Cleve- land's cabinet. He attained high rank as a member of the judiciary committee of the senate and as attorney in the cabinet, his knowledge and interpretation of constitutional law and in- sistence on its enforcement marking his career in both positions. At the close of Cleveland's ad- ministration he resumed the practice of law in "Washington, and in 1893 he supported the renom-
ination of Mr. Cleveland. He was married to
Sarah Virginia, daughter of Simon T. and Zenobia
Sanders. He studiously avoided society while
senator and a cabinet officer, his eccentricity
e.xtending even to the refu-sal to read the daily
newspapers. His mother presided over his house-
hold after the death of his wife and besides his
house on Rhode Island avenue in Washington, he
maintained a summer home at "Hominy Hill,"
near Little Rock, Ark. After leaving public life
he engaged in the practice of law. He published
Experience in the Supreme Court of the United
States (1898), and in collaboration with Robert
Ralston of the Philadelphia bar, Federal Practice
(1898). While addressing the U.S. supreme
court in Washington he was stricken with apo-
jjlexy and died a few minutes later, Jan. 36. 1899.
QARLAND, Hamlin, author, was born in
West Salem, Wis., Sept. 14, 1860; son of Richard
Hayes and Charlotte Isabelle (McClintock) Gar-
land; and grandson of Richard Garland of Ox-
ford county, Maine, and of Hugh McClintock, a
Scotchman, born in
the North of Ii-eland.
He was taken by his
parents to Iowa in 1868
and there attended
for a brief time the
public schools. He
was graduated from
Cedar 'Valley semi-
nary. Osage, Mitchell
county, Iowa, in 1881
and in 1883 made a
trip to the east. He
taught school in Illi-
nois m 1883-83; was
engaged in hold-
ing down a claim in Dakota in 1888-84, and
in the autumn of 1884 removed to Boston, Mass..
where he devoted his time to literary work. He
lectured, wrote and conducted private classes in
and around Boston until 1893, when he removed
to New York city. In 1893 he removed to Chi-
cago. He was married, Nov 18, 1899, to Zulime
Taft of Chicago, a sculptor of ability and repu-
tation; daughter of Prof. Don Carlos Taft (for-
merly of the University of Illinois), and a sister
of Lorado Taft, the sculptor. His published
works include: Main Trarelled Boudt: (1891). A
Spoil of Office (1893) , A Member of the Third House
(1893); Prairie Folks (1893; new edition. 1893).
Jason Edwards (1893); A Little Norsk (1893) -
Prairie Songs (1893); Crumbling Idols (1894) . Pose
of Dutrher's Coolly (1895); Wayside Courtships
(1897); The Spirit of Sweetioater (1898): Life of
Genrrnl Grant (1898): The Trail of the Goldseekers
(1899); Boy Life on the Prairie (1899) and many
magazine articles.
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