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YOUNG, JOSUE M. 



Democratic. The Republican majority was 

 23,907. No election for State officers took 

 place. Five Republican members of Congress 

 .-were elected, and one Democratic member. 

 The Legislature is divided as follows : 



Senate. House. 



Eepublicans 22 73 



Democrats 11 26 



Independent ; 1 



WEIGHT, Hon. WILLIAM, United States 

 Senator from New Jersey, born in Clarkstown, 

 Kockland County, F. Y., in 1791 ; died at New- 

 ark, N. J., November 1, 1866. His ancestors were 

 among the earliest settlers of Connecticut, and 

 his father, Dr. William Wright, was a promi- 

 nent physician and citizen of Eockland County. 

 The subject of this sketch was at school in 

 Poughkeepsie preparing for college at the time 

 of his father's death, and was compelled in 

 consequence to abandon his studies and learn 

 the trade of a harness-maker. The industry 

 and vigor of his character were here shown, 

 for besides supporting himself, he was able to 

 * save by the end of his term the sum of three 

 hundred dollars. With this sum, which was the 

 foundation of the large fortune he subsequently 

 acquired, he repaired to Bridgeport, hired a 

 small store, and soon began to develop those 

 mental resources which have placed him at the 

 head of the manufacturing interests of this 

 section of country. Subsequently, in connec- 

 tion with his father-in-law (the late William 

 Peet) and Sheldon Smith, he established a firm 

 for the manufacture of harness and saddles, hav- 

 ing a branch bouse in Charleston, S. C., and in 

 1821 they established themselves in Newark, 

 N. J. About 1854, Mr. Wright retired upon a 

 large fortune, the result of his untiring energy 

 and diligence in business. He took no active 

 part in public affairs, except to volunteer his ser- 

 vices in defence of Stonington in the' war of 

 1812, until the year 1840, when he was elected 

 mayor of the city of Newark without opposi- 

 tion. He was at that time attached to the Whig 

 party, and a warm friend of Henry Clay. In 

 1842 he was elected to the House of Represent- 

 atives as an independent candidate over the 



regular Whig and Democratic nominees, and 

 was reflected in 1844, but in 1851 announced 

 a change in his political relations. In 1853 he 

 was elected by Democratic votes to the United 

 States Senate for the full term, in place of Hon. 

 J. W. Miller, and was succeeded in 1859 by the 

 Hon. John C. Ten Eyck. By this body he waa 

 appointed chairman of the Committee on Man- 

 ufactures his large experience in that branch 

 of industry being recognized by his associates. 

 He was also an efficient member of the com- 

 mittee to audit and control the expenses of the 

 Senate. Mr. Wright's previous business pur- 

 suits, of course, did not permit him to join in 

 the debates on the floor of the Senate ; but his 

 views were always intelligent and decided, and 

 as a member of the committees, both while in 

 the House of Representatives and in the Senate, 

 he was active, intelligent, and influential. In 

 1863 Mr. Wright was again elected to the 

 United States Senate, a successor of the Hon. 

 J. R. Thompson, who died the previous sum- 

 mer, and whose unexpired term had been tern- 

 porarily filled by the Hon. R. S. Field and the 

 Hon J. W. Wall. For the last year or more 

 Mr. W.'s health was so much impaired that he 

 was unable to devote much time to his senato- 

 rial duties. 



WURTEMBERG, a kingdom in Germany. 

 King, Charles, born March 6, 1823 ; succeeded 

 his father, June 25, 1864. Area, 7,840 square 

 miles; population, in 1864, 1,748,328. The 

 revenue for the financial period from 1864 to 

 1867 was 51,226,785 florins; surplus revenue 

 over expenditures, 34,077 florins. The army 

 consists of 29,392 men. The public debt, on 

 September 8, 1866, amounted to 84.406,940 

 florins. In the German-Italian war, Wurtem- 

 berg took sides with Austria, and furnished its 

 contingent to the 8th Federal army corps. It 

 concluded a separate peace with Prussia, on 

 August 13th, in virtue of which it had to pay 

 8,000,000 florins to Prussia. By a secret treaty 

 of the same date, Wiirtemburg concluded with 

 Prussia an offensive and defensive alliance, and 

 engaged, in case of war, to place its army under 

 the chief command of the King of Prussia. 



YOUNG, Right Rev. JOSUE M-, Roman Cath- 

 olic Bishop of Erie, born in Sanford, Maine, 

 August, 1808 ; died at Erie, Pa., September 18, 

 1866. He was born of Protestant parents, but 

 entered the Catholic church at the age of nine- 

 teen years. . Having served an apprenticeship 

 to the printing business in the office of the 

 Portland Argus, he soon after set out to make 

 a tour of the Western States, in the capacity 

 of a journeyman printer, finally settling in 

 Cincinnati, where he was employed in the of- 

 fice of the Catholic Telegraph. His zeal in 



teaching the catechism soon attracted the at ' 

 tention of the bishop, who, discerning in him 

 talents of a high order, sent him to Mount St. 

 Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md., to com- 

 plete his studies and prepare for the priesthood. 

 In 1837 he was ordained, and labored for many 

 years with great zeal and success in the then 

 diocese (now archdiocese) of Cincinnati. In the 

 year 1853, the new diocese of Erie being formed 

 from part of the diocese of Pittsburg, Bishop 

 O'Connor was translated from Pittsburg to 

 the new see, and Rev. Mr. Young, at that time 



