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gainst it, l)tli in un<l out of <'oiigres*. lie has n 

 thorough acquaintance in detail with tin- atl'airs ol 

 the Nuvy Department, lit- has u pleasing personal- 

 ity, and 'is an eH'cctivc speaker. In Congress ho was 

 known an an energetic \\orkcr. very pentetent in 



HILARY A. HERBERT. 



carrying his point, while treating his opponents with 

 courtesy. Mr. Herbert is a widower, with three chil- 

 dren, and is fond of society. 



DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT was born in Cortlandvillc, 

 N. Y., Feb. 9, 1851, and is of Scottish ancestry. His 

 father, John B. Lainont, and mother, Elizabeth Scott 

 Lainont, live in McGrawville, Cortland County, N. Y., 

 where the senior Lament has been a merchant for 

 upward of thirty years. Daniel was educated in the 



DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT. 



common schools and the McGrawville Academy, and 

 duriiiir this time also worked in his father's store. 

 In 1868 he entered the class of 1872 in Union College. 

 lie \MUS appointed deputy clerk of the Assembly in 



1871, and during the time he held the place made an 

 extensive acquaintance with the public men of the 

 State. lie was a delegate from Cortland County to 

 the- Democratic State Convention in 1871, and cast 

 his vote with Samuel .). Tilden in his flglit against 

 Tweed and Tammany Hall. Mr. Lainont was nomi- 

 nated in lH";i for clerk of Cortland County, and as, 

 though defeated, lie ran ahead of his ticket, he wan 

 nominated the next year for Assembly, and was de- 

 feated by a small majority. At the request of Gov. 

 Tilden he was made deputy clerk of the Assembly. 

 His relations with the Governor were intimate, and 

 he practically managed Mr. Tilden's campaign against 

 the canal ring. In 1870-77 he served as Chief Clerk 

 of the State Department at Albany, and in January. 

 1878, bought an interest in the Albany " Argus," and 

 thus became associated with Daniel Manning. In 

 1882 he retired from the "Argus" to become private 

 secretary to Gov. Cleveland. He was also private 

 secretary to Mr. Cleveland during his first presiden- 

 tial term, and at the end of the term he associated 

 himself with Secretary Whitnev and Col. Payne in 

 their enterprises in the city of New York, and under- 

 took the acquirement and consolidation of the street 

 railways and the formation therefrom of the Metro- 

 politan Traction Company, which enterprise was 

 successfully carried out and resulted in a large profit 

 to the promoters and stockholders. In 1874 he mar- 

 ried Miss Julia Kinney, of Cortland County, and they 

 have three children. 



KICHAKD OLNEY was born in Oxford, Mass., Sept. 

 15, 1835, and his ancestors were among the early Bap- 

 tists of New England. He was graduated at Brown 



RICHARD OLNEY. 



University in 1856, studied at Harvard Law School, 

 and entered the law office of Judge Benjamin F. 

 Thomas in Boston, in 1859. He advanced rapidly in 

 his profession, and was for many years counsel for 

 tlie Kasteni Kailroad Company, and after the consoli- 

 dation was retained as counsel for the Boston and 

 Maine, which place he held when appointed At- 

 torney-General. He was also chief counsel for other 

 railroads. The income from his practice was prob- 

 ably larger than that of any other lawyer in New 

 England. Mr. Olney is known in Boston as an old- 

 line Democrat, but "not as an active politician, the 

 only public office ever held by him being that of 

 member of the lower house of the Massachusetts 

 Legislature, in 1874. He has repeatedlv declined to 

 allow himself to be nominated for office, and has 

 twice refused a place on the Supreme bench of the 

 State. He once was a candidate for Attorney-Gen- 

 eral of Massachusetts, but was defeated. He is a 



