PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES. 



LEONIDAS L,. POLK. 



Leonidas L. Polk, President of the National Farmers' 

 Alliance and Industrial Union, was born in Anson county, 

 North Carolina, on the 24th day of April, 1837. He was 

 the only child by the second marriage of his father. He is 

 a descendant of the Mecklenburg family of Polks, to which 

 belonged Col. Thomas and William Polk of Revolutionary 

 fame, and James K. Polk. 



His parents died when he- was 14 years old, and he 

 begun the struggle, single-handed, in the battle of life. 

 Having been reared on a farm, he most naturally adopted 

 farming as his profession, and which he prosecuted with 



