tain of a military company and four years colonel of First Regiment, Kansas 
National Guard; was supervisor of Eleventh Census for the second district of 
Kansas: on Nov. 20, 1890, was appointed clerk in the Census Office at Wasning- 
ton, and on Sept. 7, 1891, was appointed auditing clerk in the Disbursing Office 
of the Department of Agriculture; passed the civil-service examination for clerk, 
and was appointed Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Animal Industry Jan. 1, 1897, by 
transfer and promotion from the Disbursing Office; on April 9, 1898, was ap- 
pointed by the U. 8. Civil Service Commission a member auxiliary of the promo- 
tion board for the Department of Agriculture to represent the Bureau of Animal 
Industry. 
GeorGE FAYETTE T1roMPSON, Editorial Clerk, was born in San Joaquin Co., Cal., 
Nov. 8, 1860; received education in common schools of California, lowa and Kan- 
sas, and at Kansas State Agricultural College; from 1880 to 1886 was superintend- 
ent of printing department and teacher of printing in that college; from 1887 to 
1891 was editor of the Manhattan (Kans.) Nationalist; for three years was a 
member of the city council of Manhattan, and during one year was president 
of the council; during this service $85,000 waterworks plant was installed, 4 
railroad constructed through the city, and a forty-acre park opened and planted 
to trees and plants; was appointed proof-reader in Government Printing Office, 
at Washington, Sept. 7, 1891; on Feb. 1, 1894, was appointed in the Office of Ex 
periment Stations, Department of Agriculture; on Aug. 8, 1894, was transferred 
to Division of Publications and on Sept. 25, 1896, made superintendent of the 
document section of that Division; on March 1, 1898, was transferred to his 
present position. 
JAMES Mapison PICKENS, Clerk and Secretary to the Chief of the Bureau 
was born at Eutaw, Greene Co., Ala., Dec. 2, 1872; resided in Alabama and Mis- 
sissippi; attended Franklin Academy at Columbus, Miss., and afterwards studied 
stenography privately; went to Birmingham, Ala., in 1886, and was employed 
six years with law firm of Webb & Tillman and four years with Sloss Iron & 
Steel Co.; did some newspaper work during leisure time; was appointed in the 
Bureau Jan. 6, 1897, after passing civil-service examination in stenography at 
the head of the eligible list; took a special course in English at Columbian Uni- 
versity; was married Noy. 22, 1899, to Mary Evans Drown; resigned from the 
Bureau Dec. 31, 1899, to take position with iron firm in Philadelphia, and was 
reinstated July 1, 1900. 
JosmepH ABeL, Clerk, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 26, 1872, and received 
common school education there; removed to Ohio, and attended high school at 
Lima; studied stenography and typewriting at Canton Business College, and 
was in service of Sun Vapor Street Light Co., of Canton; came to Washington 
and accepted position as stenographer for the Washington correspondent of the 
New York World; afterwards became private secretary to Hon. D. D. Donovan, 
M. C., 5th Ohio district; was appointed stenographer in the Bureau Dee. 1, 1894, 
through civil-service examination; is a graduate of Georgtown Law School, with 
degrees of B. L. and M. L. 
IrvING Frickey, Clerk, was born June 7, 1868, at Fort Plain, N. Y.; received 
public school education in the schools of Johnstown, N. Y., and later took a 
course in stenography and typewriting at Fairfield Seminary, Fairfield, N. Y.: 
then entered the employ of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad at 
New York City; after civil-service examination, was appointed in the Bureau 
April 3, 1894, and has served continuously from date of appointment. 
WILLIAM SHARPLES DERRICK Hatnes, Illustrator, was born near Bel Air, Har 
ford Co., Md.; was educated in public and private schools; studied drawing and 
painting for several years in the studio of F. J. Fisher, a graduate of the Paris, 
Munich and Dusseldorf schools of art, and then opened a studio of his own in 
which he was quite successful; was for a time employed as draftsman in the 
U. S. Fish Commission, and also in the Smithsonian Institution in making draw- 
ings for that eminent scientist, the late Prof. Edward D. Cope, of Philadelphia: 
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