EORGE T. ANTHONY, the seventh Governor of the State of Kansas, came of an excellent family of the Empire State, who were orthodox Quakers religiously, and who in point of the elements which go to make up the bone and sinew of the social fabric, possessed all the characteristics of that peculiar people. He was born in Mayfield, Fulton Co., N. Y., June 9, 1824, and spent his boyhood and youth on a farm, acquiring his education mostly

in the winter season, and making himself useful at agricultural pursuits in summer. About the age of nineteen he commenced learning the tin and copper smith's trade at Union Springs, Cayuga County, which he followed as a journeyman five years, then repaired to Ballston Spa, and clerked in a hardware store until his removal to Medina, in 1850.

In the town above mentioned Mr. Anthony found

his future wife, Miss Rose A. Lyons, to whom he was married Dec. 14, 1852, and thereafter for a period of nine years was engaged in trade in hardware, tin and stoves, and also carried on the manufacture of stoves and agricultural implements. Later he engaged in the commission business, and in due time was made Loan Commissioner for Orleans County, being thus occupied three years.

During the late Rebellion and under the call of July 2, 1862, for additional troops, Mr. Anthony was selected by request of Gov. Morton as one of a committee of seven to raise and organize troops in the Twenty-eighth District of New York, embracing the counties of Orleans, Niagara and Genesee. In August following he was authorized to recruit an independent battery of light artillery of six guns, and which was subsequently known as the 17th New York Independent Battery. Such was the industry with which he set about this commission, that in four days the maximum number was secured and mustered into service, with Mr. Anthony as Captain, and they proceeded at once to Washington.

Capt. Anthony served with his battery until the close of the war, operating between Washington and Richmond, and in front of the latter city and Petersburg, being with the 18th Army Corps during the last year of the war. He was breveted Major for services in the last campaign ending at Appomattox Court House, and after the surrender of the Confederate forces, was mustered out of service at Richmond, Va., June 12, 1865.

In November, 1865, Mr. Anthony changed his residence from Rochester, N. Y., to Leavenworth, this State, and became editor of the Leavenworth Daily Bulletin, also of the Leavenworth Daily Conservative, filling the position two years and one-half. He subsequently assumed proprietorship of the Kansas Farmer, which he conducted six years. In the meantime such had been the zeal with which he interested himself in the affairs of a State struggling for recognition, and only needing good men for leaders, that he was recognized as a man eminently fitted for promotion, and in December, 1867, was appointed United States Internal Revenue Assistant Assessor, and the following year Collector of Internal Revenue. For three years he was President of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, and for two years held the same position on the Board of Centennial Managers for the State, and was discharging the duties of the three offices at the time of his election as Governor, on the 7th of November, 1876.

Gov. Anthony, while State Executive, presided wisely as counselor over the many difficult questions arising at that time, and retired from the office with the best wishes of those who had realized how faithfully he had endeavored to perform his duty. He continued his residence in Leavenworth

fter the expiration of his term of office, and thereafter was employed much of the time in a responsible position, in connection with the extension of the great Santa Fe Railroad through New Mexico and into Old Mexico.

That Gov. Anthony was popular during his incumbency of the Executive office, is indicated by the fact that the county seat of Harper County was named in his honor. Over the establishment of this town there was much earnest debate in regard to its location and many other important details in

connection therewith. It is now a city of impor tance, and was honored with a post-office in the summer of 1878. At first the service was only weekly, but in due time became daily, and it was made a money-order office in 1880. Previous to this, however, a bank had been established in a small frame structure standing on the street, and its business was soon conducted in a store building, with a capital of $20,000. The Globe Mills were put up in 1880-81, at a cost of over $25,000, and in due time commanded a large trade from points in the Indian Territory, as well as the surrounding towns.

Churches and newspapers sprang up in due time in the town of Anthony, and various lodges of the different societies were named in honor of the Governor. The town itself lies on the edge of a beautiful valley, a trifle over two miles from the geographical center of Harper County, and the site was selected after much deliberation by the Town Company, which had been formed at Wichita for the purpose, as it was found desirable to establish a town not far from the center of Harper County, which embraced large tracts of beautiful rolling land. The projected town was considered a matter of serious importance, and not the least among the matters connected with its establishment was the name by which it should be called. The descendants of Gov. Anthony may be pardoned if in preserving their family history they keep properly in view this fact in connection therewith. The town site was made to cover 320 acres, and the first work of the company was to build a barracks for the accommodation of emigrants, and to dig three public wells.

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About as soon as the announcement went forth that the city of Anthony" was ready for settlement, about a dozen box houses sprang up as if by magic, and were soon followed by a store of general merchandise, a hardware and a drug-store, and closely upon the heels of these came a physician and an attorney. The new town grew rapidly, and now occupies a proud position among the other cities adjacent, going in some respects ahead of those which are older. As may be supposed, the patriot, the ex-soldier, and one of the most conscientious men who ever occupied the Gubernatorial Chair of Kansas, has watched its growth with lively interest.

OHN P. ST. JOHN, eighth Governor of the State of Kansas, was born in Brookfield, Franklin Co., Ind., Feb. 25, 1833. The family is of Huguenot descent. Daniel St. John, the paternal grandfather, was a native of Luzerne County, Pa., and for sixty years was one of the foremost ministers of the Universalist denomination, preaching with unswerving faith the doctrines he had espoused, and illustrating their purity by a guileless and untarnished reputation. He was the friend and contemporary of Murray, Ballou, Streeter and Thomas, and was numbered with them as one of the American fathers of this religious faith. He was also a Freemason, and at the time of his death, which occurred in Broad Ripple, Ind., was the oldest member of the fraternity in the State.

The subject of this sketch was the son of Samuel St. John, who was born in Orange County, N. Y., and was a man of more than ordinary ability. The mother, Sophia (Snell) St. John, was of English extraction, a lady of rare intelligence, with a character adorned by all the Christian virtues. The children of farmers in the rural districts of Indiana forty years ago were taught by such instructors as the limited means of the inhabitants could command, and who dispensed knowledge usually only two short terms each year. Under these circum

stances the early education of John P. St. Joh was acquired. He soon mastered the elementary branches taught in the district school, but determined to carry on his education as soon as he could secure the means, and for this purpose, while yet a youth, entered a store, but devoted his leisure hours to his books.

In 1852 Mr. St. John made his way to the Pacific Slope, and employed himself at whatever he could find to do-wood-chopping, steamboating, mining, merchandising, etc. During the period of eight years, which were pregnant with adventure, hardship, danger and toil, if not of profit, he made voyages to Central America, South America, Mexico, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands. He was engaged in the Indian Wars of Northern California and Southern Oregon in 1852-53, in which he suffered all the perils and hardships incident to the struggles of that time, and was several times wounded in the service.

During his mining life in California the longcherished predilection of Mr. St. John for the legal profession ripened into a definite purpose. He accordingly procured a few elementary law books, and under circumstances calculated to try the courage of one less determined, he commenced his law studies in his mining camp, reading each evening after the close of the day's labor by the light of a burning pine knot or the camp fire. He thus pursued his studies laboriously for two years. In 1860 he returned eastward with but little more of this world's goods than when he set out eight years before, but equipped with a rich experience, a