cultural Society at Oneonta in 1874, las Herkimer; concerning notices of and its president most of the time injuries from the negligence of pubsince its organization. He served lic authorities; amending the Game for five years in the Twenty-third Law for the protection of the MonSeparate Company, being its lieu-golian pheasant and private grounds; tenant most of the time. For many years he has been a member of the Local Board of the Oneonta State Normal School. Mr. Brown went into politics in 1878 as a Republican, and has been quite active and stood high in the councils of his party ever since. For seven years he represented his town in the Board of Supervisors, serving as a member of the Committee on Equalization and other important committees. In 1888 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Otsego county and served for five years, representing the Second district of Otsego county four times and the county once. The first two on appropriation years he served committees, but after that the Legislature Democratic. He has served as Trustee of the village of Oneonta for one year; he served in the village fire department for five years, and since then has been an exempt fireman. Mr. Brown is married but has no children. was Mr. Brown's vote for Senator was 13,173; William A. Thayer, Democrat, his only opponent, received 8,798. Mr. Brown is Chairman of the Committee on Miscellaneous Corporations, and a member of the Finance Committee, of Internal Affairs and of Towns and Counties. in relation to eel-weirs and pots in the Chemung and Delaware rivers; amending generally the law relative to the taxable transfers of property. Dr. George W. Brush. George W. Brush, Republican, who represents the Fourth Senate district, which covers a part of Kings county, was born at West Hills, in the town of Huntington, Long Island, State of New York, in 1842. His early years were spent on his father's farm, which has been in the family since the early settlement of the island. He went to the district school and the Town Academy, and in 1861 enlisted as a private in the Forty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers. He served throughout the war, was promoted to the rank of captain, and resigned on account of ill health in December, 1865, having contracted malarial fever in Florida. His service was chiefly in the Department of the South, at the sieges of Forts Pulaski and Sumter, and sevIn Janeral important battles. uary, 1897, he received the Con66 congressional Medal of Honor for spicuous gallantry" in an engagement on the Ashepoo river, S. C., in May, 1864, where he commanded a boat, which by repeated trips, rescued some four hundred men from a stranded steamer, under a fierce fire of shot and shell from a rebel battery. Senator Brown, in the year 1896, introduced the following bills of interest: Making an appropriation for the armory at Mohawk; amending the Game Law, relative to squirrels; Dr. Brush was from boyhood an concerning the apportionment of race enthusiastic abolitionist. Under Gentrack money among the agricultural eral Hunter he aided in forming one fairs, in accordance with the Agri- of the first regiments of colored cultural Law; providing for the erec- troops in the Department of the tion of a memorial to General Nicho- | South, and it was while serving with |