Samuel Greely Hilborn:

Oakland CA, April 19: Samuel Greely Hilborn, ex-congressman of the third District of this State, was born in Minot, Androscoggin, then Cumberland County, Maine, on December 9, 1834.  He graduated from Tufts' College, Massachusetts, in 1859.  He read law with Tassenden & Butler, Portland Me. and was admitted to the bar in 1861.  In that year he moved to Vallejo and practiced law.  He served in the California State Senate from 1875 to 1879, was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, was United States District Attorney in 1883, residing in San Francisco.  He moved to Oakland in 1887.  He filled the unexpired term of Joseph McKenna in the Fifty-third Congress, defeating Warren B. English; was unseated by English in 1894 in a contest.  He was elected to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses.  He was a life long Republican.  He was defeated for the Congressional nomination last year by Victor Metcalf of Oakland.  He leaves one daughter, Miss Grace Hilborn.  His death prevented his appointment by President McKinley as Minister to Portugal.

Source: The Record Union, Sacramento, CA April 20,1899 edition

Lewiston, Maine

Howard's Funeral Friday 

The funeral of Corp. C. R. Howard, aged 51 years, of company I, Sixth infantry, whose body was found in the Franklin canal Tuesday night, will be held Friday morning at 10 o?clock. The body will be shipped to the former home at Lewiston, Maine.  

Source: El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, February 22, 1917

submitted and transcribed by: Dale Donlon

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