Botkin, Jeremiah D
clergyman, congressman, was born April 24, 1849, in Logan county, Ill. He has filled leading pulpits in his conference; served six years as presiding elder; was delegate to the general conference held in New York city in 1888, and to the ecumenical conference in Washington, D. C., 1891; was early imbued with abolition sentiments and was a republican until recent years. He made three attempts to enter the army during the last year of the war, but being under age and size was rejected. He was prohibition candidate for governor of Kansas in 1888; and having early espoused the populist cause, that party nominated him for congress in the third district in 1894, but he was defeated; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist on the fusion ticket, as congressman at large.