Cheadle, Joseph B
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1842, in Perrysville, Ind. He entered the editorial profession, which occupation he has since followed. He was elected to the fiftieth congress and re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
CHEATHAM, HENRY PLUMMER, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1857, in Granville, N. C. He was elected principal of the Plymouth state normal school immediately after his graduation, and served in that capacity until 1885. He is the only colored representative in the fifty-first congress. He was elected to the fifty-first and re-elected to the fifty-sécond congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.