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Debs, Eugene Victor

legislator, labor leader, was born Nov. 5, 1855, in Terre Haute, Ind. He commenced life as a locomotive fireman; became general secretary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and edited its periodical. He ultimately became president of the American Railway union, which was merged into the Social Democracy of America, of which he is still president. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Indiana state legislature. His name has become known throughout the United States as the champion of the rights of labor.

DE CAMP, JOHN, naval officer, was born in 1812, in New Jersey. He was promoted to the rank of commodore in 1866, commanded the store-ship Potomac at the Pensacola navy-yard during 1866- 67, and the receiving-ship Potomac at Philadelphia during 1868-69, and was retired in 1870 with the rank of rear-admiral. He died June 25, 1875, in Burlington, N. J.