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Gillette, Edward Hooper

farmer, journalist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in Bloomfield, Conn.

He received his education at the Hartford High school and the New York State Agricultural college, He served with distinction as a member of the forty-sixth congress from the Des Moines district, Iowa. As an advocate of populist and other reforms he has gained national reputation; and has been successful as a farmer, editor and public speaker. His father was Francis Gillette, a farmer and United States senator from Connecticut; and an associate of Charles Sumner, and the frequent candidate of the old free soil party for governor of Connecticut. a