Smyth, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1824, in Ireland. In 1848-53 he was attorney for Linn county, Iowa; was judge of the same from 1854 to 1857; and in 1858 was appointed a commissioner to codify the state laws. He was a colonel of Iowa volunteers from 1862 to 1864, and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress.
SNAPP, H., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 30, 1822, in Livingston county, N. Y. He was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1869, and served until elected to the forty-second congress as a republican.