Somers, Peter J
lawyer, congressman, was born April 12, 1850, in Menominee, Wis. In 1882 he was elected attorney of the city of Milwaukee, and served two years; and in 1890 was elected to the common council, and upon its organization was elected president. He was appointed trustee of the Public library; and in 1890 was elected mayor of the city of Milwaukee, and was re-elected in 1892. At the special election held in 1893 to fill a vacancy he was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
SOMERVILLE, HENDERSON MIDDLE- TON, journalist, jurist, was born March 23, 1837, in Madison county, Va. In 1860 he became editor of the Memphis Appeal; and in 1880 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Alabama, serving for twelve years, and in 1890 he was appointed United States general appraiser.
SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM CLARKE, public official, author, was born March 25, 1790, in St. Mary's county, Md. He was a writer who was appointed minister to Sweden, but died before reaching there and was buried at the Marquis Lafayette's home at Lagrange. He was the author of Letters from Paris on the Causes of the French Revolution. He died Jan. 5, 1826, in France.