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Washington, Joseph Edwin

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1851, in Wessington, Tenn.

He is a descendant of the Virginia Washingtons of Surrey and Southampton counties. In 1876 he was elected member of the Tennessee house of representatives; and in 1880 was the democratic elector on the Hancock and English ticket. In 1886 he a was elected a representative from his native county to the fiftieth congress as a democrat; and was re-elected successively to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses. Having been a consistent sound money democrat, he declined to be a candidate for re-election after the adoption of the Chicago democratic platform. He is now engaged in agricultural pursuits.

WASHINGTON, MRS. LUCY HALL [WALKER], reformer, author, was born in 1835 in Vermont. She is a temperance reformer and poet, the wife of a baptist clergyman at Port Jervis, N. Y., and the author of Echoes of Song; and Memory's Casket.