The Wyandotte Convention: an addressMartin, John Alexander
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The Wyandotte Convention: an address
Martin, John Alexander
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861; Kansas Territory. Constitutional Convention (1859)
Stalwart, quiet Wm. McCullough I have not heard of for many years. John
A. Middleton, of Marshall Co., was a soldier in the 7th Kansas, removed
to Montana in 1864, and I have learned nothing of him since. H. D.
Preston, of Shawnee; R. L. Williams, P. H. Townsend and Ed. Stokes, of
Douglas; Allen Crocker, of Woodson; A. D. McCune, of Leavenworth; J. H.
Signor, of Allen, and J. T. Barton, of Johnson, have all disappeared and
left no sign. I know not whether they are living or dead.
THE OFFICERS.
Of the officers of the Convention, queer old George Warren,
Sergeant-at-arms of nearly all the early Kansas Legislatures and
Conventions, died many years ago. Ed. S. Nash, the Journal Clerk, was
Adjutant of the 1st Kansas, and died, some years since, in Chicago.
Robt. St. Clair Graham, one of the Enrolling Clerks, was elected Judge
of the Second Judicial District in 1866, and died in 1880. Richard J.
Hinton, also an Enrolling Clerk, is the editor of the Washington (D. C.)
_Gazette_, and a widely known journalist. Werter R. Davis, the Chaplain,
was a member of the first State Legislature; was Chaplain of the 12th
and Colonel of the 16th Kansas regiments during the war; and is one of
the most prominent clergymen of his denomination in the State. S. D.
McDonald, printer to the Convention, is still engaged in journalism. J.
M. Funk, the door-keeper, and J. L. Blanchard, the Assistant Secretary,
I have not heard from or of for many years.
CONCLUSION.
I wish I could sketch more in detail the work and history of the members
of the Convention. But this paper is, I know, already too long. I have
tried to tell how our Constitution was made. I could not narrate, within
reasonable limits,
"What workman wrought its ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of its hope."
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