Investigation of Labor Troubles in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, and Illinois
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Messages of Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, relative to the Reserve Corps, Pennsylvania Volunteers
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A. G. Curtin Vs; Seth H. Yocum: Contested Election from the Twentieth Congressional District of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)
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In College township, Centre county, the election board returned no list of voters; negligently disregarded many other important requirements of the election law; members of the board took from the ballot-box the list of voters, and placed them in the hands of contestee's counsel, by whom they were kept and suppressed.
In Philipsburg borough, Centre county, it was shown by the testimony that in accordance with the law, overseers were appointed but were not permitted to act. The election officers did not check off the names of persons as they voted; no use was made of the registry and no reference was made thereto. That they permitted a large number of persons whose names did not appear on the registry to vote without requiring the proof of residence in the district.
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Andrew Gregg Curtin was a U. S. lawyer and politician.
Background
Andrew Gregg Curtin was born at Bellefonte, Center County, Pennsylvania, the son of Roland and Jean (Gregg) Curtin.
The Curtins belonged to Scotch-Irish stock. Roland emigrated from Dysert, County Clare, and settled in Bellefonte in 1800.
In 1807, he erected a forge on Bald Eagle Creek about four miles from Bellefonte and lived there, occupied in the manufacture of iron, until his death in 1850.
His second wife, Jean Gregg, was the daughter of Andrew Gregg, congressman, senator, and secretary of state under Joseph Hiester.
Education
Andrew Gregg Curtin was first taught in his native village by a Mr. Brown, a man of culture who had a school of about a dozen boys.
Thence he went to Harrisburg Academy and later to Milton Academy, Pennsylvania, where, under the Rev. David Kirkpatrick, he was well grounded in mathematics and the classics. With this preparation, he turned to the study of law.
Career
At first with W. W. Potter of Bellefonte and then under Judge John Reed at the Law School of Dickinson College, he was initiated into his profession and, in 1839, was admitted to the bar in Center County, becoming, soon after, a partner of John Blanchard, a lawyer of good repute who was later elected to Congress.
In 1840, at the age of twenty-five, he appeared on behalf of General Harrison’s candidacy for the presidency; in 1844 he was enlisted in support of Henry Clay; in 1848, he canvassed the state for General Zachary Taylor, the Whig candidate for the presidency; and in 1852 he took the field for General Winfield Scott.
In 1834, he was offered the nomination for governor but refused, and supported James Pollock who was elected and promptly appointed Curtin secretary of the commonwealth and also ex-officio superintendent of common schools.
In this post Curtin secured an enlarged appropriation for public schools and pushed a bill through the legislature authorizing the establishment of state normal schools, acts which increased his popularity and made probable his succession to the governor’s chair.
The state election of 1860, often called “The Battle of 1860” aroused the keenest interest because of the national issues involved and because Lincoln looked especially to Curtin of Pennsylvania and Henry S. Lane of Indiana to swing the balance in these pivotal states to his side.
Both were victorious: Lane won in Indiana, and Curtin, stoutly aided by A. K. McClure, chairman of the state committee, won in Pennsylvania by a majority of 32, 000, which was interpreted as making the election of Lincoln secure.
Curtin’s inaugural address, delivered on January 15, 1861, produced wide-spread effects. In it he proclaimed the unswerving loyalty of Pennsylvania to the Union. “The people mean to preserve the integrity of the National Union at every hazard, ” he declared. After a consultation with the President on April 8, 1861, he returned to Pennsylvania, won the overwhelming support of the legislature, and aroused so strong a spirit of loyalty among the people that double the state quota of 14. 000 men was raised.
Appreciating the magnitude and seriousness of the struggle then beginning, he obtained authority from the legislature to equip and maintain the extra force at the state's expense.
Thus he fathered the famous Pennsylvania Reserve Corps which enabled the state to meet acute emergencies during the succeeding year. To inspire patriotic feeling he obtained funds front the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania for the purchase of regimental flags which he presented to the regiments as they were formed and which were afterward carried through scores of bloody engagements.
His unfailing care and oversight of the Pennsylvania soldiers made him known in the army as the “Soldier’s Friend. ” His guardianship extended to caring for them in hospital and to bringing their bodies back for burial. Nor did it stop there, but went out to their dependents.
In 1863, he obtained from the legislature a fund for the support and schooling of the war orphans. The popular response to his devotion was evident in the election of 1863, when the vote of the soldiers and their friends made him by a great majority again governor.
He took a leading part in the Altoona Conference of Union Governors which was successful in at least one of its objects—to disclose the solidity of the sentiment behind the Emancipation Proclamation.
In 1868, he was one of the candidates for second place on the ticket with Grant, an honor which went to Schuyler Colfax.
In 1869, President Grant appointed him minister to Russia. He filled the post with credit and on his return in 1872 was chosen delegate- at-large to the constitutional convention.
In 1878, he ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. Two years later he ran again, was elected and served three consecutive terms until his retirement in March 1887.
He lived quietly the remaining years of his life in his mountain home, surrounded by his family and friends, and died, after a severe attack of illness, on October 7, 1894.
Achievements
He was the first of the governors to be summoned to Washington by Lincoln. He served as the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War.
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Politics
His support of Greeley in the campaign of 1872 estranged his Republican friends, and he subsequently joined the Democratic party.
Personality
Of commanding presence and genial manner, gifted with wit and power of speech, Curtin became highly effective both before judges and juries. He won early success as a public speaker.
Connections
On May 30, 1844, Curtin married Catherine Irvine Wilson, daughter of Dr. Irvine Wilson and Mary Patten Wilson.
