Lowville Academy, New York ; At Least Elementary School; 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; College Graduate; 1850
Studied Law; Admitted to the Bar, 1855
                                
                             
                            
                                
                                
                                        
                                        
                                            Judge: 
                                            United States District Court, South Dakota (Appointed by President Harrison); 
                         
                         18?? to 18??
                                            [Appointed]
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            County Attorney: 
                                            Dodge County, Minnesota; 
                         
                         18?? to 18??
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            Military: 
                                            Union Army, 10th Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, Company B (United States Indian Campaign; United States Civil War, Department of Missouri, 1 year, and Department of the Gulf, Private, Colonel of the 67th U.S. Colored Infantry, Brevet Brigadier General); 
                         
                         1862 to 1867
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            State Board/Commission/Council: 
                                            Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission (Appointed by Governor Austin, Railroad Commissioner, He was the First One); 
                         
                         01/10/1872 to 1876
                                            [Appointed]
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            U.S. Senator: 
                                            Minnesota; 
                         
                         03/1875 to 03/1877
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            Board of Regents: 
                                            University of Minnesota; 
                         
                         12/1878 to 12/22/1881
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            Territorial Government: 
                                            South Dakota Constitutional Convention (President, for two of them); 
                         
                         188? to 188?
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            Judge: 
                                            Territorial Supreme Court of Dakota (Chief Justice); 
                         
                         1881 to 18??
                                            [Appointed]
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            U.S. Senator: 
                                            Minnesota; 
                         
                         03/12/1881 to 10/30/1881
                                            [Appointed]