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 JUDGE C. N. HARRIS
-----Was born at Dryden, Tompkins County, Now York,
September 3, 1839. When eight years of age, his parents
removed to Bellevue, Eaton County, Michigan, and in 1852
from thence to Hennepin County, Minnesota, where he grew
to manhood.
He received a common school and academic
education and progressed to the junior year at Hamlin
University, at Redwing, Minnesota. While at college he
enlisted, April, 1861, in Company F, First Regiment,
Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and was present at the
battle of Bull Run, July 21st of that year. He was
seriously wounded and reported killed. Being left upon
the field he was taken prisoner and sent to Richmond,
Virginia, where he remained in the prison hospital until
about November, when he, with fifty-six others who were
supposed to be permanently disabled, was paroled and
sent to Fortress Monroe, where he received his
discharge.
In August, 1861, no tidings having been received
from him, funeral services were held at his home in
Minnesota.
Again
taking service in the army in June, 1862, he received an
appointment at Washington, D. C, and remained there
until August, 1864, when he resigned a clerkship in the
Quartermaster General's office and came to Nevada,
arriving in September of that year. Having studied law
during his stay in Washington, he was admitted to the
Bar before the Supreme Court of Minnesota, just as he
was leaving for Nevada. He took up his residence in
Washoe County and entered successfully upon the practice
of his profession, until in 1866 he was elected Judge of
the Third Judicial District, consisting of the counties
of Washoe and Roop. In 1870 he was elected Judge of the
present Second District, comprising Douglas, Ormsby,
Washoe and Roop Counties. At the expiration of his term,
in January, 1875, he resumed the practice of his
profession at Carson City, to which place he removed in
1873.
In 1876
he was appointed by President Grant Register of the
United States Land Office at Carson City, which he
continued to hold until August, 1880, he having tendered
his resignation in March previous. He was one of the
Nevada delegation to the Cincinnati Republican
Convention, which nominated Hayes to the
Presidency.
While practicing his profession he also edits the
Daily Index, a small but stalwart Republican paper,
which commenced publication in December, 1880, at Carson
City.
Judge
Harris is a man of good abilities as a lawyer and
writer, and in character is of thoroughly independent
and strong traits. In person he is tall and of good
appearance. He is thoroughly identified with the history
of western Nevada and is well known throughout the
State. To his thorough acquaintance with the subject and
his ready pen the publishers of this work are indebted
for the history of the Bar of Nevada.
The
Judge was married in November, 1867, to Miss Clementine
Magee, of Washington, D. C, and has two children, both
boys.
 M. D. HATCH ----The subject of the
following sketch, is a native of the Green Mountain
State, being born in Williamstown, Orange County,
Vermont, on the nineteenth of August, 1841. Though a
native of that State, his recollections do not date back
to the time he lived there, for at the early age of two
years he went with his parents to Lake County, Illinois,
where he obtained a common-school education, and passed
the days of his youth in the garden State of the
West.
When he
was a mere boy his parents moved to California, and he
accompanied them on the long and tedious journey. This
was in the year 1852. Arriving in the land of gold they
settled in Nevada County, where they remained until
1867. During the last named year, Mr. Hatch crossed the
mountains and located at Carson City, Ormsby County,
Nevada, and engaged in the mercantile and lumber
business, where, by strict application to his business,
he acquired a competence, and retired from active
business life.
A man
of sound judgment and sterling integrity, the partiality
of his fellow-townsmen did not allow him to remain a
private citizen among them, and he was induced to accept
the nomination as County Clerk, to which office he was
elected by a handsome majority in 1880, and without
doubt will be able to exhibit as clean a record at the
expiration of his term of office, as his predecessors
have done.
He was married October
20, 1869, to Miss Bertie A. Davis, of Glenbrook,
Nevada.
 GOV. JOHN HENRY KINKEAD
----Was born at Smithfield, Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, on the tenth of December, 1826. Three
years after his parents removed to Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio. Some years later the family made their
home at Lancaster, Fairfield County, in the same State,
where the eldest living member of the family now
resides.
The
Governor's father, J. Kinkead, was a native of Chester
County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch parentage; was married
in Baltimore, Maryland, to a lady of German descent,
where the elder members of the family were born. He was
also an enlisted soldier and officer in the army of
1812, though not called into active service. Among the
public works of those early days was the construction of
a highway by the Government, known as the National
Turnpike Road, that extended from Baltimore, Maryland,
west, through the populous portions of the country, to
Columbus, Ohio. It was projected to terminate at St.
Louis, but never reached that point. The Governor's
father was a contractor in the building of that road,
and moved along its line from Baltimore westward, first
to Smithfield, then to Zanesville, as before mentioned,
where his connection with that enterprise ceased.
The
scholastic training to fit the subject of this sketch
for the pursuits of life was not pursued into fields
higher than were attainable in the Lancaster High
School, an institute in that day under charge of the
brothers Mark and John Howe, bearing a deservedly high
reputation. His graduating educational degrees have been
obtained under that practical and finished instructor
only found in acquiring a knowledge of business and of
men.
At
eighteen years of age he entered a wholesale dry goods
establishment in St. Louis as a
clerk, where he remained until his twenty-third year,
when he crossed the plains in 1849, and established, in
connection with J. M. Livingston, the pioneer mercantile
house at Salt Lake City, known as Livingston &
Kinkead. In
1854 he removed to California, where, with his partners,
a business was continued that consisted chiefly of
buying, selling, and grazing stock.
On the
first of January 1856, he was married at Marysville,
California, to Miss Lizzie Fall, a daughter of John C.
Fall, who now resides at Wilcox, Arizona. After his
marriage, with the exception of one year spent in New
York City in commercial business, he was interested in a
mercantile establishment at Marysville, in connection
with Mr. Fall, until 1861. In the fall of
1859 his firm established a branch house at Carson City,
Nevada; and in February of 18G0, moved there to take
charge of the new enterprise since when he has
considered the Silver State his home, though
occasionally absent, and at one time for over three
years. His absence, just mentioned, was from 1867 to
1871, when he visited Alaska, and was one of the parties
who went there to witness the act of transfer by the
Russian Government of the home of the Esquimaux, the
icebergs, and seals, to our Government. He was the first
official appointed by the United States to any
Government position in that country. It was tendered
him, with a commission not quite as large as a
bedspread, duly stamped with the national seal, on which
could have been, but was not, written the ten
commandments; his pay was to be twelve dollars per year;
his occupation and title that of "P. M." (which is
Postmaster).
As a
business man. Governor Kinkead has been one of the most
active in the country. In connection with his associates
he built, in early times, the widely-known Mexican
Quartz Mill, located at Empire City; located the pioneer
town of Washoe City, and improved the water-power there;
was one of the original projectors of the now Virginia
and Truckee Railroad; built smelting works at Pleasant
Valley, a mill in the canon below Washoe City, and
another at Austin; has been engaged in milling or mining
in Ormsby, Washoe, Storey, Lander, Humboldt, and
Esmeralda counties, in this State, in addition to his
mercantile pursuits.
The
Governor was Territorial Treasurer under Governor Nye,
during the existence of the Territorial Government; was
a member of both Constitutional Conventions convened for
the purpose of creating a State Organization. Declining
any further political advancement, he devoted himself to
business pursuits, only emerging therefrom upon his
nomination and election as Governor of his State in
1878. He is a gentleman in many respects of superior
attainments, with a fair scholastic education: has read
law, and traveled extensively in the United States and
Territories. Officially he has shown himself to be
industrious, honest, and capable. Socially he is suave
and affable in his manner. He would address a prince
with dignity, or treat a tramp courteously, and greets
all with a kind word and genial pleasant smile, making
every one whom he meets glad that Nevada's Governor is a
gentleman.
 DR. SIMEON LEM LEE
-----Is a native of Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois,
and was born September 4, 1844. His parents
resided on a farm, where he remained, dividing his time
between work, play, and the school room, until nineteen
years of age, when he enlisted in Company H, Eighth
Illinois Infantry.
It was
in 1863, that he became a soldier, and he remained in
the army about two and a half years, until the close of
the war, when he was finally mustered out, as an
officer, having won his way from a private to a
lieutenancy. He was one of the storming party that took
Spanish Fort, and a few days later Fort Blakeley, in
1865, those strongholds being the key to the city of
Mobile, in Alabama, which surrendered as soon as these
outer defenses had fallen. He was one of the first in
the storming party to reach the inside of the enemy's
works-Dr. A. C. Bishop, of Eureka, Nevada, being the
first at the charge that took the latter Fort. His
Lieutenant, shot through the body, fell a few yards
before reaching the parapets, in front of which lay,
dead or wounded, one-half of Lee's comrades, who, with
him, had faced the enemy's scathing storm of
schrapnel-shells, grape, canister, and musket laden
messengers of death. Thus a vacancy was created, and a
brave boy-for young Lee was not yet twenty-one years of
age received the reward by a commission for a gallant
and brave act, that justly entitled him to
preferment.
After
leaving the service, at the close of the war, he entered
the medical college at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
finally graduated in 1870, and the same year settled in
Carson, Nevada, to practice his profession. In 1872, he
removed to Pioche, remaining there until 1879, and then
returned to Carson City, where he now resides. In 1868, he was
married to Lola M. Watts, of Cincinnati, and they now
have three sons, named respectively, Bishop F., William
L. and Adelbert W.
The Doctor is a man of decided opinions and
characteristics. His friends know that he considers them
as such, his enemies are in no doubt as to his views
regarding them, and he was never known to stop at a
half-way house. Occasionally he takes a hand in the game
of politics, and when he does, those whom he favors or
those whom he opposes are neither of them obliged to
call the roll to find out whether he is present or not.
We are inclined to think he likes his friends too well
and dislikes the others too much. In disposition he is
generous, and in manner polite and courteous. As a physician, he is
thoroughly read, has had and has now, extensive practice
and observation, and has brains enough to profit by it.
As a surgeon, there are too many examples of skillfully
treated cases that have already come successfully from
under his treatment to leave a doubt as to ability in
that line.
 J. H. MARSHALL -----Was
born July 26, a. d. 1850, in Bucyrus, Crawford County,
Ohio. His father was born in the same town, while his
mother was a native of Xenia, Ohio. During the first
nine years of his life he lived in his native town, and
then removed to St. Louis. Missouri, where he attended
the Webster School for seven months. He then moved with
his parents to Mattoon, Illinois, where he had the
benefit of one year's schooling, and at the early age of
eleven years, entered the mercantile business, as clerk,
in the establishment of McIntyre & Ogden, afterwards
that of J. M. Douglas, where he continued until the
spring of 1864. The father of Mr. Marshall was Assistant
Quartermaster of the United States Army stationed at
Cincinnati, Ohio, whither young Marshall went. After a short
stay at that place he went to Bucyrus, his native town,
and six months later went to Xenia and commenced a
five-years' course of study with the intention of
qualifying himself for a lawyer. A few weeks later his
father was killed, and the subject of this sketch was
compelled to relinquish his pet object and go to work,
which he did in a masterly manner.
His
first move after quitting his studies, was in obtaining
a position as clerk and bookkeeper in a store at Sulphur
Springs, Ohio, where he remained until November, 1867;
thence to Junction City, Kansas, where he held the
position of Assistant Postmaster one year, and changed
to his old profession as book-keeper in a general
merchandise store for one year; thence to Lawrence,
Kansas, and entered the employ of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad Company as Chief Clerk, Cashier and Ticket
Agent.
After this he held positions on several
railroads, until 1873. March, 1874, he accepted a
position as book-keeper with J. G. Fox, of Carson City,
Nevada, and came to the latter place. He occupied that
position until he was elected County Clerk of Ormsby
County, in 1876, on the Dolly Vardon ticket. Mr. Marshall has
never married.
DUNCAN
McRAE ----The subject referred to in this sketch, is a
native of Canada, and first beheld the light of day in
the Province of Ontario, on the seventeenth day of
March, 1840. His education was obtained on Canadian
soil, and for some years after arriving at manhood's
estate, was employed as foreman of a large lumber yard
in his native town. In 1870 he emigrated to Nevada, and
located at Carson City, Ormsby County.
His old
business still clung to him and soon after his arrival
in the land of silver, we find him an extensive
contractor for the cutting of large amounts of wood for
different companies. His early
training combined with a clear well-balanced head, soon
placed him in advance of his competitors, and he has,
beyond a doubt, handled more wood during the past few
years than any man in the State of Nevada. Mr. McRae now
employs a large force of men, numbering about 125, and
over 100 horses and mules, in the delivery of 400 cords
of wood daily at Lakeview. The wood is cut in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains and placed in a flume and thus
transported by water to a point nine miles below. The wood is owned by
the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company, and is used
principally by the Bonanza Firm in working their mines
on the Comstock.
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