Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EBENEZER E.CUNNINGHAM. PRESIDENT OF THB SENATE. I HE subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Hannibal, Missouri, April 6, 1839. His father is a native of Pennsylvania, and graduated at a Presbyterian college, but feeling no particular call for either law or theology, he finally turned his attention to agriculture, and having removed West in an early day, became a successful farmer, which calling he still pursues. In 1845, wren Ebenezer was but six years old, his father removed to Lee county, Iowa. That was then a dreary wilderness—being on the extreme western border of civilization. Mrs. Cunningham, the daughter of Ephraim Wilson and Sarah January, and a native of Kentucky, was skilled in all that is essential in the composition of a good house-wife and mother. She bestowed her most attentive labors upon the training of her children, that they might in their manhood and womanhood "honor their father and their mother." The Wilson branch of the parental family were not noted for any very strong hold on life—b;ing of a pulmonary tendency. On the other hand the Januaries were a strong, robust and athletic race, with a long lease on the good things of this world. For generations they have been honored as being among the most prominent families in the land of Boone, and have shared largely in those important transactions that have given notoriety to the "Hunters of Kentucky." A long line of descendants still hold to the tramping-ground of their fathers, where the confidence of the people is manifest by the important positions the Januaries are called upon lo fill. At the time of the removal of the elder Cunningham to Iowa, they had been blessed with three children, of whom Ebenezer was the oldest. They resided in Iowa until 1857, when they rem...