\"19th & 20th Century United States Congressmen\" Album Page Signed By 5 For Sale

"19th & 20th Century United States Congressmen" Album Page Signed By 5. Signers are; Archibald Lybrand (OH), W.B. Shattuc (OH), Horace B Packer (PA), James Codding (PA) and A.L. Hager (Iowa). 

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Archibald

Lybrand (May 23, 1840 –

February 7, 1910) was a lawyer, soldier, businessman, and in Tarlton, Ohio, Lybrand

moved to Delaware, Ohio, in 1857.

He attended the common schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University at

Delaware. During the Civil War, he enlisted in

the Union Army on April 26, 1861, and served in Company

I, Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer

Infantry. He later transferred to Company E, Seventy-third Regiment, Ohio

Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted to first lieutenant. He was

later commissioned as the company's captain. He remained in

the service three years. After mustering out, he returned to Delaware, Ohio,

where he served as mayor in 1869. He studied law and was admitted to

the bar in 1871. He was a landowner and also engaged in

agricultural and mercantile pursuits. He served as the postmaster of Delaware from 1881–85. Lybrand was elected

as 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901). He was an unsuccessful candidate for

renomination in 1900 and resumed his business activities in Delaware, Ohio. He

died in Daytona, Florida, February

7, 1910, and was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, Ohio.

William

Bunn Shattuc (June 11, 1841 –

July 13, 1911) was Shattuc was born in Hector, New York but Shattuc moved to Ohio in 1852 with

his parents, who settled near Sandusky. During the American Civil War,

Shattuc enlisted in Company I, 2nd Ohio Cavalry, August 13, 1861, with a commission as

a second lieutenant. He

mustered out February 21, 1863, as a first lieutenant. He

served as assistant and afterward general passenger agent of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company

from 1865 to 1894 and served as member of the State senate in 1895. Shattuc was

elected as 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903). He served as chairman of the Committee on

Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses) but

was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. He died in Madisonville,

near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 13,

1911 and was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Horace Billings Packer (October 11, 1851

– April 13, 1940) was a Republican member

of the U.S. House Horace B. Packer was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

He attended the common schools, the Wellsboro

Academy, and Alfred University in Alfred, New York. He

studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Tioga County, Pennsylvania,

in 1873 and commenced practice in Wellsboro. He was also engaged in the real  state business. He served as district attorney

of Tioga County from 1875 to 1879. Packer was elected to the Pennsylvania

State House of Representatives in 1884 and reelected in 1886.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from

1888 to 1892. He served many years as a member of the borough council, and

presided over the Republican State conventions of 1893 and 1894. Packer was

elected as a Republican to was not a candidate for renomination in 1900. He resumed the practice of law

in Wellsboro, and was also engaged in the real estate, banking, and lumber

businesses. He was a delegate to the 1924

Republican National Convention. He died in Wellsboro in 1940.

Interment in Wellsboro Cemetery.

James Hodge Codding (July 8, 1849 –

September 12, 1919) was a Republican member

of the U.S. House James H. Codding was born in Pike

Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He moved to Towanda, Pennsylvania, in

1854. He attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He

was engaged in the hardware business at Towanda in 1868. He studied law, was

admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Towanda in 1879. Codding was

elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress

to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Myron B. Wright. He was reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1898. He resumed the practice of law

in Towanda, and in 1903 moved to New York City. He served as grand secretary general of the

northern Masonic jurisdiction for the Scottish Rite bodies from 1902 until his

death in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Interment in Oak Hill Cemetery in Towanda,

Pennsylvania.

Alva

Lysander Hager (October

29, 1850 – January 29, 1923) was a 9th congressional

district in the 1890s. Born near Jamestown, New York, Hager

moved in 1859 to Iowa with his parents, who settled near Cottonville, in Jackson County. He moved

to Jones County in 1863.

He attended the public schools of Monticello and Anamosa. He graduated from the University of Iowa College

of Law in 1875. He was admitted to

the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Greenfield, in southwestern Iowa. He served as member of

the Iowa Senate in 1891. He served as chairman of the Iowa

Republican State convention in 1892. In 1892, the U.S. House seat for Iowa's

9th congressional district was open because incumbent Democrat Thomas Bowman did not

seek a second term. Hager won the Republican nomination and the general

election. After serving in the 53rd United States

Congress, he was re-elected twice, serving in August 1898, Hager was defeated by Smith McPherson in the race for the Republican nomination

for Hager's seat. There were four serious candidates for the nomination. For

several days, no candidate received the required number of votes, but McPherson

prevailed on the 618th ballot, after Hager threw his support to him. In all, Hager served from March 4, 1893, to

March 3, 1899. After leaving Congress, Hager resumed the practice of law. He

moved to Des Moines in 1901

and continued the practice of his profession. He engaged in banking from 1911

to 1918. He died in Des Moines on January 29, 1923. He was interred in Harbach

Funeral Home vault.