Le cyclopædia National de la biographie américaine : étant l'histoire des Etats-Unis comme illustré dans la vie des fondateurs, constructeurs, et défenseurs de la république, et des hommes et des femmes qui font le travail et mouler la pensée de l'heure actuelle, éditée par des biographes distingués, sélectionnés de chaque état, révisée et approuvée par les historiens les plus éminents, les universitaires, et les hommes d'état de la journée . s et à l'âge de twintyhe ont commencé à faire des affaires comme un négociant de pays et est devenu presque im-mediately réussi. En moyenne, il était devenu populaire et en avant-première parmi ses collègues

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The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s and at the age of twentyhe began business as a countrymerchant and became almost im-mediately successful. In the mean-time he had become popular andprominent among his fellow-cit-izens and was elected colonel of the 162d regi-ment New York state militia. His profits accum-ulated and he invested his savings in the lumbertrade and personally conducted his first raft oftimber which cost him his first thousand dollars, down the Ohio to Maysvifle, Ky., where he sold itat a large profit. He soon had the reputation of be-ing one of the most successful operators in lumberin his region. He made considerable money and be-gan to take rank among the brightest and most pros-perous of his neighbors. Prom 1846 to 1853 inclus-ive, he was annually elected supervisor of Carroll..He acted with the democratic party of that dayand in 1849 was nominated by it for the assemblyand won the election. In 1852 he was nomina-ted by the democrats for congress and waselected by a small majority in a district which. THE NATIONAL CYCLOPJilDIA had hitherto given 3, 000 majority to whig candi-dates. Bitterly opposed to the extension of slavery, Mr. Fenton abandoned his party on the instant thatit advocated pro-slavery measures and voted in con-gress against the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He wasvery apt to encourage and foster popular measures.He espoused the cause of the veterans of 1812 andcarried a bill for their relief through the house. Headvocated the cheap-postage system, the regulationof emigration, the extension of invalid pensions andthe repeal of the fugitive slave law, and he oppose

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