764 Biographical Directory BYRON, William Devereux (husband of Katharine presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-ninth Edgar Byron and father of Goodloe Edgar Byron), a Rep- Congress and served from October 6, 1845, to January 24, resentative from Maryland; born in Danville, Pittsylvania 1846, when he was succeeded by William H. Brockenbrough, County, Va., May 15, 1895; moved to Williamsport, Wash- who contested the election; elected as a Whig to the Thir- ington County, Md. with his parents in 1899; attended the tieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, public schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.; during the First World War on Public Buildings (Thirtieth-Congress); unsuccessful can- enlisted as a private in the Aviation Corps; commissioned didate in 1852 for reelection to the Thirty-third Congress; a first lieutenant, and was assigned as an instructor in resumed the practice of law in Tallahassee; moved to St. flying and in aerial gunnery; engaged in the leather manu- Louis, Mo., in 1859; during the Civil War served in the facturing business in 1919; served as mayor of Williamsport Confederate Army with rank of lieutenant colonel; engaged 1926-1930; member of the State senate 1930-1934; member in the practice of law in New York City 1868-1872, and of the Maryland Roads commission in 1934 and 1935; elected subsequently in St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State senate as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh of Missouri 1878-1882; died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28, Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death 1896; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. in an airplane crash at Jonesboro, near Atlanta, Ga., Feb- ruary 27, 1941; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Williams- CABELL, George Craighead, a Representative from port, Md. Virginia; born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., January 25, 1836; attended the Danville Academy, and the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; was C admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Danville in 1858; edited the Republican and later the Democratic CABANISS, Thomas Banks (cousin of Thomas Chipman Appeal in Danville; elected Commonwealth attorney for McRae), a Representative from Georgia; born in Forsyth, Danville in September 1858, and served until April 23, 1861, Monroe County, Ga., August 31, 1835; attended private when he volunteered as a private in the Confederate Army; schools and Penfield College; was graduated from the Uni- commissioned major in June 1861 and was assigned to the versity of Georgia at Athens in 1853; studied law; was ad- Eighteenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to the mitted to the bar in 1861; entered the Confederate Army rank of colonel and served until the close of the Civil War; April 1, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War; returned resumed the practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat to Forsyth, Ga., and commenced the practice of law; member to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses of the State house of representatives 1865-1867; appointed (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on assistant secretary of the State senate in 1870 and secretary Railways and Canals (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con- in 1873; resigned to become solicitor general of the Flint gresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to circuit, which office he held until 1877; served in the State the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in senate 1878-1880 and 1884-1886; elected as a Democrat to Danville, Va.; died in Baltimore, Md., June 23, 1906; inter- the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); un- ment in Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Va. successful candidate for renomination in 1894; appointed a CABELL, Samuel Jordan, a Representative from Vir- member of the Dawes Commission to adjust affairs in the ginia; born in Albemarle (now Nelson) County, Va., Decem- Indian Territory; mayor of Forsyth, Ga., in 1910; judge of ber 15, 1756; attended the College of William and Mary, the city court in 1913 and 1914; died in Forsyth, Ga., August Williamsburg, Va.; left school to enter the Revolutionary 14, 1915; interment in Oakland Cemetery. Army; appointed captain of Amherst County Volunteers in CABELL, Earle, a Representative from Texas; born on 1776; assigned to the Sixth Virginia Regiment; promoted a farm, south of Trinity River in Dallas County, Tex., Octo- to the rank of major for gallantry at Saratoga in 1777; ber 27, 1906; graduated from North Dallas High School in served in Washington’s army in 1778 and 1779 and attained 1925; attended Texas A. & M. and Southern Methodist Uni- the rank of lieutenant colonel; was taken prisoner by the versity; in 1932 with two brothers organized Cabell’s, Inc. British May 12, 1780, at the capture of Charleston; after (dairies and convenience stores) and became president and the war returned to Virginia and engaged in planting; mem- chairman of the board; engaged in banking and investments; ber of the State house of delegates 1785-1792; member of elected mayor of Dallas May 1961 and reelected in 1963, ratification convention in 1788; elected as a Republican to serving until his resignation February 3, 1964, to be a can- the Fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March didate for Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- 4, 1795-March 3, 1803); was not a candidate for reelection ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, in 1802; died on his estate ‘‘Soldiers’ Joy,’’ near New Market 1965-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for reelection (now Norwood), Nelson County, Va., August 4, 1818; inter- in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; retired and returned ment in the family burying ground on his farm near Nor- to Dallas where he died September 24, 1975; interment in wood, Va. Restland Memorial Park. CABLE, Benjamin Taylor, a Representative from Illi- CABELL, Edward Carrington, a Representative from nois; born in Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., August 11, Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended 1853; moved with his parents to Rock Island, Ill., in Sep- Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), tember 1856; attended the public schools and Racine College, Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds’ Classical Racine, Wis.; was graduated from the University of Michigan Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the Univer- at Ann Arbor in 1876; engaged in agricultural pursuits and sity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida also became interested in various manufacturing enter- in 1837 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Tallahas- prises; chairman of the western branch of the Democratic see; delegate to the Territorial convention to form a State National Committee in 1892; chairman of the Democratic constitution in 1838; returned to Virginia; studied law; was executive committee in 1902; delegate to the Democratic admitted to the bar in 1840; returned to Tallahassee, Fla.; National Convention in 1904; elected as a Democrat to the upon the admission of Florida as a State into the Union Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); de- Biographies 765 clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892; engaged the feed and grain business in Paterson, N.J.; member of in agricultural pursuits as joint owner of a ranch near San the State house of assembly in 1884 and 1885; sheriff of Antonio, Tex.; died in Rock Island, Ill., on December 13, Passaic County 1887-1890; elected as a Democrat to the 1923; interment in Chippiannock Cemetery. Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891- March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination in CABLE, John Levi (great-grandson of Joseph Cable), a 1894; member of the board of inspectors of the State prison; Representative from Ohio; born in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, resumed his former business pursuits; died in Paterson, April 15, 1884; attended the public schools; Kenyon College, N.J., January 20, 1902; interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio, LL.B., 1906 and from the law department near Paterson, N.J. of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., J.D., 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced prac- CADWALADER, John, a Representative from Pennsyl- tice in Lima, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Allen County vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1805; was grad- 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and uated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1925); in 1821; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty- commenced practice in Philadelphia; solicitor for the Bank eighth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in of the United States in 1830; captain of a military company 1924; resumed the practice of law; again elected to the Sev- during the riots of 1844 in Philadelphia; elected as a Demo- enty-first Congress; reelected to the Seventy-second Con- crat to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March gress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate 3, 1857); declined to be a candidate for renomination in for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; re- 1856; resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia; appointed sumed the practice of law; special assistant to attorney gen- judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern eral of Ohio 1933-1937; special counsel to the Reconstruction District of Pennsylvania in 1858 and served until his death Finance Corporation in the liquidation of the Lima First in Philadelphia, Pa., January 26, 1879; interment in Christ American Bank & Trust Co.; appointed Government appeal Churchyard.