RICHARD HARVEY CAIN

(1825-1887)

Born in Greenbrier County, Va., April
12, 1825; removed with his father to
Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831, and attended
school. Entered the ministry and was
pastor in Brooklyn,
N. Y., from 1861-
1865; moved to
South Carolina in
1865 and settled in
Charleston. Was
elected delegate to
the Constitutional
Convention of South
Carolina in 1868,
member of the State
Senate 1868-1872;
manager and editor
of the Charleston
Leader.

Elected as a Re-
publican to the Forty-third Congress in
1872 and served from March 4, 1873, to
March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for
re-election in 1878.

Returned to the ministry after retire-
ment from Congress, was elected bishop
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1880 and served until his
death in Washington, D. C., January 18,
1887.

THOMAS MILLER
(1849-1037)

Born in Ferrebeeville, Beaufort Coun-
ty, S. C., June 17, 1849; attended the
public schools in Charleston, S C. and
Hudson, N. Y., was
graduated from Lin-
coln University,
Chester County, Pa.,
in 1872. School com-
missioner of Beau-
fort in 1872; studied
law, admitted to the
bar in 1875 and prac-
ticed in Beaufort. He
was a member of the
State executive com-
mittee, 1878-1880;
elected a member of
the State Senate in
1880. He successfully contested the elec-
tion of William Elliott (white) to the
Fifty-first Congress and served from
September 24, 1890, to March 3, 1891.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for
re-election in 1890 to the Fifty-second
Congress, elected a member of the
State Constitutional Convention in 1895.
Elected president of the State Colored
College in Orangeburg, S. C., and served
from 1896 to 1911, when he retired.

He died in Charleston, S. C., in 1937,
after a year of total blindness.

JOHN BOY LYNCH
(1847-1939)

Born near Vadalia, Concordia Parish,
La., September 10, 1847. When he was
a child his parents moved to Natchez,
Miss., where he at-
tended evening
schools and was tu-
tored by private in-
structors. Hungry
for education, he
read the best works
published at the time
on ancient and mod-
ern literature. Elect-
ed to the Mississippi
House of Representa-
tives, he served from
1869-1871, re-elected
and served from 1872-73. In the latter
term he served as speaker of the House.

Elected as a Republican to the Forty-
third and Forty-fourth Congresses and
served from March 4, 1873 to March 3,
1877.

Unsuccessful candidate for re-election
in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; suc-
cessfully contested the election of James
R. Chalmer (white) to the Forty-seven-
th Congress and served from April 29,
1882, to March 3, 1883, unsuccessful
candidate for re-election in 1882 to the
Forty-eighth Congress, returned to his
plantation in Adams County, Miss., and
engaged in agriculture.

ROBERT SMALLS
(1839-1915)

Born in Beaufort, S. C., April 15, 1839.
Self-educated, he moved in 1851 to Char-
leston, where he became a rigger and
worked on the Char-
leston transport,
Planter. On May 13,
1862, he seized the
Planter, which then
was General Ripley's
Confederate dispatch
boat, took it from
wharf in Charleston
harbor past the re-
bel battery at Fort
Sumter. With the
aid of eight colored
comrades, he deliv-
ered the boat to the
blockading Union fleet.

For this act of heroism he was named
captain in the U. S. Navy in December,
1863; piloted the monitor, Keokuk in
the attack on Fort Sumter, April 7,
1863; later was placed in charge of the
Light House Inlet and commanded the
Planter which he brought to Baltimore
in September, 1886.

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