Note 11 — Chapter I · • the American Scene

The list of his “beneficiaries,” some of whom were drawn in delicately and some realistically, included, according to his biographer, Vice-President Colfax, Speaker Blaine and James A. Garfield of the House, Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio and Governor Geary of Pennsylvania, General Horace Porter, President Grant’s private secretary, Senators John Sherman, William Windom, and Ben Wade, Delegate Garfielde of Washington Territory, Bayard Taylor. Amongst the papers were Henry Ward Beecher’s Christian Union, Greeley’s Tribune, the Philadelphia Press, the Washington Chronicle, the London Times.