Bragg

Edward Stuyvesant, an American legislator, born in Unadilla, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1827; educated at Geneva, now Hobart, College, and admitted to the bar in New York, in 1848. He removed to Fond du Lac, Wis., served in the Union army during the Civil War, and won his way to the rank of Brigadier-General. He was a member of the Union Convention, at Philadelphia, in 1866; Representative in Congre in 1877-1885; and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1872, 1884, 1892, and 1896, In the Convention of 1884, he seconded the renomination of Grover Cleveland, when he uttered the memorable phrase, * We love him for the enemies he has made.” In 1888 he was aprointe minister to Mexico; and in June, 1902, became the first United States consul-general in Havana under the new republic of Cuba, retiring the same year on account of a letter which he wrote reflecting on the Cubans, Bragi, the Scand in avian god of poetry. He is represented as an old man with a long flowing beard, like Odin; yet with a serene and unwrinkled brow. His wife was Idunna.