A sepia-toned photograph of Joseph C. S. Blackburn, born in Woodford County, Ky., attending common schools and graduating from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, after a course of legal study at Lexington, Ky. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, practiced his profession in Chicago until the Civil War, when he entered the Confederate Army, at the close of the Civil War, when he returned to Ken-tucky, where he resumed his legal duties, and was elected to Congress in 1875, at the expiration of his term, in 1881.