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Herman Silver (1831–1913) was a Republican politician, superintendent of the United States Mint in Colorado, a collector of internal revenue, a railroad official and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council. ==Saxony, Illinois and Dakota== Silver was born in Magdeburg in Prussian Saxony in 1831, where "he was well-educated with Hebrew training." He emigrated to the United States in 1848, and on the ship he exchanged Hebrew-English language lessons with a Catholic priest.〔(Jewish Museum of the American West, with sources as cited there )〕 He settled in Kankakee County, Illinois, where he was a Free Soiler underJohn C. Fremont. He helped organize the Republican Party and became chairman of the Republican county committee in La Salle County.〔 He married Eliza Post in Peru, Illinois〔 and "went to Springfield and met Lincoln and was trusted with political work in Northern Illinois.〔 He did not serve in the Civil War because of "congestion of the lungs," but he helped raise funds to supports Illinois soldiers, and he helped runaway slaves.〔 He ran for clerk of LaSalle County in 1861 but was defeated, In 1863 Governor Richard Yates appointed him clerk of the new city of Peru, Illinois, and the same year he became Federal Assessor of the 2nd Illinois District. In 1864 he became a circuit court clerk, and in 1866 he was admitted to the bar.〔 He left that job in 1869.〔("Personals," ''The Ottawa Free Trader,'' January 2, 1869, page 1 )〕〔( "Charles Holmes Hook," ''The Ottawa Free Trader," June 21, 1884, page 4 )〕 In 1864 Silver was elected as county clerk on the Republican ticket, after he had "made a vigorous canvass, not only for himself and the rest of the local ticket, but () for Lincoln and the Union." He was reelected at the end of his term. In July 1872 Silver and 22 other men from Aurora, LaSalle, Ottawa and Peru were charter members of a new B'nai B'rith lodge that met at Turner Hall in Ottawa.〔("Lodge of I.O.B.B.," ''The Ottawa Free Trader,'' July 20, 1872, page 1 )〕 He was appointed by Illinois Governor John Lourie Beveridge as a representative of Illinois to attend a World's Fair in Vierra, Austria, in the summer of 1873.〔〔(''The Ottawa Free Trader,'' April 12, 1873, page 4 )〕 That same year he was given a new job by the federal government as United States marshal in the Dakota Territory.〔("Marshal Silver," ''The Ottawa Free Trader,'' December 20, 1873, page 1 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herman Silver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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