Wisconsin calvary and served gallanty until the end of the war.Shortly after the war the young soldier entered Notre Dame university and took the clawtc*. and then entered the law department of the university of Michigan, matriculating under such great lawyers as Judge Cooley and CarapheU.Walker and Kent, nil nu-rr bers of the faculty. In lt75 he was admitted to practice in the United States suprem** court. Solicitor General Philip Phillips presenting his name, and Judge Bradley recommending him. He was at one time editor of the Peoria Tr inslt; rlpt. and In 1*81, while practicing law in Chicago, accepted the position he now occupies In the Notre Dame university. IVof. Hoy nee took an 1 active part In the presidential campaign of 1 1881, when Benjamin Harrison was the ! nominee of the republican party for pres*I ident. mith (Jen Hovey as the republican 1 candidate for governor of Indiana Prof, Moynes gras forced to accept the nomination for congress In a strongly democratic district, with Benjamin F. Shirley, then In congress, as his competitor. The shlboleth of the republicans in the district was Harrbon, Hovey and Hoynes, and, although Shively, at the previous elections, had about 2.500 majority, he defeated Prof. Hoynes by only 366 plurality, th*»re being a temperance candidate In the tteld; and. If It had not been for this fact, Prof Hoynes would have been ejected. In fact, for several days. It was believed that he had been sleeted.After entering upon hi* duties as president Mr. Harrison mole Prof. Hoynes chairman of the commission appointed toconduct negotiations with the White Earth Indians of the north for their removal to another reservation; and he did this In a most successful and satisfactory manner.Prof. Hoynes is a flne speaker and tookan active part In political eampalgna in Indiana. .