Memorials of deceased companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

MEMORIALS

of

Deceased Companions of the
Commandery of the State of Illinois

Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States

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From January /, igi2, to December J/, ig22

320 ASHLAND BLOCK

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

1923

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COMMITTEE

Capt. Charles B. Fullerton, Chairman

Capt. H^ey.J). Booker. : :

Capt. Orett L. 1>^unger.
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•**•• •GA^T/WifcEPAM-'p! 'Wright

Mr. Henry A. Rumsay

Maj. Edward D. Reddington

PREFACE

This volume, in connection with two others heretofore
piibHshed, is intended to furnish for the comfort of friends
and relatives and for information of other readers and stu-
dents of history, a closer view than can be found elsewhere
of individual (instead of group) history of officers now de-
ceased, who served in the Union Army during the Civil
War, and who later were affiliated with the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States through the Com-
mandery of the State of Illinois. All of these, some of
high and some of lesser rank in the Army, and descendants
of these, have been proven by official records and other evi-
dence worthy to be admitted into "This Order" which
acknowledges as its fundamental principles, ''First. A firm
belief and trust in Almighty God, extolling Him under whose
beneficent guidance the sovereignty and integrity of the
Union have been maintained, the honor of the Flag vindi-
cated, and the blessings of civil liberty secured, established
and enlarged." ''Second. True allegiance to the United
States of America, based upon paramount respect for and
fidelity to the National Constitution and Laws, manifested
by discountenancing whatever may tend to weaken loyalty,
incite to insurrection, treason or rebellion, or impair in any
manner the efficiency and permanency of our free institu-
tions."

Inevitably the greater number of these memorials are for
Companions who themselves served in the Civil War, but
some are for younger men whose affiliation with the Com-
mandery was welcomed and of advantage to all concerned,

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thus illustrating the saying that "death is no respecter of
persons."

It must be understood by the readers of these memorials
that their length or literary quality is no sure test of the
value of service rendered to The Country by the deceased.
The earlier deaths occurred v^hile more v^ere living who had
service or close acquaintance with the deceased, among them
some whose personal friendship brought out sympathetic
thought and expression not possible in all instances. In not
a few cases all three of the Companions whose names appear
as endorsers of the application for membership have passed
away and none others were found whose personal knowledge
of the deceased afforded needed facts. When such was the
case the records of the War Department, explicit and to the
point, and such particulars as the deceased himself furnished
in his application are the source of the material for the me-
morial which is necessarily brief.

The inroads of death are illustrated by records of our
membership which in 1903 reached its maximum of 659 of
whom 444 were original companions and 215 of the junior
classes. While today we have 100 original companions and
303 hereditary companions.

Whatever of sadness may come with perusal of these
records, some very brief and a few quite long, we trust the
reader may find satisfaction in the fact that our late Com-
panions gave of their best in their Country's need and under
the God-given leadership of the Great Lincoln helped to
establish as "one and indivisible" the United States of Amer-
ica, and to erase from its escutcheon the great blot of human
slavery.

It is our pleasant duty to acknowledge gratefully that to
our late Companion and Commander in 1902, Oliver W.
Norton, is due the existence of this and the two preceding
Volumes of Memorials. His conviction that< such records
should appear in permanent printed form and his liberality

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in paying the cost of publication brought out the first volume.
The same generous thought and giving produced Volume
Two, and made provision as he thought for still another.
Years passed and memorials increased in number until ample
material was at hand for Volume Three. The Memorial of
Companion Norton, telling of brave and valued service to
his Country, is included in this Volume. As a man of large
business affairs, as a valued citizen, and an esteemed member
of this Order he has a warm place in the memory of those
who knew him. To his family, and particularly to his widow
and elder son who is a member of this Commandery, our
sincere thanks are tendered for their liberal gift in supple-
menting the Norton Fund to cover the greatly increased cost
of publication of this present volume.

SAMUEL STORROW HIGGINSON.

Chaplain Ninth United States Colored Troops. Born at Roxbury,

Massachusetts, March 22, 1842. Died at Mihmukee,

Wisconsin, April 10, 1907.

T^ NTERED the service as Chaplain of the 9th U. S.
■*-' Colored Troops, joining the regiment at Benedict,
Charles County, Md., late in 1863; with the 7th and 19th
Colored regiments formed the Brigade known as Gen. Wil-
liam Birney's Brigade. Service at Hilton Head and Beau-
fort, S. C, and the futile effort to reach Charlestown. Later
the regiment returned to Fortress Monroe in the Army of
the James. The regiment was one of the first to enter
Richmond. After the surrender it was sent to Browns-
ville, Texas, the 25th Corps, where it remained in the Rio
Grande through 1866, and was then sent north for final
muster at Baltimore, November 26, 1866.

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The Coimnandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

ANDREW HENRY HERSHEY.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
Born in Marietta, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1840. Died
at Sterling, Illinois, April 10, 1907.

LIEUT. HERSHEY entered the service as a private in
-/ Co. ''K" 15th 111. Vol. Infantry and was successively
promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, Sergeant-Major and ist
Lieut., and Regimental Adjutant.

First service with Gen. Fremont in Missouri, thence to
Ft. Donaldson after the surrender. Regiment was then
placed in the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ten-
nessee where it remained until the close of the war. From
Donaldson to Pittsburg Landing and the battle of Shiloh.
Wounded the first day of the battle and sent to hospital
and then home. Rejoined the regiment near Corinth in
June, 1862, and took part in siege of Vicksburg and Jack-
son. Was on the Meridian Raid with Sherman, then At-
lanta, through the CaroHnas, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Peters-
burg, Richmond and Washington for the Grand Review,
May 24th. Thence to Louisville, Ft. Leavenworth, Ft.
Kearney, Neb., and Springfield, Illinois, for muster out
Sept. 16, 1865.

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THEODORE CUNNINGHAM GIBSON.

Major Fifty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, United States
Volunteers.

MAJOR GIBSON was born in Licking County, Ohio,
September 5, 1831, and died at Ottawa, Illinois,
September 23, 191 1.

When a mere boy Major Gibson saw service in one of
the Illinois cavalry regiments in the Mexican War. At the
outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Company "H," nth
Illinois Infantry and was subsequently appointed a Captain
in the same regiment. January i, 1862, he was appointed
Major in the 53rd Illinois Infantry which commission he
resigned on May 2^, 1862, because of ill health. He took
part in the great battles of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth.

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MALCOLM NEIL McLAREN STEWART.

Captain and Brevet Major. Died at Wilmington, Illinois, January

II, 19 1 2.

ANOTHER soldier of the Union has been mustered out.
Another comrade, endeared to us, not only by the
noble service he rendered to his country in time of its great-
est peril, but by his long and useful life as a resident of
Wilmington, has been transferred from life on this earth
to a higher and better realm.

Malcolm N. McL. Stewart was born in Amsterdam,
Montgomery County, New York, July 24, 1834, and died
at Wilmington, 111., January 11, 1912. His father, Peter
Stewart, was born in Scotland ; his mother, Elizabeth Buck-^
master Stewart, was a native of the state of New York. In

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the year 1835 Peter Stewart, with his family, moved from
New York to Wihiiington, IlHnois, where he spent the re-
mainder of his Hfe. He was a very strong anti-slavery man,
believing that the right to freedom and equality before and
under the law was the birthright of every individual, with-
out regard to color, place of birth, or inherited condition.

It speaks much for the schools of Wilmington that so
intelligent, capable and resourceful a man as was our de-
ceased companion received his education, so far as school-
ing was concerned, in Wilmington.

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he enhsted as a
private in an organization known as The Chicago Dragoons.
During his service with this organization it served for a
time as a part of the bodyguard of General George B. Mc-
Clellan in western Virginia during the summer campaign of
1 861.

July 15, 1862, he enlisted in the looth Illinois Volunteers,
a regiment then being recruited in Will County, and was
made First Lieutenant of ''Company A" thereof on Au-
gust 30, 1862. September 30, 1864, his superior officer,
Captain Rodney Bowen, having been killed in action at
the battle of Franklin, Tenn., Lieutenant Stewart was made
Captain and later Brevet Major for gallant service in ac-
tion, and continued in service with his company and regi-
ment until the close of the Civil War by the surrender of
Lee's army at Appomattox. He participated in the battles
of Laurel Hill, Chaplain Hill, Stone River, Chickamauga,
Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw
Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, FrankHn, Perryville,
Columbia and Nashville, and was with his regiment mus-
tered out in July, 1865.

He was a most excellent and faithful soldier, cheerful
under most depressing conditions, in the midst of hard-
ships, courageous and faithful at all times arid under all
circumstances.

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At the close of the Civil War he resumed his residence
in Wilmington, there living and working as a farmer for a
number of years. Because of his superior business qualifi-
cations and the universal confidence of the community in
his integrity and judgment he was made Teller of the First
National Bank of Wilmington, with which organization he
remained, actively assisting in the management of its af-
fairs up to the date of his death, at which period he was,
as for some time he had been, its President.

He was, from his youth up, universally respected and
esteemed in the community in which he lived. Notwith-
standing the demand upon his time which his connection
with the Bank of Wilmington made, he was always inter-
ested in, and gave much attention to, matters of general
public interest.

On May 30, 1871, he was united in marriage to Miss
Anna Mclntyre.

As husband and father, citizen and soldier, farmer and
banker, friend, counselor and man of affairs, no man in the
community, in which he spent seventy-seven years of his
life, was more highly esteemed or possessed to a greater
degree the confidence of the public.

In every position in which he was placed, in all perils,
amid all dangers and temptations, he was ever the same
sturdy, honest, upright, faithful friend and citizen he had
been in the beginning, and remained to the end of his career.

Dear Comrade, Beloved Companion, with thee all is well.
Wherever thy soul has gone, whether mingled with the spiritual

forces of the universe, or distinct as was thy life here, it

remains to uplift and to bless.
Spirits such as thine cannot come to harm.

Area N. Waterman,
James G. Elwood,
Erastus W. Willard,

Committee.

HARVEY GRAHAM. .

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
January i6, igi2.

GEN. HARVEY GRAHAM was born at Darlington,
Pennsylvania, February i8, 1828, and died at Chi-
cago, Illinois, January 16, 1912, leaving eight children and
seventeen grandchildren surviving him.

He was married in Pennsylvania on the 31st day of
January, 1850, to Miss Caroline Funkhauser, who died
April 12, 1893, in California, where his remains were taken
and placed by her side.

In 1856 General Graham settled at Iowa City, Iowa;
engaged in building and superintending mills, and made that

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his home until 1889, when he went to Stillwater, Minnesota,
where he remained two years, and then became superintend-
ent of the city water works at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, which
position he held until his voluntary retirement in 1898, after
which he divided his time with his children in various sec-
tions of the country. He came to Chicago in 1906 to live
with his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Carey Culbertson, at whose
home he died.

General Graham was one of the first men in Iowa to
answer the call for troops in April of 1861. He assisted in
organizing Company B, First Iowa Infantry; was commis-
sioned First Lieutenant of the company May 9, 1861 ; was
wounded at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861,
and mustered out with the regiment August 21, 1861.

Early in the summer of 1862 General Graham organized
a company, expecting to be assigned to the Eighteenth Iowa
Infantry, but before reaching the rendezvous the regiment
was complete and he was ordered with his company to
Iowa City to take part in the formation of the Twenty-sec-
ond Iowa Infantry, and on August 9, 1862, he was com-
missioned Major of that regiment; promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel September 17, 1862; to Colonel May i, 1864, and
finally discharged as Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General
July 25, 1865.

General Graham's service was an unusual one. In 1861
he was with General Lyon on the campaign through Mis-
souri. On going to the front in 1862 his regiment was
stationed at Rolla, Missouri, and spent the fall and winter
following in southeast Missouri. In March, 1863, the regi-
ment was sent to join General Grant in the campaign against
Vicksburg, where it was assigned to Carr's Division of
McClernand's Corps and took a prominent part in the en-
gagements that followed.

In the charge of May 22, 1863, General Graham led his

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men so far to the front that when the recall was sounded
he was imable to return to our lines, and he, with others
of his regiment, were captured, paroled and sent to our
lines at Millikens Bend. After being exchanged General
Grahajii with his regiment was sent . down the river in
August, 1863, and spent the following winter in Louisiana
and Texas, remaining in that vicinity until July, 1864, when
the regiment was assigned to the Nineteenth Corps and
sent by boat, via Fortress Monroe, to join General But-
ler on the James River, where the command remained but
a few days and was then sent to Washington and from
there to the Shenandoah to join General Sheridan, and
took a prominent part in his campaigns there in the fall
of 1864.

In February, 1865, the regiment was sent to Savannah,
Georgia, and remained in that vicinity for about two months,
when General Graham was given command of a brigade,
marched it to Augusta, Georgia, and was on duty there
until he received the order to muster out.

He was elected an Original Companion of the First
Class of the ^lilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, through the Commandery of the State of
Illinois, November 5, 1906.

General Graham was one who well deserves more than
a passing notice. He was intensely loyal, of indomitable
will and perseverance, having a superb physique and a
commanding presence ; and by reason of his exemplary
habits he was always well, even to the close of the day on
which he died he was the same cheery, companionable, lov-
able man that we who knew him during his service days
had learned to love as a true friend and worthy comrade.

Of him it may truthfully be said that when Taps was
sounded for him he simply wrapped the drapery of his
couch about him and lay down to quiet slumber.

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To his bereaved family we extend our earnest sympathy
and condolence.

John H. Stibbs,
Joseph B. Leake,
Wm. B. Keeler,

Committee.

GEORGE KELLOGG DAUCHY.

First Lieutenant. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 20, igi2.

OUR late Companion, George Kellogg Dauchy, was born
January 3, 1829, in Northampton, Fulton County,
New York. With high honors he was graduated from
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., at the age of nineteen.
In April, 1861, he was appointed Second Lieutenant in Co.
H, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, a three-months Regiment. This
Regiment was re-organized as a three-year Regiment.

Companion Dauchy did not remain with it, but went to
Troy, N. Y. In this city, in conjunction with Captain El-
lis, who had seen service in the British Army, he helped
to raise a Battery of Artillery, which was subsequently

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known as the 12th Independent Battery, New York Artil-
lery, U. S. A. The first assignment of this Battery was
at Fort Ellsworth, where it remained until the summer of
1862, drilling at the heavy guns with which the fort was
armed (32's and 34's). Subsequently the Battery was as-
signed to Fort Lyon, covering the approach to Alexandria
from the south, relieved of this and ordered to Chain Bridge
above Georgetown and from there to the Artillery Camp of
instructions near Blandensburg.

On the 6th day of July, 1863, the Battery was ordered to
Frederick, Maryland, and assigned to the 3rd Army Corps,
Army of the Potomac, and was actively engaged with this
Corps until it was broken up, two divisions being assigned
to the 2nd Corps and one to the 6th.

The subse(|uent service of the Battery was mostly with
the 2nd Corps. At the Battle of Reams Station, where the
Battery, under the command of Lieut. Dauchy, did fine
service, it was unfortunate in losing one of its guns, two
caissons and some horses. In this action Lieut. Brower,
a brave, capable oflficer, was killed. On General Hancock's
orders a Court of Inquiry was held to determine the cause
of the loss of the gun — the findings of the court not only
exonerated Lieut. Dauchy, but highly commended him for
the splendid service the Battery rendered on that memorable
day.

Throughout Lieut. Dauchy 's service in the army he suf-
fered from ill health, being compelled on several occasions
to go to the hospital. His term of enlistment expired on
November 17, 1864, and on that date he left service, tak-
ing with him a letter of comrnendation from Major Haz-
zard, Chief of the 2nd Corps, endorsed by Generals Hancock
and Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac.

In the year 1888 Companion Dauchy established the
Dauchy Iron Works on Illinois Street, Chicago. The busi-
ness is now managed by his sons.

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Companion Dauchy was a fine French scholar. In his
leisure hours he translated from the French into English,
General Regis De Trobriand's Four Years with the Army
of the Potomac. Those who are unable to read De Tro-
briand's book in the original will find pleasure and enter-
tainment in the Dauchy translation. It received the author's
warm commendation. General De Trobriand was a noble
soul and a lover of our country, which was materially helped
by his splendid service.

The ^lilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, founded immediately after the close of the War
of the Rebellion, is a compact brotherhood of Commissioned
Officers of honorable service in that greatest and noblest of
all wars.

Its purpose is that of sustained loyalty to the Govern-
ment of our Common Country.

The stability, ideals and purpose of a nation is measured
by the intelligence, force and character of its people. So it
is with a voluntary organization such as our Order of the
Loyal Legion.

Captain Dauchy, our greatly beloved deceased Com-
panion, was a typical member of the Order.

It was a privilege to know him well. He was possessed
of decided convictions, strong moral fibre, full of enter-
tainment to those having a desire for larger knowledge
of the historical, physical and geographical conditions, not
only of this country but also of Europe and South America.
It is true the better informed one was the more one's knowl-
edge would be enhanced when spent with Captain Dauchy.

Considerable of a traveler, an omnivorous reader with
a remarkable retentive memory, made his fund of informa-
tion always a delight and benefit to those who were privi-
leged to know him. Few men possessed a more compre-
hensive knowledge of the many battles of the War of the
Rebellion than Companion Dauchy; his ability to clearly

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State the positions occupied by our own and the enemies'
forces, and what occurred was truly remarkable. This
was no more true as to the operations of the Army of
the Potomac in which most if not all his services were ren-
dered, but also in that of the Western Armies.

Companion Dauchy was married to Lavinia Otis at Jor-
dan, N. Y., on December 8, 1864. Mrs. Dauchy died in
Chicago December 8, 1897. Three children remain liv-
ing to bless his memory — Samuel, Otis Burr and Eleanor
Beatrix.

As a Companion whom we so justly esteemed for his
high character, fervid friendship and unswerving loyalty
to our country, we revere his memory. To his bereaved
children we extend our condolences.

Walter R. Robbins,
RoswELL H. Mason,
William B. Keeler,

Committee.

ARCHIBALD WINNE.
First Lieutenant. Died at Basin, Wyoming, January 21, igi2.

THE cheerful face of our companion and friend, Archy
Winne, has passed away from mortal vision and no
more upon this earth will we hear his kindly greetings and
see his contagious smiling countenance.

How well we remember in the years now gone how his
very presence seemed to bring good cheer and happiness to
those with whom he came in contact. His pathway in life,
like most of his old comrades, was not always strewn with
flowers, but had its mixture of thorn and bramble, which
finally yielded to the constant and untiring results of Truth's

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workings and were to a great degree eliminated and rooted
out.

For many years prior to his departure, Lieut. Winne
devoted all of his time and energies in efforts to uplift
humanity and to show those with whom he had to do the
brighter path that leads to a higher and purer concept of his
Heavenly Father. Those to whom he extended his hand in
support and those to whom he gave the cup of cold water in
his Saviour's name were legion.

Companion Archibald Winne entered the service as a
private soldier, enlisting on Oct. 13, 1862, in Company A,
177th New York Infantry. On Aug. i, 1863, he was made
Sergt. Major of the Regiment. His term of service ex-
pired on Sept. 24th of the last named year, when he was
honorably discharged. For the second time he volunteered
and was commissioned as Second Lieut. Company K, 8th
New York Heavy Artillery, on March 22, 1864. On Sept.
i6th of the same year he was made First Lieutenant, and
on March 21, 1865, his commission as Captain was issued,
but owing to the depleted condition of his Company in point
of numbers he was not mustered. He was elected to mem-
bership in this Commandery on Oct. 4, 1882.

He was born in Albany, N. Y., Feb. i, 1846, and passed
away at Basin, Wyoming, Jan. 21, 191 2.

He participated in the siege of Port Hudson, La., and in
the battles of the "Wilderness," ''Spottsylvania," **Cold
Harbor" (where he was wounded) and "Petersburg"
through to the surrender of General Lee.

Holmes Hoge,
H. A. Pearsons,
J. W. Thompson.
Committee.

JOSEPH SEARS.

First Lieutenant. Died at Kenihvorth, Illinois, January 30, i(^i2.

ABOUT fifteen miles north of the center of the city of
Chicago, on the bluffs of Lake Michigan and over-
looking its blue waters and ever-changing lights and shad-
ows, lies a suburban village of many unique and original
features and which has been often referred to, in periodicals
devoted to the betterment and beautifying of urban and
suburban life, as a type and as an example.

This is the village of Kenilworth, in Illinois, and the man
who founded and developed it was Joseph Sears. Mr. Sears
was an idealist, a dreamer who had visions, and, being not
only a dreamer, but a man of marked ability, he set him-

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self to work to make his visions come true. He wanted
to create a suburban village, where the tired business man
could find his family of an evening in quiet, healthful and
esthetic surroundings and free from the business adjuncts
which so often disfigure the approaches to villages and
neutralize the advantages which nature has so generously
provided. And he did it; twenty years of his life were
devoted to the task, which doubtless entailed many personal
sacrifices and, also, often developed obstacles and hindrances
from which he should have been spared.

Men of genius are men of ideals, who do things; but
how much easier is the life of the men who content them-
selves with the practical every-day efforts to earn and to
invest and who, '^•when abnormal sums have thus been
accumulated, rightly or wrongly, congratulate each other
and call themselves '''the big men of the country." But
they are not big men unless they have done something
while they live, and by personal effort, towards the uplifting
of their fellow beings, and to make their world a better
world to live in.

To build Kenilworth as it is was not, and in the nature
of things could not be, strictly a business enterprise; if it
were that and nothing more its founder would have planned
it on conventional lines, sold the lots without restrictions
and to the first purchaser who came his way, and his work
would long since have ended and the usual struggle of the
inhabitants to make belated changes and correct fundamen-
tal mistakes would have taken its place.

The entire front of Kenilworth, with the exception of a
few lots to be devoted to the most necessary business stores,
has been reserved for park purposes — largely through the
generosity of Mr. Sears. These parks have their stately
elms, stone benches and urns, rustic seats, flower beds and
lawns ; there is a fountain and a pretty railroad station, orna-
mented with flowers and surrounded by a variety of shrubs ;

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the streets have broad parkways, also embelHshed with
trees and shrubs. There is an assembly hall of original
and tasteful design and a new and handsome school to be
built and which appropriately will bear the name of "The
Joseph Sears Public School." But what has helped more
to make Kenilworth what it is is the reserving of a frontage
of one hundred feet for each building lot, which, it is hoped,
will preserve the sylvan character of the place against the
ever-increasing pressure of an urban population.

But we may not go into further details on this occasion.
The creator of this work is no more; no more will be seen
his genial smile as he wanders through the streets of his
village, beloved especially by the children, for whom he
has done so much, and no longer will he extend his kind
and helping hand to his neighbors and friends. And al-
though the people of Kenilworth know that the continu-
ance of his work is in the best of loving hands and that
his ideas, to the limits of possibility, will be faithfully and
reverently followed, they will miss Joseph Sears grievously
and his memory will live with them as that of no other
friend and neighbor can live.

Joseph Sears was born in Lockport, Illinois, on March
24, 1843, the son of John and Miranda (Blount) Sears,
and he died in Kenilworth on January 30, 191 2. He was
educated in the public schools and in Garden City Institute,
Chicago, in the Canandaigua (N. Y.) Academy, and in
Bell's Commercial College.

In 1868 he entered the employ of N. K. Fairbank &
Co. and became a partner in that important firm in 1873, and
in 1880 its Vice President, in which position he continued
until 189 1, when he retired from the company and organized
The Kenilworth Company and the Village of Kenilworth,
which received his undivided and devoted attention until
his death.

At the age of twenty-one years Joseph Sears entered the

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army as a private soldier, in Company A, 134th Illinois
Infantry, U. S. V., to take his part in the Civil War, which
had then heen raging- for three years, was soon promoted
to the position of Commissary Sergeant and was mustered
out as such in October, 1864, to accept the position of First
Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster of the 147th
Illinois Infantry,. U. S. V., which position he held until
after the close of the war and resigned in 1865. The
Regiment served in northern Georgia, where it was engaged
in various skirmishes and engagements, during which Lieu-
tenant Sears acted as aid on Gen. Judah's staff, who com-
manded the Division known as the 2nd Separate Division,

On October 10, 1889, Mr. Sears was elected an Original
Companion of the First Class of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the U. S. and became our comrade in
the Commandery of the State of Illinois.

In June, 1868, Joseph Sears married Helen Stedman
Barry of Chicago, who survives him as his widow, and of
which marriage were born six children, of whom five are
now living: John Barry, Philip Rasselas, Helen Abigail,
Joseph Alden and Dorothy.

And now he is gone; his work was well done and will
live after him. Of the irretrievable loss to the family we
cannot and will not speak, but for his comrades in the Loyal
Legion, his neighbors in Kenilworth, and the acquaintances
and friends who had the privilege of meeting and knowing
him, we may say that Joseph Sears will be held in reverent
and affectionate remembrance by them until their pulses,
too, have ceased to beat and they, too, have gone to
"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns,"

Wm. Eliot Furness,
Francis Lackner,
E. A. Otis,

Committee.

SAMUEL SELDIN FROVVE.

First Lieutenant Eighteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Born

March 30, 1842, Seneca Falls, New York. Died

February 14, 1912.

WAS enrolled as a private Oct. 10, 1861, at Brodhead,
Wis., to serve for the term of three years, in B Co.,
1 8th Wis. Vol. Inf. On March 10, 1863, was commissioned
1st Lieut., which rank he retained until he was mustered out
at Raleigh, N, C, on April 2y, 1865. On April 20, 1865,
Lieut. Frowe was issued a commission as Captain, but
General Lee having surrendered and the war being practi-
cally over, and his original term of enlistment having
already expired, he preferred not to muster under his Cap-
tain's commission and accepted his discharge from the
service.

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The i8th Wisconsin left Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee,
Sunday, March 30, 1862, and the following Sunday, April
6th Lieut. Frowe was taken prisoner with Gen. Prentiss'
command in the ''Hornet's Nest" at Shiloh; paroled from
Libby Prison Oct. 20, 1862, entering the Federal lines at
Aikins Landing, James River. The six succeeding months
were spent in hospital at Washington and New York. Re-
joined regiment then attached to 7th Div., 17th A. C. before
^ Vicksburg, June 7, 1863, and was present at the capture
of the City. At Vicksburg July 26, 1863, was detailed as
Recorder of Military Commission. At Glendale, Miss., he
was again detailed on like service. After participating in
the battle of Missionary Ridge under Gen. Sherman he was
detailed as a member of a general courts martial at Hunts-
ville, Ala. During May and June, 1863, was Acting Regi-
mental Adjutant. On Sept. 13, 1864, was detailed by Gen.
Milroy as A. C. S. at Tullahoma, Tenn., and during Hood's
raid in the fall of that year was Aide on Maj. Gen. Milroy's
staff, taking part in several engagements around Murfrees-
boro. He rejoined the regiment at Goldsboro, N. C, early
in April, 1865, and his company commander having resigned,
he assumed command of his company and remained with
it until mustered out at Raleigh, N. C.

CHARLES A. MORTON.
Lieutenant Colonel and C. S. of Volunteers.

ENTERED the service as Q. M. of the 42nd 111. Inf., U.
S. V. Appointed Captain and C. S., September 10,
1862. Lieut. Col. and Chief C. S., April, 1863. Resigned
June 4, 1865.

Colonel Morton served continuously from 1861 to 1865
and was in all of General Sherman's campaigns from Shiloh
to Savannah. On the staff of General Sherman until the
fall of 1863 as Chief C. S.

To quote from Colonel Morton's application for admis-
sion to the order

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"Personal history: Robust health (excepting
only gout). No wounds. No pension. Gen-
erally no cause to find fault with the situa-
tion as it was then in '61-65, and as it is now"

filed under date of December 13, 1886, indicates clearly his
military habit of brevity and clearness.

Col. Morton was born in Willoughby, Ohio, May 28,
1839, and died February 26, 1912, at Fargo, N. D., where
he spent the declining years of his life.

Col. Morton was for some years in the U. S. Consular
Service, stationed at Montreal, Canada.

JOSEPH SAMUEL SMITH.

Captain One Hundred and Twenty-second Neiu York Volunteer In-
fantry.

JOSEPH S. SMITH was born in Phoenix, N. Y., Feb-
ruary 22, 1843, and died at Chicago, Illinois, February
29, 1912.

At the age of nineteen years he enlisted in the 122nd
N. Y. Vol. Infantry as a private and rose steadily until he
attained the rank of Captain in his regiment. His service
extended from August 28, 1862, until June, 1865, when
he was discharged from the service.

He took part in the following engagements: Antietam,
Marye's Heights, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, The Wilder-

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ness, Rappahannock Station, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor,
Petersburg, Fort Stevens (here he had the honored privi-
lege of grasping the hand of the revered Lincoln, the Presi-
dent having been an eye-witness to the battle), Opeaquan,
Fishers Hill, Cedar Creek, and many skirmishes and minor
engagements.

Soon after his discharge from the army he came to Chi-
cago and was employed by Sharp & Company as bookkeeper
at that time the leading hide and leather dealers. Later he
engaged in the hide business for himself under the firm
name and style of J. S. Smith & Co., which continued for
some fifteen or twenty years at Kinzie and Illinois Streets.
His total connection with the hide and leather trade cov-
ered a period of forty-seven years. In 1906 he sold his
business, then located on Illinois street, to the United States
Leather Company. He also conducted a packing house on
Archer Avenue and later became associated with the Ham-
mond Packing Co., taking charge of their hide department,
including the tallow, grease, bone, fertilizing and sheep pelt
business. About 1901 he became connected with the Na-
tional Packing Company, which absorbed many packing in-
dustries at that time, having charge of the hide departments.
He remained with that company until 191 1 when he retired
from active business. During the last year of his life he
traveled considerably with his wife through the East and
South. His death was wholly unexpected and came as a
great shock to his family and friends.

Captain Smith was a member of the Illinois Command-
ery of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand
Army of the Republic, U. S. Grant Post and numerous
clubs and societies.

He was survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Cam-
eron Barber, and his son, Sidney H. Smith, an honored
member of this Commandery.

NELS NELSON.

First Licutcitant Forty-third Illinois Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 6, igi2.

NELS NELSON was born at Ebbared, Sweden, July
13, 1840.
At the age of sixteen he came to the United States
and worked on a farm until he had repaid the fare from
Sweden advanced to him by a friend. He had not been
able to obtain any schooling in Sweden and eagerly em-
braced the opportunity of our public schools, which he
attended in the winter for several years, working during
the summer for the C. B. & Q. R. R. Co., at Galesburg, 111.
On the outbreak of the war a company of Swedish-
Americans was organized at Galesburg, with whom Com-

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panion Nelson served in the Forty-third IlHnois Infantry as
Sergeant, until March 3, 1865, when, for meritorious work
in the field, he won his promotion to First Lieutenant. Dur-
ing the war he participated in the Battle of Shiloh and the
Siege of Corinth and Vicksburg and was mustered out of
service November 30, 1865.

At the close of the war he entered the grocery business,
and in 1867 started the grocery firm of Bengston, Nelson
& Co., at Galesburg.

Companion Nelson's health had been impaired by his
army service and he was compelled to retire from active
business in 187 1, but held the position of City Treasurer
of Galesburg, until November, 1875. In 1883 he was
elected Secretary of the Scandinavian Mutual Aid Associa-
tion, and throughout his entire life he took a deep and vital
interest in assisting the many Swedish immigrants of this
country and did much to^ initiate many of them into the
American ways of living. He also identified himself ac-
tively in the benevolent and charitable enterprises of his
home city, serving for four years on the Board of Educa-
tion and on the Library Board and being a member of the
County Board of Supervisors, and a Director of the Cot-
tage Hospital. He was a member of the Swedish Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Church of Galesburg, of which he served
as Trustee and Treasurer for many years.

At the time of his death, at Chicago, April 6, 19 12, he
was completing his seventh year as actuary of the Scandi-
navian Life Insurance Co.

Companion Nelson was married May 19, 1868, to Miss
Sarah Nelson, who died December, 1898. One son, Mr.
Arthur V. Nelson, of Galesburg survives him.

Edward D. Redington,

Jared W. Young,

Theo. Van R. Ashcroft,

Committee,

FRANK BRIDGMAN.

Lieutenant-Colonel United States Army. Retired. Born in Mas-
sachusetts, July 10, 1820. Died at Coronudo Beach, California,
April 20, 1912.

ELECTED an Original Companion of the First Class,
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois,
December 8, 1887. Insignia 5917.

Entered the U. S. Volunteer Service as Additional Pay
Master September 5, 1861. Advanced to Bvt. Lieut. Col.
November 24, 1865. Honorably mustered out November
29, 1869. Entered the permanent establishment as Major
and Pay Master February 3, 1869. Retired July 10, 1884.
Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, April 23, 1904.

He was in the field paying Troops in the Departments
of the Cumberland and Tennessee from date of appoint-

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ment until the spring of 1865, and engaged in paying dis-
charged volunteer troops in Illinois and Indiana, and at
Louisville, Kentucky, as resident Pay Master, Department
of the Cumberland, until December 31, 1868, when he was
ordered to the southwest for field duty. He served in New
Mexico and Arizona paying troops at Military Posts for
five years. At headquarters Military Division of the Mis-
souri, at Chicago, 111., for eight years, and on same duty at
Washington, D. C, until retired.

JOSEPH BALSLEY. •

Captain Twenty-seventh Indhna Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chi'Cago, Illinois, May 2, igi2.

JOSEPH BALSLEY, who became a member of this Com-
mandery November 26, 191 1, by transfer from the Com-
mandery of Indiana, was born in Connellsville, Pa., October
9, 1835, and died in Chicago, May 2, 1912.

He was one of a family of fifteen children, and the last
but one (a brother) of the family, when he passed away.
While still in his minority he moved to Dayton, Ohio, engag-
ing in the trade of carpenter and builder. At the age of 21,
he was married to Fidelia Aurora Hadley, and at once
moved to Peoria, IlHnois. He resided in the latter city, and

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Wyoming, Illinois, for two years, removing thence to In-
diana, and after a brief residence in Mitchell, made his per-
manent home in Bedford, where he was living when the war
broke out.

Making the supreme sacrifice of leaving a wife and two
small children, he enlisted August 15, 1861, as a private in
Company D, 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Rapid pro-
motion followed and he was commissioned 2nd Lieut, same
Company, June 2, 1862, and was promoted to Captain Com-
pany *'H," November i, 1863, which he commanded until his
muster out November 4, 1864, when the 27th Indiana was
consolidated with the 70th Indiana.

The 27th Indiana had a varied and most honorable serv-
ice being connected with the Armies of the Shenandoah,
Potomac and Cumberland. Capt. Balsley was badly
wounded in the battle of Antietam, and again in the battle
of Gettysburg. After the latter battle, his regiment which
was then a part of the 12th Army Corps, was transferred,
with the nth Corps, to the west and became a part of the
20th Corps, and participated in the Atlanta Campaign, tak-
ing part in the battles of Peach Tree Creek, Resaca, and all
the conflicts of that campaign.

After muster out. Captain Balsley returned to Bedford,
where he resided until 1872, when he removed to Seymour,
Indiana, where he followed the profession of Architect for
twenty-six years except from 1894 to 1898, when he served
his city as its mayor, with the same high ideals of his duties
as a citizen, that he had shown as a soldier.

In 1898, he moved to Indianapolis, where he resided
until the death of his wife in 19 10, when he removed to
Chicago, to make his home with his son. He was a very
active member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, and of the
Grand Army of the Republic, as well as of the Loyal Legion.
He served as Adjutant General, Department of Indiana, G.
A. R., in 1905 and 1906. He was a most genial companion

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and had a wide circle of friends in every place where he
had resided, and the world was poorer when he answered
the last call.

Edward D. Redington,
Simeon H. Crane,
Joseph J. Siddall,

Committee.

STEPHEN SEWARD TRIPP.

Captain Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Cavalry. Born in Decatur,

Otsego County, New York, November 14, 1835. Died

May 4, 1912.

ENTERED the service as a private in Company ''G,"
nth Illinois Cavalry. Mustered as 2nd Lieut., same
company, Dec. 20, 1861. Promoted to Captain same com-
pany February 16, 1863. Resignation accepted June 24,
1865.

Engaged with Prentiss' Division of the Army of the
Tennessee at Shiloh and siege of Corinth. Detached with
Company for escort duty at headquarters of the 4th Div.,
17th A. C. October, 1862, accompanied Grant's Army to
Vicksburg, and took part in the siege and capture of that

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city and Jackson, Miss. In Meridian campaign February,
1864. Accompanied the 17th A. C. into Georgia in May,
1864. Commanded the escort at Gen'l Gresham's head-
quarters from time he assumed command of division at
Decatur, Ala., until ordered to report to headquarters 17th
A. C. for duty. Joined Sherman's Army at Ackworth, Ga.,
and took part in the campaigns of Kenesaw Mountain and
siege of Atlanta and march to the sea, thence through the
Carolinas to Washington and Louisville, for muster out of
the service.

WILLIAM HALL CHENOWETH.

First Lieutenant Fifty-first Illinois Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at River Forest, Illinois, May 8, 1912.

WILLIAM HALL CHENOWETH, only son of Harry
and Louise (Hall) Chenoweth, was born in Balti-
more, Maryland, October 9, 1826.

In 1847 he went to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the
iron business, first as superintendent, and later in Chicago,
as member in the firm of Letz & Co.

In 1847 h^ was elected First Lieutenant of a Volunteer
Company to serve in the w^ar with Mexico, but before it
could be mustered into service peace was declared. While
living in Cincinnati he also became a member of the famous
Rover Guards, out of whose original ninety-four members,
eighty-six served as officers in the Civil War.

In 1853 he married Miss Sophie Kettler of Cincinnati,

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and two years later moved to Chicago. In August, 1862, he
enlisted in the Fifty-first Illinois Infantry. Service on re-
cruiting duty to Dec. 8, 1862, then while cut off from join-
ing his regiment, voluntarily served with an Illinois Battery
up to the Battle of Mission Ridge.

Our Companion's active service with the 51st Regiment,
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commenced June 2'j, 1864, and
continued until the Regiment was mustered out of service
at Camp Irwin, Texas, September 25, 1865, having during
that time participated in all the engagements in which his
regiment took part, on all occasions showing his high quali-
ties as a soldier, and it may be truly said, he was always
foremost on the fighting line.

Following the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, he was
commissioned as First Lieutenant of his company, and
placed in command.

At the close of the War Companion Chenoweth engaged
in the business of iron manufacturing and was the presi-
dent of the W. H. Chenoweth Co., at the time of his
retirement from active business in 1894.

Companion Chenoweth was an early member of George
H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., of which he was Commander
in 1880. He was also a charter member of the Miami
Tribe of Red Men. As a Mason he reached the thirty-
second degree, and was a life member of Garfield Lodge
and charter member of Columbia Commandery, K. T.

He was elected a Companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of
the State of Illinois, October 4, 1882.

Companion Chenoweth died at River Forest, 111., May
8, 1912, and was survived by his wife and six children.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,
Charles F. Hills.

Committee.

ALLEN COBB WATERHOUSE.

Brevet Colonel First Illinois Light Artillery. Born Auburn, Maine,
August 8, 1833. Died May is, 19 12.

ENTERED the service as Captain Battery "E", ist
Illinois Light Artillery Dec. 19, 1861. Commissioned
Major same regiment May 6, 1863, and Lieut. Colonel Nov.
2, 1864. Resigned August 30, 1865, with the brevet rank of
Colonel for meritorious service.

On garrison duty at Cairo from January to March,
1862, then ordered up the Tennessee River and assigned to
Sherman's Division at Pittsburg Landing. April 6th in
the battle of Shiloh where he was twice wounded and
absent from duty until May 28th when he resumed com-
mand of his battery in front of Corinth. Served with Sher-

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man's Division during campaign in western Tennessee and
northern Mississippi during the summer of 1862. On de-
tached duty with the Star Crescent City patrolling the river
between Memphis and Hickman. Engaged in operations
on the Tallahatchee and south during November and De-
cember, 1862. With reinforcements to Corinth Jan., 1863.
Detached as Chief of Artillery, 5th Div. Army of the Tenn.
On organization of 15th A. C. assigned with battery to the
3rd Div. Descended the Mississippi to Young's Point
March, 1863. In first engagement at Jackson, Miss. Took
part in siege of Vicksburg from May 19th to June 20th.
June 15th received from Gen. Sherman as special mark of
honor one of the first two batteries of Napoleon guns sent to
the western armies. Took part in second battle of Jackson.
From November, 1863, to March, 1864, on recruiting duty
in Illinois. April, 1864, ordered to Huntsville, Ala., and
assigned to duty as Inspector of Artillery, Army and Dept.
of the Term. Engaged in the Atlanta campaign. In addi-
tion to other duties appointed Chief of Artillery 15th A. C.
July 1st ordered to Nashville to superintend and hasten
the reequipment of veteran artillery batteries returning to
the front. October, 1864, assigned to command of Artillery
Brigade of 17th A. C. Marched to the Sea. Present at
all the engagements of the corps in the campaign of the
Carolinas. i\t Goldsboro received a short leave returning
in time to join in the march on Washington. Resigned at
Petersburg, Va., but order of acceptance of Gen. Howard
was revoked by the Secretary of War and ordered to duty
in the A^^ar Department. Resigned August 23, 1865.

HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD.

First Lientcimnt and Adjutant. Died at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
June 5, 1912.

ADJUTANT HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD had so
remarkable a career that it is an inspiration to con-
sider it. He has gone to his reward as a faithful servant
of the Giver of all good, and as a giver of good to his fel-
low men. We miss his cheerful face and his genial words,
but we cannot forget his efficient services, his unusual
achievements and his varied accomplishments. The more
we consider these the greater is our appreciation of the
importance of the results that he accomplished in his active
and eventful life work.

Henry Holmes Belfield was born in Philadelphia, Penn-

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sylvania, on November 17, 1837. He was the son of Wil-
liam Belfield and Selener Marshall Belfield. Their ances-
tors were of English origin who came to America in 1810,
settling in Baltimore, Maryland. Our companion attended
Iowa State College, now Grinnell College, graduating in
1858 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was the
valedictorian of his class, and received the Sargent gold
medals for scholarship for the years 1857 and 1858.

He became the instructor in Greek in the Iowa State
College during the same year. In 1859 he was appointed
the principal of the public schools at Dubuque, Iowa, and
was made Superintendent of Public Schools in i860. Later
he was made instructor in Latin at Griswold College in
i860 and 1861. In 1863 he was the principal of the First
Ward Public School. At this time the necessity for more
men in the Union army was so manifest that our Companion
considered it his duty to enlist. He promptly commenced
by assisting Colonel Joseph B. Dorr, who had been com-
missioned to raise the 8th Iowa Cavalry. With the rank of
Lieutenant he took charge of the headquarters at Dubuque
while Colonel Dorr went down the state on recruiting duty.
On July 12, 1863, Lieutenant Belfield was formally pre-
sented with a pair of silver mounted navy revolvers by the
class of gymnasts whom he had previously been drilling
weekly for a long time. The 8th Iowa Cavalry was mus-
tered into the United States service on September 30,
1863. Our Companion was made Adjutant of the regiment
in July, 1864. The regiment went by rail to Louisville,
marched to Nashville, escorting a wagon train, where it
was assigned to the command of General Gillem. Our Com-
panion was at once ordered as Post Commissary to inaugu-
rate an effective condition in that department. Colonel
Dorr was then assigned to the command of a Brigade, and
Belfield was made Acting Assistant Adjutant General. He
was next ordered as Aide to command the escort of General

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Edward M. McCook, commanding the Division. General
William T. Sherman soon came to see why General McCook
had not forced his way through the opposing force of the
enemy. General McCook said it would need an Army Corps
to get through the forces before them. General Sherman
was incredulous and at once went personally to reconnoitre
their position. Belfield was directed to go with him. They
advanced near the enemy's lines, Sherman examining them
closely with his glass. The bullets began to buzz around
them continuously, but General Sherman kept advancing
until he had completed his observations. Then they retired
to the Union line, fortunately without being hit. Soon after
General W. T. Sherman rode up to General McCook's head-
quarters and inquired for General McCook, who was away.
Belfield asked Sherman to dismount and enter the quarters.
He complied, and was entertained by our Companion until
he had obtained the necessary information. General Sher-
man was expecting General Stoneman's force to join him.
McCook sent an officer to find Stoneman and escort him
in. The officer disappeared; then at midnight Belfield was
ordered to go and find Stoneman's column and guide him
to Sherman's lines. He took two orderlies and after an
eventful evasion of the Confederate forces he found Stone-
man's advance guard, and by a nice sense of direction
guided it in the darkness to Sherman's position.

Adjutant Belfield, while serving in General Sherman's
cavalry force during the Atlanta campaign, was captured
by the Confederate forces with a portion of his regiment,
and was confined in different prisons for sixty days before
he could be exchanged. It occurred during General Mc-
Cook's raid. On July 25, 1864, General Sherman ordered
General McCook with a strong cavalry force to move on
Fayetteville and destroy the railroad there, pull down the
telegraph wires and destroy them or hide them in water.
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many miles of the Atlanta & West Point and the Macon &
Western railroads, also over seven miles of telegraph lines,
burned eleven hundred wagons, killed over two thousand
mules, destroyed large quantities of army supplies, cap-
tured seventy-two Confederate officers and three hundred
and fifty men. The conduct of the Union troops in this
raid was superb as well as successful. At one time less
than one hundred cavalrymen charged and actually checked
the advance of three regiments of Texas cavalry, and on
two other occasions two troops of the Union cavalry delib-
erately sacrificed themselves to save the main column of
their comrades. Adjutant Belfield's regiment started on
this raid with twenty-five officers and two hundred and nine-
ty-two men, of whom only three officers and seventeen men
returned to the Union lines. This disaster occurred after
the duties undertaken had been accomplished, and from
circumstances wholly unexpected and beyond control. Gen-
eral McCook had contemplated efifecting a junction with
General Stoneman's column, sent on a similar expedition.
General Stoneman was captured by the Confederates and
unable to accomplish the proposed meeting. He had hoped
to reach Macon and Andersonville and release the Union
prisoners confined there, but he was overpowered and made
a prisoner himself. General McCook by waiting to unite
with Stoneman found himself confronted by the assembled
forces of the Confederate Generals Wheeler, Jackson, Ross
and Roddy. On starting to return to General Sherman's
position General McCook found three regiments of Texas
cavalry opposing his advance. The 8th Iowa Cavalry, Ad-
jutant Belfield in the lead, having the advance, instantly
charged in a column and drove the Confederates back in
confusion, with a loss to the Union force of two officers
and twenty men. On making a further advance they en-
countered W^heeler's Cavalry and Roddy's command, in
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on this return movement he rode to the brow of the hill
occupied by the 8th Iowa Cavalry and asked Colonel Dorr
if he could hold the hill and cover and protect the retreat
of the rest of the command. The Colonel replied that he
could, and at once gave the necessary orders. It was a
trying moment, but not a man flinched, although it was
evident that it meant certain capture. As Adjutant Belfield
put the men in line he counted them; there were just one
hundred. They held the hill until dark, by which time
McCook's column was safe from attack. Then on attempt-
ing to follow their comrades they found themselves com-
pletely surrounded. In the ensuing charge three officers
and seventeen men of Adjutant Belfield's regiment were
separated from the rest of the party. They wisely galloped
to the Chattahoochee river and escaped to the Union lines.
They were the only ones of the three hundred and seven-
teen men of the 8th Iowa Cavalry who escaped. All the
rest were killed or captured. The men were exhausted
from want of sleep and food, having had three days of
continuous marching and fighting. Many were suffering
from wounds, and their ammunition was exhausted. A
number of the men were mounted on mules, of which they
had captured a large number. As their horses had been
killed this was necessary, although mules become unmanage-
able under a heavy fire, as they knew by experience. They
were completely surrounded by an overwhelming force, so
that to continue fighting would have been simply the murder
of gallant men, so Colonel Dorr reluctantly surrendered the
survivors. Some of the party, including Adjutant Belfield,
not relishing the prospect of a Rebel prison, abandoned their
horses and "took to the woods," hoping to escape on foot in
the darkness. But in whatever direction they moved they
were promptly challenged by Rebel pickets ; after seeking an
outlet all night, they were all picked up at daybreak, only to
be jeered at by the rest of the little force for not taking

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a much needed night's sleep on the ground when it had been
offered to them. On the morning of July 31, 1864, the pris-
oners were marched to the town of Newnan, a few miles
distant. As they walked through the streets they were the
objects of much interest to the natives of that part of
Georgia, as they had never seen any Yankees before. It
was reported at the Union camp that Adjutant Belfield had
been killed, so the portion of his wardrobe and effects that
had been left there were at once divided among the com
mand. As the group of officers stood upon the platform
awaiting the arrival of the train of box cars that were to
carry the party to the prison at Macon, they gave a free con-
cert of patriotic songs ; the great crowd applauded instead
of showing anger and called for more, but they refused to
furnish music until they were supplied with food, by which
expedient they procured cold victuals. Our Companion had
been robbed of his overcoat, blanket, arms, his highly prized
silver mounted revolvers, spurs, etc.; but he succeeded in
hiding his watch and a few greenbacks. In the prison pen
at Macon they slept on the ground ; their only food was corn
meal and water. After awhile they were put in box cars to be
taken to Charleston, S. C, ''to be exchanged," as they were
told, to prevent them from trying to escape. At Charleston
they were confined in the workhouse, a large stone building
lying within range of the Union batteries shelling the city.
Many shells burst near the building, scattering the frag-
ments within the enclosure, but this only caused expressions
of satisfaction among the prisoners. Our Companion was
put in a cell on the second floor and slept on the pine boards.
At the first opportunity he managed to get up to the roof to
study the chances of escape, but a volley of bullets from the
guards warned him to retire. The amount of food was
never sufficient to appease hunger. He suffered from
hunger during his entire captivity. The prisoners were mus-
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The fun-loving ones would slip from one rank to another so
as to make the prison officers find that they had too many or
too few men. On September 2.^, 1864, two hundred and
fifty Union officers were marched out of the prison, taken
to a train to carry them to Atlanta to be exchanged. There
they were inspected by General Sherman, given a bath and a
"square meal," then given a leave of absence to visit their
homes.

When the reorganized 8th Iowa Cavalry resumed its
service it participated in a raid led by General James H.
Wilson through Alabama and Georgia, from Waterloo south
to Selma, Alabama, and east to Macon, Georgia, during the
months of March, April* and May, 1865, i^ which daring
expedition Adjutant Belfield participated with his regiment.
This movement has been called one of the most remarkable
campaigns of the Civil War. General Wilson had thirteen
thousand veteran cavalrymen in excellent condition, full of
enterprise and zeal, all armed with Spencer carbines. Most
of the senior officers had served during the war from its
beginning. The Confederate writer, John A. Wyeth, said,
"General Wilson had, with remarkable zeal, completed the
organization of the most magnificent body of mounted
troops ever gathered under one commander on the western
hemisphere. He had called to his assistance young men of
experience, who had already won reputation for courage,
ability and energy." An English military critic, Colonel
Chesney, said of General Wilson's staff that it was ''the
best cavalry staff ever organized." The artillery force con-
sisted of three batteries, one of them being the Chicago
Board of Trade Battery, commanded by Captain Robinson.
The expedition was remarkable for the results accom-
plished. Wilson's adversary was Lieutenant General
Nathan B. Forrest, the ablest cavalry leader of the South,
and a born military genius, for whose capture or death
there was offered a commission as Major General in the

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United States Army. Forrest's- bravery and daring are
shown by the facts of his having twenty-nine horses killed
under him in battle, and by his having killed thirty antag-
onists in hand to hand fighting, but his military career closed
in this campaign; he was completely out-maneuvered and
beaten, and his army practically destroyed.

When the Union forces approached Selma, Wilson's cav-
alry encountered Forrest leading his cavalry in person.
Forrest's biographer states that ''as soon as Forrest saw
these gallant troopers riding down upon him with sabres in
air he placed himself in line with his escort and the Ken-
tuckians. He ordered his men to reserve the fire of their
rifles until the enemy had arrived within one hundred yards
of their position. They were then to draw their revolvers
and with one in each hand to ride in among and along their
assailants and use their weapons at close quarters. As the
Union column swept into the Confederate line Forrest,
his escort and the Kentuckians rode in among them, and the
desperate character of the encounter which occurred may
well be imagined. It was one of the most terrific hand-
to-hand conflicts which occurred between cavalry troops
during the great war." It was a test between the sabre in
the hands of as brave a force as ever rode horses, and the
six-shooter in the hands of experts who were just as des-
perately brave. Forrest was most viciously assailed. His
conspicuous presence made him the object of a direct
attack by seven Union troopers, who were killed in the
attempt to slay the Confederate general. Forrest was
wounded, and had a narrow escape from death. The
commander of Forrest's escort said, 'T saw General Forrest
surrounded by six Federals at one time, and they were all
slashing at him. One of them struck one of his pistols and
knocked it from his hand. A private was near and shot
the Federal soldier, thus enabling General Forrest to draw
his other pistol, with which he killed the others who were

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persistent in the attack upon our commander." The resist-
ance of Forrest's men was determined; but the position was
carried by a charge which completely routed the rebels,
who left two hundred prisoners and three guns in our hands.
With almost constant fighting the rebels had been driven
since morning twenty-four miles. At sun down the Union
force bivouacked near Selma. This city, though strongly
fortified and with a full garrison, was quickly captured by
the dismounted cavalry who swarmed over the parapets.
Wilson then captured the city of Montgomery, marched
to Columbus and then to West Point, Georgia, capturing
both cities, then hurried on towards Macon.

As the column marched through the city of Newnan,
Georgia, Adjutant Belfield esteemed it a great satisfaction to
be riding at the head of the 8th Iowa, his own regiment,
along the same streets where he had been marched as a
prisoner of war nine months before.

The converging columns of Wilson's force reached the
city of Macon, Georgia, on April 20th, capturing the posi-
tion with its garrison, and the commander. Major General
Howell Cobb, which made a most successful termination
of this victorious raid. This remarkable march through
five hundred miles of well defended Confederate territory
in twenty-eight days resulted in the capture of five well
fortified cities by this cavalry force, also twenty-two stands
of Confederate colors, two hundred and eighty heavy can-
non and ninety-nine thousand stands of small arms. Gen-
eral Wilson paroled sixty thousand prisoners, destroyed
forty foundries, powder works and factories. Among other
incidents were the capture of Captain Henry Wirz, also of
Jefferson Davis, concerning whom Adjutant Belfield inti-
mates that President Davis would have been ''accidentally"
shot, it was said, but for the belief of the cavalrymen that
he would surely be hanged. They also captured Vice Presi-

MEMORIALS. 57

dent Alexander H. Stephens and Secretary of the Navy
Stephen R. Mallory.

These cavalrymen when on this hurried raid often found
themselves in need of remounts and were obliged to cap-
ture them from the enemy, of course, and as a matter of
necessity. Adjutant Belfield reported that the blooded horse
secured by him for his remount was impressed from a
Confederate.

At Macon, Georgia, the raid of General Wilson ceased
by the termination of the great rebellion.

The 8th Iowa Cavalry was mustered out of the U. S.
service August 14, 1865. It was carried by rail to Clinton,
Iowa, where they received their final pay August 27, 1865.
Companion Belfield received a telegram offering him a posi-
tion as principal of a school in Chicago. He came here at
once, and was unanimously elected by the Board of Educa-
tion as principal of the Jones School.

From 1866 to 1876 he was a principal of the Grammar
School, and of the North Division High School from 1876
to 1883.

It had always been the belief of our Companion during
his long experience as an instructor that in the training of
boys the hand should be educated as well as the mind. He
wrote and lectured on this subject until E. W. Blatchford,
Marshall Field and other members of the Chicago Commer-
cial Club became interested. Then the club subscribed the
money necessary to build and equip the Chicago Manual
Training School at Michigan avenue and Twelfth street.
Companion Belfield was the director. He commenced the
new system of text book study and manual work on Feb-
ruary 4. 1884. This new enterprise became such a great
success and was so popular that it attracted attention from
all parts of the country, and many other such schools \yere
founded in various other cities of the country. Later the
Manual Training School was made a part of the University

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of Chicago, and was conducted in a special building under
the management of our Companion. He was made Dean of
the University High School in 1903, and retired from active
duty in 1908.

In 1891 and 1892 he was appointed a Special Commis-
sioner by the Department of Labor of the United States
government to visit, inspect and report upon the technical
schools of Europe and the United States, which report
became the standard authority upon the subject. He wrote
many works upon the English and French classics, was
the author of a series of mathematical text books, and
a charter member of the National Society for the Promotion
of Industrial Education. Our Companion was an accom-
plished musician. After he settled in Chicago he went down
regularly to the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church to play the
organ there during their church services. This he kept up
until the great fire in Chicago of October, 187 1, when more
urgent duties required all his time.

In January, 1865, he joined the Hyde Park Presby-
terian Church. He very soon became one of the elders, and
in 1889 became a trustee. He was an active leader in all of
the educational and charitable work of this most vigorous
and efficient organization in its efforts to promote Christian
life and religious work.

Henry H. Belfield was married to Miss Annie W.
Miller on July 27, 1869. They had five children, Clara A.,
Ada M., Margaret W., A. Miller and Henry W., all of
whom survive our lamented Companion.

To the faithful and efficient partner in life of our late
Companion, and to the children surviving him, we most
respectfully tender our heartfelt sympathy. Words cannot
mitigate the suffering of bereaved minds, but we venture
the hope that the memory of the achievements of our late
Companion in every form of activity in w^hich he engaged,
resulting in substantial benefit to the whole community, may

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enable his loved ones to find consolation in the conviction
that the world is better because Henry H. Belfield has lived.

Horatio L. Wait,
Area N. Waterman,
Henry V. Freeman,

Committee.

WILLIAM APPLETON AMORY

Major Second Adassacliiisctts Heavy Artillery, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 1912.

WILLIAM APPLETON AMORY, was born at New
York City, March 16, 1839. He was the son of Jona-
than Amory, descendant of a long hne of New England an-
cestors, the first of whom came to this country in 1686, and
of Letitia Austin, of English descent.

When Companion Amory was seventeen he entered a
broker's office in Boston, and later went to Calcutta as clerk
to the Supercargo.

Immediately upon the outbreak of the War he entered
the service, in April, 1861, as a private in the Fourth Bat-
talion of Massachusetts Infantry, and was sent to Fort In-

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dependence in Boston harbor. He received his commission
as First Lieutenant July 2, 1861, in the Sixteenth Massachu-
setts Infantry, in the Army of the Potomac, and his promo-
tion to Captain July 6, 1862. During that same month he
was wounded in the Battle of Malvern Hiils. While on
duty with his regiment he participated in the Battles of
P>edericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the
latter battle Captain Amory's regiment took part in the vain
effort to hold Sickles' advanced line on the Emmitsburg
Road, and in that desperate conflict he was wounded in both
arms but after a sixty-day leave of absence he returned to
duty.

Companion Amory's efficient services and soldierly
qualities earned for him the well merited promotion to
Major of the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery,
December 11, 1863, in which he served until the close of the
War, participating in one of the last battles, that of Kings-
ton, in 1865.

After the war. Major Amory first engaged in the cotton
business in New York City and Memphis, Tenn. In No-
vember, 1867, he accepted a position in the Auditing Depart-
ment of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, to
which he gave forty-five years of faithful and efficient serv-
ice, during a part of which time he occupied the positions of
Auditor of Expenditures and Assistant General Auditor,
retiring from active duty a short time before his death, on
June 8, 1 91 2.

Captain Amory was a loyal friend and a genial com-
panion and won the affection and respect of old and young.
One of his most intimate friends has aptly characterized
his sterling qualities in the following words :

"He was a good soldier, a faithful officer of the rail-
road, and a pleasant companion. He was one of the van-
ishing race of old New England stock who are fast being
replaced by the newer immigration and their descendants,

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and the ideals of right, of justice and of honor which he
represented may well be copied by the later generation."
In June, 1868, he married Miss Rosalie G. Ernst, who
survives him with their four children.

Edward D. Redington,
Theo. Van R. Ashcroft,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

WALTER CASS NEWBERRY.

Colonel Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry and Brevet Brigadier

General, United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago,

Illinois, July 20, 1912.

C COMPANION WALTER CASS NEWBERRY, en-
-^ tered into the service as a private, October, 1861.
Commissioned ist Lieutenant November 4, 1861. Com-
missioned Captain May 31, 1862. Discharged November,

1863.

Commissioned Major of the 24th N. Y. Cavalry June
10, 1864. Lieut. Colonel February 8, 1864. Colonel of same
Regiment December, 1864.

Brevetted Brig. General March 31, 1865, for distin-
guished service at Dinwiddie Court House.

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With McClellan through Peninsular Campaign. Battle
of Young's Mills, Siege of Yorktown, Battles of Williams-
burg, Baltimore Cross Roads, Warwick C. H., Chicka-
hominy. Fair Oaks, Seven Pines.

With 1st Brigade Casey's Division 4th Corps, White Oak
Swamp, Charles City Road, Malvern Hill, Turkey Island
Bend. With same Brigade, Division and Corps, Garrison
Yorktown, Expedition to South Carolina. Attkck on
Charlestown April 19, 1863. Battle of Little Washington,
N. C, Garrison of Beaufort.

On staff of General Spinola, Gettysburg July 5th. Wil-
liamsport, Md. Detailed Provost Marshal, Harper's Ferry
by General Naglee, Aid de Camp Staff of General Naglee,
commanding 7th Army Corps. Discharged November,

1863.

Helped to recruit 24th N. Y. Cavalry, joined with Regt.
Army of Potomac. Wounded June 18, July 30, and March
30, 1865.

It is but natural that we, who have served our country
in her hour of need and peril, would be bound together with
ties immutable, more so is this true w^hen our activities in
army life were in the same, or nearby camps, and in the
same battles. It is in such personal contact we make our
estimate of our Companion in Arms, breathing as it does
into our being that spirit of love and devotion, that the
parting of the earthly body never diminishes.

So it is with us in our memory of Companion Walter
Cass Newberry. We mourn his absence from our ranks —
ranks that are fast vanishing. We feel our separation will
be but temporary, for in God's good time we shall join him,
and again feel his genial presence.

To the only surviving child, Miss Mary Newberry, the
Companions of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,

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Commandery of the State of Illinois, tender our sympa-
thy in her bereavement.

Nelson Thomasson,
Edson J. Harkness,
Walter R. Robbins,

Committee.

LORENZO BRACE SHATTUCK.

Captain. Died at Santa Ana, California, August 3, igi2.

COMPANION CAPTAIN SHATTUCK was born in
Cohocton, Steuben County, New York, July 10, 1833,
and at the time of his death was a Httle more than seventy-
nine years old. He entered the military service as First Ser-
geant of a company of infantry recruited in Steuben County,
New York, in April, 1861. He was appointed First Lieu-
tenant of this company and mustered into service of the
State of New York for two years May 24, 1861. This com-
pany became a part of the Thirty-fifth Regiment, New York
Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered into the service of
the United States June 11, 1861. He was promoted to be

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Captain of Company F, September 6, 1861, and was honor-
ably discharged and mustered out with his regiment June
5, 1863, at expiration of its term of service.

His war service was in the First brigade, First division,
First corps, Army of the Potomac. He was engaged in the
battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and
the numerous skirmishes in which the regiment participated.
After the battle of Fredericksburg the regiment was as-
signed to duty under Brigadier General Patrick, Provost
Marshal General of the Army of the Potomac, and Captain
Shattuck was made Provost Marshal at Stoneman's Station,
Va., and remained on duty in this capacity until mustered
out with his regiment. His duties were always faithfully
performed in every position where he was placed, to the
entire approval of his superior officers. At the battle of
Fredericksburg he was in command of a portion of the
picket hne on the left, and when the order for the with-
drawal of the pickets was given, that portion of the line
under his charge was overlooked and he remained at his
post several hours after all the other Union troops had
retired, and came near being captured with his men. Re-
turning to the river he found the pontoon bridge had been
taken up. He made his way up through the town to the last
remaining bridge and brought his men safely off the field.

Captain Shattuck was elected an Original Companion of
the First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States through the Commandery of the State of
IlHnois, May 6, 1885, Insignia No. 3703. He was a member
of George H. Thomas Post No. 5, Department of Illinois,
Grand Army of the Republic.

He was made a Knight Templar in 1857 and was a Hfe
member of Eureka Commandery No. 3, of Michigan.

In 1856 Companion Shattuck removed from his home in
the State of New York to Hillsdale, Michigan, and engaged
in the dry goods business. When the war broke out he re-

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turned to his old home and joined the army with a company
of his boyhood friends and neighbors. When he left the
army he settled in Hillsdale. January, 1866, he married
Julia B. Reed of that place, who died in 1904. They had
two children, Mabel, who died in 1882, and our Companion,
George B. Shattuck, who survives him. Captain Shattuck
was buried by the side of his wife and daughter in the
family lot at Hillsdale, Michigan.

About 1869 Companion Shattuck engaged as a salesman
with J. B. Baldy & Co. of Toledo, wholesale dealers in coffee
and spices. In 1871 he represented this house in Chicago.
In the great fire of October, 1871, every wholesale dealer in
that line in Chicago was burned out. Companion Shattuck,
reaHzing the situation, telegraphed to his house in Toledo to
ship him immediately a carload of their goods. Before the
car arrived its contents were sold and he sent in orders for
car after car, which taxed the capacity of the firm to fill
them, with sufficient promptness. By the year 1872 most of
the old Chicago houses in this line had resumed business
and several large eastern houses established branches in Chi-
cago. The field was fully occupied and J. B. Baldy & Co.
withdrew. Companion Shattuck then engaged as a salesman
with Norton Brothers and remained with them until they
sold out in 1901. For several years he was their only trav-
eling salesman, visiting the trade in Michigan, Ohio, Ken-
tucky, Indiana, Illinois and the northwestern and western
states. Everywhere he was popular and successful. His
customers and even his competitors were his personal
friends. He was singularly modest and unassuming in his
demeanor, honest and true. Although he suffered much
from illness, the result of his army service, he never com-
plained. He was a gentleman in the best sense of the word,
loved by all who knew him, because he deserved their love.
The writer of this part of the memorial, who knew him for
more than forty years, never heard a word of disparage-

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ment or unfavorable criticism of Companion Shattuck from
any man who knew him.

"Green be the turf above thee,

Friend of my better days ;
None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise."

Oliver W. Norton,
SiMSON H. Crane,
Edson J. Harkness,

Committee.

BENJAMIN FRANCIS HARRIS.

Captain Twenty-fifth New York Volunteer Infantry. Born at Roch-
ester, New York, August g, 1830. Died at Chicago,
Illinois, August 7, 1912.

CAPT. HARRIS entered the service as a private in the
13th N. Y. Vol. Infantry May 14, 1861, at Elmira,
N. Y. Promoted to 2nd Lieut, and transferred to the 25th
Regiment November i, 1861 ; to ist Lieut, in the same
regiment December i, 1861 ; Captain January 13, 1862.
Mustered out as Captain July 10, 1863.

His first experience under fire was at the skirmish near
Blackburn's Ford, July 18, 186 1. He took part in the battle
of Manassas. On May 27, 1862, was taken prisoner at
Hanover Court House and was confined first in Libby

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Prison and later in Salisbury, N. C, Prison. He was sub-
sequently exchanged and participated in the battles of
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Wounded December
14, 1862, at Fredericksburg which later required his dis-
charge from the service.

GEORGE GREEN.

Major. Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 31, 19 12.

MAJOR GEORGE GREEN, a devoted and loyal mem-
ber of the Illinois Commandery, died suddenly at
his residence in Chicago on the 31st day of August, 1912.
A life so well lived, a military record so filled with brave
deeds, and important battles, presents no easy task to the
biographer.

In the modest and unassuming manner characteristic
of him, Major Green was reluctant to speak or write of
his military history, and the story must be learned from
other lips than his own.

George Green was born at Ouincy, Illinois, January 20,

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1 841, and his father, Amos Green, was in his own lifetime,
one of the best beloved and most respected men in what was
known as "the miHtary tract." His father's name was the
synonym for honesty, integrity and charity, and this mantle
of universal respect and admiration was worn in turn by
the son without a stain.

At the age of i8 he made the trip to Pike's Peak and
returned to Quincy in time to offer his services to his coun-
try in 1862. Entering the service as adjutant and first lieu-
tenant of the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, he was
mustered in at Macomb for three years. The regiment was
at once sent to Louisville, Ky., and until November, served
in the army of the Ohio. During the fall and winter of
1862-63 the regiment was engaged in Kentucky and Ten-
nessee, the first important battle being at Stone's River,
Tenn. After that engagement the regiment entered the
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps. After being
ordered to Nashville, it participated in the repulse of For-
rest's attack on Fort Donelson and then moved to Franklin,
Tenn., where it was on duty until July and engaged in sev-
eral battles. It then entered the Chattanooga campaign
and fought valiantly in the battle of Chickamauga, Ross-
ville Gap and the battles of Chattanooga. At the battle of
Chickamauga all of his superior officers were killed and
Lieutenant Green took charge of his regiment. For this
"bravery in action" he was commissioned Major.

While temporarily attached to the 15th Army Corps,
Major Green and his regiment were in the important en-
gagements of Mission Ridge, Chickamauga Creek, the relief
of Knoxville, Buzzard's Roost Gap and the Atlanta cam-
paign from May to September, '64. It then fought in the
battles of Resaca, Rome and Dallas, Ga. Major Green led
his battalion at Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Knob, Peach Tree
Creek and engaged in the siege of Atlanta.

While in action at Jonesboro, Ga., September i, 1864,

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he was severely wounded, and on account of these wounds
was compelled to be absent from his regiment. He later
rejoined his regiment at Savannah, but on account of the
disabilities following the wounds, resigned from the serv-
ice January 15, 1865.

In all of the foregoing battles Major Green was known
as an intrepid soldier, conspicuous for his bravery and fear-
lessness. Numerous incidents known to his friends and fel-
low-comrades bear witness of his quick decision and good
judgment, where fear was unknown and realization of per-
sonal danger wholly absent.

Ever since the war until his death, Major Green was
engaged in the lumber business, and was president of the
George Green Lumber Co. He was also an honored mem-
ber of the Lumbermen's Association and its resolutions
upon his death testify to his high standing among his busi-
ness associates. In 1881 he was married to Margaret E.
Thompson of Whitehall, Mich., who survives him, as do
also two sisters, Mrs. Mary G. Kelsey and Mrs. Ella G.
Mills.

At Quincy, lUinois, the scene of his boyhood days and
home, he was given a military burial by his surviving
friends and comrades. On the very day of his funeral
the survivors of the 78th Illinois were holding a regimental
reunion at Quincy. The tears and tributes to him there
were a more eloquent eulogy of their major than pen can
write. A half century had not effaced from their memory
him whom they had known and loved as a brother, whose
command they had followed where he had dared to lead.

No man had ever known George Green who did not find
a satisfying friendship and comradeship in him. His friends
and neighbors can find no substitute for his quiet humor,
which was always optimistic, his cultivated mind, his sym-
pathetic and responsive manner. Beneath the kindly, gentle
character of the man and citizen was the ardent patriotism

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and fearlessness of the soldier. We cannot soon forget
his endearing kindliness of manner, his quiet dignity, nor
the warmth of friendship kindled by his personality.

It is, indeed, fitting that this Commandery should now
do honor to his name and memory. The Loyal Legion was
the one and only organization of any kind which claimed
his interest and attention. To it he was devoted in his serv-
ices and his love. Since 1885 he had been a Companion,
and had served as a member of the Council and as Senior
\^ice Commander, and belonged to the Commandery-in-chief
of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

To his widow and surviving sisters is extended the sym-
pathy of this Commandery and the hope that there may be
much of consolation in the memory of the lasting honor of
his name. We may indeed

"Say not of the friend departed
*He is dead.' He has but grown
Larger souled and deeper hearted
Blossoming into skies unknown
All the air of earth is sweeter
For his being's full release
And thine own life is completer
For his conquest and his peace."

Theodore H. Patterson,

Harvey S. Park,

E. Bentley Hamilton,

Committee.

The Commandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

WILLIAM FLETCHER KENAGA.

Second Lieutenant Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Born

December 6, 1835, near Urbtma, Illinois. Died

October 4, 1912,

MUSTERED into Co. 'T" of the 76th Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, as Sergeant, on August 22, 1862, at Kan-
kakee, Illinois, and immediately left for Columbus, Ky.
February 16, 1864, was commissioned 2nd Lieut, in the
same company and discharged May 15, 1865, by reason of
gunshot wounds in right leg and left ankle, resulting in
loss of left leg by amputation above the knee.

His history of service is mostly that of the 76th Illinois
Infantry. Starting from Kankakee in coal cars via Cairo
to Columbus and Bolivar, arriving on Oct. 4, 1862. As-
signed to the 4th Brigade, 4th Division, 13th A. C, under
McPherson. Marched with command along Miss. Cent.
R. R. against Gen. Price as far south as Springdale, when
the supplies were destroyed at Holly Springs by Gen. Van
Doren, and the command "about faced" and retraced its
steps to Holly Springs, and then along the railroad to
Memphis arriving March 13, 1863. May 17th embarked
on fleet for Vicksburg and vicinity where the regiment was
finally placed on the left of the besieging lines, and where
it remained until the surrender July 4th. With Gen. Sher-
man against Gen. Johnson's forces at Jackson, also engaging

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the enemy at Big Black and .Champion Hills, remaining in
the vicinity of Vicksburg until August. Then went by boat
to Natchez where they remained until December and then
returned to Vicksburg. Detailed to return to muster point
on recruiting duty, arriving in Kankakee on Christmas Day
where he succeeded in recruiting 23, returning to regiment
then in rear of Vicksburg in February, 1864. Then fol-
lowed expedition to Yazoo City, Benton and Vaughn's Sta-
tion; Jackson, Miss., under Slocum, Morganzia. Later to
Kenner near New Orleans where the regiment embarked
for Ft. Barancas, Fla., thence to Pensacola, Pollard, Stock-
ton on the Alabama River, arriving in front of Ft. Blakely
on April ist. Preparing trenches and approaches until the
9th when the assault was made, the fort captured and many
prisoners taken. It was during the attack and when within
a few hundred feet of the walls that Lieut. Kenaga was
wounded. This was the last battle of the war and took
place after Lee's surrender.

EDWARD MINER FULLER.

Major Thirty-ninth United States Colored Troops. Bom in Lancas-
ter, Worcester County, Massachusetts, August 2,
1842. Died October 5, 1912.

T^ NTERED the service as private Co. "F", 34th Mass.
^ Vol. Inf., August 7, 1862. Corporal Feb. i, 1863.
Captain 39th U. S. C. T. March 21, 1864; Major, May
22, 1865. Mustered out Dec. 4, 1865.

In defences of Washington and in Shenandoah Valley
with 34th Mass. Vol. Inf. With 39th U. S. C. T. in battle
of the Wilderness, first Ft. Fisher expedition, Petersburg,
Va. (wounded in head), second Ft. Fisher expedition, in
command of skirmish line at capture of fort that day. Bat-
tle of Sugar Loaf. Battle of Wilmington and Johnston's
surrender. In command of Ft. Fisher until ordered to
Washington for muster out of regiment.

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FREDERICK RAYNSFORD WARNER.

First Lieutennnt Fiftieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Born at

Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1839.

Died October 19, 1912.

ENTERED the service as ist Sgt. Company "D" 50th
Regt. Pa. Vol. Infantry, Sept. 6, 1861. Promoted to
1st Lieut, same company Feb. 15, 1862. Mustered out
Oct. 3, 1864, in front of Petersburg, Va.

Was with the expedition to HiUon Head, S. C, in the
fall of 1862, and remained there until July, 1862. Thence
north to Fredericksburg, Culpeper Court House, Manas-
sas Junction. Wounded Aug. 29, 1862, at Bull Run and
did not rejoin the regiment until Feb., 1863, in front of
Fredericksburg, Va. In March, 1863, the regiment and

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corps went to Kentucky and from there to Vicksburg. After
surrender marched to Jackson and thence back to the Mis-
sissippi and up the river to Kentucky. Sept., 1863, over
the Cumberlands to East Tennessee. January, 1864, the
50th Regt. was remustered and joined the Army of the
Potomac. Through the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, James
River, Petersburg campaigns until Oct. 3, 1864.

AMOS JOSEPH HARDING.

hirst Lieutenant and Brevet Captain. Died at Evanston, Illinois,
October 23, 1912.

/^APTAIN HARDING was born near Galion, Ohio, on
^^ May 2, 1839. His ancestors on both sides were Puri-
tan stock, the first Hardings coming to America in 1623.
His parents, Chauncey C. Harding and Rachel Story, were
earnest opponents of slavery, and from time to time their
home was a refuge for fugitive slaves seeking the Canadian
border.

Young Harding received his primary education in the
district schools, and after graduating from the Ohio Central
College and teaching school for a year, he joined the great
caravans of adventurous youth who in that day were migrat-

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ing towards the setting sun, reaching Nebraska City in 1857,
aged 18 years.

After a brief experience as a clerk in a general store, he
was appointed receiver for a bankrupt firm, and subse-
quently, on the advice of an older brother who was the first
insurance agent in Nebraska, he took up the work of fire
insurance, studying law during his leisure time. In 1858
he accompanied a governmental surveying expedition in
northern Nebraska, which work occupied him for more than
a year.

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he enlisted as
private in Company I of the First Nebraska Infantry. Be-
fore his regiment was mustered in he was stricken with
pneumonia and when he had sufficiently recovered to endure
the hardships of travel was sent back to his Ohio home to
die with what was supposed to be ''quick consumption."
His excellent constitution, however, enabled him to rally,
and in the fall of the same year, he rejoined his regiment,
with which he served as a private, taking part in the mili-
tary operations in southeast Missouri and in the Fremont
campaign against Springfield, Missouri.

In the fall of 1862, his regiment was transferred to the
Army of the Tennessee, and Private Harding shared in the
capture of Fort Donelson and Fort Henry and in the en-
gagements at Pittsburg Landing and Corinth. Afterwards
he participated in the military operations in Arkansas and
the preliminary movement against Vicksburg. His regiment
being again transferred to Missouri, he remained with it
until the summer of 1863, when he was detailed to serve at
Department Headquarters at St. Louis, where he remained
until April, 1864, when he was promoted to First Lieutenant
of Company L, 6th Missouri Cavalry, and assigned to duty
as Judge Advocate and District Provost Marshal on the
staff of Brigadier General Clinton B. Fisk, then in command
of the District of Northern Missouri.

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At that time Missouri was infested with Guerilla and
bushwhacking bands, and Lieutenant Harding's knowledge
of law, coupled with his exceptional tact and judgment, en-
abled him to render invaluable service in restoring order
and safety throughout ^the northern half of the state.

After the surrender of Lee's army and cessation of
hostilities, he accompanied General Fisk as aide-de-camp to
Tennessee, where he rendered invaluable service as solicitor
for the Freemen's Court of the District of Kentucky and
Tennessee until October, 1865, when his regiment was dis-
banded and he was mustered out with the brevet title for
meritorious service of Captain of Volunteers.

Thrown back upon his own resources, in a land of
ex-soldiers seeking to find their places again in civil life,
Captain Harding, at the age of 26, returned to Nebraska
City and resumed his insurance business. His success in
this field soon attracted the notice of eastern officials, and
in 1875 the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Com-
pany of Massachusetts tendered him the position of Man-
ager of the Western Department, which its directors had
decided to establish, with headquarters at Chicago. At the
time of his death. Captain Harding had occupied this im-
portant position for nearly thirty-seven years with an abil-
ity and success which challenged the respect and admira-
tion of the fire underwriting world.

The same characteristics which made him efficient in
his boyish career in the duties of war brought him rapidly
to the front in the duties of peace. Industrious, modest,
steadfast, loyal, courageous, and of spotless honor, he could
not but win the confidence and respect of his fellow men.

He was gifted to a remarkable degree with the capacity
for winning and holding Hfe long friendships. As one of
his friends said of him, "His face was an open letter of
credit." The confidence and trust of his fellow men came
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sense of fair play, his swift analytical judgment and his
readiness to efface himself and serve in time of need made
him always a chosen confidant and adviser of those in per-
plexity or distress.

Captain Harding was one of the pioneers and builders
of fire insurance, and his life is a part of its permanent
history. During its long constructive period, when fire un-
derwriting was emerging from the vague and formless game
of chance of earHer days, he rendered lasting service in
shaping it into the ordered and indispensable auxiliary to
modern commerce that it is today. His record appears in
the annals of every important insurance association, and in
this brief memorial it is needless to repeat what has been
said in his praise by associates who knew his character and
the value of his services so well. He had been honored
with every position of responsibility that his modesty would
permit him to accept.

To the end of his life Captain Harding retained an ac-
tive and earnest interest in the heroic days of the Civil War.
He was a student of war history, had accumulated an ex-
ceptional library on the subject, and few men were better
informed concerning the great events which preceded, ac-
companied and followed that momentous crisis in our na-
tional history. He retained to the last a vivid interest in
and friendship for the comrades of those trying days.

He became a member of Illinois Commandery, Military
Order of the Loyal Legion in 1879, ^^^ had served as mem-
ber of the Council, also as Junior Vice Commander of this
Commandery. He was a member of the George H. Thomas
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Army
of the Tennessee, of which he was for several years Vice
President.

In 1864 Captain Harding was married to Miss Eliza
H. Cowden, who survives him with four children, Lucien

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E., John C. and Dwight S. Harding, of this city, and Mrs.
Forest Russell of New York.

His home was a haven of hospitality to hosts of friends,
and the evening of his life was passed in well-earned re-
pose and enjoyment of the society of those who had long
known and loved him and his chosen companion.

After a comparatively painless illness of some months,
he fell asleep at nightfall, and his mortal remains were
laid at rest in Rosehill Cemetery with funeral rites which
were a fitting tribute to one who had long loved and served
his fellowmen.

May he rest in peace.

Israel P. Rumsey,
Albert F. Dean,
H. C. Eddy,

Committee.

MILTON BOURNE MILLER.

Captain Seventy-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry.

BORN October 25, 1842, at Dayton, Illinois. Died at
Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1912.
Mustered into service as ist Sgt., April 12, 1861, 5th
Regt. N. Y. Inf., Excelsior Brigade, U. S. Vols. Gen. Daniel
E. Sickles. Commissioned as 2nd Lieut. 74th N. Y. Vols.,
May 26, 1862. Commissioned ist Lieut. 74th Vol. Inf.,
October 4, 1862. Promoted to Captain same regiment Jan-
uary 7, 1863. Mustered out as Captain due to gun shot
wounds received at Briston Station, Va., August 27, 1862.
Commissioned as 2nd Lieut. Co. "A" Office Battalion
Infantry, U. S. Q. M. Dept. by C. A. Dana, Secretary of

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War. Promoted to ist Lieut, same organization Sept. 9,
1864.

Captain Miller's service included the Peninsular Cam-
paign; the engagements at Mathias Point, Stafford Court
House, Siege of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Va., Fair Oaks,
Williamsburg Road, Gaines Hill, Savage Station, Chicka-
hominy. White Oak Swamp, retreat from Richmond, Mal-
vern Hills, Harrison Landing, Malvern Hills, Briston Sta-
tion. On special duty in office of Secretary of War Feb-
ruary 2, 1863, until muster out of service.

Captain Miller explains in his application the circum-
stances of the formation of the Office Battalion of the Q. M.
C. Dept which is interesting. At the time the Confederate
General Early made his attack on the National Capitol the
civilian clerks in the quartermaster department were formed
into the service battalion to repel the invasion. Our com-
panion had been mustered out due to wounds received in the
service, but because of his military experience was commis-
sioned directly by the Secretary of War to an office in the
emergency. The actual service of the battalion only lasted
about two weeks, when Gen. Early fell back, but the organi-
zation was kept in being for further needs if they arose.

JAMES AMBROSE HOOVER.

Second Lieutenant. Died at Pontiac, Illinois, November i8, ipi2.

COMPANION JAMES AMBROSE HOOVER was
born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1840, and
died at his home in Pontiac, Illinois, November 18, 1912.

Companion Hoover was elected an Original Companion
in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States through the Commandery of the State of Illinois,
November 14, 1889. His parents, Francis B. and Mary
Mathews Hoover, were natives of Bucks County, Pennsyl-
vania, and Drogheda, Meath County, Ireland, respectively.

Mr. Hoover passed his boyhood and youth on the farm
in his native county, and received a common school educa-

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tion. When sixteen years old, he started out in Hfe for him-
self, securing a position as clerk in a general store. He
was thus employed until reaching his majority, and subse-
quently the outbreak of the Civil War furnished him em-
ployment for the next four years. He enlisted in the Sec-
ond West Virginia Cavalry in 1861, and eight months later
was promoted Second Lieutenant and commanded the com-
pany most of the time until 1864. He also acted as quar-
termaster. He met the enemy in many of the important
battles of the war, and was with Sheridan through the cam-
paign in the Shenandoah Valley. He received a gunshot
wound at Cove Gap on May 19, 1864, but notwithstanding
the pain which followed, declined to leave the ranks and
rode on with his command 250 miles with a broken shoulder.
He remained with his regiment, and after the surrender of
General Lee, received his honorable discharge and was
mustered out with his comrades at Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, in 1865.

Lieutenant Hoover, after returning to civil life, came to
Northern Illinois, and took up his abode in Ford County,
where he remained six years engaged in farming, and in
the meantime accumulated sufficient money to enable him
to secure a quarter-section of land in Union Township,
Livingston County. He occupied this farm six years and
then on account of failing health decided to engage in some
lighter occupation. He, accordingly, engaged as a clerk in
a general store and was thus occupied for five years, dur-
ing which time he became interested in Township and
County affairs. In 1884 he was elected Circuit Clerk and
County Recorder of Livingston County, and in 1888 was
re-elected to the same office, serving two full terms, and
retiring in 1892.

On May 7, 1867, Mr. Hoover was united in marriage
with Miss Etta Tucker, a native of Tazewell County, Illi-

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nois. To this union was born two sons, Harry H. and
Frank. B. Both sons and the widow survive him.

By the death of Lieutenant James Ambrose Hoover, we
have lost a brave and true hearted companion, and his mem-
ory will be cherished by all who knew him, and most by
those who enjoyed his intimate friendship. To his widow
and sons we extend our sincere sympathy.

John McWilliams,
John B. Baker,
David M. Lyon,

Committee.

SAMUEL EDDY BARRETT.

Major. Died at Baltimore, Maryland, December 30, igi2.

OAMUEL EDDY BARRETT was born in Cambridge.
^ port, Mass., on the i6th of May, 1834. He was edu-
cated in the Boston pubHc schools and was in the mercantile
business in that city until 1855, when he removed to Mil--
waukee for about a year ; then settled in Chicago, 111., where
in 1857 he established himself in business with two asso-
ciates under the firm name of Barrett, Arnold & Powell.
This firm prospered well and was doing a good business
when the attempted secession of the southern states and
the call of President Lincoln for troops made an effective
appeal to his patriotism and he enlisted May 3, 1861, in

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"Taylor's Chicago Battery," which company was being or-
ganized under Illinois' first call for thirty thousand. The
company elected S. E. Barrett first lieutenant.

On June 4, 1861, the company left Chicago for Cairo,
111. On July 16, 1861, at Bird's Point, Mo., the company
was sworn into the United States service for three years
(unless sooner discharged) as Company B., First Illinois
Light Artillery, the officers retaining their former rank.
Major Barrett served with distinction, Captain Ezra Taylor
being promoted to major of First Regiment lUinois Light
Artillery, Lieutenant Barrett was promoted to captain on
March i, 1862. Promoted to major in same regiment Feb.
25, 1863 (mustered in June 13, 1863). Served with his
battery in the army of the Tennessee to June 21, '63; to
Aug. 31, '63, chief of Artillery 2d Division 15th Army
Corps; same with 4th Division (Gen. Corse) same corps to
Oct. 17, '63; chief of artillery and ordinance officer; staff
Major Gen. Frank P. Blair, Jr., commanding 15th Army
Corps on Nov. 2, '63, and with Gen. Blair's command to
Dec. 7, '63, when granted a leave of absence ; resigned Feb.
13, 1864, being obliged to return to his home.

Major Barrett participated in the following battles, etc. :

Belmont, Mo., Nov. 7, 1861 ; Ft. Henry, Feb. 12, 1862;
Fort Donelson, Feb. 14 to 16, 1862; Shiloh, Tenn., April
6 and 7, 1862; Russell House, May, 1862; Siege of Corinth,
May, 1862; Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., Dec. 27 to 31, 1862;
Arkansas Post, Ark., Jan. 11, 1863; expedition to Tuscum-
bia, Ala., Oct., 1863; Champion Hills, May 16, 1863; siege
of Vicksburg, from April i8th to July 4th; Mechanicsburg
expedition, June, 1863; march from Vicksburg to Mission-
ary Ridge, Oct, and Nov., 1863 ; Missionary Ridge, Nov.
24 and 27, 1863.

Upon his return to Chicago he found his business in a
critical condition but succeeded in establishing its prosperity,

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and by his foresight, enterprise and integrity carried his
fortunes steadily upward until the last of his partners sold
out to Major Barrett and retired from business. Subse-
quently he enlarged and improved it and finally merged it
into the S. E. Barrett Manufacturing Company and later
into the Barrett Manufacturing Company, of which he be-
came President and General Manager, with headquarters
in Chicago and branches scattered through neighboring
states and cities — a large and prosperous corporation.

On May 20, 1868, he was married to Miss AHce D.
Brush of Cleveland, Ohio. Their children are: Winifred
Eddy, now Mrs. Francis W. Taylor; Alice, now Mrs. J.
Arnold Scudder; Juliet, now Mrs. George Rublee; Miss
Adela Barrett; Robert Barrett, who married since his
father's death.

Major Barrett has resided in Chicago and vicinity since
his marriage, until recently they established a summer resi-
dence in Newcastle, N. H. Chicago residence, 109 Lake
Shore Drive, now numbered 1412.

Major Barrett was very fond of horses, always keeping
a full stable, and fond of driving his ''coach and four."
He was very liberal, especially so with the surviving mem-
bers of his old battery; also a liberal giver to charities and
to the support of Chicago's improvements.

Was a member of the Loyal Legion, Geo. H. Thomas
Post 5, Grand Army, and of the Union League Club. Physi-
cally strong he enjoyed traveling and was fond of society.
He belonged to the Fourth Presbyterian church and gave
largely to its fine new church building erected under the
pastorate of Rev. John Timothy Stone.

His survivors of the army are surprised and saddened
to learn of his sudden death in Baltimore after a surgical
operation on December 30, 1912 ; and, to his wife and fam-

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ily, we wish to express our sympathy and acknowledge their

loss as also ours.

Israel P. Rumsey,
George Mason,
John C. Neely,

Committee.

UZIAH MACK.

First Lieutenant. Died at Tucson. Arizona, January 23, 1913.

\ NOTHER hero of our Great Civil War has dropped
■^ ^ from the ranks of his comrades who are still living
upon the earth and has joined "the great majority" of his
comrades who are encamped '*on the other side of the Dark
River." During the years gone by the members of this
Commandery have often been called upon to mourn the
death of some fellow member, and now another Companion
has fallen and once again our heads are bowed with grief
and our hearts are filled with sorrow.

First Lieutenant Uziah Mack died at Tucson, Arizona,
January 23, 191 3. He became a member of this Command-

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ery in 1893, and from that time down to the time of his
death, proved himself to be one of its most loyal, faithful
and devoted members.

Like so many of the worthy and respected citizens of
this country, Companion Mack was bom and reared on a
farm. His parents were farming people who lived in North-
ampton County, Pennsylvania, and it was in this county
and State that Companion Mack was born January 13,
1835. Hence he was seventy-eight years and ten days old
at the time of his death. During his boyhood days he was
enabled to acquire a fairly good education, beginning with
the common schools and then pursuing his studies for some
time at the Milton Academy, which was located not far
from his father's farm.

But young Mack, when he had grown old enough to
think and act for himself and began to look about him for
some occupation by which he could make a living for him-
self and win his way to a respectable position in the great
world of business, was not content to remain at "the old
home." He had heard a vast deal about "The Great West,"
and hence, being inspired by a worthy ambition, he re-
solved to try his fortune in that much-lauded country. For-
tunately for him he had an uncle who had gone West some
time before and had located at Joliet, Illinois, and so in
1858 he bade his parents good-bye and betook himself to
Joliet. Here he was warmly welcomed by his uncle and
was at once given employment in a boot and shoe store
which his uncle was carrying on in that place. Although
he was kept very busy and had very little time to himself,
nevertheless he readily formed some pleasant acquaintances,
found Joliet an attractive place and enjoyed his Hfe there
very much.

But our Great Civil War came on and young Mack,
like so many other young men in the North, felt it to be
his duty to join the Union Army and thus to do what he

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could in helping to ward off the danger which was threaten-
ing the life of our Government at the hands of an armed
foe. Hence it was that on August 8, 1862, he enlisted in
Company K of the One Hundredth Regiment of Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, and with this Regiment he remained
until he was honorably mustered out of the service at the
close of the war, serving first as a private, then as Ser-
geant, and then as First Lieutenant.

It can truthfully be said of Companion Mack that, in
his mihtary life as well as in his civil life, he was always
ready for duty. From the time that his regiment was mus-
tered into the United States service until it was mustered
out, he was present with it, unless sick, and did his full
share in helping to make the record of that Regiment both
honorable and praise-worthy. There were very few Regi-
ments in the Union Army which made a better record than
the One Hundredth Illinois made.

Starting out from Louisville, Kentucky, in the Fall of
1862, it took part in that grand movement of the Union
forces in the pursuit of General Bragg and his army. It
was present at the battle of Perryville, marched from that
bloody field to Nashville, Tennessee, thence to Murfrees-
boro and Stone's River, and then forward to share in the
bloody battle of Chickamauga. It was kept on the move
almost constantly until after the great battle of Mission
Ridge when it was sent with the troops under the com-
mand of General Sherman to the relief of General Burn-
side and his army in the City of Knoxville. It was also
in that ever memorable march from Chattanooga to At-
lanta, taking part in some of the greater battles which our
troops fought on that march, such as Resaca and Kenesaw
Mountam, and in many of the lesser battles and skirmishes
where it was often brought under the direct and frequently
very severe fire of the enemy's guns. It was also under
fire at Spring Hill and many other places and took part

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in those hard fought battles of FrankHn and Nashville, thus
winning the honor of having heroically assisted in the cam-
paign which resulted in the annihilation of the army under
the command of General Hood.

Having been present with his Regiment in all these
movements, skirmishes and battles, having shared in all the
trials, hardships and dangers which that Regiment was
called upon to undergo, and having always been prompt in
the performance of his every duty, it can truthfully be said
of Companion Mack that, as an everyday, faithful and loyal
soldier, he ranked among the very best. Although some-
what reserved and retiring by nature, he proved himself
to be one of the thoroughly reliable men in his company
and Regiment. He was a soldier who could always be
trusted and was always on hand, prepared to perform, to
the best of his ability, any task that was assigned to him and
to assume any risk which might come to him in the dis-
charge of his duty. He was faithful in camp, faithful on
guard or picket and faithful on the march, while on the
skirmish line and in battle he was ever at his post of duty
ready to do and to dare whenever called upon to act and
whatever required to do. His faithfulness, readiness for duty
and general meritorious conduct attracted the attention of
his officers and secured his promotion to the position of
First Lieutenant, a position which he had fully and
deservedly won and which he filled with such ability as to
secure the warm approval of the officers commanding his
Regiment.

As soon as the war was ended and Companion Mack
was 'mustered out of the service, he returned to Joliet where
he at once engaged in business again in company with his
uncle. He remained thus engaged until the death of his
uncle in 1872, when he became proprietor of the store and
carried it on until 1900, when he sold it to his son. While
in business he formed a very extensive acquaintance, and

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all who came to know him came to esteem him most highly
and to feel the utmost confidence in his honesty and loyalty
to the Right. Indeed, in all the walks of civil life he proved
himself to be as thoroughly reliable as he had proved him-
self to be in military life and when he retired from busi-
ness he had the respect and high regard of all who knew
him.

Not only as a soldier and a business man did Compan-
ion ^lack make for himself an honorable record, but also
as a citizen. He always looked upon the Government which
he had risked his life to preserve with the highest regard
and was proud that he was privileged to live under it. To
him the laws of that Government were always sacred, and
he regarded it as his bounden duty to obey these laws at
all times and under all circumstances. He might not con-
sider this or that particular law to be wise and he might
think that it would prove profitable to him, in a pecuniary
way, if he disobeyed it. Yet he never permitted his likes,
dislikes or personal interests to influence his actions in re-
gard to such law, but always obeyed it with the utmost
promptness, ever regarding one law as strictly and fully
binding upon him as another. Indeed, he always stood for
law and order. He felt that it was his duty to be as loyal
to his Government and its laws in times of peace as he had
been in times of w^ar. His patriotism was a constant quan-
tity— a Patriotism which he did not keep under lock and
key to be brought out and exhibited only on special occa-
sions, but which he kept ever with him and which was ef-
fectual in shaping his thought and action and in control-
ling his everyday life.

Companion Mack was married in 1867 to Miss Jane
Fleming who died a few years later. Of their three chil-
dren, Robert L. is deceased, Mary F. is married and lives
in Joliet, and William F. resides at Candor, X. C. In 1883,
he was married to Miss Carrie M. Cagwin, who, with their

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two children, Josephine E. and Francis C, was present with
Companion Mack at the time of his death.

To the sorrowing wife and children of our beloved
Companion we extend the warmest and kindliest sympathy
of all the members of this Commandery, and we beg to as-
sure them that their loss is our loss and that we share, to a
large degree, in the bitter sorrow which, in this hour of their
sore affliction, fills, weighs down and makes sad their hearts.

Philip C. Hayes,
Erastus W. Willard.
Cyrus W. Brown,

Committee.

GEORGE TYLER BURROUGHS.
Brevet Major. Died, at Chicago, Illinois, February 15, 1913.

MAJOR GEORGE T. BURROUGHS was born at
Warren, Massachusetts, October 13, 1833, of sturdy
New England stock.

Reared on a farm and early imbued with patriotism it
was only natural that he should have responded to the first
call for volunteers.

Enlisting as private in Co. G., 71st N. Y. state militia
April 19, 1861, he was mustered into the service of the
United States at the navy yard, Washington, D. C., eleven
days later.

Upon completion of the three months' term of service
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he was honorably clischarged. He re-enhsted December i6,
1861, and was mustered in as first Heutenant and quarter-
master 43rd N. Y. infantry, Colonel Francis L. Vinton
commanding.

From September, 1862, until February 19, 1863, he was
Acting Commissary of Subsistence. He was then appointed
by the President Captain and Commissary of Subsistence
and was assigned to duty with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Divi-
sion, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac and served on the
staffs of Generals Francis L. Vinton, T. H. McNiel, D. D.
Bidwell, E. G. Mason and Thomas W. Hyde.

He was breveted Major U. S. V. June 24, 1865, for
faithful and meritorious service during the war.

Married at Iowa City, Iowa, February 23, 1863, to
Mary Evaline Zieger, he took his young bride to the front
and in later years recalled many perilous and startling
events of which she was a participant or eye witness.

In 1867 he was elected an Original Companion of the
First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, Commandery of the State of Massa-
chusetts, and was one of the thirteen Original Companions
of the Illinois Commandery.

He was a member of George H. Thomas Post No. 5,
Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, and
a life member of Apollo Commandery No. i, Knights
Templar.

Immediately after the Civil War he engaged in manu-
facturing in Portland, Maine, removing to Chicago in the
summer of 1868, where he resided continuously until his
death, being engaged in various manufacturing enterprises
until 1910 when he gradually retired from active business.

His life was that of a strong, vigorous, forceful nature,
compelling rather than courting success. He loved truth
and justice and abhorred all semblance of sham, subterfuge
or deceit.

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His personal friends were bound to him by lasting ties
of respect and affection and among them he made no dis-
tinction of race, creed or social position.

While far from being a hero-worshipper, he idolized
the name and memory of Abraham Lincoln, and one of his
most highly prized possessions was his commission as Com-
missary of Subsistence signed by the martyred President.
He is survived by his widow and by their four sons,
George T., Jr., Henry S., F. Coleman and Edgar Rice, and
by eight grandchildren.

Chas. S. McEnter,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Walter R. Robins^

Committee.

The Commandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

GURDON GRANT MOORE.

Ninety-third New York Volunteer Infantry, United States
Volunteers.

BORN December 13, 1840, at Troy, New York. Died
February 16, 191 3.
Commissioned as 2nd Lieut. 93rd N. Y. Vol. Inf., Jan-
uary 17, 1862. Promoted ist Lieut, same regiment July 19,
1862, and resigned from the service February 21, 1863.
Service with the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsular
Campaign under Generals McClellan, Hooker and Burnside.

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EVERETT WELLINGTON BROOKS.

Paymaster. Died at Pasadena, California, March 20, 1913.

A NOTHER Companion of our Commandery has been
-^ ^ added to the roll of deceased members. We offer
this brief tribute to his memory :

Everett Wellington Brooks was born December 29, 1840,
at old Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died from a fall
near his home at Pasadena, California, March 20, 1913.

When a young man our Companion began working in a
store at Boston. In 1861 he was sent west to settle a large
claim held by an eastern company against a mercantile con-
cern at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and finding the assets of
the firm to consist largely of saw logs he chartered two saw
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Milwaukee and Chicago. The work took two months to
complete and he then returned to his home in the East
where he tendered his service to the government, and on
July 12, 1863, was appointed a paymaster in the United
States Navy.

He served in the North Atlantic squadron from July,
1863, until Fort Fisher was taken and then in the Gulf
squadron until ordered, June 12, 1865, north for discharge.

He then again came west and engaged in the lumber
business, acting as agent and manager for several lumber
concerns until finally he organized the firm of E. W. Brooks
& Co., which afterwards became known as the Brooks &
Ross Lumber Co^ manufacturers of and wholesale dealers
in lumber, and 'fi^mined in active business until 1910. When
having amassed "^j^moderate fortune he retired from busi-
ness and moved t^fasadena, California, where he built a
magnificent residence -and lived there until he died.

Mr. Brooks possessed business talent of a high order
and earned for himself a sterling reputation for honest v
and integrity. He will be long and most kindly remembered
by his friends as an honest and able man, a good neighbor,
a public-spirited citizen, a genial cultivated gentleman and
a devoted husband and father. He has passed on to the
reward of those who are faithful to the end.

Mr. Brooks was strongly attached to the order of the
Loyal Legion and while in Chicago was a member of the
Union League, South Shore Country and Hamilton clubs,
He was also prominent in Free Masonry.

To those who were especially dear to him and to the
stricken wife and daughters, we tender our heartfelt sym-
pathy.

John McLaren-,
Walter R. Robbins,
Simeon H. Crane,

Committee.

MILLARD JOHNSON SHERIDAN.
Captain. Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 25, 1913.

CAPTAIN MILLARD JOHNSON SHERIDAN was
born at Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont, May 20,
1840.

Entering the service of the United States as a private
soldier in Company D of the 42nd Illinois Infantry Aug. 3,
1861, he served under this enlistment until April 8, 1863,
when discharged on account of a wound received in the
battle of Stone River.

He was elected an original companion of the military
order of the Loyal Legion of the United States through
the Commandery of the State of Illinois, May 9, 1889, In-
signia No. 7146.

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The air of the green mountain state has been and is so
charged with courage and love of country that even the
children breathe in patriotic fervor, and increasing years
no matter where they may be seems only to intensify this
inborn characteristic.

Sheridan came of the best type of Vermonters and not
the handicap he suffered when only six years of age, the
greatest a child and especially a boy could be placed under,
the death of both father and mother, prevented the devel-
opment of a noble character in their child. He has him-
self told with justifiable and fnanly pride how in the Pro-
bate court he was "bound out" until fourteen (14) years
of age. He must have been in good hands for he received
such education as the common schools gave, going to school
summers, and as he grew older teaching school in winters.
As farmer boys in that period fortunately were wont to do
he worked upon the farm, growing thus not only in knowl-
edge but in rugged strength and manly stature.

The day after Fort Sumter was fired upon young Sher-
idan enlisted in Captain Bela T. Clark's company, but as
the quota of Illinois, in the first call for troops, was full,
this company was not accepted in the service. In July fol-
lowing at Chicago, Sheridan again enlisted in what was
called in honor of the Vermont and Illinois patriot Stephen
A. Douglas, "The Douglas Brigade" at Camp Douglas. This
command was afterwards known as the 42nd Illinois In-
fantry, U. S. Volunteers.

Almost immediately after its organization the regiment
was ordered to St. Louis, Mo., and was transferred by boat
to Jefferson City, Mo. It was there equipped for service
and marched to Springfield, Mo., in the Fremont campaign
against General Price, then in command of the confederate
forces of the West. After severe marching and frequent
fighting in the winter of '61 and '62 the regiment took a
steamer at St. Charles, Mo., and was transferred by boat

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successively to Cairo, Columbus, Ky., to Island No. lO, to
Fort Pillow and Pittsburg Landing.

April 28, 1862, going into camp at Farmington, Tenn.,
it engaged in the battle at that place May 8, 1862. It was
here that Col. Geo. W. Roberts called for some sergeant to
volunteer to carry the colors of the regiment. Sergeant
Sheridan was the first to volunteer for this conspicuously
dangerous and essential service. From that time his tall
form and firm, fearless bearing was observed by all carry-
ing the flag he loved better than life. He was in every
march, scout, skirmish and battle in which the regiment was
engaged until December 31, 1862, when in the battle of
Stone River he was struck down, desperately wounded by
a minnie ball. This caused his discharge from the service
April 8, 1863.

Thereafter knowing of Sheridan's earnest desire to be
of further service in the war for the preservation of the
Union, the officers of his old regiment made a unanimous
application in his behalf for a commission in the Invalid
Corps which was afterwards known as the "Veteran Re-
serve Corps." Ordered before the Board of Examiners
of which Major Houston of the regular army was presi-
dent, he passed a good examination and was offered and
accepted a commission as First Lieutenant of the 65th Regi-
ment U. S. C. T. He was promoted Captain September,
1864, and made Quartermaster of the Brigade. He served
as such until 1865 when he was appointed Provost Marshal
and Provost Judge, and also made Chief of the Bureau of
Refugees and Abandoned Lands for the Parish of East
and West Baton Rouge, La. This position gave him large
powers both civil and military and continued until the Civil
Tribunals were again re-established in the fall of 1865. In
these days when it has become almost a matter of course
with a class of politicians and newspapers. North as well
as South, to denounce as unworthy, self-seeking and un-

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scrupulous, without discrimination, all that large number
of men who, having served their country bravely and faith-
fully in her army during the years of peril, death and dis-
aster participated in any capacity in the infinitely difficult
and ofttimes dangerous work made necessary to re-establish
order and civil government in the South, and as well in
the protection of the enfranchised slaves from a fate worse
than slavery, it is no more than justice to one, the type of
many whom Southern citizens, whose associations and sym-
pathies were all with the "lost cause," of their own free
will highly commended editorially in the public press in
these words :
"Captain M. J. Sheridan,

"This capable officer and excellent man having resigned
his position in the army, has returned to his home in Illi-
nois. For nearly a year past Captain Sheridan occupied
the position of Provost Marshal at this place, the delicate
and responsible duties of which he discharged in a man-
ner which spoke volumes in his favor as a conscientious and
impartial functionary. It affords us pleasure, now that he
has gone from among us and our remarks cannot be taken
as prompted by a desire to praise him to his face, to bear
our humble testimony as above, to his personal and official
worth. Should he ever have occasion to revisit our city
he will not fail to meet with that friendly welcome among
our citizens which will go to prove that their esteem and
appreciation of him are as enduring as the principles of
honor which characterize the true gentleman and soldier."
— Baton Rouge Connett.

"We cordially endorse the above. Captain Sheridan was
in a position the powers of which he might have used for
his own benefit and to the detriment of the people. But
he was just, honorable and fair in all the transactions of his
office, and used his powers for the good of our citizens. We

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hope that a long and happy life awaits him in his Western
Home." — Baton Rouge Advocate.

On his return to Illinois Captain Sheridan soon became
a leading citizen of Kankakee county and indeed of the
state. He was successful in business and acquired and re-
tained a handsome estate.

Sheridan was as earnest in his patriotism in the era of
peace which followed the close of the war as he had been
when bravely carrying his country's flag on the battlefield
of Stone River. This led him to take a lively interest in
the political affairs of the state and nation. He, like the
great mass of the soldiers of Illinois, followed the political
leadership, as they did in time of war the illustrious ex-
ample of that greatest of the volunteers of our country.
General John A. Logan.

The writer of this memorial has personal knowledge
that there was no man upon whose ability and absolute fidel-
ity under all circumstances General Logan more relied than
upon that of Captain M. J. Sheridan. He was as sagacious
as courageous, could not be driven or duped, but would do
right "as God gave him to see the right" without fear or
favor.

A soldier without fear, a genial comrade and companion,
a true gentleman, a good citizen in every sense of the word,
an honest man, he has left to his descendants a name worthy
to be held in remembrance and honored to the latest gen-
eration.

Captain Sheridan was married May ii, 1865, to Miss
Lois A. Compbell. The bereaved wife and only daugh-
ter, Mrs. Belle S. Breckenridge, and a grandson, Millard
Sheridan Breckenridge, all residing in Chicago, are left to
mourn the death of a devoted husband, a loving father and
grandfather.

Companions, Sheridan has preceded us, the remaining
few. He went as let us hope to go when our summons

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comes, with head erect and a smile upon our faces content
to know that the world is better, the destiny of mankind
more full of hope and promise for the future because of the
services our companions and comrades and those who re-
main were privileged to render in our day and generation.

Richard S. Tuthill,
Henry M. Kidder^
Henry K. Wolcott,

Committee.

SMITH DYKINS ATKINS.

Colonel Ninety-second Illinois Infantry and Brevet Major General,

United States Volunteers. Died at Freeport, Illinois,

March 27, 1913.

OMITH DYKINS ATKINS was born near Elmira, New
^ York, June 9, 1835, and died at Freeport, Illinois,
March 27, 191 3. His father came to this state when the
son was ten years of age, and settled on a farm near Free-
port. At the age of fifteen, young Atkins determined to
learn the printer's trade and entered the office of the Prairie
Democrat, the first newspaper in Freeport. At the same
time, being ambitious to procure more than a common school
education, he pursued a course in Rock River Seminary
at Mt. Morris, studying during his leisure hours. While

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Still a student, he was made foreman of the Mt. Morris
Gazette, and in June, 1853, became part owner of the pa-
per, and also established the Register at Savanna. He
also studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856, and
practiced his profession at Freeport, till the breaking out
of the war.

On April 18, 1861, while engaged in a criminal case in
the Circuit Court, of Stephenson County, a telegram was
received announcing the fact of President Lincoln's first
call of troops to suppress the rebellion. Before leaving the
Court room, he drew up enlistment papers, which he headed
with his own name, being the first man in that county to
enlist as a private soldier. He left his unfinished case in
the hands of his associate, left the court room, and before
evening a Company organization of one hundred men was
formed and Atkins was elected Captain. The Company
was ordered to Springfield, and became Company A of the
nth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

The Regiment was in the battles of Fort Donelson and
Shiloh. Capt. Atkins took into the former battle sixty-
eight men and came out with twenty-three. For gallantry
in this engagement, he was promoted to Major of the Regi-
ment. He was on the staflf of Gen'l Hurlbut at the Battle
of Shiloh. Soon thereafter by reason of ill health, he was
obliged to resign his commission. Having recovered his
health, he raised troops under the President's call in 1862,
and became Colonel of the 92nd Illinois Regiment, Septem-
ber 4, 1862.

He was in command of this Regiment until January,
1863, when he was placed in command of a brigade. While
the 92nd Regiment was stationed at Mt. Sterling, Ky., hun-
dreds of slaves came into the camp, and sought the pro-
tection of the Colonel commanding. Their owners de-
manded their return as chattels, but Colonel Atkins declined
to entertain the demand, although ordered to^ do so by the

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Commander of the Brigade, who was a Kentuckian, saying
he was not responsible for their escape and that his men
had not enhsted to act in the capacity of blood hounds to
hunt them down, and drive them back.

While in the Department of the Ohio, Col. Atkins was
commanding a brigade most of the time. When the Regi-
ment was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, it
became a part of Wilder's famous brigade of mounted in-
fantry.

Preparatory to Sherman's march to the Sea, Gen'l Kil-
patrick reorganized his division and assigned Col. Atkins
to the command of the second brigade. At Savannah,
Georgia, Col. Atkins was breveted Brig. General, for gal-
lantry, and was assigned by special order of President Lin-
coln to duty according to his brevet rank, and commanded
a brigade of cavalry during Sherman's campaign in the
Carolinas. A perfect disciplinarian, he yet was very kind
and considerate to the men under him. After muster out,
he returned to Illinois and took up the profession of journal-
ism, and for half a century conducted the Freeport Jour-
nal.

Gen. Atkins was appointed Postmaster at Freeport, by
President Andrew Johnson in the sixties, and with excep-
tion of the Cleveland administration, held the office to the
day of his death.

Soon after the war in 1865, he was married to Eleanor
Hope Swain, daughter of Gov. David L. Swain, of North
Carolina. She died many years ago. Two daughters sur-
vive Gen. Atkins, with one of whom he had made his home
in recent years.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

v>

HENRY BELDEN WATSON.

Second Lieutenant Eleventh United States Heavy Artillery.
(Colored.)

BORN February 5, 1837, Toringford, Conn. Died April
II, 1913.
Enlisted November 3, 1863, as a private in the ist Wis-
consin Heavy Artillery then in the Army of the Potomac
and served with the regiment until February 5, 1865, when
he received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, and was as-
signed to the nth U. S. C. Heavy Artillery then doing duty
at Ft. Jackson, La., which regiment he subsequently joined.
Mustered out of the service October 2, 1865.

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PELEG REMINGTON WALKER.

First Lieutenant Company K, Ninety-second Illinois Volunteers.
Died at Rockford, Illinois, April 17, 1913.

PELEG REMINGTON WALKER was born at Brook-
lyn, Windham county, Connecticut, July i, 1835, th^ odd-
est grandson of Peleg Walker of Foster, Rhode Island, and
of Peleg Remington of Pautuxet, Rhode Island. He
was a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, Richard Water-
man, Samuel Gorton, Greene, Arnold and others of the
pioneers of Rhode Island. He attended West Killingly
Academy, Connecticut, where he was preparing for Am-
herst College when a severe affliction of the eyes, which
followed an attack of the measles, disabled him for two
years, and he was compelled to relinquish his plans. He

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taught school winter terms when he was seventeen, in
Hampton and South KilHngly, Connecticut, and after com-
ing West in Lindenwood, and near Byron, Ogle county,
Illinois. At this time the family moved to Illinois, settling
at Lindenwood, Ogle county. Later he entered the Normal
University at Bloomington, Illinois, from which he was
graduated July 3, 1861. The following Fall he began teach-
ing school at Creston; but left his position August 12,
1862, to enlist in Company K, Ninety-second Regiment Illi-
nois Volunteer Infantry. He was made sergeant in a few
months. January 23, 1863, he received a commission as
2nd lieutenant and April 21, 1864, as ist lieutenant. He
was in the army of the Cumberland, in General Wilder's
brigade of mounted infantry in the battles of Chickamauga
and Mission Ridge. In April, 1864, his regiment was at-
tached to General Kilpatrick's division of cavalry and had a
prominent part in the advance on Atlanta and with Sherman
on his ''March to the Sea," and later through the Carolinas.
Horace Scoville, Captain of Company K, was taken captive
at Ringgold in June, 1864, and from then on to the close
of the war he was placed in command of his company. He
was once wounded slightly in the right forearm, at the
battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864.

He was mustered out June 10, 1865, in Concord, North
Carolina.

On the i6th of August, 1865, he was married to Miss
Martha E. Webb, daughter of Martin and Fanny (Deming)
Webb of Le Roy, Genesee county, New York. They had
one child, Frances E. Walker. The following October he
resumed his duties as teacher at Creston, 111. He taught
there seven years, when he was called to the principalship
of the schools at Rochelle, where he remained for twelve
years. He was then called to the Superintendency of the
Rockford schools, and began his work there August 16,
1884, continuing actively until his death.

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His interest in school work steadily increased with his
years of service, and he held many positions in the various
State Associations, He was chairman of the legislative
committee of the Northern Illinois Teachers'. Association
for several years, and persistently worked to keep the idea
of a Northern Illinois Normal School before the General
Assembly at Springfield, and was rewarded by seeing one
finally established at De Kalb. He was at one time a di-
rector of the National Educational Association, had been
president of the Illinois State Teachers' Association, and
of the Northern Illinois Teachers' Association. He was
a member of the State Board of Education for thirty years,
and had been its president for six years preceding his death.

He was a member of Nevius Post No. i, G. A. R. Dept.
of Illinois and its Patriotic Instructor for a long series of
years; he was also a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the
State of Illinois.

His funeral was the largest as well as the most sincere
ever held in Rockford, his casket rested amid flowers ; it
was draped in an American flag ten feet long made of red
and white carnations on a field of blue immortelles; it was
the volunteer tribute of the pupils of the schools. An open
book was the ofifering of the teachers of the city. A wreath
was sent from the Illinois State Normal University and a
beautiful design from the Loyal Legion, Commandery of
Illinois.

The church was filled with teachers and his comrades
of the G. A. R. ; the largest attendance of this body ever
gathered at a Comrade's funeral. Sons of Veterans acted
as a Guard of Honor through the day and during the fu-
neral. The body lay in state at the church from one to three
o'clock.

His pastor, the Rev. John Gordon, presiding, offered a
touching prayer and read the scripture lesson. 'T have

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fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith."

Principal C. P. Briggs of the high school speaking, said
the excellent public schools of Rockford v^ere his memorial.

David Felmley, president of the Normal University at
Normal, Illinois, said: "Professor Walker v^as the pride
and ornament of his profession in Illinois, which has thirty
thousand teachers. He was open-minded and progressive
and a man of singular transparency of character."

John W. Cook, president of the Illinois State Normal
School at De Kalb, was a schoolmate and associate in educa-
tional work through all his life ; in his tribute he said: '*He
took the eternal truth that makes the universe orderly and
wove it into a life, and he did it so simply, so contentedly,
so steadfastly with no thought of doing otherwise. His
kindness, his devotion to duty, his truthfulness, his open-
ness of mind, his sterling integrity, his modesty, his con-
stant consideration for the teachers under his authority —
these are matters I need not recite to you here where the
crowning work of his life was done."

In his Post No. i, G. A. R., Department of IlHnois, a
memorial was offered and unanimously adopted; in part it
said: "He was an altruist in every analysis that can be
given the word; he lived and loved and served for others;
his home was truly his castle and his family his refuge and
defense in time of trial; his home ties and his devotion to
family made an epic in life. His patriotism was his re-
ligion and his religion was his stimulus to exalted civic duty.
The cross and the flag were his ensigns he followed to final
destiny."

And finally at the Memorial Day Exercises, May 30th,
at the high school assembly room, an expressive meeting
of over one thousand pupils and teachers, every heart
throbbed in loving sympathy with the occasion and the serv-
ices; one of the speakers, a comrade, closed with this, "His

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memory will shine like a lifted constellation amid the heaven
of men's memories, of men's greatest deeds and highest
glory. Among the names written where men loved and
worked for humanity, Peleg Remington Walker's name
leads all the rest."

Benjamin F. Lee,
George D. Roper,
RoswELL H. Mason,

Committee.

JAMES HAMILTON BELL.

Captain. Died at Chicago, Illinois, May 13, 1913.

CAPTAIN JAMES HAMILTON BELL, Sixth New
York Cavalry, U. S. V., was mustered into United
States service November 26, 1861, as Second Lieutenant,
was promoted First Lieutenant September 4, 1862, Captain
September 19, 1864. Was transferred to the Second Pro-
visional Cavalry and honorably discharged and mustered
out with the regiment August 9, 1865.

His service was with the First Division, Cavalry Corps,
Army of the Potomac. Engaged in the Battle of South
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Bev-
erly Ford, Gettysburg, the Campaigns of the Wilderness and

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the Shenandoah Valley. Was taken prisoner at Berrys-
ville and retained five weeks in Libby prison when he re-
joined his command at Winchester, serving under General
Sheridan until the close of the campaign at Five Forks and
Appomattox.

Captain Bell was born January 7, 1839, on a farm near
New Hudson, Allegany Co., New York; was educated in
the local school and a near-by academy. While a young
man he was the school master at Rushford, devoting his
spare time to farm work.

At the close of the Civil War he started his commercial
life at Sparta, Wisconsin, coming to Chicago in 1871, where
he was successful as a coffee and spice merchant and manu-
facturer of the firm Bell, Conrad & Co.

In 1877 he married Mary Elizabeth Stone, the widow of
his youngest brother. His widow, two daughters and three
brothers survive him. The daughters married brothers, the
Messrs. Edwin and Cecil Page. His grandson, Hamilton
Bell Davidson, a husky lad of 12 years, says he will be
grandfather's successor as a member of the Loyal Legion;
like a young warrior, ready for duty, he sleeps with the
old trooper's carbine beside him.

Captain Bell was elected a Companion of the Illinois
Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
November 4, 1885. As friends we signed his appHcation
for membership of the order; as loving Companions we
tender the Commanderies' heartfelt sympathy to his be-
reaved family.

Simeon H. Crane,
Oliver W. Norton,

Committee.

JOHN LUTHER WHITE.

Second Lieutenant Tzventy-second Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.

BORN February lo, 1842, at Middletown, Conn. Died
May 30, 1913.
Enlisted May 11, 1861, as private in Rifle Company *'A"
3rd Regt. Conn. Vols, Discharged by reason of expiration
of term of service, August 12, 1861. Reenlisted September
I, 1862, as private in Co. 'T" 22nd Regt. Conn. Vol. Inf.,
and appointed ist Sergeant same date. Commissioned 2nd
Lieut. February 19, 1863. Honorably discharged at ex-
piration of term of service, July 7, 1863.

Service in the defense of Washington and first battle of
Bull Run, expedition to Suffolk Spring and West Point
Spring under command of General Gordon.

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JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD LEAKE.

Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General. Died at Chicago,
Illinois, June 8, 1913.

COMPANION BVT. BRIG. GEN. JOSEPH BLOOM-
FIELD LEAKE was born at Deerfield, Cumberland
County, New Jersey, April i, 1828, and died at Chicago,
Illinois, June 8, 1913.

He entered the service (enrolled) August 9, 1862, at
Davenport, Iowa; was mustered in as Capt. Co. G., 20th
Iowa Infantry, U. S. V., August 25, 1862; promoted to
Lieut. Col. August 26, 1862 ; Bvt. Col. and Bvt. Brig. Gen.,
U. S. v., "for gallant and meritorious services" March 13,
1865; mustered out with regiment, July 8, 1865.

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He served with his regiment in the Armies of the Fron-
tier and the Tennessee, and in the Department of the Gulf,
participating in the battles of Newtonia, Prairie Grove,
Siege of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, besides many minor
engagements and skirmishes.

September 29, 1863, while in command of a small de-
tachment of about 500 men at Morganza, La., he was at-
tacked by an overwhelming force of the enemy and after
a gallant defence, in which his command suffered severe
losses, was compelled to surrender.

He remained a prisoner for nearly a year, was finally
exchanged, and rejoined his regiment in time to participate
in the siege of Mobile and the capture of Fort Gaines. Dur-
ing this campaign Brig. Gen. C. C. Andrews, commanding
2nd Div., 13th Army Corps, in General Order No. 8, said
'*The General particularly thanks Lieut. Col. J. B. Leake,
commanding the 20th Iowa Volunteers, for the rapid and
valuable services of his regiment, showing by the amount
done how much can be accomplished by officers giving their
personal interest and attention to their duty."

General Leake was elected an Original Companion of the
First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, through the Commandery of the State of
Illinois, May 5, 1880, his insignia number being 2010.

He served as a member of the Council in 1883 and 1887,
Junior Vice Commander, 1892, Senior Vice Commander,
1893, and Commander, 1894.

He removed with his parents to Cincinnati in 1836, at-
tended preparatory schools, entered Miami University, and
graduated in 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1850,
practiced in Cincinnati until 1856, when he removed to
Davenport, Iowa.

In i860 he was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln ;
was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in

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1861 and elected State Senator in 1862, but resigned to
enter the service.

Upon his return to civil life, he resumed the practice
of law at Davenport. In 1866, he was again elected State
Senator, but again resigned. He was County Attorney for
Scott County, Iowa, from 1866 to 187 1, and President of
the Davenport Board of Education from 1866 to 1871. He
removed to Chicago in November, 1871, and subsequently
formed a law partnership with our late Companion, Capt.
William Vocke. In 1879, he was appointed United States
District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois by
President Hayes, a personal friend, who chose him as a
compromise candidate without his knowledge or the inter-
vention of his friends.

He served as such until 1884. From 1887 to 1891 he
served as attorney for the Chicago Board of Education.

His long legal service, extending — with the exception
of the time spent in military service — from 1850 to 1913,
is a record seldom, if ever, equaled in the annals of Ameri-
can lawyers.

In the last years of his life he was deeply interested in
the movement to establish, by act of Congress, a Volunteer
Officers Retired List, and devoted months of time and in-
finite study and research in the preparation of a brief upon
the subject, which conclusively proves the justice of the
cause.

This was only one of the instances throughout his life
when he devoted time and labor, without compensation, to
persons and objects he deemed worthy of assistance.

His clear judgment, keen sense of personal honor, ster-
ling integrity and gentle loving kindness endeared him to
all who knew him.

While we mourn his loss and cherish his memory, we
can but rejoice that he has "entered into the peace which

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passeth all understanding" and tender our loving sympathy

to his widow.

RoswELL H. Mason^
Walter R. Robbins,
Charles R. E. Koch,

Committee.

CHRISTIAN RIEBSAME.

Captain. Died at Blooniington, Illinois, July 5, 1913.

CAPTAIN CHRISTIAN RIEBSAME, one of Bloom-
ington's most widely known citizens, expired at his
home, 513 East Grove street, shortly after 9 o'clock Satur-
day morning, July 5, 19 13. Captain Riebsame had been in
poor health for the past eighteen months, but it was Tues-
day, July 1st, that his malady became acute. He suffered
with dropsy.

The deceased was just entering his seventy-fifth year
at the time of his death, he having been born June i, 1839,
at Mutterstadt, near Speier, Germany. He came to the
United States at the age of 14, going^ first to Philadelphia,

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where he remained for two years. He then came west as
far as Chicago, where he remained for several years before
going to Decatur.

At the beginning of the civil war he resided at Decatur
and answered the call of his adopted country by enlisting
as a member of Company B, ii6th Illinois Volunteers, a
cavalry regiment. Entering the service as a private, he as-
cended by rapid stages to the captaincy of his company.

Among the most notable battles in which Captain Rieb-
same participated were the following: Missionary Ridge;
siege and capture of Vicksburg, Resacca, Ga., Chickasaw
Bayou, Arkansas Port, Dallas, Ga., Fort McAllister, Savan-
nah, Ga., Bentonville, N. C, Columbus, S. C, Ezra Chapel,
Kenesaw Mountain, New Hope Church, Jonesborough, and
others. With the declaration of peace. Captain Riebsame
removed to Bloomington and has since resided there.

Captain Riebsame had the distinction of being a mem-
ber of the first Grand Army post ever organized. It was
prior to his removal from Decatur that the first post was
organized there, the date being April 6, 1866, the fourth
anniversary of the battle of Shiloh. General B. F. Stephen-
son, then a physician of Springfield, conceived the idea of
founding the G. A. R. and was assisted in writing the ritual
by J. W. Routh of the same city. For a number of years
he held the distinction of being the only survivor of the
first post of the great patriotic order. Captain Riebsame
was elected an Original Companion of the First Class of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, his in-
signia number being No. 5,932.

The deceased was also widely known for his interest in
the ''Turner" Society, he being one of the leaders of the
Decatur organization in 1858. He was particularly honored
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years ago, when he completed a half century of continuous
membership.

Following the war and his removal from Decatur to
Bloomington, Captain Riebsame was united in marriage to
Miss Bertha Trimter of Bloomington, September 21, 1869.
The widow and three children survive, as follows: Mrs.
Paul Moratz and ^liss Bertha of Bloomington, and Edward
Riebsame of Los Angeles. One daughter died in infancy,
and Carl Riebsame, a son, died in Bloomington about five
years ago.

Captain Riebsame on coming to Bloomington engaged
in the bakery business. He retired from business in 1895,
and has since resided at the homestead at 513 East Grove
street, Bloomington, 111.

The Commandery tenders to his surviving wife and kin-
dred the sincerest sympathy of his companions.

Robert Mann Woods,
Rowland N. Evans,
George F. Dick,

Committee.

WILLIAM ELIOT FURNESS.
Major. Died at Great Spruce Head Island, Alaine, July ig, 1913.

ON July 19, 1913, at Great Spruce Head Island, Maine,
Wm. Eliot Furness, original Companion of the first
class of the Loyal Legion Commandery of Illinois, rounded
out a life devoted to the welfare of his fellow men.

He was born in Philadelphia August 21, 1839; the son

of James Thwing Furness and Elizabeth Margaret (Eliot).

He entered Harvard College in 1856, graduated in i860,

and having completed a course in the Harvard Law School,

was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar.

Obeying a patriotic impulse, and a strong desire that all
men everywhere might be free, he joined the 3rd Regiment

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U. S. Colored Troops in August, 1863. He was promoted
Captain and assigned to the 45th Regiment U. S. Colored
Troops in December, 1864. He was promoted to Major
and Judge Advocate on February 22, 1865, and was hon-
orably discharged October 10, 1865.

During his army life he took part in the second siege of
Fort Wagner on Morris Island, S. C. In the Olustee Cam-
paign in Florida in the spring of 1864; was at the siege of
Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay in the summer of 1864; took
part in the campaign before Richmond in the winter of 1864
and spring of 1865, and served in Texas during the sum-
mer of 1865.

His efficiency as an officer made him a valuable aid to
commanding officers, and he served on the staff of General
Geo. H. Gordon from the spring to the winter of 1864; on
the staff of General William Birney in the winter of 1864-
5, and later on the staff of General Godfrey Weitzel.

Returning from the army in 1865 he was married on
March 27, 1865, to Lucy Fairfield Wadsworth, of Bos-
ton, and lived to mourn her loss on August 18, 1910.

He had four children, viz. : Grace Eliot, who died in
1897; Elizabeth Margaret; Ruth Wadsworth, wife of Jas.
F. Porter ; James Thwing, who died in 1898 in the Spanish-
American War.

He came to Chicago in the fall of 1865, and was ad-
mitted to the Illinois Bar. He was also a member of Unity
Church from the time he came to Chicago until his death.

Our Companion joined the Loyal Legion in April, 1881,
and was a most devoted Companion.

Possessed of unusual powers of discrimination and
sound judgment, he was for many years the Chairman of the
Library Committee. Our noble collections of the most
valuable records of the Civil War, and of Military History,
is due largely to his unfailing appreciation, not only of his-
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which were brought to his critical attention. His training
as a lawyer added to his taste for literature, brought him
into close relations with men of Hke tastes, and he was a
valued member of the Chicago Literary Club, of which
he was a President; the University Club of Chicago; the
Sons of Colonial Wars; and the Sons of the American
Revolution.

Added to solid merit as a lawyer and good taste in
literature, he had a most delightful temper as a companion
and friend. He was in truth a very perfect gentleman, and
with a charming and affectionate manner which endeared
him to all his Companions. He was ever courageous when
his principles were assailed — *'Hot blood of battle beating
in his veins was turned to gentle speech."

His gracious memory will remain so long as one of his
Companions is alive, and we desire to keep his name and
faithful services in enduring remembrance.

Hartwell Osborn,
Edward D. Redington,
George C. Howland^

Committee.

CHARLES WINDER MASON.
Captain United States Army.

T5 ORN March ii, 1854, at San Diego, California. Died
-^ July 21, 1913.

Eldest son of original companion John Sanford Mason,
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A.

Captain Mason transferred to the Illinois Commandery
from the Commandery of the District of Columbia, Feb-
ruary 5, 1898.

He entered the army as a 2nd Lieut, of the 13th U. S.
Inf., January 20, 1875, and was successively promoted to ist
Lieut., in the 4th U. S. Infantry in 1882 and Captain of the
14th U. S. Infantry in 1893.

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The Conitncindery never hod a
Photograph of this Coinpanion.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WATSON.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. .Died at Chicago, Illinois,
August 8, 1913.

COMPANION FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WATSON
died at his home, 5250 Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
August 8th, of heart trouble, and was laid to rest from St.
Luke's Episcopal Church at Dixon, in the cemetery of his
native city, August nth.

Our Companion was born at Dixon, Illinois, October 3,
1854. He was the son of Major James A. Watson of the
Seventy-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and became a
member of the first class by inheritance, from that officer,
in the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, December, 1898; his
insignia being Number 12,395.

His life constitutes a remarkable record. Handicapped
by many disadvantages during tender childhood years, he
struggled to overcome obstacles that surely would have
discouraged most young men; but which the gift of rightly
directed will power and indomitable energy, enabled him
to overcome and conquer.

When he was but eight years old, his father entered the
Volunteer Army of the Union, and from that time on life
began to force its serious side upon him. At the age of

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fourteen, he entered upon employment as a newsboy on the
Northwestern railroad train, running between Dixon and
Chicago, which was then a five hours' run. A little later
he was promoted to waterboy on the through train running
between Chicago and Omaha. Hard work, small earnings
and railroad discipline were the germ that developed habits
of careful and thrifty management and clear and inde-
pendent thinking, which in his later life grew into his suc-
cess in the business and manufacturing world.

He abandoned railroading at the instance of his brother-
in-law, who was conducting a general store at St. Joseph,
Michigan, and who offered him a position as clerk. Ex-
perience gained here led to his employment as a traveling
salesman for a Chicago glove house. After a few years
of successful experience in this line, he accepted a position
with the well established shoe firm of C. M. Henderson &
Company, as a commercial traveler. Having become ac-
quainted with this line of business and his firm recognizing
that his capacity extended beyond mere salesmanship, he
was placed as manager of their shoe manufacturing shop
in the western Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Alleghany. The
executive ability and excellent tact shown in this position
attracted the attention of his employers, which resulted in
his entering the firm as a partner, and of his being placed
in charge of their new shoe manufacturing plant at Dixon,
Illinois. The death of Mr. C. M. Henderson made it neces-
sary for a new arrangement with regard to the Dixon shoe
plant; resulting in its purchase by our Companion in con-
junction with Mr. M. J. Plummer and the formation of the
Watson-Plummer Shoe Company, of which Companion
Watson was president. He later was the originator of the
Red School House Shoe, and at the time of his decease, he
was the president of the Red School House Shoe Company
and of the Dixon Shoe Company.

Our Companion was well and favorably known and

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highly esteemed in the shoe trade of the country, and was
for four or five consecutive years president of the Chicago
Shoe and Leather Association.

Companion Fred Watson (by which famihar name he
was best known), was brainy, brilHant and accurate in his
business relations ; socially he was the prince of good fel-
lows— a delightful friend and a most charming host.

He was twice married. First to Delia L. Fairman of St.
Joseph, Michigan, who died in 1910, and about a year ago to
Mrs. Mary Frizelle of Chicago.

Our Companion left no children. A daughter of his first
marriage died at the age of eight years. He is survived by
his widow, and by three sisters and two brothers : Mrs. Geo.
W. Millen, of Rome, Italy; Mrs. Charles Sweet, of St.
Joseph, Michigan; Mrs. Katherine Payne, of New York,
and S. W. Watson and George C. Loveland, of Dixon, Illi-
nois. To them we extend our sympathy in the loss they have
sustained, and an assurance that we cherish the memory of
the friendship and virtues of our deceased Companion.

Florus D. Meacham,
Charles D. Koch,
LuciEN E. Harding,

Committee.

EPHRAIM ALLEN OTIS.

Captain and Assistant Adjutant General. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
September 6, 19 13. .

OUR well beloved Companion, Captain Ephraim Allen
Otis, who was so devoted to the best interests of our
organization, and who contributed so efficiently to the stand-
ing of the Illinois Commandery — having gone to ''Fames
Eternal Camping Ground," it is the desire of his friends who
remain on duty and who miss him most to place upon our
records a few thoughts concerning him, and a brief mention
of his extended and efficient military service. Before the
Great Fire in Chicago of October 9, 1871, and until his
death — he was the most cordial and sympathetic of all of our

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little circle of War Veterans, his cheerful bearing under all
the varying conditions of an active professional occupation
and his efficiency in his methods of performing all duties
that fell to his lot, showed conspicuously in his civil life as
they had in the emergencies of his military career. His
friends knew how active he was in performing his profes-
sional duties, and his eminence in the legal profession —
which was recognized by his elevation to the Bench in the
State of Tennessee, very soon after his activities during the
war of the rebellion had terminated. His scholarly attain-
ments were recognized by his friends electing him to the
Presidency of the Chicago Literary Club. He was devoted
to the study of the War of the Rebellion, and spoke and
wrote in a very clear and interesting way upon the various
incidents of the war in which he had personal knowledge
through his participation therein. He was a Christian gen-
tleman, always, he was a gallant officer during the Civil War,
and his noble character and personal virtues made him
beloved by all who knew him — and his memory will always
be cherished as one of the ideal men who served his coun-
try in the hours of need.

His military record is appended hereto :

Entered the service (enrolled) August ii, 1861 ; mus-
tered in as 2d Lieut. Co. K, 2d Minnesota Infantry, U. S.
v., August 31, 1861 ; Captain and A. A. G., U. S. V., June
II, 1862; resigned, November 23, 1864.

War service with the Army of the Cumberland.

Elected April 6, 1881. First-class. Insignia No. 2172.
Chicago, 111. Member of Council, 1889. Senior Vice Com-
mander, 1898; Commander Vice Lieut. Col. Charles W.
Davis, deceased, 1898. Member of Commandery-in-Chief.

Service.

Entered the Army of the Cumberland, October, 1861,
when it was commanded by General Sherman, and partici-

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pated in all its campaigns and battles, except during the
Atlanta Campaign when on duty at Murfreesboro, Ten-
nessee.

Was at Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro or Stone River,
Chickamauga, etc.

Horatio L. Wait,
Walter R. Robbins,
Martin D. Hardin,

Committee.

AARON HINSDALE McCRACKEN.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Thirty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry.

BORN February 14, 1839, near Monroe, Green County,
Wisconsin. Died November 21, 1913.
First enlisted August 11, 1862, at Monroe, Wisconsin,
for three years or for the duration of the war, as a private
in the 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Ap-
pointed corporal Sept. i, 1862, and later sergeant in the same
regiment. Discharged as Sergeant Co. "G" 22nd Wis. Vol.
Inf., May 20, 1864, to accept promotion. Commissioned ist
Lieut, and Adjt. 38th Wis. Inf., March 20, 1864. Mustered
out of the service at Madison, Wisconsin, August 11, 1865.

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Service with Army of the Cumberland and on March 25,
1863, was captured at Brentwood, Tenn., sent to Libby
Prison and later exchanged at City Point, Va., April 9, 1863.
Detailed for duty in Provost Marshal's office at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn., from July, 1863, until regiment was ordered
to Nashville early in 1864. Marched with regiment to Look-
out Valley where he was discharged to accept promotion.
On duty with the 38th Wis. Inf. in the Army of the Potomac
until Lee's surrender. Regiment ordered to Washington
and took part "Grand Review" afterwards guarding the
"Conspirators" on alternate days during the trial and until
they were hanged at the Arsenal in Washington.

ELIOT CALLENDER.

Acting Ensign. Died at Los Angeles, California, December i, 1913.

ON the first day of December, 1913, at Los Angeles,
California, Eliot Callender, an honored and beloved
member of this Commandery, passed from this life to that
beyond. As a soldier and a citizen he so lived that in his
death not only this Commandery but his fellow men and
citizens have sustained an inestimable loss. He was born
at St. Louis on March 22, 1842, of New England parent-
age, in descent from ancestors who fought with credit-
able distinction in the Revolutionary war and among whom
was Col. Callender of Bunker Hill fame. The interven-
ing cycle of years diminished in no degree the martial

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spirit of his forefathers and permits no unfavorable com-
parison between the character of the service rendered by
them and that rendered by him. What his ancestors had
fought vaHantly to obtain, he fought effectually to save.

At the age of ten years the family of Companion Cal-
lender moved from St. Louis to Peoria and between the
ages of nine and fifteen he was sent to Boston to attend
the public schools and later to Washington University at
St. Louis.

At the conclusion of his course he witnessed the effect
of the shot upon Fort Sumter and the threatening of the
existence of the Union. FeeHng at St. Louis was at fever
heat and the tannery of John Howe, then mayor of that
city and an intimate friend of the Callender family, was
threatened with destruction because of the known Union
tendencies of Howe. After the darkness of night had en-
veloped the city, the entire stock of the tannery was loaded
on a boat in charge of Eliot Callender and brought to
Peoria.

Following this incident he enlisted in the Eleventh
Illinois Cavalry but was soon transferred to the United
States Navy at St. Louis on board the gunboat Benton,
Commodore Foote's Flagship, in service on the Missis-
sippi River. In January, 1862, he was ordered to the gun-
boat Cincinnati, with an appointment as Master's Mate
and participated in the battles of Fort Henry, Island No.
10 and Fort Pillow. During the last engagement the gun-
boat was sunk by the Confederate rams. He then served
in the Haines Bluff, Yazoo Pass, St. Charles, Fort Pem-
berton and White River expeditions, being at St. Charles,
Arkansas, when the U. S. S. Mound City was blown up
with a loss of one hundred out of one hundred and forty
men. He served through the entire siege of Vicksburg
in both campaigns and was promoted from Landsman m

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the Navy to Paymaster's Steward and later commissioned
Master's Mate.

On October i, 1862, he received his commission as
Ensign and was appointed Fleet Signal Officer, being as-
signed to duty on U. S. S. Marmora. His command of
that vessel lasted until he was stricken with typhoid fever
and sent to the Naval Hospital at Memphis. Following
his convalescence and until his resignation from the serv-
ice was accepted in June, 1864, he was on duty at the
Naval Rendezvous at Cincinnati, Ohio.

The civil life of Companion Callender from the war
until his retirement from active public life is worthy of
being written beside his military career. It is a record of
patriotic public service, of unswerving integrity and gen-
erous sacrifice. In his home city of Peoria for almost
half a century he was the trusted agent of large financial
institutions and was one of the founders of the Dime Sav-
ings Bank and of the Commercial National Bank as well
as of the Insurance Agency, which bears his name. For
many years he gave valuable service to the pubHc schools
and manifested the keenest interest in the educational ad-
vancement of the city. Numerous public and industrial
enterprises owe their birth to his efforts and to him is due
a large measure of credit for the obtaining of the splendid
Grand Army Memorial Hall.

The services he rendered to his city far exceeded any
which could be performed from mere sense of duty. ''His
brain took counsel of his heart" and of his time he gave
unsparingly and of his means without stint whenever called
upon for private need or public help.

"Needless to him the tribute we bestow
The transitory breath of fame below."

No lapse of time can efface the results of his civic pride
nor sully the achievements of this soldier-citizen.

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Possessed of literary ability of a high order, his papers
have excited more than usual favorable comment before
this Commandery and upon numerous occasions elsewhere.
His quiet and keen sense of humor, his discriminating
taste, his intellectual and cultured mind were domiciled in
an unusual personality. Active as he was in various busi-
ness enterprises, his time was never too occupied for
thoughtful deeds and kindly acts to others. He was elected
an Original Companion of the First Class of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, through
the Commandery of the State of Illinois, November ii,
1886, and served as Junior Vice Commander in 1904-1905;
was a member of the Naval .Order of the United States,
of the Farragut Naval \^eterans Association and of the
Grand Army of the Republic, having served as Comman-
der of Bryner Post No. 67.

He was buried in the city for which he had done so
much in the presence of those whom he knew best and
loved most. After two years of failing health, as one
grown tired who hopes to sleep, he went. From his loyal
devotion to his country in peace and war and his splendid
faithfulness to public duty there abides a heritage and a
record worthy of emulation.

To the widow, the daughter and to the two sons who
survive him are extended the heartfelt sympathy of this
Commandery.

Leslie D. Puterbaugh,
E. Bentley Hamilton,
John W. Gift,

Committee.

HARVEY S. PARK.

Captain Second Kentucky Cavalry. Born May ig, 1840, at Elisabeth-
town, Hardin County, Kentucky. Died December 31, 1913.

Tj^NTERED the service as ist Lieut. Co. ''G" 2nd Regt.,
-L ' Ky. Cav., September 19, 1861. Captain in the same
regiment January i, 1863, and mustered out as Captain on
expiration of term of service.

Joined the regiment at Camp Joe Holt, Jeflfersonville,
Indiana, and was then successively with Gen. A. D. McCook
from Louisville to Nashville and Shiloh ; then eastern Ten-
nessee with Gen. Nelson ; then a raid with Buell and Bragg
from Nashville to Louisville ; with the right wing of Rosen-
crans' advance to Stone River and Chickamauga ; with Gen.
Crook in his pursuit of Wheeler from Washington, Tenn.,

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to Florence, Ala., with Gen. Hooker at Lookout Mountain;
with Gen. Judson Kilpatrick in Atlanta Campaign; de-
tached service with Gen. Rosencrans through Alabama ; with
Gen. Ed. McCook in a raid around Atlanta ; with Kilpatrick
in a raid around Atlanta; shot in right shoulder during the
fall of Atlanta.

WILLIAM HENRY WILCOX.

Captain. Died at Elgin, Illinois, January 5, 19 14.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY WILCOX was born
January 13, 1836, at Fultonville, Montgomery County,
New York, and was the youngest son of General Elijah and
Sally Shuler Wilcox. His paternal and maternal ancestors
were fine representatives of the sturdy English and Dutch
pioneers and patriots who achieved our national independ-
ence and changed the savage wilderness of the beautiful
Mohawk Valley to one of the most fertile and wealthy por-
tions of the great Empire State. In 1842 his father brought
the family to Elgin, Illinois, and patented from the govern-
ment the land which for many years was his well known

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homestead, and upon which his boyhood was passed. About
1855 he was a student at the ''Illinois Liberal Institute," —
now Lombard College — at Galesburg, 111. January 19, 1857,
at Galesburg, he married Miss Mary A. Green, one of his
former schoolmates, by whom he had six children, five of
whom are still living. A few years after her death he mar-
ried her brother's widow, Mrs. Helen Merriam Green, who
died at Elgin in December, 191 2. In the fall of 1861 he
assisted in recruiting a company of young men from Elgin,
St. Charles and Barrington, who upon its organization
unanimously chose him first lieutenant. In November, 186 1,
it was mustered into the U. S. service as "G" Company of
the 52nd Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Soon
after the battle of Shiloh in April, 1862, he was promoted
to the captaincy and in this rank served until the expiration
of his term of enlistment. On the famous March to the
Sea he was placed in command of a detail of one hundred
men for scouting and foraging duty and after arrival at
Savannah he remained with the regiment until after the
grand review at Washington. He participated in all the
campaigns and battles of the gallant 52nd Illinois from
Fort Donelson to Savannah and was highly esteemed as a
man and officer by his comrades of all ranks. He was espe-
cially a prime favorite of the men of his company, and
until his death "Captain Will" was held by them all in most
cordial and loyal affection. After the war he studied law
in the office of his oldest brother, Judge Sylvanus Wilcox,
at Elgin and was admitted to the bar, but instead of prac-
ticing law he engaged in the real estate business. He platted
and sold three additions to the city of Elgin, two to the city
of St. Charles and upon each of these established a large
and successful manufacturing industry and one addition to
the city of Geneva. He was a genial, social man and al-
ways welcome at the reunions and camp fires of the vet-
erans. He was Commander of Elgin Post No. 49, Depart-

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ment of Illinois, G. A. R., and a companion of Illinois Com-
mandery of the Loyal Legion. He served four years as
Postmaster of the city of Elgin. His only surviving broth-
ers, Adjutant Edward S., and General John S. Wilcox, are
companions of this Commandery, the former now residing
at Mountain View, Okla., and the latter at Los Angeles,
Gal. His death occurred January 7, 1914, at Elgin, where
his whole active life was spent, intimately known and highly
respected by a very wide circle of warm friends.

John S. Wilcox,
RoswELL H. Mason,
Joseph Vallor,

Committee.

The Cominandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

WILLIAM HARVEY SEXTON.

t'irst Lieutenant and Regimental Qtmrtermaster. Died at St, Peters-
burg, Florida, March 14, 1914.

COMPANION WILLIAM HARVEY SEXTON, died
at St. Petersburg, Florida, March 14, 1914, after a
long illness. This brief telegram sent from St. Petersburg,
Fla., to the Rev. W. A. Retherford of the First Baptist
church, brought the bare announcement of the passing of
Mr. Sexton, the news of which caused profound grief in
Monmouth when it became known. Having served in pub-
lic for nearly 35 years few men were better known in Mon-
mouth and Warren county than he, and although his inti-
mate friends knew that his always frail health had been
seriously impaired in the last few years, none of them were
prepared for the announcement of his sudden demise.

Mr. and Mrs. Sexton left late in the month of January
for St. Petersburg, where they had been accustomed to
spend part of the winter each season, and letters recently
received from them indicated that both were in their usual
health, with the exception that Mr. Sexton had been suf-
fering with a stubborn cold.

Mr. Sexton was born in Titusville, Pa., in 1836, and
when, some years later, members of this family removed
to the vicinity of Viola in Mercer County, he himself went
to New York. At the breaking out of the Civil War Mr.

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Sexton heard Richard Yates, the Illinois War Governor
speak to an immense throng at the Academy of Music, and
the words of the Illinois orator so stirred the young man
that he came immediately to Mercer County to visit rela-
tives, and while there enlisted in the 83rd IlHnois Infantry.
The date of his enlistment was August 21, 1862, with the
rank of corporal; when he was mustered out in June, 1865,
he carried the rank of quartermaster.

He entered the service as Corporal Co. D, 83rd Illinois
Infantry, U. S. V., August 21, 1862; Sergeant, January 4,
1863; Q. M. Sergeant, May 16, 1863; ist Lieutenant, and
R. Q. M. February 8, 1864. Mustered out June 26, 1865.

He was elected an Original Companion of the First-
Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, through the Commandery of the State of
Illinois June 4, 1903.

After he was mustered out he left for the east, but not
before he had intimated to N. A. Scott of Monmouth, a
member of his regiment, that he had the ''western fever"
and asked his comrade to let him know if an opening
developed in or near Monmouth.

Some time later when Mr. Scott needed the services of
a bookkeeper in his grocery store he sent for Mr. Sexton
and the latter came to Monmouth. After being in the store
a short time the opportunity came for him to take a deputy
clerkship at the court house, and he availed himself of jt.
Later, in 1873, he was elected county clerk and served in
that capacity for 33 years. His long term of office brought
him into close touch with many people throughout the
county, and the administration of his office was marked
by a courtesy and affability more than usual. He was a
successful business man, and through his knowledge of
values and opportunities was able to gather a competency.
At the time the Monmouth Trust and Savings Bank was or-

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ganized in 1906 he became a stockholder, and three years
ago was elected a director in that institution.

Mr. Sexton was married November 12, 1873, to Marian
S. Burlington of this city, and the home founded on the
union has been a particularly happy one. Of the two chil-
dren born, Theo, the daughter, died soon after graduation
with honor from Monmouth College. The son, Walter B.,
is a lieutenant in the United States Navy, having risen to
his present position through several years of honorable serv-
ice. Mr. Sexton was not a member of any church, but
through his family was closely identified with the First
Baptist congregation of Monmouth. He was an honored
member of the Masonic fraternity, and his friends were
legion. He leaves behind him an unusual record for in-
tegrity and straightness in his business dealings, and his
death will cause genuine sorrow to all who were fortunate
enough to know him. But he has gone to dwell in that
undiscovered country from whose bounds no traveler
returns.

Lorenzo B. Morey,
William A. Lorimer,
Elijah B. David,

Committee.

AUGUSTUS LOUIS CHETLAIN.

Brevet Major General. Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 15, 1914.

THE Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion has
lost one of its loyal members, through his death on
March 15, 1914, after a membership covering the whole
period of its existence.

He was one of the fourteen officers who organized the
Illinois Commandery, and from the day of its organiza-
tion, ever held it in affectionate regard, using his influence
to promote its welfare.

The Loyal Legion has lost a good friend, a most genial
Companion.

Augustus Louis Chetlain was born in St. Louis, Mo., in

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1824, of French-Swiss parents, who emigrated to British
America by way of Hudson's Bay in 1821. Here the family
remained until 1823. This year, they, with others from
the Selkirk settlement, made their way to the Mississippi
River, and down that river in open boats to St. Louis. In
1826, attracted by the favorable reports from the new lead
mines, the family moved to the present Galena, where
young Chetlain Hved during his boyhood, youth and early
manhood.

The breaking out of the Civil War found him a fairly
prosperous merchant, taking an active part in the patriotic
meetings. In the formation of a volunteer company of in-
fantry (the Jo Daviess Guard), he was first to sign the
roll, which, by April 20th, contained eighty names. This
day an election was held and Chetlain was elected Captain.
April 25th, the Jo Daviess Guard, filled to its maximum,
left Galena for Springfield.

May 2nd, it was mustered into the U. S. Service as Co.
F, I2th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. At the election of
field officers, Capt. Chetlain was elected Lieutenant Colonel,
which office he filled until April 2, 1862, much of the time
in command of the regiment. At this time he was com-
missioned Colonel to fill the vacancy occasioned by the pro-
motion of Colonel John Mc Arthur. From October, 1862,
until May, 1863, Colonel Chetlain was in command of the
Post of Corinth, Miss., with this exception, he served with
his regiment until December 18, 1863, when he was pro-
moted to be Brigadier General of U. S. Volunteers and
ordered to report to General Grant at Nashville, Tenn.

At this, time the recruiting and organization of colored
troops was under way and General Chetlain was assigned
to this duty in Tennessee and West Kentucky, and or-
dered to report to Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General of
U. S. Army, under whose direction the work was being
done over the entire South. Headquarters were estab-

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lished at Memphis, Tenn., in January, 1864, and until
June the work here was prosecuted vigorously and success-
fully. Toward the latter part of June, his field of opera-
tions was extended to include Central and East Kentucky
and headquarters were moved to Louisville, where they
remained until August, when headquarters were again es-
tablished in Memphis, Tenn. His work in this department
lasted until the close of the year, 1864, and was eminently
successful. In January, 1865, he was relieved from duties
connected with the organization of colored troops, and as-
signed to the command of the Post of Memphis, Tenn.,
where he remained until October. Relieved from this com-
mand, he was ordered to report to General Wood, com-
manding Department of the Gulf, who assigned him to the
central district of Alabama, with headquarters at Taladega.
His release from army service came in January, 1866, when
he was mustered out of the service.

His battle record was : Donelson, Shiloh and Corinth.
June 18, 1865, Brigadier General Chetlain was breveted
Major General of Volunteers for meritorious service.

Following the close of the war, and in civil life, we find
him occupying positions of responsibility and trust. Active
in public affairs, and in all matters pertaining to the public
welfare. Internal Revenue Assessor for the District of
Utah, United States Consul at Brussels, Belgium, member
of the Board of Education, Chicago, member of the exec-
utive committee of the Citizens Association are some of
the activities that occupied his time in civil life. Soon after
becoming a resident of Chicago, General Chetlain organized
the Home National Bank, and became President of its
Board of Directors — later, in 1892, he organized the Indus-
trial Bank of Chicago, locating it in the southwest part
of the city. He was chosen President by the Board of
Directors. For something more than a year, he managed
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sight obliged him to reUnquish it, and retire from active
business life.

Those of us who knew the General more intimately and
whose acquaintance with him was in social intercourse,
know how sincere and faithful he was in his friendships.
His personality, affability, and social nature, made him a
host of friends and acquaintances, and none that he loved
better than his companions of the Loyal Legion. His days
were long in the land, reaching four score and ten, receiv-
ing many a blow in the conflict of life, but he lay down
in death free from stain.

We, his companions, a part of that innumerable cara-
van, waiting on this shore, send across the river, Greet-
ings!

George Mason,
C. I. Bentley,
Richard S. Tuthill,

Committee.

JOHN COWLES GRANT.
Hereditary Companion.

JOHN COWLES GRANT was born in Avon, Conn.,
April 21, 1848, the eldest son of Joel Grant, Chaplain,
1 2th 111. Vol. Infantry, who was an original companion of
this order.

He was a graduate of Yale College, class of 1869, with
the degree of Master of Arts. He received the honorary
degree of L. L. D. from Fargo College in 1897. For many
years Dr. Grant was connected with the Chicago Public
Schools as a Principal. He died March 21, 1914.

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MERRICK ALMANSOR MIHILLS.

Second Lieutenant. Died at Highland Park, Illinois, March 22, 1914.

LIEUT. MERRICK A. MIHILLS was born at Chatham,
Ohio, March 10, 1842. He enhsted September 20,
1862, as a private in Company A, Hoffman's Battalion O.
\^ L, at Johnson Island, Ohio. In 1863 the battalion was
merged into the 128th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and for a
time had the custody of the prisoners of war on Johnsons
Island in Lake Erie.

On September 23, 1864, he was promoted to Second
Lieutenant Company D, 178th O. V. I., and the regiment
went into field service at Nashville, Tenn., and was after-
wards assigned to the First Division, 23rd Corps.

During his service, Lieut. Mihills was detailed as Act-
ing Adjutant of his regiment ; later, as Captain of Com-
pany G, 178th O. V. I.

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He participated in the battles about Murfreesboro,
Tenn., and in the battles of Columbia and Franklin during
Hood's advance on Nashville; later was transferred with
the 23rd Corps to Washington, D. C, and thence by water
to North Carolina, landing at Newbern, and on the march
to Goldsboro he was engaged in the battle of Kingston,
N. C.

In March, 1865, he was detailed as Acting Commissary
of the 3rd Brigade; joined Sherman's forces at Goldsboro
and marched on Raleigh in pursuit of Gen. Joe Johnston.
After the surrender of Johnston, the 23rd Corps moved to
Charlotte, N. C, where his regiment received their final
discharge.

For a number of years Mr. Mihills was a very success-
ful representative of some of the leading hardware and
cutlery companies in the country, making his headquarters
in Chicago.

He was elected a Companion of the lUinois Comman-
dery of the Loyal Legion of the United States in Novem-
ber, 1910. He valued most highly his membership in this
order and deeply regretted that his ill-health prevented a
more active association with his companions and a regular
attendance at their meetings.

He was first married in July, 1864, to Miss S. E. Rogers.
His second marriage occurred in December, 1874, to Miss
Mina J. Aylesworth of Wooster, Ohio, who survives him
together with four daughters — Mrs. Mary E. Hayden, Mrs.
Grace E. Ready, Miss Mildred M. Mihills and Mrs. Mar-
jorie A. Rosseter, to whom we tender our deepest sympathy
in their great loss.

RoswELL H. Mason,
Otho H. Morgan,
Joseph J. Siddall,

Committee.

DILLWYN VARNEY PURRINGTON.

Captain Assistant Quartermaster United States Volunteers.
January 22, 1841, in Sidney, Kennebec County, Maine.
Died April 3, 1914.

Born

ENTERED the service as a private in the 4th N. J.
Vol. Infantry and promoted to Q. M. Sergeant and
1st Lieut, and Regt., Q. M., and later Captain and Asst.
Q. M. U. S. V.

Served with the Army of the Potomac; then as Post
Q. M. in Baltimore under Gen. Wm. Birney. In March,
1864, went with Gen. Birney's command to Beaufort, S.
C., and was on duty through the summer of 1864 alternately
as A. D. C. to Chief Q. M. Dist. of Florida and O. M.

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in charge of Transportation at Hilton Head, S. C. In
Sept. came north to the Army of the James and was as-
signed to duty as property Q. M. 2nd Div. 25th A. C. While
there was promoted Captain and A. Q. M. and assigned
to 2nd Div., 25th A. C, and with that Div. took part in the
Appomattox campaign. After the surrender of Lee was
ordered to procure Q. M. stores for the 25th A. C. for a
six months' supply and to report with them at Brazos San-
tiago, Texas. On arrival there was assigned to duty as
Depot Q. M., Western District of Texas on the staff of
Maj. Gen. Frank Steele. Later returned north and on
January 8, 1866, was discharged from the service.

THOMAS McMillan turner.

rirst Lieutenant Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Born July

4, 1^35} 'ifi Barlow, Washington County, Ohio. Died

May II, 19 1 4.

ENLISTED in 36th Ohio Vol. Inf. Sept. 15, 1861 ; com-
missioned 1st Lieut. Dec. 6, 1862; assigned to duty
as R. Q. M., promoted to Captain but not mustered; dis-
charged July 7, 1865; Brevet Major June 6, 1866.

Served with the 36th Ohio as Q. M. Sergeant until date
of promotion ; with regiment in its eastern campaign, Sec-
ond Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam ; with the 14th
A. C. from Murfreesboro to Tunnel Hill, Ga., Chicka-
mauga and Missionary Ridge; served as Brigade Q. M.,
staff of Gen. J. B. Turchin, ist Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th

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A. C. from Nov. i, 1862, until re-enlistment of regiment as
veterans; with the Army of West Virginia, staff of Gen.
R. B. Hayes; served until after Lee's surrender and close
of war.

Transferred from the Commandery of Ohio to this
Commandery January 9, 1897. He was for years with the
Standard Oil Company, Chicago office, and resided in
Evanston.

WILLIAM BETTS KEELER.

Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
May 13, 19 1 4.

TN the death of Colonel William B. Keeler, the Illinois
-^ Commandery of the ^Military Order of the Loyal Legion
has lost a conspicuous and loved Companion, one who had
become endeared to it by ties of association and friendship.

Colonel Keeler, who died at Chicago, Illinois, on May
13, 1914, was born at Norwalk, Ohio, February 20, 1828;
where he resided until 1853, when he moved with his wife
and baby, to Muscatine, Iowa, making the trip by wagon.

Near Muscatine he became a prosperous farmer. Part
of his time was spent in selling goods at auction in Mus-

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catine. His enthusiastic ways and interesting auction
phrases always drew a large crowd.

When the civil war began he enlisted in the 35th Iowa
Volunteer Infantry. July 18, 1862, he was commissioned
Captain of Company "A." Was promoted to Major of
same regiment June 5, 1863, and commanded the regiment
in several engagements, and for conspicuous gallantry in
the series of battles fought in the Banks' Red River cam-
paign, he was promoted to the rank of Brevet Colonel of
Volunteers, April 8, 1865.

He, with his regiment, participated in the Vicksburg
campaign, and in the operations before Spanish Fort and
Mobile Bay. Was at the battle of Jackson, Miss., May 14,

1863, assault on Vicksburg, May 19-22, and siege of Vicks-
burg, May 22 to June 22, 1863. Was Provost Marshal
General, ist Division of the i6th Army Corps. On staff
of General Tuttle, December i, 1863, to March, 1864. He
participated in the battle of Nashville, December 15 and 16,

1864, and in the pursuit of General Hood to Pulaski, Tenn.,
December 17 to December 28, 1864. Was on duty in Ala-
bama until August, 1865. The- regiment was mustered out
at Davenport, Iowa, August 10, 1865. He then returned
to Muscatine, Iowa, where he engaged in the dry goods
business. He was elected Mayor of Muscatine in 1869.
He removed to Chicago in 1871 and became connected with
the firm of William A. Butlers & Co., auctioneers. In 1875,
he became engaged with the firm of J. B. Chambers & Co.,
jewelers, and remained with them until it was taken over
by the firm of Charles p. Graves & Co. in 1900, of which
company he was Vice President up to the time of his death.

Colonel Keeler was elected Chancellor of the Illinois
Commandery of the Loyal Legion for many years and in
1904 was elected its commander. In 1909, after he was
eighty years of age, he made a trip around the world.

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rinda Coville, November 19, 1850. Mrs. Keeler preceded
him in death in 1909. Their three children survive them,
Frank H. Keeler, who is a member of this Commandery;
Mrs. Colonel Charles Sheldon Sargent, and Mrs. Captain
George M. Farnham, to whom the Commandery extend
their sincere sympathies.

William L. Cadle,
Robert Mann Woods,
John Young,

Committee.

CHARLES STEWART WARREN

Acting Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy.

BORN April 20, 1834, at Troy, New York. Died May
21, 1914.
Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N., De-
cember 17, 1861, and ordered to the U. S. Ship Pinola on
May 6, 1862, and served on that vessel until November 14,
1862, when resignation was accepted due to disease con-
tracted in the service.

Service with the Blocking Squadron, Admiral Farragut
commanding. In the engagement of Ft. Jackson and St.
Phillip and capture of New Orleans on April 24, 1862.
Later in the siege of Vicksburg and the blockade of Mobile
Bay. Also acted as Signal Officer and took part in the cut-
ting of the cable across the Mississippi River at the Forts.

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RICHARD SWAIN THOMPSON.

Lieutenant Colonel Twelfth Nezv Jersey Volunteer Infantry. Born

at Cape May Court House, New Jersey, December

27, 1837. Died June 3, 19 14.

ENTERED the service as Captain of Co. "K", 12th N. J.
Vol. Infantry, August 12, 1862. Commissioned Cap-
tain same company Aug. 14, 1862. March 10, 1862, com-
missioned Major same regiment. Commissioned Lieut. Col.
July 14, 1864. Resigned Feb. 2, 1865, on account wounds
received at Reams Station, Va., Aug. 24, 1864.

Took part with regiment in the following engagements :
Fredericksburg. Va., Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Falling
Waters, Auburn Mills, Bristow Station, Blackburn Ford,
Robinson's Tavern, Mine Run. December, 1863, at Tren-

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ton, N. J., in charge of draft camp. April, 1864, in Cam-
den, N. J., in charge of recruiting station. Rejoined
regiment June 24, 1864, then before Petersburg, Va. Thence
in the battles of Deep Bottom, North Bank James River,
Reams Station where he was wounded August 24, 1864.
Dec. 21, 1864, detailed as member of G. C. M. for trial of
officers at Philadelphia, Pa.

E

EUGENE HENRY WIMPFHEIMER.

Hereditary Companion.

H. Wimpfheimer was the only brother of MaximiHan
• Wimpfheimer, 2nd Lieut. 31st Pa. Vol. Inf., who was
killed in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862.

Mr. Wimpfheimer was born in Germany December 24,
1843, ^"d came to this country shortly after the war. He
engaged in the manufacture of colors and inks for use in
the printing industry. He was unmarried. Death came
June 5, 1914.

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EUGENE CORYDON FULLER.

Second Lieutenant Eighth New York Heavy Artillery. Died at
Joliet, Illinois, June 14, 191 4.

LIEUT. EUGENE CORYDON FULLER was born
at Carlton, New York, May 25, 1844. Fie enlisted
at Lockport, New York, August 4, 1862, and was mustered
into the U. S. Service as a private in Co. B, 129th New York
Vol. Infantry, August 6, 1862.

This regiment was re-organized at Baltimore, Md.,
October 29, 1862, into twelve companies recruited to 150
men each and became known as the Eighth New York
Heavy Artillery.

Companion Fuller was promoted Corporal, February i,
1864; Sergt., September i, 1864; first Sergt., November

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28, 1864, mustered as second Lieut., January 24, 1865.
With rank from December 31, 1864, he served until the close
of the war. Was wounded through the right thigh at Cold
Harbor, June 3, 1864, while being helped from the field by
two comrades, one was killed and the other fled, leaving the
comrade to make his way the best he could to a place where
he finally received surgical aid.

The service of Companion Fuller was Garrison Duty in
and around Baltimore until May, 1864. Joined the army
of the Potomac in the field May 12, 1864.

Was engaged in the Rapidan Campaign during May
and June; Spottsylvania Court House, May 17th to 21st;
Fredericksburg Road, May 19th; North Ann River, May
23rd to 26th; on line of Pamonkey, May 26th to 28th;
Totopotomay, May 28th to 31st; Cold Harbor, June ist to
3rd, when wounded. Returned to his command in time to
take an active part in the siege of Petersburg, to April 2,

1865.

Boynton Plank Road and Hatcher's Run, Appomattox
Campaign, March 28th to April 9th. Fall of Petersburg,
April 2. Was at Appomattox Court House, April 9th, at
the surrender of Lee and his army and in the Grand Re-
view at Washington, May 23, 1865.

Mustered out June 5, 1865. The regiment lost in killed
and mortally wounded, nineteen officers and three hundred
forty-two men. By disease, four officers and two hundred
ninety-eight men. Grand total of six hundred sixty-three.

Companion Fuller was a graduate from the Taft Dental
College, Cincinnati, Ohio. On the 23rd day of May, 1869,
was united in marriage to Miss Caroline V. Wiley, at
Olney, Illinois. There was left him surviving, his widow
and six children. Mrs. C. L. Lowall and Leigh W. of
Terry, Montana, Edgar H. of Joliet, and JuHus Q., Robert
G. and Eugene W. of Chicago.

After his marriage he spent several years in Fort Scott,

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Kansas. In 1884 he returned to Illinois, residing in Chi-
cago, Lockport and Joliet. For fifteen years next preced-
ing his death he represented the wholesale grocery house
of The Durand Kasper Co., of Chicago, in Joliet.

Companion Fuller was commander of Bartleson Post
No. 6 during 191 1. He was a most lovable man, of strong
patriotic convictions. Successful in business. His home
life was characteristic of the man, being the dearest spot on
earth to him.

Companion Fuller at his own request was buried on the
Soldiers' lot in the beautiful Elmhurst Cemetery in Joliet,
near the memorial erected by the citizens of Joliet to the
memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, in the
erections of which he was a conspicuous figure.

Companion Fuller died in Joliet, Illinois, June 14, 1914.

Erastus W. Willard,
James G. Elwood,
Alfred Nash,

Committee.

CAMILLO C. C. CARR.
Brigadier General United States Army Retired.

GEX. CARR was born in Harrisonburg, Va., March 3,
1842, and died July 24, 1914. He was transferred
from the Kansas Commandery to the Illinois Commandery,
November 8, 19 10.

He entered the service as a private in Co. '*F" ist U. S.
Cavalry, August 15, 1862; Corporal Sept. i, 1862; Ser-
geant Dec. 26, 1862; 1st Sergeant April 11, 1863; Sergeant
Major Sept. i, 1863; 2nd Lieut, ist U. S. Cavalry Oct. 31,
1863; 1st Lieut, same regiment June 2S, 1864; Captain ist
U. S. Cavalry April 8, 1869; Brevet ist Lieut. May 6, 1864,
for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Win-

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Chester; Brevet Captain Sept. 19, 1864, for gallant and
meritorious service in battle of Todds Tavern, Va.

Service in the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac,
from its organization to the close of the war. Wounded
in the battle of Todds Tavern and again in the battle of
Cedar Creek, Oct. 18, 1864.

Elected to membership in the Loyal Legion, Command-
ery of the State of California, Feb. 6, 1884. Transferred
to Kansas to become charter member of commandery in
that state. Member of the Council, Senior Vice-Com-
mander and Commander of the Kansas Commandery.

JESSE BOWMAN YOUNG.

First Lieutenant Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, Inly 30, 1914.

JESSE BOWMAN YOUNG was born at Berwick, Pa.,
July 5, 1844. His father, Rev. Jared Harrison Young,
was a Methodist minister of German descent, and his
mother, Sarah Bowman, was of German and Scotch-Eng-
Hsh descent, and came from a long line of Methodist
ancestors.

At the outbreak of the war he was attending Dickinson
Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., but did not return to school
in the fall of '61, as he was planning to go into the army
as soon as he could gain his widowed mother's consent to
spare her only son. This he secured when the opportunity

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offered of accompanying his uncle, General Samuel M.
Bowman, then a major in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry.

He served as private secretary and orderly to him from
November 13, 1861, to June i, 1862, without pay, and with-
out enlistment or muster in, on account of deficient age and
size. During this period he participated in the campaigns
of Fort Donelson, the advance up the Tennessee River, the
Battle of Shiloh, and the siege of Corinth. In the summer
of 1862 he returned to Berwick and assisted in securing
recruits for the Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer In-
fantry, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in that
regiment, October 4, 1862. He received his first lieuten-
ancy January 18, 1863, and April i, 1863, was appointed
Acting Aid-de-Camp on the staff of the commander of
the Second Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps, Army of
the Potomac, serving in that capacity at Chancellorsville.
At the opening of the Gettysburg campaign, early in June,
he was detailed on duty at headquarters of the Second Divi-
sion, Third Corps, as Assistant Provost Marshal, and in
that capacity shared in the campaign and Battle of Gettys-
burg, being the only member of his regiment on the field,
by reason of the Eighty-fourth having been detached just
prior to the battle to guard the wagon trains.

On November 30, 1863, he was ordered to Washing-
ton by the Secretary of War, and assigned to duty as Re-
corder of Examining Board for Officers in the U. S. Col-
ored Troops, of which Major General Silas Casey was
President. On May i, 1864, he was commissioned as Cap-
tain, but not mustered in because of depletion of company
and regiment. On August 12, 1864, he was made Acting
Aid-de-Camp on the staff of General Casey, commanding
Provisional Brigades in the city and defenses of Wash-
ington.

On December 23, 1864, he was mustered out with his
regiment and under that date in his diary thus aptly summed

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up his army life: 'To-day, with the accumulated experience,
discipline and education of three years in the army, I leave
the service. Have learned more than I would have done
in college. I will not remain out of service long."

Shortly thereafter, at General Casey's suggestion, he
took the examination for service as an officer of Colored
Troops and was recommended for appointment as lieu-
tenant-colonel. Early in '65 General Casey sent word to
him that he had a regiment for him, but before the appoint-
ment could be made the war came to a close.

In after years he incorporated his war-time experiences
in a volume entitled : What a Boy Saw in the Army. (Hunt
& Eaton, 1894.)

In 1866 he graduated from Dickinson Seminary, and in
the fall of that year entered Lafayette College with the
intention of becoming a civil engineer. In a short time,
however, the traditions and inheritances of his Methodist
ancestry asserted themselves and he decided to go into the
ministry, entering Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., from
which he graduated in 1868. He was a member of the
Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, and
received from his alma mater (1907) the degree of Doctor
of Literature.

It chanced that his first service as a "circuit-rider" was
in the territory adjacent to Gettysburg, and his first charge
in the town itself. There, in the Methodist parsonage,
which bore in its upper story an exploded shell which had
lodged therein during the cannonade, he wrote his lecture, —
''Echoes from Round-top: The Story of a Great Battle,"
which he delivered more than a thousand times, and began
the exhaustive study of that historic event which culmi-
nated in his last book, — The Battle of Gettysburg, (Har-
pers, 1913).

As minister he served at various points in Pennsylvania
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City, Mo., was elected editor of the Central Christian Advo-
cate, St. Louis, which office he held for eight years. Later,
19008, he was pastor of the Walnut Hills Methodist
Church, Cincinnati, from which he went to the Snyder
Memorial Church, Jacksonville, Fla.

In 1913 he retired from the active ministry, making his
home in Chicago, and devoting the short time yet allotted
to him to literary work and lecturing.

Dr. Young was the author of a number of books, and a
frequent contributor to the religious and secular press. At
the time of his death he was about to take up the duty of
acting editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, dur-
ing the absence of the editor, Dr. Zaring, who had gone to
attend the ill-fated Peace Convention, and it so chanced
that the last word from his pen was a tribute to the mem-
ory of the late Rev. Dr. William B. Palmore, a Confeder-
ate Veteran, and editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate.

Dr. Young was married December 2.2, 1870, to Lucy
Minshall Spottswood, w^io survives him, as does also his
son, Jared W. Young, and four daughters.

His last public appearance was at a patriotic service on
the night of July 5, his birthday, when, rounding out his
three score years and ten, he delivered for the last time
his lecture on Gettysburg, and a no more fitting ending to
his sketch can be given than his own concluding words on
that occasion, wdien in speaking of the National Cemetery
at Gettysburg, he said :

"Here rest the defenders of the. flag, but not here alone. Along
the Potomac, the Cvimherland and the James, underneath the pal-
metto and the pine, by the far away coast and beneath the blue
waves of the sea, under decorated monuments, or in the unmarked
trenches that furrow a thousand battle-fields, sleep the Union dead.
They have fought their last battle, made their last charge, gone on
their last campaign. They rest secure from alarms; the enemy's
bullets can never disturb their slumber ; the frenzy of the strife will
never stir their pulses ; the last tattoo has sounded. Let them sleep

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on till the last great Reveille shall summon them to the final Roll
Call of the Resurrection. Comrades of the armies of the dead, as
we call up the scenes made resplendent in all history by your heroism
and valor, we can feel again your shadowy presence with us on
earth. We marched and messed and fought together. ' We shared
the same shelter-tent, endured the same hardships, drank from the
same canteen ! Comrades, ye are not dead. In the pages of history,
in the prosperity of the land you rescued from ruin, in the monu-
ments that tell where your dust reposes, in the hearts of a grateful
people, in the roll-book of the world's noblest heroes, ye shall live
forever ! Brave men, illustrious soldiers, loved Companions, Hail
and Farewell !"

Simeon H. Crane,
Oliver W. Norton,
Jar ED W. Young,

Committee.

CHARLES TRUEMAN HOTCHKISS.

Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers,
cago, Illinois, August 28, 1914.

Died at Chi-

GENERAL HOTCHKISS was born at Virgil, Cortland
County, New York, on May 3, 1832. His father, Col.
S. W. Hotchkiss, had become interested in the establish-
ment of the first telegraph lines in the central west, and
Companion Hotchkiss in his young manhood became iden-
tified with this enterprise and acted as chief telegraph
operator on his father's lines until 1853 when he entered
the services of the Galena & Chicago R. R. In 1857 he
engaged in the contracting business for himself until the call
to arms in 1861. He had enjoyed some military training,
and this, in connection with his business and executive ex-

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perience, quickly opened the way to a distinguished military
career.

He was mustered into service April 23, 1861, as a
private, of the nth Illinois Infantry; he received his com-
mission as first lieutenant and adjutant, May 2, 1861, and
Captain, July 30, 1861 ; the following year he was trans-
ferred to the 89th Illinois Infantry of which he was com-
missioned lieutenant colonel, August 25, 1862, and attained
the colonelcy of the same regiment February 24, 1863. Dur-
ing this period he served almost continuously with the troops
in the field. As A. A. G. on the stafif of Col. W. H. L. Wal-
lace, he was present at the capture of Fort Henry, and at
the battle and capture of Ft. Donelson; and at the battle
of Shiloh he was at the side of General Wallace when that
distinguished leader was killed; during 4he siege of Corinth
he served on the staff of Major General McClernand. In
August, 1862, the famous railroad regiment of Chicago, the
89th Illinois, was organized through the co-operation of the
officers of the various railroads of the State, and Companion
Hotchkiss' election to the Heutenant colonelcy transferred
his field of service to the army of the Cumberland, with
which he participated at the battles of Stone's River, Chicka-
mauga, the siege of Chattanooga, and the Atlanta campaign.

During the war he took active part in half a hundred
battles and minor actions, during which he had four horses
killed under him in action, and was hit and injured several
times but never reported wounded. His services gained for
him frequent meritorious mention in the reports of his com-
manding generals, and his name appears frequently in the
official history of the war of the rebellion. A single quota-
tion from the report of the battle of Stone River, will serve
to emphasize the esteem in which he was held :

''Lieut. Col. Hotchkiss, commanding the 89th Illinois
Volunteers, deserves the highest praise for his coolness and
skill in action. He drew his men off in good order fighting

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as he withdrew and showed himself worthy of any com
mand. This gallant officer has given to the service one of
its best regiments and has justly earned promotion."

Major General Rosecrans recommended him for pro-
motion for "meritorious conduct" in the same battle.

On March 13, 1865, in well-earned recognition of four
years of devoted service to his country, he was commis-
sioned Brvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. Vol. ''for gallant and meri-
torious service during the war," and was mustered out June
10, 1865.

Companion Hotchkiss at the close of the war returned
to Chicago and entered upon a long and successful career
in civil life. In 187 1 he was elected to the office of City
Clerk, in which capacity he served two terms. During
this period the great Chicago fire took place and General
Hotchkiss was secretary of the first relief meeting held,
and his executive experience proved of utmost value in the
work of aiding the homeless and destitute. After his term
of City Clerk was ended, he withdrew from active poli-
tics and was for a time engaged in his former business
of contracting, and later was identified with several hotel
enterprises in Chicago.

General Hotchkiss became a member of the Illinois Com-
mandery of the Military Order of the I.oyal Legion in No-
vember, 1885.

John Young,
Charles F. Hills,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

CHARLES EDMUND SMILEY.

first Lieutenant Forty-second Illinois Infantry, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at West Chicago, Illinois, August 29, 1914.

LIEUT. CHARLES EDMUND SMILEY was born
-^ at Newburg, New York, October 3, 1843. In 1853,
he came west with his parents to a farm near Kaneville,
111. From there he enlisted on July 22, 1861, as a private
in Co. B, 42nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was mus-
tered into the United States Service, Aug. i, 1861. Re-en-
listed as a veteran, Jan. i, 1864. Served as Corporal, Ser-
geant, Orderly Sergeant and as First Lieutenant from Sept.
8, 1865, until final muster out, Jan. 10, 1866, at Springfield,
111.

Returning home to Lodi (now Maple Park), 111., he
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engaged with his brother in building. Jan. 28, 1868, he
married Miss Emaline A. Brown, of Geneva, 111., who sur-
vives him, as also a daughter, Mrs. Gay Smiley Norriss, his
only son, Charles Clyde Smiley, a former member of this
Commandery, having passed away on July 26, 1903. In
1870 he engaged in the drug and grocery business at Maple
Park, 111., continuing until elected treasurer of Kane
County, in 1886, and removing to Geneva, 111., the county
seat.

In 1892, in connection with Capt. Newton, he estab-
lished a bank at West Chicago, 111., removing there, where
he remained until the time of his death.

He was a member of the Masonic Order, A. F. & A. M.,
Knights Templar and Shrine, as also the G. A. R., in which
he took a great deal of interest. He was elected as Origi-
nal Companion of the First Class of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States, on Oct. 9, 1890.

Lieut. Smiley was a model Volunteer Boy Soldier, be-
ing less than eighteen years of age at time of enlistment;
quiet, unassuming, yet always ready to do whatever duty
was assigned him, a friend and favorite with all his com-
rades. These characteristics, he retained through life, and
as a good citizen, had no superior.

His services were continuous with his regiment during
its entire term (excepting a short period in the fall of
1864, when he was on furlough on account of inflamma-
tory rheumatism), consisting of service with the Army of
the West in Missouri, 1861 ; Army of the Mississippi, 1862;
Army of the Cumberland, 1863- 1865, and their engagements
at Columbus, Ky. ; Island No. 10, New Madrid, Union City,
Farmington, Miss. ; Siege of Corinth, Pulaski, Columbia,
siege of Nashville, Stone River, Tullahoma campaign,
Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta cam-
paign, including battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Buzzard
Roost, Dalton, Resaca, Calhoun, Adairsville, New Hope

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Church, Kenesaw Mountain; in campaign against Hood's
advance North, Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill (where
he was slightly wounded), and Franklin. Battles of Nash-
ville, Dec. 15th and i6th, 1864, and pursuit of Hood until
driven from Tennessee. On duty at Huntsville and De-
catur, Ala.; thence to East Tennessee in April, 1865; then
to Nashville in June and down the Alississippi River to
New Orleans, and in July to Port Lavaca, Texas, where
remained until Dec. 16, 1865, when ordered to Spring-
field, 111., for final muster out.

Companion Smiley died at West Chicago, III., Aug. 29.
1914.

h. k. wolcott,
Joseph Vollor,

Committee.

GEORGE WHEELWRIGHT HALE.

Second Lieutenant Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, October i6, 1914.

GEORGE WHEELWRIGHT HALE was born June 24,
1838, at Lowell, Massachusetts. He was the son of
Benjamin EUery Hale, a Congregational Minister. Some-
time afterward his father's family moved to Hartford, Con-
necticut, where Lieut. Hale graduated at the High School.
About 1856 the family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, and
Lieut. Hale began a business career as a clerk in a store.
When the war broke out he was employed as a clerk in a
hotel in Milwaukee and enlisted from Milwaukee.

On May 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company *'B" Fifth
Wisconsin Infantry and was mustered into the service of the

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United States at Madison, Wisconsin, on July 13, 1861. As
a Sergeant under this command Mr. Hale went through the
peninsular campaign, fighting in various engagements, es-
pecially those fought by the rear guard of McClellan's seven
days' retreat. He was in the reserves at Antietam.

On September i, 1862, Sergeant Hale was discharged
to accept a commission as Second Lieutenant and was mus-
tered and assigned to Company "E" Twenty-ninth Wiscon-
sin Infantry, U. S. V., September 2, 1862, at Madison,
Wisconsin.

The Twenty-ninth Wisconsin proceeded under Grant's
command toward the siege of Vicksburg, and Lieut. Hale
was seriously wounded May i, 1863, at the battle of Port
Gibson. He was sent to a Military Hospital at Memphis and
in the following June was granted a furlough by a special
order from Major General Stephen A. Hurlbut. He was
discharged by reason of disabihty on February 14, 1864.
On May 11, 1863, he was commissioned First Lieut, but
he was not mustered.

After the war Lieut. Hale was married on June 13,
1865, to Mary Elizabeth White at Beloit, Wisconsin. He
then became connected with a paper business in Chicago.
His wife died within a year after their marriage.

Shortly after the Chicago fire Lieut. Hale went into
partnership with his brother, William E. Hale, under the
firm name of W. E. Hale & Company, as manufacturers
of hydraulic, passenger and freight elevators. The firm had
headquarters in Chicago but Lieut. Hale represented the
business for many years in New York, Paris and London,
and continued in this business until it was sold out by
both partners in 1889. After that time his business con-
sisted in the management of various properties in which he
was interested and as trustee of his brother's estate after
1898.

Lieut. Hale was elected a Companion of the Military

192 MEMORIALS,

Order of the Loyal Legion through the Commandery of the
State of Illinois on May 2, 1883, Insignia No. 2675. ^^
June 14, 1906, he nominated his nephew, William Browne
Hale, son of William E. Hale, as his successor.

Lieut. Hale died at the age of seventy-six (76) on
October 16, 19 14.

William B. Hale,
Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

GEORGE FREDERICK DICK.

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers.
Died at Bloomington, Illinois, November 12, 1914.

Xy REVET BRIG. GENERAL GEORGE FREDERICK
-■-' DICK, a Companion of this Commandery, was born at
Tiffin, Ohio, February 22, 1829, and died at Bloomington,
Illinois, November 12, 19 14. He was a son of John Adam
and Anna Elizabeth (Dinkleburg) Dick. His father immi-
grated from Bavaria, Germany, in 1826. He had held a gov-
ernment position in his native country, but during the Prus-
sian Revolution in that country immigrated to the United
States and, after a residence of two years in Tiffin, moved
to Cincinnati, where he became editor of a German news-
paper. The father, as well as the son, was intensely Ameri-

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can and left behind him in his native country any notions
of miHtarism as a basis of government.

Our companion grew into manhood in Ohio and received
such an education as was to be gained from the public
schools in Cincinnati. He was not what would be termed
a liberally educated man, but during his whole life was a
reader of the best authors and a student of men and always
kept himself thoroughly informed as to current events. In
very early boyhood he was an enthusiast on military matters
and took a great interest in the volunteer military organiza-
tions that existed in his home city. His boy friends always
recognized him as a leader and any opinions he had on mili-
tary affairs were law to them. When in his sixteenth year a
juvenile military company was organized, known as the
Cincinnati Cadet's^^' jf red Dick, as he was then called, was
chosen Captain. In this office while he maintained proper
discipline he was as willing to perform the hard work that
came to him as he was to bear the honors of his position.
Not only those who came to know him as a soldier and
officer in the Civil War, but those that have known him
in his maturer years, can easily understand the firmness and
thoroughness with which he handled this boy company.

After finishing his public school education while a very
young man, he engaged in the tobacco business in Attica, In-
diana, conducting also a store at Bloomington, Illinois. At
the first call for troops by President Lincoln in 1861, he or-
ganized Company D, 20th Regiment Indiana Volunteers and
was chosen Captain. While in this regiment he participated
in the engagements between the Merrimac, Cumberland and
Congress and in May, 1862, took part in the capture of Nor-
folk, Virginia. He was also in the second Bull Run Cam-
paign, winning distinction at Fair Oaks, Seven Days Fight,
Manassas and Chantilly. In 1862 he was commissioned
Lieutenant Colonel of the 86th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
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nected with the Army of the Cumberland. When he joined
the 86th Indiana he was an entire stranger to all but a very
few. The whole regiment soon knew him thoroughly as an
officer and at once respected and admired him for his sol-
dierly qualities. He was not a man who had many intimate
associates. He was quiet and modest, but back of his quiet
demeanor possessed sterling qualities of heart and head,
which endeared him very much to his officers and men.

In form and physique he impressed the men at once as
one on whom they could rely and, whether in the storm and
stress of battle, on the march or in camp or bivouac the im-
pression early formed of his worth as a soldier grew upon
officers and men. In January, 1863, he was promoted to
Colonel of the Regiment and later was assigned to the com-
mand of the Second Brigade, Third Division, 21st Corps, of
the above mentioned army. He especially distinguished
himself during the three days' battle at Chickamauga and at
the storming of Missionary Ridge. He led his men up that
precipitous hill in the face of leaden hail from the Confed-
erate rifle pit that crowned the summit. The flag of the
regiment, containing 86 bullet holes, and stafif broken by
other shots, is now in the State House at IndianapoHs.
Speaking of this assault in which five Color Bearers were
killed. Gen. Gordon Granger, who commanded the Corps, in
a letter to our companion said: *T am constrained to ex-
press my own admiration for your noble conduct and I am
proud to tell you that the veteran generals from other fields
who witnessed your heroic bearing, place assault and
triumph among the most brilliant achievements of the war."
He was in all the important battles of the Atlanta Campaign
and in 1865 was brevetted Brig. Gen'l by Congress for meri-
torious service on the field. During his service he took part
in 105 minor and major engagements and was thrice
wounded in action.

On his return to Bloomington after the war he engaged

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in the wholesale tobacco business which he conducted until
1873 when he was appointed Postmaster at Bloomington and
held that office for twelve years.

General Dick was one of the organizers and director of
the Peoples Bank at Bloomington and an organizer and Vice
President of McLean County Bank.

He took a great interest in all soldiers' organizations and
was one of the organizers of the Local Post of the Grand
Army of the RepubHc at Bloomington and for a number of
years was a member of the Visiting Committee of the
Soldiers Orphan Home at Normal.

He was prominent in both Masonic and Odd Fellow
circles, holding many offices in those orders. He was mar-
ried July 14, 1853, to Anna Meyers, of Cincinnati, a woman
of superior virtues and whose life abounded in deeds of
kindness, charity and affection. Of their nine children only
one lived to maturity. Mrs. Dick died in November, 1878,
and in 1881 Gen. Dick married Emma Rankin Kimball, of
Whitefield, New Hampshire, who survives him with three
children.

Edward D. Redington,
Walter R. Robbins,
Stephen A. Thayer,

Committee.

JOHN WILLARD NILES.

Captain Ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Born November ii, 1830,

in Lebanon, Madison County, Nezv York. Died

November 26, 19 14.

ENTERED the service as Sergeant 9th Iowa Vol. In-
fantry and was successively promoted to ist Lieutenant
and Captain in the same regiment, and maistered from the
service as a Captain July 18, 1865.

The 9th Iowa was formed at Dubuque and proceeded
to St. Louis in October, 1861 ; became a part of Gen. Cur-
tis' army of the S. W. in the battle of Pea Ridge, March
7-8, 1862, where the regiment lost heavily. Next became
a part of Gen. Carr's Division. They marched down the
White River through Arkansas to Helena where they

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joined Gen. Sherman's Army and went down the river
Chickasaw Bayou, then to Arkansas Post, Milliken's Bend,
Grand Gulf near Vicksburg, Jackson and Vicksburg. In
October, 1863, moved up the river to Memphis and then
overland to Chattanooga. In Osterhaus' Division in the
battle of Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and the advance
on Ringgold. In February the regiment reenlisted and be-
came a veteran regiment. In May the Atlanta campaign
began with the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Moun-
tain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and to the Sea, then through the
Carolinas, Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh, N. C, then
through Virginia to Richmond and Washington and the
grand review. The regiment was then sent to Louisville
for discharge and muster out July 18, 1865.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN.

Second Lieutenant Third Illinais Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Fairlmry, Illinois, November 2g, 1914. '

CAPTAIN JOHN ZIMMERMAN, was born July 24,
1837, at Marbach, Wiirttemberg, Germany, and died
November 29, 1914, at Fairbury, Illinois.

Young Zimmerman came to the United States with his
parents when only three years old, and settled in Crawford
County, Ohio. The family removed to Illinois in 1848,
and settled in La Salle County, near Marseilles, where he
worked on a farm during the summer and attended a
country school in the winter.

At the age of 16, he left home, and learned the trade
of a harness maker. In 1858, he moved to Pontiac, Liv-

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ingston County, continuing in the same line of business.
In 1859, he moved to Fairbury, remaining there until
July, 1861.

On hearing of the disastrous battle of Bull Run, he
gave up his business and recruited a Company of Cavalry ;
on August 7, 1861, at the organization of the 3d Regiment,
Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, he was elected Second Lieuten-
ant of Company K. During the fall of that year, and the
spring of 1862, the regiment served in the department of
Missouri, and was engaged in the Battle of Pea Ridge.
After being absent in the fall of that year on sick leave,
he returned to his regiment at Memphis. The absence of
his Captain and First Lieutenant, put him in command of
his Company from September, 1862, until August, 1863.
His regiment was in the Vicksburg campaign and at the
capture of Arkansas Post, and in the siege of Vicksburg,
during the summer of 1863 until its surrender.

Although absent a great deal of the time with sickness
after the surrender of Vicksburg, he was determined to stay
with his men as long as he could, and took part in the battles
of Champion Hills and of Black River Ridge.

After the surrender of Vicksburg, the army went to
Jackson, Mississippi. At Pearl River, while placing pickets,
Lieut. Zimmerman was wounded by a rebel lying in am-
bush. In addition to the wojunds, his old trouble came
upon him, and he was obliged to resign on August 7, 1863.

Soon after his return, he engaged in the drug business
in Fairbury, and in 1866, was married to Sarah E. Heusler,
of Gratoit, Ohio. In 1887, he retired from the drug busi-
ness, and turned his attention to farming.

In 1889, he was elected to the office of Police Magis-
trate in the City of Fairbury, holding this office until 1913.
In 1892 he was elected Coroner of the County, holding
the office for one term.

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His wife survives him, but there were no children born
to them.

Edward D. Redington,
Simeon H. Crane,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

Tlic Commandcry never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

ARTHUR WASHBURN ALLYN.

Captain and Brevet Major United States Army. Born at Hartford,
Connecticut, February i, 1843. Died December 7, 191 4.

ENTERED the service as private Co. "A" ist Conn. Vol.
Inf. Commissioned ist Lieut. i6th U. S. Infantry, May
14, 1861. Brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious
service in the battles of Shiloh and Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
Dec. 31, 1862; Brevet Major U. S. A. March 13, 1865, for
faithful and meritorious service during the war. Resigned
from the Army April 30, 1880.

As an officer served in the battles of Shiloh and Mur-
freesboro, Tenn., all campaigns of the Army of the Cum-
berland, Army of the Ohio, Regular Brigade Army of the
Cumberland; Regular Brigade, ist Division, 14th A. C,
Buell's Kentucky Campaign; Rosencrans' Tennessee Cam-
paign; Inspector General Regular Brigade; No wounds;
and as enlisted man in the Department of Washington.

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JAMES AUSTIN CONNOLLY.

Major One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Infantry Brevet Lieu-

tetmnf Colonel, United States Volunteers. Died at Springfield,

Illinois, December 15, 1914.

MAJOR and BREVET LIEUTENANT COLONEL
JAMES AUSTIN CONNOLLY was born in
Newark, New Jersey, March 8, 1838, and died at Spring-
field, Illinois, December 15, 1914. He was preceded in
death by his wife. They left no offspring.

His parents were both of Irish birth. He was one of
a family of five boys and three girls, of whom a brother
and sister survive. His father was a tanner by trade and
was enabled to raise his large family in comfort and to
give them all an education very superior to his own. Major

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Connolly was educated at Selby Academy, Ohio, and studied
law. in the office of Judge Andrew K. Dunn, whose sister he
married February 7, 1863. She was the aunt of the Hon.
Frank K. Dunn, at present a very able and distinguished
member of the Supreme Court of this state. Our late
Companion was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1859, and
after practicing for a year in Ohio with his brother-in-law,
Judge Dunn, he came to Illinois in i860, located at Charles-
ton and entered upon the active practice of his profession
to which, with the exception of three most intense years
in the service of his country, he devoted all the years of a
long life and in which he achieved distinction and great
success.

In 1862 the 123d Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infan-
try was raised, largely in Coles County. For this regiment
he recruited a company of which he was elected Captain
and on the organization of the regiment for muster-in he
was elected and was mustered in as Major and with it he
participated in the battles of Perryville, October 8, 1862,
and of Milton, Tennessee, March 20, 1863. Afterwards
his regiment was mounted and became part of Wilder's
Brigade of Mounted Infantry, Army of the Cumberland,
and served with it in all its scouts, marches and fights, in-
cluding the battle of Chickamauga, September 19 and 20,
1863. The Major's aggressive Irish instinct for fighting
was always in evidence and his conduct and bearing were
such as won for him the repeated notice and approval of
his superior officers. He was soon detailed as Inspector
General of Reynolds' Division, 14th Army Corps and when
the division was later consolidated with Brannan's, under
the command of that distinguished veteran soldier, Major
General Absalom Baird, Major Connolly became part of
Baird's military family and continued as Inspector General
of this well-known fighting division until the end of the
war. With it he engaged in the battles of Mission Ridge,

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Atlanta Campaign, Jonesboro, The March to the Sea, and
thence through the Carohnas to the final battle at Benton-
ville. On Baird's staff he rode in the historic review of
Sherman's army at Washington and was mustered out at
Springfield, Illinois, July ii, 1865.

For gallantry in action at Bentonville he was brevetted
Lieutenant Colonel March 13, 1865. But Bentonville was,
as we have seen, only one, the last one, of the several
bloody and important engagements in which he bore the
part of a gallant and fearless officer and soldier. His diary
of the March to the Sea, which it has been our privilege
to read, tells a modest but most interesting story of the more
notable events of that most notable campaign, part of
which he was and most of which he saw; and especially
as to the share in it of Baird's heroic division.

Whether in march, camp, review or on the battle line
Major Connolly met every duty and demand upon him with
a courage and soldierly bearing which came of his fighting
race and which marked his later long and highly successful
career as a lawyer, legislator and Member of Congress. He
carried with him into private life and into the practice of
his profession, (which on being mustered out he at once
resumed at Charleston), the military traits of close, orderly
and prompt attention to details. Naturally highly endowed,
his industry made him master of the intricacies of the law
and easily one of the leaders of the bar, first at Charles-
ton and afterwards at Springfield.

The marked success which attended his efforts as a
lawyer matched well his soldierly record. The warm ap-
preciation in which he was held by his fellow citizens was
evidenced by the fact of his election and re-election to the
legislature of the State, in the councils of which, as a
member of the judiciary committee, he soon reached a high
position.

Tn 1876 President Grant appointed him United States

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District Attorney for the Southern District of lUinois, to
which office he was reappointed by President Hayes and
after an interval, during the administration of Grover Cleve-
land, he was reappointed for the third time by President
Harrison. He served most efficiently and acceptably in this
important office for more than thirteen years, in the course
of which he was tendered, but declined, the more responsible
position of Solicitor of the United States Treasury. Mean-
while he successfully engaged in and built up a large and
remunerative general practice in the Courts of the State
and of the United States.

On the death of United States District Judge, Hon. Wil-
liam J. Allen, Major Connolly was proposed by his friends
to President McKinley as one in every way fit for that
high judicial position. In his legitimate aspirations for
that office he had the support of men distinguished both at
the bar and in public life.

A Republican in party allegiance he was twice elected
to Congress from the Springfield district, in which his party
normally has always been in a minority. He had the honor
also of a large party support for the office of Governor.

He was a member of Stephenson Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of which he was several times Commander
and from which, as a crowning honor of his service as a
soldier, he was elected Department Commander of the
organization in the State of Illinois.

For more than forty years he was a resident of Spring-
field was one of its best known, most influential and useful
citizens.

He was buried by his comrades under the simple but
impressive ceremonial of the Grand Army in the presence
of many leading citizens. The Bar of Springfield attended
his funeral in a body and with the cordial approval of the
Courts, both Federal and State, placed of record a warm

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tribute to his virtues from which we here quote with our
full approval :

*'Thus in youth and manhood, in peace and war, in
public and professional life, without adventitious aid, rely-
ing solely on his own'ability and pluck, he won his way to
front rank as a lawyer, soldier, law-maker, prosecutor and
public spirited citizen. With all the fine virtues of his racial
ancestry and be it said with some of the failings, he was
high minded, incorruptible, dauntless in courage, adroit, able
and learned as a lawyer, eloquent as an advocate and orator,
loyal in his friendships, outspoken and aggressively fearless
in opposition to the things he disliked or hated, but withal
and through all loved, respected and honored, he went his
way, through a long and useful life leaving no place for
tears at its peaceful end."

"To us, his elder brethren at the bar, he is now but a
sweet and happy memory. To our younger associates he
leaves for their profit and emulation an example of honesty,
courage and loyal and faithful endeavor in all of life's op-
portunities, obligations and duties."

Bluford Wilson,
Edward S. Johnson,

B. R. HiERONYMUS,

Committee.

OBED W. WALLIS.
Fii'st Lieutenant First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery.

BORN September 24, 1840, in London, England. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, December 11, 1914.
Lieut. Wallis enlisted as a private in the 12th Batt. Wis.
Light Artillery on August 21, 1862, for the period of three
years. On September 22, 1864, he was commissioned ist
Lieut, in Company "U' of the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artil-
lery and remained with that regiment until discharged on the
26th day of June, 1865.

He participated in the battles of luka, Corinth, Ray-
mond, Jackson, Champion Hill and Black River Ridge,
Miss., the seige of Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge and at the
defenses of Washington, D. C.

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Lieut. Wallis came to this country from England with
his parents in 185 1. The family settled in Janesville, Wis-
consin, where young Wallis received his education. After
his muster from service at the close of the war he came
to Chicago in search of employment. Later he engaged in
the wholesale jewelry business which he continued for
nearly forty years. He was a member of Columbia Post
(t. a. R., was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of Hes-
peria Lodge, and the Illinois Club. He is survived by his
wife, three sons and two daughters.

EDWARD ALPHEUS BIGELOW.

Hereditary Companion.

EDWARD A. BIGELOW was the second eldest brother
of Captain Henry Eastman Bigelow, a member of this
Commandery, who died at Chicago, IlHnois, June ii, 1887.
He was himself a veteran of the great war, having served
as a private in Company "F", 68th Ohio Vol. Infantry from
December, 1863, to July, 1865, and taking part in the Atlanta
campaign, the Hood raid, March to the Sea and through
the Carolinas with Gen. Sherman. All of this when at the
age of fourteen years, he having been born in Zanesville,
Ohio, August 18, 1849.

At the time of his discharge in 1865 Private Bigelow was

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sixteen years of age, but nevertheless was offered appoint-
ment by General Sherman to West Point, which he de-
clined. He served as a Major in Q. M. Corps during the
Spanish-American war and died Dec. i8, 1914.

2^ he Conuna?idery never had a
Photograph of this Conipaiiion.

WILLIAM WHIPPLE TICK.

Second Lieutenant Tivelfth Independent Battery, New York Light

Artillery. Born in Washington County, Nezv York, June

5, 1831. Died .December 31, 1914.

ENLISTED on the 12th day of October, 1861, as a 2nd
Lieut, in the 12th Independent Battery, New York
Light Artillery for the period of three years. Mustered into
the service of the \J. S. December 20, 1861, and honorably
discharged and mustered out of the service April 17, 1863.
Service in the Forts and Defences of Washington,
D. C.

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JOHN EDWARD MULLALLY.

Captain Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Born at
Boston, Massachusetts, August 21, 1838. Died at Chicago, Illi-
nois, February 11, 191 5.

ELECTED an Original Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, No-
vember 5, 1906. Insignia No. 15 181.

He entered the service as 2nd Lieutenant 17th Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Infantry July 22, 1861. Promoted to
1st Lieutenant December 13, 1861. Promoted to Captain
May 13, 1864. Promoted to Major June 16, 1865, but not
mustered. Honorably mustered out July ir, 1865.

He was engaged in the following battles and actions :
Kingston, Whitehall, Gold.^boro, Winton, Blounts Mills,
New Berne, Wies Forks, Red House, Swift Creek, Gum
Swamp, Trenton, Merritt's House, and Pollocksville, all the
above in the State of North Carolina.

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JOHN IRVING RINAKER.

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers.
Died at Eustis, Florida, January 15, 19 15.

COLONEL and Brevet Brigadier General John Irving
Rinaker, a member of this Commandery, was born in
Baltimore, Md., November i, 1830. His parents died dur-
ing the cholera epidemic in the year 1832. He was then
cared for and supported by Mrs. Anna Weston, a worthy
woman who had assisted his parents during their fatal ill-
ness, until the Fall of 1836, when her brother, John T.
Alden, a farmer residing near* Springfield, 111., took him
to his home in IlHnois, where our Companion remained
about four years. He then went alone across the prairie to
Franklin, in Morgan county, Illinois, where he worked for

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several farmers, at first doing chores for his support, and
afterwards for small wages, which he prudently saved. He
was a great reader, a good student, and had a retentive
memory. He attended the common schools, when he had
an opportunity, during the winters. In the year 1847 ^^^
entered Illinois College for several months, and then went
to McKendree College, from which he graduated in the
year 1851. After his graduation he taught school in that
institution and in country schools for two years. In the
year 1853 he moved, or Father went, to Carlinville, 111.,
where he lived during the remainder of his life. He studied
la.w in the office and under the direction of John M. Palmer,
afterwards Governor of Illinois and United States Senator
from that State. In 1854 he passed his required examina-
tion and was admitted to the bar, and from that time en-
gaged in the active practice of his profession until his death,
except the period of nearly three years of his service in the
army. During the last thirty-six years of his life, Thomas
Rinaker, his son, a member of this Commandery, was his
partner.

October 16, 1855, our Companion was married to Clarissa
Keplinger, of which union five children were born, one of
whom died in infancy, and four sons, all of whom are still
living.

Our Companion was a convincing speaker, and during the
winter of the year 1861-1862 he devoted much time in mak-
ing addresses and aiding in the enlistment of recruits. In
the summer of 1862 severe defeats of the Union Army in a
number of important battles caused a feeling of depression
in the North, and enthusiasm gave way to a realization of
actual conditions. Then our Companion was confronted
with a serious question: "Why don't I enlist, and if I do,
who will care for my wife and two small, dependent chil-
dren?" But the call of President Lincoln, on July 6, 1862,
for three hundred thousand men, settled the question, and

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in August, 1862, he enlisted, and he induced a thousand
other brave men to join him in the organization which be-
came the 122nd Ilhnois, and of which he was elected its
Colonel. The regiment was mustered into the service of
the United States, September 4, 1862. On the 8th of
October that regiment was ordered sent to Trenton, Tenn. ;
then to Jackson, Tenn. ; then to Corinth, Trenton, Holly
Springs, Humboldt, luka, and Eastport, in each of which
places Colonel Rinaker was made Post .Commander.

December 31, 1862, he was in command of the Union
forces in the battle at Parker's Crossroad, where he was
severely wounded, a bone of his left leg being badly
splintered, and which wound kept him out of active service
for some months. His regiment participated in the battle of
Nashville, December 15th and i6th, 1864. He commanded
the first brigade, 2d Division, i6th Army Corps in the
assault and capture of the rebel works at Fort Blakely,
Mobile, April 9, 1865, and received the swords of Generals
Thomas, Lidell, and Cockerell, upon their surrender. He
was made Brevet Brigadier General March 13, 1865, to take
effect February 13, 1865, and was mustered out of service
and honorably discharged July 15, 1865.

Upon his return to his home and the little family at
Carlinville, he resumed the practice of his profession. He
was an excellent lawyer, careful, studious and faithful,
one who fully observed the highest ethics of his profession.
In 1872 he was tendered the position of United States
Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, but declined
it. He was elected Presidential elector for his district in
1872, and headed the electoral ticket of his State as elector-
at-large in 1876. In 1894 he was elected to Congress from
his district, where the nominal majority of the opposition
party was nearly 6,000. He was much interested in educa-
tional matters. For years he served as chairman of the
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a member of the Board of Trustees of McKendree College,
which college conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He
was a patron and a liberal contributor to Blackburn Uni-
versity at Carlinville, where he established a fund, the in-
come of which is devoted to the assistance of those who,
like himself, began life in very adverse circumstances. He
was a member of the Illinois Bar Association from 1878 to
the time of his death, and of the American Bar Associa-
tion for many years. He was a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and was a Mason. He was elected
a Companion of the First Class of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States, through the Com-
mandery of Illinois, February 13, 1890, his Insignia being
No. 7698.

For a number of years prior to his death he spent the
winters in Eustis, Fla., where he died January 15, 191 5.
He was a brave soldier, an upright man, a patriotic and
true American.

To his children and descendants the members of this
Commandery extend their sympathy.

Mrs. Rinaker, his wife, died September 5, 1920, at Carlin-
ville.

Thomas E. Milchrist,
John Young,
Walter R. Robbins,

Committee.

ROSWELL HENRY MASON.

'Captain Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, February 13, 1915.

ROSWELL HENRY MASON, estimable Companion
and most efficient Recorder of the Commandery of
the State of IlHnois, honored member of the Commandery
in Chief of the MiHtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, and some years a valued member of the
Council in Chief of that Supreme body ; gallant soldier, up-
right citizen, accomplished gentleman and well-beloved
friend, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on December
31, 1841, and died at Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday, Febru-
ary 13, 1915.

When patriotism becomes incarnate, when it animates

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the soul of a loyal, courageous man, then it is no longer an
abstraction of thought, it is a dynamic. As in the military
service, so in the civil life of Captain Mason, when he once
clearly apprehended the truth, it possessed him. It was the
very life of his Hfe — it was himself. From the ''Assembly"
call in 1861 to the sounding of the ''Taps" at Appomattox
in the red days of the Civil War, Companion Mason was
in it and of it active and efficient.

Roswell B. Mason had come to Chicago in 1852 to fill
the position of Chief Engineer in the construction of the
Illinois Central Railroad, and at the outbreak of the Civil
War Companion Mason was serving on his father's staflf
as a surveyor, but when the call for troops was made by
President Lincoln, he resigned his civic duties and enrolled
his name on July 27, 1861, as a private in Battery B, ist
Regiment Illinois Volunteer Artillery, and was discharged
from the service by reason of disability in August, 1861.
He again enlisted and was mustered into service as private
Company A, 72nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry on
August 15, 1862. He was promoted to Sergeant June 30,
1863; to 1st Lieutenant July 28, 1863, and to Captain
December 3, 1864. He was honorably discharged from
service on June i, 1865. The 72nd was one of the fighting
regiments of the great armies of the West, and its military
history stands synonymous with bravery and gallant per-
formance of duty — a magnificent detail of the glorious
campaigns of the "Army of the Tennessee." Captain
Mason's record parallels the tales of heroism and
stalwart service that have been written of his regiment, his
brigade, his division, and his Army Corps, as they followed
the leadership of Grant, Thomas and Sherman. After leav-
ing the Army, Companion Mason returned to his old posi-
tion. In 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes as
surveyor-general of the then Territory of Montana. In
1883 he was appointed general manager of the P. & I. R.

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R. Co. of Florida. He later served as assistant general
manager of one of the largest bonding and security com-
panies in the United States. When the Cook County Jury
Commission was organized in 1897 he was appointed chief
clerk of that body and served continuously in that position
until his death.

When the Commandery of the State of Illinois was
organized on May 8, 1879, by the fourteen charter members
who held diplomas from the Commanderies of Pennsyl-
vania, New York and Massachusetts, Companion Mason
was the first member elected by ballot. He was a member
of the Council in 1890; Registrar, 1894-1895, and Recorder
from 1896 to 191 5. As recorder of this Commandery and
as a member of the Council in Chief of the Commandery
in Chief, he was conscientiously devoted to their best inter-
ests. His desire and work and affiliation being always
based on a high standard of honor in the interpretation of
the by-laws and constitution of the order, with the purpose
that the organization should be maintained on a plane in
keeping with the patriotic sense and the high ideals which
dominated its conception and realization, and the fact of his
election and re-election to the office of Recorder for the
nineteen years preceding his death is the best evidence that
his efforts and accomplishments in that position must have
been highly appreciated.

Friendship is a glorious thing. He who reveals by
thoughtful and energetic action its sublime possibilities is
a benefactor, and *'Ross" Mason was a past-master in that
characteristic. He possessed a most subtle and sympathetic
appreciation of character which made it a delight to be
admitted into the inner circle of his friendship. He was
manly and clean of heart and purpose. He had a hatred
of sham and hypocrisy. He was kind and gentle in his
attitude toward his fellow men; but he strove to hunt the
truth about human nature, even though he did not always
say it aloud. He possessed the well-bred ease of the man

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of the world, with all the essential elements of a gentleman.
With his intimates he exhibited all those with whom he had
intercourse, and his sallies of wit were of that rare quality
which caused enjoyment and never gave rise to wounded
feelings. His friendships were both exact and humane. He
parted from his friends in sorrow — true, he might misjudge
— but so might we — and after all, is not a man's own con-
science a safe guide?

He had made a most courageous fight for life through-
out the seven years of intermittent suffering that preceded
his demise, having undergone three dangerous surgical
operations during that period of time, and it was while at
St. Luke's Hospital for the third time, ''God's finger touched
him and he slept." He had been out of the world of action
for several months before his death. As far as his fellow
men were concerned his life had already ended. Like Heine
on his ''mattress grave" his only employment was to look
back over his past deeds and to look forward to dissolution.
There were no reasons why the look forward should be
one of apprehension. There were very many reasons why
the look back should have been one of satisfaction. His
life had been an honorable one and fraught with enviable
accomplishment in his military as in his civil record, and
his name is one with which to conjure kindly deeds and
affectionate remembrances.

Companion Mason left surviving him a widow and two
sons — Elmer and Roy — to wdiom we tender our most pro-
found sympathy. In the knowledge of our own supreme
loss of beloved companion and friend we may appreciate
their tender bereavement, and in consolation we submit this
memorial with this thought, the life given us by nature is
short, but the memory of one well spent is eternal.

John J. Abercrombie,
Walter R. Robbins,
Simeon H. Crane,

Committee.

SAMUEL WALTER SHATTUCK.

Captain Eighth Vermont Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Champaign, Illinois, February 13, 1915.

AFTER a long life, wholly devoted to the public service
as soldier, college professor, and business manager
of a great University, Captain Shattuck, formerly of the
6th Massachusetts and the 8th Vermont Infantry, died at
Champaign, Illinois, February 13, 191 5, when within five
days of his seventy- fourth birthday.

Captain Shattuck was a soldier by inheritance and by
family tradition and association. His father, grandfather,
and great grandfather were all officers in the colonial or
the national armies. -His great-grandfather, commissioned

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by King George III, was a staff officer at Cambridge when
Washington took command in 1775, and his father and
grandfather were in the American army during the War of
1812. Seven of the first sixteen captains of the second
oldest niihtia company in Massachusetts, organized in his
native town of Groton in 1778, and still in existence there,
bore the name of Shattuck. At the outbreak of the Civil
War this was one of the companies of the famous 6th
Massachusetts, the first to enter Washington in 1861, at-
tacked en route by a mob in Baltimore, through which it
fought its way with the loss of four killed and thirty-six
wounded. Captain Shattuck's father, although nearly sev-
enty years of age, was its lieutenant-colonel in 1861, and
three of his sons were in the regiment under him.

Samuel W. Shattuck, twenty years old at the time, was
professor of mathematics and military tactics in Norwich
University, Vermont, but also sergeant-major of this regi-
ment. Summoned by telegraph to join it for the march to
Washington, he left for the front April 18, escorted to the
train by a corps of his cadets, three days after President
Lincoln's first call for troops. He was mustered into the
national service at Washington, and served with his regi-
ment in that neighborhood until the expiration of its three
months' term of enlistment, when he returned to his col-
lege duties at Norwich, his teaching of military tactics no
doubt made much more realistic by his brief experience at
the front.

Persons in responsible public positions of this descrip-
tion are not easily spared even in time of Civil War, and
it was not until the strenuous recruiting campaign of 1863
summoned to the standard re-inforcements by the hundred
thousand that Professor Shattuck was again drawn into the
Union Army. This time it was in the 8th Vermont Infantry,
mustered in for ''three years or during the war." At the
date of his enlistment, July 22, this regiment was in Louisi-

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ana, recruiting after the fatigues and losses of the siege of
Port Hudson, but recently ended, in which it had taken an
active and imix^rtant part. It remained in the vicinity of
New Orleans until July 5, 1864, when it was transferred by
sea to the Army of the Potomac in Virginia.

Professor Shattuck had been made its adjutant October
20, 1863, and he held this rank during the famous Shenan-
doah campaign of September and October, 1864, which first
revealed to the country Sheridan's military genius. Adju-
tant Shattuck shared with his regiment the desperate fight-
ing of the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar
Creek, in the last of which his horse was killed and he
was himself severely wounded but continued nevertheless
with his command. In the first of these battles occurred a
thrilling episode in which Lieutenant Shattuck played a
conspicuous part. The first division of the 19th corps, to
which the 8th Vermont belonged, was preceded in the move-
ment against the rebel lines by the second division, a part
of which pushed its charge so far in advance of the general
line that it was enfiladed from both flanks by the rebel fire
and driven back in great confusion through the advancing
first division. The fight would have been lost then and there
except for the steadiness of this division, which occupied as
best it could the vacancy thus left, and held the rebel advance
until Crook could come in with the 8th corps for a flank
attack on the rebel left. Although ordered merely to hold
its ground, when the 8th Vermont saw at their right the ad-
vancing lines of Crook, their colonel, Stephen Thomas, or-
dered a charge with the bayonet at the double quick. Gen-
eral officers present shouted ''Halt ;" ''Lie down ;" trying to
restrain the movement ; but suddenly a stafif officer gal-
loped forward from the right, pointing with saber at the
woods which concealed the enemy, and the regiment, fol-
lowed presently by the 12th Connecticut, swept forward as
one man in a charge which proved to be the turning point

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of the fight. When asked afterwards who the stafif officer
was that galloped to the front Colonel Thomas replied that
it was Adjutant Shattuck, and that the movement was made
on his initiative, and against the orders of the corps comman-
der. Its brilliant success was its ample justification.

A vacancy arising in the captaincy of Co. H of his regi-
ment, Adjutant Shattuck was made captain of that company
November 24, 1864; and his colonel, being at the time a
brigade commander, he was detailed as assistant adjutant
general of the second brigade. In this capacity he served
also on the stafifs of General Davis, of New York; General
McMillan, of Indiana, and General Lewis Grant, of Ver-
mont, returning to his regiment only to be mustered out with
it June 28, 1865.

Captain Shattuck was, in fact, a soldier of the staff-officer
type, and was little likely to be permitted to serve in the line,
wnth his regiment. Thorough, exact, resourceful, indefatig-
able, loyal, and unselfish to a degree, he was always ready
to subordinate his own interests to the success of an enter-
prise, and to contribute to a common cause services for
which some more conspicuous officer might derive the
greater honor. It was in this same spirit also that he after-
wards served the University of Illinois for nearly forty years
as its principal financial officer, under the successive titles
of business agent, business manager, and comptroller, but
really the chief of staff to its president.

Captain Shattuck's military activities did not end with his
discharge from the army, for, returning to his former place
at Norwich as professor of mathematics and military tac-
tics, he not only taught the military art to the students of
his college, but he served his state as its inspector general,
with the rank of colonel in the state militia; and when he
came to Illinois in 1868 as a member of the first faculty
of its state university, it was as assistant professor of mathe-
matics, instructor in military tactics, and first commandant

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of the University corps of cadets. He was thus the actual
founder of the mihtary department of the University of
Illinois, the students of which now constitute the largest
university cadet corps in the world.

His service to his university in its business office and
as head of its department of mathematics, has been amply
acknowledged and fully reported elsewhere, and it will
suffice here to say that it was of the highest order of useful-
ness. Put into a place where for many years he regularly
met and dealt with every student and every member of the
corps of instruction, he had an extraordinary opportunity
to make his mark upon the standards and ideals of the
institution when it was in its formative stage.

When his health began to fail in 1912 he was retired
on a Carnegie pension. Painful and rapidly increasing dis-
abilities were endured for the next three years with Chris-
tian patience and soldierly courage, and he died beloved
and honored by all his colleagues and by hundreds of his
former students scattered all over the world. His enduring
monument is in the institutions of his country which he
helped to preserve and strengthen, and in the great Uni-
versity into whose foundations he built the labors of a
scholar, the principles of a high grade man of business, and
the ideals of a brave soldier and a gentleman of the old
school.

Stephen A. Forbes,
Francis M. Wright,
Hazen S. Capron,

Committee.

MILTON AUGUSTUS EWTNG.

Captain One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Neoga, Illinois, March 5, 1915.

/COMPANION MILTON AUGUSTUS EWING was
^^ born at Paris, III, July 13, 1839. He joined the Pres-
byterian Church in i860, and was choir leader and an officer
of the church, and retained his membership until his death.
He enlisted April 28, 1861 ; was mustered into the serv-
ice of the State of IlHnois, May 10, 1861, at Mattoon. He
was mustered into U. S. service for three years at Spring-
field, June 15, 1861, as private Co. B., 21st 111.; Col. U.
S. Grant commanding, and was detailed as clerk at Col.
Grant's headquarters. October 20, was in the battle of Fred-
ericktown, Mo. ; was in the siege of Corinth, Miss., and at

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the engagement at Roonville, Miss., May 30, 1862. Joined
General Buell at Murfreesboro, Tenn., September i, 1862.
Followed Bragg's army through Kentucky and was at
the battles of Perrysville and Chaplain Hill, Ky., October
7 and 8, 1862, and Lancaster, October 12. Was wounded
at Pruett's Knob, Ky., November i, 1862. Was in the battle
of Stone's River, Tenn., December 26, 1862, and January
2, 1863. Was sent to hospital at Nashville, Tenn., and was
honorably discharged on Surgeon's Certificate of disability,
March 28, 1863. June 6, 1863, was commissioned Second
Lieutenant, U. S. Secret Service, and assigned to duty in
Illinois and Indiana watching Knights of the Golden Circle,
and arresting deserters.

June 6, 1864, he was commissioned Captain Co. I, 135th
111. Infantry and served till September 26, 1864, when he
was honorably discharged.

On his return from the army in 1863 he was appointed
Postmaster of Neoga, 111., by President Lincoln. He re-
signed to take the position of Captain in the 135th 111. He
was re-appointed Postmaster of Neoga by Presidents Mc-
Kinley, Roosevelt and Taft, serving nearly fourteen years.

He served eight years as Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th
Regiment National Guard of Illinois.

He organized the Grand Army Post of Neoga and com-
manded the Post ten consecutive years. He was Junior Vice
Commander of the Department of Illinois, G. A. R., and was
an honored member of the Commandery of Illinois, Loyal
Legion of the United States.

He was prominent in Masonic afifairs, having been a
member of the order fifty-two years.

Captain Ewing was married September 29, 1863, to Miss
Hannah Ellen Morrison.

He is survived by his widow, his daughters Mrs. F. J.
Brown, Payson, 111., Mrs. Grace Kennelworth, Los Angeles,

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Cal., and Mrs. Florence Sutton of Chicago, and by one son
Mr. C. C. Ewing of Neoga.

Colonel Ewing died at Payson, 111., March 14, 191 5, and
was buried at Neoga, March 18, 1915.

During his life he occupied an enviable position in the
social, religious, business. Masonic and Grand Army life in
the community where he lived and his influence was always
exerted for the highest and best interests of the home and
the community, and his death caused profound regret
amongst all the best people of Cumberland County.

A distinguished soldier, a dignified citizen, a courteous
gentleman, a loving husband and father, his memory will
long be revered.

Robert Mann Woods,
Matthew M. Peters,
Edward S. Johnson,

Committee.

ALBERT J. BLACKFORD.

Captain One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Findlay, Ohio, April 15, 1915.

/CONSPICUOUS in the ranks of that honored roll of
^^ patriotic men, who so nobly responded to the call of
our nation, is the name of our late Companion, Albert J.
Blackford, who passed from this life into one of eternal joy
on the nth day of April, 19 15, at Findlay, Ohio, and was
buried there in Maple Grove cemetery.

Companion Blackford was born at Findlay, Ohio, August
10, 1843. I^ 1859 he moved to Clinton, 111. Being a printer
by vocation, he commenced the publication of a newspaper.
Later, believing Centralia, 111., offered a larger field for his
activities, he moved there and became the editor of the

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Egyptian Republican. During this particular period there
was a strong pro Southern feeling in this locality, inimical
to the strong Union sentiments, ably and forcibly expressed
by Editor Blackford in the columns of the Egyptian Repub-
lican.

The tocsin of war — a dissolution of the Union — between
the North and the South proclaimed on the rostrum and in
the public press, was rife. The voice of the Egyptian Re-
publican rang in no uncertain tones against the proposed
dominance of the Union by the pro slavery advocates, whose
sentiments were repugnant to Editor Blackford. This com-
munity was not then ready, as it was later, to give substan-
tial support to a newspaper holding political sentiments so
much in conflict with their own. Partly for this reason,
but probably more for a sentimental one, he returned to
Clinton, where he interested himself in a general merchan-
dise store. Not long after his return to Clinton, he became
engaged to be married to Miss Mary E. Taylor, to whom
he was married on May 5, 1862.

Born August 10, 1843.

Enrolled, August 9, 1862, and was mustered into service
September 4, 1862, as a private in Company F, 107th Illi-
nois Infantry.

Promoted to Sergeant February 10, 1864.

Promoted to ist Lieutenant April 13, 1864.

Mustered out June 21, 1865.

Companion Blackford was with his company and regi-
ment from organization until the close of the war, except
while doing staff duty. In 1862 he participated in pursuit
of General Morgan in his raid through Ohio. Served in
the campaign in East Tennessee, under General Burnside,
was in the battles of Huff's Ferry and Campbell's Station —
in the Knoxville siege — in campaign in East Tennessee
against General Longstreet. The regiment then moved with
the 23rd Corps to Chattanooga, Tenn., under General Scho-

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field. Took part in the Georgia campaign under General
Sherman until after the fall of Atlanta ; then under General
Thomas, following General Hood back into Tennessee, par-
ticipating in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. The
regiment and corps was transferred to Wilmington, N. C.,
and was with General Sherman's Command at Goldsboro —
surrender of General Johnston's army. The regiment was
then sent to Salisbury, N. C., where it remained till after
peace was declared.

Captain Blackford served as A. A. Inspector General
on the staff of Major General D, N. Couch, also on the staff
of General Joseph Cooper, as aide de camp. Was mustered
out June 21, 1865.

In the War of the Rebellion he was a typical soldier, in
civil life, a highly honored citizen. The simplicity and
beauty of Companion Blackford's character endeared him
to all who were privileged to know him well. Possessing
the finer conceptions of life, he lived and breathed them
in his daily life. To those of our Order who knew him
well, their recollections will always be of a tender nature.
To the remaining members of his family we extend our
heartfelt sympathy. With them we live in the hope, in the
belief, we shall again take his hand in that after habitation
where afifliction and parting dwelleth not.

Walter R. Robbins,
John C. Neely,
Edward R. Blake,

Committee.

HENRY VAN SELLAR.

Colonel Twelfth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers,
at Paris, Illinois, April 2/, 1913.

Died

A S the years go by it happens that one or another of our
■^ ^ old friends and companions passes through the gate
that leads to the life to come ; so it has been with one who
has bivouacked with us, who in the stormy time of civil strife
gave the best that was in him to the union cause.

Henry Van Sellar who, at the close of the Civil War,
was Colonel of the 12th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infan-
try, died at Paris, Illinois, April 27, 1915. A brave man,
loyal, energetic, both as citizen and soldier, he commanded
the respect and love of all who knew him; just and wise
in his rulings from the bench, he was nevertheless simple,

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unassuming, and compassionate, and these traits brought
him love of companion, comrade and neighbor, all glad to
do him honor. He held a deep place in the hearts of his
friends.

When the call for troops came in April, 1861, Colonel
Van Sellar was one of those who sprang to the colors with
all enthusiasm and wholeheartedness of one anxious to do
his part in the great drama just opening. And he did it —
played it conscientiously. Whatever duty fell to him to do
was done without question, and with a judgment and care-
fulness beyond his years. His service as a soldier was with-
out reproach.

Henry Van Sellar enrolled as private April 15, 1861.

Mustered in as first sergeant Co. E, 12th Illinois Infantry,
Vols., May 2, 1861.

Second Lieutenant, August i, 1861.

Captain Co. E., October 18, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel 12th 111. Infantry, Feb. 18, 1864.

Colonel, July 10, 1865.

He commanded the regiment from January, 1864, until
he, with the regiment was mustered out in July 19, 1865.

His service was continuously with his regiment — partici-
pating in all its battles and campaigns — Donelson, Shiloh,
luka, Corinth, Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea and
many minor affairs.

In bivouac — camp — or firing line, he was always in evi-
dence, always dependable.

With his return to civil life he resumed the study of
law that had been interrupted by his service in the army,
and was soon admitted to the bar, and became one of the
leading attorneys in his section of the state.

In 1897 ^^^ w^s elected circuit judge and for six years
the bench was honored by his incumbency. He never lost
interest in civic matters. He was the first Mayor of Paris,
his adopted city.

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He served as state senator from his district and for
several years he served as alderman.

His official acts were marked by sound judgment and
he never lost the confidence and respect of his constituency.

He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and was President of the Odd Fellows' Benefit
Association of Edgar county for more than twenty years.
He was a Mason, and an honored member of the G. A. R.,
and for these comrades in arms he never lost his love; his
advice and his services were freely given, nor was any
charge ever made to a comrade for these services. His sons,
law partners, in grateful memory and reverence for their
father, will continue this practice.

Forty-four members of the G. A. R. attended the funeral
services. Many offices in the court house were closed, and
the circuit court of Coles county adjourned that the bar
might attend. As a citizen and neighbor he was universally
esteemed.

Colonel Van Sellar was born in Ohio in 1839. ^^^ some
years prior to the breaking out of the civil war he lived
in Arkansas where he was tutor for a son of Gov. Letcher
of that state. About i860 he came north and took up his
residence in Paris, Illinois. He was married here, to Sarah
Anna Pattison, and celebrated his golden wedding Feb. 14,
1914. His wife and three children survive him. His family
life was ideal and this affliction was their first great loss,
and has been keenly felt. The colonel's health had been
failing for something more than two years, a hardening
of the arteries rendered it difficult for him to get about, but
his mind was clear, and only a few days before his death
he prepared the will of an old friend. Soon after came the
end, sinking into unconsciousness, without pain or struggle,
quietly, peacefully, he went to sleep, the sleep that knows no
awakening. He was at rest and his light was out. The
peaceful end of life, filled with stirring events was befitting

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his kindly nature. The souls of men like him go marching
on. The members of the Loyal Legion of the State of
lUinois tender to his family their sympathy, for his loss,
which with them they share while with his family they are
permitted to rejoice in his upright character and to point
with pride to his honorable achievements and unsullied
record.

George Mason,
J. B. Johnston,
John Young,

Committee.

WILLIAM DOUGALL.

Captain Thirteenth United States Colored Infantry. Died at J diet,
Illinois, May i8, 1915.

TAOCTOR DOUGALL who has been a successful practi-
-*-^ tioner and a leader in his profession in JoHet, since
1872, was born March i, 1842. His native town was Paisley,
Renfremshire, Scotland. Both father and mother were
Scotch.

The Dougalls came from a long line of Scotch descent,
dating from Dugall or Doughil who died in 1164, and who
was the founder of the clan MacDougal.

John Dougall, father of Dr. WilHam Dougall, traced his
line of descent direct from the above named ancestor. He
was born December 10, 1799, in Fintey, Scotland. By pro-

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fession he was a cotton spinner. In 1858, he removed with
his entire family to New Haven, Indiana, where he died in
1874 at the age of seventy-five years. Margaret Houstoun,
his wife, was born January i, 1801. Six sons and six daugh-
ters were the issue of this marriage, and upon their golden
wedding anniversary in 1872, eleven children were present.
Mrs. John Dougall was a descendant of Sir Patrick Hous-
toun, a French Huguenot, who removed to Scotland in 1585
and erected Houstoun Castle. She died in her eighty-eighth
year.

Doctor Dougall attended the common schools of his na-
tive town, the high school at Glasgow, the University of
Michigan and the Chicago Medical College. After attending
several literary, scientific and medical courses, he graduated
in Chicago, with the degree of M. D., in 1868.

Upon arriving in America, he assisted his father in clear-
ing timber lands, for their farm and future home near Fort
Wayne, Indiana. He aided in the support of the family,
until the outbreak of the Civil War, when in June, 1861, he
enlisted as a private of Co. C, Fifteenth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry.

Doctor Dougall's record as a soldier is a most enviable
one. He participated in many important engagements, in-
cluding the battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia, July 11, 1861 ;
Green Brier, Virginia; Shiloh, Tennessee, April 7, 1862;
siege of Corinth, Mississippi, battles of Mumfordsville and
Perryville, Kentucky; Lavorne, Stone's River, Tennessee,
December 26, 1862, to January 3, 1863 ; Tullahoma, Tennes-
see; Chattanooga, September 18, 1863; Johnsonville,
Tennessee, November 2-4, 1864, and Nashville, December
15-16, 1864, as well as several minor engagements.

He served successively with his regiment as corporal,
sergeant and first sergeant, and was examined by officers
from West Point, and commissioned a captain of the Thir-
teenth U. S. Colored Infantry in October, 1863. He com-

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manded a battalion of colored infantry at Overton Hill, at
the battle of Nashville. Seventeen were killed and thirteen
wounded here, out of a total of forty-three men in his com-
pany.

Captain Dougall received a very severe wound at Stone
River battle and a slight wound at Overton Hill.

Doctor Dougall remained in the service to the close of
the war in 1865. Returning to his Indiana home at New
Haven, where he remained until his graduation, he then re-
moved to Lemont, Illinois, and began his professional career.

On October i, 1872, he and Miss Cassie Walker, daughter
of Edwin Walker of Lemont, were united in marriage.
Shortly after the family removed to Joliet, Illinois, where it
has since resided. Two children were born of this union :
Mary Clapham, wife of Hon. Richard J. Barr, former mayor
of Joliet, and now State Senator, and William Houstoun
Dougall, who still resides at the homestead with Mrs.
Dougall.

Doctor Dougall has filled many positions of honor and
public trust. Active in politics and a strong adherent of Re-
publican principles. From 1879 to 1883 he was postmaster
of Joliet ; he has held responsible offices in various medical
associations, and in 1879 and 1880 was Eminent Commander
of Joliet Commandery of Knights Templar. Becoming a
comrade of the G. A. R., in Indiana in 1866, he has ever
been a zealous worker in its behalf, and served as com-
mander for two years, of Bartleson Post No. 6, G. A. R. of
JoHet. He became a Companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, Commandery of Illinois, May 8, 1890.

From 1872 he served, almost continuously, as a member
of the Vestry, or a Warden of Christ Episcopal Church,
Joliet. Probably in no other service was he more energetic,
patient and enthusiastic than in his work for his church.
At his death he held the office of Senior Warden. No clos-
ing tribute can be more fitting than the following extract

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from the memorial resolutions of the Vestry, following his
decease :

**Our faith in the mercy of Jesus Christ and our trust
in a blessed immortality are made stronger in the knowl-
edge of our Senior Warden's assured hope and peaceful
passing into eternal life."

Doctor William Dougall died at his home in Joliet, Illi-
nois, on Tuesday, May i8, 191 5. The burial services were,
that of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Grand Army of
the Republic and Joliet Commandery No. 4, Knights
Templar.

James G. Elwood,
Erastus W. Willard,
Robert Mann Woods,

Committee.

CYRUS DUSTIN ROYS.

First Lieutenant Michigan Light Artillery. Died at Elkhart, Indiana,
May ig, 19 15.

FIRST LIEUTENANT CYRUS DUSTIN ROYS was
born at Waterville, Vermont, January 11, 1836, and
died on a Pullman Sleeper, May 12, 1915, while en route
from Florida to his home in Elkhart, Indiana. He departed
leaving a wife but no offspring.

His military service follows : Enlisted as private in Bat-
tery *T," First Michigan Light Artillery, August 18, 1863,
and was afterwards made Senior First Lieutenant. He
participated in the following engagements. First with Gen-
eral Buckner's forces in the Mountains of Kentucky at Mc-
Intire's Ford. Then the Morgan raid from the time that

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officer crossed the Cumberland to the day of the latter's
capture.

He was in all of the Eastern Tennessee Campaigns —
Capture of Knoxville and Cumberland Gap, the siege of
Corinth and bore an enviable reputation throughout the his-
toric Georgia campaign, and was present at the capture of
Atlanta.

The last service he rendered his country found him doing
Garrison Artillery duty at Chattanooga, Tennessee. During
the Georgia Campaign his Battery a part of the time was
located at Morristown, Tennessee. Ere the war closed he
was assigned to the staff of General Saunders and continued
acting as a staff" officer until the close of the conflict.

This highly esteemed Companion of the Illinois Com-
mandery of the Loyal Legion who recently passed to the
great Beyond we deeply mourn the loss of. The throng he
joined on the Far Away Shore left us lusterful glories as a
bequeathment that will brilliantly sparkle forever. Let us
not forget the privations our absent Companion Cyrus Dus-
tin Roys, and others gone, endured while afar from home
batthng to save the Union. The nation will pay them
homage as long as it exists, while spared Companions must
live on deprived of the sweetness born of associating with
them. May flowers often be cast upon the mounds where
their ashes repose.

Cornelius S. Eldridge,
Edward D. Redington,
Edson J. Harkness,

Committee.

MAXIMILIAN AUGUSTE FREDERICK HAAS.

First Lwutenant and Adjutant Third Missouri Infantry and Brevet

Captain, United States Volunteers. Died at Mendota,

Illinois, June 5, 1915.

1\yr AX A. F. HAAS for whom this memorial is offered,
-^^-^ was born June 29, 1839, in Baden, Germany.

He was educated in the thorough schools of that day and
locaHty, embracing classics and modern languages, his father
being a Lutheran Clergyman of high culture, and intelligence.

In i860 this son left Germany for the United States via
New Orleans where he nearly died of yellow fever.

Making his way to an interior town of Missouri on the
river of that name, he became clerk in a drug store.

Coincident with his employment among strangers, the
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murmurs of the approaching rebelHon began to convulse the
community, which was soHdly in favor of secession.

All the official and dominant forces of Missouri were try-
ing to take that State into the Confederacy.

In this unholy effort the entire community surrounding
our German youth was enthusiastic and boisterous.

Fortunately young Haas saw his duty with a clear vision
and the rabble inspired him with no ambition except to loy-
ally aid the country in which he had lived so short a time,
and to which he owed no allegiance. Accordingly a lone
youth scarce understanding the language made his escape
on the last steamboat passing down the river.

His instincts were true and led him to St. Louis, to join
the stalwart German host that kept Missouri in the Union.

Being without friends or money he went direct to the
U. S. Arsenal, and on May lO, 1861, became a private in
Company C of the 3rd Missouri Infantry — the original Sigel
Regiment for the three months' term.

Three days after the end of this term he became first
Sergeant in the same Company and Regiment for the three
years' service, and became a Comrade in that strong and
loyal German force which did so much to clear up Mis-
souri and the Arkansas Valley, and thereafter fought val-
iantly for the Union.

On June 22nd, he became Second Lieutenant of his Com-
pany and on October 31, 1863, was promoted to First Lieu-
tenant and Adjutant, a position to which his gallantry and
scholarship admirably qualified him.

Serving at intervals on staff duty, he was honorably dis-
charged at the end of his term of service October 31, 1864,
and subsequently brevetted Captain for ''faithful and meri-
torious" service.

As cold and unadorned as the mere figures appear of
record, they embody the fact that Max A. F. Haas person-

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ally and gallantly participated in the capture of Camp Jack-
son and battle of Wilson's Creek during his three months'
term and subsequently the battle of Pea Ridge.

Then followed Steele's Campaign in Arkansas through
Helena, where they became the first division of the 15th
Army Corps — an efficient factor in the great campaigns of
"Uncle Billy." Soon followed Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas
Post and the entire Vicksburg Campaign, including both cap-
tures of Jackson, the Father of Waters — then flowing "un-
vexed to the sea" they turned toward the east where help
was needed.

Without time to rest, at once followed Lookout Moun-
tain, Missionary Ridge, and the strenuous march to and
from Knoxville.

A short interval and the historical Atlanta Campaign
began with its innumerable conflicts and final success.

During these vigorous campaigns Max A. F. Haas was
present and did a man's part.

It thus appears that this youthful alien, poor and alone,
escaped from his rebellious environment and made his way
to join the Noble Teutonic Band which did so much for
their adopted country.

No native American with all national and patriotic tra-
ditions crowding on his heels could do more.

In November, 1864, Max A. F. Haas married Louisa
Kaiser at Peru, 111., then entered the drug business at Men-
dota, 111. Two daughters came to this congenial couple, one
of whom with the bereaved widow still resides there.

On June 5, as our Companion was sitting at his own door
conversing in his genial way with his family — apparently
well and cheerful — the Angel of Death sent a Message and
he died instantly without pain or warning.

Thus when 76 years lacking 20 days had passed, this gal-

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lant soldier, this cultivated and courteous citizen, painlessly
passed to "Fame's Eternal Camping Ground."

LuciEN B. Crocker,
R. W. McClaughry,

Committee.

FREDERICK WEILLS BYERS.

Surgeon Ninety-sixth Illinois Infantry and the Artillery Brigade

Fourth Army Corps. Died at Monroe, Wisconsin,

June 14, 1915.

ON June 14th, Companion Surgeon Frederick Weills
Byers responded to the roll call of the Great Comman-
der, at his home in Monroe, Wisconsin, after a lingering ill-
ness, the result of a paralytic stroke.

Our Companion was born on February 10, 1837, ^^ Ship-
penville, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Jacob and Mary
Magdalene Shakley Byers. His father was of German de-
scent, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in
1798. His mother was a native of Armstrong County,

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Pennsylvania, born in 1806; both are resting in the Luth-
eran cemetery near Fryburg, Pennsylvania.

He attended the public schools in his native village and
later received academic training at Cooperstown. When
twenty years of age, he came to Stephenson County, Illi-
nois, and later to Green County, Wisconsin, where he be-
came teacher in the public schools. He attended Witten-
berg College at Springfield, Ohio, and in i860 was engaged
as a salesman, traveling in Missouri.

Having enjoyed a period of private preceptorship with
Dr. W. P. Naramore at Orangeville, Illinois, he became a
student of Rush Medical College, Chicago, during i86i and
1862, and as such received considerable employment in the
hospitals at Camp Douglas, Chicago. After he received his
medical degree from Rush College in January, 1863, he soon
after entered the military service as Assistant Surgeon of
the 96th Infantry, Illinois Volunteers, which was then sta-
tioned at Franklin, Tennessee, at which station he reported
on May 14, 1863. He served in this capacity until August
10, 1864, when he was detailed to act as chief surgeon of the
Artillery Brigade of the 4th Army Corps, then commanded
by General David S. Stanley. He was mustered out of the
service with his Regiment on June 10, 1865.

During his period of service he participated in the Tul-
lahoma Campaign of 1863. During the winter of 1863 and
1864 he did most excellent service in the general hospitals
of Nashville and in 1864 he participated in the actions of
Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna Camping Ground,
Peach Tree Creek, the siege of Atlanta, including the battles
of Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station, and later in the cam-
paign of Nashville, including the battles at Huntsville,
Franklin and Nashville. In the spring of 1865 he partici-
pated in the East Tennessee Campaign. This closed his
active career as an Illinois soldier and Army Medical
officer during the war of the rebellion.

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After the close of the Civil War Dr. Byers located at
Lena, Illinois, entering the practice of his profession. In
1877 he removed to Monroe, Wisconsin, where the re-
mainder of his life's work was accomplished.

In July, 1865, he married Miss Olive DeHaven who
survives him as do also five of their children: Misses
Morna and Grace Byers residing at his home, and three
sons, Joe R., Benjamin B., and Harry S., living at
Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, and Sacramento,
California, respectively.

Our Companion while performing his professional du-
ties to his patients faithfully, intelligently and devotedly,
found time to give liberally of his accumulated knowledge
and experience to the betterment of mankind. In every
effort of his community he was an active support. While
an ardent lover of peace he believed in preparedness for
war. His surgical military experience was further called
into requisition in 1882, when he became Captain and As-
sistant Surgeon of the ist Infantry, Wisconsin National
Guard and in 1885 Major and Surgeon of the same Regi-
ment. He participated with his Regiment in suppressing the
riots of 1886 in the City of Milwaukee, and we find him
actively engaged in assisting the organization of the Wis-
consin National Guard in which he rose to the rank of
Surgeon General of the State. As such he was sent by
Governor Schofield on a tour of special sanitary inspec-
tion of the camps of Wisconsin soldiers at Jacksonville,
Florida, during the Spanish American war.

During 1885 and 1886 he served as a member of the
General Assembly of his state. He was a member of the
United States Medical Pension Board for more than twen-
ty-five years, retiring from his duty only two years ago. At
his death he had the distinction of being the oldest active
Knight Templar in Green County.

Our departed Companion entered the Military Order

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of the Loyal Legion on November ii, 1880, through the
Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, his insignia being
2122, and joined the IlHnois Commandery by transfer on
October 3, 1891, in which he is remembered especially by
many members of the first-class as a genial, warm-hearted,
democratic, and most knightly Companion. His absence
during the last few years from the stated meetings of the
Commandery has been keenly felt by the many who enjoyed
his cheerful talk and bright utterances.

To his widow and his children and his immediate family,
we extend our sympathy. His was a life full of useful
action, of high ideals, and well performed work.

John Corson Smith, Jr.
Charles R. E. Koch,
Elmer L. Clarke,

Committee.

The Co7nma?idery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

PINCKNEY SKILTON CONE.

Senior First Lieutenant Chicago Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light

Artillery, United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago,

Illinois, July i, 1915.

THE story of the life and services of Companion Pinck-
ney Skilton Cone is one more arc in the rainbow of
American patriotism — a patriotism that grows as the world
grows better and grander. As the flights of time gather into
the bosom of eternity the sons of freedom one by one, the
blessings to the world that have come from their achieve-
ments on the battle fields of '61 become more and more
manifest, so that the glory they sustained in those bitter
years have become the very watchword for the civilization
of today. Your committee to whom was referred the work
of expressing to the members of the Commandery of the
State of Illinois find in the military record which follows
much to commend to succeeding generations.

He enlisted August 25, 1862, was mustered into service
as First Sergeant, August 29, 1862; was promoted Senior
First Lieutenant February 22, 1863, at Vicksburg, serving
in that capacity until mustered out of service at Chicago,
Illinois, July 10, 1865, by reason that services of battery
were no longer required.

Went with battery to Memphis, Tennessee, from there to
Oxford, Mississippi, returning to Memphis, went to Yazoo

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River and took part in first attack on Vicksburg under Sher-
man. From there to White River, Arkansas, and took part
in the capture of Arkansas Post. Thence to siege and cap-
ture of Vicksburg under Grant, thence to capture of Jack-
son, Mississippi, under Sherman ; then to New Orleans and
was in Banks expedition to Matagorda Bay, Texas; then
back to New Orleans and with expedition up the Red River.
Was at the Battle of Mansfield, was captured, imprisoned
at Tyler, Texas, and held for fourteen months. When re-
leased was mustered out of service.

Theodore Van R. Ashcroft,
Walter R. Robbins,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

WILSON TWEED HARTZ.

Lieutenant-Colonel United States Army. Retired. Born at Potts-

ville. Pa., September 9, 1836. Died at Chiantla, Guatemala,

July 16, 19 IS.

ELECTED an Original Companion of the First Class
March 6, 1867, through the Commandery of the State
of Pennsylvania. Insignia No. 466. Transferred to the
Illinois Commandery April 26, 1894.

Entered the volunteer service as Private and Sergeant
Major 6th Penna. Infantry April 22, 1861. Honorably dis-
charged July 27, 1 86 1. Appointed ist Lieutenant 70th New
York Infantry October 22, 1861. Honorably mustered out
October 28, 1862. Promoted to Captain and A. A. G.,
U. S. Volunteers, October 23, 1862. Assigned as Brevet

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Major March 13, 1865. Honorably mustered out Septem-
ber I, 1867: Appointed 2nd Lieut. 15th U. S. Infantry
from civil life May 11, 1866. Promoted to ist Lieut.
June 17, 1867. Promoted to Captain August 23, 1877. Pro-
moted to Major, April 26, 1898. Promoted to Lieut.-Colo-
nel and assigned to 22nd U, S. Infantry May 25, 1899. Re-
tired as Lieut.-Colonel May 31, 1900.

He served in the Army of the Potomac during the entire
period of the Civil War. Was breveted Captain for gallant
and meritorious services at the battle of Fair Oaks, Va.,
and to Major for gallant service at Fredericksburg, Va.,
where he received a severe wound in his right breast. On
I his entry into the regular army, he joined his regiment, th-e
15th Infantry, at Montgomery, Ala., and served in that
state during the re-construction period, until his regiment
was ordered to the western plains on the outbreak of the
Ute Indians in Colorado. Served with his regiment during
all its service in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, North and
South Dakota and Montana. At Jackson Barracks,
Louisiana and lastly, at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

SAMUEL HENRY MELCHER.

Lieutenant Colonel Fifth Missouri Infantry. Died at Chicago, Illi-
nois, August I, 1915.

I

LIEUT. COL. SAMUEL HENRY MELCHER was born
-'in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, October 30, 1828. He
was the son of Woodburry Melcher, who was a captain in
the New Hampshire mihtia, in 1812. His ancestors were
of EngHsh and German origin, and came to America in the
Mayflower, on one of her first trips.

Col. Melcher's mother, Rebecca French, was a daughter
of Capt. Samuel B. French, of Amesbury, Mass., who com-
manded a company of New Hampshire militia in the war
of 1812.

Col. Melcher was educated at Laconia and Gilmanton

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Academies, in New Hampshire, and graduated from the
medical department of Dartmouth College, in 1851. At the
outbreak of the War of the Rebellion, he was commissioned
as Assistant Surgeon of the 5th Regiment of Missouri
Volunteers, and his commission dated May 7, 1861. At the
battle of Wilson's Creek, he brought off the body of Gen-
eral Lyon, who was killed in that battle, and delivered it
to General Schofield the same night. Surgeon Melcher also
served in Springfield, Mo., at the time that the Fremont
Bodyguard made their terrific charge, and he attended the
wounded on both sides. He was appointed Brigade Sur-
geon, December 4, 1861, and later at the request of Gover-
nor Gamble, received temporary leave of absence to organize
the 32nd Regiment of Enrolled Missouri Militia, of which he
was commissioned Colonel, serving with that regiment for
some time, returning in October, 1862, to his proper duty
as Medical Director of the Army of the Frontier.

January 8, 1863, Colonel Melcher was engaged in the
battle of Springfield, under General E. B. Brown, against
the forces of Marmaduke, turning out 400 hospital con-
valescents and rendering most excellent service.

General Brown, who was in command, was seriously
wounded in this engagement, and Colonel Melcher per-
formed a celebrated operation on the shoulder joint of the
General, thus saving his life, and giving him a serviceable
arm.

Colonel Melcher continued to serve in Missouri during
Price's raid in 1864, and was ordered to the field as aid-de-
camp to General Pleasanton's commanding cavalry, and
was honorably mentioned for gallantry and fidelity during
this campaign.

His last service in the army was in command of the
Post at Jefferson City, Mo., where he became debilitated
from hard service, and resigned December 24, 1864.

The Colonel moved to Chicago in 1897, and had lived

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there continually since. He had two children, of whom the
elder, Charles W. Melcher, recently became a member of
the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, by inherit-
ance.

Colonel Melcher's daughter. Miss Anina Rebecca
Melcher, lived with her father at their home on La Salle
avenue for more than ten years, and was literally the sight
and soul of her father, who became totally blind, having
lost the use of his left eye in the battle of Springfield, by
the concussion of a bursting shell, the right eye becoming-
sightless from sympathetic affection. Complete blindness
came upon him in 1890, and since then his daughter had
been his constant and devoted companion and amanuensis.

The Colonel was a brave and efficient officer, of noble
and lovable character, and during his long years of total
blindness, maintained the same patience and cheerful dis-
position so marked during his entire life.

He died August i, 191 5.

Charles S. Bentley,
Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

BRADLEY DEAN.

Captain Third Massachusetts Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August lo, 1915.

CAPTAIN BRADLEY DEAN 'was born on October 11,
1840, in Keene, New Hampshire, and died in Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, August 10, 191 5.

At the age of fifteen years, he left his home and went
to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits until May 26, 1862, when he was mustered
into the United States service as a private in the Fourth
Battalion Massachusetts Infantry. Owing to a controversy
between the governor of the state and the federal authori-
ties regarding the term of enlistment, the entire Fourth
Battalion was at once mustered out.

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Being anxious to enlist, he sought means for entering
the army, and personally applied to Governor Andrew for
authority to raise a Company for the Thirty-third Regiment
Massachusetts \'olunteer Infantry. This appHcation was
granted by Governor Andrew under Special Order No. 109,
subject to the terms of General Order No. 17, May 29, 1862.
The latter order provided for the raising of thirty com-
panies of infantry to serve for three years, and one Com-
pany of light artillery to serve for six months. Mr. Dean
completed the raising of the Company in 60 days, and on
July 31st, he was commissioned by Governor Andrew a First
Lieutenant and assigned to Company K, and was mustered
into the service of the United States August 6, 1862.

The regiment, consisting of twelve companies, reported
for duty at Washington, August 17th, and was soon after
assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Eleventh
Army Corps. On November 27th, Companies A and K were
transferred to the Forty-first Massachusetts Infantry, and
ordered to report to General Banks at New York, which
point they reached about December 2d, where they soon
after embarked for New Orleans. On their arrival at New
Orleans, they left for Baton Rouge, where they joined their
regiment. Here the regiment remained until March 11,
1863, when they joined the expedition against Port Hudson,
and marched over 300 miles between March 28th and April
20th, and in the meantime destroyed the rebel salt works at
Bayou Petit Anse and secured two hundred horses. At
Opelousas, May 11, 1863, the troops having obtained addi-
tional horses, the regiment was converted into mounted
rifles and sent to Barre's Landing.

On the 17th of June, three companies of unattached
Massachusetts Cavalry were attached to the Forty-first
Regiment, and the entire thirteen companies were organized
as the Third Massachusetts Cavalry. Lieutenant Dean was
commissioned as Captain.

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During the Port Hudson campaign, Captain Dean was
severely wounded while in command of a reconnoissance at
Comite River. After being in the hospital a portion of July,
he was granted a three months furlough, and returned to
Boston, joining his regiment at the end of the furlough.

In the early part of 1864, the Third Massachusetts Cav-
alry took part in the Red River campaign, during which
service, marches and more or less fighting became daily
occurrences. On April 8th, in the battle of Sabine Cross
Roads, the regiment suflfered a loss in thirty minutes of
sixty-seven men and 120 horses.

On the 25th of June, the Third Cavalry was dismounted
and armed to serve temporarily as infantry. On July 15th,
the regiment was ordered to report to Lieut. General Grant,
at Fortress Monroe, from which place they were ordered
to Washington, where they were assigned to the Second Bri-
gade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps. They were
with his Corps in Sheridan's campaign in the Valley, being
in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek,
where Captain Dean was slightly wounded.

About the middle of December Captain Dean returned
to Boston with his Company, where he was mustered out
of service, his term of enlistment having expired. Dur-
ing its three years of service, the Third Cavalry marched
15,000 miles, was in more than thirty engagements. On the
regimental colors are inscribed the battles of Irish Bend,
Henderson Hill, Cane River, Port Hudson, Sabine Cross
Roads, etc., in each of which it bore an honorable part.

Captain Dean was with his regiment during the entire
period of his enhstment, with the exception of the three
months he was absent on furlough by reason of his wound,
and participated in every fight in which the regiment was
engaged.

Being mustered out, the Colonel commanding the Third

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Massachusetts Cavalry, in a letter to the Adjutant General
of Massachusetts, said this of Captain Dean :

''Captain Dean is well versed in both cavalry and infan-
try tactics, therefore I take great pleasure in recommending
him for a field position in either arm of the service," and
this indorsement was concurred in by Brigade and Divi-
sion Commanders and also by General Sheridan.

After being mustered out. Captain Dean at once resumed
mercantile pursuits, coming to Chicago in 1865, and for the
remainder of his life, engaged in the blank book, printing
and stationery business, until incapacitated by illness, he
was laid aside for several years before his death. He had
one of the best known establishments in the city of Chicago.
Captain Dean married December 31, 1869, Charlotte
Maria Dixon, who died many years ago, leaving no children.

Edward D. Redington,
Charles F. Hills,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

JOHN CHARLES BLACK.

Colonel Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and Brevet Brigadier Gen-
eral, United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
August 17, 19 1 3.

ENERAL JOHN CHARLES BLACK was born Jan-
uary 2y, 1839, at Lexington, Holmes County, Missis-
sippi.

He died suddenly in Chicago, August 17, 19 15, having
been in his usual health up to the hour of his departure.

He became a member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, and Commander of the Com-
mandery of Illinois in 1896. The number of his insignia is
3696.

His father was a minister of the Presbyterian Church.
His family on both sides was of the best and he was born

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with the physical, mental and moral endowments which gave
rich promise of the success which crowned his life.

When Fort Sumter was fired upon April 13, 1861, two
brothers, John C. and William P. Black, were college boys
attending Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana. The
next morning, on the 14th day of April, 1861, both enlisted
as private soldiers in the nth Indiana Volunteers, the
Colonel of which was he who became afterwards a Major-
General in the Army of the United States, and one of the
great literary characters of the world, General Lew Wallace.
John C. Black was made Sergeant-Major of this regiment
and with it he took part in the battle at Romney, West Vir-
ginia, on the nth day of June, 1861, one of the very first
engagements of the war and received high commendation
for his bravery and efBciency.

On the expiration of their three months' period of enhst-
ment these brothers returned to their home in Danville,
Illinois, and together recruited Company "K" of the 37th Illi-
nois Volunteer Infantry. John C. Black was elected Cap-
tain, and WilHam P. Black First Lieutenant of this
Company, but on the organization of the regiment John* C.
was elected Major and William P. was commissioned Captain
of Company "K." Major Black was thereafter promoted
successively for distinguished bravery on the battle field,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, and, at the close of his mili-
tary service, he was brevetted Brigadier-General of the
United States Volunteers.

During the years of his army experience he served in all
the states of the South except the two Carolinas and Geor-
gia. His regiment was at one time in the Army of the
Potomac, but his principal service was in the Army of
the Tennessee; however, for short periods he also served
in the Army of the Southwest, and, at the close of the war,
in the Army of the Frontier, and the Army of Observation
on the Mexican Border under the command of General Philip

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H. Sheridan. He took conspicuous part in many skirmishes,
sieges, marches and battles, including Pea Ridge, Prairie
Grove, Vicksburg, Mobile, and in Blakely's Batteries, the
last battle of the War. He was severely wounded at the bat-
tle of Pea Ridge, March 7, 1862, and again at the Battle of
Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, as a result of which he
became permanently disabled in both arms.

At the close of the great struggle he took an honorable
part in solving the many problems which called for solution
at the hands of patriotic men. Possessed of an always
pleasing personality and an eloquence which charmed every-
one who listened to his magnetic utterances, his influence
was almost unHmited over his fellow citizens. He was se-
lected for various high, important positions by different
Presidents without regard to political affiliations, though he
himself always was known as a Democrat. He served for
years as United States Commissioner of Pensions, and as
United States District Attorney at Chicago.

He was elected a member of Congress-at-large from the
State of Illinois. For nine years he held the important
office of President of the United States Civil Service Com-
mission.

The honors gladly conferred upon him by those who had
been his comrades in the Army were almost without limita-
tion. He was a member almost from its organization up to
the time of his death of George H. Thomas Post No. 5,
Grand Army of the Republic ; was Department Commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Illinois ;
was Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, and was an original member of the Grand Army Hall
and Memorial Association of Illinois. Wabash College,
where his collegiate education was obtained, made him a
Trustee and conferred upon him the degrees of A. B. and
A. M. Knox College, of Galesburg, Illinois, honored itself
by conferring upon him the degree of LL. D. He held many

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Other honorary positions which were conferred by the people
and public bodies, such as member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan Home;
member of the Board of Managers of the National Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and Sailors.

He was highly distinguished as a soldier. He took a
leading and puissant part in preserving the life of the great-
est Republic the world has ever known.

For more than half a century after the close of the
Great War he was known and honored from ocean to ocean
as one who, in these various important official positions in
civil life, rendered an invaluable service to the Government
and people of the land he loved.

He was one of the finest types of the American soldier.
His heart throbbed with patriotic fervor from his earliest
youth and, as was said, when he heard the call of President
Lincoln in '6i for loyal men to defend the Constitution and
the flag of his country, he was among the first to respond.

No young man in the land had finer prospects of success
in the profession to which he aspired and in the amassing
of wealth and gaining of honors in civil life than he, for he
had a natural ability of the highest order and an education
which fitted him to fill any position in the gift of the people.
He had a character on which no spot or stain was ever
found. His was a genial disposition which attracted all who
came within its influence or into his presence, yet he laid
all ambitions and hopes for the future on the altar of liberty
and enlisted as a private soldier to fight the battles of his
country.

The experience of the untrained boys, who saw service
in the three months' regiments, served as an education which
qualified them for a soldier's work, and from their ranks
came thousands of those who afterwards led the compa-
nies, regiments, brigades and divisions which made up the
victorious armies of the Union.

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General Black's military life is written upon many pages
of our history, has been often read, but cannot be too fre-
quently referred to. Its perusal cannot but inspire all who
read it with the spirit of patriotism and tend to make others
anxious to emulate his glorious example.

It is the high purpose of those who, in the Grand Army
of the Republic, in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
in the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, of the Poto-
mac, and in the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association
of IlHnois, to seek to keep alive the fire of patriotism in the
bosoms of those who shall follow. The -history of the strug-
gle in which we too had an honorable part, when our com-
rades pass from our midst, makes it a pleasant and a sacred
duty to recall those memories and to preserve the record of
them in every place and at every time when opportunity
offers. What record can be more inspiring than this of our
comrade General Black? To attempt to tell of his valor, of
his unhesitating bravery, to give instances of his heroic ac-
tions leading his men on the battle field, or tenderly caring
for them when sick or wounded, and in caring for and aiding
the widows and children of those who fell, a volume would
be inadequate and cannot here be entered upon in a tribute
such as this. In all the ranks of those who were the com-
panions in arms of General Black or who were at any time
associated with him, I doubt if there can be found any who
had a greater love than was his for his friends and com-
rades. The welfare and happiness of such was ever the first
thought with him. He loved them one and all and they loved
him and loved to honor him. The encampments. Depart-
mental, State and National, were never complete without
hearing his stirring eloquence; his tender reference to all
who had served in what he always spoke of as "The Great
War" and his deeply pathetic allusion to incidents coming
within his own personal experience in camp, on the march,
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heard him say that one of the chief pleasures of his Hfe in
official position was when, as Commissioner of Pensions, he
was able to help out a comrade, or his widow or children,
by giving to such the benefit of the doubt, if doubt there was,
when their claim was meritorious, though the strict and
technical evidence might not be as complete as he wished it
was. Every such one knew that the judge who was to pass
upon the case would, as judges always ought to, construe
doubts in favor of the men who had in the hour of peril
to their country performed a faithful service.

General Black left surviving him the loved wife of his
early manhood, an invalid whose ill health was to him a last-
ing sorrow, a son, John D. Black, also a member of this
Commandery, a leading lawyer of Chicago, whose character
and gift of eloquence make him worthy of such a father,
a daughter happily married to Captain Stephen Abbott,
United States Army, retired, and a grandson, John Black
Vrooman, the son of his daughter Grace, deceased.

His memory cannot be taken from us. His hearty hand
grasp, his genial smile and pleasant greeting is a treasure the
memory of which shall not end, but be renewed, we fondly
hope, when we shall join him and so many loved ones, who
were our comrades in the days that tried men's souls, on
the other shore.

"We shall meet and greet in closing ranks
In time's declining sun,
When the bugles of God shall sound recall
And the battle of life be done."

We tender to the wife and family of our comrade our
sincere sympathy in this hour of their grief.

Richard S. Tuthill,
Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

FREDERICK STANLEY SEYMOUR.

First Lieutenant Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry,
lyme, Connecticut, August 30, 191 5.

Died at Had-

FREDERICK STANLEY SEYMOUR was born at New
Britain, Conn., Nov. 8, 1836, and died at Lladlyme,
Conn., Aug. 30, 191 5.

He enlisted as a private in Co. F., 14th Conn. Vol. Infy.,
July 17, 1862, for three years. Was mustered into the U. S.
service as Sergeant same Company, Aug. 23, 1862. Pro-
moted to Quartermaster Sergeant Nov. 13, 1862. Commis-
sioned and mustered as ist Lieut, of Co. I, June 3, 1863.
Discharged April 2y, 1864, on. account of wounds received
in action.

Commissioned as 2nd Lieut. Co. A, 13th Veteran Re-
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serve Corps, July, 1864, and discharged Sept., 1866, on
account of services being no longer required.

While connected with the 14th Conn. Regiment he par-
ticipated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan-
cellorsville, Gettysburg and Morton's Grove. The regiment
was in the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps. The divi-
sion was commanded by Gen. Alex. Hays, who lost his life
in the Wilderness. At the battle of Gettysburg, on the 3rd
day. Hays' division occupied a position on the right of the
Corps, and was opposed to Pettigrew's Confederate
division.

Lieut. Seymour was in command of his company. Rebel
sharpshooters were stationed in what is known as the Bliss
Barn, a rambling structure, about 150 rods from the union
lines. The brigade to which the 14th regiment was at-
tached, was ordered to assault the barn. Two regiments
were driven back, when four companies of the 14th Conn,
were ordered in, the attacking force numbering about sixty
men. Lieut. Seymour suggested to Col. Smyth ''that if
in the event of capturing the barn, the rebels made it too hot
for them to hold it, it should be burned." Before reaching
the barn, however, the Lieut, was badly wounded in the
leg.

Gen. Hays afterward ordered the buildings burned.

While in the Veteran Reserve Corps, he served at Gal-
lup's Island, Boston Harbor, being Adjutant of the perma-
nent garrison in 1864. In 1866 he was on duty as Post
Commissary at Hart's Island, New York Harbor, on the
staff of Gen. Doubleday.

Soon after the close of the war, Lieut. Seymour en-
tered the employ of the Stanley Works at New Britain,
Conn., and continued with this corporation till 1891. For
two years from 1891 to 1893, he was connected with the
real estate business in Chicago. In the latter year, his health
becoming impaired, he returned to Connecticut, taking up

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his residence at Hadlyme, where he remained until his
death.

During the years 1894-95-96, he was interested to some
extent in ship building, and following that, built and op-
erated a Witch Hazel distillery, until his health failed in
1914, when he sold out the plant and thereafter lived a
quiet life until his death. He was a brave soldier, a patriotic
citizen, who deserved well of the republic he helped to save.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE THISTLEWOOD.

Captain Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry. Died at Cairo, Illinois,
September i6, 1915.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE THISTLEWOOD was
born in Kent county, Delaware, March 30, 1837. He
was a farmer's boy, and obtained his education in the public
schools of his native state.

In 1858 he removed to Illinois, locating in Madison
county. He taught school winters, and worked on a farm
summers, till 1862, when he left his oxen and plow in the
field, and enlisted as a private in the 98th Illinois Volun-
teer Infantry. He was mustered out at the close of the
war as a Captain — his regiment serving in Wilder's Brigade,
in the Army of the Cumberland, and was engaged in the

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battles of Stone River, Tiillahoma, Chickamauga, Mission-
ary Ridge, and the Atlanta campaign. He also served w^ith
Wilson's Cavalry Corps, and was wounded at Selma, Ala.,
April 2, 1865.

On Captain Thistlewood's return from the army, he
taught school for six months at Mason, and in the spring
of 1866 engaged in the clothing business, and was married
September 6, 1866, to one of his pupils, who survives him.
He was in the general mercantile business at Mason until
1872, when he removed to Cairo to engage in the commis-
sion business, which he followed till 1910.

He always took a great personal interest in civic afifairs
of his city, state and nation, and was honored by his fel-
low citizens by being elected at different times President
of the Board of Education, Alderman, and four times
Mayor. In 1901, Capt. Thistlewood was elected Comman-
der of the Department of Illinois Grand Army of the Re-
pubHc, and was three times a Republican member of Con-
gress from the 25th District, being defeated in the landsHde
of 1912.

In Judge Lansdin's history of Cairo, he says of Capt.
Thistlewood : ''What he undertook, he always did well. He
was never satisfied with half way or half done work. Of
aU who have come here in these many years few, if any
of us, could name a more desirable or public spirited
citizen."

Of his service in Congress, Hon. James R. Mauer says:
'T knew him well, and he frequently consulted with me.
He made an exceedingly good member of Congress, and
had the respect and confidence of the House of Represen-
tatives in a marked degree, and his Illinois associates were
always very fond of him."

Captain Thistlewood united with the Methodist Church

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in 1 87 1, and was a fine type of a successful business man,

an earnest patriot and Christian gentleman.

Edward D. Rkdington,
Charles C. Patur,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

RUFUS KING TABOR.

Captain Tenth Vermont Infantry. Died at Pomona, California,
October 13, 1915.

RUFUS KING TABOR was born in East Montpelier,
Vermont, on the seventh day of May, 1839, where he
hved with his parents on a farm and attended the district
school until he was seventeen years of age, when he was
sent to Morrisville Academy for a term. The following
year he accepted a position as clerk in his Uncle's (A. T.
Foster's) store, at Derby Line, Vermont, where he re-
mained until the breaking out of the war.

Capt. Tabor entered the service August 10, 1862, as
Second Lieutenant Co. K, loth Vermont Vol. Infy. ; pro-
moted to First Lieutenant Co, A., June 22, 1864, and Cap-

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tain Co. C, April 6, 1865. Honorably mustered out, June
22, 1865. Capt. Tabor was with the Regiment during its
whole time of service. From muster in till July, 1863, it was
doing duty in the Department of Washington. On the 8th
of July, 1863, the Regiment was assigned to the third divi-
sion of the third Army Corps. In March, 1864, this Corps
was broken, and Morris brigade, of which the loth Vt.
was a part, became the first brigade of the Third Division
of the 6th Corps, and remained with this Corps till the end
of the war. Although not connected with the famous
V^ermont brigade, the officers and men were of the same
sturdy stock, and the reputation of the regiment was equal
to the regiments composing that brigade.

Capt. Tabor was engaged in all of the campaigns of the
Army of the Potomac, from the Wilderness to Appomattox,
and also from July to October, 1864, with Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley.

After being mustered out of service, he returned to his
old Vermont home for a visit, shortly afterwards going to
Snatchwine (now Putnam), 111., where he went into the
cracker and confectionerj business with two cousins, Mr.
Miller and Austin Johnson. He sold out his share and in
the Autumn of 1869, went to Topeka, Kansas, in the land
business with a Mr. Langle, and the following summer was
appointed appraiser for the Santa Fe Railroad lands.

On June 15, 1871, he was married in Lawrence, Kansas,
to Lucy E. Gleaspn, and they went West to Peabody, Kan-
sas, on the first through Santa Fe passenger train. He was
Agent there for the Santa Fe lands until the summer of
1874, when the disastrous visit of the seventeen year locusts
caused him to sell all his possessions and move to Lawrence,
Kansas, where he was appointed Station Agent of the Atchi-
son Topeka & Santa Fe and Leavenworth, Lawrence and
Galveston Railroads, which position he held until the Spring
of 1 89 1, when he resigned and went to Alabama. In the

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Spring of 1892, he moved to Chicago, where he engaged
in the manufacture of bicycle parts and hardware spe-
cialties, the firm being knowai as The George L. Thompson
Manufacturing Company. He remained in this business un-
til 1899, when they sold out to the American Bicyc'e
Company.

After two years in the real estate business in Englewood,
Illinois, he was appointed Director of Excursions on the
Rock Island Railroad, which position he held until 1909,
when he resigned on account of ill health. He lived in Los
Angeles, California, until about a year and a half ago, when
he went to Pomona to reside with his only daughter, at
whose home he died October 13, 1915.

He is survived by his widow and two children — Roy B.
Tabor, of Chicago, and Mrs. Raymond C. Hill, of Pomona,
California.

Roy B. Tabor,
Edward D. Redington,
Tared W. Young,

Committee.

HEXRY CLAY RUSSELL.

A. A. Paymaster, United States Army. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
October 30, 1915.

WE are again called upon to note and mourn the loss by
death of an honored Companion of this Commandery.
Our losses by death of beloved Companions have become so
great in the last two years that we are reminded of the words
of John Bright, the great English Commoner, and the stal-
wart friend of the United States in the darkest times of its
history : "The angel of death is abroad throughout the land.
You may almost hear the beating of his wings."

Henry Clay Russell was born in New York City in 1845,
and died at his home in Morgan Park, October 30, 19 15,
after an illness of less than an hour.

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When a little less than seventeen years of age, answer-
ing the call of his imperilled country, he enlisted in the
United States Navy on the 9th day of November, 1861, and
wsLS assigned for duty to the Anacosta of the Potomac Flo-
tilla, and soon thereafter v^as appointed assistant paymaster
with the rank of Lieutenant. After a period of service on
that vessel, he was assigned to the Morse, August 21, 1862,
and to the Ethan Allen of the North Atlantic Squadron
under Admiral Dahlgren, March 9, 1865. November 31,
1865, he was honorably discharged from the Navy and re-
turned to his home in New York City. In the year 1879
he came to Chicago. In 1881 he married Elizabeth Ann
Baker, the bereaved widow, who now survives him. In 1889
he took up his residence in Morgan Park and resided there
until his death. For many years he was Western Manager
of a large publishing house.

In civic affairs he never neglected the full measure of
duty. He served his country with no less ardor as a citizen
than as a soldier. He commanded the respect of his neigh-
bors and of his fellow citizens. He was elected six times
president of the Village of Morgan Park, and did as much,
perhaps more, than any other one in improving and beau-
tifying that village.

One of the local papers of Morgan Park referring to his
death, paid the following tribute : ''When the spirit fled from
the mortal remains of Mr. Henry Clay Russell in the morn-
ing of Saturday last week, Morgan Park lost not only one
of its grand old men, one of its consistently aggressive and
public-spirited citizens, but perhaps the most dominant figure
of its history as well."

The funeral services of our Companion were conducted
by the Wilcox Post G. A. R., at the Russell residence, and
were followed by the services at the Church of the Mediator,
of which our Companion was and had been for many years
a member. Our Companion left surviving him his wife.

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Elizabeth Ann Russell, his son, Henry Clay Russell, Jr., his
daughter, Mrs. J. Theron Smith, of Austin, Texas, and his
sister. Miss Mary D, Russell, to whom this Commandery ex-
tends its most heartfelt sympathy.

Thomas E. Milchrist,
Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

HARTWELL OSBORN.

Captain Fifty-fifth Ohio Infantry. Died at Evanston, Illinois, No-
vember 13, 19 1 5.

THE loss of Companion Osborn is one the sense of
^ which increases, rather than diminishes with the pas-
sage of time. Captain Osborn, during his connection with
the IlHnois Commandery of the MiHtary Order of the
Loyal Legion was a serviceable, cheery, and loyal compan-
ion. His interest in books and in literature in general, which
was revealed in papers written for the Chicago Literary
Club, was supplemented by a special acquaintance with and
fondness for literature relating to the civil war. He served
for several years on the Library Committee of the Illinois

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Coniinandery and at the time of his death was chairman of
the committee.

Captain Oshorn was born at Xorwalk, Ohio, on August
17, 1840, and was therefore a little past the age of twenty-
one when he entered the service as Second Lieutenant of
Company I, Fifty-fifth Ohio X'ohmteer Infantry, Dec. 7,
1 861. He was commissioned First Lieutenant Feb. 12, 1863,
and assigned to Company LI; Captain, Aug. 4, 1863, as-
signed to Company B; re-enHsted in Veteran Organization
March i, 1864; commissioned Major, June 6, 1865, but
not mustered, the command being below the minimum in
numbers; discharged at close of the war, July 11, 1865.

His military service was with Gen. R. S. Schenk's Brig-
ade; Spring campaign in West Virginia, 1862; with Gen.
Fremont in the ^Mountain Department, May and June, 1862;
with Gen. Pope's Army of Virginia, July and August, 1862;
in second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 29 and 30, 1862 ; with
nth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, .at Chancellors-
ville, May 2, 1863; wounded and captured; with nth Corps
in Lookout Valley or Wauhatchie, Oct. 2y, 1863; Mission-
ary Ridge, Nov. 23-25, 1863 ; Red Clay Station, Ga., Nov. 27,
1863; marched to relief of Knoxville and return, Dec. 17,
1863 ; with 20th Corps, Army of the Cumberland, in Sher-
man's Georgia campaigns. May 2 to Sept. 2, 1864; Buzzard
Roost Gap, May 8, 1864; Resaca, May 15; Cassville, May
22 ; Burnt Hickory, Pumpkin Vine Creek, June 4 ; Kenesaw
Mountain, June 9-30; Chattahoochie River, July 6-10;
Peach Tree Creek, July 20; siege of Atlanta, July 28 to Sept.
2; Sherman's March to the Sea, Nov. 15 to Dec. 21; oc-
cupation of Savannah, Dec. 22, 1864; Sherman's Carolina
march, Jan. 29 to March 24, 1865 ; Averysboro, March 16 ;
Bentonville, ]\Iarch 19; Raleigh, Johnston's surrender, April
26, 1865 : and finally participating in the Grand Review at
Washington, May 24, 1865.

In civil life Companion Osborn long filled with dis-

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tinction a high position in the service of the Queen and
Crescent Railway. He took an active interest in the pubHc
schools of Evanston and in other affairs of public welfare.
Captain Osborn was elected an Original Companion of
the First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States on Nov. 7, 1883, through the Com-
mandery of the State of Ohio, and was transferred to the
Commandery of the State of Illinois in 1892. Until the
end he was in spirits and in activity one of the youngest
members of the Commandery. Faithful in attendance at
meetings, loyal to the trust reposed in him in the different
offices he filled in the Commandery, always helpful, with a
rich store of knowledge to which he was always adding,
he was one of the members who could be least spared.

George C. Howland,
Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

ALEXANDER SHOLL.

Captain One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry. Died at
Qiiincy, Illinois, December 22, 1913.

A LEXANDER SHOLL, late Captain ii8th Illinois Vol-
-^ ^ iinteer Infantry, was born in Winchester, Ohio, Au-
gust 10, 1842, and died in Quincy, 111., December 22, 191 5.
His paternal grandfather figured prominently in revolution-
ary times and the Captain inherited from him his unswerv-
ing loyalty and patriotism.

Companion Sholl enlisted at Carthage, 111., August 15,

1862, as a private in Co. B, ii8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
(of which our Companion Maj. R. W. McClaughry was
the first Captain), and was promoted to 2nd Lieut, of same
Company, November 8, 1862, to ist Lieut. February 2y,

1863, to Captain March 28, 1863. Resigned November 14,
1863.

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284 MEMORIALS.

The regiment was assigned to the ist brigade, 3rd divi-
sion, 13th Army Corps, which was a part of the Army of
the Tennessee.

The regiment was first engaged in the attack on Chick-
asaw Bluffs, December 26, 1862, and thereafter up to July
25, 1863, was connected with the Army of the Tennessee,
during the siege of Vicksburg and battles incident thereto.
Soon thereafter the regiment was assigned to the Depart-
ment of the Gulf, and left August 8th, for Port Hudson,
La. From this time, till his resignation, Capt. Sholl's serv-
ice was in the latter state.

On his muster out, he returned to Carthage, Illinois, and
thereafter until his death, held many positions of trust, and
was held in high esteem by his fellow citizens. In 1877, ha
was appointed Chief Clerk of the Southern Illinois peniten-
tiary at Menard, 111., which he held until 1885, when he
resigned to go into business at Minneapolis, Minn. In 1889,
he returned to Carthage, and in 1893, removed to Quincy,
engaging in the furniture business. He established the
Cottrell-Sholl Furniture Company, and served as its Vice
President and Treasurer for several years, the store being
one of the leading mercantile concerns of the city.

Later he became a member of the State Board of Equal-
ization, as Secretary, being an adept at figures. In the mu-
tations of politics, he lost his position, and returned to
private life, save that for a short time he was a member
of the Adams County Board of Review. It was about this
time that his health became impaired and he was more or
less of an invalid. A former officer in the Civil War, who
knew him during his residence in Quincy, writes '*that he
was a bright and interesting man, and stood well in the
community."

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

BENJAMIN MAIRS WILSON.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Versailles,
France, December 30, 1915.

"OENJAMIN MAIRS WILSON, a member of this
-*--' Commandery since March, 1903, was born November
5, 1848, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and died at Versailles, France,
December 30, 191 5. He came of an old Pennsylvania fam-
ily and his membership in the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion was derived from his father, Lieut. Col. John Wil-
son, who was appointed Asst. Surgeon of the United States
Volunteers, September 11, 1862, and was promoted to Major
and Surgeon, and subsequently to Lieut. Colonel, and Med-
ical Inspector, being assigned to the Army of the Potomac.
Was mustered out with the latter rank, at the close of the

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war. For many years after the war, Col. Wilson was
Consul General in Belgium.

Benjamin M. Wilson, studied in the preparatory de-
partment of Columbia College, and entered Yale Univer-
sity in the class of 1868, where he was specially distinguished
in writing and debate. During his sophomore year, he left
Yale to become Vice Consul at Antwerp. Subsequently he
studied at Heidelberg University, and received the degree
of D. C. L. summa cum laude in 1870. The following year
he returned to the United States and began the practice
of the law in Chicago. In 1879 to 1880, he was a member
of the Illinois Legislature, from the 2nd Chicago district.
He was appointed on important committees and was held
in high esteem by his fellow members and could easily have
obtained political success.

Disgusted with the ethics and methods of that day, he
refused to run for re-election and withdrew from politics.

December 10, 1874, he married Frances Huntington,
sister of Maj. Henry A. Huntington (4th Artillery), and
daughter of Alonzo Huntington, one of the early settlers of
Chicago. Maj. Huntington was also a member of this
Commandery. Companion Wilson had two children, a
daughter, who died early, and a son, Huntington Wilson,
born December 15, 1875. The latter is a member of the
Commandery of District of Columbia, and is also a mem-
ber of the Order of Cincinnati, and of the Colonial wars.
He has held many important positions in the diplomatic
service in Japan, Roumania, Bulgaria and Argentine Re-
public.

From June, 1906, to December, 1908, he was 3rd Asst.
Secretary of State, of the United States, and was appointed
Asst. Secretary, in 1909. He was afterwards appointed
chairman of Board of Examiners for the diplomatic serv-
ice, and September, 1913, was appointed Ambassador Ex-
traordinary on special mission to the Ottoman Empire.

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Mrs. Frances Wilson died in June, 1904, and in 1908,
Companion Wilson married Edith St. George Huntington,
a daughter of !Maj. Henry A. Huntington.

In 1893, he gave up the practice of law, and spent the
last decades of his life in extensive travel in all parts of
Europe, and the Orient. Companion Wilson was a man
of marked intellectual ability, and because of his notable
uncompromising sincerity and honor, joined to a kindly and
cheerful good fellowship, he bound his friends to him with
hooks of steel.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

GEORGE riENRY HEAFFORD.

Adjutant Seventy-second Illinois Infantry. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
January 6, ipi6.

COMPANION GEORGE HENRY HEAFFORD, ist
Lieutenant and Adjutant 72nd Illinois Infantry and
Brevet Major U. S. \^olunteers, severed his earthly career
and entered the life beyond at his home in Chicago, Janu-
ary 6, 191 6. His body was laid to rest in Rose Hill Ceme-
tery on January 8th.

Our Companion was born in Essex, Connecticut, on Oc-
tober 29, 1845. His father, William Henry Heafiford, came
from England and his mother was of the Andrews family,
of Pilgrim origin. His parents early removed to Clinton,
Connecticut, and later, in 1856, to Chicago. Illinois. They

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lived for many years in the vicinity of Jefferson Park on
the west side. He had his primary education in the Httle
school house in Clinton, Connecticut, and the Brown school
on Warren Avenue and attended the old west side High
School, Chicago.

His business career had its beginning at 21 Lake Street
as office boy with a salary of $2.50 per week.

When the war clouds were threatening, preceding the
great war of the rebellion, our Companion, like most other
boys of fifteen, became greatly interested in military mat-
ters.

The conspicuous Zouave uniforms of Ellsworth's Chi-
cago Cadets, and the rapidly cadenced evolutions and exer-
cises of that crack corps excited his interest and admiration.
He frequently visited the evening drills in the Hall at the
southeast corner of State and Randolph Streets, and not
being able to gain admission to this company by reason of
his lack of age, he became a member of Captain J. Mason
Loomis' Company, the Chicago Light Infantry. He tried
to enlist in the Navy but was prevented from doing so.

On July 23, 1862, muster rolls for a regiment of Infantry
were opened in the Chicago Board of Trade rooms. Our
Companion's name was the first to be inscribed upon them.
Before the completion of the organization of the regiment
his father also was enrolled as a soldier in this company,
having decided to serve his adopted country in its hour of
need. The Regiment was known as the Chicago First Board
of Trade Regiment and officially as the 72nd Illinois Volun-
teer Infantry.

On August 23, 1862, when the Regiment had been mus-
tered into the United States service, George H. Heafford
was known and respected as Corporal Heafford. From that
time on until the final muster out and return to civil life,
the history of the Regiment and that of our Companion
was closely blended. Promotion came to the youth because

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of faithful service and capacity to meet exigencies. He
became successively Commissary Sergeant, Sergeant Major
and Adjutant of the Regiment, and finally was honored with
the brevet rank of Major "for meritorious service during
the war."

During all the campaigns, changes of locations, battles,
sieges, hardships and vicissitudes of the Regiment he was
a participant. Though clad with much authority and power
he displayed throughout his career manly equipoise, which
made those under him accept disciplinary requirements with
earnest co-operation. His genial, hopeful optimism and la-
tent spirituality made him always a favorite with rank and
file. His father remained and served in the Regiment for
nearly two years until he was discharged for disability. Dur-
ing all this time he was the inferior in rank and subject to
his son's commands, a most trying situation, but during this
entire period there was never a time when military author-
ity came in conflict with fiHal affection or propriety.

When on August 7, 1865, the Regiment finally dis-
solved. Companion Heafford was instantly transformed
from a man of much authority over others and of great
responsibilities for others to being an infant at law, for he
lacked still more than two months of being twenty-one
years of age.

On September ist, after a very brief interval, he en-
tered upon his life's civil career in the office of the General
Accountant of the Northwestern Railroad at a very low
salary. His capacity for doing things was quickly discov-
ered and substantially acknowledged, by a more than dou-
bled salary. Feeling thus financially encouraged, he was
married on September 13, 1865, to Martha Louisa Bradley,
one of his school day mates, to whom he had become en-
gaged before he entered the service.

He remained in railroad activities for thirty-five years,
serving with the Northwestern Railroad to July, 1872; with

MEMORIALS. 291

Missouri Pacific Railroad as Assistant General Passenger
Agent from 1872-76, as General Passenger Agent of this
road to 1879; General Agent "Bee Line" to 1882; Assist-
ant General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul to 1885 and General Passenger Agent, same road, to
October 15, 1900. During these later years he predicted
that railroads via Alaska would carry passengers to Eur-
ope,— crossing Behring's Strait on a ferry. This statement
was then accepted as an expression of humor. It may prove
to have been a prophecy.

After retirement from railroad service he became as-
sociated with his son-in-law, Mr. William Lyman, in the
Fire Insurance business and remained a member of the firm
of Lyman, Richie & Co. to the date of his demise. From
1905 on he was also successfully interested in the Farm
Lands business.

After the absorbing interests and onerous duties of
Railroad administration had been put aside. Companion
Heafford's heart turned back with new interest, intense sen-
timent, and almost a lover's longing to his comrades of the
earlier days. He actively and financially supported several
regimental reunions of the surviving comrades, during which
the versatility of his nature made manifest through infinite
jest and most sublime pathos, easily made him the central
figure. I i

He made no pretense of being a religious man, and yet
he was an intense believer in the communion of souls and the
life everlasting. He loved his fellowmen with charity for
all and never expressed malice toward anyone.

Companion Heafford was admitted to the Order through
the Commandery of Wisconsin, April 11, 1883, and bore
Insignia No. 2.y'](i. He was elected Senior Vice Commander
of that Commandery and therefore was a member of the
Commandery in Chief. He transferred to the Illinois Com-

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mandery in 1890 when the C. M. & St. P. R. R. moved its
General Offices from Milwaukee to Chicago.

Our Companion was twice married: First, to Martha
Louisa Bradley, September 13, 1865, who died March 8,
1908. Of this marriage there was a son, Frank, who died
in infancy, and a daughter, Louisa H. Lyman, who with her
two sons, William Hereford and George Spencer Lyman,
survive him.

Second, to Bessie B. Boyer, June 18, 1910 (who was
also his business associate in the Farm Lands enterprise),
who survives.

With his survivors, we share the loss of his genial com-
panionship. He has answered the call ''when the golden
bells were ringing."

Charles R. E. Koch,
Anson T. Hemingway,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

CHARLES EDWARD HAY.

First Lieutenant Third Cavalry and Brevet Captain United States
Army. Died at St. Louis, Missouri, January 15, igi6.

A NOTHER Companion has gone, where all of us, soon
-^ ^ or late will have to follow.

Captain Charles Edward Hay died January fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and sixteen. The following is a copy of
his record:

Warsaw Grays. Mustered for a few days only.

Appointed Second Lieut. Third U. S. Cavalry, August
5, 1861.

Promoted to First Lieut. Third U. S. Cavalry, Novem-
ber 5, 1861.

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Appointed Brevet Captain U. S. Army, June 22, 1865.
Resigned October 9, 1865.

History of Service

Served in Department of Missouri, Department of
Kansas.

Department of the South, Department of Arkansas.

Assistant to the Chief Mustering Officer, State of Illi-
nois.

Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of U. S. Elected (Ohio) June 4, 1864. Insignia No. 3307.
Transferred to Commandery of the State of Illinois, Jan.
28, 1898.

Died at St. Louis, Missouri, January 15, 1916.

So much as to Captain Hay's Military History. Now a
few lines as to his antecedents.

He was a great grandson of Job Pierce, who was a hero
in the Colonial Wars and the War of the Revolution, and
in constant battle with different tribes of Indians. Some
wit has recorded, that our Country had to have some war
at hand to give employment to Job Pierce's fighting abilities.
Through this Job Pierce, Captain Charles E. Hay was re-
lated to the late President Franklin Pierce.

Captain Hay was a grandson of the Reverend David A.
Leonard, a graduate of Brown University of Rhode Island,
who was a Baptist preacher in New York, and Leonard
Street, New York, headquarters of the dry goods business,
was named for his brother. Captain Hay's grandfather,
the Rev. David A. Leonard, came to Indiana and bought
several hundred acres of land, 23 miles south of Louisville,
Kentucky, on the Ohio River, and due south of Corydon,
Indiana. This last city was then the capital of all the
Northwest territory, including Chicago.

This was before the days of steam boats, and it was the
idea of this reverend gentleman, that cargoes of steam boats

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would have to break their bulk, and proceed up the Ohio
River by going around the falls by land; but w^hen he was
dreaming and working out this idea, he died, in the year
1819, and he now lies buried in Goshen Cemetery, south of
Corydon, Indiana. He left his widow with nine children,
whom she reared, and they were all well versed in Latin
and Greek, and the only tutor was their mother.

Helen, the daughter of the Rev. David A. Leonard, mar-
ried Dr. Charles Hay, and on March 22, 1841, at Salem,
Indiana, Charles Edward Hay, the subject of this sketch,
was born. After resigning his commission in the Army he
settled in Springfield, Illinois, and became its popular Mayor
for four different terms, and held other important offices.
He had a strong personality, and was a hard worker, and
walked as a man among men. The brilliant historian, Mr.
William R. Thayer of Cambridge, Mass., in the Life of his
brother, the late John Hay, late Secretary of State, writes
of the constant and daily work of Captain Charles E. Hay
at Springfield, Illinois, officially and in business capacities.

Captain Charles Edward Hay was married to Miss Mary
Ridgely of Springfield, Illinois, May 10, 1865. To their
union, five children were born, three are dead. He is sur-
vived by his widow, Mary Ridgely Hay of Springfield, Illi-
nois, Arthur Hay of San Diego, Cal., William Hay of War-
saw, 111., and six grandchildren, being the children of his
late daughter, Annie Hay Lloyd.

This committee requests that this memorial be engrossed,
spread upon the records, and a copy thereof sent to the
bereaved family.

Nelson Thomasson, Chairman,
Edward D. Redington,
Benjamin R. Hieronymus,

CommJiUee.

LORENZO BEVANS MOREY.

Captain Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry. Died at Aledo, Illinois,
February 20, 19 16.

(COMPANION LORENZO BEVANS MOREY was
-^ born at Marietta, Illinois, April 5, 1838, and died at
Aledo, Illinois, February 20, 1916.

He entered the service as First Sergeant Co. A., 37th
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, September 18, 1861,
was promoted to 2nd Lieut. January 12, 1862; to ist Lieut.
August 8, 1862, and to Captain, February 17, 1864, and
mustered out on the 3rd day of June, 1865, by reason of the
close of the war. The regiment had a varied history and
was always at the front, being in the 2nd division of the
13th Army Corps, and was connected with the Army of
the Gulf, the Army of the Frontier, and of the Trans-
Mississippi.

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Companion Morey was in all the battles of his regiment
in the Department of the Gulf. After the siege of Vicks-
burg, he was detailed as Assistant Inspector General on the
staff of Major Genl. F. J. Herron, and continued with him
till the close of the war. He was in the ill fated expedition
of Gen. Banks up the Red River, and was at Baton Rouge
when the news of the surrender of Gen. Lee was received.

The service of nearly four years as a soldier of the
Union had not developed a militaristic spirit in our Com-
panion, and on his muster out, he returned to his parents'
home in Preemption, 111., and at once became a clerk in a
general store for a short time. October lo, 1865, he was
married to Abbie G. Wright, the daughter of one of his
employers. Until 1875, he followed the occupation of a
farmer, when he moved to /\ledo, this state, where he made
his home till his death. In 1902 his wife died, and in 1903
he married Mrs. Agnes Forner of Paola, Kansas.

During his forty-one years of residence in Aledo, he
was identified with all the movements for the progress of
the community, and held many offices of trust. He was
mayor of the city for two terms, and for many years was
a member of the County Agricultural Board. He was an
important factor in the establishment and location of Wil-
liam and Vashti College, and was greatly interested in its
success. He held high rank in the Masonic Order.

Patriotism meant more to him than mere love of coun-
try. It meant such love as leads men to serve, to suffer
and to sacrifice for country, whether as soldiers, or citizens,
and by that test, our Companion was in the full meaning of
the term a patriot, whether on the battle front, or in the
ordinary pursuits of peace.

Edward D. Redington,
William A. Lorimer,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

The Co?n?na?idery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

WILLIAM SOOY SMITH.

Brigadier General, United States Volunteers. Died at Medford,
Oregon, March 4, 1916.

GEN. WM. SOOY SMITH was born at Tarlton, Ohio,
July 22, 1830, and died at Medford, Ore., March 4,
1916, in his 87th year. Funeral was at Riverside, 111., March
II, 1916.

Was a cadet at U. S. Military Academy, West Point,
from July i, 1849, to July i, 1853, when he was graduated
and promoted to 2d Lieut, in 2nd U. S. Artillery. He re-
signed June 19, 1854.

At the breaking out of the Rebellion he entered the
volunteer service in May, 1861, at Camp Denison, Ohio,
and was commissioned and made Assistant Adjt. Gen. on the
staff of Gen. Schench. Was commissioned Colonel of the
13th Ohio Vol. Inf., June 26, 1861 ; commissioned Brig.-
Gen., April 15, 1862. Resigned July 15, 1864.

He served in the Tennessee and Mississippi campaign,
February to June, 1862. In the movement on Bowling
Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn. ; in charge of repairs to
railroads centering at Nashville, March and April, 1862;
Colonel commanding brigade at Shiloh, April 7, 1862; at
siege of Corinth and in opening railway from Corinth, Miss.,
to Decatur, Ala. ; Brig.-Gen. commanding 2d Div., Army of
the Ohio, July, 1862; also commanded the 4th Div., Army

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of the Ohio, in battle of Perryville, Ky., and pursuit of
Bragg's forces nearly to Cumberland Gap; in command of
the 1st Div., i6th Army Corps, in the Vicksburg campaign
in rear of Vicksburg in operations against the rebel General
Jos. E. Johnston's forces ; was chief of cavalry, Depart-
ment of the Tennessee, July to October, 1863 ; in command
of the raid with 7,000 cavalry from Memphis, Tenn., to
West Point, Miss., March 10-25, 1864, in an attempt to
meet Gen. Sherman's forces at Meridian, Miss., but was
attacked by rebel Gen. Forrest's cavalry and failed to get
through. The battles on this raid were at Tallahatchie
River, West Point and Tupello, ]\Iiss.

For many years Companion Smith was a resident of Chi-
cago, and engaged in the civil engineering and contracting
business. He was one of the originators of the caisson
foundation used so extensively in Chicago's high buildings;
was engineer in charge of foundations of the Chicago Fed-
eral Building. He was elected a Companion of the Illinois
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
Nov. 13, 1890, and was its Commander in 1897; was a mem-
ber of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. The
members of the Loyal Legion extend to his surviving rela-
tives their sincere sympathies.

William L. Cadle,
George Mason,
Thomas E. Milciirist,

Committee.

WILLIAM HENRY WILLIAMS.

First Lieutenant Sixtieth United States Colored Troops. Died at
Ontario, California, March g, igi6,

COMPANION WILLIAMS was born near Rockford,
Winnebago County, Illinois, May 12, 1842, and died at
Ontario, California, March 9, 191 6.

The father of our Companion died when the latter was
very young, and the family became scattered. It was al-
ways a source of great satisfaction to him that as a boy
of fourteen he had the privilege of hearing Lincoln and
Douglas, in their famous debate. He was a doorkeeper at
the convention that nominated Lincoln for the Presidency
at Chicago, in i860, and cast his maiden vote for him at the
election in 1864.

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Companion Williams enlisted at the outbreak of the
war, as a private in Company E, 5th Iowa Infantry, at In-
dependence, Iowa, and was discharged October 10, 1863,
by reason of promotion to Second Lieutenant of Company
A, First Iowa Volunteers of African descent, which regi-
ment was afterwards designated as the 60th Regiment of
U. S. Colored Troops.

Our Companion saw very active service as an enlisted
man in Missouri, and in all the campaigns from Shiloh and
Pittsburg Landing, and in occupation of Corinth, Miss. Also
in the. battle of luka, in September, 1862, as well as in the
operations of the Army around Vicksburg, which culminated
in its surrender.

As a commissioned officer in the 60th U. S. Colored
Troops, Companion Williams served mainly in Arkansas,
and for about six months was in Command of Battery A,
in the fortifications of Helena, Arkansas. Later, in active
field service, but in no important engagements.

After the surrender, he was Acting Provost Marshal,
in sub-district in Central Arkansas, until muster out, as
First Lieutenant, October 15, 1865. In September, 1865,
he was commissioned as Captain, but was never mustered
as such.

In 1866, he engaged in the real estate business in Chi-
cago, but lost heavily at the time of the great fire of 1871.
He continued for some years in business afterwards. For
twenty-five years before his death he had been a great suf-
ferer from malaria and was treated at different sanitariums.
In 1903, he removed by advice of his physicians to Ontario,
where he continued to reside until his death. As he always
considered Chicago his home, he was, following his request,
laid to rest in Oakwoods Cemetery.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

ROY BARTLING TABOR.

Succession Companion of the First Class. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
March 14, 1916.

R

OY BARTLING TABOR was born at Lawrence, Kan-
sas, July 28, 1877, and died in Chicago, March 14,
1916.

His parents were Captain Rufus K. Tabor and Lucy E.
(Gleason) Tabor. His father was an honored member of
this Commandery, and served with distinction in the loth
Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry, in the Army of
the Potomac, and received his final summons only a few
months before his son's death.

Mr. Tabor received his education in the grammar schools
of Lawrence, the Englewood High School, and the Univer-

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sity of Chicago, where he received prizes in oratorical con-
tests.

The spring before he would have graduated, he went
to Paris as an assistant to F. J. V. Skiff, the Director of the
Field Museum, who had charge of the United States Ex-
hibit at the Paris Exposition. He was absent about two
years, returning in 1901. Soon after his return, he formed
a partnership in the Real Estate business with Robert White,
the firm name being White & Tabor. This partnership
continued until his death.

In addition to his membership in this Commandery, he
was a member of many Chicago Clubs, and was a Director
of the Home for Destitute Crippled Children.

In the fourteen years of his business life, he had gained
by his ready grasp of real estate conditions and problems,
a high rank among his business associates for his great abil-
ity, and high character for integrity and fair dealing.

He was successively Secretary in 1908, and President in
191 1, of the Chicago Real Estate Board. He was the
youngest President ever elected to that office. No finer
tribute can be paid to our Companion than is contained in
the report of the Committee of Resolutions of the Real
Estate Board, at a meeting held March 15, 191 6, of which
the following is a copy:

''Whereas, Death has taken, on March 14, 19 16, Roy
Bartling Tabor, who became a member of this Board in
1905, who served as its Secretary in 1908, as one of its
Directors in 1910, and as its President in 191 1, and

'Whereas, He gave freely of his time and energy for
the upbuilding of this Board, in loyal and painstaking serv-
ice on its committees and in many of its enterprises, and

"Whereas, This Board by his death loses one of its
most able and brilliant members, one whose character, ac-
complishment and integrity have honored the Real Estate

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profession in this community, and have been a credit to
this Board,

'Whereas, His companionship and unfaiHng geniahty
always have been highly prized by the members of this
Board and the unvarying cheerfulness and the courage
with which he has met continuous illness and discourage-
ment have evoked our deep sympathy and admiration,

"Now, therefore, be it resolved by the members of this
Board assembled that we record our appreciation of the
loyal and valuable service of Roy Bartling Tabor to this
Board and to the real estate profession, our feeling of great
personal loss in his death and our desire to keep his mem-
ory by spreading this resolution upon the records of this
Board.

"Wm. Scott Bond^ Chairman,
"Frederick S. Oliver^
"Edward M. Willgughby.'"
Mr. Tabor never married and is survived by a mother
and sister.

Edward D. Redingtgn,
Jared W. Ygung,

Committee.

GEORGE ROBERT RICHARDSON.

Captain Second Illinois Light Artillery,
Died at Kalamazoo, Michigan,

United States Volunteers.
April 12, 1916.

CAPTAIN GEORGE ROBERT RICHARDSON was
born at Oswego, N. Y., October 7, 1845, and died at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 16, 1916.

He came to Chicago, in i860, and enlisted September i,
1862, as a private in '*F" Company, 2nd Regiment Illinois
Light Artillery. Was promoted Senior Second Lieutenant
December 31, 1863; Junior First Lieutenant May 28, 1864,
and Captain Alay 15, 1865. Mustered out July 2y, 1865, by
reason of the close of the war.

He was with his Battery throughout the Vicksburg cam-
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paign. After that campaign, was detailed on recruiting
service at Springfield, 111. He participated in all the en-
gagements of the Atlanta campaign, serving on the staff
of General O. O. Howard, as Assistant Inspector of Artil-
lery for Department of Tennessee.

After the battle of Nashville, Tenn., under General
Thomas, he was detailed as Provost Marshal of Fifth Dis-
trict, Middle Tennessee, with headquarters at Clarksville.
The fact that our Companion enlisted as a recruit in an
organization that had been in the field a year and was rapid-
ly promoted till he became Captain of the Battery, is the
highest tribute that could be paid to his soldierly qualities.

After being mustered out, at the close of the war. Cap-
tain Richardson, returned to Chicago, and entered the em-
ploy of Liebenstein and Rankin, as a traveling salesman, in
the crockery business. Although he had had no experience
in that line of business previously, he at once made good,
and soon after entered the service of Burley and Tyrrell,
and continued uninterruptedly with them for 45 years, a
record probably not equaled or excelled by any traveling
salesman in the city of Chicago, and which is the best evi-
dence necessary as to his character as a business man, as his
employers were at one time the leading crockery firm in the
city of Chicago.

Captain Richardson had a very unique experience as a
salesman, as when he commenced traveling, the state of
Iowa was a new country, railroads had not been opened up,
and his traveling had to be done with a horse and buggy.
Among his customers, were the Indian tribes, many of whom
had not moved farther west.

He was married ten years ago to Betsy A. Monroe,
daughter of the late Hon. James Monroe, of Kalamazoo,
Mich., and retired six years ago from active business, and
during the six years previous to his death, had lived quietly

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at his country home near Kalamazoo. His widow survives
him.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

ROWLAND NATHANIEL EVANS.

Major Tzventieth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers,
at Bloomington, Illinois, April 16, igi6.

Died

T^ OWLAND NATHANIEL EVANS, was born at
-'-^ Ebansburg, Pa., June 16, 1834, and died at Blooming-
ton, Illinois, April 16, 1916. He served an apprenticeship
as a carpenter in his native town, coming to Ohio in 1855,
and a year later located at Bloomington, Illinois, where he
followed his trade until the outbreak of the War of the
Rebellion. He entered the service June 13, 1861, as Ser-
geant of Company C, 20th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer
Infantry; promoted to First Lieutenant Company I, same
regiment, March i, 1862; Captain, February 23, 1865, and
Major of the regiment May 19, 1865.

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Was mustered out of service at Louisville, Ky., July i6,
1865, by reason of the close of the War.

The regiment was a part of the Army of the Tennessee,
and Companion Evans was engaged in the battles of Fort
Henry„ Fort Donelson, Shiloh (where he was badly
wounded), the battles preceding the siege of Vicksburg,
and in the siege itself. Was in the Atlanta compaign
and marched with Sherman to the sea, and through the
Carolinas to Washington, where he participated in the
Grand Review.

Returning to Bloomington, after muster out, and realizing
the necessity of a better education for business, than he
possessed, he took a complete course at Eastman's Business
College, in Chicago. After finishing this course, he accepted
a position as bookkeeper in a contracting firm in Blooming-
ton, where he remained till 1886. In that year, he was
elected City Clerk, and was elected continuously for thir-
teen years, when he was appointed Assistant Postmaster,
and served as such for eight years.

Close and strenuous application to business and the con-
fining nature of his work, undermined his health, and neces-
sitated his retirement from all work in 1910.

Major Evans was married May 10, 1870, to Mary L.
Parke, daughter of Samuel S. Parke, of Bloomington, who
with one daughter, Ida L., survives him.

His home life was ideal, and he was a devoted husband
and father. As a citizen he was highly respected as a man
faithful to every trust, while one of the officers of his regi-
ment writes "that he was a magnificent soldier and gentle-
man."

Edward D. Redington,
Vespasian Warner,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

ALBERT JUDSON JACKSON.

Second Lieutenant Second Illinois Cavalry. Died at Morrison, Illi-
nois, April 30, 1916.

SECOND LIEUT. A. J. JACKSON died at his home in
Morrison, 111., Sunday morning, April 30, 1916, at 11 145,
aged nearly 79 years. For the past two years he had grad-
ually declined in health, until the end came.

Albert Judson Jackson was born in Knox County, Ohio,
May 12, 1837, and came with his parents to what is now
Morrison, Illinois, in 1854. He was reared upon his fa-
ther's farm to the age of twenty years. He acquired his edu-
cation in the country schools and afterwards engaged in
teaching school for about five months. On attaining his
majority he commenced the reading of law in Morrison

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and continued his reading for three years. He was then
admitted to the bar in the spring of 1861 and began the
practice of law in Morrison.

In July, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War,
joining Company A of the Second Illinois Cavalry, with
which he continued for eight months. He was elected by
his company to the rank of Second Lieutenant and resigned
March 19, 1862, having been injured by his horse, the re-
sult of which unfitted him for further service. He partici-
pated in the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson.

In 1863 he again entered upon the practice of law, and
also during the same year engaged in the banking business,
with others, estabhshing a private bank and continuing in
that business until January 28, 1865, when he was the mov-
ing spirit in the organization of the First National Bank of
Morrison. Mr. Jackson became its first cashier, remaining
in that position until February i, 191 5, a continuous service
of fifty years. At the time he retired he was the dean of
National bank cashiers in the United States.

Mr. Jackson had filled the following positions : He was
Deputy County Treasurer of Whiteside County, 111., from
1858 to 1861 inclusive; Mayor of Morrison during 1896-7;
and was for a number of years a member of the Board of
Education. Fraternally he had been a member of the lUi-
nois Commandery of the Loyal Legion for over twenty
years, a member of Alpheus Clark Post 118, G. A. R., hav-
ing served as its Commander, and was a Mason of high
standing.

On the 15th of December, 1863, Mr. Jackson was mar-
ried to Miss Jennie Quackenbush, who died October 8, 1906.
To this union were born two sons and a daughter, Carl,
Pierre and Kitty, the latter two being now the only sur-
vivors.

Companion Jackson was a man of pronounced individu-
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tate to express his opinions when called upon to do so. He
was of great service to the community in which he resided,
always favoring measures for the public good. During the
long years of service in the prominent position he occupied
no one was more influential. In his death the State has lost
one of its foremost citizens.

Charles Bent,
Edv^ard D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

ALVIN FELCH BUCKNAM.

Assistant Surgeon Second Massachusetts Cavalry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Warren, Illinois, May 4, igi6.

OURGEON ALVIN FELCH BUCKNAM, U. S. V.,
^ Warren, 111., was a native of Yarmouth, Maine, born
November 2y, 1837, and was a student of Bowdoin College,
from which he was twice graduated, receiving the degree
of M. A. and that of M. D. in 1863.

Doctor Bucknam enlisted in Co. G, Twenty-fifth Reg.,
Maine Vol. Inf., of which he became First Lieutenant, and
at the expiration of his term of enlistment became Assist-
ant Surgeon of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry.

Remaining in the army until the close of the war, he was

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much of the time under the command of Gen. Sheridan in
the Army of the Potomac and along the Shenandoah Valley.

September, 1862, to July, 1863, in defense of Washing-
ton. In July, 1864, joined Hunter's command at Monocacy,
with Sheridan at Halltown, Apequon, Winchester, Ouray,
Waynesboro, Tom's Brook, Cedar Creek, South Anna,
White Oak Road, Dinwiddie Court House, Five Forks,
Sailor's Creek and Appomattox Court House.

After being mustered out, he spent a year in the New
York hospitals, after which he came west, locating at Nora,
Jo Daviess county, and after spending four years there, re-
moved to Warren, where he remained until his death, which
occurred on May 4, 19 16, and was at that time the oldest
physician in the place.

Doctor Bucknam was a Republican in politics; was a
member of the School Board for many years ; a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was identified with
all movements which were for the best interests of the com-
munity in which he lived and moved. He was a cousin of
the late Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. He was married
June 28, 1 87 1, to Miss Jane, daughter of Judge Ivory
Quinby, of Monmouth, 111., who preceded him to the Beyond
about four years. There are now two surviving children
who were born to them, Mary Lizzie and Annabel.

Doctor Bucknam was a man of simple, upright life, pass-
ing through the world without offense, doing much good
in unostentatious ways, and proving in his life the beauty
and kindness of a genuine friendship.

He was always approachable, candid, and unaffected as
a child, his sunny temperament bringing delightful partici-
pation in the joys of friendly intercourse.

His coming was a benison, and the remaining days were
cheerier for having met him. He was elected a Companion

MEMORIALS. 315

of the Loyal Legion January ii, 191 1. His Insignia was

No. 16423.

Geo. S. Avery^
Jared W. Young,
Walter R. Robbins,

Committee.

ASIEL ZEBULON BLODGETT.

Captain Ninety-sixth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Waukegan, Illinois, June 8, igi6.

A SIEL ZEBULON BLODGETT, was born September
^ ^ lo, 1832, at old Fort Dearborn, Cook County, Illinois.
His father was Israel P. Blodgett, who was one of the early
settlers in DuPage County, having moved to Downers
Grove in 183 1. At the outbreak of the Indian War the
family moved into Fort Dearborn for protection. After
the Indian scare was over the family returned to Downers
Grove where Companion Blodgett lived until 1854, when
he entered the employment of the Chicago & Milwaukee
Railroad Company, afterwards the Chicago & North West-
ern Railway Company. At the breaking out of the war he

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was station agent and telegraph operator for the North
Western at Waukegan, llHnois. In July, 1862, Companion
Blodgett received a recruiting Commission from Governor
Yates and in a few days had more than a Company enlisted.
The Company became Company B of the 96th Illinois In-
fantry, U. S. V. He was elected Captain of this Company
and served as such until August, 1864, when he resigned on
account of ill health, a wound and injuries received at the
battle of Chickamauga being the cause. Captain Blodgett,
on retiring from the service, returned to Waukegan and
resumed his position with the North Western road. He re-
mamed with the road until 1900, when he retired and passed
the rest of his days in Waukegan honored and beloved by
all who knew him.

He served the city for two terms as Mayor, and was al-
ways active in Civic matters. For several years, commenc-
ing about 1875, he was also engaged in importing high grade
Clydesdale horses. He was married to Mary E. Porter
and leaves five sons, Henry P. Blodgett, Cyrus W. Blod-
gett, John H. Blodgett, Frank B. Blodgett and Louis D.
Blodgett. Mrs. Blodgett died March 22, 1900. Captain
Blodgett was a brother of Hon. Henry W. Blodgett, a close
friend of Abraham Lincoln, and for many years Judge of
the U. S. Court at Chicago; one of the ablest and most
learned who ever sat upon that Bench. Two brothers,
Colonel Wells H. Blodgett, of St. Louis, Mo., General Coun-
sel of the Wabash Railroad, and distinguished as a lawyer,
and Major Edward A. Blodgett, of Chicago, were long
time members of the Order. Captain Blodgett died at Wau-
kegan, Illinois, June 8, 1916, at the age of eighty-three years.

Elam L. Clarke,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

JOSEPH THAYER OILMAN.

JOSEPH THAYER GILMAN was born May 31, 1864,
the second son of Original Companion Osmon Baker
Oilman, Acting Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N. He died at
Chicago, Illinois, June 11, 1916.

Mr. Oilman served for a number of years as Deputy
Consul Oeneral for the United States at Calcutta, British
India for Van Leer Polk. He was for many years con-
nected with the Ooodwin Car Company of Chicago and held
the office of Vice-President of the company. His home was
at 5440 Cornell Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

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Photograph of this Companion.

JOHN HOPKINS CARTLIDGE.

Born at Hannibal, Missouri, April 2g, 1869. Died at Hinsdale,
Illinois, June 14, 19 16.

SON of Companion Charles W. A. Cartlidge, Missouri
Volunteer Infantry, deceased.

Elected an Hereditary Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, May i,
1913. Insignia 16958.

Companion Cartlidge had no military or naval record, no
civil office or collegiate degree, but his occupation was that
of a bridge engineer on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company, which he held for many years.

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Photograph of this Coinpanioii.

HENRY SAYERS McAULEY.

Born at Chicago, Illinois, November 20, iSyg. Died at Missoula,
Montana, June 27, igi6.

ONLY son of Companion Captain John Town McAuley,
U. S. Volunteers.

Elected a Companion of the Second Class through the
Commandery of the State of Illinois, January 7, 1907. In-
signia No. 15255.

He was educated at Professor Coulter's school in Chi-
cago, 111., and subsequently entered Yale University and
graduated therefrom in the class of 1901. He also gradu-
ated from the Northwestern Law School and on being ad-
mitted to the bar entered into partnership with Charles A.
Aldrich for a period of five years.

He married Miss Laura Rogers, of Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin, who is left with two surviving sons — Vance and Henry
Sayers.

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MONROE EBI.

First Lieutenant Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Davenport, lozva, June 30, igi6.

MONROE EBI was born near Canton, Ohio, January
16, 1842, and died at Davenport, Iowa, June 30, 1916.
He was left an orphan at the early age of eight. After
a common school education, he attended Mt. Union College
for several years. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he
was clerking in a drug store at Canton, Ohio. On Sept. 25,
1861, he enlisted as a private in Company I, 19th Ohio Vol.
Infty. Served as Corporal Sergeant and Orderly Ser-
geant until Jan., 1864, when the regiment veteranized.

March 11, 1864, he was mustered in as 2nd Lieutenant
of Company A, and April 8, 1865, he was promoted to ist
Lieutenant ; transferred to Company F, and transferred to
Company I, June, 1865. He was honorably discharged June

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7, 1865, by order of General George H. Thomas. He served
in the Army of the Ohio under Generals Mitchell and
Buell. The regiment afterwards belonged to the Army of
the- Cumberland, 3rd brigade, 3rd division, 4th army corps.

Lieutenant Ebi was in the battle of Shiloh and the siege
of Corinth. From Sept., 1862, to March, 1863, he was on
recruiting service in Ohio.

After his return he participated in the battles of Chick-
amauga and Missionary Ridge and in all the skirmishes and
battles of the Atlanta Campaign to Love joy Station, Geor-
gia, where he was severely wounded, Sept. 22, 1864, the
bullet entering the right shoulder, fracturing several ribs,
crossing over the small of his back, sphntexing his backbone
and lodging in his right hip. He never fully recovered
from this wound.

At the close of the war, our companion came west, lo-
cating in Eddyville, Iowa. After a short residence there
and in Cedar Rapids, he removed to Davenport in 1869,
where he resided during the remainder of his life. He or-
ganized the firm of Ebi & Newman, dealers in agricultural
implements, and continued in this business for thirty years,
retiring in 1902.

He was always greatly interested in civic affairs, and
during the last few years of his life, he devoted a large part
of his time to the new County Tuberculosis Hospital being
built at Davenport and was chairman of the Board of Man-
agement at the time of his death.

He is survived by his widow and two children, a daugh-
ter, Mrs. W. E. Snider of Davenport, and a son, Mr. A. R.
Ebi of Moline, III., the latter being a member of this Com-
mandery.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,
Rudolph Williams,

Committee.

LEOPOLD MAYER.

Captain Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, July 8, 1916.

LEOPOLD MAYER was born July 20, 1838, in Bavaria,
'Germany, and died in Chicago, 111., July 8, 1916,
He entered the service as First Lieutenant, Co. "C,"
Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, U. S. V., February 3, 1863.
Commissioned captain same company and regiment October
15, 1864; honorably discharged on account of termination
of service March 25, 1865.

Captain Mayer served with the regiment on provost
duty at Washington, D. C, until just before the second
battle of Bull Run, where he participated with his regiment,
later doing scouting and reconnaissance through Virginia

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until Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley; was
wounded at the battle of Winchester, June i6, 1863, and was
captured on his way to the general hospital at Georgetown,
D. C, by Mosby's force and taken to Libby Prison; escaped
and was recaptured and sent to Macon, Georgia, thence to
Charleston, S. C., where he was placed in Roper Hospital
under fire of the guns from Morris Island; was moved to
Columbia when Charleston was evacuated and imprisoned
at Camp Sorghum; escaped to Sherman's army after sev-
enteen months of confinement ; General Sherman turned
him over to General Logan, who sent him to Hazen's Divi-
sion with which organization he remained until the battle
of Newbern, N. C, whence he was sent home in a most
precarious condition, the result of his long confinement.

Sept. 5, 1866, he married Carrie Straus in Philadelphia.
The widow with three sons and one daughter survive him.
His son, Milton Mayer, is a member of this Commandery.
Captain Mayer came to Chicago soon after the fire in Octo-
ber, 1 87 1, and for a short time was a traveling salesman
for Selz, Schwab & Co. He subsequently became connected
with the firm of Goodman & Barber in the manufacture of
clothing and continued in this line of business until his re-
tirement about twenty-five years ago.

At the time of his retirement he was a partner in the
firm of Hirsch, Mayer & Co. At the time of his death he
was a member of the K. A. U. Temple, which passed the
following memorial resolution :

"That such a life is proof positive of true patriotism
whether in one's native land or the land of his adoption."

He was a man full of energy who loved his family and
his fellowmen and deserves to be remembered.

Bernard Pollak,
E. D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

PHILIP CORNELIUS HAYES.

Brevet Brigadier General United States Volunteers.
Illinois, July 13, 1916.

Died at Joliet,

GENERAL PHILIP C. HAYES was born in Granby,
Connecticut, February 3, 1833. His father was a
soldier in the War of 181 2. He brought his family to Illi-
nois in 1833 and settled near Ottawa. General Hayes
worked on a farm as a boy and also taught school. He be-
gan his studies at Oberlin College in 1855, graduating in
i860. He became a student in the Oberlin Theological
Seminary.

On President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers in
1861, he enlisted as a private and was elected captain of his
Company. As the state had furnished more than its quota,

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the Governor of Ohio decHned to accept the Company.
General Hayes returned to his studies until the call was
made July i, 1862, for 300,000 more volunteers. He re-
ceived a commission as Captain, raised a Company which
was mustered into service as Company F of the 103rd Ohio
Volunteer Infantry.

The regiment at once entered active service in Kentucky.
The command went to East Tennessee in August, 1863,
taking active part in many engagements and sharing in the
famous siege of Knoxville.

In the remarkable campaign of the march toward At-
lanta the 103rd had an active part in many skirmishes and
battles. The regiment was so greatly reduced in numbers
that it was detailed as Headquarters Guard of the 23rd
Army Corps, Gen. Schofield Commanding, and Captain
Hayes was appointed Provost Marshal.

This command did not go with General Sherman in
the ''March to the Sea" but remained and shared the vic-
tories at the bloody battles of Franklin and Nashville where
the Army of General Hood was destroyed.

The 23rd Corps was transferred to North Carolina and
took active part in the battles that brought the surrender
of Gen. Joseph E. Johnson and the end of the war.

Captain Hayes was promoted to the rank of Lieut.
Colonel in 1864, to Colonel in 1865 and was breveted Briga-
dier General to date from March 13, 1865.

The message that brought the notice of this promotion
was signed by General Grant and said, "This letter will in-
form you that the President of the United States has ap-
pointed you a Brigadier General by brevet for gallant and
meritorious services in the war."

After the war General Hayes was superintendent of
the Public Schools of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He began his
career as a newspaper editor by the purchase of the Circle-
ville, Ohio, Union.

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He came to Illinois in 1874 and became owner and editor
of the Morris Herald. He came to Joliet in 1892 and
purchased the Joliet Republican. He was elected to Con-
gress in 1876 and 1878. He took active part in public
affairs and was a delegate to the Deep Waterway Conven-
tion at Davenport, Iowa, in 1881.

General Hayes took a very active interest in all affairs
that concerned the soldiers of the Civil War. He was Com-
mander of the Department of Illinois, G. A. R. in 1909. He
was an active member of the Illinois Commandery of the
Loyal Legion. He belonged to the Sons of the American
Revolution and The Society of the War of 1812.

His book entitled "War Verse and other Verses" il-
lustrates his devotion to the men who served in that war.

He was married in Oberlin, Ohio, January 25, 1865,
to Miss Amelia Estelle Johnson. The celebration of the
Golden Wedding by the families of his four children and
members of the Loyal Legion and Grand Army and by
his neighbors and friends was a memorable and beautiful
event.

Duncan C. Milner^
James G. Elwood,
Robert Mann Woods,

Committee.

HORATIO LOOMIS WAIT.

Lieutenant Commander United States Navy.
Illinois, July 15, 1916.

Died at Chicago,

HORATIO LOOMIS WAIT was born in New York
City, August 8, 1836. He died at his residence in
Hyde Park, Chicago, July 15, 1916, in the eightieth year
of his age.

He was elected a member of the Illinois Commandery
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States April 7, 1880, Insignia No. 2005.

He came from an ancestry on both sides of the best
New England families, who were noted for their patriotism,
integrity and character. He was the son of Joseph and

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Harriet Heileman (Whitney) Wait. One of his ancestors,
especially distinguished for his service in the Revolutionary
War, was Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Wait of the Army of
the United States, who was killed in the battle with the
British Army at Clarendon, Vermont, September, 1776,
where he was buried and where a monument has been
erected to his memory. His son was Captain Marmaduke
Wait, U. S. A., who was distinguished for brave and efficient
service in the War of 181 2.

Major Wait was educated in Trinity School, connected
with the old Trinity Church on Broadway, New York, in
the Columbia Grammar School and in Columbia College.

He came to Chicago, then in the extreme West, May i,
1856, influenced thereto by Horatio Gates Loomis, a rela-
tive. Here he became a student in the law office of Hon.
John Young Scammon, a name familiar to all Chicagoans.

W^hen the war cloud of civil war broke and the first
gun of that struggle was fired at Fort Sumter in the effort
to destroy and disrupt the Union of the States, when the
call to arms of the brave and patriotic men of the nation by
Abraham Lincoln, to defend and preserve the national life,
was rhade, young Wait, with the blood of his forebears
coursing warmly in his veins, did not hesitate to answer that
call and enlisted in Company "D" of the 60th Illinois In-
fantry, in which he served until 1862, when, by reason of
his lifelong interest in the United States Navy, he applied
for and obtained a position as Lieutenant Commander in
that service. His commission was handed him by Abraham
Lincoln in person at the White House. This incident he
often spoke of to his friends and with justifiable pride. The
paper was left to his sons as a priceless heritage.

This was the beginning of a service highly creditable
during all the subsequent period of the great War. It
brought him into close and continuous association with many
of the most distinguished commanders and officers of the

330 MEMORIALS.

American Navy of that period; with Farragut, Dahlgren,
Dupont, and with him who is yet connected with our Navy
and highly distinguished for his services not only in that
war, but, subsequent to that period, in Manila Bay, George
Dewey, the present Admiral of our Navy.

Among the many honors which he received for his val-
iant services was a Congressional medal given him by Act
of Congress.

Returning to Chicago at the close of the War, Major
Wait, as his comrades loved to call him by* reason of his
rank as Paymaster in the Navy, again entered his life work
as a lawyer, in which he became known to the bench and bar
of the City of Chicago and of the State of Illinois as a
Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court, where he had a
service of forty years, longer, it is believed, than had ever
been known before. He had heard many cases of the high-
est importance, both as to the amount involved and the
legal principles considered by him. No question as to any
act of his life, whether as a judicial officer or otherwise,
was ever raised. His conclusions as to the facts and the law
of cases were, with a really singular unanimity, almQst uni-
versally affirmed by the trial, Appellate and Supreme Courts.

Major Wait was, during his life and to its close, deeply
concerned in many matters of public interest and affecting
the public welfare. His interest in military and naval af-
fairs was constant and effective. He drew the bill creating
the Illinois Naval Reserve and was one of the principal
factors in the creation of that organization and served as
Lieutenant Commander therein until he was retired by stat-
ute. He was a director of the Chicago Historical Society, a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, a member of George H. Thomas Post, G.
A. R., of the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association,
of the Society of Naval Veterans in Chicago, of the Chicago

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Literary Club, a life member of the Chicago Art Institute,
and a director of the Public Library Board of Chicago.

Mr. Wait was actively identified with the Episcopal
Church in Chicago, first as a member of Bishop Cheney's
parish, where he was the Superintendent of Tyng Mission,
the first exponent of the social settlement idea. Later he
joined St. Paul's Church in Kenwood, of which he was
vestryman, warden and a parishioner for over forty-five
years.

He was Dean of the Chicago Law School up to the
time of his death, where he also lectured and did other very
important and valuable work.

He was married to Miss Chara Conant Long, daugh-
ter of James Long, of Chicago, who was noted for her
loveliness and beauty, for her activities in social affairs and
in many good works. She died several years before the
death of her husband. The children born of this union are
James Joseph Wait and Henry Heileman Wait, both of
Chicago.

To the members of the family surviving, this Military
Order tenders its sincere sympathy and regret.

Richard S. Tuthill^
Edson J. Harkness,
John R. Montgomery,
Committee.

CHARLES RUDOLPH EDWARD KOCH.

Captain Forty-ninth United States Colored Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Newtonville, Massachusetts, July 21, ipi6.

IT was the will of our Lleavenly Father to remove from
our body of patriotic spirits "to that land of perpetual
sunshine" our blessed Companion in Arms, Charles Rudolph
Edward Koch. His long, arduous and useful Hfe work
was finished — finished to perfection, with a beautiful smile
on his face, as he was ushered into Eternal joy, while with
his wife at the home of his daughter in Newtonville, Mass.,
on Friday morning, July 21, 19 16.

It has fallen to the lot of few men to be so richly
endowed in character and attainments as was our late Com-
panion. Whatever he set out to do he did, and did it well.

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Never would he permit himself to be the advocate of any
measure that did not have in it a full sense of right and
justice.

An indefatigable worker, he accomplished much, always
more concerned for the welfare of others rather than for
himself, using the momentum of his noble unselfishness and
ability that others might be benefitted.

The history of the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago,
the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, the State Dental Asso-
ciation, the First Regiment of Infantry lUinois National
Guard, would be incomplete without a large mention of his
activities. In all of these organizations. Companion Koch
was a force to be remembered with pride for all time.

Captain Koch was born in Birnbaum, Polish Russia,
April 24, 1844. In infancy he came to the United States
and the family established a home in Manitowoc, Wis.,
where he received his education. Later in life he came to
Chicago and became a student of Dentistry in the office of
Doctor Kennicott, where he remained until he gave his serv-
ices for the preservation of the Union.

Companion Koch enlisted when i8 years of age in Chi-
cago, Private, Co. G, 72nd Illinois Infantry (first Board of
Trade Regiment of Chicago), August 15, 1862. Appointed
Corporal, September i, 1862. Served in this regiment dur-
ing Grant's campaigns around Vicksburg, including the
northern Mississippi campaign, Yazoo Pass expedition and
the campaign and siege of Vicksburg proper, including the
assaults on May 19th and May 22nd, and the capture of the
city on July 4, 1863, and the capture of Natchez, Miss.

Discharged as Sergeant October i, 1863. Appointed
First Sergeant, 58th U. S. Colored Infantry same date.

Commissioned Captain 49th U. S. Colored Infantry, No-
vember 5, 1863, and assigned to duty on the staff of the
Adjutant General of the United States Army, and assisted

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in the organization of colored troops in the States of Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana. January, 1864, was reHeved from
duty and assigned to his regiment; served with this regi-
ment in the line until June, 1865, when he was made Provost
Marshal of Yazoo City, Miss. In August, 1865, was pro-
moted to Provost Marshal of the Western District of Mis-
sissippi, embracing about one-third of said State, with head-
quarters at Vicksburg.

Was mustered out of the service as Captain March 24,
1866, and at once returned to Chicago.

In July of 1877, during the railroad riots he raised a
Company of Veterans. This Company was sent to the
southwest section of the city, where it held a government
bonded warehouse containing 5,000 barrels of whisky and
the west side gas works. This Company was relieved by
the 4th U. S. Infantry, and relieved the city police force
at the Hinman Street Station, who had become exhausted
from excessive service. They were on duty for ten days.

In August of the same year enlisted as a Private, First
Infantry, I. N. G., became Captain of Company I, in Octo-
ber of that year. In November, 1880, was again com-
missioned Captain, but decHned to accept a new commission
and took charge of the military column of the Inter Ocean,
which he conducted for two years.

In 1886 was commissioned Major of the First Infantry,
and in November of that year served in suppressing the
riots at the Stock Yards, being on duty there ten days. In
1888 he became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment, and
on April 30, 1889, became Colonel of the First Infantry,
resigning his commission on the first of November, 1893.

Raised a regiment for the Spanish War and tendered the
same, complete, with over 1,800 men on the rolls, on the
19th day of April, 1898, two days before the declaration of
war. This regiment did not succeed in getting into the
United States Service, but for more than four months had

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daily drills in the Second Regiment Armory, and thus
formed a reserve military organization for the City and
State while all the National Guard was gone. More than
700 men of his cornmand and trained in it, actually saw
service in the different States and the Regular Army and
Navy.

All of those helpful patriotic societies developed out
of the great War of the Rebellion honored our departed
brother in arms by electing him to these positions : Com-
mander Post Number 7, G. A. R. Assistant Adjutant Gen-
eral, G. A. R., Department of Illinois, Adjutant General,
G. A. R. Commander of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, Commandery of Illinois. President of the Grand
Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois. The
latter position he held at the time he was taken from us.

Companion Koch was very prominent in the establish-
ment of the Illinois Soldiers' Monument at Vicksburg Na-
tional Park. He always considered his efforts in building
the New Armory of the ist Infantry, I. N. G., as a monu-
ment of his life activities.

It was while on duty in the interest of the Volunteer
Officers' retired bill that he passed away.

Companion Koch was married to Sylvia Adams Bigelow,
June 25, 1868.

To the bereaved widow and children, Mrs. Augusta B.
Potts, Mrs. Josephine K. Grain, Mrs. Alice K. Tobin and
Miss Mabelle Koch, we tender our heartfelt sympathy.
Their loss is ours also.

Walter R. Robbins,
Florus D. Meacham,
George V. Lauman,

Commdttee.

AMBROSE SHELDOX DELAWARE.

Second Lieutenant Twenty-first Wisconsin Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 6, 1916.

WAS born October 18, 1841, at West Troy, New York.
In 1846 the Delaware family moved west to Mis-
souri, locating at St. Louis, but after a brief residence there
moved to Peoria, Illinois, and a year after that went back
to their old home West Troy, N. Y. In 1856 young Dela-
ware then fifteen years old emigrated from West Troy to
Portage City, Wisconsin. In 1859 ^^e family moved to
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

In the summer of 1862 in response to the call of the im-
mortal Lincoln the subject of our sketch enlisted for a
period of three years in Company F, 21st Wisconsin Infan-

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try. Upon the organization of his company he was ap-
pointed Sergeant and his war service was with the nrst
brigade, first division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cum-
berland. In the winter of 1864 he was made ist Sergeant
of his company and in the spring of 1864 was commissioned
as Second Lieutenant thereof. He was ordered to Wiscon-
sin on recruiting service and after performing that duty re-
turned to his regiment at Big Shanty, Georgia, there taking
command of his company and retaining it until after the
capture of Atlanta by General Sherman's army.

In 1864 he was detailed to serve as signal officer upon
the staff of General George H. Thomas and later was trans-
ferred to the staff of General Stanley, remaining with him
until the close of the war, when he was mustered out of the
service with his regiment at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1865.

He participated in the following sanguinary engage-
ments at Perryville, Kentucky, October 6, 1862; Stone
River, Tennessee, December 30, 31, 1862, and January i,
1863, and battled for the Union at Kenesaw Mountain. Was
also present and actively engaged in the conflicts at Mari-
etta, Peach Tree Creek, and other minor engagements in
which his regiment served.

On February 26, 1865, he located in Chicago, associating
himself with a prosperous wholesale grocery house and con-
tinued in that line of business for forty-one successful years.
On November 18, 1872, was united in marriage to Miss
Louise A. Rhodes of Chicago, Illinois.

About ten years prior to his decease this noble, loyal
companion while helping to conduct a lucrative business, ex-
perienced the soul-depressing effect of losing his eyesight,
but despite the dread calamity — a calamity that many re-
gard as being worse than death — he, enduring it, displayed
a self-control that was ideal and a stoicism inspiring to be-
hold, while all the time denied heart-cheering visions, a wise
and liberal Creator was presenting others for enjoyment.

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His faithful, loving wife had as sympathetic coadjutors,
sincere and affectionate progeny to aid her in ministering to
the wants of this worthy brother whose absence we, and
they, profoundly mourn. Whenever he was called upon by
a visiting committee or a committeeman, his pleasant face
and gentle tongue expressed genuine gratitude for remem-
brance and considerations shown him.

His sweet and affable nature was observed and com-
mented upon by all fortunate enough to have made his ac-
quaintance.

May a future ideal existence be accorded this absent
companion who doubtless bivouacs upon a remote celestial
camping ground in the unsurveyed beyond. May God, om-
nipresent and omnipotent, be pleased to soothe his desolated
family left without his wise counsel and admonition. May
time reconcile them to their irreparable loss, as well as
mitigate their poignant sorrow, destined to be life-long.

The members of this committee, on behalf of the Illi-
nois Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
tenders those he left bereaved the profoundest and most
sincere sympathy they can express.

Cornelius S. Eldridge,
Robert Mann Woods,

Committee.

ALPHEUS MILES BLAKESLEY.

Captain Seventy-fourth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Kansas City, Missouri, August 9, 19 16.

A LPHEUS MILES BLAKESLEY was born in Kings-

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ville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 28, 1835, and died

at Kansas City, Mo., August 9, 1916. He was left an orphan
at ten years of age, when he was brought to southern Wis-
consin by relatives. Wisconsin was a frontier state in 1845,
and the lad experienced all the hardships and vicissitudes of
a life on the border, until he was of age, but obtained a good
common school education, supplemented by a course at Kim-
ball's Academy in Rockford, 111. After leaving the acad-
emy, he learned the tinners' trade and just before the out-

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break of the War of the RebelHon, became a partner in the
hardware firm of Blakesley and Moffitt at Rockford.

Young Blakesley came of sturdy Revolutionary stock,
and within a week after the surrender of Fort Sumter, en-
listed in the Rockford Guards for three months. This Com-
pany became Company D, nth Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
and the regiment was commanded by Colonel W. H. L. Wal-
lace, afterwards killed at the battle of Shiloh. Because of
ill health, he did not re-enlist for three years, but was mus-
tered out July 26, 1 861.

In August, 1862, having recovered his health, when the
call came from President Lincoln for 300,000 more, he en-
listed as a private in Company E, 74th Illinois Volunteer In-
fantry, August 13, and was mustered in as Second Lieu-
tenant of the Company, September 4; was promoted to First
Lieutenant December 20, 1862, and to Captain December 4,
1863, and was mustered out with the regiment June 10,
1865, by reason of the close of the War.

The 74th Regiment was 1,001 strong, at muster in, and
was mustered out with 343 officers and men. The regiment
was a part of the Army of the Cumberland, serving under
Generals Post, Mitchell, McCook, Sheridan and other well-
known Commanders. The regiment was conspicuous in the
battles of Perryville, Nashville, and Stone River, and the
subsequent campaign to Chattanooga, being on the extreme
right wing of the Army in this campaign.

Captain Blakesley was almost continuously in command
of his Company during its entire term of service and partici-
pated in nearly all of the battles and campaigns.

On July 19, 1865, he married Mary A. Avery, of Bel-
videre, Illinois. To them were born four children, three of
whom survive. Mrs. Blakesley died October 2, 1903, and in
1904, he was married to Flora B. Reticker.

Soon after the close of the War, Captain Blakesley set-
tled in Rock Island, and was interested in the Rock Island

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Stove Coiiip^iny, and in several other enterprises in that city.
He was a fine example of a Christian citizen, being for many
years a trustee and elder in the Broadway Church, and espe-
cially interested in the Y. M. C. A., being chairman of the
Building Committee in the erection of the building at 19th
Street and 3rd Avenue.

In 1902 he sold his interest in the stove company, and or-
ganized the Security Stove Mfg. Company, of Kansas City,
Mo. In 1913 he removed to Homestead, Florida, for his
health, which gradually failed. He came north in March,
191 6, for medical aid, but failed to recover and passed away
August 9 of that year.

Edward D. Redington,
Jared W. Young,
Simeon H. Crane,

Committee.

JOHN HOWARD STIBBS.

Colonel Twelfth Iowa Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General,

United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,

September 5, igi6.

/^^IVIL War Veterans heard with keen regret the news
^^ that their companion and comrade, General Stibbs, had
gone to the farther shore, and his presence would be missed
until we should join him there.

Brevet Brig. General John Howard Stibbs died in Chi-
cago, Sept. 5, 1916. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, March
I, 1840. Here he speni his boyhood, receiving a common
school education. When a young man he moved to Iowa,
beginning his business career as clerk in a grocery store at
Cedar Rapids. Later we find him in business for himself.

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A dealer in grain and produce. This is what he was doing
when the call for troops came in 1861. Responding to that
call, he wasted no time. His name was among the first on
the Muster roll of Co. K, ist Iowa Infantry. His enlist-
ment as private in the three months' service dates from
April 16, 1861. On the 9th of May, following, he was
made ist Sergeant, and as such served until honorably dis-
charged Aug. 20, 1 861.

He had no idea, however, of quitting the service, but
entered at once on the task of recruiting a company for three
years' service. In this he was eminently successful, and
was commissioned Captain of Co. D, 12th Iowa Infty. Vols.,
October 26, 1861. The regiment was ordered to Benton
Barracks, where they remained under instructions until the
close of the year, when they reported to General Grant at
Cairo, 111., who assigned them to Chas. F. Smith's division
(2nd Division, Army of the Tennessee), who sent them to
Smithland, Ky.

The last days of January, 1862, found him with his
regiment at Paducah, Ky., forming part of the 3rd Brigade,
2nd Division, Army of the Tenn. From here commenced
the campaign that captured Forts Henry and Donelson, and
fought the battle of Shiloh, where on the evening of the
first day Capt. Stfbbs was captured and detained as prisoner
of war, until the autumn of 1862, when he was paroled at
Richmond, Va., and finally exchanged in the winter of 1862-
3. He at once rejoined his regiment which early in the
Spring of 1863 was sent to MiUikens Bend, La., and became
part of Tuttle's Division, 15th Army Corps, participating
in the siege and capture of Vicksburg and expedition to
Jackson, Miss. During this time (March, '63), he was com-
missioned Major of his regiment, again promoted August 5,
1863, to be Lieut-Colonel. From this time until February,
1865, he commanded his regiment.

At this time August, 1863, his regiment formed part

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of the 1 6th Army Corps, and was doing Garrison duty at
Chewalla, on the Memphis and Charleston Ry. Here for a
time he commanded the Post.

April 5, 1865, The President of the U. S. issued to him
a commission as Colonel by Brevet; September 18, 1865,
he was mustered into the service as Colonel by special order,
No. 597, War Dept. This order for his muster was an
unusual and complimentary one — his regiment lacking the
requisite number of men that would entitle him to this
rank.

February 11, 1865, he was ordered to Washington, D.
C, while there was made a member of the Military Court
that tried and convicted Henry Wirz, the keeper of Ander-
sonville Prison, April 30, 1866. He was Breveted Brig. Gen-
eral for meritorious services during the War. His war serv-
ice during the three months' service was in Missouri with
Gen. Lyon, participating in the battle of Wilson's Creek. In
the three years' service he was with the Army of the Ten-
nessee, taking part in the battle of Shiloh, siege and capture
of Corinth and Vicksburg, Miss. Battle near Tupelo, Miss.,
and the battle of Nashville, Tenn., with Hood's Army.

His record is without flaw, and an especial pride to his
family, who were devoted to him. He was mustered out and
honorably discharged April 30, 1866, by special order. No.
189, War Dept.

In civil life, after his discharge from the army, he went
to Wooster, Ohio, and was engaged for some years in the
lumber business. Disposing of this he returned to Wash-
ington and accepted a position under the Government as
Inspector of Southern Cotton claims. This position kept
him actively employed for several years. Completing his
work in this department he was appointed Inspector in the
Bureau of Pensions, and sent to Chicago. His resignation
from this department was accepted in 19 15. Soon after
came his illness that culminated in his death. He had been

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ill for a year or more but rallied at times and was able to
meet his old comrades at their re-unions until a short time
before his death.

Companion Stibbs^was especially devoted to his Army
friends, and was a welcome guest wherever a gathering of
old soldiers was held. He was one of those happy enter-
tainers who could bring cheer and good fellowship to his
listeners. In many of his recitations there was a depth of
sentiment that reflects his kindly engaging nature. His
memory will live a long time with us who mourn for a
friend and companion.

Thomas Post conducted the impressive service that bade
him a final farewell, and the Sons of Veterans were his
Pall-Bearers, glad to pay this parting tribute to one whose
patriotism and courage was never questioned.

He was married in February, 1866, at Washington, D. C,
to Carrie Amelia Stratton, who, with two sons and one
daughter, survive him. To his family, whom he loved and
was beloved by, the Companions of the Loyal Legion ex-
tend sympathy in the loss of his kindly presence at their
fireside. John Howard Stibbs will answer on the other
shore to the roll call of those who loved their fellow men.

He was an honored member of the Loyal Legion and of
Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic.

* George Mason,

C. S. Bentley,
William. L. Cable,

Committee.

HENRY VARNUM FREEMAN.

Captain Tzvelfth United States Colored Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, September 5, 1916.

CAPTAIN HENRY VARNUM FREEMAN was born
December 20, 1842, at Bridgeton, New Jersey. He
died September 5, 1916, on a train en route, from his Sum-
mer home in northern Michigan, to his residence in Hyde
Park. In the touching words of hrs loved companion, ''His
journey was only prolonged to the better home prepared for
him, eternal in the Heavens."

He was married October 16, 1873, to Mary L. Curtis,
daughter of Rev. WilHam S. Curtis, of Rockford. Four
children are living as follows: Mabel F. Culbertson, Ethel
Freeman Strong, Helen Alden Freeman, and Henry Brew-
ster Freeman.

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Henry Varnum Freeman was the son of Henry Freeman
and Alary Bangs Freeman, who came to Illinois from their
eastern home in 1856, locating first at Freeport and after-
wards at Rockford, 111. His father was a man of high
character, well known as an educator in this State, and at
one time Superintendent of Public Schools in Rockford.
His son was fitted for college in the preparatory department
of Beloit College, but, owing to the war, his work there
was interrupted.

He came from and possessed many of the distinguishing
characteristics of the Enghsh Puritans who first settled on
the northeastern coast of America. His ancestor, Edmund
Freeman, came from England and settled in Plymouth
Colony in 1636, and was the founder of the old town of
Sandwich on Cape Cod. Two of his ancestors were judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Massachu-
setts. One of these, as far back as 1649, ^^s married to a
daughter of the Honorable Thomas Prence, Governor of
Plymouth Colony for twenty years. Judge Freeman pos-
sessed and highly valued many articles dating back to the
early days connected with his family.

Like many of our comrades and companions in the war
for the preservation of the Union, he gave up his studies
and ambitions for usefulness in civil life and joined the hosts
of those who responded to the call of President Abraham
Lincoln. He enlisted at Rockford, Illinois, in Company K,
74th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was soon promoted to
Orderly Sergeant of his Company. He saw much service in
this regiment in the campaign beginning at Louisville and in
the Division of General Jeflf C. Davis, McCook's Corps of
the Army of the Cumberland. He took part in several hard-
fought battles, notably at Perryville, Stone's River, and
Hoover's Gap, and in the fighting from Murfreesboro to
Chattanooga. He had well earned and was rewarded by

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promotion to a Captaincy in the 12th U. S. C. T. In his
regiment he served in the decisive battle of Nashville, one of
the last in the great struggle, and, afterwards, in various
important capacities in the Army as Judge Advocate of
Courts Martial.

The war over, he resigned his commission in June, 1865,
to resume at once his studies, entering Yale College in Sep-
tember of the same year, and graduating therefrom in 1869.
No man had served his country more faithfully and intelli-
gently than he, and no man was entitled to higher credit
or commendation at the hands of his comrades, his country
and posterity. It can truly be said of him that as a soldier
he was distinguished for his bravery and coolness, for his
conscientious and faithful devotion to every duty. He chose
the legal profession for his life work, and Chicago for his
home and field of labor. He became soon well known as a
painstaking, careful and able lawyer and gradually built up a
fine practice.

In 1893, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of
Cook County; was re-elected in 1898, 1904 and 1911. Twice
during this period he was assigned to the Appellate Court in
recognition of his services. His opinions, reported in many
volumes of the Appellate Court in Chicago, are marked by
clearness and accuracy in the statement of the law, and do
credit to that Court and to him.

One who knew Judge Freeman intimately in college, and,
afterwards, was a close friend of his in Chicago until the
time of his death; one who himself is respected and loved
for his eloquence in the pulpit and for his great usefulness
as a citizen, as well as for his personal characteristics and
charm, Rev. J. G. K. McClure, officiated at the funeral of
Judge Freeman in the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church,
which was filled with a large congregation of his neighbors,
friends and comrades. He spoke there words so full of
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they cannot contribute to the records of the Commandery
for preservation any expressions that can equal in interest
to the members of the Commandery the words of the dis-
tinguished clergyman. He said in part : **It is a great privi-
lege to have part in this loving and impressive service. The
privilege is mine because of a long time friendship. It was
in this very month of September, 1866, that Judge Freeman
and I became acquainted. The place was Yale College, as
it was then called. There we met in an atmosphere that
bred confidence one in the other, and little by little as the
years passed on all our college associations were woven into
terms of true and abiding friendship. Back of his life there
were two remarkable forces — the force of ancestral piety
and the force of ancestral public service. All his forbears
were persons who gave much to the aid of the communi-
ties in which they had a part. All these features were in-
stilled in Judge Freeman. They were like a lure ever sum-
moning him to look out upon the community with interest
for its welfare. So it was perfectly natural that, when the
Civil War started, there should be that within him which re-
sponded to the call for service.

"Judge Freeman, from his entrance into Yale, was a
marked man, and, when he graduated, he graduated as one
who had received the highest honors of the institution. The
University of Chicago, understanding his abiHty for special
work, made him a professorial lecturer on legal ethics in the
Law Department.

"He gave himself to many outside matters. He was al-
ways a student of public affairs, keeping in touch with all the
large movements, that were going on for social benefit, and
that fostered literature. He was made President of the Chi-
cago Literary Club. He wrote papers bearing on his services
in the Civil War that are now incorporated in a volume de-
voted to the memory of that war. He tried to fulfill every
position of a citizen, and of a wise citizen; and there was

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self-sacrifice in citizenship. Back of this hfe there was his
reHgious spirit. As a mere boy he looked upon the church
as the field where he could best do its service for the welfare
of mankind. He went into the Army as a Christian man.
He sustained this reputation through the War. He entered
Yale as a Christian man, and he sustained that reputation
through those four close years of competitive Scholarship.
Coming here to Chicago he was ready to undertake the work
of the Sabbath School Superintendency, recognizing, as he
did, that there was perhaps no sphere of religious activity
that promised so great usefulness in the present and in the
future as the headship of a church Sunday school.

"He was a man noted for clarity of intellect, for social
charm, for readiness of expression, for high ideals which he
attempted to reproduce in the spirit of Jesus Christ. He
maintained that ancestral piety and devotion to the public
spirit. Such a life as this has been an eminent one. His
children will rise and call him blessed. Members of this
congregation are one in their respect and affection for this
strong, helpful character.

"I should like to say in conclusion today that our Faith
teaches us that there is something beyond this mortal life.
It is not too clearly revealed. We could not understand it
in our limited years if it were revealed, but there has been
revealed through Jesus Christ a foundation for hope. For
this friend and comrade of us all, may we not today antici-
pate Heaven and see him in eternal glory with those others,
where, with enthusiasm, hopefulness, clearness and power,
he serves, as he served here, where he serves with a face
lighted with the presence of God forever and ever."

We tender to the bereaved wife and family of our com-
panion our sympathy in their hour of sorrow.

Richard S. Tuthill,
Francis Lackner,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

DAVID WILSON REED.

Captain Twelfth Iowa Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died at
Waukon, Iowa, September 22, igi6.

MAJOR DAVID WILSON REED was born in Cort-
land, N. Y., April 2, 1841, and died at Waukon, Iowa,
September 22, 1916. In 1855 his parents removed with the
family to Iowa, and settled in Center Township, becoming
at once identified with the pioneer history of Allamakee
County. Young Reed entered upper Iowa University at
Fayette, Iowa, in the fall of i860, but his college course was
interrupted by the outbreak of the war, and early in the
school year of 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company C,
I2th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the
U. S. service October 24th. The regiment became a part

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of the Army of the Tennessee, and was connected with that
army during the larger part of its service.

At the battle of Shiloh, Mr. Reed received a gunshot
wound which shattered the right thigh. He was taken pris-
oner but was left on the field and was recaptured the next
day by the Union forces and sent to the hospital at Mound
City. In August, 1862, he returned to the regiment and
served during the Vicksburg campaign ; was commissioned
2nd Lieut. Company C, May 8, 1863, ist Lieut. February 22,
1864, and Captain, June 24, 1865. He was breveted Major
to rank from April 8, 1865, for gallant and meritorious serv-
ice at the siege of Spanish Fort. Commissioned as Major,
December 5, 1865, but not mustered in that rank. Mustered
out January 20, 1866, having served the unusually long term
of four years and four months. Among the officers who
were associated with Major Reed in the 12th Iowa were
Lieut. D. B. Henderson, who lost a leg in battle and after-
ward became Speaker of the U. S. House of Representa-
tives, and J. H. Stibbs, who became a Brevet Brigadier
General and who was for so many years a member of this
Commandery, passing away only a few weeks before Major
Reed's death.

Returning to his home in Waukon on muster out, Major
Reed studied law, was admitted to the bar, was elected
County Recorder, and was successively elected for ten years.
From 1879 to 1887 ^'^^ was Postmaster at Waukon. In 1890
he moved to Chicago and was for many years a resident
of Evanston. In 1895 ^e was appointed secretary of the
Shiloh National Park Commission, and in 1910 chairman,
which office he held until his death. In both positions he
justified the confidence reposed in him, by his faithfulness
and thoroughness in the work intrusted to him. His work
consisted in locating the old roads, camps and battle lines,
and required many interviews with participants in the bat-
tle, a voluminous correspondence, and consultations extend-

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ing over several years. Maps were published, roads built,
monuments and markers erected. In 1902 he finished his
book "The Battle of Shiloh," which was highly commended
by both Union and Confederate Veterans. In 1903 he com-
piled and published a history of the 12th Iowa Regiment.

From 1905 to 1913 he resided at Shiloh National Park
with his family. In the latter year he was thrown from his
carriage receiving a broken thigh. This accident necessitated
relief from field work, and he was relieved from duties as
Superintendent, but retained the chairmanship of the com-
mission. He then repaired to his old home in Iowa. Major
Reed was always greatly interested in civic affairs, and was
always identified with the best interests of the community
in which he lived, those pertaining to school, church, state
and nation. For many years he served on the School Board
and was an active member in the local Methodist Church.
On September 20, 1866, he was married to Ellen Manson
who survives him with three children. Two days before his
death he celebrated the golden anniversary of his marriage.

Edward D. Redington,
William L. Cadle,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

GEORGE BOWEN HERENDEN.

Adjutant Forty-fourth Neiu York Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Wilmette, Illinois, October 3, igi6.

SON of Richard and Elmina Bowen Herenden was born
at Newport, Herkimer County, N. Y., December 21,
1837; educated in common and academic schools, studied
law at Joliet, Illinois, and at the Albany (N. Y.) Univer-
sity, was admitted to the Bar in i860 and in May, 1861,
entered Civil War Service as a private of Company B, loth
New York Militia, doing guard duty at the Albany Bar-
racks; August 16, 1861, enlisted as a private in the 44th New
York Volunteer Infantry, and in 1862 was promoted to
Sergeant Major, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, and
Adjutant; served in the field until January 21, 1864, when

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detached for service in the Department of the East; Post
Adjutant Elmira, New York, Post Quartermaster Auburn,
New York, and Judge Advocate of General Court Martial,
Elmira, N. Y., until October ii, 1864, on the expiration
of the regiment's term of service, when he was honorably
mustered out at Albany, N. Y.

Conduct commended in Commander's reports of battles
of Hanover Court House and Malvern Hill, Va.

Commenced the practice of law at Hannibal, Mo., in
1865; was married to Miss Mary E. Royce in 1878, later
engaged in various manufacturing and mercantile pursuits,
and for the last twenty years of his life resided at Wilmette,
Cook County, Illinois.

He was a member of the George H. Thomas Post No.
5, G. A. R., Chicago, of the Western Society of the Army
of the Potomac of which he was President at the time of his
death, and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, Illinois Commandery.

He died at his home in Wilmette, October 3, 1916, after
an illness of several months.

The foregoing facts are mainly as they appear in the
History of the 44th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infan-
try— often called the "People's Ellsworth Regiment" — in
which he served. The roster of the 44th New York Vol-
unteer Infantry, as it appears in its history, has few equals
among published regimental rosters and is a good illustra-
tion of the painstaking care and accuracy of our late Com-
panion Adjutant George B. Herenden. To ascertain the
actual facts as to the military service of more than fifteen
hundred men and so far as possible the present abode of
such as were still living, after a period of nearly fifty years
from muster out, was a serious task involving large cor-
respondence and requiring months of close application. The
magnificent result of his labors added much to the value of

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the history so highly prized by the survivors and friends of
the regiment and entitles him to their deepest gratitude.

In the vigor of young manhood our late Companion
sought early opportunity to enlist in defense of his country
and in that service assumed his full share of responsibility
as private or officer, soon attracting by his readiness and
capability the notice of his superiors, so that early in 1862
he was promoted to be Second Lieutenant. The siege of
Yorktown gave the regiment its first taste of war and a
few weeks later the sharp and costly battle of Hanover
Court House, Va., furnished occasion for the regiment to
show its quality as a fighting unit. In this and in succeeding
battles of the ''Peninsula," notably Gaines' Mills and Mal-
vern Hill, Va., our Companion Herenden by his coolness and
bravery secured the confidence and admiration of men and
officers alike, so that promotions to be First Lieutenant and
Adjutant were most appropriate. That his name should be
included with others who in battle reports were commended
by the regimental commander, was natural, for he was
always ready and did not shrink from any assignment of
duty. He served his country faithfully for the full three
years and until the regiment was mustered out of service.

When he located, about twenty years ago, in Wilmette,
Illinois, the opportunity came to the undersigned and some
other members of the 44th Regiment, New York Volunteer
Infantry, who lived in or near Chicago, to renew with our
friend the acquaintance begun as soldiers in the Civil War.
Occasional gatherings where we have met have been greatly
enjoyed. Now he has gone from our sight, but his memory
will be cherished through the years that remain to us, be they
few or many.

As a brave and efficient soldier, a courteous gentleman,
an upright citizen and a trusted friend we shall remember
our Companion George B. Herenden.

To the bereaved widow we extend our sincere sympa-

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thy, with assurances that to each of us also the departure
of our Companion, our comrade, our friend, is a heavy loss.

Orett L. Munger,
Harrison Kelley,
William N. Danks,

Committee.

The Commandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

JOHN BARRY SEARS.

Oldest Son of Companion Joseph Sears, Regimental Quartermaster^

One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry, United

States Volunteers. Died at Milwaukie, Oregon,

October ii, 1916.

C COMPANION JOHN BARRY SEARS, the oldest son
^ of Companion Lieut. Joseph Sears, was born in Chi-
cago, Aug. 23, 1869. Companion Lieut. Joseph Sears was
for many years, and up to his death, a member of the Chi-
cago Commandery, where he is still fondly remembered for
his amiable disposition and sterling qualities. The son in-
herited many of his father's good qualities and charac-
teristics.

John Barry Sears spent his boyhood in Chicago, where
he got his early education and graduated from the Harvard
School. •

He then entered Yale University, where he made a
creditable record, graduating with the class of '91. When
in College he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and
Wolf's Head, and was also President of the Yale University
Football Association.

The Sears boys were all loyal to Yale, and his brother,
Philip R., graduated in the class of '99, and Joseph Alden
in 1905. About the time he entered college his father pur-
chased a large tract of land on the shore of Lake Michigan

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and started the town of Kenilworth, 111., which has since
grown to be one of Chicago's choicest North Shore Suburbs,
and after leaving college he lived with his father and mother
in their Lake Shore home.

He entered business in Chicago, and was first employed
by Lobdell, Farwell & Company, later Granger, Farwell &
Company, and subsequently became treasurer of the Farwell
Trust Company in 1906. He was also at one time vice-presi-
dent and treasurer of the Wisconsin Granite Company. He
was a member of the Chicago University Club,^ and the Mili-
tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

In 1913 he left Chicago and took up ranching in Oregon,
where he spent the last three years of his life.

A severe attack of pneumonia and la grippe, contracted
during the winter, left his heart in a weakened condition,
and he died' suddenly, Oct. 11, 1916, of Pericarditis, at the
Portland Open Air Sanitarium in Milwaukie, Oregon.

Wm. M. Turner,
Horace Mann Capron,
John T. Stockton,

Committee.

CHARLES ELIPHALET BRUSH.
Died at Morgan Park, Illinois, October 31, igi6.

SECOND son of Colonel Donald H. Brush, U. S. Volun-
teers, deceased.

Elected an Hereditary Companion of the First Class on
the 7th day of March, 1881, through the Commandery of
the State of Missouri. Insignia 8617. Transferred to the
Commandery of the State of IlHnois, April 11, 1892.

Graduated as an architect from the University of Illinois
June 5, 1877.

Appointed superintendent of construction at Cairo, Illi-
nois, by the U. S. Government in March, 1884.

Architect for building erected by the State of Illinois, at
the Southern Penitentiary in 1885.

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The Coiiunandery never had a
Photograph of this Companioji.

HARRY WARREN POGUE.

Born at Jerseyvillc, Illinois, March 17, 1863. Died at Jerscyville,
Illinois, November 21, igi6.

NEPHEW of Companion Surgeon Joseph Pogue, U. S.
Volunteers, deceased. Elected a Companion of the
second Class through the Commandery of the State of IIH-
nois, November 5, 1914. insignia No. 171 54.

Companion Pogue had no military or naval record.
He was State's Attorney of Jersey County, Illinois, from
1887 to 1896, and county judge from 1910 up to about the
period of his death.

861

ORVILLE WELLINGTON BALLARD.

Major and Additional Paymaster United States Volunteers. Died
at Evanston, Illinois, December 31, igi6.

MAJOR ORVILLE WELLINGTON BALLARD was
born at Quaker Springs, New York, August 5, 1831,
and died at Evanston, Illinois, December 31, 1916.

The service of Major Ballard in the War of the Rebel-
lion was connected with the Pay Department of the Army.
He was appointed a Paymaster's Clerk very early in the
War, and as such was in the battle of Fredericksburg before
he was commissioned Major and Paymaster by President
Lincoln, November 26, 1862. He was in the service nearly
four years, being mustered out July 20, 1866. He assisted

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in paying Grant's Army just before the advance on Vicks-
burg, and after long, continuous connection with the Army
of the Tennessee, was stationed at Washington and was as-
signed to the duty of paying off the paroled prisoners at
Annapolis in 1865, and made a number of trips for this pur-
pose. On the return from one of these trips, his safe con-
taining $300,000.00 in vouchers and $800.00 in money was
stolen from his office. The vouchers were recovered, but the
money was gone. The loss was finally made good by the
government.

In 1865 he was ordered to Hilton Head, S. C, and after
three months in that department was ordered to Savannah,
Georgia, where he remained, paying off troops throughout
the State until his muster out.

Major Ballard came to Chicago in 1869, engaged in real
estate business for a few years, and was then, for eighteen
years, contracting agent for the Blue Line Fast Freight.
Afterwards he was Executor and Trustee of the estate of
Geo. K. Shoenberger of Cincinnati, Ohio, until his retire-
ment from active business a few years before his death.

Although Major Ballard had lived five years beyond the
four score, when one's strength is said to be labor and sor-
row, yet with the exception of his being somewhat deaf,
he seemed to be possessed of remarkable physical and men-
tal strength, and took a keen interest in all current events as
well as in those of years long past. He was married No-
vember II, 1868, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Miss Emma Porter,
who died in 1914. After his wife's death he made his home
with his son George, a member of this Commandery, and
spent much of his time at the Hamilton Club of Chicago,
of which he was a life member. Perhaps, because of the
ideal comradeship that existed between him and his son, he
had the peculiar faculty which is found in very few old men,
of keeping his youthful spirit unimpaired. He took a great
interest in the affairs of the Club, and especially in the pub-

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lie addresses made at the Club House by distinguished
guests.

The present President of the Club considered it a great
privilege as well as pleasure to escort him often to a seat
close to the speaker and to observe how much he appreciated
anything that was really worth while. He was always cheer-
ful and glad to meet everyone and was particularly appre-
ciative of the little attentions shown him by his friends.
Altogether he was a most lovable and estimable character —
the highest type of a Christian gentleman.

Edward D. Redington,
Robert W. McClaughry,
Henry R. Rathbone,

Committee.

NATHAN ADAMS REED, JR.

First Lieutenant Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 4, 1917.

WE are again called to note the death of a worthy
companion.
Nathan Adams Reed, Jr., a brave and worthy soldier and
member of this Commandery, died in this city, January
4, 1917, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, January
7th. Our late companion was born at Wakefield, Rhode
Island, July 2, 1839.

In his early boyhood he moved, with his parents, to the
State of Ohio, where he received a liberal education. After
leaving College he engaged in newspaper work, and was so
engaged until July 2, 1862, when, answering the call of his

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imperiled country, he enlisted in Company A, 50th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, for three years. A month after his en-
listment and muster in, he was appointed Orderly Sergeant
of his Company. October 16, 1862, he was commissioned
2nd Lieutenant and on May 5, 1863, commissioned ist
Lieutenant of his Company, and served with distinction
with that fine regiment in all its marches and battles until
June, 1865, the close of the war.

He participated in the battles of Perryville, Kentucky,
where his regiment lost 162 in killed and wounded, and in
other skirmishes and battles in which his regiment also en-
gaged, notably, Resaca, Pine Mountain, Pumpkin Vine,
Atlanta and Jonesboro, in the Atlanta campaign, and in the
battle of Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., and
in Kingston, N. C.

Soon after the close of the war, Companion Reed came
to Chicago and engaged in newspaper work. For some years
he was City Editor of the Chicago Daily News, and con-
tributed to magazines and other papers.

He was elected a member of this Commandery as an
Original Companion of the First Class, June 15, 1893, his
insignia being 10219.

For more than twenty years prior to his death, his health
was greatly impaired.

The Commandery tenders to the relatives and friends of
our deceased companion their heartfelt sympathy in their
bereavement.

Thomas E. Milchrist,
Edward D. Redington,
Theodore Van R. Ashcroft,

Committee.

JOHN ALEXANDER SMITH.

Captain Seventh Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers,
at Jacksonville, Illinms, January 15, 1917.

Died

/^APTAIN JOHN ALEXANDER SMITH of Company
^^ E, Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, died at the age
of seventy-three, January 15, 191 7, at his home in Jackson-
ville, 111. The news of his sudden and tragic death came as
a severe shock to all who knew and loved the gallant cap-
tain. It seemed a cruel fate that the brave soldier, who had
faced death so many times with his comrades on the field
of honor, where the encounter with death was a fair and
even game, should have been the unconscious victim of a
swift and unexpected invasion of the Dark Angel. He died
alone, suffocated in a fire, which took place in his home in
Jacksonville, in the early morning hours of January 15.

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Since the year 1880, Captain Smith had been engaged in
the hotel business, most of the time in Jacksonville, where
he was owner and proprietor of the Dunlap House, but since
the death of his wife, two years ago, he had occupied a two-
story house next door to the hotel, with his sister, Mrs. F.
M. Rule, her husband, and their small daughter. Mrs. Rule
was awakened at about i o'clock on the morning of the 15th
by the smell of smoke in her room, and upon investigating
discovered that the fire had gained considerable headway.
Hastily dispatching her daughter to the hotel to give the
alarm, she rushed upstairs, through the thick smoke, to give
the alarm to the Captain. She called repeatedly, but receiv-
ing no answer, she decided that he, too, had smelled the
smoke, and had gone down stairs. She hurried back down
the already burning stairs and searched the lower part of the
house, but failing to find her brother, she instructed the
firemen, who had by that time arrived, to place a ladder
against the Captain's window and force an entrance into his
room. The firemen failed to find the Captain in his room,
but after further search, reported that his body had been
discovered in the room south of the one which he occupied.
He had probably been aroused by the fire, and in his confu-
sion, had stumbled into this room instead of making his way
out; then, overcome by the smoke, he had never regained
consciousness.

Captain Smith was born in Eaton, Ohio, June 27, 1844,
the son of Alexander and Elizabeth Ritchie Smith. At the
time of the outbreak of the Civil War and the receipt of the
news of President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, young
Smith was less than seventeen years of age and was working
at the harness and saddlers' trade in Atlanta. Above the
shop was a lawyer's office. The lawyer got the word of the
President's call from his personal friend. Governor Richard
Yates, who asked if he would recruit a company from

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Atlanta. The news he told at once in the harness shop,
and out of the six or seven young men working there, young
Smith was the only one to step over to the lawyer and ask
to put his name down as a recruit. As the company to
which he was assigned, Company E, Seventh Illinois Vol-
unteer Infantry, belonged to the first regiment of volunteers
which was completely formed and put into camp for active
service in the United States, there is probably sufficient jus-
tification for Captain Smith's claim that he was ''the first
man to enlist in the first company of the first regiment that
went into camp for active service in the Civil War." The
date of his enlistment was April 15, 1861, and on April 29th
of that year, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal. At
the expiration of his three months' service in the 7th, he re-
enlisted and, July 25, i86r, was promoted to the office of
First Lieutenant and, November 12, 1862, was made Captain
at Corinth, Miss., when but eighteen years old. He was
finally discharged from the service at the end of the war
at Springfield, 111., July 13, 1865, having but a few days be-
fore passed his twenty-first birthday, and having served one
of the longest terms of enlistment in the service.

The principal battles in which Captain Smith saw service
were as follows : Fort Henry ; Fort Donelson ; Shiloh ;
Siege of Corinth ; Battle of Corinth ; Town Creek, Alabama ;
Florence, Alabama ; Georgia campaign ; Columbia ; Neuse
River Bridge; Bentonville; and the surrender of General
Johnston's army. It is a fact worthy of note that, although
many of these were of the most sanguinary of the war. Cap-
tain Smith was never captured, never disabled by sickness,
and was never wounded.

After the war. Captain Smith was employed for several
years as a clerk in a hotel in Mattoon, and in 1869, he moved
to Jacksonville, where he became a clerk in the Dunlap
House, which he afterward owned and managed, together
with the Park House of that same city.

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On April 7, 1875, he married Miss Josephine Marie Litz-
elman, who was born in Terre Haute, Ind. Captain and
Mrs. Smith adopted and raised a son, Alexander Smith, Jr.,
who served in the Spanish-American War, and is now re-
siding in Ohio.

Captain Smith was active in all that made for the wel-
fare of the community in which he lived and was a staunch
Republican. He was associated with Jacksonville Lodge
No. 152, Knights of Pythias, and Benevolent and Protective
Order of the Elks. He was a member of the Matt Starr
Post of the G. A. R., of the MiHtary Order of the Loyal
Legion of the U. S., H. M. M. B. A., and the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee, the oldest of the Civil War societies,
which was organized April 9, 1865, the day that Lee sur-
rendered.

In the many touching tributes paid to Captain Smith by
his comrades of the Seventh Illinois, one finds innumerable
personal recollections of particular instances of bravery and
pluck and the unvarying expression of admiration and re-
spect. As an instance, it is recalled, and has since been
verified by the concurrent testimony of the Union and Con-
federate forces, that the victory at Allatoona Pass was due
to the zeal and foresight of this "little captain of twenty
years." A month before that memorable battle, in which
twelve hundred Union men were pitted against the compara-
tively overwhelming force of six thousand or more Confed-
erates, Captain Smith conceived the idea of procuring the
Henry i6-shooter rifles for his regiment. He went East at
his own expense, and while there he discovered that there
were no rifles of this kind to be had, but that a shipment of
five hundred of them had gone to Chicago. He telegraphed
Chicago to hold the rifles, and subsequently purchased them
on his own initiative and responsibility. This shipment was
intended for the shooting of bufifalo and it was with consid-
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to get the shipment transferred. The feat was accom-
plished, however, and it is undoubtedly true that the Henry
rifles saved the day at Allatoona Pass. This instance, to-
gether with many others, reveals the spirit and caliber of
Captain Smith as a soldier, and when one realizes his youth,
the record of his aclitevements during his term of enlistment
seems truly remarkable.

Not alone do the comrades, whose ranks are thinning as
the years pass by, mourn the death of this brave soldier, but
in these days so far removed from those days of heroic
memory, all who enjoy the fruits of the victory of the Union
forces and realize, even imperfectly, the far reaching im-
portance of such men as Captain Smith in that great strug-
gle, must bow their heads as they contemplate his memory.

One of the comrades of Captain Smith's regiment. Cap-
tain D. L. Ambrose, writes, "Comrade Smith, farewell.
Ours was a comradeship formed as we leaned one upon
another in sorrow over our heroic dead that awful night on
the Allatoona Hills, where it had been taught what the blood
of man is worth. And now that taps have sounded and
'Lights Out' has come to you. Captain Smith, may it not
be that lights more brilliant, lights that will never go out,
have opened to you beyond the grave in the Paradise of
God?

" 'The Comrades like stars take their flight,
And whisper, one by one, good night.
Yet in the light of God's bright day,
Triumphant, each again will say:
"Hail Comrade, here has life begun,
The battle's fought, the victory won." ' "

Edward S. Johnson,
John T. M'Auley,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

SIMEON HENRY CRANE.

Captam Si.rty-S£venth Indiana Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 23, 1917.

CAPTAIN SIMEON HENRY CRANE was born in
Madison, Indiana, February 11, 1840, and died at his
residence in Chicago, January 23, 1917.

He was the son of Reverend Simeon H. Crane and Jane
Robinson Ailing. His father graduated from Princeton
College in 1822, and entered the ministry in the Presbyterian
Church, remaining in that relation until his death. He was
prominent in the community where he lived, and was instru-
mental in locating Hanover College, near Madison, Indiana.
Captain Crane was descended in the seventh generation
from Jasper Crane, one of the original settlers of the New

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Haven Colony of Pilgrims, established at New Haven, Con-
necticut, June 4, 1639. Captain Robert Treat was also one
of this company. Captain Treat and Jasper Crane and
others entered into a contract, which was signed at New
Haven in 1665, to form a new settlement at a place now
known as Newark, New Jersey, to which place they re-
moved in 1666. Jasper Crane and Robert Treat were the
first magistrates of Newark. Jasper Crane headed the list
of members of the historic First Presbyterian Church at
Newark, founded January 20, 1667. A portion of the
City of Newark was at one time nicknamed Cranetown, be-
cause of the large number of descendants of Jasper Crane
residing there.

Captain Crane received his education in Madison, In-
diana. He went into the hardware business in that city
with his half-brother, Charles Ailing, and remained in
that employment until going into the war.

"Sim" Crane was a very popular young man in Madi-
son, and was Captain of the ''Madison Grays," which mili-
tary company existed before the Civil War commenced,
and of which he remained Captain after it was mustered
into the service of the Union.

He enlisted August 9, 1862, at Madison, Indiana, and
was mustered in as Captain of Company C, 67th Indiana
Infantry, August 20, 1862. Plis service was with the Fourth
Division, Thirteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

Upon being mustered into service the regiment was or-
dered to Louisville, Kentucky; arriving there, it marched
to Mumfordsville, Kentucky, and participated in an engage-
ment with the advance of Bragg's Army, and was compelled
to surrender, was paroled, returned home, was exchanged in
December, 1862, and proceeded to Memphis, joining Sher-
man's expedition against Vicksburg. The regiment was in
action at Chickasaw Bayou, December 26 to 29, 1862, and
participated in the charge on Arkansas Post, January lO-ii,

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1863, which resulted in the capture of that place. In this
engagement the 67th Indiana bore a conspicuous part and
suffered heavy loss.

Captain Crane, with his regiment, participated in the
engagement at Port Gibson, May i, 1863; Champion Hills,
May 16, 1863; the siege of Vicksburg, May 19 to July 4,
1863, and at Jackson, Mississippi, July 7, 1863.

The strenuous service of these months so affected Cap-
tain Crane's health that he was obliged to resign from the
service on account of disability.

At the close of the war he came to Chicago and entered
the wholesale hardware firm of Markley, Ailing & Co., of
which firm and its successor, John Ailing & Co., he was an
efficient and valuable member.

June 29, 1865, Captain Crane married Mary Ellen Pot-
ter, daughter of James O. and Susan Irvin Potter, who died
February 27, 1902. Their daughter, Miss Marie Potter
Crane, survives.

It is fitting in this sketch to mention the social, charitable
and patriotic work in which Mrs. Crane engaged with so
much success up to the time of her death. She was a de-
voted and influential member of the old Protective Agency
for women and children, which later became the Legal
Aid Society. She was also prominent in the Daughters
of the Revolution and the Friendly Aid Society.

Captain Crane was for more than thirty years a mem-
ber of the Union League Club of Chicago, and in 1888 one
of its directors. He was one of the founders of the Illinois
Club; he was a member of Cleveland Lodge A. F. and A.
M. ; a director of the Northwestern Traveling Men's Asso-
ciation, and a member of George H. Thomas Post of the
G. A. R.

He was the author of an extensive History of the
Scotch-Irish in America, which he had placed in typewrit-
ten form, but which has never been published.

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He became a companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, October 6, 1880. He was elected to the
Council in 1884; Senior Vice Commander in 1900; Chancel-
lor in 1914, and succeeded Captain Roswell H. Mason as
Recorder in 191 5, which position he held at the time of his
death. He took great satisfaction and pride in this posi-
tion and performed its onerous duties in a most able man-
ner, maintaining in all respects the high standard of his
predecessor. In his relations to the companions of the Loyal
Legion he held himself in readiness to perform any service
in his power.

Captain Crane was a fine type of the courteous gentler
man. His was a genial and winning personality. He was
an accomplished raconteur, a joy to his friends, and a man
who had no enemies.

In his death the Commandery has lost a very faithful
and loyal companion, and we feel his loss most keenly. We
extend to his daughter, Miss Crane, and his niece. Miss
Anne Hendricks, who has been a member of his family
since early childhood, and Mr. M. L. Barrett, who has for
more than forty years been his intimate and devoted friend,
and a member of his family, our sincere sympathy at the
loss they have sustained.

Edson J. Harkness,
Walter R. Robbins,
Edward R. Blake,

Committee.

RUDOLPH WILLIAMS.

Second Lieutenant One Hundred and Eleventh Ohio Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, February 27, igiy.

LIEUT. RUDOLPH WILLIAMS, was born June 25,
''1844, ii^ -^^w Lisbon, Ohio, and died February 27, 1917.
August 12, 1862, he enlisted as Sergeant, Co. K, iiith
Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and was discharged December 8,
1865, by reason of close of the war.

Sergeant Williams was promoted to Sergeant-Major,
February 24, 1863; to Second Lieut., Co. A, July 20, 1863,
to rank as such from February 9, 1863; promoted to ist
Lieut., Co. D, April 12, 1864, iiith Regiment. Served in
Kentucky, and was engaged in pursuit and capture of Gen.
John H, Morgan, until August, 1863. The regiment was

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assigned to ist Brig. 3rd Div., 23rd Corps, and was in the
expedition of Maj.-Gen. A. E. Burnside to Knoxville, Tenn.,
August and September, 1863. During this time, he was
acting as Adjutant of the Regiment.

Lieut. Williams was assigned to duty as Depot Ordnance
Officer, at Knoxville, by General Burnside, in the fall of
1863, and served as such during the siege and repulse of
Longstreet's army, to December 5th. Appointed Assist.-
Chief of Artillery and Ordnance Dept. of the Ohio, on the
staff of Maj.-Gen. Schofield, in the spring of 1864. Served
in the Department of the Ohio, and with the army of the
Ohio, during the summer of 1864, as a staff officer. Was
sent to Resaca, Ga., in charge of a railroad train, loaded
with ammunition, and arrived there during the battle of
Resaca. He commanded an expedition to Cumberland Gap,
having horses for batteries stationed there, inspected the
batteries and ordered two of them to Knoxville, in the sum-
mer of 1864. W^as Aid-de-Camp to Maj.-Gen. Stoneman,
during his raid into South West Virginia. From Nov. 26th
to Dec. 27, 1864, was in all the engagements that took place
during this expedition. Joined Headquarters, Army of
the Ohio, Louisville, Ky., in January, 1865. Made an in-
spection of forts in Western Kentucky, during that month.
Joined the army and staff again in Washington, D. C, dur-
ing the same month, and went with Gen. Schofield to Wil-
mington, N. C, as a member of the Department Staff.
Served in the capacity of a Staff Officer in charge of Ord-
nance in the defenses of Cape Fear River, and as Ordnance
Officer at Wilmington, and various other places, until the
close of war.

Was ordered by the Secretary of State to take clerks
to Cleveland, Ohio, and make up property accounts of stores
and ordnance, during the months of July, August and Sep-
tember, 1863.

Lieut. Williams was married July i, 1880, at Chicago,

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111., to Loleta Ferris. After being mustered out of the U. S.
service, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged in the
brush business with his father. Later he moved to Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, and continued in the same business for a
number of years. Came to Chicago about 1874, and be-
came connected with the house of Felix & Marston, where
he remained many years, managing the Consohdated Brush
Company for Felix & Marston. This business necessitated
his traveling for years to the principal cities in the middle
west.

He had not lost love for military affairs, obtained during
the Civil War, and helped organize the ist Regiment, Illi-
nois National Guard. Was appointed by the Governor to
the Captaincy of Co. G, Nov. 2"], 1877, to rank from No-
vember 28, 1876. Was promoted to the Lieutenant Colonel-
cy of the same regiment, to rank from December i, 1877.

He interested himself and worked hard to obtain an
armory for the regiment, and through his labors and influ-
ence, much is due to the building of the regiment's first
armory on Jackson St., near Michigan Blvd. The building
still stands and is known as the Illinois Theater.

He was a man of strong, simple Christian fkith, with
high standards of what was right and wrong. He was not
a man of many words, but the friends he made through a
long life, are such as will always hold him in high appre-
ciation. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Loleta Ferris WilHams.

Richard S. Tuthill,
Edward D. Redington,
George Gregg Knox,

Committee.

AREA NELSON WATERMAN.

Lieutoiant Colonel One Hundredth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, March i6, 1917.

AREA NELSON WATERMAN was a native of Ver-
mont, a State which has furnished many distinguished
soldiers to our nation, and he had in his very fibre the
staunch patriotism and rugged honesty of thought which
has characterized the best in the New England States. He
was of the finest type of the American citizen soldier. He
possessed in a remarkable degree that versatility, so pe-
culiarly American, of being able to drop his civil matters
in the midst of an active and successful career, and give
his whole mind to the profession of arms.

He was born February 5, 1836, at Greensboro, Vt., and

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died March 16, 1917, at Chicago, 111. His early life was the
familiar one of hard work each summer and hard study each
winter. He was graduated from the Norwich University
Military School, which produced General Grenville M.
Dodge and many other distinguished citizen soldiers. He
acquired there that academic knowledge of military science
which he was enabled to put into active use when his coun-
try had need of it.

Mr. Waterman adopted the profession of law, a pro-
fession which he was destined to ornament with a ripe
culture, a logical mind and a clear perception of justice.
He graduated from the Albany Law School and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1861. He went almost immediately to
Joliet, 111., where he was engaged in business at the outbreak
of the Civil War. He at once threw himself unreservedly
into the work of raising troops in response to the call of
President Lincoln. He traveled through Will county and
the adjoining counties, making speeches and arousing en-
thusiasm for the cause of a united nation. He enlisted as a
private soldier in July, 1862, in the looth Illinois Infantry,
and mustered into active service in August of the same year.
He was an earnest, hard working soldier who gave his active
heart to the work before him. Mr. Waterman early earned
promotion by faithfulness to duty and bravery, through the
successive grades, to Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment.
He served in the Fourth and Twenty-first Corps and in
the First and Second Divisions. Under General Buell he
moved in pursuit of General Bragg from Louisville, Ky.,
to the Cumberland Mountains, and from thence to Nash-
ville, Tenn. Under the command of General Rosecrans, he
moved with the army from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga,
participating in many battles. In the battle of Chickamauga
he was severely wounded, a minnie ball passing through his
body, and there his horse was killed under him. After-
wards, his command was moved from Chattanooga to the

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region of the French Broad, above Knoxville. From here
he was moved, under the command of General Sherman, to
Altoona Mountain, taking an active part in the Atlanta
campaign, participating in the battles of Dalton, Rocky Face
Ridge, Resaca, Altoona Mountain and Atlanta.

In 1864, his wounds disabled him from further service
and he was reluctantly compelled to retire on account of
physical disability.

Colonel Waterman's military career was one of fine
courage and unflinching devotion to duty. His was one of
those rare natures which could fight for his cause with
every force at his command and yet grieve over the fate of
a fallen foe. He never learned to hate his enemy, but only
to hate the cause which represented disunion and human
slavery.

When the war was over, he returned to his home and
was married to Miss Eloise Hall, who had waited through
all the years of the struggle for her afiianced husband to re-
turn to her.

At once he resumed the practice of law in Chicago,
where he found quick reward for his brilliant mental
achievements. As a member of the law firm of Upton, Bou-
telle and Waterman, he became well known to bench and
bar as an able, efficient and just member of the legal pro-
fession.

He served his city as a member of its City Council from
the old Eleventh Ward, and in various other civil capacities
as a patriotic duty.

In 1886 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court, and
was afterwards appointed judge of the Appellate Court of
the First District. His decisions were always well consid-
ered, able and lucid in argument, choice in diction, and in
accord with the facts and legal principles involved.

The death of his accomplished and beautiful wife, oc-
curring after a long and happy life with an almost idola-

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trous (in his admiration of her) husband, was a blow to
him from which he never recovered.

The Irving Literary Chib or Society, of which both were
active members, had many meetings in their deHghtful
home. Colonel Waterman's fine literary ability and Mrs.
Waterman's rare musical talent and delightful conversation
furnished the members of this society rich and not to be
forgotten entertainment and instruction.

Judge Waterman participated in the World's Congress
at the World's Fair in Chicago, and at his home many of
the visiting delegates found an atmosphere of appreciation
which made that home an active center in the development
of the Philosophical and Social Science Congress of that
memorable period.

Judge Waterman was ever the kindliest of men. It is
said of him that he never spoke an unkind word to anyone.
His heart was large with love of his fellow man. He de-
lighted in his association with the Grand Army of the Re-
public and with this Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
He was a brave and gentle man who never shirked a duty
or dodged a responsibility. The soul of such a man lives
on, not only in the hearts of the members of the Loyal Le-
gion and of the Grand Army of the Republic, but in the
hearts of thousands of men and women whose paths have
been brightened and whose loads have been lightened by this
man, who was a good citizen, an able and courageous sol-
dier and a fearless and distinguished jurist.

It is to be regretted that so noble and strong a character
as Arba Nelson Waterman, and so lovely a woman as his
wife, left no child to perpetuate their name and characters
for the benefit of posterity.

Richard S. Tuthill,
Walter R. Robbins,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

THEODORE SMITH ROGERS.

Captain One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Doivners Grove, Illinois, April 15, iQiy.

CAPTAIN THEODORE SMITH ROGERS was born
at Morristown, N. Y., August 30, 183 1, and died at
Downers Grove, 111., April 15, 191 7. He came to Downers
Grove in the year 1844 with his parents, being then about
thirteen years of age. At the age of nineteen he began
teaching, his first school being at Glen Ellyn, and was paid
$13 per month, boarding around among the people of the
district. His second school was at Lisle and during the
winters of 1851, 1852, 1853, and 1854, he taught in Down-
ers Grove. His school teaching extended over a period of
thirteen years, his last charge being in Downers Grove in

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1864-5, after his services in the Civil War. Captain Rogers
gave the RepubHcan party his hearty support in the cam-
paign of i860, being one of the original Abraham Lincoln
Republicans. He was elected sheriff of DuPage county that
same year, and removed to Naperville, serving actively in
that office until obliged to leave it in charge of deputies,
while he commanded his company. On July 9, 1862, he
received from Governor Richard Yates, through Adjutant
General Allen C. Fuller, an appointment as recruiting of-
ficer, and assisted in raising four companies in Du Page
county, and six in De Kalb county, which formed the One
Hundred and Fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

Captain Rogers was mustered into the United States
service with his regiment at Dixon, 111., September 2, 1862.
The first service was in Kentucky, pursuing the famous
John Morgan, with whom the regiment had many skir-
mishes. From there they went to Gallatin, Tenn. In March
they were at Nashville, and in March, 1864, at Chattanooga.
The regiment participated in all the battles of the great At-
lanta campaign from Resaca to the fall of Atlanta and
Captain Rogers was in command of his company every
day.

After the Atlanta campaign Captain Rogers resigned
his commission as captain of Company B, to return home
and resume his duties as sheriff.

On the first of July, 1866, he embarked in the market
and provision business in Chicago, which he continued with
marked success until July i, 1904, after covering a period
of thirty-eight years, to a day, of Chicago business life.
His private charities were numerous and generous.

He was a charter member of Naperville Post No. 468,
G. A. R. and its first Commander, serving as such from its
organization, with the exception of one year; also a mem-
ber of the Army of the Tennessee, and of the Army of the
Cumberland.

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Captain Rogers was elected an Original Companion of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States through the Commandery of the State of Illinois,
March lo, 1887. Insignia No. 5544, Commandery No. 346.
He was married December 13, 1855, to Helen M. Stan-
ley, who passed away February 5, 1906. He married for
his second wife Calla E. Bush at Downers Grove, May 11,
1907, who survives him. To her, and his brothers we tender
our heartfelt sympathy. He left a large circle of sorrowing
friends, and those who gathered around his casket at the
funeral service could truly say, "Here lies a brave and true-
hearted soldier of the Republic."

William P. Wright,
Robert Mann Woods,
Jas. G. El wood.

Committee.

HENRY TOWNSHEND GODFREY.

First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon One Hundred and Fifty-
sixth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Omaha, Nebraska, April ly, 1917.

HENRY TOWNSHEND GODFREY was born in Do-
nard, County Wicklow, Ireland, July 5, 1840, and
died at Omaha, Neb., April 17, 191 7. His parents were
Henry E. B. and Mary Oakes Godfrey. They were of Eng-
lish descent. When he was 11 years old, Henry Town-
shend Godfrey was sent to Vine House Academy, a branch
of the University of London, where he was a student for
three years. At the expiration of that time he was articled
to his uncle, Dr. John B. Godfrey, of London, for five
years. In two years, however, he went with another uncle,

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Dr. Robert T. Godfrey, to Montreal, Canada. Both of
these uncles were distinguished physicians and surgeons.
Dr. Robert T. Godfrey was at that time professor of hy-
giene at the McGill Medical College at ^lontreal, and he
later occupied the chair of surgery at Bishop's University.
Henry Townshend Godfrey attended McGill Medical Col-
lege from 1856 to 1859. He also took a course at Hotel
Dieu. In 1863 he went to Chicago, where he became assist-
ant to Dr. Daniel Brainard, a distinguished surgeon. In
1864 he was graduated from Rush Medical College, in Chi-
cago. After his graduation he went South with the nth
Michigan Vol. Inf. Soon after his arrival there he was
transferred to the 156th 111. Vol. Inf., with which he served
as assistant surgeon until the close of the War of the Re-
bellion. After the war Dr. Godfrey located at Benton, Wis.,
where he practiced his profession until 1880, when he went
to Galena, 111. In 1865 Dr. Godfrey married Eliza Groves
Footner, a native of Montreal, and a daughter of William
and Mary Maughan Footner, who were natives of Durham-
shire, England. Five children were born of this union —
namely, William H., Alfred C, Walter J., Mary and Louise.
The two sons, Alfred C. and Walter J., are dead. The
oldest son, William H., lives at Sheridan, Mont. The eld-
est daughter, Mary, is the wife of Leigh Leslie, publisher
of The Daily Omaha Price Current at Omaha, Neb., and
the other daughter, Louise, is the wife of Leigh Leslie's
brother, Charles Leslie, Judge of the District Court at Oma-
ha. Dr. Godfrey retired from active practice at Galena
in 1912, and went to Omaha to spend his declining years with
his two daughters. He died at the home of Mrs. Charles
Leslie, after an illness of one year. Dr. Godfrey's first
wife died suddenly at the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1893.
Ten years after her death he was married to Helen H.
Howard, of Galena, who died six years after the marriage.
Dr. Godfrey was known throughout a large district in

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Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin as one of the
best physicians and most skillful surgeons in that region.
He was a member of the American Medical Society and had
served as president of the Julian Medical Society of Du-
buque, Iowa, and as president of the Jo Daviess County
(Illinois) Medical Society. For many years he was dis-
trict surgeon for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company, and local surgeon for the Illinois Central Railway
Company. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and for
many years he was a member of E. D. Kittoe Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, at Galena.

He was elected a Companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of
the State of Illinois, November 7, 1905, his Insignia being
No. 14,730. He was also a member of the Hamilton Club
of Chicago, and of the Chicago Medical Society. During
his residence at Omaha he was a member of the Douglas
County Medical Society.

William P. Wright,
George S. Avery,
Walter R. Robbins,

Committee.

GEORGE BYRON ABBOTT.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
June 14, 19 IT-

GEORGE B. ABBOTT was born at Dixon, 111., May 18,
1856. He was the third son of Nathan W. Abbott,
surgeon of the 80th 111. Vol. Inf., and Sarah Yates Abbott,
of Revolutionary ancestry. His father and mother came
from New York to Illinois at an early date.

He received his medical degree from Chicago Medical
College, and soon became a leading physician of the City
of Chicago.

Very early in his career his intensely patriotic nature,
moved by respect for his father's loyal service, induced him
to become a member of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A.,

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then a young military order. He served as Captain of Chi-
cago Camp No. i, and as Colonel of the Illinois Division.
In 1887, at the DesMoines Encampment, he was elected
Commander-in-Chief. So loyally and well did he com-
mand the growing order that at the succeeding National
Encampment at Wheeling, W. Va., in 1888, he was re-
elected. During his incumbency, largely due to his untiring
efforts, the Post System was consolidated with the Sons of
Veterans, U. S. A.

He sacrificed a brilliant professional career to devote
his time and energies to that Order ; and although business
took him to Honduras and to Mexico for extended periods,
his active interest never ceased after his retirement from
command. At all times he was engaged in some constructive
work, continuing his activity in its affairs after it became
a civic body. No mission was too lowly, no task too diffi-
cult, no office too great for his undertaking. He served
twice as Adjutant General ; compiled the ritual and wrote
the Order's historical sketch. He contributed much to raise
it to its present position of influence as one of the allied
patriotic societies of our country.

George B. Abbott could not confine his patriotic activi-
ties to one order. He was long an honored companion of
the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, wherein his faithful services
will be long and gratefully remembered. He was also a
member of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution.

His death occurred on Flag Day, June 14, 1917, at Chi-
cago. His funeral service was conducted by General Sam-
uel Fallows of this Commandery; and was in charge of the
Sons of Veterans. He is interred at Rosehill Cemetery.

His was a rare nature with a rod of lightning for the
wrongdoer, a blanket of tenderness for the friend, a help-
ing hand for the weak and a clarion call for those seeking

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a leader. His friendship was of that intense rugged nature
that, having settled on the object of its affection, could be
moved by neither allurement nor disaster. When con-
vinced of the rectitude of his course, neither associations
nor reward could stay his opposition. Withal he har-
bored no resentment, and his sympathy ever returned to the
unfortunate. His life spanned the period from the War
for the Suppression of the Rebellion to the entry of our
Government into the present World War. Had he remained
with us, his large abilities would have been eagerly placed
at his country's service. He will be remembered with
honor for his patriotic works.

William G. Dustin,
George B. Stadden,
William T. Church,
Committee.

CAMPBELL ELIAS BABCOCK.

Captain Sixty-first United S'tates Infantry. Died at Winnetka,
Illinois, Jnne 21, 1917.

THE committee appointed by the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of
the State of Illinois, to prepare a tribute to the memory
of our late Companion Captain Campbell Elias Babcock,
U. S. Army, respectfully submit the following:

Captain Babcock was the eldest son of Annie Campbell
Babcock, and the late Brevet Brigadier General Orville
Elias Babcock, major of engineers, United States Army
(who died in the discharge of his duty in the United States
lighthouse service at Mosquito Lilet, Florida, June 2, 1884),
and brother of Orville E. and Adolph B. Babcock.

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Captain Babcock was born at Galena, 111., September 7,
1867.

He was elected to this Order April 6, 1899. Insignia
No. 12524.

Civil Record.

He attended the public school at Galena and subsequently
entered Princeton college, and graduated therefrom in the
class of 1891.

Military Record.

He enlisted as a private in the ist U. S. Cavalry, May 21,
1898, and was assigned to Troop ''K," where he served
faithfully and earned his appointment as a Second Lieuten-
ant U. S. Army. Accepted his commission September 2,
1898, and was assigned to the 12th U. S. Infantry. Ap-
pointed First Lieutenant and assigned to the 7th U. S. In-
fantry for duty. May 13, 1899. Appointed Captain and
assigned to the 8th U. S. Infantry for duty, December 16,
1904. Detached and assigned as quartermaster by detail to
the U. S. Transport Service, July 17, 1905. Detached, and
assigned to the 4th U. S. Infantry for duty July 17, 1909.
Detached and re-assigned as quartermaster in U. S. Trans-
port Service July 17, 191 1. Detached and assigned to the
17th U. S. Infantry for duty February 7, 1912. Detached
and transferred to the 28th U. S. Infantry for duty Septem-
ber 18, 1912. Detached and transferred to the 7th U. S. In-
fantry for duty December 20, 1912. Detached and trans-
ferred to the 6 1 St U. S. Infantry for duty (new regiment),
1917.

Army Service.

He enlisted in the Roosevelt Rough Riders at the begin-
ning of the Spanish-American War, and served throughout
the Cuban campaign.

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During his army life of nearly twenty years he was sta-
tioned at various military posts and cantonments in both the
United States and foreign possessions, and saw active serv-
ice on our frontiers, and in the Philippine campaigns.

On account of his arduous duties in the transport service,
which covered a period of several years on many oceans, in
which he made twenty-six round trips to the Philippines,
coupled with the strenuous duties on the Mexican border, he
finally yielded to an attack of nervous prostration which
brought his life work to a close.

His interment will take place at the National Cemetery
at Arlington, Va., to lie beside the body of his heroic and
honored father.

We desire to tender to the sorrowing ones of his stricken
home the profound sympathy of this Commandery.

Hugh D. Bowker,
Theodore Van R. Ash croft,
Jared W. Young,

Committee.

ALFRED NASH.

Surgeon Ninth Michigan Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Joliet, Illinois, June 21, 1917.

SURGEON ALFRED NASH was born on Amherst
Island, near Kingston and Pictou, Ontario, August 12,
1828, and died in Joliet, 111., June 21, 1917, from the infirmi-
ties of old age.

His ancestry could easily be traced as far back as 1600
and was a mingling of English and Welsh blood.

His father, a London merchant, chartered a ship and
brought a large party of people and much merchandise to
Prince Edward County, Ontario, in 182 1. When Dr. Nash
was nine years old his father died, and he grew up in the
home of an old friend of the family. He described these

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people in these words : "The simple, plain, honest, pure
Hves of that God fearing Quaker family was a benediction
upon all who came under their influence."

The influence of the Quaker training showed itself in
his gentle manners and retiring disposition. He attended a
special course of training at Oberlin College in 1853, fitting
him for medical studies at the University of Michigan,
graduating at Ann Arbor in 1856. He practiced his profes-
sion till the opening of the Civil War.

On August 22, 1861, Dr. Nash was appointed Assistant
Surgeon of the First Michigan Cavalry, which served in
Custer's Brigade of the 20th Army Corps. On December
15, 1862, he was promoted to be surgeon of the 9th Michigan
Cavalry with the rank of Major. In the famous raid of
the Confederate, John Morgan, through Ohio, Dr. Nash's
regiment had an active part and he was present at the sur-
render of the raiders.

He was discharged from the service on December 15,
1864, on a surgeon's certificate of disability. At the time
of his enlistment he married Miss Anna J. Cornelius, the
daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Cornelius, a prominent Baptist
minister of Ann Arbor, and he put on record the influence
of her letters of sympathy and her prayers during his army
life. After his return he practiced medicine for fifteen
years at LaPere, Mich., during which time his wife died.

Dr. Nash came to Joliet in 1879, and for about thirty
years was a leading member of his profession, retiring from
active ^practice some nine years before his death. He was
for a number of years president of the Will County Medical
Society, and president of the local pension board. Just
before coming to Joliet he was married to Mrs. Charlotte
Pomeroy Richards, \vho survives him. The children by
his former marriage, who survive, are Mrs. R. M. Berger,
of Peoria, 111. ; Claud Nash, of South Bend, Ind., and Miss

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Maud Nash, of Joliet. There are also three grand and two
great grandchildren surviving.

Dr. Nash was in great sympathy with all movements for
moral and civic reform. He was one of the physicians who
was a pioneer in declaring that alcoholic liquors were of
little value in medicine, and was widely known as an advo-
cate of the suppression of the liquor traffic. He was a ruling
elder in the Central Presbyterian Church for thirty-seven
years, was president of the Will County Bible Society and
active in the work of the Humane Society. While modest
and retiring and noted for his reticence, he was long known
as a man of the highest Christian character, "the beloved
physician" and a devoted friend. He was a member of
the Bartleson Post of the G. A. R. and a member of the
Loyal Legion since November ii, 1897, Insignia No. 11980.

The funeral was held in the Central Presbyterian Church
and largely attended by old friends and associates, among
whom were members of the Loyal Legion and the Grand
Army of the Republic.

Tributes were paid by the pastor, the Rev. E. E. Hast-
ings, by a former pastor. Rev. Duncan C. Milner, and by
Rev. Alexander Lewis, a son of a former pastor, Rev. James
Lewis, so well known as Col. Lewis.

The body was taken to LaPere, Mich., for burial. On
the coffin was the beautiful National Flag — the testimonial
of the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion.

Duncan C. Milner,
Robert W. M'Claughry,
James G. Elwood,

Committee.

JAMES GAVION ELWOOD.

Captain One Hundredth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Joliet, Illinois, July s, 1917.

JAMES GAVION ELWOOD was born in Lockport, III.,
May 6, 1839, and died July 3, 191 7, at Joliet, 111.
He attended the public schools of Joliet. He graduated
at a Connecticut military academy in 1857, with the rank of
Captain.

He continued his studies in Germany and Switzerland,
and studied for a year at the Frederick William University
of Berlin.

On his return home he took a course at Bryant & Strat-
ton's Commercial College, Chicago.

The looth Regiment of 111. A^ol. Infantry was organized
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in August, 1862. It was known as the Will County Regi-
meat, as all but seventy-three of its members were credited
to that county. Captain Elwood was active in organizing
Company B, and was commissioned as its Captain and mus-
tered in August 30, 1862. He participated with his regiment
in the five days' fighting before Murfreesboro and in the
battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862, and January i,
2 and 3, 1863.

After this battle, Capt. Elwood was appointed Assistant
Adjutant General of the ist Brigade, ist Division, 21st
Army Corps, and served in that position until he left the
service in October, 1863. He was in action at Chickamauga,
September 19 and 20, 1863.

He operated for a time on the Chicago Board of Trade.
In 1880 he entered the real estate business in Joliet, and
continued this occupation during the rest of his life. He
was one of the leaders in many public enterprises. He led
in the organization of the first telephone service in Joliet,
which was sold two years later to the Chicago Telephone
Company, with Capt. Elwood for a time as manager. He
was Secretary of the Joliet Gas Company for twenty years,
and for a number of years its manager. He was Director
for many years of the Will County National Bank. He was
Superintendent of the Oakwood Cemetery Association from
1871 to the end of his Hfe.

He wsLS affiliated with Matteson Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
Joliet Chapter, R. A. M., and Joliet Commandery No. 4,
K. T., and held the most important offices in all of them.
He was Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of
the Knights Templar of Illinois for twelve years.

He was an active and faithful member of the Bartleson
Post of the G. A. R.

He was a devoted member of the Commandery of the
State of Illinois of the Loyal Legion and served as its Com-
mander in 1912.

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He was mayor of Joliet in 1872. In 1912 and 1913 he
was a member and President of the Will County Board of
Supervisors.

During the industrial panic of 1893 he served as Over-
seer of the Poor, and had charge of the feeding of 4,450
persons who were out of work. He opened a special store,
got provisions and goods by the car load, and saved the
community much by cutting out middle men.

He served for a term of four years as postmaster of
Joliet.

He was Warden and Vestryman of Christ Episcopal
Church for many years.

Captain Elwood and Miss Margaret Pierce were mar-
ried in 1868. Mrs. Elwood died one year prior to his death.

The surviving children are : Ward P. Elwood, Louise M .
Elwood, William N. Elwood and Mrs. Arthur C. Leach.

Captain Elwood was greatly respected and honored for
his public spirit, for his interest in all that pertained to the
welfare of the community. He was a good soldier and an
ardent patriot. For his interest and devotion to public
service and things that relate to human welfare, he held a
large place in the respect and affection of his fellow-men.

Erastus W. Willard,
Duncan C. Milner,
Robert Mann Woods,

Committee.

FRANCIS MARION WRIGHT.

Second Lieutenant Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Urhana, Illinois, July 15, 1917.

FRANCIS MARION WRIGHT was born near Briar
Ridge, Adams county, Ohio, August 5, 1844, being the
son of James and EHzabeth (Copple) Wright, and died at
Urbana, 111., July 15, 1917. His parents were of Scotch-
Irish ancestry. He received his education in a log cabin
school house near Briar Ridge, where he studied until he
was old enough to work on a farm, when his scholastic
work was limited to the winter season. Later he studied at
Ohio Valley Academy, at Decatur, Ohio.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Wright enlisted
in the Union Army, his call to the colors coming before

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he was eighteen years of age. He enlisted in June, 1861,
as a member of Company I, 39th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
He was mustered in at Col rain, Ohio, and was sent to
Missouri, under Fremont. Afterward he was with Pope's
command at Island No. 10, and New Madrid. Before being
mustered out in 1865, he was promoted through the ranks
of Corporal, Sergeant, and Sergeant-Major to Second Lieu-
tenant, a position he held at the close of the war. He
served through the Atlanta campaign, going with Sherman
on the famous march to the sea. He was under fire in, at
least, forty engagements, and was wounded at Atlanta on
July 22, 1864, but did not leave the field.

It was during his service in the army that Mr. Wright
became imbued with the ambition to become a lawyer. He
noted that many of the fine appearing men whom he admired
in the army were lawyers. So, despite the fact that his
parents had desired that he study medicine, upon his return
from the war, he began the study of law, under Col. D. W.
C. Loundon, later a judge, and graduated at Cincinnati law
college in 1867, receiving the degree of L. L. B. He was
admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at George-
town, Brown county, Ohio.

He was married to Miss Elizabeth West, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John West, Jr., on July 15, 1868. During
December, following their marriage, they moved to Urbana,
111. Here Judge Wright entered on the practice of law
alone, later being identified in business with Judge W. D.
Somers, with whom he was associated for eleven years,
the firm occupying a leading position in professional circles
and enjoying a very extensive and lucrative clientage.
After the dissolution of the partnership he enjoyed a large
general practice until his elevation to the bench, to which he
was elected in June, 189 1. He was first chosen judge of
the old fourth judicial circuit. On entering upon his judicial
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give his undivided attention to his official duties. In 1897
he was reelected to the new sixth judicial circuit. On his
re-election the supreme court appointed him one of the
appellate judges of the state, assigning him to the second
district, and later changed him to the third district. In
the spring of 1904 he was appointed by President McKinley
to the court of claims at Washington, and later by President
Roosevelt as federal judge of the eastern district of Illinois,
sitting at Danville, East St. Louis and Cairo. On receiving
the appointment under President McKinley, Judge Wright
resigned as circuit judge to be succeeded by Judge Solon
Philbrick.

Judge Wright's interests were not limited to law, as he
was one of the men interested in the organization of the
First National Bank of Urbana, being one of the original
stockholders. He served the bank as vice president and
president for many years. Judge Wright was so persistent
in his office as federal judge that the ravages of disease
failed to shake his determination to carry on the business
of his court. Despite the weakness that overcame him, and
against the advice of friends, Judge Wright would go to
Danville when scarcely able to sit up, goaded, apparently,
by anxiety lest his friends should think that he was grow-
ing too old to longer serve.

He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
from childhood. Politically, he was a Republican, and had
borne his share of the work and burdens of the organiza-
tion. Socially he was a Mason and had held high office in
Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery. He had also
been a representative of the grand lodge. He was a Past
Commander of Black Eagle Post No. 129, G. A. R., and
an honored member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, Insignia No. 9617. Such in
brief is the history of one who by his own unaided efforts
had attained a position of eminence in professional, political

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and social life, and who received the respect which is ac-
corded sterling worth.

We tender to the widow and family of our comrade our
sincere sympathy in this hour of their grief.

George W. Harwood,
Edward Bailey,
Stephen A. Forbes,

Committee.

CHARLES HENRY FELTON.

Senior First Lieutenant Second Illinois Light Artillery, United
States Volunteers. Died at Seattle, Washington, August 30, ipi/.

CHARLES HENRY FELTON was born at Troy, N. Y.,
February 18, 1840, and died August 30, 1917, after a
short illness, at Seattle, Wash., of lumbar pneumonia.

Lieut. Charles H. Felton, descendant of a family of
soldiers, railroad officials, and educators, was himself a Civil
War soldier of distinguished record. His great grandfather
was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and his grand-
father an officer in the War of 1812.

Lieut. Felton enlisted February 20, 1862, as private in
Bolton's Light Battery "L," Second Regt., IlHnois Artillery ;

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promoted to Acting Com'y, and quartermaster sergeant,
Ord. Sergt. ; Junior 2nd lieut., June 21, 1864; Senior ist
Lieut, March 28, 1865.

Battery received outfit at St. Louis, and proceeded by
boat to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., arriving soon after the
Shiloh battle; participated in the advance on Corinth, also
at the battle of Hatchies, under Gen. Hurlbut, in Gen.
Grant's campaign in Mississippi, from LaGrange, Tenn.,
south; in Gen. Grant's Vicksburg campaign, starting from
Memphis down the river, and through the forty-six days'
siege of Vicksburg.

After the fall of Vicksburg, was appointed Adjutant of
Artillery for District of Vicksburg, comprising Vicksburg,
Natchez, Millikens and Davis Bend. Appointed Asst. Pro-
vost Marshal of Vicksburg, having charge of the Jails, Pro-
vost Guard, Pass, Permit and Tax Departments.

Marched from Vicksburg to Jackson, Miss., and return.
Then placed on detached service, and so remained until
resignation in June, 1865.

Commands were Fourth Div., under Hurlbut, after-
wards under Gen'ls J. A. Logan, M. D. Leggett, Force and
Dennis.

Lieut. Felton married Miss Lizzie Borthwick, of Albany,
N. Y., a sister of the late Mrs. Lsaac Bailey, of Pasadena,
Cal. He, with his wife, spent nine years in France and
England, and made many friends there.

They were five years in the West Indies, Central and
South America, thence to Long Beach, Cal., where his
widow now resides.

Lieut. Felton was Commander of Calumet Post No. 706
for two years; on the staff of Gen. Black, also Gen. John
Shimpf, 111. Dept. Commander of the G. A. R. ; also of A. D.
Shaw, Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R.

Lieut. Felton was held in high esteem by his comrades;
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gentleman. He will be missed by a host of comrades and
friends.

He now rests under the beautiful palm trees in the Gar-
den of Sleep, at Sunny Side Cemetery.

Robert Clark Knaggs,
Robert Mann Woods,
John T. Stockton,

Committee.

CHARLES CUMMINS HUNT.

Assistant Surgeon One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry,

United States Volunteers. Died at Seattle, Washington,

September 9, IQIT-

TAR. CHARLES CUMMINS HUNT was born in Mil-
■^^ lersbiirg, Holmes County, Ohio, November 25, 1840.
He worked as a boy on farms in the vicinity of his birth-
place and earned enough for his schooling. Later he taught
school, studying medicine at night.

It was necessary for him to walk five miles twice a week
to recite the week's lessons to the physician in a neighbor-
ing town who was tutoring him. Later he purchased the
practice of a physician in Nashville, Ohio. On May 2/,
1864, he was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the

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137th Ohio regiment. Resigned July 13, 1864, to accept the
appointment of first assistant surgeon in the 169th regiment
Ohio Vol. Inft., in which he served till mustered out Septem-
ber 4, 1864.

In July, 1867, he located in Dixon, Illinois. His medical
education was the best that could be obtained in this country
and in the old world. He held many positions of trust and
honor, among them that of member of the Board of Pension
Examiners and the School Board for many years ; on the
directory of the City National Bank of Dixon since its or-
ganization; President of the Illinois State Medical Associa-
tion; delegate to two international congresses, one in this
country and one abroad, member of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, Illinois Commandery ; member G. A. R.
Post 299, Dixon, Illinois ; President of the Western Alumni
Association of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medi-
cal College; member of the Staff of Physicians and Sur-
geons, Public Hospital in Dixon, and Instructor in Bacteri-
ology and Minute Anatomy in the training school for nurses
connected with the hospital.

As the sun closed the day of September 9th of the year
19 1 7, the light and hfe of Companion Charles Cummins
Hunt joined the innumerable caravan coursing its way to the
shadowless land of eternal rest. As another grain of sand
dropped from Time's mighty hour glass the music of a
noble and generous life voiced the Anthem of the ages —
"Well done thou good and faithful servant."

Abalino C. Baedwell,
Walter R. Robbins,
Theodore Van R. Ash croft,

Committee.

JOHN MORTIMER STILES.

Born at Galena, Illinois, October IS, 1847. Died at Kernstown,
Virginia, September 30, 1917.

SON of 1st Lieutenant George P. Stiles, 31st Ohio Vol-
unteer Infantry.

Elected an Original Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, November
8, 1894. Insignia No. 10708. •

He was enrolled July 25, 1864, and mustered into service
August II, 1864, as Private in Company "A," 174th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry to serve one year. He was mustered out
of service with that company and regiment June 28, 1865, ^s
a Private.

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He was at the siege of Decatur, Ala., October 25 to No-
vember 2, 1864. Participated in the following battles:
Overalls Creek, December 4, 1864, The Cedars, December
7, 1864, Engagement on the Shelby ville Pike, December 16,
1864, all of which actions were fought in Tennessee. Battle
of Wise's Fork, North Carolina, March 8, 9 and 10, 1865.

HARRISON KELLEY.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Forty-fourth New York Infantry,

United States Volunteers. Died at Wilmette, Illinois,

October 14, 1917.

HARRISON KELLEY was born in Rose street, New
York City, on the 14th day of August, 1840, and died
at Wilmette, 111., October 14, 1917.

He came to Chicago in his early youth, becoming a per-
manent resident about 1855, and the period of his army serv-
ice was the only interruptions of his citizenship here, until
the day of his 'death.

" On May 10, 1866, he was married to Mary S. Under-
wood, in the First Presbyterian Church of this city.

Four children were born of this union, two of whom
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died in infancy, his daughter, Elizabeth B. Kelley, now Mrs.
Arthur L. Snow, being the only surviving child. His son,
Harrison B. Kelley, born March ii, 1885, died Feb. 7, 1903.

The loss of this son, just approaching manhood, was a
severe blow to both father and mother; and the death of
his wife a few years later, added greatly to the grief of
our companion.

He was early attracted by military maneuvers and with
Ellsworth's United States Zouave Cadets found opportunity
to develop this trait, being a member of that company at the
time of its memorable tour of the principal cities of the
country.

When Fort Sumter was attacked his patriotism flamed
high and he became a member of Captain James Smith's
Battery "A" Chicago Light Artillery, which left the city on
the 2 1 St day of April, 1861, being the first Chicago troops
to leave for the war. From this company he was dis-
charged on the 15th day of the following July.

On the 4th day of September, 1861, he was enrolled in
the People's Ellsworth Regiment (numerically known as
the 44th New York Vol. Inf.) at Albany, N. Y. This regi-
ment, recruited in honor of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, the
first Union officer killed in the war, included others of the
U. S. Zouave Cadets among whom were three officers whose
names appear on the records of this Commandery — viz. :
Lieut.-Col. Freeman Conner, Major E. B. Knox (both of
whom will be remembered by the older members of this
body), and Captain W. N. Banks, who is still with us. Capt.
Lucius S. Larrabee, of Chicago, who was killed at Gettys-
burg, was of the same company. Thus our companion, Har-
rison Kelley, found himself associated with others who had
had opportunities, enjoyed by few at that time, to acquire a
practical knowledge of drill so essential and valuable. These
men all did good service as officers and helped bring the
regiment to a high state of efficiency. Our companion, on

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the 20th of September, 1861, was made First Lieutenant of
Co. B, 44th N. Y. V. I. In the Peninsular campaign he was
captured by the Confederates on June 30, 1862, and about
sixty days later was exchanged, rejoining the regiment in
September. He was appointed Adjutant as of date July 3,
1862, and served as such until the Battle of Fredericksburgh,
Va., Dec. 13th of that year. He was wounded at this battle
and on Feb. 9, 1863, was discharged for disability, on tender
of resignation. Following the Fredericksburgh battle he
was promoted to be Captain, but was not mustered. He at-
tracted many friends among the officers of the regiment by
his pleasing personality and soldierly qualities. He became
a member of the Loyal Legion December 10, 1891, and at
the time of his death was Chancellor of the Illinois Comman-
dery. He was also Secretary of the Western Society of the
Army of the Potomac and a member of Geo. H. Thomas
Post No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic.

His death is a sorrow to the companions with whom he

has been so long associated and to his many acquaintances.

The members of the committee extend their condolences

to the bereaved daughter and to other relatives and

friends.

Orett L. Hunger,
Edward D. Redington,
William N. Danks,

Committee.

OSCAR FITZALAN BANE.

Captain One Hundred and Tiventy-third Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, October 24, 1917.

r\SCAR FITZALAN BANE, a Companion of this
^^ Commandery, who died October 24, 191 7, at Chicago,
111., was born in Washington, Pa., September 11, 1842, and
was the eldest of ten children.

The family moved to Illinois in 1855, settling on a farm
in Coles county. At the outbreak of the Civil War Capt.
Bane was living in Ashmore, same county. He enlisted as
a private in the 8th 111. Inf., and was mustered in at Spring-
field, April 25, 1861, and discharged July 25, 1861, at the
expiration of his term of service. He was commissioned
and mustered as First Lieut., Co. A, 123rd 111. Inf., Sep-

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tember 6, 1862, for three years; mustered as First Lieut.,
same company, at Maysville, Ala., November i, 1863. Com-
missioned as Captain, same company, February 15, 1864,
with rank from December 20, 1863, and mustered out and
discharged at Nashville, Tenn., June 25, 1865.

He served in Gen. Terry's brigade, Rousseau's division,
McCook's corps, at Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862;
transferred to Gen. Reynold's division, 14th A. C, January,
1863; transferred to Wilder's brigade. Mounted Inf., in
May, 1863. Captain Bane was in the battles of Chicka-
mauga, Farmington, the Atlanta campaign, and numerous
engagements in 1864. Also in the campaign with the ist
brigade, 2nd Division Cavalry, from Eastport, Miss., to
Macon, Ga., in 1865. Served with his company and regi-
ment until May 21, 1864, detailed as A. A. Adj. Gen., 3rd
brigade, 2nd Division Cavalry A. C, May 21, 1864, acting
as such from that date until mustered out.

Early in 1867 he embarked in the wholesale clothing
business in Chicago as a member of the firm of Clement,
Morton 8z Co., afterward Clement, Bane & Co. About 1890
he became secretary and treasurer, and later president, of
the Georgia Marble Company. Retired from active busi-
ness about 1905.

As a boy and young man he attended the country
schools of his day, finishing in an academy in Charleston,
111.

He was married in 1866 to Ella Clement of Charleston,
who died in 1873. Married the second time in 1874 to Mary
Crocker of Boston, who survives him.

John T. McAuley,
Walter R. Robbins,
Theo. Van R. Ashcroft,
Committee.

BERNARD POLLAK.

First Lieutenant Thirty-ninth Nezv York Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 8, 1917.

/COMPANION BERNARD POLLAK was born April
^^ 27^, 1839, in Budapest, Hungary, and died in Chicago,
111., November 8, 1917. This is but the brief record of the
life history of a youthful alien coming a stranger to a
strange land, escaping from a despotic environment to
join the gallant band of foreign bom patriots who did so
much for their adopted country. No native born American
with all national and patriotic traditions to urge him on
could do more.

Companion Pollak was educated in the thorough schools
of that day and locality, embracing classics, modern lan-

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guages, history and business economics. It was in his
studies of American history that a yearning for a greater
personal freedom and newer thought and opportunity was
awakened. The vision of a "Great Republic" across the
seas, where the people governed by the people for the people,
beckoned him onward to its shores. Through the days of
his early youth, and while the practical necessities of exist-
ence compelled him to take service with a large ''Foreign
Insurance Company" in Budapest, his ambitions for the
future were never permitted to abate in their insistence.

The careers of his illustrious compatriots Kossuth and
Kosciusko inspired within him a burning desire for a home
in the land of opportunity, the free America, so that when
call came to him for military service in 1859, under the
tyrannous rule of an Autocratic sovereign, he fled from
home and people to seek the new life that his ambitions
had pictured as awaiting in the "Land of the Free."

He finally reached New York City, where he found
profitable employment with a firm engaged in a large import
and export trade, where his familiarity with the English,
German and French languages, in addition to that of his
former country, soon made him a valued employee.

Though not an American by birth, his career thereafter
proved that he had warmly embraced and assimilated the
courage, the breadth, the generous aspiration toward affirma-
tive activity that are regarded as among American char-
acteristics. It naturally followed then that when the Slave
Barons of the South rebelled and threatened the perpetua-
tion of the Union, our Companion would be among the first
to respond to the call to arms.

He enlisted in May, 1861, as private in Co. G, 39th regi-
ment infantry. New York Volunteers, and was appointed
sergeant upon the muster for service of the regiment. Jan-
uary 4, 1862, he was promoted to Sergeant Major of the
regiment. He was promoted to 2nd Lieut,, Co. *'G.," June

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8, 1862, and ist Lieut., Co. "F.," same regiment, October i8,
1862. He participated in the several campaigns and battles
of the Army of the Potomac from the first Bull Run to
Harper's Ferry where his regiment was included in the
force surrendered by Gen. Dixon S. Miles, and paroled to
Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111., where they remained pend-
ing exchange. Lieut. Pollak was finally mustered out of
service at Centerville, Va., May 31, 1863, and returned to
his home in New York City, his health much impaired by
his strenuous service during the preceding two years of ac-
tive field service.

He engaged in the tobacco trade but seeing a more pros-
perous outlook, he removed to Chicago in 1882, and soon
built up a profitable business along the same lines, with
connections throughout the Northwest.

Companion Pollak was married to Miss Bertha Bohm
in 1866 at New York City. Mrs. Pollak died in Chicago
in 1902.

Companion Pollak was elected to this Commandery
March 4, 1909, and was one of the most enthusiastic mem-
bers in appreciation of the honors conferred by affiliation
with the Loyal Legion. He was quiet, modest, and unob-
trusive of manner, and personally was a genial, courteous
gentleman, greatly respected by his friends and acquain-
tances. His memory will be held in high regard by those
who knew him best.

J. J. Abercrombie,
Edwin R. Von Kolkow,
William L. Cable,

Committee.

BENJAMIN HERRICK LINSCOTT.

Captain Fortieth Massachusetts Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, December 21, 1917.

CAPTAIN 40th Massachusetts Inf., U. S. Vol., died at
Chicago, 111., December 21, 1917, and was laid away
in beautiful Rose Hill cemetery on Sunday, December 23rd,
following.

Your committee appointed to take action upon the death
of our late Companion, Benjamin Herrick Linscott, do re-
port and move that the following memorial be inscribed
upon the records of this Commandery and that a copy there-
of be sent to the family of the deceased.

Companion Linscott was born in the old town of Alfred,
state of Maine, August 29, 1833.

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Civil Record.

But little is known of his antecedents, and it has not
been possible for your committee to obtain any of his
earlier history, inasmuch as his wife, the only relative
available from whom to obtain such record, followed him
to the great beyond January ii, 1918, having died while at
the breakfast table of heart disease, coupled with the loss
of her faithful companion of more than half a century.

Two children were born to this couple. Otis, the elder,
died in Colorado some years since ; date of death unknown.
The second son, Guy V. (named after that gallant soldier,
Guy V. Henry, colonel, U. S. Army, of Civil and Indian
war fame), died, date unknown. It is not known whom
he married, but a daughter was born to them — Helen, who
married Edgar E. Merrill, from whom sprang a son, named
after his father, Edgar E. Merrill, Jr., great grandson and
the only lineal descendant of our companion. The mother
and son reside at Jacksonville, Florida.

Military Record.

Companion Linscott entered the volunteer service as a
private, August 7, 1862; promoted to corporal, November,
1862; advanced to sergeant, June, 1863; appointed 2nd
lieutenant, January i, 1864, and ist lieutenant, January 2"],
1864, and to captain, September 7, 1864.

He took part with his regiment in engagements on the
Blackwater and Nansemond rivers, Virginia, as skirmish-
ers under Gen. Michael Corcoran, at the siege of Suffolk,
Va., and thence on the Peninsular campaign under Gen.
Keyes, and participated in many minor engagements un-
til Gen. McClellan withdrew his army from that point. His
regiment with other troops was then ordered to Gettysburg,
Pa., but arrived there too late for the battle, after which
his regiment w^as assigned to the nth Corps, and followed

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the Confederate Army to the Potomac river, laying a pon-
toon bridge at BerHn in the endeavor to intercept the en-
emy. Faihng in this, they marched to Cattlet's Station ;
August 6, 1863, was ordered to Charleston, S. C, and on
arriving occupied Foley's Island; thence to Morris Island,
and the siege of Fort Wagner ; thence to Florida as mounted
infantry, and landed at Jacksonville, February 7, 1864;
marched inland and captured a battery of four guns at
midnight. They were then known as the Light Brigade,
consisting of the 40th Massachusetts Vol. Inf., under the
command of Col. Guy V. Henry, the first battalion of the
1st Massachusetts Cavalry and Battery B, ist U. S. Ar-
tillery, under Capt. Elder; same night marched to Balding
and captured two more guns and a large amount of ammuni-
tion and other stores, thence to St. Mary's river ; crossed
same by swimming and drove the enemy to Sanderson,
thence to Lake City. ^

On February 20, 1864, was fought the battle of Olusta,
Fla., and after participating in many skirmishes, and clos-
ing the campaign, were again ordered to Virginia. Landed
at Bermuda Hundred on the Potomac river under Gen.
B. F. Butler, skirmishing with the enemy toward Richmond,
which ended in the battle of Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864.
The regiment was then assigned to the 3rd brigade, ist
division of the i8th Corps, commanded by Gen. Baldy
Smith; joined the Army of the Potomac at Cold Harbor,
and fought both days, June ist and 3rd, in the front line,
losing heavily and leaving only forty-three men and two
officers fit for duty. On the 15th day of June, 1864, this
corps took the heights of Petersburg and participated in
many other battles during that summer, including the Crater
at Petersburg, Fort Harrison, below Richmond, and lastly
the second battle of Fair Oaks. He participated in twenty-
five pitched battles and skirmishes during his term of serv-

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ice, and was mustered out on the i6th day of June, 1865,
at Manchester, Va.

Thus closes the Hfe of an esteemed soldier and an
agreeable gentleman. God rest his soul.

Hugh D. Bowker,
William M. Van Horne,
Jared W. Young^

Committee.

ELIJAH BROWN DAVID.

Captain Thirtieth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Lincoln, Nebraska, January 3, 1918.

ELIJAH BROWN DAVID, a member of this Com-
mandery, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. May
D. Hebbard, in Lincoln, Neb., January 3, 19 18.

Captain David was born in Ontario county, New York,
June 8, 1835. He moved with his parents when 3 years
old, to Grass Lake, Mich., where he grew to manhood. He
finished his education in Albion College, Michigan, after-
ward studying dentistry in the office of Dr. Dean of Al-
bion, Mich. Owing to failing health he gave up the prac-
tice of dentistry and moved to Mercer county, Illinois, where

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he engaged in farming. August, 1861, answering the call
of his country, he enlisted in Co. A, 30th 111. Vol. Inf., of
which Company he was made one of the sergeants. Was
commissioned Second Lieutenant of his Company February
15, 1862, and for meritorious conduct at the battle of Fort
Donelson was made First Lieutenant, April 22, 1862, of his
company, and having shown marked ability he was made
Captain of the company September 3, 1862, and served as
such until mustered out with his command, October 27,
1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn.

Upon his return home he located for the practice of
dentistry in New Windsor, Mercer county, Illinois. In
1873 Dr. David moved to Aledo, 111., where he opened an
office for the practice of his profession, continuing in ac-
tive practice thirty-four years, retiring in 1907. Captain
David was a member of the Illinois State Dental Society
from 1873 until his death, in which society he held many
offices. Though a professional man, was interested in and
closely identified with many lines of usefulness, serving as
Treasurer of his county, and Secretary of the Mercef
County Agricultural Board for ten years. Was a member
of the State Board of Agriculture for thirty years, and
was its Auditor for twelve years ; was a delegate from that
Board to the National Live Stock Association Convention,
and was made Secretary of same. Captain David was
chairman of the committee that inaugurated Old Soldiers'
Day at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, 111. He repre-
sented the 14th Illinois Congressional District as a Com-
missioner of the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, and was
chairman of the Horticultural Committee which made the
exhibit of those products for the State of Illinois, and was
also one of the auditors of the Illinois Commission of the
World's Columbian Exposition.

His interest in agricultural matters was of great value
to the farmers of his own locality and the state at large.

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Before there was a law passed creating a Farmers' In-
stitute, Capt. David at his own expense organized and con-
ducted Institutes in every county in his Congressional Dis-
trict. By reason of his large service as a member of the
State Board of Agriculture, he was well and favorably
known and held in high estimation throughout the state.

Captain David besides being a life member of the State
Dental Society, was a member of Warren Shedd Post No.
262, G. A. R., Department of Illinois, and of the Baptist
Church of which he was a staunch supporter and zealous
member.

He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Woodhams,
September i, 1862, who passed away in Aledo, 111., Novem-
ber 25, 1905.

To his bereaved children, Mary D. Hebbard of Lincoln,
Neb.; Cora B. Pyles, of Coulee City, Washington; O. A.
David, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Dr. George David, of Aledo,
111., we extend our heartfelt sympathy.

As a soldier, citizen and friend our companion was
dearly loved and honored. His was a life of usefulness and
lofty ideals which may well be an inspiration of good.

A. A. Rice,
William A. Lorimer,
Theo. Van R. Ashcroft,

Committee.

LESLIE DON PUTERBAUGH.

Succession Companion of the First Class. Died at Springfield, Illi-
nois, January 4, 19 18.

IN the passing of Judge Leslie D. Puterbaiigh, who died
at Springfield, 111., on January 4, 1918, this Commandery
and indeed the people of the entire State have sustained
a deplorable loss. In the prime and vigor of a splendid
manhood, in the midst of public service of the highest char-
acter which he was rendering to the State, he was suddenly
stricken.

Leslie Don Puterbaugh \yas the oldest son of Sabin D.
Puterbaugh, the First Major of the nth Illinois Cavalry,
U. S. v., and was elected to this Commandery Feb-
ruary 14, 1889, Insignia No. 6861. He was born at Pekin,

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111., August 9, 1858. From early childhood the City of
Peoria was his home. He was admitted to the bar in 1879
and entered into partnership with his father, who was a
brilliant and able lawyer and well-known author of the
Common Law and Chancery Pleading and Practice which
are of standard authority in this State among the legal
profession.

In 1890 Judge Puterbaugh was elected to the Probate
Bench of Peoria County and served until 1897, when he
was elected to the Circuit Bench of the Tenth Judicial Cir-
cuit. After six years' service on the Circuit Bench he was
chosen by the Judges of the Supreme Court as one of the
Justices of the Appellate Court for the third district of
Illinois and remained a member of this bench until June,
1912. His work as Appellate Judge is preserved in fifty-
five volumes of Appellate Court reports, where may be
found the evidence of his unusual skill as a legal writer.
These decisions will attest his profound knowledge and
legal acumen. His rare powers of reasoning and judicial
temperament coupled with an unusual ability of concentra-
tion made him conspicuous among the leading Justices of
this State. In addition to his legal duties, he was President
of the Board of Trustees of Bradley Polytechnic Institute
and at the time of his death Vice President of the Dime
Savings and Trust Company of Peoria.

In 1913 Judge Puterbaugh resigned from the Circuit
Bench of Peoria County to become a candidate for the Su-
preme Court, but was defeated, owing to the disorganiza-
tion of his own party at that time. Even in the face of a
party division he would have been elected and the recipient
of the honor which he so well deserved, but for the un-
justifiable methods of the progressive party which sought
to accomplish his defeat. The disappointment to Judge
Puterbaugh was keen but no greater than it was to his

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friends who recognized his unusual qualifications for the
office to which he aspired.

Governor Lowden, recognizing the ability of Judge Pu-
terbaugh, early selected him as one of his chief advisors
and appointed him to the office of Director of PubHc Works
and Buildings. It was in the organization of the work in-
cident to this position, arduous and heavy as it was, that
Judge Puterbaugh became weakened from overwork and
yielded to the ravages of an exceedingly short illness.

As student. Judge and public servant he was ever con-
scious of the duty which he owed to the trust imposed in
him and gave the highest measure of public service. He
wore his ermine as a judge without stain or blemish and
his political career is singularly clean and immaculate rep-
resenting as he did the highest type of public servant. Of
imposing physical appearance and possessed of a rare sense
of humor, he was a most delightful companion and pos-
sessed the love and admiration of all who knew him.

"He never made a brow look dark
Nor caused a tear but when he died."

E. Bentley Hamilton^
William N. Banks,
James M. Grimes,

Committee.

WILLIAM ELVIS HARWOOD.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Captain and Surgeon,
United States Army. Chicago, United States Army Hos-
pital Unit No. 12 (Northwestern University).
Died in France, January 4, igi8.

THIS Commandery displayed its first gold star on its
service flag for Captain William Elvis Harwood.
His death occurred near Boulogne, France, January 4,
1918, in the midst of his work as a surgeon of the United
States Army. Although at first rejected because of his
having passed the age limit, his great skill as an X-ray ex-
pert became known, the War Department violated its rule
and Captain Harwood's services were not merely accepted,

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but sought. He crossed the sea as a part of the Northwest-
ern University, or Hospital Unit No. 12.

Wilham Elvis Harwood was born in Joliet, Illinois, No-
vember 16, 1858. His father was Dr. Elvis Harwood, a
physician and surgeon of ability and distinction, who set a
worthy example to this gallant son by entering his country's
service as the Assistant Surgeon of the One Hundredth Illi-
nois X^olunteer Infantry in the trying days of 1862, from
whom Dr. Harwood inherited his right of membership in
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

While yet in his teens. Captain Harwood emulated his
father's example and joined the Joliet Citizens' Corps, which
afterwards became Company B, loth Infantry, Illinois Na-
tional Guard. The organization afterwards became the 4th,
then the 3rd Infantry IlHnois National Guard. Captain
Harwood, as he became a medical student, was advanced
to Hospital Steward of the 4th Infantry, I. N. G. He at-
tended for a time Northwestern University and graduated
from Rush Medical College in 1880. He began the prac-
tice of his profession in Ypsilanti, Michigan, but on ac-
count of the impairment of his health he removed to Colo-
rado, there continuing his medical practice. It was while
in Colorado he became a companion of the Loyal Legion,
later transferring to this Commandery.

His stay in Colorado was brief, as the change of scene
and air soon returned him to full health and vigor. Return-
ing to his native town to practice, his abilities became known
to the officers of the Minnesota Iron Company, who called
him to the service of their company at the mines at Evelith,
Minnesota. Here he remained for twenty years, becoming
the surgeon-in-chief, developing a wonderful skill as a
surgeon.

Afterwards the United Steel Corporation came into the
ownership of the mines and Captain Harwood remained to
take charge of the great hospital at Sadiola.

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The old home town attracted Dr. Harwood and in the
fall of 1 91 5 he returned to Joliet, built for himself and fam-
ily a fine residence, expecting to spend his remaining years
in special work in his profession, particularly in X-ray
research. When trouble threatened on the Mexican border
in 1916 he united with others in the organization of a regi-
ment to be tendered to the government. Upon the declara-
tion of war against Germany he sought every opportunity
for service. In the short time from June, 191 7, till his death
in January, 1918, his service was largely with the British.
His advanced methods in the use of the X-ray instrument
made him at once a leader, and it was his overwork in the
British Hospitals which weakened his powers of resistance
and made him an early and easy victim of pneumonia.

Captain Harwood was married to Miss Fanny Hyde,
of Joliet, January 9, 1889, who survives him together with
two daughters, Mrs. Helen Meissner, of Jersey City, and
Miss Rachel Harwood of Joliet.

"Billy" Harwood, as his early friends and associates
were pleased to call him, was of the very highest type of
American citizenship. Those who knew him best loved him
the most. Quiet and unostentatious, but fine and rigorous
in the right. He was for his country right or wrong, and
held all men his enemies who were not loyal and patriotic.
May his fine faith in his country and his devotion to its
flag always be to his companions matters of their earnest
emulation.

Erastus Webster Willard,
Cyrus Winthrop Brown,
Fred Bennitt,

Committee.

CHARLES WALDO ADAMS.

Acting Master United States Navy. Born at Portsmouth, New

Hampshire, May 31, 1841. Died at Seattle, Washington,

January 5, 1918.

ELECTED an Original Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois Feb-
ruary 10, 1887. Insignia 5540.

Entered the U. S. Naval Service by appointment as Act-
ing Ensign September 25, 1862. Promoted to acting master
July 20, 1864. Honorably discharged October, 1868.

He saw active service on various vessels of the U. S.
Navy, on foreign cruises, and on blockading duty along the
whole Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico, participating in

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many engagements at sea, and in the capture of the Confed-
erate forts and fleet in Mobile Bay, Ala. In November,
1865, he was ordered to the U. S. Steamer, Vandalia, sta-
tioned at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and assigned to re-
cruiting duty and Acting Executive Officer of that ship until
his termination of service.

HARVEY MARION TRIMBLE.

first Lieutenant and Adjutant Ninety-third Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Princeton, Illinois, January lo, ipiS.

HARVEY MARION TRIMBLE was born near Wil-
mington, Clinton Co., Ohio, Jan. 27, 1842, and died at
Princeton, 111., Jan. 10, 1918.

The family moved to Bureau Co., 111., the following
year to a farm, a few years later to Princeton, where his
life was passed.

His education was acquired in the public schools with
a partial course at Eureka College, leaving there August
2 1st to join the army. Enlisting in Co. K, a private, 93rd
Reg. 111. Vol. Inft. and was commissioned adjutant of the
Regiment Feb. 26, 1864, serving with the Regiment until

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the close of the war, excepting fourteen days a confederate
prisoner captured at Ridgeway, Tenn., while executing or-
ders as a scout, having participated in every march, skir-
mish and battle in which the Regiment was engaged.

Returning to Princeton after the war engaged in clerical
Court work while pursuing his law studies preparing to act
his part in the Union he had risked his life to preserve
and was admitted to the bar Nov. 20, 1867, licensed as at-
torney at law Oct. 9, 1866, was married to Miss Margaret
L. Dakin to whom five sons were born. As a citizen he was
prominent and active in educational and civic affairs, for
many years a member of the Board of Education and Pub-
lic Library.

As a lawyer his election for four terms as County Judge,
and for six years Circuit Judge of the 13th Judicial District
of Illinois, shows the appreciation and respect of the dis-
trict for his legal and judicial ability. He was a member
of the Vicksburg Military Statue Committee. He was
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
in 191 1.

As a soldier his attention to duty, courage and soldierly
bearing, whether in camp, on the march, or field of battle,
won the respect alike of officers and privates. The record
of such a life is its fitting eulogy, worthy of emulation,
leaving a loving memory and priceless legacy to his surviv-
ing family. Honored and respected in his life work, the
measure of his days filled with a large usefulness, he
will be kindly held in memory by those who shared with
him the bivouac and stress of the war. His interest and
activities in matters for the betterment of the community
and the welfare of society marks a happy home life and de-
votion to family and a genial friend and associate in the
social and public relations of life.

It has been written by the master minds of all time that
a man's deeds are but the enlarged shadow of his character,

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"by their fruits shall ye know them," so in closing the me-
morial of Companion Harvey Marion Trimble, it was felt
that no words could more fittingly convey the value and
worth of a useful life than a reference to that part of
American history linked with the name of Companion Har-
vey Marion Trimble.

Walter R. Robbins,
Cornelius S. Eldridge,
Charles A. Griswold,

Committee.

GEORGE FRANKLIN ROBINSON.

Captain Eighty-ninth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Norwood Park, Illinois, January ii, igi8.

GEORGE FRANKLIN ROBINSON was born in the
village of Bath, N. Y., February 20, 1834. His par-
ents removed to Niagara Falls the year of his birth. He
attended a public school at Niagara Falls until he was 13
years of age, when he left home, and was apprenticed three
years to learn the molder's trade. In 1850 he started West,
landing at Milwaukee, Wis. In 1852 he again started West
and reached the Mississippi River at Galena. He then
traveled from Galena by river to St. Anthony's Falls, then
down the river to Balise at the mouth of the river. He then

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returned by river to St. Louis, continuing up the Missouri
River to Fort Benton. From Fort Benton he returned to
St. Louis and worked for Giles F. Filley in his stove foundry
until the spring of 1854. In 1854 he again started West
across the plains to California, reaching Hangtown (now
Placerville) in the fall. While in California he followed
mining with varied success until the fall of 1858, when he
returned to Xew York City, via the Isthmus of Panama.
From New York he returned to his father's home at Prince-
ton, Wis. During the time he was wandering through the
West his mother died, and in 1859 he took his father and
other members of his family to Missouri, where he pur-
chased 160 acres of state land near Springfield. At the
breaking out of hostilities in 1861 he sold the land for barely
enough to take the family to St. Louis. Later he came to
Chicago and took a position in the general freight depart-
ment of the Illinois Central Railroad.

August 25, 1862, he was mustered in the 89th Illinois
Volunteer Infantry as First Lieut, of Co. D. He was later
commissioned Captain of Co. D, September 20, 1863, and
mustered out with his company June 10, 1865, being present
with his command at the battle of Stone River and the en-
gagements during the Atlanta campaign, being in continuous
service with the Army of the Cumberland.

At the close of the war he returned to Chicago and for
twelve years he served as a deputy sheriff of Cook County.

In a memorandum left by Capt. Robinson regarding his
life he says: ''Memory traveling backward over a some-
what checkered career, finds no place where it so loves to
linger and so much to commend as during the years I served
my country with the Army of the Cumberland, and while
I may not have made the most of all my opportunities, still
I am proudly conscious that I was one drop in the great
wave of patriotism that overwhelmed the heresy of seces-

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sion and made this a nation with a big 'N' and E. Pluribus
Unum an accompHshed fact."

Captain Robinson was blessed with an unusually genial
disposition. His uniform courtesy and good nature made it
a pleasure to meet him on all occasions. His death is a
sorrow to all the companions with whom he was associated
so long, and to all of his friends and acquaintances.

Walter R. Robbins,
Richard S. Tuthill,
W. T. Hapeman,

Committee.

ALEXANDER CRANSTON McMURTRY.

Captain Eighty-eighth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.

Born at Belfast, Ireland, February ig, 1835. Died at Chicago,

Illinois, January 15, igi8.

ELECTED an Original Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois Jan-
uary 8, 1906. Insignia No. 14874.

Entered the U. S. Volunteer service as Private and
1st Sergeant Co. "C'\ 88th Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
August 2y, 1862. Promoted to 2nd Lieut, same Company,
September 4, 1862. Advanced to ist Lieut. February 12,
1863. Advanced to Captain Co. "H," October 30, 1864.
Honorably mustered out June 9, 1865.

His regiment was ordered from Chicago, Illinois, where
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it was formed, to Louisville, Ky., September 4, 1862. Or-
dered to Covington, Ky., and assigned to the First Brigade,
General Granger's Division, Army of the Ohio. Engaged in
the battles of Perryville, October 8, 1862, Stones River,
December 30, 1862, and Chickamauga, Tenn., September 19
and 20, 1863, where he was seriously wounded. He re-
turned to his regiment February, 1864, when he was de-
tailed on Court Martial duty at Nashville, Tenn. Ordered
to his regiment for the Atlanta campaign which started in
May, 1864. Was in the battles of Resaca, Adairsville, New
Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and
Love joy Stations. His regiment was ordered back to Chat-
tanooga for the Hood campaign, and was engaged in the
battles of Franklin, November 30, 1864, and Nashville, De-
cember 15 and 16, 1864.

JOSEPH VOLLOR.

First Lieutenant and R. Q. M. Forty-second Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Seabreeze, Florida, January 20, 1918.

FIRST LIEUT. JOSEPH VOLLOR was born in
Toronto, Canada, Oct. 12, 1836. At ten years of age
he came with his parents to the United States, locating at
Milwaukee, Wis., for a short period, then a few months in
Chicago, and thence to Batavia, 111., where he grew to man-
hood and received his education in the public schools. His
father dying while he was still a boy, he made his home
with Spencer Johnson, a prominent farmer of Batavia, until
he became of age.

His first business experience was that of many others, in
starting in 1859 for the so-called Pike's Peak gold diggings,
but meeting the thousands returning, who had learned there

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was no gold to be found there, he abandoned his trip and re-
turned to Batavia, where he again engaged in farming for a
short period. Later he took a business course in Bryant &
Stratton's Commercial College. The war breaking out about
this time he enlisted on July 22, 1861, in Company "I," 42nd
Til. Vol. Inf., and was mustered into the United States serv-
ice on August I, 1861 ; made Corporal, September 17, 1861,
at Camp Douglas, Chicago, serving as such for quite a
period, later was made Quartermaster Sergeant, which posi-
tion he filled for some time, and shortly before the regiment
was mustered out of service, received his commission as
First Lieut, and Quartermaster, being mustered out with the
regiment at Springfield, 111., June 12, 1866.

Returning to Batavia for a time, he was later employed
by a wholesale firm in Chicago as a bookkeeper, and later
engaged in the wholesale, woodenware, cordage, and notion
business, in that city, and that was cleaned out by the great
fire of October, 1871. In 1872 he went to Portland, Maine,
engaged in the chewing gum business for about two years
and a half, then removed to Elgin, 111., where he continued
an extensive business in the same line for a number of years.

In 1868 he married Miss Martha C. Waldron, of Elgin,
whose death preceded his several years, and a daughter,
Miss Helen Vollor, a son, D. W. Vollor (a member of thi^
Commandery), and a sister. Miss Ellen Vollor, survive him.

Companion Vollor while of a very modest and retiring
disposition, was one of the many brave American volunteer
soldiers, who never shirked his duties and always did his
share.

He served in Southwest Missouri under Fremont, the
Island No. 10, and the New Madrid Campaign under Pope,
in the Army of the Mississippi, and the Corinth Campaign,
participating in the battle of Farmington, and Siege of
Corinth. Afterwards was in the siege of Nashville, and then
with the Army of the Cumberland, and the many battles

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that army was engaged in, including Stones River, where he
was struck by two spent balls,' the campaign ending in the
battles of Chickamauga, and ' Mission Ri<lge, the expedition
for the relief of Burnside at Knoxville^ where on the first
day of January, 1864, he with the greater portion of the
regiment re-enlisted for the balance of the war, and shortly
after came home on Veteran furlough.

Upon their return to the front in April he took part in
all the battles of the campaign ending with the capture of
Atlanta, returning after that to Chattanooga, then participat-
ing in the chase after Hood, through Northern Alabama,
and middle Tennessee, to the battle of Franklin, and later
that of Nashville, where Hood's Army was thoroughly
routed. He was with the regiment in its various movements
back to East Tennessee, where they were at the time of
Lee's surrender, thence back to Nashville for a short stay,
and then by boat down the rivers to New Orleans, and
across the Gulf to Texas, until on December 15, 1865, it
was ordered to Springfield, 111., for muster out, which took
place on January 12, 1866, thus serving nearly four and
one-half years.

He was intensely loyal and patriotic, having been Com-
mander of the G. A. R. Post at Elgin for several years, also
attended many of the Department and National Encamp-
ments, and a regular attendant of the meetings of this Com-
mandery, until ill health prevented.

He died at Seabreeze, Florida, where he had gone for his
health, on the 20th day of January, 1918. The remains were
placed in a vault until spring, when they were brought back
to Elgin and interred in the family lot in Bluff City
Cemetery.

Henry K. Wolcott,
John S. Wilcox,
Zenas p. Hanson,

Committee.

WILLIAM ALDEN DODGE.

First Lieutenant Ninth Vermont Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Evanston, Illinois, lanuary 31, 1918.

WILLIAM ALDEN DODGE, a member of the Illinois
Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, died suddenly Thursday, January 31,
1918. He had left his suburban home in Wilmette in the
morning on an elevated railroad train for his office in Chi-
cago, and while en route was stricken with heart failure and
passed away shortly after at the Central Street Station,
Evanston, to which he had been removed. Companion
Dodge was born August 20, 1845, at Cuttingsville, Vt., and
enlisted in Company B, Ninth Vermont Volunteer Infan-
try, May 29, 1862.

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He was at this time, as his Company and later Regimen-
tal Commander certifies, "A pink cheeked and beardless boy,
all through the war, every inch a soldier and every inch a
gentleman."

His enthusiastic nature was deeply stirred by the pa-
triotic emotions aroused by his country's peril and regard-
less of the restrictions of age he offered his services and
finally secured his enlistment May 29, 1862, in Company
B of the 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry. Here those quali-
ties of character, intelligence and great personal popularity
which characterized him throughout life were at once rec-
ognized, and despite his youth he was promoted July 9th
of the same year, within two months of his enlistment and
then not seventeen years of age, to be Second Sergeant of
his company, and April 7, 1864, in recognition of his gal-
lant service, his efficiency, and the privations endured in
the field in action, and as a prisoner of war, he was ad-
vanced to the position of Second Lieutenant, and within six
months thereafter, Oct. 19, 1864, having then but just passed
his nineteenth birthday, to that of First Lieutenant.

One need only read between the lines of the follow-
ing succinct statement, in which is couched his military
record, to fully comprehend and appreciate the services ren-
dered to his country by Lieutenant Dodge.

Enlisted in Company B, 9th Vermont Vol. Infantry,
May 29, 1862; promoted to 2nd Sergt., Company B, July
9, 1862; to 2nd Lieut., April 7, 1864; to ist Lieut., October
19, 1864; resigned June 7, 1865, after ending of the war.
The regiment was mustered into the United States service
July 9, 1862, at Brattleboro, Vt. ; from there it went to
Washington, D. C, and Winchester, Va. Companion
Dodge was captured at Winchester in battle with Stonewall
Jackson. The entire regiment was captured soon after, at
Harper's Ferry; he was paroled in September, 1862; winter,
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at Camp Douglas, Chicago; spring, 1863, at Suffolk, Va.,
besieged by Longstreet; summer, 1863, at Yorktown and
West Point, Va. ; winter, 1863, sick in Marine Hospital, at
Burlington, Vt. ; spring and summer of 1864, in North Caro-
lina; August, 1864, to Bermuda Hundreds, Va., Army of
the James, 2nd Div., i8th A. C. ; November 29, 1864,
wounded at battle of Chapires Farm, Va. ; October 27, 1864,
seriously wounded at battle of Second Fair Oaks, Richmond,
Va., and disabled for rest of service; June, 1865, in Chesa-
peake Hospital; resigned, June 7, 1865. Entire service was
with same company and regiment, with the exception of
a few weeks' detached service in the summer of 1864 as
drill officer of colored troops in North CaroHna. He was
elected to the Illinois Commandery Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the U. S. on the 7th day of November,
1912."

Having, as recorded, been on duty during the winter
of 1862-3 at Camp Douglas, Chicago, it is not, perhaps,
surprising that at the close of the war he should have been
drawn to this bustling center, already clearly indicated as
the commercial metropolis of the western world, and here
was spent practically all of the remaining years of his
life — busy, useful and successful years.

After a brief visit to his old home in Vermont, he came
to Chicago, and wisely deciding to lay the foundation for
a solid business career, he entered ''Eastman's Business
College," and upon the completion of the usual college
course was offered an instructorship, and later was pro-
moted to be the principal of the actual business department.

But this was too narrow a field for such abilities and
ambition as Companion Dodge possessed, and in 1867 he
resigned these scholastic occupations to associate himself
as office manager with the firm of A. Reed & Sons, then
the oldest and one of the most prominent houses in the
piano business in the city. This event determined the

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course of his future life for progressing from year to
year with unvarying success, he was, at the time of his
death, vice president of the Smith, Barnes & Strohber Com-
pany, one of the largest firms engaged in the manufacture
of pianos in the city.

Personally, Companion Dodge was a most genial and
delightful gentleman who enjoyed an exceptional popularity
in all the associations of life as a friend and citizen of the
highest character. Upon his demise a special meeting of
the Chicago Piano and Organ Association passed resolu-
tions expressing the high esteem in which he was ever held
by all his business associates of so many years.

Lieutenant Dodge was married February 12, 1876, in
Chicago, at St. Paul's Universalist Church, to Miss Ella E.
Cary, and shortly thereafter removed to St. Louis to assume
the management of the prominent house of Estey & Camp,
in that city.

Upon the death of their son. William Hurlbut Francis,
they left that city for Chicago, with his remains, which
were interred in the family lot at Oakwoods Cemetery, and
thereafter they made Chicago their permanent home.
Shortly after his return to Chicago, he opened the house of
Chickering, Chase Company, of which he assumed the finan-
cial management.

Mr. and Mrs. Dodge's domestic life evinced the same
qualities which were shown in his business life, and their
home in Wilmette was the resort of many warm and loyal
friends, whom they were always glad to receive within
its hospitable doors.

Charles C. Curtiss,
Bernis W. Sherman,
William L. Cadle,

Committee.

CHARLES LYMAN HAMMOND.

Late Second Lieutenant United States Army. Born at Crown Point,

New York, April 17. i8S3. Died at Rockford, Illinois,

February 5, igi8.

ELDEST son of Brevet Brigadier-General John Ham-
mond, U. S. Volunteers.
Elected an Hereditary Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, November
13, 1890. Insignia No. 8296.

Graduated from the U. S. Military Academy June 15,
1876, and assigned to the 9th U. S. Cavalry. Transferred
to the 3rd U. S. Cavalry, July 28, 1876. Resigned his com-
mission from the U. S. service, September 16, 1877.

Participated in the Sioux Indian Campaign, and in the
battle of Powder River Canyon November 25, 1876.

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He was Secretary of the Crown Point Iron Works,
Supervisor of Crown Point for three years, Member of
Alumni Association of West Point, N. Y., U. S. Cavalry
Association, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, member Chicago
Real Estate Board and Fire Underwriters' Association and
was President of the United States Flag Association.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Stevens Hammond,
and five sons as follows : Lieutenant Colonel John S., Cap-
tain Charles H., Captain Thomas S., and Messrs. Harry and
Robert Hammond.

WILLIAM GOLDSBOURN DUSTIN.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Dwight, Illinois,
February 14, igi8.

WILLIAM G. DUSTIN was born at Corinth, Vt., June
7, 1850. He was the son of Brig.-Gen. Daniel Dustin
and Isabel Dustin, of old New England families.

At the age of 13 he joined his father, who was then a
colonel commanding an Illinois regiment in Gen. Sherman's
army, and accompanied the regiment on its march to the
sea. He was also in Washington at the time of the Grand
Review at the close of the War of the Rebellion.

On the 19th of December, 1873, Companion Dustin en-
listed in the United States Army and served with Co. F, 5th

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Inf., in the wars with the Indians. He was honorably dis-
charged June 30, 1877.

Having learned the printer's trade, he became a joint
owner for a time of the Dwight Star and Herald, published
in Livingston county, Illinois, and in 1889 acquired the entire
ownership. About this time he also began the publication
of The Banner, which, a few years later, was made the
official organ of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A. Mr. Dustin
continued to be the editor of these organs until the time of
his death, although others became interested with him in the
publishing business.

He served four terms as postmaster of the city of
Dwight, and had a large acquaintance and influence in polit-
ical circles throughout the State and the country.

His patriotic work was not limited to the Loyal Legion,
of which he had been a member for many years, but found
expression in long and active service in the Sons of Veterans.
In 1896 he was elected Commander of the Illinois Division,
and in 1904 he was elected Commander-in-Chief. During
his term of office he gave to the Order a brilliant administra-
tion and the largest increase in membership which it has
made in any administration since the very early days of the
organization.

He was greatly esteemed and respected by the officers
and members of the Grand Army of the Republic and all
other patriotic societies.

Mr. Dustin was married to Miss Katherine Rogers on
the 26th of September, 1878. She survives him, together
with one daughter, Mrs. Electa Connor, and three grand-
children, Dorothy May Connor, William Dustin Connor and
Katherine Electa Connor. His death occurred at his home
in Dwight, 111., February 14, 1918, where the interment also
took place.

Companion Dustin was a sagacious adviser, successful
in business and a patriot of pronounced convictions. One

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of his most remarkable and attractive qualities was his ability
to make and retain true and lasting friends. He not only
commanded the respect of his associates and companions,
but bound them, one and all, to him and to his cause by his
own genial personality and his readiness to aid others at all
times and upon all occasions.

He was a natural leader, seeing ever the object to be
aimed at and the best method of accomplishing the results
desired in any movement in which he became interested.
The influence of his personality in patriotic orders of our
country has been strong, helpful, commanding, and will be
lasting. He will be remembered as one who added much
to the success of them all.

George B. Stadden,
Wm. L. Barnum, Jr.
William T. Church,
Committee.

JAMES MEEK McMANUS.

First Lieutenant Thirty-fifth United States Volunteer Infantry.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, March y, igtS.

COMPANION JAMES MEEK McMANUS died
March 7, 1918, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chi-
cago, 111., from pneumonia, having been ill but a few days.
He was born at Davenport, Iowa, December 14, 1876.
He was the eldest son of Lieut, and Adjutant Parker Whit-
tlesey McManus, U. S. V., and Flora Meek McManus.

His education was received at the public schools, having
graduated from the Davenport High School in 1893.

He was clerk of the court of Scott county in 1897 and
part of 1898.

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He was a member of Co. B, 2nd Regt., Iowa National
Guard, and rose to rank of 2nd Lieut.

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he went
with his company and was mustered into the 50th Iowa
Volunteers as 2nd Lieut.

He was mustered out with his regiment in the fall
of 1899, having served in Florida and Cuba during the
war.

In 1899 he was mustered into service again as ist Lieut.,
35th U. S. Vols., serving in the Philippines for one and a
half years.

Upon returning to private life he made his residence in
Chicago and engaged in the real estate business, being at the
time of his death manager of the Windsor Park Bank.

During the last months of his Hfe he was elected Cap-
tain of Co. A, 3rd Inf., Illinois Reserve Militia, and was
given full military funeral honors by that organization. He
was a member of the Englewood Commandery of Knights
Templar, a Companion of the Naval and Military Order
of the Spanish-American War, and was elected a Com-
panion of the Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, Commandery of the State of IlHnois, January
2, 1908, his Insignia being No. 15561.

Captain McManus was a man of sterling worth, loved
by all who knew him — to whom he was known as "Jim," a
name which fitted him in every respect.

He was always cheerful and sunny, never shunning
work; a soldier in every sense, and in his death we have
lost a brave, sincere, loyal citizen who will be missed by
all who knew him.

Charles M. Robertson,
Samuel C. Plummer,
George V. Lauman,

Committee.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS COLLINS.

Captain Tenth Wisconsin Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Western Springs, Illinois, March 19, igi8.

/^APTAIN WILLIAM AUGUSTUS COLLINS, a
^^ companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, a member of the Commandery of
the State of Illinois, 'died at Western Springs, Illinois,
March 19, 191 8. ^Je was born at East Bloomfield, New
York, December 28, 1842, a son of Frederick W. Collins
and Olevia Chapin Collins.

Captain Collins enlisted as a private in the First Wis-
consin Infantry in May, 1861, promoted Sergeant, mus-
tered out August, 1861, at the close of his term of enlist-

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ment. He was in battle at Falling Waters, Virginia, July
2, 1861, and served at Harpers Ferry and vicinity until
this term of enlistment expired.

He re-entered service as First Lieutenant and Adjutant
of the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry, October 29, 1861, and
served under Generals Rousseau and Mitchell at Bowling
Green, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, Huntsville, Steven-
son and Bridgeport, Alabama, Perryville, Kentucky, Deep
Gap and Stone's RivSri^or Murfreesboro), Tennessee. The
latter battle lasting from December 30-31, 1862, to January
2, 1863. His next battle was Chickamauga, Georgia, Sep-
tember 20, 1863, where he was captured. He was con-
fined for seven mouths in Libby prison, Richmond, Virginia,
then successively in Macon and Savannah, Georgia, and
Charleston, South Carolina. He escaped from Charleston in
December, 1864, and joined General Sherman's army De-
cember 21, 1864.

He was promoted Captain in August, 1863, shortly be-
fore the battle of Chickamauga and mustered out January
3,1865. • .

In February, 1865, he was appointed Major of the Fifty-
second Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, but was not mustered
owing to the close of the war and the fact that the Regi-
mental Organization was never completed.

Following the war he engaged in the wholesale grocery
or tea business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1865; in 1871
he engaged in the dry goods business in Chicago, was burned
out in the great fire in October, 1871, and returned to Mil-
waukee, where he started the firm of Dutcher, Collins &
Smith, wholesale tea merchants.

Captain Collins served as Alderman for the 7th ward,
Milwaukee, two years; was school commissioner in the 7th
ward and later removed to Western Springs, Illinois, engag-
ing in the Real Estate business and was appointed post-
master, continuing as such up to the time of his death.

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January i8, 1870, Captain Collins married Miss Clara
Emmons, daughter of Judge W. H. Emmons of the United
States District Court, one of President Lincoln's first ap-
pointments, the district comprising Michigan, Ohio, Ken-
tucky and Tennessee. One child, a son, Emmons Collins,
survived the Captain's death. The funeral service was con-
ducted at Western Springs, by the Masons, of which order
he was a prominent member. There was also in attendance
the Hiram McClintock Post, G. A. R., of LaGrange, of
which he was a member, and also a number of Companions
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

His devotion to his country was manifested by his long
and eventful term of service. He died as he lived, respected
and honored by all who knew him.

C. S. Bentley,
William L. Cadle,
George V. Lauman,

Committee.

FLORUS DAVID MEACHAM.

Senior Second Lieutenant, Chicago Mercantile Battery Illinois Light

Artillery, United States Volunteers. Died at Hinsdale,

Illinois,. March 22, 1918.

COMPANION Florus David Meacham, born April 26,
1843, at White Hall, Washington County, New York,
died at his residence at Hinsdale, Illinois, March 22, 191 8,
leaving a widow and four children, Margery, Mrs. Wm. J.
Kinsella, of St. Louis, Mo. ^ Madeline, Mrs. Horace B.
Hence, of Hinsdale; Florisse D., and Florus David, with the
Rainbow Division in France.

Companion Meacham enlisted as a private in the Chicago
Mercantile Battery, Illinois Light Artillery, August 29,
1862, promoted to Orderly Sergeant, July, 1863, and for

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gallant conduct in operations at Mobile and New Orleans he
was commissioned Senior Second Lieutenant. The Battery
was ordered to Memphis, Tenn., in November, 1862, and
participated in the campaign under General Grant. Was in
Holly Springs, Miss., in December, 1862, then returned
to Memphis, and from there took part in the Yazoo cam-
paign under General Sherman. Then to Arkansas Post,
Milliken's Bend, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Raymond, Cham-
pion's Hill, Black River Bridge, assault of Vicksburg, May
22, 1863, and siege and capture of Vicksburg. He was in
the campaign at Jackson, Miss., under General Sherman,
3rd Brigade, loth Division, 13th Corps, at New Orleans,
September, 1863, in Red River campaign and battle at
Sabine Cross Roads, April, 1864, In campaign to Pasca-
joula.

Companion Meacham was mustered out of service at
Chicago in July, 1864. Was elected to the Illinois Comman-
dery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, May 13, 1897, and was elected Senior Vice Com-
mander of the Commandery in 191 3. He served as Secre-
tary of the Vicksburg Military Statue Commission. He
was a member of Geo. H. Thomas Post No. 5, Depart-
ment of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic.

Companion Meacham was for many years prominent
in Republican politics, and at one time was President of
the Board of Review.

His brilliant military career, his genial companionship,
his honorable character, his fair dealing and success in his
business, illustrate a life worthy the admiration of the host
of friends who mourn his departure.

Charles S. Bentley,
Fred W. Upham,
Lucien E. Harding,

Com/miitee.

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JOHN WILLIAM THOMPSON.

Second Lieutenant Forty-third Ohio Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Evanston, Illinois, March 26, igi8.

ONCE again the grim visitor has called for a companion
of the Loyal Legion, and has deprived us of the so-
ciety and friendship of one who was the genial friend and
beloved companion of every member of this order.

Lieutenant John W. Thompson was taken from our
midst March 26, 191 8, to the home which the Blessed Savior
has prepared for those who love God and devote themselves
to the service of their fellow-men.

Lieutenant Thompson was a native of Ohio, in which
state he was bom on November 24, 1843. His military serv-
ice began on December 19, 1861, when he enlisted as a

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private in Co. G of the 43rd Ohio Inf., and was successively
advanced through the several non-commissioned and com-
missioned ranks, until under date of November 18, 1864,
while he was acting as adjutant of his regiment, he received
his commission as a first lieutenant, but was never mustered
as such.

The 43rd Ohio was a vigorous and active regiment, and
Lieut. Thompson participated with it in the siege of Island
No. 10, in the capture of McCall's forces at Tiptonville, in
the expedition against Fort Pillow and Harrisburg Landing,
in the siege and battle of Corinth and the various actions
at Farmington, Phillips Creek, the pursuit of Boonsville, and
in General Grant's campaign operations on the Central Mis-
sissippi railroad.

He was detached from the regiment and appointed acting
Inspector General and Aid de Camp on the staff of Gen. J.
W. Sprague in the Atlanta campaign. In May, 1864, he was
severely wounded at Resaca, but rejoined his regiment on
September of that year.

After the pursuit of Hood into Alabama, he returned to
Atlanta, marched to the sea, and rendered special service in
the engagement at Savannah, where he was honorably dis-
charged on December 25, 1864, on account of the expiration
of his term of service.

Lieutenant Thompson was an ideal citizen. His was a
genial, and sympathetic nature that responded promptly to
every appeal for service and support. He was alert and
helpful in all matters of public interest, and rendered splen-
did service, especially as an alderman in Evanston and a
member of the Board of the Evanston Public Library. He
was for several years President of the Library Board, and
his associates expressed their esteem and veneration for him
in a memorial, which is so beautifully and accurately de-
scriptive of the man, that your committee, being fully in ac-
cord with the sentiments to which it gives expression, ven-

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tures to repeat and endorse them in this memorial, insisting
that the personal qualities, which his associates have em-
phasized, rendered him an ideal soldier and a loyal citizen.

Concerning him his library associates write as follows :

"The Board of Directors of the library at the regular
meeting held April 2, 191 8, adopted the following para-
graphs as expressive of the esteem and veneration in which
Lieut. Thompson was held by every member. The weight
of his mature counsel and the influence of his splendid per-
sonality will be missed for a very long time at the delibera-
tive meetings of the Board, and the genial friend of the
library workers will be very hard to replace. Those who
have grown old tell us that along the way of life there are
pitifully few who cannot be forgotten ; even those of us who
had more recently come to know him feel that Lieut.
Thompson was one of these few.

''Some men we associate with particular institutions or
activities. Their relationships are closely interwoven. The
man becomes a part of their very fabric. Evanston people
who were acquainted with Lieut. John W. Thompson asso-
ciated him at once with the Evanston Public Library. He
enjoyed a unique career in connection with that institu-
tion. He had been continuously a member since his first
meeting, May i, 1890, until the day he passed behind the
'sunset hills' — March 26, 1918 — twenty-eight years of serv-
ice, the second longest in the history of the library. He was
president from June, 1895, to June, 1906 — eleven years, a
record of presidential service only exceeded by N. C.
Gridley.

"Lieutenant Thompson held an official position on the
Board from his incumbency as president until the annual
meeting of 19 17, a span of twenty-two years. On his retire-
ment from the presidency in 1906, he was chosen vice presi-
dent, arid held that position until July, 1917. His record of
continuous official service on this Board is without a par-
allel.

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"Lieutenant Thompson did much creative work in library
legislation. Our present library tax law was amended to
furnish more revenue for library purposes, due to his per-
sonal work, and that of a few others at Springfield. Aside
from his general knowledge of library affairs, he was versed
in technical and professional library practice, and would
have made a most successful librarian. He was a book
man, in the sense that he was an extensive and discriminat-
ing reader. The volumes about him in his home constituted
a choice collection, and reflected a cultivated and refined
literary taste. He loved the best that has been thought
and put on the printed page. During his presidency so
remarkable was his memory and so intimate his knowledge
of the volume in the stacks, that he could inform an
inquirer at once whether or not a certain book was listed
in the catalog of the library.

"In his relationship with the staff and his associates
on the Board he was ever considerate, helpful, inspiring,
and optimistic. The beautiful grounds about the library,
the arrangement of the shrubbery and flowers, show his
artistic eye. They are the result of his planning. He was
progressive in his ideas, ever looking ahead to a bigger
and better library for Evanston. In parting with the Dean
of our Board, we desire to record our high appreciation
of his long and able service, his constructive work, his
fealty to this institution, and to those noble and exemplary
qualities that made him every inch a man."

Public spirited, a fine type of the American citizen, the
dominant note of his character was kindliness and service.
He never saw the time when he was too busy to do some
kindly service for another, and this was his whole attitude
towards the community and the country.

Henry A. Pearsons,
Edward D. Redington,
Frank P. Crandon,

Committee.

GEORGE GREGG KNOX.

Captain and A. D. C, United States Volunteers. Died at Glencoe,
Illinois, March 31, igi8.

A

GAIN the sad message reaches us, that another of
our companions has joined the great majority.

"On Fame's Eternal Camping Ground."

Captain George Gregg Knox died at his home, Glencoe,
111., March 31, 1918.

Captain Knox was born in Rock Island, 111., January
12, 1842. He leaves a beloved wife and daughter to mourn
his loss.

His military record is an enviable one. In his career as
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a soldier he exemplified the three graces of the warrior —
Courage, Obedience, Loyalty.

In his twentieth year, in response to President Lincoln's
first call for 75,000 troops, April 15, 1861, he enlisted in the
13th Illinois Infantry. On May 24, 1861, was mustered in
as sergeant. Promoted 2nd Lieut., August lo, 1861. Dur-
ing his service with the 13th Illinois, he was actively en-
gaged with his command in guarding supply trains to and
from Gen. Lyon's Army then operating near Rolla, Mo.,
and in suppressing guerrilla and disloyal bands in the sur-
rounding country. He was later transferred and promoted
1st Lieut., Battery H, ist 111. Light Artillery, to date from
March 30, 1862, where he served with distinguished honor.

On May 6, 1863, our late companion was commissioned
Captain A. D. C. and Chief of Scouts, on the staff of Gen-
eral Thomas L. Crittenden, commanding the 21st A. C.
Army of the Cumberland. He was actively engaged in
the battles of Shiloh, Stones River, The Tullahoma Cam-
paign and Chickamauga. He was mentioned for fearless
courage at Stones River and commended for gallantry at
Chickamauga.

General Crittenden having been assigned to command
the 1st Division; 9th A. C. Army of the Potomac, Com-
panion Knox accompanied him to his new field of service,
taking part in the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia. When
his chief. General Crittenden, resigned, he also tendered his
resignation, and was honorably discharged December 17,
1864; a few months before the close of the war.

Soon after his return from the field he entered into part-
nership with his brother, Charles M. Knox, in Chicago.
Some six years later he sold his interest and embarked in
the furniture business, in which he remained until he re-
tired, some eight years later.

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his beloved wife and daughter was his greatest pleasure dur-
ing his declining years.

"The bravest are the tenderest —
The loving are the daring."

To those who knew him he was a genial and true friend.
And by his death our Commandery has lost a most esteemed
companion.

A brave soldier, — a worthy, loyal citizen, a Christian
gentleman, has gone to his rest. With sorrowing hearts
we tender to his bereaved wife and daughter our sincere
sympathy; and mourn with them in the loss of a dear
comrade and companion whose memory will be warmly
cherished by his surviving companions.

James G. Everest,
John Young,
Walter R. Robbins,

Committee.

HENRY WHIPPLE CHESTER.

Captain Second Ohio Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Evanston, Illinois, April 6, 1918.

Died at

CAPTAIN HENRY W. CHESTER, an original com-
panion of this Commandery, was born in Bainbridge,
Ohio, December 25, 1840, and died at Evanston, 111., April
6, 1918.

He was the son of Edwin and Mary Elizabeth (Porter)
Chester. His father emigrated from Connecticut to South
Carolina at the age of twenty, because he had a twin sister
living there at that time. His stanch New England prin-
ciples, which included hatred of chattel slavery, soon brought
him into conflict with Southern ideas and very soon after his
arrival he was ordered, with others, to pursue a fugitive

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slave who had escaped from his master. He refused, and
the Southern cHmate became too hot for him and he was
forced to leave. He then moved to Ohio, settling in that
portion to which a Colony of Connecticut pioneers had come
and which is known as the Western Reserve. These Yan-
kees were a sturdy race and the country to which they had
come was a rugged one. The Puritan conscience which
hated human slavery governed their lives. In this territory
were many stations of the so-called underground railroads
of ante-bellum days. It was in such a community that the
subject of this sketch was born and he was reared on a
farm and in small villages, his father being a farmer and
hotel keeper whose hostelry was known as a temperance tav-
ern, the proprietor being a teetotaler. The son attended the
public schools of the region and spent some time in the Prep-
aratory Department of Oberlin College that he might fit
himself to be a teacher. At the age of eighteen he taught his
first school and taught successive winters until the firing
on Fort Sumter changed the course of his life. His father
had removed to Oberlin and on the ninth day of September,
1861, with four other boys from that town, he went to
Cleveland and enhsted as private in Company H of the 2nd
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. One of the privates who enlisted
at that time was the late Gen. A. B. Nettleton of this Com-
mandery, who, on the organization of the company, was
elected First Lieutenant.

Private Chester was successively Com. Sergeant, First
Sergeant, First Lieutenant of Company H and Captain of
Company K, but assigned to the command of his old com-
pany and was mustered out with that rank June 13, 1865, at
St. Louis, Mo., by Special Order No. 58, Department of
Missouri, making a continuous service of nearly four years.
The regiment had a rather remarkable history. It trav-
eled over twelve thousand miles, was a unit in four different
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the Potomac, and of the Shenandoah ; began its active serv-
ice in Missouri, and Indian Territory, fighting its way east-
ward through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio to
Virginia; actively engaged under Sheridan in the Shenan-
doah campaign and following the gallant Custer to the sur-
render at Appomattox. It took part in the Grand Review in
Washington in May, 1865, and was then ordered west with
Mexico as an objective, but was mustered out before reach-
ing there.

An incident of the battle of Ashland, Va., towards the
close of the war, is illustrative of the varied character of the
service of the regiment. Among the prisoners captured in
that battle was a Confederate lieutenant who asked "To
whom have I the honor of surrendering?" "Second Ohio,"
was the reply. "Great heavens," he exclaimed, "I fought
that regiment in the Indian Territory, in Arkansas, in Ken-
tucky, in Tennessee, and at last they have got me in East-
em Virginia."

The regiment was in 109 skirmishes, engagements and
battles and our late companion was in nearly eighty of them
and was with the regiment at the surrender of the noted
Confederate, Gen. John Morgan, in Ohio in 1863. He was
twice wounded during the war. His last wound was re-
ceived at the Battle of Sailors Creek, which prevented him
from taking part at the surrender of Appomattox. He
recovered, however, in time to be present in command of his
company at the Grand Review at Washington in the Division
commanded by Gen. Custer. This event was one of the
proudest memories of his life. In a paper read before this
Commandery, in October, 191 5, our late Companion re-
corded this incident:

"In the charge on the wagon train a captain in the regi-
ment rode up beside a mule driver who was lashing his team
with all his strength and ordered him to stop his team. In-
stead of obeying the order, the driver seemed to apply the

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whip with renewed force. The captain put his revolver to
the head of the teamster, and was about to fire when the
thought came to him that probably the man was badly fright-
ened and had not understood the order, and if killed the
team would go right along without a driver; so the captain
relented and rode beside the lead mule and blew its brains
out with a shot from his revolver, thus saving one human
life and blocking the road more effectively. It is needless to
say that to this day the captain has not regretted the change
of his aim, even though within ten minutes after that a
train guard brought the captain off his horse by a shot that
if it had been one-quarter inch lower would have found
the brain of the captain."

Captain Chester does not give the name of the captain,
but it is in evidence that modesty prevented him from nam-
ing himself.

The incident is mentioned here as illustrating his quick-
ness of decision to seize an opportunity in an emergency,
although he probably did not fully comprehend the result of
his action, as he was soon after wounded and sent to the
rear. By his action, however, in killing the mule instead of
the man, he was the instrument in accomplishing the capture
of that Confederate supply train.

Peace had now come and the disbanded army of men,
young in years, but veterans in service, must begin civil
life anew. The young state of Kansas was luring the dis-
charged men of the Northern armies and thousands emi-
grated, either in the summer or fall of 1865, and among
them our late Companion after a visit to his home in Ohio,
found himself in August of that year in the historic city of
Lawrence. He came in touch with the civic life and church
life of the pioneers who had saved Kansas for Freedom and,
in his twelve years' residence in that city was one of its most
honored citizens. He was a deacon in what was termed the
"Abolition Church of the Congregational Denomination,"

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and was one of the organizers of the Y. M. C. A. in that
city. He never sought pubHc office, but in 1873, before the
days of statewide prohibition, when Lawrence was cursed
with saloons, he was nominated for City Treasurer on a
Prohibition ticket as a protest against an almost intolerable
state of affairs. The liquor forces were too strong, and he
was defeated. During the greater part of the time while he
resided in Kansas he was cashier of a large private bank,
and for a season, in real estate and abstract business.
October 5, 1868, he married Emily Hall, by whom he had five
children, three of whom survive him, the oldest, Henry Hall
Chester, being a member of this Commandery. His wife
died in March, 1898, and in July, 1900, he married Mrs.
Charlotte Cole Allsebrooke, who survives him. From 1877
to 1 88 1 Capt. Chester was cashier of the Chicago and Grand
Trunk Railroad, residing at Port Huron, Mich. The follow-
ing two years he engaged in the lumber business, with head-
quarters in Chicago and Evanston, 111. This business was
not successful. After a brief interval, he became, in 1889,
treasurer of the Chicago Theological Seminary and resigned
in 1903 on account of ill health. From the latter date until
his death, with the exception of four years on a fruit farm
in Michigan, he was retired from active business by reason
of chronic invalidism. During his connection with the Chi-
cago Seminary and since his retirement, his residence has
been in Chicago and Evanston. In the earlier years of his
residence in the latter city he was very active in church and
temperance work, having been deacon, superintendent of
Sunday School and clerk of the First Congregational church,
and at one time secretary of a league for the enforcement of
the four mile limit law in reference to the selling of liquor.

Judged by the highest standards the life of our Com-
panion was a well-rounded, complete life and deserving of
commendation and emulation.

Captain Chester loved his home, which was always an

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ideal one. He was a true and tried friend. He had a genius
for friendship because he was so open, responsive and un-
selfish, and the friends he made in school life, in the army
and in business life, he retained until the end. As a soldier,
he was a true knight, without fear and without reproach, and
never asked his men to go where he was not willing to lead.
In all the fields of Capt. Chester's activities he never failed
to obey the call of duty no matter how great the labor or
sacrifice. He had a definite and abiding faith in the funda-
mentals of the Christian religion and faced the great change
with the same calmness and courage that he had faced death
on the battlefield.
To summarize:

He was an honest, able man.

A good and public spirited citizen. •

A genial man.

A patriot and soldier.

A consistent Christian.

"His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him
that nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was

Edward D. Redington,
Frank P. Crandon,

MORITZ E. EVERSZ,

Committee.

I>

HENRY HARRISON WALTON.

Second Lieutenant Sixteenth New York Heavy Artillery, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April g, ipi8.

HENRY HARRISON WALTON was born in Canal
Dover, Ohio, February 8, 1846, and died at his home
in Chicago, April 9, 1918. He was buried under Masonic
auspices soon after passing his seventy-second birthday.
Most of his business life was passed in the City of Chicago.
The decedent enlisted as a private in the 34th N. Y. Vol.
Inf., October 18, 1861, which shows how promptly he
answered his country's call after the tocsins of war were
sounded. This departed Companion whose loss we mourn,
while confronted by foemen of a determined kind was
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resolute and brave when foes were drenching battlefields
with human gore in the following engagements, viz. : York-
town, Fair Oaks, Siege of Richmond, Savage Station, White
Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, South Moun-
tain, First and Second Fredericksburg engagements, Wil-
liamsburg, Peach Orchard, Antietam and Glendale. Accord-
ing to all accounts in these terrific encounters he displayed
heroic hearted courage and all soldierly zeal. This departed
Companion was mustered into Columbia Post 706, Dept. of
Illinois G. A. R., August 28, 1894, and joined our Com-
mandery March 11, 1897.

Deeply we mourn the loss of this esteemed Companion
who commenced his flight through the ether blue on the
9th of April of the present year. The scythe of death is
ever active, and this makes us believe the most certain thing
we contemplate is the uncertainty of life's tenure. Time
is rapidly divorcing our spirits from our bodies; is with
painful frequency dissevering the frail chain that holds
our seniors together. When fatality lessens the length of
the chain our tears and affections re-establish its broken
continuity. Saddened indeed were surviving Companions
when our worthy brother passed through that portal labeled
death; when accompanied by an invisible escort he started
on a journey to that realm from whence no entrant ever
returns to relate experiences there encountered. Your com-
mittee proffers its sincere condolence and commiseration
to Companion Walton's family, destined to suffer a life-
long affliction because of his passing.

Cornelius S. Eldridge,
Oscar Ludwig,
Charles F. Hills,

Committee.

CHARLES GOODRICH SHIPMAN.

Hereditary Companion, Died at Ocean Park, California, April 9, 1918.

DOCTOR CHARLES GOODRICH SHIPMAN was
born in Madison, Wis., August 2y, 1856, and died at
Ocean Park, Calif., April 9, 1918. His remains were
cremated in Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.

He was elected a member of the Illinois Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion May 8, 1890. His
eligibility was through his father. Col. Stephen V. Shipman,
a member of the Illinois Commandery. He was a graduate
of Rush Medical College, Chicago, class of 1881. Dr. Ship-
man attended the University of Madison and the (old)
University of Chicago. He was president of his class. For
one year he was chemical assistant to Dr. J. Moses Gunn,

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and did private practice at the same time. Leaving Cliicago
in 1882, he was assistant to Dr. B. S. Bigelow for four years
in the mining hospital at Ishpeming, Mich., and from 1886
to 1888 he had entire charge of the mining practice at
Bessemer, Mich., and later with the U. S. Steel Company's
interests at Vermillion, iron range, Minnesota, and built a
hospital at Ely, Minn., still known as the Shipman hospital.
He remained there for over twenty years, the last five years
in the mining medical practice at Tower Hill, Minn. On
account of failing health he sold his interests in Minnesota,
and moved to Ocean Park, Calif., in 1908, where, after re-
gaining his health, he again entered and remained in active
practice until his death.

Dr. Shipman was a member of the Masonic order, the
Elks, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and various other
societies and clubs. At one time he was health officer of
Santa Monica, Calif.

He was unselfish and full of kindness for the sick. He
thought first of the welfare of his patients ; of himself, last.

He is survived by his widow, and one daughter Mrs.
Angela Shipman Crispin, two sisters and one brother, Mrs.
Rose Shipman Anderson and Miss Cornelia Shipman, and
Wm. V. Shipman, to whom the Illinois Commandery tenders
its most profound sympathies.

William L. Cadle^

Charles M. Robertson, M. D.,

Edward D. Redington^

Committee.

ISAAC TODD MULLEN.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
May II, 19 18.

\ NSWERING the call of the Great Commander, Isaac
-^ •*- Todd Mullen, a worthy companion of this Comman-
dery, severed his earthly ties and duty at his home, 4724
Kenmore Avenue, this city, on the nth day of May, 1918,
and joined the great army on the other shore.

He was born in Potsdam, N. Y., January 28, i860. His
parents were Maj. Isaac Van Ortrix Mullen, and Laura
Mullen. His father served as surgeon, with the rank of
Major of the 14th New York Heavy Artillery, from May
26, 1863, to August 26, 1865, when he was honorably dis-
charged.

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Our deceased companion was a graduate of the Buffalo
University. In the year 1900 he was appointed Postoffice
Inspector and was at the time of his death, and for fifteen
years prior thereto, acting as such in the City of Chicago,
and was recognized by his associates, by the Courts, and by
the Postoffice Department of the United States as an intelH-
gent, industrious and capable officer.

He was elected a member of this Commandery Novem-
ber 2, 1916. His insignia is No. 17478.

On the night of May 10, our deceased companion at-
tended religious services at the Sunday Tabernacle with
his son, Wadsworth, and while there became suddenly so
ill that he had to be removed to his home where he soon
became unconscious and died on May nth. He left sur-
viving him Flora L. Mullen, his wife, and Wadsworth K.
Mullen, his son, to mourn his death, and to whom this Com-
mandery extends the sympathy and condolence of the sur-
viving companions, in their great bereavement.

Thomas E. Milchrist,
James E. Stuart,
E. D. Redington,

Committee.

MATTHEW HENRY PETERS.

Captain Seventy-fourth Ohio Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Watseka, Illinois, May ii, igi8.

MATTHEW HENRY PETERS, a Companion of this
Commandery since 1889, died at Watseka, 111., May
II, 1918.

In his appHcation for membership he gave his date of
birth as June 6, 1843, but ascertained in 1895 that the year
should have been 1841. He was a native of Bavaria, Ger-
many, and his parents were George and Magdalena Peters,
who came to this country while our Companion was an
infant. They located in New Orleans, and while the subject
of this memorial was a mere lad, his father and mother
and two sisters died of yellow fever, leaving two small

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boys, as survivors of the family. They were placed in an
orphanage and our Companion was given in charge of a
cruel and dissipated tailor who treated him worse than he
could have been treated had he been a negro slave. From
this task master he ran away and became a street waif
in a city of strangers, sleeping amid the bales of cotton on
the wharves and in old shacks wherever he could find shel-
ter. After a year or two of this hard life, a benevolent
man by the name of Henry Roberts, ran across him and
took him to his home in Springfield, Ohio, where the mother
of his benefactor tenderly cared for him and sent him to
school. In the meantime Mr. Roberts died and Matthew
shifted for himself, working on a farm and learning also
the trade of brick making.

By studying at odd times and late at night he acquired
sufficient education to enable him to take up the vocation
of school teaching, which he followed to success until the
outbreak of the Civil War.

He enlisted soon after the fall of Fort Sumter, at Spring-
field, Ohio, in Co. E, i6th Ohio Inf., a three months' or-
ganization, and was mustered out August lo, 1861.

On December 23, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co.
F, 74th Ohio Inf.; was promoted to ist Lieutenant of the
same company, January 7, 1862; promoted to Adjutant
March i, 1864; to Captain, July 13, 1864, and assigned to
Co. H' of the same regiment. Detailed as Assistant In-
spector General and served on Gen. George P. Buell's staff
in 1865. Commissioned Major, July 12, 1865, but never
mustered in that grade.

While in the i6th regiment he did duty in West Virginia
and took part in the battles of Phillippi, Laurel Hill and
Carrick's Ford. The 74th regiment was commanded by Col.
Granville Moody, who was called ''the fighting parson," he
having been appointed Colonel while still a Methodist
preacher.

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Major Peters' service was in the armies of the Cumber-
land and the Tennessee, and he was in the battles of Stone
River, December 31, 1862, where he was severely wounded
and reported killed. At the battle of Buzzard's Roost, while
advancing on Atlanta with Sherman's Army, he had his
right leg crushed and shattered by a shell. On December
21, 1864, he was wounded in the wrist at the battle of
Murfreesboro, Tenn.

For gallant and meritorious services Major Peters re-
ceived a medal of honor.

He became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic
very soon after the organization of the Order and was
Commander of William Post at Watseka, 111., for forty
years, in which city he settled in 1866.

The necessity of shifting for himself at a very early age
prevented him from obtaining a thorough education, but he
compensated for this by making the most of his natural ad-
vantages and was, in the largest sense, a self-made man.
For a while after leaving the service, he was engaged in the
hardware business, which was not altogether congenial, and
he soon left it to engage in the book and stationery business,
in which he continued until November, 1879. While still in
this occupation he acquired control of the Iroquois Times,
and became its editor and proprietor, continuing such for
over fifteen years.

During the war Companion Peters was a Republican and
a strong supporter of President Lincoln's Administration and
for some years thereafter continued in the same political
faith, but with very many others left his party at the time
of the Greeley Campaign, and during the rest of his life
affiliated with the Democrats in National and State affairs.

After settling in Watseka he never changed his resi-
dence, but became one of the most influential and valued
citizens of that city. He was elected Mayor for three terms,
serving in that capacity for six years.

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While not a professional reformer, he had very decided
views on many questions which, at the time he espoused
them, were not popular. He had an intense hatred of the
saloon business and was fearless in his opposition to its in-
fluence at a time when it was not popular to be on that side.

As early as 1879-80, while a representative in the Illinois
Legislature, he was a strong advocate of Woman's Suffrage
and other progressive ideas of modern civic rights and leg-
islation.

He always took a great interest in all matters pertaining
to the Civil War and was very active in Grand Army circles,
serving one term as the Governor of the Soldiers' Home at
Danville, 111.

To his credit also belongs the distinction of organizing
the first militia company in Iroquois county in 1874, when
he was elected captain. This company afterwards became
Co. A, 9th Battalion, Illinois National Guards, which Major
Peters was elected to command.

His domestic life was a long and very happy one, he hav-
ing been married to Miss Clara Lyon, of Sycamore, 111.,
June 19, 1867, and she, with one son, Arthur V., survives
him.

A man of unquestioned integrity, of unlimited generosity
to those needing assistance, of engaging personality, he
easily ranked as one of the first citizens of the city where he
resided for over half a century and he left an abiding "good
name which is rather to be chosen than great riches."

Edward D. Redington,
Chas. E. Baker,
LuciEN B. Crooker,

Committee

ALEXANDER FLEMING STEVENSON.

Captain and Brevet Colonel, United States Volunteers.
Chicago, Illinois, May 19, 1918.

Died at

A LEXANDER FLEMING STEVENSON was born

I\

April 8, 1837, in Hamburg, Germany, and died in Chi

cago, Illinois, May 19, 1918. He was of Scotch and German
birth and received his early education in Germany. He
came to the United States while a young man of 17 years,
settling in Henry County, Illinois, in May, 1854. He left
the farm following the financial panic in 1857 and took up
the study of law in the office of Judge Wilkinson, in Rock
Island, subsequently accepting a position with the firm of
Shumway, Waite and Towne, in Chicago.

At the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, he was a part-

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ner of Daniel Shepard, of Chicago. Following the example
of so many men from Germany, he went to his former home
in Cambridge, Illinois, at the outbreak of the Civil war
and raised a company of men, which became attached to
the 42nd Illinois Regiment. He enlisted July 22, 1861, and
was mustered in September 17th of the same year as First
Lieutenant of Company "B," in the above mentioned Regi-
ment. He was a very loyal supporter of the little giant,
Stephen A. Douglas, and was an ardent war democrat, fol-
lowing the example of his leader. He was commissioned
Captain, September 18, 1862, and resigned November 5,
1863, by reason of ill health. He was subsequently bre-
vetted Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel all on the
same day, March 13, 1865. Although holding a commis-
sion in the 42nd Illinois, he was very early detailed as In-
spector, General on the staff of General Sheridan, where he
was serving at the time of his resignation. Practically all
of his service was with the army of the Cumberland, with
which he was engaged at the siege of Corinth; he was also
in the battle of Farmington and, with his command, cov-
ered the retreat of the army through the swamps after the
battle. While serving with Colonel Roberts' command they
led the advance in pursuit of Beauregarde's Army to Bald-
win, Mississippi; was engaged in the siege at Nashville in
1862, where the army had numerous skirmishes with the
enemy around Nashville. Colonel Stevenson was also pres-
ent during the Murfreesboro campaign and wrote a very
complete history of the battle of Stone's River and the
campaigns connected therewith. He was also in the Tulla-
homa campaign and in the battle of Chickamauga. Among
his notable experiences during his various campaigns was
the rescue of ten pieces of artillery and caissons from the
Confederates, as well as a narrow escape at Triune, where
he saved to its owners a farm house when it was threatened
by 500 soldiers.

MEMORIALS. 487

After his retirement from the army and the recovery of
his health he resumed the practice of law and in 1864 was
elected to the Illinois Legislature. He was the father of
a bill granting $25,000 to Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas for the
purchase of the land on which the Douglas monument now
stands. He was also successful in his opposition to the
granting of a 99 year franchise to the Chicago Street Rail-
way Company. For 2;^ years, from 1885 to 1908 he served
as Master in Chancery, having been appointed to this office
by Judge Joseph E. Gary. He was highly regarded in this
office. Lawyers who came in contact with him bear testi-
mony to his rare courtesy and to his remarkable memory
of the cases that came before him.

October 20, 1870, Colonel Stevenson was married to
Mary C. Ambrose, who died in a few years and of this
marriage two children, Alexander Francis Stevenson, a
member of this Commandery, and Mary Louise Stevenson,
survive. In 1879 he married Jeannie C. Brayton, who sur-
vives him.

His associates at the Bar and his companions of this
Commandery will all remember him as a brave and faith-
ful soldier, an accurate and painstaking lawyer, and a most
courteous gentleman. From the many testimonials received
by Mrs. Stevenson we are permitted to quote as follows :

From Judge E. H. Gary :

"I am glad that it was my fortune to be intimately ac-
quainted with him during his life and, therefore, to be
able to appreciate, with multitudes of others, his very
high qualities of heart and mind which he possessed. He
was able, scholarly, a good friend and a loyal citizen. His
family may be proud of his record. All who knew him
well respected and loved him."

Judge Jesse A. Baldwin writes :

"During my long residence in Chicago I have known
many lawyers and Masters in Chancery, but none for whom

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I have had more sincere admiration and higher personal
regard than for him. Always courteous, high minded, sin-
cere and loyal. His fine character and lovable qualities won
for him a host of friends. Indeed, I have regarded him
for many years with a sense of personal affection unlike
that I entertained toward any other man."

George A. Follansbee, a prominent lawyer of Chicago,
paid this tribute to his friend :

''Our acquaintance which began in the spring of 1866,
in due time ripened — at least on my part — into high regard
and enduring friendship which continued without interrup-
tion to the end. It gives me great pleasure now to recall
the various parts he played in life in which I came most
in touch with him and to be able to say, without any qualifi-
cation whatever, that he was a good citizen, a good public
official, a good lawyer, a good Master in Chancery, and, best
of all, a good friend."

Edward D. Redington,
Henry K. Wolcott,
Zenas p. Hanson,

Committee.

The Coinmcmdery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

CHARLES PETERS ABBEY.

Born at Chicago, Illinois, May 23, 1865. Died at 7625 Sheridan
Road, Chicago, Illinois, May 21, igi8.

SON of First Lieutenant Frederick J. Abbey, Company
"I," 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Elected an
Hereditary Companion of the First Class through the Com-
mandery of the State of Illinois, February 8, 191 5. In-
signia 17195.

He had no military or naval service. He graduated at
the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, in 1889,
with the degree of B. A., and was admitted to the bar in
1891. In 1896, he was made a Master in Chancery of the
Superior Court and served as such to 1912.

He was a member of the University, Hamilton, Edge-
water Country, Edgewater Golf, Birchwood County, and
Law Clubs and of the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar
Associations.

He is survived by a wife, one son and one daughter.

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REUBEN SMITH BOTSFORD.

Captain Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Waukegan, Illinois, August 21, 1918.

THIS Commandery has lost another worthy member
in the death of Captain Reuben Smith Botsford, and
while we, his companions, deplore the vacancy in our ranks,
we especially desire to express our deep sympathy to his
bereaved children and grandchildren in their great loss and
deep affliction.

Captain Botsford, a veteran officer of the Civil War,
actively identified with the pioneer activities of three great
states, was born in Albany, N. Y., July 31, 1833, son of
Reuben and NelHe E. (Smith) Botsford, and descended
from New York and Connecticut Colonial and Revolution-

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ary ancestry, with a long line of forebears stretching far
back into English history. In infancy, he was taken by his
parents to a farm in Potter's Hollow, New York, and a short
time later to the village of Saugerties, in Ulster county, that
state, his boyhood education being received for the most
part in private schools. At the age of ten years, he made
his first venture away from home by securing employment
as a tow-boy on the Delaware and Hudson Canal. When
he reached his teens, the wanderlust again entered his blood,
and in the spring of 1848, with a companion, he boarded a
sloop for New York, with the intention of making his way
to London, England. But no opportunity presenting itself,
he shipped aboard the sailing ship "Arkansas" for New
Orleans, with a possibility of reaching Vera Cruz, Mexico.
The ship grounded on a coral reef, after encountering a
serious storm, but after many adventures reached New
Orleans. There for the first time, the boy came in contact
with slavery, and the cruelty and inhumanity which he then
witnessed influenced his early participation in the Civil
War some years later. Returning to New York aboard
the ''St. Mary," the youth reached his home, and went to
work as a carpenter, receiving three shillings (37/^ cents) a
day, boarding and clothing himself. After perfecting him-
self in his trade, he went to New York City, but later, again
returned to his home and became a contractor.

In 1854, the wider opportunities of the west called the
family to IlHnois, where an uncle, Jacob M. Botsford, had
previously settled. Early in the year the father came, and
on August 6, 1854, the rest of the family landed at Dick-
inson's Pier, Waukegan. A farm was secured in Fremont
Township, near Fort Hill, and Reuben S. constructed the
family home, a structure of wooden blocks. He also manu-
factured the primitive furniture. For the next few years
he lived with his parents, still working at his trade, and

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erecting nearly all the pioneer buildings in the vicinity of
Waukegan.

A Whig in politics, he embraced the principles of the
Republican party at its birth and cast his first vote for its
first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont.

He was married on January 9, 1859, to Elizabeth E.
Marble, daughter of Levi and Betsy (Granger) Marble,
pioneers of Lake county, Illinois, who descended from dis-
tinguished ancestry. This estimable lady was born in Bed-
ford, Ohio, September 22, 1833, and died at Waukegan,
May, 1 910. Seven children were born to this couple — three
surviving — Otis M., president Botsford Lumber Company,
of Winona, Minn. ; Nellie E. Persons, and Anna D. Bots-
ford, of Waukegan, 111. Seven grandchildren survive, to-
wit: Mortimer and Reuben Botsford, of Waukegan;
Marian, Blanche and Anna Persons, of Waukegan ; Martha
and Elizabeth Botsford, of Winona, Minn.

In 1863 he engaged in the grocery business at Wauke-
gan. Then came the war career which won him much
renown. In December, 1863, he enlisted as a private with
two friends, Frank Hickox and Albert O. Ingalls. By
agreement, all joined the 17th 111. Vol. Cavalry, but Private
Botsford was allowed to withdraw to accept a commission
as second lieutenant in Co. F, 39th 111. Vol. Inf., February
I, 1863, for which company he enlisted fifty-two men from
Lake county. On July i, 1864, he was promoted to first lieu-
tenant, and on January 31, 1865, while the Union troops
were in pursuit of Lee's army, he was promoted to captain
on the field for meritorious service and distinguished gal-
lantry. He was discharged by general orders mustering out
the armies, in December, 1865, at Norfolk, Va. He was
twice disabled; June 17, 1864, he was wounded by a frag-
ment of shell in front of Richmond, and again on August 16,
1864. After the Deep Run bayonet charge he was stricken
with typhoid fever, from the effects of which he never fully

MEMORIALS. 493

recovered throughout his long life. In all he was engaged
in twenty-five battles, among which may be named : Howlett
House, May lo, 1864; Drewry's Bluff, May 14, 15 and 16,
1864; Wier Bottom, Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom (two bat-
tles), Deep Run (bayonet charge), Richmond, Petersburg,
Fort Gregg, High Bridge and Appomattox. His regiment
was one of the first to attack Gordon's Confederate troops
on Sunday morning, April 9, 1865. After Lee's surrender
he was detailed as Provost Marshal of Norfolk, Va., until
the city was turned over to the civil authorities.

Returning from the war he was elected sheriff of Lake
county in 1866, and at the expiration of his term became
agent at Waukegan for the United States Express Com-
pany. In 1878 he went to Wadsworth, 111., and built a
store and warehouse. His next venture was in the Da-
kotas. With his son, Charles M., in October, 1880, he
located a section of land in what is now Beadle county, near
Huron, South Dakota. Then he returned for the family.
The household goods were shipped aboard a car, January
19, 1881, in charge of his son, Otis M., but the traffic was
tied up at Waseca by a storm, and it was not until May 10,
that the car went on its way from that village. Added to
this, the family baggage was destroyed by a baggage-room
fire. The spring brought even more disaster. Foreseeing
the Dakota rush, he had rented a store in Huron. But for
some reason, the merchandise he ordered by express from
the wholesalers, did not arrive until after the other local
dealers were supplied. Floods damaged their goods in the
basement, the earth walls of the foundation more than once
caving in and threatening the existence of the building. Ty-
phoid fever was raging and their little daughter, Elizabeth,
died. Then came the Sioux Indian scare, with its menace
of tragedy and disaster. But with undaunted courage, he
sold out his store, and took up his previous work as a con-
tractor and builder. In Huron, as in Waukegan, many of

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the earliest houses are of his construction. The proceeds
from this work he used in improving and developing his
farm. But in 1887, 1888 and 1889 the crops were poor,
and he determined to again seek new fields. Seattle, Wash.,
had been visited by a ruinous fire, and there seemed many
opportunities there. Upon his arrival, however, he found
the place overrun with mechanics, so he went to Tacoma,
Wash. There he erected a number of buildings, many of
them still standing. But the coming of the rainy season
put a stop to contracting work, and he decided to return to
Huron, which it was then supposed would be the capital of
the proposed new state. On his way, he went to Olympia,
where his friend. Gov. E. P. Perry, promised him a position
as warden of the state penitentiary at Walla-Walla. Huron
was not made the capital, and he returned to Waukegan
to await his appointment. But his friend the governor
having died, and being in ill health himself, he decided to
move his family back to Waukegan and again take up his
home, and there he has since remained. He was soon elected
justice of the peace and continued in that capacity until
1917, when he retired from active duties.

Captain Botsford was a member of Lodge No. 78, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons and .Royal Arch Chapter
of Waukegan, III, also a thirty-second degree Mason, a
member of Waukegan Post Grand Army of the Republic,
and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois.

Hugh D. Bowker,
Elam Lewis Clarke^
John Hull Blodgett^

Committee.

The Commandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

SAMUEL HARRISON PRICE.

Born at Chicago, Illinois, March 31, 1873. Died at Michigan City,
Indiana, August 2g, 19 18.

ELDEST son of Edward R. Price, Sergeant Troop ''L"
9th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and grandson of
Samuel Harrison Price, First Lieutenant and Regimental
Quartermaster 9th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry.

Elected a Companion of the Second Class through the
Commandery of the State of Illinois January 9, 1896; later
a Succession Companion. Insignia No. 11304.

Our Companion had no military or naval record.

In business he was a real estate broker.

Surviving him are his wife, Laura Shurtliff Price, a
brother, Robert C. Price, son of the late Edward R. and
Elizabeth M. Price.

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EDWIN REINHARD VON KOLKOW.

first Lieutenant Tivelfth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, September 4, igi8.

BORN at Dantzig, Germany, January 25, 1843.
Elected an Original Companion of the Order,
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Novem-
ber 4, 1909. Insignia No. 16042.

Died at Chicago, Illinois, September 4, 1918.
Register of Service : Entered the service as a Private
in Company B, 12th Illinois Cavalry, U. S. Volunteers, Feb-
ruary 28, 1862. Honorably discharged November 15, 1862.
Re-enlisted as Private, Company K, 12th Illinois Cavalry,
October 3, 1863. Promoted First Sergeant December 3,
1863. Reduced to First Duty Sergeant August 30, 1864.
Detailed as Quartermaster Sergeant March i, 1865. Pro-
moted to First Sergeant July i, 1865. Promoted to First

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Lieutenant Company B, same regiment, March 22, 1866.
Honorably discharged May 29, 1866.

History of Service : Served with his regiment in Vir-
ginia with the Army of the Potomac to September 14, 1862,
at and near Harper's Ferry, on scouting duty and numerous
actions. After re-enHstment he served in Arkansas, Ten-
nessee, Department of the Gulf, Red River Expedition, and
lastly in Texas.

Civil Record : For twenty-six years he was a valued
employee of the Chicago Post Office, and was killed at the
post of duty by the explosion of a supposed I. W. W. bomb
September 4, 19 18. He entered the Post Office Service
March i, 1892, as a regular clerk, and was assigned to the
mailing division until June 6, 1892, when transferred to
the city division directory section, where he served until
May 16, 1907, when transferred to the general delivery
section, where he rendered faithful service until his death.

Lieut, von Kolkow was a man of sterling quahfications,
and earned the admiration and respect of all those with
whom he was employed. He was loyal, and conscientiously
performed the tasks that were imposed upon him. His
early military training especially fitted him for postal work.
He executed orders with promptness and endeavored to
impress upon others the importance of doing the same.
His judgment was often sought in postal matters. When
South Chicago Station became part of the postal limits
of Chicago, Lieut, von Kolkow was detailed to organize the
service at that point. His work was so commendable that
he was given many other details of a similar character.

To the surviving relatives the Illinois Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion extend its sincere
sympathy.

James E. Stuart,
Charles Bent,
Hugh D. Bowker,

Committee.

GERARD BUNKER REYNOLDS.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Tampa, Florida,
September 4, IQ18.

COMPANION REYNOLDS, whose Insignia was 11 524
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, March 9, 1856,
and died at Tampa, Florida, September 4, 1918. He was
the son of Gerard Reynolds, Captain nth Penn. Cavalry,
who was killed in action in West Virginia and his body was
never found.

His mother was Lydia P. Priest, who was the grand-
daughter of Eber Baker, founder of the City of Marion,
Ohio. During the latter part of his life he resided in
Florida; was postmaster at Tampa for eight years, serving

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under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt; was in the
wholesale grocery business, and later connected with the
Franz Safe & Lock Co., at Tampa, Florida; was one of
the leading Republicans in that district. He was married
February 23, 1883, to Birda E. Davis, who with one daugh-
ter and two sons survive him, at Tampa, Florida. He had
the esteem and good will of those who knew him, all of
whom regret his loss.

d. n. holway,
Chas. E. Baker,
Howard Baker,

Committee

FREDERICK MICHAEL SCHMIDT.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Chicago, Illi-
nois, September 28, 1918.

FREDERICK MICHAEL SCHMIDT was born in Chi-
cago, June 6, 1859, and died at his home, 546 "Deming
Place on September 28, 191 8.

In April, 1895, he married Clara Rehm, who with two
children survive him. He was elected a member of the
Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, November 4, 191 5. Insignia No. 17307. Eligi-
bility being derived from his father, Lieut. Colonel Surgeon
Ernst Schmidt, who was one of the leading practitioners of
Chicago in the years preceding and subsequent to the Civil
War.

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Frederick M. Schmidt was a druggist of high character
and standing during all his mature years, being a grad-
uate of the department of pharmacy of the University of
Illinois and once president of the State Board of Pharmacy.
He was the eldest of four brothers all members of this
commandery. We, his companions of the order, extend to
the family our heartfelt sympathy.

Joseph Johnson Siddall,
John A. Wesener,
Bernis W. Sherman,

Committee.

%.

CHARLES ROST.

First Lieutenant and R. Q. M., Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Joliet, Illinois, October 2, igi8.

"D ORN at Weitzow, Germany, December 11, 1841.
^-^ Elected an Original Companion of the Order through
the Commandery of the State of Illinois, December 12,
1895. Insignia No. 11282. Died at JoHet, 111., October 2,
1918.

Register of service : Entered the service as a private in
Co. B, 20th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, July 26, 1861. Ad-
vanced to the grade of Corporal in January, 1863 ; to Ser-
geant, April I, 1863; to 1st Sergeant in September, 1863.
He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer, December 20, 1863,
and was mustered as a ist Lieutenant in same company,

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June I, 1864. Was appointed regimental quartermaster,
June 2, 1865, and was mustered out with the field and staff,
July 16, 1865.

History of service : His regiment was assigned to Sedg-
wick's Division, 2nd A. C. Army of the Potomac. He par-
ticipated in nearly all the battles of that army, commencing
with Ball's Bluff and ending with the surrender of the
Army of Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865. He was
wounded at the Wilderness, but rejoined his command at
Petersburg, Va. Was captured at Ream's Station, Va.,
August 25, 1864, and confined in Libby, Danville, and Sauls-
bury Prisons, and was exchanged in March, 1865. Re-
joined his regiment and with it served to the end of the
war.

Civil Record : But little is known of his early history,
but at the conclusion of the Civil War he located in Ten-
nessee in railroad building for several years, then removed
to Macomb, 111., in 1874 to 1879, then moved to Joliet, 111.,
where he was engaged at^the States Prison until 1893, when
appointed Superintendent of the County Poor Farm. He
resigned this position in November, 19 10, on the death of
his wife.

He was a member of Bartleson Post, G. A. R., the Elks
and the Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion.

Surviving him are two sons, Carl H. and Louis N., two
daughters, Mrs. L. J. Frederick and Mrs. C. F. Hafner,
and to these the Commandery of the State of Illinois ex-
tends its sincere sympathy.

Hugh D. Bowker,
Thomas E. Milchrist,
Edward R. Redington,

Committee.

ZAN LINN TIDBALL, Jr.

Companion of the Second Class. First Lieutenant Ninth Aero

Squadron, Seventy-seventh Division, United States Army.

Killed in Action in France, October lo, igi8.

^' TRILLED in Action in France, October lo, 1918." Such
-tV was the fateful message that came to the family of
Zan L. Tidball, Jr., in North Tonawanda, New York, on
the 5th of November, last. No particulars were given, but
it is known that he was an aerial observer and a member
of the 9th Aero Squadron of the 77th Division, National
Army. Our Companion was born in Chicago, September
19, 1890, and was the son of Cassius C. Tidball and was a
member of this Commandery by inheritance from its grand-

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father, Zan L. Tidball, First Lieutenant and R. Q. M. 59th
N. Y. Inf., U. S. v., also a Companion of this Commandery.

Very soon after the United States declared war on Ger-
many, in April, 191 7, Companion Tidball was sent to the
Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Niagara, New
York. He was one of the youngest men at that camp but
after three months of severe training he was commissioned
as First Lieutenant of Infantry and ordered to report at
Camp Upton, Long Island. He was assigned to duty soon
after in the Field Signal Corps, with which he served until
March 26, 1918, when he sailed for France, arriving there
on April 10. Because of his training in the signal corps
it was discovered that he had peculiar qualifications for the
Aerial Branch of the Service and soon after his arrival he
was ordered to report for Staff Duty at headquarters of
the division in which he seved until his death. He was
assigned to the Ninth Aerial Squadron and at once began
the special training necessary for that branch of the serv-
ice. This training was unusually rigid and critical and he
attained the distinction of graduating at the head of his
class, thoroughly qualified as a First-class Observer, which
was the most responsible and exacting of positions in the
aerial service. It was while thus employed that he was
killed on the tenth of October, somewhere in the vicinity
of Verdun, in the great and prolonged engagement which
ultimately ended the war.

On May 6, 191 5, he was married to Ida B. Collins, who
survives him with two children, a son and a daughter.

His service was short, but most honorable and was of
such a nature as might be expected from his heritage. He
came from a family of soldiers. Two of his great-great-
grandfathers were officers in the Continental Army and
fought under Washington at Princeton and Germantown.
His great-grandfather was a soldier of 1812. Three great-
uncles were soldiers in the Mexican War and three great-

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uncles and his grandfather were officers in the Union Army
in the War of the Rebellion.

His family in mourning his death will have the satisfac-
tion that in making the Supreme Sacrifice he gave his life
in the interest of humanity and to help to make civilization
of Europe and the world better.

The sympathy of the Commandery is extended to the
widow in her great loss.

Edward D. Redington,
John J. Abercrombie,
Zan L. Tide all.

Committee.

JOSEPH BENEDICT GREENHUT.

Captain Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at New York, N. Y., November 17, 1918.

OUR Companion, Joseph Benedict Greenhut, was born
in Teinitz, Austria, February 28, 1843, and died in
New York City, November 17, 1918.

His father died when he was about four years of age
and his mother afterwards married Mr. Wolff Schaefer and
moved to Chicago when her son was nine years of age.
He left school at an early age and learned the trade of a
tin and copper smith, working for some time in St. Louis,
and, while quite young, moved to Mobile, Alabama, arriv-
ing there with 25 cents in his pocket. The boy very readily
learned his trade and when he left the South to enlist in

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the Union Army, he had laid the foundation of an expe-
rience which stood him in good stead in later years as a
business man. It was said that he was the second man in
Chicago to offer his services when President Lincoln issued
his first call for volunteers after the fall of Fort Sumter.
He enlisted in Co. A, 12th Illinois Infantry, as a private
for the three months' service, at the end of which time he
was mustered out as Sergeant and re-enlisted for three
years, being made Sergeant of Co. H, same regiment. He
was badly wounded in the battle of Fort Donelson, was tem-
porarily incapacitated for service and was discharged April
22, 1862. After recovery from his wounds he re-entered the
service and was mustered in as Captain of Co. K, 82nd Illi-
nois Infantry, on September 2(^, 1862. Was detailed as
Acting Assistant Adjutant General, of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd
Division, nth Army Corps, August, 1863, and resigned,
February 24, 1864. While in the 12th his service was al-
most altogether under General Grant in the expedition which
captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. His service in
the 82nd Illinois, which was made up almost entirely of
men of German and other foreign descent, was connected
with the nth Army Corps and which was attached to the
Army of the Potomac. He participated in the battles of
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Shortly
after the Gettysburg fight the division was ordered to Chat-
tanooga to relieve General Rosecrans. During this cam-
paign the regiment was engaged in the Battle of Wau-
hatchie at the foot of Lookout Mountain and afterwards
participated in the capture of Mission Ridge in November,
1863, from which place the nth Corps was ordered to take
part in the campaign of Eastern Tennessee and of Gen.
Burnside.

Nearly a half century after the war, at the instance of
Gen. Ed. S. Saloman, who was Lieutenant-Colonel of the
82nd Illinois during the war, Secretary of War, Henry L.
Stimson, sent Captain Greenhut a letter of thanks for his

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most valuable services in the war of the Rebellion. From
this letter your committee quote the following :

"Dear Sir: The attention of the War Department hav-
ing been brought lately to the distinguished service ren-
dered by you to your country on the second day of the
battle of Gettysburg (July 2, 1863), wherein you were spe-
cially selected by your commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Ed-
ward S. Saloman, to lead a body of fifty picked volunteers
to dislodge Confederate sharpshooters from the shelter of
certain houses about icx) yards in front of the Union line
and from which they were picking off gunners and officers
on said line, that you did execute the movement with such
great skill and bravery under heavy fire of the enemy, cul-
minating in a bayonet charge led by yourself and in such
a manner that the houses were carried and the enemy driven
therefrom."

Upon his resignation he returned to Chicago and en-
gaged in mechanical pursuits, among other things, invent-
ing and patenting the twine binder now used on the Mc-
Cormick reaping machines, besides a number of other me-
chanical devices.

In 1869 he became Secretary and Treasurer of the Kel-
ler Distillery in Chicago and in this way started the business
from which he realized a fortune.

In 1887, because of his unusual ability and trustworthi-
ness, at the request of all those engaged in the business in
the United States, he organized the Distillers and Cattle
Feeders Company, of which he became president and so
continued until 1895, when he withdrew from the com-
pany.

During these activities he removed to Peoria, which he
always considered his home, although he had been a resi-
dent of New York City for twenty years preceding his
death. He not only considered Peoria as his home, but also
kept his connection with this Commandery, although he

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became well known to, and was highly esteemed by the
Commandery of New York.

Capt. Greenhut was noted for his public spirit and was
constantly doing something to benefit the city which he
had chosen for his home and he caused to be erected in
Peoria a splendid building which he dedicated to his com-
rades of the Grand Army and set aside a fund for main-
taining the same.

After removing to New York City he became president
of the Siegel-Cooper Company, a corporation, and it was
his dream to establish co-operative shopping for the con-
venience of shoppers. In the district between 14th and 23rd
streets, in New York City, in 191 3, there were 4,2(X) whole-
sale stores and 780 retail establishments. Capt. Greenhut
desired that the district be brilliantly lighted at night and
was the father of a scheme of street lighting and secured
an agreement from the stores for artistic window display
and lighting. An elaborate flower market was to be estab-
lished, free busses installed for the transportation of guests
from distant stores and many other conveniences were
planned.

He was a man of large vision but many of his ideas were
never carried out in their entirety.

Soon after the Joseph Benedict Greenhut Company,
which absorbed the Siegel-Cooper stores, became involved
in financial difficulties which necessitated bankruptcy, and
Captain Greenhut retired.

He was married, October 24, 1866, to Miss Clara Wolf-
ner, of Chicago, Illinois, who survives him with their three
children, Fannie B., Benedict J. and Nelson W.

Notwithstanding Capt. Greenhut's many public and busi-
ness interests, his home life was an ideal one. His wife
was always deeply interested in all that he had undertaken
and by her earnest sympathy and co-operation helped him
to reach the high place he held as a representative citizen
of the United States.

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Peoria's charities were greatly aided by Captain and
Mrs. Greenhut with gifts of thousands of dollars and in
numberless ways they proved the love and pride they had
for the city of their adoption.

Inventor, far-sighted and successful business man, brave
soldier, accomplished officer, he was, to the last, a man
among men, simple, kindly, gracious, a gentleman, unspoiled
by success that had made him a prominent figure in the
world's affairs.

In closing this memorial your Committee desire to quote
from the tribute made to him at the funeral service in New
York by Gen. George B. Loud, of the New York Com-
mandery of this order :

"He was a splendid soldier of the Union, winning pro-
motion after promotion, where dangers grew and death win-
nowed harvests. The badges he wore, other than that of
the Grand Army, were Virtue, Character, Home Love, and
Love for his Fellow-man : and he stood 'four square' to all
the winds."

In recognition of and in tribute to his service for his
country, facing death on numerous battle fields and giving
his blood in defense of country and flag, I reverently and
gloriously place Old Glory on his casket.

"Private, Sergeant, Captain,

No matter for thy station,
On thy grave the rain shall fall

From the eyes of a mighty nation.
Long as the stars shall gleam upon it,

Long as the moon doth beam upon it.
Long as the sun doth shine upon it,

Shall memory come to dream upon it."

Edward D. Redington,
William N. Banks,
John W. Gift,

Committee

CHRISTIAN ERNEST LANSTRUM.

Captain Fifteenth lozva Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Seattle, Washington, December 5, 1918.

/^APTAIN CHRISTIAN ERNEST LANSTRUM
^^ was born at Sormestoop, Province of Skanen, Sweden,
on the 2d day of March, 1837, and died at Seattle, Wash-
ington, December 5, 19 18. He came of an old and dis-
tinguished Swedish family and was always proud of his
ancestry. When his parents brought him to America in
1852 he had received a thorough schooling, and spoke sev-
eral languages. They settled at Knoxville, Illinois. In
1856, companion Lanstrum went to Red Wing, Minnesota,
and engaged in the real estate business.

In 1 86 1 he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, and although
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he had lived in the United States but a few years, he was
convinced of, and appreciated its great advantages and
felt that the Union and the flag of his newly adopted coun-
try was well worthy of his patriotism and support, and in
October, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 15th Iowa Volun-
teer Infantry. Was commissioned 2d Lieutenant Company
B, November 9, 1861. Promoted to ist Lieutenant, May
24, 1862, and to Captain, February 28, 1863. Was assigned
to duty as Picket officer 3rd Brigade, 6th Division, 17th
army corps, April 18, 1863, and as aide-de-camp on the
staflF of Gen'l M, M. Crocker, September 17, 1863, and on
October 14, 1863, was appointed by the War Department,
acting assistant commissary of musters. District of Natchez,
Mississippi, with headquarters at Natchez, where he re-
mained until he was mustered out of the service. May 16,
1865, by reason of expiration of term of service and ending
of the war.

Companion Lanstrum participated with his regiment in
the following battles: Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862; Siege of
Corinth; Battle of luka; Battle of Corinth; Siege of Vicks-
burg; Siege of Jackson; and all the campaigns of his regi-
ment up to the time he was appointed Mustering Officer,
District of Natchez. At the Siege of Vicksburg he received
a severe sunstroke, June 25, 1863.

Companion Lanstrum's father enlisted in the Union
army in 186 1 and was killed at the battle of Shiloh.

At the close of the war, companion Lanstrum located at
Galesburg, Illinois, and engaged in the grocery business, in
which he continued until recent years. Many years ago,
he, with others, organized at Galesburg The Covenant Mu-
tual Benefit Association, holding the office of director and
treasurer, devoting much of his personal attention to the
association.

He was, for many years, a director in the Galesburg Na-
tional Bank, and served several years on the Board of

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Education of Galesburg. He always took an active part in
political and civic affairs, and in political affiliation and
sentiment was always a staunch Republican.

Companion Lanstrum was married at Des Moines, Iowa,
December 9, 1861, to Miss Susan Elizabeth Crocker, sister
of General M. M. Crocker of Iowa. Mrs. Lanstrum, five
sons and one daughter survive. In 1914, Captain and Mrs.
Lanstrum went to Seattle, Washington, where their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Howard Waterman, resides. He died at Seattle
on December 5, 1918. His remains were laid to rest in the
Oak View Mausoleum, Tacoma, Washington.

The children are: Evalyn (Mrs. Howard Waterman),
Seattle, Washington; Carl C, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Fred-
erick, IndianapoHs, Ind.; Dr. O. M. and Geo. W., Helena,
Montana ; Claude E., Great Falls, Montana.

Companion Lanstrum was elected a member of the Illi-
nois Commandery of Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, October 10, 1889. He was an enthu-
siastic member of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee,
of Crocker's Iowa Brigade and of James Shields Post, No.
45, G. A. R., of Galesburg, 111.

His pleasant, jovial disposition with a smile for all, es-
pecially for little children, made him very popular, and he
was beloved by all. His memory will be warmly cherished
by his surviving companions, who extend to his sorrowing
family their deep sympathies.

William Larrabee Cadle,
James G. Everest^
George Mason,
Charles F. Hills,

Committee.

GEORGE THOMAS KELLY.

Succession Cdnipanion of the First Class. Died at Evansloii, Illi-
nois, December i8, igi8.

GEORGE THOMAS KELLY, Succession Companion
of the First Class in the Loyal Legion, was born at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, June 3, 1873, and died at Evanston,
Illinois, December 18, 1918. The eldest son of Captain
John Kelly of the i6th Wisconsin Infantry, U. S. V., he
grew up and developed in the atmosphere of those years
shortly after the close of the Civil War in intimate contact
with the spirit of the War as reflected by his father.

From the local schools he went to the University of
Wisconsin, entering with the class of 1894. At the end of
his junior year he abandoned the classical course and began

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to study law, being graduated from the law department of
the University of Wisconsin in 1895. His professional
career was begun almost immediately in Chicago, Illinois.
From the beginning his experience was with lawyers of
standing. After a year or two in the office of Remy &
Mann, he became the junior partner of the firm of Wells &
Kelly. Later he became a member of the firm of Kales,
Kelly & Hale and at his death in Evanston, Illinois, on
December 18, 1918, he was the senior member of the firm
of Kelly, Hale, Dammann & Coolidge.

Among other honors which came to him as the direct
outgrowth of his profession was his appointment as Master
in Chancery of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illi-
nois, by Judge George A. Dupuy, which position he held
from 1905 to 1912.

He was elected to the Loyal Legion, June 2, 1905, with
Insignia No. 14573.

On December 3, 1906, he was married to Margaret Burn-
ham of Evanston, Illinois, daughter of Daniel Burnham,
and she, together with five children, survive him.

Religiously, professionally, socially and politically he was
active, honest and able. The ideals of the meaning of life
up to which he lived were high. He shirked nothing which
was his duty, which, with his unusual geniality, made him
appreciated as a good citizen and made and kept for him
many friends. He was unafraid to disagree but charitable
and considerate of the opinions of others.

For many years he was active in the Wisconsin Society
of Chicago and in the Alumni Association of the University
of Wisconsin, both of which owe much to his interest in
them. In the University Club of Chicago he was active
and influential ; at Glenview and Old Elm Golf Clubs he
was widely known and as widely liked. He was a prom-
inent member of the Knights of Columbus, a Director of

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the United Charities of Chicago and for many years a mem-
ber of the Evanston Library Board.

Second only to his devotion to his family and to his duty
as a citizen came his pride in his profession and in all of
these walks he reflected distinction.

At the time of his death he was a member of the Amer-
ican, Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations.

Albert F. Dean,
Henry A. Pearsons,
Holmes Hoge,

Committee.

CHARLES ANDREW WINN.

Lieutenant-Colonel Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 7, 1919.

THE records of the Civil War show no nobler or
manlier figure and no more brilliant military record
than that of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Andrew Winn,
58th Pennsylvania Infantry, the subject of this sketch.

He was a direct descendant of Captain John Winn, who
came to Virginia twenty years before the Mayflower landed,
with General Newport and Captain John Smith, and took
command when Capt. Smith was absent at Powhattan Vil-
lage. Colonel Winn's grandfather built a grist mill at the
head of Warwick River, just back of Yorktown, Va. This
mill is still standing. Colonel Winn's father, Charles Knox

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Winn, was born in Vermont, in 1812. The colonel's uncle,
General Winn, was prominent in establishing California as
a Republic. Another uncle, Francis Augustus Winn, was
famous as captain of the clipper ship Heraclide, of the
India trade, which was lost at sea in 1837. The colonel's
was a family of heroes.

Charles Andrew Winn was born Dec. 23, 1834, at Grif-
fin's Mills, Erie county, New York. He was married Feb.
26, i860, to Miss Lamyra Leonard Rynder, at Lock Haven,
Pa. They had six children : William E., Helen, Lamyra,
Winnefred, Charles and Blanche.

The colonel learned the profession of mechanical engi-
neer and wheelwright at Buffalo. In November, i860, he
began building a mill on Pamlico Sound, N. C, and was
there when the war began in 186 1. With his crew of four
men he tried twice to get away to the North, but was cap-
tured and brought back. They finally escaped in a little
sail boat with no compass but the stars to guide them. After
six days at sea they were picked up and taken to Hampton
Roads in a starving condition. Two of them died soon
after from the exposure.

General B. F. Butler sent the survivors to Philadelphia,
and from there the colonel got to his home at Lock Haven,
Pa., July 4, 1861.

Here the patriot raised a company of volunteers, which
became Co. G, 58th Pennsylvania Infantry. Of the ex-
pense of raising this company, $1,800, and which he repaid
from his pay as, captain, he was only repaid half of it. He
was enrolled, Sept. 23, 1861, as Captain Co. G, 58th Penn-
sylvania Infantry, and mustered, January 11, 1862. He
was promoted to Major, May 21, 1864, and Lieutenant-
Colonel, Nov. 13, 1864.

The regiment moved, March 9, 1862, and were in the
land force at the battle between the Monitor and the Mer-
rimac, May 10, participated in the Suffolk campaign against

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General Longstreet ; participated in the capture of Norfolk,
Va., in the battles of Blackwater, Va., and Sandy Ridge, at
Gunn Swamp and Batchelder's Creek, N. C. At Batch-
elder's Creek, Col. Jones was killed. During 1863 the reg-
iment was in Gen. Butler's command in North Carolina
and Virginia. From this time during the remainder of his
service, Major Winn commanded the regiment.

In 1864 the regiment was actively engaged in all the
movements of General Grant's army. It was at Cold Har-
bor, June 1st and 2nd, 1864, at Fort Darling, June 16, at
the siege of Petersburg, and at the capture of Fort Harri-
son, Sept. 29.

Colonel Winn was in command of the 3rd Brigade, ist
Division, 15th Corps, at Fort Harrison-Fort Chapin battle,
in which his regiment lost 128 killed and wounded — two
officers killed and wounded. In this fight Col. Winn re-
ceived a shell wound in the right leg, which gave him trou-
ble many years, but his most bothersome wound was caused
by a rebel soldier leaping upon his back on a charge in a
trench in that battle. From this wound he never fully re-
covered. Col. Winn was honorably discharged, Novem-
ber 13, 1864.

After leaving the service Col. Winn was employed by
the Provost Marshal's Department in several expeditions
inside and outside of the Confederate lines, and until the
close of the war.

Colonel Winn filed his application for membership in
this Commandery, Feb. 18, 1909, and was elected, April i,
1909, his Insignia being No. 15,919, and his Commandery,
No. 1201.

The colonel stood high in the Grand Army of the Re-
public. He was Commander of Washington Post No. 573,
Department of Illinois. For many years, in conjunction
with his good wife, he was prominent in all its activities.
Mrs. Winn passed away, Feb. 18, 191 1.

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For many years Col. Winn followed his profession of
mechanical engineer and millwright, and for nearly fif-
teen years was in the service of the City of Chicago, in the
Water Department, until 191 7, when he retired from ac-
tive service.

He died at his home, 1306 Winnemac avenue, Jan. 7,
1919, at the ripe age of eighty-four years. His funeral
service was conducted by Bishop Fallows, of this Com-
mandery, and was attended by a large concourse of Com-
panions of the Loyal Legion and Comrades of the Grand
Army.

Robert Mann Woods,
W. G. Bentley,
Walter R. Robbins,

Committee.

21ie Coniinandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

CHARLES FREDERIC CRAWFORD.

Hereditary Companion of the first Class. Died at Chicago, Illi-
nois, January 22, 19 1().

CHARLES FREDERIC CRAWFORD, Hereditary
Companion of the First Class, Insignia No. 17304,
died suddenly, January 22, 1919, at his home in Chicago.
His education began at the Michigan Military Academy,
where he spent two years, to which he frequently referred
as the most pleasant of his life. After spending the year
1889, at Beloit College, he went to Yale University, from
which he graduated in 1894. At Yale, in addition to rank-
ing high in class work, Mr. Crawford enjoyed athletics and
the society of his brothers in Zeta Psi. After graduation
he became a member of the Chicago Stock Exchange, and
until 1903 was active in business there when he became
Treasurer of Schneider & Co., manufacturers of oils, glyc-
erine and candles, until 1906. His financial ability was re-
warded by his becoming interested in the manufacturing
end of the business, until the fire which destroyed their
plant. Mr. Crawford worked for two years terminating
the affairs of the company, and then retired to private life.
These latter years were disturbed by the death of his wife,
leaving him the care of five children, the oldest of whom
died of influenza at Military School in the fall of 1918, and

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from which loss Mr. Crawford never recovered his op-
timism.

After the death of his father, and following his ex-
ample, Mr. Crawford became a Companion of the Illinois
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States. His father, Lieut.-Col. Charles Craw-
ford, served his country as a volunteer, without pay or rank,
where his meritorious service gave him a commission, direct
from President Lincoln, as Major and Paymaster, in 1864.
He was later mustered out as Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel,
November i, 1866.

Bayard Holmes, Jr.
John A. Wesener,
John W. Munday,

Committee.

CLARK EZRA CARR.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Peoria, Illinois,
February 28, 1919.

CLARK E. CARR was born at Boston Corners, Erie
county, New York, May 20, 1836, died at Peoria, 111.,
February 28, 19 19, and was interred at Galesburg, 111.,
March 4, 1919.

He was the son of Clark M. and Delia (Torrey) Carr.
His membership in this Order is derived from his brother,
George Pitt Carr, who was a captain in the 3rd Arkansas
Cavalry. The family of our companion came west around
the lakes in 1850, landing in Chicago in March of that year,
and from this point made their way in the old-fashioned
prairie schooners to Henry county, locating on a farm near

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Cambridge. In the autumn of 1851 the family moved to
Galesburg, where the father and his second wife lived and
died.

Our companion had the advantages of the ordinary com-
mon school, graduated from the Knox Academy and at-
tended the college for two years, finishing his education and
graduating from the law school at Albany, New York.

He did not himself see service in the Civil War, two of
his brothers being in the service and he himself holding
positions in the State and National Government, where his
services were of great value during and subsequent to the
civil conflict. He was always called "Colonel Carr," al-
though he did not obtain this title from military service, but
from his connection with the state government of Illinois.
At a very early age Colonel Carr took great interest in the
political questions of the day and when, in 1856, the Re-
publican party was formed and John C. Fremont was nomi-
nated for the presidency our companion was just beginning
the study of law, and at the time of the series of debates
between Lincoln and Douglas he had just come from finish-
ing his. studies in the Albany Law School. These and the
succeeding years were critical ones, in which the great
issue of the extension of slavery into the territories was
dividing the country into two great parties, and the settle-
ment of this issue and the right of secession finally had to be
settled on the battlefields of the Civil War.

Colonel Carr, even at this early age, became prominent
in the newly-organized Republican party, in which he was
a significant and outstanding figure to the close of his life.
The decision to serve the public that came to him from ac-
quaintances made with prominent men in early life, was a
determinative element in Colonel Carr's career. He, in his
own time and measure, gave of his strength and wonderful
ability in a service during his four score years, that entitled
him to a high rank among his countrymen. He was a born

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public speaker, enjoyed the stir of public debate, and while
he was still a minor, became a valued campaigner in the
Republican ranks. He was a personal friend of President
Lincoln, and of the War Governor of Illinois, Richard
Yates, serving under him during his administration. Many
of his activities were in connection with the transportation
of the sick and wounded from the battlefields. He was
always kind, courteous and sympathetic to all.

Beginning in 1861, with an appointment by President
Lincoln, Colonel Carr was postmaster of Galesburg for
twenty-four years, and minister to Denmark under President
Harrison and rendered there conspicuous service. After
his return to this country he devoted himself largely to liter-
ature. He was a great reader and familiarized himself with
the history of his state and nation and the books that he
wrote have put in permanent form reminiscences of the
ante-war time and the subsequent history of his country.
Perhaps the best known of these works is the story of the
"Illini." The significant element of his character was his
absolute and unswerving loyalty to any cause he espoused.

He rendered unstinted service, not only to the state and
nation, but was greatly interested in the matters that per-
tained to the city of his adoption and to him was largely
indebted the securing of the passage through Galesburg
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, in which
he took a great deal of pride.

He loved his college and served his Alma Mater as a
trustee for thirty-eight years, being the senior trustee on the
board at the time of his death. As a reward the degree
of **LL.D." was granted him.

He was also on the commission that established the Na-
tional Cemetery at Gettysburg.

Our companion will be the longest remembered for his
personal qualities. He was a ready and brilliant conver-
sationalist at the time when conversation had become almost

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a lost art. He was a delightful raconteur and was never
at a loss for listeners. He gave of his time cheerfully to
the many demands made upon him and was a welcome
speaker at the public schools, the clubs and gatherings of
the Grand Army of the Republic.

In addition to the activities of Colonel Carr already men-
tioned, he was delegate to the Republican National Con-
ventions of 1864 and 1884, member of the Conference of
U. S. Consuls-general, at Paris in 1889, and served as Pres-
ident of the Knox County Historical Society and the Illinois
State Historical Society. For sixty years he was in the
public service, and his city, his state, and nation profited by
his wise counsels, and his influence will not soon cease to
be felt.

Edward D. Redington,
Walter R. Robbins,
Orett L. Hunger,

Committee.

PETER WILDE HARTS.

Captain One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Springfield, Illinois, March ii, ipip.

CAPTAIN PETER WILDE HARTS was born near
Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 14, 1837, and died at Spring-
field, 111., March 11, 1919. His family moved to Lincoln,
111., when he was 19 years of age. It was here that he met
Miss Harriet Bates, to whom he was married in 1864.

At the close of his military experience he joined his
young wife and they became residents of Springfield the
same year.

Captain Harts taught school for four years after he had
passed the age of seventeen. He then entered the Uni-
versity of Illinois and studied law, graduating in 1861.

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He offered his services to the federal government in
April, 1861, at the outbreak of hostilities, but as the quota
for Illinois was filled, he was not accepted.

He then took up the practice of law, but his military
spirit overcame his love for the profession. He then re-
cruited Co. H, io6th Illinois Infantry, of which he was
chosen captain, his commission bearing date September 17,
1862. It was a Logan county regiment and Thomas Latham
was its colonel.

After a year's service he was invalided home on account
of ill health, but as soon as he was sufficiently recovered
he went to St. Louis and recruited and organized Company
C, 67th U. S. C. Infantry, later consolidated with the 65th.

A short time previous to the close of the war, he served
as judge advocate on the staffs of Major General M. K.
Lawler, General Timothy Sherman and General Herron.
He also acted as judge advocate for the department of
Louisiana.

Captain Harts was a man of deep principles and a
staunch friend, a fact which was illustrated during his
service in the civil war. The story as mentioned in the
adjutant general's report, is that Captain Harts was ordered
to guard a residence that contained confederates. These
confederates happened to be friends of Captain Harts, and
he refused to guard them in their home, instead of the
guardhouse.

He was arrested, but being a very valuable man, was
soon again given command of his company with which he
did the following distinguished service as the records show :

After his company was removed from provost duty,
Company G and part of Company C were sent eight miles
north of Jackson to Carroll station. Jackson was attacked
by General Forrest, and Companies C and G surrendered
without resistance, but Captain Harts, in command with
his old Company H, and with Company I, marched to

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O'Bion river bridge on the M. & O. railroad near Jackson.
Forrest came on with his men, but Captain Harts was
ready for them. They had a breastwork thrown up and
repulsed the foe until they retired with heavy loss.

Captain Harts was offered a captaincy in the regular
army at the close of the civil war, but refused it, settling
down in Springfield.

He was a member of Stephenson Post No. 30, G. A. R.,
and was an Original Companion of the First Class in the
Loyal Legion.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Harriet Harts, who
resides at the family home, 13 17 Lowell avenue, and three
sons. They are Brigadier General William W. Harts in
Paris, who was Chief Aid to President Wilson before the
war, and was superintendent of public grounds at Wash-
ington, D. C. He had charge of the reception for the pres-
ident upon his recent arrival in Paris. A message was sent
to the general regarding the death of his father, but the
distance made it impossible for him to arrive home for the
funeral. Gen. Harts is a Succession Companion of the
Loyal Legion.

The second son is Edwin B. Harts, an attorney of Chi-
cago. Mr. Harts has been coming to the home of his par-
ents every two weeks during the time that his father has
been faihng in health, and was at his father's bedside just
a short time before he passed away.

The third son is Harry B. Harts of Ardmore, Oklahoma.

It seems fitting to conclude this sketch with the following
which appears in the press dispatches :

General William W. Harts, son of the late Captain P.
W. Harts of this city, has been awarded by the French
authorities the cross of commander of the Legion of Honor.
The decoration was bestowed by Field Marshal Petain.
General Harts has also received the decoration of Knight

MEMORIALS. 531

Commander of the British Order of St. Michael and St.
George.

General Harts, who has been in the regular army for
a number of years, has been in France for some time. He
was in personal charge of arrangements for the reception of
the American delegates to the peace conference at Paris.

Benjamin R. Hieronymus,
Bluford Wilson,
George B. Stadden,

Committer

EDMUND FRANCIS CLEVELAND.

First Lieutenant Ninth Vermont Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, April i6, 1919.

FEW ! Ah how few of the noble men, original com-
panions of our splendid Commandery of the great
State of Illinois, remain to grace and honor with their
presence our monthly assemblies. Many ! Ah how many,
have joined the silent bivouac of the dead, their familiar
earthly forms returned to earth, their manly spirits to the
Divine Creator who gave them life. Of these, whose mem-
ory we hold sacred and dear, few were of gentler spirit,
loftier courage, purer life, finer intellect, keener observa-
tion, clearer thought, or wider information, than our late
Companion, Edmund Francis Xavier Cleveland.

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. He was born September 29, 1841, at Williamsburg, New
York. His parents were Thomas Alexander, and Judith
Mayo Cleveland. His father died in his childhood, and his
mother married Alexander Dupre, of Port Henry at the
foot of Lake Champlain, where he grew to manhood, and
where on the fourth day of June, 1862, he enlisted in Com-
pany "A" of the 9th Vermont Infantry. He was soon
promoted to a Lieutenancy and detailed for engineer serv-
ice on the staff of General Charles Devens, and his most
conspicuous service was in planning and directing the con-
struction of the defensive works of the union forces
assaulting the elaborate confederate fortifications of Peters-
burg, Virginia. He participated actively in the thrilling
engagements that compelled General Lee to surrender the
Army of Northern Virginia, and was then detailed as
Provost Marshal of Richmond, where he was honorably
discharged from the service June 13, 1865.

On returning to civil life he chose the medical profes-
sion, and began his studies in the office of a practicing phy-
sician near Montreal, Canada. Thence he proceeded to
Ann Arbor, and took the full medical course of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.

He was graduated in 1868 and located at Dundee, Illi-
nois, and soon established a successful and peculiarly
beneficent practice. He was, however, preeminently a stu-
dent and philanthropist, with dominant religious inclinations.
Ignorant and sin sick souls appealed to him as imperatively
as did diseased bodies and about 1875 he began as lay
reader to conduct the services of the St. James Protestant
Episcopal Church at Dundee. On April 2'j, 1879, he was
ordained Deacon and Minister in charge of the Parish. In
1886 he was ordained a Priest and established as Rector
of the Parish.

Faithfully and zealously, yet with remuneration scarcely
equaling his many contributions of money, he efficiently

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discharged the manifold duties of his sacred office, until
1901, when admonished by advancing years, and decHning
strength, he reluctantly resigned the rectorship. He was
presented a beautifully engrossed testimonial of loving and
grateful appreciation, signed by h?s Bishop, and by the
members of the Parish. His interest in the church and
people of his affection, however, continued unabated.

As both a physical and spiritual physician, his industry
was incessant, and his charity constant. He traveled ex-
tensively and intelligently, and was a keen observer of both
the topography, and the manners and customs of the peo-
ple of the lands he visited. It was a rare intellectual treat
to listen to his lucid and elegant, yet wholly natural, recital
of his quaint and sagacious observations. Only in the
home circle, or among intimate friends, however could this
pleasure be realized for a seeming inborn modesty appeared
to forbid this freedom of speech before strangers. One
could be long acquainted with Dr. Cleveland and know little
of his superior worth.

In every situation his native dignity, his fine expressive
countenance, his suitable dress, and his faultless diction,
clearly indicated a scholarly model gentleman, yet they failed
to disclose the kind heart, and the steadfast purpose to
serve his fellow men that constantly animated him. These
were fully known only in the home circle and by intimate
friends.

On April 20, 1870, he married Miss Ella Lucinda Ed-
wards, youngest daughter of Alfred Edwards, a leading
pioneer merchant and dairyman of Dundee, and to them
was born Annabel, Mrs. Frederick Cleveland Test, M. D.,
of Chicago. Mary Elizabeth, Mrs. Howard McNeil of
Elgin, and Grace Frances, who died in girlhood. Dr. and
Mrs. Cleveland with Mrs. Test spent the winter at St.
Petersburg, Florida. Returning, the Dr. in feeble health,

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they stopped at the home of Mrs. Test in Chicago, and
there after a brief ilhiess he died on April i6, 1919.

Three years a volunteer soldier, fifty-one years a phy-
sician, forty-four years a lay reader, deacon and priest.
Efficiently discharging the duties of these high offices, would
surely demand the full capability of the ordinary person, yet
he found time to often conduct services at St. John's church,
Algonquin, to edit the Dundee Record, to act as a member
of the Board of Education, and as President of the Village
Board of Trustees. He was also a member and President
of Fox River Medical Association, a member of the Elgin
Scientific Society, a Comrade of the G. A. R., a Companion
of our order, President and later Vice President of the
Illinois Iron and Bolt Company. These were the most con-
spicuous but by no means the most numerous activities of
his remarkably busy life. For in every worthy pubhc en-
terprise of the community he was an active participant, and
his private benefactions, of counsel, encouragement, labor,
and money, were ceaseless.

Such characteristics and conduct gave him a wealth of
esteem and affection in his home community, and among
his intimate friends, and enshrined him in the deepest de-
votion of his beloved household. Realizing the inadequacy
of language to express the deepest emotions of the heart,
this Commandery tenders sincerest sympathy to the bereaved
widow and family, earnestly feeling that remembrance of
the noble life of the husband and fathci- will assuage their
grief and become a proud consolation as the mysterious
stream of time flows on.

Gen. John S. Wilcox,
Lieut. Edward S. Wilcox,
Major Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

DOUGLAS THOMAS HOFFMAN.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Fort Bliss,
Paso, Texas, May 23, 1919.

El

IlEUTENANT DOUGLAS^ THOMAS HOFFMAN
-'was born at Ottawa, Illinois, June 9, 1893, and died at
Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, May 2^, 1919. Lieutenant Hoff-
man was the grandson of our late Companion Colonel
Douglas Hapeman.

Lieutenant Hoffman was a medical student at the Uni-
versity of Michigan when war was declared. He responded
to the draft, but when called was rejected on account of
temporary disability. He then enlisted in the Eleventh
Illinois Infantry commanded by Colonel James E. Stuart.
It is interesting to note that in April, 1861, Lieutenant Hoff-
man's grandfather enlisted in the Eleventh Illinois Infantry

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and later, while in command of the One Hundred and
Fourth Illinois Infantry, was brigaded with the Twenty-
first Wisconsin Infantry in which James E. Stuart was a
captain.

While in camp with his regiment at Springfield, Illinois,
he was ordered to report for a second examination and,
being accepted, entered the National Army at Camp Grant,
September 20, 1917, as a private in Battery F, 333d Heavy
Field Artillery. On December 7, 1917, he received his cor-
poral's warrant. In June, 1918, he was appointed to Fourth
Officers' Training School and transferred to the Field Ar-
tillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary
Taylor, Louisville, Ky. On August 31, 1918, he was com-
missioned 2nd Lieutenant of Field Artillery, United States
Army. In November, 1918, he was assigned to the School
of Fire at Fort Sill, Okla., completing the course of study
January 31, 1919. In April, 1919, he was assigned to duty
with the Motor Transport Corps and stationed at Camp
Boyd, El Paso, Texas.

On Sunday morning, May 18, 1919, while mounting his
horse he was thrown and received injuries which resulted
in his death.

It was a source of regret to him that he was not ordered
to France. He had great enthusiasm for the army and
wished to remain in the service. He was particularly at-
tached to the artillery.

Lieutenant Hoffman w^as of a kind and cheerful dis-
position and in this and many other respects resembled his
grandfather.

He served his country well and his untimely death has
taken from us a most promising man and a worthy friend.

William T. Hapeman,
Charles F. Hills,
Bayard Holmes, Jr.,

Committee.

ROBERT MANN WOODS.

First: Lieutenant and Adjutant Sixty-fourth Illinois Infantry and

Brevet Major, United States Volunteers. Died at

Chicago, Illinois, May 29, 1919.

BREVET MAJOR ROBERT MANN WOODS was
born April 17, 1840, at Greenville, Pa., son of Wil-
liam J. and Mary Woods. Died at Chicago, May 29, 1919.
He was educated at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Mar-
ried December 7, 1869, to May Florence Miner, who died
in 1901.

In the early part of the war he was in the Quarter-
master General's office at Springfield engaged in mustering
troops for the field. In September, 1862, he was sent to
Louisville, Ky., to arm the 88th and 104th regiments. In

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1863 he was sent by Governor Yates to inspect the hos-
pitals on the Ohio River. He w^as one of the private secre-
taries of Governor Yates. He was made Adjutant of the
64th IlHnois Yates Sharpshooters, August 15, 1864. On
July 13, 1865, he was commissioned Captain of Company
"A" 64th IlHnois Infantry.

Major Woods participated in the battles of Fairburn,
Snake Creek Gap, in the pursuit of Gen. Hood, and in the
March to the Sea. He was at the capture of Savannah,
Campaign of the Carolinas, Pocotalico, Edisto River, Sal-
hahatchie Swamp, Orangeburgh, Columbia, Fayetteville,
Bentonville and Raleigh, at the surrender of the army of
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston.

He was the last mustering officer retained in the field
in the Army of the Tennessee. On March 13, 1865, he was
brevetted Major for gallantry in the field. He was dis-
charged from the army July 31, 1865.

In 1866 he was associated with Dr. B. F. Stephenson
in the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic and
became its first Adjutant General. He was State Depart-
ment Commander of the IlHnois G. A. R. in 1904-5. He
was a member of Bartleson Post G. A. R. No. 6, Joliet. He
was one of the most widely known members of the G. A. R.
in the United States.

After the war he entered actively in business. He was
Secretary of the St. Louis Paving Brick Co. at Galesburg.

He was editor and proprietor of the Joliet Republican
1879 to 1891. During the last years of his Hfe he made
three trips to Europe. He prepared a special lecture on
Belgium illustrated with stereopticon slides, showing the
nation before, during and after the German invasion. He
gave this lecture under the auspices of the Daily News Free
Lecture Bureau in many of the public schools of Chicago.
The manager of the bureau says these lectures did much
to give the public the right view of the heroic little nation

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and were a great means of patriotic education. He also
prepared another illustrated lecture on Pennsylvania, his
native state with special reference to historic battlefields re-
lating to the Revolutionary and the Civil War. Major
Woods was a devoted and enthusiastic member not only of
the Grand Army of the Republic, but also of the Loyal
Legion. He was at the service of his companions and com-
rades at all times. He made numberless patriotic addresses.
The night before his sudden death he had in his pocket
notes of an address he was to make the next day. (Memorial
Day.) A funeral service was held Sunday morning, June
1st, at the Chapel, 4227 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, at
which Bishop Fallows officiated. In the afternoon services
were held in the Universalist Church at Joliet under the
auspices of the G. A. R. The Rev. Dr. Lang, and Rev.
Duncan C. Milner participated in this service.

The interment was made in the Oakwood Cemetery at
Joliet.

Duncan C. Milner,
Samuel Fallows,
Erastus W. Willard,

Committee.

THOMAS FRANKLIN PHILIP CRANDON.

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster and Brevet Major, United
States Volunteers. Died at Evanston, Illinois, July 4, igig.

IN the quiet of his home on Independence Day, 1919, sur-
rounded by his family, one of the best beloved compan-
ions of this Commandery responded to the last roll call. A
man of sweeter, gentler spirit never lived. His smile and
cheery greeting was a benediction. Frank P. Crandon was
born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, October 28, 1834, and
while he was still young, his parents moved to Brantford,
Ontario. He came to Illinois as a young man, and after a
period of teaching in Jennings Seminary at Aurora, 111.,
connected with the Methodist denomination, he was married
to Sarah Elizabeth Washburn of Davenport, Iowa, with

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whom he Ijecame acquainted while he was a teacher. Mrs.
Crandon and three daughters survive him. At the out-
break of the War of the RebelHon, he was living at Batavia,
Illinois, and enlisted in what became the ist Maryland
Cavalry in the fall of 1862. He was mustered into the
service at Washington, D. C, December 20, 1862, as ist
Lieutenant and is first reported as regimental quartermaster
on the field and staff of that regiment dated December 31,
1862. The regiment was assigned to Genl. D. M. Gregg's
division in the Army of the Potomac and subsequently was
connected with the Provost Marshal General's department
under Genl. M. R. Patrick. Lieut. Crandon's position as
Quartermaster did not make him conspicuous for daring
deeds of courage on the battlefield but his faithfulness and
conscientiousness in the performance of his duties brought
him promotion and May 11, 1865, he was appointed Cap-
tain and Assistant Quartermaster U. S.' Vols. At the close
of the war he served for a few weeks at Richmond, Va.,
and soon thereafter was made Supt. of the Bureau of Refu-
gees and Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the 4th Dis-
trict of Virginia in which capacity he was serving when
mustered out July 10, 1866, having been brevetted Major
December 30, 1865, ''for faithful and meritorious serv-
ices."

After returning to Illinois he served from 1869 to 1873,
as Clerk of Kane County and his record in this office must
have attracted the attention of the officials of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad for in the latter year he as-
sumed the duties of Tax Commissioner of that corporation
which he most faithfully and efficiently filled for nearly
forty years. He retired at the age of 81, having served
eleven years beyond the limit fixed for retiring officials of
the road. His rare fitness for this office must have been
the reason why he was made such a signal exception to the
established rule of the company. Such was his vocation for

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more than two score years, but he had several avocations
which engaged much of his time and attention and while
other men seemed to enjoy light recreation he took delight
in change of work which often occupied his evenings. The
particular objects of his interest outside his daily routine
were the First Methodist Church of Evanston, the Garrett
Biblical Institute and the Northwestern University. Of the
latter hfe was Secretary for many years continuing to per-
form his duties as such even after retiring from his rail-
way office and until a short time before his death. For
many years he was a member of the Board of Education of
Evanston and his services were so unselfishly given in sea-
son and out of season and his influence of such a character
that after his retirement from the Board when a new
schoolhouse was erected, in the northern section of the city,
it was named for him.

Major Crandon was an ardent patriot, a lover of his
fellow men, a firm believer in revealed religion, which he
exemplified in his daily living and the profession of which
brought to him duties and responsibilities which he not only
did not shirk but which were to him a joy and delight. To
him his Sunday morning class and mid-week meeting were
previous engagements, which no social function could en-
croach upon. As a man he was gentleness personified but
withal a man of such rugged integrity that when two prop-
ositions were before him, one of which was exactly right
and the other expedient but slightly swerving from the
perpendicular there was never any question where he stood.
In addition to the activities above enumerated, he was an
officer of the Laymen's Association of Rock River Con-
ference, of Wesley Hospital and Mutual Insurance Board ;
was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and
Commander of this Commandery in 191 1. He had also been.
President of the Western Society of the Army of the Po-
tomac and Governor of the Society of Mayflower Descend-

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ants to which he not only belonged but which he faithfully
served. His thoughts went beyond the borders of his own
beloved United States, and in Rome and Montevideo there
are Crandon Schools, and in Darjieling and Tokio Crandon
Homes, all witnesses to the devotion and generosity of him-
self and Mrs. Crandon.

Loving tributes to the character of our Companion
have come to his family from old friends and associates
from which the committee are permitted to quote. Bishop
W. F. McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal Church whose
residence was for many years in Evanston, writes : ''His
love for his friends was so large and commanding that
other affections almost seemed small beside it, for he had
extraordinary capacity for loving. We all stood in a kind
of wonder and amazement in the presence of him. His
capacity for affection was not the only quality he possessed
in marvelous measure. His capacity for fidelity to all his
trusts was a standing miracle to me. His capacity for re-
ligion was just as marked. Men and women all over the
world will walk more steadily toward the Gates of Pearl
because of his influence over them, the influence of his
own faith and righteousness." Prof. R. L. Cumnock of
Northwestern University brings this tribute : '*The grand
old soldier has left us, but his noble life, his good deeds,
his unselfish record remains. Frank Crandon stands out
in my estimation as the best man I ever knew in this par-
ticular— he spent his life in helping his friends." Rev.
T. P. Frost for many years his pastor says: **How faith-
ful he was to all the varied institutions and interests with
which he was connected. He bore them all on his heart,
and, 'Great Heart,' that he was, there was no limit to the
burdens that he would bear for love's sake. If ever I have
met a person characterized by the love that 'beareth all
things' he was that man."

Our friend has gone from our sight. We shall not

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again be greeted by his kindly smile nor receive his cordial
handclasp but his memory will abide. Because of his sub-
lime faith, his buoyant hope and his great love he could in
all modesty have paraphrased the lines of the poet to read :

"Sunset and evening star

And one clear call for me
And there'll be no moaning of the bar

When I put out to sea.

But such a tide as moving seems asleep

Too full for sound or foam
When that which drew from out the boundless deep

Turns again home."

Edw^ard D. Redington,
Henry K. Wolcott^
Henry A. Pearsons,

Committee.

THEODORE HENRY PATTERSON.

Major and Surgeon, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio In-
fantry, United States Volunteers. Died at Seattle,
Washington, August 23, 1919.

MAJOR THEODORE HENRY PATTERSON was
born at Eaton, Loraine county, Ohio, on the 24th
day of November, 1840, and died at Seattle, Wash., on the
23rd day of August, 1919.

Immediately after the completion of his medical course
at Cleveland, Ohio, he was mustered into the Voluntary
Military service as Assistant Surgeon of the 187th Regi-
ment Ohio Vol. Inf., April 3, 1865.

He was commissioned Major and Surgeon of the same

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Regiment June 26, 1865, in which capacity he served in
the campaign through Resaca, Tunnel Hill, Dalton, and
Macon, Georgia. On November 24, 1865, he was as-
signed to duty as Acting Surgeon in Chief of the Second
Division Department of Georgia.

Was mustered out of the service with his regiment Janu-
ary 20, 1866, in accordance with orders from the War De-
partment. At the close of his military service in 1866,
Companion Patterson located at Chicago, 111., engaging in
the drug business in which he was actively interested until
his decease. For many years he took an active part in the
works of the American Pharmaceutical Association, and
the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association.

He was one of the founders of the lUinois College of
Pharmacy, which later became a part of the Northwestern
University.

Companion Patterson was married at Chicago, 111., Feb.
9, 1870, to Miss Laura Waggener. Three children survive
— ^Charles W., Evanston, 111. ; Theodore Hiram, Seattle,
Wash., and Mrs. Olive P. Houston, Chicago, 111.

His remains were laid to rest in Mount Hope Cemetery,
Chicago.

Companion Patterson became a member of the Illinois
Commandery of the MiHtary Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States on October i, 1884, Insignia No. 3 141.
He was a regular and interested attendant at its meetings
until he moved to Seattle a few years ago, and was be-
loved by his companions.

He was a member of Lincoln Post No. 91 G. A. R.,
Department of Illinois; of Home Lodge A. F. & A. M.,
and Apollo Commandery, Knights Templar, and of the
Veteran Druggist Association of Chicago. He has passed
before us to "Fame's eternal camping ground," mourned
by the community in which he lived and by his companions

548 MEMORIALS.

of the Loyal Legion, who tender to the family of our de-
parted Companion their sincere sympathies.

William L. Cadle,
J^MEs H. Smith,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

JOHN JOSEPH ABERCROMBIE.

First Lieutenant One Hundred and Twenty-seventh New York In-
fantry, United States Volunteers. Died at
Washington, D. C, October 4, 1919.

OUR beloved companion — Captain John Joseph Aber-
crombie — the third of the Hne bearing in full the
name, was born March 17, 1845, in Philadelphia. Captain
Abercrombie's father was General John Joseph Abercrom-
bie, a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, served in
the Mexican War and in the War of the Rebellion, com-
manding a division in the Army of the Potomac.

His mother, Mary Engle Patterson Abercrombie, was
a daughter of Major Robert Patterson, distinguished both
in private life, and as commander of an army in the early

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period of the War of the RebeUion. Indeed, it was the
foresight and insistence of General Patterson that that
splendid body of troops, known as the Pennsylvania Re-
serve, was organized.

Captain Abercronibie entered the service as a volunteer
A. D. C. on the staff of his father, February 22, 1862.
Previous to this he made three attempts to enlist but was
rejected on account of his youth, but the persistence so
conspicuous in the Patterson-Abercrombie blood would
brook no denial of its purpose in a righteous cause. Finally,
John Abercrombie was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the
127th N. Y. Volunteer Infantry. This regiment was in
General Peck's Division Army of the Potomac and took
part in the battle of Suffolk, April, 1863. His regiment
was transferred to Gordon's Division, Keyes Corps, May,
1863. In the latter part of June, 1863, he was ordered to
join the Army of the Potomac and assigned to the nth
Corps. He participated in the battle of Gettysburg as
acting aide on General Schimelfenig's staff. After this he
went with Gordon's Division to Charleston Harbor, doing
picket duty till after the capture of Fort Wagner, when he
was assigned to duty with the artillery, and was placed in
command of the Swamp Angel battery, in the meantime
making an assault by boat on Fort Johnson. After this
he was on provost duty at Beaufort, S. C. He was in the
battle of Honey Hill, Deveaux Neck, for which he received
honorable mention in General Orders. He was detailed to
command a siege battery of artillery, which was used effec-
tively in preventing railroad trains from passing, and
silencing two rebel batteries which were shelling the division
lines.

The army services of Companion Abercrombie were
varied and of a distinctive character. He was elected a
Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States through the Commandery of the State

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of Illinois, November 8, 1888. Insignia Number 6520. He
was President of the Western Society of the Army of the
Potomac and a member of George H. Thomas Post No. 5
Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Illinois. He
was elected Junior Vice Commander of The Military Order
of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois.
Had Companion Abercrombie remained a resident of Illi-
nois, he would have been elected Commander.

On August 2"], 1 88 1, Captain Abercrombie was married
to Lilly Mary Nugent, daughter of Michael Nugent. The
Nugent family were distinguished for their uncompromis-
ing loyalty to our country.

The issue of this marriage were two children, John
Joseph and Marion Nugent Abercrombie.

Companion Abercrombie died in Washington, D. C,
October 4, 1919.

Of the immediate family who remain to mourn his loss,
his noble, devoted wife, Mrs. Lilly Nugent Abercrombie, a
most gracious daughter, Mrs. Clarion Abercrombie Coffee,
his sister, Mrs. Sara Iowa Goodman, of Philadelphia, and
his brother, Col. W. R. Abercrombie, U. S. A. retired.

Companion Abercrombie was a great soul, of a refined
poetic nature. He hated hypocrisy. Everything he said
or did was for the making of better men and women. We
are proud of him as a man and companion. He got into
our heart strings, and there he remams.

Now we are parted, but only for a brief period. We
shall soon join him in that land of perpetual sunshine.

To the family whose loss is greater than ours, we ex-
tend our full sympathy.

Walter R. Robbins,
Edward D. Redington.
WirxTAM P. Wright.

Comnuiice.

The Coiiunaiidery never had a
Photograph of this Companioji.

MORGAN KING BARNUM.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Baltimore, Mary-
land, October 26, 1919.

MORGAN KING BARNUM, a Companion of the
Plrst Class Hereditary in the IlHnois Commanclery,
Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S., was born
in Syracuse, New York, April 6, 1861. He died Sunday,
October 26, 1919, in Baltimore, Md., at the age of 58 years,
and was buried at New Albany, Indiana.

He was the eldest son of Major General Henry A.
Barnum, U. S. V., and a brother of Brigadier General Mal-
vern Hill Barnum, U. S. A.

Companion Barnum graduated at Syracuse University
in 1884, and then engaged in professional work with the
Erie Railroad. About three years later he was married to
Emily Rice Maginness in New Albany, Ind., October 18,
1887. He remained in the railroad business to the time
of his death, having been associated with the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, Union Pacific, IlHnois Central, Chi-
cago, Burlington & Quincy, and Baltimore & Ohio rail-
roads. At the time of his death he was acting as expert
Mechanical Engineer to Mr. Willard, President of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Mr. and Mrs. Barnum moved to La Grange from Chi-
cago nearly twenty years ago and their children were raised

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and went through school in that village. He was Past Com-
mander of the Knights Templar of North Platte, Nebraska.
Besides his widow, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Theodore Bearse of La Grange, and two sons. Major E. M.
Barnum, U. S. A., and Richard F. Barnum, both of whom
served in the World War.

Companion Barnum rose to eminence in his chosen pro-
fession. His duties brought him into immediate relations
with the leading railway executives of the country, and in
all these positions of trust and responsibility he quickly
earned and always retained the affectionate regard of those
with whom he was associated.

Charles S. Bentley,
Charles M. Robertson,
Charles S. McEntee,

Committee.

EDWARD SANFORD WILCOX.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Fifty-second Illinois Infantry, United

States Volunteers. Died at El Reno, Oklahoma,

October 27, iQip.

RECORD given in application for membership to the
Loyal Legion.
"Born February 25, 1828, at Charleston, N. Y. Mus-
tered into the service October 25, 1861, as 2nd Lieutenant,
Co. 'K', 52nd Illinois Infantry; promoted to ist Lieutenant,
December 7, 1861 ; to ist Lieutenant and Adjt., October
18, 1862; served with the regiment at Camp Benton, Mo.;
thence to St. Joseph, Mo., guarding H. St. Joseph, R. R. in
winter of 1861 ; then ordered to Smithland, Ky. ; thence
to Fort Donelson. Returned with prisoners to Camp Doug-

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lass, Chicago; then to Pittsburgh Landing, arriving there on
or about March 20th ; was attached to W. H. L. Wallace's
Division; left with i6th corps; participated in Battle of
Shiloh; wounded late in afternoon of April 6, 1862. Was
in Hospital Boat April 10. On detached duty as Recruit-
ing Officer July 10, 1862; reported to Colonel Morrison,
Springfield, Illinois; rejoined regiment at Corinth, Miss.,
March, 1863 ; assumed duties of Adjt. ; was with regiment
through all its campaigns and actions until June 29, 1864;
resigned as unfit for further field duty."

He was a son of General Elijah Wilcox who brought his
family to Elgin, Illinois, in May, 1842, and where he grew
to manhood, and about 1852 married ]\Iiss Sarah A. Clark,
by whom he had three children and who died soon after his
enlistment. He was an enterprising business man and pub-
lic spirited citizen ; was an alderman and post master of the
city. Later he was prominent in the settlement of Okla-
homa Territory; was Vice President of 'Tains Oklahoma
Colony" and addressed as "Colonel Wilcox," and here he
died at the El Reno Military Hospital, October 27, 1919,
91 years of age.

He was a genial, social man of very pleasing presence,
kind and generous and a favorite in every community in
which he resided.

John Shuler Wilcox,
Albert Franklin Bullard,
Richard Stanley Tuthill,

Committee.

JOSEPH JOHNSON SIDDALL.

First Lieulefiant and Adjutant Sixth Indiana Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 9, 1919.

FIRST LIEUT. JOSEPH JOHNSON SIDDALL was
born in Madison, Jefferson county, Indiana, June 2y,
1842, enrolled in the 51st Illinois Vol. Inf. in October, 1861,
was mustered into the 6th Ind. Vol. Inf., Nov. i, 1861, com-
missioned 2nd Lieut, in 6th Ind. Inf. by Gov. Morton, April
7, 1862, for gallant and meritorious conduct, on the battle-
field of Shiloh, commissioned ist Lieut, and Adjt. Dec. 7,
1862, participated in the battles of Shiloh, Stones River,
Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain,
Beverly Ford Ridge, also in many minor engagements, on
brigade staff as A. D. C., Topographical Engineer, after the

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battle of Stones River, till the expiration of his service,
mustered out with his regiment September 22, 1864. He
was married in 1868 to Miss Sallie H. Garber of Madison,
Indiana, who still survives him, also a large family of chil-
dren and grandchildren.

After the close of the Civil War he was in the drug
business in Chicago. He was also captain military guard,
of the G. A. R. at the Columbian Exposition, 1893. He was
a member of the Episcopal Church, and in the last years
of his life he served as expert accountant in the office of the
Jury Commission of Cook county.

If any man honored the uniform he wore in the Civil
War, it was Joseph J. Siddall, and no higher tribute can
ever be paid to the memory of this brave man, who was
six times mentioned by his superior officers for meritorious
conduct on the battlefield.

His memory, cherished by his family, his friends, and
his Companions, will linger long a ray of sunshine, when
the shadows fall and the night has come.

James B. Smith,
Thomas E. Milchrist,
Samuel Murray,

Committee.

JOHN CALVIN LEWIS.

Captain One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Ohio Infantry, United

States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,

December lo, 1919.

ANOTHER of our worthy Companions has been called
by the Great Commander from labor on earth to rest
above.

Companion John Calvin Lewis, son of Joseph and Mary
Wakefield Lewis, of Elizabethtown, Ohio, was born there
April 17, 1836. He attended the public schools of Hamil-
ton County, Ohio, where he received his primary and high
school education, and was afterwards graduated from
Miami University in June, i860.

In the autumn of i860 he entered the law office of his
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uncle, S. F. Lewis, then a well-known lawyer of Clinton,
Illinois, as a student, but, responding to the call of his im-
periled nation, on July 27, i86r, six days after the battle
of Bull Run, he substituted Blackstone's and Kent's Com-
mentaries for Jomini's "Art of War" and Casey's "Tactics"
and enlisted as a private in Company F, 41st Illinois In-
fantry, then being formed or organized at Decatur, Illinois,
and, on the 5th of August following, he was mustered in
the United States sei*vice as a second lieutenant of said
Company F.

He participated in the occupation of Paducah in Sep-
tember, 1861, and was engaged in the capture of Fort Ham-
ilton and Fort Henry. He was engaged in the battle of Fort
Donelson, February 13 to 16, 1862, under General Grant,
which was the first important battle won by the Federal
troops up to that time, in which the casualties of his regi-
ment were about two hundred. On the 20th of February
he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and for a
time thereafter served as Acting Assistant Adjutant Gen-
eral of the First Brigade of the First Division, Army of
the Tennessee. On March 20, 1862, he was promoted to
the rank of captain and commanded his company at Pitts-
burg Landing, April 5, 1862, and at Shiloh, April 6 and 7,
1862, where his company and regiment took an active and
important part in that important battle, and in which he
was wounded, and his regiment lost about two hundred in
killed and wounded. He also participated in the siege of
Corinth, and in the battle at Hatchie River, October 5, 1862.
He participated in all the marches, skirmishes, and battles
in which his regiment was engaged up to that time. Octo-
ber 5, 1862, his health being seriously impaired, he resigned
on account of such disability and was honorably discharged.
Afterwards, on May 16, 1864, his health being partially re-
stored, he entered the service as captain of Company F,
167th Ohio Volunteers, and served with that regiment in

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the Kanawah Valley, West Virginia, until he was mustered
out of the service.

March 26, 1863, he was married to Alice Elizabeth
Thornton, daughter of Dr. John H. F. Thornton, and
granddaughter of ex-President William Henry Harrison,
who, after fifty-six years of loving companionship, is left
to mourn his loss.

In order to regain his health, Captain Lewis, in the
year 1865, went to the Northern woods of Michigan and
engaged in the lumber and milling business there for about
five years. In 1870 he came to Chicago and successfully
engaged in the lumber business. In 1876 he became con-
nected with the N. K. Fairbanks Company, first as As-
sistant Superintendent; then Superintendent; and, later, as
Manager of the Chicago Refining Company and of the
American Cottonseed Oil Company. After forty-two years
of continuous service with that company, during all of
which time he enjoyed the full confidence and esteem of its
officers and employes, as well as others with whom he had
business, he voluntarily retired from business. As a busi-
ness man of large experience, his motto was, "Fair and
open dealing," which he estimated to be the best capital
that a capable, industrious man can possess.

On the loth of March, 1890, he was elected an Original
Companion of the First Class of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, through the Command-
ery of the State of Illinois, his insignia being 7757. He
was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, of the Royal
Arcanum and of the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church.

On Monday morning, December 6, 1919, while crossing
Drexel Boulevard at 42nd street, in the city of Chicago, a
short distance from his home, he was violently struck by a
rapidly moving automobile and received fatal injuries, from
which he died at the Illinois Central Hospital, Wednesday,
December loth. His funeral services were held at his late

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residence, 41-40 Ellis Avenue, where a large number of rela-
tives, friends and neighbors gathered to pay to his memory
their tribute of respect. His remains were interred at Oak-
wood Cemetery.

Captain Lewis was a brave soldier, a kind and agree-
able neighbor, a splendid citizen, a consistent Christian, a
worthy man.

"A truer, nobler, trustier heart,
More loving or more loyal never beat
Within a human breast."

Our Companion left in sad bereavement his widow,
Alice E. Lewis, and Thornton Lewis, of Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia, Joseph D. Lewis, Charles R. Lewis, and
Frank E. Lewis, of Chicago, his sons, and Mrs. George E.
Van Hagen, of Chicago, his daughter, to whom the Com-
panions of this Commandery tender their warmest sym-
pathy.

Thomas E. Milchrist,
Charles F. Hills,
James B. Smith,

Committee.

JULIAN EDWARD BUCKBEE.

Major First Michigan Sharpshooters and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel

United States Volunteers. Died at Hermosa Beach,

California, December 2g, igic}.

BORN at Ypsilanti, Mich., March 15, 1844.
Elected an Original Companion of the First Class
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, January
7, 1904. Insignia No. 141 63. Died at Hermosa Beach, Los
Angeles, Calif., December 29, 1919. Was interred in the
family lot in Rosehill cemetery, Chicago.

Register of Service: He was appointed First Lieuten-
ant and Adjutant, First Michigan Sharpshooters, January
T, 1863, and mustered in as such, February 26, 1863. Pro-

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moted to Major of same command, April ii, 1885. Mus-
tered out, July 28, 1865.

War Department records show that Edward J. Buckbee
was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers by Brevet,
May 22, 1866, to rank as such from April 2, 1865, for gal-
lant and meritorious services before Petersburg, Va.

Companion Buckbee states on his application for mem-
bership as follows: "I should explain that while my cor-
rect name is Julian Edward, I used to sign it as Edward J.
Buckbee."

History of Service: He was present with his regiment
in the following engagements, to-wit: The Wilderness,
Va., May 5, 6 and 7, 1864; Nye River, Va., May 9th; Po
River, Va., May loth; Spottsylvania, Va., May 12th, 13th
and i8th; Oxford, Va., May 23rd; North Anna, Va., May
24th and 25th; Tolopotomy, Va., May 29th; Bethesda
Church, Va., June 2d and 3rd ; Cold Harbor, Va., June 7th ;
attack on Petersburg, Va., June 17th, where he was taken
prisoner. Was confined at various rebel prisons and es-
caped three times, but was recaptured each time, when he
again escaped and after traveling sixteen nights he was
picked up at the mouth of the Edisto river by a guard boat
from the U. S. Sloop of War, St. Louis, and was sent to
Hilton Head with orders to report by letter to the Adjutant-
General U. S. Army for disposition. Rejoined his regi-
ment in front of Petersburg, Va., in January, 1865, ^^^
was engaged in numerous actions along the Petersburg
front until the surrender of Appomattox, when his regi-
ment was ordered to Washington and later to Jackson,
Mich., to muster out. He was wounded at Spottsylvania,
Va., in May, 1864, and again on March 25, 1865.

Colonel Buckbee was three times cited in general orders
for gallant services before Petersburg, — in his own words :
"The 1st Michigan Sharpshooters was the first to enter
the City of Petersburg. I took the regimental color guard

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and placed the National colors on the Court House about
4 o'clock in the morning — 'the first flag in Petersburg.' " He
was connected with the Land Department of the C. & N.
W. Railroad for many years.

Colonel Buckbee is survived by his widow, three sons,
and three daughters, and to them the Commandery of the
State of Illinois tenders its profound sympathy.

His eldest son, Julian Edward Buckbee, is an Heredi-
tary Companion of the Order, Commandery of the State
of Illinois.

Walter R. Robbins,
William L. Cadle,
Robert C. Knaggs,

Committee.

BENNER X. SMITH.

Hereditary Companion of the First Class. Died at Salt Lake City,
Utah, January /, 1920.

T> EXNER X. SMITH was born at Galesburg, 111., May
^ 28, 1868. He was the fourth son of Judge Arthur
Arnold Smith, of that city, who was Colonel of the 83rd
111. Inf., U. S. v., and breveted Brigadier-General for meri-
torious service with the Army of the Cumberland in the
Civil War, and who was an Original Companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

He was graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, 111.,
in 1890, and received his legal education at Columbia Law
School, New York. He began the practice of his profes-
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sion at Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1893, ^^^ continued his
practice there until his death*, which occurred on January
7, 1920. His career was that of an able and brilliant law-
yer and active and public-spirited citizen. His public serv-
ices were many and varied. He was Assistant United
States District Attorney, Deputy Attorney-General of Utah,
First Lieutenant of the Utah Vol. Cavalry in the Spanish-
American War, Colonel and Judge Advocate on the Gov-
ernor's Staff, a member of the Utah State Board of Cor-
rection, a member of the Lower House of the Utah Legis-
lature, and a member of the State Senate for two terms.

To all his civic duties he brought a vigorous energy
and a fine sense of public responsibility.

In 1904 he was married to Miss Mabel Miner, daugh-
ter of a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah ; also
surviving him are his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Smith, and a
sister, Mrs. Ira H. Lewis, both residing in Salt Lake City,
and two brothers, Loyal I>. and DeWitt D. Smith, of Chi-
cago, 111.

Throughout a life well filled with opportunity for use-
ful public service and with its earned rewards of honor,
Companion Benner X. Smith was always guided by an
aggressive spirit of loyalty to American institutions and
ideals, thus faithfully carrying forward the high traditions
of his inheritance from his distinguished father.

He was elected to Companionship in the Loyal Legion,
Nov. 7, 1901, through the Commandery of the State of IIH-
nois, his friends in which are gratified by the testimonials
to his well-spent life, and extend their sympathy to his
relatives upon the loss of so worthy a husband, son and
brother.

Philip S. Post,
Thomas B. Fullerton,
George B. Stadden,

Cofumittee.

ABALINO CUTLER BARDWELL.

Captain One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry, United

States Volunteers. Died at Dixon, Illinois,

January 30, 1920.

CAPTAIX ABALINO CUTLER BARDWELL was
born in Conneautville, Crawford County, Pennsyl-
vania, October 23, 1844, ^^^ died at the home of his son,
H. U. Bardwell, January 30, 1920, in Dixon, Illinois.

Companion Bardwell came \vith his parents to Prophets-
town, Whiteside County, Illinois, in 1853, and in the year
1864 went to Dixon to commence the study of law. While
engaged in his studies the call of December 19, 1864, came
for ten regiments from Illinois to serve for one year, and
for the first of these regiments, the 147th \^olunteer In-

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fantry, he at once commenced to raise a company in which
he enhsted, February lo, 1865. Upon its organization as
Company G of that regiment he was elected as its Captain,
in which capacity he served with honor until his muster out
at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, 1866, and the final pay-
ment and discharge of the regiment at Springfield, lUinois,
February 8, 1866. The entire service of the regiment was
in Georgia where its duties were efficiently performed. On
May 12, 1865, General Wofiford, commanding the rebel
forces in northern Georgia, surrendered his command to
General H. M. Judah, the brigade commander, at Kings-
ton, and the officers of the 147th regiment aided in the
parolement at Rome of the 10,000 Confederates compris-
ing the last remnant of the armies of the South.

Companion Bardwell was appointed as Provost Mar-
shal of the First Brigade, Second Separate Division, Army
of the Cumberland, to which the regiment was attached, and
served in that capacity until the Brigade organization was
dissolved, October 16, 1865. He was also detailed by Gen.
J. B. Steedman, commanding the Department of Georgia,
for duty at Savannah in the ''Bureau of Freedmen
Refuges and Abandoned Lands." Under this detail he pre-
sided over the court established to enforce police regula-
tions among freedmen and to protect them in their new
relations with the whites, and served in this capacity until
the muster-out of the regiment.

Upon his return to Dixon at the conclusion of his serv-
ice Captain Bardwell again took up his law studies and
was admitted to the bar, September 24, 1867. He imme-
diately commenced the practice of law at Rochelle, Illinois,
but impaired health caused him to relinquish his work, and
he returned to Dixon. He engaged in the publication of
newspapers in that city until 1871 when he retired there-
from and resumed the law business, in which he was sue-

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cessful. He served as State's Attorney of Lee County and
later for a number of years as Master in Chancery.

Captain Bardwell and Miss Clara Utley of Dixon were
united in marriage, November i6, 1871. There were three
sons born to this union, only one of whom, Henry Utley
Bardwell, now survives. Mrs. Bardwell died March 30,
1897, leaving to her loving husband and son the memory
of a noble woman — a devoted wife and mother.

During his later years Captain Bardwell was obliged
to carefully guard his tenure of life and passed most of his
winters in the South. He was in Florida last December
where he expressed his appreciation of the climate in the
following lines upon a card received by a member of this
Committee last Christmas :

"Some folks say it aint no winter

Where the grass and flowers grow,
Aint no fun without some skating and
The ground aint got no snow.
But, by gum,
I like it better,
If the sun be ninety-three.
You can have your ice and skating
Florida will do for me."

A few days afterwards he was suddenly stricken and
his son went to Florida and brought the father home where
he tarried but a short time before entering upon his final
sleep.

In the active years of the life of Captain Bardwell he
was a potent force in the community in which he resided.
He was always high-minded and gentle in his bearing. He
was in favor of all measures designed to benefit and was
firmly opposed to evil in all its phases. Reared in the calm
of the country away from the hurrying crowds he acquired
the habit of cool and deliberate judgment and a mental
poise that made him notable among his fellowmen. It can

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with all earnestness be truly said that he was of the highest
type of American citizenship. He had the pure heart of
a child and was lovable all his days.

In the land of eternal rest in which he is now sojourning
may his vision be extended to embrace his loving comrades
and friends yet tarrying upon the near shore of the Stygian
stream.

Charles Bent^

William Newton Danks,

John Cooper Durgin^

Committee.

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN NEELY.

Captain First Illinois Light Artillery, United States Volunteers
Died at Chicago, Illinois, January sr, ig20.

OUR late Companion, Captain John Chamberlain Neely,
was born in Belvidere, 111., August 28, 1840, and died
at Chicago, January 31, 1920, leaving a son, John Crosby
Neely, and daughter, Carrie B. Neely, to mourn his loss.

In 1869 he engaged in the banking business as cashier
of the Merchants National Bank, Chicago, until 1902, when
he became secretary of the Corn Exchange National Bank,
until he resigned in 1913.

In 1913 he was elected Commander of the Illinois Com-
mandery, following his service as Treasurer for twenty-
five terms.

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His military record is an enviable one. On February i,

1862, he entered the service as Sergeant in Company I, ist
Illinois Light Artillery, and soon after was promoted 2nd
Lieutenant, to date from February i, 1862. On June 16,

1863, was commissioned ist Lieutenant, and on February
10, 1864, was promoted Captain. Honorably mustered out
of service, July 26, 1865, at close of the war.

During his long service he took part in the battles of
Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg Campaign, Nashville, and many
minor engagements, in which he was honorably mentioned
for gallantry.

In his death we have lost a Companion loved and re-
spected by all.

To his beloved son and daughter this Commandery ten-
ders its sincere and heartfelt sympathy.

John T. McAuley,
John Young,
William P. Wright,

Committee.

WILLIAM ANDREW LORIMER.

Captain Scz^enteenth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Aledo, Illinois, February 7, 1920.

/^APTAIN WILLIAM A. LORIMER, a Companion of
^^ the Loyal Legion of the United States of America, a
member of the Commandery of the State of Illinois and a
member of Warren Shedd Post, No. 262, Dept. of Illinois,
Grand Army of the Republic, died in Aledo, Illinois, Feb-
ruary 7, 1920.

He was born, August 13, 1840, at Perth, Scotland, and
entered the service as Sergeant Co. I, 17th Regiment, 111.
Infantry, April 25, i86r, at Keithsburg, 111. He was mus-
tered into the United States service. May 25, 1861, at Pe-
oria, 111.; was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, July 8, 1862;

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to Captain, April 5, 1863, and continued in this capacity
until the expiration of the term of enlistment. He was
mustered out on the 4th day of June, 1864, at Springfield,
Illinois.

Capt. Lorimer, with his regiment, was with Gen. John
Pope in his occupation of N. E. Missouri, then with Gen.
John C. Fremont at St. Louis, Mo., and accompanied his
expedition to Bird's Point, Mo., and on to Pilot Knob, Mo.

Then he, with his regiment, under Gen. B. M. Prentice,
marched to Cape Girardeau, Mo., occupied Elliott Mills,
Ky., and afterward erected Ford Holt, opposite Cairo.

The regiment was again sent to Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
was engaged in the battle of Fredericktown, Mo., October
21, 1861.

He was at Ft. Donelson, Tenn., February 12 to 16, 1862,
being slightly wounded, February 13. He was at Shiloh,
April 6 and 7, 1862, and wounded in both legs on the 7th.
He was at the siege of Corinth, Miss., in the battles of luka
and Hatchie River ; through the campaign up to the siege
and capture of Vicksburg, where he received severe con-
cussion from a bursting shell causing an injury for Hfe;
and was with Gen. Sherman on the Meridian raid in Feb-
ruary, 1864.

His regiment was a part of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Divi-
sion, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tenn.

During the period of the war Captain "Lorimer served
long and well and his popularity with his comrades of those
days was not less than with his comrades of the Grand
Army.

Immediately after the war he took a commercial course,
then returned to Keithsburg, 111., and served as a clerk with
a dry goods firm until in 1868 he was elected Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Mercer County, Illinois, which office he
jfilled until 1876. Then it was that he entered into the dry
goods business, his life work.

MEMORIALS. 575

In 1877 he was appointed by Gov. Cullom as a member
of his staff, and in 1892 he represented the loth Congres-
sional District of IlHnois in the Republican National Con-
vention in Minneapolis. He prepared for compilation
in connection with "The Historical Encyclopedia of Illi-
nois," an authentic record of his county entitled, 'The His-
tory of Mercer County."

In 1868 Captain Lorimer was married to Orpha Jean
Calhoun. Of the five children born to them, only one, Mrs.
Bernice Blake of Chicago, survives with the wife.

Capt. Lorimer was a familiar figure in his home town ;
a friend to both young and old, with a cheery greeting for
each, characteristic even when last among his townsmen.
Of Scotch birth he typified the Scotch strength of character,
always true to his convictions of life, steadfast for right and
justice.

His was the life of a patriot, a loyal, public-spirited citi-
zen, a Christian gentleman; his an influence that should
long live in the lives of those who called him comrade and
friend.

Archibald Allen Rice,
Hugh Demorest Bowker,
Charles Henry Robinson,

Committee.

HENRY ZELORA EATON.

First Lieutenant Seventh Ohio Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 3, ip20.

FIRST LIEUT. HENRY ZELORA EATON died at
Chicago, March 3, 1920.
He enlisted at Cleveland, Ohio, April 21, 1861, as a
private in Co. B, 7th Regt. of Ohio Vol. Inf., for the period
of three months.

In June, 1861, he re-enlisted as private in Co. B, 7th
Regt. Ohio Vol. Inf., by reason of reorganization of same
regiment, for the period of three years.

He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, June 18, 1861.
Was commissioned First Lieutenant, Feb. 20, 1862, and
transferred to Co. H.

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He was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Brig.-
Gen. E. B. Tyler and served about a year from Aug. 25,
1861.

He participated in the following battles : Cross Lanes,
W. Va. ; Fayetteville, Strasburg, Winchester, Front Royal,
Port Republic and Cedar Mountain, at which battle he was
wounded.

When Gen. Tyler was assigned to another branch of the
service, Lieut. Eaton was returned to his regiment. Soon
after (Aug. 9, 1862) he was wounded at the battle of Cedar
Mountain. He was discharged from the service on ac-
count of disability from wounds received in service, No-
vember 6, 1862.

After a long illness he died at his home, 5435 Ingleside
avenue, Chicago.

Companion Eaton was elected a member of the Com-
mandery, March 3, 1904, and was an honored member of
the organization, his Insignia being No. 14226.

Duncan C. Milner,
Charles E. Baker,
Milton H. Wilson,

Committee.

DANIEL HARMON BRUSH.

Brigadier General United States Army. Died at Baltimore, Mary-
land, March 8, 1920.

BORN at Murphysboro, Illinois, May 9, 1848.
Elected an Original Companion of the Order
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, June 3,
1885. Insignia No. 3857.

Died at No. 312 Woodlawn Road, Roland Park, Balti-
more, Maryland, March 8, 1920.

Register of Service : P2ntered the U. S. Volunteers
(100-day service) as private Co. F, 145th 111. Inf., May
22, 1864. Was honorably discharged therefrom, Septem-
ber, 23, 1864. Was appointed a Cadet, U. S. Military Acad-
emy, September i, 1867. Graduated therefrom, June 12,

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1871, and assigned to 17th U. S. Infantry. Promoted First
Lieutenant, August 4, 1876. Promoted Captain, May 2,
1892. Promoted to Major of Infantry at large, January
\y, 1901. To Lieutenant Colonel, August 15, 1903. To
Inspector-General, March 29, 1904. To Colonel of In-
fantry, May 4, i'907. To Brigadier-General, February 17,
1908. Retired from active service, May 9, 191 2, by opera-
tion of law (Section i. Act of June 30, 1882).

History of Service : General Brush served his hundred
days of volirtitary service honorably and well. He grad-
uated with honors at West Point. Soon after came the
strenuous days^ of trans-continental railroad building and
the guarding of construction against hostile Indians, and in
numerous Indian compaigns in which our late Companion
distinguished himself a number of times. He also took
part in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine in-
surrection, and was subsequently retired after more than
forty years' service.

He was the son of the late Colonel Donald H. Brush,
i8th Illinois Infantry, U. S. V., a gallant Union veteran of
the Civil War, who resigned, Aug. 21, 1863. Mrs. Har-
riet Rapp Brush, his widow, and two sons, Mr. Daniel H.
Brush of Chicago, Major Rapp Brush, U. S. Army, and
a daughter, Mrs. Clarence Deems, wife of Colonel Clarence
Deems, U. S. A., retired, survive him, and to these rela-
tives the Commandery of the State of Illinois tender their
heartfelt sympathy and to him — Hail and Farewell.

William L. Cadle^
Martin D. Hardin,
Hugh D. Bowker,

Committee.

JOHN CORSON SMITH, Jr.

Succession Companion of the First Class. Died at Oak Park,
nois, March lo, 1920.

nii-

ANOTHER companion of our commandery has been
added to the Hst of deceased members.
We offer this tribute to his memory.
John Corson Smith, Jr., was born at Galena, Illinois,
September 26, 1869, and died at Oak Park, March 10, 1920.
Soon after the war with Germany began he tried to
enroll in The First Officers' Training Camp at Ft. Sheridan,
but was not accepted.

He then engaged with the Grain Corporation where he
was employed for nearly three years.

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We quote from "The Riverside Illinois News" of March
I2th:

'Triends were sadly shocked to hear of the death of
John Corson Smith, Jr., at his home, 227 Clinton Avenue,
Oak Park, on last Monday after a short fight with the arch
enemy pneumonia.

'The family lived in Riverside for about twenty-three
years and gathered many warm and loving friends by their
sincere and cordial hospitality, and much regret was felt
and expressed when they sold their home and moved to
Oak Park about two years ago.

"Mr. Smith was one of the Village Trustees for several
years and accomplished many reforms in our police and fire
services. He was most enthusiastic and his energy was
ever an inspiration to those working with him.

"Mr. Smith was the son and namesake of the late Gen-
eral John Corson Smith, of civil war fame.

"With his wife and baby daughter, Marion Ruth, he
came to Riverside a quarter of a century ago. One son,
John Corson Smith, third, was born here."

Mr. Smith attended the Presbyterian Church, and was
a Thirty-third degree Mason.

His burial took place at Galena, where both he and his
wife, Lucy Sprat Smith, were born. He was laid to rest
in the family lot in the old cemetery with full honors by
the Knights Templars.

Mr. Smith is survived by his wife, daughter, son and
two brothers, Robert Smith, who lives in California, and
Samuel Smith of Chicago.

"The great glory of a free born people is to transmit
that freedom to their sons."

Anson Tyler Hemingway,
Howard Baker,
Wallace Donelson Rumsey,
Committee.

RICHARD STANLEY TUTHILL.

First Lieutenant First Michigan Light Artillery, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at Evanston, Illinois, April lo, ig20.

A GAIN we mourn the loss of a loved companion, a
-^ ^ comrade and brave soldier, an able and just judge, a
good citizen, and a worthy American, Christian man.

Richard Stanley Tuthill, the subject of this brief memoir,
was born in Vergennes, Jackson County, Illinois, Novem-
ber lo, 1841, and died at his home, 13 16 Lake Street, Evans-
ton, April 10, 1920. His parents were Daniel B. Tuthill
and Sally Strong Tuthill, who migrated from their home
in Vergennes, Vermont, and settled in Jackson County, Illi-
nois, in 1829. Moses, in his Illinois "Historical and Sta-
tistical," published in 1892, says:

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"Private schools were very rare in an early day in this
State. Among them was one taught by Professor Daniel
B. Tuthill, in Jackson County, as early as 1835. Coming
to Illinois in 1829 he settled on the prairie which subse-
quently bore his name. He was a gentleman of fine at-
tainments and those who attended his classical school, among
whom were many prominent men of the State, all have
spoken highly of his ability as a teacher."

Companion Tuthill was educated in the public schools
of Jackson County, at his father's school, and completed
his education at Middlebury College, Vermont, where he
graduated in 1863. He then took up the study of the law,
but, answering the demands of his imperilled country, he
laid down his books and in the early part of April, 1864,
he enlisted in Battery H, ist Michigan Light Artillery, and
on the 25th of that month was commissioned Second Lieu-
tenant of that Battery, and served with it as such in all its
subsequent engagements, participating with it in the engage-
ment at Big Shanty, June 15, 1864; Lost Mountain; Kene-
saw; Nickajack Creek; Peach Tree Creek; Siege of At-
lanta ; Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station ; and Nashville, a portion
of the time acting as the commanding officer of the Battery.
On January i, 1865, he was promoted to a first lieutenancy,
and until May 29, 1865, at the close of the war, when he
resigned and received an honorable discharge, he served
in that capacity. It is said of him that he was a brave and
diligent officer, always willing and ready to perform the
duties required of him.

Soon after his discharge from the Army, he took up his
residence in Nashville, Tennessee, and resumed his study
of the law, and was admitted to the Bar late in the year
1866. In 1867 he was elected District Attorney of the Cir-
cuit Court of Nashville, and served as such until the year

1873.

In 1873 he moved to Chicago and engaged in the prac-

584 MEMORIALS.

tice of his profession. In the year 1875 he was elected City
Attorney of the City of Chicago and served as such for
four years. In 1884 he was appointed United States Dis-
trict Attorney for the Northern District of IlHnois, and
served nearly three years. In 1887 he was elected Judge
of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and served
as such from that time until the position became vacant by
his death, a period of thirty-three years, discharging the
important duties of that high office with intelligence, dili-
gence and fidelity. In that service he was esteemed by all
who knew him, as a painstaking and just judge, one who
was particularly insistent that the scales of justice were
truly balanced. He founded the Child's or Juvenile Court
and the St. Charles Home for Boys.

Our companion was elected an original companion of the
first class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, through the Commandery of the State of
Illinois, January 7, 1880, his insignia being 2003. He was
also an honored member of the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee; of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the
Grand Army and Memorial Hall Association. He was a
32d degree Mason, and a member of the Episcopal church.
A brave soldier, a good citizen, a hearty and generous
comrade and companion, a faithful official, and good Chris-
tian has gone to his rest, leaving hosts of friends who will
cherish his memory.

He left surviving him Mrs. Richard Tuthill, his widow;
Mrs. Thomas H. Sidley, Mrs. J. M. Fiske, Mrs. James
Linen and Mrs. W. P. Dickerson, his daughters ; and Rich-
ard Stanley Tuthill, Jr., his son, to all of whom this Com-
mandery extends its heartfelt sympathy.

Thomas E. Milchrist^
W. L. Barnum,
Orett L. Munger,

Committee.

EDWARD FRANKLIN BOSLEY.

Born at Chicago, Illinois, May 29, 1870. Died at Nezv York City,
New York, April 22, i<)20.

ONLY son of Companion First Lieut, and Asst. Surgeon
Daniel Webster Bosley, U. S. Volunteers.
Elected a Companion of the Second Class through the
Commandery of the State of Illinois, December 10, 1897.
and later a Succession Companion. Insignia No. 11656.

585

SAMUEL HARRIS.

Captain Fifth Michigan Cavalry United States Volunteers. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 1920.

LIEUTENANT SAMUEL HARRIS was born at White
River Junction, Vermont, on the loth day of Septem-
ber, 1836, and died in Chicago, May 4, 1920. His parents
were of sturdy New England stock; his father, Edward
Pratt Harris, being a native of Massachusetts, and his
mother, Ehzabeth Sanborn Gillett, a native of Vermont.

His father evidently came to Vermont at an early day,
as he graduated at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire,
only four miles from his home, in 1826. At that time every
college graduate was expected to enter a profession, and
the father studied law and was admitted to practice in 1832,

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having had something to do with the estabhshnient of an
academy at Bradford, Vt., which has always maintained a
high reputation. After practicing law at White River Junc-
tion (now in the town of Hartford) for five years, Mr.
Harris moved to Rochester, Mich., which was then on the
frontier, arriving there, Sept. 20, 1837, when our Companion
was one year of age. This was the family home until 1868,
and our Companion was educated in the public schools and
academy, but a delicate constitution prevented him from con-
tinuing his studies further.

As a boy Lieut. Harris manifested a decided bent to-
wards mechanics. He was fond of tools, and at the age of
twelve made a very acceptable model of a steam engine.
Being of such an inventive turn of mind his father con-
sented to his going back to his native village at 16 years of
age, where he entered the shop of A. Latham & Co., to
learn the trade of a machinist in their locomotive works.
This company failed the next year, when he returned to
Michigan and was a locomotive engineer while still a minor.
He started a business on his own account when twenty
years of age, and at twenty-two was married to Sarah H.
Richardson. He continued in business till the call by Presi-
dent Lincoln for additional troops in 1862, and enlisted
Aug. 14th in that year, assisting in raising Co. A of the 5th
Michigan Cavalry, of which he became 2nd Lieutenant,
being afterwards promoted to ist Lieutenant. The regi-
ment became a part of the famous Michigan Brigade, con-
sisting of the 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th regiments, which after
several months of scouting and picket service came under
the command of General George A. Custer, a native of
Michigan, and under whose brilliant leadership both as
Brigade and Division Commander, did conspicuous service
until the surrender at Appomattox. In the successful raid
under Col. Ulric Dahlgren for the purpose of releasing the
prisoners confined in Libby Prison, Lieut. Harris was in

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command of a detachment of twenty-five men from his regi-
ment. In a charge on a body of rebels, March 2, 1864, the
Heutenant was badly wounded in the shoulder and had his
collar bone broken. He kept with the detachment for sev-
eral miles, when they encountered another body of rebels
in ambush, and were forced to surrender to superior num-
bers. Lieut. Harris was taken to Libby Prison, where he
remained till Dec. 10, 1864, when he was exchanged, and
on April 17, 1865, was discharged for wounds received in
action.

Col. Dahlgren was mortally wounded and died on the
field. While being taken to prison, Lieut. Harris learned
that he had been tried by Drumhead Court Martial and sen-
tenced to be hung on the charge of having ordered a house
sacked and burned on this raid, but through the intervention
of parties whose property he had protected, the sentence was
never carried out.

After his discharge, Lieut. Harris engaged in the manu-
facture of steam engines and boilers in Washington, D. C,
till 1873. In 1871 his wife died, and in 1872 he married
Sarah S. Ladd, of Wilbraham, Mass. In 1873 he removed
to Chicago, and in spite of obstacles that would have over-
whelmed a man of less determination, having twice lost
everything by dishonest or scheming partners, eventually
succeeded in his business of manufacturing machinists'
tools and gained and retained a high reputation for honesty
and fair dealing, which enabled him to obtain a competency.
Genial, optimistic, friendly, he was faithful to his home,
to his duties as a citizen and to his church, and died as he
had lived, an ardent patriot and consistent Christian. He
left a widow, Sarah L. Harris, and two children, Charles S.
Harris and Mrs. Louis S. Clarke.

Edward D. Redington;
Robert C. Knaggs,
John Young,

Committee.

HENRY DELCAR WRIGHT.

Companion of the Second Class. Died at Chicago, Illinois, May g,

1920.

HENRY DELCAR WRIGHT, Companion of the Sec-
ond Class and son of Companion Captain William P.
Wright, died at Chicago, 111., May 9, 1920.

He was born at Napierville, Du Page county, Illinois,
on May 2y, 1875, and at the age of eleven years came with
his parents to Chicago. He was educated at the Mosely and
Douglas public schools and was graduated from the Manual
Training School.

His membership in the Order dates from October 8,
1896, Insignia No. 11574, Commandery No. 813, and was

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derived through his father, Captain WilHam P. Wright,
who survives him.

During his business career he was connected with the
firms of H. N. Hurley, Bartlett & Frazier, and J. Rosen-
baum Grain Company.

Having a fine voice, he sang for many years in the Grace
Episcopal Church Choir, and for a shorter period with the
Mendelssohn Club.

He was a constant attendant at the meetings of the Com-
mandery, until, in the midst of an active life, he was stricken,
nearly ten years ago, with paralysis agitans, which soon
rendered him a helpless invalid, and, on May 20th last, he
succumbed to a brief attack of pneumonia.

The Commandery tenders its sincere sympathy to Cap-
tain and Mrs. Wright.

Edward R. Blake,
W. T. Hapeman,
Edward P. Bailey,

Committee.

GEORGE WASHINGTON HARWOOD.

First Lieutenant Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, United States

Volunteers. Died at Brookline, Massachusetts,

June 6, 1920.

^T^HE following sketch of the life of the late George W.
-•- Harwood is compiled, in the main, from a tribute by
Dr. Charles B. Johnson, of Champaign:

''I wonder if this community fully realizes what it has
lost in the death of George Harwood? I can but thinjc
it does.

'Those who knew him best realized that he had a very
high sense of right and justice, and that he fully Hved up
to his ideal of both.

"With possibly one or two exceptions he had been in

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business longer than any other man in our city, and in
all that time, perhaps, no one had been a party to more
transactions than he. Nevertheless, in all of these business
matters with which he had to do, no man can say truth-
fully that George Harwood wronged him.

''Indeed, so just and fair-minded was he in his ideals and
in all his dealings that it had come to be the custom for
scores of our citizens to go to him for counsel and advice,
and in most instances the advice given would be followed
to the letter.

"What a record ! What a reputation to leave behind as
a priceless legacy to his friends ! Furthermore, George
Harwood was a great moral force in the community. Mod-
est, kindly, instinctively a gentleman, he wielded a quiet
influence for good that many a noisy, wordy enthusiast
might well envy.

''George Harwood holds a fine record as a Civil War
soldier. His regiment, the 36th Massachusetts, was at-
tached to the Army of the Potomac, and this means much ;
for everyone familiar with Civil War history realizes what
the Army of the Potomac was up against. During the
Vicksburg campaign in 1863 the Ninth Corps was tempo-
rarily transferred to that field of action and there rendered
most important and valuable service, taking part in the
battles at Vicksburg and at Jackson, Miss., where Lieut.
Harwood was wounded, July 12, 1863 — thence to Kentucky
and East Tennessee, through that campaign, in the battles
of Blue Springs, Lenore Station and Campbell Station, in
which action Lieut. Harwood was again wounded, Nov.
16, 1863 — thence to the Siege of Knoxville, Tenn., and in
March, 1864, returned to Washington, D. C, and re-entered
the Army of the Potomac. With his regiment, Lieut. Har-
wood served three years and did not quit the service till
the last enemy of his country had surrendered. He en-
listed as a private and won a First Lieutenancy through

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meritorious service. Colonel Nodine Post will miss him.
Indeed, all Civil War veterans who knew him will mourn
the loss of their fallen comrade.

''But perhaps George Harwood will be missed nowhere
more than in the First Presbyterian church of this city,
wherein he had for a great many years given most efficient
service as clerk of the session. Finally, it is not too much
to say that everyone recognized in George Harwood the
very highest type of the Christian gentleman."

He was elected a Companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States through the Com-
mandery of the State of Illinois, May 7, 1908, Insignia No.
1 5701. His Companions will miss the presence of a man
so courtly and loyal.

Edward Bailey,
Stephen Alfred Forbes,
Charles Albert Kiler,

Committee.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LEE.

Second Lieutenant Eighth lUinois Cavalry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Rockford, Illinois, June 8, 1920.

"D ORN at Owen, Illinois, April 19, 1842.
-■-^ Elected an Original Companion of the Order

through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Decem-
ber 12, 1889. Insignia No. 7555.

Died at Rockford, Illinois, June 8, 1920.

Register of Service: Entered the service as a Private
in Company L, 8th Illinois Cavalry, for three years, Sep-
tember 26, 1 861. Promoted Sergeant same company,
November 29, 1863. Commissioned Second Lieutenant
same company and regiment, February 23, 1865, to rank
as such from December 28, 1864. Mustered March 14,

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1865, at \\'ashington, D. C. Mustered out July 17, 1865, ^t
Benton Barracks, Missouri.

History of Service : This regiment was ordered to
Washington, D. C, October 13, 1861, and our Companion
served with it in all the campaigns of the Army of the
Potomac, commencing with the advance on Manassas, in
April, 1862. Ordered to the Peninsula May 4, 1862, and
was engaged in the following battles : Williamsburg, May
24, 1862; Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862; Seven Days' Fight
Before Richmond, August 4, 1862; and the second battle
of Malvern Hill. From thence to Washington and engaged
in the second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam
and Martinsburg, where our Companion was wounded.
He soon joined his company and was engaged in the fol-
lowing battles : Frederickburg, June 9, 1863 ; Beverly
Ford, June 21, 1863; Fort Stevens, D. C, July ir, 1864,
where he was again wounded, and lost an arm. Was in the
pursuit of the assassin Booth, in Maryland, May, 1865.

Civil Record: Companion Lee joined Nevius Post, G.
A. R. No. I, Rockford, in 1870. Was several times a mem-
ber of the Department Council of Administration. In 1919
he was elected Senior Vice Department Commander, and
died in office. He is survived by one son, Guy Lee, of
Bellevue, Idaho, to whom the Illinois Commandery of the
Loyal Legion extend its sympathy.

Henry K. Wolcott,
Henry A. Pearsons,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

JOHN WESLEY BENNETT.

Lieutenant-C olonel First Vermont Cavalry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Northfield, Massachusetts, June 21, ig20.

JOHN WESLEY BENNETT, a member of this Com-
mandery since 1906, was born in Westmoreland, N. H.,
January 31, 1837, and died at Northfield, Mass., June 21,
1920.

Our Companion was married in 1871 to a daughter of
John Frink, of Austin, 111., who died twelve years before
her husband, and because of her death Col. Bennett after-
wards resided in Massachusetts with his daughter almost
continuously till his death. He was, therefore, not well
known to most of the members of this Commandery, but
from his long residence in Austin he was known in Grand

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Army circles and was at one time Commander of Kilpatrick
Post of this city.

Col. Bennett enlisted at the first call of President Lin-
coln for troops in April, 1861, in the ist Vermont Inf., a
three months' regiment, but was rejected because of an
injury on his right foot.

In September, 1861, he enlisted in Co. D, ist V^ermont
Cavalry at its organization, as private. Was promoted to
1st Lieutenancy Oct. 15, 1861 ; to Captain of same Com-
pany, Oct. 30, 1862; to Major of the Regiment about June
I, 1863, and to Lieutenant-Colonel, June 4, 1864. A little
later he came into command of the regiment, and was mus-
tered out, Nov. 18, 1864.

He was continuously with the regiment, during its en-
tire service, which was a notable one in the Army of the
Potomac, being for a long time in the famous brigade com-
manded by General George A. Custer, the other regiments
composing it being from Michigan, and the brigade was
often designated the Michigan Brigade.

The regiment participated in seventy-five battles and
skirmishes and particularly distinguished itself at Gettys-
burg in the unfortunate charge under Col. Farnsworth,
commanding the Brigade, who was killed. It was in all the
battles in Grant's advance towards Richmond in 1864, and
its Colonel, Preston, was killed at Yellow Tavern, May 11,
1864.

Col. Bennett was in more than fifty of the engagements
of the regiment, four of the horses he rode into action were
wounded, one being killed. He, himself, was seriously
wounded once. Shortly after being mustered out, our Com-
panion was admitted to the bar in Vermont and after-
wards took the full course in the Albany Law School, being
a classmate of President McKinley. He was admitted to
the Ilhnois bar in 1867 and was in active practice of his
profession in Chicago for more than twenty years.

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In 1885 he settled in Austin, which was then a suburb
of Chicago, and sparsely settled, and together with his
father-in-law, was largely instrumental in transforming the
prairie land to valuable city property.

He was twice president of the Cicero Town Board, and
served a term as one of the West Park Commissioners. He
left one son, Maj. J. W. F. Bennett, also a Companion of
the Order, of New York City, and two daughters, Mrs.
Dudley Taylor, of Wilmette, 111., and Mrs. A. F. Bennett,
of Northfield, Mass.

These children can well be proud of the record of such
a father, who served his country in war as a brave soldier,
an officer who demonstrated his capacity for leadership by
regular promotion from private to the command of his
regiment; as a successful lawyer and a pubHc spirited citi-
zen, and who passed away in a ripe old age with no linger-
ing illness — ''God's finger touched him and he slept."

Edward D. Redington,
William L. Cadle,
Anson T. Hemingway,

Committee.

PHILIP SIDNEY POST.
Hereditary Companion. Died at Winnetka, Illinois, June 2^, 1920.

PHILIP SIDNEY POST was born at Vienna, Austria,
November 10, 1869, where his father. Brevet Brigadier
General PhiHp S. Post, was then Consul General for the
United States. He died at Winnetka, Illinois, June 27, 1920,
survived by his widow, Janet Greig Post ; his sister, Mrs.
James C. Simpson, of Galesburg, Illinois, and his brother.
Major WilHam S. Post, of Los Angeles, California.

This son of a distinguished officer of the Union Army
graduated from Knox College in 1887 with the degree of
A. B. ; and in 1891 from the National University Law
School of Washington, D. C, with the degree of LL.B.
Soon after this he entered the practice of law in Galesburg,
his home city; and in 1898 was elected County Judge. In

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1907 he removed to Chicago and entered the Legal De-
partment of the International Harvester Company, becom-
ing General Counsel in 1910 and Vice President in 1919.
Judge Post was not only an able lawyer, but also won dis-
tinction in the executive and administrative duties in the
service of this great corporation, particularly in developing
its industrial relations plan.

He was much interested in publicity and educational
work. For many years he was trustee of his Alma Mater,
Knox College, and took an active part in its 1920 com-
mencement. Public affairs, newspapers, and social rela-
tions felt the impress of his genial personality and his vig-
orous mind. His varied talents made firm friends in all
the circles of his acquaintance. He was a member of the
Congregational Church, of the Union League Club, the
University, Hamilton, City and Law Clubs. He served
the Y. M. C. A. in several capacities. His life's work was
one of noble service to his fellows.

Our Companion was an ardent patriot. His ancestry,
education and environment, all contributed to the develop-
ment of this commendable quality. In December, 1895,
but a few months after his father's death, he was elected
to membership in the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal
Legion, in which he served as a valued and faithful Com-
panion to the time of his early demise. A year or two
later he became a member of Camp 100, Sons of Veterans,
U. S. A., and was an efficient worker in that patriotic order.
In all the relations of life, he was awake to every private
and public obligation, freely exercising his splendid abili-
ties to promote the welfare of all with whom he came in
contact.

William Thorne Church,
John Donald Black,
John Thaw Stockton,

Committee.

HENRY MARTYN KIDDER.

Lieutenant-C olonel Fifth United States Colored Cavalry.
Evanston, Illinois, July 5, ig20.

Died at

HENRY MARTYN KIDDER was born in Rio de Ja-
neiro, Brazil, May 12, 1839, and died at Evanston,
Illinois, July 5, 1920. His father. Rev. Daniel P. Kidder,
was a missionary of the Methodist Church in Brazil at the
time of Col. Kidder's birth, but at the death of the for-
mer's wife in 1840, he returned to the United States and
became a member of the New Jersey Conference in which
he held a connection till 1856 when, on the establishment
of the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, 111., he was
called to a professorship in that institution, and thereafter
our companion's residence was in that city continuously

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until his death, and for more than a generation he hved
in the same house in which he died.

The Northwestern University was chartered at about
the same time as the Biblical Institute, and young Kidder
became a member of the first class (1859) and at the time
of his death was the oldest living graduate and the last
survivor of his class. He held large real estate interests
and saw the small village of the sixties grow to a great edu-
cational center and was a prominent factor in the early days
of its development.

Companion Kidder enlisted as a private in the 15th
Illinois Cavalry in 1862, and was appointed captain, but
never mustered. The regiment was consolidated with the
14th Illinois Cavalry. In January, 1863, he enlisted in the
First Arkansas Cavalry and was promoted to Second Lieu-
tenant, April I, 1863, and to First Lieutenant, July i, 1863,
being made adjutant of the regiment soon thereafter. In
1864 he passed examination for a commission in the U. S.
Colored troops and was mustered in as major, 5th U. S.
Colored Cavalry, March 16, 1865, and mustered out at Lit-
tle Rock, Ark., March 16, 1866.

Under provision of the act of Congress, approved Feb-
ruary 24, 1897, "he is held and considered to have been mus-
tered into the service of the United States in the grade of
Lieutenant-Colonel, to take efifect from January 20, 1866."

He served in the Army of the Frontier in 1863 ^"d 1864,
being in the battle of Fayetteville and in many skirmishes,
and doing much scouting. While in the 5th Colored Cav-
alry, he served under Maj. Gen. Canby at Brazos-de-San-
tiago, Port Hudson, and Fort Morgan and under Gen.
Palmer at Camp Nelson, Louisville, Ky. During the Spring
of 1865, he had command of the district from Lexington,
Ky., to the Ohio River, including all posts on Kentucky
Central R. R. He was afterward ordered to Helena, Ark.,
where he was mustered out with the regiment.

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After the close of the war he became, in 1871, a mem-
ber of the Chicago Board of Trade, and because of fail-
ing health, sold his membership in 1916. A fellow member
is quoted as saying that "he was respected for his integrity,
good fellowship, high character and standing as a member
of the Board." Physically a great invalid for four years
preceding his death, his mentahty was unimpaired until the
very last and he kept in touch with whatever was occurring
in this country and in the war zone in Europe. Col. Kid-
der had been a widower for many years and is survived
by a son, Pancoast Kidder of Albany, N. Y., manager of
the agency of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York in that city, and a daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Kidder-
Auspacher of New York City.

Edward D. Redington,
Charles S. Bentley,
Hugh D. Bowker,

Committee.

CHARLES CLINTON BUELL.

Hereditary Companion. Died at Highland Park, Illinois, July 14,

1920.

COMPANION CHARLES CLINTON BUELL was
born at Sterling, 111., February 14, 1866. He was the
son of First Lieutenant Clinton Charles Buell, Regimental
Quartermaster of the 14th Iowa Infantry, U. S. V., and
Mary A. Niles, who became the soldier's wife at Hamilton,
N. Y., July 21, 1853. Charles was the fourth son of this
family. In 1892 he married Maud Lloyne, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. Temple Staughton Hoyne, of Chicago. He died
at his residence on Laurel avenue, in Highland Park, 111.,
on July 14, 1920, leaving his widow, his daughter Frances
Vedder Mullen, and First Lieut. Temple Hoyne Buell and

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Second Lieut. Charles Clinton Buell, Jr., his two sons who
served their country in the American Expeditionary Forces
in France in the World War, the first with the loist Trench
Mortar Battery, 36th Division and the second with the 149th
Field Artillery, 426. Division. Both are members of the
Loyal Legion.

Companion Buell was educated at the University of Illi-
nois. In 1886 he came to Chicago and read law with his
uncle, the late Ira W. Buell, was admitted to the bar of
Cook County in 1888, and practiced in partnership with his
uncle for many years. From 1905 to 1918, he was senior
member of the firms of Dolph, Buell & Abbey and of Buell
& Abbey. At the time of his death he was associated with
Dayton Ogden. He represented many important interests
and attained prominence in his profession. He was a mem-
ber of the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar Associa-
tions, The Law Club, Chicago Athletic Association, Iroquois
Club and Exmoor Country Club.

Companion Buell was gifted with a keen sense of humor,
and a kindly disposition that endeared him to all his friends
and acquaintances. His was a character of sterling worth
and fine discipline that sought the right on every proposition.
His sympathetic nature responded to every appeal of grief
or misfortune. His patriotism, the heritage of a freedom
loving ancestry, could brook no suspicion of disloyalty. He
emulated the higher ideals of professional and social life.
He was a real companion, earnest and loyal, friendly and
true, beloved of all who knew him.

William T. Church,
Francis Coren Brown,
James H. Smith,

Committee.

OLIVER WILLCOX NORTON.

First Lieutenant and R. Q. M. Eighth Infantry, United States Col-
ored Troops. Died at Chicago, Illinois, October i, 1920.

OUR late Companion, First Lieutenant Oliver Willcox
Norton, was born in Angelica, N. Y., December 17,
1839, and died at his home in Chicago, October i, 1920.
He received his education in Montrose Academy, Montrose,
Pennsylvania.

At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, he
was living in Springfield, Pa., and enlisted in this town,
April 19, 1861. The recruits from this place, and those of
Girard, composed and became a part of the 75,000 called by
President Lincoln for three months' service. After com-
pleting this term of enlistment, the regiment to which he was

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attached was re-organized as the 83rd Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania V^olunteers, entering the service of their country for
three years, or during the war. Our beloved Companion
served as a private soldier in this regiment from its organi-
zation until November, 1863, when he was commissioned
First Lieutenant 8th United States, Colored Troops, and
served in that capacity until November, 1865, making a term
of service of four years and eight months. From the begin-
ning of his war service to its end he was a constant writer
of letters to his home folks and others. Since the war these
letters have been published in book form, revealing as they
do, the high character and the unswerving loyalty of his
great and noble soul ; they became a benediction to us all.
What he was in his military life so was his civil record, bear-
ing the best of fruit from early manhood till his Maker
called him to enter into the Land of Eternal Sunshine. Dur-
ing the war Companion Norton participated in twenty-six
battles, among them Malvern Hill, 2nd Bull Run, Fred-
ericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. In the latter
the 83rd Penn., 44th New York, i6th Mich, and 20th Maine
regiments constituting the Third Brigade, ist Division, 5th
Corps, at a most critical moment, occupied Little Round
Top, and with the aid of the 140th New York, at great cost,
held and maintained that most important position against
three desperate charges of the enemy, thus defeating Long-
street's purpose to outflank and turn the extreme left of the
Union line.

In this battle, his duties as bugler and Acting Aide for
Col. Strong Vincent, Brigade Commander, — until his mor-
tal wound, and then for Col. James C. Rice, who succeeded
in command — gave Companion Norton the finest opportu-
nity to observe movements and changes in position by
both Union and Confederate forces. This unusual experi-
ence, coupled with subsequent close study of official reports
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knowledge of that part of the battle of Gettysburg, which
centered on and about Little Round Top. Based on his per-
sonal observation and other authenticated facts, our Com-
panion prepared and published the book entitled "The At-
tack and Defense of Little Round Top," a work of so much
worth as to be recognized as a valuable contribution to the
literature on the subject.

His musical gifts made Companion Norton a ready in-
terpreter of various bugle calls which, prepared by General
Daniel Butterfield, Brigadier Commander, were first tried
by our Companion, until satisfactory to the General, when
they were adopted by him for use in his brigade. One of
these, intended exclusively for his own brigade, was so dis-
tinctive as to be easily recognized by neighboring troops, and
on many an occasion proved to be a guide to practically
all the regiments in the division.

Prior to the Civil War, and until late in 1863, ''Taps" as
printed in the old Army Tactics, was the signal given in
the larger part of the Army, when lights were to be extin-
guished and the night's rest begun. General Butterfield
considered this call lacking in musical quality, and not appro-
priate to the order which it conveyed. Summoning Norton,
his bugler, he whistled a new tune and asked him to sound
it for him. After repeated trials it was finally arranged to
suit the General, and was accepted. This was conceded to
be a fine improvement over the old call, and it was soon
adopted by other commanders, until finally it has become
the official call for 'Taps," and is printed in the present
Tactics, and used in all of the armies in the United States.

Our Companion's success as a business man was unusual.
Shortly after the expiration of his army service he found
employment as clerk in the Fourth National Bank of New
York City, where he remained about three years. In 1869,
with his brother, Edwin, Alton H. Fancher and David G.
Fanning, he formed a partnership in Toledo, Ohio, as

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Norton & Fancher, manufacturers of cans and sheet metal
goods. This was the beginning of the business which in
December, 1870, was removed to Chicago. Two years later,
Mr. Fancher retiring, the firm became Norton Bros., and
under that title was incorporated in 1890. Five brothers
were now interested in this growing enterprise. Norton
Bros., pioneers of the industry, were the first to use auto-
matic machinery (mostly invented by Mr. Edwin Norton),
in place of hand labor, for making tin cans. The packing
of fish, meats, fruits and other food products was then in its
infancy. Norton Brothers, realizing its great possibilities,
became pioneers in the manufacture of these containers and
outgrowing their original plant at Maywood, 111., expanded
by establishing subordinate companies in other cities. Our
Companion, Oliver W. Norton, as president of Norton
Bros., and an official and director in the allied corporations,
was the financial and sales head and was largely responsible
for the remarkable growth and prosperity which it enjoyed.
Expanding business and growing competition led to the
formation, in 1901, of a single large corporation known
as the American Can Company. Companion Norton had
a prominent part in the organization of this company, and
but for the failure of his eyesight, several years before,
would undoubtedly have taken a still larger part in its
initial activities. Norton Bros., and all their allied com-
panies, were taken over by the new combination, and our
Companion retired from active business life.

For many years he was a member of the Union League
Club, and of the Kenwood Social Club. Exceptionally well
posted on the history of the Civil War, he collected an ex-
cellent library on that subject.

On October 3, 1870, he was married to Miss Lucy
Coit Fanning, of Brooklyn. To them were born five chil-
dren— three of whom are now living — Ralph Hubbard, of
Chicago, Elliott Saltonstall, of New York, and Strong Vin-

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cent, of Pontiac, Mich. The elder of these is a Companion
of the MiHtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, Commandery of Illinois. What a heritage is theirs !

Lieutenant Oliver Willcox Norton was elected a Com-
panion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, April 5, 1882, affihating through the Com-
mandery of the State of Illinois, of which he was Com-
mander for the year 1902-3. His Insignia is No. 2321. He
was a member of George H. Thomas Post No. 5, G. A. R.,
Department of Illinois, and of the Western Society of the
Army of the Potomac.

Companion Norton's inherent desire to help others was
manifested by his munificent contributions for the support
of music here in Chicago and to libraries in distant places.

The Commandery of the State of Illinois, is justly
appreciative of his munificent contribution of $3,720 for
the publication of three volumes of Memorials to deceased
Companions. It is not for this we glory in our remem-
brance of him, for the help he gave us — this was a mere
incident typical of his character — the desire to do. How
well Pope's fines apply to him:

"Worth makes the man;
The want of it the fellow."

Closed is the earthly record of a useful citizen. We ex-
tend our heartfelt sympathy to the members of his family.

Walter R. Robbins,
Orett L. Munger,
Charles F. Hills,

Committee.

GEORGE ELY PINGREE.

Capta'n Fifth Veteran Reserve Corps Infantry, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at Champaign, Illinois, October 23, 1920.

CAPTAIN GEORGE ELY PINGREE, a worthy and
valued member of the Loyal Legion for many years,
passed to his reward October 2:^, 1920, at his home in the
City of Champaign, lUinois.

The record of Captain Pingree's service to his country
during and immediately after the Civil War is one in which
the Legion takes just and sincere pride. He went out on the
first call for volunteers as a private in Company G, Second
New Hampshire Infantry. He was in the first battle of Bull
Run, marching thence with his comrades forty miles to
Washington. He then accompanied his regiment to Blan-

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densburgh, where it was brigaded under General Hooker;
after which he went down the Potomac and worked in the
trenches and on the forts at Yorktown under McClellan.
Proceeding to WilHanisburg, his brigade met the; enemy,
and fought from daylight until dark, much of the time
hand to hand. He was there wounded by a volley from
the Fourteenth Louisiana, the ball passing through his right
arm between the wrist and elbow. He was taken from the
field to Fortress Monroe, thence to Hampton Roads Hospi-
tal, and from there to his home in New Hampshire, where
he was discharged August 9, 1862, on account of this wound.
On the 4th of September, 1862, he was commissioned
Captain of Company G, Eleventh New Hampshire Infan-
try. He was still suffering from his wound, but went
to the front and at the battle of Fredericksburg was knocked
unconscious by a piece of shell. A part of the same shell
instantly killed George W. King, of the same company.
Captain Pingree was with the regiment in Kentucky and
in the Mississippi campaign, being at the Siege of Vicks-
burg in the 9th A. C. and in the Battle of Jackson. His
wounded arm causing serious trouble, he was detailed on
court martial duty at Cincinnati. Later he was transferred
to the command of Company 1, Fifth Regiment Veteran
Reserve Corps Infantry, and ordered on duty at the prison
camp at Indianapolis, where the regiment was disbanded
in the fall of 1865. May i, 1866, at Charleston, S. C, he
was placed in charge of several counties in the interest of
the Freedmen's Bureau. Although he filled a position in
*which eight of his predecessors had been killed by the na-
tives, he mastered the situation and made a success of his
administration. He was honorably mustered out of the
service of the United States January i, 1868. His commis-
sion as Captain, signed by President Lincoln, was one of his
cherished possessions.

After the termination of his military service. Captain

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Pingree came to Illinois, engaging in newspaper work at
Moline, and then as a traveling salesman. In January, 1891,
he removed to Sioux Falls, S. D., where he was president
and manager of a large manufacturing concern. He came
to Champaign fifteen years ago.

Captain Pingree was born in Littleton, N. H., April 29,
1839, and was educated in schools of his native state and of
Massachusetts. He was married March 8, 1877, at Pitts-
field, 111., to Miss Mary Keyes, who survives. Three sons
born to them preceded the father in death and are buried at
Moline, Illinois.

Besides being a prominent member of the Loyal Legion,
Captain Pingree was a member of the Masonic Order, the
Grand Army of the Republic, and the United Commercial
Travelers. He was an exemplary citizen, a considerate
friend, a man always true to his convictions and ready to
do his part in any meritorious cause.

His body reposes in the family lot at Riverside ceme-
tery, Mohne, Illinois.

Edward Bailey,
Stephen A. Forbes,
Hazen S. Capron,

Committee.

ROBERT WILSON McCLAUGHRY.

Major and Additional Paymaster, United States Volunteers. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, November 9, 1920.

MAJOR ROBERT WILSON McCLAUGHRY, a
beloved and honored Companion of the Loyal Legion,
was born on July 22, 1839, at Fountain Green, Hancock
county, Illinois, and died in Chicago, Illinois, November 9,
1920. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His great-grand-
father, Richard McClaughry, came from Ireland to New
York in 1765, and served as a private soldier in Col. Alex-
ander Webb's regiment of New York militia during the
Revolutionary War, assisting in the capture of the British
army under Burgoyne, and taking part in the battle of
Bennington, Vermont. Representatives of the family have

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been found in the armies of the United States in every war
since that time.

Robert W. McClaughry attended public schools during
his boyhood on his father's farm. He took the classical
course at Monmouth College, Illinois, graduating in i860.
After teaching a year in the college he declined, on account
of his health, an offered professorship.

He removed to Carthage, 111., in August, 1861, and with
his brother-in-law, Andrew J. Griffeth, bought the Carthage
Republican and gave himself to devoted editorial work for
the cause of the Union.

On August 15, 1862, he enlisted in the ii8th Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, and was later elected Captain of Co. B.

He was mustered as Major in the same regiment in
December, 1862. The regiment was assigned to ist Brigade
of the 3rd Division of the 13th Army Corps, and partici-
pated in expedition to Vicksburg via Chickasaw Bayou, in
the expedition to Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, and
in the campaign which ended in the surrender of Vicks-
burg. In the engagements of that campaign the regiment
was in the batdes of Champion Hill, Miss., May 6th; Big
Black River, May i6th, and in the assault, May 22, 1863;
also in the campaign against Jackson, Miss., July 10 to
20, 1863. On Sept. 30th left New Orleans on sick leave, and
was ordered on recruiting service by Gen. Banks.

On May 14, 1864, he was transferred to the Pay Depart-
ment and served as Paymaster until his muster out October
12, 1865.

In the Presidential campaign of 1864 he spent a month's
furlough in a canvass of Illinois advocating the re-election
of Abraham Lincoln and the vigorous prosecution of the
war. He served four years as County Clerk of Hancock
county, Illinois, from November, 1865.

On August I, 1874, he was appointed warden of the
Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, and began the distinctive

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work of his career. He was one of the early advocates of
the new penology that favored remedial instead of purely
retributive treatment, and was intimately associated with
noted prison reformers like Z. R. Brockway, of New York ;
Gen. Brinkerhofif, of Ohio, and the two Dr. Wines, of
Illinois.

After fourteen years of service at Joliet, he was invited
to open and organize the Pennsylvania Industrial Reforma-
tory at Huntington.

In preparing for the World's Columbian Exposition to
be held in Chicago, in 1893, Mayor Hempstead Washburne
appointed him General Superintendent of Police. He en-
tered upon this work on May 15, 1891, and for three years
did a remarkable work in fighting crime and criminals and
corrupt politicians. On August i, 1893, Governor Altgeld
appointed Major McClaughry General Superintendent of
the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac. March i, 1897,
Governor Tanner requested him to resume again the duties
of warden of the State Penitentiary at Joliet. On July
I, 1899, at the personal solicitation of President Wm. Mc-
Kinley, he accepted the appointment of warden of the
United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. He began
the work of the erection of the great federal prison, and
served until June 30, 19 13, when because of his advancing
age and physical infirmities, he resigned.

President Cleveland commissioned Major McClaughry
to represent the United States at the International Prison
Congress held in Paris in 1895. He received many honors
and courtesies from government and prison officials. It
was recalled that he first introduced the Bertillon method
of identifying criminals into the United States. He was
one of the marshals in the funeral procession of President
Lincoln when his body was taken from the State House
to Oak Ridge Cemetery.

Major McClaughry was an earnest Christian. While in

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Joliet he was an elder in the Central Presbyterian church
and the devoted friend of our beloved and honored Com-
panion, the Rev. Dr. (Col.) James Lewis.

He was married June 17, 1862, to Miss E'izabeth C.
Madden. Nine children were born of this marriage, of
which four survive, viz. : Charles C. McClaughry, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; Arthur C. McClaughry, Chicago, 111.; Mat-
thew Wilson McClaughry, Joliet, 111. ; Mrs. Mary C. Henry
(wife of Lieut-Col. James B. Henry, of the U. S. Army).

John Glenn McClaughry, late ist Lieut, and Adjutant
of the 3rd 111. Infantry, served through the Spanish-Ameri-
can War in the Porto Rico campaign, and died at Leaven-
worth, Kan., Nov. 2, 1912. ]\rrs. McClaughry died Jan.
29, 1914.

In 191 5 he married his first wife's sister. Miss Emma
F. Madden, who gave him devoted care to the close of his
life. Death came to him in Chicago. A service was held
at the Buena Memorial Presbyterian Church, under the
direction of the Rev. E. E. Hastings, pastor of the Central
Presbyterian Church, of Joliet. Dr. Lang, of Joliet, an
old friend and comrade, made the principal address. The
Rev. Duncan C. Milner and Rev. Henry Hepburn, with
Dr. Hastings, took part in the service. The body was
taken to his old home at Monmouth, where a service was
held under the direction of the Rev. Dr. T. H. McMichael,
on November 13, 1920.

Dr. McMichael, in the opening of his address, said that
when he heard of the death of Major McClaughry there
came to his mind, "the words spoken long ago by the old
king of Israel upon the death of one whose rugged qualities
he admired — 'There is a prince and a great man fallen this
day in Israel.' "

Duncan Chambers Milner,
Erastus Webster Willard,
William Mather Lewis,

Committee.

FREDERIC SCHILLER HEBARD.

Hereditary Companion. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 16,

1920.

FREDERIC SCHILLER HEBARD, a Companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States and a member of the Commandery of the State of
Illinois, Insignia No. 12396, was born in New York City,
March 8, 1857, and died at his residence in Chicago, Illinois,
November 16, 1920. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery,
Iowa City, Iowa, where his parents are buried.

Companion Hebard was the son of the Reverend George
Diah Alonzo Hebard (who was the first Pastor of the Con-
gregational Church of Iowa City), and Margaret E. Dom-
inick (Marven) Hebard, and was the nephew of Major and

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Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John C. Marven, Eleventh Iowa
Infantry, U. S. V., from whom his eligibility for member-
ship in the Loyal Legion was derived.

Companion Hebard led an active, industrious and useful
life. He received the degree of LL. B. from the State
University of Iowa in 1882, and the same degree from the
St. Louis Law School, Washington University, in 1885. He
was admitted to the Bar in Iowa City in 1882 and removed
from there to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was a member of
territorial legislature of W^yoming, and was distinguished
there by introducing the bill, which became a law, for the
use of the Australian ballot; under which the first election
in Wyoming was held September 11, 1890.

In 1 891 he came to Chicago and was associated with
the Hibernian Banking Association, as its counsel, and in
1898 became its Secretary. In 1914 he became cashier of
that institution.

He was a member of the American Bar Association,
the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation, the Law Institute of Chicago, and the Law Club
of Chicago. He served the Chicago Bar Association suc-
cessively as Secretary, Vice President, and a member for
two three-year terms of its Board of Managers. He was
at one time Treasurer of the Law Institute of Chicago.
Upon his death the President of the Chicago Bar Association
appointed a committee of distinguished lawyers to represent
the Association at his funeral services.

Companion Hebard married Miss Eleanor Leahy of
Hartford, Michigan, March 6, 1916. He was compelled
some two years before his death, because of ill health, to go
to Mobile, Alabama, where he remained until shortly before
his death, returning to Chicago. His wife survives him at
Mobile.

Besides his widow, he is survived by his sisters, Miss
Alice Marven Hebard and Miss Grace Raymond Hebard

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(a distinguished author and publicist), both now Hving
at Laramie, Wyoming, and his brother, George Lockwood
Hebard, of Portland, Oregon.

Companion Hebard was a member of the Union League
Club of Chicago, where he lived for many years; the Uni-
versity Club of Chicago, the Chicago Literary Club, and
the Sons of the American Revolution.

We feel that no better tribute can be paid him than to
repeat the words of those who knew and loved him:

From his sister:

"He was always a beautiful son and a faithful brother."

From an official of the Hibernian Banking Association :

"He performed well his duties at the Bank and was respected by
all of his associates."

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen :

"In every circle of life, in every field of endeavor, wherein Mr.
Hebard moved, his presence was felt. He was an able thinker, a
valued doer, a good citizen, and a loyal one. His kinsfolk and friends
have lost a beloved husband and brother. Iowa, Illinois and Wy-
oming have lost a splendid citizen, and the University of Iowa, too,
will mourn the going of a son whose life has been a credit to his
alma mater during a period of nearly four decades."

The Commandery extends to his family its condolence
and sympathy.

John D. Black,
William T. Church.
John T. Stockton,

Committee.

GEORGE ANTHONY BENDER.

Captain One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 19, Jg20.

13 ORN in Germany, January 17, 1838.
-^-^ Elected an Original Companion of the Order

through the Commandery of the State of lUinois, January
14, 1892. Insignia No. 9243.

Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 1920.

Register of Service : Entered the service as a Private,
Company I, 105th Illinois Vol. Inf., August 25, 1862, for
three years. Promoted to First Sergeant September 2, 1862.
Promoted to First Lieutenant March 2, 1863. Promoted to
Captain October 14, 1864. Mustered out March 18, 1865.

History of Service : His regiment was mustered into the

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U. S. Volunteer service September 2, 1862, at Dixon, Illi-
nois. On September 8 it moved to Camp Douglas, thence to
Louisville, Ky., October 2, 1862, and was assigned to Ward's
Brigade, Dumont's Division, which was subsequently at-
tached to the nth Army Corps. On February 28, 1864, the
nth and 12th Corps were consoHdated to make the 20th
Corps, which started on the Atlanta campaign May 2, 1864,
fighting almost daily battles until Atlanta surrendered. On
November 18, 1864, the army started on their grand march
to the sea, and the following day Capt. Bender was severely
wounded and sent to the officers' hospital at Cincinnati,
Ohio, from which hospital he was discharged from the army
March 18, 1865, for disability. Captain Bender was for
many years a Sergeant of Police at the West Chicago and
West North Avenue Stations. His widow, a son, and a
daughter survive him, to whom the Commandery of the
State of Illinois tender their sincere sympathy.

Edward D. Redington,
Walter R. Robbins,
William T. Church,

Comnulttee.

MYRON HAWLEY BEACH.

Second Lieutenant Forty-fourth lozva Infantry, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at San Antonio, Texas, December 3, 1920.

r> ORN at Seneca Falls, N. Y., May 22, 1828. Elected
-■-' an Original Companion of the Order, through the
Commandery of the State of Illinois. Insignia No. 5284.
Died at San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 3, 1920.

Register of Service : Appointed 2nd Lieut. Co. A, 44th
Iowa Vol. Infantry, June i, 1864. Mustered out with his
regiment Sept. 15, 1864.

History of Service: Was in command of his Company
most of the time after July i, 1864, to the close of the regi-
ment service. His Regiment was assigned to the i6th Army

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Corps, and was engaged in operations against the Rebel Gen-
eral Forrest, and in the Battle of Tupelo, Miss.

Companion Beach prepared for college at Seneca Falls
Academy, New York, and graduated at Hamilton College
in 1853, with high honors, being elected to membership in
the Phi Beta Kappa Society because of his scholarship rank.
At the time of his death at 92 years of age he was probably
the oldest living graduate of the college. He was the oldest
member of this Commandery.

After his graduation he taught school for a year in
Brockport Collegiate Institute and then for three years in
Seneca Falls Academy. He must have been studying law all
of these years for he was admitted to the bar at Dubuque,
Iowa, in 1856, having undoubtedly moved West in that year.
He practiced in Dubuque for 30 years save for the period of
his service in the Army,

In 1886 he moved to Chicago and until his retirement,
because of age, specialized in insurance law. One of his
associates at the Chicago bar, who has for many years
ranked high as a patent lawyer, and who knew Mr. Beach
intimately, says that he was considered one of the very best
lawyers in his branch of legal practice and won high dis-
tinction, and his work led to several important court
decisions.

He possessed a judicial mind and was repeatedly urged to
go upon the bench, btit declined the honor. Mr. Beach was
married December 23, 1857, ^o Miss Helen Mary Hoskins at
Seneca Falls, N. Y., and is survived by three sons, Maj. Gen.
Lansing H. Beach, Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., Harrison
L. Beach, publisher of the San Antonio Light, Texas, and
Woolsey E. Beach, of Chicago.

Hamilton College conferred upon him the degree of
LL. D. in 1905. Companion Beach was a man of unusual
attainments and ability. In college he was an all-around
scholar, being equally proficient in mathematics and the clas-

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sics and could converse readily in both Greek and Latin
when he could find anyone to converse with him in those lan-
guages, which was very rarely the case. His brain was such
a storehouse of facts that it is said that when his family
or friends desired information on almost any subject they
would consult him rather than a dictionary or encyclopedia.

He was a most lovable and friendly man and his son
writes that since his death, little children have called at the
house asking for him, and farmers living in the country
have stopped him on the streets, asking what has become of
the "pleasant old gentleman" whom they often saw on the
car. Only his intimate friends were aware of the fact that
he was one of the best story tellers of his generation. It was
his great delight, when he was past 60 years of age, to visit
the theatre and on his return to imitate and burlesque the
acting for the enjoyment of all who heard and saw him.

Had he not been a great lawyer he would have been a
great success as a comedian, if he had followed the theatrical
profession.

He was a man of unbending integrity and of unblemished
character, pure in life and in speech. On one occasion he
was ofifered the position of general counsel to one of the
largest corporations in America at a salary of $25,000 with
the privilege of maintaining his private practice. He de-
clined the offer, telling those who made it that he knew some
things their corporation had done and that he would not do
that kind of work for anybody or any sum of money. As-
suredly from any point of view, our Companion was a many-
sided character and "the elements so mixed in him that all
the world could say that this was a MAN."

Edward D. Redington,
William L. Cadle,
Thomas E. Milchrist,

Committee.

JOHN COOPER DURGIN.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Twenty-second Wisconsin Infantry,

United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,

December it, 1920.

c

COMPANION JOHN COOPER DURGIN, ist Lieu-
tenant and Adjutant, 22nd Wisconsin Inf., was born
in Exeter, Wis., Dec. 7, 1844. He was elected a Companion
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States through the Commandery of the State of Illinois,
November 7, 1883. Insignia No. 2795. Died at Chicago,
111., December 11, 1920. Register of service: EnHsted as a
private at Beloit, Wis., August 11, 1862, in Co. "I," 22nd
Wisconsin Infantry; was promoted to ist Sergeant of his
company in December, 1862; to Sergeant Major of the

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regiment November, 1863; promoted to ist Lieutenant and
Adjutant April 5, 1864. Mustered out of the service June
12, 1865. His service in the cause of his country was as
follows : Engaged with his command in the campaigns
against Lexington, Danville, and Lebanon, Ky., during the
winters of 1862-3; Thompson's Station, Spring Hill and
Brenkwood, Tenn., in March, 1863; Resaca, Dallas, and
Burnt Hickory and New Hope Church, May, 1864; Etowah,
Kenesaw Mountain, and Powder Springs Road, June, 1864;
Chattahoochie River, Peach Tree Creek, in the siege and
capture of Atlanta, September, 1864; Sherman's campaign
on march to the sea, resulting in the occupation of Savannah,
December, 1864; in the campaign through the Carolinas,
January and February, 1865; engaged in the battles of
Averysboro and Bentonville, N. C, March, 1865. Com-
panion Durgin's service in the war was a very commendable
one, always alert, intelligent and zealous in the discharge of
the duties devolving upon him. As he was in his military
Hfe, so he was in his business career always straightforward
and dependable, winning the respect and confidence of those
with whom he had commercial dealings. In 1869 he was in
the employ of R. K. Bickford & Co., lumber commission
merchants. Later he was placed in charge of the Chicago
business of Martin Ryerson & Co., manufacturers of lum-
ber at Muskegon, Mich. Still later he formed a partner-
ship with William Ruger, the firm name being Ruger &
Durgin, lumber commission merchants on South Water
and Franklin Streets. This firm was the sales agent of
many of the more important lumber manufacturers of
Michigan and Wisconsin. Upon the retirement of Mr.
Ruger, the firm name became John C. Durgin & Co. In the
later years of his life he became an active official of the
Oconto Lumber Co. On November 13, 1873, he married
Alice M. Porter, daughter of Warren and Martha May-
nard Porter of Syracuse, N. Y., who died in Chicago, March

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21, 1902. Three children survive of this marriage: Mrs.
M. L. C. Wilmarth, Glen Falls, N. Y. ; WiUiam R. Durgin,
Chicago, and Allan P. Durgin of New York City. Com-
panion Durgin late in life was again married to Jeanne
Evelyn Meserve, who also survives him. The Command-
ery of the State of Illinois mourn the loss of their dear
Companion, Lieutenant John Cooper Durgin, and extends its
sorrow and sympathy to the surviving members of his
family.

' Walter R. Robbins,
William L. Cadle,
Edw^ard D. Redington,

Committee.

CYRUS WINTHROP BROWN.

I'irst Lieutenant and Adjutant Third, United States Colored Troops,
Died at Joliet, Illinois, January lo, 1921.

THIRST LIEUT. CYRUS WINTHROP BROWN,
-^ Third United States Colored Troops, was born at West
Batavia, N. Y., July 20, 1844, and died at Joliet, 111., Jan.
10, 192 1. His ancestry reached back to New England, and
was of the type that did, and is doing, so much to establish
and maintain civil liberty among our people as a nation.
He was a cousin of Gen. Emory Upton, and assisted that
great tactician in the preparation of what was known as
"Upton's Tactics" — the drill book of our army and the
National Guard for many years.

Lieut. Brown was educated in the Academy at Batavia,

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iind while still a student enlisted in the 22nd New York
Light Battery. The command was moved promptly to the
front in August, 1862, but its captain at the command of
Brig.-Gen. Barry, then Chief of Artillery, failed to maneuver
the battery to the satisfaction of the latter, who ordered
the guns and horses taken away and the officers and men
into the defences of Washington as a part of the Eighth
New York Heavy Artillery.

At this time. Gen. Silas Casey, and his celebrated board,
were holding sessions. Young Brown, then 18 years of
age, underwent the examination before the board, which
his rank as a Corporal, under the rule, then permitted. He
was successful, and was ordered to the Third U. S. C. T.,
then organizing in Philadelphia. Of this regiment was
Major William Eliot Furness, and it was at a meeting of
this Commandery that the Major and the Lieutenant re-
newed their acquaintance and friendship nearly forty years
after their discharge from the army.

The third U. S. C. T. was ordered to Morris Island, off
Charleston, S. C, and participated in the events leading to
abandonment of Battery Wagner by the rebels, and the fall
of Charleston. He took part in the fateful campaign and
battle of Olustee, a side campaign sent out by Gen. Quincy
A. Gilmore, under Gen. Truman Seymour, in the hope of
recovering Florida to the Union.

After finishing his work with his cousin, Gen. Emory
Upton, he went into business in Lafayette, Tnd., and after-
wards in Dubuque, Iowa. This was not to his liking, so
going to Joliet, 111., he engaged in the study of law, being
admitted to the bar in 1875. He was very successful from
the start, and was chosen State's Attorney of Will county
in 1880. As a prosecuting officer he was a terror to evil-
doers. He never afterward sought office, but continued in
the very successful practice of his profession up to the time
of his death, January 10, 1921.

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He was very patriotic, strong in his opinions, and very
successful in defending them. His citizenship was the very
best, and he was always found on the right side in local
affairs. He was a great student not only of the law, but
of other subjects. He acquired a reading and speaking
knowledge of the French language after he became seventy
years of age. He left surviving him his widow, Mrs. Isabelle
Strong Brown, a daughter, Mrs. George Thorp, of Evanston,
and three sons, Dr. Rexwald Brown, of Santa Barbara,
Calif., C. W. Brown, of Chicago, and Wallace W. Brown,
a student at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.

Fred Bennitt,
Erastus W. Willard,
Duncan C. Milner,

Committee.

The Cojnmandery never had a
Photograph of this Coftipanion.

EDWARD SCHRADER JOHNSON.

Major Seventh Illinois Infantry and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel,

United States Volunteers. Died at Springfield, Illinois,

February 15, ig2i.

ANOTHER companion has passed into the transition
of death, and we mourn him, a good man, whose Hfe
has been Hnked with ours in the perpetuation of loyalty
and true allegiance to our country. His patriotism was
never questioned — his daily life was permeated with a
desire to do his share in upholding the Union, for which he
fought. His friends were many, and with these and his
intimate associates, his familiar figure so impressed itself
that they with difficulty realize his passing away, leaving
only the memory of a thorough gentleman, and a good
soldier, whose strong attachment for his comrades in arms,
formed at a time when most susceptible to the peril of a
soldier in the field, was marked by more than ordinary
courtesy — there was that warmth of greeting, that almost
affectionate regard, that made them fast friends at once,
and his fidelity to friends and principle cemented this
friendship. The strength of his social and domestic attach-
ment was very marked.

His business friends had the utmost confidence in his
integrity and trustworthiness. His administration of the
duties of his office found favor with all parties.

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Colonel Edward S. Johnson was born on August 9,
1843, i^ Springfield, Illinois, where he lived continuously,
except for the period of the Civil War and two years
spent in Chicago. As a boy he attended the Springfield
schools, after which he engaged in the lumber business.

His first military experience was in the Springfield Grays,
a company of young men organized in October, 1859, by the
famous Elmer E. Ellsworth, afterward Colonel, who had
come to Springfield to read law in Mr. Lincoln's law office.
When the Civil War broke out, this company was the first
in Illinois to ofifer its services to Governor Richard Yates,
April 16, 1 861, and was mustered in as Co. I, 7th Illinois
Infantry Volunteers. Because six regiments had gone from
Illinois to the Mexican War the regiment was known as the
Seventh instead of the First Illinois. As sergeant of his
company, Major Johnson, then a lad of eighteen, had the
honor of leading the first squad of armed men into Camp
Yates, a few days after the firing upon Fort Sumter.

On July 25, 1861, he was mustered into the ''three-year"
service as First Lieutenant of the 7th Infantry. Seven
months later, after the capture of Ft. Donelson, he was
promoted to captaincy and on April 22, 1864, was promoted
to the rank of Major. He was honorably discharged on
July 9, 1865, with the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel.
He participated with his regiment in the battles of Shiloh
and Altoona Pass and was a part of Sherman's army on its
victorious march to the sea.

After Colonel Johnson's return home at the close of the
war, another military company was organized in Spring-
field, known as the Springfield Zouaves. This was a crack
military organization which gave exhibitions of drilling and
entered competitions in neighboring cities and states. It
was prominent in the social life of Springfield and its dances
and dinners are well remembered by the older inhabitants.
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uary 2^], 1869, the Springfield Zouaves became the Gover-
nor's Guard. Colonel Johnson was elected captain of this
company at its organization and remained its leader until
1878, when he resigned. This organization is still in exist-
ence. In later years it became the Governor's Guard Vet-
eran Corps and Colonel Johnson was elected its president
and held this office until his death.

Colonel Johnson grew up with and was a classmate
of Robert Lincoln, the President's oldest son. His father,
Mr. Joel Johnson, was a personal friend of Abraham Lin-
coln and for some time before his presidency, Mr. Lincoln
occupied rooms, after breaking up housekeeping, in the
old Revere House, the hotel owned and operated by Mr.
Joel Johnson. Thus Colonel Johnson's early years were
full of memories of Lincoln.

He inherited the hotel property from his father and
remained a hotel proprietor until 1893, when he sold the
business and spent two years in Chicago, returning to
Springfield upon his appointment by Governor Altgeld as
custodian of the National Lincoln Monument in September,
1895. There he passed the last twenty-five years of his
life, in loving service to the memory of the friend and hero
of his youth. His home was at the lodge in the shadow
of the monument.

After the unsuccessful attempt on November 7, 1876, to
steal the body of President Lincoln from its resting place
in the marble sarcophagus in the north room of the monu-
ment, fears were entertained by the trustees of the Lincoln
Monument Association as to its future safety. It was de-
cided to select a few men whose honor was beyond question,
to be entrusted with the burial of the casket containing the
President's body in a spot within the confines of the monu-
ment known only to themselves. Those chosen were Mr.
John C. Power, who was at that time custodian of the monu-
ment; Major Gustavus S. Dana, Gen. Jasper N. Reece,

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Colonel Edward S. Johnson, Joseph P. Lindley and James
F. McNeill. On the night of November i, 1879, they car-
riel out the allotted task and the body remained as buried by
them until April 14, 1887, when, in their presence, it was
transferred to a deep cemented vault under the marble
sarcophagus in which it had originally been placed.

On February 12, 1880, the 71st anniversary of the birth
of Lincoln, these six men with three others were formally
incorporated into the organization known as the Lincoln
Guard of Honor whose object was to purchase the former
home of the President in Springfield and open it to the pub-
lic; to be in charge of memorial services upon anniversary
occasions and to collect and preserve mementoes of Lincoln's
life and death.

Colonel Johnson's death came suddenly of heart failure
just at sunrise on the morning of February 15, 192 1. Lie
had not been in his usual vigorous health for more than a
year but had been able to perform his duties in connection
with the monument and at no time had been confined to
his bed. On February 12, three days previous, he had ar-
ranged and conducted the exercises held in commemoration
of Lincoln's birth.

The funeral was held at three o'clock Thursday after-
noon, February 17, from the Central Baptist Church of
Springfield. The services were in charge of Stephenson Post
No. 30, G. A. R., and the Governor's Guard. Interment was
made in Oak Ridge Cemetery, within the boundaries of the
Lincoln monument.

Major Johnson was married on August 10, 1869, to Miss
Laura Clinton, of Springfield, Illinois. A daughter, Mrs.
W. C. Stith, Jr., of 39 W. 37th Street, New York City, is
the only surviving child of this union.

Colonel Johnson was a member of Stephenson Post No.
30, G. A. R., of Springfield, as well as of Thomas Post No.
5, while he lived in Chicago. He was enrolled in the Society

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of the Army of the Tennessee, The Association of Survivors
of the Battle of Shiloh and was a Companion of the Mihtary
Order of the Loyal Legion.

The Illinois Commandery of The Loyal Legion of the
U. S. express their appreciation of his companionship and
extend their sympathy to the surviving members of his
family.

George Mason,
Benjamin R. LIieronymus,
Vespasian Warner.

Committee.

WILBER GORTON BENTLEY.

Major Ninlh New York Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, February 22, H)2\.

MAJOR WILBER GORTON BENTLEY died at
Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, February 22, 1921."
Such was the brief announcement which reached head-
quarters of the Commandery on the morning of February
23rd.

It is not surprising that a Companion of the Order and
a proven patriot whose span of life has exceeded the scrip-
tural limitation, should be called to the ''Beyond. " A deep
sense of loss, however, is felt by companions left behind, who
because of his abilities, his qualities as a valued citizen,
his patience through long years of suffering, his unassuming

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manner, his love of right and fair deahng, and his earnest
championship of an indivisible union of the States, have ac-
corded him a warm place in their affectionate esteem.

In an address entitled, "UNDER THE SEARCH-
LIGHT," delivered before the Illinois Commandery, March
5, 1914, Major Bentley refuted the claims of Southern
champions who, defending secession, exalted the virtues of
the southern, while belittling the valor and accomplishments
of the northern soldier. His statements, supported by facts
of record and by sound logic, were and are convincing. More
recently certain statements by William E. Dodd, a professor
of history in the University of Chicago, in which it was
stated that during our Civil War, of the sixties, the Union
army was guilty of spoliation and cruelties comparable to
those of the Germans in the World War, drew from Com-
panion Bentley a strong retort. This took form in a letter
to Professor Dodd, protesting that such instructions to stu-
dents were not based on historical facts and were unpa-
triotic and harmful.

Attention is invited to this letter of protest and to Col.
Bentley's ''Under the Searchlight," copies of which may be
])rocured at the headquarters of the Commandery.

An address at the reunion of his regiment (the 9th New
York Cavalry), at the dedication of its monument, July 2,
]888, on the Gettysburg battlefield, and his letter to survivors
thirty years later, at Salamanca, N. Y.,, disclose patriotism of
high degree, as well as a noble and affectionate regard for
the men who had fought under him in the campaigns of the
Civil War. The letter gives evidence that the shadows were
lengthening and that the writer was conscious that passing
years and the pains of a desperate wound were fast bear-
ing him on to the final muster-out. He said, 'T am, and I
trust we all are, looking forward with composure to Graduat-
ing Day, when we shall leave life's duties behind, to enter

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the Great Beyond where the great majority of our comrades
and our loved ones are." Then followed this quotation:
"It seems a little way to me,

Across the strange country, The Beyond;
For it has grown to be

The home of those of whom I am so fond.
And so for me there is no death,

It is but crossing with abated breath,
The little strip of sea,

To find one's loved ones waiting on the shore.
More beautiful, more precious than before."

Major Bentley's service and sacrifice in defense of the
Union entitled him to an exalted place among the brave and
the true. Such men as he gave not grudgingly but with en-
thusiastic courage, all that was in them of strength of body
and mind, and were large contributors to the successes which
saved our Land from disruption and opened the way for
that advance in material prosperity and national power that
has given the United States first rank among nations.

Briefly stated, his record in the Civil War as furnished
the Loyal Legion, is as follows :

''Entered the service October 14, 1861, as Captain of
Company 'H,' 9th New York Volunteer Cavalry, for three
years; promoted Major with rank from December 8, 1863;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel with rank from June
14, 1864, but not mustered because of disabling wound."

Major Bentley served in the Army of the Potomac, un-
der McClellan, and Carl Schurz on the Peninsula; and in
1862, his regiment was attached to the Cavalry Corps when
organized under Gen. Pleasanton, and remained in that
Corps, under General Sheridan, with Devin, Buford, Merritt
and Torbert, Brigade and Division Commanders. Was
wounded, losing a leg in his forty-third engagement, in battle
near "White House" Landing, Virginia, June 22, 1864.
Thus disabled he was honorably discharged October 8, 1864.

Major Bentley recalled with pleasure two important in-

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cidents in his army life in which he was brought in close
touch with President Lincoln. The then Captain Bentley, in
an interview with Secretary Stanton was pleading for the
equipment of the regiment, as part of the cavalry arm of
the service, for which it had been recruited. The war secre-
tary believed that no more cavalry were needed at that time
and that this regiment should be mustered in as infantry.
Captain Bentley could not be satisfied with such an arrange-
ment and insisted that the men had enlisted for cavalry
service and it would not be fair or honorable to disregard
that fact. Still the secretary contended that the great need
was for infantry. Captain Bentley asked if they might
leave the matter to the President. The secretary assenting,
a call was made on Mr. Lincoln, who listened to Secretary
Stanton, and then to Captain Bentley.

The President made his decision in words something like
this: '*Mr. Secretary, there seems to be a little doubt in
your own mind as to the equity of your proposal to make
infantry out of men expressly recruited for cavalry service,
but in the mind of this officer, who has aided in raising the
regiment, the conviction is clear that nothing short of com-
plete cavalry equipment will fulfill the Government's part
of the bargain. The argument seems to be with him. Sup-
pose we keep our part of the bargain and make it a cavalry
regiment." And it became the Ninth New York Volunteer
Cavalry.

While our Companion Bentley was in hospital at Wash-
ington, President Lincoln made a visit to the wounded men,
and as he paused a moment near his cot, the Major said,
''Mr. President, I guess you don't remember me!" The
President's memory responded to the call, and he said,
"Aren't you the officer who with Secretary Stanton, came
to see me about a cavalry regiment?" Then he questioned,
"Is it very bad? I hope not."

The Major replied, "The doctors tell me I have one

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chance in a hundred." ''How do you feel about it?" asked
Mr. Lincoln. "I believe I am one in a thousand and that I
shall get well," was the reply! *'I believe so, too," said the
President and with encouraging words and kindly wishes
the great man left our friend with a glow of happiness in
his heart, the thought of which he cherished through all the
years of his life.

That Major Bentley was a patriot by inheritance is evi-
denced by records which show that William Bentley, an
ancestor, born April 25, 1765, enlisted in Massachusetts,
June, 1 781, when sixteen years of age, in the Revolutionary
army and was discharged therefrom, in 1784; and that later,
he was captain of militia in the state of New York, and
participated in the War of 1812. Major Bentley's ancestry
was also represented in the Indian wars, preceding the re-
volution. His eldest son, born at Warsaw, N. Y., May 12,
1861, went into the Spanish war, and died in Cuba in 1898.

On June 25, i860, he married Mary A. Bailey, at Lena,
Illinois. Their children were Marshall G., who died in Cuba,
m 1898, in the Spanish war; William J., who died, aged four;
and two daughters, both of whom survive — Mrs. Alice Bent-
ley Gardiner, of Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Cora M. Emery,
of Everett, Washington. Two sisters of Major Bentley,
Mrs. Cone, and Mrs. Gould, of Batavia, New York, also
survive.

Mrs. Gardiner and Mrs. Emery are both patriotic women
and were active during the World War, in many good ways.
By personal work and in public speeches they assisted in
promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds and the interest of the
Red Cross. Mrs. Gardiner was a member of the National
Speakers' Bureau. Two of her sons also served in the
World's War. An unusual sequence of service by the Bent-
ley family from the Colonial period down to the present time.

Major Bentley was admitted to the bar at Bufifalo, N. Y.,
1864; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where in 1865, he was

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elected probate and county judge, resigning in 1867, because
of ill health; moved to St. Louis, where he engaged in fire
and life insurance for twenty years. Later he came to Chi-
cago where he practiced law ; was elected a Companion of
the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, January 2,
1884, and transferred as charter member to the Commandery
of the State of Missouri, October 21, 1885, of which he was
Commander from May i, 1886, to May 7, 1887. On
November 4, 1891, by transfer from Missouri, he again be-
came a Companion of the Illinois Commandery.

A worthy Companion has joined the long procession to
the realms above. To his daughters and friends our warm
sympathy is extended.

Orett L. Munger,
James H. Smith,
William . L. Cadle,

Committee.

JOHN NEWTOX XIXD.

»

Hereditary Coinpanwn of the First Class. Died at St. Petersburg,
Florida, March 6, 1921.

THE Cycle of Time pursuing its course attuned to the
rhythmic regularity of the movement of celestial
worlds, paused a moment to gather as a voyager our fel-
low companion, J. Newton Nind.

In private life Mr. Nind contributed to the organization
of the happiness and content of home and family, believing,
as the Romans of old believed, that the family unit was the
basis of moral and religious life, while in the economic
world the kindly touch of the wand of human understand-
ing, marshaled the hosts, who today mourn his passing with

a grief that is real.

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Mr. Nind was a man who at all times remained ahead of
his experience in social as well as business life; endowed
with a vision, he left undone nothing that he should have
done, and he did nothing he should not have done.

Companion Nind was elected an Hereditary Companion
of the First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States through the Commandery of the State
of Illinois, February 2, 191 1.

He was the eldest son of First Lieut, and Adjutant James
G. Nind, 127th Illinois Infantry, U. S. V., who was mustered
out with the regiment March 27, 1865, and who died at
MinneapoHs, Minn., May 16, 1885.

John Newton Nind was a patriot, a credit to his father
and to the Order. The memorial flag of the Commandery,
the flag of his country, draped his casket.

Theo. Van R. Ashcroft,
Thomas G. Grier,
Edward A. Davenport,

Committee.

JAMES BUNYAN SMITH.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1921.

JAMES BUNYAN SMITH was born in Orange, Franklin
County, Massachusetts, December 27, 1839, and died at
his home in Chicago, IlHnois, March 14, 1921.

He was a son of Humphrey and Sophronia Allen Smith,
great-grandson of Abner Smith, of Norwich, Massachusetts,
and Corporal Asa Albee, soldiers of Massachusetts, during
the American Revolution. On his Mother's side, he is de-
scended through the Kelloggs, from Alfred the Great of
England.

He was educated in the common schools, and at Middle-
bury College, Vermont, and Tufts College, Massachusetts.

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While teaching in Royalston, Massachusetts, he resigned
his school and enlisted in September, 1861, with some thirty
men of his native town and joined Company "I," 25th Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, then in camp at
Worcester, Massachusetts. He was commissioned First
Lieutenant, October 12, 1861. The Regiment was assigned
to the First Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps,
General John G. Foster, commanding.

This Brigade opened the Battle of Roanoke Island, Feb-
ruary 8, 1862, and took part in Battle of New Berne, N. C,
March 13, 1862. He resigned his commission July 10, 1862,
and was commissioned Captain, Company "K," 36th Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Infantry, August 22, 1862 ; Major,
October 12, 1864, and Lieutenant-Colonel, November 13,
1864.

He commanded the Regiment from June 3rd to July 18,
1864.

On the staff of General Potter, commanding the Second
Division, Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac ; Provost
Marshal of Division from July 20, 1864, until close of war.
Engaged in all the battles of the Ninth Corps in Virginia,
Kentucky, and the Siege of Petersburg. Lost a finger in
the Battle of Pegram's Farm, September 24, 1864. He was
a brave soldier and carried out many important orders of
his commanding officers, and was mustered out of the service
June 8, 1865, as Lieut.-Colonel.

Colonel Smith was married during the war to Isabel
Russell, and to this union were born eight children, of whom
two daughters and two sons still survive.

He located in Chicago on retiring from the Army and
with his brother went in business at State Street and Eld-
ridge Court.

About 1870 he entered the employ of the De Golyer &
McCleland Paving Company, and later succeeded to their
business, and in 1881 H. P. Smith (a brother) and Charles

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Brown were admitted to the firm, and they did a very large
business in Chicago and surrounding cities in street paving.

Colonel Smith retired from the firm in 1894 when he,
with Norman B. Ream, William E. and George Hale, built
the Midland Hotel at Kansas City, Missouri.

Companion Smith was elected to membership in the
Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, November 18,
1885, and his insignia bears the number 3804; Commandery
number 235. He was also a member of Abraham Lincoln
Post, No. 91, Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the
Republic, of which he was Commander in 1912, and again
in 1913.

His long service and experience as Provost Marshal at
Division Headquarters, brought to his notice incidents not
generally known which gave material for historic anecdotes,
both entertaining and instructive, to his companions and
friends.

His genial manner and his friendliness will remain a
pleasant memory.

By his death the Commandery suffers a serious loss.

To his family and friends our sincere sympathy is ex-
tended.

William P. Wright,
Orett L. Munger,
Charles E. Baker,

Commitfec.

CORNELIUS SHEPARD ELDRIDGE.

Captain Twenty-ninth Michigan Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, April ig, 1921.

/COMPANION Cornelius Shepard Eldridge, Insignia No.
^^ 14227, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States. Born in Clarendon, N. Y., September 15,
1841. Died in Chicago, 111., April 19, 1921, after a long ill-
ness.

Our Companion's military record is: Enlisted July 29,
1864, as a private in Company G, 29th Regiment, Michigan
Volunteer Infantry, organized at Saginaw, Mich., and on the
organization of the Regiment was made Second Lieutenant
of his Company, and on September 16, 1864, was made
Captain of the Company. In October following, the Regi-

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ment arrived at Decatur, Ala., and was attached to the com-
mand of General R. H. Milroy, taking part in the battle with
General Hood's Confederate army at that point, following
which the command to which our Companion was at-
tached occupied Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he was ap-
pointed Inspector General on the staff of General Milroy
and served until July i6, 1865, when, at the close of the war,
he was honorably discharged upon tender of resignation.

Captain Eldridge was Senior Vice Commander of the
Commandery of the State of Illinois 1917-1918, and evi-
denced his great interest in the Order by the nomination of
his nephew, our present Hereditary Companion, Willard
Shepard Eldridge.

Our Companion was married to Maria Louise Grey, who
was born in St. Catherines, Ontario, October 12, 1841, and
died in Chicago, Illinois, following a long illness, September
20, 1920, a few days after her life's companion had been re-
moved to a hospital to undergo a severe surgical operation
which had been deferred on account of her illness, fortu-
nately, however, she was not conscious of his condition.

Our Companion's parents were Isaac Newton Eldridge,
M. D., and Mary Louise Shepard Eldridge. His common
school education was taken at Flint, Michigan. He then
entered the University of Michigan, graduating from the
Medical School, thence to New York City, for special courses
in Medicine and Surgery.

With his life's companion he moved to California until
the year 1871, returning to Chicago, losing all their personal
effects in the great fire, their home life being in Chicago
hotels for more than fifty years.

Our Companion's surviving relatives are an elder sister,
Mrs. F. H. Humphrey, of Flint, Michigan, a younger sister,
Mrs. J. C. Woodbury, of Detroit, Michigan, and a younger
brother, Mr. F. A. Eldridge, of Chicago, to whom the sincere

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sympathy of this Commandery is tendered in their, and our,

great loss.

Charles F. Hills,
William P. Wright,

Committee.

ISRAEL PARSONS RUMSEY.

Captain Battery B, First Illinois Light Artillery, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at Lake Forest, Illinois, April 22, ig2i.

THE Chieftains of the Grand Army of the Republic are
fast vanishing, entering into the Great Adventure.
Soon their names will be but fading memories, though their
sacrifices in the cause of our Country will never die.

Captain Israel Parsons Rumsey was one of these old-time
heroes — a true Chieftain in War and in Peace. To us has
been committed the legacy of his life work, one rich in
well doing.

Born in Stafford, N. Y., February 9, 1836, Israel Parsons
Rumsey was the son of Joseph Rumsey. He was educated
in the Common Schools and at Bethaney Academy, and in

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1858 came to Chicago, where he engaged in business as a
Commission Merchant.

At the breaking out of the War of the RebelHon, Mr.
Rumsey promptly responded to his country's call by en-
listing in April, 1861. With others he was instrumental
in organizing "Taylor's Battery," known officially as "Com-
pany B, First Illinois Light Artillery," and was elected its
Junior Second Lieutenant.

After the Battle of Fort Donelson, he was promoted to
be Senior Second Lieutenant of this Company, and shortly
afterward again he was appointed Assistant Adjutant Gen-
eral on the Staff of General W. H. L. Wallace, who, in mak-
ing his report, said :

'T wish to call the attention of the General commanding
the division to the conduct of Lieutenant Israel P. Rumsey
of Taylor's Battery. Active, intelligent and brave, always
ready to undertake orders, riding to any part of the field
amid the hottest of fire, his daring and coolness contributed
much to the success of the day."

Later, Lieutenant Rumsey returned to his command in
the Battery, and being promoted to the rank of Captain,
commanded the "same until the expiration of his term of
service, July, 1864. During a part of this time he was Chief
of Artillery of the 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps.

The following comprise a list of battles and campaigns
in which Companion Rumsey, serving under Generals Grant,
Sherman, Logan, McPherson and Smith, took a prominent
part :

Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pitts-
burgh Landing, Siege of Corinth, Holly Springs,
Chickasaw Bayou, Siege of Vicksburg, Mis-
sionary Ridge, Knoxville, Sherman's Champaign,
Champion Hills, Resaca.

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After the war, for 20 years, he was a member of George
H. Thomas Post 5, Grand Army of the RepubHc ; President
of the Chicago Citizens' League and a member of the Union
League Club.

No one could have been brought into personal relations
with Captain Rumsey without having been imbued with his
high sense of honor and his ideals of duty to his fellow men.
At all times and in all positions he occupied he staunchly
stood for what was the best interest of the community. His
vision of the needs of the world, for its betterment, was alert
and comprehensive. To those needs, his heart responded
with unshrinking devotion, a devotion sustained by an in-
domitable Purpose and Courage.

Always kindly, and the soul of courtesy in his intercourse
with his fellow-men, he so lived as to endear himself to all
who knew him. And when, at last, Life's Curtain slowly
descended, screening away all earthly joys, sorrows and
tribulations, our blessed Companion, Israel Parsons Rumsey,
stepped serenely beyond our mundanity into the Land of
Eternal Happiness, there, with the Great Captain of the
World, whom all his life he had served with unflinching
courage and fidelity, to live on forevermore.

"Beyond our life how far

Soars his new life through radiant orb and zone,

While we in impotency of the night

Walk dumbly."

Walter R. Robbins,
Nelson Thomasson,
Thomas E. Milchrist,

Committee.

JOHN McLEAN.

Second Licutenaut Fortieth Illinois Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Centralia, Illinois, April 25, 1921.

LIEUT. JOHN McLEAN was born at Aikin, 111., Oct. 7,
''1837, and died at Centralia, 111., April 25, 1921, in his
84th year.

On President Lincoln's first call for 300,000 men. Com-
panion McLean enlisted as a private in Co. A, 40th Regt.,
111. Vol. Inf., Aug. 10, 1 86 1, and was mustered in at Camp
Butler, Illinois, Aug. 10, 1861, as Sergeant of Co. A, and
was commissioned 2nd Lieut., Nov. 14, 1861. The regiment
was soon ordered to Jefferson Barricks, Missouri, where
they had a short training service, and on Sept. 8, 1861, they
were ordered to the front at Bird's Point, Mo., thence to

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Sniithland, Ky. In the early spring he was sent, with his
company, to estabHsh telegraphic communications wuth Pa-
ducah, Forts Henry and Donelson, Tenn., and Clarksville,
Ky. During the latter part of March he rejoined his regi-
ment at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., and on the 6th of April,
1862, was in the first day's battle of Shiloh, where he was
severely wounded in his left foot, which necessitated ampu-
tation of the foot; was sent to hospital at Paducah, and
thence to his home in Illinois. He returned to his regiment
at Memphis, in August, 1862, and being no longer fit for
active service, resigned Sept. 23, 1862, and returned to his
home. It has been said that when a boy is too lazy to work,
too honest for a lawyer, and too wayward for a clergyman,
he should become a doctor, so on the strength of this saying
Companion McLean got his father's consent to leave the
farm and become a doctor.

In the winter of 1858 he began the study of medicine and
surgery in the office of Dr. Ronalds, at Benton, 111. In the
fall of i860, he attended the medical school of Washington
University in St. Louis, Mo. When he began the study of
medicine, the science was undergoing a change from the
antiphlogistic method of treatment, to a saner and more con-
servative method. Hitherto, the practice had been to ad-
minister copious doses of calomel, jalap and tartar emetic,
to bleed the patient freely, and to put a generous fly blister
over the diseased part. On the morrow, if the patient was
not better, or moribund, the treatment was again given.

After Companion McLean's resignation from the army,
he at once got back into the study of medicine, and entered
the Rush Medical College, in Chicago, in October, 1862,
and w^as graduated therefrom in the class of 1863. After
graduation, he returned to his home near Benton, 111., for
a short time. While there, he was invited by Adjt.-Gen.
Fuller to join a party of civiHan physicians and nurses to
go to Vicksburg to aid the Medical Corps in looking after

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the sick and wounded. This he did, as he was glad to be
of further service to his country. After returning North
from this mission, he at once estabhshed himself as physician
and surgeon at Duquoin, 111., where he met with success.
He was twice elected mayor of Duquoin.

In 1881 he moved to the new town of Pullman, 111., and
was soon appointed by Mr. Pullman as Company surgeon,
which position he held for thirty-five years, when he was
retired.

Companion McLean was elected a member of the Illinois
Commandery, Dec. 8, 1887.

He is survived by one son. Dr. Guy M. McLean, of New
York City, who is also a member of the Illinois Commandery,
to whom the Commandery begs to extend its deep sympa-
thies.

William L. Cadle^
John A. Wesener, M. D.,
Edward A. Davenport,

Committee.

WILLIAM LEWIS BARNUM.

Lieutenant-Colonel Eleventh Missouri Infantry, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, May 28, 1921.

COL. WILLIAM L. BARNUM was born at Newark,
N. J., August 24, 1829. He died in Chicago, 111., May
28, 192 1, at the Lakota Hotel, 3001 So. Michigan Avenue,
in his 92nd year, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery,
Springfield, 111., May 30, quite near the tomb of Abraham
Lincoln. Our Companions will deeply mourn the loss of
this distinguished member of our Order, although he lived
more than twenty years beyond the proverbial three score
and ten years. He came west with his parents in 1837 when
he was but eight years of age, and settled with the family
at Knoxville, 111. Early in life he studied law. This was

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before the establishment of law schools, and it is interesting
to note that Abraham Lincoln was one of those who ex-
amined Companion Barnum, and recommended that he Ijc
admitted to the bar. This was about the year 1857. Col.
Barnum, however, never became active as a trial lawyer
during his subsequent life, but devoted his business activities
to fire insurance, and became prominent in that line, but
retired from active business in 191 5, and subsequently spent
his winters in Florida.

During his mature life he became deeply interested in
the Masonic order, and was a member of the Thomas A.
Turner Lodge A. F. & A. M., Chicago, 111. ; Lafayette
Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Chicago; Chicago Council No.
4; Apollo Commandery No. i, K. T. ; Oriental Consistory,
Scottish Rite, and Medinah Temple A. A. O. M. S. He
was also a member of the Union League Club.

Companion Barnum enlisted in St. Louis, Mo., as a
private in the nth Mo. Inf. Vols., July 30, 1861, and was
promoted to captain of his company, December 31, 1861, to
rank from July 30, 1861, to Lieutenant-Colonel, May 15,

1863, and was honorably discharged as such, August 15,

1864, at the expiration of his term of service. Col. Barnum
was not a resident of Missouri at the time of his enlistment,
but he had crossed the border and enlisted in that state, be-
cause the quota from Illinois had at that time been filled,
and the same is true of most of the men of his company.

Col. Barnum, during his military career, served with his
regiment, which became known as the nth Mo. U. S. Rifles,
which was connected at different periods with the Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Army Corps, and participated in the following engagements,
viz. : Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862 ; Corinth, May 24th
to 28th; luka. Miss., wdiere General Rosecrans gave the
nth Mo. Regiment especial praise for its magnificent fight-
ing, in his general orders No. 130; Corinth, Oct. 4, 1862;

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Shiloh, where he was wounded by a cannon ball; Holly
Springs, Miss. ; Jackson, Miss. ; Siege of Vicksburg and
others. At Mcksburg his regiment distinguished itself in
leading the charge of Mowers Brigade, in its grand assault
of May 22, 1863, and as being the only entire regiment of
the 15th Corps that reached the fort and placed its colors
upon the parapet. He participated in all the campaigns, and
in most of the battles of the various corps in which he
served. These facts and other experiences of the i ith Mis-
souri U. S. Rifles, are sufficient to justify Fox, the historian,
in his ''Regimental Losses," in placing this command among
his ''300 Fighting Regiments."

He became a member of the Loyal Legion of the U. S.,
Commandery of the State of Illinois, October i, 1879, '^^^
was a member of the George H. Thomas Post, No. 5, De-
partment of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, and a
member of the Society of the Army of Tennessee.

Companion Barnum was married October 18, 1854, to
Miss Mary D. Clark, with whom he lived happily until she
was taken by death in April, 191 7, making a very rare
record of delightful companionship of sixty-two and one-
half years together. No offspring, however, resulted from
this union, but Col. Barnum before his death designated
William L. Barnum, Jr. (a nephew) as his choice of the
one to be favored, as the inheritor of the privileges of the
Loyal Legion of Illinois, and who was installed into such
membership July 7, 1907. Col. Barnum is survived by a
brother, John S. Barnum, of San Jose, Calif., and a number
of nephews and nieces.

The Loyal Legion tenders its sincere condolences to
these, and to his other relatives and friends.

James H. Smith,
William L. Cadle,
Orett L. Munger,

Committee.

SEYMOUR COMAN.

Hereditary Companion. Died at Coleman Lake, Wisconsin, May

2g, 192 1.

OEYMOUR COMAN was born at Newark, Ohio, May
^ 21, 1852, and died at Coleman Lake, Wis., May 29,
192 1.

He was elected an Hereditary Companion of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States through the
Commandery of the State of Illinois, February 7, 190 1, his
Insignia being No. 13 133.

His eligibility to the Order was derived from his father.
Captain Levi Parsons Coman, 76th Ohio Infantry, U. S.
v., deceased. His mother's maiden name was Martha Sey-
mour, also dead.

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Companion Coman was a graduate of the Law Depart-
ment of the University of Michigan, and was at Dartmouth
College for two years. Afterwards the College conferred
a degree upon him. For a number of years he was a banker
and broker. He retired from business about 1916, arrd spent
his time in travel.

The Union League Club, Chicago, has been his residence
for twenty years past.
He was never married.

His brother, Edward M. Coman, resides at Emporia,
Kansas.

His sister, Susan, is Mrs. J. M. Coburn of Chicago.
We regret the loss of our Companion.

Frederic W. Upham,
Louis G. Richardson,
George V. Lauman,

Comnirittee.

WALTER HOWARD CHAMBERLIN.

Hereditary Companion.

WALTER HOWARD CHAMBERLIN was born in
Detroit, Michigan, February 9, 1866; he died at
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, July 3, 192 1 ; he was buried at
Oakwoods Cemetery, at Detroit.

He was the eldest son of First Lieutenant Lewis H.
Chamberlin and Charlotte A. He left his widow, Ida May,
and his children, Edith, Lewis, Frederick and Helen, who
resided at No. 1227 Sherwin Avenue, Chicago.

He was admitted to the bar in 1890 at Detroit, where he
became a member of this Order, and in 1891 he removed to
Chicago, transferring to the Illinois Commandery, and en-

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gaging here in the practice of patent law. He was xAssist-
ant Commissioner of Patents in 1900-01, and rose to
distinction in this branch of practice. At the time of his
death he was a member of the firm of ChamberHn &
Freudenreich, of Chicago.

During his residence in Chicago he was alHed with many
organizations, both in professional and social character.
He was a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Law
Club, Union League Club, Chicago Athletic, and others.
He had great pride in his membership in the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and in the Sons of Veterans,
U. S. A.

Our companion was an ardent patriot, giving much
time and effort to the loyal endeavor in many circles and
directions. He was a congenial and lovable associate, solic-
itous for the welfare of others and jealous of the prerog-
atives of his favorite Orders. He made fast friends of all
with whom he came in contact, and his memory will be
ever cherished by his companions in the Illinois Com-
mandery.

William T. Church,
Henry R. Rathbone,
Frank T. Milchrist,

Committee.

FREDERICK WILLIAM NORWOOD.

Captain Sixty-sixth United States Colored Infantry. Died at Mays-
ville, Kentucky, July 4, ig2i.

T> ORN at Wilmington, Mass., Nov. 4, 1842. Elected an
-■-' Original Companion of the Order through the Com-
mandery of the" State of Illinois, Dec. 10, 1896, Insignia No.
1 1650. Died at Maysville, Ky., July 4, 1921.

Register of Service : Entered the service as Pvt. 6th
Minnesota Vol. Inf., Aug. 12, 1862. Advanced to Sergeant
Major same command, Aug. 25, 1862. Discharged from
service May 9, 1864, to accept promotion. Appointed Capt.
Co. F, 68th U. S. Colored Infantry, to take effect April
28, 1864. He was honorably discharged as such, July 16,
1865.

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History of Service : He served with the 6th Minnesota
Volunteers ih two campaigns under Gen. Sibley, against the
Sioux Indians during 1862; served with the 68th U. S. C. I.
under Gen. A. J. Smith in campaigns in Tennessee and
Mississippi. Participated in battle of Tupelo, Miss., and in
several minor engagements. His regiment was ordered to
New Orleans, La., in January, 1865, and from thence to
Pensacola, Fla. It subsequently marched against and cap-
tured Fort Blakely, entrance to Mobile Bay, in which action
he was quite severely wounded. He rejoined his regiment
at Alexandria, La., July 6, 1865, where he was discharged
from the service on account of wound.

Civil Record: Companion Norwood was one of the
pioneer residents of Hyde Park, 111., and established the
Norwood-Butterfield Lumber Company, from which he re-
tired about twenty years ago. He was twice married. His
first wife was Elizabeth Winne, of Hyde Park, 111. His
second wife, Priscilla Finnell, of Flemingsburg, Ky. He is
survived by his widow and only, daughter, Mrs. Edward
B. Shapker, of Wilmette, 111., to whom the Commandery of
the State of Illinois extends its sincere sympathy, and to
him — Hail and farewell.

Hugh D. Bowker,
Thomas E. Milchrist,
Edward D. Redington,

Committee.

MICHAEL PIGGOTT.

Captain Sixty-sixth Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died at
Quincy, Illinois, Inly lo, 1921.

CAPTAIN Michael Piggott, a Companion of this Com-
mandery, died at his home in Quincy, 111., January 10,
1921.

Captain Piggott was born at Thurles, Ireland, September
29, 1834, and with his parents, brothers and sisters, emi-
grated to the United States while he was young. For a short
time the family resided near New Orleans, then moved to
St. Louis, Mo., where our Companion learned the trade of
a bricklayer and, afterwards, a builder.

On September 14, 1861, he enlisted at St. Louis, Mo.,
and on the 31st day of October, 1861, was mustered into

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the service of the United States, as First Lieutenant in Com-
pany H, of Birge's Western Sharpshooters Volunteers, for
a period of three years. On the 4th of March, 1862, he was
promoted as Captain of said Company. The name of this
Regiment was, on the 20th of April, 1862, changed to that
of the 14th Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, and afterwards,
on the 20th of November, 1862, the name of the Regiment
was changed to that of the 66th Illinois Volunteers, by order
of the Secretary of War and the Governor of Illinois, and
the name of his Company became Company F of said Regi-
ment.

Captain Piggott participated in the battles of Mt. Zion,
Missouri, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Vicksburg, luka,
Burkeville, and at Corinth, October 3rd and 4th, 1863. He
also was engaged in the battle at Snake Creek Gap, Georgia,
and at Resaca, where he was severely wounded, which re-
sulted in the amputation of one of his legs. He was hon-
orably discharged and mustered out of the service on ac-
count of such disability, January 9, 1865. He then returned
to his old home at Quincy, where he married Miss Eleanor
Ann Cannell, and as the fruit of such marriage seven chil-
dren were born, six of whom are living and reside at Quincy,
111.

Soon after his discharge from the army. Captain Piggott
received an appointment in the Revenue Service of the
Government, and remained in such service for about four
years, and until he was appointed Postmaster of Quincy,
and which position he held for sixteen years, discharging
the duties of the office with ability and fidelity, and to the
satisfaction of the patrons of the office. After that, for some
years, he was employed in the Indian Department of the
Government, adjusting and settling depredation claims, and
allotting land to the members of Indian tribes that had been
broken up.

His private and public life was free from stain. He dis-

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charged his public duties intelHgently and faithfully. He
was an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He was elected a Companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, through the Commandery
of the State of Illinois, on the 8th day of January, 1891.
He was a worthy Companion, his insignia being No. 8467.

To the surviving relatives and friends we extend our
heartfelt sympathy.

Thomas E. Milchrist,
James E. Stuart,
Robert C. Knaggs,

Cofilmittee.

ALBERT FRANKLIN BULLARD.

Captain Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry, United States Vol-
unteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 9, 192 1.

\ LBERT FRANKLIN BULLARD was born at New
-^ ^ Bedford, Mass., May 6, 1842, and died at Chicago,
111., August 9, 1921.

He enlisted in August, 1862, in the 38th Massachusetts
Infantry as a private and was promoted through all the
grades up to Captain of Co. H in the same regiment.

His service was in the Department of the Gulf, where he
participated in the Red River Campaign. He was also in
both the attacks on Fort Fisher and was in the Campaign

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under Sheridan in the Valley of the Shenandoah in 1864
where the 19th Corps participated in the ])attles of W'in-
chester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek.

He was wounded at Port Hudson, June 13, 1863, and at
Fisher's Hill, September, 1864.

At the close of the War of the Rebellion, Companion
Bullard came west, locating at Saginaw, Mich., where he
engaged in the wholesale grocery business, having as a part-
ner. Captain Charles F. Shaw, who had been his school chum
in Massachusetts, and was also in the same regiment during
the war.

After a few years in the grocery business he removed
to Kansas City, Mo., where he became a member of the fire
insurance firm of Whipple, Bullard & Co. They represented
the Home Insurance Company of New York and the North
British & Mercantile Insurance Company of England. While
living in Kansas City he joined the Missouri Commandery
of the Loyal Legion, and was transferred to this Com-
mandery in 1902 on his removing to this city. His business
here was that of Insurance Adjuster, being at the time of his
death, and for many years previously, a member of the firm
of A. F. Bullard & Co.

He also acted for fifteen years as General Adjuster for
the well known firm of F. S. James & Co.

Companion Bullard was a member of the Council in
1910 and Junior Vice Commander of this Commandery in
1917.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Frances V. Bullard; a son,
George A. Bullard ; a daughter, Mrs. Louise B. Bloss, and
three grandchildren.

Our Companion was of a modest and retiring disposi-
tion and not given to emphasizing his service in military or
civil life, but his steady promotion in the army and his long
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efficiency and dependability. He illustrated in a high degree

the "fine old name of gentleman."

Edward D. Redington,
William L. Cadle,
George Mason,

Committee.

LEVERETT THOMPSON.

Hereditary Companion. Died at Lake Forest, Illinois, August 14,

1921.

1 EVERETT THOMPSON was born November 11,
^ 1869, and died at his residence in Lake Forest, Illinois,
August 14, 1 92 1.

He became a member of the Illinois Commandery Febru-
ary 13, 1896, being the only son of our late Original Com-
panion John Leverett Thompson, Col. ist N. H. Cav., and
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V. Mr. Thompson was a graduate of
Harvard in the class of 1892. After completing his course
at Harvard, he devoted two and one-half years to study in
Berlin, after which he entered the Northwestern Law School
in the city of Chicago, and was admitted to the bar in 1895.

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Upon his admission to the bar he became associated with
the firm of Holt, Wheeler & Sidley, which was originally
his father's firm. In 1904 he became associated with the
Chicago Savings Bank & Trust Company, and for a num-
ber of years was a director of the company. In 191 1 he
resigned as secretary and formed a partnership with Ralph
H. Poole, engaging in the farm mortgage brokerage busi-
ness. Mr. Thompson was interested in and gave unspar-
ingly of his time and service to many civic and public wel-
fare organizations. He was a member of the Municipal
Voters' League and of the Civic Club of Chicago. For
more than twenty-five years he was a member of the board
of managers of the Y. M. C. A., and for twelve years
served as treasurer of the Association. He was also a
member of the board of trustees of the Y. M. C. A. Col-
lege, and for twenty-five years a trustee of the Allendale
farm for poor boys.

During the period of the late war he volunteered his
services to the American Red Cross and his entire time was
devoted as director of the Military Relief to the Chicago
Chapter. He was mayor of Lake Forest from 1914 to

1915.

Mr. Thompson was married October i, 1901, to Alice
Poole, who, with a daughter, survive him.

John T. Stockton,
William T. Church,
W. T. Hapeman,

Committee.

ZENAS PAYNE HANSON.

Major and Surgeon Forty-second Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Buxton Center, Maine, August i8, 192 1.

ZENAS PAYNE HANSON was born at Buxton Cen-
ter, Maine, Feb. 5, 1833, where he resided until after
becoming of age, in the meantime receiving his education
at the Public Schools, Hebron Academy, and Colby Col-
lege, from which he graduated in 1857.

Soon after this he came to Illinois, finally entering Rush
Medical College, Chicago, graduating in 1861, and on July
22nd of same year enlisted in the 42nd 111. Vol. Inf. as
Hospital Steward, serving in that capacity until July 11,
1862, when he was promoted to Assistant Surgeon, and
May 20, 1863, to Surgeon of same regiment, with rank of

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Major, serving in that capacity until Jan. 12, 1866, when
he was mustered out with the regiment at Springfield, 111.

His service included all the various engagements in
which the regiment was engaged, beginning in southwest
Missouri in the fall of 1861, Island No. 10, and New Ma-
drid, Mo., Campaign, thence to siege and capture of Cor-
inth, Miss., and siege of Nashville in October, 1862. With
the Army of the Cumberland and its various battles, be-
ginning with Stone River, including Chickamauga, Mis-
sionary Ridge, expedition for relief of Gen. Burnside at
Knoxville and East Tennessee, where on Jan. i, 1864, the
regiment re-enlisted for the balance of the war, and soon
after left for Chicago on their veteran furlough of thirty
days. On their return to the South in April they imme-
diately started on the i\tlanta Campaign, which ended with
the capture of that city in September, after the many battles
that took place in the hundred days or more during that
period.

They were among the troops soon sent back to Ten-
nessee and participated in all the engagements with Hood's
Army, which resulted finally in his being routed at the
battle of Nashville, in December, and driven south across
the Tennessee river.

They were then again sent to East Tennessee, where
they were at the time of Lee's surrender in April, 1865,
and shortly returned again to Nashville, and in June sent by
boat down the river to New Orleans, and across the Gulf
to Texas, until on December 16, 1865, they were ordered
home to Springfield, 111., for muster out, which took place
on Jan. 12, 1866, thus having nearly four and one-half years
of service.

Returning to Chicago he located on the West Side, where
he shortly after entered the practice of his profession, which
he continued successfully until 191 1, when he returned to his
native state on account of the failing health of his wife, and

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finally settling at his old home, having the unusual experi-
ence of being born, and ending his earthly career in the
same house, the final summons coming on Aug. i8, 1921.

Our Companion was married to Ellen G. Gary, May 4,
1864, whose death preceded him some three years. They
had no children.

He was elected an Original Gompanion of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, through
the Gommandery of the State of Illinois, May 12, 1892,
was also a member of the George H. Thomas Post, G. A.
R., of Ghicago.

As a Regimental Surgeon, he had no superior, being
highly esteemed and beloved by its members, ready and
willing at all times to render them any service that he could.

He was intensely loyal, patriotic and public spirited, and
a good citizen that any community might be proud of.
His memory will be cherished by all who knew him.

Henry K. Wolcott,
Gharles E. Baker,
Thomas E. Milchrist,

Committee.

THOMAS EDWARD LANNEN.

Hereditary Companion. Died at Wilmette, Illinois, September i6,

1921.

BORN on Georges Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., May 25, 1876.
Elected an Hereditary Companion of the Order
through the Commandery of the State of Illinois, December
2, 1915. Insignia No. 17318.

Died at Wilmette, 111., September 16, 192 1, and was
buried at his boyhood home, Ambo)i, 111.

Register of Service: Entered the U. S. military service
as private, 6th 111. Vol. Inf., April, 1898, for two years,
or during the war. Honorably discharged, November 25,
1898.

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History of Service : He served with his regiment dur-
ing the invasion of Porto Rico in the Spanish-American
War.

Civil Record: He graduated from the Chicago Law
School, June lo, 1902. Admitted to practice law by the
Supreme Court of Illinois, October 17, 1902, and by
Supreme Court of the United States, May 17, 1909. He
married Pearl J. Jones, daughter of Judge Joseph B. Jones,
of Effingham, 111., on October 5, 1908. He was a member
of Woodmen of America and Knights of Columbus.

He is survived by his widow and two daughters, to whom
the Illinois Commandery extends its sincere sympathy.

John A. Wesener^
Hugh D. Bowker,
William T. Church,

Committee.

DANIEL NELSON HOLWAY.

Captain and Brevet Major United States Volunteers. Died at
Tampa, Florida, November 5, 1921.

DANIEL NELSON HOLWAY, late an Original Com-
panion of this Order, was born August 27, 1843, at
Fabius, N. Y., died at Tampa, Fla., November 5, 1921, and
was buried at Coldwater, Mich., where he had Hved a num-
ber of years prior to his enHstment in the army.

He enlisted in Company C, 17th Regiment, Michigan
Inf. Vol., July 23, 1862, and was made first sergeant of his
company. On February 24, 1863, he was commissioned
second lieutenant of his company, and was promoted to be
first lieutenant, September 19, 1863, and to be captain, Jan-
uary 6, 1865, and was afterwards made brevet major, to

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date from January 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious
service in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Pittsburgh and Weldon Railroad. He was honorably dis-
charged June 3, 1865.

At the close of the war he returned to his old home in
Coldwater, Mich., where he remained for a few years. He
then moved to Chicago, and for a number of years was
employed as passenger conductor of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul Railroad. At that time he resided at 934
Lake street.

He became a member of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, Commandery of the State of Illinois, December 6,
1882. Soon after that time he moved to Tampa, Fla., where
he engaged in business as a manufacturer, and continued
his residence and business there until the time of his death,
and where he was recognized as an honorable business man
and a worthy citizen.

Chas. E. Baker,
Thomas E. Milchrist,
Hugh D. Bowker^

Committee.

JAMES LEE REAT.

Major and Surgeon Tiventy-first Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Tuscola, Illinois, Novetnber 24, ig2i.

TO the list of Original Companions whose life enlist-
ment has terminated is to be added the name of James
Lee Reat, Major and Surgeon of the 21st Regiment Illinois
Infantry, who died November 24, 192 1.

He was elected a member of the Illinois Commandery
of the Loyal Legion of the United States, December i,
1898, the number of his Insignia being 12392.

In his application for membership his Record in the
War of the Rebellion is given as follows: "After a short
hospital service in 1862, at Louisville, Ky., and Nashville,
Tenn., was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the 21st 111.

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Vol. Inf., March i, 1863." (Of this regiment Ulysses S.
Grant was the first Colonel.) **May 21, 1864, was pro-
moted to Surgeon, with rank of Major and served in that
capacity until discharged from the service at Springfield,
111., Jan. 25, 1866."

The following is stated to have been his Service : **Was
with the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro to
Chattanooga, via Liberty Gap. At Winchester was in
charge of the 38th 111. and 8ist Ind. Regts. as Medical Offi-
cer. After the battle of Chattanooga, established a tem-
porary hospital at that place, and after the Battle of
Missionary Ridge, established a hospital at Bridgeport, Ala.
In the spring of 1864, was in charge of a temporary hos-
pital at Oolawah. Served in the series of battles of Atlanta
Campaign and Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville. Was
with that portion of the army sent via New Orleans and
the Gulf to wach Maximilian in Mexico, during 1865. Mus-
tered out at San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 16, 1865, and re-
turned with the regiment via the Gulf to Springfield, 111."

From the Tuscola Journal of December i, 192 1, we
learn the following facts : '^Companion Reat was of Scotch
descent, his grandfather having come from Scotland, and
fought under General Washington. Major Reat was born
in Fairfield county, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1835, and died at Tus-
cola, 111., Nov. 24, 192 1, which city had been his home since
1859, except for the term of his army service. Was grad-
uated from Cincinnati Medical College in 1858; later took
a post graduate course in Rush Medical College, at Chicago,
where he graduated in 1878. After his army service he
re-entered the practice of medicine in Tuscola, 111., and con-
tinued in active practice until the time of his death.

In February, t86t, Dr. Reat and Sallie C. Callaway
were married.

Both lived to celebrate their golden wedding anniver-
sary, Mrs. Reat dying soon after. The marriage was a

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happy one, and four children were the result of the union.
Dr. Reat was a staunch Republican, a scholarly man, a
faithful attendant at the services of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, greatly interested in the public schools and
member of the Board of Education.

We read further from the Tuscola Journal :

"Withal, Dr. Reat was a true gentleman, courteous,
scholarly, and the county has lost an upright, honorable
and noble citizen and the medical profession an active, loyal
and progressive member."

The Memorial Committee, lacking a personal acquaint-
ance with our deceased Companion, is glad to note the high
appreciation by the citizenry of the community in which
he lived, of his long, successful and useful life.

By the records of the War Department and by the testi-
mony of his townsmen and neighbors we have proof abun-
dant of his worth as a patriot, soldier and a useful citizen.

He was also a member of the local Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic.

It is with a sense of loss that the Illinois Commandery
of the Loyal Legion of the United States makes this record
of the closing of so useful a life.

To the relatives and friends of our late Companion we
tender our sincere condolences.

Orett L. Munger,
George Mason,
John Young,

Committee.

SAMUEL TASKER BRUSH.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, United

States Volunteers. Died at Boulder, Colorado,

February 22, ig22.

CAMUEL TASKER BRUSH was bom in Jackson
^ County, Illinois, February 10, 1842. His father and
mother both died before he was 12 years of age, and this
orphan boy then became a member of the family of his
uncle, Gen. Daniel H. Brush. When 13 years old, he began
to work as a newsboy on the first train of the Illinois Cen-
tral Railroad that came into Carbondale, and worked over
a year successfully. He learned telegraphy and had charge
of the Carbondale office for two years. His schooling had
been limited, and he entered Illinois College in the fall of

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i860, intending to take a six years' course; but when the
Civil War opened, he answered the first call for volunteers
and enlisted in a Company at Jacksonville, 111., which was,
however, not accepted because there was then an excess of
volunteers. He then enlisted, at the age of 18, in the i8th
111. Vol. Inf., in the Company of which his uncle, Daniel
H. Brush, was captain. Sam Brush was found one-quarter
of an inch under the regulation height ; he was told to stand
aside, but when he burst into tears. Captain U. S. Grant,
the mustering officer, directed him to be mustered, and said
he would soon grow tall enough.

He served for a time as Commissary Sergeant, and was
then detailed as a telegraph operator and served for a time
at Mound City and Cairo — part of the time was manager.
He was then assigned to Corinth, but at his own request
was returned to his regiment and served with it contin-
uously throughout all of General Grant's campaigns in Ten-
nessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Gov. Yates commissioned him as First Lieutenant, Sep-
tember 5, 1862, and he was appointed Adjutant of his regi-
ment, serving in that office until February, 1864. He was
then detailed as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of General
Nathan Kimball, in command of a division of the i6th
Army Corps, and became acting Assistant Adjutant Gen-
eral, which position he held until his term of service expired,
June II, 1864. General West had offered him the position
of Captain and A. A. G., which he dechned.

After returning from the army. Lieutenant Brush en-
gaged in farming and coal mining, and was also in the lum-
ber business. He organized the St. Louis and Big Muddy
Coal Co., of which he was the General Manager. His asso-
ciates were Major E. C. Dawes of Cincinnati, S. M. Dodd
of St. Louis, and former Vice-President Charles E. Fair-
banks of Indiana. He made a remarkable record in con-
ducting the operations of the Company in its bitter labor

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troubles. He is regarded as one of the pioneers in the
development of the great coal mining interests of southern
Illinois.

He was one of the leaders in the temperance reform
movement and contributed much time and money (loaning
at one time $10,000.00 to the Illinois Anti-Saloon League)
in behalf of the enactment of prohibition. He was Presi-
dent of this society for several years, and at a critical time
in its history he made liberal contributions to carry liquor
cases through the courts and help make the organization
powerful and efficient.

He was a leading member of the Carbondale Presby-
terian Church and led in the erection of its present beau-
tiful house of worship.

He married Sophia L. Freeman at Anna, 111., October
3, 1864. She died in September, 1874. The two children
who survive are James C. Brush of Chicago and George
M. Brush of Carbondale. His second wife was Jennie Can-
dee of Galesburg, 111., wdiom he married November 8, 1882.
The surviving child of this marriage is Elizabeth P. Brush,
who is a teacher of History in Rockford (111.) College.
There are also four grandchildren and one great-grand-
child.

For 68 years he was a resident of Carbondale and was
regarded as one of the leading citizens in all that related
to the business interests of that region, and a leader in civic,
moral, and religious affairs.

He died in Boulder, Colo., February 22, 1922, and was
laid to rest at Carbondale, 111., where he had lived for so
many years. To the widow the Commandery extends sin-
cere sympathy.

Lieutenant Brush was elected an Original Companion
of the Order through the Commandery of the State of

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Illinois, on the 13th day of November, 1890. Insignia

No. 8292.

Duncan C. Milner,
Thomas E. Milchrist,
Hugh D. Bowker,

Committee.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS GRISWOLD.

Major and Surgeon Ninety-third Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at New London, Connecticut, March 2g, 1^22.

/^ NE of the oldest, if not the oldest, members of this
^^ Commandery, Dr. Charles A. Griswold, passed away
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry A. Morgan, in
New London, Conn., March 29, 1922.

He came of New England ancestry, having been born
at Essex, Conn., November 24, 1830. His grandfather was
a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his father was in
the Army in the War of 1812. He was graduated from
Yale College in the class of 1852, and soon after went to
Utica, N. Y., and was connected with the staff of the State
Insane Asylum.

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After completing a course in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York City, he came to Illinois in 1856,
settling in Fulton, where he commenced the practice of
his profession, in which he continued without interruption,
except for his term of service in the Army, until about eight
years ago, when he retired and took up his residence with
his daughter in New London, Conn. He continued in full
possession of his faculties until the summ.ons came to him
suddenly in his 92nd year.

At the organization of the 93rd Regiment, 111. Vol. Inf.,
in October, 1862, Dr. Griswold was appointed Assistant
Surgeon, and promoted to Surgeon March 27, 1865; mus-
tered out June 2.}^, 1865. The regiment was attached to the
15th and 17th Army Corps, and our Companion was in the
siege of Vicksburg, at Missionary Ridge, and in Sherman's
Campaign to Atlanta, Savannah, through the Carolinas and
to Washington, and the Grand Review. For a considerable
time he was on detached service with the Pioneer Corps^
and with several field batteries.

In 1866 Dr. Griswold was married to Alice E. Smith, of
Cleveland, Ohio. Four children were born to them, two
of whom died in infancy. Two daughters, Mrs. E. D.
Redfield and Mrs. Henry H. Morgan, reside in Connecticut.
Mrs. Griswold died in 1874.

After his return from the war and marriage, he resumed
the practice of his profession in Fulton, 111. He was highly
respected by his fellow townsmen, and the confidence they
had in him was shown by his being elected to many offices,
he having served as President of the School Board for three
terms, as Supervisor and as Mayor, and in 1889 was State
Senator from his district.

He was a man of the highest scholarly attainments, and
frequently wrote for publication. He became a Republican
at the organization of the party, and was outspoken in
defense of his convictions. For considerably more than

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a half century he practiced his profession, and well deserved
to be called a "Doctor of the Old School," whose character
has been so well portrayed in the "Bonnie Brier Bush" by
Ian McLaren.

Edward D. Redington,
William L. Cadle,
Orett L. Munger,

Commiftcc.

DAVID FRAXXIS BREMNER.

Captain Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, May 8, 1922.

T^AVID FRANCIS BREMNER, Captain, 19th 111. Inf.,
^^ died at his home, No. 5001 Greenwood avenue, Chi-
cago, Alay 8, 1922.

In the death of Captain Bremner this Commandery has
lost a distinguished and honored Companion ; one who be-
came endeared to us by many ties of association and friend-
ship.

Captain Bremner was born in what is now Ottawa,
Canada, June, 1839. He came with his parents to Chicago
in 1848, receiving his education in this city. Previous to the

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Civil War he was 2nd Lieutenant of the Chicago Highland
Guards, a military company commanded by the gallant sol-
dier, Captain John Mc Arthur (who later attained the rank
of Major General).

When the Civil War broke out, he was one of the first
young men of his time to offer his services to his country
as 2nd Lieutenant of the Highland Guards, which after-
wards became known as Company E, 19th Illinois Volun-
teers. For meritorious services, he was soon made Captain,
and took part in several memorable battles of the Civil War,
particularly at the Battle of Missionary Ridge ; when his
color bearer was shot down, Captain Bremner took up the
colors and succeeded in planting them on the top of the
Ridge, though his coat was pierced with a number of bul-
lets and the flag staff shot in twain in his hands. He was
cited for bravery on this memorable occasion. During his
service he participated in the following principal battles
and engagements with the armies of the Ohio and Cumber-
land, with distinguished honor :

The advance in, the capture and occupation of Bowling
Green, Ky. ; the occupation of Nashville, Tenn. ; capture of
Huntsville, Ala. ; capture of Decatur, Ala. ; capture of Tus-
cumbia, Ala. Served with General Negley in expedition to
Chattanooga, June 2, 1862. Engaged in the Siege of Nash-
ville, Battle of Stone River, Tullohoma Campaign, Hoover's
Gap, Beach Grove, Duck River. Was with General Thomas
commanding the 14th Army Corps during the Chickamauga
campaign, and had a severe engagement at Davis Cross
Roads, September 11, 1863. In Battle of Chickamauga,
September 19 and 20, 1863; in Battle of Missionary Ridge,
November 25, 1863; in battle at Buzzards Roost, Febru-
ary 24, 1864. Took part in the Atlanta campaign and
engaged at Ringgold, Ga. ; Tunnel Hill, Ga. ; Rockey Face
Ridge ; Battle of Resaca ; engagements at Dallas, New Hope
Church, Allatoona Hills, Ackworth, and many minor affairs.

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Mustered out by reason of expiration of service, July 9,
1864.

The regiment left Chicago nearly one thousand (1,000)
strong, received two hundred and eleven (211) recruits and
mustered out with less than three hundred and fifty (350)
men.

After the war, the young captain started in the baking
business at Chattanooga, Tenn. He later moved to Cairo,
111., and finally came to Chicago, and when in 1871 the Chi-
cago fire consumed his plant. Captain Bremner, with that
keen foresight for which he was noted, leased the old Me-
chanical Bakery, on Clinton street, while the fire was still
burning, and started baking immediately.

Fron this humble beginning. Captain Bremner by his per-
sistent efiforts forged his way to the front, and wnthin a short
time became recognized as a leader in the baking industry
throughout the central and western states. A little later he
incorporated the D. F. Bremner Baking Company, which
grew by leaps and bounds, and when the American Biscuit
Company was organized on May 24, 1890, his plant was taken
over by that organization and he became the first vice presi-
dent, and later became the president of the American Bis-
cuit Company.

In the baking industry, the name Bremner became noted
and the firm continued to prosper, and finally when the Na-
tional Biscuit Company was organized on February 12, 1898,
Captain Bremner's plant was included in the new organiza-
tion, and he was chosen as a director of the new company,
and was made chairman of the manufacturing committee,
which position he held until 1904, when he resigned and re-
tired from active business.

Captain Bremner married Miss Katherine Michie in 1865,
and their union was blessed with seven children — four sons
a,nd three daughters. The sons now operate Bremner

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Brothers' biscuit plant in Chicago, which is one of the lead-
ing cracker plants in the United States.

Captain Bremner's activities were many, but he made it a
point to take considerable interest in the welfare and upbuild-
ing of Chicago, and took part in many of the movements
after the fire, to develop important projects in his adopted
city, and in recognition of his interest in the civic welfare of
Chicago, he was appointed a member of the Board of Edu-
cation, which position he held for several years.

Captain Bremner's life was full of good ; he was a de-
voted husband and father, and his genial manner quickly
won the confidence of all who knew him.

He was elected Companion of the Illinois Commandery,
June 3, 1889, Insignia No. 16604.

Deeply sympathizing with his berveaved widow and chil-
dren, we, with them, mourn his loss and shall ever hold his
memory in respect and esteem.

Whatever chaplet honor wears.

Whatever rank can valor claim.

Whatever guerdon youth doth hold, is thine ;

And thou art ours.

John Young,
George Mason,
Thomas E. Milchrist,

Committee.

ALBERT EADS.

I'irst Lieutenant Fifty-first Illinois Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Macomb, Illinois, May 9, 1922.

LIEUTENANT ALBERT EADS, Companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, Comniandery of the State of Illinois, Insignia No.
1 1086, elected June 13, 1895, was born at Knoxville, 111.,
April 2^, 1842, the son of John and Margaret Anderson
Eads, they being natives of Kentucky and North Carolina,
respectively. His mother died when he was three years
of age, and following her death he lived with the family
of his grandfather in Morgan county, Illinois, until his
twelfth year, when he rejoined and lived with his father at
Knoxville, 111., until the eventful year of 1861, when he

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entered the service of his country as a volunteer in Com-
pany C, 51st Regiment, IlHnois Volunteer Infantry, De-
cember 24, 1861. On the organization of the company he
was appointed Second Lieutenant, and was promoted to
First Lieutenant, November 17, 1862, participated in many
engagements, including those of Stone River and Chicka-
mauga, and many minor engagements. Partially disabled
from the effects of a fall, he was detailed as Military
Railway Conductor, and while in this service was taken
prisoner at Athens, Ala., by the command of General
N. B. Forrest, sent to Meridian, thence to Enterprise,
Miss., and exchanged, resuming the duties of his special
detail, serving until January 14, 1865, when the active mili-
tary operations by the Army of the Cumberland having
ceased, he resigned his commission, which was accepted
as from January 31, 1865. He then took a course in the
study of bookkeeping in New York City, following which
engaged in mercantile business in Topeka, Kan., and on
coming to Macomb in the year 1876, was employed as a
bookkeeper by the Union National Bank, where he re-
ceived frequent and continued promotions to his final
election as Chairman of the Board of Directors of that
bank, which he held at the time of his death. May 9, 1922.
One of the many interesting incidents in the life of
Companion Eads was his capture of Confederate Lieu-
tenant Dunlap with his company, at the battle of Stone
River, the officer surrendering his sword to his captor, who
retained the trophy until the year 1893, when, with Mrs.
Eads, he visited the south and attended by invitation a
meeting of ex-Confederates, he receiving social greetings,
and referring to the incident told his hosts that if he could
locate the officer who surrendered to him, the trophy would
be returned, resulting in the announcement of the offer in a
publication issued in the interest of ex-Confederates, the
officer being Lieutenant Dunlap, of Blue Springs, Miss.,

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when correspondence was exchanged between the former
enemies, resulting in the return of the trophy. Our Com-
panion and Mrs. Eads visited ex-Lieutenant Dunlap at his
home, being most cordially received.

Our Companion was married January 28, 1868, to Mary
C. Tinsley, daughter of Nathaniel P. Tinsley, of Macomb.
To this union two children were born, Margaret, who died
at the age of four years, and Eleanor Eads Bailey, wife of
J. W. Bailey, of Macomb, mother of our Companion, Albert
Eads Bailey, grandson. To Mrs. Albert Eads, the wife
and life companion, the relatives and many friends of our
Companion, we tender for this Commandery, sincere sym-
pathy in their and our, great loss.

Charles F. Hills,
Allen W. Gray,
Louis F. Gumbart/
Committee.

JAMES BURGESS MORGAN.

J'irst Lieutenant Twelfth Iowa Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Davenport, loiva, May 2$, 1922.

TAR. JAMES BURGESS MORGAN was born in
-*-^ Venango township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, July
6, 1839, and died at Davenport, Iowa, May 25, 1922. His
father, James B. Morgan, born in England, came to this
country when about eighteen years *of age and settled in
Pennsylvania, where he was married to Margaret C. Boyd.
The father died when our Companion was six months old,
and his mother, after remarriage, moved to Iowa, settling
in Delaware county, where her son was brought up on a
farm. He attended the public schools, and afterwards took
a course of study at Lenox College.

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When President Lincoln issued his call for 75,000 three
months' volunteers after Fort Sumter was fired upon, he
was one of the first to respond, and enlisted April 20, 1861,
and was discharged August 21, 1861, at the termination of
his enlistment. Within two weeks he re-enlisted in Co. K,
1 2th Iowa Infantry — September 7th — being mustered in the
same day. He served as Orderly Sergeant of his company
continuously till February 5, 1865, being often in command
of his company, and on the latter date was promoted to
First Lieutenant for meritorious service.

He was in the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson, and
his regiment participated in the Battle of Shiloh, the Siege
of Vicksburg, and the battles incident thereto, being in the
15th Army Corps until its transfer to the i6th Corps, with
which it was connected till the close of the war. The regi-
ment while with the i6th Corps served in the campaign
against General Sterling Price in Missouri and Arkansas,
and in the Battle of Nashville against General Hood, where
our Companion was in command of his company while still
Orderly Sergeant. It was because of his conduct in this
battle that he received his promotion. He participated in
the last campaign of the war in the West, being present at
the capture of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakeley, in Mobile
Bay. Following the close of the war he was detailed to
help organize the Freedmen's Bureau, and served on this
duty till final discharge, his total term of service aggregat-
ing nearly five years.

On his return from the war he attended Rush Medical
College in Chicago, with the intention of pursuing the
practice of medicine, but later decided to practice dentistry,
and so entered the Philadelphia Dental College, from which
he graduated in t8.68. He then removed to Davenport,
Towa, where he practiced his profession successfully for
more than a half century, honored and esteemed as a
citizen and friend. Many dental appliances were patented

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by Dr. Morgan, as well as a number of new methods of
treating dental diseases.

On September 28, 1871, he married Minnie C. Harris,
who survives him.

Edward D. Redington,
Eugene B. Hayward,
Parker W. McManus,

Committee.

JONAS LEROY BENNETT.

Captain Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at St. Petersburg, Florida, June 7, ig22.

CAPTAIN JONAS LEROY BENNETT was born No-
vember I, 1846, at Manchester, Vt., and died on June 7,
1922, at St. Petersburg; Fla.,'in his 76th year. He enHsted
at Waukesha, Wis., February 25, 1862 — when but fifteen
years of age — as a private in Company "H," 19th Regiment,
Wisconsin Infantry Vohuiteers; was promoted to Second
Lieutenant of Company "H," i6th Regiment Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, October 28, 1864. Mustered out of
the service with the Regiment at Louisville, Ky., July 12,
1865.

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Under an Act of Congress, he has been recognized as
Captain of Company "D," i6th Regiment Wisconsin Vol-
unteer Infantry, from July 2, 1865. He served with his
regiment in the Army of the James, and in the Army of
the Tennessee. Was on detached service on the gunboat
General Jessup, on York River, in 1863. Participated in
the battles of Drury's Bluff, Kingston, Suffolk, Jonesboro,
N. C, and in various skirmishes and campaigns with his
regiment.

At an early age (in 1855) he moved with his parents
to Waukesha, Wis., where he attended the public schools
until his enhstment in the Army in 1862. After being mus-
tered out of the service he went to Beloit, Wis., where
he studied law and was admitted to the bar of Illinois,
and to the United States Supreme Court bar in Washing-
ton, D. C, which enabled him to try cases in any court.

He was one of the oldest and best known court reporters
in Chicago.

Companion Bennett was elected a member of the Illi-
nois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, April 6, 1899. He was a Past Com-
mander of the U. S. Grant Post No. 28, G. A. R., Depart-
ment of Illinois, and served several terms as A. A. G. and
Judge Advocate of the same Department; also as A. A. G.
to the National Commander-in-Chief, of the G. A. R., and
rendered efficient service at many of the National Encamp-
ments of the G. A. R. He was an enthusiastic member of
the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and for several
years its corresponding secretary. He was a life member of
Washington Chapter No. 43, R. A. M., of Chicago; was
also a member of Alpha Council No. i, Royal League, of
Chicago.

Ten years ago Companion Bennett became rheumatically
afflicted, and by creeping stages had been deprived of the
use of his limbs, so that he was unable to help himself, his

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hands and feet utterly useless to his self-help. Although
thus afflicted physically, his brain remained unaffected to
the moment his spirit leaped away and was free from its
sadly shattered tenement. He was a patriot in the tumultu-
ous days of his country's jeopardy, a hero in the days of
his personal suffering.

They laid his worn-out body to rest among the pines
in the Royal Palm Cemetery, St. Petersburg, Fla. As he
was being lowered to his last resting place a bird in a tree at
his feet sang its beautiful song, a company of the . old
guard, the G. A. R., covered his casket with flowers and a
flag, the emblem of the country he loved.

Captain Bennett is survived by his patient and faithful
wife (who, during the ten years of his disability, devoted
the whole of her time in nursing and caring for him), and
by a daughter, a brother and a sister.

His memory will be warmly cherished by his surviving
Companions, who extend to his sorrowing family their deep
sympathy.

William L. Cable,
George Mason,
Charles F. Hills,

Committee.

The Commandery never had a
Photograph of this Companion.

STEPHEN WILLIAM SEXTON.

Hereditary Companion.

STEPHEN WILLIAM SEXTON, the oldest son of
Original Companion Colonel James Andrew Sexton,
U. S. v., and Laura Woods Sexton, was born June ii, 1869,
in Chicago.

He was named after his grandfather, Wm. Woods, who
was a charter member of the Chicago Board of Trade.

After graduating from the old North Division High
School, which was subsequently named the James A. Sexton
School, he entered his father's business, Cribben & Sexton,
Universal Stoves and Ranges.

He married Marie A. Rodman, youngest daughter of the
(then) late Francis A. Rodman, secretary of the State of
Missouri, during the reconstruction.

They had two children: James A. Sexton, who died in
infancy, and Laura Lydia, who, with his widow, still survive.

After his father's death he entered into partnership with
Chas. Young in the tobacco and confectionery business until
a few years before his death.

When the Spanish- American War broke out, he recruited
a company and was commissioned Captain by the governor
of Illinois, but was not called into active service.

He volunteered for service during the World War, but
ill health prevented his being accepted.

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He was sick with Bright's Disease for a number of years,
and died very suddenly of heart faikire, June 7, 1922.

His was a genial, kindly soul ; always ready to laugh and
enjoy a joke, a student rather than a business man, and a
most devoted and loving husband and father.

He was a member of the ''Sons of the American Revolu-
tion" and "Sons and Daughters of Chicago."

George A. Paddock,
•John D. Black,
George V. Lauman,

Committee.

MORITZ ERNST EVERSZ.

Second Lieutenant Tiventieth Wisconsin Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Evanston, Illinois, July i6, ig22.

OUR Companion Eversz was born July lo, 1842, in the
little village of Buderich, near the fortified town of
Wesel, in the Prussian Rhine Province, Germany, and died
at Evanston, 111., July 16, 1922, having celebrated his
eightieth birthday with his children and grandchildren the
same week.

The father of our Companion was Capt. Louis Ernst
Eversz, who, before emigrating to this country, was for a
season Burgomaster of Wesel, an office of honor and re-
sponsibility.

In 1848, at the time of the Revolution in Prussia, which

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induced Carl Schurz and his compatriots to seek the free-
dom of this country, Capt. Eversz was urged by one of his
brothers, who had already settled in Wisconsin and had
written him of the opportunities in the new country, to seek
his fortune in the United States. This he did, and settled in
Ripon, Wis., bringing his family, consisting of four sons
and two daughters. The family underwent all the privations
of the early pioneers, but the children were educated in the
public schools and the father evidently was soon American-
ized and the children taught to love their adopted country,
for the four sons all enhsted in the Union Army, the oldest
losing his life in the service.

Our Companion, feeling the need of more of an educa-
tion than was afforded by the public schools, attended a
commercial college in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for a year,
returning to Ripon in 1861. On August 14, 1862, he was
mustered into the United States service in the 20th Wiscon-
sin Volunteer Infantry as a Corporal and was promoted
through all the grades' of Sergeant to a Second Lieutenancy,
February 20, 1863, and was mustered out as such at
Madison, Wis., July 30, 1865, at the close of the war. The
regiment served the greater part of its time in the Army of
the Frontier west of the Mississippi, but also took part in
the campaigns of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Lieut. Eversz
closing his career in the army in almost the last engagement
of the war, the Siege of Mobile, Ala. After being mustered
out, he entered Ripon College and worked his way through
that institution.

Some time during his college course he was encouraged
by his friends, in his desire to enter the Christian ministry,
and in 1870, after his marraige to Harriet Hammond, of
Ripon, went to Oberlin, Ohio, to attend the theological
seminary at that place. While there he also taught German
in Oberlin College. His first pastorate was at Columbus,
Wis., in the Olivet Congregational Church, where he re-

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mained four years, when he accepted a call to the Hanover
Street Congregational Church of Milwaukee, Wis. He re-
mained there till he became superintendent of the German
work of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, in
which he was engaged till two years before his death, when
he became in a sense superintendent emeritus, and almost
till he quietly fell asleep, was more or less active in the office
at Chicago.

For thirty years he was constantly traveling all over the
broad Western frontier, establishing and fostering these
small and struggling churches, and their continued existence
in many instances is owing to his indefatigable energy and
his self-sacrificing labors. He loyally served his country and
his God, and has been called to a greater service by the Great
Commander.

He leaves a son, Ernest H. Eversz, a member of this
Commandery, and four daughters, Mrs. H. S. Manchester,
of Madison, Wis. ; Mrs. R. R. McKinnie, Mrs. E. H. Jacobs,
and Mrs. W. A. Rice, of Evanston, 111. His wife died
several years before her husband passed away.

Edward D. Redington,
James H. Moore,
John Young,

Committee.

SAMUEL FALLOWS.

Colonel Forty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry and Bvt.-Brig. General,

United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,

September 5, 1922.

BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS was born December
13, 1835, at Pendleton, England. He came with his
family to the United States in 1848. The home was in
Marshall, Wis., where he attended the public schools, and
afterwards the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated
in 1859, and at his death was the oldest alumnus. As late
as last June he made a stirring address at Madison. He
was given the degree of A. M. by his university in 1862,
and LL. D. in 1894. He was serving as vice president of
the University of Galesburg, Wis., when he entered the army

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as chaplain of the 32nd Wis. Vol. Inf. He resigned June
29, 1863, on account of ill health. He was commissioned
Lieut.-Col. of the 40th Wis. Vol. Inf. May 20, 1864, and
mustered out Sept. i6th, at end of the term of service of
100 days. He was commissioned Colonel of the 49th Regi-
ment of Wis. Vol. Inf., Jan. 28, 1865, and mustered out
Nov. I, 1865. He was commissioned by the President of
the United States Brevet-Brigadier General of- Volunteers
"for meritorious services," on Oct. 25, 1865. He par-
ticipated in the various campaigns of his regiments. He
commanded the port of Rolla, Mo., and the ist Sub-District
of Missouri.

He was a conspicuous officer and member of the various
patriotic societies associated with the Civil War.

He was long a member of Grant Post No. 28, Depart-
ment of Illinois. He was Chaplain-in-Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic in 1907 and 1908. He was Com-
mander of the G. A. R., Department of Illinois, in 19 13 and
19 14. He was Commander of the Illinois Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
in 1907, and served as Chaplain of the Loyal Legion a num-
ber of years and was in that office at the time of his death.

On the death of Gen. G. M. Dodge he was elected presi-
dent of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and
became chairman of the Grant Memorial Commission. On
April 27, 1922, at Washington, D. C, he presided over the
ceremonies at the unveiling and dedication of the great
monument in honor of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and made a
great impression upon the mighty throng, made up of not
only American citizens, but the ministers and officials of
foreign governrhents.

A month later he served as Chaplain of the Day at the
dedication of the Lincoln monument.

Bishop Fallows was a leader in educational and civic
affairs and identified with all questions of moral reform.

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He was a Regent of the University of Wisconsin, 1866-
1874; State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wis-
consin, 1871-1874, and President of Illinois Wesleyan Uni-
versity, 1874-1875.

He was President of the Board of Managers of Illinois
State Reformatory from 1891 to 19 12.

He was chairman of the General Educational Commis-
sion at the World's Columbian Exposition.

He became widely known as a champion of the rights
of the Negro, and was president of the Illinois Commission
to celebrate the half century of Negro freedom in 191 5.

He was a prominent advocate of prohibition and a zeal-
ous champion of the enforcement of law.

He was president of the Chicago School for Home Nurs-
ing.

During the World War he was known throughout the
nation for his patriotic speeches.

He was the author of a large number of books. Among
them were "Synonyms and Antonyms," ''Encyclopaedic Dic-
tionary," ''Popular and Critical Biblical Encyclopaedia,"
"Story of the American Flag" and "Health and Happiness."

Upon his graduation from the University he entered the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church and continued
in that service until he entered the army in 1862.

After the war he resumed his ministry, entering the Re-
formed Episcopal Church, and in 1875 became rector of St.
Paul's Church of Chicago, and retained that position the
rest of his life. He was ordained bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal Church in 1876, and was elected presiding bishop
nine times.

He was noted throughout the nation for his fraternal
relation to all religious denominations; was active in co-
operation with the Federation of Churches. About a year
before his death he inaugurated the open air "Step Ladder"
services under the auspices of the Chicago Federation. He

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was a trustee of the National Societies of Christian En-
deavor. To the very end of his Hfe he was active in ail
that related to the home, the church and the nation.

Bishop Fallows married Lucy Bethea Huntington, April
9, i860. Mrs. Fallows died July 30, 1916. His children
who survive him are Miss Alice Katherine, Edward Hunt-
ington, Charles S. and Mrs. Wm. Mayer.

He died at his home in Chicago, September 5, 1922.
His body laid in state in St. Paul's Church from 9 A. M.
to 2 P. M., on September 7th. A great multitude of people
of many nationalities, with tokens of affectionate devotion,
passed the casket containing the body of their friend.

A beautiful and appropriate service was held in St.
Paul's Church, which could not accommodate the throngs
who gathered to honor the great patriot, philanthropist and
Christian minister. The interment was at Hadley, Mass.

The G. A. R. ritual service was conducted in the chapel
of Graceland cemetery by Grant Post.

Bishop Fallows was a living representative of a sunny
Christianity. He could have said —

"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will."

Duncan C. Milner,
Orett L. Munger,
George Mason,

Committee.

GEORGE TURNLEY DYER.

Hereditary Companion.

GEORGE TURNLEY DYER, son of Major Clarence
Hopkins and Elizabeth Rutter Dyer, was born in
Chicago January 8, 1871. He received his education in
public and private schools of Chicago, and later went to
St. Mark's School, Southboro, Massachusetts. Returning
a young man to Chicago, he entered the office of the Pioneer
Cooperage Company, and from that time his life was de-
voted to its interests.

In the capacity of Sales Manager, Mr. Dyer gained wide
acquaintance and reputation both in Chicago and through-
out the country. He was thoroughly and accurately in-

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formed on all phases of the Cooperage industry and his
activities were marked with so much vigor and efficiency
that the announcement of his death came as a great shock
to his many business associates and friends. Mr. Dyer was
elected Vice-President of the Pioneer Cooperage Co. in
I9i4*and served as Manager of the Chicago office from that
time to the day of his death, which occurred very suddenly
from heart disease on November the fifteenth, 1922.

Mr. Dyer's habits of Hfe were quiet, his time being di-
vided between business and home. Until within a few years
of his death, he had been very active in religious affairs,
being a member of the Episcopal Church and deeply in-
terested in its advancement. He leaves with all who knew
him the memory of a strong character, a progressive
executive, a loving husband and father, and a most genial
and faithful friend.

His wife, two daughters and a son survive him, the latter
having just been presented with membership in this Order,
derived from his father.

"Think of him still as the same, I say.
He is not dead — He is just away."

Joseph James Siddall,
John T. Stockton,
William T. Church,

Committee.

PARKER WHITTLESEY McMANUS.
Captain Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

CAPT. McMANUS was born at Newark, Delaware,
June 21, 1842, and died at San Diego, California, No-
vember 28, 1922, in the 8ist year of his life and was buried
at Davenport, Iowa, where he had resided since his muster
out in 1865.

His parents came West when our companion was a lad,
and he received his education in a private school in Daven-
port and at Iowa College, and was for a short time at Am-
herst College, Mass., which he left to enlist in the 27th Mass.
Vol. Infantry at Springfield, Mass., October 16, 1861, being
appointed ist Lieutenant of Co. B at its organization. He

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716 MEMORIALS.

also served with the same rank in Cos. I and K. In May,

1864, he was appointed Adjutant of the regiment, and while
in a confederate prison was commissioned Captain. The
27th Regiment was assigned to the Burnside Expedition and
became attached to the brigade commanded, by Gen. J. G.
Foster.

The regiment left Annapo'.is, Md., January 9, 1862, for
North Carolina, and Lieut. McManus was in all the cam-
paigns and battles in that state during 1862, and in the siege
of Washington, N. C, March 30 to April 16, 1863. Early
in the latter year the regiment was ordered to Virginia and
became part of the Army of the James, being attached to the
i8th Corps commanded by Gen. W. F. ("Baldy") Smith.
Companion McManus was in all the battles of that Army
after arriving at Bermuda Hundred till captured at Drury's
Bluff, May 16, 1864.

He was confined in Libby Prison, at Richmond, Va.,
and in the prisons at Macon and Savannah, Ga., and Char-
leston, and Columbia, S. C, escaping from the latter No-
vember 29, 1864, traveling two hundred miles in seventeen
days in company with several comrades.

He was mustered out at Washington, D. C, in February,

1865, and returned to Davenport, which continued to be his
home till his decease.

On March 9, 1876, he was married to Miss Flora Meek,
who survives him. Four children were born to them : James
M., Parker W., Jr., WiUiam F., and Florence E., wife of
G. H. Ficke. His oldest son, J. M., who died a few years
ago was a member of this Commandery.

For thirteen years our companion was a member of the
Iowa National Guard and is referred to as Colonel. He was
held in high esteem as a citizen, and was a member of the
19th General Assembly of Iowa. In 1887 he was elected

MEMORIALS. 717

County Treasurer, and at different times held other offices of

importance.

Edward D. Redington,
Walter R. Robhins,
Eugene B. Hayward,

Committee.

JAMES BIRNEY JOHNSTON.

Second Lieutenant Twelfth Illinois Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 29, 1922.

COMPANION JAMES BIRNEY JOHNSTON, Sec-
ond Lieut., I2th Regt., 111. Vol. Inf., was born in Chi-
cago, 111., Oct. 8, 1840, and died there Nov. 29, 1922.
Enlisted in Co. A, 12th Regt., 111. Vol. Inf., Oct. 10, 1861 ;
mustered at Paducah, Ky. ; was appointed Quartermaster
Sergt. of his regiment ; later returned to his Company ; was
commissioned by Gov. Yates, of Illinois, as Second Lieut.,
as of date June 16, 1862, serving until his resignation was
accepted Aug. 3, 1864.

In command of his Company during the Atlanta cam-
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MEMORIALS. 719

paign, he participated in the many battles fought by the
Second Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps,
Army of the Tennessee, Military Division of the Mississippi,
among which was Lane's Ferry, Rome Cross Roads, Dallas,
Lost Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Bald Knob, Atlanta,
Decatur, Ezra Church, and the Siege of x\tlanta.

Our Companion in civil life earned and retained the re-
spect and confidence of all with whom he became associated,
answering the final call Nov. 29, 1922. His widow, Mrs.
Sophronia B. Johnston, and daughter. Miss Lucy M.
Johnston, have the consolation of his record as a volunteer
soldier of 1861, with the sincere sympathy of this Com-
mandery, in their great sorrow.

Charles F. Hills,
George Mason,
Robert C. Knaggs,

Committee.

JAMES COLEGROVE.

First Lieutenant and Adjutant Forty- fourth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry.

JAMES COLEGROVE was born in Tioga County, Pa.,
Septeml^er 4, 1830, and passed peacefully away at his
home in Pasadena, California, December 16, 1922, at the
ripe old age of 92 years.

In 1857 he married Jane Welsh of Huron County, Ohio,
who preceded him to the Great Beyond twenty-seven years
ago. Of this union were born seven children, two of whom
died in infancy. Of the surviving five, John W. lives in
Bufifalo, N. Y., Edwin H. in Chicago, Frederick W. in
Kansas City, Jane in Pasadena and Mrs. C. E. Ingham in

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MEMORIALS. 721

San Fernando. Eight grandchildren and five great-grand-
children also mourn his loss.

For a time in his young manhood he taught school, and
then for many years practiced law. During the latter part
of his life he was connected with book stores in Chicago
and Los Angeles, being drawn to this work by his great love
for literature.

Lieut. Colegrove entered the service, August, 1861, as ist
Lieut, and Adjutant of the 44th Indiana Vol. Infantry,
and his whole service was with that regiment. He took
part in the attack at Fort Donalson, his regiment being a
part of General Lew Wallace's Division, and at Shiloh when
his brigade was commanded by General J. G. Lauman, sire
of our present esteemed Recorder.

He was a life-long Republican, having first cast his vote
for that party when it was organized. His political views
were always strongly expressed and his interest in public
affairs ardently displayed.

His quickness of wit and repartee, which he inherited
from his mother's Irish forbears, helped to make him a
most genial companion and favorite with young and old.
His love for nature was intense, his garden being tended
with devotion so long as his strength permitted. He ex-
perienced great pleasure in lavishing his beautiful flowers
on all who cared for them. Once he purchased ten acres
of pasture land to spare three lofty elms from destruction.
In middle life he associated with scientific men and was
long an active member of the Chicago Academy of Science.

His was a warm heart, ever responsive to calls for sym-
pathy or need and generous to a fault. He was particularly
fond of children who were wont to accost him as Santa
Claus for his venerable and benevolent aspect and sparkling
eye.

He was a great student, taking up Greek at the age of 80
that he might read Homer and Plato in the original.

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MEMORIALS.

His latter years were spent as an invalid but always with
a cheer and never a complaint. His manhood was virile,
his old age serene and beautiful. His long pilgrimage is
over, his life a heritage to those he loved so well.

To his family this Commandery extends their sympathy.

Hugh D. Bouker,
Charles E. Baker,
Charles B. Fullerton,

Committee.

OSCAR LUDWIG.

Captain Tzventiefh Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Kansas City, Missouri, December ig, 1922.

CAPTAIN OSCAR LUDWIG was born at Royalton,
N. Y., Nov. 20, 1839, and died in Kansas City, Mo.,
Dec. 19, 1922, being 83 years of age. His remains were
interred in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, 111.

At the breaking out of the Civil War Capt. Ludwig was
living at Bloomington, and on April 22, 1861, he enlisted as
a private in Co. C, 20th Regt. 111. Vol. Inf., and was mus-
tered into the U. S. service as Sergeant of Co. C, June 13,
1861 ; was promoted to ist Sergt. April 7, 1862, and to
Sergt. -Major of the regiment, Nov. 23, 1862 ; was commis-

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724 MEMORIALS.

sioned 2nd Lieut., July 5, 1863, and Captain, July 16, 1865.
Under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved June
3, 1864, his rank of ist Lieut, and Captain was to take effect
June 3, 1864.

He was mustered out with his regiment in Chicago, III,
July 25, 1865, having served his country through the whole
period of the war.

Companion Ludwig participated in the following battles
and campaigns: Battle of Frederickstown, Mo., Oct. 21,
1861 ; Fort Henry, Tenn., Feb. 6, 1862; Fort Donelson,
Tenn., Feb. 12-14, 1862; Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862; Britton's
Lane, Tenn., Sept. i, 1862; Port Gibson, Miss., May 6.
1863; Raymond, May 12, 1863; Jackson, Miss., May 14,
1863; Champion's Hill, May 16, 1863 ; Black River Bridge,
May 17, 1863; assault on Vicksburg, May 19 and 22, 1863;
siege of Vicksburg and assault on the crater (Ft. Hill),
June 25, 1863; Meridian Expedition, Feb. 4 to March i,
1864, including battle of Chunky Station, Miss., Feb. 12,
1864; Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1864; Decatur, Ala., Dec.
27 and 28, 1864; Kniston, N. C, March 14, 1865, and in all
the battles of the Atlanta Campaign, including the battle
of and fall of Atlanta, where he was severely wounded at
the assault, July 21, 1864 (had previously received flesh
wounds at Shiloh and Britton's Lane) ; was with Gen. Sher-
man's army from Goldsburg, N. C, thence to Washington,
D. C, where he participated in the Grand Review; was in
thirty-one battles during the Civil War.

For many years after the war Capt. Ludwig resided in
Chicago, and was engaged in the foundry business.

He was elected a member of the Illinois Commandery of
the Loyal Legion, Nov. 12, 1896; was a member of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee and of the Grand
Army of the Republic.

He is survived by two daughters and one son — Mrs. C.
T. Blackford and Mrs. E. F. Wilcox, of Kansas City, Mo.,

MEMORIALS. 725

and Wm. O. Ludwig, of Columbus, Ohio, to whom the
members of the Loyal Legion extend their sincere sym-
pathies.

William L. Cable,

George Mason,
Charles F. Hills,

Committee.

WILSON O. STAHL.
First Lieutenant Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

WILSON O. STAHL was born December 6th, 1842,
at Somerset, Pa., and died at Chicago, IlHnois, De-
cember 26th, 1922. Interment was at Bloomington, IlHnois,
his old home.

He enlisted at Bloomington, Illinois, July 17, 1862, in
Company "H," 94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry as a private ;
promoted to Corporal in September, 1862; to Sergeant,
January, 1863; and commissioned First Lieutenant in May,
1864, all in the came company and regiment. He was mus-
tered out with the regiment July 17, 1865, just three years
to a day from the time he enlisted.

The regiment had its origin in the magnificent burst of
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MEMORIALS. 727

enthusiasm which greeted President Lincoln's call for more
troops in 1862, and was organized, inspected and put into
the field within ten days. It was called the McLean Regi-
ment because it was composed entirely of McLean County
men.

Companion Stahl participated with the regiment in all
its campaigns and battles, including the battle of Prairie
Grove, Ark., Dec. 7, 1862, siege of Vicksburg, 1863, siege
of Fort Morgan, Ala., April, 1864, and Spanish Fort, Ala.,
1865.

He was one of six brothers who were in the service dur-
ing the Civil War. He resided in Chicago a great many
years and was connected with the City Health Department
for more than twenty years, where he performed efficient
and faithful service and had many warm friends in the
department.

He was elected a member of the Illinois Commandery of
the Loyal Legion Alarch 6th, 1902. Companion Stahl is
survived by one son, Harvey M., and one daughter, Mrs.
Frank A. Marshall, to whom the Commandery extend their
sincere sympathy.

William L. Cadle,
Edward D. Redington,
William D. Fullerton,
Committee

THEODORE PERCIVAL SIDDALL.
Hereditary Companion:

COMPANION SIDDALL was born in Philadelphia,
Pa., July 31, 1854, and died in Chicago, 111., Decem-
ber 29, 1922. He was the son of Major Hugh W. Siddall,
who had an enviable record as Assistant Surgeon of the
85th Penn. Vol. Infantry and Surgeon of the 74th Infan-
try from the same state, his service covering two full years.
The son was educated in the Philadelphia Public Schools
and came to Chicago in 1875 ; he had made his home in
Evanston for more than a quarter of a century, and his
business connections had been in Chicago.

For the last twenty-two years of his life he had been
connected with the Methodist Book Concern in that city,

728

MEMORIALS. 729

and he finished his work for the year — and all years — while
sitting at his desk with pen in hand. Although a very busy
man, he found time for active participation in all the ac-
tivities of the Church of his love. He was one of the
founders of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston, and
was a Vestryman for 25 years and Superintendent of the
Sunday School for 21 years, and had been accorded the
unusual distinction by the Bishop of Chicago of a perma-
nent lay reader's license. He also held high honors in the
Masonic Order.

Although a member of this Commandery only a few
years, he valued his connection highly and was in very reg-
ular attendance at its meetings.

He was married October 10, 1887, to Bell Jane Glassey
of Philadelphia, who survives him with their seven children,
the oldest of whom — Theodore P. — is a member of this
Commandery.

Edward D. Redington,
Robert C. Knaggs,
George A. Paddock,

Committee.

The Coinmandery never had a
Photograph of this Co??jpanion.

THOMAS GRAHAM TROXEL.
Captain United States Army Retired.

CAPT. TROXEL transferred from the Commandery
of the State of California December 14, 1895.

Entered the service as a private in Co. "C", 25th Iowa
Vol. Infantry August 21, 1862. ist Sgt. Sept. 2"/, 1862.
Discharged June 6, 1865. 2nd Lieut. 17th U. S. Infantry
Feb. 2:^, 1866. 1st Lieut. July 7, 1867. R. Q. M. Oct. 20,
1872. Capt. June 28, 1878. Retired June 22, 1889.

Second Brigade, ist Division, 15th A. C, Army of the
Tennessee. Battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post,
Walnut Hill, assault, siege and surrender of Vicksburg,
Jackson, Canton, Tuscumbia, Lookout Mountain, Mission
Ridge, Ringgold, Atlanta campaign. Battle of Resaca, Dal-
las, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Ezra Church, Jonesboro, March to
the Sea, Capture of Savannah, through the Carolinas,
Columbia and Bentonville. With his regiment from 1866
to 1889.

730

INDEX

Page
A.

Abbey, Charles Peters 489

Abbott, George Byron 389

Abercrombie, John Joseph 549

Adams, Charles Waldo 433

Allyn, Arthur Washburn 202

Amory, William Appleton 60

Atkins, Smith Dykins 113

B.

Babcock, Campbell Elias 392

Ballard, Orville Wellington,. 362

Balsley, Joseph 39

Bane, Oscar Fitzalan 415

Bardwell, Abileno Cutler 567

Barnum, Morgan King 552

Barnum, William Lewis 657

Barrett, Samuel Eddy 91

Beach, Myron Hawley 623

Belfield, Henry Holmes 48

Bell, James Hamilton 122

Bender, George Anthony 621

Bennett, John Wesley 596

Bennett, Jonas Leroy 701

Bentley, Wilbur Gorton 637

Bigelow, Edward Alpheus 210

Black, John Charles 262

Blackford, Albert J 230

Blakesley, Alpheus Miles 339

Blodgett, Asiel Zebulon 316

Bosley, Edward Franklin 585

Botsford, Reuben Smith 490

Bremner, David Francis 691

Bridgman, Frank sy

731

Page

Brooks, Everett Wellington. . . 105

Brown, Cyrus Winthrop 629

Brush, Charles Eliphalet 360

Brush, Daniel Harmon 578

Brush, Samuel Tasker 684

Buckbee, Julian Edward 562

Bucknam, Alvin Felch 313

Buell, Charles Clinton 604

Bullard, Albert Franklin 669

Burroughs, George Tyler loi

Byers, Frederick Weills 247

c.

Callender, Eliot 144

Carr, Camillo C. C 177

Carr, Clark Ezra 524

Cartlidge, John Hopkins 319

Chamberlin, Walter Howard.. 662

Chenoweth, William Hall 44

Chester, Henry Whipple 469

Chetland, August Louis 156

Cleveland, Edmund Francis. . . 532

Colegrove, James 720

Collins, William Augustus... 457

Coman, Seymour 660

Cone, Pinckney Skilton 251

Connolly, James Austin 203

Crandon, Thomas Franklin

Philip 541

Crane, Simeon Henry S72

Crawford, Charles Frederick. . 522

D.

Duachy, George Kellogg 19

David, Elijah Brown 424

732

INDEX.

Page

Dean, Bradley 258

Delaware, Ambrose Sheldon.. 336

Dick, George Frederick 193

Dodge, William Alden 446

Dougall, William 237

Durgin, John Cooper 626

Dustin, William Goldsbourn.. 452

Dyer, George Turnley 713

E.

Eads, Albert 695

Eaton, Henry Zelora 576

Ebi, Monroe 320

Eldridge, Cornelius Shepard.. 648

Elwood, James Gavion 398

Evans, Rowland Nathaniel 308

Everz, Moritz Ernst 706

Ewing, Milton Augustus 227

F.

Fallows, Samuel 709

Felton, Charles Henry 405

Freeman, Henry Varnum.... 346

Frowe, Samuel Selden 39

Fuller, Edward Minor 78

Fuller, Eugene Corydon 174

Furness, William Eliot 132

G.

Gibson, Theodore Cunningham 11

Gilman, Joseph Thayer 318

Godfrey, Henry Townsend... 386

Graham, Harvey 15

Grant, John Cowles 160

Green, George 72

Greenhutt, Joseph Benedict... 507

Griswold, Charles Augustus.. 688

H.

Haas, Maximilian A. F. . . . . . 243

Hale, George Wheelwright... 190

Page

Hammond, Charles Lyman... 450

Hanson, Zenas Payne 674

Harding, Amos Joseph 81

Harris, Benjamin Francis 70

Harris, Samuel 586

Harts, Peter Wilde 528

Hartz, Wilson Tweed 253

Harwood, George Washington 591

Harwood, William Elvis 430

Hay, Charles Edward 293

Hayes, Philip Cornelius 325

Heaford, George Henry. 288

Hebard, Frederick Schiller... 618

Herenden, George Bowen.... 354

Hershey, Andrew Henry 10

Higginson, Samuel Storrow.. 9

Hoffman, Douglas Thomas... 536

Holway, Daniel Nelson 679

Hoover, James Ambrose 88

Hotchkiss, Charles Truman.. 184

Hunt, Charles Cummins 408

J.

Jackson, Albert Judson 310

Johnson, Edward Schrader... 632

Johnston, James Birney 718

K.

Keller, William Betts 167

Kelly, George Thomas 515

Kelley, Harrison 412

Kenaga, William Fletcher 76

Kidder, Henry Martyn 601

Knowx, George Gregg 466

Koch, Charles R. E 332

L.

Lannen, Thomas Edward 677

Lanstrum, Christian Ernest.. 512

Leake, Joseph Bloomfield 125

Lee, Benjamin Franklin 594

INDEX.

733

Page

Lewis, John Calvin 558

Linscott, Benjamin Herrick.. 420

Lorimer, William Andrew 573

Ludwig, Oscar 723

M.

Mack, Uziah 95

Mason, Charles Winder I35

Mason, Roswell Henry 218

Mayer, Leopold 323

Meacham, Florins David 460

Melcher, Samuel Henry 255

Mihills, Merrick Almansor... 161

Miller, Milton Bourne 86

Moore, Gordon Grant 104

Morey, Lawrence Bevans 296

Morgan, James Burgess 698

Morton, Charles Adams 31

Mullaly, John Edward 213

Mullen, Isaac Todd 479

McCauley, Henry Sayrs 320

McClaughry, Robert Wilson.. 614
McCracken, Aaron Hinsdale. . 142

McLean, John 654

McManus, James Meek 455

McManus, Parker Whittlsey. . 715
McMurtry, Alexander Cran-
ston 441

N.

Nash, Alfred 395

Neely, John Chamberlain.... 571

Nelson, Nels 35

Newberry, Walter Cass 63

Niles, John Willard 197

Nind, John Newton 643

Norton, Oliver Willcox 606

Norwood, Frederick William. 664

O.

Osborn, Hartwell 280

Otis, Ephraim Allen 139

Page
P.

Park, Harvey Slaughter 148

Patterson, Theodore Henry.. 546

Peters, Mathew Henry 481

Piggott, Michael 666

Pingree, George Ely 611

Pogue, Henry Warren 361

Pollak, Bernard 417

Post, Philip Sidney 599

Price, Samuel Harrison 495

Purrington, Dillwyn Varney.. 163

Puterbaugh, Leslie Don 427

R.

Reat, James Lee 681

Reed, David Wilson 35i

Reed, Nathan Adams, Jr 365

Reynolds, Gerard Bunker 498

Richardson, George Robert... 305

Riebsame, Christian 129

Rinaker, John Irving 214

Robinson, George Franklin . . . 438

Rogers, Theodore Smith 383

Rost, Charles 502

Roys, Cyrus Dustin 241

•Rusmey, Israel Parsons 651

Russell, Henry Clay 277

S.
Schmidt, Frederick Michael.. 500

Sears, John Barry 358

Sears, Joseph 25

Sexton, Stephen William 704

Sexton, William Harvey 153

Seymour, Frederick Stanley.. 268

Shattuck, Lorenzo Brace 66

Shattuck, Samuel Walter 222

Sheridan, Millard Johnson 107

Shipman, Charles Goodrich... 477

Sholl, Alexander 283

Siddall, Joseph Johnson 556

734

INDEX.

Page

Siddall, Theodore Percival... 728

Smiley, Charles Edward 187

Smith, Benner X 565

Smith, James Bunyan 645

Smith, John Alexander 367

Smith, John Corson, Jr 580

Smith, Joseph Samuel 2)2>

Smith, William Sooy 298

Stahl, Wilson O'Hara 726

Stevenson, Alexander Fleming 485

Stewart, Malcolm N. M 12

Stibbs, John Howard 342

Stiles, John Mortimer 410

T.

Tabor, Roy Bartling 302

Tabor, Rufus King 274

Thistlewood, Napoleon Bona-
parte 271

Thompson, John William 462

Thompson, Leverett 672

Thompson, Richard Swain... 171

Tice, William W 212

Tidball, Zan Linn, Jr 504

Trimble, Harvey Marion 435

Tripp, Stephen Seward 42

Troxel, Thomas Graham 730

Turner, Thomas McMillan... 165

Tuthill, Richard Stanley 583

V.

Van Sellar, Henry 233

Page

Voller, Joseph 443

von Kolkow, Edwin Reinhard 496

W.

Wait, Horatio Loomis 328

Walker, Pelig Remington 117

Wallis, Obed Warner 208

Walton, Henry Harrison 475

Warren, Charles Stewart 170

Warner, Frederick Raynsford 79

Waterhouse, Allen Cobb 46

Watson, Frederick Augustus. . 136

Watson, Henry Belden 116

Waterman, Arba Nelson 379

White, John Luther 124

Wimpfheimer, Eugene Henry. 173

Wilcox, Edward Sanford 554

Wilcox, William Henry 150

Williams, Rudolph 376

Williams, William Henry 300

Wilson, Benjamin Mairs 285

Winn, Charles Andrew 518

Winne, Archibald 23

Woods, Robert Mann 538

Wright, Francis Marion 401

Wright, Henry Delcar 589

Y.

Young, Jesse Bowman 179

Z.

Zimmerman, John 199

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