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MEMORIALS

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Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the
State of Illinois, Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States.

From May 8, i8jg, when the Commandery was Instituted,
to July I, igoi.

320 ASHLAND BLOCK,
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
1901.

COMMITTEE.
Major William Eliot Furness, Chairman.
Gen. Joseph B. Leake,
Col. Area N. Waterman,
Capt. Henry V. Freeman,
Capt. Ephraim A. Otis,
Lieut. Ambrose S. Delaware,
Mr. John R. Montgomery.

PREFACE.
This volume will serve as a permanent reminder of the rapid
march " beyond the veil " of that generation which fought the
battles of the Union in the great Civil War. Memorials of
deceased Companions of the Illinois Comraandery of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States have
been prepared as the occasions have arisen, and are repro
duced here for the most part as originally printed. They
thus reflect in some measure the kindly judgment and sincere
sorrow with which their Companions of the Commandery have
bidden these departed members "hail and farewell." Some
of the notices in the volume have been written by those for
whom in their turn, the like service has since been rendered.
Differences in the length or literary character of the memo-
orials do not by any means indicate differences of regard in
which Companions were held. They are due to other causes,
such as residence elsewhere, or to the fact that the army
service of some deceased Companions had hot come within
the personal knowledge and observation of the writers.
Probably none of the surviving members of the Illinois
Commandery will fail to find in these pages names of some
at least of "the men we think of with tears;" those side by
side with whom they marched, with whom they bivouacked,
shared rations and blankets by many a camp fire, and shoulder
to shoulder with whom they breasted storms of battle. There
are others also, whom we first met as members of the Com
mandery, but whom we came to know and love not only be
cause of honorable records as soldiers, but because of what
they were as men; men whom we would not willingly forget
while life endures. (Ill)

IV. preface.
It may not be amiss to call attention to the honorable
careers in civil life of those whose names appear in this vol
ume. If proof were needed of the high character of the
citizen soldiers who in the years from 1861 to 1865 responded
to the call of country, it can be found in the brief life records
here reproduced.
This volume owes its existence to the generosity of our
Companion Lieutenant Oliver W. Norton. Believing that
these notices should survive in more enduring form than as
originally published in general orders, he has himself met
the expense of their publication.
The funeral services of an "old soldier" are appropriately
closed at the grave with the bugle call, known as " taps," than
which none more musical nor impressive fell in days of war
upon the soldier's ear, as at the close of day its melody
floated upon the evening air from camp to camp. The call
as it now exists was first played by Companion Norton when
he was still serving as a brigade bugler. It has replaced the
call originally in use at the outbreak of the Civil War, and
we cannot better close this introduction than by giving in his
own words an account of its origin.
" During the first year of the Civil War the call for 'taps '
in general use in the army, as published in Casey's tactics,
was the one which is now used as a part of the long call for
'tattoo.' In July, 1862, I was brigade bugler at the head
quarters of Butterfield's Brigade, Morrell's Division, Fitz
John Porter's Corps in the Array of the Potomac. One day
soon after the seven days battles on the Peninsula, when the
Army of the Potomac lay in camp at Harrison's Landing, on
the James River, General Butterfield sent for me to come
to his tent and bring my bugle. When I arrived he said
something about wishing to change the call for 'taps,' and
asked me to sound for him on the bugle the call which he
whistled. I complied as well as I could and after getting the
matter to his satisfaction wrote out the notes of the present
call on the back of an envelope which I happened to have in
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day until I could play it smoothly, and at night substitute it
for the regulation call for 'taps.' The next day buglers from
neighboring brigades came to me for copies of the music. I
furnished these copies, and gradually the call was taken up
and used in other brigades and divisions of the Army of the
Potomac, until it became recognized as the official call. My
impression is that no general order making the substitute
was ever issued, but it rapidly made its way into general use
throughout the Array of the Potomac by virtue of the beauty
of the music. The soldiers, who had a habit of attaching
words more or less appropriate to all the calls in common use,
soon began to sing the following words to this call:
" 'Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep;
You may all go to sleep, go to sleep ! '
"At the soldiers' homes, where the veteran privates of
the Civil War are laid to rest, at burials of privates and
officers of the army on frontier posts, wherever the last mili
tary honors are paid, the sweet notes of this call give voice
to the last farewell."

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EDWIN JOSEPH DE HAVEN.
Lieutenant Commander United Stales Navy. Died at Geneva,
Sivitzerland, October, iSjg.

CNTERED the service as Midshipman, U.S.N., Octo-
I ber 19, 1841; Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847;
^'~* Master, September 14, 1855; Lieutenant, Septem
ber 15, 1855; Lieutenant Commander, July 16, 1862.
Resigned May 30, 1865.
War service with the West Gulf Squadron.

HENRY WELD FARRAR.
Ca-ptain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, April i-j, 1881 .
WHEREAS, It has pleased God, in the interposition
of His providence, suddenly to remove, in the
prime of life, our beloved Companion, Colonel Henry
Farrar, one of the charter members of the Illinois Com
mandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, and a member of its first Council; and
Whereas, Colonel Farrar joined the Volunteer Army
of the United States, April 10, 1863, participating in
nearly all the battles, marches and campaigns of the
Army of the Potomac during that time, including the
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley with General Sheri
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Seventh Maine Volunteers to that of Captain and Aide-
de-Camp, in 1864, and being twice brevetted (Major and
Lieutenant Colonel) for gallant conduct on the battle
field; and
Whereas, In his death this Commandery has lost
one of its most honored and valued members; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That as a soldier Colonel Farrar was espe
cially distinguished for skill and gallantry; as a citizen
he was true, faithful and patriotic; as a friend he was
warm-hearted, sincere and unselfish, ever untiring in his
efforts to serve those who had his confidence and esteem,
and possessing rare social qualities which made him a
welcome companion to all with whom he came in con
tact. Resolved, That as Companions of this Order we look
back with no little pride upon his military career and
the sacrifices he made in the cause of his country; that
we greatly deplore his death and tender to the bereaved
relatives our deepest sympathy.
Resolved, That copies of these resolutions, duly at
tested and properly engrossed, be transmitted by the
Recorder to the relatives of the deceased, and that the
same be spread upon the records of this Commandery.
Wm. E. Strong,
Francis Morgan,
Abbott L. Adams,
Committee.

HENRY MABBETT KNICKERBOCKER.
Captain Seventh Neiv York Heavy Artillery, United States Volun
teers. Died at Chicago, October jo, 1882.
WHEREAS, Our Commandery has heard with sorrow
of the removal by death of our honored Compan
ion, Captain Henry M. Knickerbocker; and
Whereas, Our late companion was one of the first
to join the Volunteer Army of the United States, serving
his country and filling the positions of Corporal, Ser
geant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and Captain
in the One Hundred and Thirteenth New York Infantry,
afterward the Seventh Heavy Artillery, taking part with
his command at Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Coal
Harbor, Petersburg, and in the defenses of Washington;
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Whereas, Our Commandery feels that, by his removal
from among us to a better life, it has lost one of its de
voted and esteemed members; therefore.
Resolved, That as a soldier, Captain Knickerbocker
was true and faithful to his country; as a citizen, patri
otic, upright and highly respected; and as a friend was
gentle, loving and generous, with kind words and hearty
good wishes for all.
Resolved, That we shall ever deeply feel his loss, not
only as a sincere Companion of our Order, but as a trust
ed friend and a valued member of the community, and
that we respectfully extend to the bereaved family our
deepest sympathy.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
to the family of the deceased.
Charles W. Davis,
William E. Strong,
Gordon G. Moore,
Committee.

LUCIUS HOLLENBECK DRURY.
Major First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, June 32,

3INCE the last meeting of this Commandery its
members have been called upon to pay the last
tribute of respect and affection to one of its mem
bers. Major Lucius HoUenbeck Drury, late of the First
Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, who died at his residence in
Chicago, on the 22d day of June, 1884.
Companion Drury was born at Highgate, Vermont,
December 21, 1824. In early boyhood he was appren
ticed to the printer's trade, and naturally graduated a
journalist. With the nomadic instincts of the profession
he pursued his career in his native State, in Ohio, North
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found him conducting a newspaper in Wisconsin, with a
widespread reputation as a versatile humorous writer.
He was commissioned by Governor Randall to raise a
section of a battery, and in a short time he had raised a
full battery, which was mustered into the service as the
Third Wisconsin Battery of Light Artillery, with Drury
as the Captain, better known to the Army of the Cum
berland as the Badger Battery, attached to Van Cleve's
Division of the corps commanded by General Crittenden.
While Chief of Artillery of this Division, on the 13th day
of September, 1863, in a heavy skirmish on the bank of
the Chickamauga, Companion Drury was shot through
the liver by a rebel sharpshooter and supposed to be
mortally wounded. He recovered so as to be able to
join his command in the spring of 1864, when he was
made Chief of Artillery of the First Division of the Four
teenth Corps, and served in that capacity in the cam
paign against Atlanta till the fall of 1864, when he was
mustered out with his Battery, his term of service having
expired. Notwithstanding he suffered severe pain from
the old wound, from which he was never free till his
death, he again entered the service December i, 1864,
as Major of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and
served with his usual gallantry in the Twenty-second
Corps till mustered out of service June 2, 1865, when he
came to Chicago, where, after honorably filling various
places of responsibility and trust, his mortal career was
terminated by disease resulting from his old wound, on
the 22d day of June, 1884. In view of his distinguished
military services, and his many endearing personal quali
ties, his surviving associates have
Resolved, That in the death of Lucius HoUenbeck
Drury, the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of
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its valued and honored members. As a soldier he was
brave, loyal and faithful in the discharge of every duty,
and, as a warm-hearted, generous companion and friend,
he had become endeared to us by many ties.
Resolved, That we respectfully tender to the widow
and children of Major Drury our condolence and sympa
thy in their great affliction, and that the Recorder be
directed to enter these resolutions on our minutes, and
to transmit an engrossed copy to the family of our late
Companion.
Edgar D. Swain,
E. A. Otis,
H. H. Thomas,
Committee.

DEMING NORRIS WELCH.
Captain and Brevet Colonel, United States Volunteers. Died at
Dresden, Saxony, Februaiy ii, i88j.
THE members of this Commandery have heard with
deep regret of the death of Companion Colonel
Deming Norris Welch, February ii, 1885, in Dresden,
Saxony. Companion Welch was among the first to volunteer
in the service of our country, and served faithfully and
efficiently until the close of the war in the Sixteenth
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, and Ninth Corps, Army
of the Gulf, and was brevetted Major, Lieutenant Colonel
and Colonel, U. S. V., March 13, 1865.
Our Commandery has, by his removal from among
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us to a better life, lost a beloved and esteemed com
panion; therefore, be it
Resolved, That as an officer. Colonel Welch was true
and faithful to his country; as a citizen, upright and
highly respected; and as a friend, generous and con
genial, with kind words and good wishes for all.
Resolved, That we deeply feel his loss, not only as a
Companion 'of onr Order, but as a valued friend and
esteemed member of this community, and that we re
spectfully extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt
sympathy. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to
the family of our late Companion.
Charles D. Rhodes,
Francis Morgan,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Committee.

THEOPHILUS LYLE DICKEY.
Colonel Fourth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunleei-s. Died at
Atlantic City, Neiv Jersey ¦ Jul)/ 22, i88j.
THE death of Theophilus Lyle Dickey, of this Com
mandery, formerly Colonel of the Fourth Illinois
Cavalry, having been made known to us, his companions,
we meet to-day to honor his memory as soldier and citi
zen, and to express our sorrow for his loss.
Past his fiftieth year at the time he encountered the
toil and danger of active service in the war for the Union,
it can justly be said of Colonel Dickey that he rendered
faithful and efficient aid to his country and to the great
Captain by whom from time to time he was assigned to
positions implying trust in his enterprise, courage and
judgment. Such a place was filled by Colonel Dickey,
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when, at the head of a cavalry force, he bravely led the
way across the strip of forest that lay between Fort Henry
and the rifle-pits of Donelson. This rapid and successful
reconnoissance to the Cumberland river afforded General
Grant accurate and early information of the enemy's lines
and enabled him to take measures for an immediate dis
position of the investing army.
Colonel Dickey was present at the siege and surrender
of Fort Donelson; he accompanied General Grant in sub
sequent campaigns, including the movement to Pittsburg
Landing, the battle of Shiloh, and the operations in Mis
sissippi resulting in the seizure and occupation of Corinth.
He had the honor of appointment by General Grant as
Chief of Cavalry, and served in that and other capacities
until February i6, 1863, when he resigned and resumed
the duties of civil life. The register shows that he joined
this Commandery, upon election, March 3, 1880. Since
that date our Order has known him as a true friend and
agreeable companion; one ever ready to do his part toward
the entertainment and instruction of its members. His
voice and pen have alike testified before us to his interest
in the higher objects of the Commandery; to his loyal
devotion to the name and fame of the Army of the Ten
nessee, and all Union armies and generals.
The eminent civic station attained by Colonel Dickey
is, of course, known to all. At the time of his de
cease he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois.
Elected December 21, 1875, he was re-elected by the
people June 6, 1879, for the term of nine years. He
became Chief Justice in 1880. It is believed that the
records and reports of the Supreme Court will furnish
the fullest evidence of his great natural and acquired
powers as a lawyer and a judge. Whether agreeing
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opinions have always indicated clear convictions of duty
fearlessly uttered.
As with loving hands we bring a chaplet to the grave
of Colonel Dickey, we recall the sad fact that once again
he has gone on before his great ideal soldier and com
mander — before him who expires as if in the arms of the
American nation — him whose death after long and most
pitiful suffering has hung our country's heaven in black
from ocean to ocean, from Alaska to the Gulf.
Let it not be forgotten as we endeavor to appreciate
his varied and useful services in our last war, that he was
also an Illinois volunteer in 1846, with the gallant Hardin,
and other noble and patriotic sons of our State. Thus
the far ofi remembrances of Mexico gather about his
name as we speak of fields less foreign and more recent.
In mourning the loss of Colonel Dickey the Command
ery desires also to convey to his family the assurance of
its earnest sympathy in their affliction.
George L. Paddock,
John E. Smith,
John L. Beveridge,
Joseph Stockton,
Edward A. Blodgett,
Committee.

MICHAEL LEWIS COURTNEY.
Captain Tzuenty-Jifth Infa>itry and Brevet Major, United States
Army. Died at San Antonio, Texas, July i6, 1886.
etlPANION Captain and Brevet Major Michael L.
Courtney died at San Antonio, Texas, on the i6th
day of July, 1886, of heart disease, while on leave of
absence from his regiment; and it becomes us now to
state simply his record.
Major Courtney entered the service in July, 1862, and
was mustered as Sergeant One Hundred and Second
Illinois Infantry. He received his promotion as Second
Lieutenant in April, 1863, to rank from January 27th,
and was commissioned First Lieutenant and Quarter
Master to date from August 9, 1863.
In December, i863, having passed a very creditable
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examination, he was mustered out of the Volunteer service
and appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixteenth Infan
try U. S. C. T. , in which regiment he served with great
credit, ability, and gallantry, until April 30, 1866, when
his command was mustered out. Shortly afterward he
was appointed Second Lieutenant Thirty-ninth Infantry,
U. S. A., and passed through the grades of First Lieu
tenant and Captairi.
He served with the One Hundred and Second Illinois
Infantry in the action at Woodburn, Tennessee, and with
the Sixteenth U. S. C. T. was engaged in the operation
against the rebel General Forrest, in the battle of Chat
tanooga, and in the battles of Pulaski and Nashville; and
for gallant and meritorious services in the two last named
engagements, he was brevetted Captain and Major U.S.A.
Major Courtney joined the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States June 3, 1885, through this
Commandery. Of a quiet and retiring disposition, he was an officer
of strong character, great efficiency, and sterling worth;
one who could always be counted on in emergencies. As
a brother officer he was companionable, affable, and a
true friend; as a man, honorable, upright and just; in
every sense, a true companion of the Order. As an
illustration of his specially studious nature it may be
mentioned that, on leave of absence, he tested the suc
cess of his studies in one direction by taking his gradu
ating degree in law.
There is a measure of our work in such a companion
ship which both pride and modesty compel us to recall,
while sympathy unites us with his family and all his
friends in the great loss we have sustained.
We should gather from his life of sterling worth
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irreproachable officer, gentleman, and true companion,
that they may be our guide in life and be held by us as
the whole essentials for companionship in this Order.
He has laid away the honored sword he wore, " with
charity for all and malice toward none," and has entered
into that peace the world cannot give. Without desiring
to intrude on any greater grief, we recommend that copies
of this brief expression be sent to his family, his regiment,
and the Army and Navy Journal. J. C. Breckinridge,
N. H. Walworth,
Richard Robins,
Committee.

DAVID CLELAND BRADLEY.
First Lieutenant Sixty-jifth Illinois Injantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, October 2^, 1886.
YOUR committee appointed to take action upon the
death of our late Companion David Cleland Brad
ley do report and move that the following memorial be
inscribed upon the records of the Commandery and that
a copy thereof be sent to the family of the deceased.
On the 25th day of October, 1886, David Cleland
Bradley, a companion of this Commandery, died at his
home on Ashland avenue in this city.
Companion Bradley entered the United States Vol
unteer Service March 2d, 1862, as adjutant of the Sixty-
fifth Illinois Infantry. He served faithfully and gallantly
until his regiment was mustered out, March ist, 1865.
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During the last year of the war he acted as Aide-de-Camp
on the staff of Major General Jacob D. Cox, and with his
chief rendered conspicuous and meritorious services dur
ing the Atlanta campaign and at the battles of Franklin
and Nashville.
Lieutenant Bradley was a man of irreproachable
character, lovable in disposition, brave and affectionate.
He was devoted to his friends, kind and considerate in
his treatment of all with whom he came in contact. The
memory of his military service and companionship was
proudly and warmly cherished in his bosom, and an old
soldier when destitute applied not in vain to him for aid.
We, his surviving comrades, will affectionately cherish
the memory of his virtues and his winsome presence until
one by one we join him in the silent "muster out."
Area N. Waterman,
Charles D. Rhodes,
Henry S. Pickands,
Committee.

GEORGE CHANDLER.
First Lieutenant Eighty-eighth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, November 2, 1S86.
WHEN a soldier died upon the field, "few and short
were the prayers we said." The stern realities of
war forbade expressions of sorrow or signs of mourning.
Nevertheless, death was not lost to us, and in the
sacrifice we saw the links which bound him who died in
kinship with humanity.
When now a soldier dies, while we gather about his
bier, and place upon it tokens of our remembrance, for
getting perhaps that the seeds of disease which have car
ried him to a premature grave were sown in the privations
and hardships of camp and march, notwithstanding honor
and renown may be his due for his achievements in civil
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life, we instinctively turn to the period when he volun
teered to serve his country, and for its cause offered his
life in the balance. That period marks his manhood —
and remembered shall he be who so manifested it.
George Chandler was born in Vermont in December,
1834. Having received a university training at Dart
mouth College and the University of Vermont, and after
wards studying law, he at first, in 1857, went to St.
Louis. Afterwards, in 1859, he came to Chicago, to
engage in its practice.
There the outbreak of the war found him. He enlisted
in Company A of the Eighty-eighth Illinois Infantry
Volunteers, and in pursuance of the choice of the other
enlisted men of that company was commissioned First
Lieutenant. He was a faithful officer, always ready for
duty, never complaining, vigilant to care for his men,
quick to learn and instruct, and in battle cool and firm.
He was one who stayed in the fight.
Called home by what he considered imperative de
mands, he resigned, and thereby lost promotion which
would surely soon have followed. From that time he
was an active lawyer at Chicago, and in his profession
'displayed learning and marked ability.
It may, without regard to the length of his term of
service, be truly said that he was one of those who helped
to put down the rebellion. We may also justly say of
him that he was earnest, intelligent, and brave; and for
him, as for others gone before, we may recite the requiem
written by Sir Walter Scott:
"Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battlefields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.
"In our isle's enchanted hall,
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Fairy strains of music fall,
Every sense in slumber dewing.
"Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er;
Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking."
Respectfully submitted,
Geo. W. Smith,
Jno. L. Thompson,
Charles T. Boal,
Committee.

JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN.
Major General United States Volunteers. Died at Washington,
District of Columbia, December 26, 1886.
THE Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, is again called upon to mourn
the loss of one of its most distinguished members. One
by one the great leaders of the war have been taken
from our ranks. Grant, Thomas, Meade, Hancock and
McClellan have each been summoned to join that greater
army on the other shore. To the long list of the illustrious
dead must now be added the name of Major General
John Alexander Logan; and we meet to-day, at the call
of our Commander, to give expression to our sorrow, and
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As a soldier. General Logan, at the first outbreak of
the Rebellion, resigned his seat in the National Congress,
and raised a regiment which he afterwards gallantly led
in battle. He became identified with the splendid ' 'Army
of the Tennessee" from its first organization, and took a
prominent part in every battle and campaign in which
that Army was engaged; and having successively com
manded a regiment, brigade, division, and corps, when
the war ended he was that Army's trusted and honored
commander. In civil life. General Logan was a brave and fearless
advocate of what he believed to be right; in political
affairs, frank, manly and outspoken.
Few indeed there are who like him united the quali
ties of the soldier and the statesman, and won the double
honor of military and civil renown. No man, living or
dead, stood nearer the hearts of the soldiers of the great
war, and by no man were their rights more loyally and
sacredly defended. His fame is secure, and his memory
will be cherished forever by the Nation he served so
loyally and well, both in peace and war.
" After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Bearing in mind his manly virtues, and the ties of
warm personal friendship which bound him to our hearts,
the members of the Illinois Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion have directed that this tribute
of respect to his memory be entered upon our records,
and that a copy be furnished to his afflicted family, with
our profound assurances of sincere and heartfelt sympa
thy in their great bereavement.
William E. Strong,
Ephraim A. Otis,
Horace H. Thomas,
Lewis B. Mitchell,
David H. Gile,
James A. Sexton,
John T. McAuley,
Committee.

GEORGE WHITFIELD LAWTON.
Captain Fourth Michigan Cavalry, Brevet Major, United States
Volunteers. Died at Lawton, Michigan. February 7, j88j.

OF THE companions of the Commandery of the State
of Illinois of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, George Whitfield Lawton,
late Captain of the Fourth Regiment of Michigan Cavalry
and Brevet Major, U. S. V., leads the van of those who
cross the dark river in 1887, and is the first one to re
port to the Great Commander.
His comrades could ask for no better representative
than this gallant soldier, excellent citizen, profound
scholar, devoted husband, loving father and true friend.
Major Lawton was born in Oneida county. New York,
October 20, 1833. Back of him were soldier ancestors,
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for his grandfathers were patriots in our war with Eng
land for independence. Early in life he developed that
love for study which, enlarging itself, gave him a wide
and well deserved literary reputation.
In August, 1862, he was commissioned Second Lieu
tenant of C Company, Fourth Regiment Michigan Cav
alry, the captor of Jeff Davis, although, on account of a
rebel bullet. Major Lawton was not with the command
at the time the capture was made. In addition to this
world-renowned service rendered by his company, the
Commandery will well remember the regiment as the
one which opened the battle of Chickamauga, and partici
pated in all the hard and glorious work of the Army of
the Cumberland. He was promoted First Lieutenant
January 25, 1863; Captain, August 23d of the same year,
and Brevet Major, March 13, 1865, "for gallant and
meritorious conduct in action at Dallas, Georgia," in
which battle, May 23, 1864, he was shot through the
right lung. On July i, 1865, he was mustered out of
the United States service. While apparently in good
health, he dropped dead of heart disease, at Lawton,
Michigan, on Monday, February 7, 1887.
As American soldiers the members of this Command
ery mourn him — -our brave and faithful comrade — and
will preserve gratefully the memory of his patriotic serv
ices. His public and private character commanded our
respect and admiration, while his kindly feelings and
lovable traits as a warm friend and fond husband and
father endeared him to all who knew him. He was truly
a noble example of the best quality of the citizen soldier.
We tender to his family our heartfelt sympathy in their
sudden bereavement.
Taylor P. Rundlet,
Ephraim A. Otis,
Arthur Edwards,
Committee.

FRANCIS MORGAN.
Captain First Illinois Light Artillery, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, .4ugust J, i88y.
WHEREAS, Our Companion Francis Morgan, late
Captain of Battery A, First Illinois .Light Artillery,
U. S.V., on the fifth day of August, 1887, left our mem
bership at the call of the Great Commander; therefore,
Resolved, That this Commandery testifies to the
soldierly and many other sterling qualities of our late
companion, and holding him in kindly memory, tenders
to his family its sincere sympathy in their sorrow.
Clarence H. Dyer,
Israel P. Rumsey,
Albert L. Coe,
Committee.
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HON. MARK SKINNER.
Companion of the Third Class. Died at Manchester, Vermont,
September 16, j88y.
THE " time-beats ¦' that are counting out our genera
tions, are sounding at shortened intervals; and one
by one those who bore the brunt and burden of the day,
in the time of our country's peril, are passing away.
Eight times within the past few months, and three times
since last we met together, has the " summons " come
into our little Commandery, and we miss and mourn the
companions we may no more greet.
The ties that are forged in great emergencies — the
honor accorded to strength that has been tested amid
great perils — the gratitude felt for services rendered in
great need, are not as the ties — or the honor — or the
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gratitude of common days. They are measured rather
by the intense emotions of the days that gave them birth,
and partake of the loyalty of those hours.
We miss and mourn our companions, who were test
ed in emergencies — who were proven strong amid perils
— and who bore help in need to the very uttermost of
heroic possibility.
Ours is primarily a military association of those who
bore well their part as soldiers during the War of the
Rebellion; but the underlying principle which gives it
standing, is loyalty to, and service for our country; and
by our charter rights we honor ourselves in honoring
with a "special membership," those in civil life, who
during the Rebellion were specially distinguished for
loyal and eminent service for our country and our coun
try's cause.
For the first time since our Commandery had its birth
we are called to mourn the death of a companion of the
Third Class — of an honorary member — whose conspicu
ous loyalty and distinguished services in civil life, in the
dark days of the Rebellion, made him eminent among
the supporters of our government, and honored and re
vered in our Commandery. On Friday evening, Sep
tember i6th, in the home of his childhood, and amid the
autumn glories of his loved Green Mountains, the Hon.
Mark Skinner heard and answered the call of his Great
Commander, and passed away from among men.
Born in 1813, the son and grandson of distinguished
parents, Judge Skinner became a citizen of Chicago
shortly after graduating from Middlebury College, and
in our then infant city, took almost at once an active
place among its trusted and influential citizens.
Clear and broad of intellect; scholarly by nature and
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ful observer; a lover of right, and gifted with singularly
clear perceptions; a just man, whose integrity knew no
shading; warm of heart, and quick of hand; a strong
friend, and an enemy without malice; unselfish, and
strangely modest. Judge Skinner grew in maturity and
in influence, as our city grew in years and in outreach.
From the year 1836, until he had long passed the
allotted three score years and ten, there were few objects
of local interest or importance undertaken in our city,
in which the scholarly research, the cultured thought and
clear mind of Judge Skinner were not trusted factors in
winning support and in assuring the best results. The
whirl and rapid growth of our great city have of late
years largely buried out of sight the debt we owe to
those who, in its earlier years, builded even better than
they knew; but in the records of our city the student of
its history will find the name and influence of Judge
Skinner to have been an active power in every good
word and work, and largely potent in making possible
its later position among the great centers of our land.
We honor Judge Skinner for his services and exam
ple as a "citizen of no mean city; " but far more do we
cherish his memory and honor his high name as patriot,
and as eminent in service for his country.
A father, he held not back his only son, just fresh
from the honors of Yale, when the movings of an inher
ited loyalty impelled that son to offer his life to his
country in her peril; and later, when the son had died
in battle, and the light of his life that was the promise
of his old age, was put out, his prayer was the patriot's
prayer, that the service given at so great cost might have
been to his country's gain. As citizen. Judge Skinner
responded loyally to the call of duty, and gave with
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his life, in an untiring effort to meet recognized and
pressing emergencies.
Early in June, 1861, at the request of the Govern
ment, an effort had been made to establish here in Chi
cago the centre of a Northwestern Sanitary Commission,
but the effort failed to secure the public confidence or
support, and died. In October of the same year, our
Government urged again the importance of organized
help from the Northwest; and in response the "North
western Branch of the Sanitary Commission" was
formed, with Judge Skinner as its President. Peculiarly
fitted, by intense loyalty and high ability, to the special
duties of the position. Judge Skinner was even better
fitted to be the founder of the "Sanitary Commission"
by reason of the high position in the public esteem held
by him at that day, and the universal respect and per
fect confidence reposed in him by all our people. Modest.
retiring, and quiet in manner and in speech, he little
knew how universally he was trusted and esteemed. The
people responded at once to the calls of the "Sanitary
Commission." Branches were established throughout
the Northwest; depots established for ready reach of the
armies in the field; supply and hospital boats were
" quick " and ready after every battle; nurses and doctors
were on hand to meet the needs of great emergencies;
agents were everywhere, meeting needs, giving informa
tion, and preparing for future emergencies; the railroad
companies gave preference and special place to Sanitary
requests and Sanitary cars; Sanitary freight had prefer
ence to all other, unless perhaps the mail; and more than
once passenger and express trains were switched one side
in order that special trains of Sanitary freight, and the
Sanitary messengers of "good will to men" might hasten
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telegraph companies gave place and special wires to the
merciful needs and calls of our Sanitary Commission,
and the Northwest, throughout its length and breadth,
was ablaze with proven loyalty.
Judge Skinner had won for the "Northwestern Sani
tary Commission" the confidence, the sympathy and
active support of those whose hearts were with their
fathers and husbands, their sons and brothers in the
field; and all that organized energy, wise forethought
and self-sacrificing efforts could do, was being done.
Our Government was lightened of heavy burdens and
anxieties; our armies were strengthened of heart and
hand; and our sick and wounded tenderly cared for.
To the loyal organizer and indefatigable President of
our "Northwestern Sanitary Commission," who made it
strong to give help to a nation in urgent need, and to
accomplish a work of mercy unprecedented in history;
to our late distinguished companion the Hon. Mark
Skinner, we owe honor and warm gratitude. ^Ve miss
and mourn our companion, but shall cherish and honor
his memory.
Resolved, That we tender to the family of the de
ceased the expression of our sincerest sympathy.
Resolved, That this "minute "be entered upon our
records, and that a copy of the same, signed by the
Commander and Recorder, be forwarded to the family
of our late companion. Sartell Prentice,
Wm. E. Strong,
Jno. L. Thompson,
Committee.

EDWARD DOMINICUS KITTOE.
Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel, United States Volunteers ¦
Died at Galena, Illinois, September 2g, i88y.
THE Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion is called upon to mourn the loss of
one of- its members.
Your Committee, appointed to take action upon the
death of our late companion, Dr. Edward D. Kittoe,
submit the following report and move that it be inscribed
upon the records of the Commandery and that a copy
thereof be sent to his afflicted family, with the profound
assurances of our sincere ahd heartfelt sympathy in their
bereavement. On the 29th day of September, 1887, Dr. Edward
Dominicus Kittoe died after a long and painful illness,
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at his residence in Galena, Illinois, aged 73 years. He
was the son of Robinson Kittoe of the Royal Navy, Eng
land, and was born at Woolwich, Kent, England, June
20, 1 8 14. Having received his primary education at the
grammar school at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, he served
an apprenticeship to a surgeon and apothecary, and then
coming to America in his eighteenth year, begaii the
study of medicine under the late Dr. Samuel Jackson, of
Northumberland, Pennsylvania. His professional train
ing was completed at the Pennsylvania Medical College,
whence he graduated M. D. in 1841.
He established himself at Muncy, Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania, where he remained in successful practice
until 1851, when he removed to Galena, Illinois. Dur
ing his residence in Pennsylvania he was a member of
the State Medical Society and served in 1850-51 as one
of its Vice-Presidents. He was elected a member of the
Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences in August, 1862.
Our late companion was intensely loyal to his adopt
ed country and when the strife culminated in open hos-
tiHty to the flag of the Union he did not hesitate, but
left family, friends and a lucrative practice to give his
professional services to those who went to the front in
defense of the Union.
Dr. Kittoe went out as Surgeon in the Forty-fifth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry. His skill and efficiency were
fully recognized and he was not permitted to remain with
his regiment, but was detailed upon the Staff of General
W. T. Sherman, where he served until the spring of
1864, when he was promoted Medical Inspector with
rank of Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to duty upon
the Staff of General Grant and later assigned to duty as
Medical Inspector pi the Northwest, with headquarters
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teers, September 30th, and mustered out of service Octo
ber 31, 1865. He was elected a companion of this Com
mandery April 7, 1887 flnsignia No. 4636).
Dr. Kittoe was positive in his convictions; while he
shunned notoriety he was outspoken in his denunciation
of hypocrisy, falsehood and sham, regardless of conse
quence to himself. He was an honest, brave, true man,
an affectionate husband and kind and indulgent father.
To the afflicted his services were freely given; the
unfortunate never appealed to him in vain, and his death
is sincerely mourned by the community in which he lived.
Jno. E. Smith,
A. L. Chetlain,
E. R. P. Shurly,
Committee.

HON. ELIHU B. WASHBURNE.

Companion of the Third Class. Died at Chicago, October 22, i88y.
THE Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, at its first regular meeting since the
death of Companion Elihu B. Washburne, desiring to
express in such enduring form as it may, the deep feeling
of sorrow thus caused, as well as its sense of the loss to
the public, to the Loyal Legion, and to this Command
ery, which his death brings with it, places this minute
on its record.
Elihu Benjamin Washburne, member of the Third
Class of this Commandery, died in this city at about four
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Born at Livermore in the State of Maine, the son of
a country merchant of limited means, and the third of
seven brothers, his early opportunities for education
were not liberal, but he succeeded with the help of a
friend, after some preliminary study, in graduating from
the Harvard Law School, and only thus equipped, he
turned his face westward and in 1849 settled at Galena
in this State.
From this beginning, after successfully practicing his
profession for a few years, he was in 1852 elected a
member of the House of Representatives of the National
Congress, taking his seat the same day that Franklin
Pierce was inaugurated President. For sixteen consecu
tive years, he was each two years re-elected by the same
constituency, and during his period of service in Con
gress, thus prolonged, commencing with the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise Act, and ending with the elec
tion of General Grant to the Presidency, he served as
chairman of the Committee on Commerce (holding this
position from 1857 to 1865) — Chairman of the Commit
tee on Appropriations — of the Committee on Johnson's
Impeachment — of the special Committee on the death of
Mr. Lincoln — and was a member of the Committee on
Reconstruction. At the time of his retirement he had
been a member of the house longer than any other man
in it. In this (as in all other positions which during the
course of his most eventful life he held) he was, if cir
cumstances required, aggressive, and always courageous,
faithful and intelligent. Ever in favor of the strictest
economy, he spoke and voted against extravagant appro
priations for rivers and harbors, steamship subsidies and
land grant schemes. He secured the establishment of
national cemeteries, and introduced the first postal tele-

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graph bill in the house. In promoting the career of
General Grant he was constant and able. When he first
took upon himself the defense of the latter, they were
not personally acquainted, yet rarely has man ever found
a friend so active, zealous and devoted.
Appointed Secretary of State for the United States,
after a few days service he resigned and was at once sent
as American Minister to France.
This office he held for nearly nine eventful years, em
bracing the period of the German War — the fall of the
French Empire — the siege and bombardment of Paris —
the Commune — and the bloody battles and fierce de
struction which attended the final success of the govern
ment of M. Thiers (the Republic), and his services and
action during these years gave him a reputation wherever
English, French or German is spoken.
He was the personal friend of Lincoln and Grant —
upon terms of social intimacy with Thiers and Gambetta
— much esteemed by the Emperor William and Bis
marck — the choice of a very large number of his coun
trymen scattered from Maine to Georgia for President —
his name a familiar one in all parts of the civilized world.
He compassed the whole range of social and political
distinction; he was the peer of the best men of a gener
ation fruitful in developing talent, and took a prominent
part in social and political convulsions the most momen
tous of modern times, yet never for a moment did he
lose his simplicity of character or his fine feeling of good
fellowship, as happy to be a member of the Loyal Legion
and to be present at our simple meetings as to be the
guest of an emperor.
Almost immediately after his arrival in Paris, war
was declared by France against Germany. It was un
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to many thousands of honest and unprepared men and
women and their children. The Minister of the North
German Confederacy withdrew, leaving over thirty thou
sand of his poor unfortunate countrymen to the care of
the American Minister; the Saxon Minister and the Min
isters of Hesse and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha also withdrew —
most of the resident ministers of other nations closed
their embassies and left; (all representing first-class
powers, except Mr. Washburne, wrote Lord Lyons, the
English Ambassador), and it seemed as if all the foreign
population of Paris looked to him for advice and aid,
some for permission to leave, others to remain, all alike
for protection for person and propert)'.
Before the end came he was representing, besides the
North German Confederation, Saxony and Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, Hesse-Darmstadt, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia,
Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chili, Para
guay and Venezuela. He was constant in season and
out of season, not sparing himself, patient, prudent,
courageous and sagacious, urging fairness, comity, a
liberal construction of the rights of citizens of a belliger
ent country in the territory of the enemy at the breaking
out of war, and the rights of neutrals. One week con
testing with the Duke of Grammont, the French Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, the right of the French Govern
ment to refuse Germans, resident in Paris at the com
mencement of hostilities, permission to leave, and, the
next or shortly after, with equal decision and determina
tion opposing with all his power of logic, authority and
will, the execution of a decree of the Government ex
pelling them. His kindly relation to the German Gov
ernment and people did not prevent his protesting against
a bombardment of the City of Paris by the German army
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dignity of his own position, when Bismarck sought to
invade his rights to his mail he spiritedly refused to re
ceive it at all unless the bag containing it came unopened
and undisturbed, claiming the right of correspondence
with his own Government as the representative — in the
Capital of a belligerent — of a neutral power.
He would, he said, "reject any concession of a
courier, coupled with the condition that his dispatches
go unsealed. He would not write a dispatch to his Gov
ernment which would have to be submitted to the in
spection of any other Government on the face of the
earth." He was never for a moment off his guard, and
never failed to protest against and take active steps to
prevent an invasion of the rights of his own people, or
those that belonged to the citizens of other nations that
applied to him, often exerting himself with the French
themselves to save the life of, or give liberty to some of
their own countrymen. The extent, responsibility, and
often exasperating nature of his duties cannot be over
stated. He gave over thirty thousand safe conducts to for
eigners desiring to leave Paris within the first thirty days,
supplied eight thousand with railroad tickets, and many
of them with money. The wife of Marshal McMahon
and her brother applied to him for and obtained a safe
conduct to go to her wounded husband, and on January
13th, the war having begun in the September preceding,
he writes that he was aiding two thousand two hundred
and seventy-six poverty-stricken Germans.
Often made the means of communication between
the German Chancellor and the French Minister, the
vehicle of complaints and threats of retaliation now from
one and now from the other, he was constant in his
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never too busy to take on a new care, not asking whether
it was his duty as a minister if he saw it to be such as a
man, sick, overworked, the end of the war was indeed
a boon. And yet, as he wrote to Mr. Labouchere (who as a
correspondent of a London paper had remained in Paris
during the siege) all the sights and scenes they then wit
nessed, compared with the events of the Commune,
"were but as a flash in the pan compared with a full
discharge all along the line with the killed, wounded and
missing." There was in the City of Paris, with its two millions
of inhabitants, no law, no protection, no authority ex
cept that of an organized mob. Anarchy, robbery, mur
der, assassination reigned supreme, force and terror in
absolute mastery.
TheTuilleries — the Library of the Louvre — the Hotel
de Ville — the palaces of the Ministry of Finance, of the
Council of State and of the Legion of Honor — the Con
vent of the Magdalens — the Coiirt of Exchequer, each of
them of great size and dignity and models of architecture
— and the Tuilleries and the Hotel de Ville of great his
torical interest, the property of the men and women who
burned them, were burned, and with them hundreds of
other buildings.
The Commune resolved to destroy all works of art
glorifying periods which in its opinion were disgraceful
to France. One of its decrees was as follows: " Considering that
the Museum of the Louvre contains great numbers of
pictures, statues and other objects of art, which being
externally to the mind of the people the actions of gods,
kings and priests, therefore, decreed: that the Museum
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And another: "Citizen Milliere, at the head of one
hundred and fifty fuse-bearers, is to set fire to all houses
of suspicious aspect as well as to the public monuments
on the left bank of the Seine. Citizen Dereure with one
hundred and fifty fuse-bearers is charged with the first
and second arrondissements. Citizen Billoray with one
hundred men is charged with the ninth, tenth and twen
tieth arrondissements. Citizen Tesnier with fifty men
has the Boulevards of the Madeleine and of the Bastile
especially entrusted to him. "
Houses were robbed; wherever a German was found
he was seized and imprisoned; churches were converted
into club houses, the clergy hunted down and placarded
as thieves; hostages were murdered, sixty-three at one
time. The Invalides was mined and the Column of the Place
Vendome pulled down. The venerable Archbishop of
Paris, whose whole life had been spent in acts of charity,
was shot by order of an official.
Yet Mr. Washburne remained at his post, fearlessly
meeting every danger till seventy-nine days of this kind
of life had run and order was restored. It is almost im
possible to realize the tact, perseverance and judgment,
the coolness and courage required.
During all these days, first of war, and then of horror
and of crime, the American Embassy, flying the flag of
our country, was a protection and a place of safety.
Mr. Washburne's commission as minister was signed
March 17, 1869. He reached New York after his resig
nation on the 23d of September, 1877, and from that date
made Chicago his residence. His friends were ever
dearer to him than his honors. He writes of those whom
he knew in his boyhood, the companions of his father
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days I think of them all, " and of the friends of his man
hood with great warmth of affection. All through his
diary there runs a vein of earnest allegiance to persona
ties. He was, as wrote a Latin poet, as words of highest
praise, "Justum et tenacem propositi virum," a just man
and strong of purpose. He was sagacious, self-reliant,
cool and collected; as an observer of men and things,
independent in his judgment and fearless in its expres
sion. His personal character was without a breath of
suspicion, and confidence and respect followed him.
His enduring monument is the part he took in shap
ing the destinies of this great nation.
E. B. McCagg,
A. L. Chetlain,
W. A. Montgomery,
Committee.

JOHN LEVERETT THOMPSON.
Colonel First Nezu Hampshire Cavalry and Brevet Brigadier
General, United States Volunteers. Died at
Chicago, January ji, 1888.
IN writing of the Solicitor General of England in the
beginning of the nineteenth century. Lord Brougham
says: " It is fit that no occasion on which Sir Samuel
Romilly is named should ever be passed over without an
attempt to record the virtues and endowments of so great
and so good a man for the instruction of after ages. Few
persons have ever attained celebrity of name and exalted
station in any country or in any age with such unsullied
purity of character as this equally eminent and excellent
person. His virtue was stern and inflexible, adjusted
indeed rather to the rigorous standard of ancient morality
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' ' He was in truth a person of the most natural and
simple manners, and one in whom the kindliest charities
and warmest feelings of human nature were blended in
the largest measure with that firmness and unrelaxed
sincerity of principle in almost all other men found to be
little compatible with the attributes of a gentle nature
and the feelings of a tender heart.
' ' The observer who gazes upon the character of this
great man is naturally struck first of all with its most
prominent feature, and that is the rare excellence which
we have now marked so far above every gift of the under
standing, and which throws the lustre of mere genius
into the shade."
All this might be recorded of our late Companion,
General John L. Thompson, at one time a Vice-Com
mander. The character which in him rounded out and
marked him as citizen and lawyer is defined by the
adjectives fair, true, kind, equable, earnest and firm.
But in this Commandery and in other organizations
having their origin from like causes, it is well to note
that these qualities developed the soldier, and in turn
were brightened and enlarged by the experiences of a
soldier's life.
The majority of the voters of the present day in the
United States have no recollection of the war of the
Rebellion drawn from personal experiences or participa
tion. To their minds the war is presented in the form
of historical statement.
To those who, in the winter of 1 860-1861, watched
the rise of the spirit of rebellion, the vacillation of the
administration, the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, the
hesitation to supply Fort Sumter, the secession of South
Carolina, the firing of the first gun, the call to arms, the
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distance of time almost a dream, are yet a dream with
the vividness of reality. There was nothing then in Mr.
Thompson to mark him for the field. To militia service
or the pomp of parade he had shown no liking or apti
tude. Quietly, reservedly, modestly, he was closing the
course of study which should fit him for the practice of
his chosen profession.
But he was missed, and after two days his friends
having a suspicion where he might be, found him in line
in the old Armory building in Chicago, standing where
the present Rookery building now is. Some sapient
officer had advised that men who should enlist should be
kept in confinement, not appreciating that volunteers as
six to one to fill the call were then ready. Thompson
was in the ranks undergoing an inspection of some sort,
and as the hand was given, said: "You see I have done
it," words characteristic in their brevity and expressive
of a resolution born of thoughtful purpose.
That evening he departed for Cairo, amid the cheers
of a multitude on the lake front. There visitors found
him a month or more later, corporal of a battery, calmly
performing in mud and rain the duties which he had
assumed — drilling and making ready. So he remained
until disease overtook him, and at or about the close of
the three months' service he went to his old home in
Massachusetts, whither his family had moved from New
Hampshire, apparently permanently disabled, for he had
never been very strong. His battery for the most part
re-enlisted. His friends at Chicago joined the service
under later calls, but mostly in the West.
When next heard of he had recovered and was First
Lieutenant in the First Rhode Island Cavalry, formed of
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Rhode Island. The regiment entered upon active service
in Virginia and was assigned to the Shenandoah.
On December 3, 1861, Lieutenant Thompson became
Captain; on July 3, 1862, Major; on July 11, Lieutenant
Colonel, and on January 4, 1863, Colonel. In March,
1864, he resigned to take the command of the First New
Hampshire Cavalry, which honorably shared in the com
mand of Sheridan the memorable skirmishes, battles and
pursuits of that year. He was brevetted for distinguished
services. To say of him that he was always ready, that
he had his command in hand, that he was prudent and
yet bold even to daring, that whether in the charge or in
holding the fruits of victory he was equally prompt,
efficient and able, is to say only what was said spontan
eously by all who were with him.
One of his enlisted men said, looking upon his re
mains as they lay in his residence, "There is the best
and bravest man that ever lived," a testimonial the value
and strength of which every officer knows.
Occasions like this are frequent; memories rise and
thicken, but it is not permitted to lengthen or fill out the
sketch. In the reports of three States are the records
of his achievements.
The full measure of the man is better recognized in
the outlines; and we therefore sadly but proudly in simple
but few words, give this our tribute to the one of our
number who has last passed away.
Geo. W. Smith,
E. B. McCagg,
H. W. Jackson,
Committee.

THOMAS CORDIS CLARKE.
Second Lieutenant Thirty-niyilh Massachusetts Infantry and Bj-evet
Major, United States Volunteers. Died at
Chicago, Illinois, July 6, 1888.
Q REVET Major Thomas Cordis Clarke, a companion
Hi of this Commandery of the First Class, died July 6,
1888, at his home in the city of Chicago, after an
illness of three days. Before his sudden and fatal attack,
he was apparently in the prime and vigor of manhood.
Physically an athlete, mentally and in demeanor a man
of unusually even temper, always cheerful, friendly,
compcinionable, sympathetic, never flurried or excited in
his own behalf or in his own interests, his best work, his
most earnest endeavor, was put forth in behalf of his
friends. He was one of those rare men of whom it might
be truly said, he delighted more in the good of others
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than in his own prosperity. The name of friend and the
quality of friendship is better defined and of more vigor
ous fibre when coupled with his memory. He was the
friend of all the members of this Commandery; he loved
the Loyal Legion and all its members. Next to his
family, this Order was the dearest association on earth
to him. He was loyal and true in all things, loving his country
passionately, well nigh worshiping the old flag, beneath
whose shining folds he proudly marched, in boyish pride,
through Baltimore's bloody streets, joining the Sixth
Massachusetts Infantry in April, 1861. He attained the
rank of Captain when Gettysburg was fought, in 1863.
Had the war found him more mature in years, with his
splendid physique and sterling qualities of mind and
heart, it is hard to say what official rank he might not
have attained. As it was, he was younger than most of
us, dying at the age of forty- six. But no matter what
his rank, he was in every sense a man, manly in his
actions and aspirations, gentle and kind, sincere, honest
and honorable.
Major Clarke was intensely imbued with State pride —
the right sort of pride. He was proud of Massachusetts
because she never swerved in her devotion to the flag.
Well might she be proud of such a son. We have reason
to be proud of such a companion. The city of Chicago,
upon whose official roster the name of our dead friend
appeared for more than a decade, has reason to be
proud of him. No hint or suspicion was ever whispered
against his fair fame. Oh, rare embodiment and com
bination of most excellent virtues! Brave soldier, stead
fast friend, untarnished public officer! For thy valor we
will lay upon thy tomb the heroic emblems — a broken
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friendship, thou deservest the love of thy brethren; and
for thy unsullied integrity thou hast earned the compan
ionship of the just. Charles Fitz Simons,
John W. Streeter,
Taylor P. Rundlet,
Committee.

ALBERT ZABRISKIE GRAY.
Chaplain Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, United States Volunteers .
Died at Chicago, Illinois, February ^7, i88g.
31NCE our last meeting another vacancy has occurred
in the ranks of our Commandery, and we are called
upon to mourn the loss of Chaplain Albert Z. Gray,
who died in Chicago, after a brief illness, on the 27th day
of February, 1889. Although one of our later members,
he was warmly attached to our organization, and it was
a source of regret to him, as to us, that his exacting
duties as Warden of Racine College prevented his more
frequent attendance.
Chaplain Albert Zabriskie Gray was born in the City
of New York, of an old and distinguished family, on the
second of March, 1840. He was educated at the Univer-
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sity of New York, where he graduated in i860. He
immediately entered upon the preparatory studies for
the ministry in Geneva, Switzerland, which were com
pleted later at the General Theological Seminary of the
Episcopal Church, in the City of New York, where he
was ordained by Bishop Potter in 1864.
He was profoundly moved by the great struggle then
going on for the preservation of this government, and his
admission to the ministry was hastened by Bishop Potter
to enable him to accept the position of Chaplain in the
Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, commanded by Colonel
Rand, now Recorder of the Commandery of the State of
Massachusetts. He promptly took the field with his
regiment, where he shared with it the glories, perils,
hardships and privations of the magnificent Cavalry
Corps of the Army of the Potomac in 1864 and 1865,
commanded by that illustrious soldier. Lieutenant Gen
eral Sheridan.
Chaplain Gray was captured by the enemy in one of
the many battles in which he participated, and was a
prisoner of war when General Lee surrendered at Appo
mattox Court House in 1865. During his service in the
army he became especially endeared to his command,
and was a devoted, faithful soldier, in the hospital and
around the camp fire, in the ranks of those "who fought
without guns. "
Upon the return of peace he accepted the rectorship
of a parish at Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he remained
two years, when ill health compelled him to resign. He
then visited the principal countries of Europe; extended
his travels to Egypt and the Holy Land, and, upon his
return to the country he had helped to restore, he ac
cepted a parish at Garrisons on the Hudson, where he
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Racine College. He brought to his new field of labor,
in the West, a mind cultivated by study at home and
abroad, and a lofty zeal in his work, to which he faith
fully devoted himself with marked ability and success
until his resignation in December, 1888.
Chaplain Gray was a man of culture and marked
literary ability; he was a frequent contributor of fugitive
pieces to the press. Among others, a poem upon the
death of Canon Charles Kingsley and one upon the fight
at " Tel el Keber, " in Egypt, attracted marked attention.
He published several books, among which were a collec
tion of sacred poems, a collection of studies in Palestine,
"The Land and the Life," and "Mexico As It Is."
His death, in Chicago, at the early age of forty-nine,
in the flower of manhood, with a wide career of usefulness
and honor before him, was a misfortune deeply to be
deplored. He labored with zeal and earnestness in every position
to which he was called. In private life he was warm
hearted, cultivated and courteous — a perfect type of the
Christian gentleman.
Chaplain Gray left a widow and a wide circle of de
voted friends but no child to bear his name or succeed
him on the rolls of the " Loyal Legion."
His work is done; we can truthfully say of him in his
own beautiful language in one of his sacred poems:
" Oh, happy they whose faith and love
Through grave and gate of death endure!
Thrice happy they, who from its sleep
Rise to the vision of the pure."
The Illinois Com.mandery of the Loyal Legion, bear
ing in mind his sterling qualities as soldier and citizen,
tenders its respectful sympathy to his bereaved widow
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of regard to the memory of Chaplain Albert Zabriskie
Gray be entered upon its records. Ephraim A. Otis,
Amos J. Harding,
James Nevins Hyde,
Committee.

ANSON SPERRY.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Volunteers.
Died at Marengo, Illinois, August 24, i88g.
ONCE again is our first fall gathering saddened by the
knowledge that, since our last meeting, one more
of our number has been called away, and to his
home. On Saturday evening, August 24, 1889, died
Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Anson Sperry,
late Paymaster of Volunteers.
Earnest and loyal in character. Colonel Sperry felt
deeply the personal responsibility inherent in his citizen
ship, and from the moment when war was made a neces
sity, he was warmly and earnestly active in his neighbor
hood, in furthering, in his own modest but efficient way,
to the best of his ability, the prompt and best fulfilling
of our country's calls for soldiers and their needs.
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As the months of the years of 1861 and 1862 passed,
with their disheartening record, and the immensity of
the struggle for national existence became apparent.
Colonel Sperry recognized and accepted the duty resting
upon each citizen of our land in its need, to give to the
utmost of his personal service, and without thought of
sacrifice he closed up his business connections and offered
his services to his country.
Already approaching the age deemed unfitting for the
needs of a soldier's service in the field; untrained and in
experienced in soldierly duties, but thoroughly equipped
in experience of business modes and in exact accounting,
he knew that his best service to his country lay in some
position of business responsibility; and in accordance
with his request, he was appointed Paymaster of Volun
teers in February, 1863, and joined at once the Army of
the Cumberland.
During the years 1863, '64 and '65, Colonel Sperry
was prompt, efficient, conscientious, active, ofttimes
daring, and always thorough and exact, in the full per
formance of the trying and responsible duties that the
shifting scenes and varying localities of the war made
necessary. In December, 1865, he was mustered out;
and to the acknowledgment from the Paymaster Gener
al's office of the receipt and settlement of his accounts,
was added an autograph and complimentary note of ap
preciation, stating that his had been one of the very few
of the accounts then finally settled and closed, that had
been found without error and fully exact.
Returning to civil, life Colonel Sperry found himself,
like many another in those days, not only broken in
health from his services for his country, but outside the
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a fitting manner. After several years of an experience,
unhappily not rare for those who during the war had
served loyally and with whole hearts their country, he
formed a business relation with our late honored and
revered Associate Member of the Third Class, the Hon.
Mark Skinner, and with him for some twenty years was
entrusted, in our city, with the administration and wise
care of many millions of trust funds, and with a confi
dence that was always justified in his rectitude and loyal
exactness. As has been well said of him, in a personal letter, by
one who had known him well and had trusted him largely:
"Perfect in integrity, in industry, zeal, faithfulness, sim
plicity, and in self-forgetting devotion to the needs of
others. Colonel Sperry was an unfortunately rare man;
and one whom none who knew him well could spare."
We, in our Commandery, knew Colonel Sperry in an
especial way; as we know those who have been tested
and tried, and found in times of trial and need, always
loyal and brave and true. We shall receive no more his
modest and quiet greeting; we shall enjoy no more with
him the reminiscences of war days; we shall miss and
mourn him at our future meetings.
Resolved, That our Commandery tender to the family
of our late companion, sincere sympathy in the great
loss that has lately come to them.
Sartell Prentice,
Wm. E. Strong,
E. A. Otis,
Committee.

EDWARD BURGIN KNOX.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army. Died at
Chicago, April g, i8go.
THE Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion has again been called upon to
mourn the loss of an honorable companion. Colonel
Edward B. Knox, one whose martial spirit united him
with the military history of his adopted State, long be
fore the Civil War called out the latent patriotism of
this country.
Colonel Knox first served as an enlisted man, in the
National Guards Cadet Corps, organized in Chicago,
March 19, 1856; again, in the United States Cadets, or
Ellsworth Zouaves Corps, where we find him serving as
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After the first shot was fired on Sumter he lost no
time in tendering his services to his country. He was
commissioned First Lieutenant, Eleventh New York
Infantry, U. S. V., April 23, 1861; promoted Captain,
Forty -fourth New York Infantry, July 4, 1862; Major,
July 14, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel (not mustered), August
27, 1863. He was mustered out October 11, 1864, to
receive an appointment in the Regular Army as Second
Lieutenant. He was promoted to First Lieutenant, Twenty-first
Infantry, U. S. A., June 16, 1865, serving thereafter in
various honorable details, until May 7, 1870, when he
was placed on the retired list on account of wounds.
He was brevetted Captain for "gallant and meritor
ious services " at Hanover Court House; brevetted Major
for Gettysburg, and brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for
Spottsylvania Court House.
Recognizing the importance of a thoroughly organized
National Guard, he again entered the service of the State
of Illinois as Captain Co. B, First Infantry, September
8, 1874; Major, First Infantry, April 10, 1875, resigned
February 14, 1876. He again entered the State service
as Captain Co. F, First Infantry, October 15, 1877; was
promoted Major, July 30, 1878, Lieutenant Colonel,
March 19, 1879, and Colonel, October 11, 1882. Fail
ing health compelled him to tender his resignation,
which was accepted April 6, 1889. His death occurred
April 9, 1890.
But no mere record of military service will give the
history of Colonel Knox. His life cannot be measured
by dates of commissions, or periods of duty. For into
these commissions he poured out all the strength of his
life, striving as few men have striven to make these
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the three graces of the warrior — courage, obedience, loy
alty — never faltering in times of danger, never hesitating
in a swift compliance with all orders given him; and at
all times rendering a true and cordial support to his
commanders. As a man, he was genuine to the core, never assum
ing either position or acquirement not fully his; he was
simple, refined, and courteous; generous to a fault in the
only gifts he had to give — his time, his abilities and his
earnest untiring efforts; of these he gave without stint to
his city, state and country. He gave according to the
sacred injunction, "without thought of recompense";
and that this giving was liberal, and without expectation
of return, his limited estate spealcs eloquently.
Resolved, That this memorial be spread upon the
records of this Commandery, and that a copy of the
same be forwarded to the daughter of Colonel Knox.
Edgar D. Swain,
Chas. Fitzsimons,
Charles R. E. Koch,
Committee.

SAMUEL RUSH HAVEN.
Majo7' ayid Surgeon, United States Volunteers. Died at Neiv Lenox,
Illinois, May 4, i8go,
WE are again called upon to rnourn the loss of a com-
panio.i; one highly distinguished in his sphere of
duty during the Civil War, and one who had just become
a member of the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion
when the silent messenger of the Most High called him
from us.
At the meeting held on April 10, 1890, Samuel Rush
Haven, Major and Surgeon of United States Volunteers,
was elected a companion of the Order through this Com
mandery, but before the next meeting, when he would
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Dr. Haven was born at Sheridan, Chautauqua county.
New York, on the 29th day of January, 1827, and died
at the residence of his brother, Dwight Haven, on May
4, 1890, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. His father,
emigrated to the neighborhood of Chicago, in the fall of
1834, bringing with him the doctor, then a child less than
eight years old. His young life was passed with the
incidents and struggles common to those who lay foun
dations in a new country. Upon entering manhood he
chose the profession of medicine as his life work, and
matriculated at Rush Medical College, in 1847. He
graduated in due course with distinction in his class.
He afterwards practiced his profession with great success,
going to California in 1850, and returning to Chicago in
1853, where he formed a partnership with Dr. J. W.
Freer. In religious faith the doctor was a Congrega-
tionalist; in politics, a free-soiler and abolitionist.
When Fort Sumter was fired upon he immediately
abandoned the emoluments of his private practice and
was among the very first to enroll himself among that
noble body of physicians and surgeons, who, amid all
the hardships and privations of a soldier's life in the
field, devoted their professional experience and skill to
relieving the sufferings and saving the lives of those of
us who were stricken with disease or wounded in the
service of our country; and to whose unselfish devotion
many of us are indebted for what of health and life we
have enjoyed in the remnant of our days.
On April 21, 1861, Dr. Haven volunteered on the
first expedition to Cairo, under Brigadier General Swift.
Afterwards on August 3, 1861, he was mustered into the
service of the United States, as Major and Surgeon of
Volunteers, and entered upon his duties in the Army of
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Smith as Brigade Surgeon. He was afterwards Division
Surgeon under General Heintzelman, and Corps Surgeon
under General Hancock. He was also with General
Grant's command at Memphis. He resigned his com
mission on March 9, 1863. Since the war his home has
been in Chicago, though absent a great deal in traveling
abroad. After leaving the army he did not resume the
practice of his profession, but gave much of his attention
to investments in real estate, in which by the exercise of
sound judgment he was abundantly successful.
In the death of Dr. Haven the Commandery suffers
the loss of a companion, who, in the crisis of the great
rebellion, served his country with unselfish devotion, and
great professional distinction, and who, in civil life, in
the quiet and honorable discharge of all its duties, has
borne himself without blemish or reproach.
Joseph B. Leake.
Elijah B. Sherman,
Oliver W. Nixon,
Committee.

JULIUS WHITE.
Brigadier Ge?ieral and Brevet Major General, United Slates
Vohmteers. Died at Evanston, Illinois, May 12, i8go.
IN 1 861 Julius White laid aside the emoluments of an
important office, in whose tenure he was assured, to
raise and command an Illinois regiment. Of modest
fortune, he did not hesitate, at the call of the country,
to exchange civic place, power, and large revenue, for
the hardships, chances, perils, and modest pay of a field
officer in a volunteer regiment. From September, 1861,
until the close of the war he was constantly on arduous
duties. He was promoted Brigadier General and Brevet
Major General for gallant and meritorious services. His
successes are a part of the history of the armies East
and West, and were obtained on many fields of glory,
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from Pea Ridge and Knoxville to Petersburg and the
defenses of Richmond.
Trained as a civilian General White entered the army
when the sun of his life had far passed the meridian line,
but his ceaseless study, his close application, his native
love of arms, and his earnest patriotic devotion, easily
made him a noble officer, fitted to, and exercising large
commands. The numerous orders of congratulation,
those badges of decoration for the American officer, which
were issued to him, speak the appreciation his superiors
entertained of his ability and bravery; and when, at the
close of the great war, the headquarters flag of the
Ninth Corps was given into his custody by companions-
in-arms who had long seen it wave over his tent in rest,
and by his side in battle, those who bestowed it gave
with it their hearts' best wishes and their sincere admi
ration for the commander, and comrade, and friend.
He prized it more than a marshal's baton, and held it
dear as his life through all the following years.
Two of the members of your committee were associ
ated with General White from 1861 until the close ofhis
life. We knew his worthy desires and noble ambitions,
and with that thorough knowledge we bespeak for him
the affectionate regard of this Commandery, and a high
place among the names of our illustrious dead. He was
a brave soldier, a man who performed thoroughly and
well all the duties which the fortunes of war, or the
claims of civil life put upon him; and the world is the
better for his having passed through it.
Content with the moderate successes of civil life,
cherishing the enduring memories of the days of battle,
one bright honor he deeply craved — to be chosen Com
mander in this noble Order. His wish was gratified;
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these scenes to the greater ones that lie beyond the line.
But with him, and the beloved and worthy of God and of
man, "there is no death, only a going down of the stars
to rise upon fairer shores."
Your committee submit the foregoing report and fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That the foregoing report be approved and
spread upon the records, and that copies thereof, signed
by the Commander and Recorder of this Commandery,
be presented to the widow and family of the deceased.
John C. Black,
E. A. Blodgett,
John L. Beveridge,
Committee.

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Major First Illinois Light .4rtillery United States Volunteers
Died at Chicago, July ii, i8go.
3ILENTLY and often the ranks of the Loyal Legion
are closing upon the vacant spaces left by those
who have heard life's tattoo for the last time, and
now lie with arms at rest to await the reveille at the
Resurrection. Another one of those who near thirty
years ago responded with all the spendid courage of
youth to the call of an outraged country, has gone out
from among us.
Major John Adams Fitch died on the evening of July
I Ith, after a quiet business life passed in the employ of
the United States Government for the years succeeding
his active participation in the Civil War. He left a wife
whose devotion during a long period of illness greatly
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lightened the intense physical suffering which he was
called upon to endure.
Major Fitch was born and grew to manhood in the
State of Vermont, and he had had but a few years ex
perience in business at Chicago previous to July, 1861,
when he became a member of Battery E, First Regiment
Illinois Artillery, being mustered into the United States
service as Junior First Lieutenant of the same Battery
in the December following. In May, 1863, he became
Captain, and later Major, serving with the Army of the
Tennessee until his muster out in August, 1865.
Efficient g.s an artillerist, zealous, alert and cour
ageous as an officer, he was duly valued by his division
and corps commanders. One of the various emergencies
when he was called to vital service was at Guntown,
when, as a forlorn hope, his battery was placed in front
and directed to hold the enemy in check until the infan
try and cavalry had fallen-back in safety to the rear.
As a man, he possessed all the noble attributes of
friendship; patient with the vagaries of those he esteemed
and true as steel to all who called him friend, he had a
grim, sardonic detestation of shams and pettiness. These
peculiarities endeared him to those so fortunate as to
know him intimately and made him extremely popular
with that large class of business men with whom he
came in contact during many years' service as a deputy
collector at the Port of Chicago.
For the Loyal Legion, Major Fitch felt the most in
tense regard and pride, and we bespeak for him from our
comrades of this Commandery an affectionate remem
brance. Richard S. Tuthill,
Abial R. Abbott,
Alonzo N. Reece,
Committee,

ROBERT HENRY LEWIS.
First Lieutenant First Delaivare Independent Battery, United States
Volunteers. Died at Cleveland, Ohio, November 27, i8go.
'TT.S THE unflagging march of time adds year upon
YK year to the already distant epoch in our country's
^^ history upon which the Loyal Legion formed its
association, it is but natural that we should be more fre
quently summoned in sorrow to perform the last rites at
the biers of departed comrades who have closed their
records here and have joined the great majority. We
are already living among the loved and hallowed memo
ries of dear, brave comrades who have crossed the river
and are waiting to welcome us.
But each new loss of a loved and honored companion
brings its own fresh grief and regret, and none more
deeply felt than the loss of Lieutenant Lewis.
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First Lieutenant Robert H. Lewis died at his home
in Cleveland, Ohio, November 27, 1890. As a soldier,
citizen and friend, his life was without blemish, and his
untimely loss will be mourned by all who knew him. For
the Loyal Legion Lieutenant Lewis felt the deepest re
gard and a soldier's pride, and the surviving members of
the Order will cherish his memory in affectionate en
durance.
Henry S. Pickands,
A. Egerton Adams,
James W Ball,
Committee.

THADDEUS HURLBUT CAPRON.
First Lieutenant {retired), United States Army. Died at
Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, December 24, i8go,
ONCE more we are called upon to mourn the loss of
an admired and beloved companion, almost in the
prime of life — a life made much shorter by the
hardships, privations and campaigns of the battles of the
War of the Rebellion and on the Frontier, extending over
a period of about twenty-seven years.
Major Thaddeus H. Capron died at Sharon Hill, Penn
sylvania, where he had recently settled with his family.
Major Capron entered the service as private in the
Fifty-fifth Illinois Infantry, September 9, 1861; was pro
moted to Quartermaster Sergeant November 25, 1862;
discharged to accept a commission March i, 1863. He
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was commissioned Second Lieutenant Fifty-fifth Ilhnois
Infantry September 4, 1862; promoted First Lieutenant
and Regimental Quartermaster August i, 1863. He was
commissioned Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U.
S. v., June I, 1865; promoted Major and Quartermaster
June 6, 1865; honorably mustered out of the service
October 31, 1865. He was commissioned Second Lieu
tenant in Ninth Infantry, U. S. A., June 22, 1867, and
promoted to First Lieutenant, November 8, 1871, which
commission he held until within a few years, when he
reluctantly retired from the army, on account of physi
cal disabilities.Major Capron participated in all the glorious achieve
ments of the Army of the Tennessee and in the Indian
campaigns of the West, with distinction. No more en
thusiastic and patriotic young soldier undertook the de
fense of his country in 1861, than he.
He has gone from among us and we sincerely mourn
him, not only as a companion of the Order of the Legion,
but as a true man in every relation of life. In this hour
of trial we extend to his family our heartfelt sympathy
and the assurance that we, his fellow officers, will cherish
his memory to the end.
Arthur C. Ducat,
Judson D. Bingham,
John T. McAuley,
Committee.

ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT.
First Lieutena7it First Illinois Ai'tillery, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, January g, i8gi.
TILBIAL RALPH ABBOTT was born April 5, 1832,
g\ at Cobbleskill, N. Y. He received his academic
^^^ education at Amherst college, and his professional
training in the Harvard Law School and in the office of
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton.
He came to Chicago in 1857 or 1858 and began the
practice of the law with excellent prospect of success.
Ardent in his love of country and intense in his hatred of
all forms of slavery and oppression he took an active
part in the presidential contest which resulted in the
election of Abraham Lincoln. And when war came, his
patriotic fervor reaching the point of white heat natur-
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ally made him among the first to respond to the call for
troops. Lieutenant Abbott enlisted April 21, 1861, as a pri
vate in Battery A, First Illinois Light Artillery; was pro
moted Senior First Lieutenant in Battery E of the same
regiment in December, 1861. This Battery was attached
to General W. T. Sherman's Division, and in the battle
of Shiloh is said to have fired the first shot.
In this terrible and bloody struggle Lieutenant Abbott
was severely wounded by a minie ball in the left shoul
der, the effect of which lasted through life, making it im
possible for him to raise his left arm or to bear any
weight upon it. He however, as soon as permitted, re
joined his command and was again wounded in the Talla
hatchie Campaign. In March, 1863, "on account of
wounds received in battle and resulting disability," he
resigned his commission and returned to Chicago to re
sume the practice of law.
Language can add nothing to the eloquence of such
a record of prompt, brave, loyal service in the cause of
country and freedom. The same absolute fidelity to
truth and a high sense of duty which actuated our com
panion and friend at this beginning of his career and sent
him into the army, there to do his share towards the
preservation of a republican form of government and our
free institutions was through life a notable characteristic
of him as a citizen and as a member of the honorable
profession of the law. In his professional life his promi
nent characteristic was his perfect fairness and honesty.
This quality arose not from motives of expediency or
policy, but was so ingrained in his very nature that he
accorded the same virtues to his fellow men as a neces
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broad and liberal reading not alone in the law but as
well in the ampler and sweeter fields of poetry and gen
eral literature.
His home life was ideal. In the tender and true love
(the tenderest and truest love this world can give) of a
cultivated and congenial wife and two fond daughters,
Abbott found ever his content and earthly happiness.
To this family the Illinois Commandery of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Lieutenant
Abbott was a highly honored and justly esteemed com
panion, herein tender condolence and sympathy.
Richard S. Tuthill,
Henry W. Caldwell,
Allen C. Waterhouse,
Committee.

HENRY WILLIAM BETLEY HOYT.
Captain One Ilujidred and Thirteent.h Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers, Died at Chicago, Febrziary 12, i8gi,
ONCE again on the march through life are we halted
to close the ranks of this Commandery, from which
has fallen a loved and faithful companion, who has
answered to the final roll call.
Another of the many heroes, who in the hour of its
greatest peril so nobly responded to the Nation's call for
help, and with all the zeal and earnestness of his nature
did what best he could to protect it from impending
danger, has folded his cloak about him and lain down to
that sleep from which there is no waking.
Captain Henry William Betley Hoyt died on the
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surrounded by his family and friends, who had labored
unceasingly but without avail to bring back that life so
dear to them.
Captain Hoyt was born June 25, 1841, at Henry, Illi
nois, where the earlier years of his life were passed.
Afterwards, removing to Chicago, he became a member
of Ellsworth's Zouaves. At the breaking out of the Re
bellion he was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the
One Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
commanded by Colonel George B. Hoge, and afterwards
promoted to the rank of Captain in the same regiment,
serving with distinction in the Second Division, Fifteenth
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, at Chickasaw Bayou,
Arkansas Post, Miliken's Bend, Vicksburg, Jackson and
Eastport, a part of the time as Signal Officer at the in
stance of General Sherman, who entertained for him the
highest regard.
Brave and fearless as a soldier, he was at the same
time courteous to all. Of a disposition naturally genial
and happy, his presence was a sunshine. In whatever
capacity he was called upon to serve, he left behind him
the evidence of duty well performed.
In his membership he has honored this Commandery,
and it is meet that his name should be honored by the
affectionate remembrance of his companions.
Charles W Drew,
Nelson Thomasson,
Frederick \V. Mercer,
Committee.

HOSMER ALLEN JOHNSON.
Companion of the Third Class. Died at Chicago, February 26, iSgi.
THE Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, in the
death of Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson, which occurred on
the 26th day of February, 1891, at his home in Chicago,
has lost one of its most esteemed and honored members.
His career was one of unusual distinction and useful
ness. He was born near Buffalo, New York, in 1822, but
his parents ten years later moved to Michigan, where he
passed his youth and early manhood. He was educated
at the Michigan University, from which he graduated in
1849. Dr. Johnson came to Chicago in 1850, where for more
than forty years he pursued his profession and devoted
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himself to the science of medicine with a zeal which
knew neither change nor shadow of turning. He was
among the earliest Professors in Rush Medical College,
was one of the founders of the Chicago Medical College,
and one of its Professors until his death.
It is believed that no man did more to elevate the
standard of medical education in the United States than
Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson; and to no one is that learned
profession under greater obligations. He was one of the
founders and for many years President of the Chicago
Academy of Sciences; a member of the faculty of Mercy
Hospital; a consulting physician of the Cook County
Hospital, and of the Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary;
indeed, it would be difficult to name a single scientific or
charitable association in Chicago, with which he was not
prominently and actively identified.
At the commencement of the War for the Union, Dr.
Johnson abandoned a lucrative practice, and offered his
services to his country, and for four years, as President
of the Board of Examining Surgeons for Illinois, rendered
valuable and faithful service. It was a source of pro
found regret that his health, which was delicate from
childhood, prevented him from accepting active service
in the field; but his knowledge, skill, and scientific at
tainments were otherwise devoted to the service of his
country, and when his duties called him to the front to
examine Assistant Surgeons for promotion, he was re
peatedly brought into battle and served under fire as a
surgical operator.
After the great fire in Chicago, as a member of the
Chicago Relief and Aid Society, he gave his entire time
without fee or reward, for many months, to the needy
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recognized by his election as a member of the Third
Class by this Commandery — an honor which he always
highly appreciated. He was a regular attendant at its
meetings and took a deep interest in its growth and pros
perity. His career was rounded and complete, and at his
death, no man in his profession or in the city where he
lived, was held in higher esteem. His warm heart, and
gentle, kindly disposition, won the regard and friendship
of all who knew him, who unite with us in mourning for
his loss, and ' ' sorrow most of all that they shall see his
face no more."
The Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, bear
ing in mind his great public services, and the purity of
his life and character, has directed'this mark of regard
for his memory to be entered upon its records, and that
the Recorder send a copy to his bereaved family.
Ephraim A. Otis,
Edmund Andrews,
Thomas B. Bryan,
Committee.

ALONZO VAN NESS RICHARDS.
Second Lieutenant Signal Corps, United States Volunteers. Died at
Warren, Illinois, March ii, i8gi.

TTiNOTHER Companion of this Commandery has
£\ joined the silent majority. Lieutenant Alonzo
^~' V. N. Richards passed away at the residence of
his father-in-law, Hon. S. K. Miner, at Warren, Jo
Daviess county, Illinois, March ii, 1891, aged fifty years.
Lieutenant Richards responded in September, 1861,
to his country's call for troops, enlisting in Company H,
Seventh Wisconsin Infantry, which served with the Army
of the Potomac and participated in nearly all the engage
ments of that army. February 14, 1865, he was pro
moted Second Lieutenant for meritorious conduct, and
attached to the Signal Corps, U. S. V.
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After the close of the war he was ordered to report
to General P C. Connor at Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Territory, for duty as Signal Officer, serving with
efficiency in General Connor's campaign against the
Indians during the year 1865. He was mustered out of
service at Fort Leavenworth, December 9, 1865.
As a citizen Lieutenant Richards was known as an
ardent worker in the cause of right, which he was sure
to espouse according to the dictates of his conscience,
manifesting the same zealous spirit that characterized
him as a soldier during the war.
During several years he was editor and proprietor of
the Freeport Journal. Strong in his political faith, he
was unyielding and determined even to severity. Retir
ing from the political field to the more quiet pursuits of
life, he was noted for his loyalty in his friendships.
He was one of the most devoted husbands and fathers
and his home life was one of the happiest. Those who
knew him best will mourn the loss of a true friend and
genial companion.
To his bereaved family we tender our heartfelt sym
pathy in the great loss that has come to them, and we
request that a copy of this tribute to his memory be
furnished them.
John E. Smith,
John C. Smith,
Charles S. Bently,
Committee.

CHARLES DANIEL RHODES.
Captain and Assistatit Adjutant General, United States , Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 8, i8gi,
THE grim destroyer which we call death has- of late
made deep inroads upon our noble and dearly be
loved Order, claiming for its victims some who (speaking
in human terms) had but entered the prime of life and
fairly taken a firm hold upon the problems thereof, with
bright prospects of unravelling them — those who, having
had an honorable and brilliant career as soldiers, had
quietly passed into the avenues of business, carrying
therein the same characteristics that had made their im
press while daring and doing for their country's cause.
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as a private soldier in the Eighty- fourth Ohio Infantry;
promotions in regular order following until on February
9, 1865, he was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant
General, U. S. V., from which position he resigned on
June 9, 1865, having seen continuous service for three
years and eight months, and participated in campaign
and battle with honor to himself and to the cause he had
espoused — Knoxville, Reseca, Dallas, Kenesaw, Atlanta,
Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, Fort Anderson and Wil
mington, are engraved on his escutcheon.
Some time after the close of the war, he left his
native State to make his home in Chicago. For a num
ber of years success came to him in business, and a
prosperous life seemed to be an assuired fact. Reverses
came to try as by fire a solid, substantial character, and
through them all he passed unscathed.
In response to an inquiry, one of Captain Rhodes's
intimate friends, who holds a prominent position in our
city, writes as follows:
' ' In regard to a sketch of the life of my friend, Charles
D. Rhodes, I have to say, that I have known Captain
Rhodes for over twenty years, and he was always a very
modest, quiet, unassuming and retiring person; slow to
make friends, but after once knowing him he was a faith
ful and devoted friend. He was of a very self-sacrificing
disposition, never hesitating to put himself out to do any
one a favor or kindness."
Upon March 8, 1891, the summons came, and obedient
to the call, he passed into the great beyond.
Let us think of him not as dead, but having passed
into the true life, that is as endless and boundless as
eternity itself. Holmes Hoge,
Thomas S. Cunningham,
Archibald Winne,
Committee.

CHRISTOPHER GOODBRAKE.
Major a?id Surgeon Tiuentieth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Clintoji, Illinois, March ib, i8gi.
THE rolling of the muffled drums has scarcely died
away. The soft, sad notes of the trumpet, wailing
out a last good night, still linger in the air; and yet again
are we called upon to pay tribute to the memory of
another departed companion. Major and Surgeon Chris
topher Goodbrake. The clouds of woe lower densely
about our Commandery. Our official correspondence
comes heavily freighted with the emblems of mourning.
" And eyes are dimmed as honored name
Of comrade loved is spoken low.'
Christopher Goodbrake was born in the town of
Wiirtemberg, Germany, on the 14th day of June, 18 16.
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He graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in
1855, and practiced medicine continuously in Illinois,
except during the war, until his death. He settled in
the town of Clinton, and during these early days was an
intimate personal friend of Mr. Lincoln, who was many
times his guest when attending court at that place.
When the war broke out, true to the spirit of freedom
that had led him to seek a home in our "sweet land of
liberty, " he espoused the cause of his adopted country,
leaving his practice, and all that he held most dear, to
serve in the defense of those principles he cherished and
which he firmly believed were of inestimable value to
those who might come after him.
He was commissioned as Surgeon of the Twentieth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with the rank of Major, to
date from May 19, 1861, and served vvith his regiment,
participating in the battles of Fredericktown (Missouri),
Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Britton's Lane and various minor
skirmishes. In the fall of 1862, while at La Grange,
(Tennessee), he was appointed Chief Surgeon of the
Third Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, and partici
pated in the Holly Springs march, down the river to
Vicksburg, the marches to Brownsville, to Meridian and
in the Atlanta campaign.
At the expiration of his term, June 13, 1864, he was
requested by General McPherson and Medical Director
Moore to remain in the service. He was re-mustered
and served until the close of the Atlanta campaign when,
owing to ill health, he resigned to take effect September
17, 1 864. His resignation having been accepted, he
returned to Clinton and resumed the practice of his
profession. From this time until his death, his great
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positive character. He was a most excellent practitioner
— a man with a cultivated mind and clear judgment.
Throughout his entire professional life he was a staunch
supporter of all medical interests in the State, an influ
ential member of the Illinois State Medical Society and
at one time its honored President.
.At his home, among those he had served so faithfully
and for so many years, in the sunset of his days, his long,
weary march o'er the dusty highway of life has ended.
Crowned with the glory of a ripe old age, leaving a
fragrant memory where he stood and wrought among the
companions of his earlier years and surrounded by the
friends of his later manhood, he passed away on the i6th
day of March.
Then "Auf Wiedersehen," friend, companion, 'til the
shadows of night shall fall about us and the dawn of the
day shall find us again by your side answering to the
reveille roll call in the ranks of that innumerable army
that has marched beyond the sea.
We leave him to repose among the scenes of his last
labors, with hearts full of sympathy for those so sadly
bereft. John J. Abercrombie,
Charles W. Earle,
William A. McLean,
Committec^

WILLIAM EMERSON STRONG.
Lieutenant Colonel Tivelfth Wisconsin Infaiitry and Brevet Brigadier
General, United States Volunteers. Died at
Florence, Italy, April lo, i8gi.
THE announcement of the death of General William E.
Strong was received with profound sorrow by every
member of this Commandery. The summons came to
him suddenly, on the loth of April, 1891, at Florence,
Italy, where he had recently joined his family, hoping
that rest and change might restore his failing health.
No merely formal tribute of respect will adequately
measure the affectionate regard in which he was held by
all the members of the Loyal Legion, to many of whom
he was bound by ties of closest personal friendship.
General Strong was born at Granville, New York, on
the loth of August, 1840. His parents moved to Wis-
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consin a few years later, where he passed his youth and
early manhood. He had just been admitted to the bar
of his adopted State when the firing on Sumter stirred
his patriotic heart, and under the first call for troops in
1 86 1, his services were offered in defense of his country.
He immediately raised a company for the Second Wis
consin Infantry, in April, 1861, and began his military
career in the Army of the Potomac, where he took an
honorable part with his regiment in the first battles of
the war, at Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run. A few
months later, he was promoted Major of the Twelfth
Wisconsin Infantry, and joined that magnificent Army
of the Tennessee, with which his name and fame will be
forever associated, and where he remained until the close
of the war. There are those present who vividly recall
his soldierly figure, and manly bearing, as he marched
away with his regiment not to return until peace should
be restored to a united country.
General Strong, at an early period of the war, for
bravery in battle, was assigned to duty on the staff of
the gallant and lamented McPherson, by whom he was
held in the highest esteem, and he received the last order
General McPherson ever gave, a moment before he was
killed in the battle of Atlanta, on the 22d of July, 1864.
After the death of General McPherson, General Strong
remained on duty as Chief of Staff for General O. O.
Howard, until the restoration of peace in 1865. It is
sufficient to say of his military record, that he served
with distinction in every battle and campaign of the
Army of the Tennessee from the beginning to the end of
the war. When Vicksburg surrendered to that gallant
army, on the 4th day of July, 1863, the honor of raising
the American flag over its captured ramparts, was con
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dier General in March, 1865, for gallant and meritorious
service. After the war. General Strong came to Chicago to
engage in business, where he continued to reside until his
death. Although never holding any official position, he
always took an active interest in public affairs. In all
business transactions he was the soul of integrity and
honor, and no one in the city where he lived for more
than twenty years, was held in higher esteem. He was
the close personal friend of the lamented Sheridan, and
his companion in many excursions over the mountains,
and on our Western frontier. An interesting and graphic
description of one of these trips with the Secretary of
War, to the Yellowstone, in 1875, was published by
General Strong for private circulation. He was a man
of culture and refinement, and he had accumulated at his
home in Chicago a collection of original orders, letters
and other papers relating to the war, of great historical
value and interest. Of a frank, manly, and generous
disposition; brave, gallant and chivalric; he illustrated in
his own career, the highest and best type of the American
soldier. Hewas our Chevalier Bayard, "without fear
and without reproach."
A man of strong personality, enthusiastic and of strik
ing appearance, how pleasant and how easy it is to recall
him; we see him as Commander of this Order, presiding
and transacting its business with dignity and dispatch;
we see him at the banquet table, — and again hear his
words of patriotic eloquence. We see him the central
figure of the group, leading in the stirring songs of the
war. The members of this Commandery will miss his
friendly greeting more and more as the years pass by,
and will recall with inexpressible sadness
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He was one of the earliest members of this Com
mandery, in which he always took a deep interest, and
served for one term as its Commander. He fully appre
ciated the honor of such a position, and frequently stated
that he esteemed it higher than any office in the gift of
the people. His tender memory shall rest in the faithful
keeping of his associates of this Commandery, who knew
him best and loved him most, until we in turn shall have
joined the great majority; and his well-earned fame shall
constitute a part of the heritage to be transmitted to
those who shall perpetuate our Order through coming
time. Ephraim A. Otis,
James L. High,
Arthur C. Ducat,
David H. Gile,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Charles W. Drew,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Committee.

HENRY THEOPHILUS NOBLE,
Captain (Colonel by Assignment) and Assistant Quartermaster ,
United States Volunteers. Died at Dixon, Illinois,
April 75, i8gi.
"TLGAIN the Companions of this Commandery are ad-
/\ monished that death is the appointed lot of all,
^^^ and that when the fatal mandate goes forth it
must be obeyed; that neither wealth, station, or other
earthly thing can stay the power which breaks the brittle
thread of life and takes from us our cherished ones. A
few days ago there was among us one who loved this
Commandery with a passion as true as that of a mother
for her child. His voice mingled joyously with ours
when we sang the old familiar war-time songs. It is
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gladdened by his genial presence. To those of us
who knew him best there is a vacancy here which can
scarcely be filled. His death was untimely and his
Companions mourn as become those who have lost a
comrade and friend.
Colonel Henry Theophilus Noble was born of sturdy
New England stock in Berkshire county, Massachusetts,
May 30, 1830. At twenty years of age he came to Dixon,
Illinois, his home to the time of his death. This sad
event occurred April 15, 1891, after an illness of three
days. He attended as a delegate the recent State En
campment of the Grand Army of the Republic, and there
contracted a cold which resulted in pneumonia, from
which he died. He was followed to the grave by a whole
community reverently mourning. He was universally
respected and died universally regretted.
A few days before his death he declined re-election
to the office of Mayor of the city in which he lived. As
a citizen he was public spirited and ever ready to give of
his time or his means to promote the prosperity of the
community in which he lived. As a public official he
was honest, painstaking, and fearless in the discharge of
his duty as he understood it. As a business man he was
successful beyond the average. In social life he was
loved, honored and respected. In the circle of his ac
quaintances no man will ever be more regretted.
Colonel Noble was an ardent lover of his country.
He enlisted in the United States service April 17, 1861,
being the first man in Lee county to enroll his name as
a volunteer. On the organization of Company "A",
Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, he was elected First Lieu
tenant, and on May 24, 1861, commissioned Captain to
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duty as acting Assistant Quartermaster on the staff of
General W. A. Gorman until February, 1863, and from
that date until May, 1863, served in a like capacity on
the staff of General L. F. Ross, commanding a division
of the Thirteenth Corps, receiving honorable mention
from the latter in his report of the Yazoo Expedition.
Subsequently Colonel Noble served as aide on the staff
of General P. J. Osterhaus until July 4, 1863, participat
ing in all the operations around Vicksburg up to the date
of its surrender. July 8, 1863, he was commissioned as
Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. V., serving with the
army in the field, and also in charge of all river trans
portation at Helena, Arkansas. In March, 1865, he was
assigned to duty at Little Rock, Arkansas, as Assistant
Quartermaster of the Department of Arkansas. Bre
vetted Major U. S. V., March 13, 1865, and soon after
brevetted Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of U. S. V.
Was Colonel by assignment and Chief Quartermaster,
Department of Arkansas, on the staffs of Generals J. J.
Reynolds and E. O. C. Ord from June 16, 1865, to
October 5, 1866, when he was honorably discharged
from service.
In performing the arduous and important duties which
devolved upon him he displayed signal ability, and was
warmly commended therefor by Quartermaster General
Meigs. His army life of five and a half years is without
spot or blemish. He did his duty, and his whole duty,
to his country in her hour of need. What more can be
added to the record ? He offered all he had to give — his
life if need be — no man could do more. He is gone from
among us, but we shall ever cherish his memory. He
was a brave and true man; may we all meet him in the
great hereafter. To his family we tender our most earn
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common with his fellow citizens because one of their
bravest and best has departed. John D. Crabtree,
A. C. Bardwell,
L. B. Crocker,
Committee.

JOHN GARDINER REID.
Captain Fifth United Slates Veteran Volunteers. Died at Chicago,
April 26, i8gi.
ON SUNDAY, the 26th day of April last, our late
Companion Captain John Gardiner Reid died at
his home at Ravenswood in this city, in the fifty-
fourth year of his age.
He was born at Poughkeepsie, New York, whence, a
year later, his parents removed to Salisbury, Connecti
cut, where his father. Rev. Adam Reid, presided over a
parish for upwards of forty years.
After our late companion had taken a course at Wil
liams College, had studied law and commenced its prac
tice, he removed to New London, Ohio, where he was
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fired upon. He enlisted as private in Company D of the
Eighth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the 17th
of April, 1 86 1, in response to the call of President Lin
coln for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months.
On June 3d of the same year he re-enlisted as private
in the same company and regiment, to serve for three
years or during the war.
On July 9, 1 86 1, as a member of that regiment he
entered upon active service in West Virginia. From that
time onward for a period of three years he was in active
service, as private, corporal, sergeant, first sergeant,
second and first lieutenant and captain, serving also as
adjutant of his regiment, and assistant adjutant general
of his brigade and division. His service was first under
General McClellan, in West Virginia; then under Gen
erals Lander and Shields (in what came to be known as
Shields' Division), in the Shenandoah Valley; then under
General Pope, in the Army of Virginia, and afterwards
in all the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Poto
mac until the 1 3th of July, 1 864, when he left the trenches
in front of Petersburg to be mustered out with his regi
ment. He re-entered the service in January, 1865, as re
cruiting officer for Hancock's Veteran Corps, in which he
was commissioned Captain, and served on the staff of
General S. S. Carroll, commanding First Division, as
Judge Advocate, until honorably mustered out in Novem
ber, 1865.
He personally took part in fifty-seven different en
gagements with the enemy. Concerning his bravery and
efficiency it is only necessary to state the fact that in
nearly all these engagements he was on the staff of Major
General S. S. Carroll, between whom and our late Com
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grew in the days that tried men's souls, and which we all
recognize as the same tie that has drawn and kept to
gether our Order of the Loyal Legion.
Among the battles in which he took part, was the
Battle of Port Republic. During that battle he rode a
gray horse, and was most conspicuous for this reason,
and thereby was especially exposed. Colonel Henry B.
Kelley, of the Confederate Army, in his account of the
Battle of Port Republic, printed by J. B. Lippincott Co.,
Philadelphia, 1886, among other things makes the follow
ing statement concerning a Federal officer as seen from
the Confederate side of the battle. He says: "A con
spicuous figure in the battle scene at this stage was a field
officer on a gray charger, directing and leading the advance
of the Federal line. Referring to an earlier stage of the
battle, on the right, near the river, the commanding officer
of the Fifth Virginia, in his report, makes mention of the
Federal officer upon a gray steed, who there rode in front
of his men, waving his hat and cheering them on; but this
officer, he says, was soon picked off by the Confederate
sharpshooters. As to this, he must have been mistaken,
for it was doubtless the same intrepid officer who led the
last charge of the Federal forces on that field, with a
gallantry so conspicuous as to win the admiration of both
armies. Whoever he was,, there is not a Confederate
survivor of that fierce fight who would not be proud to
salute him."
A member of this committee was in that battle, and
is satisfied from all the circumstances which then came
within his knowledge, and from conversations since had
with Captain Reid and others, that the gallant officer
mentioned was none other than our departed companion.
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this city, in which he always displayed the same untiring
energy and loyalty to the interests of his clients, which
distinguished him in defense of the flag during the war.
He leaves surviving him his widow and two young
daughters. To them this Commandery tenders its sym
pathy and claims the privilege of uniting its tears with
theirs in a common sorrow, they for the loss of a loving
husband and fond father, we for the loss of an honored
companion, friend and brother in arms, always loyal and
true and never found wanting.
John S. Cooper,
David T. Corbin,
William Vocke,
Committee.

FRANKLIN FOSTER FLINT.
Colonel (Retired), United States Army. Died at Highland Park,
Illitiois, September 75, i8gi,
WE are called upon again to mourn the loss of a
Companion of this Commandery. On Tuesday,
September 15, 1891, Companion Franklin Foster Flint
died at his home at Highland Park, Illinois. He was
born at Walpole, New Hampshire, April 29, 1821. In
1837 he was appointed a cadet from Massachusetts to
the United States Military Academy, whence he graduated
in 1 841, and was appointed a Second Lieutenant of the
Sixth Regiment of Infantry, in which capacity he. served
in the Florida war. He rose gradually through the
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The service of Companion Flint was rendered chiefly
on the frontier, sometimes in garrison and again in con
flict with hostile Indians, from Florida to California. It
has been said of him in this connection that "his wise
counsel and firm treatment of Red Cloud's tribe of Ogal-
lallah Sioux tended greatly towards bringing them to
terms of peace." In the War of the Rebellion he served
in Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri, always with credit to
himself and with satisfaction to his commanders.
Companion Flint had been for several years a resident
of Highland Park, where he was universally respected
and esteemed, his genial manners and gentlemanly
courtesy gaining' him friends among all classes. He was
modest, unassuming, and upright in character; in all his
long official life he was, like the motto of his ancestors,
" Sine Maculo."
Judson D. Bingham,
Michael R. Morgan,
Otho H. Morgan,
Committee.

THOMAS DEAN.
Captain Third Michigan Cavalry, United States Volunteers^
Died at Chicago, Illinois, December ly, i8gi ¦
OUR Companion, Captain Thomas Dean, passed to
his final rest on the 17th day of December, 1891,
after a comparatively brief illness, and while in the
prime of manhood. By his death this Commandery
loses a valued member, known to many of us for years
as a man of untiring energy, sterling virtues, and one
highly esteemed by a large circle of social and com-
¦mercial associates.
Captain Dean was born in Wayne County, New
York, in 1840, where he remained until about i860,
when he went to Allegan, Michigan, and engaged in
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Company A of the Third Michigan Cavalry. Full of
zeal, his latent abilities rapidly developed and promotion
followed. Early in the history of the Regiment, it was
fit that he should be advanced through the several grades
of non-commissioned officers, and in October, 1862, he
was commissioned Second Lieutenant. Again, in Feb
ruary, 1863, he was promoted to the First Lieutenancy,
and in October, 1864, was made Captain of the Com
pany with which he entered the service. Himself ex
alted by the men he was selected to lead, the great
commonwealth was honored with a brave and efficient
soldier. During the long and eventful years of active service,
he accepted the trials and severities of a soldier's life in
a loyal spirit, and was entitled to a full share of the
honors bestowed upon the company commanders of a
regiment so distinguished as was the Third Michigan
Cavalry. No braver man followed the flag or participated
in the engagements of this regiment.
Returning to civil pursuits, after the close of the war,
our lamented Companion was, for a time, in the office of
the Internal Revenue Department, at Memphis, Ten
nessee, and later on, was in charge of the Collector's
office for Internal Revenue, at Paw Paw, Michigan.
Subsequently, and for nearly twenty years, he had been
engaged in insurance, as local agent, traveling agent and
general adjuster for prominent companies, and in that
work was best known to many of us as a man of peculiar
tact and rare executive ability. It has been said, "As
an adjuster, he excelled — not merely for his intelligence
and efficiency, but for his conscientious work."
Captain Dean joined this Commandery, March 13,
1890, and has been an enthusiastic and valued member.
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tives, such expressions of sympathy as their great loss
may properly command from his Companions in arms,
who loved a common country, and followed the same
flag when the Nation was in peril.
An upright man, a sincere friend, a patriotic citizen,
a zealous Companion, in whose death this Commandery
loses an exemplary member.
William H. Taylor,
George H. Holloway,
Samuel S. Frowe,
Committee.

GEORGE HENRY BARRY.
Captain Eighth Neiv York Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, January j, i8g2.
THE roll of muffled drums is heard with unwonted
frequency, and the notes of one funeral dirge have
hardly died away before we are again called upon to bear
the remains of another loved Companion to his last rest
ing place, thus being reminded that we too shall soon be
summoned to report to the Great Commander.
To-night we would offer a tribute to the memory of
Captain George Henry Barry, who was born February
9, 1827, and died January 5, 1892.
He was enrolled as Captain of Company H, Eighth
New York Cavalry, September 23, 1861. His service
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tinguished himself as an officer of firm and quiet de
meanor, ever ready to execute any order, however haz
ardous, without murmur or complaint. He was an ac
tive participant in many important engagements, among
which may be mentioned Winchester (May 25, 1862),
Harper's Ferry (September 14, 1862), Antietam (Septem
ber 17, 1862), Chancellorsville (May 2, 1863), Gettys
burg (July 1-3, 1863), Culpepper (September 13, 1863),
and Stevensburg (November 7, 1863). In this last
named engagement he was severely wounded and dis
abled for further duty, and was honorably discharged
February 9, 1864.
As a citizen and neighbor it can be said that he was
ever ready to uphold the right, and at the same time it
seemed a pleasure for him to sacrifice his own comfort
and convenience if thereby he could contribute to the
happiness and pleasure of those around him.
Companion Barry was a most devoted husband and
a kind and indulgent father, preferring the quiet com
panionship of his family to that of any club or social
society, and therefore was most frequently seen at his
own fireside, in his cheerful home, which was one of the
happiest. Those who knew him best will mourn the loss
of a true and loyal friend and genial Companion.
To his family, in their sad bereavement and great
loss, we tender the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of
loving Companions.
Theodore H. Patterson,
Lewis B. Mitchell,
James M. Ball,
Committee.

WARREN EWEN.
Acting First Assistant Engineer United States Navy. Died at
Evanston, Illinois, January 26, i8g2,
etlPANION Warren Ewen was appointed Acting
Third Assistant Engineer, U. S. N., January 7,
1862; promoted Acting Second Assistant Engineer, De
cember 13, 1862, and Acting First Assistant Engineer,
November 12, 1863, and was honorably discharged from
service in the United States Navy, November 13, 1865.
He served on the United States Ship "Sumter" in
the Charleston Blockade. On May 11, 1862, he was
taken prisoner near Savannah, Georgia, and after five
months' imprisonment was released from Libby Prison
October 1 1, 1862, and ordered to the United States Ship
"Iroquois" in the blockade off Wilmington, North Caro-

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lina. He served on the "Bienville" in the Gulf of
Mexico; was with Farragut in the passing of Forts
Morgan and Gaines at Mobile; took part in the blockade
off Galveston, and was Engineer in charge of the iron
clad "Napa."
He was elected a member of the Order through this
Commandery, January 10, 1889; was transferred to the
Commandery of the State of California, May 16, 1889,
and re-transferred to this Commandery November 16,
1891. He died at Evanston, Illinois, January 26, 1892.
Your Committee's knowledge of his life, beyond his
Naval service, is quite limited. He was born in New
York City in 1829, and was married in early life to Sarah
F. Faulkner, who with five children mourns his loss.
His eldest son, Warren Ewen, of this city, is entitled, by
inheritance, to membership in this Order.
Shortly after the close of the Rebellion, Companion
Ewen entered the service of the Chilian Government, as
Chief Engineer of its Navy, and served therein during the
war with Spain. With torpedoes purchased through his
agency in New York and Europe, he was instrumental
in driving the Spanish fleet from the Chilian coast. After
the close of the Chilian War, he was engaged in building
railroads in Chili, Peru, and Bolivia; returning to the
United States in 1872, residing at intervals in New Or
leans, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Beyond
this, it is enough to know that, in his early manhood, he
tendered his services to his country; suffered five months'
military imprisonment; as a commissioned officer in the
United States Navy, for three years and five months,
trod the decks of four United States war ships; sailed
with the immortal Farragut past Forts Morgan and
Gaines into Mobile Bay; and was honorably discharged
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His devotion, life and record entitled him to be a
member of our Commandery, and as Companions of the
Order we mourn his loss, extend our sympathies to his
bereaved family, and will cherish his memory.
John L. Beveridge,
Archibald Winne,
Caleb S. Burdsal,
Committee.

JOHN RUSSELL WINTERBOTHAM.
First Lieutenant One Hundred and Fifty-iifth New York Infantry
and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, January jo, i8g2.
'TLT the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Ten-
l\ nessee and at the meetings of the Commandery
last fall, there was no one present whose apparent
health and vigor gave better promise of a long and use
ful life than our late Companion, John Russell Winter-
botham. Colonel Winterbotham was born at Frederickstown,
Ohio, February i, 1843. At seventeen years of age he
went to Ann Arbor, Mich. , to prepare for a college course.
During the vacation in September, 1862, while visiting
in New York State, he entered service, under the call
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made at that time by President Lincoln, as aid to General
Corcoran. On March 3, 1863, he was mustered in as
First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the One Hundred and
Fifty-fifth New York Volunteers. He was brevetted
Captain March 13, 1863, and afterwards was brevetted
Major and Lieutenant-Colonel for "faithful and meritori
ous services during the War."
Colonel Winterbotham's service was, until July, 1863,
in the Department of Virginia, in the country around
Norfolk. He participated in the actions in and around
Suffolk, including the period of the siege by Longstreet.
His brigade was then sent to Washington, and remained
in service in that Department until the opening of the
campaign of 1864, in May, when it was assigned to the
Second Army Corps, with whose heroic deeds he was
associated during that memorable campaign. Commenc
ing with the battle of the Wilderness, he was in the
charge in the angle at Spottsylvania on the 12th of May,
where the fighting, with only the breastworks between
the contending foes, lasted from early dawn till long
after dark in the evening, when the enemy fell back to
their inner intrenchments. He was in the charge at
Cold Harbor, on June 3, where the loss of nearly ten
thousand men in the space of an early morning attested
the heroic bravery of the troops making the charge, and
where the Second Corps, after making a lodgment in
the enemy's works, was obliged to fall back for want of
support. Colonel Winterbotham was wounded, but not
severely. There were but forty in his regiment who
came out of that charge fit for duty, of whom he was one.
On July 16, in the storming of the Petersburg works,
he was severely wounded, and was honorably discharged
on account of the disability caused thereby on December
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Winterbotham returned to Fort Madison, Iowa, where
he had resided at the time of his entry into service, and
there became cashier of the First National Bank.
In 1868 he removed to Chicago, in connection with
the contracting firm of J. H. Winterbotham & Sons, of
which firm he became manager, and continued in this
position, and as Vice-President of the Continental Na
tional Bank, until the time of his death, January 30,
1892. In his business career, his fidelity to his trusts,
his regard for the rights of others, and his pleasant dis
position, gained him the love of all under him, and the
respect and esteem of all with whom he did business.
Colonel Winterbotham's civil life was peculiarly a
home life; caring little for the larger forms of social life,
he was happy in the society of his friends and in his
family. Those of us who knew him always looked for
ward to the pleasure of meeting him at our monthly
gatherings, and will always feel the loss of his genial
presence and cordial welcome.
Benjamin W. Underwood,
Israel P. Rumsey,
George K. Dauchy,
Committee,

ROBERT BARLOW HANNA.
Captain Seventy-second Indiana Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Bloomington, Illinois, March 6, i8g2.
e^IPANION Captain Robert Barlow Hanna was born
at Brookville, Indiana, October 29, 18 19, and died
at Bloomington, Illinois, March 6, 1892, of a gunshot
wound in the hip, received at the battle of Chickamauga,
and which caused nearly complete paraplegia for more
than three years prior to his death. His remains have
been interred in the burying ground of his family, at
Attica, Indiana.
He was a civil engineer by profession; became
Captain of Company H, Seventy-second Indiana In
fantry Volunteers, at that company's organization; served
in what was known as ' 'The Mounted Lightning Brigade,"
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and was an active participant in the maneuvres, skir
mishes, raids and battles in which that command was
from time to time engaged, until he was disabled and
compelled by his injury to resign his commission.
Captain Hanna was a typical specimen of the Scotch
Irish race; in which, and in his ancestors, he took great
pride. His original Scotch ancestor was a follower of
Cromwell from the west of Scotland, and settled in
County Down, Ireland; where his sons, Robert and
Hugh, after the restoration of Charles the Second, be
came obnoxious to the favorites of that king because of
the activity and aggressiveness their father had shown;
and to better their condition and escape persecution,
sought a home in the American colonies — then the asylum
of that class — and settled in Wilmington, Delaware.
Robert went from there to Virginia. His eldest son,
Robert, went from Virginia to South Carolina. His son,
Robert, was Surveyor-General of that State; and after
wards settled on the Whitewater, at Brookville, Indiana.
His eldest son, Robert, the father of our deceased Com
panion, was the first United States Marshal for the
territory of Indiana, appointed by President William
Henry Harrison, and was also one of the first of the two
United States Senators representing that State on its
admission, by appointment, — one of the Senators-elect
having died before taking his seat.
Though otherwise in good health and remarkably
vigorous for his age, Captain Hanna was at times a great
sufferer from his wound, but he always bore his affliction
unmurmuringly and with a patience that was heroic, and
though helpless, and for a long time before his death
unable to move the lower portions of his body, while his
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waiting for the end, knowing that each week the paralysis
had crept a little closer to the vital organs, — yet, when
free from pain, he was cheerful and buoyant, and at
times overflowing with mirth and good nature, his crisp
conversation and frank, jovial manner often enter
taining, cheering and instructing those who came to
comfort him.
He was instinctively honest, with a keen sense of
justice and fairness; but hewas irritated by and intolerant
of anything that seemed tainted with cowardice, false
pretense or hypocrisy. Plainly democratic in all his
tendencies, a strict disciplinarian but a genial companion
when off duty; unconscious of physical fear, and endowed
with great powers of endurance, he was always at the
front in every affair or movement of interest, in civil as
well as military life. He was frank, open, often blunt
and undiplomatic, in his manner, giving emphasis to his
indignant or resentful thoughts in terse Anglo-Saxon.
He was rarely moved by the ordinary incidents of every
day life or of the camp or march, but in the crisis, the
trying ordeal of battle or heat of mental controversy, he
was outspoken in approval or disapproval. To the shirk,
coward, marauder and pretentious hypocrite, he was a
terror and a source of constant apprehension. He was
loved and respected by the earnest soldiers of his com
mand, and by his neighbors. He did not arouse enthus
iasm in his command. He inspired confidence — con
fidence in his ability, and in the ability of his superiors,
and in the success of the enterprise in which they might
be engaged. To the worn-out, sick or wounded, and to
the unfortunate and suffering, he showed the tenderness
of a woman; and to all he was generous to a fault: —
" Careless their merit or their faults to scan,
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Our deceased Companion had three brothers who
rendered honorable service in the army for the Union
during the war: — Major Claiborne Hanna, Paymaster,
U. S. A. ; Captain John L. Hanna, Eleventh Indiana
Infantry; Captain Joseph Madison Hanna, Eighth Illinois
Infantry, mortally wounded at Shiloh. He also had
three other brothers who were outspoken active unionists
during the war — William H. Hanna, Thomas Hanna and
David Hanna. His surviving children are — Captain
Robert Hanna, United States Army (retired); Samuel C.
Hanna, William Hanna and Mary L. Hanna. His de
clining years were made cheerful by his children and by
the children of a deceased brother — by Mrs. H. C. Luce,
with whom he for many years made his home, and Mrs.
George P. Davis, whom he had cared for in their infancy,
as well as by a host of friends. Those who knew him
longest and best, loved him most.
His thanatopsis evolved no remorseful pang; wrung
from him no appeal for pity or for mercy. Conscious of
the rectitude of his own life and of his right to be re
corded as "one who loved his fellow men," without
tremor, without doubt, with an abiding faith in the just
ness of his Creator as a God of Love and Mercy, he de
sired to begin his immortal life in the great hereafter
exactly as he had lived here, simply " doing the best he
knew how." Amid loving friends; ripe in years; having
faithfully served his country and fulfilled his obligations
to humanity, "sustained and soothed by an unfaltering
trust, he approached the grave like one who wraps the
drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant
dreams." John McNulta,
Walter Q. Gresham,
Thomas E. Milchrist,
Committee.

DANIEL DUSTIN.
Colonel One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry. Brevet Brigadier
General United States Volunteer's. Died at Carthage,
Missouri, March jo, i8g2.
TT.GAIN the message which is becoming so frequent
jf\ reaches us, telling that another of our Companions
^^^ has joined the Grand Army invisible, and we who
tarry here yet a little longer, place on our record our
estimate of his worth.
General Daniel Dustin was born in Topsham, Ver
mont, October 5, 1820, where the earlier years of his
life were passed. He studied medicine, taking a medical
course at Dartmouth College, graduating therefrom in
1846. He practiced his profession in Vermont and in
California until 1858, when he came to Sycamore,
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he represented Nevada County, California, in the legis
lature. At the breaking out of the Rebellion, he en
listed in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and was mustered
into the service in September, 1861, as Captain of
Company L. In January, 1862, he was promoted to
Major of that regiment. In September, 1862, he was
made Colonel of the One Hundred and Fifth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry; was in the Army of the Cumberland,
and from the beginning of the Atlanta campaign to the
end of the war, in the First Brigade, Third Division,
Twentieth Army Corps, serving for nearly three years
with President Harrison, who was Colonel of the
Seventieth Indiana, in the same Brigade. He was
brevetted Brigadier General and commanded the Second
Brigade of said Division and Corps during the latter part
of the service, which culminated in the Grand Review at
Washington, May 24, 1865.
Returning home, the General was elected County
Clerk of DeKalb County, in the Fall of 1865; afterwards
County Treasurer, and then Circuit Clerk of said County,
where he served for ten years. He has been Trustee of
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, of Quincy, since its
organization, and on May 2, 1890, he was appointed
United States Assistant Treasurer at Chicago, which
position he held till the time of his death. He died on
March 30, 1892, and was buried at his home in Sycamore,
the third day of April, 1892, leaving a widow and four
children. At his funeral the following telegram from his
old friend and comrade. President Harrison, was read: —
Executive Mansion, 'Washington, April i, 1892.
John C. Craft,
Acting Assistant Treasurer United States, Chicago.
I have heard with great sorrow of the death of my old comrade and
friend. General Daniel Dustin. He was a gallant soldier and a citizen
of sterling worth. Please convey to his family the assurance of my
sympathy. Benjamin Harrison.

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General Dustin was a man who drew after him a
friendship that was lasting; the more one knew him the
better he loved him. His was an impulsive and genial
nature. His generous heart and his true worth drew
about him a circle of acquaintances who were charmed
into a life long attachment.
He loved his country and cherished a most ardent
affection for the old flag; while on his deathbed, not
many minutes before he died, he requested to have the
flag brought to his bedside, and as he gazed upon its
beautiful stripes and Stars, he called for three cheers for
"Old Glory."
His family has lost a devoted husband and a kind
father; the community in which he lived, a beloved
neighbor and friend; this Commandery a loyal Com
panion; the Government, a faithful and trustworthy
officer, and the Nation a patriot. He has passed from
the "known to the unknown," from earth to the here
after of hope and faith, but his rare qualities of mind and
heart will remain as pleasant memories to those who
knew and loved him. EvERELL F. Dutton,
James A. Sexton,
Theodore S. Rogers,
Committee.

SAMUEL BALDWIN SHERER.
Major Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, July i6, j8g2.
3AMUEL BALDWIN SHERER was born at Mont
rose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. March
ing in the grand column that peopled and devel
oped the West, the call to arms found him a resident of
Aurora, -Illinois, where he entered the service as a mem
ber of a troop designated as ''Company A, Dragoons."
His worth being quickly recognized, he was elected First
Lieutenant, his command being immediately assigned to
the Thirty sixth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, then sta
tioned at Rolla, Missouri, which it immediately joined.
During the ensuing fall and winter, arduous duties were
performed in that Department under the varying condi-
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tions which then prevailed. His Company was the fol
lowing year transferred to West Tennessee, and during
the battle of Corinth, October 3d and 4th, 1862, rendered
conspicuous service as escort to the commanding Gen
eral, William S. Rosecrans. A subsequent assignment
gave him the Captaincy of Company K, Fifteenth Illinois
Volunteer Cavalry, where, through the appreciation of
his superiors he was advanced to the rank of Major,
which rank he retained until his service terminated by
expiration in the autumn of 1864.
The experience thus acquired was valuable to his
adopted state in the establishment and training of its
National Guard, in which by unremitting toil, devotion,
and personal sacrifice, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel of the First Regiment.
In the death of Major Sherer, which occurred at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, July 16, 1892, this Commandery
loses a zealous Companion, the community a valued
member, and the State an exemplary and patriotic citi
zen and soldier. His life was a well rounded one. His
quiet, unassuming ways, so well known to his personal
friends, and his devoted and most affectionate duty to
his family attest his manly qualities more strongly than
mere words can express them. We sincerely mourn the
sundering of the fraternal ties, growing stronger day by
day, as the true nobility of the country and the grand
characters the soldiers of this great Republic drop from
our roll by death, but never by dishonor.
We shall hold the memory of this most worthy Com
panion in affectionate and respectful esteem.
Arthur C. Ducat,
William L. Barnum,
Samuel S. Frowe,
Committee.

JOHN CURTIS BUNDY.
Lieutenant Colonel First Arkansas Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 6, i8g2,
OUR late Companion, Lieutenant Colonel John Curtis
Bundy, was born at St. Charles, Kane County, Illi
nois, on the 1 6th day of February, 1841. On the
7th day of August, 1861, he enlisted as a private in what
was then known as the Kane County Independent Cav
alry. His military service was principally in the States
of Missouri and Arkansas, and his duties in camp and in
battle were performed with such credit to himself and
approbation of his superior officers that in July, 1862, he
was, by order of Major General S. R. Curtis, commis
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Broken in health by the arduous duties of the cam
paigns in which he took part, he returned to his home,
taking up his residence in Chicago, where for many years,
and up to the time of his death, he was the editor and
proprietor of The Religio-Philosophical Journal.
In his editorial, as in his military work, devotion to
duty was the one governing principle of his life. He
sought to know and to declare only the truth; by it, he
insisted, all the cherished hopes, the fond beliefs, even
the solemn convictions of life were to be tested.
Death loomed before and came to him no dark abyss
in which lay the unknown, but a narrow way leading to
another life. We, his Companions, who knew and loved
him, some of us with and some without his faith in what
lies beyond, standing by his grave, with one voice unite
in calling "Faithful soldier, upright, honorable man,
true-hearted friend, hail and farewell."
Area N. Waterman,
Martin J. Russell,
Oliver W. Nixon,
Committee.

SABIN D. PUTERBAUGH.
Major Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Peoria, Illinois, September 2^, t8g2.
TTiS THE touch of the Frost King's icy finger trans-
f\ forms the beautiful foliage of yesterday into the
^^ withered and lifeless leaf of to-day, so has the cold
hand of death cut down in the prime of manhood a Com
panion who would have made himself known and felt in
this Commandery, had he been spared to us.
Sabin D. Puterbaugh, the learned jurist, the eminent
author, the genial companion, departed this life, Septem
ber 25, 1892, on the eve of his fifty-eighth birthday anni
versary. Born amid the surroundings from which have
sprung a large majority of America's scholars, soldiers
and statesmen, he passed from the farm to the school,
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to the teacher's desk, to the court room, to the judge's
bench. When his country called he was ready. Commis
sioned as Major of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry by the
War Governor of his State, he participated with his regi
ment in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth and Bolivar. Re
signing his commission on account of failing health, he
resumed the practice of his profession.
In 1869 he was elected Circuit Judge of what was then
the eighteenth judicial circuit, comprising the counties
of Peoria and Stark. In 1873 he resigned the judgeship,
preferring the more active duties of the advocate, in
which he was continuously and assiduously engaged up
to the time of his death.
Our deceased Companion was the author of several
standard works on legal pleading and practice, which
may be found in the library of almost every lawyer in
the States of Illinois and Michigan, and was widely
known and recognized as one of the ablest and best
equipped lawyers in the West. He was endowed with
intellectual abilities of a high order, which he had trained
and developed by careful and patient habits of study and
observation. He was a tireless and persistent worker.
His reasoning was concise and exact. His wide and well-
digested knowledge of law and precedent, and his powers
of cogent and persuasive argument made him a safe
counsellor and a successful advocate. His warm and
generous heart, his broad charity, and his sunny disposi
tion, attracted to him a large circle of friends, and his
striking personality impressed itself on all with whom he
came in contact.
Closed is the record of a useful and busy life; a hfe
full of energy and worthy ambition; a life that gave as
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brain. The shadows of "the night when no man can
work " have fallen across his path. He has passed before
us to "Fame's eternal camping ground," mourned by the
community in which he lived, by the profession that he
adorned and by his Companions of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, who tender to the family of our de
parted friend and brother, the sympathy born of a com
mon bereavement. Eliot Callender,
Henry P. Ayres,
Jacob C. Hansel,
Committee.

NATHAN HALBERT WALWORTH.
Colonel Forty-second Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers
Died at Chicago, Illinois, October 2g, i8g2.
'TTiNOTHER manly face will be missed from our social
l\ gatherings, another genial spirit has passed away.
^"^ Our friend who faced danger on so many battle
fields has finally answered to the last roll-call and the
angel of death has softly placed his arms around him
and carried him home.
On Saturday, the 29th day of October, 1892, Colonel
Nathan H. Walworth died at his home, at Evanston,
Illinois. He was born in Oneida County, New York, in
1832, and received his education at the Rome Academy
and Cazenovia Seminary. In 1855 he married Miss
Adelia E. Cornish of the same county in which he was
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born, and believing that the great West presented better
opportunities for success, he and his bride started the
same year for Illinois, settling first in Fulton County and
subsequently removing to Oneida, in Knox County, where
he engaged in mercantile business. Though a young
man and a stranger his abilities were at once recognized.
He was chosen by the people as Supervisor of the town.
In all matters pertaining to the welfare of the community
he took a leading and active part, faithfully attending to
all duties reposed upon him.
Having a natural tendency toward military matters
and some experience as a Captain of artillery of the
National Guards of New York, and possessing to a high
degree a love for his country, he immediately, after the
firing of the first gun at Fort Sumter, commenced to
arrange his business matters so that, if needed, he could
tender his services to the country.
Being convinced in the early summer of 1861 that it
was his duty to go the field, he commenced the organi
zation of a company of infantry, which early in July was
assigned to duty with the Forty-second Illinois Infantry
as Company C, with him as its Captain, his commission
dating July 22, 1861. In December of the same year he
was promoted to Major; in October, 1862, to Lieutenant
Colonel, and on February i 5, 1863, he was commissioned
Colonel. From the time he was promoted to Major until
May 15, 1864, when he resigned, he was constantly in
command of his regiment, and in the battles of Chicka
mauga and Mission Ridge he commanded a brigade in
Sheridan's Division of the Army of the Cumberland. His
services in the field, briefly stated, commenced in Sep
tember, 1 86 1, in Missouri under Fremont, taking part in
the campaigns under Generals Fremont and Hunter. In
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to reinforce General Grant at Donelson. His regiment,
meeting the prisoners taken in that battle, at Cairo, was
thereupon ordered down the Mississippi to Island No. lo.
While the siege of this island was carried on and no
apparent progress was made. Major Walworth conceived
the idea of surprising the water battery located above
the bend of the river and commanding it for a con
siderable distance. His suggestion was carried out by
Colonel Roberts in his famous exploit on April ist, by
which the guns at that battery were spiked and our iron
clads were enabled to run the gauntlet at the island, cut
off the retreat of the Confederates towards the south
and finally compel them to surrender. From here the
regiment went to New Madrid and Fort Pillow and was
then ordered up the Tennessee river to Hamburg Land
ing, where it engaged in the various movements around
Corinth, and, when Bragg occupied Kentucky, made a
forced march from the Tennessee river at Tuscumbia to
Nashville, where it took part in the siege of that city and
the many skirmishes incident thereto. After Bragg's re
treat from Kentucky, and the reorganization of the army,
the regiment became a part of the Army of the Cumber
land until the ending of the war.
Colonel Walworth was one of the warm friends of
General Sheridan, who, recognizing his keen perceptions
and excellent military judgment, not only frequently en
trusted to him operations of importance, but advised
with him as to the feasibility of carrying out intended
movements. Companion Walworth's civil career after the war was
closed was all that could be expected of so brave and
good a soldier. His home life was ideal. He was a
conscientious, affectionate husband whose greatest pleas
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Successful in his worldly affairs he was one of the
rare men who dispensed charities during his lifetime,
giving without being asked to the young starting out in
business life that they might successfully hew their way
to prosperity, while those who came to him for help and
were worthy never left empty handed.
And with all his success in every avenue that had
opened itself to him his modesty was predominant, no
one ever hearing him speak in boastful language of his
doings or achievements on the field of battle.
To those who knew him he was a dear, devoted
friend, and by his death this Commandery loses a Com
panion whose place can never be filled.
Edgar D. Swain,
Alexander F. Stevenson,
Zenas P Hanson,
Committee.

JOSEPH CLAPP.
Captain Eighth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Bolton, Massachusetts, November 20, i8g2^
IN MEMORY of Companion Captain Joseph Clapp:
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 28, 1839;
died in Bolton, Massachusetts, November 20, 1892.
Between these dates our Companion lived and loved,
struggled and sorrowed, hoped and triumphed. Born in
the City of Patriots and reared amid the hallowed scenes
of the Revolution, he was inspired with an intense love
of liberty and country. When liberty was confronted
by slavery and his country stood face to face with rebel
lion, he armed in their defense.
He enlisted September 6, 1 86 1 , in Company F, Eighth
Illinois Cavalry, and followed the varied fortunes of his
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regiment in the Army of the Potomac, until its muster
out, July 17, 1865. The regimental record is the best
evidence of his service, his sacrifice and the esteem of
his companions in arms.
September 18, 1861, he was mustered and appointed
First Corporal.
May 30, 1 863, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant.
March i, 1864, he was commissioned First Lieutenant.
January 6, 1865, he was commissioned Captain of
Company F, and commanded his company until its final
muster out.
He returned to civil life with the steady purpose and
unflinching courage that marked his military career. In
flexible in will, his conscience was open to truth. Stern
in purpose, his moral being was softened by gentleness.
Rugged by nature, his heart warmed with love.
As a man, citizen, son, brother, husband and father,
he was faithful and true to every trust and every relation
in life. For years he fought patiently, uncomplainingly,
manfully against disease. He sought rest and health in
a warmer clime, but yielding to the inevitable, returned
to his native state to die.
Deeply sympathizing with his family and friends, with
them his Companions deplore his loss, and will emulate
his virtues.He is tenting to-night on a far-away field. He is
sleeping his last sleep, and God's voice only can awaken
him to glory. In death's solemn presence and eternal
stillness, let us softly whisper —
"Companion, farewell."
Henry A. Pearsons,
John L. Beveridge,
Frank Clendenin,
Committee.

FRANK HARWOOD WHITE.
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster , Fourteenth .Michigan Infantry,
United States Volunteers, Died at Montague,
Michigan, January lo, i8gjf.
r^NTERED the service as Quartermaster Sergeant,
I Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, U. S. V., February
^"~* 5, 1862; Second Lieutenant, December i, 1862;
First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, De
cember I, 1862. Mustered out, March 14, 1865. War
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W'lLLIAM GALE MEAD.
First Lieutenant Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January /j, i8gj.
ON January 13, 1893, the Illinois Commandery of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion was, by the
hand of death, deprived of one of its most cherished
Companions. First Lieutenant William Gale Mead
entered the military service of the United States as
Sergeant of Company D, Seventy- second Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, July 25, 1862. He was
commissioned Second Lieutenant, January 16, 1863;
First Lieutenant, September 27, 1864, and mustered out
of service with that rank on August 7, 1865. The last
eight months of his military career were passed in acting
as Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Major
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General A. J. Smith, commanding the Sixteenth Army
Corps. During the period of service with his regiment and in
his staff position, he nobly did his full duty as an earnest
and patriotic soldier, and merited the approbation of his
superiors in .office.
The records of this Commandery show that he par
ticipated in General Grant's first and second attempt to
capture Vicksburg; was in Ransom's Brigade, McArthur's
Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps at Champion's
Hill, and at the assault upon Vicksburg, where he re
ceived a gunshot wound in the head; was at the battle of
Nashville in December, 1864, with the Sixteenth Army
Corps; was at the siege of Mobile and the attack upon
Spanish Fort, in April, 1865, and in various other en
gagements of lesser note.
Since the war he has lived among us, quietly and
unostentatiously, as becomes a hero.
The record of his life is a page of history.
We write his epitaph in letters of gold: A brave
soldier, a worthy citizen, a Christian gentleman.
Joseph Stockton,
George H. Heafford,
James A. Sexton,
Committee.

ARTHUR TANNATT WOODS.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, February 7, i8g.^.
TLRTHUR TANNATT WOODS, eldest son of Captain
/\ and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel George Henry
^^ Woods, who died September 30, 1884, at Decatur,
Illinois, was born at Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 9,
1859. He lived with his parents in Minneapolis, Minne
sota, Omaha, Nebraska, and Salem, Massachusetts, until
he entered the Naval Academy in September, 1876.
He was graduated from the Naval Academy, as Cadet
Engineer in June, 1880, and for three years served at sea
on the ships Mayflower, Dispatch, Galena, Quinneborg,
Nipsic, Lancaster and Trenton, and was promoted to
Assistant Engineer from June 10, 1882. Till the fall of
1883, he served in the Bureau of Steam Engineering of
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the Navy Department at Washington, District of Co
lumbia, when he was detailed to the University of Illinois
at Champaign, for duty in the Mechanical Engineering
Department. Here he served as Assistant Professor of
Mechanical Engineering till June, 1887, when, being
offered the Professorship of his Department, on July 11,
1887, he resigned from the Navy.
He remained at the University of Illinois until
September i, 1891, when he resigned his position to ac
cept the Chair of Dynamic Engineering at Washington
University, St. Louis. On September i, 1892, he re
signed his position in the Washington University to be
come Associate Editor of the Railroad Gazette at Chicago,
which position he occupied at the time of his death in
Chicago, February 7, 1893.
In June, 1890, Mr. Woods received the degree of
Master of Mechanical Engineering from Cornell Uni
versity. He was a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, a member ofthe American Society
of Naval Engineers from the time of its organization,
and was an associate member of the Railway Master
Mechanics Association. He was the author of a text
book on mechanism, a book on compound locomotives
and of various papers and articles on mechanical engi
neering in the magazines devoted to that subject. In
addition to his editorial duties, he acted as consulting
mechanical engineer in Chicago.
On September 2, 1884, Mr. Woods married Harriet
Scott de Krafft, daughter ot Rear Admiral J. C. P. de
Krafft, U. S. N., who survives him. He left no children,
and his only brother, W. H. P- Woods, now a student
in the Boston University, resides at Salem, Massachusetts.
February 6, 1892, Mr. Woods was admitted through
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Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States as a
member of the First Class by inheritance, and was trans
ferred to the Commandery of the State of Illinois on
November 21, 1892.
Though connected with the Illinois Commandery but
a short time, Mr. Woods won the respect of the Com
panions with whom he was brought into contact, by his
gentlemanly bearing and genial qualities, and it was with
sincere regret that they learned of his sudden death. To
his widow and family they extend their profound sympathy.
William D. Fullerton,
John R. Montgomery,
Herbert A. Goddard,
Committee.

EDWARDS CORSE.

Died at Chicago. Illinois, June 4, i8gj.
THOSE of you who have stood in the front of battle
as the reaper has laid his heavy hand upon the
brow of comrade and friend, those who have stood by
the lonely grave in the far Southland are no strangers to
the sympathy which dwells within the camps of ^^'^ar and
the breasts of brave men.
Your hearts have been touched, as again and again
within this room you have listened as a comrade has
told the simple story of a life that was ended, but linked
in memory with your own and forever with deeds im
mortal as shall be the history of your country.
As one by one the faces vanish from the camp fire,
there comes a realization of the march of time and the
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approach of that hour when beside the narrow home the
trumpet shall sound "taps" and they who listen shall
know that the last light has gone out.
Yet more ruthless seems the remorseless one when
he reaches forth his hand and smites low him whose feet
still tread the paths of youth and whose eye, fixed on the
future, is still bright with hope.
For a second time within the year death has removed
from our midst one of the most promising of the younger
members of this Commandery.
Mr. Edwards Corse who, after an illness of three
months, died in this city on the fourth day of June, 1893,
was born June 5, i860, in the city of Burlington, Iowa.
As a child he visited, with his mother, the head
quarters of his father in the field, and as a youth traveled
extensively through Europe, Asia, the. Islands of the Sea
and his native land. Receiving his education at Harvard
University, he engaged in business with his father, the late
Major General John M. Corse, since whose retirement he
has been identified with business interests in this city.
Eleven years ago the deceased married the daughter
of Mr. Redmond Prindiville. His widow and three
children survive him. It was his earnest desire that his
only son might some day inherit his membership in this
Order, to which Mr. Corse was himself elected April 6,
1 88 1, becoming a Companion of the First Class on the
death of his father, April 27, 1893.
Of uniform gentleness of character, modest demeanor,
and earnest loyalty, he was proud of the achievements
of his gallant father. Endeared to those who knew him
by his many qualities of mind and heart, we sincerely
mourn his loss. Leroy T. Steward,
Hugh R. Belknap,
Henry S. Boutell,
Committee.

CALEB SOUTHARD BURDSAL,
Second Lieutenant Independent Battery, Colorado Artillery, United
States Volunteers. Died at Phoenix, Arizona,
August 20, i8gj.
evIPANION Caleb S. Burdsal was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he passed his early days. He moved
to Chicago with his parents in 1856. On the first call
for troops he enlisted on April 21, 1861, as a private in
Battery A, First Illinois Artillery, and served with that
command until the expiration of his term of service, when
he was mustered out August 15, 1861.
After remaining some time in Chicago, he went to
Colorado, but he could not refrain from doing his share
of patriotic duty, so he again enlisted as a private in the
Independent Battery of Colorado, and after passing the
various non-commissioned grades, he was mustered in as
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Second Lieutenant of his battery. He served on gen
eral frontier duty in the Departments of Kansas and
Missouri, and was mustered out of service August 31,
1865. He then returned to Chicago and at once entered
the employ of the Ludington Wells and Van Schaick
Company, one of the largest lumber concerns in the
West, where he remained until the time of his death
(August 20, 1893), a period of over twenty-six years.
The same faithfulness to duty that distinguished his
military history also earned him promotion in civil life.
For thirteen years he was Secretary of this company, a
position of great responsibility.
Lieutenant Burdsal was admitted to membership in
the Order through this Commandery at the meeting in
June, 1883. The memory of his military history and
companionship was one that he greatly enjoyed and
warmly cherished.
Such, in brief, is the history of our late associate.
From his life of sterling worth we can learn a lesson of
true manhood. He was of an affectionate and affable
nature, was warm and true in his friendships. As a citi
zen, husband and father he was faithful in the discharge
of every duty. For years he fought patiently, uncom
plainingly and manfully against an insidious and debili
tating disease — always hopeful and trustful — and after
seeking health in Arizona, without receiving any benefit
therefrom, away from home and friends when the last
call came, he was ready to obey.
Deeply sympathizing with his family and friends, we
with them deplore his loss and shall ever hold his
memory in affectionate respect and esteem.
John McLaren,
Holmes Hoge,
Henry A. Pearsons,
Committee.

JAMES IRVIN NEFF.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant One Hundred and First Ohio In
fantry, United States Volunteers, Died at Chicago,
Illinois, September 14, J8gj.
j OMP.ANION James Irvin Neff was born in Center
V^___ County, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1839, and his
boyhood years were spent upon his father's farm in that
County, until at the proper age he entered Dickinson
Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, from which in
stitution he graduated in 1861.
In January of the following year he began the study
of law under Colonel Leander Stem, at Tiffin, Ohio, and
there continued as a student until the formation of the
One Hundred and First Ohio Infantry, when he enlisted
in Company H of that regiment. In the organization of
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Second Lieutenant. His regiment was assigned to the
Army of the Cumberland, and from the early summer of
1862 until the month of June, 1865, he remained con
stantly in active service with his regiment. Soon after
he had entered upon his active military duties he was
promoted to First Lieutenant and then to Adjutant of
his regiment, in which capacity he displayed unusual
military tact and administrative ability.
The history of the One Hundred and First Ohio was
one of conspicuous gallantry, and along with that regi
ment Companion Neff rendered his country distinguished
and heroic services at the battles of Stone's River,
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, in the memorable
campaign to Atlanta, and subsequently participated gal
lantly in the battles of Franklin and Nashville under the
command of that distinguished and heroic military chief
tain. General George H. Thomas. In all of his military
career and in the discharge of every military duty, Com
panion Neff displayed in the most commendable degree
those rare qualities of quiet but intense earnestness, un
yielding firmness, unflinching courage and unwavering de
votion to duty under all circumstances and in every station .
He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in
1867, and soon after began the practice of law at Free-
port, Illinois, where first in association with the late
Colonel Thomas J. Turner, then with Judge Joseph M.
Bailey, and later with James H. Stearns, he pursued his
profession successfully until his death. Companion Neff
was a lawyer of ability and a wise and valued counselor.
His clientage was large, and included the Illinois Central
Railroad and many other large corporations, and active
men of business who intrusted large interests to him; in
the discharge of his professional duties, he was conspicu
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From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the General
Assembly of this State, and was distinguished as a legis
lator for his prudence, far-sighted wisdom and intelligent
patriotism. From 1884 until 1892 he was a member of
the Illinois State Board of Equalization — a position of
great trust, in which he rendered the people of his State
the invaluable service of a faithful, courageous and wise
public officer.
Among the survivors of the war for the preservation
of the Union, Companion Neff was deservedly popular
and always welcome to the circles of the Grand Army
and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; at one
time he was the Commander of the John A. Davis Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic at Freeport.
In 1889 our deceased Companion was appointed by
Governor Fifer as one of the Trustees of the Soldiers'
and Sailors' Home at Quincy. In this position Com
panion Neff became doubly endeared to that torn and
feeble remnant of the veterans of 1865, whom the terri
ble vicissitudes of war had rendered both helpless and
homeless. In these weary and suffering heroes our late
Companion recognized not only those who had borne
with him the brunt of battle, but a deserving class to
whom was due the special bounty of our people and the
fullest measure of patriotic sympathy and manly tender
ness. Companion Neff was married to Miss Catherine Row
ell, of Freeport, on January 29, 1879, who, together with
two children, Florence and Willie, survive him.
Verily, our dead are not far from us, for betwixt life
and death there is but a single breath.
Companion Neff died at St. Luke's Hospital in this
city, on the morning of September 14, 1893, at the age
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pose and splendid service achieved for the Republic of
our patriotic affection a triumph whose grandeur and
lasting benefits are seldom fully comprehended, and
which never have been equaled in military events, pass
from the view of living eyes and from the touch of loyal
hands, across the mystic threshold, into that Paradise
where the ' ' wicked cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest."
We do not even pause in our course, but looking ever
forward leave this tribute of respectful affection tq the
memory of our fallen Companion. Francis A. Riddle,
Edward A. Blodgett,
Smith D. Atkins.
Committee.

PHINEAS PEASE.
Colonel Forty-ninth Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General,
United States Volunteers. Died at Columbus, Ohio,
October 8, iSgj.
O REVET Brigadier General Phineas Pease, a Com-
n 1 panion of this Commandery, died at Columbus,
Ohio, October 8, 1893. His death was indirectly
caused by a gunshot wound received at the battle of
Shiloh. General Pease entered the service of the United
States as Lieutenant Colonel of the Forty-ninth Illinois
Infantry, United States Volunteers, December 31, 1861.
He was promoted to be Colonel of the same regiment
January 17, 1863, and was brevetted Brigadier General
at the close of the war, for gallant and meritorious serv
ices; was honorably discharged from the service of the
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United States, January 9, 1865. He took part with his
regiment in the battles of Donelson and Shiloh; the
advance on Corinth, Little Rock, Yellow Bayou, Bayou
Deglaize, Chicot Lake, Franklin, Missouri, and Nash
ville, Tennessee.
The Colonel of the Forty-ninth being severely
wounded at Donelson, General Pease, as Lieutenant
Colonel, commanded his regiment most of the time that
ensued until he succeeded to the rank of Colonel.
After the war he was actively engaged in railroad and
bridge construction, and was for several years a resident
of Chicago. While here he made many warm friends
both in the Loyal Legion and out of it. He was a man
of generous impulses and warm friendships, a typical
soldier of the war, loyal, patriotic and unselfish. In
business he was honest and energetic.
It is fitting that this Commandery should drop a tear
to the memory of the brave men that so rapidly and so
steadily are being borne away from us; each succeeding
roll-call finds fewer responses. In a little while we shall
have all answered to our names for the last time. Let
us hope that a kind Providence will deal gently in the
future with the brave men who suffered so much for con
stitutional liberty upon this earth.
Charles FitzSimons,
John L. Beveridge,
Augustus L. Chetlain,
Committee.

DON CARLOS NEWTON.
Captain Fifty-second Illinois Infantry , United States Volunteers.
Died at Batavia, Illinois, October 8, i8gj.
TTiGAIN our hearts are saddened by the removal of the
jf\ name of another Companion from the muster roll
^^ of our Commandery. Once again the usual routine
of our business is arrested while we unite in a heartfelt
testimonial to one whose memory we gratefully cherish,
but whose presence will be with us no more.
The death of Captain Don Carlos Newton occurred
on the 8th of October, 1893. In the early dawn of that
beautiful autumnal day, he heard what even the friends
who ministered at his bedside did not then hear, "The
voice of the Archangel and the trump of God, calling
him to ascend with his Master to the resurrection of
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eternal life," and summoning him to a perpetual com
panionship with those heroes and patriots whom the
great Captain from time to time has taken from our
ranks and assigned to service in His immediate presence.
In the spirit of true soldierly obedience he laid down the
weapons of warfare which he had hitherto so faithfully
waged, and with the kiss of wifely devotion still fresh
upon his lips, he left his earthly home for his heavenly
inheritance. All of our recollections of Captain Newton recall him
to our memories as a Prince among good men. Bright
and cheery of disposition, companionable, generous,
manly, brave. He was quick to perceive what was noble
and praiseworthy in others and his judgments were as
generous as were his syinpathies or his benefactions. An
intrepid but magnanimous soldier, a loyal and patriotic
citizen, a devoted and faithful friend, he stood for all
that is worthiest and best among men.
Captain Newton was a native of Alexander, New
York, and received his education at Alleghany College,
Pennsylvania. In 1854 he removed to Batavia, Illinois,
where he established and developed a magnificent busi
ness which yielded him a large and well earned pecuniary
reward. In 1 86 1 he helped to recruit the Fifty-second Regi
ment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served with that
Regiment for three years, participating in twenty-three
battles and closing his military experience when the
capture of Savannah crowned Sherman's memorable
" March to the Sea."
As at the beginning of the war- he had left business,
home and an invalid but patriotic wife in order that he
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returned to the scene of his former activities, taking up
again the work which had been temporarily interrupted
and was thenceforth not less the ideal citizen than dur
ing his military life he had been the knightly soldier.
He served God as he had served his Country, not so
much in speech as in deed — not in profession but in un
flinching integrity and unswerving loyalty to truth and
righteousness. He worshipped his Master in his cheer
ful recognition of every obligation which as neighbor,
citizen or friend was devolved upon him. He followed
his Saviour in his daily example of upright dealing and
manly helpfulness, and he honored his Heavenly Father
by the beauty of his filial piety and the purity and
tenderness of his conjugal affection.
Gradually but surely the circle composed of the active
participants in the War of the Rebellion is contracting.
As one after another drops out of the line and the sur
vivors come together to offer their tributes to the virtues
and the memory of the fallen, they are again and again
reminded that the hour approaches when at roll-call no
comrade will be present to respond.
We extend our earnest and heartfelt sympathy to
those who suffer most keenly from this affliction. Help
less ourselves to afford them comfort, we commend them
to God and to the power of His grace in the full assur
ance that He will minister to them an abundant con
solation.
Frank P. Crandon,
John S. Wilcox,
Edgar D. Swain,
Committee.

HENRY De WOLF
Sergeant One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, October lo, iSgj.
e*IPANION Henry De Wolf was born at Alton, Illi
nois, October 3, 1844, and in 1846 his father re
moved his family to Chicago. At an early age he entered
the Ogden School, passed through its course and that of
the Chicago High School, at that time the best educa
tional institution in the city.
In 1861 he entered his life-long service with the Illi
nois Central Railroad Company, commencing as junior
clerk and passing through variDus grades to the position
of treasurer, which he held at the time of his death. His
advancement was gradual, each promotion being made in
recognition of the faithful and thorough manner in which
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he performed the duties entrusted to him, of his wise
and prudent management, sterling integrity and unfail
ing courtesy.
June 2, 1862, his eldest brother. Lieutenant William
De Wolf, Third United States Artillery (through whom
he became eligible to membership in the Loyal Legion),
died from wounds received at the battle of Williamsburg,
Virginia. Even before this time, Henry had wished to
enter his country's service, and his brother's death seemed
to intensify this desire, which arose, not from any feel
ings of revenge, but from the strong sense of duty which
characterized his entire life. Out of deference to the
wishes of his parents, he remained at home until the call
for troops in 1864, when, on the 13th day of May, he
enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth
Illinois Infantry Volunteers, being mustered in on the
31st day of that month, as Sergeant. June 3, 1864, the
regiment left Camp Fry for Columbus, Kentucky, where
it remained on garrison duty for some time, moving to
Mayfield, Kentucky, in August, and afterwards partici
pating in the pursuit of the Confederate troops under
General Price in Missouri. October 25, 1864, the regi
ment was mustered out, nearly two months after its term
of service had expired.
On the Sth day of January, 1891, he was unanimously
elected a 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.
October 10, 1893, he died, like a soldier at his post
of duty, being stricken down with heart disease at his
office in Chicago. Death came to him without warning,
but found him ready for the summons. His purity of
character and sweetness of disposition endeared him to
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loss that we tender to his family the sympathies of this
Commandery.
Roswell H. Mason,
Alexander C. McClurg,
Clarence H. Dyer,
Committee.

CHARLES WARRINGTON EARLE.
First Lieutenant Ninety-sixth Illinois Infantry and Brevet Captain,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago,
Illinois, November ig, iSgj,
eVRLES WARRINGTON EARLE, a native of Ver
mont, having come with his father to this State,
enlisted ere he was eighteen years of age in an Illinois
regiment. From May until September, 1861, he served
as a private, most of the time in what is known as Fre
mont's Missouri Campaign. At the date last named, a
sallow stripling, weak and wasted, he was discharged
for disabilit)'.Returning to his father's home, the invigorating air
that blew o'er the hills of Lake County expelled the
poison with which his system had been filled in the
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swamps of Missouri, and August ii, 1862, he again en
listed as a private, this time in what afterward became
the Ninety-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Because of
his intelligence and experience, he was made First Ser
geant of Company C of that regiment, and thereafter
rose to the rank of First Lieutenant, in which capacity he
commanded his company at the battle of Chickamauga.
His was a part of Granger's command that on the
third day came up in time to hurl back the triumphing
foe— to save the day and the army. Three times wound
ed on that memorable field, he remained with his com
pany, and with it, owing to a mistake of a staff officer,
he was captured after the Union forces abandoned Mis
sionary Ridge.
A prisoner in Libby, the hope of escape was ever
present with him. Into a hole, back of a stove, in a
chimney, thence down to a cellar, whence a tunnel, pre
pared by stout hearts and eager hands, led through the
foundations of a three-story brick building, beneath the
pavement, alongside of foul and noisome sewers, ran the
way through which he and one hundred and eighteen
others crawled to the open air.
Dodging sentinels, mingling with rebel citizens and
soldiers, cautiously and stealthily he made his way to the
fortifications that surrounded Richmond, and over these
on hands and knees in silence and darkness, groped his
way; thence on, till as dayhght appeared, he sought the
friendly shelter of a half frozen morass, and in its chill
and damp embrace laid down to wait for the coming of
night. Thus, from morn to night and night to morn for
six days, guided by the stars, he wended his way. Twice
he crept in the darkness to negro quarters, the habitation
of a slave, to homes of the yet despised and downtrod
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and fed with all his hosts had, while a cordon of dusky
sentinels ranged without to give warning of the approach
of whites. At last, when hunger and cold, the chill and
ooze in which they lay, and the fatigue of the wearisome
way had unsettled the mind of his one companion, he
reached an outpost of the Union army.
And for what did this slender boy, not yet a voter, do
this ? Only that he might once more stand before his
country's foe, again interpose his body between the
armed hosts of rebellion and the nation's life. It cannot
be amiss in these days if now and then, at least in this
presence, the disinterested patriotism of such as was our
dead comrade is recalled.
Thirty days leave of absence was given him, thirty
days to look at the old farm, to see and embrace family
and friends, to tell to listening neighbors the romantic
story of his escape, to shake off and out the foul exhala
tions of prison and marsh, travel two thousand miles and
rejoin his regiment. The month gone, and he is again
where danger is most imminent and foemen most fre
quent. Participating in all the battles of the Atlanta cam
paign; present at Franklin and Nashville; serving as
Aide-de-Camp, brevetted Captain for gallant and meri
torious service at Chickamauga, Resaca, Atlanta, Frank
lin and Nashville; at the close of the war he resumed
the studies he had left, took up pursuits always kept in
mind, and so came to be the able, learned, conscientious,
faithful physician and surgeon he was for many years.
As husband and father, as neighbor and citizen, as
instructor and friend, as physician and companion, as
soldier and man, he was without fear and without re
proach. No one who knew Charles Warrington Earle
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one who saw him in the shock of battle can ever want
for an example of manly courage. No one who entered
into the recesses of his heart and felt the touch of his
strong hand, can fail to know what friendship is.
Dear Friend —
Whatever chaplet Honor wears,
Whatever rank can 'Valor claim,
'Whatever guerdon Truth doth hold,
Is thine:
And thou art ours.
Area N. Waterman,
William E. Clarke,
Daniel R. Brower,
Committee.

JAMES GUSHING WHITE.
Captain Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, United States Volun
teers. Died at Marion, Indiana, Nove'mber 22, iSgj.
(APTAIN James Gushing White ! Two circumstances
immediately warm the hearts of our Order towards
Captain White — one, that his Insignia has the
early number, 822, and the other that he served his
country with two regiments, both of which retained his
services until they, in turn, were mustered out. Our
comrade, who died November 22, 1893, first entered the
volunteer service for nine months, September 12, 1862,
as a Lieutenant in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts In
fantry, and closed that term with the regiment at its
muster-out, June 18, 1863. He re-entered the service
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lery, October 8, 1863, where he remained until that
second regimental muster-out, September 15, 1865. His
war service was in the Department of Virginia, and later
in the Department of North Carolina.
Captain White, who was born in Boston, July 20,
1832, became a member of our Order through the Massa
chusetts Commandery, June 2, 1868, and was transferred
to the Illinois Commandery, May 7, 1879, becoming by
that transfer a privileged charter-member of our Com
mandery, which last circumstance is a third reason why
his death should appeal strongly to our hearts.
Captain White died, at the date named, in the
Soldiers' Home at Marion, Indiana, of pneumonia. We
gather that he was disabled because of tuberculosis, and
that in the days of his increasing sickness he found a
refuge among old soldiers in the Home provided through
our national patriotic gratitude towards those who risked
all fatigues, privations and perils that the republic might
live and not die.
The routine and life in the best of these homes are
humble and unobtrusive. The inevitable monotony is
sometimes broken by local celebrations when maimed
and scarred heroes beat their old war drums, and, despite
their persistent aches and pains, mutually stimulate their
patriotic memories, repledge their undying loyalty, and
pathetically try to believe that they are tenderly cherished
in the hearts of an unforgetful republic. As time thins
their diminishing numbers, and the poor battered bodies
grow too weak to wave an ancient battle-flag, and the
tongue becomes too feeble to articulate the remembered
battle-shout, the thorough-going hero turns his face
away from the battling past to get a compensating
gHmpse of the future of the republic now the more firmly
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ing even to die, if need be. If all others forget these
patriots in their humble asylums, surely we of the Loyal
Legion will be guiltless of that ungrateful sin.
The internal economy of these Soldiers' Homes is
very simple, and their rewards, aside from food, sleep,
medication and rest, are exceedingly few. The general
command is the gift of the general government, while
lesser authority comes through good conduct and local
confidence. We are touched by the unobtrusive but
significant fact that Captain White was in charge of one
of the Barracks of the Home in which he died. That
humble circumstance shows that he had promotion in
the quiet military community where Rest and Order are
vital elements. When the last hour came he exchanged
greetings and partings with his wife and son who arrived
in time to smooth his dying pillow. The remains were
taken to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for burial.
Arthur Edwards,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Thomas C. Edwards,
Committee.

ROSWELL GRISWOLD BOGUE.
Major and Surgeon .Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, Dece-mber 8, i8g^.
nil AJOR Roswell Griswold Bogue was born in Louis-
\f\ ville, St. Lawrence County, NewYork, May 2,
^^ 1832, and died in Chicago, December 8, 1893.
He was educated at the Castleton Academy, Vermont,
and spent the earlier years of his young manhood in
teaching. From the East he came to Columbus, Ohio,
where he read medicine with a distinguished surgeon of
that time. Dr. Norman Gay. He then attended the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City,
from which he received his degree in the winter of 1856
and 1857, and in the spring of 1857 located in Chicago,
and began his successful career in the practice of medi-
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cine. He found friends at the outset of his career, fitted
as he was for the healing art, both by nature and edu
cation. Upon August 5, 1861, he was commissioned Major
and Surgeon, and assigned to duty as Surgeon of the
Nineteenth Illinois Infantry; and continued constantly in
this service, until mustered out on July 9, 1864.
The Regimental Surgeon of the United States Army
enters upon his duty with no expectation of increased
rank or pay. He can hope for increased honors and
responsibilities — and these came to Dr. Bogue. He
served with his regiment through the Missouri, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Alabama campaigns up to March, 1863,
when he was appointed Medical Director of the Second
Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, commanded by
General Negley. When the Army of the Cumberland
was reorganized in October, 1863, Dr. Bogue was trans
ferred to the Third Division of the Fourteenth Army
Corps commanded by General Baird, and again honored
by the appointment as Medical Director. He was with
this command in all the battles in which it participated,
notably those of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Mission
Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, and Resaca. In all of these
posts of duty there is one continuous record of faithful
ness, and efficiency.
Dr. Bogue was a man of deep sympathy and he did
not know what it was to spare himself when a wounded
soldier was begging for help. After a battle it was no
unusual experience of the faithful Surgeon, to work all
night, sometimes leaning over the operating table until
he found it impossible to straighten himself into an erect
attitude, without the aid of his assistants. It was there
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tallow candles, with body and mind taxed to their utmost,
that he doubtless laid the foundations for the disease
that later on destroyed the nerves of his eyes, and then
ended his life by attacking the brain.
At the close of the war, Dr. Bogue returned to Chi
cago, and again entered upon the practice of his profes
sion. He had a natural aptitude and love for surgery
and sought as much as possible to give up his general
practice, and devote himself exclusively to it. This he
found it difficult to do, honored and loved as man and
physician, in a multitude of homes. In addition to his
skill as an operator, he was masterly in diagnosis, and his
opinions were widely sought by his professional brethren.
He was one of the organizers of the Cook County
Hospital, and was for thirteen years one of the Attending
Surgeons. He was the first Professor of Surgery in the
Woman's College, and was for many years the Attending
Surgeon for the Hospital of Women and Children. He
was Consulting Surgeon for both the Presbyterian and
St. Joseph's Hospital from their organization until his
death. Major Bogue joined this Commandery, December
5, 1883, and it is safe to say no member more keenly
enjoyed its privileges. After he became entirely bhnd
the members of the North Side made it their pleasing
duty, to take turns in escorting him to the meetings,
whenever the weather and his failing health permitted;
and he frequently expressed his gratitude, and spoke of
the meetings as the enjoyable events of the month.
Blind and shut off in a large measure from later events,
he loved to live over again the old army life inthe papers,
the old songs and the reminiscences of life in camp.
Both socially and professionally the old soldier always
found a sympathizing friend in Dr. Bogue, and as a
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He was a profoundly religious man who exemplified
its teachings by his every day practical life of "doing
good." Called from us before his three score years and
ten, yet his was a beautiful, well rounded life, and one
whose memory this Commandery will cherish. While
we enter upon our records our high appreciation of our
departed brother and express our own sorrow, we desire
to tender to the loved ones in his stricken home our pro
found sympathy.
Oliver W. Nixon,
Everett B. Preston,
Albert L. Coe,
Committee.

WILLIAM LANGWORTHY OGDEN.
First Lieutenant Third Neiv York Cavalry and Brevet Captain,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago,
Illinois, December 21 , i8gj.
ON THE 2 1st day of December, 1893, William Lang-
worthy Ogden bade farewell to his Companions in
the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion.
Grasping the hand of that invisible Peacemaker, whose
mission brings surcease of sorrow, he entered the portals
of another life.
He was born in New York City, November 2, 1841.
Soon after his parents moved to Rochester, N.Y., where
he grew from childhood to manhood and received his
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Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry. His promotion
to Sergeant and then Sergeant Major came soon after,
and in 1864 he was promoted to First Lieutenant and
Adjutant, serving as such until mustered out in Novem
ber, 1865.
Returning to Rochester he accepted employment in
the office of Moore's Rural New Yorker, remaining there
until November, 1866. He then came to Chicago and
entered the service of the Chicago Tribune, where he
remained until his death, having risen from the position
of foreman of the mailing room to be the Tribune' s busi
ness manager. He was married in October, 1869, his
wife dying in May, 1878.
Lieutenant Ogden was an exemplary citizen, quiet,
unostentatious, strict, yet kind; in all his business rela
tions he won the confidence, respect and approbation of
his associates. By his death the Commandery loses a
worthy Companion, one who honored the Commandery
by his association with it.
He leaves one child, a daughter, now the wife'of H.
B. Cook, of the Chicago Board of Trade. He also leaves
three sisters and a brother. We extend to them our
sympathy and feel that we too have lost a Companion
worthy of us.
George Mason,
Martin J. Russell,
Charles F. Matteson,
Committee.

WILLIAM ANDREW JAMES.
Captain Third Rhode Island Cavalry and Brevet Major
States Volunteers. Died at Highland Park,
Illinois, December j/, i8gj.

United

ONCE more we are called upon to mourn the death
of a beloved Companion. William Andrew James,
who came of good old Puritan stock, was born at
Providence, Rhode Island, December 8, 1837, and died
at Highland Park, Illinois, December 31, 1893.
He enlisted as a private in the Tenth Rhode Island
Volunteers, June i, 1861 (three months' service), and
returned as First Sergeant. He was commissioned
October i, 1862, Captain in the Eleventh Rhode Island
Volunteers (nine months' service), and mustered out July
13, 1863. He was commissioned Captain Third Rhode
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of physical disability. He served in the defense of Wash
ington, was at the siege of Suffolk and Blackwater, at
Yorktown and Williamsburg; was with General Banks on
the Red River Campaign, on which occasion he was
assigned as acting Assistant Inspector General on the
Staff of General E. R. S. Canby, and he also took part
in the siege of Spanish Fort, Fort Blakeley and the cap
ture of Mobile. He was brevetted Major by President
Lincoln "for distinguished services in the Department
of the Gulf." He was over six feet in height, with a
commanding presence and soldierly bearing.
On being mustered out of the service. Major James,
like a great many other Eastern men, made his way West
and located in Chicago in 1865. For a long time he was
a partner of ex-Mayor John A. Roche. They were burned
out at the time of the great fire, and sustained heavy
losses, but with old-time pluck he put his shoulder to the
wheel and pulled out a good competence for himself and
family. He was elected to the House of Representatives
from the Eighth Senatorial District in 1875; re-elected
in 1877, and again in 1879, when he was made Speaker
of the House. He was the only Speaker of the House
who had not been a professional lawyer. He proved a
most popular officer, prompt in the dispatch of business,
courteous and fair in his dealings, and notably impartial.
Those of us who were his friends and neighbors can
truthfully say we never heard him speak ill of any one.
He was always ready to help the needy with heart, hand
and pocketbook. The whole community will feel the
loss of a faithful friend and adviser. To his family we
offer our heartfelt sympathy.
George C. Ball,
William J. Hemstreet,
Otho H. Morgan,
Committee.

JOHN HENRY RAUCH.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Volunteers.
Died at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, March 24, i8g4.
IWI AJOR and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John Henry
j ' I Rauch, late a Companion of this Commandery,
^^ died of paralysis of the heart at the home of his
brother at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1894.
Doctor Rauch, as he was familiarly known, was born at
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1828. He gradu
ated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849, with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1850 he moved to
Burlington, Iowa, where for a number of years he was a
successful practitioner in his chosen profession. He was
appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Medicinal
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1857, filling this position with great credit to himself and
the College for three years.
Companion Rauch served as a Volunteer Aid upon
the Staff of General Hunter at the first battle of Bull
Run. Here he rendered General Hunter and other
wounded soldiers important medical and surgical aid, for
which he was specially thanked and mentioned in gen
eral orders. He was appointed Surgeon of Volunteers,
August 3, 1 86 1, and was thereupon assigned to duty as
Brigade Surgeon of Keyes' Brigade, McDowell's Division,
at Arlington Heights, Virginia. He was successively
Medical Director of Augur's Division, Medical Director
at Culpepper, Assistant Medical Director of the Army of
Virginia, and Medical Director of the Thirteenth and
Nineteenth Corps in the field. March 13, 1865, he was
brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for faithful and meritorious
services, and was honorably discharged July 14, 1865.
Upon his return to Chicago, in 1865, he re-entered
upon the practice of his profession. He aided in organ
izing the Board of Health of this city, and in 1867 was
appointed a member thereof and Sanitary Superintend
ent, which office he held for six years. In 1876 he was
elected President of the American Public Health Associa
tion. He was instrumental in the organization of the
Illinois State Board of Health which was created in 1877;
was its first President, and was either its President or
Secretary from its organization to the year 1892. In
1892 he assisted Companion ex-Surgeon General Hamil
ton in the establishment of the quarantine station at
Camp Low, New York.
Companion Rauch was a great scientist in all matters
that pertain to the public health. For more than twenty-
five years immediately prior to his death no man in Illi
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more time and thought to the devising and carrying out
of intelligent and practical plans and methods in Sani
tary Science than he.
The members of the Illinois State Board of Health,
who possessed a full knowledge of the great services of
Major Rauch, not only to the people of the State of Illi
nois, but to the Nation, at a meeting of the Board, held
soon after his death, said of him:
" He was the first man in our midst to place the sub
ject of public health upon a scientific basis, treating the
vital questions of drainage and water supply with the
intelligence and energy necessary to bring about results
and projecting plans in sanitary science that will long
remain models worthy the study of the student of public
health. Besides the recognition of Doctor Ranch's great
knowledge of the subject he had made his own, this
Board wishes to record its enthusiasm for and apprecia
tion of his devotion to his work; likewise of his many
virtues as a friend and physician."
Major Rauch was a good soldier, a thoughtful and
intelligent scientist, and an honorable and useful man,
whose influence and works will be appreciated by those
yet unborn.
Thomas E. Milchrist,
George Hunt,
William E. Clarke,
Committee.

THOMAS SEAMAN WRIGHT.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Third Iowa Cavalry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Neiv York City, July 26, i8g4.
flEUTENANT Thomas Seaman Wright was born at
I Keosauqua, Iowa, September 29, 1844, and died in
^~^ New York City, July 26, 1894. He was the son of
the Hon. George G. Wright, an honorary member of the
Iowa Commandery, and for many years Chief Justice,
and late United States Senator from Iowa.
Lieutenant Wright entered the Iowa State University
at the age of sixteen, but, filled with patriotic devotion
to his country, left college to become First Lieutenant
and Adjutant of the Third Iowa Cavalry in November,
1864. On December 4th of the same year he was cap
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and was held a prisoner at Grenada and Meridian, Mis
sissippi, and at Andersonville, Georgia, until April, 1865.
He was mustered out of service at Davenport, Iowa, in
June, 1865.
He was made a member of the First Class through
the Iowa Commandery, March 19, 1887, and was trans
ferred to the Illinois Commandery October 21, 1891.
After the close of the war he entered the Law De
partment of the University of Iowa, graduating in 1867,
and began the practice of the law in company with the
late Thomas F. Withrow, General Counsel for the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, and at
the time of his death was the General Attorney of that
company. He left a wife and three children surviving
him. A good soldier, a safe counsellor, an honest man and
a devout patriot, his character furnishes an example wor
thy of the highest emulation.
To his family we extend our heartfelt sympathy and
to this Commandery we commend his memory as one
to be ever cherished.
William F. Meerill,
James D. Springer,
HiLON A. Parker,
Committee.

JAMES LEWIS TRUMBULL,
Captain, Assistant Quartermaster and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago,
Illinois, July j/ i8g4
THE minutes of our time strike on, and are counted
by the angels. Death, that tireless hunter of men,
has again invaded our ranks and taken hence one of our
number. James Lewis Trumbull died very suddenly of heart
disease at his residence in this city, Tuesday night, July
31, 1894. He was born at Burketsville, Maryland, July
26, 1836. About 1855 his father moved with his family
to Centerville, Indiana, where he grew to manhood. He
was graduated at Whitewater College at that place, after
which he moved to Indianapolis and engaged in the ex
press business. He was married in 1861 to Miss Mary
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Kinder, who with three daughters and one son survives
him. Colonel Trumbull's career was an active one, and his
military service in the late war was creditable to himself
and to the cause he served. Before the war he was iden
tified with the Merchants' Union Express Company, from
which he resigned in September, 1 86 1 , to enter the service
as a private in the Elevent'n Regiment of Indiana Volun
teers, taking part with that regiment in the battles of
Romney and Chambersburg in Western Virginia. He
was commissioned Captain and Assistant Quartermaster
in November, 1863, and served with the Cavalry Division
at Washington, D. C. , afterwards in the Department of
the Missouri and in the Department of the Gulf, and was
brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for "gallant and merito
rious services." He was mustered out in November, 1863.
Colonel Trumbull was a prominent member of the
Grand Army of the Republic and a Past Commander of
George H. Thomas Post at Indianapolis, Indiana, as well
as an honored Companion of this Commandery. Since
the close of the War, Colonel Trumbull served the Gov
ernment in the Internal Revenue Department, and for
many years past has been General Superintendent of the
Central Division of the American Express Company. He
was apparently in the best of health, and his sudden
death startled and shocked his family and his associates,
as well as this Commandery.
To all places of trust, our late Companion brought a
well-disciplined mind, discharging all the duties of the
several offices to which he was called, with fidelity to
the trusts committed to his care; indeed, it seems to
have been with him a leading thought of life — fidelity to
the trusts reposed in him, or the responsibilities assumed
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" Man dies, but his memory lives."
Under the sobered realities which are pressed upon
our hearts, we are deeply touched in our affectionate re
membrance of those who have gone before, and it is well
that amid the cares and activities of the world, we have
set apart and dedicated ourselves to pay one tribute to
the memory of those who are no longer with us — for the
memories of our dead are very dear to us. It is the fond
hope of every one to leave his memory to be treasured
by some, when he shall have passed away. All cling to
the heart's affections, even when the heart is soon to be
stilled forever.
The earthen vase which contained the mortal has
been committed to the earth, and his immortal spirit has
gone to the God who gave it. His virtues and labors
will remain fragrant in our memories long after the clay
shall have mouldered with the dust.
While we offer our sacrifice of thanksgiving and
praise, let us not forget to drop a tear of sympathy for
the widow and the orphans.
Charles E. Bliven,
Myron H. Beach,
Robert C. Clowry,
Committee.

WILLIAM DAWSON CROOKE,
Major Twenty-first Iowa Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Hinsdale, Illinois, April 2j, i8g4
"TLS THE lightning writes its fiery path across the
/\ storm-cloud and expires, so the race of man amid
^"^ the surrounding shades of mortality, glitters for a
moment amid the dark gloom and vanishes from our
sight forever.
The spirit of William Dawson Crooke, an honored
Companion of this Commandery, passed into the great
unknown on Friday, the 27th day of April, 1894.
Major Crooke was born at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire,
England. His parents were members of the Baptist
Church, and his father, the Rev. John Crooke, was the
minister of the church at that place. He came to this
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country in 1853, when about sixteen years of age, and
settled near McGregor, Iowa, where for about two years
he worked upon a farm. Later he studied law with Odell
& Updegraff, at McGregor, and was admitted to the bar
in 1862. Major Crooke entered the service as Captain of Com
pany B, Twenty-first Regiment of Iowa Volunteer In
fantry, August 18, 1862, and was promoted to be Major
of the same regiment, January 25, 1865. His military
record is that of a typical soldier. He served in the De
partment of Missouri — attached to the Brigade of Gen
eral Fitz Henry Warren — and was stationed at Rolla,
Salem, Hartville and Houston, in October, November
and December, 1862, and January, 1863. He was en
gaged in the battle of Hartville, January 11, 1863, with
Marmaduke's rebel force, which was returning from an
attack on Springfield. Afterwards he was attached to
Brigadier General Davidson's Army of Southeastern Mis
souri during an expedition to West Plains, returning with
his regiment to St. Genevieve, Missouri; embarked for
Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, joining General Grant's army
before Vicksburg, April 6, 1863, and was assigned to the
Second Brigade, Fourteenth Division, Thirteenth Army
Corps, and served throughout the remainder of the
Vicksburg Campaign, being engaged in the battles of
Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Big Black River Bridge,
and the assault upon Vicksburg, May 22d, and the re
mainder of the siege, and afterwards took part in Sher
man's expedition to Jackson, Mississippi. Major Crooke
was in command of his regiment from June 15 to July
24, 1863. In August the regiment was sent to New
Orleans for service in the Department of the Gulf,
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In November following, the regiment under command
of Major Crooke was sent to Texas and served under
the command of General C. C. Washburn. Upon the
return of the regiment to New Orleans it was assigned to
the Second Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army
Corps, and served in the lower Mississippi, White and Ar
kansas River country. On December i, 1864, it marched
from Memphis to Wolf River, in support of Grierson's
cavalry raid upon the rear of Hood's army. Afterward
the regiment returned to Memphis and New Orleans. He
resigned in January, 1865, and was immediately appoint
ed to the charge of a large cantonment of negroes near
Baton Rouge, under the direction of the Freedman's Bu
reau, where he remained for several months and until
after his regiment was mustered out at Baton Rouge.
He returned to McGregor in broken health, and after
wards engaged in the business of insurance at that place,
where he was elected Recorder of Deeds for Clayton
County. He subsequently formed a partnership in the
insurance business with his brother, George Crooke, an
honored Companion of the Wisconsin Commandery.
He came to Chicago in 1876 and later was appointed
Assi-stant Manager of the Northwestern Department of
the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England,
in which position he remained until he was, in 1882, ap
pointed Manager of the Northern Insurance Company of
Liverpool, England, the duties of which he continued to
discharge to the satisfaction of that prominent company
until the day of his death. When his health began to
fail he tendered his resignation to the company, which it
declined to accept, and sent one of the executive officers
to this country to assist in the discharge of the duties as
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Major Crooke was a singularly modest man, but with
a firmness to do the right as he understood the right,
regardless of personal consequence. One of his chief
characteristics was a conscientious discharge of duty,
whether as a soldier or civilian. Duty was with him
always, "as exacting as necessity, inflexible as fate, and
as imperative as destiny."
Major Crooke was married at McGregor, Iowa, in
1866, to Miss Sarah S. Updegraff, who, with a niece.
Miss Lydia Timmons, as a member of his family, survives
him. Nearly two years since he was stricken with an
incurable disease. Fully realizing his situation, he calmly
and yet minutely began to put his house in order, and
with a courage that was truly heroic, awaited the final
roll-call. When it came, he was ready.
When such a man is removed from our councils, it is
meet that while we mourn his loss, we should also testify
to the world our love and our respect for him and our
appreciation of his character and services. The day on
which the last respects were paid to the memory of 'our
late Companion, was an ideal one, as also was the sim
ple yet dignified service over his remains. Kind friends,
among whom were members of this Commandery, laid
him away tenderly; the vault which contains his remains
was covered with a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed
there by gentle hands, guided by the sorrowing hearts
of the employes of our late Companion, his business
associates, and this Commandery, as their tribute of
respect. Our harp is tuned to mourning; the life of our late
Companion has been accomplished and is complete.
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the acacia — as an emblem of resurrection and immor
tality — ever be green over his mortal bed.
Charles E. Bliven,
Eugene Gary,
Amos J. Harding,
Committee.

THOMAS COXEY FULLERTON,
Captain Sixty fourth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Fairbury, Illinois, August 2,

e'TAIN Thomas C. Fullerton was born in Montgom
ery County, Pennsylvania, .August 21, 1839, and
died at Fairbury, Illinois, August 2, 1894. He moved
with his parents to La Salle County, Illinois, in October,
1855. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Sixty-
fourth Illinois Infantry, September 25, 1861, and October
25th of that year was appointed Orderly Sergeant. On
the 28th of June, 1863, he was promoted to the First
Lieutenancy of his company, and Adjutant of his regi
ment, and on April 2, 1864, was commissioned as Cap
tain of Company C. About the same time he was ap
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of General Sprague, commanding the Second Brigade,
Fourth Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, and subsequently
served in the same capacity on the Staff of Generals G.
M. Dodge and T. E. G. Ransom, and continued in dis
charge of that duty until October, 1864, when he resigned.
He was with the army at New Madrid, Island No. 10,
Fort Pillow, Iuka, Corinth, and the Atlanta Campaign
from Resaca to Jonesboro.
In March, prior to his enlistment. Captain Fullerton
was married to Almeda D. Dyer, by whom he had a son,
Mr. William D. Fullerton, now an honored member of
the Chicago bar and of this Commandery.
When Captain Fullerton returned from the army he
studied law, and was admitted to the Illinois bar January
16, 1866, and removed to and opened an office in Hunts
ville, Alabama, and the following fall was appointed
Assistant United States District Attorney for the North
ern District of that State. He was subsequently elected
to and declined the office of States Attorney for Madison
County. In June, 1868, he was appointed Register in
Bankruptcy, and served until January, 1871, when he
resigned and moved to the city of Washington, D. C,
for the practice of his profession. In November, 1881,
he returned to Ottawa, Illinois, where he resided to the
time of his death.
His wife having died many years before, in July, 1886,
he married Miss Vincey Tuthill Bushnell, daughter of the
late Hon. Washington Bushnell, of Ottawa, whom he left
surviving him, together with two sons and two daughters,
issue of the second marriage. Upon his return to Ottawa
he resumed the practice of his profession, and achieved
marked success, especially as a safe and wise counsellor.
He was appointed Master in Chancery in 1888, and
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member of his county and of the state central commit
tee, and won high praise for his political ability and
sagacity. He was a charter member of the Seth C. Earl
Post, No. 156, Grand Army of the Republic, and took
high rank at home as well as in the department of the
Order in this state, and was a member of the State En
campment. On the 19th day of July, 1894, he was nominated by
the republican party of the Eleventh Congressional Dis
trict of Illinois, as their standard bearer for Congress,
and with the energy and purpose that characterized his
life, he at once set about arranging his campaign. For
this purpose he left his home the 31st day of July, and
on Thursday afternoon reached Fairbury, apparently in
perfect health, and was shown to his room at the hotel.
Within an hour, prominent republicans calling, went to
his room and found him sitting in his chair — dead.
Thus ended a bright and useful life. In the midst of
an exalted ambition and the brightest hopes, came the
end, and verified that —
" 'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death."
How rich is the brief summary of such a life. And
yet how impotent are words to fittingly portray the life
of our brave, loyal, wise and unselfish Companion. In
every walk of life, in every station, whether upon the
battle field or in the camp, in the councils of his party,
as a lawyer in his office, or in social or domestic life, he
assumed and discharged every obligation resting upon
him. Firm in his convictions of the right, and with a
conscientious desire to fulfill to the best of his ability
every duty, he carefully studied the phases of social,
political and domestic life, and squared his conduct by
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higher in his profession for integrity — no citizen com
manded more sincere respect, and in social Hfe he at
tached friends as few can.
We shall see his form no more; his wise counsel will
no longer guide us. That kindly voice that spoke words
of cheer and condolence to the downcast and bereaved,
of encouragement and hope, will be heard no more. But
to those who knew him there will remain a fragrant
memory of a life controlled by kindly impulses, sustained
by an unfaltering trust in the beneficence of God, and
faith in the brotherhood of men, and by a conscious in
tegrity of character that admitted of no lowering of an
exalted standard — a memory of one of the brightest and
best types of American citizenship and manhood.
Douglas Hapeman,
William H. H. McDowell,
George S. Roper,
Committee.

CLARENCE HOPKINS DYER.
Major and Assistant Adjutant General, United States Volunteers.
Died at Woodstock, Vermont, August lo, i8g4.
/TaRENCE HOPKINS DYER was born at Harwin-
V^_ ton, Connecticut, July 21, 1832, and died at Wood
stock, Vermont, August 10, 1894.
He was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant
General, U. S. V., September 25, 1861, promoted Major
and Assistant Adjutant General, August 2, 1865, and hon
orably mustered out February 10, 1866. His first service
was with Major General Mansfield, in command at Camp
Hamilton, Virginia, and Newport News, at the time of
the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac off that
point, and afterwards in command of the Eleventh Corps
at Antietam, where General Mansfield was killed. He
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then reported to Major General Banks for temporary
duty at Washington City, after which he served with
Major General E. A. Carr, commanding the District of
St. Louis, Missouri, and with the same General in the
Fourteenth Division of the Thirteenth Corps at Vicks
burg and at Little Rock. After this he was with Major
General Canby at New Orleans. His last service was
with Major General Wesley Merritt, who commanded a
cavalry corps which marched from Shreveport, Louisiana,
to San Antonio, Texas. He was elected a Companion
ofthe Order through this Commandery, July 2, 1879, and
served as Chancellor from June, 1885, to June, 1886.
Major Dyer was the loved friend of every Companion
of the Commandery. One of its earliest and most zealous
members, he constantly had its best interests at heart,
and was always ready to give his time and best effort for
its benefit and advancement. He was devoted to us all.
He was a man of irreproachable character, modest and
unassuming, genial and warm-hearted, an upright and
universally respected citizen. A brave soldier, his war
record was of the best. We tender our wannest sympa
thy to his family, and regret that words fail us to give
expression to our feeling for this pure, honorable, true
man, and the great loss we have sustained.
Taylor P. Rundlet,
Joseph J. Siddall,
Thomas C. Edwards,
Committee.

THOMAS WALLACE.
Captain Twelfth Michigan Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Evanston, Illinois, September 2, i8g4.
I OMPANION Thomas Wallace was born at Finnwick,
\  Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, April ii, 1829.
He attended school there until the age of fourteen years,
when he was apprenticed to a millwright with whom he
served faithfully his term. He was married in 1849 to
Miss Agnes Muir, of Kilmarnock, and in 185 1 came to this,
his adopted country, where he endured the usual hard
ships. On arriving at Chicago, he accepted the first
work offered, and in time began as a millwright, con
structing mills and elevators. In 1861 he was the owner
of a flour mill at St. Joseph, Michigan, and being natur
alized, felt it his duty to his adopted country to partici
pate in the preservation of the Union.
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Having entered the service on September 19, 1862,
as Captain in the Twelfth Michigan Infantry, he was with
his regiment in the Army of the Tennessee, and at the
battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. On May 2, 1862, on ac
count of physical disability contracted in the service, and
always regretting his inability further to serve his adopt
ed country, he very reluctantly resigned, and in time re
sumed his business relations.
In 1875 his wife died, and in 1879 he was married to
Miss Annie B. Penrose, daughter of the late Major J. W.
Penrose, Second United States Infantry, and sister of
Lieutenant Colonel William H. Penrose, Sixteenth United
States Infantry.
For the last five years he resided at Evanston, Illinois,
where he died September 2, 1894, after protracted suffer
ing, the result of disease contracted in the service. He
was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, September 5, 1894,
with Masonic honors, by Cleveland Lodge, No. 211,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Chicago Com
mandery, No. 19, Knights Templar, of Chicago, of which
bodies he was a worthy member. He was a good citi
zen, a devoted husband, and a brave soldier. To his
bereaved widow we extend the heartfelt sympathy of our
Commandery and commend her to God for consolation
in her affliction.
William J. Hemstreet,
John McLaren,
Edward A. Blodgett,
Committee.

HENRY PAYSON AYRES.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Seventy-seventh Illinois Infantry,
United States Volunteers, Died at White Bear Lake,
Minnesota, September 6, i8g4.
r\ EATH has been very busy in our ranks since last we
J[ J met. Among the many gathered by that untiring
"¦"^ Reaper it is our painful duty to announce First
Lieutenant and Adjutant Henry Payson Ayres, who de
parted this life Septemper 6, 1894, at White Bear Lake,
Minnesota, while on his way home from a business trip
in North Dakota. Bright, energetic, genial, full of life
and spirits, a busy man in a busy world, he was cut down
in the prime of his manhood.
Henry Payson Ayres was born in Brooklyn, New
York, September 26, 1841. He enlisted as private in
Company A, Seventy-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
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August 5, 1862. He was mustered as Corporal in same
company, September 2, 1862; promoted Sergeant Major
of said regiment, January 14, 1863, and First Lieutenant
and Adjutant June 17, 1S63. Hewas mustered out of
service July 10, 1865.
He served in the following campaigns and battles:
Chickasaw Bluff, Mississippi; Arkansas Post, Arkansas;
Port Gibson, Mississippi; Champion Hill, Mississippi;
Black River Bridge, Mississippi; siege, capture and
assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi; Jackson, Mississippi;
Mansfield, Louisiana; Fort Gaines, Alabama; Fort Mor
gan, Alabama, and Spanish Fort, Alabama. Returning
from the war he settled first in Galesburg, Illinois, and
then at Peoria, where he was engaged in the banking
business up to the time of his death.
A brave soldier and a gallant officer. Lieutenant Ayres
adorned alike both military and civil life, and left a name
singularly free from reproach of any kind. Respecting
himself he won the respect of others. He dared to do
right in every circumstance of life, and such a thing as
compromise was unknown in his character.
Such a life as that of Lieutenant Ayres needs no
eulogy. It speaks for itself and the "Noblest work of
God, an honest man," sped back to its Creator when his
spirit took its flight.
Martin Kingman,
John D. McClure,
Eliot Callender,
Committee.

WILLIAM MERRITT LUFF.
Captain Twelfth LUinois Cavalry and Brevet Major, United States
Volunteers. Died at Fort Mead, South Dakota, October g, i8g4.
WILLIAM MERRITT LUFF, late Captain and Brevet
Major, U. S. V., died at Fort Mead, South Dakota,
October 9, 1894. He was born March 19, 1839, upon
the battlefield of Sacketts Harbor. That historic field
was his first play-ground. As he gathered relics along
the line followed by the British regulars in retreat to their
fleet, or watched the parades of the troops then stationed
at Madison Barracks, who had lately formed a part of
the Army of the Second Conquest of Mexico, or listened
to the stories told by those soldiers, it is fair to suppose
that he laid the foundation of that patriotism and mili
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his services to his country, and later made him conspic
uous as a dashing trooper and a cool-headed, courageous
officer. Major Luff came to Chicago in 1857, soon afterward
commenced the study of the law with Judge Corydon
Beckwith, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1861.
Upon the breaking out of the war, he was appointed
Adjutant at Camp Butler, which had been established at
Springfield for the organization and instruction of volun
teers. He served in that capacity until mustered as
Second Lieutenant of the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, Feb
ruary 28, 1862. He went to Virginia with his regiment,
and at Martinsburg, on September 7, 1862, gallantly led
the leading platoon of his regiment in a charge in column
upon the Winchester turnpike against the Blackhorse
Cavalry. A paper read before this Commandery, Janu
ary 12, 1888, by his old commander. Major General
Julius White, stated: "A rapid march was begun, which,
as the column neared the advanced picket post of the
enemy, was increased to a gallop. Striking this post of
the enemy, one of them was engaged and twice wounded
with'the sabre by Lieutenant Luff. " As a charge of the
Twelfth Illinois Cavalry in line that same day has been
characterized as ' ' The first sabre charge of the war, " it is
fair to suppose that Lieutenant Luff was one of the first
to use the sabre effectively in the war for the suppression
of the Rebellion.
Major Luff was mustered as a First Lieutenant to
date from November i, 1862, and as Captain to date
from February 25, 1864; was mustered out with his reg
iment February 27, 1865; was brevetted Major "for
special gallantry at Martinsburg, Virginia, September 7,
1862, and at Yellow Bayou, Louisiana, May 6, 1864, and
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On his return to Chicago he again entered the office
of Judge Beckwith, and in the summer of 1866 formed a
law partnership with O. K. A. Hutchinson, which was
dissolved by the death of Mr. Hutchinson in June of this
year. At that time the firm of Hutchinson & Luff was
known as the oldest law firm in Chicago. In January, 1884,
he was elected a Companion of this Order and became Our
Major. To the last he felt a deep interest in the Loyal
Legion, and although not a resident of the city, rarely
failed to attend its meetings. When last in this room,
he was looking so poorly that many were impressed with
the thought that his presence with us cost him a great
effort. It was his last visit to any assembly except his
church, of which he was a constant attendant and a
consistent member, and from the congregation of Grace
Church at Oak Park he will be missed as from this Com
mandery. He was married in 1878 to Louisa Merritt Hooker,
eldest daughter of the late James Louis Hooker, one of
the early settlers of Chicago, who had returned East.
She was born in the Major's native town, and together
they walked in childhood and youth, and kept step in
middle age. She was a woman of unusual mental attain
ments, warm hearted and loyal, qualities that made her
more than wife to him, and when in December, 1893,
she was suddenly called by the Great Commander, whom
they both loved so well and served together so long, his
heart went with her. Only a few months later, when he
who had been his business associate for twenty-eight
prosperous years, left their office never to return, and
his business ties, as well as his home ties, were severed,
his friends discovered that our Major was fading away.
They urged him to leave the surroundings that reminded
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thoughts,, in a measure, from memories that seemed to
be crushing him with their " weight of woe."
We can understand how, under these circumstances,
his thoughts turned back to the military life of his early
manhood, and he longed to be once more amidst the
spirited scenes of the cavalry camp, so with waning
strength, he went to visit his brother. Captain Edmund
Luff, Eighth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort
Mead. Soon after his arrival there, he heard taps sound
ing for the last time, and rested in his last bivouac. We
can believe that the final summons reached him mingled
with a bugle call amid surroundings such as he would
have chosen.
In his life, in his death, our Major illustrated the
truth of the lines of the Wandering Poet of America.
" Sleep, soldier — still in honored rest.
Your truth and valor wearing,
The bravest are the tenderest —
The loving are the daring."
Joseph H. Wood,
Elijah S. Watts,
John W. Palmer,
Committee.

WILLIAM EDWIN CLARKE, JR.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, October 6, i8g^.
ekIPANION WiUiam Edwin Clarke, Jr., the only son
of Companion William Edwin Clarke, Major and
Surgeon of the Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, U. S. V.,
was born in Chicago, May 7, 1867, and died October 6,
1894. He received his early education in the public
schools and prepared himself in the West Division High
School for Amherst College, from which he graduated in
1889. He then returned to Chicago and began the study
of law, graduating in 1891 from the Northwestern Uni
versity Law School. The year following, he became a
member of the law firm of Pedrick, Dawson & Clarke.
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Clubs, a member also of the Sunset Club, and a trustee
of the First Congregational Church. While at college
he was a member of the Delta Upsilon college fraternity,
and during his law course joined the legal fraternity of
Phi Delta Phi. Mr. Clarke became a Companion of the
Loyal Legion in March, 1893, at once taking an active
part among the younger members, among whom he made
many warm friends. He came of patriotic stock, his
great-grandfather, Joseph Baker, having been a surgeon
on General Putnam's staff in the Revolution.
Companion Clarke was a close student and a clear
thinker, and, although a young man, he had already
entered upon a successful career. We deplore his un
timely death and express our most sincere sympathy with
his father, Companion Clarke, and his family in their
bereavement.
Bernis W. Sherman,
Carlisle Mason,
John T. Stockton,
Committee.

JOSEPH PHELPS CARD.
First Lieutenant One Hundred and Third Ohio Lnfanti-y, United
States Volunteers, Died at Engleivood, Illinois,
October 22, i8g4,
3 INGE our last meeting, among the honored names
transferred from the active list of this Command
ery to rolls "In Memoriam " is that of Lieutenant
Joseph P. Card, who died on the afternoon of October
22, 1894, at his home in Englewood, surrounded by his
family and friends.
Lieutenant Card was born at Painesville, Ohio, Sep
tember 2, 1837, and at the breaking out of the war was
a resident of the city of Cleveland, where he enlisted as
a private soldier in the One Hundred and Third Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, August 15, 1862, and with his regi-
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ment at once took the field. He was promoted to Ser
geant Major, and again to Second Lieutenant within the
year, and later to First Lieutenant, serving as ordnance
officer on staff duty under Generals Carter and Sanders
and Colonels Woolford and Shackleford during the cam
paigns of the Army of the Ohio.
Lieutenant Card went to St. Louis at the close of the
war, where he engaged in business, married, and made
that city his home until a dozen years ago, when he came
to Chicago in the interest of the Chicago Tie Preserving
Company, of which corporation he was president at the
time of his death.
Of a disposition naturally buoyant and happy, he was
a dear comrade, a most loving and devoted husband and
father, and a true friend. As he was a conscientious
and dutiful soldier, he has ever been an honorable and
reliable man in every relation of life.
We desire to tender to the sorrowing ones in his
stricken home our profound sympathy.
Henry S. Pickands,
James M. Ball,
Alexander Marshall,
Committee.

BENJAMIN BROWN HAMILTON.
Chaplain Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Upper Alton, Illinois. N^ovember ii, i8g4.
QENJAMIN BROWN HAMILTON was born at New
n I Design, Monroe County, Illinois, February 4, 1822,
and died at Upper Alton, Illinois, November 11,
1894. His early life was uneventful; he taught school in
Jersey and Monroe Counties from 1839 to 1848, working
on the home farm during the summers of each year. He
was licensed as a Baptist preacher in 1839, and served as
pastor of a number of churches in Greene, Scott and Jer
sey Counties. He was married in 1844 to Miss Mary Ann
Chandler, who, with five surviving children, mourns his
loss. The oldest son is Dr. John B. Hamilton, of Chi
cago, formerly Surgeon General of the United States Ma
rine Hospital service, from 1879 to 1891.
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When the Civil War came upon us the patriotic spirit
of our late Companion, inspired both by love of his coun
try and love of his fellow men, impelled him to offer his
services in defense of his country's flag, and although
classed among those who "fought without guns, " yet his
labor should not therefore be undervalued.
He entered the service as Chaplain of the Sixty-first
Illinois Infantry, U. S. V., at Bolivar, Tennessee, Octo
ber 30, 1862, and served with his regiment in various
engagements — at Chickasaw Bayou, at Haines' Bluff, at
Helena, at Little Rock, Arkansas, and other important
places, until March 3, 1865, when his resignation was
accepted. A full record of his many acts of kindness to his
wounded and suffering comrades in arms, cannot be at
tempted in this brief tribute to his memory, but we be
lieve that the reward promised to him who gives only a
cup of cold water in the name of his Master, will be his.
He was a man of more than ordinary intellectual
ability, of strong character, and his voice was ever raised
in behalf of truth and right.
He will be greatly missed in the large circle of his
friends and acquaintances, and his life is an example well
worthy of emulation.
James W. Hutchinson,
John C. Neely,
Peter G. Gardner,
Committee.

ABRAHAM FRANK RISSER.
Captain One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 2j, i8g4.
3 INGE our last meeting another of our Comrades
and Companions has fallen, Abraham Frank
Risser. He died of heart rupture on the evening
of Friday, November 23, 1894.
Though not born in the United States, he was brought
here by his parents in early infancy, and had no recol
lection of any other land or country. It was to him the
land of his birth. He knew no other and loved no other.
It commanded his undivided affection and loyalty.
He enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into military
service of the United States on the 17th of September,
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1862, as First Lieutenant of Company B; was promoted
to the Captaincy of that company on the i ith of March,
1864, and was mustered out with his regiment as Captain
on the 1 2th of July, 1865. His first service was during
the fall and winter of 1862 in the neighborhood of Jack
son, Bolivar and Brownsville, Tennessee. His regi
ment was in General Lawlor's brigade, and Captain
Risser served on his staff during the winter of 1862 and
1863. In May, 1863, the regiment was assigned to the
First Brigade, Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps,
and sent from Memphis to reinforce the Army of the
Tennessee before Vicksburg. It reached the mouth of
the Yazoo River June 3, 1863, and moved on to Me-
chanicsburg, Mississippi, thence returned to Haines Bluff
and held Haines and Snyder's Bluffs during the siege of
Vicksburg. After the surrender of that place, his regi
ment was sent to Helena, and from there to Little Rock,
Arkansas, and was under the command of General Steele;
and Captain Risser served in that department as Judge
Advocate until the close of the war.
At the time of the breaking out of the war he resided
in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, and upon being mustered out
with his regiment at its close, returned to that place
where he remained until about 1870, when he removed
to Bloomington, at which place he resided until 1876,
when he removed to Chicago, and here he resided till
his death.
In all the relations of life no man had higher stand
ards or lived more closely to them. In his domestic life
no man was more fortunate, and no family more happy,
nor is there one where affection and devotion were more
reciprocal. As a citizen he was patriotic, large-minded and public-
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all his views, just and honorable in all relations and
transactions. The large business which he was conduct
ing at the time of his death — the largest of the kind in
the United States, if not in the world — was founded,
built up and established by him and made what it is by
his intelligence, ability and energy. All this was accom
plished after the war, and in less than thirty years. He
began with no inherited or given wealth or means, but
with only the capital which nature gave him. And it is
a significant tribute to his ability, justice, fairness and
honor, that during all his business life, the latter years
of which he had in his employment over five hundred
men, there was never a strike among his employes, nor
the least friction or want of harmony between him and
them. As a soldier his country had none braver, and none
with a brighter record than his. As a Companion and
comrade, " None knew him but to love him.
None named him but to praise."
It is said of Napoleon's soldiers that upon the roll call
the survivors answered for those who had fallen, when
their names were called, "Dead on the field of honor."
At our roll call to-night such must be our sad answer for
our Comrade and Companion. Though he did not fall
in the shock of battle, he lies dead on the field of honor.
He had given his service and offered his life, to save that
of his country when imperilled, and when peace was re
stored, he as unreservedly and faithfully discharged every
duty devolving upon him as a citizen and in every station
of life. He avoided no responsibility, and left no duty
undone. He died as he lived, on the field of honor.
His country has lost in his death a brave soldier and
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ate and devoted husband and father, and this Command
ery an esteemed and honored member. As we mourn
our own loss we tender to his family our heartfelt
sympathy. Myron H. Beach,
Orville W. Ballard,
James R. Willett,
Committee.

PHILIP SIDNEY POST.
Colonel Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General,
United States Volunteers. Died at Washington, District of
Columbia, January 6, iSgj.
/'^ENERAL Philip Sidney Post was born in Florida,
yj Orange County, New York, on March 19, 1833.
On his father's side he was of Dutch extraction; on
his mother's of English, being sixth in descent from
Robert Coe, who came to America in 1634. He came
of a brave and patriotic stock. His father, General Peter
Schuyler Post, served in the War in 1812; and both his
grandfather and great-grandfather fought in the Revolu
tionary War.
Philip Sidney Post graduated at Union College,
Schenectady, New York, in 1855; studied law and was
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law in Kansas, where he also established and edited a
newspaper, and soon took a prominent part in affairs.
At the breaking out of the Civil War, Philip Sidney
Post promptly volunteered and was made Second Lieu
tenant in the Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry. His promotion
was rapid, and after the first Missouri campaign he was
appointed Major and took command of the regiment. At
the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7, 1862, while
leading his men, he received a terrible gunshot wound,
which splintered the bones of the arm and penetrated
through the body nine inches. While in the hospital at
St. Louis he was commissioned Colonel for gallantry at
Pea Ridge, and started for the field before he was able to
mount his horse without assistance. Hurrying forward
to Corinth, he was given command of a brigade. From
May, 1862, to the close of the war he was constantly at
the front. In the Army of the Cumberland he com
manded the First Brigade, First Division, Twentieth
Army Corps and under General Rosecrans began the
battle of Stone's River.
After this battle, being a thorough tactician, he was
appointed on a commission to examine the qualifications
of officers of the Army of the Cumberland. He was a
careful student of military history and his brigade drills
at Nashville in 1862 attracted much attention.
During the Atlanta campaign he was transferred to
the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps,
and took command of the division when General Wood
was wounded at Lovejoy Station. He returned with it
from Atlanta to Tennessee, and assisted in holding in
check a large Confederate force until General Thomas
collected the scattered Union forces, and dealt a decisive
blow to the Confederacy at Nashville.
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teenth day of December, 1864, Colonel Post attacked
Montgomery Hill, the most advanced fortification .of the
enemy, and carried it at the point of the bayonet, thus,
to quote the language of General Thomas, "taking the
initiative and inciting the whole army to the brilliant
deeds of the day." In the afternoon he led the attack
on the second line of entrenchments with equal success.
The next day he led the assault on Overton's Hill, the
last stronghold of the enemy, the capture of which re
sulted in the complete discomfiture of the entire Con
federate Army. Colonel Post was shot down at the head
of his column almost upon the breastworks of the enemy,
and was supposed to be fatally wounded. He was pro
moted on the same day Brigadier General by brevet, and
afterwards received for gallantry at Nashville a medal of
honor from Congress. For four months he could not
leave his bed, yet in July, 1865, he again reported for
duty. He was appointed to the command of the Western
District of Texas, with headquarters at San Antonio,
sixteen regiments being stationed at that point.
General Post remained here until 1866, when the
withdrawal of the French from Mexico removed all
danger of military complications on that frontier. He
was earnestly recommended by his commanding officers
for the appointment of Colonel in the Regular Army, and
unknown to him, these recommendations were filed in
the War Department. However, peace having been re
established, he did not desire to remain longer in the
military service.
In 1 866 General Post was appointed Consul to Vienna,
Austria. In 1874 he was promoted to the position of
Consul-General for Austria-Hungary, and resigned in
1879. Shortly before going abroad he married on May
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able W. T. Post of Elmira, New York, and their children
Harriette Helene, Philip Sidney, Jr., and William Schuy
ler were born in Vienna. General Post's reports upon
beet sugar, Austrian patent laws, and European railways
have frequently been quoted by statistical writers. On
his return to the United States he came to Galesburg,
Illinois, where he has since resided.
From 1882 to 1886 General Post was member-at-
large of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee,
and in 1886 was chosen Commander of the Department
of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic. In the fall of
the same year, he was elected to Congress from the
Tenth District of Illinois and served eight years. He
was an untiring, energetic, efficient representative of the
people, and secured for his district a long list of benefits.
He had already been re-elected by an overwhelming
majority to succeed himself in the Fifty-fourth Congress,
when he died suddenly of heart failure on January 6,
1895, at Washington, District of Columbia.
The extent of General Post's popularity was shown
at Galesburg on the day of the funeral, when a public
demonstration, such as had never before been seen in
Central Illinois, did honor to his memory.
General Post's career has been brilliant as a patriot,
a diplomat, a statesman. In the words of one of his
fellow citizens, "He was a soldier among soldiers, a
citizen among citizens, a man among men. He was a
man of high motives, sound judgment, and sterling in
tegrity. Only in his death have many of us realized the
greatness of our loss, the faithfulness of his service, the
smallness of his reward."
Many tributes of a similar character have been paid
to General Post, and we quote from the editorial of a
newspaper opposed to him on all public issues:

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" As a man we knew him thoroughly, and now that
he is dead we confess we never knew a man possessed of
a higher and keener sense of honor. He was a man of
noble instincts and purest actions — a man who always
dared to do right." Arthur A. Smith,
Lemuel L. Scott,
Asa a. Matteson,
Committee.

ISRAEL NEWTON STILES.
Colonel Sixty-third Indiana Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
January jj, i8gj.
ISRAEL NEWTON STILES was born July i6, 1833,
j in the town of Suffield, Connecticut, where he passed
the earher part of his life. From an ancestry of New
England farmers he had inherited the personal qualities
of courage and a conscientious sense of duty in all the
relations of life. He was a young man when he removed
to Indiana, and before reaching his twenty-first year had
begun the work of preparation for his chosen vocation,
the law. As he had been a student in Connecticut, he re
mained, and with increasing diligence, a student in In
diana. In due time he was admitted to the bar in that
state under the guidance of wise and friendly preceptors.
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His active mind and earnest belief in the right side of
questions, as he understood the right, were made evident
at an early day to the people of LaFayette, where he had
taken up his abode. He was frank and outspoken upon
every occasion of public moment as it arose. It was en
tirely natural therefore at the outbreak of the war for the
Union that the young lawyer and legislator should take
a deep concern in the issues of the approaching conflict.
Laying aside all his plans for civic advancement, he
threw himself into the movement for national defense
with his whole heart and with the most unselfish devo
tion. He enlisted in the Twentieth Indiana Infantry at
LaFayette, and was commissioned as First Lieutenant
and Adjutant of his regiment, July 22, 1861. He was
promoted Major Sixty-third Indiana Infantry August 28,
1862; Lieutenant Colonel June 18, 1863, and Colonel
January 22, 1864. He was brevetted Brigadier General
January 31, 1865, and mustered out and honorably dis
charged June 23, 1865, by reason of the close of the war.
He served in 1862 in Virginia, and afterwards in the
West at Knoxville; in the Atlanta Campaign, and under
General George H. Thomas at Franklin and Nashville.
In much of this service General Stiles was identified with
the Twenty-third Army Corps in which he commanded
a brigade as early as August 9, 1864. At Franklin,
November 30, 1864, he was in command of the Third
Brigade of the Third Division of his Corps, and was as
signed to the left of the Union position, where the
brigade resisted the attack of the enemy with persistent
valor and entire success. He was again in action at the
battle of Nashville, where his brigade, although not as
actively engaged as at Franklin, nevertheless performed
well the part required of it. In February, 1865, the
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Tennessee, to Alexandria, Virginia, and thence to Fort
Fisher, General Stiles was assigned to the command of
the First Brigade of the First (Brigadier General Thomas
H. Ruger's) Division of that Corps. In the reports of
his superiors in these various campaigns he was frequently
commended for brave and meritorious conduct in the
performance of his military duty.
Upon the official record and the testimony of his fel
low soldiers who served at his side, his name and fame
as a brave and intelligent officer are established beyond
all question. It was for this reason, as well as for his high char
acter as a citizen and his engaging personal qualities,
that the Commandery gave a hearty welcome to General
Stiles when he applied for admission. He was elected
a member, November 5, 1879; to the Council, August
30, 1880; Junior Vice-Commander, May 6, 1885; Senior
Vice-Commander, May 5, 1886; Commander, May 12,
1887 The useful and honorable position occupied by
General Stiles as a member of the bar of our city from
the time he came to Chicago, not long after the close of
the war, until his health entirely failed, is known to us all.
His professional associations were formed with men
able and trustworthy like himself, and his professional
conduct and methods were fair, direct and based upon
high principle. It can be said that he was constant to
the vocation of his early manhood, for the only civil office
held by him while among us, that of attorney for our
city, was one which called for counsel and the advocacy
of a client's rights.
Up to the time of his last illness, a lingering and dis
tressing one, General Stiles had been one of the most
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he was among those to whom we were always especially
glad to give our affection and respect. We all remem
ber the years in which we enjoyed his presence as a Com
panion and officer of this body. No one of its members
was readier to do his part, as well in the serious busi
ness of the meeting as in the hour of companionship that
followed it. Time went on; his health became seriously
impaired, and his eyesight rapidly failed him. Yet not
even the darkening shadows that gathered round him,
and at last excluded the lifelong rays of the sun, could
extinguish the light of friendship and duty that burned
perpetually within. Against the odds of a well nigh dis
abling infirmity he struggled with an inflexible courage
to maintain his place in the ranks of busy men. Many
a time have we seen him during that period of affliction
slowly moving to his seat as a member of this Com
mandery, because he still desired to meet us, though he
could no longer see our faces. It was his wish and
seemed to be his consolation to clasp the hands and re
spond to the voices of his friends.
General Stiles died at his residence in this city on
Thursday, January 17, 1895. Many members of this
Commandery were present at the simple funeral service
held at his house on the following Saturday. As we re
call the life story of this brave soldier, this public-spirited
citizen, this dutiful and distinguished man, we feel more
and more the greatness of the loss to his family, to our
selves, and to the state, resulting from his death.
In concluding this memorial we desire to offer to the
family and to the many friends of our departed Com
panion our condolence and sympathy.
Arthur C. Ducat,
George L. Paddock,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Committee.

JAMES PORTER MARTIN.
Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General, United States
Ar-my. Died dt Chicago, Illinois, February ig, j8g^.
THE committee appointed to prepare a tribute of re
spect to the memory of our late Companion, Lieu
tenant Colonel James Porter Martin, Assistant Adjutant
General United States Army, respectfully submit the fol
lowing: Lieutenant Colonel Martin was born in Louisville,
Kentucky, September 27, 1836, and entered the Military
Academy July i, 1855, from which he was graduated
and appointed Brevet Second Lieutenant, Sixth Infantry,
July I, i860. He was appointed Second Lieutenant,
Seventh Infantry, December 20, i860. First Lieuten
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was appointed Major and Assistant Adjutant General,
April IO, 1869, and Lieutenant Colonel, February 28,
1887. During the War of the Rebellion he served with the
Army of the Potomac. He took part in the Virginia
Peninsular Campaign from March to August, 1862, being
engaged in the siege of Yorktown, battle of Williams
burg, battle of Gaines' Mill and the battle of Malvern
Hill. He was in the Maryland Campaign (Army of the
Potomac), 1862, and performed duty as Acting Aid-de-
Camp to Major General McClellan, commanding the
Army of the Potomac at the battle of South Mountain,
September 14, 1862, and at the battle of Antietam, Sep
tember 17, 1862. He acted as Aid-de-Camp to Major
General Heintzelman, commanding the Department of
Washington from November, 1862, to February, 1863.
He was in command of his company in the Pennsylvania
Campaign in 1863, being engaged in the battle of Gettys
burg, July 2, 1863, and in the pursuit of the enemy to
Warrenton, Virginia. He served as Acting Assistant
Adjutant General of the Second Division, Fifth Corps
(Army of the Potomac), from August, 1863, to Febru
ary, 1864, being engaged in the combat of Rappahan
nock Station, November 7, 1863, and the Mine Run
operations November 26 to December 3, 1863.
He was brevetted Major, July 2, 1863, for gallant
and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg, and
Lieutenant Colonel July 22, 1865, for faithful and mer
itorious services during the war. After the close of the
War of the Rebellion he served on the Staff of Major
General Meade and assisted in the difficult and delicate
duties of the period of reconstruction.
This brief record covers an active life of thirty-five
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was maintained only through the most arduous and pa
triotic services of her sons.
Colonel Martin's fidelity to duty and meritorious
service are attested by the brevets and the especial pre
ferment that he received; his selection for staff duty by
several officers, including two of the most distinguished
commanders of the Army of the Potomac, are standing
proof of the high estimation in which he was held by
his military superiors who were cognizant of his services.
Your committee, as comrades of Colonel Martin in
his later life, bear testimony to the cheerfulness and gen
erosity of his disposition and to his uniform courtesy in
all relations official and personal. Smitten by a disease
whose fatal ending he anticipated even before the most
careful and skillful examination detected occasion for
such an ending, he faced death with soldierly constancy,
and he died at his post of duty in this city, Tuesday,
February 19, 1895, of malignant endocarditis. This
disease, we are told by his physicians, is of rare occur
rence, and in his case without ascertainable cause of
origin. Had it not been for the stealthy approach of
death through such unfrequented portals, our Companion
had promise of many more years of life.
Your committee, voicing the feeling of all of Colonel
Martin's associates, desire to enter on the records of the
Loyal Legion, that brotherhood that holds the dead
soldier's services in special honor, the expression of sin
cerest sympathy with the bereaved family of our late
Companion.
Judson D. Bingham,
George W. Baird,
Stephen W. Groesbeck,
Committee.

DAVID RAMSAY CLENDENIN.
Colonel (Retired), United States Army, Brevet Brigadier General,
United States Volunteers. Died at Oneida,
Illinois, Jlfarch J, J8gj.
THAT merciless and unsparing arbiter of the final
destiny of mankind has again invaded our ranks and
removed to the mystic shore a Companion whose heroic
deeds and blameless life rightfully entitled him to an
exalted niche in the temple of fame.
David Ramsay Clendenin was born in Little Britain,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1830, and at
Oneida, Knox County, Illinois, March 5, 1895, he passed
to his eternal home. He came to Lyndon, Whiteside
County, this State, at the age of twenty years, and com
pleted his education at Knox College, in Galesburg.
When the Civil War commenced he was in Washington,
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D. C, a member of the "Clay Guards," a local volunteer
organization formed to protect the Government buildings,
and which patrolled the city at night and aided in pre
venting it from falling into the hands of the rebels.
Receiving authority to recruit a company for General
Farnsworth's regiment, afterwards known as the Eighth
Ilhnois Cavalry, he came to Morrison, Ilhnois, and
assisted in recruiting Company C, and upon the organ
ization of the regiment at St. Charles was elected Senior
Major, September i8, 1861. Colonel Clendenin served
gallantly through the war with this organization, one of
the most renowned in the Eastern army, which followed
the fortunes of the Army of the Potomac for four long
years. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Decem
ber 5, 1862, was brevetted Colonel February 20, 1865,
and Brigadier General of Volunteers July 11, 1865, for
" meritorious services." No duty was too arduous and
no service too perilous for him to undertake, among the
most conspicuous being his regiment's part in the gallant
and desperate defense of Washington against the raid
made for its capture by General Jubal Early in 1864,
when in a hand-to-hand fight with the famous Seven
teenth Virginia he plucked its battle-flag from the color
bearer with his own hand. In his report of this memo
rable contest General Lew Wallace says of Colonel
Clendenin: "As brave a cavalry soldier as ever mounted
a horse. " General Clendenin was a member of the
Milifai-y Commission which tried and convicted the
assassins of President Lincoln, in 1865. He was mus
tered outof'the volunteer service July 17, 1865, and re
turned to Morrison, Illinois, where he engaged for a year
in mercantile plirsuits, but business life not proving con
genial to his tastes he sought a position in the Regular
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He was appointed Major of the Eighth Cavalry,
United States Army, January 22, 1867, was promoted
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Cavalry
November i, 1882, became Colonel of the Second Cav
alry October 29, 1888, and was retired April 20, 1891.
During his term of service in the Regular Army he
was stationed in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, at Fort
Walla Walla, Washington, and was also on detached
service in San Francisco at different periods. The
frontier service was at times subject to extreme hard
ships and deprivations which were met by General Clen
denin with that stoic demeanor which had gained for
him an enviable reputation in the Army of the Potomac.
Under its strenuous duties his once strong and robust
frame gave way, and after his retirement he spent four
years a very patient invalid at his home in Oneida, Illi
nois, receiving the untiring care and devotion of a loving
and faithful wife in the long illness that preceded his
demise. His wife and two sons, Claude F. Clendenin
of New York City, and Dr. Paul Clendenin of the Med
ical Corps of the United States Army, are the survivors
of his family. Major Frank Clendenin of Joliet, and
General William Clendenin of Moline, are his nephews.
A patriot, whose entire manhood, with a very brief ex
ception, was given to the service of his country in its mili
tary branch, who followed the revered emblem of our Na
tion's supremacy through the ever-recurring dangers and
vicissitudes of angry and hotly contested engagements,
a man whose bravery evoked the unstinted praise and
admiration of his comrades, a commander well versed
in tact and strategy, he goes to his final reward with all
of life's battles well fought and the victory fully won.
Born and reared within the shadow of the immortal bell
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surroundings of intense loyalty to flag and country, his
later life accorded with his earlier, and his gallant record
is one in which this Commandery may take a just pride.
His ear is deaf to the bugle's shrill call " to arms; " his
once good and strong right arm will no more raise the
trusty blade in defense of truth, honor, justice and
human equality; his body lies moldering with its com
mon clay, but his spirit freed from mortal thralldom
goes marching on in the enjoyment of a well-earned and
blissful eternity. He has joined that noble band of
whom it is said: "On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their snowy tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead."
Charles Bent,
Wilbur G. Bentley,
Christian E. Lanstrum,
Committee.

JOHN JOSEPH RAVENSCROFT PATRICK.
Captaiti One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Belleville, Illinois, April lo, i8gj.
THE committee appointed to prepare a tribute of re
spect to the memory of our late Companion, Cap
tain John Joseph Ravenscroft Patrick, who died at Belle
ville, Illinois, April lo, 1895, respectfully submit the fol
lowing: Captain Patrick was born at Liverpool, England,
February 6, 1825, and came to this country with his
parents when fourteen years of age, settling first at New
Orleans, moving from there to Louisville, Kentucky;
thence to Keokuk, Iowa, where his father died in the
year 1847.
Soon after this, young Patrick decided "to follow in
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the footsteps of his father and went to St. Louis to com
mence the study of medicine, taking a course of lectures
in the McDowell Medical College of that city. Having,
however, in earlier years, served some time as apprentice
to the goldsmith's trade, and believing that his mechani
cal ability would be of great service to him in the pro
fession of dentistry, he turned his attention in this direc
tion and graduated from the Missouri Dental College at
St. Louis, Missouri. His professional career and suc
cess proved the wisdom of his final choice.
He was twice married; the first time at Lebanon,
Missouri, in 1853, to Miss Jane Johnston, whose death
occurred about five years ago; his second wife, who sur
vives him, having been Miss Anna Rischar, his former
secretary. He settled in Belleville, Illinois, and lived
there until the time of his death. Dr. Patrick was a close
student and a lover of science.
Since the war he spent much time in archaeological
researches and built for himself a world-wide reputation.
At the time of his death he was engaged in preparing a
work upon "Prehistoric Skulls," and was the author of
many monographs and pamphlets well known to the sci
entific world. He had been a teacher in the Missouri
Dental College and also in the Dental Department of the
State University of Iowa.
Although born in a foreign country, when his adopted
country became involved in a war threatening its exist
ence, he entered the service with Company G, One Hun
dred and Thirtieth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, and there
served from its muster until January, 1864. January 23,
1863, he was promoted Captain, which position he held
until his resignation on account of the consolidation of
his regiment with the Seventy-seventh Illinois, and his
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paign, from Milliken's Bend to its close; was in the bat
tles of Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge,
and in the charges of May 19th and 22d.
After the surrender of Vicksburg, his regiment assist
ed in the ten-day siege of Jackson, Mississippi, after
which the regiment was transferred to the Department
of the Gulf under General Banks, taking part in the cam
paigns of Western Louisiana, and under General Ran
som, in his Texas campaign. He left the service at Pass
Cavallo, on the coast of that State. He became a mem
ber of this Commandery January 8, 1891, and leaves a
large circle of friends to mourn his death.
To his bereaved family we offer our heartfelt sym
pathy.
Edgar D. Swain,
Charles R. E. Koch,
Charles Matteson,
Committee.

FRANK M. THOMSON.
First Lieutenant Fourteenth Neiv York Heavy Artillery, United States
Volunteers. Died at New York, N. Y., April 20, i8gj.
OORN at La Fargeville, Jefferson County, N. Y., May
'Vl 13, 1845. Died at New York City, April 20, 1895.
"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Too often are we reminded of the declining years, and
too frequent are becoming the grim summons of Him
who compasseth all earthly ills. While it is a mournful
pleasure to speak well of the dead, the heart of man is
prone to fill with saddened tenderness for the loved ones
who are bereaved.
In the bivouac of eternal sleep, our friend and Com
panion, Lieutenant Frank M. Thomson, has lain him
down to rise no more to earthly call; and his fellow
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members and Companions of the Illinois Commandery
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion join deeply
and earnestly in their sorrow and grief that one so dearly
respected and esteemed will hold no converse here below.
Companion Thomson was a brave, earnest and up
right man, generous to a fault, and full of that human
magnetism which drew around him many friends who
will miss his genial handshake and his kindly sympathy.
He was honest, faithful, capable and popular, a man of
unquestioned ability and unblemished reputation; large-
hearted, faithful and true. He sought only the true friend
ship of man and the honest love of woman ; and he was ever
staunch and loyal to his former companions in arms.
Entering into the Federal service of the Union as a
private in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, he rose
from the ranks for conspicuous and meritorious bravery
and proven efficiency upon the field of battle, to become
successively Second Lieutenant and finally First Lieu
tenant of the Fouteenth New York Heavy Artillery. With
the Ninth Army Corps he participated in all the hot and
dreadful carnage of every important engagement in the
campaign, from the Wilderness to Appomattox.
As a business man, Mr. Thompson was punctilious in
his dealings, truthful, honorable and honest in his speech,
and prompt in the discharge of money obligations. By
prudence, economy and rigid care, he succeeded in gain
ing a competency and for a time lived comfortably and
contentedly with his beloved family. But a few years ago
he engaged in a business bright with promises and the
highest hopes of success, only to meet with that disap
pointment which is of such common occurrence in these
times. In this enterprise he lost his all, and we fear the
failure had much to do with his early death, for he died
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It is, therefore, with the utmost commiseration that
his Companions of the Loyal Legion, in their full sympa
thy, extend to his friends, relatives and family their sin
cere condolence for the sad loss they have experienced
in his early demise, and resignedly but devoutly point to
Him — "In Whom we place our trust."
James A. Sexton,
Horace H. Thomas,
Alfred T. Andreas,
Committee.

FRANK HITCHCOCK.
Captain Eighty-sixth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers .
Died at Peoria, Illinois, April 2j, j8gj.
"TLS IN days "gone by we have seen amidst the roar of
[\ artillery and the crack of the rifle, our comrades
^"^ swept down all around us by the leaden messen
ger of death, so now we see that the grim Reaper seems
to be no less busy and that every one of our successive
meetings marks the loss of those who are dropping by
the wayside, we may almost say, day by day.
We are now called to pay a parting tribute to our late
Companion, Captain Frank Hitchcock, who was born in
Painesville, Ohio, 1839, and died at Peoria, Illinois, April
25, 1895. Moving to Peoria County, Illinois, when sev
enteen years of age, like so many of our best and bright-
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est men he spent his early years upon the old farm. At
the outbreak of the Rebellion he needed no second call,
and so the early part of 1861 found him in the Union
ranks where his bravery and force of character speedily
brought him promotion to Captain in the Eighty-sixth
Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, August 27, 1862.
His military record is so long and his career so active
that no attempt at details will be made here. Suffice it to
say, that he was in the Thirty-sixth Brigade of Sheridan's
Division, afterwards in the Third Brigade of the Second
Division Fourteenth Corps, Army of the Cumberland.
At Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge,
and in the many battles of the Atlanta Campaign,
in Sherman's glorious March to the Sea, and in the
capture of Savanah, Captain Hitchcock could be found
wherever duty called him; and he was one who felt that
duty called him, wherever the fight was hottest. With
an enthusiasm that knew no tiring, with a courage that
knew no flinching, he faced his country's enemy until he
was mustered out June 6, 1865, with but one hand, a
part of the other having been left at Kenesaw Mountain.
On account of the same traits of character that made
him so true and brave a soldier, he was made Sheriff of
Peoria County term after term, was made the Mayor of
the city of Peoria, and also United States Marshal for the
Northern District of Illinois; and the remembrance of
these qualities makes our hearts ache to-day as we realize
the loss that this Commandery has sustained in his death.
It is not often that a lion's heart is found with a
woman's tenderness and sympathetic nature. Captain
Hitchcock was one who could do his duty and inflict no
unnecessary sting; he was one of the few who could clasp
the manacles on a prisoner's wrists and make him his
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We can ask no greater blessing on those who shall
one day fill our places, than that they may find no lack
of men as true, as strong, as lovable, as he to whom we
now say farewell. Eliot Callender,
Martin Kingman,
John D. McClure,
Committee.

EVERETT BRUCE PRESTON.
Captain Twenty-second Connecticut Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 2y, i8gj.
p-VERETT BRUCE PRESTON was born in Willing-
I ton, Connecticut, September I2th, in 1843, and
^^~* was eighteen years of age when the war broke out.
His brother entering the service at the breaking out of
the war, he was eager to enlist; but was persuaded by
his brother to remain at home, which he did until the
following year; but when the President called for three
hundred thousand militia to serve for nine months, he
enlisted in Company H, Twenty-second Connecticut Vol
unteers. Although so young he was elected First Lieu
tenant, and three months afterward was promoted to
Captain, being the youngest officer in his regiment. He
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gave especial attention to the discipline of his men, and
was complimented on having the best drilled company.
The regiment served in the defences of Washington until
April, 1863, when it was sent to Suffolk, Virginia, to
defend it against Longstreet's siege of that place; this
was a service of nightly surprises and fatiguing duty in
the trenches, the enemy threatening night and day.
After Longstreet abandoned the siege, the regiment
moved to Yorktown, and was with the advance of Gen
eral Dix, threatening Richmond at the time of the ad
vance of Lee into Pennsylvania, in the Gettysburg cam
paign, and was shortly after mustered out.
After the regiment had been discharged. Captain
Preston returned to Hartford and resumed his place in
business, remaining there until 1869, when he removed
to Chicago and went into the rubber goods and fire ap
paratus trade, building up a successful business. He
was a very capable, energetic, and far-sighted business
man, and was successful in whatever he undertook. He
lost nearly all he had in the great fire, but paid his in
debtedness in full, and was very prosperous during the
years succeeding; establishing branch stores at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Port
land, Oregon. He was a director and general manager
of the Mayall Rubber Company, of Reading, Massa
chusetts, and handled all the rubber shoes manufac
tured and shipped west of Pittsburgh and to the Rocky
Mountains. We lose in him an estimable citizen and worthy
Companion; one of the class of men who have helped to
build up Chicago and the West, and who, after serving
their country in its time of need, show that in times of
peace they are behind none in their ability to hold their
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The Commandery extends its sympathy to his afflicted
wife and daughter in their irreparable loss.
George K. Dauchy,
Albert L. Coe,
William A. Montgomery,
Committee.

WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM.
Brigadier General and Brevet Major General, United States
Volunteers. Died at Washington, D. C, May 28, iSgj.
OESOLVED, That we, the Illinois Commandery of
|\ the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
^"^ United States, sincerely mourn the loss of our be
loved ex-Commander, General Walter Quintin Gresham,
whose warm heart and rugged virtues his Companions
will ever cherish in loving memory.
Resolved, That, reserving for more careful prepara
tion hereafter a just memorial of his character and serv
ices, we now at this informal meeting, held on the eve
of his burial, desire to express our full appreciation of
his exceptional ability both as a military leader and in
civil life. We record our admiration of his splendid
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personal courage long ago manifested so often on the
battle-field, enabling him even while being borne out of
the fight with a shattered limb to pause and give a last
important order, and manifested later in numberless
forensic contests and judicial decrees where conduct
which he considered fraud was relentlessly denounced
and where right, as he saw the right, was sternly main
tained. We recall with affection his hearty and cordial
friendship and his constant and willing attention to the
duties of the chair of this Commandery. We recognize
the broad and catholic spirit of the man who twice rose
so easily from local labors to national affairs, and who
at last wore out his life in the service of his country,
while patiently performing the exacting duties of one of
its most exalted offices, as Secretary of State.
Resolved, That this Commandery make suitable ar
rangements for representation at his funeral, and that
the Recorder transmit a copy of these resolutions to the
family of our deceased Companion.
At the stated meeting held June 13, 1895, the following report was
read and adopted:
No occasion could be more appropriate to pay our
tribute of respect to the memory of Walter Quintin
Gresham than the present, when fathers and sons of the
Loyal Legion are assembled together at this their annual
meeting. Sorrow for the death of one who always en
joyed these unique gatherings is mingled with the pleasure
of the hour.
To the fathers, the illustrious deceased has been a
Coinpanion, the Commander of the Commandery and a
warm-hearted friend. To the sons, his example, his
struggles and his successes will prove a lesson full of
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unaided efforts, his sterling qualities and incorruptible
integrity. Though death comes frequently, reducing our ranks
and taking away a Sheridan, a Logan, a Strong, a
White, a Stiles and many others equally dear, yet we
are never, nor can we be, wholly prepared for the
recurring presence of that grim and victorious enemy of
us all. The announcement of the death of General Gresham
came to us with startling force. Each member of this
Commandery realized that he had sustained a personal
loss. None knew so well as we how our friend enjoyed
laying aside the burdens and responsibilities of the
Bench, here to mingle with his old comrades and to
fight his battles o'er again. With us he was always at
home. He loved the free and unconventional spirit of
our gatherings. Here his ever bright and penetrating
eyes received, if possible, a brighter glow under the in
fluence of soul-stirring battle hymns and stories of the
war. If, as recently stated in a foreign paper, the time
has already arrived in this country, that, when an old
soldier commences to speak of army days, it is the signal
for those who did not participate in the war to rise and
leave the circle, we know that such a rule has no place
in this gathering of fathers and sons to-night. We know
that one of the great charms of this organization is, that
we do not weary in hearing of one another's experiences.
We know that our reunions tend to keep alive the fires
of patriotism and loyalty. We realize that the associa
tions which bring us together are stronger and more
binding than the old ties of school or college days. At
the same time we are not insensible to the importance
of current history; we are not stationary. We love to
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spirit of the age, we accept the duties of life as they
devolve upon us.
The life of Walter Quintin Gresham is an inspiration
to all who study it. Like so many of the distinguished men
of the Republic, he was born and reared upon a farm, and
also like so manyof the mighty whose names are inscribed
in our country's Valhalla, he was destined to blaze his
way through the trials of early life, single-handed and
alone. Born in 1832, in Harrison County, Indiana, he was
two years of age when he lost his father. Deprived of
paternal guidance, he was fortunately blessed with a
mother's watchful care, and until he was sixteen years
of age lived with her, working on the farm and devoting
his spare hours to reading and study.
Relying upon his own merits his advance during the
following years was rapid. In 1854 he was admitted to
the Bar. In 1858 he was married to Miss Matilda Mc-
Grain, a most estimable woman, who in all the walks of
life has been a devoted and efficient helpmeet to her
gifted husband. In i860 he was elected to the Legisla
ture of Indiana, and immediately thereafter made Chair
man of the Committee on Military Affairs. Here he was
strikingly active in urging appropriations for the organ
ization- and equipment of the State Militia for its service
in the field.
The subsequent versatile and unparalleled career of
General Gresham naturally divides itself into three peri
ods, his Military, Judicial, and Executive life. From his
contemporaries at Washington; from those who knew
him in the important offices of Postmaster General, Sec
retary of the Treasury and Secretary of State, there have
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From those associated with him for twenty-two years
upon the Bench, and from those who practiced before
him in the Seventh United States Judicial Circuit, com
prising the States of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin,
there have been recorded sincere tributes to his unsullied
name and to his conspicuous ability as a fearless, con
scientious and upright Judge; one who sought only to do
justice between man and man, and whose robes of ermine
were ever spotless.
In 1888, so great was his popularity and so wide-
reaching the confidence reposed in his judgment and
character, he became the spontaneous and unanimous
choice of his party in this State for the nomination to
the Presidency. This distinction, conferred upon him
at a time when he had been a resident of the State but
for a short period, he regarded as unprecedented, and he
appreciated the honor with feelings of pleasure and pride.
It was as a gallant soldier that our Companion was
best known to this Commandery. We had shared his
military life and we knew his intrepidity and other sol
dierly qualities, — his sympathies, his manliness, his
patriotism. When the Civil War broke out he declined
re-election to the Legislature, and enlisted as a private
in the Thirty-eighth Indiana Infantry. He was speedily
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and on
March 10, 1862, was commissioned Colonel of the Fifty-
third Indiana Volunteers. As he rode out from Cory
don, young and of striking appearance, at the head of
his regiment, to do battle for his country, his faithful
and patriotic wife proudly cheered him on to victory.
He was commissioned Brigadier General of United
States Volunteers January 25, 1863; brevetted Major Gen
eral United States Volunteers March 13, 1863, and mus
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Vicksburg, at Corinth, and in the arduous Atlanta cam
paign. As Military Governor of Natchez, the high order
of administrative ability exhibited by him compelled ad
miration alike from friend and foe. In the movement on
Atlanta, and while at the front reconnoitering, he was
shot in the right thigh by one of the enemy's sharp
shooters. His Corps Commander, Major General Frank
P. Blair, in his official report of the operations of this
campaign, said: "General Gresham, who was seriously
wounded on the 20th of July, displayed the greatest cour
age and skill in the management of his troops on that
day." It was a source of life-long regret to him that the
fortunes of war prevented him from being on the field at
Shiloh. He was, however, serving his country as faith
fully while guarding the lines and supplies at Savannah,
within sound of the roar of battle, as those who faced
the enemy amid shot and shell.
He won the friendship and esteem of Grant, Sher
man and McPherson, and possessed the highest confi
dence of the men of his command. Grant, when
President, unsolicited, placed him on the Federal Bench.
The lamented McPherson, who was himself so soon to
give his life defending the flag of his country, when in
formed that his Division General had been stricken
down, showed a deep interest in his welfare and di
rected that he should receive the most assiduous care
and skill.
Of Sherman it is said, that when Colonel Gresham
told him that the men of the Fifty-third Regiment were
raw, that he himself did not know anything of military
affairs, and that he wanted to know something, the
great hero welcomed him, and characteristically replied
that he, Gresham, was the first man he had met who
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fidence he would order his regiment out on the picket
line. We know how he prized the years he passed on the
tented field. There was no portion of his public career
of which he was so proud, and it has been said he pre
ferred the title of "General" to that of "Judge" or "Mr.
Secretary." Possessing a winning and magnetic personality, of a
tender, generous and considerate nature, he enjoyed the
experiences of the camp, the march and the battle, and
waS'' closely drawn towards those who had known a
similar life. It will be long before we forget his pleas
ant and simple ways. Never wholly recovering from
his -wound and bearing his sufferings with heroism, he
gave^his life to his country as truly as did those who died
on the battle-field.
In this city, on Memorial Day, — a day hallowed to
so many sacred memories; amid the most impressive
surroundings; in the presence of his afflicted widow and
family, the President of the United States and his Cabi
net, this Commandery and thousands of mourning
friends, military honors were accorded to the memory of
this distinguished man; taps were sounded, and the
soldier-citizen was tenderly laid to rest.
"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well."
Aldace F. Walker,
James L. High,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Ephraim A. Otis,
Martin J. Russell,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Committee.

GEORGE RANDOLPH DYER.
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, United States Volunteers.
Died at Excelsioj- Springs, Missouri, July zj>, i8g^,
IN MEMORY of Captain George Randolph Dyer, born
June 3, 1812, at Clarendon, Rutland County, Ver
mont; died July 13, 1895, at Excelsior Springs, Clay
County, Missouri.
Captain Dyer was educated at Rutland Academy, Ver
mont. At the early age of twenty-one, driving overland, he
sought his fortunes in the West. In 1835, he explored
the shores of Lake Michigan in a bark canoe. Impressed
with the future of Milwaukee and Chicago, he purchased
property in both cities. In 1841 he sold his possessions
and settled in the town of Plainfield, Will County, Illinois.
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In 1856, he was elected Sheriff of Will County. He
was one of the first and most prominent members of the
Republican party in Illinois, and so became a close friend
of Lincoln, Lovejoy, Wentworth and other leaders of the
party in the State. He was, of course, strongly opposed
to slavery, and for some time kept a station of the " un
derground railroad."
Captain Dyer belonged to a family of soldiers. His
father fought under General Stark, at the Battle of Ben
nington, and at the close of the Revolution was commis
sioned (by Governor Hancock) Major of Massachusetts
State Militia. Two of his brothers distinguished them
selves in the War of 18 12. Two of his sons served in
the Union army in the Civil War. One of them, Com
panion Daniel B. Dyer, succeeds him in the Order of the
Loyal Legion. Our late beloved Companion, Major Clar
ence E. Dyer, was his nephew.
October 31, 1861, President Lincoln commissioned
him Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S.V His
entire military service was at Pilot Knob, Missouri, where
he proved himself a most faithful, efficient and honest
officer, doing his duty with the utmost zeal, and helping
forward the Union cause with all the energy and persist
ence of an enthusiastic and loyal nature. Whatever he
did, he did with his might, always feeling that his coun
try was entitled to, and should have, the best service
which he could render it. He resigned May 19, 1865.
Another Companion has answered the last roll-call.
Another brave spirit has gone to meet its God.
John L. Beveridge,
Philip C. Hayes,
Alfred T. Andreas,
Committee.

GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT.
Companion of the Third Class. Died at Bailey's Island,, Maine,
August 6, iSgj.
YOUR Committee on Memorial to Dr. George F. Root,
desire to report as follows:
Another name has been transferred from the registry
of this Commandery to that of Heaven. Born on August
20, 1820, Doctor Root had just completed his seventy-
fifth year when gathered to his fathers.
A member of the Third Class of the Loyal Legion, he
has left us to join the comrades who have gone before,
and to be joined, we trust, by those of us who remain,
but are ere long to follow.
As his survivors, ours is the consolation of cherishing
the memory of a beautiful life — beautiful not in the mere
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perfunctory use of that word, for that life was replete
with those charms of character, and those intellectual
achievements that lend to manhood both dignity and
grace. His was, indeed, a liie of genuine harmony, harmony
of jDractice with precept, harmony of Christian character,
harmony of mind and soul.
Although not of the profession of arms, his martial
songs proved an exhaustless source of encouragement
and inspiration to the hosts who battled for the Union;
and scarcely less effective have been his melodies in the
home circle, and the sacred songs that have animated
the soldiers marching under the banner of Christ.
The same genial and loving spirit that gave birth to
those enchanting melodies, pervaded his whole nature,
and brightened his intercourse with his fellow men, en
dearing him to all who came within the circle of his
friendship. No name is more fondly associated than his with the
cause of liberty and the Union, by those who were its
champions at home and in the field. No songs will prove
more enduring than his when sung in memory of the
past, none more potent to arouse enthusiasm and inspire
to heroic deeds the patriots of our beloved Republic, if
ever assailed by foreign powers.
We consecrate anew in our hearts the love of him
whose praise we unconsciously chant whenever joining
our voices in the soul-inspiring words and music of the
' ' Battle Cry of Freedom. "
Thomas B. Bryan,
Horatio L. Wait,
Eugene Gary,
Committee.

MAYER FRANK.
Captain Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, August rd, i8gj.
IN THAT vanguard which sprang to the call of a threat
ened country stood our late Companion, Mayer Frank.
Although but a few years had elapsed since he had
come, a stranger among a strange people, he had learned
the lesson of patriotism thoroughly, and thus early sought
to testify to his devotion to the land of his adoption.
Born in Nordsteten, Wuerttemberg, Germany, April
9, 1 84 1, he left that place at the age of twelve years,
coming to Philadelphia, where he remained until i860,
when he removed to Chicago.
At the outbreak of the war he sought to enlist under
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In August, 1862, he was one of the most enthusiastic
and energetic of a committee of Hebrew citizens in
Chicago, organized to encourage enlistments, etc. In
three days they had raised ten thousand dollars, as well as
organized a company composed exclusively of members
of their own faith and known as the Concordia Guards.
This company was subsequently mustered into the
United States service as Company C, Eighty-second
Illinois Volunteers. Enlisted therein, Companion Frank
was appointed First Lieutenant August 16, 1862, and
promoted Captain May 28, 1863.
He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge and vari
ous minor engagements with his regiment and in the
battle of Wauhatchie was assigned, temporarily, to com
mand the Eightieth Illinois.
He served as Acting Assistant Inspector General on
the Staffs of Generals Schimmelpfenning and Tyndale.
At Gettysburg his horse was shot, and falling on him,
caused such injuries as eventually necessitated his resig
nation February 29, 1864.
He was a gentleman, unostentatious in manner and
of a kindly nature. Of modest means, he was gener
ous to an extreme in his charities, more especially when
the old soldier was the object thereof. His long service
with one firm testifies to his abilities and uprightness.
Those nearest to him will feel his absence most keenly
and their remembrance of him will be the tenderest and
most enduring. John J. Abercrombie,
Francis Lackner,
William Vocke,
Committee

WILLIAM ADAM MONTGOMERY.
Captain Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry, United States Volunteers .
Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 21, i8gj.
WILLIAM ADAM MONTGOMERY, late Captain of
the Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry, was born June
21, 1838, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His family, which
was of Scotch-Irish stock, emigrated from the north of
Ireland first to Delaware, but moved afterward to Lan
caster County, Pennsylvania, settling in Little Britain
Township in Lancaster County, upon land which was
obtained by grant from William Penn. Captain Mont
gomery came from patriotic ancestry. His grandfather,
William Montgomery, who was born in 1761, when a
boy of about sixteen years, left the academy at Newark,
Delaware, where he was pursuing his education, and
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joined the Revolutionary Army iu' 1776 or 1777. He was
in the engagement at Trenton, where he was wounded,
and also the actions at Princeton and elsewhere. At a
later time he was Captain of the Lancaster Light Horse.
After the Revolution he studied law and practiced in
Lancaster until his death in 1826. His son, John R.
Montgomery, the father of our late Companion, was born
in 1801. He was conspicuous at the Lancaster bar for
his eloquence and ability as a lawyer, at a time when
that bar numbered among its active members such men
as James Buchanan, Thadeus Stevens, the great Com
moner, and other men of national reputation. He won
his fame as a lawyer in early life, for at the age of thirty-
six he was struck by lightning, and was an invalid from
that time until his death in 1854. His mother having
died in 1847, William A. Montgomery was thus left an
orphan at an early age, in the care of an older sister. At
the age of sixteen he entered Washington and Jefferson
College as a sophomore, spending one year in that insti
tution. The family then moved to the West, and
William A. Montgomery entered Beloit College, Wiscon
sin, as a junior, graduating in the year 1857 with high
honors. He began the study of law in the law school at
Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained one year, and
continued his studies the two years following, in the
office of Judge James C. Hopkins, at Madison, Wiscon
sin. He was admitted to the bar in i860.
In February of the following year he came to Chicago
to engage in the practice of the law. But within a few
weeks the guns from Sumter proclaimed that the great
debate between freedom and slavery was to be submitted
to the arbitrament of arms. True to the example ofhis
revolutionary grandfather, Montgomery at once laid aside
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Wisconsin Infantry. Owing to some difficulty about the
three year term of enlistment, the company in which he
had enlisted was not accepted. Young Montgomery
thereupon returned to Beloit, where he joined in the
organization of a new regiment; and on the 14th of De
cember, 1 86 1, he enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth
Wisconsin Infantry. Upon the organization of the regi
ment he was elected Second Lieutenant of his company,
the commission bearing date January 10, 1862, to date
from his enlistment. On the 2nd of March, 1862, the
Fifteenth Wisconsin began its war service at Bird's Point,
Missouri, and while there Lieutenant Montgomery was
presented by his friends in the company with a handsome
sword. His first engagement was at Hickman, where
four companies repulsed a small rebel force. Subse
quently the regiment was sent to join the forces above
Island No. 10, and soon after surprised and captured a
rebel force at Union City. On the nth of June, 1862,
Companies I and G of the Fifteenth were sent to Island
No. 10, where they remained until early in September,
1863. October i, 1862, Montgomery was promoted to
First Lieutenant; but before being mustered was again
promoted to Captain of Company I, his commission dat
ing from the 4th of April, 1863. The 20th of Septem
ber following, the two detached companies having been
ordered to join their regiment, reached the rest of their
comrades at the close of the second day's disastrous
fighting at Chickamauga. It was a sad reunion. Colonel
Heg, of the Fifteenth, commanding the brigade, had been
killed, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson and other officers
and men had been taken prisoners, and many had been
killed or wounded upon that hard fought field.
At Chattanooga the regiment closed up its shattered
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which swept up Missionary Ridge, as the Army of the
Cumberland. In the advance from Fort Wood the Fif
teenth Wisconsin was one of the first at the capture of
Orchard Knob, and on the 25th of November it partici
pated in the charge which won the summit of that his
toric Ridge, and after that brilliant victory was sent
with the force which went to the relief of Burnside
at Knoxville. In these engagements Captain Mont
gomery participated, and nobly performed his duty as a
soldier. In the winter of 1863 and 1864, Captain Montgomery
was ordered north upon recruiting service. He returned
to his regiment in the spring of 1864, in time to partici
pate in the Atlanta campaign. In the fighting at Rocky
Face Ridge, at Resacca, in the assault upon Kenesaw
Mountain, at Peach Tree Creek, at Jonesboro, at Love
joy Station and the engagements about Atlanta, he led
his men in every action.
After the capture of Atlanta the regiment was ordered
to Chattanooga, and the remainder of its service was
rendered in that vicinity until the expiration of its period
of enlistment. The war for the preservation of the Union being tri
umphantly ended. Captain Montgomery returned to his
professional pursuits in Chicago, where he continued to
reside until the time of his death.
Of his professional career this is not the time nor
place to speak at length. He speedily acquired a large
and excellent practice. The legal ability which had
come down through three generations of distinguished
lawyers was manifest throughout his whole career at the
bar. As a wise and safe counsellor, as a careful and
industrious lawyer, as a man of unquestioned integrity
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ciates at the bar and by the courts before whom he
practiced. Any notice of Captain Montgomery would be imper
fect which did not in some way refer to his genial humor,
his unfailing kindliness of heart and courtesy of manner.
He was always and everywhere a thorough gentleman,
and those who best knew him best understood the gen
tleness and tenderness of his character and life. Of no
one could it be more truthfully said that
"To know him was to love him,
To name him was to praise."
He was ever modest and courteous and yet always
firm in maintaining his own views of the right. He en
deavored to perform the duties of life, as they came to
him, with punctilious accuracy, with unfailing industry,
and without ostentation or display. Were he present with
us to-night his innate modesty would shrink from eulogy,
as one unconscious of his real worth. But we who knew
him and who loved him cannot say less, though we know
that he himself would be unwilling that we should say
more. There is a well-known picture of a line of battle
sleeping upon the field in readiness for action, while
above it hovers another shadowy line, pressing forward
in the fierce onset as though foreshadowing in dreams
what to-morrow has in store for the sleeping host. We
who gather here in steadily diminishing numbers are but
a small minority of that great host that went forth to
battle with us in the days of '6i and '62. We know not
yet what the future has in store for us, nor how soon for
us " Lights out" shall be sounded. But we know that
some to-morrow shall muster us into that greater army
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meet again the knightly soldiers, the true friends, the
trusted comrades whom we
" Have loved long since and lost awhile."
Henry V. Freeman,
George W. Baird,
William Eliot Furness,
Committee.

ALEXANDER MILLER STOUT.
Colonel Seventeenth Kentucky and Brevet Brigadier General, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, August 2^, i8g^.
" His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world — this was a man."
/^ENERAL Alexander M. Stout died at the Presby-
\[J terian Hospital in this city on the 25th day of
August, 1895. During his long illness his many
army friends kept constant and loving vigil at his bed
side. All that human skill, all that loving hands could
do was done. But the ailment had taken too firm a hold,
and though bravely the old warrior fought against the
stern decree of fate, the inexorable law must be enacted,
and he must go to join the innumerable caravan that
moves to the mysterious realms beyond.
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His soldier friends were unremitting in their attention;
frequently called at the hospital and each time came
away realizing that their mission was hopeless. The old
soldier was making an heroic struggle, but his strength
was gone, pain and distress had worn out the iron con
stitution. Death was near. At midnight he breathed
his last and thus passed away a remarkable man.
Alexander Miller Stout was born in Shelby County,
Kentucky, on the 8th day of January, 1820, and was,
therefore, at the time of his death in his seventy-sixth
year. He was educated at Bardstown College. After tak
ing his degree in law at Harvard College he settled at
Owensborough, Kentucky, and practiced law until 1851,
when he removed to Louisville. There he served as City
Attorney for several terms. When the war of the Re
bellion broke out he raised the first regiment of Home
Guards and in conjunction with Colonel John H. McHenry
raised the Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry and
was mustered into the service on the 2nd day of January,
1862, as Lieutenant Colonel. He was promoted to the
rank of Colonel, January 27, 1863, and commissioned a
Brevet Brigadier General United States Volunteers to
take rank from the 1 3th day of March, 1 865, " for gallant
and meritorious service during the war." His principal
service was in Wood's Division, Fourth Army Corps,
Army of the Cumberland, in which he commanded his
regiment, and as senior Colonel, the brigade to which his
regiment was attached.
His first service was in the campaign leading up to
the battle of Shiloh, in which his eldest son was killed
and he himself severely wounded. Subsequently he
participated in all the campaigns and battles of the Army
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part at Stone's River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and Perryville. He was
mustered out of the service January 27, 1865.
After the war General Stout attempted to practice his
profession in Louisville, but sentiment was so strong
against the Union soldier, that he found himself almost an
alien in his native state. While serving in the Legislature
he was appointed Chief Clerk of the Patent Office, and
subsequently was Acting Commissioner of Patents. At
the expiration of this time he resumed the practice of law
in Washington, and moved to Chicago in 1879, where he
continued the practice of his profession until the last few
years. He was a member of the Illinois Commandery of
the Loyal Legion and of George H. Thomas Post, No. 5,
Department of Illinois, G. A. R.
General Stout was married in 1848 to Margaret,
daughter of Stanley Singleton of Hardingsburg, Ken
tucky, who survives him, with his two daughters, Mrs. M.
M. Dewall and Miss Emma Stout, and Stanley S. and
Dr. Alexander M. Stout of this city.
It is always proper to speak well of the dead; it is
pleasing and grateful when the tribute comes not as a
perfunctory duty, but in spontaneous appreciation of ex
cellence and goodness.
General Stout was a soldier in appearance and action.
His head was a noble one, his hair white and beautiful,
his face pleasant even to attractiveness. His figure was
tall and commanding, these uniting to give him a strik
ing personality. He was a fine scholar and was very
familiar with the works of the recognized authors, past
and cotemporaneous. He could quote at will from the
poets, his knowledge of Shakespeare being extraordinary.
Had General Stout changed his political belief and
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elevated to the highest place within the gift of his peo
ple. But principle was everything to him. He was
firm in the faith, and in what he believed was right he
was as immovable as the rock. He had no assumption,
and there was nothing aggressive in his make up. Mod
esty was his distinguishing trait. No one ever heard
him boast of a success. Though a brilliant soldier, he
seldom if ever referred to his achievements. He was as
gentle as a child and his nature was warm, generous and
affectionate. He loved all things, he could not see the
merest animal suffer and his heart went out to all in
affliction. His friendship was steadfast, for once he
liked he never disliked and would share his all with a
friend. He was an ideal soldier. He was as brave as a
lion and seemed to love the fierce joy of the conflict.
He won distinction and the confidence of his command
by the constant display of those soldierly qualities, cour
age, coolness, composure and heroism, wherever duty
called, in every battle in which he was engaged. His
death is a public loss and has cast a shadow of gloom
over a large circle of friends. He was a noble man,
generous, genial; he loved and was loved. Peace to his
ashes. 01 him even an opponent could well say:
" I have scan'd the action of his daily life,
With all the industrious malice of a foe.
And nothing meets mine eyes but deeds of honor."
Edward A. Blodgett,
James A. Sexton,
Horace H. Thomas,
Committee.

ANDREW JACKSON HOBART.
Major and Surgeon First Mlchigayi Infantry, United States Vohm
teers. Died at Clinto?i, lozva, December 6, i8g^.
TTLNDREW JACKSON HOBART was born in Yates
jf\ County, New York, July 15, 1829. He was mus-
^"^ tered in as Assistant Surgeon of the First Michigan
Infantry, September 16, 1861, and served with his regi
ment on the Peninsula before Richmond, and was very
useful in the campaigns before that city, and in other
campaigns with the Army of the Potomac, until after the
battle of Gettysburg. He was detached for hospital
service at Harwood hospital in Virginia, where he served
until the first campaign before Fredericksburg.
He was promoted to be Surgeon of the First Michi
gan Infantry, and was mustered as such, in the field,
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December 10, 1862. He served in the field until March
16, 1864, when the War Department ordered him to
special hospital duty in Jackson, Michigan. Doctor Ho
bart's record is brief, but he always had the reputation
of being a faithful officer and a good soldier. The men
of the regiment liked him as a kindly friend, and his
brother officers esteemed him highly as a gentleman and
a patriotic soldier.
Doctor Hobart was exceedingly retiring in disposi
tion, and his temperament was not aggressive. It was
therefore necessary to know him a long time before one
could learn of, and appreciate, his genial nature and
really attractive disposition.
After the war he returned to his profession of medi
cine, in which he served his fellow citizens efficiently
and successfully. Those who were near to this good
man and faithful soldier regret his death exceedingly.
He leaves a wife and two children.
Arthur Edwards,
Charles W. Meyers,
John T. McAuley,
Committee.

ALBERT EGERTON ADAMS.
Captain First Neiv York Mounted Rifles, United States Volunteers.
Died at Cliicago, Illinois, January 4, i8gb.
TTjLBERT EGERTON ADAMS, Captain First New
l\ York Mounted Rifles, was born at Great Falls, New
^"^ Hampshire, August 22, 1840. He died at his
home on Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, January 4, 1896.
Companion Adams was of direct Puritan descent, two
of his ancestors having been of the Pilgrim company
which came over from England in the Mayflower in
1620. Two of his great-grandfathers were officers in
the Revolutionary Army. Like his father and grand
father. Companion Adams was a graduate of Yale, enter
ing college in 1858 and graduating in 1862.
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although sixty years of age, was already one of the few
"fighting Chaplains" of the army, serving in the Eighth
Maine Infantry. The example of the father found a
ready follower in the son. As old soldiers do not need
to be reminded, it was in the summer of that year, 1862,
that President Lincoln's call for "three hundred thous
and more," summoned so many of our number to camp
and field.
Fresh from college life, young Adams at once began
to recruit a company, and upon its organization became
its First Lieutenant, and within a year thereafter was
promoted to be Captain. His service was largely scout
ing in Virginia, a service full of hardship and danger, in
which he won official commendation for bravery, and is
said to have been offered promotion as Colonel, when
his health broke down and it became necessary to send
him home because of disability.
In 1865, after the war, he went into the hardware
business in Davenport, Iowa, removing thence to Chi
cago in 1878. Captain Adams was intelligently inter
ested in all matters of public welfare and concern. He
took a sincere and active interest in the laboring men,
usually about eight hundred in number, in his employ,
and studied with zeal, matters affecting the relations of
labor and capital. There were no more sincere mourn
ers at the memorial services held after his death than
his own employes.
Few men were more highly respected, and seldom
has any man been more highly honored, not only by his
neighbors and friends, but by the community in general
of that part of the city in which he lived.
The memorial services held after his death, in the
South Congregational Church where he attended, bore
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by those who knew him best. He lived a life of useful
service, and now —
"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Henry V. Freeman,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Joseph Stockton,
,, Committee.

ASA ABRAHAM MATTESON.

Died at Galesburg, Illinois, January 4, i8g6.
•rrSA A. MATTESON, a Companion of this Cora
ls mandery of the First Class by inheritance, depart-
^^ ed this life on Saturday, the 4th day of January,
1896, after an illness of one week. He was born in
Warren County, in this State, on the 24th day of Octo
ber, 1837, and was able to trace his lineage through the
early pioneers of New England to an illustrious ancestry
in Denmark, on the Matteson side, and, on the mother's
side, to the Ogden family of England. Mr. Matteson
had the misfortune to lose his right arm in his early
boyhood. His father died before he was eight years
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One of the striking characteristics of his whole life
was his thoroughness in everything he undertook, and
there were few things in which he did not excel his
youthful companions. He obtained an excellent educa
tion in the common schools and Academy, studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in i860. On the breaking
out of the war in 1861, he nobly performed his part of
the patriotic work so suddenly thrust upon the young
men of the North. He recruited the greater part of two
companies of Colonel Ingersoll's regiment, the Eleventh
Illinois Cavalry, and was offered the position of a Bat
talion Quartermaster of that regiment, but as all of his
brothers were in the service he felt that he must remain
at home to care for his widowed mother and young sis
ter, and declined the offer. His active services were
always enlisted during the war in behalf of sick and
wounded soldiers, and there was never a question of his
sincere loyalty and patriotism.
As a citizen, lawyer, banker, business man, or public
officer, he has left a record second to none. Companion
Matteson had been a member of this Commandery but
a comparatively short time, but we had learned to ap
preciate the conservatism, good judgment, and sterling
common sense that had made his life so eminently suc
cessful, and the uprightness of character which always
marked his career.
He leaves a widow, three sons, one daughter, two
brothers and one sister to mourn his departure. With
them, and the hosts of friends who honor his memory,
this Commandery unites in loving sympathy.
DiLLWYN V. PURINGTON,
Arthur A. Smith,
Lemuel L. Scott,
Committee.

WILLIAM PAGE STOWE.
Chaplain Ttuenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, United States Volun
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 4, i8g6.
REVEREND WiUiam Page Stowe, M. A., D. D., a
member of the Illinois Commandery, and a cler-
¦"" gyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was
born in Haverill, New Hampshire, 1832, and died in
Chicago, Illinois, January 4, 1896.
He came West with his parents in 1843, was gradu
ated by Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wisconsin,
and entered the ministry in 1858, wherein he received
some of the highest honors given by his church. In 1863
he became the Chaplain of the Twenty-seventh Wiscon
sin Infantry, which did good service in the Southwest,
and was a part of the forces before Vicksburg, under
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General Sherman. Those who knew Doctor Stowe dur
ing his military service speak in high terms of his useful
ness as a Chaplain in the field, among his old friends and
Wisconsin fellow citizens. As a minister he was award
ed very responsible pastorates. He was a pure man, an
able preacher, an intelligent citizen, and a patriotic,
faithful soldier.
His practical capacity was held in high esteem, and
he served for twelve years as one of the agents and
managers of one of the two publication houses of his
church. In this position he acquitted himself honorably
and with the gratitude of those whom he served. He
was a well informed, courteous, generous, high-minded
man. He esteemed his membership in this Order as a
privilege and an honor. He regretted that his duties
during the closing years of his life forbade his regular at
tendance at our meetings. Death came to him as almost
an entire surprise. He was not apparently very sick,
but a sudden change carried him out of life, to the regret
of the many who knew and loved him.
He had taught many to approach death as a process
of nature, and when his feet touched the chilly waters of
separation between this life and the next, the faith which
he had commended to others served to give himself a
safe and confident passage towards the "Land that is
out of sight."
Arthur Edwards,
Theodore H. Patterson,
Henry A. Pearsons,
Committee,

REUBEN FREDSON DYER.
Major and Surgeon One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Ottawa, Illinois,
January 2j, i8g6.
OUR Companion, Reuben Fredson Dyer, after four
days' illness, died at his home in Ottawa, Illinois,
January 25, 1896, aged sixty-three years. His
wile Susan A. Goodridge Dyer, his son Edgar G. Dyer,
and daughter Susie L. Dyer, survive to mourn the loss
of a loving husband and tender father.
He served nearly four years during the civil war — first
as Captain of Company K, Twentieth Illinois Infantry, in
which capacity he was brave and efficient, rendering
meritorious services in the battle at Frederickton, Mis
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But believing he could better serve his country in the
line of his chosen profession, when the call came for
three hundred thousand more, he accepted the position
of Surgeon in one of the new regiments, the One Hun
dred and Fourth Illinois Infantry, and was mustered as
such, August 25, 1862. From that time until the close
of the war he was constantly on duty with his regiment,
or in charge of brigade and division field hospitals, and,
after the fall of Savannah, as Acting Medical Director of
the Fourteenth Army Corps, General Jefferson C. Davis,
commanding. He so bore himself that he came to be generally con
sidered one of the best surgeons in the Army of the Cum
berland. To his care and skill was due much of the re
markable health of his regiment — one whose death roll
in battle was far above, and whose loss by disease far
below, the average among the three years' regiments
from Illinois. We know what was required of faithful
surgeons in the field, at the front, those who kept up
with the line of battle — how great were their responsibil
ities, how onerous and exacting were their duties, requir
ing for their proper performance fine discrimination,
sound judgment, true courage, firm will, and nerves of
steel. Our Companion had all these, and yet he was
gentle as a child, tender and sympathetic as a woman.
Often his near comrades have seen his lip quiver, and
the tear start, as he told of the suffering and the heroism
of the boys who came under his care.
He never yielded to the roughening influences of army
life. His most intimate companions on the march,
around the bivouac fire, or at the mess table, never
heard from him an expression that might not have been
used with propriety in the presence of any woman. His
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man. He was courteous to all, yet firm in the perform
ance of his duties. His nature was cordial and sincere,
his sympathies broad, his courage and patriotism unfal
tering. He was a brave soldier, a noble man, a warm
friend and a true comrade.
"To know him was to love b-im."
He was mustered out of the service, June 6, 1865,
and returned to his home in Ottawa, where, ripened by
his experience in the army, he soon had an extensive and
lucrative practice, and as it had been in the war, so dur
ing the years since, he was always " on duty," and was at
his post when the final summons came.
For him, the bugle's call, " Lights Out," did not an
nounce unending night, but was the reveille at the dawn
of eternal day.
John H. Widmer,
Alexander C. McClurg,
Samuel C. Plummer,
Committee.

ARTHUR CHARLES DUCAT.
Lieutenant Colonel Tiuelfth Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier
General, United States Volunteers. Died at Doivner's
Grove, Illinois, January 2g, i8g6,
TLRTHUR CHARLES DUCAT was born February
/I 24, 1830, near Dublin, Ireland, to which place his
^^ father had some years before removed from Scot
land. In Dublin he enjoyed the benefits of a solid and
practical education. Before reaching the age of twenty-
one he resolved to come to America; he carried out that
purpose and eventually took up his permanent abode at
Chicago. Here and hereabouts he spent some time in
study and field work as a civil engineer before entering
upon his lifelong pursuit — that of fire assurance. In this
vocation at the outbreak of the war he was fast gaining
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the respect of his associates and superiors, and through
the discipline of obedience fast acquiring the capacity for
leadership. In 1861 he heard the call of his adopted country, and
gave to her appeal a clear and instant response. Enlist
ing at Chicago, April 17th, he was, a few days later,
mustered into the Twelfth Illinois Infantry Volunteers.
Promoted Second Lieutenant he became Adjutant of that
regiment May 2, 1861; he was commissioned Captain of
Company A, August i, 1861; Major, September 24, 1861;
Lieutenant Colonel, April i, 1862. During the period of
his duty with the Twelfth Illinois he served in Southern
Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and in the movements of
General Grant's forces in Tennessee and Mississippi, and
was especially distinguished at the siege and capture of
Fort Donelson. But shortly after the taking of Corinth
there opened for Lieutenant Colonel Ducat that larger
military career for which by character and education he
was so admirably fitted — a career in which he was des
tined to render great service to the Union cause. De
tached from his regiment he was ordered upon staff duty
at the headquarters of Major General E. O. C. Ord, and
with that officer was present at the operations near Iuka
in September, 1862.
At the Battle of Corinth in the following month he
served under General Rosecrans as Acting Chief of Staff
and Chief of Grand Guards and Outposts at the head
quarters of the Army of the Mississippi, an active and
responsible position as understood and filled by so intel
ligent and enterprising an officer. Sparing in this ardu
ous service neither labor nor personal risk, he did much
to improve and regulate that important branch of the
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ordered by the War Department to relieve General Buell
after the Battle of Perryville, Lieutenant Colonel Ducat
accompanied him to Bowling Green, and was assigned
to duty as Chief of Staff and Assistant Inspector General
at the headquarters of the forces afterwards known as
the Army of the Cumberland. He continued to act as
Chief of Staff until November 13, 1862, when he was
relieved in that position by Lieutenant Colonel and As
sistant Adjutant General Julius P. Garesche. To these
new duties Colonel Ducat brought the same qualities of
activity, courage and thoroughness which had distin
guished him under the same commander in his former
service. With Chattanooga as its objective point the Army of
the Cumberland, rested and reorganized, marched out of
Nashville to meet and drive back General Bragg at the
Battle of Stone's River, December 31, 1862. After the
occupancy of Murfreesboro there occurred in June, 1863,
the nine days' campaign of Tullahoma. During the fol
lowing September the Army of the Cumberland was called
upon to perform those laborious, strategic marches which
finally forced the abandonment of Chattanooga by the
Confederate Army, and brought on the Battle of Chicka
mauga. For brave and meritorious conduct at Chicka
mauga he was honorably mentioned by General Rose
crans in his official report of that momentous event, as "a
faithful officer — brave, prompt and energetic in action."
Officers who served in the Army of the Cumberland
at this period unite in saying that to the energy and or
ganizing skill of Colonel Ducat, and to his active exam
ple of fidelity, was due in large part the efficiency of the
Grand Guard and Outpost service of that army. It can
be added that the general efficiency and discipline of the
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scientious performance of his duties in the Inspector
General's Department.
Upon the succession of General Thomas to the com
mand of the Army of the Cumberland, Colonel Ducat
was retained on duty in his former position, and on Jan
uary 9, 1864, was announced in general orders as Inspec
tor General of the Department.
Broken in health by the fatigues and exposures of the
previous years. Colonel Ducat found himself no longer
physically able to bear the hardships of active service,
and resigning his commission he returned to his home at
Chicago in February, 1864. From that time to the
moment of his death, January 29th, of the present year,
his friends and fellow citizens can bear testimony to his
high character and exemplary conduct in every relation
of life. His services in the war were appropriately recog
nized by the Brevet of Brigadier General of Volunteers.
The Commandery will remember him as its fourth
Commander, and remember also the loving and repeated
hospitality with which he welcomed his Companions to
Lindenwald, his beautiful home at Downer's Grove.
Present at the organization of this Commandery he sym
pathized with all its aspirations, all its joys and sorrows
during its entire existence.
In concluding this brief memorial of affection and
respect, we desire to place upon record our deep sense
of the loss sustained by his family, by his personal friends,
and by our Commandery in the death of our late Com
panion and friend. George L. Paddock,
John McArthur,
Joseph B. Leake,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Ephraim A. Otis,
Committee,

JAMES HUBERT McVICKER.
Member of the Third Class. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
March 7, i8g6.
JAMES HUBERT xMcVICKER, who died in this
city the 7th of March, 1896, was the oldest
theatrical manager in the United States at the
time of his death. He was born in the city of New
York, February 14, 1822, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and
his family moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1837, where he
learned the printer's trade. He was a studious youth
and occupied his leisure hours in study. In 1843 he first
appeared on the mimic stage in the St. Charles Theatre,
New Orleans, and five years later became the leading
comedian in Mr. John B. Rice's theatre in Chicago. In
1852 he made a professional tour through this country,
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and also visited Great Britain, appearing in Yankee
characters. He built in 1857 a theatre (McVicker's) on
the spot where now stands the theatre of that name.
The former house was destroyed in the great fire of 1871,
and was immediately rebuilt. In 1885 it was remodelled
and improved in its internal construction. He became
a manager in 1857, and continued as such to the time of
his death.
Mr. McVicker was a politician but never a partisan,
and he was nominally a democrat all his life. When the
war of the rebellion broke out, although affiliated in
politics with men, a large portion of whom were strenu
ously opposed to all war measures, he allied himself to
the Senator Douglas faction and at once gave his earnest
support to the Union cause. Two days after President
Lincoln had issued his call for 75,000 volunteers, he was
one of the prime movers in calling a mass meeting ofthe
loyal citizens of Chicago to raise volunteer troops. He
offered to present a silk flag to the first full company re
cruited, and Captain Hardin's company of Infantry be
came its possessor. His zeal in the patriotic work of
raising troops continued, and when it became necessary
later to obtain money by subscription to carry on the
work, at a mass meeting of citizens held for that purpose
he moved to place four subscription lists in the hands of
solicitors for $1,000, $500, $250 and $100 respectively,
pledging himself to head each of the lists. Later in the
war he paid for two substitutes; one he never saw again,
the other reported to him after the close of the war, poor
and maimed, having lost a leg in battle. While this
man was in Chicago for some years, Mr. McVicker looked
after his welfare.
He took an active interest in the great Sanitary Fair
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when the Veterans of the city and county found it neces
sary to raise money by subscription to defray the ex
penses of Decoration Day, Mr. McVicker, although then
in moderate financial circumstances, gave as liberally as
any other citizen, and when the money subscribed was
being paid, he would-say, "Boys, if you are short before
you get through call again." In 1886 he was elected an
honorary or Third Class member of this Commandery.
The honor conferred on him was fully appreciated, he
esteeming it a high privilege to be thus associated with
officers who had served in the war.
For a quarter of a century before his death he labored
hard to lift the legitimate drama to a higher plane.
Some fifteen years ago he wrote a paper, "The Press,
the Pulpit and the Stage," which he delivered as a
lecture in this city, and afterwards to large audi
ences in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, New York,
Philadelphia, and other cities. The paper was thought
ful, of marked ability, and was always well received by
his hearers. Mr. McVicker in many respects was a rare man. He
possessed much practical intelligence and independ
ence of thought and action. Public spirited, he always
favored any measures that were designed for the public
good. Decided in his convictions, earnest and strong in
his purposes, simple in his tastes, a hater of shams, of
sturdy integrity, genial and generous in disposition, un
ostentatious in his benefactions to the poor and unfortu
nate, especially to those in the dramatic profession; he
was a conspicuous citizen, a loyal friend, a kind father
and a devoted husband. Of such a man it can be truly
said, that the world was the better for his having lived
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ing the loss they have sustained in his death, extend to
his bereaved family their sincere sympathy and condolence .
Augustus L. Chetlain,
Alfred T. Andreas,
John T. McAuley,
Committee.

ORRIN CHARLES TOWNE.
First Lieutenant Eleventh Illinois Infantry, United States Volun
teers. Died at Pensacola, Florida, April ij, j8g6.
IN MEMORY of Companion, First Lieutenant Orrin
Charles Towne. Born in Pennsylvania in 1841.
Died at Pensacola, Florida, April 13, 1896. The
parents of Companion Towne settled in Winnebago
County, Illinois, when he was a child, and he there grew
to manhood upon the parental farm, obtaining such edu
cation as the common schools of that day afforded.
When the attack was made on Fort Sumter he was
but nineteen years of age, but, having acquired some
knowledge of military affairs as a member of Ellsworth's
famous Zouaves, he was better equipped for the duties
of a soldier in the war for the preservation of the Union
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than most of the young men of his day and age. He
was alive to the necessities of his country, and was
among the first to offer his services in defense of its in
stitutions and its flag.
He enlisted April 24, 1861, and was made Corporal
in Company D of the Eleventh Illinois Infantry, com
manded first by the brave and chivalric W. H. L.
Wallace, and later by the heroic Ransom. His first en
listment was for three months, but on July 30, 1861,
Companion Towne's Company was reorganized and
mustered into service for three years, at which time he
was made a Second Lieutenant, and he was promoted
First Lieutenant on October 3, 1863, which rank he held
until mustered out of service on July 29, 1864. During
the year 1862 Companion Towne was selected for staff
duty, and in that capacity served chiefly on the staff of
Major General John McArthur, until his impaired health
in 1864 disabled him from active service.
At the expiration of his term of service, the same
year, he was confined in the Officers' Hospital at
Memphis, where he was mustered out, but he concluded
to remain at Memphis in the hope of regaining his
health and being able to re-enter the service. During
the period of his convalescence at Memphis he assisted
in organizing a number of militia regiments for defensive
duty, and in one of such commands he held the rank of
Major. At the close of the war Companion Towne settled at
Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois, and was there
engaged in the drug business, occupying at the same
time the position of Postmaster. In 1885, having re
moved to Chicago, he was appointed to a position in the
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Companion Towne was married at Rockford, Illinois,
June 6, 1865, to Miss Aurelia Crary, who survives him.
During the period of Lieutenant Towne's service in the
army he suffered from a severe attack of pneumonia, the
effects of which continued during all the remaining years
of his life. In 1892 his physical condition had become
so serious that in order to preserve his life he submitted
to surgical treatment, the result of which was one of the
marvels of modern surgery. He then knew that the
span of his life was necessarily brief, and with but one
chance in a thousand of surviving the severe surgical
operation, he called to his aid that indomitable pluck
and steadfastness of purpose so characteristic of the man
as a soldier in the line of his duty, and bravely and un
hesitatingly took the one chance. This episode in the
life of Companion Towne displayed qualities so heroic
and a purpose so resolute as to enlist the admiration as
well as the sympathy of all who knew him. This treat
ment was in a measure successful, and he so far recovered
as to be able to make a trip to Southern California, and
after a partial recovery in that climate he returned to
Chicago in June, 1895; but soon thereafter, having con
tracted a severe cold, in the hope of relief he went to
Pensacola, Florida, where his strength gradually failed
until April 13, 1896, when the final summons came to
him. Companion Towne was in the fullest sense a self-
made man. The years which otherwise might have been
devoted to the completion of his education were given
to the service of his country, and at the close of the war
he found himself broken in health as well as poor in
pocket. Yet he was equal to every emergency, and
wherever he went and wherever he was known he com
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soldier he was aggressive, fearless and uncompromising;
in peace he was gentle, courteous and generous to a
fault. His was a manly spirit, and to his family and
friends his life was a benediction. His patriotism was
intense, and his sense of justice, manhood and right was
of the highest order.
Companion Towne was prominent in Masonic and in
Grand Army circles, and was a member of the Crusader
Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Nevius Post,
G. A. R. , of Rockford. He was also prominent in
political circles, where his fidelity and wise counsel were
recognized and appreciated.
In compliance with one of his last requests this brave
and loving friend was laid to rest in the cemetery at
Rosehill, near all that was mortal of his old commander
and comrade. General T. E. G. Ransom.
In the death of Lieutenant Towne the Commandery
of the State of Illinois loses a Companion whose record
as a soldier was above reproach, whose character as a
citizen was unsullied, and whose friendship was dear to
us all. We hold his memory in reverential respect, and
to his widow and family we tender our sincere and
affectionate sympathy.
John H. Stibbs,
Francis A. Riddle,
Edward A. Blodgett,
Committee.

NICHOLAS GREUSEL.
Colonel Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Aurora, Illinois, April 2j, i8g6.
e^ONEL Nicholas Greusel died at Aurora, Illinois,
Saturday, April 25, 1896. He was born at Blies-
kastie, Germany, July 4, 181 7, and received a fair edu
cation there. In 1834 his father emigrated to the United
States with his wife and ten children, and Nicholas at
once commenced supporting himself, taking any work
he could procure, and at all times performing it well
and faithfully.
At the outbreak of the Mexican War, he was em
ployed in Detroit by Rice, Coffin & Co., lumber mer
chants, and had been Captain and Major of local mili
tary organizations. He raised a company for the First
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Regiment, Michigan Volunteers, and was commissioned
as Captain of Company D. He served with distinction
through the war, and won the reputation of taking better
care of his men than any other officer of the command.
Returning to his old position, he still retained his in
terest in military affairs, and served as Captain, and after
wards Lieutenant Colonel, of the First Battalion of City
Guards. In 1847 he was Superintendent of the City
Water Works, and in 1848 Inspector General of Lumber
for the State of Michigan.
By an unfortunate investment, he lost the modest
competency acquired by hard work, and found employ
ment with the Michigan Central and afterwards with the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. He
left their employ in 1861, recruited a company at Aurora,
and was mustered into the three months' service, April
25, 1861, as Major of the Seventh Illinois Infantry Vol
unteers; served at Alton, St. Louis, Cairo and Mound
City, and was mustered out July 25, 1861, on expiration
of term of service. September 23, 1861, he was mus
tered in as Colonel of the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry
Volunteers, and commanded that regiment, or the brigade
of which it was a part, until February 7, 1863, when,
broken in health and unable longer to endure the hard
ships of military life, he tendered his resignation, which
was reluctantly accepted by his superiors. During this
period the regiment had been engaged in the battles of
Pea Ridge, Perrysville, Stone's River, and many minor
engagements and skirmishes, and through Colonel Greu-
sel's drill and discipline, combined with a tender and
almost fatherly care of the men, had attained a glorious
renown and reputation, which it preserved throughout
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stored, he engaged in railway construction, afterwards in
general business at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and in 1893
retired from business and returned to Aurora. He was
elected a member of the Loyal Legion, June 2, 1886,
through the Nebraska Commandery, transferred to the
Iowa Commandery, and April 16, 1894, to the Illinois
Commandery. Colonel Greusel was a noble type of those men, born
in foreign lands, who gave to their adopted country a
love and devotion which was strong even unto death,
and an example which will not be forgotten. His mem
ory will be preserved in the hearts of his fellow soldiers
until we, too, shall have passed away, and in the archives
of our Commandery our sons and their sons will read his
record. To his wife, his loved companion for nearly fifty-
seven years, and to his children, we tender our heartfelt
sympathies.
John Lynch,
John Sargent,
Alfred T. Andreas,
Committee.

WILLIAM POTWIN MORGAN.
Died at Asheville, North Carolina, June 14, i8g6.
'TT.GAIN we of a younger generation are called upon to
j^\ mourn the death of the "early loved and lost."
^"^ William Potwin Morgan was born in Rockford,
Illinois, December 7, 1865, and died at Asheville, North
Carolina, June 14, 1896. After completing his studies
in the public schools, he spent some time in Lafayette
College, after which he took a special course in the Uni
versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and finished his edu
cation abroad, chiefly at Coblentz and Vienna. He made
a specialty of chemistry, and upon his return took charge
of that department for the Chicago Varnish Company.
He was also a director of said company, where he en
deared himself to both the officials and employes, and in
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his death they sincerely mourn a pleasant companion and
true friend. He was married in October, 1893, and
leaves a wife and one boy. As a Companion of this
Commandery he was beloved by all, and it may truly be
said of " Billy" that "none knew him but to love him."
In his death we all feel that we have lost an earnest
friend and brother. To his wife and son, also his father
and family, we tender our sincere sympathy in this their
sad bereavement, and now, as we pay this last tribute of
regard to our dead Companion, we give to you, our
seniors, our earnest gratitude for your priceless example
of "fidelity to friendship," which we beg to assure you
has descended from the fathers to the sons.
Hugh R. Belknap,
George C. Ball,
John T. Stockton,
Committee.

CHARLES EDWARD BLIVEN.
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster and Brevet Major,
States Volunteers. Died at Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, August sg. i8gb

United

TtiNOTHER of our comrades and a Companion of
jl\ this Order has fallen. Major Charles E. Bliven
^"^ died in Philadelphia on the 29th of August, 1896.
He was born in Phelps, Ontario County, New York, on
the 2 1st of September, 1835. In his early youth his
parents removed to Toledo, Ohio, which was thereafter
his home until he came to Chicago, in 1885.
He volunteered early in the first year of the rebellion.
By reason of his practical knowledge of telegraphy, and
his well earned and high standing as an expert in that
art, he was called on to aid in effecting the organization
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of our military telegraph system, and his intelligence and
energy contributed most materially to its development,
perfection and efficiency.
In addition to his duties and services as an organizer
and director of that system, he was very often made the
confidant and adviser of the highest civil and mihtary
actors in that critical period of our history, and affairs of
most momentous importance were committed and in
trusted to him. The rare discretion and efficiency with
which he met and discharged every duty and trust justi
fied the high confidence reposed in his ability, patriotism
and honor. After serving a year and a half in that field,
he was prevailed upon by Colonel Moulton, the brother-
in-law of General Sherman and Senator Sherman, to
consent to be transferred to the less dangerous, but no
less arduous, responsible and important duties of the
Quartermaster's Department under General Meigs. Colo
nel Moulton, who was connected with that branch of the
service, residing in Toledo before and at the commence
ment of the rebellion, knew Major Bliven intimately, and
appreciated his ability, systematic methods, accuracy
and integrity — qualities so valuable and essential in the
Quartermaster's Department. Major Bliven had declined
Colonel Moulton's solicitation to enter that department
at the beginning of the rebellion, believing he could ren
der more efficient service in another field; and the
benefit to his country resulting from his achievements
justified his determination.
He served in the Quartermaster's Department for
over four years, being mustered out of the service over
a year after the close of the war, with rank of Major.
The statement of one fact alone will illustrate the
remarkable accuracy, efficiency and integrity which char
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The accountants of the United States in the auditor's
office claimed to find an error of only thirty-three cents
in his accounts, extending over a period of over four
years, and involving the disbursement of many millions
of dollars. It is believed that a parallel case cannot be
found in the accounts of any other disbursing officer in
the Quartermaster's Department during the rebellion.
Soon after he was mustered out of the military service
of the United States he engaged in the insurance busi
ness. In that he attained eminent success. It is a trib
ute to his ability, application and industry that he stood
in the front rank of that profession. Few investigated
as thoroughly the principles underlying sound insurance;
few had his faculty of compiling and arranging statistics,
and deducing therefrom the laws by which insurance is
governed. He was a diligent student of the history of his own
country, not only of the past, but of that, in making which
he bore so honorable and influential a part. He was
a thoughtful writer, and his style was remarkable for its
conciseness. His contributions on many subjects relat
ing to insurance are numerous and valuable. He was
decided and tenacious in his opinions, which were formed
deliberately and after careful investigation, and on lines
of independent thought.
He possessed a mind remarably quick and clear in
apprehension, fertile in developing suggestions into prin
ciples extending in scope, importance and influence far
beyond the conception of the one from whom the sug
gestion was received.
His intense and unremitting study and mental appli
cation accelerated, if it did not cause, the disease that
ended his life.
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existence; others by their attainments, usefulness, and
what they accomplish. His life belonged to the latter
class. He was a steadfast friend; and in all relations of hfe
was governed by broadest tolerance and generous char
ity. No one ever heard him say anything unkind or un
favorable of another.
With sorrowing hearts we sympathize with his family
in their great affliction, and offer this, our sincere tribute
to his memory and to his worth as a man, a soldier, a
citizen, comrade and Companion of our Order.
Myron H. Beach,
Eugene Gary,
A. F. Dean,
Committee.

WILLIAM AVERY.
Lieutenant Colonel Ninety-jifth Illinois Infantry, United States Vol
unteers. Died at Woodstock, Illinois, Nove'mber i6, i8g6.
WRONG not the dead with tears. A glorious, bright
to-morrow endeth a weary life of pain and sorrow.
Swiftly and surely, but alas! too closely, we hear the
clanging of that dread summons which calls from our
ranks some one who has been esteemed, honored and
loved. The twilight of our earthly course draws on
apace, and in the glinting rays of the fading sun, we
watch with tearful eyes the passing of some loved one to
"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn no trav
eler returns."
Colonel Avery died at his home in Woodstock, Illi
nois; he had a long and painful illness about three years
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ago, which greatly undermined his constitution, and
although he rallied again, yet he did not fully recover
from its effects. His last illness dated back about five
weeks, during which, in spite of the best medical atten
tion and careful nursing, he continued to decline, and on
Monday afternoon, November i6, 1896, he passed peace
fully away.
Colonel Avery was born in Erie County, Pennsylva
nia, July 10, 1825, and was, therefore, seventy-one years
and four months old at his death. He went to Marengo,
Illinois, in the fall of 1857, and was employed by the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway as station agent. When
President Lincoln called to arms three hundred thousand
men in 1862, Companion Avery needed no urging to in
duce him to respond to this imperative call. He left the
employ of the Northwestern and immediately enrolled
his name among his country's defenders. On the organ
ization of Company A, of the Ninety-fifth Regiment, Illi
nois Infantry Volunteers, he was elected Captain and
mustered on the 4th of September, 1862. On the 24th
of January, 1863, he was promoted to Major, and on the
death of Colonel Humphrey at Guntown, he was pro
moted to Lieutenant Colonel. He participated with his
regiment in the battles of Champion's Hill, Siege of Vicks
burg, the Red River Campaign, Campaign against Price
in Arkansas and Missouri, Nashville, Mobile and others.
He was wounded in the charge on Vicksburg on May 22,
1863, and was sent on a hospital boat to Memphis, and
after being in the hospital at Memphis some time was
sent home, subsequently rejoining his regiment at Nat
chez. He remained with his regiment, participating in
its marches, battles and skirmishes until the close of the
war, returning to Marengo in August, 1865, and resum
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Northwestern Railway. In 1882 he was elected County
Clerk of McHenry County, moved to Woodstock, Illinois,
and served very efficiently and acceptably for three terms
— twelve years.
Colonel Avery was married at Cleveland, Ohio, in
1856, to Miss Mary P. Camp. Two daughters were born
to them, Mary Ella and Katie. The latter died in Wood
stock in 1886; Ella and her mother survive and deeply
mourn the death of an affectionate father and devoted
husband. Colonel Avery was eminently social, genial and gen
erous. He was always popular in the army. Dignified,
soldierly, courageous and chivalrous, he had the respect
and confidence of his superior officers, and the love and
respect of the rank and file. He was a father to the
"boys," always looking after their comfort and always
their friend. He was known throughout the regiment as
"Pap" Avery — his kindness of heart often overlooking
the minor irregularities of the march or camp, so long as
they did not interfere with proper military discipline, or
with a soldier's duty, and hence he won the familiar ap
pellation of "Pap " Avery, and the boys were ever ready
to do cheerfully for him what they would be reluctant to
do for others. He was a brave, true-hearted, big-brained
soldier and comrade in arms; like Chevalier Bayard of
old, "A knight without fear and without reproach."
We shall mourn a leader gone, a wise counsellor, and
the hand-clasp of a loved friend. The Companions of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion extend to the
bereaved widow and daughter their sincerest sympathy
and condolence in this the hour of their trial and sorrow.
James A. Sexton,
H. H. Thomas,
Ed. a. Blodgett,
Committee.

WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR.
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster One Hundred and Thirteenth
Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died at Wilmette,
Illinois, December 24, i8g6.
ON December 24, 1896, our Companion Lieutenant
William Henry Taylor, died at his home at Wil
mette in this County, the immediate cause of his
death being paralysis, although he had been in failing
health for some months.
He was born at Argyle, New York, October 11,
1834; came West in 1859, sta.ying some time at Kanka
kee, Illinois, then removing to Watseka, Iroquois County,
where he became Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court of
that County.
On August 13, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the
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One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment Illinois Volun
teer Infantry, and on the next day was appointed Quarter
master Sergeant, was promoted to First Lieutenant and
Regimental Quartermaster to rank from July 12, 1864,
and continued to serve in that capacity until June 20,
1865, when he was mustered out with his regiment.
Lieutenant Taylor was a faithful and efficient soldier,
discharging every duty devolving upon him loyally and
zealously. Since his return to civil life he has had an
unusually honorable business career, having been for
over thirty years continuously in the service of the Hart
ford Fire Insurance Company, occupying during these
years various responsible positions, for the last fifteen
years, and up to the time of his death, that of Manager
of the Loss Department of that Company in their West
ern Department.
He leaves surviving him his widow and four children,
one son and three daughters, all married and living at
Wilmette, with whom we sympathize in their great be
reavement. We who knew him best can testify to his
many good qualities. He was a good soldier, a good
citizen, a true and genial friend. His loss will be sin
cerely mourned by his Companions of the Loyal Legion
and a large circle of friends and business associates.
W. A. McLean,
A. J. Harding,
Geo. a. Holloway,
Committee.

ABRAM WILLIAMS.
First Lieutenant and Quarter-master Sixth loiva Cavalry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, fanuary 6, i8gj.
j OMPANION Abram Williams was born in Utica, New
V  York, March 31, 1830. He died in Chicago,
Illinois, January 6, 1897. His father was a man of
business prominence and one of the Canal Commissioners
of the State of New York. His paternal grandfather
was a prominent minister of the Baptist faith. His
maternal grandfather, Rev. Ezra Barnum, was a preacher
and soldier of the Revolution. From such ancestry
naturally came to him the courage, determination, high
moral purpose and spiritual vigor, which were the con
spicuous elements of his character.
By the death of his father, at the age of fourteen, he was
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thrown upon his own resources, and thenceforward made
to breast the battle of life alone. Going to the city of
New York at this early age, a stranger and alone, he
secured employment in the importing house of Peter
Murray. Diligence and merit found proper recognition
here and deserved advancement followed. At the age of
twenty he held the position of buyer in the then im
portant mercantile house of William H. Gary & Co. and
in 1852 he became a partner in the house of Sheldon,
Harris & Williams, and was placed in charge of its Paris
branch. Impaired health soon after compelled him to
give up Paris and seek a different climate and business.
In 1856 he settled in Dubuque, Iowa — then one of
the leading business centres of the West — and opened
a general store. The panic of the following year in
volved him in the general ruin, but with a spirit and
courage as heroic as were ever found in battle, he in
sisted that he alone should suffer by the failure of his
venture, and by industry, economy and energy finally
succeeded in paying every creditor in full; at that time an
instance so rare as to be conspicuous, and proper to
mention here, because it illustrates the quality of the man.
At the beginning of the War of the Rebellion, he
promptly resigned the position of Clerk of the County of
Dubuque, which he then held, and entered the military
service of his country as First Lieutenant of the Sixth
Iowa Cavalry, afterwards becoming Acting Assistant
Quartermaster on the Staff of General Scully. While
this position kept him away from the front and the
dangers of active battle, it gave opportunity for the exer
cise of those fine business qualities, that firmness, vigi
lance, incorruptible and persistent honesty, which were a
part of his nature. His service in the position named
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receive meritorious mention. At one time, becoming
dissatisfied with the dflatoriness of the Ilhnois Central
Railroad in forwarding supplies to the front, he arbitrarily
took possession of the road for and in the name of the
government, and ran it till the needs of the army had
been supplied, thus showing that not all of courage and
generalship was at the front.
In 1865, he again settled in Dubuque and engaged
in the insurance business. His superior administrative
ability was soon recognized, and he was made Manager
of the Yonkers Insurance Company of New York. That
company having been destroyed by the great Chicago
fire, he was soon thereafter made Manager of the Western
Department of the Continental Insurance Company of
New York, and subsequently Manager of the Western
Department of the Connecticut Insurance Company,
which last position he held at the time of his death,
prominent and responsible positions, all, which he filled
with signal ability and success. In his chosen profession
none stood higher, and among his business associates no
one was more highly esteemed.
Companion Williams was active but unostentatious
in all charitable work. He possessed a deep religious
nature; was a consistent member of Grace Episcopal
Church of Chicago, active in its work and councils, and
was at the time of his death, and had been for twenty-
five years, its Senior Warden.
In disposition he was gentleness itself. In his inter
course with his fellows he was kind, courteous and con
siderate; sincere in friendship, strong in conviction, in
integrity complete.
In closing, we can do no better than to quote from a
memorial to him adopted elsewhere:
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business man he was faithful to every trust; as a Christian
gentleman he stood without reproach."
Eugene Gary,
Chas. W. Drew,
A. F. Dean,
Committee.

JOHN EUGENE SMITH.
Brigadier General and Brevet Major General, United States Volun
teers, Colonel (Retired) and Brevet Major General, United
States Army. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
January 2g, iSgy.
*^OHN EUGENE SMITH was born in the Canton of
j Berne, Switzerland, August 3, 18 16. His parents
emigrated to America and settled at Philadelphia,
December 24th of that year. While a young man he
acquired a knowledge of watchmaking and the jeweler's
business, a pursuit to which he afterward devoted him
self. After abiding in St. Louis for several years he
removed in 1836 to Galena, where he was residing at the
opening of the year 1861. At this time he had estab
lished himself as a merchant, had gained the respect and
confidence of the peqple of his city and county, and had
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been elected to important civic office. A public spirited
citizen, a person of attractive presence and inherited
military aptitudes, he had already taken a prominent
part in a local military company. He stood out plainly
among those upon whom at that time the people of his
part of the state were fixing their eyes as leaders in the
conflict known to be approaching. The records of this
Commandery show that he reported for duty at Spring
field as Aide to Governor Yates, April 15, 1861; was
mustered in as Colonel Forty-fifth Illinois Infantry Vol
unteers July 23, 1861; honorably discharged December
14, 1862; accepted appointment as Brigadier General of
Volunteers, December 15, 1862; Brevetted Major General
of Volunteers, January 12, 1865; honorably mustered out
of the Volunteer service April 30, 1866; appointed Col
onel Twenty-seventh United States Infantry, July 28,
1866; brevetted Major General United States Army,
March 2, 1867; assigned to Fifteenth Infantry, December
15, 1870; transferred to Fourteenth Infantry, December
20, 1870; retired as Colonel United States Army, May
19, 1881.
These dates mark a space of nearly twentj' years of
volunteer and regular service. That service included
the operations at Henry and Donelson; the expedition
up the Tennessee, Shiloh, Corinth and the Mississippi
Campaign, the Yazoo expedition, the series of battles in
the rear of Vicksburg, and the siege and capture of Vicks
burg itself; also Chattanooga, the Atlanta and Georgia
Campaigns and the march with Sherman to the sea. After
these events in the war for Union, there came to him the
labors, the hazards and the responsibilities of military
life upon the Indian frontier — that sad yet noble and
necessary work in which the Army of the United States
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between the worst passions of the worst men of two
hostile races. In that duty General Smith spent the
greater part of the closing years of his active career.
With him, command of men was a real and actual
thing. His conduct of the forces under him, whether a reg
iment, a brigade, a division or a district of independent
posts, as at Etowah, appears to have met with unvarying
approval frorn his superiors. At Donelson, Wallace com
mends him for meritorious behavior in action; at Shiloh,
Marsh; at Vicksburg, McClernand. In July, 1864, his
Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps occupies Allatoona
Pass, and the regions round about, with headquarters at
Cartersville. General Sherman then writes to him: "I
regard Allatoona of the first importance in our future
plans. It is a second Chattanooga. I will soon be in
motion again, and will feel more confidence that I know
you are at Allatoona. " Many years after the sending of
this letter. General Grant in his Memoirs speaks of
Smith's Division at Missionary Ridge. He says, "J. E.
Smith, with two brigades charged up the west side of the
ridge to the support of Corse's command over open
ground and in the face of both artillery and musketry,
and reached the very parapet of the enemy." He tells
how they were forced back, how they reformed, and
how they again advanced on that victorious day.
General Smith was the sixth Commander of the Com
mandery, succeeding General Stiles. He was deeply in
terested in all its objects, and appreciated its compan
ionships, but latterly was prevented by failing health
from attendance at its meetings. In April last he sum
moned his waning energies to visit Galena, in order to
join with faltering steps in the ceremonies there held in
honor of the memory of General Grant. From that
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greatly impaired. At last the long evening of that busy
and useful life neared its end; and the end was January
29, 1897. He died at his home amid his household and
kindred, after some years of great suffering borne with
great fortitude.
The hills and slopes that encompass Galena are beau
tiful with a grace and roundness denied to our cities of
the prairie. One of those gentle elevations is called
Greenwood. There, in the language of another, his
neighbor and friend, ' ' a modest but expressive monu
ment now marks the grave of one of Galena's most dis
tinguished soldiers" — John E. Smith. This Commandery
desires to keep his name and faithful services in enduring
remembrance, and to assure his family of its deep sym
pathy in their loss.
Geo. L. Paddock,
Joseph B. Leake,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Committee.

GEORGE STEVENS ROPER.
Captain and Commissary of Subsistence and Brevet Major, United
States J^olunteers. Died at Rockford,
Illinois, February j, iSg'].
GEORGE STEVENS ROPER was born in Worcester
County, Massachusetts, on January 28, 1832, and
at the time of his death in Rockford, Illinois, at
2 : 30 o'clock on the morning of February 3, 1897, had
just completed his sixty-fifth year.
From his native place when a boy he removed with
his'parents to Western Pennsylvania, and there grew to
young manhood, with such advantages for education as
the schools of that neighborhood afforded.
At the early age of eighteen years he began the seri
ous duties of life as a teacher in the common schools of
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Pennsylvania, and later became a clerk in mercantile
business. In 1854 he removed to Springfield, Illinois,
where he became a clerk and bookkeeper in the dry goods
establishment of S. M. Tinsley & Co., and later was a
partner with Edward R. Ulrich, under the style of Ulrich
& Roper, lumber dealers, and conducted the business of
that firm at Alton, Illinois, until 1859, when he returned
to Springfield and again engaged in business there.
It was during the years of his residence in Springfield
prior to 1861, that Companion Roper established friendly
and intimate relations with Abraham Lincoln, Stephen
A. Douglas, Richard Yates and many other distinguished
and historic men who made the capital of Illinois famous
in that era as the gathering place of many of the greatest
characters of the nineteenth century.
Prior to 1861 Roper had been Secretary of the Spring
field Library Association, and it was his relation to that
organization which brought him into confidential inti
macy with Douglas and Lincoln. He was a loyal ad
mirer of Senator Douglas, and gave to that distinguished
citizen his hearty support in the memorable campaign of
1858; but serious thoughtf ulness of the political issues of
that day as they were presented in private conversation
and public discourse by our martyred President, made
him an enthusiastic lover of Abraham Lincoln.
It is an easy thing to-day for one reared in the school
of Jeffersonian democracy to condemn human slavery
and denounce in unmeasured terms the unspeakable
atrocity of the fugitive slave law. It was different in
i860. The manacles of tradition then still had their
grasp both upon the old and the young, and the apostles
of human liberty were regarded as a band of disturbing
fanatics rather than the forerunners of that superb na
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a political society in which every human soul shall have
the same rights under the law, and the same untram-
meled opportunity for the aciiievement of every aspira
tion common to the race of man.
Companion Roper was a lineal descendant of King
Philip of the Pequods, and from that, if from no other
ancestral source, he had inherited a love of human free
dom and hatred of everything which fetters either the
action or destiny of the individual. How natural it was
then for such a spirit, awakened to a sense of duty by
the swirl of the task- master's lash, and the groans of
helpless bondmen, to join with all his heart and all his
splendid energy in that wonderful campaign which re
sulted in the election of Lincoln to the Presidency in
November, i860.
It was under such circumstances that our Companion
sang with such impressive effect the songs of liberty, and
it was in that memorable contest that by a charm of
manner and in tones of melody seldom equaled, he
aroused in the hearts of multitudes impulses which will
cease to beat only when the love of liberty and the hope
of glory no longer control the human heart.
When the cloud of war came in 1861, and the great
hero of his young manhood called for men-at-arms to
defend the nation's life. Companion Roper was swift to
offer his strength, his life and his patriotic services under
his country's flag. His first services were rendered under
the Military Department of the State Government of Illi
nois, but on September 9, 1861, he was commissioned a
Captain and Commissary of Subsistence in the Union
army, and reported immediately to General George H.
Thomas, at Crab Orchard, Kentucky, for duty. From
that time on until the war closed, including the battles
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own words, he "participated in all the marches and
campaigns intervening in which the troops under the im
mediate command of General George H. Thomas took
any part."
He continued to serve on the personal staff of General
Thomas until subsequent to the battle of Murfreesboro,
when he was assigned first to the staff of General John
M. Schofield, then to that of General James B. Steed-
man, and later to that of General J. M. Brannan.
On May 24, 1864, he was by the order of General
Sherman assigned to, duty on the military railroads cen
tering in Nashville, Tennessee, and was thereafter under
the immediate command of General D. C. McCallum.
Companion Roper, after the battle of Mill Springs,
and in January, 1862, was brevetted Major and Commis
sary of Subsistence, and his military services were ren
dered under that rank until January 28, 1866, when he
was mustered out. He returned at once to his home
and engaged in business, first at St. Louis, then at Alton,
and finally located at Rockford, in this State, where in
1880 he organized the Manufacturers and Merchants'
Mutual Insurance Company, and, as Secretary of that
corporation, he conducted with great success its business
affairs until the day of his death.
To write the military history and recount the military
services of Companion Roper, .would be to recall the
splendid triumphs and unsurpassed achievements of that
ever brilliant military organization known to history as
the Army of the Cumberland, and to assign to him no
inconspicuous part in the gallant achievements and
meritorious successes of that heroic command. The
services which he gave to his country from 1861 to 1866
were a part of those unrequited sacrifices which contrib
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country and to the exaltation of our country's flag and
our country's name in other lands. They were the sacri
fices and services of an heroic soul marching steadfastly
along the line of fully appreciated duty. They were not
given grudgingly or hesitatingly, but were given spontan
eously, because they were the offering of a patriotic
heart, and courageously, because they were the tribute
of a knightly spirit, "without fear and without reproach,"
to a cause that was righteous.
Major Roper was three times married; first to Miss
Louisa B. George of Pennsylvania, who died in Spring
field, Illinois, after there had been born to them three
sons — Mahon F., now deceased, and George D. and Ed
ward U. Roper, who still survive him. His second mar
riage was to Miss Almira S. Bangs, at that time Principal
of the public schools in Springfield, Illinois, and who
lived but a few months after her marriage. He was sub
sequently married to Miss Roxy G. Conklin of Michigan,
now his surviving widow.
Thus was born, and reared and lived, George Stevens
Roper, whose life was precious to every one of us, and
whose memory will reverently abide with us all.
What shall we say of such a life, of such a genial
friend, and of such a royal Companion .¦' He was a man
whose good qualities were without number, and whose
ill ones, if any, were unknown. He was as gentle as a
woman, trustful as a child, and his heart took in all men,
all sects, and all creeds. Too noble in his soul to doubt
and too large-hearted to bear malice, the world was to
him a place in which to do good, and where the right-
hearted could find in every human being some quality
worthy of kindly recognition. If in his judgment a man
strayed from the high purpose of his being, or if a woman
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pentance. This hopeful spirit, this broad philanthropy,
this tender consideration for the weaknesses of his fel
lows, made him loved of men even as he loved men.
The value of such a life is not and cannot ever be fully
appreciated until its lamp has gone out. But what would
the world be without the example of such lives, and
without such high ideals } Roper will not be remem
bered because he acquired wealth in the avenues of trade
and commerce; no monument will be erected to his mem
ory because of any achievement by him in the fields of
science, or art, or literature; but his noble deeds and his
eloquent life will speak forever in his just praise. He was
indeed a fit representative of that wide republic whose
citizenship is made up from that innumerable band of
heroic yet gentle souls, who in their fraternal compan
ionship are all "Princes of the line royal."
Who of us can ever forget the kindly grasp of his
hand, the pleasant sound of his tender voice, the reassur
ing effect of his ever welcome presence } How shall we
appreciate the good which has flowed from contact with
such a loving character .' How pleasing is the memory
which he leaves behind him! How many doubts and
sorrows have been smoothed away by the touch of his
sympathy, by his kindly word of cheer, by his sincere
counsel, and by his courageous admonitions as he walked
among us from day to day. His was a strong, robust,
cheerful, beautiful, loving manhood. His was a courage
which in the vicissitudes of life grew stronger in time of
trial. His every purpose was softened by the monitions
of a tender conscience, and by a feeling that there was
ever yet to be reached something nobler and better in life.
The rhythm, the pathos and the hope which animat
ed him were revealed and expressed in the songs he so
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an unshaken faith that in the "land beyond the river"
he would find a "sweet forever" "where they ring the
golden bells for you and me." Unseen hands have rung
the golden bells for our dear Companion, and the Om
niscient King has commanded his spirit to be free. The
same august Commander will yet ring the golden bells
for us. And so it is, that of bur cherished Companion,
with all that made life dear to him, and with all that
made him lovable to us, we have only the memory that
clings about our hearts. As we approach that bourne
whither our Companion has already gone, we realize
that the shadows for us are lengthening to the East. If
no gleam of hope comes to us in the setting sun of life,
then thick darkness will cover us, and the longing after
immortality must be stifled in despair. Already we step
high lest we stumble and fall over the little billows of
earth which cover the forms of our loved and lost. The
'earthly form which held for a time the intrepid spirit of
Companion Roper was placed within the narrow house
which in due time we must all inhabit. Winter will come
and cover with its mantle of white the unsightly mound,
perennial spring will clothe in beauteous verdure the turf
above him, innocent birds will sing in the drooping
branches that wave over his grave, the tide of life will
rise and fall, the bustle of commerce will charm us with
its din of echoes, and the struggling multitudes will press
forever on, but our Companion will heed them not. The
Divine attribute which made him immortal is not there.
Within the cerements which enclose his mouldering clay
lies all, if aught there was to mar the beautiful symme
try of his life. He has pushed aside the veil, he has
opened the portals, and crossed the threshold which
divides the illimitable eternity of the past from the limit
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deed he has gone as a valiant prince to meet the merited
welcome of his King.
To his family we offer our affectionate condolences,
and invoke for them the gracious favor of the Loving
Father of us all.
John H. Sherratt,
Francis A. Riddle,
C. F. Matteson,
Committee.

SAMUEL COLEMAN BLAKE.
Major and Surgeon Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, February 6, i8gj.
THE death of our Companion Dr. Samuel C. Blake
has cast a deep gloom over a loving family and a
wide circle of devoted friends.
Dr. Blake was born in Bath, Maine, on the 25th day
of July, 1826. He sprang from a revolutionary family,
his grandfather, John Blake, having served as a youth of
eighteen years in the Continental Army. In the com
pany of his cousin. Captain Dearborn, afterwards Major
General Dearborn, after whom Fort Dearborn and also
Dearborn Street in Chicago were named, John Blake
took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, participated in
the festivities at the laying of the corner stone of Bunker
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Hill Monument, and was one of the thirteen survivors of
that battle who were present at the completion of the
monument. On the maternal side Dr. Blake was con
nected with John Hancock, the first signer of the Declara
tion of Independence. His father. Rev. S. P. Blake,
was a member of the Maine Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for half a century.
Samuel C. Blake received his academical education
at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and on the 20th of
July, 1853, he graduated from the Medical Department
of Harvard University. He served as house-physician
in the Massachusetts general hospital one year. Having
practiced medicine in Boston three years and a half, he
came to Chicago in 1856. At that time there was but
one medical college — " Rush " — and only one hospital —
("Mercy") — here. In 1858, in connection with the late
Professor Brainard, Dr. DeLaskie Miller and J. P. Ross,
he leased the old City Hospital building and organized
the second hospital in the city.
In 1 861, he assisted in the organizing of the Thirty-
ninth Illinois, and when the regiment was not promptly
accepted, he applied for and received the position of
Surgeon in the Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers, which
regiment he accompanied to Missouri. Here he was de
tailed on the Staff of General Hurlbut, and ordered to
inspect the regimental hospital at Quincy, Illinois, which
duty he performed with great credit to himself.
At Quincy he organized a general military hospital,
which was continued during the war.
After the Thirty-ninth Illinois was mustered into the
service. Dr. Blake was appointed its Surgeon. In Janu
ary, 1862, he was detached from his regiment and or
dered to organize a brigade hospital at Hancock, Mary
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ordered to advance to Winchester, Virginia. During
General Banks's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley he
was detailed to take charge of the general hospital of
the army at Mount Jackson, Virginia. He there organized
three large hospitals, and upon the retreat of the army
to Strassburg, Virginia, he organized a large field hos
pital, in which he administered to the comfort of a thou
sand sick and wounded soldiers of both armies. His
great professional skill and deep devotion to duty were
highly appreciated by his superior officers, as the follow
ing brief abstracts from letters addressed to him may
serve to show:
Dr. Thomas Antisell, Brigade Surgeon of Volunteers
and Medical Director of the First Division, Department
of the Shenandoah, writes to him from the General
Headquarters near Edenburg, Virginia, on the I2th of
April, 1862, among other things as follows: " Dear Sir: —
I have had ample opportunity of estimating your ability
as a hospital surgeon, and feel much pleasure in being
able to testify to the care and devotion bestowed by you
on the men, and of the professional skill displayed on
many occasions where the service required it. In field
hospitals, where many things needful for the comfort of
the sick soldiers have to be improvised, a faithful devo
tion to duty and self-sacrifice are qualities eminently
needed; in your display of these I have also been witness,
and I can record my complete approval and satisfaction
with your conduct at the Brigade Hospital, Hancock."
Thomas O. Osborne, the brave old Colonel com
manding the Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, writes to
Dr. Blake from his headquarters at Harrison's Landing
on the 5th of August, 1862, as follows:
"My dear old Surgeon: If at anytime you should
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good name and reputation which you won for yourself and
my regiment in the medical department of the army in the
field, and I cannot forget that high and never-to-be-for
gotten compliment paid me as your commanding officer
by Major General Williams in your behalf for your distin
guished services when in charge of the general hospital."
Owing to the severe exposures incident to his service
and the great responsibilities resting upon him, his health
became seriously impaired and he found himself com
pelled to retire from the service. In 1863 he was County
Physician of Cook County, and from 1865 to 1866, City
Physician. This was during the last cholera epidemic
which visited Chicago. There was at that time no
Superintendent of Health, no medical inspectors, and
no sanitary police force. The duties devolving upon the
Doctor were arduous and exacting, but he performed
them with the same perseverance and devotion which had
characterized his work in the army. In 1868 the Doctor
was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Cook
County, and it is mainly due to his indefatigable efforts
that during that year the foundation for the County
Hospital was laid, which since that time has become
one of the most important and beneficent public institu
tions in the northern part of this State.
The Doctor was also instrumental in establishing the
Women's and Children's Hospital of Chicago, and he
served on the medical staff of these institutions for sev
eral years. As a member of the Woman's Medical Col
lege of this city he occupied the chair of Diseases of
"Mind and Nervous System" for seven years. He was
also a Fellow of the Massachusetts State Medical Society,
of the American Medical Association, of the Illinois State
Medical Society, of the Chicago Medical Society and
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Throughout his whole life Dr. Samuel C. Blake
proved himself to be true to every duty which he was
ever called upon to .perform. He had a high conception
of his splendid calling, which to him was a celestial god
dess to guide him in relieving the sick and wounded and
restoring them to health and strength. Endowed with
a kind heart and profoundly learned in his science, he
consecrated his whole life to noble deeds of humanity
and the best efforts of an exalted existence. The death
of such a man leaves a void not only in the circle of his
sorrow-stricken companions in arms but throughout the
city. To his bereaved family we express our profound
est sympathy.
Edmund Andrews, M. D.,
William Vocke,
William B. Keeler,
Committee.

JOHN BINES FIDLAR.
First Lieutenant T-joenly-fifth loiva Infantry, United States Volun
teers. Died at Davenport, Iowa, March 22, i8gy.
60RN in Hebron, Ohio, March i6, 1839; died in
Davenport, Iowa, March 22, 1897. Sacrifice is
the measure of worth. The full stature of a man
is the sum of deeds done for others. Patriotism is but
another name for comradery. The country men die for,
is an essence that is a part of all the people. To brave
death for one's country means to brave death for neigh
bors, for neighbors' neighbors whom we have never seen,
but to whom we are bound by that invisible chord, human
love. Companion Fidlar was a patriot in every sense of
the word. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in
the Twenty-fifth Iowa Infantry Volunteers. He was
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with his regiment in the battles of Arkansas Post, Vicks
burg, Jackson, Iuka, Cherokee Station and many others.
At Cherokee Station he was seriously wounded. By
untiring attention to duty and meritorious conduct, par
ticularly at Vicksburg when his prompt decision and
bravery saved a rout, he was steadily promoted. His
regimental record is the best evidence of his worth as a
soldier and comrade.
August 14, 1862, enlisted and was made First Ser
geant of Company D, Twenty-fifth Iowa Volunteers.
February 5, 1863, promoted to Second Lieutenant. May
9, 1863, promoted to First Lieutenant. June 6, 1865,
mustered out.
It the close of the war, he returned to the position
of Express Agent at Burlington, Iowa. In 1870 he was
appointed to a position in the First National Bank of
Davenport, and was afterwards its Cashier for seventeen
years, when he resigned to go into business for himself.
He was enterprising and energetic. He was quick to
see and quick to execute. The same nerve that he dis
played on the battle field was exercised as a cashier and
in business generally. To promote new enterprises that
would benefit his city he was liberal in his investments
and free with his time and energy.
He leaves a widow and one son, and this Com
mandery unites with them and his hosts of friends to
mourn his departure.
M. L. Marks,
Monroe Ebi,
P. W. McManus,
Committee.

AXEL SMEDBERG ADAMS.

Captain Secotid Cavalry, United States Army.
Illinois, March i8, i8g'j.

Died at Chicago,

'TTXEL SMEDBERG ADAMS was born at his father's
jI\ country seat, " Devasego Falls, " near Prattsburg,
^"^ Greene County, New York, August 24, 1843. He
died at Chicago, Illinois, March 18, 1897.
His father, William Adams, was a cotton factor, and
resided in New York City. He was a boy of gentle,
studious habits and strong artistic tastes; was educated
in private schools, later devoted some time to the study
of art, pro.duced sketches and paintings showing much
talent and, but for the outbreak of the war, would prob
ably have made that his chosen profession.
He became a member of the Twenty-second Regi-
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ment Infantry, National Guard of the State of New York,
and was made a Corporal in May, 1862. At that time,
and again in 1863, his regiment was mustered into the
United States service, and sent to the front for brief
periods. In February, 1865, he enlisted in the Fourteenth
United States Infantry, was appointed Sergeant, March
I, 1865, passed his examination for Second Lieutenant,
was commissioned as such to date from May 3, 1865;
promoted to First Lieutenant, July 6, 1865; promoted
to Captain, November 27, 1868, and resigned October
26, 1869.
After having received his commission as Second Lieu
tenant, he joined his regiment. Second United States
Cavalry, at Winchester, Virginia, and in October, 1865,
moved with it to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His ser
vice from that time was entirely in the Western States
and Territories, engaged in scouts and marches and In
dian fighting.
In November, 1869, he came to Chicago and, after a
brief stay, went to Fitchburg, Kentucky, where he was
employed in iron works about three years, then to New
York City, and remained in his father's employ until
1876. From 1876 to 1889 he was employed at Oil City,
Pennsylvania, most of the time as book-keeper in a mer
cantile establishment. He then returned to Chicago,
and engaged in the business of an expert accountant, in
which capacity he gave entire satisfaction to his em
ployers. A man exquisitely neat in his person and surroundings,
careful, methodical and painstaking in his work, he made
comparatively few general acquaintances, but those who
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served his country in the time of need, and tenders its
sympathies to his sorrowing relatives.
George K. Brady,
Daniel Robinson,
Richard Robins,
Committee .

JOHN YOUNG OLIVER.
Died at Denver, Colorado. April g, i8gj.
JOHN Y. OLIVER, a member of the Ilhnois Com
mandery b}' inheritance. Insignia No. 5144, was
born in Monroe, Michigan, December 14, 1853,
and died at Denver, Colorado, April 9, 1897. He was
the son of Brigadier General John M. Oliver, who served
with distinction through the Civil War, in the Army of
the Tennessee. Although but a child of tender years at
the beginning of the war, he accompanied his father
through all the campaigns of the Army of the Tennessee,
never leaving him, either in battle, bivouac or camp.
Shortly after the war closed, at the age of fifteen years,
he entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and during
the course of his studies, circumnavigated the globe on
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the veteran man-of-war, "Constitution." Upon his
graduation he severed his connection with the Navy,
entering upon a business life. In the early seventies,
Mr. Oliver took a position with the Pullman Palace Car
Company, at Pullman, Illinois, but early associations
and training had left with him a martial spirit which
never forsook him. The organization of the First Regi
ment Infantry, Illinois National Guards, offered him the
opportunity of once more gratifying this taste. He en
listed in Company C of this regiment, and soon became
its First Sergeant, serving with distinction as enlisted
man and commissioned officer. His thorough knowledge
of minor tactics, the school of the soldier and of the
company, and of the customs of the service, together
with his tact and strict discipline, contributed in a large
measure to the victories of his Company at many prize
drills and contests, notably that with the Chickasaw
Guards of Memphis, at St. Louis, in 1880. He earned
for himself the name of being the best qualified First
Sergeant in the National Guard of the entire country.
He also won laurels during the railroad riots of 1877,
and the labor and anarchistic troubles of 1879. After
having been commissioned as First Lieutenant of Com
pany C, First Infantry, Ilhnois National Guard, he left
the service in 1881, and in 1882 was married to Miss
Minnie F. Towne, now his widow. Soon after this, he
was tendered the position of General Manager for the
American Smelting Company at Leadville, Colorado,
which position he retained for ten years. During his
residence in Colorado, Mr. Oliver was elected twice to
the State Senate. He performed his political duties
equally as well and conscientiously as those of his former
military life. While residing in Canon City, Colorado,
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while a resident of Leadville, he drilled the Knights of
Pythias, and enabled them to win three prizes in com
petitive contests. From Leadville Mr. Oliver went to
Denver, and became connected, as Secretary and Treas
urer, with the "Mine and Smelter Supply Company,"
which position he held at the time of his death.
To the members of this Commandery, Companion
Oliver was not well known. Those of us who did know
him, however, sorrow in the loss of a manly Companion
and an affectionate friend.
To his bereaved family, this Commandery offers its
sympathy. With them it shares the consolation that for
him life was a success, well filled and rounded out with
completeness, in all parts where he participated or
directed.
Edgar D. Swain,
Charles R. E. Koch,
Geo. V. Lauman,
Committee.

STUART McENTEE.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 2g, i8gy.
3TUART McENTEE was born at Albany, New
York, November 6, 1869. In 1876 he came
with his parents to Chicago, which has since been
his home. After preparation at Shattuck, in Faribault,
Minnesota, he entered Racine College. The year fol
lowing he matriculated at Harvard University, but failing
health compelled him to abandon the course he had
planned and he returned home to undertake the pursuit
of business. His membership in this Order dates from
January, 1893, and was derived through his father.
Colonel Charles Stuart McEntee, who survives him.
To most of the younger men in the Commandery,
and to many of the elder ones, Stuart McEntee was
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familiarly known. Of genial and gentlemanly bearing,
he met men readily and won them easily. Those who
knew him were impressed with his fervent patriotism
and his devotion to the principles for which the Loyal
Legion stands. The last two years of his life were years
of constant suffering. A lingering malady tested his
heroism, which was not found wanting. Those of us
who saw him at the meetings of the Commandery, felt
the unfailing cheer of his greeting. Never were we per
mitted by his manner to suspect that he was looking into
the face of death.
The winter just past he spent under his father's care
in the mild Southwest, and when it became apparent
his life was nearing its close, thelong journey homeward
was begun. He rallied to meet the fatigue of travel and
rejoiced in reaching home, but he lingered only a few
days, and on the 29th of April, came his final relief from
pain. When the veteran of many battles is laid to rest, full
of years and honors, the sense of his life's completeness
softens our grief. But when the young man, in whom
are soldierly qualities and promises of an honorable
career, is stricken down at the very outset, we reflect
with sadness on what he might and would have been.
It is thus with Stuart McEntee. We who remain sorrow
in the loss of a manly Companion and an affectionate
friend. To his bereaved family this Commandery offers
its sympathy, and with them it shares the consolation
that for him " Danger's troubled night is o'er.
And the morn ot peace returned."
John R. Montgomery,
William S. Love,
H. M. Slaymaker,
Committee.

DANIEL CURTIS ROUNDY.
Major and Surgeon Thirty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, June 2j, i8gy.
ekIPANION Daniel Curtis Roundy, a member of the
Commandery, was born at Spafford, Onondaga
County, New York, on the 22d day of November, 1824,
and died at Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1897, in his sev
enty-third year.
Companion Roundy first came to Chicago in 1838,
and six years later he graduated from the high school in
St. Charles, Illinois. After taking a course in the study
of medicine, he located in Walworth County, Wisconsin,
where he was married in 1849 to Miss Jane E. Young,
who died at Asheville, North Carolina, a few years ago.
In 1859, while a resident of Geneva, Wisconsin, he
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was commissioned Captain of a Company of State Militia
known as the "Geneva Independents." Immediately
after President Lincoln's call for troops, he tendered his
services to the Governor of his State, recruited a com
pany, and on April 25, 1861, was commissioned Captain
of Company F, Fourth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers,
being one of the first to enlist from his State. During
the Campaign of the Army under General Butler at
New Orleans, and at the capture of Fort Jackson, Com
panion Roundy received an injury that caused his retire
ment from the service under surgeons' certificate of dis
ability, September 10, 1862. Returning to his home, he
was elected to the legislature. While serving his State
in civil life, he was in February, 1864, commissioned
Major and Surgeon of the Thirty-seventh Wisconsin In
fantry Volunteers, with which regiment he rendered
valiant services until mustered out with it in August, 1865.
Companion Roundy located in Davenport, Iowa, in
1866. Returning to Chicago in 1872, he engaged in mer
cantile life, successfully building up the Roundy Regalia
Company, of which he was President at the time of his
death. Those of us who knew Companion Roundy will realize
that in his death we have lost a true and loyal friend,
one who was ever faithful and unassuming in the dis
charge of every duty imposed upon him and one in whose
wisdom and integrity we had the utmost confidence.
His remains were laid away beside those of his wife
at Asheville, North Carolina.
To his bereaved family we can only express our deep
sympathy in the loss we have all sustained.
William B. Keeler,
John H. Stibbs,
Peter G. Gardner,
Committee.

PHILIP REGIS DENIS De TROBRIAND,
Colonel atid Brevet Brigadier General United States Ar-my, Brigadier
General and Brevet Major General. United States Volunteers.
Died at Bayport, Long Island, July jj, i8gy.
OUR summer vacation is past and we are again per
mitted to have our reunions and indulge in the
reminiscences which form so large a part of our
being, saddened as we always are by the death of some
Companion whose memory, fame or society is a treasure
to us. Amongst those whose loss we are called upon to
mourn, is one of the most picturesque characters of the
war. General Philip Regis Denis de Trobriand; one who,
ripe in years as in glory, was a fine example of the all-
embracing and assimilating character of our American
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institutions. General de Trobriand was of an old Breton
family dating back to the time of the Black Prince in the
fourteenth century (1384), occupying a place in the old
nobility of the Province, being hereditary members of
the parliament of Brittany. Philip de Trobriand was
born at Tours, France, June 4, 18 16, where his father,
General Joseph de Trobriand, was in command under
the rule of the legitimate or elder branch of the Bourbon
family. He was brought up as a page in the royal house
hold, with an education preparatory to a military career,
until 1830, when the legitimate king, Charles X, being
driven from France, his father declined to serve under
the Orleans king. His .education was completed at Poi
tiers, and his military course at a private institution.
In 1 841, after hisriather's death, he came on a visit
to the United States with a friend, a journey much more
rare at that day than now. On that visit he met, and
shortly thereafter married, Miss May Mason Jones, a
daughter of the President of the Chemical Bank of New
York. After the marriage they spent several years at
the exiled court of the Comte de Chambord, near Venice.
In 1848 the Baron de Trobriand came to New York to
live, at the request of his father-in-law, engaging in lit
erary work and starting a French review. Family mat
ters took him back to France in 185 1, where he remained
until 1854, when he returned to" New York to reside per
manently, engaging in literary work on the French jour
nal in New York, the Courier des Etats Unis, becoming
thoroughly an American in feeling and principle.
When the War of the Rebellion broke out he was ap-
pointedColonel of- the Fifty-fifth New York Volunteers,
August 2, 1 861, the nucleus of which was the militia
regiment known as the "Lafayette Guards." The regi
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in 1862 participated in the Peninsular Campaign with the
Fourth Corps, making a good record. After this cam
paign the regiment returned to Washington and was
assigned to the Third Corps. In November, 1862, the
Fifty-fifth New York was consolidated with the Thirty-
eighth New York, with de Trobriand as Colonel of the
consolidated regiment. It participated in the Fredericks
burg and Chancellorsville Campaigns, and at Gettysburg,
where Colonel de Trobriand commanded his brigade
with distinguished gallantry in front of the wheat field,
losing nearly one-half of his force. In the fall of 1863,
on account of not being confirmed as Brigadier General
by the United States Senate, although recommended by
all the officers above him, his regiment being consoli
dated with another, he was mustered out and remained
out of service until the spring of 1864. He was renomi
nated as Brigadier General in January, 1864, and con
firmed April 1st, to date from January 5th, and on re
porting for duty was assigned to the command of all the
forces in and around New York harbor, a large and
laborious command, which, however, was not so welcome
to him as duty in the field; so that when General Meade
applied to have him assigned to duty with the Army of
the Potomac, he eagerly embraced the opportunity, and
was assigned to command of the First Brigade, Third
Division of the Second Corps, troops formerly belonging
to the Third Corps. With them he served with distin
guished honor until the final day at Appomattox, where
he was in command of a Division, amongst the troops
and officers with whom he had been associated almost
from the beginning. He was brevetted Major General,
to date from April 9, 1865, for highly meritorious services
during the campaign ending at Appomattox. He was
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Thirty-first Infantry, to date July 28th; transferred to
Thirteenth Infantry March 20, 1869; commanded Dis
trict and Military Department of Dakota to May, 1869;
District of Montana to October, 1871, where he con
ducted the Piegan campaign; Fort Steele, Wyoming, to
October, 1873; then serving at New Orleans to March
20, 1^79, havin-g to arrest the legislature during the re
construction days in Louisiana, when he was retired. He
made New Orleans his residence after retirement till his
death, spending the summers alternately in France and
with his daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Post, at Bayport,
Long Island, thus passing the evening of his days in the
happy enjoyment of social intercourse with his children
and friends, surrounded by whom he passed away July
15, 1897, aged eighty-one years.
While in France, directly after the war, he wrote for
the information of the French people, his work, "Four
Years with the Army of the Potomac," which has been
regarded by some of the ablest military critics as being
unsurpassed as a clear and concise account of the causes
leading up to the war; and his military education, his
acute and discerning mind, his fine judgment, with his
fearless criticism of men and movements of the Army of
the Potomac, make his work one of the most valuable
and interesting of the contributions relating to the his
tory of that famous army; and as time passes, his con
clusions are more and more accepted by military men as
well-balanced, just and able. His well-informed mind,
which his intercourse with distinguished men of the New
and Old Worlds had stored with information of the per
sons who had filled a large space in the history of his
time, his ability as a musician and artist, and his cour
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he served; and his gallantry in the field and devotion to
duty at all times, in command of the troops trained by
Kearney, made him a worthy successor to Lafayette as
the only other Frenchman who attained the rank of Ma
jor General in the Armies of the United States.
We tender our condolences to his children who mourn
his departure and we join with them in a tribute to the
memory of so able and gallant a soldier who has left to
them and his fellow soldiers a legacy of duty performed,
and honor won, which is the most valuable of all bequests.
George K. Dauchy,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Joseph H. Wood,
Committee.

THADDEUS JOSEPH BUTLER.
Chaplain Twenty-third Illinois InJ'antry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Rome, Italy, July ib, i8gj.
THADDEUS JOSEPH BUTLER, a servant of God
and a Companion of this Order, closed his human
career in the Eternal Capital July i6, 1897. He died on
the very eve of his Episcopal ordination, and fell where
he had received his theological education, in the shadow
of the dome of St. Peter's. Born at Limerick, Ireland,
November i, 1833, he came to America from Rome in
1856, bearing the commission of his church, a recom
mendation in itself, but that which endears his memory
particularly to us is that when the strife came for the
disruption of the Union and the continuation of slavery
within the territory of a dismembered republic, he bore
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a military commission, having been Chaplain of the
Twenty-third Illinois Infantry, U. S. V. , dating from
June 15, 1861.
In 1861 abolition was not an avowed, it was scarcely
an included, purpose of the war which at the outset was
waged entirely for the purpose of preserving the integrity
of the States in federal union. No popular political body
had declared for abolition. The convention which nom
inated Abraham Lincoln confined itself to a declaration
of hostility to the extension of slavery to the territories.
Had national authority been reasserted indisputably im
mediately upon the incident of Sumter, who can say how
long slavery might have abided .'' In every fibre of his
being. Dr. Butler, among whose classmates at Rome
was an African of full blood, was opposed to human
slavery. He came to America with none of the conserv
ative feeling induced in Americans by generations of tol
erance of slavery as an institution protected by the laws.
Generous, impulsive, vehement in his denunciations of
great wrongs, he was necessarily outspoken in protest of
man's ownership of man. He was a champion from the
first, of the freedom of a fellow-being from absolute
ownership, as persistently and intelligently he labored
for the emancipation of the human soul from the sway of
evil. He saw and welcomed the inevitable outcome of
the civil strife, and with the joy of an ardent nature,
gladly accepted the invitation of James A. Mulligan to
become the Chaplain of a regiment raised by him in
Chicago, and destined from its own deeds and from the
gallantry and devotion of its commander, who was to
perish in the Shenandoah in 1864 -as the commander of
a division, to become famous.
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accompanied the regiment, upon its reorganization, to
Virginia, certain of whose misty mountain tops were
vocal with the solemn intonation of the service prescribed
by his church, and rang with his exhortation to the sol
diers for whose spiritual welfare he was answerable, that
they persevere unfalteringly in their performance of duty
to God and their country. An affection of the eyes,
which was to give him no little trouble in his subsequent
career, impelled the tender of his resignation, and he
was honorably discharged from the volunteer service of
the United States on March ii, 1863.
Though he had retired from the army. Dr. Butler's
interest in the war continued, and he lost no opportunity
to encourage enlistment and to relieve distress in the
field. He had been pastor of old St. Mary's Church,
which was situated at the corner of Wabash avenue and
Madison street, and on his return was assigned to another
pastorate, to be transferred after an interval of some
years to a church at Rockford, in this State, where his
public spirit induced him to accept the presidency of the
public library. In 1887 he was appointed pastor of St.
John's Church, in this city, where many Companions of
this Order heard last July the solemn, impressive and
eloquent tribute paid by another Companion of the Loyal
Legion, Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, his old-time
friend, and like him an officer of volunteers.
Dr. Butler's graces and accomplishments were extra
ordinary. He was a linguist, a musician, an orator, a
connoisseur of the fine arts. This Commandery has
heard from his own lips humorous and pathetic recital of
some part of his military service, and learned in his
hearty companionship, full of the milk of human kind
ness, how it was possible for him successfully to "allure
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his priestly function it was times without number the
solemn duty of this consoler of his kind to stand by the
bier of his fellow mortals, and, while aiding the survivors
to bear their loss, reverently and hopefully to commit
the dead to the Infinite Mercy that having created man
frail, may not be as harsh in judgment of his failures as
often are human kind. This office he performed over
the blouse-shouldered remains of volunteers who, upon
the great plains of the Missouri, or in the valleys of Vir
ginia, fell for their country. The muffled drum was
silent; the reversed arms borne by sorrowing Compan
ions on the grave-ward march were charged for the fare
well volley; the clods fell upon the coffin, and the robed
priest in the sweet voice that was among his many gifts
from a nature profusely bountiful to him, spoke in the
sonorous language common to the multitude of the Chris
tian confessors and martyrs the last words of the Roman
liturgy. And we who survive, for a little time only, may
sincerely and reverently say for him, as he prayerfully
said for many another soldier, Requiescat in Pace.
Martin J. Russell,
Charles W. Davis,
Arthur Edwards,
Copimittee ¦

JAMES WITHINGTON HUTCHINSON.
Second Assistant Engineer, Unites States Navy. Died at Green
field, Illinois, September 2, iSgj.
OORN Griggsville, Illinois, September 14, 1841. Died
Ml at his home, Greenfield, Illinois, September 2,
1897. Such, in brief, is the record of the birth
and death of one well known to many of the members
of this Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. This is not all, however, which is entered upon the
pages of this Companion's history, nor all to be found in
the golden book kept by the recording angel, of the
services of those who loved and served their country in
its darkest hour of peril.
The foundation of Companion Hutchinson's educa-
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tion was laid in the public schools of Illinois and com
pleted in the Polytechnic College at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, from which he graduated before he was
twenty years of age. Receiving his diploma in the one
hand he signed the muster roll with the other and in
December, 1861, was commissioned Second Assistant
Engineer of the United States warship Tuscarora and sent
upon foreign service.
Cruising off the English and Spanish coasts to protect
our merchant vessels from the "Alabama" and other
Confederate cruisers, our Companion visited Gibraltar,
Malta and other places in the Mediterranean and on the
coast until ordered home to join the North Atlantic
squadron. After engaging the iron-clad ' ' North Carolina " off
the mouth of Cape Fear River and driving her back to
Wilmington, Companion Hutchinson was transferred to
the first-class warship Susquehanna and participated in
the bombardment and capture of Fort Fisher.
In this famous ship and in the North Atlantic
squadron our Companion continued to serve until the
close of the war, participating in all the service rendered
by that great fleet.
Resigning his commission when there was no more
active service, our Companion went to Colorado and en
gaged in his profession as a mining engineer. Marrying
in 1868, he soon after returned to Illinois, became a
citizen of Greenfield and engaged in banking. Here he
continued to reside until called up aloft by that sweet
little cherub that watches " o'er the life of Poor Jack."
Taking an active part in public affairs, our Com
panion was entrusted with many positions of honor and
responsibility and served several terms as Mayor of
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copal Church he was for many years the faithful Super
intendent of its Sabbath School.
Loved and honored in all the Associations of which
he was a member, he was at the time of his death Com
mander of Weisner Post, No. 350, Qrand Army of the
Republic, as he was an honored and respected member
of this Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States.
In the ancient and honorable fraternity of Free Masons
our Companion had attained to Christian Knighthood and
the highest offices in the Holy Royal Arch, being a Past
Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
this State. He was also an earnest and faithful member
of the Masonic Veteran Association of Illinois, and was
laid to rest in Greenfield by his Masonic brethren.
Our Companion has "crossed the bar," and having
seen his "Pilot face to face," is in the clear waters of
eternal life, where we may hope to meet him in the
hereafter. " Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me.
And may there be no moaning at the bar
When I put out to sea.
But such a flood as, moving, seeras to sleep
Too deep for sound or foam.
When that which drew frora out the wondrous deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark,
And may there be no moaning or farewell when I embark;
And though from out the realm of time and space
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to meet my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar."
John C. Smith,
Haswell C. Clarke,
John C. Neely,
Committee.

WILLIAM JOHN LYSTER.
Colonel (Retired) United States Army. Died at Sacket Harbor,
New York, September 23, iSgy.
e^ONEL William J. Lyster, who died on the 23d of
September last at Sacket Harbor, New York, was
born at Tecumseh, Michigan, June 27, 1833.
His service was as follows: Second Lieutenant and
Adjutant Second Michigan Infantry May 25, 1861, to
June 21, 1 86 1. Appointed First Lieutenant Nineteenth
United States Infantry, May 14, 1861, accepted June
21, 1861. Commanded Company A,' Nineteenth In
fantry, from August, 1861, to February, 1863. Pro
moted Captain Nineteenth Infantry August 9, 1864,
Major Sixth Infantry October 13, 1886, Lieutenant
Colonel Twenty-first Infantry August i, 1891, and
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Colonel Ninth Infantry May i, 1896, serving in that
position until the date of his retirement, June 27, 1897.
He served in Rousseau's Brigade, McCook's Division,
and the Regular Brigade of the Western Army through
out the war, and participated in the following battles and
skirmishes: Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna
Church, Peach Tree Creek, Utoy Creek, Siege of Atlanta,
Dry Walk, Kentucky, Buzzard's Roost, Georgia, Hoover's
Gap, Tennessee, Tunnel Hill, Georgia.
He was brevetted Captain April 7, 1862, for gallant
and meritorious services in the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee .
Brevet Major, September 20, 1863, for gallant and
meritorious services in the battle of Chickamauga,
Georgia. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, September i, 1864, for
gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Mission
ary Ridge, Tennessee, and during the Atlanta campaign.
He performed staff duty as Aide-de-camp to Brigadier
General John H. King, and as Assistant Inspector
General, Regular Brigade, Army of the Cumberland.
Since the war. Colonel Lyster has served in various
Posts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Utah, Texas,
Illinois and New York, and commanded a Battalion of
the Nineteenth Infantry in New Orleans, during the riots
of 1873. As Major of the Sixth Infantry, he commanded
the two companies of that regiment which comprised the
first garrison of Fort Sheridan.
Robert H. Hall,
Albert Hartsuff,
Butler D. Price,
Committee.

ALONZO JEFFERSON PHELPS.
Major and Surgeon and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States
Volunteers. Died at Nitta Yuma, Mississippi,
September 28, i8g'j,
WHEN, on the 28th of September last, the sunset gun
had boomed its "good-night" salute to the lower
ing flag he had followed through the tempest of war, and
while the shades of night were closing about the home
wherein he had rounded out a life rich in good works and
beneficent influences, our Companion, Major and Surgeon
Alonzo Jefferson Phelps, passed into the beyond, where
there is neither the uncertainty of life, nor the certainty
of death, but peace forever.
He was born in Piketon, Ohio, June 17, 1835. Grad
uating from the University of Ohio he took up the study
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of medicine under his father. Dr. Orlando J. Phelps. In
1852 he graduated from the Columbus Medical College,
and taking a post-graduate course received his diploma
from the New York College of Medicine in 1854. Re
turning to his native town, he entered into the active
practice of his chosen profession in connection with his
father. October 31, 1861, hewas appointed -Assistant
Surgeon of the Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, U. S. V., and
on December 31st following was promoted to Brigade
Surgeon (later known as Surgeon U. S. V.), but by
reason of a severe epidemic then raging in his regi
ment he refused to qualify for the new position until
April 4, 1862, when he was commissioned as Major and
Surgeon, U. S. V. He received the brevet of Lieutenant
Colonel, March 13, 1865, " for faithful and meritorious
services during the war." Having tendered his resig
nation he was honorably mustered out in compliance
with Special Order No. 3, ^Var Department, dated Jan
uary 4, 1866. His service covered a large territory, he
having been on duty continuously, at the front and in
the field, from September 1861 to August 1864. He
participated in the Eastern Kentucky Campaign under
General Nelson and in Mitchell's Division of the Army
of Ohio. April 22, 1862, he was assigned to temporary
duty under General Halleck, then before Corinth. He
was assigned as Medical Director of Wood's Division and,
at the battle of Perryville, of the left wing under General
Crittenden. He served as Medical Director of the
Twenty-first Corps, participating in the battles of Stone's
River, the occupation of Chattanooga and the battles of
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and when the Twen
tieth and Twenty-first Corps were consolidated to form
the Fourth Corps he was assigned to the Staff of General
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ization, and later of the Army of the Cumberland. April
27, 1864, he was transferred, at the request of General
Grant, to the Army of the Potomac where he was assigned
to duty as Acting Medical Inspector of Field Hospitals.
At his own request he was relieved August 16, 1864, and
assigned to special duty in the Northerp Department of
Ohio. In February 1865 he was transferred to the De
partment of Kentucky and assigned as Medical Director,
with the relative rank of Colonel, on the Staff of General
John M. Palmer commanding, which he held until the
termination of his services.
Tall and slender of stature, graceful and cordial in
manner, his winning smile prepossessed all whom he
met in his favor. This impression was justified by his
manly character and his kind and genial disposition. A
physician of rare talents, a man of wide reading, he was
interested in his profession as a science rather than art.
During his tour of duty at Louisville, Kentucky, he met,
and on October 13, 1865, married Miss Mary Vick, a
granddaughter of the founder of Vicksburg, Mississippi,
and a direct lineal descendant of General George Rogers
Clarke of the Revolutionary Army. In 1877 he removed
permanently to his beautiful plantation in Nitta Yuma,
Mississippi. He leaves surviving him Mrs. Phelps and
four children, Mrs. Nannie W. George, Mr. Henry Vick
Phelps, Mary P. (Countess Piola-Caselli of Rome, Italy)
and Miss Ellen B. Phelps. To you then, who, closest
to his heart, knew him best and loved him the dearest,
and who sit in the shadows and weep, words of consola
tion are but hollow sounds and empty babblings. We
who went down into the "Valley of Death," side by side
with our departed Companion follow you in your desola
tion andwoe and with reverent clasp of the hand offer
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loving remembrance of him who awaits us just beyond
the river. John J. Abercrombie,
Standish V. Cornish,
John A. Grier,
Committee.

HENRY THOMAS PORTER.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Quincy, Illinois, December g, j8gy.
^TEl^RY THOMAS PORTER was born at Weymouth,
Pj Massachusetts, July 13, 1832. He came to Illinois
^~" at an early date, settled in DeKalb County, and,
at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion, was largely
instrumental in raising a company which was mustered
into the United States service as Company E, Thirteenth
Illinois Infantry. He was elected and commissioned
Second Lieutenant of the company prior to its muster
and when the organization of the regiment was com
pleted, became its Adjutant, being mustered in as such
May 24, 1 86 1. This regiment was the first organized in
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participated in Fremont's Campaign in Missouri, General
Curtis's Campaign in Arkansas, including the memorable
march from Pea Ridge to Helena, Arkansas, and was a
part of the assaulting column at Chickasaw-Bayou, where
its gallant Colonel, John B. Wyman, was killed and its
total loss in killed and wounded was one hundred and
eighty-three. It was present at the capture of Arkansas
Post, and was with General Sherman's Corps during the
siege of Vicksburg. In July, 1863, Adjutant Porter was
detailed upon the Staff of Major General Eugene A. Carr
and served with him until June 18, 1864, when he was
mustered out with his regiment at Springfield, Illinois,
having faithfully served his country and performed his
duty as a soldier of the Union.
He then engaged in business in Chicago and was
elected a 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, August 6, 1879,
being one of its earliest members. In later years he met
with financial reverses and finally sought refuge in the
Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, where he died on the
9th day of December, 1897. Richard Robins,
Joseph J. Siddall,
John Sargent,
Committee.

DAVID HERRICK GILE.
Captain and Aide de Camp, United States Volunteers. Died at
Oak Park, Illinois, March ij, i8g8.
eyIPANION David Herrick Gile, a member of this
Comrhandery, died about the hour of two o'clock
in the afternoon, Sunday, March 13, 1898, at his resi
dence in Oak Park, aged sixty-one years and eight
months. Though he had been indisposed by an attack
of the grippe for some two months before his death, he
thought himself fairly convalescent and expected to be
at his desk in the city on the following day. He was
conversing pleasantly with his family a few minutes be
fore the fatal attack, heart failure, struck him down, as
suddenly as on July 22, 1864, a bullet of the enemy
struck to death his loved friend, General James B. Mc-
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Pherson, upon whose Staff, as Aide de Camp, the last
year of his brilliant service in the army was passed. He
left him surviving, a sister, nieces, a nephew. Major W.
F. Tucker, United States Army (the son-in-law of Gen
eral Logan) who is entitled to be his successor in this
Order, a loved and loving wife, and an adopted son and
daughter. Captain Gile was born in Corinth, Maine, July i8,
1836. Before the breaking out of the war, he came to
Chicago and was variously employed. A man of earnest
patriotism and high convictions as to the duties which
American citizenship impose upon her sons, he was (it
has often been said, and we have no doubt truly) the first
man in Chicago to sign his name to an enlistment paper,
April 13, 1 861.
At noon of that day, for the first time in the history
of our country, its flag, the Stars and Stripes, was struck
before an enemy. That hour saw it lowered upon the
walls of Fort Sumter battered and broken down by the
guns of South Carolina. The young men of the North,
realizing then that they would soon have work to do in
the defense of that flag, for their country, for the world,
for freedom, impatiently waited the word of their Presi
dent calling them to a work which was for them all to
be the most important, the most glorious of their lives,
in which, alas, so many were to give their young heroic
lives a sacrifice to Liberty. When Sumter fell, they
could no longer be restrained and enlistments began all
over the loyal North. Charles W. Barker at once set
about the raising of a company in Chicago and Com
panion Gile signed his name at the head of the list. In
this company, known as "Barker's Dragoons," he served
at Cairo and in West Virginia. After: ^thfe; •muster out of
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1 86 1, in Company A, Fourth Illinois Cavalry. The
training in actual service he had in the Dragoons, gave
him the commission of First Lieutenant in this company.
He served with such credit and gallantry with this com
mand in all of its marches and battles, that he was ap
pointed by President Lincoln Captain and Aide de Camp,
September, 1863. As such he served on the Staff of
General McPherson, who commanded the Seventeenth
Army Corps, and afterwards the Army of the Tennessee.
Captain Gile participated in all the hard marches and
bloody battles fought by that glorious body of American
troops, which, beginning at Belmont and Fort Donelson,
and ending at Goldsborough, North Carolina, gained vic
tory after victory, and, at Champion's Hill and Vicks
burg, at Missionary Ridge and Resaca, at Atlanta and
Allatoona, and by its wonderful "March to the Sea,"
secured for itself a place on the page of honor whereon
are written great military achievements, as high as the
highest known in the annals of the world.
Captain Gile was as fine a type of the American
soldier as one could wish to see, enforcing and himself
submitting to strict discipline, because, without the train
ing of a military school, he knew instinctively the neces
sity of discipline to an army. He had a fine appearance
and great power of physical endurance; a mind clear,
energetic and persisting until the matter entrusted to
him was successfully accomplished. In camp and on
the march he was cheerful, genial to all and beloved by
all. In battle he was absolutely fearless and was often
entrusted by the commander of the army with the per
formance of duties on the battlefield requiring not alone
personal valor and promptness, not alone fidelity and
the utmost reliability, but as well judgment and discre
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Pherson, to him was assigned the sad duty of accom
panying his remains to his home at Clyde, Ohio.
After the war. Captain Gile returned to Chicago,
where he lived and did business until his death.
He was married to Miss Louise P. Worster, daughter
of Asa Worster, for many years a prominent business
man of this city. In civil life, Captain Gile was univer
sally respected, and as Alderman of the old Third Ward
of Chicago he made a record as a capable and honorable
member of the City Council, acting at all times for the
best interests of the city and its taxpayers.
He did a man's work in life. He made his name one
to be honored for all succeeding ages in our American
history. He has passed forever from our midst and is
at rest. Friend, Comrade, Companion! We greet thee.
Hail and Farewell!
Resolved, That the sympathy and the friendship,
which shall not fail, of this Commandery and of all its
members, be and the same are hereby tendered to Mrs.
Gile and the family of our Companion, in their affliction
and sorrow.
Richard S. Tuthill,
John McArthur,
W. W. McLean,
Committee.

LEMUEL LINNEAR SCOTT.
Captain Eighty-fourth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers,
Died at Galesburg, Illinois, March ig, i8g8.
OUR Companion, Lemuel L. Scott, was born in Adair
County, Kentucky, September 7, 1828, and was in
the seventieth year of his age at the time of his
death on the 19th day of March, 1898, at Galesburg,
Illinois. His wife Ann Mary Scott, three sons, Eugene
L. , William A. and Charles G., and three daughters,
Mary, Clara and Martha, survive to mourn the loss of a
kind and affectionate husband and a tender father.
From his native place when a boy he removed with
his parents to McDonough County, Illinois, and settled
on a farm. His father died in 1838, and his mother
died in 1845, thus inuring him to the responsibilities of
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life early. He showed a preference for business and
secured a position as clerk in a store in Abingdon, Illinois,
where he lived until he was twenty-two years of age,
when he married the helpmeet of his life who survives
him. Soon after his marriage he removed to Vermont,
Illinois, where he continued in business as clerk until
August, 1862, when he together with James A. Russell,
raised a company of volunteers for the Union Army,
which after organization became Company B, Eighty-
fourth Illinois Infantry Volunteers. He was mustered
into the service as First Lieutenant on the ist day of
September, 1862, and was promoted to the rank of
Captain on the 27th day of October, 1863, and served
as such until June 8, 1865, when his regiment was
mustered out of the service on account of the close, of
the war.
Captain Scott served with his company in the Army of
the Cumberland and took part in the many battles and
marches of that army. Among the more prominent
battles in which he was actively engaged were Stone's
River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro,
Nashville and many other engagements.
At the battle of Stone's River, Lieutenant Scott was
quite severely wounded, but remained at his post until
the battle was over, and afterwards had to leave his com
pany a short time while his wound healed. At Chicka
mauga he was detailed as topographical engineer on the
Brigade Staff for a short period, otherwise he was always
with his company. He was a man who did all things
well, and he did so in the service of his country. He
was loved and highly respected by the men with whom
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When he returned to his home, he took a position as
traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery firm in Chi
cago, and continued in that line of business until April,
1895, when he formed a partnership with Wm. A.
Jordan, of Galesburg, Illinois, and was engaged in the
wholesale grocery business in that city, under the firm
name of Scott & Jordan, until his death.
It has been truly said of Captain Scott that "his love
of the right was a predominant characteristic and affected
his whole life." He was uncompromisingly for the right,
according to his best judgment, in all things. He had
clear and strong convictions, yet he was the most tender
hearted of men. He was of a cheerful disposition and
sanguine temperament, and it was always a pleasure to
meet him, and to associate with him was an inspiration
to the good and the right-minded. He was unswerv
ingly loyal to his country, his family, his church and his
friends. He lived an upright, useful life, well worthy of
emulation.
C. E. Lanstrum,
Arthur A. Smith,
Nels Nelson,
Com?nittee.

WILLIAM EDWIN CLARKE.
Major and Surgeon Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 22, i8g8,
ON THE morning of March 22, 1898, death removed
from our Companionship Dr. William Edwin
Clarke of River Forest, bringing sorrow and sad
ness to a wide circle of devoted relatives and friends.
Dr. Clarke was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, Feb
ruary 22, 1 8 19, and while yet a child his parents moved
to Rochester, New York. Until his fourteenth year his
education was almost wholly under the immediate super
vision of his mother, who was highly cultivated and a
lady of decided Christian character; a descendant of the
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In 1833 he entered Rochester Academy where he
pursued his studies until 1840, when, having fully de
cided upon his life work, he commenced the study of
medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. E. M. Moore,
meanwhile attending lectures at the Berkshire Medical
College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Subsequently he attended two courses of lectures at
the Vermont Medical College, where he graduated in
1845. Throughout his medical course of study he mani
fested the same aggressive earnestness in his profession
which was so characteristic of him during more than fifty
years of successful professional life. While a student as
well as in maturer years he was ever ready to investigate
any subject, scientific or otherwise, which gave promise
of helpfulness to his fellow-men.
Professor Henry M. Lyman, in his work entitled
"Artificial Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics," says of him:
"During the year 1839 a young student of chemistry in
the city of Rochester, New York, William E. Clarke, by
name, now a veteran physician of Chicago, was in the
habit of entertaining his companions with inhalations of
ether. At Berkshire Medical College, during the winter
of 1 841 -1 842 Clarke diligently propagated this convivial
method among his fellow students. Emboldened by
these experiences in January, 1842, having returned to
Rochester, he administered ether from a towel to a young
woman named Hobbie and one of her teeth was then
extracted without pain by a dentist named Elijah Pope."
So far as we have been able to ascertain this is the
first historic account of the successful administration of
ether, resulting in a painless surgical operation of any
sort. Immediately after graduating he returned to Rochester
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years later, he moved to Michigan where he remained in
practice, with the exception of a brief interval, until 1861,
when he entered the service as Surgeon of the Fourth
Michigan Infantry Regiment, and was with that regi
ment at Munson's Hill, opposite Washington, and on the
march and in the battles of the Peninsular campaign
under General McClellan.
At the request of his cousin, N. G. Gilbert, Colonel
of the Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, he was transferred
to that regiment. In July, 1863, he resigned on account
of illness caused by confinement while a prisoner of war.
After a few months he partially regained his health and
was again commissioned and placed in charge of Carver
United States General Hospital in Washington, District
of Columbia, where he remained until the close of the
war. In 1865 he came to Chicago where he was in active
practice until two years ago, when he moved to River
Forest. January 25, 1849, Dr. Clarke was married to Harriet
Hale at Marshall, Michigan. She died in Washington
June 19, 1864. His second marriage to Mary L. Reed,
occurred at Lake Forest, December, 1865.
He was the father of two children, William E. Clarke,
Jr., and Grace, now Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, both by his
second wife.
He was for many years a member of the consulting
staff of the Women's and Children's Hospital, also of the
Presbyterian Hospital.
He was an honored member of the State Medical
Society, the American Medical Association and the Chi
cago Medical Society of which he was president at one
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a Deacon of the First Congregational Church of this city
and during his long service he was always loyal to the
Pastor and the best interests of the church.
During his long professional career he always re
mained in touch with the advanced thinkers and more
enterprising of his medical brethren. Possessed of a
cordial, kind-hearted personality, he was surrounded by
many friends. He was always ready and anxious to do
charity work among the worthy poor, and the colored
people, during the war and since, have had his especial
sympathy. We may truly say that his whole life was conse
crated to relieve the sorrows and sufferings of his fellow-
men and to make the world better for his having lived,
and we most sincerely extend our sympathy to his be
reaved family.
Z. R. Hanson,
E. D. Redington,
J. H. Moore,
Committee.

CHARLES WASHINGTON MEYERS.
Major and Surgeon Eighty-second Ohio Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Clinton, Iowa, April 2J, j8g8.

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HARLES WASHINGTON MEYERS was born in
\^_ the village of Gambler, County of Knox, and
State of Ohio, April 30, 1839, and died in Clinton, Iowa,
April 21, 1898. He spent his earlier boyhood days in
his native village, worked in a drug store, and attended
the local academy. After completing the course there,
he commenced the study of medicine and graduated
from the Western Reserve College at Cleveland, Ohio, a
branch of the State University, in February, 1861. He
also took a course at the State University in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. He then proffered his services to the Governor of
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Ohio and was commissioned and assigned to the Eighty-
second Regiment Ohio Volunteers, as Assistant Surgeon
with rank of First Lieutenant, May i6, 1862; was pro
moted Surgeon, with rank of Major, May 4, 1864, and
served in this grade until mustered out, May 28, 1865.
April 20, 1863, he married Miss Lauraett L. Corbin,
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and to them were born four
children — Charles, who died in infancy; Minnie, now
Mrs. Austin; Mary, now Mrs. Bollman, and Frank W.
Meyers. Mrs. Meyers and the children all reside in the
city of Clinton, Iowa.
At the close of the war. Major Meyers practiced his
profession at St. Johns, Michigan, for several years. In
1869 he removed with his family to Clinton, Iowa, and
entered upon a successful practice, occupying the same
office for twenty-nine years. He held many positions of
trust in civil life, being the physician for the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway; was Coroner of the
County at the time of his death, and had held the office
for many years, and was one of the members of the Pen
sion Examining Board from its organization, through all
the different administrations, until his health failed him
within the past year.
Surgeon Meyers was a kind and indulgent husband
and father; and had the esteem and confidence of all his
patients, both in the service and in civil practice.
His regiment was in the Eleventh Corps, Army of the
Potomac, which came West with General Hooker's com
mand, under General Howard, and when the Eleventh
and Twelfth Corps were consolidated became the Twen
tieth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, later on the Army
of Georgia, under General Slocum.
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ber of the Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and
also a member of the Union Veteran Union, Lookout
Mountain Command, which took charge of his funeral
when he was laid down in his last bivouac in Springdale
Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa, surrounded by his family, com
rades and neighbors, to await the final reveille.
Joseph D. Fegan,
John C. Neely,
William B. Keeler,
Committee.

EDWARD STANLEY WORTHINGTON.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, May 21, i8g8.

EDWARD STANLEY WORTHINGTON died May
21, 1898, just thirty-six years to the day after his
* patriotic father was shot and instantly killed at
Corinth. He died on this soldier-anniversary so sacred
in his family.
Edward Worthington had no opportunity to take up
arms for his country; but he inherited the qualities upon
which his country could have confidently relied in any
great need. He had a just and quietly determined sense
of duty which would have made him devoted and stead
fast in a national emergency, and which lifted his life, as
it was, into whatever devotion to principle and adher
ence to ideals its opportunities and demands made requi-
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site. He was not a soldier, for lack of the national need;
but he was worthy to be the son of a man who was a
soldier without fear and without reproach. He was born
at Keokuk, Iowa, November 23, 1858. He was not yet
forty years old when he died, and was a little child when
his father. Colonel Wflliam H. Worthington, having at
the outbreak of hostilities gone into our war at the head
of the Fifth Volunteers of Iowa, died, a young man of
thirty-three, doing his duty both bravely and graciously.
It was through service done the nation by his father
that Edward Worthington became a member of the Loyal
Legion — a way of entrance into the Order that was most
grateful to this loyal son. Of the services and honors of
the father, the son was justly jealous and proud.
Colonel Worthington was born November 2, 1828, in
Mercer County, Kentucky. He graduated with honor at
Bacon College, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, studied and prac
ticed law in Harrodsburg, and at the same time managed
his landed property in the vicinity. He inherited wealth
and position, and had literary tastes and leisure enough
to indulge them. He came of a distinguished family, his
maternal grandfather being General Gabriel Slaughter,
who was with Jackson as a favorite officer at New Orleans,
and was twice Governor of Kentucky. Through his father.
Rev. John Tolly Worthington, he was descended from
Captain Rowland Madison, a nephew of President Madi
son. He married Miss Anna Lewis, whose father was
General Andrew Lewis, also a man of distinction. So
that Edward Stanley Worthington came, on both sides,
of ancestry honorable and distinguished.
Edward Worthington was of the leading and success
ful firm of Norton & Worthington, of Chicago, and was
a man of sterling business qualities. His character and
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changed into his business career. He received his first
business training at Keokuk, Iowa. Later he was asso
ciated with Henry Clews & Company, of New York, Mr.
Clews being his brother-in-law. From New York he
came, in 1884, to Chicago, and joined Mr. Norton. In
1889 he married Miss Olivia Porter, a daughter of the
late Hibbard Porter. He has left no children. His life
had developed into happiness and success. It ended
wholly prematurely. He had just built a new home; but
the sudden seriousness of an illness took him first to Cali
fornia and then brought him back to Chicago with his
health gone and his life quite at its end. He did not
live to enter or to see his new home.
He has left behind him an abundant circle of grieving
and admiring friends. He was a man of positive char
acter, clear-cut views and direct expression, so that no
one failed to realize his strong individuality. But he
had that rare generosity of nature, that rare and delicate
devotion to family and friends, that active sense of all
men's rights, that ever saving sense of kindly humor and
that unfailing charm of manner which together make up
an attractive personality such as marks a man as part of
the best there is in the world. Business and money
making left his mind without a touch that was sordid;
his experience of life only broadened his sympathies and
completed his tolerance; and ?is his years came, one after
the other, they added increased attractions to his char
acter and constant increase to the attachment of his
friends.
Huntington W. Jackson,
Charles S. McEntee,
Gurdon G. Moore,
Committee.

ARCHIBALD MEANS.
Captain Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry, United States Volunteers
Died at Cliicago, Illinois, May 22, i8g8.
'TTjRCHIBALD MEANS was born in Allegheny County,
[K Pennsylvania, March 31, 1833, and died at Chicago,
^Ilhnois, May 22, iS

He was descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors, who
emigrated to this country prior to the Revolutionary War;
indeed, on his mother's side, his ancestors had emigrated
as early as 1657.
Captain Means acquired an academic education, but,
because of impaired health, at the age of eighteen went
upon a farm, in the hope that outdoor exercise would
recuperate his energies. In 1853 he removed from Ohio
to Kentucky, where he continued to reside until the
breaking out of the War of the Rebellion.
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He voted for Mr. Buchanan in 1856 and for Mr. Lin
coln in i860. Upon the breaking out of the war, in June,
1 86 1, he recruited a company of loyal men of Kentucky,
which was afterwards known as Company E, Fourteenth
Regiment Kentucky Volunteers. He was elected Captain
of the company, receiving his commission October 16,
1 861. He was assigned to General James A. Garfield's
Brigade and served until October, 1862, when, on ac
count of ill health, he was obliged to resign. After the
battle of Cumberland Mountain, Gaptain Means was taken
ill, and sent home on a leave of absence. It was thought
by his comrades that he would never live to again rejoin
the army. He, however, recovered, and was assigned to
the Staff of General A. J. Smith, where he served until
October, 1862.
After his resignation he located in Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, and later in Manchester, Ohio. In 1871 he
removed to Peru, Illinois, and at once took a prominent
position in the commercial affairs of that city. He was
foremost in the erection of the extensive zinc works at
that place, and has since been a large stockholder and
its Vice-President and Manager, capably directing its
affairs, until it has become one of the leading industries
in that section of the State. He was a man of progres
sive methods, of great diligence in business, and of sound
judgment, and the success of this great enterprise, of
which he was practically the promoter and manager, at
tests his well deserved success.
Captain Means was thrice married, and leaves sur
viving him his widow and four children, William E. , Arch
ibald L. , Sadie and Allen H. Means.
He was a fearless defender of what he believed to be
right, and he courageously defined and defended his
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required great nerve and steadfastness of purpose. If
more was required to demonstrate this characteristic of
Captain Means, it might be added that he was one of
eleven only, in the county in which he lived, who voted
for Mr. Lincoln in i860. Having been previously rec
ognized as a democrat, it required a degree of manly
courage, scarcely now to be comprehended, to advocate
and vote the republican ticket in the face of the slave
holders in control of political affairs in that part of the
State. He was a charter member and an active worker in
E. N. Kirk Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and, at
the time of his death, its Commander. On March 10,
1892, he became a member of this Commandery and
always took an active interest in the maintenance of its
honor and integrity. He also took -an active interest in
all local affairs in Peru, and did much and effective work
in the cause of the city and of public education. He was
quiet and unassuming, and commanded the respect and
confidence of the people at large, while to his large circle
of friends ahd acquaintances he was more than the mere
friend — he was counsellor, adviser and guide.
It can be truly said of him that he has deserved well
of his country, and the service he has performed in in
culcating patriotism and loyalty to the Government, its
Constitution and laws, has been only less honorable than
the service he performed in the field.
So has passed away another of the old guard of the
honor of the Republic. Devoted to his family and to
his friends, and to the best interests of the community
in which he lived, it may be that no national monument
will guard his resting place, but by his unfaltering devo
tion to the principles that underlie American liberty, he
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In his neighborhood, throughout all the localities that
knew him, he wfll be remembered as a kindly, generous
man — as the unswerving and unfaltering advocate of the
right, as the true and loyal friend and genial Companion.
Douglas Hapeman,
John D. Crabtree,
John McWilliams,
Committee.

GEORGE WILLIAM CANDLE.
Colonel and Assistant Paymaster General, United States Army.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, June lo, i8g8,
e^ONEL George W. Candee, Assistant Paymaster
General, and Chief Paymaster, Department of the
Lakes, was born in New Jersey, April 2, 1836, and ap
pointed from civil life into the army from Illinois.
Additional Paymaster, U. S. V., February 23, 1864;
accepted, April 18, 1864; honorably mustered out, Jan
uary 15, 1866; appointed Major and Paymaster, United
States Army, January 17, 1867; accepted, April 11, 1867;
promoted Deputy Paymaster General with rank of Lieu
tenant Colonel, United States Army, January 22, 1893;
promoted Assistant Paymaster General with rank of
Colonel, United States Army, January 7, 1897.
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His early duties were in New Orleans, Mobile, etc. ;
afterwards on duty in the Southwest. In January, 1870,
he was ordered to St. Paul, Minnesota, and paid the
troops at posts in that region; was badly frozen on several
of his pay trips in the North. In 1878 he was ordered to
Washington, and from there paid the troops around that
city. In September, 1882, he was ordered to Chicago,
and in 1886 to St. Louis. In 1887 he was ordered to
Helena, Montana; in 1890 to Chicago; in 1892 to Detroit,
Michigan, and in 1893 again to Chicago, where he died
June 10, 1898, surrounded by his family — a wife and
four children.
Colonel Candee was always active and faithful in the
discharge of all his duties, a genial Companion, a loving
husband, and a kind and indulgent parent.
Thomas F. Barr,
A. Hartsuff,
Augustus H. Bainbridge,
Committee.

CHARLES WAITE.
Colonel Tiventy-sevenlh .Michigan Infantry, and Brevet Brigadier
General, United States Volunteers. Died at Boulder,
Colorado. June 2j, i8g8.
ONCE more the members of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States are called upon
to mourn the loss of another beloved, valued and
cherished Companion of the Illinois Commandery. Gen-
efal Charles Waite died at Boulder, Colorado, on June
23, 1898. He was a man of high moral and intellectual
worth. General Waite was born in Orange County, Vermont,
April I, 1837. His father's family moved to Genesee
County, New York, in 1840, and settled in DeKalb
County, Illinois, in 1854. General Waite not only re-
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ceived the training of the public schools, but studied a
year at Warrentown (Illinois) Academy, and two years at
Beloit College. On concluding his studies, he was in
duced to go to Northern Michigan, where he was Super
intendent of the Public Schools of Rockland for several
years. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-
seventh Michigan Infantry Volunteers, and was commis
sioned First Lieutenant October 10, 1862. On the
1 2th day of April, 1863, just two years after the fall of
Fort Sumter, his regiment started for the field of active
duty, and served in Kentucky and Tennessee, taking
part in the siege of Knoxville, and was then, in April,
1864, transferred to the Army of the Potomac, where it
continued, participating in all the advance movements of
the army under Grant until the close of the war. It was
at Fort Mahone that his regiment rendered the most
conspicuous service in its history. Colonel Waite was
in command, and performed an act of gallant service
such as is seldom equaled in the annals of military ex
ploits, and to which reference will be made later. His
regiment participated in the pursuit of Lee's retreating
army, and was present at the final act of surrender.
From " Michigan in the War" the following record is
taken: "Charles Waite, Rockland, First Lieutenant
Twenty-seventh Infantry, October 10, 1862; Captain,
May I, 1863; wounded in action at Spottsylvania, Vir
ginia, May 12, 1864; Lieutenant Colonel, November 18,
1864; Colonel, March 6, 1865; Brevet Brigadier General
U. S. v., Aprfl 2, 1865."
In his military career few have shown such ability,
adaptability and courage, and in so short a time (only a
little over two years and a half) perhaps no man ever
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departed brother. From a private to a Brigadier Gen
eral in that short time meant not simply the chance and
change wrought by the vicissitudes of war, but that the
right man was found to step into the places made vacant
by the circumstances. In the charge at Fort Mahone,
when urged by the brigade commander not to attempt
the feat, but to turn to the right and come within the
intrenchments, brave Colonel Waite cried out, "Fort or
nothing ! " and the slogan went from man to man through
out the regiment, the day was won, and the fort was
stormed and held. In recognition of this signal act of
bravery, Colonel Waite was made Brevet Brigadier Gen
eral, for conspicuous gallantry in the assault upon Peters
burg, Virginia.
After the war General Waite returned to Illinois,
where he engaged in general merchandising until 1869,
when he settled in Lena, Illinois, and embarked in the
drug business, but retired from the latter a few years
later and began the banking business, in which he was
eminently successful, as he had been in every other ac
tivity and enterprise.
General Waite was united in marriage with Miss Emily
Clement, of Laporte, Indiana, October 11, 1866. There
were three children born of this union, Charles Clement,
Daniel and Frederick P., all of whom are living. Mrs.
Waite departed this life February 20, 1884, leaving be
hind her the fragrant memory of a consistent Christian
life, a rich legacy to her devoted husband and loving
sons, yet in the tender years of youth.
A few years ago General Waite's own health began to
break, the direct result of the severe wound received at
the battle of Spottsylvania, and while he fought the
ghastly monster consumption, he exhibited the same
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life, only finally to obey the summons of his Great Com
mander above, retiring to his couch and quietly sleeping
his life away. Rest, weary comrade, rest.
Rest on thy honored sheaves.
Thy harvest work is done;
Companion, farewell; with thee the fight is won.
Those who knew General Waite personally sorrow in
the loss of a manly Companion and an affectionate friend.
In his private life he had ever been inflexibly honest and
ever true to his own convictions of right. He was a
useful citizen and . neighbor, a kind, sympathetic and
helpful friend, an earnest, truthful, trustful. Christian
gentleman. But few men have identified their names
and careers rnore indelibly with the history of the volun
teer army than he, and the precious heritage belongs to
us, his companions in arms, as well as to his immediate
family. His life of success and usefulness will be a les
son to this and future generations of young men, for he
was as brave and as faithful as he was kind, genial and
generous. We loved and honored him living, and mourn
him dead. To his ashes peace, to his memory everlast
ing honor.
James A. Sexton,
Charles R. E. Koch,
William Todd,
Committee.

GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH.
Lieutenant Colonel Eighty-eighth LUinois Infantry, and Brevet
Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, Died at
Chicago, Illinois, September i6, i8g8.
'TIjNOTHER gallant soldier who devotedly did his part
j[\ towards the salvation of our country in the days
^"^ of its sore need, 1861 to 1865, another good citi
zen has gone from among us, and again our Commandery
is called upon to mourn.
On the i6th day of September, 1898, our late Com
panion, Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General
George Washington Smith, departed this life at the age
of sixty-two years, after an illness sudden in its close,
but which had for years sapped his strength and vitality,
and sorely tried his fortitude and patience.
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How many have already gone; how rapidly they are
going; and how many soon must follow !
Happy indeed will these be if their record of life be
so gallant, so pure and so stainless as his for whom we
now mourn.
George W. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York,
Januarys, 1837. From 1848 to 1854 he attended school
at the academy in Albany, New York, with the exception
of one year, which he passed in the office of the Benton &
Albany Railroad Company. Early desirous to be self-
supporting, he went to Helena, Arkansas, in 1854, to
teach school. The school for which he had been engaged
being abandoned, he, not willing to confess defeat, him
self established a school of fifty scholars in the country,
about twelve miles from Helena, which he conducted
with success for a year.
In the spring of 1856 he returned to Albany, and be
gan the study of law in the office of John H. Reynolds,
and also took a complete course of instruction at the
Albany Law School. Having finished his studies, his
enterprising nature led him to desire a newer and wider
field for his work than the older states and cities afford
ed, and, removing to Chicago in 1858, he opened a modest
law office at No. 10 South Clark street. Here he was
devoting himself to the slow and plodding life of the
young attorney. Here he was learning to —
"Scorn delights and live laborious days;"
here he was studying and planning and working to lay
deep and broad the foundations of future success in the
profession to which he had devoted himself.
But into this quiet life in 1861 came the dread shad
ows of the Civil War, and he saw his beloved country
threatened with destruction at the hands of enraged and
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his soul, as in the soul of many another youth of that day,
the struggle between the calls of duty and of inclination,
between the settled and established plan of his life and the
call to throw all selfish interests tothe winds and to devote
life, honor, everything, tothe service of his country — man
fully to risk all for her rescue and salvation.
His days were disturbed and his nights were without
rest. He hoped that the trouble would blow over, and
that passionate and ambitious leaders would be con
vinced and return to their allegiance before bloody strife
became inevitable; but, like others, he hoped without
hope, and before long the roar of artillery, the crash of
musketry and all the din of actual warfare rolled from
our Southern border and swept through every Northern
community, calling to arms every sound and able-bodied
man and youth.
With many other members of this Commandery then
beginning life in Chicago, George W. Smith left all to
follow duty. He joined a company hastily formed and
offered to the Governor for immediate service. But
already the uprising of Northern men had been so general
that the State's quota was full, and the services of the
company was not accepted.
Like many other men of that company he returned
half-hearted to the pursuits of common life, but con
vinced that the call for men must soon be more urgent,
he continued to drill and to study tactics to fit himself
for usefulness when the emergency should come. In
August, 1862, the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Illinois Vol
unteer Infantry was raised in Chicago, and George W.
Smith went into camp at Camp Douglas as Captain of
Company A of that regiment.
In September he moved to the front with the regi
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absent from duty except when incapacitated by frequent
wounds. As soon as a wound was healed he was again
on duty and gallantly leading his men against the enemy.
He did not fail to participate in every battle in which
this very active regiment was engaged. His conspicuous
personal courage, steadiness and ability early attracted
attention, and naturally he was selected by his comrades
for promotion. On the first vacancy among the field
officers, in 1863, he was promoted to Major of the regi
ment, and in 1864 to Lieutenant Colonel. His gallantry,
devotion and conspicuously good service secured to him
what further reward could be given by a grateful Govern
ment, and for gallantry and meritorious conduct he was
brevetted successively Colonel and Brigadier General.
The Eighty-eighth Regiment was engaged in its first
battle at Perryville, Kentucky, just one month and four
days after leaving Chicago, and here it won its first dis
tinction. Captain Smith being notable for courage, cool
ness and good conduct. Soon after this followed the
bloody battle of Stone's River. On this fiercely contested
field, where men faced the merciless volleys from cannon
and musketry by day, and after dark the more cruel rigors
of the raw winter night without fires or shelter. Captain
Smith was severely wounded and captured by the enemy.
Four days later he managed to escape, and on an old
horse with a rope bridle and no saddle, which a negro
helped him to mount, he made his way back to the Union
lines. He was then sent back to Nashville, and thence
to Chicago, where care and good nursing restored him to
health and strength just in time for him to rejoin his
command at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as the Army of
the Cumberland moved forward upon the Middle Ten
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Captain Smith, while acting as Major of the regiment,
was again severely wounded, in the battle of Mission
Ridge. Having recovered and rejoined his command
before it moved forward with Sherman's Army upon the
Atlanta Campaign, he participated with his usual gal
lantry, enterprise and activity in the battles of Rocky-
Face Ridge and Resaca, and in the unfortunate but
bloody charge upon Kenesaw Mountain, where, Lieuten
ant Colonel George W. Chandler having been killed, the
command of the regiment devolved upon its Major.
Soon after this. Major Smith was promoted to Lieu
tenant Colonel, and as such commanded the regiment
until its return to Chicago on June 12, 1865, having in
its ranks at that time two hundred men out of the nine
hundred with which it went to the front in September of
1862. At Franklin the regiment under Colonel Smith,
inspired by his gallant and dashing leadership, rendered
perhaps its most distinguished service. So efficient and
valuable were these services that after it reached Nash
ville in December, General George H. Thomas, accom
panied by Generals Wood and Wagner, visited the regi
ment and publicly thanked it, saying that with the excep
tion only of Colonel Opdycke, commanding the brigade,
with whom he shared the honor, ' ' to the special gallantry
and exertions of Colonel Smith, more than to those of
any other man, was due the repulse of the rebel column,
the safety of the army, and the victory of the day. " Such
words as these from the reserved and revered commander
of the Army of the Cumberland are enough to crown
with honor and glory the name and career of any soldier,
however capable and gallant.
After his return to Chicago at the close of the War of
the Rebellion, General Smith at once devoted himself
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of his profession, and continued this practice until the
day before his death, except that during the years 1867
and 1868, he resided in Springfield, the capital of the
State, as State Treasurer, to which office his fellow citi
zens had elected him.
As a lawyer, General Smith stood in the first rank
of his profession in Illinois, and was regarded by his fel
low members of the bar as an eminently trustworthy
counselor and a skillful, able and powerful advocate.
The public interest was deeply involved in many impor
tant cases in which he was engaged, and his name ap
pears frequently in the reports of the Supreme Court of
Illinois and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Perhaps the chief characteristic for which he was dis
tinguished was the sound common sense which he always
brought to bear upon the circumstances of any case he
was engaged in, and the fairness with which he was ever
ready to see and admit the rights of his opponents, who
always knew that they need fear no trickery from him,
but that they could fully depend upon his word. This is
not the place nor the occasion for a full consideration of
our late Companion as a lawyer, but we can all take pride
in the fact that he left a legal record which was as fair
and stainless as his record as a soldier was gallant and
honorable. As a public-spirited and useful citizen he stood among
the best known men of this great city. He was always
interested in all things that concerned the best interests
of the City, the State, or the Nation, and always glad to
do his share to promote these interests. So well known
were his pubhc spirit and his efficiency that he was con
stantly called upon to be a leader and to fill positions of
honor and trust in the various organizations with which
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urer of the State of Illinois, but he became at various
times President of the Union League Club and President
of the Chicago Literary Club, and was for many years
Vice-President of the Chicago Historical Society.
Being above the pliancy and obsequiousness of the
self-seeking politician, he was notably independent in
thought and action; and in religious as well as in political
matters he fearlessly stood by what he believed to be
right, regardless of consequences. Although but a recent
convert to the Roman Catholic faith, he was already
considered a leading and influential member of that
church throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago.
It may be said that he had no enemies. He carefully
observed all the courtesies and amenities of life. He had
a most equable temperament and cherished no malice.
A delightful conversationalist, he was a charming Com
panion, and his home was always most attractive to his
Companions and friends. His courtesy was not an out
ward veneer, but an inward grace; it sprang from a good
and honest heart.
General Smith in his social and family life was a most
estimable man, his devotion to his wife and his children
being extreme. He was high-minded, true and ever to
be depended upon in all his private as well as in his
public or professional engagements. In short. General
Smith was morally, intellectually and socially a remark
able and superior man. In him, it is not too much to
say, there was "A combination and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man. "
Alexander C. McClurg,
Martin D. Hardin,
William Eliot Furness,
Committee.

JAMES LAMBERT HIGH.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Forty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
October j, i8g8.
IN the death of James L. High, this Commandery has
lost a distinguished and honored member; one who
had become endeared to it by many ties of associa
tion and friendship.
He was born in Richmond County, Ohio, on the 6th
day of October, 1844. His family moved to Black Earth
in Wisconsin when he was ten years old, where he con
tinued to live until i860, when he entered the University
of Wisconsin. Mr. High was quietly pursuing his studies at this place
when the Civil War began in 1861, and although only
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sixteen years of age, he was among the first to volunteer
in one of the earlier regiments organized in Wisconsin.
His extreme youth and delicate health induced his father
to insist at that time on his discharge as a minor, to which
he reluctantly assented, upon the understanding that as
soon as his college course should be completed he should
be free again to offer his services to his country. This was
accomplished in the spring of 1864, and on the 13th of
May in that year, Mr. High enlisted as a private soldier in
the Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry, one of the hundred days
regiments, where he served in the District of West Ten
nessee until the expiration of his term of enlistment.
Very shortly after his return home, he joined the
Forty-ninth Wisconsin, of which Companion Bishop
Fallows was Colonel, where he was commissioned First
Lieutenant and Adjutant on the i6th of February, 1865.
He served in this regiment in the District of Missouri,
and as Post Adjutant at St. Louis; as Acting Assistant
Adjutant General of the First District of Missouri, and
on General Court Martial until November i, 1865, when
he was mustered out with his regiment, whose services
were no longer required.
The facts with regard to his services in the War of
the Rebellion, are mainly taken from his own modest
statement of them in his application for membership in
this Order. The date at which he was permitted finally
to enter the service was too late to enable him to share
in the great battles and campaigns of the war, but his
military service was marked by a faithful and intelligent
discharge of every duty which was assigned to him.
It was a source of profound regret to Mr. High that
his strong wish to share more fully in the hardships and
glory of the Civil War could not be realized; he has
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As soon as he was discharged from the service, Mr.
High joined the Law Department of the University of
Michigan, where he remained until the summer of 1866,
when he came to Chicago and at once entered upon his
chosen profession, of which he was soon to become one
of the leading members. From that date he continued
to be a resident of this city, except for a short period,
when he was compelled, by ill health, to visit Utah and
Colorado. During this period Mr. High traveled exten
sively over the mountains of our then unsettled Western
frontier, and explored the wonders of the Yellowstone,
long before the great National Park was established.
He returned to Chicago with restored health, when
he again entered upon the duties of his profession, which
he followed during the remainder of his life with a zeal
and energy that knew neither change nor shadow of
turning, and in which he achieved such success as few
men ever attain.
During the early period of his professional career, Mr.
High gave much of his time to literature. In 1870 he
edited and published an edition of the works of Lord
Erskine, and in 1873 he finally completed and published
his great work on "Injunctions," which immediately be
came one of the leading text-books on that subject. In
1 874he published a work on ' 'Receivers, " and, a year later,
one on "Extraordinary Remedies." His books on Injunc
tions and Receivers have gone through several editions,
and are still increasing in usefulness and demand.
By the publication of these works, Mr. High's fame
as a law writer became firmly established on both sides
of the Atlantic. They are to-day cited in the courts of
England as well as in those of our own country, in terms
of highest commendation and approval and are standard
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The career of Mr. High at the bar was an unbroken
record of success and honor. He was a profound scholar
and an eloquent speaker. During these busy years of
professional life he was engaged in many important cases
in the Supreme Court of the United States and of this
State, where his presence had become familiar to bench
and bar. Unlike many of the profession, he never allowed
public office or political position to lead him away from
its active duties. Twice he was offered a position as
Judge of the United States Court, but he declined to
accept. Of his achievements and career at the bar, however,
this is not the place to speak. We knew him better as
a friend, a Companion of this Order, in which he took a
deep interest. We have seen him, not infrequently,
taking part in its proceedings, and often clearing up
questions of doubt and controversy by a clear, simple
statement of the real matter at issue. He will be best
remembered for the fearless discharge of every duty
which came to him during his whole career. This was
the standard by which his conduct was measured during
his whole life, and he stood ready at all times to do the
right as it was given him to see the right, without fear
or favor or regard to results. While strangers might pos
sibly regard him as reserved in manner, to those who
knew him well he was as gentle and loving as a woman.
He bore the pain and suffering of his final illness with
a gentle patience that was characteristic. Some of the
incidents of this brief period were exceedingly touching
and pathetic.
His only son, a member of this Order, promptly en
listed as a private in the First Illinois Regiment at the
commencement of the late war, and shared all its dangers
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from the trenches and camps at Santiago, of the sickness
and hardship incident to a campaign in that climate,
pride in the soldierly career of the son was accompanied
by the most intense anxiety for his safety. Of his visit
to the camps at Montauk, the search for the sick son
through the army hospitals, the tender meeting between
them and their return home shortly before Mr. High's
death, we cannot now speak. With an assured position
at the bar and in the community, his family again united,
fame and fortune already achieved, it wduld seem as if
his career was rounded and complete. The past at least
was secure, and the future seemed full of promise.
With all his great achievements, he was modest and
retiring. When invited to join this Commandery he at
first declined, for the sole reason that his. own military
service had been of so brief and unimportant a character
that he did not feel entitled to membership in an organ
ization of which Sheridan was Commander, and many of
the members of which had borne a conspicuous part in
that mighty conflict in which this country was engaged
for four years.
We get a pleasant side glimpse of his character in his
fondness for outdoor life and manly sports. He was a
devoted disciple of Izaak Walton, and every year he was
accustomed to spend one month at the Salmon Pools of
Lower Canada. In a letter to a friend in July, 1896, he
writes that he was' "alone with a guide, twenty miles
from a postoffice, in the heart of the forests of New
Brunswick, and as happy as a tired lawyer could hope to
be in this hard-working world."
Into his beautiful home life, with all its tender asso
ciations, we cannot enter. The wife of his youth, the
soldier son and the devoted daughter, are left to mourn
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Nothing perhaps, can be said of him more appropriate
than his own language on the occasion of the death of a
professional associate:
"Behind him was the record of a pure and manly
life. He had fought a good fight. He had wronged no
man. He had nobly discharged every duty imposed by
his calling. He had been loyal to every tie which bound
him to fame and friends. Well might he approach the
solemn mystery which veils the future, with the assurance
that for him all was well."
In the closing paragraph of a tribute to General
William E. Strong, Mr. High saidof him.
" His tender memory shall rest in the faithful keep
ing of his associates of this Commandery who knew him
best and loved him most, until we, in turn, shall have
joined the great majority, and his well earned fame shall
remain a part of the heritage to be transmitted to those
who shall perpetuate our Order through coming time."
We can add nothing to this tribute to a deceased
Companion. What he said of General Strong can all
truthfully be said of him.
"A life in civic action warm,
A soul on highest mission sent,
A potent voice of parliament,
A pillar steadfast in the storm."
Ephraim A. Otis,
Huntington W. Jackson,
Henry V. Freeman,
Committee.

SAMUEL FRANKLIN FARRAR.
Died at Santa Barbara, California, October 7, i8g8
Only brother of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Henry
Weld Farrar, who died at Chicago, April 17, 1881.

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BENJAMIN WINSLOW UNDERWOOD.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Seventy-second Illinois Infantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
October 26, i8g8.
ekIPANION Benjamin Winslow Underwood was born
July 7, 1 841, at Harwich, Massachusetts. He came
^Yest in 1856, going to Burlington, Iowa, where he spent
less than a year. From there he came to Chicago,
where he lived ever after, with the exception of about
five years — 1889 to 1894 — spent in Hutchinson, Kansas.
He was married to Frances A. Parsons, April 14,
1864. His business life has been mainly connected with
the commission business on the Chicago Board of Trade.
At the time of the Civil War he was a partner in the
commission house of Underwood & Co., comprising P.
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L. Underwood, S. L. Underwood and B. W. Under
wood. That firm paid the expenses of recruiting Com
pany D in the Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, with
which company he took the field as First Lieutenant.
Subsequently he became Adjutant of the regiment.
During the last few years of his life he acted as Secre
tary of the Omaha Packing Company, and was one of its
principal representatives on the Chicago Board of Trade.
He died at Chicago on the 26th day of October, 1898,
leaving behind him a wife and two grown children — a
son and a daughter.
For a few years subsequent to the Civil War he was
a partner in the iron house of Hall Kimbark & Co. His
five years in Hutchinson, Kansas, were spent in building
and operating a packing house in the interests of the
Omaha Packing Company.
Companion Underwood was one of the truest, man
liest business men that ever breathed the breath of life.
His domestic existence was ideal. No stronger words of
tongue or pen can be said of any man. His memory
will be revered by his family and friends and ourselves,
his Companions. Joseph Stockton,
Lewis B. Mitchell,
John T. McAuley,
Committee.

HENRY JAMES NOWLAN.
Major Seventh Cavalry, United States Ar-my. Died at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, A'ovember lo, i8g8
ENTERED service as First Lieutenant Fourteenth
New York Cavalry, United States Volunteers,
" January 17, 1863; Captain, October 24, 1864;
transferred to Eighteenth New York Cavalry, United
States Volunteers, October 24, 1864; mustered out May
31, 1866; Second Lieutenant Seventh Cavalry, United
States Army, July 28, 1866; First Lieutenant, February
I, 1868; Captain, December 9, 1876; Brevet Major
United States Army, "for gallant services in action
against Indians at Canyon Creek, Montana, September
13. ^'^17'" February 27, 1890; Major Seventh Cavalry,
United States Army, April 7, 1893. War service in the
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JOHN CRAWFORD WALKER.
First Lieutenant Sixty-third United States Colored Troops.
at Chicago, LUinois, December 12, i8g8.

Died

"TtiNOTHER member of our Order has been mustered
jA out of service.
" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest."
Lieutenant and Brevet Gaptain John Crawford
Walker died at Chicago, December 12, 1898.
John Crawford Walker was born in Highland County,
Ohio, the 14th day of February, 1839. His parents,
John Howell and Margaret Bay Walker, were both born
in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and moved to Ohio
about the year 1814.
Captain Walker was one of a family of thirteen, hav-
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ing had six brothers and six sisters; he had the unusual
record of having four brothers in the War of the Rebellion.
Our deceased Comrade was reared on a farm and had
the advantage of only a common school education, such
as was to be obtained in the country districts of Ohio
during the middle of the present century.
He was of a happy and hopeful disposition, industrious
and cheerful, and his obliging nature made him very
popular and attached to him many warm friends; neutral
ity was never a faculty in the mental equations of our
deceased brother.
At the age of twenty-two, he enlisted on the 26th of
July, 1 86 1. The company into which he entered be
came Company H, Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer In
fantry. This regiment was organized at Camp Chase,
near Columbus, Ohio, in August, 1861, was immediately
ordered to Missouri, and entered at once into active
service. Our Comrade was identified with this famous
regiment until the fall of 1863. He participated in the
battles of New Madrid and Island Number Ten, under
General Pope, was in General Thomas's Division in the
siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862, and participated
in the battles of Iuka and Corinth in the fall of the same
year, under General Rosecrans. He was with his regi
ment in the winter of 1862, in General Grant's attempt
to capture Vicksburg by way of Jackson, Mississippi.
On this campaign, when separated from all hospital
accommodations, he suffered a severe attack of typhoid
fever and was subjected to much suffering and many
hardships, having been moved in an ambulance more
than twelve miles the day after he had passed through
the crisis. When the brigade to which his regiment be
longed — the Ohio Brigade — was ordered back to Jack
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he was still lying at the point of death, and when our
line was cut at Holly Springs by General Van Dorn, our
Comrade was sent to the hospital at Corinth.
Our brother never recovered from the hardships of
this campaign and was sent home on sick leave, but re
turned to his regiment determined to sacrifice his life, if
need be, for his country.
October 2, 1863, he was appointed Second Lieutenant
Ninth Louisiana Infantry, and, September 26, 1864, was
commissioned First Lieutenant, Company G, Sixty-
third United States Colored Infantry, at which time he
was detached from his regiment and appointed Assistant
Superintendent of Freedmen, District of Memphis,
Tennessee. Later, Lieutenant Walker was appointed Superin
tendent of President's Island, and April 24, 1865, was
commissioned Captain of the Sixty-third United States
Colored Infantry. October 4, 1865, he was discharged
on account of physical disability, not having been
mustered as Captain.
In every position he was called to fill he was efficient,
faithful and capable, enjoying the confidence and respect
of his superior officers.
Captain Walker made an army record that any man
might be proud of. But, after an army service of more
than four years, when peace was declared he became
reticent and would not talk upon the subject of his own
personal experiences, saying: " The thoughts of war fill
me with horror; let us build up the reunited country and
make it great, but let us never forget that we were
eternally right."
In 1866 Captain Walker came to Illinois, locating
in Tuscola, where he was married, May 7, 1867, to Miss
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born of that marriage, the younger of whom, Charles.
R., preceded his father to the Spirit Land; the older
son Jo. M. Walker, is a successful lawyer, residing at
Tuscola, Illinois, and with him the widow of our dear
brother makes her home. To them we extend our
sympathy, when those we love have come and gone.
After coming to Illinois, Captain Walker engaged in.
secular pursuits and few men have passed through more
diversified experiences than he, not all of them being-
satisfactory; yet he had what forms the basis of all great
characters — energy; and by his indomitable persever
ance succeeded in laying by a competency, notwith
standing the vicissitudes of army life had laid the founda
tion for years of suffering, and finally caused his death.
Before disease had undermined his system. Captain
Walker was a man of good physique and strong individu
ality; he was a great reader, a student of past events,
thoroughly posted on current literature, and had the-
faculty of expressing himself with clearness and firmness.
The history of our political parties was as familiar to-
him as was the Pentateuch to the ancient Hebrew. At
the period of his greatest activit}' he appeared to be ac
quainted with nearly all the prominent politicians of the
country, especially with those of Illinois; was related to-
many of them either by consanguinity or marriage, and
also to men of distinction in the army and navy.
Socially our brother was a fine conversationalist; he
welcomed his friends to his pleasant home in that courtly
manner characteristic of the affable gentleman. He-
loved his friends and loved to love them, and would de
fend them from aspersions from any and all sources.
He was fortunate in having a kind, noble and
patriotic wife, to whom he was greatly attached; a wife
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along their pathway, was his companion and counsellor,
and when affliction came, imposed upon herself the
arduous task of nurse, and whether at the vesper or
matin or in the silent vigil of the midnight hour, the
faithful watcher was at her post, deeming the trust
too sacred to delegate to another, notwithstanding hosts
of friends stood ready to render all possible assistance.
Our brother was a firm believer in revealed religion;
a member of the Methodist Church and, while in his
younger days inclined to be a fatalist, yet for many years
he had been in full sympathy with the grand truth that
whosoever feareth God and worketh righteousness is ac
cepted of Him.
The last roll call on this side the River of Life has
been answered, and we, the surviving Comrades say,
' ' Farewell, brave soldier, comrade, friend, until we
greet you in the Elysian Fields. For this mortal must
put on immortality."
James L. Reat,
Francis M. Wright,
Jacob W. Wilkin,
Committee.

CHARLES W. DAVIS.
Lieutenant Colonel Fifty-first Illinois Infantry, United States Volun
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, December i£, j8g8.
eARLES WILDER DAVIS, late Commander of the
Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, was born at Concord,
Massachusetts, on the nth day of October, 1833. He
died at Chicago, Illinois, on the 1 5th day of December,
1898. If it were all of life- merely to live, thus briefly could
be told the story of every human life. But those of us
who, during all the years of our association in this Com
mandery, have had the pleasure and the privilege of in
timate acquaintance with our late Commander, know
that the story of his life cannot be thus briefly told.
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His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of
Massachusetts. They had lived in what became the his
toric town of Concord, Massachusetts, for nearly a cen
tury before his birth. It is not strange, growing up to
manhood amid the traditions of the neighborhood, so in
separably identified with the history of the American
Revolution, that both the patriotic and the military
spirit should have been strongly cultivated in Companion
Davis during all his earlier years. Familiar association
with Lexington and Concord Bridge was an admirable
school of preparation for the service which the country
was so soon to demand in the eventful years of the com
ing Civil War.
When eighteen years of age. Companion Davis be
came a member of the Concord Company of the Fifth
Regiment of Massachusetts Militia. Here he took his
first lessons in the school of the soldier. He attained
the rank of Corporal and took an active interest in the
drills, musters and parades of the company, and those
of the regiment to which it belonged. He himself has
left a brief record of his recollections of an interesting
special service which the company was called upon to
perform, and by which he was greatly impressed. This
was when, in March, 1854, the Division to which his
regiment was attached was ordered by the Governor of
the State to Lexington, to perform escort duty at the
funeral of Private Jonathan Harrington, the last survivor
of the company of minute-men who faced the British
regulars at Lexington on the eventful morning of April
19. 1775- "The Acton and Concord Companies," to
quote Colonel Davis' own narrative of the occasion,
"were especially designated in orders as a bodyguard,
and, in performing this duty, marched near the hearse
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entered the old graveyard back of the church. At the
grave, and after the body had been lowered, we fired
three volleys, and, 'left in front,' marched out of and
away from the graveyard, to the quickstep of ' Yankee
Doodle.'" Another incident of Colonel Davis's youth is of inter
est, as showing the patriotic ardor which he seems to
have breathed in with the atmosphere of his birthplace.
It had been the habit in Concord to celebrate the 19th
of April — that day when —
" By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
* * once the embattled farmers stood.
And fired the shot heard 'round the world,"
by firing a national salute at sunrise, repeating the same
at noon and again at sunset, and flinging the national
flag to the breeze from the top of the liberty-pole in the
center of the town. On one of these anniversaries, when
young Davis was about seventeen years of age, for some
reason the customary morning salute had been omitted,
and no preparation had been made for the further ob
servance of the day. "Some one had blundered," he
says. Young Davis was not willing that the day should
pass unhonored. He immediately undertook to raise
money among his father's friends, bought the necessary
powder, enlisted his mother and some of her friends in
the work of making a hundred flannel cartridge-bags,
had the two brass six-pounders dragged to the top of
Garrison Hill, and at noon the guns thundered forth their
salutation to the day and to the memory of the "embat
tled farmers" who struck the first blow for American
liberty and independence. Davis himself fired the pieces,
using a slow match on the end of a match stock about
four feet in length. "Lanyards," he says, "were not
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and standing by the side of the piece, I had to reach with
the slow match over the wheel to the vent. It kept me
pretty active, going from piece to piece; but while the
effect was to make me somewhat deaf for the time being,
I yet considered it quite the proudest day of my life."
When, on the 13th of April, 1861, the booming guns
fired upon Fort Sumter proclaimed that the war of the
great Rebellion had actually begun, Companion Davis
was residing in Chicago, where he had lived for the six
preceding years, connected with the book publishing firm
of S. C. Griggs & Company.
We, the boys and young men of that day and gener
ation, can never forget the thrill of indignation which the
echoes of those Confederate guns awoke in the loyal
heart of the North. Companies were formed everywhere.
Young men and boys began to learn the military exer
cises which were to fit them for the stern conflict of the
coming years.
Companion Davis at once made up his mind to enter
the service. He knew that the Concord company of
militia, of which he had been a member before coming
to Chicago, had been among the first to go to the front,
and was then somewhere in the vicinity of Washington.
He wrote, on the 22d of May, to its Captain, offering his
services and asking if there was not room for him in the
company. The Captain rephed that while he would be
glad to have him join, yet as the term of enlistment was
only three months, he thought Davis would hardly be
justified in going a thousand miles for so short a term of
service. Early in that month, however, he joined a company
formed here in Chicago, composed of young men, mostly
his friends and acquaintances, under the leadership of
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Army, retired. The company was tendered to the Gov
ernor, but as the quota of the State was full, could not
be accepted. It kept up its organization, nevertheless,
for several months, as its members were quite sure that
before long they would be needed.
Companion Davis's military experience in the Concord
Company now stood him in good stead. He became one
of the company drill-masters, and his zeal and efficiency
in this service attracted attention and led ultimately to
his connection with the Fifty-first Regiment of Illinois
Volunteer Infantry.
The Company under Captain Bradley, familiarly
known as Company D among its members, was not ac
cepted and did not enter the service as an organization.
Most of its members, however, afterwards found service
in other organizations, over eighty of them as commis
sioned officers, and won honorable records. Some of
them rose to distinction in the following years of war.
One service which the company performed was that of
escort duty at the funeral of Senator Stephen A. Douglas,
June 7, 1861.
Meanwhile, Companion Davis was looking for an op
portunity to enter some organization destined to active
service, and had about made up his mind to sign the
muster roll of what was known as the Normal Regiment,
afterward the Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
under command of Colonel Charles E. Hovey. Just at
this time, through his friend Bradley, came the proposi
tion from Colonel George W. Gumming, who had seen
him acting as drill sergeant, offering him the adjutancy
of the regiment which he — Gumming — had received -au
thority to raise, and of which Luther P. Bradley was to
be Lieutenant Colonel.
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Fifty-first Illinois, was completed at Camp Douglas,
where it remained from September, 1861, until the 14th
day of February, 1862, when it boarded the cars of the
Illinois Central Railroad and started for Cairo, to begin
actual service in the field. It was soon after attached
to the Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Army of the
Mississippi, and took part in the investment and siege of
Island Number Ten, and subsequently in the advance
upon, and siege of Corinth.
Some two months after the fall of Corinth, the divi
sion marched to Nashville, and there remained doing
garrison duty during the period known as the Siege of
Nashville, while the armies of Generals Buell and Bragg
were endeavoring to get ahead of each other in a race to
the Ohio River.
September 30th, 1862, Adjutant Davis was elected
by his brother officers and commissioned Major of the
regiment. This promotion over officers of the regiment,
his superiors in rank, was a most unusual honor, and it
self bears testimony to the confidence he had command
ed, to his efficiency as an officer and character as a man.
In the re-arrangement which preceded the advance of
the Army of the Cumberland upon Murfreesboro, the
Fifty- first Illinois was attached to the Third Division,
which constituted a part of the right wing, under com
mand of General Philip Sheridan.
At the battle of Stone's River, on the 31st of Decem
ber, 1862, the Division of General Sheridan bore for a
time the brunt of the Confederate assault upon our right,
and suffered severe loss. Every brigade commander in
the Division was killed, and, though gradually forced
back by overwhelming numbers, it maintained its organi-
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During the fight that day in the well-known cedars.
Major Davis, then in command of his regiment, was
wounded by a rebel bullet through the right arm while,
sword in hand, he was cheering on his men. Partially
recovering from this wound, he rejoined his regiment at
Murfreesboro and with it took part in the Tullahoma
Campaign and the advance upon Chattanooga.
At the battle of Chickamauga, in September follow
ing, during the conflict of Sheridan's Division with Hood's
command of Longstreet's Corps, his horse was shot under
him. October 6th, 1863, Major Davis was promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
In that famous charge of the Army of the Cumber
land up Mission Ridge, Colonel Davis, again in command
of his regiment, was once more severely wounded, re
ceiving a bullet through the right thigh when about two-
thirds up the Ridge. In consequence of this wound,
which was serious in its nature, he was under treatment,
much of the time in the hospital, for about eight months.
At the end of this period, being still unfit for active
service, he was, the 4th of October, 1864, by order of
the War Department, assigned to light duty at St. Louis,
upon the Staff of Major General Rosecrans. The 7th of
December, 1864, he was appointed acting Provost Mar
shal General, Department of Missouri, from which ap
pointment he was relieved at his own request and, De
cember 26th following, was appointed Assistant Provost
Marshal General. April 29, 1865, he received orders
from Major General G. M. Dodge to proceed to Northern
Arkansas in order to propose terms of surrender to the
Confederate General Jeff Thompson, and, on the nth
of May following, he received the surrender of General
Thompson with 7,454 of his officers and men. Upon
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promoted and commissioned Colonel, but his regiment
had at this time become so reduced by the casualties of
war that he could not then be mustered with that rank.
June 30, 1865, the war being over. Colonel Davis
was honorably discharged from service for disability on
account of wounds and returned to Chicago, again to
pick up the thread of civil duties which he had dropped
at the call to arms.
Thus is briefly told in outline the story of Companion
Davis's very honorable military career. With most of his
career since the war, the members of this Commandery
are familiar. May 16, 1885, he became Recorder of the
Commandery, a position to which he was successively
re-elected annually, until May, 1896, when he voluntarily
retired from that position.
Of his services to the Legion in his capacity as Re
corder, we cannot speak too highly. No duty was ever
neglected. He gave generously and disinterestedly of
his time and strength. The honor of the Commandery
and of each of its members was always near and dear to
his heart. With native magnanimity he at one time de
clined a nomination for Commander, lest it should bring
him into conflict with another whom he felt to be then
entitled to the honor. In May, 1898, the Commandery
did honor to itself by electing him to the highest place
in its gift, little dreaming that he was so soon to be
called away from earth, before the expiration of his term
of service in the high position which he filled so grace
fully and acceptably. His interest in the Commandery
continued to be manifested almost to his latest breath.
When himself unable to write he dictated letters which
were written by his devoted wife, upon matters relating
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modest gentleman. "None knew him but to love him,
none named him but to praise." The arm shattered by
the stroke of battle was never raised in defense of what
he thought was wrong, nor in opposition to what he be
lieved to be right. In a notice published since his death
it was said of him:
"Sweetness, gentleness and true manliness were
never more beautifully combined in one man than in
Charles Wilder Davis. Underneath the button of the
Loyal Legion, which was never absent from his breast,
there beat a heart as tender as a woman's, as true as
truth, and as brave as the occasion. There was not a
coarse fiber in the nature or physique of this man of
delicate mould and strong will. His career in the army
and since has been a striking exemplification of the sen
timent that the 'bravest are the tenderest, the loving are
the daring.' "
Some members of this Commandery there are who
recall that when, some three years ago, the National
Park at Chickamauga was dedicated. Colonel Davis was
one of several who took advantage of the occasion to
visit scenes which, in the stress and storm of battle years,
had become to us holy ground. There, on the slope of
Mission Ridge, he found the place where his participation
in the charge up the heights had been stopped by a Con
federate bullet; and there, as the memories of those
heroic days came rushing over him like a flood, he sat
down and cried like a child.
We cannot be unmindful of the fact that time is thin
ning out our ranks, almost as rapidly now, if such a thing
can be possible, as they were thinned by battle bullets
in the days of war. Out of five members of this Com
mandery who, only three short years ago, returned to
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car, three of the number, our late Companions Ducat,
High and Davis, have passed over to the majority.
Into the sacred privacy of the family circle we cannot
enter. Colonel Davis was married on the 22d day of
September, 1870, to Emma Frances, daughter of Captain
John B. Moore, of Concord, Massachusetts, who, with
their son, Bradley Moore Davis, a member of this Com
mandery, instructor in botany in the University of Chi
cago, now survives him. To them, whose loss is greater
than ours, the Commandery can only express its deep
and heartfelt sympathy.
When, at the close of that December Sabbath day,
we stood about his grave as the sun sank in the western
sky, while the bugle call to which he had so often list
ened in camp and field in the stirring days of war, floated
out upon the still evening air, its dying notes closed the
last service of earth over the mortal remains of one of
the truest of men and the knightliest of soldiers.
" The heart so leal, the hand of steel
Are palsied now for strife,
But the noble deed and the patriot's meed
Are left of the hero's life.
The bugle call and the battle ball
Again shall rouse him never;
He fought and fell, he served us well.
His furlough lasts -forever."
Henry V. Freeman,
George K. Dauchy,
Arba N. Waterman,
Committee.

JOHN BROWN HAMILTON.
Died at Elgin, Illinois, December 24, i8g8.
JOHN BROWN HAMILTON was directly descended
from the Scottish clan whose name he bore. He
was born December i, 1847, in a small village of
Jersey County, Illinois, where his father officiated as a
clergyman, exercising also a wide influence upon the
community outside of the village by his teaching as an
anti-slavery agitator and by his exertions in behalf of the
foundation of institutions of learning. A boyhood molded
by such a parent could scarcely fail to give promise of a
bright future. Here was acquired that fondness for books
and the lore of letters that became a fine part of the ma
ture man. Dr. Hamilton, at all times of his life, found
his most delightful recreation in seeking, finding and ex-
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ploring a quaint volume that the world had well-nigh
forgotten. In the labor of the fields, of the printing office, and
of the village apothecary, young Hamilton spent his wak
ing hours until his seventeenth year, when at the out
break of the Civil War he entered the ranks of the army
of the Union as a private and in this way gained an
intimate knowledge of the duties, needs, and responsi
bilities of the soldier, which became invaluable to him
in after life.
Dr. Hamflton (insignia 6804) entered our Order as a
Companion of the Second Class on the 6th day of Feb
ruary, 1889, and became a Companion of the First Class
"in succession" on November 11, 1894, in consequence
of the decease, on that date, of his father. Companion
Chaplain Benjamin Brown Hamilton, late U. S. V., at
the time in affiliation with the Commandery of the State
of Illinois. On the conclusion of the war, in 1867, young Ham
ilton entered as a student in Rush Medical College, and
after completing the curriculum of that institution was
graduated with honor. During the succeeding four years
he practiced medicine among his early associates in his
native place.
In 1874, after enduring the severe ordeal ofthe exam
inations for the regular service. Dr. Hamilton was com
missioned an Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army
and during his term of service had experience of military
life from one seacoast of our country to another. As a
result of this experience he began to interest himself in
the Marine Hospital Service of the Treasury Department
which was then poorly organized and irregularly equipped
both with medical men and material. Dr. Hamilton
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tive examination which demonstrated his special fitness
for the post, was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in that
service and at the head of the list of applicants of the
same date. His remarkable gift of organization and his
military training here speedily advanced him from grade
to grade until in 1887, on the death of the former occu
pant of the position. Dr. Hamilton was made Surgeon
General of the United States Marine Hospital Service.
His life in Washington when filling this high position
brought him into close contact with many, of the distin
guished men of his day, including not only the President
of the United States, but cabinet officers, members of
Congress, and the military men of all branches of the
service. His advice was now repeatedly sought on ques
tions of the greatest national importance, chiefly in the
matter of quarantine in seasons of epidemic threatening
the inhabitants of our country. General Hamilton at
one time accompanied the Secretary of the United States
Treasury to Europe on an important mission connected
with his branch of the service. At these times his vigi
lance extended along the entire seaboard of the country
and his influence had a bearing in shaping the legislation
which has protected our shores during recent years from
incursions of foreign-bred pestilence. During the period
of his greatest activity in Washington, Dr. Hamilton
found time to busy himself with his lectures in the Med
ical Department of the University of Georgetown, where,
by special invitation of the Faculty, he was filling the
chair of Surgery.
In the year 1891, Dr. Hamilton was called to the chair
of Principles of Surgery in Rush Medical College, Chicago ;
and, attracted by the large opportunities of the metrop
olis of his native State, he did not hesitate to abandon at
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It was soon after this change that the American Medical
Association elected Dr. Hamilton editor-in-chief of its
official publication. The Journal of the American Medical
Association. Here, as in other positions which he held,
his amazing powerof organization, his exact methods, and
his fine literary acquirements, served him greatly. The
Journal rose at once by leaps and bounds, until in its
size, its circulation, its influence in his profession, and
last but not least in its financial prosperity, it found itself
in the forefront of the publications of its class edited in
America. Dr. Hamilton was tendered the superintendency of the
State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin in this State; and
though it seemed impossible for him to assume this bur
den in addition to his work in the Presbyterian Hospital,
his physical strength proved equal to the task. The
Elgin Asylum was never more economically, more skill
fully, and more carefully managed than under Dr. Ham
ilton's administration.
The energy and unbounded capacity of our Companion
for labor seemed to acknowledge no limits. By invitation
of the Governor, Dr. Hamilton was also commissioned
Colonel of one of the regiments of thie State, composed
of sons of veterans; and among his last official duties was
the providing of arms, rations and uniforms for two com
panies of his regiment when they started for service in
connection with the labor troubles which were then
threatening the peace of Pana.
The recital of the self-imposed tasks and multiform^
duties which made up the life of our departed Compan
ion, furnishes a tale that must seem marvelous to those
the current of whose lives has flowed on smoothly and
without diversification from year to year. We believe
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in the early discipline which young Hamilton received as
a private in the ranks of the American army. Here he
learned lessons of strict obedience, of unhesitating re
sponse to every call to duty, of fearlessness, of unselfish
ness, and of that high sense of honor which is nowhere
better cultivated than under the genial warmth of a fine
esprit de corps. Add to this schooling, a love of books,
a scholastic method, and a professional training, and the
result is before us. Dr. Hamilton was successful in
every interest with which he was associated; he prized
his record above all riches; his fingers were never soiled;
by contact with unworthily acquired gains; and his life
ended unblemished and worthily rounded out, after some-
of the serious complications of typhoid fever, on the 24th.
of December, 1898.
" Some with the bayonet in hand,
Some with the sword-blade fought;
Some of us ordered to stay and stand.
Some how to die were taught !
But by order of the Captain-King
Though our comrades be fast sped.
On His muster-call the names shall ring
Of the living and the dead ! "
Richard S. Tuthill,
James Nevins Hyde,
Daniel R. Brower,
Committee.

GEORGE PRESSLY McCLELLAND.
Captain One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Penjisylvania Infantiy and
Brevet Major, United States Volunteers. Died at Daven-
i>ort, Iowa, December 2'j, i8g8
ONCE more we mourn the loss of a beloved, honored
and patriotic Companion. George P. McClelland,
was born November ii, 1842, at Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, the youngest of six children,. and died at Daven
port, Iowa, December 27, 1898. The call to the
defense of the Union, found him at the age of nineteen,
possessed of a fairly good schooling, and an acquaint
ance with hard work that was born of actual contact.
He had never been of rugged health, and when he en
listed, in the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania
Infantry, his family and friends feared that he would
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succumb to -the privations of a soldier's life. His record
as a soldier, however, was one of the best.
Before leaving camp, he was made a Corporal. After
Antietam, he was a Sergeant; after Fredericksburg, an
Orderly Sergeant; after Gettysburg, a Second Lieu
tenant; after the Battle in the Wilderness, a Captain;
after Five Forks, a Brevet Major.
The commission that made Captain McClelland a
Brevet Major, reads, "For gallant and meritorious con
duct at the Battle of Five Forks."
He participated in nine of the great battles of the
Rebellion. He was wounded in the right foot at North
Anna but was only a short time off duty. His left hip
was terribly shattered at Five Forks, and a comrade
who gave him his flask, remarked, "That is all he will
need in this world." Removed to the hospital in Pitts
burg, he was found and nursed back to life, by his sister
Anna, but the wound made him an invalid for life.
Though a great sufferer, no one was more patriotic and
his love for the flag was intense.
He became a resident of Davenport, Iowa, in 1867,
since which time, he has been prominently identified in
the progress and growth of that city. As an organizer
and President of the Davenport Building and Loan As
sociation, he has assisted the industrious poor to build
many homes. An organizer and supporter of scientific
charity, he has been of great benefit to the worthy poor.
Of scholarly tastes, he added the charm of culture to
that of frank, honest friendship. We shall miss his wise
counsel and genial Companionship, but the memory of
his patriotic, generous and noble manhood will ever be
an inspiration for good. Morton L. Marks,
Eugene B. Hayward,
Melzar j. Eagle,
Committee.

LEWIS HENRY BOUTELL.
Major Forty-fifth Missouri Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Washington, District of Columbia, January 16, i8gg.
C^IS H. BOUTELL was born at Boston, Massa
chusetts, July 21, 1826, and died at Washington,
District of Columbia, January i6, 1899. He
graduated from Brown University in 1844, and from
the Harvard Law School in 1847.
Commencing the practice of law in his native city,
he there remained until September 26, 1862; when he
enlisted as a private in the Forty-fifth Massachusetts
Infantry. September 29, 1864, he was made Major of the
Forty-fifth Missouri Volunteers.
While with the Forty-fifth Massachusetts he went
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with it to Newbern, North Carolina, where, in December,
1862, he was transferred to the Signal Corps, serving
therein under General Foster and General Hunter.
As Major of the Forty-fifth Missouri he took part in
the defense of Jefferson City when it was attacked by
General Price.
In December, 1864, he was ordered to Nashville,
and there served under General Thomas at the battle of
Nashville. At the expiration of his term of service, March 6,
1865, he was mustered out.
Coming to Chicago in 1865, he was for a time Assist
ant United States Attorney in the office of the District
Attorney for the Northern District of lUinois.
The duties of this position he filled with great credit
to himself and satisfaction to those with whom he came
in contact. At this time, when many new questions consequent
upon the internal revenue measures adopted during the
war were arising, Mr. Boutell was the lawyer upon
whose judgment dependence was placed and action had
by the government officials in this district.
Shortly after the great fire of 1871 Mr. Boutell en
gaged in private practice, becoming a member of the
law firm of Upton, Boutell & Waterman.
Thereafter the firm was changed by the retirement
of Mr. Upton upon his election to the bench, and the
admission of Mr. H. S. Boutell, now one of the members
•of Congress elected from this city.
Some ten years ago Mr. Boutell retired from the
-active practice of his profession and devoted the declin
ing years of his life to travel and literary pursuits.
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Gifted with a keen sense of and love for the beautiful,
the galleries of France, Italy, Germany and England,
were to him aisles whose walls spoke that language
which artistic souls alone understand.
Returning to his native land he wrote a life of Alex
ander Hamilton, and also one of Roger Sherman of the
Revolution. He was for many years a consistent and devoted
member of the Congregational Church of Evanston, in
which city he had for thirty years his beautiful home.
He was social, kind, pure, gentle, serene, learned.
Possessing great ability, he lived and moved quietly
among his fellow men.
Not an orator for the hustings, he was a thinker
among scholars. His well rounded life flowed like the
current of a deep river through fruitful fields, beneath
the shadow of stately forests, beside and blessing garden
and city; reflecting the image of stars and sky, bearing
the imprint of sunshine and storm to the great ocean,
the unfathomed, shoreless sea whose waters await the
coming of all souls.
Dear Friend ! Beloved Companion ! Pure Soul !
Hail and Farewell !
Arba N. Waterman,
Edward D. Redington,
Ezra B. McCagg,
Committee.

GEORGE KEYPORTS BRADY.
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) United States Army. Died at Chicago,
Illinois, January 20, i8gg.
y^EORGE KEYPORTS BRADY was born at Cham-
V^ bersburg, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1839, and
died at Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1899. He
was a son of Hon. Jasper Ewing Brady, who represented
his district in Congress, and a direct lineal descendant of
Captain Samuel Brady and General Hugh Brady; men
whose skill and prudence and daring in Indian fighting
made their names household words among the early
settlers. He responded to the first call for troops, enlisting in
Company B, Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry, U. S. V.,
April 25, 1861, and remaining with the company until
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July 8th, when he accepted a commission as First Lieu
tenant, Fourteenth Infantry, United States Army, his
appointment dating from May 14, 1861. During the
remainder of that year he was on duty at Fort Trumbull,
Connecticut, and in January, 1862, joined his regiment
at Perryville, Maryland. With it he participated in the
battles of the Peninsular Campaign, Yorktown, Gaines
Mill, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hfll, Second Bull
Run, Smoker's Gap, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Laurel
Hill, Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. In the last
named battle, while serving as Adjutant General of the
Brigade, he was wounded, taken prisoner and confined
in Libby Prison. He was promoted to Captain June 10,
1864, and August 18, 1864, received a brevet as Major,
United States Army, for his gallantry in the battle at the
Weldon Railroad. He was paroled in September, 1864,
and went to New York- City, where he did good service
-in the draft riot and, as soon as exchanged rejoined his
regiment at the front, and March 16, 1865, received a
brevet as Lieutenant Colonel United States Army for gal
lant and meritorious services during the war. In October
•of that year, he went to the Pacific coast, via Panama,
and from that time to the day of his retirement, his rec
ord is that of many another gallant soldier; untiring
devotion to duty; the thousand petty details of caring for
and cheering the men in the ranks at lonely frontier
posts; perils of fire and flood, and savage foes, even more
deadly than those he faced throughout the War of the
Rebellion; services for which no recompense could be
.given, not even a brevet, because the Government did
not recognize Indian fighting as war.
He was transferred to the Twenty-third Infantry, Sep
tember 21, 1866; promoted to Major, Eighteenth Infantry,
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March 19, 1891, and August 16, 1894, was retired, at
his own request, after more than thirty years continuous
service. He was elected to the Order through the Commandery
of the State of California, November 19, 1884, and trans
ferred to this Commandery January 2, 1895. During
the four years of his membership here, he rarely missed
a meeting and was devoted to the best interests of the
Order. He served his country well; he has gone to his reward.
To his beloved wife, who shared with him the loneli
ness and dangers of many years of frontier life, and his
devoted son, we extend our heartfelt sympathies.
Charles R. E. Koch,
John A. Grier,
Charles F. Matteson,
Committee.

STANDISH VORCE CORNISH.
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Eightieth Neiv York Lnfantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
January 2j, iSgg.
'TT.NOTHER name has been added to the list of beloved
1^ Companions taken by death from our Command-
^^ ery. Lieutenant Standish Vorce Cornish died very
suddenly at Chicago, Illinois, January 25, 1899. Lieu
tenant Cornish was born February 25, 1845, ^^t Lexing
ton, Green County, New York. He entered the volun
teer army at Poughkeepsie, New York, March 10, 1862,
being enrolled as private in Company G, Twentieth New
York State Militia, known as the Eightieth New York
Infantry. Made Corporal January i, 1863; Sergeant,
January i, 1864; Second Lieutenant, Company D, Jan-
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uary lO, 1865; First Lieutenant, Company K, same regi
ment, April 15, 1865; appointed Regimental Quarter
master, June 15, 1865; mustered out of service, July
25, 1865.
Lieutenant Cornish was with his regiment in the fol
lowing engagements: Norman's Ford, Virginia, August
25, 1862; Second Bull Run, August 30, 1862; Chantilly,
Virginia, September i, 1862; Fredericksburg, Virginia,
December 12 to 15, 1862; Gettysburg, July i to 4, 1863;
also participated in the Wilderness Campaign. He was
wounded during the engagement at Manassas, but re
joined his regiment after remaining in hospital some six
weeks. Entering the service at the age of seventeen, but a
mere boy, he was a noble type of the American volunteer
soldier. Steadfast and faithful to duty, he received fre
quent and merited promotion, and had not yet attained
his majority at the time of his muster out of service.
His name will ever remain inscribed on our country's roll
of honor. It may truly be said the boys of America were
the real heroes of the war.
Several years after the close of the war Companion
Cornish removed to La Salle, Illinois, and was engaged
with railroad and coal mining companies. On September
14, 1 87 1, he was married to Miss Anna V. Laning at
La Salle, Illinois. His wife and one daughter survive
him, two children, a son and daughter, having been re
moved by death. Comrade Cornish became a resident
of this city some twenty years ago, and has during that
time been almost continuously identified with the coal
trade. Faithful, efficient, and of strictest integrity, he
was loved and respected by his business associates. He
enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all in the com
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and loving husband and father, a true Christian, noble
and generous, whose acts of charity were often really
beyond his means, those who knew him best loved him
most. To his bereaved family we tender our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy in their sad affliction.
Ambrose S. Delaware,
Joseph J. Siddall,
Milton B. Miller,
Committee.

JAMES ANDREW SEXTON.
Captain Seventy -second Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Washingtoji, D. C. , February ^, i8gg,
JAMES ANDREW SEXTON, a Companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, departed this
life on the 5th day of February, 1899.
Companion Sexton was born in the City of Chicago,
and here he grew to young manhood with such educa
tional advantages as the public schools of the city offered.
Nothing seems to have distinguished his boyhood
career, except that he possessed an alert mind, connected
with a robust physical existence. It was said of him by
one of his playfellows that "Jim could run a race with
any of the boys, and was quick to learn." These char
acteristics of his early youth typify those traits of char-
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acter which were recognized and appreciated by his
companions both in the early and mature years of his
manhood. He was ready made when emergency arose, and
events seldom found Sexton hesitating either for lack of
equipment, or doubt as to the course of conduct to be
followed. And so it came when the flag of his country
was stricken by internal foes in April, 1861, our Com
panion well knew the line of duty to be pursued. The
opportunity and the will alike were his, and without any
hesitation or doubt of his capability to efficiently perform
his part in the magnificent drama which opened to his
young vision, he introduced himself to the public service
of his country without unnecessary delay or parade, as a
private soldier in the Union army.
He was first mustered as a volunteer soldier on April
19, 1 86 1, and served well and faithfully until mustered
out at the expiration of his term of service on July 25th
of that year. At the end of his three months' enlistment,
he re-enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and
was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company E in that
regiment. The Sixty-seventh was one of the one-hun
dred days' regiments in which our Companion served
creditably. until mustered out with that command. He
then returned to his Chicago home filled with a patriotic
ardor which had been unusually well disciplined and
directed by his military experience. During the winter
and spring of 1862 he gave his time largely to the instruc
tion and drill of quasi- military organizations in this city,
and when the Seventy-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
commonly known as the First Board of Trade regiment,
was organized. Sexton was appointed, and in August of
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This regiment was immediately equipped for service
and sent to the front for active military duty, and from
the time it left Chicago until the close of the struggle, it
was constantly connected with active military operations,
and won honors on many of the hardest fought fields of
the Civil War. It may be said without undue praise or
unmerited distinction, that the Seventy-second Illinois
was a well-equipped military organization, and was dis
tinguished for the capability, intelligence, efficiency and
courage, not only of its officers but of its rank and file.
It is probably sufficient praise to say of Captain Sex
ton personally that during the whole of his military career
he discharged every duty assigned to him with unusual
intelligence and ability, and that as a skillful and faithful
soldier of the Republic, sincerely impressed with the
grandeur of an exalted mission in the splendid triumphs
of which he was an honored participant, he was " without
fear and without reproach. "
Sometime subsequent to the battles of Franklin and
Nashville, and in recognition of his special fitness. Cap
tain Sexton was detailed for duty upon the Staff of Major
General A. J. Smith, and in that capacity served until
after the campaign which ended in the surrender of
Mobile. He returned with his regiment to Chicago and
was mustered out of the service in August, 1865, and
soon thereafter engaged as a planter in Alabama, but
subsequently turned his attention to the manufacturing
business and became a member of the firm of Cribben,
Sexton & Co., the well-known stove manufacturers of
this city. This business relation he continued until a
short time previous to his death; and to his patient in
dustry, sterling character and unquestioned ability in
affairs, was in large measure due the enviable reputation
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Captain Sexton's career was filled with useful activities
in many of the affairs of life. He ever manifested an in
tense regard for those who had been his comrades in arms;
and for the past twenty-five years few members of the
Grand Army of the Republic were more prominent in its
councils, or more deservedly esteemed for faithful services
than our late Companion. He was a firm believer in the
objects and utilities of that patriotic Association of the
veteran soldiers of the Union Army; and to that organi
zation and its manifold interests, and to the welfare and
comfort of its members he gave largely both in time
and labor.
Recognizing not only his untiring devotion and un
selfish services, but his special fitness, his late comrades
elected him Commander, first of the Department of
Illinois, and in September, 1898, Commander in Chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic. The duties of these
high stations he discharged with exemplary wisdom and
Unquestioned fidelity.
In civil life also Companion Sexton received signal
honors. He was appointed Postmaster of Chicago by
President Harrison in April, 1889, and continued to hold
that office for nearly five years. His administration as
Postmaster of this city was marked by unusual prudence
and sagacity, and his conduct of its affairs met the hearty
approval of the community, without respect to class or
party. Again when public complaint about the conduct of
our recent war with Spain became so loud as to demand
official action, the President invited Companion Sexton
to become a member of the Commission appointed for
the purpose of making a thorough investigation of every
thing connected with the Spanish war. This invitation
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of that Commission Sexton loyally gave his heart, his
strength and his mind, and it was while in the conscien
tious performance of his duty in that behalf that the
final summons came to him. And so at last he fell on
the field of action whither he had been called in the per
formance of patriotic duty.
Companion Sexton had a strong, active and attractive
personality. His presence and his influence were felt in
whatever relation he sustained to his fellow man.
Never unnecessarily obtrusive in public associations,
he was always fearless, clear-sighted and forceful. Always
insistent upon his own views, ever persevering in his own
purposes, he was at the same time considerate of the
wishes and regardful of the interests of others.
He was both a thoughtful and a studious man. He
was quick to understand the motives, and both ready and
willing to appreciate the strength and arguments of those
with whom he differed. He was always in the open,
and it was not possible for him to conceal his attitude
toward any man or any measure, but he was withal ear
nest in his purposes, kindly in his sympathies and sincere
in his attachments.
As a Companion, justly esteemed for his many com
manding virtues, his unflinching fidelity to every trust,
his fervent loyalty to his country and its flag, for his civic
worth, and for his warm and helpful friendship, we honor
his name and commend his example.
Francis A. Riddle,
Edward A. Blodgett,
Geo. H. Heafford,
Committee.

EDWARD SOUTHLAND CHAPIN.

Captain (Retired) United States Army. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
May J, i8gg.
OUR Companion Edward S. Chapin died at Chicago
on the 3rd day of May, 1899, at the age of only 54
years. Born in Tariffville, Connecticut, in 1845,
he enlisted in the Civil War, when a mere lad, as a pri
vate in Company A, Forty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry,
and served until the war was over. On the ist day of
July, 1866, he was admitted as a cadet at West Point,
and having graduated with honors, he served a number
of years as Second and First Lieutenant in the Fourth
United States Artillery, until, on the 12th of August,
1882, he was transferred to the Fifteenth United States
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Infantry Regiment, in which, on the 27th of February,
1888, he was promoted to the rank of Captain. Owing
to ill health he was retired, at his own request, on the
7th of November, 1896, after nearly thirty-three years of
constant military service. Apart from his service during
the Rebellion he participated in the Modoc and other
Indian wars with distinguished honor, and he owed his
promotions mainly to his conspicuous bravery in action.
Always a zealous student, and deeply interested in
the solution of scientific problems. Captain Chapin had
acquired an unusually wide range of knowledge and most
extraordinary attainments. As an engineer of high ability
he early appreciated the possibilities of air as a secondary
power, and thus he became one of the pioneers in the
application and introduction of compressed air for street
railroad purposes, holding, as he did, at the time of his
death, a position as Director in the Compressed Air Motor
Company of Illinois. As a military man he had maturely
studied all the epoch-making campaigns in history, and
the life of every one of the great Captains, from Alexan
der down to Grant and Moltke, was as familiar to him as
that of an intimate friend. In his company his friends
and Companions always felt the presence of a superior
mind. In harmony with these high intellectual attainments,
Captain Chapin bore himself all his life with incorrupti
ble rectitude, which could only spring from his training
at West Point and his associations with men, educated
like him in surroundings, where the keenest sense of
honor and strict obedience to duty are cultivated first,
as the very foundation stone for all the other virtues of
the soldier and the citizen. Thus Captain Chapin was
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The purest treasure mortal tiraes afford,
Is spotless reputation; that away.
Men are but gilded loara, or painted clay." ,
' ' . ¦. t
George C. Ball,
M. V Sheridan,
William Vocke,
Committee.

JOSEPH LITCHFIELD LOCKE.
First Lieutenant Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, July i£, i8gg.
JOSEPH LITCHFIELD LOCKE was born at Mer
rimac, New Hampshire, February 20, 1841. He
enlisted as a private at Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
in the Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in
July, 1862, and was discharged July 3, 1865, having been
Lieutenant and Adjutant. He died July 15, 1899.
The family record of Joseph L. Locke brings before
us the history of three wars and reminds us of the heroic
expression of American patriotism under three great
aspects of our national life: the Indian, Revolutionary and
Civil wars. John Locke in one, Moses Locke in another
and Joseph L. Locke in the last, stood bravely for
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our nation's honor and fought for liberty, independence
and union with the ardor and devotion that have made
the name of American famous all the world over for the
highest, purest and holiest standard of true patriotism
and enlightened liberty.
The spirit of 1876 inherited by him, through a noble
ancestry, was awakened in the heart of Companion
Locke by the calls of his country to preserve the unity
and integrity of our nation. He responded with that
rugged determination to do his duty which has ever
marked the New England character, and he went forth
to battle for the right with the transmitted energy of
heroic pioneers born in him under the shadow of the
granite hills of New Hampshire.
He enlisted in July, 1862, and served uninterruptedly
for three years, experiencing all the rigors and horrors
of war in camp and in field, on the most exacting
marches and in the most daring of military expeditions.
He participated in twenty-two battles, some of them the
most important in the history of our country, and also
conspicuous among the most brilliant in the military
achievements of the world. At Chancellorsville and
Gettysburg, at Missionary Ridge and at Atlanta he fought
bravely and endured patiently under the banner of the
famous Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry. He was
engaged in both Eastern and Western armies, partici
pated in notable conflicts in Virginia and Tennessee, in
Georgia and the Carolinas, made long and hard journeys,
climbed the mountains, forded the rivers, waded through
the swamps and marched from Atlanta to the sea.
In his record we are brought face to face with some
of the most thrilling incidents of the war and see every
phase of the great struggle most vividly presented to us.
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that we can most truly say he was a signal representative
of the memories of the war which we preserve in the
associations of the boys in blue. He shared in victories
and suffered in defeats. He knew what it was to pursue
exultingly a fleeing foe until the darkness of night hid
him from view. He also knew what it was to fly in dis
may before the victorious enemy, seeking in fear a place
of safety. Short rations, scant clothing, bare feet, sore
limbs and aching bodies were among the hardships he
saw and shared in the spirit of faithful service that
united in bravery the men of Valley Forge with the men
of Lookout Mountain.
Companion Locke came to the city of Chicago in the
year 1875 and was soon actively identified with different
organizations for the preservation of the memories and
comradeship of the Civil War. In business and social
life he was distinguished for urbanity of manners and
kindness of heart that won him many friends and en
deared him to the hearts of all who were brought into
intimate associations with him. He stood for the high
est type of membership in the organizations with which
he was connected. He was chosen to high office by his
friends, and fulfilled tbe duties of important positions
with an affability, fairness and efficiency that made him
respected by all. He and Mrs. Locke are widely known
for their active efforts in promoting the welfare of differ
ent institutions and enterprises for the teaching of
patriotism and the care of our nation's heroes.
He was more a man of deeds than of words, and his
deeds were of the kind to help his fellow men.
" 'Twere better if we spent less time
In sinful, idle scheraing.
As planning sorae absurd career,
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And more in doing kindly acts
To make life's burden lighter,
Thus, though our stay be short on earth,
Our deeds would make it lighter."
Bradley Dean,
Aaron F Walcott,
John H. Stibbs,
Committee.

DANIEL WEBSTER BOSLEY.
First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon Third United States Colored
Artillery, Died at Chicago, Illinois, October 2r, i8gg.
TTiGAIN we are called upon to pay our just tribute of
[\ affection and respect to the memory of a Com-
^"^ panion and friend who departed this life on the
2ist day of October, 1899.
Daniel Webster Bosley was born in Farmington,
Ohio, on the 29th of March, 1841, and on May 21, 1861,
responded to the call for troops for the preservation of
the Union. At the age of twenty, he entered the service
as a private in Company E, Twenty-seventh New York
Infantry, U. S. V.; was promoted to Hospital Steward
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He again entered the service April i, 1865, as Con
tract Surgeon and in that capacity served in the United
States Army Hospital in Washington, D. C, and Point
Lookout, Maryland, until August 20, 1865. On August
27th following he was mustered into the service as Assist
ant Surgeon, Third United States Heavy Artillery, and
was finally mustered out with the field and staff of that
regiment, April 30, 1866.
He participated in the battle of the First Bull Run,
West Point, Virginia, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Golds
borough Farm, Charles City Cross Roads, White Oak
Swamp, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Crompton's
Pass, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Fredericksburg
Heights. Upon returning to civil life he practiced medicine for
a few years, but finding more congenial employment in
active commercial pursuits he abandoned the practice of
his profession and established in this city a manufactur
ing business which for thirty years he successfully con
ducted. Having been a resident of Chicago for over thirty
years, his admirable qualities as a citizen are known to
all with whom he came in contact. In all the relations
of life his record was such as to entitle him to our highest
esteem and admiration. On the field of deadly strife; in
the hospital where he administered to the necessities of
his companions in arms; in civil life; in the rush of active
business, he knew his duty and did it well. No higher
panegyric could be offered to his memory.
He leaves a widow, son and daughter; the son,
Edward F. Bosley, a member of this Commandery. To
his bereaved family we offer our sincere condolence, hop
ing that the pain of their loss will be in some degree
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mourn, so manfully fought life's battles, that in fame's
eternal camping grounds he has joined the bivouac of the
illustrious dead.
Obed W. Wallis,
Alonzo N. Reece,
John McLaren,
Committee.

JAMES LEWIS.
Colonel One Hundred and Forty-fourth Neiv York Infantry , United
States Volunteers. Died at Joliet, Illinois, October 28, i8gg.
" Can that raan be dead
Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind ?
He lives in glory; and his speaking dust
Has more of life than half its breathing moulds."
THE men who served so faithfully and heroically in
the Union Army from 1861 to 1865, are rapidly
passing away. Year by year since the War of the Re
bellion closed, they have been dropping from the ranks,
until to-day only about one-third of those who served in
that army are left to tell the tale of that heroic struggle.
During all those thirty-four years Death has been passing
here and there, and at his touch the old soldier, without
regard to rank, age or condition, has lowered his head
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and yielded up his life. Our own Order has not escaped
his unwelcome presence, but each year since its organi
zation many of those who were in the habit of meeting
with us have been borne from our midst to their eternal
home. At one of our gatherings we meet this one or
that one, and at the next gathering he is gone from us
forever. Only yesterday Companion James Lewis was
with us, but to-day we see him no more. Only yester
day we shook his hand, looked into his smiling face, and
heard his voice when, as our Chaplain, he pleaded with
God for his blessing to rest upon our Order; but to-day
his hand is motionless, the smile has vanished from his
face, and his voice is forever stilled. He died at his
home in Joliet, Illinois, on the evening of October 28,
1899. James Lewis was of Scotch descent. His parents
were both natives of Scotland, who, coming to this coun
try, located at Hamden, Delaware County, New York,
where James was born May 23, 1836. His early life was
spent quietly at his home, but as he approached the time
when he was expected to care for himself, he learned the
trade of paper-hanger and painter. He might have fol
lowed this trade, but he was ambitious to obtain an edu
cation, and, stimulated by this ambition he managed to
make the required preparation at a neighboring academy,
and at the age of twenty-one years he was enabled to
enter Amherst College. In this school young Lewis spent
four happy years. He loved his books and was so com
pletely devoted to them that he became one of the best
scholars in his class. It was during his college career
that he developed that thoroughness in whatever he un
dertook which was one of his marked characteristics
during all his subsequent life. He felt that he must do
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not let him rest unless this was done. His great ambi
tion was to master every study which he took up. He
wanted to be first or among the first in his- class — not
that he might rejoice in being superior to others, but
that, by performing the task of to-day to the best of his
ability, he might be the better prepared to undertake the
task of to-morrow. Hence, when he graduated in 1861,
we find him standing at the head of his class, and, three
years after his graduation, his Alma Mater recognized
his superior scholarship by conferring upon him the de
gree of Master of Arts.
After leaving college young Lewis taught school for
a short time, but as the War of the Rebellion was then
raging, he soon learned, as many other young men learned
during those terrible days, that he could not be content
to remain at home when his country was calling so loudly
for his help in the army. The summer of 1862 was a
dark time for the Union cause. Over five hundred thous
and national troops had been called into active service,
but these had met with frequent defeat, and little thus
far had been accomplished toward crushing the rebellion.
More troops were needed, and on July i, 1862, President
Lincoln issued his call for three hundred thousand addi
tional volunteers. Young Lewis felt that the time had
now come for him to enter the army. Accordingly, he
abandoned his teaching, returned to his native place, and
with the assistance of others raised a company of recruits,
in which was his father and one brother, and which was
mustered into the United States service as Company C,
One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment New York Vol
unteers. Of this company young Lewis was chosen and
commissioned Captain, his commission being dated Sep
tember I, 1862. As soon as organized, the regiment
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Lewis was found at his post, doing his duty as a true
soldier and patriot. He proved himself to be an apt
scholar in learning military tactics and drill, became a
good disciplinarian, was prompt to obey and ready to do,
looked carefully after the welfare of his men, was con
scientious and thorough in the discharge of military
duties, and was exceptionally cool and brave upon the
field of battle. His efficiency and gallantry brought him
into prominence, and he was made Lieutenant Colonel
of his regiment May 24, 1863, and was promoted to the
Colonelcy September 25, 1864. In these various official
positions, Colonel Lewis served with his regiment con
tinuously until it was mustered out of service, June 25,
1865. The regiment campaigned mostly in North and
South Carolina, and with it the Colonel took part in
many bloody and hard-fought battles. With it he was
present at the sieges of Suffolk and Charleston, took part
in the assault upon Fort Wagner, and did gallant service
in the engagements at Johns's Island, Honeyhill, Coosa-
hatchie, James Island and many other places where foe
met foe in deadly conflict. Under the command of its
efficient Colonel, the regiment became recognized as one
of the very best in the service, and Colonel Lewis was
highly complimented by both his division and brigade
commanders for having brought the regiment to such a
high degree of military discipline and efficiency. In fact.
Colonel Lewis was an ideal soldier. Having given him
self to his country, he felt that he owed to his country
all that he could give of devotion and labor and sacrifice.
No burden was too onerous, no undertaking too difficult,
no self-denial too great, and no danger too full of peril,
to turn him back from the path which duty bade him
tread. He fully realized the great responsibUity which
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all times and under all circumstances, to meet that re
sponsibility with a strong will and a courageous heart.
He entered the army, not because he had any fondness
for military life, but because he saw that the government
which he loved was in danger and felt it to be his duty
to do what he could to avert that danger and rescue the
government from peril. The record which he made is a
brilliant one, showing him to have been one of our best,
bravest and most efficient volunteer soldiers.
Shortly after Colonel Lewis left the army, he entered
Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he
spent three years in studying for the ministry. Here, as
elsewhere, he showed himself to be an earnest and inde
fatigable worker, not only prosecuting his studies with
vigor, but during his vacations preaching here and there,
and in rriany various ways seeking to prepare himself for
the duties of his chosen profession. Graduating from
the seminary in 1868, he was at once licensed to preach,
and going West, he located at Humboldt, Kansas, under
the direction of the Presbyterian Board of Home Mis
sions. In this new field he labored faithfully for a num
ber of years, not only preaching to the small church
which he organized at Humboldt, but doing a vast amount
of ministerial work in places round about. In 1869 he was
married to Miss Mary Farrand, of Detroit, Michigan, who
went with him directly after the marriage to his Western
home, and who proved herself a worthy helper to her
husband in all his varied and responsible work. In 1875
he left Humboldt and became Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Howell, Michigan, and in 1882 he accepted a
call to the Central Presbyterian Church at Joliet, Illinois,
where he remained until the day of his death.
During all the years of his ministry. Colonel Lewis
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and zeal which characterized his career as a soldier. He
was "instant in season and out of season," always "do
ing with his might whatever his hands found to do." In
carrying on his church work, he found the experience
and training of his army life to be a gi-eat help to him.
As a soldier he had learned much about men, had seen
the value of organization and discipline, and by associa
tion with his comrades had discovered how best to reach
men's hearts, to touch and arouse their better natures,
and thus to influence them for good. For many years
his wife was a great help to him in his chosen work, but
in 1889 she was called to her eternal home, from which
time her husband toiled on alone, silently and uncom
plainingly bearing the burden of his sad bereavement.
As a man Colonel Lewis was honest and true, and
ever loyal to the right. He fully recognized the nobility
of his own nature, and respected himself too much to do
a mean or dishonest thing. In mingling with his fellows
he always labored to show himself noble-hearted, con
trolled only by praiseworthy motives, inspired only by
the most lofty ideals, and led onward and upward only
by the highest purposes. He lived a noble life, and
those who knew him best bear the strongest testimony
to the gentleness of his spirit, the purity of his soul and
the lofty mold of his character.
As a citizen he was interested in all questions of
public importance and in every movement which was
calculated to promote the welfare of humanity. He
firmly believed in the general doctrine of "the Father
hood of God and the Brotherhood of Men," and he felt
that he was in the world to prevail upon men to make
this doctrine a part of their every-day life both in theory
and practice. As he recognized all men as his brethren,
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He lived to lighten the burden of human sorrow, to bring
cheer and comfort to the afflicted, and to make human
hearts more loving and happy. Love was the one con
troUing sentiment of his being, dominating his entire life,
inspiring his soul with the loftiest purpose, kindling his
mind to the noblest thought and leading him to the
greatest self-sacrifice for the good of others. Dominated
by this sentiment, his life was such that all who knew
him trusted, respected, honored and loved him. The
doubting resorted to him for counsel, the sorrowing for
sympathy, and the troubled for help. He became widely
known as a reliable and trustworthy man, and his ability,
efficiency, and high Christian character were recognized
in many flattering ways. Some years prior to his death
he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Black
burn University, and for many years he was a leading
member of the Board of Trustees of Knox College. In
1873 he was sent to the General Assembly of the Estab
lished Church of Scotland as a delegate from the Presby
terian General Assembly of the United States, and on
several different occasions he was a regularly chosen
delegate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of this country. In 1878 President Hayes ap
pointed him a member of the Board of Visitors to the
Military Academy at West Point, where, on behalf of
the Board, he delivered the address to the graduating
class, and in 1899 President McKinley honored him by
appointing him a member of the Board of Visitors to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis. Thus trusted, respected
and honored, his record as a citizen is as worthy of praise
as his record as a soldier.
It was because Colonel Lewis so fully recognized his
obligations as a citizen that he became such an ardent
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abiding love. He believed there were times when a man
was called upon to sacrifice even his life for the good of
his country. Believing this, he entered the army and
faced death upon many a battlefield. But while believ
ing that his country was worth dying fbr, he also believed
it was worth living for. He felt that peace had need of
patriotism as well as war, and while he thought it a noble
thing to die for one's country upon the field of deadly
conflict, he felt that it was a nobler thing to live for one's
country in the quiet time of peace, provided one so lived
that, by word and deed, he made his country the more
worthy to die for. He accorded high honor to the citizen
who went out to fight his country's enemies, but he ac
corded an equal, or a higher honor, to the citizen who,
in the every-day walks of life, lived to make his country
strong and resolute in all that is noble and just. In his
estimation there was a lofty patriotism in all generous,
helpful, honest and unselfish action. He thought it not
only patriotic, but heroic, to uphold the right, to stand
by the weak against the strong, to work for an honest
and pure ballot, to fight wrong in its every form, and to
labor in the home, the school, the church, or in any other
place where duty called, to form and develop a citizen
ship that would be true to liberty, justice and right at
all times. With such ideas he felt that he was just as
true and loyal a patriot when he was preaching the gospel
of peace and good will among men, explaining the doc
trine of "brotherly love to his people, helping the poor
and needy, administering to the wants of the sick, ex
tending sympathy to the afflicted and laboring to sweeten,
brighten and uplift human life about him, as he was when
facing the enemy's bullets upon the field of battle. He
believed that in working for humanity he was working
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better he was doing something for his country's good.
This was the patriotism which controlled him at all times
and led him to labor so diligently and faithfully, both in
war and peace, to defend the right and to awaken a love
of truth and purity in the hearts of the people.
But Colonel Lewis was best known as a minister of
the Gospel of Christ. He chose the ministry for his life
work because he felt that in such calling he could ac
complish more good for humanity than in any other.
His abihty was such that he would have won success in
almost any calling. Had he continued as a teacher, he
would have become a prominent educator. Had he en
tered upon the practice of medicine, he would have won
his way to the front rank of his profession. Had he de
voted his life to the practice of law, he would have been
one of the most prominent lawyers at the bar. Had he
turned his attention to politics, he would have been a
leader in both State and Nation. But he was content to
serve his day and generation simply as a minister in the
Christian Church, where he found a field which was not
only congenial to his taste, but which called into active
use all of his great powers of both mind and heart.
Colonel Lewis was emphatically a preacher of righteous
ness. He preached only what he believed, and practiced
what he preached. His daily life bore witness that he
applied to his own actions the same rule which he laid
down for others. The gospel which he taught was the
gospel of love. He was not a slave to any mere church
tradition, nor was he chained down blindly to any church
creed. He recognized but one religion: "To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep him
self unspotted from the world." Benevolence, kindly
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wherever he found a person who subscribed to these
articles in his theory and practice, he recognized him as
a Christian friend and brother. His broad, catholic
spirit won for him the friendship of all who knew him,
whether in or outside of the church. In the performance
of his ministerial duties he was a faithful, energetic and
tireless worker. As a pastor his labors were never ended.
The poor, the suffering, the bereaved, all found in him a
helper, a sympathizer and a friend. In all fields of
Christian activity he never failed to obey the call of
duty, no matter how great the labor of sacrifice. With
his work thus faithfully done, he approached the end of
his earthly life, fully prepared for the last great change.
Feeling that he had done the best that he could do, he
contemplated death without a regret or a fear. A few
hours before his departure a friend said to him : ' ' Brother
Lewis, they tell me that the end is near," but the words
caused him no uneasiness, for he knew that the same
Almighty Friend who had guided and protected him for
so many years would be with him in this last trying hour.
And finally, with words of Scripture and Christian song
upon his lips, his spirit quietly passed to its eternal home.
As we contemplate the life of such a man, we see
how grandly noble, true, unselfish and helpful to others
a human life can be made, and as we contemplate such
a departure from earth, we come to realize the more
fully that— " There is no death ! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of tbe life elysian
Whose portal we call death."
Philip C. Hayes,
Robert W. McClaughry,
James G. Elwood,
Committee.

GEORGE ROYAL DAVIS.
Major Third Rliode Island Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 2j, i8gg.
eklPANION George Royal Davis was born at Three
Rivers, Palmer, Massachusetts, on the 3rd day of
January, 1840. His father and his paternal grandfather
were both named Benjamin, and his great-grandfather,
Craft Davis, was the son of Benjamin Davis of Oxford,
Massachusetts. This branch of the Davis family were of Welsh stock,
and the founders of the family in America were settled
in Massachusetts Colony soon after it was established as
a Province of Great Britain.
His mother's family were Quakers, and his mother,
Cordelia Buffington, was a direct descendant of Royal
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Buffington, who was distinguished as a leader in the
Society of Friends during the early struggles of that sect
in America. Benjamin Davis, the father of George Royal Davis,
removed from Three Rivers to the town of Ware, Massa
chusetts, in 1842, where the family resided until 1852,
during which time George attended the common schools
of Ware, and began his early education at that place.
His father next moved to Indian Orchard, Massa
chusetts, where he owned and operated a woolen mill,
and where young George took his first lessons in the
actual experience of the business affairs of life.
While yet a lad he became Captain of what was then
known as a Fire Brigade in Indian Orchard, an organiza
tion which at one time took the first prize for efficiency
at an exhibition in Springfield, Massachusetts. Thus
early did young Davis indicate his capability for com
manding and influencing men.
While the family still resided at Indian Orchard the
subject of this sketch attended the Academy at Moravia,
New York, where he graduated with honors in 1855.
His father's woolen mills having been destroyed by fire
during that year, the family returned to and became
residents of Ware again, and during the years 1858 and
'S59 young Davis attended Williston Seminary at East
Hampton, Massachusetts, where he had for classmates
and fellow students the Honorable William C. Whitney,
late Secretary of the Navy, and the Honorable John M.
Hall, now President of the New York & New Haven
Railroad of New Haven, Connecticut.
While at Williston young Davis showed great pro
ficiency as a student, and was President of the Adelphi
Literary Society connected with the Seminary. It was
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listened to the teachings of the most distinguished men
in New England of that day. During his career as a
student there he delivered an oration entitled "No Ex
cellence Without Great Labor," a theme which seems
to have impressed him greatly and to have become the
guiding principle of his career.
After finishing the course of study at Williston he
entered his father's store in Ware, and continued there
as a clerk until the summer of 1862.
Companion Davis was descended from patriotic
ancestry, and with fidelity to inherited privileges it was
natural for him to become a soldier in the Army of the
Union. This he did sometime during the summer of
1862. He enlisted as a private soldier, was elected by
his comrades to be their Commander and was mustered
in as Captain of Company H, Eighth Massachusetts In
fantry on October 30, 1862. He continued with that
regiment and in command of his company until the 7th
day of August, 1863, when the Eighth Massachusetts
was mustered out by reason of the expiration of the term
of its enlistment. The military service of that regiment
was in the Eighteenth Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
and during the period of that service young Davis ex
hibited unusual military capacity and skill, and was
justlj' regarded as an officer and soldier of special merit.
On his return to Massachusetts he immediately
undertook the organization of another command, and
having enlisted a company sought to have it mustered
into the Second Massachusetts Light Artillery, but ow
ing to the fact that no more Light Artillery at that time
could be accepted by the War Department, and becom
ing impatient of the delay, Davis took the men whom he
had then enlisted to the State of Rhode Island, where he
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Third Rhode Island Cavalry. This regiment was im
mediately sent to the Department of the Gulf, and con
tinued in the service there until subsequent to the close
of the war in 1865. The sterling military qualities of
our deceased Companion were soon recognized and he
was promoted to the rank of Major and mustered in
December 17, 1863, and held that rank until August,
1865, when he was honorably discharged on tender of
his resignation.
The Third Rhode Island Cavalry was conspicuous
for its efficiency and splendid service in the Department
of the Gulf during the entire period of its service there.
Companion Davis had many of the attributes of a
great soldier. He was quick to comprehend and apply
the rules of the art of war. His personality was one of
command. He knew what ought to be done in any
exigency, and was pre-eminently capable of doing or
directing to be done those things which make for success
in the organization, discipline and use of military force.
With a chivalric spirit he possessed that quality known
to the soldier as valor, which made him conspicuous
in any command. In the disastrous Red River Cam
paign and in the unfortunate engagement at Mansfield,
Major Davis displayed unusual gallantry and tact. It
fell to the fortune of his regiment, of which he was then
in command, to become the rear guard in the retreat of
General Banks's Army from that wretched and most dis
astrous campaign. But the Third Rhode Island Cavalry
and its commanding officer were conspicuous for gallantry
and the efficient performance of the trying duties as
signed them.
Subsequent to that time our Companion served in
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From February, 1865, untU the latter part of April
in that year, he served as President of the Military Com
mission sitting at Thibodeaux, Louisiana, where his high
sense of justice and undoubted ability enabled him to
discharge such duties as came to a tribunal of that
character with signal success.
After he had resigned from the army Major Davis
became Chief Clerk to the Quartermaster on General
Sheridan's Staff, and on the plains and in the Indian
campaigns and afterwards in the city of Chicago he
continued in that important position until 1871 when he
severed his connection with army life and became the
general financial agent in Chicago of Eastern Insurance
Companies. During his early business career in this city our
Companion was largely concerned in and responsible for
the organization of the First Illinois Infantry, of which
regiment, after the retirement of General A. C. McClurg,
he became Colonel, and it was the military talent and
organizing ability of our deceased Companion which
gave to that regiment of the National Guard the high
character and standing which it has ever since retained
as one of the most efficient and well disciplined com
mands connected with the National Guard.
In civil life Companion Davis won unusual and well
merited distinction. He was nominated for Congress
from the then Third Congressional District in 1876, but
at the election was defeated by a few votes only, his op
ponent being the late Carter H. Harrison. He was
three times afterwards nominated and elected to a seat
in Congress, namely: in 1878, 1880 and 1882. His
career in Congress was in the highest degree creditable
to himself, to his constituency and to the nation. He
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and unusual capacity in public affairs. In politics his
influence was always felt in the deliberations of his
party, and his wise counsel and political foresight gave
him an enviable reputation among those whose ambition
led them into the race for political honors.
In the campaign of 1886 Companion Davis was
nominated by the Republican party and elected County
Treasurer of Cook County, which office he held for four
years, and for the faithful discharge of the duties of that
great office he received and was freely accorded the com
mendation of all classes of our citizens without respect
to clique or party affiliations. It was while he was the
incumbent of that office that the scheme for locating the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago was begun.
And it was natural to a man with such ambitions and
such unusual capabilities for attaining great ends that he
should enlist at once heartily and without reserve with
all of his powers and influence for the accomplishment
of such a great enterprise. This Companion Davis did
with all his heart and with all his strength. The loca
tion of that Exposition in this city was due as much to
him as to any other one man. Indeed it is just to his
memory to say that no one man was able to bring, or
did bring, as much influence and such forcible arguments
to secure the passage of the Act of Congress locating the
Exposition at Chicago as did our late Companion. When
the Commission had been appointed and the work of
organization was at hand it was not only natural but
logical that George R. Davis should be put in the place
of leader and in a position to direct the many diverse in
terests of such an undertaking. He was accordingly
made Director General of the Exposition and at once
took hold of the work of organization and of preparation,
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closed to his friends the fact that he possessed those
faculties of organization and executive abilities which
had not been dreamed of even by those most intimate
with him.
His career as Director General is a matter of history
in which his name will stand along with that of the late
John Wellborn Root, as one of the two most efficient
characters who had any connection whatever with that
most famous of all international expositions.
As a personality Companion Davis was distinguished.
He would attract marked attention among ten thousand
men as one of great individuality and force of character.
His figure was commanding. He moved among men
fearlessly, and while he was aggressive and incisive, he
was cordial without being effusive. His intercourse with
his associates and friends, and with the public as well,
was always frank, open and direct. He was absolutely
free from cant or hypocrisy. His friends felt the warmth
and loyalty of his nature, and his adversaries respected
his resolute but honest purpose.
Companion Davis married July 25, 1867, Miss Ger
trude Schulin, a most charming and accomplished young
lady of New Orleans, Louisiana. The domestic life of
these two people has been worthy of all praise. There
have been born to them six children, four daughters and
two sons. The oldest of the sons — Mr. Ben Davis — is a
graduate of Yale University and also of Harvard Law
School, and is at present one of the Assistant United
States District Attorneys for the Northern District of
Illinois. Companion Davis fell when he had just passed the
full meridian of life, but he left behind him a record and
a name of whigh the relatives, friends and Companions
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citizens may justly honor with the benediction "Well
done, good and faithful servant."
His last day on earth was November 23, 1899. His
Companions remember him for his courage and fidelity,
for his loyalty to his country and its flag, for his high
character as a man and for his worth as a citizen whose
many good deeds are worthy of emulation.
Thomas B. Bryan,
William L. B. Jenney,
Simeon H. Crane,
Committee.

PETER HAND.
Captain Tiventy-fourth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 23, i8gg.
'TI.FTER several years of severe suffering from chronic
jA disease our Companion Peter Hand departed this
^"^ life on the 23rd day of November, 1899, at the
age of sixty-four years. He came to this city with his
parents in the year 1852, when seventeen years of age,
and resided here ever since. At the outbreak of the Civil
War he was one of the vast host of young Germans who,
having warmly advocated the election of Abraham Lin
coln for the Presidency in the preceding year, at once
sprang to arms in defense of the country. There were
in all four sons under his father's roof and all of them
responded bravely at the very first call for volunteers.
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Peter Hand's military service extended from the 19th of
April, 1 86 1, to the 6th of August, 1864, and was of the
most invaluable character. Before the war he had made
himself perfectly proficient in the use of arms and hence
he soon proved himself to be one of the best drill-masters
in the Western army. He was absolutely fearless in
battle and distinguished himself in every engagement in
which his regiment took part. Severely wounded at Per
ryville he returned to his command before he had fully
recovered and remained in the field to the last day of
his term. As senior Captain the command of his regi
ment, the Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteers, devolved
upon him in the spring of 1864, and he acquitted himself
so well that General John M. Palmer, the commander of
the Fourteenth Army Corps, bestowed upon him the
highest encomiums.
In civil life Captain Peter Hand enjoyed the esteem
of all who knew him. He was of a gentle and cheerful
disposition, of spotless reputation, scrupulously upright
and in all his business transactions the very soul of
honor. He leaves a loving wife and two children who mourn
with us and a host of friends his early death and to whom
we extend our sincere condolence in their great bereave
ment.
William Vocke,
George Mason,
John McArthur,
Committee.

LEWIS LUCAS TROY.
First Lieutenayit and Adjutant' Ninth Lllinois Lnfantry , United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November ly, i8gg.
THIS Commandery is again called upon to mourn the
demise of one of its Companions, the late Lieuten
ant Lewis Lucas Troy, who died November 17, 1899, of
neuralgia of the heart, after a brief illness at his home.
at 882 West Monroe street, in this city.
Companion Troy was born in Bavaria, Germany, Feb
ruary 27, 1839. At the age of seven years he came to this
country, locating in Cincinnati, where a brother was re
siding. He learned the trades of jeweler and blacksmith,
which he followed alternately, and worked throughout
the Western States, finally locating in Aledo, Illinois,
where he opened a general merchandise store, in which
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he was doing a prosperous business when the War of the
Rebellion began.
Companion Troy entered the service as a private in
Company D, Ninth Illinois Infantry, April 20, 1861, en
listing for ninety days service. At the expiration of this
service he re-enlisted in Company E, Ninth Illinois Vol
unteer Infantry, in which company he was appointed a
Sergeant. Re-enlisting as a veteran March 31, 1864, he
was discharged to accept promotion and was mustered
as First Lieutenant and Adjutant, Ninth Illinois Veteran
Mounted Infantry, October 20, 1864, to rank from August
20, 1864. He was mustered out with his regiment July
9, 1865. During his three months service. Companion Troy's
regiment was assigned to General Prentiss's Brigade, at
Cairo, Illinois. He served with his regiment in the cam
paigns against Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Pittsburg
Landing, Shiloh and Corinth, Mississippi, in all of which
battles he participated. The regiment was mounted
after the battle of Corinth, and was attached to the left
wing of the Sixteenth Army Corps under General G. M.
Dodge. He then took part in the campaign against
Atlanta and the battles before that city. In the March
to the Sea, his regiment acted as advance guard for the
Fourteenth and Twentieth Army Corps; and on the march
from Atlanta to Goldsborough it was attached to the
Seventeenth Army Corps, acting as advance guard and
had from one to four brushes with the enemy daily.
After Johnston's surrender, he marched with his regiment
to Washington, and took part in_ the grand review;^ he
then proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky, where the regi
ment was mustered out.
Companion Troy served with valor and distinction
throughout the entire war, and his commission was given
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Returning to Aledo, Illinois, he resumed commercial
life, and remained in business at that place until 1869,
when, through the efforts of the late Senator John A.
Logan, he was appointed a railway postal clerk. Upon
his entrance into the postal service he was assigned to
duty on the Galva and Keithsburg line. His adaptability
for the service soon secured his transfer to the more im
portant line, the Chicago and Burlington Raflway Post-
office, and here his talents found a broader field. In
1874 his efficiency was again recognized by his transfer
to the office of the Superintendent of the Sixth Division,
Railway Mafl Service, in Chicago. In 1882 he was pro
moted to Chief Clerk of the Division, and to the Super
intendency of the Division October 4, 1890.
The record of Companion Troy as a postal official
was a brilliant one. With extraordinary powers of con
centration, marvelous ability to grasp details, coupled
with a powerful and retentive memory, he was particu
larly and peculiarly adapted to the responsible trust so
long successfully administered. His strong individuality
impressed itself upon the service, and his influence upon
its affairs must be felt for years to come. By his
methodical system he won the confidence of the officials
at Washington so completely that he was considered one
of the ablest men in the service. Devoted to the best
interests of the Railway Mail Service, its progress and
improvement, always ready to sacrifice himself to pro
mote its usefulness, absolutely unselfish in his devotion
to duty, his life stands as a remarkable .example of a
public servant.
Lieutenant Troy was elected a Companion of the
First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States through the Commandery of the State
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of U. S. Grant Post of the Grand Army of the Republic;
Apollo Commandery, Knights Templar; Ancient Order
United Workmen, in which he was a Past Grand and
Past Supreme Master; the National Union, and the United
States Railway Mail Service Mutual Aid Association.
Several years ago Companion Troy, with twenty
picked men from the Railway Mail Service, was placed
in charge of a special train which conveyed $20,000,000
in gold from San Francisco to New York City.
Twenty-nine years ago Companion Troy was married
to Emma MUes, daughter of John W. Miles, of Aledo,
who was Quartermaster of the Seventeenth Illinois In
fantry. Besides his widow, he is survived by two sons,
Ernest G. and Harry L. Troy, who reside in Chicago; a
sister, Mrs. Henry Stix, and a brother, Ernest Troy, of
Cincinnati. Under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic
and Apollo Commandery, Knights Templar, the funeral
services were held November 20, 1899, at the late home
of the deceased, and interment took place at Rose Hill.
The sympathy of the Commandery is extended to the
family of the deceased, and we recommend that this
memorial be inscribed upon the records of this Com
mandery, and that copies be furnished the family of our
late Companion.
Maurice J. McGrath,
James E. Stuart,
LeRoy T. Steward,
Committee.

FRANCIS JULIUS FITZWILLIAM.
First Lieutenant Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, United States Volun
teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, December 2j, i8gg,
OUR late Companion, Francis Julius Fitzwflliam, was
born in Bainbridge, Ohio, July ii, 1840, and died
in Chicago, Illinois, December 23, 1899. He at
tended the District School and afterward the Union
School of the village, and thus prepared himself for a
college course, upon which he entered in 1859 a.t the
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.
Like multitudes of other young men, he left the col
lege in 1 86 1 to enter upon the more arduous duties of a
soldier, enlisting in, and being mustered as First Lieu
tenant of Company G, Thirty-third Regiment of Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Sill.
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During the winter of 1 860-61 and the spring of 1861
he was a member of the ' ' Olentangy Grays, " a volunteer
organization made up of college students at Delaware,
Ohio, of which the writer was a member, organized to
drill and prepare for the more arduous duties of soldier
life that came to nearly all the members later on. Our
Companion continued to hold the rank of First Lieuten
ant of Company G, until honorably discharged October
10, 1864, having served his full period of enlistment of
three years. He was promoted to Captaincy of his Com
pany, March 15, 1864, but declined to be mustered on
his commission as Captain, as that would bind him to
the service for another period of ' ' three years or during
the war."
Early in 1862 the Thirty-third Ohio Regiment of Vol
unteer Infantry, even before it was fully equipped, crossed
the Ohio River at Maysville, Kentucky, and joined in the
memorable Campaign of General Nelson against Hum
phrey Marshall, who had entered Eastern Kentucky
through the gap of the Cumberland Mountains and was
devastating that loyal portion of the State with fire and
sword. The regiment marched by way of Flemingsburg
to Prestonburg and Piketon. Colonel James A. Garfield,
then commanding the Forty-second Ohio, landed at Cat-
lettsburg, Kentucky, at the mouth of the Big Sandy River,
late in December, 1861, and, assuming command of the
troops then assembling at that point, proceeded up the
river into the mountains, overtaking and defeating Hum
phrey Marshall at Middle Creek, Kentucky. January 10,
1862, Garfield's command was part of General Nelson's
army, and the two commands met at Prestonburg. Hum
phrey Marshall was defeated and driven out of Kentucky,
soon after which the Thirty-third Ohio descended the
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Ohio to Louisville, where it became a part of the Division
commanded by General O. M. Mitchell's Army of the
Ohio. On the reorganization of the army the Thirty-third
Ohio was attached to the First Brigade, First Division,
Fourteenth Army Corps, and so remained, we believe, up
to the time our comrade was mustered out of service in
October, 1864.
If time would permit it, it would be pleasant to ac
company our late Companion through the three years of
arduous service which he rendered as a volunteer officer,
but it would involve a historj' of battles, campaigns and
adventures that would fill a volume. We can only men
tion in succession some of the campaigns and battles in
which he participated:
Bridgeport, Alabama, April 29, 1862; Fort McCook,
Alabama, August 30, 1862; Perryville, October 8, 1862;
Stone's River, December 31, 1862, and January i and 2,
1863; Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, June 24, 1863; Chicka
mauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; Lookout, Novem
ber 24, and Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863; Rocky
Faced Ridge, May 8; Buzzard's Roost, May 9; Dug Gap,
May 10; Resaca, May 13 to 16; Cassvflle, May 19 to 22;
New Hope Church, May 25; Kenesaw Mountain, June 9;
Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Siege of Atlanta, from
July 28 to September 2, 1864, and Jonesboro, Georgia,
September i, 1864.
In all these important battles and campaigns he was
with his regiment, took an active part, obeyed orders
and won the commendation of his superiors and the love
and esteem of his companions and subordinates.
Our Companion, after he removed to Chicago, became
a member of Thomas Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Re
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filed a brief memorandum giving a modest account of
some of the events of the war connected with his own
service, from which I have been permitted to copy some
extracts. "At Sharpsburg, Kentucky, a committee of handsome
ladies presented the regiment with its first flag, having
heard in advance that the regiment was destitute of this
important emblem. The skirmishes and chasing fights
we engaged in through the mountains of Eastern Ken
tucky in the fall and winter of 1 861-2, under General
Nelson, are not mentioned in my list of engagements, as
the fights did not take on the dignity of battles, but the
fact that men were killed and wounded in this campaign
made it memorable to us, in the callow days of our inex
perience, by the longest day's marching and the slimmest
rations in all our service. Incorporated in General Buell's
Army of the Ohio, General O. M. Mitchell's Division, we
made that incursion into Alabama, capturing Huntsville
in April, 1862, securing control of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, with a large lot of rolling stock,
thus cutting off recruits to Beauregard's Army at Shiloh.
In movement by rail under General Sill, we had our first
battle at Bridgeport.
"Some fledgling engineer built a fort on a hill lean
ing toward the Tennessee River and overlooking the road
leading out from the Sequatchie Valley. This fort was
named McCook, and constituted the advanced post of
General Mitchell toward Chattanooga.
"In August my regiment with a squadron of cavalry
and a section of artillery occupied this post under Colonel
L. A. Harris. First, the cavalry was taken away, later
the artillery was ordered away, and finally when General
Buell had gathered his forces for a rapid race with Gen
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orders to hold this untenable fort. On August 30th, just
after the dinner hour, without a thought of an enemy
near, suddenly a shell from a gun on the opposite side
of the river burst in our midst. Having no gun to reply,
we hurried to the protection of the upper parapet of the
fort, but on the outside, as the interior of the fort was
turned toward the rebel gunners. Later one company,
armed with Springfield muskets, was thrown into rifle
pits constructed on the river bank, and another company
was dispatched up the river road to a point where the
road from Jasper, Tennessee, comes in. It was a merry
game for the rebel gunners until our riflemen got their
range, but a peril menaced us from General Adams at
Jasper with his troopers.
"A rain storm came on as the sun declined, when
Colonel Harris decided to get out. These were the days
when every regiment had wagons. The wagon wheels
were muffled with tents cut up for the purpose, so as to
move without noise on the rocky road.
' ' We captured a citizen as he neared the Jasper road,
who gave us the welcome news that General Adams and
staff were drunk and hilarious that rainy night at the
village tavern.
"But we had to march night and day to catch up
with the army on its way to Kentucky in race with Gen
eral Bragg. At Louisville the army was reorganized.
I was detailed in the Brigade Staff as Aide de Camp, and
Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Colonel Len A. Har
ris, of the Second Ohio Regiment, commanding. I con
tinued in this relation through the battles of Perryville
and Stone's River. At Chattanooga, I with my Brigade
had the unique experience of participating in the battle
of Lookout Mountain and in the assault on Missionary
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columns. I endured the Siege of Chattanooga, when
hard bread and S. B. came to be valued and appreciated
as they never had been before.
"After the battle of Jonesboro, about the time our
Division was preparing to march back to Atlanta, the
enemy were active with their annoyance. I was sent .
with two companies on outpost to cover the movement.
Before I could post my guards, dismounted cavalry in
large number attempted to surround us, so that with
difficulty we got through them. The Lieutenant com
manding the other company, among others, was killed,
but we carried his body with us until we came within
supporting distance of the Reserve.
"This action occupied only about thirty minutes, but
was full of all the incidents peculiar to a great battle.
This was my last conflict, as I was soon mustered out of
service with many other comrades."
Comrade Fitzwilliam's father was keeper of a country
store and at the age of fourteen he was sent some dis
tance from home to aid in establishing a branch store,
and proved himself quick to learn and useful in conduct
ing the branch store.
Released from military service by honorable discharge
he decided to re-enter mercantile business. He came to
Bloomington, Illinois, in 1866, and entered the retail
dry goods business with his father, under the firm name
of Fitzwilliam & Sons.
It soon became the largest retail dry goods establish
ment in Central Illinois, and later a branch store was
established at Pontiac, Illinois. Of this large business
our Companion was for many years the manager.
He married Miss Lucretia Mott Read, of New Lon
don, Ohio, in 1866, and from this union there were born
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and the eldest son is now our Companion, taking his
father's place on his death as a first-class member by
inheritance. His wife died in April, 1893. He had retired from
the dry goods business in 1892. He was an active, lead-
.ing business man in Bloomington and took part in all
public enterprises of moment.
Among other things he organized the National Home
Building and Loan Association, which for many years
was remarkably successful, but, like other similar asso
ciations, it suffered greatly from the depression that came
to real estate securities everywhere in the panic of 1893.
He retired from the Presidency of that Association in
January, 1896. On June 23, 1896, he was married to
Miss Sarah E. Raymond, in Boston, and about April i,
1897, removed to Chicago. A beautiful home was pur
chased on Vincennes avenue, where he and his estimable
wife collected about them books, works of art, and all
those luxuries and comforts which constitute a real
American home. It was here that he anticipated spend
ing his declining years in comfort, where the children
and grandchildren, of whom there were several, and
friends could assemble and make joyous the old age of
the Veteran, but alas disease came in 1899 to becloud
the horizon, and it made an anxious summer for our
Companion and his loving wife. The disease which at
tacked him was not regarded dangerous until in Decem
ber, when, on the advice of his physician, he went to the
Chicago Hospital to have an operation performed. The
inception of the operation disclosed a condition that ren
dered any operation ineffectual, and he gradually grew
worse until the end came on Saturday before Christmas.
This brave soldier, this successful business man, this
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the truest sense of the word. He united with the First
Methodist Church in Bloomington some time early in the
seventies, became and was Superintendent for fourteen
years of a Sabbath School. He gave liberally and freely
to the church and to charitable objects, but never osten
tatiously. He founded a mission down near the railroad,
and in honor of his deceased wife named it "Lucretia
Chapel." It is now a strong organization with a flourishing
Sunday School, doing much good among the laboring
classes, and a worthy monument to the memory of a
practical Christian gentleman, who lived religion, in his
daily life. He was always courteous, genial, pleasant,
and made all who came within his magnetic influence
feel that he was a man to trust, to respect, and to love.
After he removed to Chicago he transferred his mem
bership from William T. Sherman Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Bloomington, to Thomas Post No. 5, of
Chicago. He had also become a member of our Com
mandery and he rarely missed a stated meeting of the
Loyal Legion.
After his death a simple service was held at his resi
dence on December 26th, and his remains were then
taken to Bloomington, Illinois, and a public funeral was
held at the First Methodist Episcopal Church on Decem
ber 27th, which was attended by multitudes of his old
friends, neighbors and comrades. His remains were
buried in beautiful Evergreen Cemetery at Bloomington,
under the auspices of William T. Sherman Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, and with the beautiful ritual of
the Grand Army.
Reverend Frost Craft, of Decatur, Illinois, pronounced
a eulogy at the church service in Bloomington.
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loving ties and pleasant memories, has entered upon
Eternal Rest. Peacefully, honorably, he met, and dis
charged all life's duties and now has entered that dream
less sleep which the din of war and clash of arms can
never disturb. Honored, beloved, and sincerely rriourned
by all who knew him.
John B. Baker,
James H. Davidson,
Henry Fox, Sr.,
Committee.

RICHARD WATERMAN.
First Lieutenant First Rhode Island Cavalry, United States Volun
teers, Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 6, igoo.
OUR Commandery has lost another member, and again
is called upon to offer tribute of sorrow, affection
and appreciation for a Companion. Lieutenant
Richard Waterman departed this life on the 6th day of
January, Anno Domini 1900, at his home in Chicago,
after a tedious and painful illness, endured with manly
Christian fortitude, like the brave soldier he long ago
proved himself, amid the stress of Civfl War.
Richard Waterman was born on the 20th day of
January, 1841, at Providence, Rhode Island; he was a
lineal descendant of Richard Waterman, who helped
Roger Williams to found the State of Rhode Island, and
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who settled at Providence, where, ever since, his direct
descendants have been well known and respected, the
name being perpetuated to memory in one of the prin
cipal thoroughfares of that city.
On his mother's side, also. Lieutenant Waterman was
alhed with much of the best blood of New England, being
connected with Benjamin Franklin, and General Nathaniel
Greene, the friend of Washington. Coming of such ances
try it is not strange that he took pride therein, and was
ever loyal to the free institutions of the land they had
helped to establish, and to the dear old Flag for which
he fought when the time came for him to show his man
hood and devotion.
He was of large, powerful frame and splendid con
stitution, and as a young man was fond of every kind of
physical exercise. He was a student at Brown University
when the Rebellion broke upon the country, and as a
member of the Kentish Guards, a local militia organiza
tion of his native city, when the first call for troops came
in 1 86 1, he enlisted as a private in the First Rhode Island
Volunteer Infantry under the call of the President for
seventy-five thousand men. The term of enlistment was
for three months, and as the First Rhode Island was one
of the earliest regiments to be sent to Washington, its
time ended several weeks before the first battle of Bull
Run; but, following the example of its Colonel, Ambrose
E. Burnside, who declared his intention to remain in
service at the front till fighting began, the whole regiment
remained and took part in the battle when it was fought.
On the muster out of the First Rhode Island, Private
Richard Waterman returned to his home, took part in
raising a company of cavalry, and again entered service
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He was with his command continuously until the dis
astrous conflict at Fredericksburg, when, shattered in
health by the hard service required of him, he was com
pelled to resign, and in January, 1863, returned to Provi
dence, as his friends believed, to die in a few weeks. Up
to this time his command had been engaged in the fol
lowing battles and skirmishes all during the year 1862:
Near Warrenton Junction, April i6th; Rappahannock
Crossing, April i8th; Front Royal, May 30th; Columbia
Bridge, June 2d; Miller's Bridge, June 4th; Mountain
Road, June 9th; Cedar Mountain, August 9th; North Rap
pahannock and Catlette's Station, August 21st; Rappa
hannock Station, August 23rd; Sulphur Springs, August
26th; Groveton, August 28th; Second Bull Run, August
30th; Chantilly, September 1st; White Ford, October
I2th; Mountville, October 31st; Hazee Run, November
i6th, and Fredericksburg, December 13th — during all of
which time Lieutenant Waterman had remained on duty,
refusing to go to hospital, though at times so ill that he
had to be lifted into his saddle.
In May, 1863, he went to California for his health,
where he remained on a ranch near San Francisco, until
November, 1864, when he returned to the East, and on
June 21, 1865, he married Miss Virginia P. Rhodes, of
Providence, Rhode Island, and of this marriage were
born two daughters, since deceased, and one son, who
survives him — our Companion, Mr. Richard Waterman.
In September, 1865, he entered the Harvard Law
School, took his degree two years later, and after prac
ticing his profession for a year in Boston, came to Chi
cago in December, 1868, and entered the office of James
L. Stark. For thirty-one years Lieutenant Waterman
has been a member of the bar at Chicago, chiefly devot
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He was loyal to his adopted city and keenly interested
in its growth and in every movement which promised to
advance its interests and reputation. In 1880 he was
Sergeant-at-Arms in the Republican National Conven
tion, which resulted in the nomination of President Garfield.
In 1892 his health failed and forced his retirement
from active business life, and drove him to Carlsbad in
1895, and again in 1896, with the hope of recovery,
which proved vain, and in December, 1899, he was taken
seriously ill and entered into rest in the early days of the
present year.
Our late Companion was a gentleman without fear
and without reproach, and a true patriot worthy of the
stock from which he descended, and his memory should
and will be cherished by us, his Companions who survive
him, for the short time they may remain behind in their
life's journey, with sincere sympathy for his sorrowing
wife and son.
William Eliot Furness,
Joseph B. Leake,
Albert L. Coe,
Committee.

EDWIN ANSON BOWEN.
Lieutenant Colonel Fifty-second Lllinois Infantry, United States Vol
unteers. Died at Jacksonville, Florida, January 8, igoo.
RAPIDLY the survivors of the great war are falling
into the silent rest. Companion Edwin Anson
^~' Bowen departed this life at Jacksonville, Florida,
on the morning of January 8, 1900.
His death was caused by heart failure, of which he
had premonitory symptoms during the last three years.
He was born near Fitzwilliam, in Cheshire County, New
Hampshire, on November 11, 183 1, and was the young
est son of Moses A. Bowen, who came to Illinois in 1834,
and entered a half section of land at Perkin's Grove (now
La Moille), in Bureau County. On this farm Companion
Bowen was raised. In 1848 he became a student in
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Judson College, Mount Pulaski, Illinois, where he studied
two and ahalf years; and during the next eight years he
engaged in mercantfle pursuits. In 1859 he purchased
an interest in a mine near Denver, Colorado, and spent
about two years in developing it, and then returned to
his old home in Illinois. The storm of our great Civil
War was just breaking over the land, and, responding to
President Lincoln's second call for volunteers, he assisted
in recruiting a company and as its chosen Captain brought
it into the camp ofthe "Lincoln Regiment" then being
organized at Camp Lyon, at Geneva, Illinois, by Colonel
Isaac G. Wilson, under authority from the Secretary of
War. He was mustered with his company into the ser
vice on October 25, 1861, as Company B, of the Fifty-
second Illinois Infantry Volunteers, and his commission
from Governor Richard Yates gave him the rank of Gap
tain from October 8th of that year. He at once took up
the studies and duties of military life with the assiduity
and thoroughness that was a marked characteristic of his
nature, and quickly attracted the attention of both
officers and men, and Company B was soon acknowl
edged one of the best disciplined and drilled companies,
and Captain Bowen was recognized as one of the most
competent officers of the organization. The close inti
macy and thorough acquaintance which military associa
tion affords strengthened and deepened that impression,
and no member of his regiment was more highly and
unanimously respected and trusted than was our deceased
Companion. In a marked degree he was a man of sturdy,
reliable character. Knowing him to-day, one knew him
for the future. His courage was beyond question, and
he had a large capacity for work, so that he could, and
always did, share with his men all the dangers, duties
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ability, and he was just and kind. His temper was pe
culiarly even, and his passions were under complete con
trol. He had a high sense of honor, and strong convic
tions of duty. Profanity and obscenity were strangers
to his lips. He was strictly temperate and morally pure
in word and deed, and a man of strong religious nature,
who without obtrusion let it be distinctly known. So
clearly recognized were his soldierly qualities, that when
his regiment was left without field officers during the
great battle of Shiloh, he took its direction and control
without official orders, but by common consent, although
not the ranking Captain, and on the loth of the follow
ing month he was promoted to the rank of Major. Sub
sequently, in the regular line of promotion, he received
his commission as Lieutenant Colonel, to rank as such
from March ii, 1863, which rank he held until the time
of his enlistment expired. He was mustered out of the
service at Rome, Georgia, on the 24th day of October,
1864. On the 23d day of August of that year Governor
Yates issued to him a commission giving to him the rank
of Colonel, from February 20th; but he was never mus
tered in that rank. He was of robust physique and
rarely ill, and probably accomplished as many days of
active duty as any soldier of the command, and was with
his regiment in all its camps, marches and battles, par
ticipating in over twenty engagements.
At the close of his military service Companion Bowen
returned to his old home, and in the spring of 1865 he,
with others, organized the First National Bank of Men-
dota, Illinois, and became its President, with Quarter
master Fulton Gifford, of his old regiment, as Cashier;
and these two comrades and friends conducted success
fully the affairs of this bank for over thirty years, making
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tions in that part of the State. Each acquired honest
wealth and the highest esteem of the entire community.
In 1897 he experienced a nervous shock, indicating
paralysis or some kindred ailment, and with his accus
tomed promptness he at once disposed of his business
interests and withdrew from active pursuits. The inter
vening years Companion Bowen has passed in quiet
home life, and in leisurely travel, always accompanied
by his accomplished wife, Mrs. Martha J. Bowen, visiting
and lingering in the pleasantest resorts of the land. Ap
parently in good health, he knew well the character of
the disease that threatened him, and steadily held him
self in instant readiness for the inevitable summons; and
when it came, quietly, without pain or fear, he fell asleep
like one " who wraps the drapery of his couch about him
and lies down to pleasant dreams. "
This Commandery tenders to the bereaved wife and
sons and daughters of our deceased Companion the sin
cere sympathy of its members — yet points with pride to
the Christian character and manly life of him they mourn,
as the highest solace in their sad affliction.
John S. Wilcox,
Henry K. Wolcott,
Maurice J. McGrath,
Committee.

CHRISTIAN ERICKSON.
First Lieutenant Eighty-second Illinois Infantry and Brevet Captain,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
January 20, igoo.
THIS Commandery has lost another worthy member
in the death of Captain Christian Erickson, which
occurred on the 20th of January, 1900, in Chicago,
Illinois. Captain Erickson was a native of Bergen,
Norway, and came to this country in the year 1859, at
the age of twenty years. In March, 1862, he enlisted
as a private in Company I, Eighty-second Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered as
Orderly Sergeant, October 23, 1862, appointed Second
Lieutenant December ii, 1862, and promoted to the
rank of First Lieutenant March 12, 1864. He served
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with his regiment in the Eleventh Corps, first in the
Army of the Potomac, and, after the battle of Chicka
mauga, with the Army of the Cumberland. On March
13, 1865, he was promoted to the rank of Captain by
brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct, and on the
9th of June of the same year, the war being ended, he
was discharged with his regiment from military service.
In the numerous campaigns in which his regiment
participated Captain Erickson distinguished himself at
all times by his soldierly bearing and strict devotion to
duty. He was cool and courageous in action, and to his
soldiers always a model of excellent military discipline.
After the war Captain Erickson was successfully em
ployed until a few years ago in mercantile pursuits. His
career in business marked him as a gentleman of the
strictest integrity and highest honor, and all who knew
him bear cheerful testimony that he was a most patriotic
and public-spirited citizen.
Besides his numerous friends and Companions he
leaves behind him his widow, Agnes Jevne Erickson, of
Chicago, and four children, to whom we express our
most heartfelt sympathy in their great sorrow.
Francis Lackner,
William Todd,
William Vocke,
Committee.

ADDISON AUGUSTUS ADAIR.
Captain Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Marion, Ohio, January 2^, igoo.
I APTAIN Addison Augustus Adair was born in Zanes-
V^ vflle, Ohio, September 27, 1842, and died at
Marion, Ohio, January 27, 1900. He enlisted as a
private soldier in the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer In
fantry, and went with his regiment to the front in
December, 1861, reporting to the Second Brigade, Third
Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, Army of the Ten
nessee. He served three years and nine months in the
successive grades and was promoted to the rank of
Captain, April 22, 1865. Companion Adair was with
his regiment at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and the Siege of
Corinth, and participated in the battles of Port Gibson,
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Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River and
the Siege of Vicksburg. After the surrender of Vicks
burg the Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry returned home on
a veteran furlough, and on May 7, 1864, they were
ordered to rejoin Sherman's Army in Georgia and were
with him on his March to the Sea, participating in all the
battles incident to that great march. Companion Adair
took part in twenty-five different battles besides many
skirmishes. The records show that Companion Adair was a man
of fine appearance, correct habits and quiet demeanor.
He was a member of the Phil. Sheridan Post, No. 615,
Department of Illinois, Oak Park, having served as
Commander of the Post, and Senior Vice-Commander of
the Department of Illinois.
March 13, 1867, Companion Adair was married to
Virginia McConnell, of McConnellsville, Ohio, who,
with her daughter Ella, and son Charles M. Adair, sur
vives him.
The Rev. Dr. Charles S. Hoyt, Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Oak Park, Illinois, of which Com
panion Adair was a member, wrote the following:
" It will be hard for us to realize that this hearty
friend, with his warm hand-shake and cheery voice, will
be seen no more in our church fellowship. We shall
greatly miss one so regular in attendance morning and
night, and so prompt and earnest in taking part. His
voice could often be heard above all others in the re
sponsive readings and in song. He evidently enjoyed
such participations with a keen relish. He was a good
listener and often deeply moved by the truth. No man
ever had a tenderer heart than this hardy, outspoken
soldier. His death brought sorrow to all our people,
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nature. We believe he fought the fight, kept the faith
and gained the crown." Elijah S. Watts,
William Todd,
Duke Nichelson.
Committee.

EZRA WOLCOTT KINGSBURY.
Captain Second Colorado Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, February g, igoo.
e'TAIN Ezra Wolcott Kingsbury, born June ii, 1830,
in South Coventry, Connecticut, died February 9,
1900, in Chicago, Illinois. The beginning and end of life
on earth; a mere drop compared to the ocean of eternity.
But what of the between .' Doubtless the usual vicissi
tudes of business — failures and successes — but more
than that — service for his country.
In May, 1862, he was appointed by the Governor of
Colorado to assist in recruiting and organizing the Third
Colorado Infantry. In October of that year he was com
missioned First Lieutenant and subsequently Captain.
Thereafter the regiment was consolidated with the Sec-
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ond Colorado Infantry and became the Second Colorado
Cavalry, in October, 1863. Our Companion was com
missioned as Captain of Company I, Second Cavalry,
and was mustered in January 12, 1863. He was mus
tered out of the service, August, 1865.
He served in Missouri and Arkansas and participated
in the campaign which resulted in the defeat and capture
of Jeff. Thompson, and in the battle of Prairie Grove, as
volunteer Aide on General Blunt's Staff, when he was
wounded. Subsequently he participated in actions at
Independence, Little Blue, Washport, Mine Creek and
Newtonia, where he was again wounded. Then he was
sent to Fort Riley, Kansas, for Indian service, where he
remained until mustered out.
Dates, names of battles, recital of wounds, muster in
and out, are brief records, but the courage, the stern
purpose to do or die for his country, the fatigues of
march, the physical suffering from inclement weather,
oftentimes without sufficient food, or the total absence
of it, every old soldier can fill in from his own experience.
Nothing was ever grander in the history of the world
than the spontaneous uprising of the men of the North
in defense of the Union. Merchants closed their stores,
lawyers left their briefs, doctors forsook their patients,
clerks left their yard-sticks, blacksmiths their forges,
carpenters their benches, farmer boys left their plows in
the furrows, as Putnam did almost a hundred years before.
It was a great struggle, Americans against Americans.
Our honored Companion was in it and of it. He
came out with wounds and shattered health, but no price
counted in dollars would have bought from him his scars.
He was a gentleman, a welcome and honored Companion
in our Order, sociable, unobtrusive, helpful (when he
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member of our Order as he was a soldier, and nothing
more could be said. John E. Howard,
Charles T. Hotchkiss,
William H. French,
Committee.

ALFRED THEODORE ANDREAS.
First Lieutenant and Quarter-master Twelfth Illinois Infantry , United
States Volunteers. Died at Ne-w Rochelle, Neiv York,
February lo, igoo.
r\IED, on February lo, 1900, at New Rochelle, New
I I York, where he was temporarily residing, Alfred
"¦"^ Theodore Andreas, a member of this Commandery
since October 4, 1882. He was born at Amity, Orange
County, New York, May 29, 1839. Soon after that
time his father removed to Chester, in the same county,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits, and later, to Holly,
Pennsylvania. Having prospered at the latter place, he
went to New York City and became a successful mer
chant. Alfred received his education at Chester Academy.
Being of an adventurous and self-reliant disposition, he
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came Westward, arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, in July,
1857. He soon found employment, first as a clerk, and
afterwards as a school teacher, in which latter calling he
continued for about three years. In the fall of i860 he
went with an Iowa acquaintance to St. Louis to sell a
lot of horses, and while journeying through Missouri,
was first impressed with the evils of slavery. Having
completed the business of the trip, he came across into
Illinois, stopping near Sparta, Randolph County. Here
he found employment during the winter of i860 and
1 86 1, and up to the beginning of the war. Concerning
his employment at that time, he says: "At that time I
was little more than a boy. Circumstances had drifted
me into a little place in Southern Illinois, some sixteen
miles from a railroad, where I was getting a small salary
for presiding over the rising generation of the neighbor
hood. In other words, I was teaching school." When
the first call for seventy-five thousand troops was made,
he made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the army.
Later, on July 21, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Com
pany G, Twelfth Illinois Infantry, and the next day
joined the regiment, then stationed at Cairo. He was
with the regiment in its various camps at Cairo, Birds-
point and Paducah, in the summer of 1861, and in the
latter part of the year at Smithland, Kentucky, where a
detachment of the regiment was stationed. He was, by
a singular act of good fortune, both for himself and the
command, detailed for duty in the Commissary Depart
ment, for the discharge of which he had remarkable
aptitude. At the first opportunity. May i, 1862, hewas
made Commissary Sergeant, a promotion already richly
earned. In this position he soon became personally
known to every officer and enlisted man in the regiment,
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no night so dark, no situation so hazardous as to deter
him from doing all in his power to promote the comfort
and serve the necessities of the men in the command to
which he belonged. January i, 1863, he was commis
sioned First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the regi
ment, in which position his enlarged opportunities and
duties were met with the same zeal and fidelity that had
won him his promotion. Always alert, the men of the
regiment never were short in clothing and food, when it
was possible for him to procure them. During the
Atlanta Campaign he was made Commissary of Division,
first on the Staff of General Sweeney and afterwards
with General Corse, and held this position on the March
to the Sea and through the Carolinas. Having dis
charged faithfully and acceptably every duty of a sol
dier, in every capacity in which it came to him, he was
mustered out at Goldsboro, North Carolina, April i,
1865. He returned home, and on May 31, 1865, was
married at Davenport, Iowa, to Miss Sophia Lyter,
who made his home happy, and shared his successes and
reverses during their nearly thirty-five years of mar
ried life, and who with two daughters, Eulalia Lyter
Andreas and Elouie Lyter Atherton, survives him. Re
turning to civil life with his views broadened and his
energies quickened and strengthened by his mflitary ex
perience, which had been educational to him, he at once
sought a field for active enterprise. He had seen great
things done and had helped to do them, and he could see
no reason why he could not undertake and accomplish
great enterprises, as well as other men. He was a
pioneer in the county atlas and history work in the West,
and in it achieved notable success. This brought him
to and identified him with our city, and his history of
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the student and the future historian must rely. Success
soon crowned his efforts. He took at its flood the tide
in the affairs of men which leads on to fortune, but that
same tide in its ebb bore him out on a tempestuous sea
where the waves of financial disaster overwhelmed him.
Though his energy never flagged and hope never deserted
him, he was never able to retrieve his fortune. He
envied no man's good fortune, and in his many enter
prises, successful and unsuccessful, we believe it can be
truthfully said of him that he never intentionally wronged
any man. Wearied with the struggle, he at last laid
himself down to rest, and "After life's fitful fever, he
sleeps well. " He was a devoted member of the Loyal
Legion and believed in it, not only as a fraternal organ
ization, but as one of the reliable agencies through which
the truth concerning the great" struggle in which we were
engaged shall be transmitted to the future.
John McArthur,
George L. Paddock,
George Hunt,
Committee

JOHN FRANCIS McGUIRE.
Captain One Hundred and Fifty-third Neiu York Infantry, United
States Volunteers Died at Anniston,
Alabama, February ig, igoo
f/EEPING pace with the swift-winged years on their
'1 \ march toward eternity, stalks our old time enemy,
^¦^ inexorable and insatiate. We have met him face
to face on the lonely picket post, on the weary march
through poisoned fen and deadly morass, on the blood-
sodden fields of the Southland, and the victory has been
ours. But, the battle of life is nearly ended, and, worn
with the constant strife, we shall soon find rest within
"those low green tents whose curtains never outward
swing. " Into the sacred precincts of that camp where
sleep the pale-faced battalions of our soldier dead, has
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passed our late Companion John Francis McGuire, who
died February 19, 1900, at Anniston, Alabama, in his
sixty-second year. Companion McGuire was a self-made
man, and had won the respect and highest regard of his
fellow men in the communities wherein he lived. He
was known to but few of our Commandery, however, by
reason of his frequent absences in quest of health, and
because of his retiring disposition and unassuming ways
when with us. He was born in " a small town in the
Adirondacks" (to use his own phrasing), February 22,
1838, and in the few leisure moments. attending his strug
gle for fortune he studied for the profession of law.
When the Nation's call was sounded in 1861, he was at
tending a school in Canada, but shortly thereafter re
turned to his home, where, through his strenuous per
sonal efforts, together with the expenditure of his meager
savings, he succeeded in raising a company, numbering
about forty-five men, out of a community whose patriot
ism lay so dormant that only his most determined efforts
served to rouse its members to the shame of their condi
tion and the threatened disgrace of a draft. His men
were assigned to Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-
third New York Infantry, and he was appointed their
First Lieutenant. He served constantly with his regi
ment in Abercrombie's Division, Defenses of Washington,
through Banks's Red River Campaign, and again with
the Army of the Potomac, from July, 1864, to the end at
Appomattox. He was detailed as Assistant Provost Mar
shal of Savannah, remaining at that point until he was
mustered out, as Captain, in October, 1865. Later on
he was brevetted Major by the Governor of his native
State. At the close of his service he again took up the
study of law, and in 1867 he was admitted to the bar.
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in his practice, and December 6, 1876, was married to
Miss Julia Thomas, of Lyons, Iowa. He identified him
self closely with the best interests of the community and
soon became a prominent factor in its public affairs,
until a few years ago, when he was compelled to retire
from public life and seek a warmer climate in the hope
of restoring his health.
He leaves surviving him a widow and two sons, Frank
E., and Frederick T. , to whom we express our sorrow
and extend our heartfelt sympathy in this the saddest
hour of life. John J. Abercrombie,
William N. Danks,
Bradley Dean,
Committee.

JOHN McNULTA.
Colonel Ninety-fourth Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier
General, United States Volunteers. Died at Washington,
District of Columbia, Februar-y 22, igoo.
JOHN McNULTA, Colonel Ninety-fourth Ilhnois
Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General, United
States Volunteers. Elected January 13, 1887.
First Class. No. 5287. Chicago, Illinois.
Such is the short and simple record of a man recently
passed from amongst us, given back now to mother
earth, who while he lived was not alone an honored
Companion of this Order, but as well a companion,
confidant and friend of the foremost men of our time,
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He who writes these lines first met him in the year
1862; before the great war had assumed all of its pro
portions or manifested all of its results, he had been in
the front of the fray from Lexington's noted defense
until that hour, and young as he was, the grave issues of
his earlier service had molded his face and thoughts to a
severer cast than pertained to his years.
He was born in New York City on November 9,
1837. His earlier days were those of a poor, struggling
and faithful lad; often he has told, simply and effectively,
of the trials of that period of his life; leaving home for
the world he traveled West, coming into this new land
by the old water way, the canal, paying for his trip in
labor, studying with a boy's eagerness that which lay
around him, and full of a boy's hope for what stretched
before him. At last he reached the Wabash Valley, and
in one of its flourishing towns in a western county of
Indiana, and near to the border of this State, he began
his slow upward climb.
For years he was engaged in commercial avocation
which took him to and from Attica, his home, up and
down the valley and farther to the West. Allured by the
attractions of Bloomington, he finally settled in that
city, where he still continued his business; but when the
war trumpets sounded in 1861, he arranged affairs with
his partners, and entered the service of the United
States, as Captain of the First Illinois Cavalry. His
service was in Missouri, and he shared in the perils and
disasters of the command under Colonel Mulligan, which
sustained the siege at Lexington, where he was sur
rendered as a prisoner of war.
Following the fashion of the time, the ladies of his
home city had presented Captain McNulta with a sword.
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with it rather than lose it. His wishes were respected
by the enemy and he was allowed to retain the sword.
After being paroled he returned home, and when duly
exchanged he entered the service of the United States
again as Lieutenant Colonel of the Ninety-fourth Illinois,
William W. Orme being the Colonel. Upon the pro
motion of Orme in the year 1863 to be Brigadier
General, McNulta became Colonel, and so continued
until the end of the great war came in 1865. He was
brevetted Brigadier General for gallant and meritorious
services, particularly those in the neighborhood of Mobile,
where he maintained an influential command, and had
much to do with the success of the land operations
against that famous point.
He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic
and of this Commandery of the Loyal Legion, which he
joined in 1887, and where we all became familiar with
his face and form. He was a genial, affectionate,
splendid friend. A man of generosity, and in civil life
of great enterprises, from which he drew large rewards.
He was the receiver of two great railroads, both of
which he brought by his superior management from a
condition of bankruptcy to a paying basis. At the time
of his death he was in charge of a third railway line as
receiver, which he had managed, and which was also ap
proaching a successful completion and paying basis. In
addition to these duties he was the receiver of the
Whisky Trust, and of the National Bank of Illinois, and
all of these concerns he managed with consummate
skill. He had the confidence and affection of the judges
who appointed him, and of those who supervised his
trust. General Walter Q. Gresham, formerly Commander
of this Commandery, and Judge Grosscup were among
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In political life General McNulta was a Senator in
the State of Illinois, and a Member of Congress from the
Bloomington District, so that his life seemed typically
American; soldier, lawyer, civilian operator, trustee, and
political leader. He reached high fame, and accom
plished enduring and satisfactory results.
He was an earnest advocate of the administration of
the Government of his country in the war with Spain
(and the Philippine prolongation of that war), taking an
energetic part, especially in the organization of the
Naval Reserve Corps, whose young men, prepared by
his activity and vigilance, stood under the flag of their
country and on the decks of the great navy, and that
great ship the Oregon, which destroyed the fleet of
Cervera and helped to make the national name brilliant
and widely respected.
He leaves a wife, three sons and a daughter to bewail
with us the occurrence of the inevitable. All over this
State and throughout the nation sincere mourners have
gathered to pay their last and fitting respect to him; and
going, he bears with him to his rest the regard, the
affection and the esteem of his country. When he fell
great men and great chieftains sorrowed, and from the
White House to the humble homes of those whom he
had assisted, sounded the words of condolence, of
sympathy and of grief.
He is a day's march in advance! We tread the same
highway! We too approach, with lifted heads, the same
grand portals! The work of our generation is done, and
it is the greatest in the rounds of time. May the Com
mander greet us as we pass through, and assign us
pleasant quarters in the eternal bivouac.
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but while liberty endures, we — not as individuals, but as
a vast host^will be remembered.
McNulta, John, General — mustered out of the mflitary
service of the United States, July 17, 1865. Placed on
the final roll, February 22, 1900.
John C. Black,
Horatio L. Wait,
John J. Healy,
Committee.

JOSEPH WARREN HARMON.
First Lieutenant aud Assistant Surgeon Forty-second Ohio Lnfantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois,
March 2g, igoo.
3URGEON Joseph Warren Harmon was born in
Watertown, New York, June 20, 1815. Early in
the seventeenth century his ancestors founded the
town of Suffolk, Connecticut. Two of the Harmon family
were commissioned officers in the War of the Revolution.
David Harmon, the father of Surgeon Harmon, removed
to Watertown, and here the boy grew to manhood.
Here he was educated, and graduated from Black
River Institute in 1840. In 1845 he graduated from
the Albany Medical College. After graduation, he at
tended a course of lectures and clinics at the University
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of New York, and began the practice of medicine in
Rome, New York. In 1848, he removed to Chagrin
Falls, near Cleveland, Ohio, where he attained eminence
in his profession, and became widely known as a skillful
surgeon. He became the family physician of the Garfield
family, and it was largely through his influence and
encouraging words that James A. Garfield, then a boy of
eighteen, began the course of study which opened the
way to his remarkable career.
In May, 1861, Mr. Garfield was appointed Colonel of
the Forty-second Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and, by his
special request. Dr. Harmon was appointed Assistant
Surgeon. Later in the year Colonel Garfield was placed
in command of a brigade and assigned to duty in Eastern
Kentucky. A general hospital was established in Louisa,
Kentucky, under his command, and to this Dr. Harmon
was assigned to duty as Surgeon in charge. To this
important duty he brought all the resources at his com
mand, all the energy of his vigorous manhood, all the
skill and judgment which he had acquired by long expe
rience. It is a matter of common knowledge that during the
first year of the war the medical department was sadly
deficient. Many of those commissioned as Surgeons and
Assistant Surgeons were inexperienced, some were incom
petent, and not a few were utterly unfit for the places
they occupied. The new recruits were full of patriotic
ardor, but many were wofully deficient in sanitary ideas,
and recklessly jeopardized their health. Change of cli
mate, mode of life, diet and environment soon made sad
inroads in regimental ranks, and swelled the hospital
rolls. Surgeon Harmon quickly appreciated this abnormal
condition, and sought to neutralize it as far as possible.
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be -supplemented by attention to sanitary conditions,
sympathy and cheering words. And so it came to pass
that this hospital showed the best results of any in the
department. Returning to his regiment in April, 1862, he shared
its varied fortunes until our forces were compelled to
abandon Cumberland Gap and retreat to the Ohio River.
Worn out by active service and hardship he succumbed
and was sent to the hospital at Gallipolis. After remain
ing there a month, he was advised that he would be unfit
for duty for a long time, and he reluctantly resigned his
commission and joined his family in Chicago.
He resided in Blue Island till 1890, when he removed
to Chicago, where he resided with his son, Charles Sum
ner Harmon, till he passed away on the 29th day of
March, 1900, aged eighty-four years.
Dr. Harmon participated actively in the political
campaign of 1840, when General William Henry Harrison
was elected President, and in every Presidential campaign
since that time. He believed that every American citi
zen owed a duty to his country in peace as well as in
war, and this duty he conscientiously discharged. Early
in life he became thoroughly imbued with the anti-slavery
sentiment, and gladly shared the obloquy visited upon
those who had the temerity to love their fellow-men — of
a darker hue — then despised as abolition fanatics, but
since honored as reformers, patriots and philanthropists.
He was intimately associated with the leaders of the
movement in Ohio — the storm center of which was in
the Western Reserve — which made the names of Chase,
and Giddings, and Wade, and Birney, and many others,
immortal. In his profession. Dr. Harmon was a close student
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tical results of observation and experience than upon the
learned disquisitions and ingenious theories with which
medical literature abounds; and he came to regard the
preventive phase of his profession as quite as important
as its remedial function. During his later years his life
was one of comparative leisure. He enriched his mind
by travel, and reading, and gave generously of his time
and means to philanthropic work. Ambitious only to
be useful to mankind; living a stainless life; cheerful and
content in his happy home; rejoicing in genial compan
ionship and the merry laughter of childhood, he passed
the evening of his days in gladness.
A firm believer in the immortal life beyond, he yielded
willing obedience to the sanctions of religion, ever mindful
that the service most acceptable to the Father is loyal
and loving service to His children. For creed or dogma
he cared little, but with a sublime trust in God echoed
the devout and comforting words of Whittier:
" I know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.''
And SO, after a life full of well-doing, having seen the
ripening fruitage of his early hopes, and rejoicing in the
fruition of his patriotic self-sacrifice, he was suddenly
summoned to the Eternal Presence, and passed peace
fully over the dark river and up the shining heights on
which forever lingers the soft splendor of
"The light that never was on sea or land,"
where he awaits our tardier footsteps.
Elijah B. Sherman,
Theodore S. Rogers,
William L. Cadle,
Committee.

GEORGE ELKINS NEWLIN.
First Lieutenant Third Provisional Pennsylvajiia Cavalry, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, A;pril 2, igoo.
CIRST LIEUTENANT George Elkins Newlin was
I' born September 13, 1835, at Highland Township,
Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest
son of Henry Newlin and Louisa Elkins Newlin. By
descent he was a birthright Quaker. His father and
grandfather, James Newlin, were for many years promi
nent in the business affairs of Chester County, the grand
father being one of the principal millers of the county,
while the father operated quite extensive paper mills in
Highland Township, and at the same time conducted
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Companion Newlin was educated at the Richard Dar
lington Seminary in Chester County, from which institu
tion he graduated in the year 1853. He immediately
entered the service of his grandfather at the flour mills,
where he remained until twenty-one years of age. He
then entered his father's service in the paper mflls. At
twenty-five years of age he was taken into partnership
by his father, and thereafter both mills and stores were
successfully conducted under the firm name of Henry
Newlin & Son up to August 14, 1862, when the junior
member of the firm, the subject of this memorial, entered
the military service of his country.
Companion Newlin, in his application for member
ship in the Loyal Legion, with characteristic modesty,
merely gives the dates of his entry into the service and
his honorable discharge therefrom. Your committee has,
however, ascertained the larger portion of his real record
from comrades serving with him during the war. He
first entered the service as First Lieutenant, Company
K, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania Volun
teer Infantry.
Lieutenant Newlin was with and sometimes in com
mand of his company, in the following engagements:
1862 — August 29th, Second Battle of Bull Run; Sep
tember 17th, Battle of Antietam.
1863 — May 2d, Battle of Chancellorsvflle.
Shortly after Chancellorsville, the One Hundred and
Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry was mustered out
by reason of expiration of term of service, and Lieutenant
Newlin was honorably discharged with his company.
After a short service with the Pennsylvania Militia,
during the emergency caused by the threatened invasion
of that State, he re-entered the service for three years or
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Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, April 7,
1864, and with that regiment, in command of or with
his company, participated in the following actions:
1864 — June loth, hot engagement at "Old Church
Tavern," on the road from Richmond to White House.
June 15th, the whole brigade. First Brigade, Custer's
Division (dismounted), against Longstreet's Infantry,
holding the enemy while our infantry crossed the James
River on their way to Petersburg. The regiment lost
heavily in dead and wounded.
June 23d, drove the Rebels from Weldon Railroad,
and were in turn driven off until the Sixth Corps came to
their relief.
June, July and early August, heavy picket duty in
front of the left wing of the Army of the Potomac.
August, regiment sent to Shenandoah Valley.
August 17th, regiment engaged at Winchester.
August 20th, regiment engaged at Summit Station.
Newlin, with his company, was in the fights at Leetown
and Charlestown.
September 19th, Winchester, when "Sheridan sent
Early whirling up the valley."
September 20th, regiment engaged while in pursuit.
September 22d, regiment engaged while in pursuit.
October 6th, regiment repulsed a night attack.
October 19th, Battle of Cedar Creek. Newlin with
his company was engaged all day, and participated in the
brilliant charge which closed the struggle and swept from
the enemy their guns and trains. This single brigade
(First Brigade, Third Division, commanded by General
Custer) is credited with the capture of forty-five pieces
of artillery. November 12th, the regiment was again engaged. In
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the enemy, but escaped with most of his command by a
saber charge through their lines.
1865 — February 28th, Newlin and his company, as a
part of two battalions of his regiment, went with Sheri
dan to Waynesboro, Virginia, where they captured the
remnants of Early's army. The two battalions, with the
Fifth New York Cavalry, brought back to Winchester
fifteen hundred prisoners, despite Confederate General
Rosser's repeated attempts to capture them.
With the limited time at our disposal, we have been
unable to further extend Companion Newlin's fighting
record, or secure the personal incidents of his service.
To conclude the history of his military career, we quote
the statement of Mr. J. Andrew Wilt, the present Pro-
thonotary of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, formerly a
member of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry:
"He was a good officer, as brave as he was careful
of the men under him; he was never hasty, but always
cool and collected, and ready to lead his men when
necessary to accomplish results. I never had the pleas
ure of being under his immediate command, but knew
him as one of the best of the line officers of the regiment. "
Lieutenant Newlin was honorably discharged with his
company at Cumberland, Maryland, October 31, 1865.
The lesson of this record to us of the Loyal Legion,
especially to the younger members, is that we stfll have
walking in and out among us, modestly and quietly per
forming the duties of their appointed stations in life,
their earlier forms and features hidden under the mask
of years, men to whom in their youth were given the
opportunities of heroism.
On retiring from the army. Companion Newlin en
tered for a short time the service of the Philadelphia Gas
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the Union Traction Street Railway Company, of Phila
delphia, where he served until the organization of the
West Chicago Street Railroad Company, in 1886, when
he was appointed Secretary and Treasurer of that Com
pany. Since that time he has resided in Chicago and
has been connected with that company and associate
corporations in various positions of trust and responsi
bility. At the time of his decease he was, in connection
with his other duties, a Director in the Lake Street Ele
vated Railroad, and also a Director in the North Shore
and Evanston Street Railroad Company.
Companion Newlin was married November 7, 1877,
to Miss Annie Rogers Brewster, of Philadelphia. He
leaves surviving him his widow and a daughter, Mary
Brewster Newlin, both now residing in Chicago. He
belonged to Skerrett Lodge, No. 343, Free and Accepted
Masons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He died Aprfl 2, 1900, at Chicago, Illinois.
The members of your committee have enjoyed close
business and friendly relations with our departed Com
panion for many years, and our personal feelings mingle
with the regret of the Order. We miss a Companion,
we mourn a friend.
This was a good man. His prominent characteristic
was innate, constant, persistent goodness; and while
greatness may be more spectacular in the sight of men,
for time and eternity goodness is the better attribute.
He was a good son, husband, father, brother, friend.
"A good officer," say his companions in arms, " as brave
as he was careful of the men under him." Only good
men can be brave, and only brave men can be good.
Within his means he gave liberally, and the needy could
command of him all proper assistance. The winter storm
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afflicted, and the night was never too long to stay his
ministrations. He was an honest man. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars passed through his hands annually,
and he accounted for every cent without supposing he
was doing anything beyond his ordinary duty. This was
a good man, pure in thought and language, earnest in
his life, and withal filled with the true spirit of piety.
Stricken from life almost in an instant, with but just
time to realize that the hand of death was upon him, he
was, nevertheless, given strength to calmly bid farewell
to wife and daughter, and in audible tones to commend
his spirit to the Almighty before he passed into the
Beyond. Oftentimes, at some great opera or orchestral per
formance, when the leader swings his instruments into
perfect harmony, the air seems filled with music, and the
audience is enwrapped in melody separate and apart from
the performers, who seem only to be pouring into the
musical atmosphere other and additional sweet sounds;
so the atmosphere surrounding the life and conduct of
our departed Companion seemed to be saturated with the
vital and vivifying spirit of beneficence; and, after time
shall have partially assuaged the acuteness of their pres
ent grief, with the recollection of his every kindly word
and deed, waves of love and charity, benevolence and
sweet thoughts, wfll sweep over and upon his family, his
friends, his Companions, and envelop all in a brighter
hope. "It is good to be great, it is' great to be good."
^^ Requiescat in pace."
Le Grand W. Perce,
Edward A. Blodgett,
Theodore S. Rogers,
Committee.

DAVID PORTER DEARDOFF.
First Lieutenant Seventy-fourth Lndiana Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April //, igoo.
WHILE engaged in the recreation of preparing his
lawn for spring's resurrection into new life of blade
and foliage, our Companion, First Lieutenant David
Porter Deardoff, suddenly lost consciousness and entered
into his final rest on the evening of April 17th, at his
home on Oakenwald avenue, Chicago; his body was
returned to mother earth at Goshen, Indiana, on April
19, 1900.
Companion Deardoff was born in Ashland County,
-Ohio, in January, 1841. When he was four years old
his parents removed to Indiana and settled on a farm
near Goshen. He was reared on this farm and attended
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the excellent schools of Goshen. He had prepared him
self for the career of a teacher, having just received his
teacher's certificate when the troublous days of 1861
arrived. His keen sense of duty soon convinced him
that his place was in the ranks of the army to enforce
obedience to the laws of the country and maintain its
unity, but he was compelled for a time to listen to the
earnest pleadings of his mother in opposition. Whfle
still living at Goshen he at last overcame his mother's
objections, and enlisted on September 9, 1861, as private
in Company M, Second Indiana Cavalry Volunteers. He
served with this regiment in Kentucky and Tennessee,
and was with it during its march as the advance guard
of Buell's Army from Nashville to Shfloh, and partici
pated in the pursuit of Beauregard's Army in his hasty
retreat from that famous battlefield.
On July 9, 1862, upon the organization of the Sev
enty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, he was
commissioned as Second Lieutenant of Company E; was
promoted August 21, 1862, to First Lieutenant, and was
mustered out as such at Indianapolis, Indiana, in June,
1865, with his regiment, having served honorably and
faithfully three years and nine months.
On May i, 1865, Governor Morton commissioned him
as Captain, but he was never mustered into the United
States service under this rank, although performing the
duties of the office for several months.
He participated in all the campaigns of the Army of
the Cumberland from its organization up to and includ
ing the battle of Chickamauga, where he received a gun
shot wound through the neck, late on Saturday afternoon,
September 19, 1863, and was carried from the field, it
was feared only to die; he however overcame the effects
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Chickamauga fight again in the performance of his line
of duty. During 1864 he was kept on detached service most of
the time, principally on court martial duty, at Nashvflle,
as his injuries had seriously affected his ability for field
service; he rejoined his regiment at Goldsboro, North
Carolina, April 8, 1865.
All who knew him are aware that he carried the re
sults of his wound with him and suffered from it through
out the years that followed. His impaired voice and
speech were constant involuntary reminders of the sacri
fice made by him in defense of his country; and yet this
was almost the only way in which he ever referred to his
service. He rarely ever voluntarily alluded to it; boast-
fulness or ostentation and self-consciousness were un
known to his retiring and modest nature.
He came to Chicago in 1876, where he entered the
employment of the wholesale dry goods house of Carson,
Pirie, Scott & Company, with which he remained con
nected until the day of his death.
The firm pays the following tribute to his memory:
"He was with us nearly twenty-five years as a salesman,
and during the whole time he enjoyed the respect and
friendship of his employers, his business associates and
a large number of merchants throughout the country.
He was a man of high character and always stood for the
right. He had the interests of his employers thoroughly
at heart and was zealous and conscientious in their pro
motion." In 1875 Companion Deardoff was joined in marriage
to Miss Carrie Child, in Goshen, Indiana. There were
born to them three daughters; Agnes, now Mrs. H. G.
Bishop, wife of Lieutenant Bishop of the Army, who
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serving; Miss Anne Elizabeth and Miss Abigail, who with
the widow share their bereavement at their home.
He became a member of the Illinois Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, on May 13, 1897, his insignia being number
11,886. He was identified with it less than three years,
but was so very regular in his attendance during this
period, upon all meetings, that he became one of its
best known Companions.
While we, his Companions, deplore the vacancy in
our ranks, we desire especially to express our sympathy
to the bereaved widow and daughters in their great loss
and deep affliction.
Lafayette McWilliams,
Charles S. Bentley,
Charles E. Koch,
Committee.

JOHN EDWIN HOWARD.
Captain, Commissary of Subsistence and Brevet Major, United
States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 2j, igoo.
OUR Companion, John Edwin Howard, was born at
Brookville, Canada, August 7, 1827, and died at
Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1900. He was ap
pointed Captain and Commissary of Subsistence, United
States Volunteers, November 26, 1862, at which time
he was serving in the field as a civilian employe in the
Quartermaster's Department, and notice of his appoint
ment did not reach him until February 11, 1863, when
he accepted, was mustered into the service, and at
once entered upon the duties of his office. He was
stationed at various places in Missouri and the Depart
ment of the Gulf, also saw service in the field, and
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performed every duty entrusted to him with that rare
fidelity which was one of his distinguished characteristics,
so that when, August 17, I865, he was brevetted Major,
United States Volunteers, "for efficient and meritorious
services," the recognition was well deserved. He was
honorably mustered out of service, August 22, 1865.
Of his life before and since the war, previous to his
election as a member of this Order, through this Com
mandery, June 9, 1892, we know little, beyond the fact
that he had been blessed with the joys and sorrows of
married life and fatherhood, had known comparative
wealth and poverty, and when he came to us was alone
in the world, save for a few, far distant, loving relatives.
His trials had not embittered him; he was always bright,
genial, gentle and courteous, and, to the last, he showed
indomitable pluck and determination. His life on earth
ended suddenly, as he had wished it might, and as we
laid his mortal remains to rest in the beautiful cemetery
of Graceland on a bright sunny afternoon and strewed
flowers upon his grave, we felt and believed that he had
entered into that "peace of God which passeth all
understanding."
William Todd,
Joseph J. Siddall,
Charles T. Hotchkiss,
Committee.

SAMUEL CRAIG PLUMMER.
Major and Surgeon Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, United States
Volunteers. Died at Rock Island, Illinois, April 2g, igoo.
OUR late Companion, Dr. Samuel Craig Plummer,
died at his home in Rock Island, Illinois, on the
29th day of April, 1900. His health had been
gradually failing for a year past, although he had been
able to attend to his professional labor until within a few
weeks of his death.
It may be said he died in the fullness of years and
from sheer exhaustion of physical strength and activity.
He was in full possession of all his mental faculties,
and conscious of his surroundings until a very short time
before his decease.
The Doctor was born April 10, 1 821, at Salem Cross
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Roads, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and at the
time of his death was a few days over seventy-nine years
of age. His paternal line of ancestry, in America, extended
back to one Francis Plummer, who emigrated in 1733
from England and settled at Newbury, in the then
Colony, now State of Massachusetts.
The family name and fame have been well represented
since in both civil and military affairs of early Colonial
times, as well as in the Revolutionary era of 1776, and
the subsequent history of this country.
The boyhood days of his life were passed in the home of
his parents John B. and Elizabeth Cray Plummer, where
he obtained his early education in the common school.
This elementary instruction was subsequently enlarged
by an academic course of study in the preparatory de
partment of the Western Reserve College, Ohio; by a
careful tuition under Dr. Lacassett, and attendance upon
medical lectures at Cleveland College, from which insti
tution he received his diploma. It is said that Dr.
Plummer was the last survivor of his college class.
Among the early incidents of his professional career,
it may be said that he was one of the pioneers of Cali
fornia in the days of the first gold excitement. He
crossed the plains in 1850 and returned home by way of
the Isthmus of Panama in 1851.
Dr. Plummer was first married on October 17, 1844,
to Julia Hayes, of Burg Hill, Ohio, who died October 6,
1872. By this alliance there were born five children —
three daughters and two sons — one, Samuel C. Plummer,
Jr., a prominent physician and surgeon of Chicago.
On January 9, 1874, he again married, his second
union being with Sarah Moor Dawson, of Wflmington,
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Dr. Plummer left his home in Rock Island, for Spring
field, April, 1 86 1, and on May 21st was, by Governor
Yates, commissioned Surgeon of the Thirteenth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry with the rank of Major. He im
mediately joined the regiment, then in camp at Dixon.
He served with such conspicuous ability during the Cam
paign of the Southwest under General Curtis, and after
wards in the operation along the Mississippi River,
culminating in the Campaign and Siege of Vicksburg,
that he was appointed and served as Medical Director of
theFirstDivision, Fifteenth Army Corps, on the Staff
of General Osterhaus, and subsequently was by General
Sherman promoted to Surgeon of the Fifteenth Corps,
and in that capacity served until after the battle of Ring
gold, Georgia, in November, 1863, when he asked to be
relieved, joined his regiment and with it was mustered
out of service on the following June, the term of service
of the regiment having expired.
Dr. Plummer was as conspicuous for his cool, daring
courage as for his ability. A kindlier heart never beat
within the breast of man. He was the very soul of
honor, and the affection and esteem in which he was
held by the soldiers of his regiment amounted almost to
worship. Many times on the march did he dismount
from his horse, and after placing in the saddle a footsore
or sick soldier, would trudge along beside him. His
companionship was an inspiration and his friendship a
benediction. Having closed his military career he returned to his
home at Rock Island, where he practiced his profession
until he answered the final roll call. He was an active
and honored member of many medical, fraternal and
military organizations. As a member of the Presbyterian
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memory of his associates and friends, and his influence
for good will be felt and appreciated as the years go on.
The Companions of this Commandery will sadly miss
his genial and loving presence, and we shall revere him
as one who was true and loyal to his family, his friends,
his country and his God.
To the bereaved wife and children we extend our
sincere sympathy.
John D. Crabtree,
James G. Everest,
David H. Law,
Committee.

EVERELL FLETCHER DUTTON.
Lieutenant Colonel One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry and
Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers. Died at
Sycamore, Illinois, June 8, igoo,
THE life of General Everell F. Dutton may be epito
mized, — that he was born in Sullivan County, New
Hampshire, and at the age of eight removed with his
parents to S3'camore, Illinois, where he lived until his
death. He responded to the first call of President Lin
coln for volunteers, and entered the service as First
Lieutenant Company F, Thirteenth Illinois. He after
wards assisted in raising the One Hundred and Fifth
Illinois, of which he was Major, and later became Lieu
tenant Colonel, and was appointed Brevet Brigadier
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After the close of the war, he returned to his home
and was elected County Clerk. In 1877, he was elected
a member of the General Assembly of the State, and a
year later, Clerk of the Supreme Court for the Northern
Grand Division of Illinois. Later, in 1883, he became
President of the National Bank in his city. He was
married in 1863 to Miss Rosina A. Payne, of Herkimer
County, New York. Two sons were born to him, both
of whom have entered upon a useful career in life. He
passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon, June 8,
1900, and was laid to his flnal rest, mid the mourning of
his wide circle of acquaintances and friends, with appro
priate honors.
How poor and inadequate does this brief epitome ap
pear as a portrayal of the life and character of this noble,
brave and generous man; yet how shall be recorded the
generous impulses of his soul — the humanity that ever
characterized him, or the noble, manly and social quali
ties that won the love and esteem of all who came within
the circle of his influence. How poor is human language
to portray the emotions which come with memory of his
kindly care for his comrades, for the feeble and helpless,
and the generous impulses which accorded to all men the
same rights that he demanded for himself. Those under
his command, and his associates in arms, remember with
pride his quick appreciation of the duty of the moment,
his prompt execution of every order, and his ever present
care for the men of his command, of whatever station
they might be.
Space will necessarily prevent entering upon a recital
of those grand and heroic deeds which marked him as
born to command, and which inspired confidence and
courage, in the hour of peril, in every heart. It may be
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of the positions which he filled, or as a legislator, or as
a commander, by his strong personality, indomitable
courage and bearing, the clear perception of duty and
far-reaching logical conclusions, he won the hearts and
confidence of an ever-increasing circle of admirers and
friends. In private life he was just and generous, and
ever regardful of the rights of others; in public life he
was punctilious in the discharge of every duty, and
faithful to every obligation; he was in all affairs a wise
counsellor and an efficient and trustful friend.
Once again, one of the bright ones of earth has pushed
aside the portiere that divides the limitless eternity of the
past from the no less limitless eternity of the future, and
left a void in the aching hearts of friends that can never
be filled this side of eternity. We have gathered around
the little mound that marks where we have laid him, and
we know that the snows will come and cover that mound
with its white mantle, and so fructify the soil that verdure
shall spring up on it; the birds will carol in the branches
above his grave, the busy tide of commerce will go on,
and the tramp of the innumerable caravan of humanity
will march on, to lay down beside him, but we know
that he is not there. That which we knew as his proud
form lies in the sheet that wraps his mouldering clay,
but he is not there. He stands upon the vantage ground
where he views the past and the future, clothed upon
with every kindly word, every generous and heroic deed
of his life; and oh! how resplendent he is, thus clad, as
he stands ready to meet and welcome the coming of his
King and Lord.
And so we leave him, trusting in that beneficence that
has said that He marks even the sparrow's fall. And if
it be, that he who feedeth the hungry, clothes the naked,
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every kindly duty to himself, his country and his kind,
in the name of the Master, shall hear the welcome plaudit,
"Well done," we may well believe that this loving,
humane, affectionate, brave and noble man has entered
upon a life the fruition of which rests upon the prom
ises of his God.
Henry A. Pearsons,
Theodore S. Rogers,
Douglas Hapeman,
Cojnmittee.

MARTIN JAMES RUSSELL.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Twenty-ttiird Illinois Infantry, United
Stales Volunteers. Died at Mackinac Island,
Michigan, June 2j, igoo,
?yj ARTIN J. RUSSELL was born in Chicago, De-
l \ cember 20, 1845, and his home was always here.
^"^ He died at Mackinac Island, Michigan, whither
he had gone for rest and to recuperate a constitution
broken by long continued overwork, June 25, 1900.
His father was of heroic fibre, and lost his life at the
post of duty. Captain of a sailing vessel, in a terrible
storm upon Lake Michigan. His mother, the sister of
the famous General James A. Mulligan, shared his lofty
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In the public schools of our city, the widow's son
availed himself of the opportunity to obtain the begin
nings of an education which opened wide to his clear
and strong mind the doors of learning.
In response to the first call of President Lincoln for
troops to defend the flag, the patriot Mulligan, in April,
1861, began in Chicago, the enlistment of the men and
boys, of Irish descent for the most part, who were will
ing to give their all, their lives and sacred honor in de
fense of the land they loved.
Young Russell, then a mere school boy, accompanied
his uncle and his " Irish Brigade" to St. Louis, Jefferson
City and Lexington, and though not then "an enlisted
man," he yet shared in the duties and privations of the
Union troops at and during the Siege of Lexington, serv
ing as a volunteer aid upon the Staff of Colonel Mulligan.
He was made a prisoner of war, but on the showing that
his name was not upon the muster rolls, he was released
and permitted to return to his home.
The surrender of Lexington after a most heroic de
fense, which brought to Colonel Mulligan and his com
mand only the highest commendation and praise, was
followed by the muster out of the Irish Brigade by order
of General Fremont. Mulligan, impatient to be again
in the service, soon obtained from Washington authority
to recruit a new command, the Twenty-third Illinois
Volunteers. Companion Russell was made a Second
Lieutenant in Company A of this regiment.
The new regiment was ordered to Annapolis, Mary
land. After a brief stop there, it proceeded to New Creek
to intercept and prevent General Early's army from en
tering Petersburgh. It had many brushes with General
Early and also with Stewart's cavalry. Meantime Lieu
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was detached from his company and placed upon the
Staff of the Colonel.
To Colonel Mulligan's Brigade was assigned the im
portant duty to harrass General Lee's army on his retreat
from Gettysburg.
To tell of all the service done by the command with
which Companion Russell was connected during the
bloody days of 1862, 1863 and 1864, is not needed, and
to do so would require space too great for this memorial.
Truer and braver men were not in the army of the Union
than those in the Brigade of which Russell was Acting
Assistant Adjutant General. When General Crook moved
against the army of General Early, Mulligan was in com
mand of a division. The fighting was constant and severe.
It culminated at Winchester, when his heroic soul passed
from the battlefield to " Fame's eternal camping ground."
Companion Russell remained in the service until Sep
tember 19, 1864, when he was honorably mustered out.
Returning to Chicago, he soon became connected
with journalism, for which he had a remarkable talent.
He was a leading editorial writer upon the staff of the
Chicago Times in the days of that paper's greatest
power and excellence. An intimate editorial associate
says of him: "He virtually organized the Chicago
Herald and left the service of that paper on a point
of principle. Then he again became connected with
the Times underthe late Carter H. Harrison, Sr. , and
severed his connection finally with that journal on a
point of personal honor. As chief writer for the Times,
he would not allow the controlling power to misrepresent
his sentiments in regard to a presidential aspirant. Few
men would have been so punctilious in a matter of im
personal writing, but such was Martin J. Russell, true to
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From the day of his entrance into the journalistic
field, he was recognized not only as a writer of unsur
passed force, clearness and classic elegance of diction,
but as a high-minded patriotic citizen, who would say no
word and do no act that was dishonest or insincere.
He became widely known, and had he desired politi
cal preferment no question but his popularity was such
that he might have been chosen for almost any office
within the gift of the people. One position alone was
he willing to accept, that of South Park Commissioner,
to which unsolicited he was appointed as the unanimous
choice of the Judges of the Circuit Court. For more
than a decade he gave rare intelligence and persistent
attention to the highly important duties of this place,
and it is no exaggeration to say, that no citizen of Chi
cago contributed more valuable service to the community
than did he as a member of that Board. A zealous mem
ber of the Democratic organization, he would brook no
effort to use the money or the servants of the public to
promote a partisan end. So valuable was his service,
that it was only because of his resignation of the place
upon his appointment by President Cleveland to be Col
lector of the Port of Chicago (which rendered him legally
disqualified to continue a Park Commissioner), that the
Judges reluctantly appointed another in his place.
The Collector of the Port of Chicago has always been
•deemed in an especial manner, the personal representa
tive of the President. Such was Companion Russell,
the personal friend and official representative of President
Cleveland. It is safe to say that no important action
was taken by President Cleveland in the West, and espe
cially in Chicago, except after a full and ample conference
with his Coflector of the Port." Neither the Chief Execu
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intimacy, — trust and confidence on the one side, wisdom
and fidelity on the other.
He was genial and lovable by nature, and no man
who came within the charm of his personal influence
could fail to become an admirer and friend. He pos
sessed a rare and pleasing humor, a gift in conversation
which made him as easily the center of every circle in
which he found himself as was Dr. Johnson himself,
whom in some of the latter's more admirable aspects he
resembled. In 1873, he married Miss Cecilia C. Walsh of this-
city, " an event that crowned his active and honorable
life with the blossoms of perfect domestic happiness."
His wife and nine chfldren, James C. (now a member of
the First Class in Succession in this Order), Katherine,
Martin C. , Louis, Genie, Irene, William Amberg, Ruth
and Ceciha, survive him, and as has been well said:
"have in his bright career and honored memory heir
looms more precious than material gems."
A consistent and devout member of the Roman Cath
olic Church, he gave friendship and respect to all whose
lives were upright and clean of whatever faith, or of none.
To his widow, our sister, and to his children, whose-
happiness and growth into usefulness and honor shall
ever be of concern to the members of this Military Order,
in which he was proud to claim membership, we tender
the sympathy of men who shared with him a soldier's life
and patriot service, who loved and honored him, and
who now await with resignation the hour which shaU
summon them to join "the innumerable caravan" of
comrades and companions gone before.
Richard S. Tuthill,
Michael W.- Phalen,
John J. .Abercrombie,
Committee^

JOHN MASON LOOMIS.
Colonel Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 2, igoo.
JOHN MASON LOOMIS was born January 5, 1825,
at Windsor, Connecticut. He was descended from
an old English family, of which Joseph Loomis, of
Braintree, Essex County, England, was the first to come
to America, on July 17, 1638, settling in Boston. After
wards, in 1640, he purchased a large tract of land in
Windsor, Connecticut, whichihas remained ever since in
the Loomis family.
The parents of our late Companion were James
Loomis, a native of Windsor, and Abigail Sherwood
Chaffee Loomis, of Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County,
Connecticut. James Loomis was a merchant and mill
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owner, who, being a public spirited and patriotic man,
of military aptitude and skill, served for many years as
Colonel in the First Regiment of Connecticut State
Guards. He named his son, John Mason, after a famous
officer of the Colonial forces, distinguished for gallantry
during the French and Indian War.
As a youth our Companion received a thorough
academic education and such a business training as was
natural in a thrifty and industrious family. He inherited
all the martial spirit of his ancestry, and took so active
a part in the military affairs of his locality that he
attained the rank of Captain in the State Militia at the
age of eighteen. He then applied for a position in the
United States Navy and received a warrant as Midship
man, but opportunities for active service were so rare
then that he awaited orders until further delay seemed
useless. Being desirous of seeing something of the world
he went to sea in the ship "Huntress," a merchant
vessel engaged in the East India trade, visiting China,
the Philippines and other countries. On his return he
came to Chicago in 1845, then he went to Mflwaukee,
where he engaged in the lumber business with M. W.
Clark & Co.
He was married in 1849, to Miss Mary Hunt, daughter
of Milo Hunt, of Sherburne, Chenango County, New
York. He leaves her now surviving him as his sorrow
ing widow.
In 1852 he transferred the main portion of the lumber
business to Chicago, establishing it under the firm name
of Loomis & Ludington at the corner of Madison and
Market streets. He also maintained a branch thereof
at Twelfth street bridge.
Soon after settling in Chicago Mr. Loomis began to
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Light Guard, which became a very popular and efficient
military body, of which he was elected an officer. At
the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he clearly
foresaw that a serious conflict was inevitable, and there
fore promptly exerted himself in raising a regiment of
carefully selected men. He was so successful in this
that it was quickly filled up. Owing to his proficiency
in military science he was tendered the command of this
fine body of men, which he promptly accepted, and they
were mustered into the service of the United States as
the Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, on August
I, 1861. Colonel Loomis thereupon bade farewell to his
prosperous business and comfortable home, entering
upon the arduous campaign which he clearly saw before
him, with all the earnestness of true patriotism. His
varied experiences had given him a keen knowledge of
men; his technical skill and indomitable personal courage
had in other respects so well fitted him for the under
taking that it soon became manifest that he was a born
leader, quite equal to all the emergencies of warfare.
His command quickly became animated with the spirit
of the leader, so that the war record of the regiment
became most honorable and brilliant. It participated
in fifty-seven battles or skirmishes, and the marches
made during the three years of its service amounted to
over sixty-nine hundred miles.
When the regiment returned to Springfield, Iflinois,
for re-enlistment, it was most enthusiastically received,
and Governor Richard Yates then said:
"When I selected Colonel Loomis as the command
ing officer of the regiment, it was not because he had
raised it. I selected him because of his abflity to com
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country; and I was not mistaken in the man. He has
proved equal to the emergency. The names of New
Madrid, of Island Number Ten, of Iuka, Corinth, Farming-
ton, Vicksburg, Jackson, Tunnel Hfll, and Chattanooga,
which are inscribed upon its battle-scarred flags, and
upon those fields which its valor won, afford ample
evidence of the valuable service which was performed
there. We have watched you through long and tedious
marches, through sufferings and trials. In that memorable
battle of Tunnel Hill we saw you march undismayed at
the head of the army and receive for your valor the praise
of your commanding generals. Grant and Sherman."
His fitness for leadership, and his executive ability
must have been quickly discerned by his superior officers,
for it appears that during his service in the field he was
most of the time either acting with his regiment as an
independent command or was in command of a brigade
or a division. He served in the Second Division, Army
of the Mississippi; Second Division, Thirteenth Army
Corps; First Division, Sixteenth Army Corps; Fourth
Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee.
With the Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry Volunteers
he exercised an independent command in Northern
Missouri in the year 1861, and until February, 1862.
Commanded the First Brigade, Second Division,
Army of the Mississippi, in 1862.
Commanded the Second Brigade, Second Division,
Thirteenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, in 1862.
Commanded the First Brigade, First Division, Six
teenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, in 1863.
Commanded the First Division, Sixteenth Army
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, in 1863.
Commanded the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Fif
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Commanded a Division composed of Colonel Burch-
beck's Brigade, Eleventh Army Corps, Army of the
Potomac, and his own First Brigade, Fourth Division,
Fifteenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, at
Chattanooga, and on the right in General W. T. Sher
man's attack on Missionary Ridge.
Commanded the rear guard of the Thirteenth Army
Corps, Army of the Tennessee, December, 1 862, to January,
1863, from Oxford, Mississippi, to LaGrange, Tennessee.
He participated in the engagements at New Madrid,
Point Pleasant, Farmington, Vicksburg, Mission Ridgej
Holly Springs, Mississippi, Island Number Ten, Siege of
Corinth, Smith's Farm, Jackson, Relief of Knoxville,
LaGrange, Tennessee.
Was Commandant of Post at Oxford, Mississippi.
He was recommended for promotion to Brigadier
General by General U. S. Grant, in December, 1862;
by General W. T. Sherman in December, 1863, and
again by General U. S. Grant, in April, 1864.
For some unexplained reason, to the regret of his
many friends, he never received the promotion, to which
he was justly entitled.
In the St. Louis Globe Democrat there recently
appeared a notice of General H. V. Boynton's address
to the Army and Navy Club, concerning the Chatta
nooga Campaign, which stated that:
"The audience embraced distinguished ex-Con
federates as well as ex-Union officers, together with
many officers of the regular army. General Roger Q.
Mills of Texas was one of the ex-Confederates present.
His brigade was one of the three or four which Cleburne
marched to the northern end of Missionary Ridge and
successfully pitted against Sherman in the hard fighting
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' ' When General Boynton had concluded his talk Gen
eral Mills showed on the map where his brigade had
fought. " 'There was an incident,' he said, 'connected with
that battle which I recollect very distinctly. I am not
able to tell it all, and perhaps some one here can com
plete the story with the name of the officer. Down be
low where we lay on Tunnel Hill was a large open field.
Beyond that were some woods. A Federal brigade came
through the woods and out into the open field. There
the troops re-formed their lines. The officer in com
mand was perfectly cool. He took his time, and the
troops formed as if they were on dress parade. They
were within easy range and we fired into them. They
broke and went back into the woods. In a few minutes
they came back and formed again in the same deliberate
way. When the officer in command had got them formed
to suit him, he made them lie down, whfle he rode up and
down the front, as if waiting for orders. General Hardee
came up to my brigade while we were firing on them and
said: ' Stop shooting at those men. It's murder.'
" 'We stopped. Some time afterward I talked with
McDowell about Hardee's order, and asked him what he
thought of the situation. He said: 'It was not murder;
it was war.'
" 'Hardee was an officer of the regular army; he had
fought under the flag, and I suppose he couldn't stand
seeing it fired on when carried by such brave men. The
way that brigade and its commander acted under fire
impressed me, and I have often wondered who the
officer was.'
" One of the officers present was able to tell to whom
General Mills's tribute of bravery applied. He was Gen
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General Carman decided that the brigade was that of
General John M. Loomis, composed of the Twenty-sixth
and Nineteenth Illinois and the Twelfth and One Hun
dredth Indiana."
Colonel Loomis resigned from the service April 30,
1864, having so greatly overtaxed his powers of endur
ance that it became imprudent for him to continue longer
in the field.
Upon the return to civil life after the hardships and
dangers of his war service. Colonel Loomis displayed in
a vigorous manner the same courage and skill that had
made him conspicuous in the field. He found that his
former prosperous trade facilities had disappeared, and
that his old home had been destroyed by fire. He
immediately resumed the lumber business, but being
without any capital he had to commence at the begin
ning. By his diligence and good judgment he gradually
built up a trade that became so profitable as to make
him quite independent.
He acquired an interest in extensive pine lands near
Manistee and Ludington, Michigan, which, being wisely
developed and their products marketed with good judg
ment, afforded very large returns. The Pere Marquette
Lumber Corhpany was organized by him to carry on
this branch of the business, and he remained its Presi
dent to the time of his death. The sale of the lumber
in Chicago was managed by Colonel Loomis and his
friend of the war period, John McLaren, under the firm
name of John Mason Loomis & Company, up to 1885,
when Colonel Loomis withdrew from the active business
of the firm. For over forty years he had been a leading
figure in this branch of industry, and no man therein had
a higher reputation or was more universally respected.
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man of generous nature, ever ready to respond to the
calls of charity, and cheerfully gave of his means and
time to aid the deserving, or his friends among the old
soldiers in their hours of need.
After the great conflagration in 1871, the work of the
Chicago Relief and Aid Society became of great import
ance and assumed vast proportions. Colonel Loomis en
tered into this with the same zeal and masterly adminis
trative powers that he had shown in war and in business.
He gave his time and his means freely to this great work
during the time when the utmost energy and discretion
were necessary to distribute properly the lavish aid which
was contributed from all sources to the stricken com
munity. As one of the officers of this great charity he
rendered such efficient services that they were made the
subject of especial commendatory resolutions.
The desire of Colonel Loomis so to order his affairs
as to be of the most use to his fellow men, and his good
judgment in the method of accomplishing this result, is
shown clearly in the disposition of his estate.
His widow receives the income thereof during her
hfe, after which the entire property — over one mflhon
dollars in value — is to go toward the maintaining of the
Loomis Institute at his old home, Windsor, Connecticut,
which, as stated by Colonel Loomis, is to be "A shrine
from which boys and girls shall take the highest inspira
tions for better and grander hves from the best of their
race who have gone before, and like them, ever keeping
the banner of human progress, honor and manhood to
the front."
It would seem probable that if the beneficiaries of the
Institute do this with the fidelity displayed by the gener
ous donor, that the munificent bequest wfll not have
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Colonel Loomis never lost his interest in military
affairs. He rendered efficient services to the State Mili
tia, raising large sums of money therefor when it was in
need. He always maintained the most cordial relations
with the officers of the regular service, and was instru
mental in the organization of the Illinois Commandery
of the Loyal Legion, being one of the charter members,
having been elected for that purpose by the Pennsylvania
Commandery, in 1876. He was Vice-Commander from
1880 to 1883, and succeeded General P. H. Sheridan as
Commander in 1884.
He was a Comrade of George H. Thomas Post No. 5,
of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a man of
deep religious convictions, and was a member of Grace
Episcopal Church, Chicago.
He was prominent in club circles, being a member of
the Chicago, Calumet, Union, Washington Park, and
Onwentsia Clubs, and in all respects performed the duties
of a good citizen with the fidelity which had ever char
acterized his acts during a long, active and eventful life.
John McLaren,
Ephraim A. Otis,
Horatio L. Wait,
Committee

PETER GUY GARDNER.
First Lieutenant Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Lake Villa, Illinois, August £, igoo.
pETER GUY GARDNER was born in Dresden, Ohio,
fC 1842; was the second of four children of Adam and
^^"^ Elizabeth Gardner, and was brought up near the
family homestead, serving an apprenticeship to a farmer
in that locality.
Companion Gardner's mother died when he was but
four years of age, and his father joined an Ohio regiment
for service in the Mexican War. At the age of fifteen
young Gardner left the farmer's service and during the
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April 17, 1 86 1, at President Lincoln's first call for
troops, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fifteenth
Ohio Infantry, for three months' service. At the expi
ration of that time he re-enlisted in the same company
and regiment for three years; was appointed Corporal
March 7, 1862; Sergeant, January i, 1864; First Sergeant,
January 16, 1864; First Lieutenant, February 2, 1865.
Companion Gardner went through the entire cam
paign, from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and participated in
the engagements at Phillipi, Carrick's Ford, Cheat Moun
tain, Shiloh, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge,
Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Chatta
hoochee River and the Siege of Atlanta. In June, 1865,
he was sent to Western Texas, where he remained until
the close of the war. He received no serious wounds,
but the sword which he leaves as a badge of honor and
which has hung in his house since the close of the war,
bears the imprint of a piece of shell which struck it while
in his hand. After the war Companion Gardner spent a
short time visiting his relatives at the old home, and then
removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he engaged in the in
surance business. In 1869 he removed to Chicago, mak
ing the suburban town of LaGrange his home, and con
tinued in the same business up to the time of his death,
which occurred August 5, 1900, at Crooked Lake, near
Lake Villa, Illinois, where he was accidentally drowned
while bathing.
In June, 1869, he married Miss Maroa E. Conklin, of
Darien, Wisconsin, who died in 1873, leaving one son,
Charles A., who died in 1896, while seeking health in
California. In October, 1874, he was united in marriage
to Miss Luella Humphrey, of Chicago, and to them were
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the age of sixteen; Eugene, the youngest, now eighteen
years of age, and the widow, remain to mourn the loss
of a kind, indulgent father and husband.
Companion Gardner always took great interest in
civic societies, and especially with organizations growing
out of war comradeship. In the Grand Army of the Re
public and Loyal Legion, he was always a worker, and
much of his spare time was devoted to the welfare of his
comrades. He organized Hiram McClintock Post, No.
667, of La Grange, Illinois, and was its Commander sev
eral times, being its Chaplain at the time of his death.
He became a member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, November 13, 1890, his In
signia Number being 8,293. He was very regular in his
attendance. Companion Gardner was a member of the
first Council of the Village of La Grange in 1880, and in
1 88 1 and for several terms officiated as President of the
Board. From 1890 to 1896 he served as President of
the Township High School Board. For sixteen years he
was a Town Trustee.
Theodore S. Rogers,
William J. Hemstreet,
William L. Cadle,
Committee.

EDWARD ROOT PRICE.
Sergeant Ninth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Chicago, Illinois, August J, igoo.
CTDWARD ROOT PRICE was born in Brattleboro,
I Vermont, November 5, 1843, of Puritan and Rev-
^*~" olutionary ancestry, and closed his life-work in this
city August 5, 1900. At the age of thirteen he came
West with his parents and settled in Chicago, which
place was his home almost continuously until he died.
He attended the public schools and at the commence
ment of the Civil War he was a pupil at the High School
in this city. In i85i his father, Samuel Harrison Price,
responded to the call of his country, and enlisted in the
Ninth Illinois Cavalry, and was appointed Regimental
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filled with the patriotic enthusiasm of youth, imitated
the example of his father, left school to face the dangers
of the battlefield and enlisted as a private in Company
A in the same regiment. After being mustered in, the
regiment was detained at Camp Douglas for several
months until ordered South. In the meantime measles
became epidemic in the camp, and this together with
army privations filled the hospitals, and Price was among
the number compelled to succumb to the disease. This
experience seems to have undermined his health for all
the future years. At last the regiment was ordered
South and there was great rejoicing among the soldiers,
as they hoped to see actual service upon the battlefield.
However, they were stationed at Helena, Arkansas, under
the command of Colonel Brackett for many months and
though they took part in no important engagements they
had many skirmishes with the enemy. Being stationed
as they were in the swampy regions of Arkansas, many
of the regiment again fell ill, and Mr. Price became so
filled with malarial poison that he was sent North on a
furlough. His father also being very sick came with
him, and died a week after his arrival in the city. The
son returned to his post, but his health was so shattered
that he was finally discharged February i6, 1863, as
Sergeant of Company L, Ninth Illinois Cavalry.
Some months after, he entered business life and
enjoyed its activities untfl 1890, when fafling health
compelled his retirement. He was elected an Original
Companion of the First Class of the Order, through the
Commandery of the State of Ilhnois, October 9, 1890,
and so far as his health permitted was a constant attend
ant at its meetings and devoted to its interests.
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again we have been called upon to mourn the loss of one
who though not prominent in army life, nor engaged
actively on the battlefield, was still filled with patriotism
that enabled him to do his work well wherever duty called.
John W. Streeter,
Horace H. Thomas,
Holmes Hoge,
Committee,

EDWARD MCALLISTER.
Captain First Illinois Light Artillery, United States Volunteers.
Died at Plainfield, Illinois, August 2j, igoo.
EDWARD McAllister was bom in Salem, Wash
ington County, New York, on December 24, 1828,
* and died in Plainfield, Will County, Illinois, on
August 25, 1900, in the seventy-second year of his age.
His early years were passed in the home of his birth, and
his education was almost wholly acquired in Washington
Academy, which institution was founded in the lifetime
of his grandfather, and to whom its inception and bufld-
ing were largely due.
At the age of twenty-four the deceased came to Illi
nois, bought a farm about three miles from Plainfield,
upon which he made his home during life. He was de
voted to his farming interests, and had expended a large
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sum of money in tilling and otherwise improving the raw
prairie soil. The farm eventually proved to be one of
the best dairy farms in the State, and the revenue was
sufficiently large to grant its owner a competency — but
not without his constant care and attention. He was
daily devoted to his work, until about one year before
his death, when heart trouble forced him to desist..
Politically he was a Republican, and an earnest one,
frequently heading the delegations from his town; but it
was with him a devotion to principle, and not for political
preferment. He never sought and never held a political
office for profit.
As Captain Ed. McAllister, .the soldier, his career was
notable. He served as commanding officer of a com
pany of State Militia at the outbreak of the Civil War,
which company, on April 21, 1861, was called into active
service by the old War Governor, Richard Yates. This
company was dispatched to Cairo, Illinois, where it was
mustered into the United States service as Company K,
Tenth Illinois Infantry.
On September ist following, it was transferred to and
became part of the First Illinois Artillery, but was gen
erally known and officially recognized as "McAllister's
Battery," in honor of its brave commander. The com
pany enlisted at first in the three months' service, but
most of its members re-enlisted for the war, and made
the nucleus of the organization that fought gallantly and
left an enduring record in history. Its first active en
gagement was at Fort Henry, the battery, by direction
of General Prentiss, having remained in Fort Holt, Ken
tucky, in charge of the fortifications, until immediately
preceding that battle. From henceforward this battery
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McAllister's Battery was the first Union battery to
enter Fort Henry, and its Captain was placed in com
mand of that fort. At Fort Donelson this battery was
the first to open its guns against the Confederate strong
hold, which action, having been taken without orders, at
first caused consternation; but it woke the Union soldiers
from their slumbers and the general engagement soon
followed. All the guns of this battery were during the
battle disabled, but were replaced by new brass ones in
time to participate on the Shiloh field.
Having erected his battery at Shiloh at the edge of
a clearing, from which point it fought and silenced Stan
ford's Mississippi Battery, Captain McAllister noticed
the columns of the Fourth (Confederate) Tennessee ap
proaching. Dividing his battery, with three guns with
drawn somewhat to the rear, he opened one gun upon
the enemy with canister, killing thirty-one and disabling
one hundred and sixty men. This record for severe re
sults was not surpassed, if equalled, during the war.
Shortly after Shfloh, the hardships and privations of
mflitary life proved too much, even for the rugged and
hardy constitution of the farmer-soldier, and succumbing
to severe illness he was compelled to resign^his commis
sion. Edward McAllister was married in i860, just prior to
the opening of the war, to Miss Fanny M. Beebe, a native
also of Salem, New York. Five children were born to
them, of whom four are living, all, save one son, being
married. His widow also survives him. The late Wfl-
Ham K. McAhister, of Chicago, most eminent in the legal
profession, at one time Judge of the old Recorder's Court,
and from 1870 to 1872 on the Supreme Bench of Illinois,.
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of Illinois's best citizenship, honorable and upright, a
loyal neighbor, a true husband, a tender father and a
faithful friend. He was a member of Plainfield Lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Joliet Chapter
Royal Arch Masons, the Loyal Legion, Bartleson Post
Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee.
Uziah Mack,
James G. Elwood,
Matthew W. Borland,
Committee.

ARTHUR ARNOLD SMITH.
Colonel Eighty-third Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier Geneiai,
United States Volunteers. Died at Manitou, Colorado,
» Septe-mber 21 , igoo.
TTRTHUR ARNOLD SMITH was the son of Erastus
/\ and Martha (Hulick) Smith, was born in Batavia,
^^^ Clermont County, Ohio, on May 29, 1829, and died
at Manitou, Colorado, September 21, 1900. The family
came to Illinois in the Fall of 1840 and settled in Knox
County. Arthur attended school and performed farm
work. He made the best of his early advantages. In
1848 he entered the Preparatory Department of Knox
College and graduated from the College with high honors
in 1853. He at once entered upon the study of law, under the
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County, New York, and a year later he entered the office
of Honorable Julius Manning at Peoria, where his legal
studies were completed. He was admitted to practice
in 1855 and opened his first office in Galesburg, Illinois,
where he continued to practice until the breaking out of
the Civil War.
With General A. C. Harding of Monmouth, Iflinois,
he organized the Eighty-third Regiment Illinois Volun
teers; General Harding. being elected Colonel and Judge
Smith Lieutenant Colonel. The regiment was mustered
in at Monmouth, August 21, 1862, and was immediately
ordered to Forts Henry and Donelson. On February 3,
1863, the Confederate Generals Forrest, Wheeler and
Wharton made an attack on the Eighty-third Illinois
Volunteers, a company of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry and a
section of the guns of Flood's Battery C, Second Illinois
Artillery. Colonel Harding commanded the post and
Colonel Smith the regiment. The Confederates sur
rounded Fort Donelson and demanded its surrender.
The garrison stubbornly refused and the battle raged all
day, and at nightfall the enemy was forced to retreat.
Colonel Smith received high commendation for his part
in this successful engagement. He was finally assigned
to the command of the District of Tennessee with head
quarters at Clarksville, a position he held until the close
of the war, when, in 1865, he was mustered out with the
brevet rank of Brigadier General.
With these well-earned honors. General Smith re
turned to his home in Galesburg, but soon thereafter
left for Clarksville, Tennessee, on a business venture
with W. A. Peffer, afterwards United States Senator from
Kansas. He left Clarksville in 1866 owing to the ani
mosity towards Northerners and resumed the practice of
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him Circuit Judge to fill an unexpired term, and in June
of the same year he was elected to this position, and for
five consecutive terms he received the almost unanimous
suffrage of the people for that office, and for twenty-nine
years held court in most of the counties of the old Mili
tary Tract. Two years before the expiration of his last
term he resigned because of ill health.
His record on the bench was of the highest distinction.
He excelled as a chancery lawyer, where his decisions
were least hampered by technical rules. While of a
marked social and friendly disposition, he had the power
in a most extraordinary degree absolutely to divorce
himself on the bench from all personal influences and to
look solely to the matter of doing exact and impartial
justice. Both the attorneys and the people had the
utmost confidence in his ability and integrity. He was
a thorough and comprehensive student of the law, and
when he retired it was with the esteem of all citizens
without regard to party.
As a citizen General Smith was a man of broad views.
His life was beyond reproach; in his personal demeanor
towards his fellow-men he was kind and forbearing. He
was an attendant on the Congregational church. In
politics he was a Republican, serving in 1861 as a mem
ber of the Illinois Legislature. He was a member of the
Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States, of Post 45 Grand
Army of the Republic, and the Union Veteran Union,
and a Trustee of Knox CoUege. To all the varied duties
of his life. General Smith brought abflity, integrity and
patriotism. C. E. Lanstrum,
Nels Nelson,
Philip Sidney Post,
Committee.

JOSEPH HOOKER WOOD.
First Lieutenant Sixth Cavalry and Brevet Captain, United States
Army, Lieutenant Colonel Second Ne-w York Mounted Rijies,
United States Volunteers Died at Chicago, Illinois,
September 21, igoo.
e.ONEL WOOD was born June 3, 1838, in Water-
town, New York. His army record commences
with his enlistment, February 20, 1863, as private in
Second Regiment, United States Cavalry, for the term
of three years. On the 25th of February, 1863, he was
appointed Second Lieutenant, Fifth United States Cav
alry, at Washington, D.C, and was brevetted First Lieu
tenant for gallant services at the battle of Gettysburg.
He was severely wounded at Gettysburg, was captured,
paroled and cared for at the house of Captain Swoop
near Gettysburg. Was brevetted Captain, United
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States Army, July 28, 1864, for gallant and meritorious
services. While still maintaining rank in the United States
Army he was commissioned as Major of the Fifteenth
-New York Cavalry to date from September 16, 1863, and
served in the First, Second and Third Divisions, Cavalry
Corps, Army of the Potomac. He took part in the follow
ing battles and campaigns: Kelly's Ford, Virginia; part
of Stoneman's Raid, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station,
Aldie, Middlesburg, Uppersville, Gettysburg, Bad Lands,
Takahokuta Mountains and the closing battles of the war
in Virginia. Was commissioned Colonel Second New
York Mounted Rifles, March 13, 1865, but not mustered
on account of reduced size of regiment. Was commis
sioned Lieutenant Colonel Second New York Mounted
Rifles to date from March 13, 1865, and commanded the
regiment until it was mustered out at Fort Porter, Buffalo,
New York, August 10, 1865. He resigned from the regu
lar army May 7, 1867, honorably discharged.
Thus for seventeen years our Companion has been
with us, going in and out among us, closely and lovingly
observed, drawing us near to him by his modesty, his
earnestness, his fraternit}', and his steadfast discharge of
the varied duties of civil life.
During all of that time fraternity was with him a liv
ing and ruling sentiment, and no man made appeal to
him in vain in that sacred name if his circumstances and
situation allowed him to answer the call.
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
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He was a charter member of the "Western Society
of the Army of the Potomac" and one of its most active
members, being President of the Society during the
year 1894.
He was a member and Director of the Memorial Hall
Association of this city; very constant in his attend
ance, and zealous in promoting the welfare of that Asso
ciation. For many years he had been a member of George H.
Thomas Post No. 5, of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and it was as a member of the Grand Army of the Re
public that his great labors of the last year were per
formed. Having become identified with the movement to
locate the National Encampment here, he gave himself
up, body and heart, to making that Encampment suc
cessful in every particular. He worked night and day to
accomplish this purpose.
On the evening of the 21st of September he sat at
his home in pleasant converse with his wife and then he
lay down to rest.
Shortly before midnight the wife, alarmed by his
silence, addressed herself to him in affectionate alarm;
she found that he was not able to respond to her cry;
death stood at his bedside and called the stout-hearted
soldier to arise and depart; just as the new day was en
tering the portals of time, Joseph Hooker Wood joined
the majority.
He rests well; his widow, his daughters, his son, his
companions, will long remember him, and cherish ten
der recollections of his brave life for his country, his
brave battles in his days of soldiery, his no less earnest
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and we pray God that his mercy, which endureth forever,
may reach him and us. John C. Black,
John F. Weare,
Bradley Dean,
Committee.

MARCELLUS EPHRAIM JONES.
Captain Eighth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died at
WJieaton, Illinois, October g, igoo
e*IPANION Marcellus Ephraim Jones was born at
Poultney, Vermont, June 5, 1830, and died at
Wheaton, Illinois, October 9, 1900. He was the oldest
of nine children, three of whom with his mother, now
over ninety years of age, survive him.
He remained at home until he was seventeen years of
age, when he started for the West, stopping for nearly
two years in Western New York and then in Ohio. In
1850 he reached Chicago and engaged for four years in
the business of building. He then went to Weyauwega,
Wisconsin, and put up a large sash, door and blind
factory. While living there he married Miss Sara Reese,
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May I, 1856, who died June 13, 1858, leaving him one
child, a boy who lived until he was seven years of age.
After the death of his wife, and the burning of his factory
Companion Jones moved to DuPage County, Illinois, in
the fall of 1858, and settled at Danby, now Glen EUyn,
and went to work at his trade as carpenter and builder.
At the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, he laid
down his tools and enlisted, assisting materially in rais
ing Company E, Eighth Illinois Cavalry. The boys of
the company wanted him to take an office but he replied
he knew nothing of military science and tactics, and
went into the army as a private. He came from a race
of fighting people. It was his grandmother's brother.
General Stark, who at the battle of Bennington, during
the war of the Revolution, said to his boys just before
the battle, "Boys, we conquer to-day or Mollie Stark is
a widow." With this kind of blood in his veins, it is
very evident to us how easy it was for him to gradually
become promoted — September 5, 1861, to First Duty
Sergeant; December 5, 1862, to Second Lieutenant;
July 4, 1864, to First Lieutenant; October 10, 1864, to
Captain. He was in every movement of his regiment,
except for seven months when at General Sumner's
headquarters. History accords to him the honor of firing
the first shot at the battle of Gettysburg. On that
memorable morning, seeing the enemy approaching, he
took the carbine from one of his Sergeants and fired the
shot that opened the battle.
He was mustered out of the service in Chicago, July
17, 1865, and returned to Wheaton.
September i, 1864, while at home on a furlough, he
married Miss Naomi E. Meacham, and for the last thirty-
six years she has been at his side, sharing his joys and
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resided in Wheaton; that year they went to Colorado,
where they remained four years, again returning to
Wheaton, where they have resided continually since.
He has filled several township and city offices. In 1882
he was elected Sheriff of DuPage County. In 1890 was
appointed postmaster of Wheaton, which office he held
until the spring of 1895.
Our deceased Companion was a charter member of
E. S. Kelley Post, 513, Department of Illinois, Grand
Army of the Republic, and for a number of years its Com
mander. Also a member of Wheaton Lodge, No. 269,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and its Master for
several years. He was a member of Euclid Chapter,
No. 13, Royal Arch Masons, of Gebal Councfl, No. 81,
R. and S. M. He also belonged to the Knights of
Pythias and the Odd Fellows. He joined this Com
mandery February 10, 1898, and was a regular attend
ant at all its meetings.. He was an active member of
the Universalist Church.
As a soldier and citizen, it can well be said of him
that in army, official, and private life, his conduct was
always above reproach. He was true to every duty,
faithful to every trust. What more can be said of any
one .''
Deeply sympathizing with his widow and friends, we
with them deplore his loss, and shall ever hold his
memory in respect and esteem.
Florus D. Meacham,
Henry A. Pearsons,
William P. Wright,
Committee.

CHARLES REUBEN HALE.
Chaplain United States Navy. Died at Cairo, Illinois.
December 2j, igoo.
"TLT Cairo, Illinois, on the last Christmas day of the
/\ past century, the Right Reverend Charles Reuben
Hale, D.D., LL.D., passed the line that divides
this life from the future. This became his natal day in
another sphere! He was familiarly known as the Bishop
of Cairo, which title was official for some purposes, while
his more proper title was Bishop Coadjutor of Springfield.
Our distinguished late Companion was born at Lewis-
town, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1837.
His father was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, who
was Quartermaster General during our Civil War. Bishop
Hale graduated with high honors at the University of
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Pennsylvania in 1858. Whfle a student at this University
he published a treatise on the Rosetta Stone Inscription,
which won the commendation of that great scholar Baron
Humboldt, who wrote to him as follows: "The scien
tific analysis of the celebrated inscription of 'Rosetta,'
has appeared to me specially worthy of praise, since it
offers the first attempt at independent investigation
offered by the literature of the New Continent." In 1861
he was ordained as Deacon, and in the year following
as a Priest. During his early ministry he officiated as
assistant in two churches in the vicinity of Philadelphia.
He was appointed a Chaplain in the United States
Navy on March 10, 1863, and served in that capacity
until resignation March 26, 1871. During this time he
was stationed at the Naval Academy at Newport, Rhode
Island, on the United States Frigate Colorado, and also
at the League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia.
His abilities as a scholar have been demonstrated
throughout his entire life, but he was particularly distin
guished in that branch of the Christian church to which
he was attached. In 1870 he became rector of St.
John's church. Auburn, New York. In 1873 he took a
leading part in founding a mission among the Italians in
New York City. In 1874 he became one of the clergy
of the St. Paul Church, Baltimore. In 1886 he was
appointed the Dean of Davenport, Iowa, and on May
17, 1892, he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Springfield.
His special charge was the southern half of the Diocese
of Springfield, with Cairo as the principal city. On this
duty his battle of hfe ended.
As the author of several publications he established
an international reputation for research and scholarship,
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was specially active in the relief of the starving peasants
of Russia, for which service he received a personal letter
of thanks from Countess Tolstoi. He acquired a famil
iarity with the modern Greek language and also the Rus
sian language; in fact was a linguist of considerable note.
He spent some time in the far East, becoming familiar
with their religious life, associating on intimate terms
with many of their most distinguished religious leaders.
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
Iowa, November lO, 1891, and transferred to this Com
mandery, November 15, 1893.
Our departed Companion was personally well known
to but comparatively few of the members of this Com
mandery, owing to the fact that Chicago being our
chosen headquarters, he was located at the extreme
southern end of the State; hence he seldom joined us at
our stated reunions. To some of us, however, he is-
remembered with special pleasure on account of his
genial companionship.
He leaves no family, as his wife died several years
ago. We extend our sympathy to his many friends, and
particularly to his two sisters, Mrs. Mulien and Miss-
Hale of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and to his brother,
Mr. W. W. Hale, of Alden, Iowa.
John A. Grier,
Charles Waldo Adams,
E. W. Brooks,
Committee.-

HUNTINGTON WOLCOTT JACKSON.
First Lieutenant Fourth Neiv Jersey Lnfantry and Brevet Lieutenant
Colonel, United States Volunteers. Died at Newark,
Neiv Jersey, January j", igoi.
Tl-T THE threshold of the new century, the Illinois
^f\ Commandery of the Loyal Legion is called upon
^"^ to mourn the loss of one of its oldest and most
cherished members. On the 3d of January, 1901, Brevet
Lieutenant Colonel Huntington W. Jackson passed away
at his old home in Newark, New Jersey, surrounded by
sorrowing friends and kindred.
He was born in that city on the 28th day of January,
1 84 1, and had not quite reached the age of sixty years at
the time of his death, but those years were full of honor
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Colonel Jackson was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and
belonged to one of the oldest famflies of New Jersey. His
father, John P. Jackson, was for many years a leading
lawyer and prominent citizen of that State, and was at
one time the partner of Justice Bradley of the United
States Supreme Court. On his mother's side he was
related to the Wolcott and Huntington families of New
England, after whom he was named. The late Governor
Roger Wolcott, of Massachusetts, was his cousin.
Colonel Jackson prepared for college at Phillip's
Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Prince
ton College, now Princeton University, in 1859, but be
fore his college career was completed, the storm of Civil
War had broken upon the country, and he left college
never to return. The closing incident of his college life
is deserving of special mention.
At the outbreak of the Civil War when the great
wave of loyalty and patriotism swept over the entire
country with resistless force, Jackson, with other students,
requested permission to raise the American Flag over the
college buildings. The policy of " reconcihation " was,
at this time, in the ascendant, and the request was re
fused by the college authorities. The same evening
Colonel Jackson was one of a party which climbed up
the high tower of Nassau Hall and raised over it the flag
of his country. The authorities demanded that the flag
should be taken down by those who raised it, which was
promptly refused. For this act the entire party was
suspended and sent home. After the facts were fully
stated. Colonel Jackson's lather assured him that he was
proud of his conduct in the matter, and regarded his
suspension, under such circumstances, as the highest
honor the college could possibly bestow upon him. Sub
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when, in 1863, it conferred upon Colonel Jackson the
degree of Bachelor of Arts and gave him his diploma.
Colonel Jackson was unable, for family reasons, to
enter the army immediately, but in the summer of 1862,
he accompanied his sister, Mrs. Parker, of Boston, on a
steamer sent by the United States Sanitary Commission
to Harrison's Landing, to bring back to Washington the
sick and wounded of McClellan's Army. On the 6th day
of September, 1862, his wishes were finally gratified and
he entered the service as Second Lieutenant of the
Fourth New Jersey Volunteers, with which he was con
nected until the regiment was mustered out of service.
Colonel Jackson took part with his command in the
Maryland Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, and
was present at the fierce and destructive battle of Antie
tam on the 1 6th and 17th of September, 1862, where he
received special mention for gallantry and good conduct.
Shortly afterwards he was promoted to be First Lieuten
ant, and was assigned to duty as Aide de Camp to Gen
eral John Newton, commanding the Third Division, Sixth
Corps, Army of the Potomac, with whom he remained
until the end of the War. He took part in the Second
Battle of Fredericksburg, where he rendered most gal
lant and distinguished service. It will be remembered
that, in the ill-fated Campaign of Chancellorsville, in
1863, the Sixth Army Corps, under Major General John
Sedgwick, was ordered to cross the Rappahannock River
at Fredericksburg, and carry the works on Marye
Heights, where Burnside had been defeated only a few
month's before with such terrible loss. How bravely
and successfully this duty was perfornied makes one of
the brightest pages of the history of the Civil War. Few
however are aware of the part which Colonel Jackson
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lished several years after the war. General John Newton,
speaking of this action, says:
"One of the many heroic acts that came under my
observation during the Civil War, was in the assault
upon the famous stone wall at the battle of Fredericks
burg, where I was in command of a division that led the
assault. Three bodies of troops moved at the same time,
one of them out of the streets of the town, toward the
point of attack. The one to which I make special refer
ence, for every man was a hero who marched in these
columns, was obliged to cross a bridge spanning the
canal. It was a very narrow bridge and there was no
chance for delaying. In fact the men in the advance
columns were fairly mowed down under the terrific fire
from the Confederate artillery and infantry. Lieutenant
Huntington W. Jackson of my staff asked and received
permission to lead this column, the Colonel having been
wounded. This man and the gallant fellows he led
fought their way with dogged courage over the narrow
bridge to the open space beyond, and, strange to say.
Lieutenant Jackson was not wounded, though men fell
by the dozens on all sides of him, the carnage being
frightful. He was afterwards wounded, however, at the
battle of Kenesaw Mountain in Georgia. He is now a
lawyer in Chicago. For his gallantry on this occasion
he was warmly complimented by General Sedgwick, for
his services were purely voluntary and actuated by a
spirit of intrepid bravery. One of the other attacking
columns got through the, line, but the third failed, the
fire being so hot that the men in that column fairly
melted away. I consider that every man, especially
those who led the column over the bridge, performed an
individual act of heroism that deserves a greater recog
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could not deploy, and it does not need a soldier to tell
what it means for men to march only four abreast into
the teeth of a raking, sweeping artillery and infantry
fire. Yet, as the men were shot down, others equally as
brave hurried over the little bridge and filled their places.
They were great heroes, every one of them, and I am
glad to be able thus to honor them."
The bravery of Colonel Jackson was highly com
mended by his superior officers, and was the subject of
general remark by all who witnessed it. Major General
John Sedgwick, in his official report of this action, speaks
of Colonel Jackson in the warmest terms of commenda
tion. He says:
"The column had broken and the men were falling
back, but Lieutenant Jackson, having obtained permis
sion, and exposing himself to a fire that killed and
wounded one hundred and sixty out of the four hundred
in the regiment, rallied the column and passed with it
into the enemy's works."
General Newton also recommended that a brevet
should be conferred on him for his gallant and distin
guished service in this action.
One who took part in this battle recently gave to one
of this Committee a graphic description of the assault
upon the almost impregnable works of the enemy; the
men charged in column, over the bridge across the canal,
and up into the works of the enemy, with Jackson at
their head, where they captured a battery of the famous
Washington Artillery, the only one that was taken in
battle during the whole Civil War.
The action of Napoleon in leading the Grenadiers
across the bridge at Lodi has been the theme of song
and story for a hundred years, but his bravery was sur
passed by that of Jackson and those with him, in the
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571

Two days later, when Sedgwick crossed back to the
north side of the Rappahannock, closely pressed by the
victorious army of Lee, flushed with success over Hooker
at Chancellorsville, Jackson passed the entire night in
the saddle, bringing in the pickets just as daylight was
breaking, and was the last man of the Sixth Corps to
cross the river. But his modesty was equal to his
bravery, and he could seldom be induced to speak of his
personal experiences. The facts we have related have
been derived from the official records at the War De
partment. Colonel Jackson served with General Newton at Get
tysburg, and we have heard him describe the long night
march, and the arrival on the field in the gray of the
morning on the 2nd of July, 1863, where General New
ton assumed command of the First Corps, made vacant
bj^ the death of the lamented General John F. Reynolds.
He served in this action with distinguished gallantry, and
was again highly commended by his superior officers.
In March, 1864, General John Newton was assigned
to the command of a Division of the Army of the Cum
berland, and Colonel Jackson served on his staff and was
present at every battle during the entire Atlanta Cam
paign. At the assault upon the rebel works at Kenesaw
Mountain, Georgia, June 27, 1864, Colonel Jackson, while
at the front and encouraging the men, was wounded, and
brought off the field. While at home recovering from
his wound, his regiment having been mustered out, he
obtained permission to rejoin the Staff of General New
ton, and was present at the closing operations of General
Sherman, which led to the capture of Atlanta, taking
part in the fiercely contested battle of Jonesboro.
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and General O. O. Howard, Colonel Jackson received the
brevet rank of Captain for special gallantry at Rocky
Faced Ridge in Georgia; was made brevet Major for gal
lant and meritorious service at the battle of Kenesaw
Mountain, where he was badly wounded; and received
the rank of brevet Lieutenant Colonel for gallant and
meritorious service at the battle of Jonesboro.
At the close of the war Colonel Jackson resumed his
studies which had been so rudely interrupted. After
spending one year at the Harvard Law School, and some
months in foreign travel, he came to Chicago to practice
his profession, which he pursued for more than thirty
years with distinguished success. He was an able lawyer
and gained the respect and confidence of all who knew
him. He filled many positions of trust and confidence;
he was President of the Chicago Bar Association, Re
ceiver of the Third National Bank, and one of the Trus
tees of the Crerar Library, of which he was President at
the time of his death. No man at the bar of this city
ever stood higher in character, honesty and integrity.
Colonel Jackson never sought, nor would he accept,
political place. When a number of years ago it became
manifest that there was pressing need of reform in the
conduct of public business in the township of South Chi
cago, he, with a number of others, then comparatively
young men, undertook the work of reform. They were
met with threats of physical violence as well as by other
forms of opposition familiar to corrupt politicians of the
baser sort. But the man who, in early manhood, led
the charge across that battle swept bridge at Fredericks
burg; who, well at the front, rode his horse over Con
federate works at Marye's Hill; who, in that gallant
though costly assault upon Kenesaw Mountain, was
stopped only by a wound; who won promotion for gal-

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lantry on many hard fought fields, was not readily in
timidated in civil conflict. The movement was a suc
cess, the people rallied to their support, and the corrupt
gang who fattened on public plunder was overthrown.
But except at this time, and for such purpose. Colonel
Jackson invariably refused to aflow his name to be used
for public office.
He was one of the most modest of men. His own
conduct or achievements were never subjects of his con
versation. He was always and everywhere a gentleman,
self-respecting, scrupulously just and nobly generous,
pure in heart and life, commanding confidence and re
spect by force of character and integrity. He had the
•courage of his convictions and never hesitated to stand
for the things which he believed to be right nor to con
demn what he thought was wrong without thought of
consequences. Yet to his friends he exhibited the heart
of a lover and constancy equal to his .courage. During
the years he lived and walked among us he won the love
of those whose privilege it was to know him well. There
is a genuine sorrow over his absence from the old familiar
places where we were accustomed to meet him, and not
.a few of us feel that hfe is not so full, not so strong, as
as it was when he was in our midst, bearing his part and
cheering others.
E. A. Otis,
Wm. Eliot Furness,
Henry V. Freeman,
Committee.

HASWELL CORDIS CLARKE.
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Volunteers .
Died at Kankakee , Illinois, January i6, igoi.
'TT.N ORDERLY from Divine Headquarters has once
[\ more visited our Commandery, delivered his pa-
^^^ pers, and Lieutenant Colonel Haswell Cordis
Clarke has been detailed for duty in the great bivouac on
the other side of the broad river of eternal life to which
we too may so soon be summoned.
Haswell Cordis Clarke was born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, September 28, 1842, and died in the city of
Kankakee, Illinois, January 16, 1901.
His father, John Jones Clarke, who was also a native
of the old Bay State, was a lawyer by profession and a
distinguished member of the Massachusetts bar. In
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early life he attained considerable prominence in public
positions, and was the first Mayor of Roxbury, which
now forms a part of Boston. He served as a member of
the State Senate, and was a gentleman of considerable
wealth and of high social standing. His death occurred
November 5, 1887, at the age of nearly eighty-five years.
The mother of Colonel Clarke was a woman of high in
tellectual attainments and deep piety, and was charitable
and public spirited. She was moreover possessed of
much personal grace and beauty and many excellencies
of character. Her death occurred December 26, 1883,
in her home in Massachusetts. Colonel Clarke's mother
and father traced their lineage back through a line of
men prominent in the Revolutionary period of this
country. Companion Clarke entered Harvard College in 1859
as a member of the Class of 1863, but left the same be
fore graduating, having accepted a commission Novem
ber 9, 1861, as Captain and Aide de Camp, U. S. V.,
and been assigned to duty on the Staff of Major General
Benjamin F. Butler, to whom he reported for duty at
the above date in the city of Boston.
With that intrepid sailor. Admiral Farragut, our Com
panion passed the fiery ordeal of shot and shell at Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, April 23, 1862, for which he re
ceived the brevet rank of Major, "For gallant conduct
in execution of orders on the Mississippi river at the
bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Phihp." And on
the 1st of May, 1862, he entered New Orleans with the
Union army and remained there a year while General
Butler was in command of the Department of the Gulf.
He served with Butler in all his campaigns, untfl the
close of the war. Throughout that time he was the
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mustered out in October, 1865, as Captain with the
brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel, to which rank he had
been promoted "For gallantry and courage in the attack
of the rebels on Battery Harrison, in front of Richmond,
September 30, 1864."
Immediately after the close of the war Colonel Clarke
removed to Kankakee to take charge of a flax mill in
which his father was interested. When the First Na
tional Bank was organized Colonel Clarke was made
Cashier. He served the bank in this capacity until its
reorganization in 1894. Meantime his fellow-citizens
had called upon him to serve them as Alderman, member
of the Board of Education, Secretary and Treasurer of
the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, President of
the Kankakee Club and of the Business Men's Associa
tion. In 1899 he was elected Mayor.
The Kankakee press was unanimous in praise of onr
Companion, from which we extract the following:
' ' Colonel Clarke died this morning (January 16, 1901)
at fifteen minutes of eleven o'clock, surrounded by his
immediate relatives who had been warned for a number
of hours that the end was approaching. With the ex
ception of a lucid interval at two o'clock this morning
when he recognized his wife he was unconscious since
yesterday afternoon. His death, like his illness, was
free from pain, and his relatives and friends feel a large
measure of thankfulness that his decline was mercifully
without suffering.
" Probably the death of no Kankakeean wfll be so
much regretted as that of Colonel Clarke. He has been
for so many years identified with the public and social
interests of this community that his removal will ap
proach very nearly to conferring a sense of personal loss
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a genial personality that made him approachable at all
times by all people. To this he added such sterling
qualities of conscience and an inherent sense of right
that he was respected as much as he was liked. He pos
sessed and cultivated high ideals of citizenship and of
personal character, and exemplified in his relations with
his fellow men some of the finest attributes of manhood.
His manner was by nature always that of the refined
gentleman. His wide acquaintance and his association
with men all over the country gave him an ease of man
ner and an adaptability to people of all classes which
rendered him an agreeable and entertaining companion,
and gave hitn local distinction on many public occasions.
In his business, church and social relations he was de
ferred to as one whose judgment was clear and safe. As
Alderman and Mayor he was absolutely true to his con
victions, and unselfishly committed to what he believed
were the public interests. Wherever he was tried Col
onel Clarke proved beyond all suspicion that he was
honest to himself and conscious of his responsibility to
others." Colonel Clarke 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,
November 5, 1879. He was a prominent member of the
Masonic Order, having been a Past Grand High Priest
of Royal Arch Masonry and Past Grand Commander of
Knights Templars of Illinois. He was also an honorary
member of the thirty-third degree of the Northern Ma
sonic Jurisdiction, United States of America, and a mem
ber of the Masonic Veteran Association of Iflinois. The
Rev. Dr. Phfllips officiated at the Episcopal Church
services, and the Freemasons at the cemetery. There
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Army of the Republic and of the Masonic fraternity, the
Loyal Legion being represented by General John C.
Smith and Captain James G. Elwood.
In politics Colonel Clarke was a staunch Republican,
and his religious affiliations were Episcopalian.
In May, 1869, he was married to Miss Harriet Cobb,
a lady who proved a most suitable companion. The
Clarke home was one of refinement and gracious hospi-
tahty. John C. Smith,
James. G. Elwood,
John C. Neely,
Committee.

LEONARD FULTON ROSS.
Brigadier General, United States Volunteers. Died at Galesburg,
Illinois, January 77, igoi.
CINARD FULTON ROSS was born at Lewistown,
in Fulton County, Illinois, July i8, 1823. Colonel
Seventeenth Regiment Illinois Infantry, and Brig
adier General, United States Volunteers. Elected
November 11, 1897. First Class. Insignia No. 11,977.
He served as a Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment
Illinois Infantry during the Mexican War. Enlisted in
the Army of the Union in April, 1861. Was made
Colonel Seventeenth Regiment Illinois Infantry. Brig
adier General, April 25, 1862. Resigned, July 22, 1863.
Such is the record of our Companion who passed to
the other shore January 17, 1901.
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In life he was not alone honored as a Companion of
the Loyal Legion and a Comrade of the Grand Army of
the Republic, but was held in high esteem by prominent
military men, and was respected by the masses whose
Iriendship at all times was at their command.
As a citizen and soldier he was the peer of any of
Illinois' sons; having led a blameless life, he gave his
best years in his country's defense, and at the ripe age
of seventy-eight years he was called to the spirit land.
He is just a day's march in advance of the remnant
of that great army whose steps shook the land from 1861
to 1865, while they tramped and fought the battles that
perpetuated our country undivided.
He was buried with military honors by his Comrades,
and as the rattle of musketry passed over his narrow
resting place where he had been consigned, it brought
forth the thought to his Comrades — "Who comes next.?"
As members of that Grand Army we believe his spirit
departed to the final camp, over the river, where angels
guard the battlements that crown the city of our God —
a city where we all hope to assemble to answer the roll
call at the Grand Reveille, and as we stand in line for
that final inspection, voices like bugle notes will pro
claim everlasting peace.
Day by day passes, the roll is called, and another is
announced as failing to answer. The number who passed
through the ordeal of shot and shell grows less, and ere
many decades all will have passed across the river.
Our lines are likened unto the sands of the desert; we
are drifting nearer the brink of life's river, and when that
inevitable time comes and the great Commander calls
us to yonder shore, let us be prepared to enjoy that ever
lasting peace and happiness, the reward of the faithful,
the loyal and the brave.

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Amid all the scenes in the eventful hfe of General
Ross as a citizen and a soldier, his magnificent presence
on all occasions commanded attention and respect, and
in his daily life, as he mingled among those who loved
him, he was characterized as a giant of right, standing
in order, prepared to pass the portals of that "spiritual
building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens. "
William A. Lorimer,
John McArthur.
Charles F. Matteson,
Committee.

EDWARD CONNELL ABDILL.
First Lieutenant One Liundred and Tiventieth Indiana Infantry,
United States Volunteers. Died at Danville, Illinois,
February 20, igoi.

CDWARD CONNELL ABDILL was born at Perry-
I vflle, Indiana, May 14, [840, and died at his home
^*~* in Danville, Illinois, February 19, 1901.
He entered the volunteer service of the United States
as a private in Company B, Eleventh Indiana Infantry,
under Colonel Lew Wallace, August 15, 1861. He was
engaged with his regiment at Forts Henry and Donelson
and elsewhere in their campaigning. In February, 1863,
he was detailed as a special messenger in charge of mails
and dispatches at General Grant's headquarters, which
responsible service he rendered to the satisfaction of the
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commanding General, until December of that year,
when he was promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant
of the Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After the
fall of Vicksburg he was designated by General Grant to
bear to the North the official dispatches announcing the
great result. He was soon afterward assigned to duty
as Assistant Adjutant General of the First Brigade, First
Division, Twenty-third Corps. He participated in the
battles of the Vicksburg and Atlanta Campaigns, and was
discharged on account of disability, contracted in line of
duty prior to and in front of Atlanta in August, 1864.
He married Miss Anna Peters, a daughter of Judge
Peters, a prominent citizen and early settler of Danville,
Vermilion County, Illinois. Their marriage, contracted
in 1864, on his leaving the service, was one of true and
enduring affection. From slender beginnings, the two
working and loving together, prospered and builded them
a beautiful home where for many years they dwelt in
amity, rearing a family of four children — Charles P.
Abdill, Mrs. E. Y. English, Katherine and Harry — who,
with their mother, survive our Companion and keep his
memory green and sweet as that of a cherishing husband,
a sacrificing father, and a patriot.
Edward C. Abdill looked on an old soldier as a com
rade and a friend. For fifteen years prior to his death
he was, with his comrade, W. R. Jewell, constant in
efforts to secure the erection in Danville of a monument
to the dead of Vermilion County, of the great war, and
in 1900 he was successful; the funds, long accumulating,
were all secured. The monument of granite, surmounted
by a bronze heroic figure, was purchased and erected,
and all but the final work of raising the figure to its place
was completed. The dedication ceremonies set for
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the quarry, and postponed until the 30th of May, 1901.
To this delay the brave and loyal worker submitted with
what patience he could, and looked forward with eager
ness to that time when his work of honor and love for
the dead should at last stand unveiled. Alas, only with
spiritual eyes will he behold it, but it will be more his
monument than that of any for whom he toiled to erect it.
True heart, brave man, dear comrade and Companion,
God give you rest and peace, and may you from eternal
heights be given to see the land you loved prosperous
and good.
Jacob W. Wilkin,
John C. Black,
Francis A. Riddle,
Committee.

GEORGE HUNT.
Captain Tivelfth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Riverside, Illinois, Marcli ly, jgot.
3UNDAY morning, March 17, 1901, there diedcjat
his Riverside home Gaptain George Hunt, a be
loved and respected member of our Commandery.
Captain Hunt was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1841.
When scarcely fifteen years of age he came to Edgar
County, Illinois, an orphan, living with an uncle, teaching
school during the summer months and attending college
at Terre Haute during the winter. From this college
he graduated in the spring of 186 1. In July, 1861 he
enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Illinois Infantry, re-
enlisting as veteran in 1864. He was an exemplary
soldier, filling every place assigned to him with that
patience, perseverance and loyalty to detail that charac-
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terized his whole life. His promotion to the Captaincy
of his company was a reward for merit, merit won for all
those qualities becoming in a soldier and a man; of un
questioned bravery, gentlemanly in character and deport
ment, he won the esteem and love of his comrades in
arms, as in after life those intimate friends paid homage
to his kind heart, his unostentatious manner and his
loyal friendship. His death was an unexpected shock
and called forth the sincere regrets of all who knew him,
that his life might not have been prolonged to his family
and his country.
In civfl life he was a lawyer of marked ability, inter
esting himself in phblic affairs. His sterling qualities
received recognition in his election as State Senator, and
afterwards for eight years as the Attorney General of
Illinois. It was in this capacity that in 1887 and 1890 he
conducted the prosecution of the anarchists in Chicago
in the Supreme Courts of the State and of the United
States against such noted lawyers as Benjamin F. Butler,
John Randolph Tucker and Roger A. Pryor.
Captain Hunt had been a resident of Chicago and its
suburbs since 1893. He was a member of the Hamilton
Club, of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and a
Knight Templar; his associates in these societies mourn
with us his death, not only as a loss to us but to our City
and our State. We desire to bear testimony to his virtues
and his unsullied life. Such a life is full of inspiration
and is an exemplar after which we may model ourselves.
To his bereaved wife and daughter we offer our most
sincere sympathy. With them we share the recollection
of a sunny face, kind heart and of a worthy Companion.
John McArthur,
George Mason,
Richard S. Tuthill,
Committee.

JAMES ADAMS BALDWIN.
Captain First Massachusetts Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
Died at Cliicago, March 20, igoi.
evIPANION James Adams Baldwin. Born in Boston,
Massachusetts, August 31, 1843. Died in Chicago,
Illinois, March 20, 1901. Thus reads to the world the
epitome of a man's existence. The Nation's records
read: "Enrolled October 14, 1861, as Bugler, Company
A, First Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry;
promoted to Corporal, February i, 1863, and to Quarter
master Sergeant, November 15, 1863; commissioned
Second Lieutenant, Company D, from March i, 1864;
First Lieutenant from November 13, 1864, and Captain
from June 19, 1865; mustered out June 29, 1865, by
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Wherever the First Brigade, Second Division, Cav
alry Corps, Army of the Potomac, marched and fought
through the years of steadfast loyalty and cheerful sacri
fice from Manassas until the last flashing sabre was
sheathed in the glinting of the war's setting on Appomat
tox field, there rode our gallant Companion. Modest
and unostentatious, he was of that brave host, who, by
their fidelity in the ranks, courage on the reconnaisance,
obedience to the voice of command, patience at the
picket line and vigilance at the outpost, made possible
the greater America of to-day.
To us no longer belongs the pomp and circumstance
of the military show, but rather the sadder service of
singing the requiems of those who in the springtime of
their life wore the blue with us. Sweet shall be the re
newed memories of the days when we marched and bat
tled that the Nation might survive. Sweeter must be the
sacred memories of his home life to those who stand to
day in the shadow and weep and pray in sorrowful yearn
ing for the sound of the loving voice that is still forever.
To them we tender our tender sympathies and with them
join our hopes for a blessed reunion beyond the shores
of the Ultimate River.
" May the flowers be fair above him,
May the bright buds bend and love him.
May his sleep be deep and dreamless
'Till the last great bugle call."
F. R. Werner,
M. J. Sheridan,
James M. Ball,
Committee.

ARTHUR EDWARDS.
Chaplain First Michigan Cavalry, United States Volunteers.
at Chicago, Illinois, March 20, igoi.

Died

'TjLRTHUR EDWARDS was born in Norwalk, Ohio,
/\ of Welsh and Scotch ancestry, November 23, 1834.
^^ His grandfather, John Edwards, was born in this
country and faithfully served it in the Revolutionary War
and the War with England in 18 12. Being bereft of his
father when about seven years old, Arthur was adopted
by an uncle and made his home with him in Trenton,
Michigan. This uncle was a lake captain, whose home
was within a few hundred feet of the water. Here Arthur
Edwards became thoroughly familiar with all phases of
sea life, which possessed for him a life-long fascination.
- He spent one year in the Seminary at Albion, Michi-
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gan, and then went to the Ohio Wesleyan University,
from which institution he graduated in 1858.
He entered the Methodist ministry in the Detroit
Conference, immediately after his graduation, and was
appointed Pastor of the church at Marine City, Michigan,
where he remained untfl the breaking out of the Civil War.
Arthur Edwards was a born soldier, and once secured
an appointment at West Point, but finally decided to ob
tain a collegiate education instead of a military training.
In 1 86 1 he was among the first to respond to his
country's call, and was appointed Chaplain of the First
Michigan Infantry, participating with it in some of the
most memorable battles of the War. He was connected
with the Secret Service at Washington, Baltimore and
Richmond for six months, endeavoring to ferret out a
Confederate plot. He retained his position as Chaplain
until after the battle of Gettysburg, when he resigned to
consider the acceptance of the Colonelcy of a Cavalry
Regiment, tendered him by the Governor of the State.
He, however, felt compelled to decline the appointment
and returned to the ministr}'.
While Chaplain, he won the affection of the men and
the complete respect of the officers, not only of his own,
but of other regiments, and it is claimed that he was the
most popular Chaplain in the Army of the Potomac. At
one time, several of the officers, who had become alarmed
at the fafling for strong drink of the commanding Gen
eral — the gallant Joe Hooker — requested Chaplain Ed
wards to have a personal interview with the General on
the subject. He performed his delicate and difficult task
with such tact and courage that General Hooker warmly
thanked him for what he had done, and declared that
neither the Chaplain nor the Army should have future
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Dr. Edwards was the oldest editor, in point of service,
in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and occupied a high
place in the front rank of religious editors throughout
the world. He had a grasp of public questions which his
wide experiences in life as soldier and journalist had
given him, and which few men have possessed. His
editorials on the various phases of the war between China
and Japan, and the war between Spain and the United
States, were those of a naval expert, and attracted wide
attention outside of church readers. His style was dis
tinguished for its epigrams and forceful expressions.
His influence upon the legislation of the great church
to which he belonged, was very marked. It is safe to
say that no man in the ranks wielded greater influence.
He was always on the right side of the important ques
tions which came before him for consideration, and took
the lead in bringing them to a successful consideration.
Dr. Edwards was the very personification of sympa
thy and kindness. Although firm as a rock in his con
victions of truth and righteousness, he was ever ready
to help the fallen and give them further opportunities
for retrievement and reformation. He had a keen
sense of humor and possessed rare power as a conversa
tionalist, which always made him a center of magnetic
attraction. In 1889 he was appointed by President Harrison a
member of the Board of Visitors to West Point, and be
ing elected its Secretary wrote the report of the Board
to the Secretary of War.
For many years he was Chaplain of this Commandery
of the Loyal Legion, to which he was so devotedly at
tached, and faithfully served it in that capacity.
After making a gaflant fight for life with an insidious
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almost the last conscious moment, he entered into rest
on Wednesday evening, March 20, 1901.
Dr. Edwards was married January 24, 1868, to Miss
Caroline Whitehead, daughter of the Rev. Henry White
head, one of the pioneers of Chicago; to them were born
three children. Dr. A. R. Edwards, a well known physi
cian of our city. Miss Grace Edwards, and Miss Alice
Edwards. Mrs. Edwards and the children survive him to
mourn the loss of one of our bravest and most honored
Companions and one of the noblest men that ever lived.
Samuel Fallows,
William Eliot Furness,
A. J. Harding,
Committee.

GEORGE HENRY PALMER.
Major (Retired), United States Ai-my. Died at Harrison, Illinois,
April 7, igoi.
r\EATH loves a shining mark! The grim Destroyer
I I found one when he struck down the subject of
this sketch. Born of patriotic stock — his great
grandfather having served as a Colonel in the War of the
Revolution and assisted in the capture of Burgoyne; his
grandfather a Major General for years in the New York
State Militia; his father a cavalry officer in the Mexican
War — it did not surprise those who knew them best, that
within twelve days after the firing on Sumter, the father
had raised a company of cavalry (of which he was unani
mously chosen Captain), afterward known as Company
G, First Illinois Cavalry Volunteers, and had started for
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the front, the son accompanying him as Bugler of the
company. The "front," for that command, was North
ern and Northeastern Missouri, so long debatable ground
between the Union and Confederate forces; a land where,
during the early days of the Rebellion, nearly every settle
ment furnished recruits to the Confederate cause, and
every thicket held an ambushed foe to the Union.
It need not be stated that this service was most try
ing and arduous. But throughout the long summer, the
regiment strove earnestly to "hold, occupy, and possess '
those portions of Missouri which Jackson and Price were
claiming for the Confederacy, until the i8th of Septem
ber, 1 86 1, found the command of Colonel Mulligan — of
which the First Cavalry formed a part — at Lexington,
confronted by an overwhelming force of Confederates
under General Price. Notwithstanding the odds against
him, or the desperate chances confronting him, it was
not in Mulligan's "makeup" to surrender without a
fight. For three days the battle raged furiously, whfle
the great Northwest was thrilled with the gallantry of
her sons, who were there receiving their first "baptism
of fire." As the fight grew hot, and cavalry could not be
used as such, the soldiers of the First Illinois fought in
the trenches, and conspicuous among them was the young
Bugler. When the Union hospital was occupied by the
rebels, and volunteers were called for to recapture it,
young Palmer was first to volunteer and led the charge,
which was successful. For this brave act he was awarded
a Medal of Honor.
Though the little force was compelled to surrender to
hunger and thirst, and the overwhelming numbers of the
enemy, the moral victory of the battle of Lexington —
like its namesake of the Revolution — was with the North.
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change of prisoners, the First Illinois Cavalry lost its
organization as a regiment, but most of the brave men
that formed it originally, sought service in other organ
izations, in which many of them rose to distinction
before the war ended. Palmer was honorably discharged
as Bugler October 9, 1861. On August 21, 1862, he
again entered the service as First Lieutenant, Company
A, Eighty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was
promoted Captain, February 4, 1863, and served in that
capacity until honorably mustered out with his command
on June 26, 1865, because of the termination of the
War. On January 27, 1867, was appointed Second
Lieutenant of the Twenty-seventh Infantry, United
States Army; promoted to First Lieutenant, August 2nd
of the same year. He was assigned to the Sixteenth
Infantry, United States Army, December 15, 1870; was
promoted to Captain in same regiment March 20, 1885;
promoted to Major, Fourth Infantry, January 11, 1899,
in which rank he served until retired February 27, 1899.
While in the regular army he saw much service on
the plains during Indian troubles, and was on duty at
many different stations in various States.
Of his five children, who, with his widow, survive
him, two sons, Captain G. G. Palmer, Thirtieth Infantry,
and Lieutenant Bruce Palmer, Tenth Cavalry, are still in
service. His two daughters are Mrs. C. H. Noble wife of
Lieutenant Colonel Noble, Sixteenth Infantry, and Mrs.
E. C. Carey, wife of Captain Carey, of the same regiment.
His remaining son, Mr. Ned Palmer, is in civil life.
Major Palmer was elected a Companion of the Illinois
Commandery, Loyal Legion, First Class, January 10,
1895. As a member of the Commandery he impressed
all who became acquainted with him, as he had all with
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watchword was "Duty." Modest, unassuming, even
somewhat reserved, he commanded the respect of all,
and those who were admitted to the inner circle of his
personal friendship were bound to him as with "hooks
of steel." In family and social life he was the prince of
every circle in which he moved. On the 7th of April,
1 90 1, having met fearlessly and faithfully all the calls of
duty, he met the summons of the " Ultimate Conqueror''
without fear or remorse —
"As one
Who wraps the drapery of his couch about hira
And lies down to pleasant dreams."
Robert W. McClaughry,
J. J. Abercrombie,
R. Page Wainwright,
Committee.

ALEXANDER CALDWELL McCLURG.
Captain (Lieutenant Colonel by .4ssignment), and Assistant Adjutant
General and Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volun
teers. Died at Jacksonville, Florida, April ij, igoi.
GENERAL Alexander Caldwell McClurg, was born in
Philadelphia on the 9th day of September 1832. His
family, the American branch of which dates from
the advent in 1798 of his grandfather and father, though
settled for several generations in Ireland, is of Scotch
origin, and, if the tartan indicate consanguinity, akin to
the Clan McLeod. His mother, who bore the fine old
Cornish name of Trevor, was a native of England. He
was eight years of age when the McClurgs removed to
Pittsburg, where he received his early education, and
was prepared for Miami University, which he entered at
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seventeen and quitted before he was one-and-twenty
with the Bachelor's degree — that of Master was con
ferred three years later. From the University he passed
to the office of the Hon. Walter H. Lowrie, then Chief
Justice of Pennsylvania; only, however, to break off his
studies at the end of a twelve-month, discouraged by
failing health and the conviction that the law was not
his vocation. In 1859 he accepted a situation in the
book-selling house of S. C. Griggs & Co., and identified
himself with the business life of Chicago, in which, the
stormy interval of the Civil War once crossed, he was to
take so conspicuous a part.
The evolution of the political conflict between the
North and the South, which finally resulted in an appeal
to arms, was watched by McClurg with the intensest in
terest, and when he resolved to take the field it is safe
to say that he was moved not more by military ardor
than by reasoned patriotism. He enlisted in the Eighty-
eighth Illinois Infantry on the 21st of August, 1862, and
the same day was raised to the Captaincy of Company H
by the unanimous vote of his comrades. The regiment,
hastily organized at Camp Douglas, was at once hurried
to the front and within a month of its departure faced
the enemy at Perryville. This, and Stone's River were
the only actions in which he participated as a company
commander. His conduct in both, and the ability he
subsequently manifested as Judge Advocate of a general
court martial, drew the attention of General Alexander
McCook, who in May, 1863, made room for him on his
Staff. When after Chickamauga his chief was relieved
of his command, McClurg might have joined the Staff of
either Thomas or Sheridan, both of whom invited his
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599
ion seemed, however, the most eligible that offered, and
in that capacity he made the Campaign of Chattanooga,
had his horse shot under him at Missionary Ridge, and
won his promotion to the rank of Captain and Assistant
Adjutant General. His commission was dated March 4,
1864, and on the 12th of Aprfl he took over the duties of
Adjutant General of the Fourteenth Army Corps; but to
the proper grade annexed thereto he was not advanced
untfl October 3d, some time after the supercession of
Palmer by Davis, when, for "especially gaflant conduct
in the battle of Jonesboro," he was made a Lieutenant
Colonel, and named Chief of Staff. Henceforth his mil
itary biography is interwoven with the story of that
mighty column, whose earth-shaking tread from Atlanta
to the Sea, dwindles now to ghostly foot-falls.
The war over, the brevets of Colonel "for efficient
and meritorious services" and Brigadier General "for
gallant and meritorious services during the war" were
conferred on him, friends presented him a sword of honor
thickly graven with the names of battles, and, crowning
distinction, Sherman, Thomas, Mitchell and Baird ad
vised him to make arms his profession. His slight yet
martial figure was seen for the last time in official place
when Sherman's victorious veterans defiled before the
President at the Grand Review at Wa.shington. On the
19th day of September, 1865, he was mustered out of
service with twenty-five battles and campaigns to his
credit. They make a formidable list: Perryville, Stone's
River, Liberty Gap, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Chatta
nooga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Tunnel Hill,
Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Adairsville, New Hope
Church, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Chatta
hoochee River, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Utoy Creek,
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boro. Savannah, Bentonville. Even a naked catalogue
may have its eloquence. This one speaks of toilsome
marches, of nights without shelter and days without
food, of perilous hours of battle, resolutely borne by a
man of physical constitution so frail that only his uncon
querable will and inflexible conscience could have sup
ported hardships and dangers under which stronger men
sank and died without a wound.
On his return to Chicago, McClurg borrowed ten
thousand dollars on the ample security of his honored
name, and bought an interest in the old book house.
The venture was disastrous, fire swept away the concern,
there was no insurance, and he found himself again pen
niless and in debt besides. He continued nevertheless
to share the fortunes of the firm until it was practically
dissolved by the historic conflagration of 1871. From
its ashes rose the new house bf Jansen, McClurg & Co.,
which passed scathless through the financial panic of
1873, and four years later was flourishing enough to jus
tify McClurg in taking a wife. In April, 1877, he mar
ried Eleanor, daughter of Judge Nelson Knox Wheeler
of New York, and a niece of the Hon. William B. Ogden.
Of two sons born of the union, the elder, Ogden Trevor,
a recent graduate of Yale, survives. The death of his
second son and namesake, a lifelong grief to McClurg,
was the only cloud that ever darkened the sunshine of
his home.He had now given hostages to fortune, but apparently
without that loss of initiative, which, according to Bacon,
should have ensued. At any rate the culminating period
in the history of his business began in 1886 with his ac
cession to the senior partnership. All the departments
felt his quickening touch, but perhaps it lingered longest
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trade of his introduction, and, whether directly profitable
or not, had made his establishment a haunt of the let
tered, facilitated contacts favorable to the publishing
department, and given him pleasure. His discriminating
love of books was the secret of its success. Sensitive as
he was to any artistic manifestation in the various crafts
employed in the mechanical part of book-making, luxuri
ous devices squandered on a worthless volume could
never blind his judgment. "The barren scarcities of
typography" of which Lowell speaks, and which led
Alexander Dyce to exclaim: "There is nothing so com
mon as a rare book " did not tempt him and he really
cared only for ' ' books that are books " according to the
elastic definition of Charles Lamb.
Unharmed by the financial troubles of 1893, so fatal
to the book trade, the house suffered no interruption of
prosperity untfl 1899, when the establishment was wholly
destroyed by fire. It was McClurg's third; no longer
young and a confirmed invalid, he thought for a moment
of retirement; but consideration of the welfare of his host
of employees quickly conquered his hesitation, and;
though he had but two years of life in him, he set about
and accomplished the work of reorganization. A corpo
ration with the old name was formed; the capital was
fixed at six hundred thousand dollars; he was made Pres
ident, and under his generous direction the surplus stock
was distributed by sale or gift among the employees.
McClurg's commercial career fitly closes with an act of
courage and devotion that was like a dying benediction
on the house, which he had not only founded, but, by
upholding the gentle as well as the honorable traditions
of the trade, had raised to equal rank with those great
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His warlike achievements and his mercantfle success
have somewhat overshadowed McClurg's reputation as a
writer, which, though not wide was considerable. The
volume of his literary work is necessarily small, but its
quality compensates that deficiency. His published writ
ings comprise an appreciative sketch of his old chief,
Jefferson C. Davis; an article in The Forum justifying
his first vote for Mr. Cleveland; an essay on International
Copyright, in which he took the honest side; a paper in
the Atlantic Monthly on the battle of Bentonville (The
Last Chance of the Confederacy); and a memorial of his
fellow collegian and brother officer. Colonel Minor Milli
ken. His inedited papers include the inaugural address
he pronounced as President of the Literary Club; a poem
recited at a dinner of the Commercial Club in honor of
its Boston namesake; a notice of John Crerar, read be
fore the Historical Society; a lecture delivered at a
reunion of thisi Commandery; and an autobiographic
fragment covering about two years of his military service.
Many of these pieces are occasional and must suffer
the fate of that sort of composition. His verses, for
example, clever as they are, neatly and ingeniously
rhymed, -gently humorous, and brightened here and there
with a gay spark of harmless malice, contain veiled allus
ions that will puzzle his grandchildren. Theigreater part
of his prose is of permanent interest. Everything he
wrote about the Civil War is well worth reading. His
masterly account ofthe battle of Bentonville is one of the
best bits of military writing extant; and his affecting
tribute to the memory of his friend Milliken is matchless
for sincerity and the complete self-effacement of the
author. McClurg's style is perspicuous and grammatic
ally correct. A little leisurely at first, as the dread im
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in certain passages (such as the description of his meet
ing with Mflliken on the field of Perry vifle, or his picture
of that officer's dramatic death-struggle) is touched with
a fine emotion.
His turn for letters was not the only mark of McClurg's
refined taste. He took an unfeigned and natural delight
in all forms of aesthetic expression, and his judgment in
matters pertaining to the shaping group of the fine arts
was surer than that of many professed critics. His pre
dilections were literary, artistic and military. He kept
up his old army associations through the medium of the
Loyal Legion, and formed new ones as Colonel of the
First Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, which he
commanded for many years, and brought up to a high
degree of discipline and efficiency. He was a member
of the Fine Arts Club of New York, and a governing
member of the Chicago Art Institute. He had been
President of the Literary Club, of the Historical Society,
Vice-President of the University Club, was a member of
the Caxton Club of Chicago, and the Grolier of New
York, and a Trustee of the Newberry Library. He was
not, however, the slave of his voluntary pursuits, and
found leisure for clubs so various in purpose as the Chi
cago, the Union, the Saddle and Cycle, the Onwentsia,
and the Commercial, of the latter of which he had been
President. But other distinctions than those won in
clubland were his. In 1893 Yale conferred on him,
honoris causa, the degree of Master of Arts, and the
same year Mr. Cleveland appointed him on the Board of
Visitors to West Point, a dignity bestowed only on men,
without political pretensions, who by character and in
fluence so tower above their fellows as to demand Presi
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runner of a mortal malady. He sought relief in European
travel that so often before had been a solace to his shaken
nerves. This time it was of no avail; his health con
tinued slowly and steadily to decline until the end, which
came on the 15th day of April, 1901, at St. Augustine,
Florida. The news fell like a note of infinite sadness on
the ears of his old Companions of the Loyal Legion, who
most will miss him, but not for long — only till they too
are missed. His death was generally lamented as that
of few men has been. Journals vied with each other in
doing honor to his memorj', and his funeral in St. James's
Church, where his three hundred employes knelt with the
representatives of all that was best in the intellectual and
social life of Chicago, was like a victory over oblivion.
McClurg was a trifle below the middle height, slen
der and shapely, with a prominent brow, straight nose,
hair grey from early manhood, and clear blue eyes that
inspired instant confidence. His bearing was modest
without shyness, and in uniform he looked every inch a
soldier. The accent of his voice was courteous and kind,
and his gracious and winning manner had just the need
ful touch of defensive dignity. Temperate in all things,
he was soiled with no excess. He was not ruled by im
pulse, that intoxication of the sober which makes life a
mosaic of mistakes. Prompt in an emergency in matters
admitting of it he took time for deliberation. He made
no rash alliances, though, once his affection was gained,
the staunchest of friends. Prominent in many move
ments to better the condition of the poor, to broaden
the field of culture, or to mend the ways of government,
he entered none of them headlong. He thought out
every step of his earthly pilgrimage, and among the forms
of beauty he admired did not forget that of order. In
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mic sort that, foflowing the French anecdote would have
maintained chaos. In his eyes the antiquity of an abuse
was not its consecration, nor the novelty of a reforma
tory idea a sufficient reason for its condemnation. In
religion he adhered to the Anglican Communion, but
was not a zealot. The faith of his childhood served him
in his prime. He was acquainted with the results of
recent research; but apparently regarded them as another
form of Divine revelation, and was confident that in the
end the last word of science would be the first word
of God. Intercourse with him, whether personal or epistolary,
was full of charm. His letters, unaffected, yet disfigured
with no slovenliness of style were cordial and sincere,
his talk, destitute of the ornaments of boasting and
calumny, with which those ambitious to scale another
social height or fearful of sinking to a lower level bestrew
their conversation, was bright, sensible, humorous, often
witty, always instructive. He had also the rare gift of
receptivity. No epigram nor verbal felicity fell un
noticed when he was by. His reading was discursive,
and he sometimes lighted on neglected treasures. A
favorite book of his, unknown to most and read by few,
was the Broadstone of Honor — a sort of mirror of knight
hood, reflecting those mediseval ideals which Kenelm
Henry Digby thought had still a lesson for the modern
world. Doubtless it served to keep before him the
meaning of those inexorable words, honor, duty, and to
sublimate the qualities which made him in the antique
and noble sense a gentleman, not only in the virtues
that create, but also in the minor graces, that adorn and
complete that character.
Viewed from all points McClurg's life was honorable,
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husband and father; tasted the sweets of distinction,
military rank, university honors, social leadership; ma
terial things had prospered in his hands and he had cared
for the finer things of the spirit; he had breathed the
still air of delightful studies; lived the swift minutes of
battle, and crowded with virtuous actions the creeping
hours of peace.
Henry A. Huntington,
Ephraim A. Otis,
William Eliot Furness,
Committee.

ALBERT BANFIELD CAPRON.
Captain Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died
at Winnetka, Illinois, May 8, igoi.
J OMPANION Albert B. Capron died at his home in
\^ Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, May 8, 1901, after
an illness of about a week, of pneumonia.
At the April meeting of the Illinois Commandery,
Companion Capron read a paper of marked interest, in
which he sketched his experiences in Stoneman's cavalry
raid below Atlanta. The account given of the heroic
charges and struggles of Stoneman's command and par
ticularly of the brigade of his father. General Horace
Capron, a part of which finally cut its way through the
cordon of the enemy's forces — both infantry and cavalry
— by which they were completely encircled, possessed
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the thrilling interest which only an eye-witness can give.
His own part, in which he faithfully guarded a certain
approach with a small company, staying there as ordered,
until his little troop was entirely surrounded and captured,
was modestly and briefly set forth. He did not dwell, as
he might have done, upon the hardships of his captivity.
Those of us who heard that paper will recall with pleas
ure the frank, manly, handsome countenance of our Com
panion. He looked the picture of health as he stood
erect, with good color, bright eye and a face beaming
with the animation naturally awakened by the scenes he
was living over again as he described them to an appre
ciative audience. His voice was clear, strong and reso
nant; seldom has a paper been read with more general
acceptance. Companion Capron was highly esteemed by all who
knew him well and his circle of friends was large. His
quiet temper and social qualities were such as to hold old
friends and make new ones. It was said of him by those
who had lived by his side for years that he was never
known to speak ill of any person.
He had the instincts and consequently the manners
of a gentleman. His character, evidently based on
superior inherited qualities, was that of a chivalrous,
high-toned Christian who had learned self-control and
found his happiness in doing for others. No one could
be long in his company without being made aware of
these noble personal traits.
Albert Banfield Capron was born June 12, 1844, at
Laurel, Prince George County, Maryland. Companion
Capron belonged to a military stock and took kindly to
the profession of the soldier. Not only was his father a
Brigadier General, as has been indicated, but two of his
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Revolution, his ancestor. Dr. Seth Capron, was an Aide
de Camp on General Washington's Staff.
Even before hostilities began, when only a youth of
seventeen, Albert B. Capron had enlisted in the Second
United States Cavalry, in Texas, and served as an Or
derly with Major (afterwards Major General) George H.
Thomas, coming North with him near the outbreak of
the war, marching with his small command through the
Indian Territory. Young Capron was with the Second
United States Cavalry from April tfll August, 1861, but
was not then mustered in, probably because not of the
required age; but soon after his arrival in Illinois, he was
enrolled, August 20, 1861, in the Thirty-third Illinois
Infantry Volunteers. His military record during the War
of the Rebellion was brilliant. His first station was at
Benton Barracks, Missouri. His first battle was under
Lyon, when a force of five hundred were sent across
the river to seize the guns just loaded on the opposite
side and intended for the rebels at Camp Jackson,
numbering three thousand infantry. The contest was
sharp, but the guns were secured, and Lyon's prompt
and masterly action is said to have saved St. Louis to
the Union cause.
Under Siegel's command Capron participated in the
severe battle of Wilson's Creek, August 8, 9 and 10, 1861.
The death of the brave General Lyon at the head of his
command made a deep impression on the young soldier.
During eight months he was color-bearer of his regiment.
When in 1862 his father. General Horace Capron, took
the field, his .son Albert was promoted and transferred
to his staff, as also was his older brother, Horace, who
came from the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and his younger
brother, Osmond, who was a mere lad. Captain Horace
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2, 1864. Albert B. Capron rode beside his brother in
the last charge, and took command of the company at
his death. He was commissioned First Lieutenant, A
Company, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, March 5, 1864,
and Captain, July 11, 1865.
The following is a list of the battles in which Com
panion Albert B. Capron participated: Battle of Pea
Ridge, Arkansas; Island Number Ten captured; Vicks
burg; Cumberland Gap, Tenn. ; Siege of Knoxville; Bat
tle of Resaca; of Newmarket; Dallas; Lost Mountain;
Kenesaw Mountain; Battles before Atlanta, Georgia
(taken prisoner); Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, and of
Nashville. One of the most thrilling of his army experiences was
his night ride of one hundred miles through the enemy's
line, bearing dispatches from General Burnside in Knox
ville to General Wilcox at Cumberland Gap. It was a
hazardous undertaking. Twenty brave men had already
failed in the attempt. When he returned. General Burn
side, with manifest enthusiasm, said: "You have won
your spurs, " and presented him with a pair of his own
spurs. Major Capron was also one of the Cavalry Brigade
led by his father, which helped to capture General John
Morgan and his entire command, after a ride of nineteen
hundred miles in thirty-one days. He participated in
twenty-three general battles, besides a great many skir
mishes and sharp cavalry actions. Two horses were shot
under him while in action. He and his commaftd were
under fire for one hundred days on the march to and
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, during which he was taken
prisoner, as stated.
His last service in the war was under General Sheri
dan on the Texas frontier, where he was in expectation
of proceeding to Mexico, to help in relieving the people

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of that country of the pretended sovereignty of Maxi
milian. Captain Capron was three times made a pris
oner, and received three severe wounds in the service of
his country.
A few years since he was appointed Aide de Camp on
the Staff of General Lawler, Commander-in-Chief of the
Grand Army, with the rank of Colonel.
General Horace Capron, the father, was appointed
by President Grant Commissioner of Agriculture, and
afterwards by the Japanese Government Commissionei
and Counsellor for the development of the agricultural
and mineral resources of the island of Yesso.
Captain Capron co-operated with his father in this
important work in which he was occupied for a number
of years. Among other duties he purchased blooded
stock, cattle, horses and sheep; also machinery and seed
grains, and shipped them from San Francisco.
Before his employment as purchasing agent for the
Japanese Government, he was engaged in mercantile
business at Kenosha, Wisconsin. He came to Chicago
in 1872, and had since resided at Winnetka, on the
North Shore. For more than twenty years he was a
member of the Board of Trade, and carried on a general
grain commission business. In business he exhibited the
same energetic and straightforward course which won
him distinction in the army, and he was held in the
highest regard by his business associates.
Captain Capron was married at Kenosha, Wis
consin, October 20, 1869, to Miss Amelia Doolittle,
daughter of Alfred W. and Ann Urania (Hannahs) Doo
little, natives of Oneida County, New York, and has
left a family of two sons and a daughter, all of adult
age, to share with their widowed mother in the bereave
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son, Horace Mann Capron, is a Companion of the Iflinois
Commandery. C. H. HOWLAND,
E. D. Redington,
Andrew B. Hull,
Committee.

MORGAN REDMOND KAVANAGH.
Died at La Grange, Illinois, May 2^, igoi.
ON Saturday afternoon, May 25th, Morgan Redmond
Kavanagh, on his way to his home at La Grange,
Illinois, fell in descending a stairway at Union
Station, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death
at 10 o'clock. His wife and son were at his bedside at
Presbyterian Hospital.
Mr. Kavanagh was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. , on Sep
tember 14, 1852. His father, from whom he derived his
eligibility for membership in the Loyal Legion, was John
Kavanagh, Captain Sixty-third New York Infantry,
United States Volunteers, who was killed in action at
Antietam, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. Our
friend was a worthy son of a brave and distinguished
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soldier, was a courteous gentleman, a staunch friend and
a universal favorite with all who knew him. Seven years
of travel in Europe and. residence in the far East broad
ened his views of life, familiarized him with the oriental
world and enhanced his love for America.
Mr. Kavanagh was married on September 7, 1882,
to Miss Jessie May Camp of Connecticut. He leaves
with her two sons and a daughter to mourn the loss of a
father's love, a guide and protector who was always and
ever tender and true. He sleeps his last sleep on a
beautiful wooded hillside near Hinsdale.
Simeon H. Crane,
J. Hamilton Bell,
Milton B. Miller,
Committee.

APPENDIX.
The following Memorial of Companion Major William
McKinley, President of the United States, who was
affiliated with the Commandery of the State of Ohio,
and died at Buffalo, NewYork, September 14, 1901,
is, by vote of the Commandery, appended hereto..
WILLIAM McKINLEY,
QRESIDENT of the United States, Commander-in-
/T^ Chief of its Army and Navy, our Companion in the
— ' Civil War, and a member of our Order, was assassi
nated on September 6, 1901, and died at Buffalo, New
York, on September 14, 1901. The members of the Ifli
nois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion desire to unite with their fellow citizens and the
people and rulers of all civilized nations in expression of
deep sorrow and agony of soul at the manner of his
wounding and death, and to join in the universal tribute
to the value of his public services and appreciation of the
sacred beauty of his private character.
The life of Major McKinley was an open book easily
read by all men. His advancement to the most exalted
position in the gift of the Nation was the result of no
accident or sudden caprice of popular favor. He grew in
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opportunity and usefulness of service as grows a mighty
oak. His progress from humble position to the highest,
was a gradual but sure ascent, without a break in its up
ward course. With simple, child-like trust in God he
met every responsibility of advancing stations, with un
flinching courage, and so discharged his duties, that his
name will be loved and revered until time shall be no
more. Let us place upon our records the briefest possible
sketch of his steady advancement from obscurity to fame.
He was born on January 29, 1843, ^•t Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio. On the breaking out of the Civil War,
when only eighteen years of age, on June 11, 1 861, he
enlisted as a private in Company E of the Twenty-third
Ohio Regiment of Infantry. On April 15, 1862, he was
made Commissary Sergeant of his regiment, and in
recognition of an act of service and bravery, such as no
other Commissary Sergeant ever performed for his com
rades on the field of battle, he was commissioned Sec
ond Lieutenant of Company D on September 23, 1862.
He was promoted to be First Lieutenant of Company E
on February 7, 1863; Captain of Company G on July 25,
1864; brevetted Major for gallantry in several actions on
March 13, 1865, and was mustered out of service on July
26, 1865. He was an active participant in every battle
in which his regiment was engaged. He was only twenty-
two years of age when he returned home and began his
career in civil life. He studied law and began its prac
tice in Canton, Stark County, Ohio. In 1 869 he was
elected Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County, as a re
publican in a strong democratic county. He was renomi
nated by his party in 1871, but was defeated by his demo
cratic opponent. In 1876 he was elected a member of
the House of Representatives in Congress, and was re-

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617

elected every succeeding two years untfl 1890, when by
a successful gerrymander of his district boundaries he
was defeated. In June, 1 891, he was unanimously nomi
nated by the Republican Convention as candidate for
Governor of Ohio, and was elected. In 1893 he was
unanimously renominated for the same office and re
elected by more than eighty thousand majority.
His term of office as Governor of Ohio ended in De
cember, 1895. In June, 1896, he received the nomina
tion of the National Republican Convention, which met
at St. Louis, for President of the United States. He was
elected and after the service of one term he was unani
mously renominated by acclamation for the same office
by the Convention which met in Philadelphia in June,
1900. He was re-elected, and began his second term as
President of the United States on March 4, 1901, which
was ended by the fatal bullet of the assassin on Septem
ber 14 of this year.
The record of public lives in any country will scarcely
show forty years of more continuous service, faithfully
rendered and continually approved, than that of William
McKinley, from the time he enlisted as a private soldier
in the Civil War, when eighteen years of age, to the be
ginning of his second term as President of the United
States and his untimely death at the age of fifty-eight.
This is not the time or place to speak of his adminis
tration of the high offices he has been called to fifl. The
records thereof are indelibly written in the history of our
country. We cannot find language adequate to express our
horror at, and detestation of the crime which took his
life. The records of criminal action relate no instance
of murder so causeless and atrociously wicked.
President Lincoln was murdered by an assassin whose

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soul was fired by the passions of the rebellion. To the
perpetrator of the crime it was part of the war. Presi
dent Garfield was shot by a lunatic who thus sought to
avenge a fancied personal wrong. It was an act of pri
vate vengeance. The murderer of our lamented Com
panion was driven to the act by no sense of public or pri
vate wrong. With deliberate purpose, guided by shrewd
intelligence, but with no personal malice, he joined the
mass of his fellow citizens who were paying tribute of
love and affection to the man of pure and loftiest char
acter, who had so worthily discharged the duties of his
great trust, and approaching with one hand extended in
symbol of friendship, shot him to the death. With mad
ness inconceivable by us, that fatal shot was fired at our
Companion as the representative of all righteous govern
ment in the earth. It was an attack upon the dignity
and sovereignty of the people, manifested in organized
society and the divinely ordered institution of govern
ment among men.
When still a mere boy Major McKinley voluntarily
offered the sacrifice of his life, if need be, to save this
government of the people from destruction. That young
life was spared that he might, by his wisdom and firm
ness of purpose in peace and in war, exalt the nation to
the highest measure of prosperity at home, and honor
among the brotherhood of nations in the earth. Hon
ored as few men have ever been, successively by the citi
zens of his city, county, district, state and nation, at
every step promoted higher in positions of trust, he was
faithful in all; and at last, when crowned with the highest
honor which the entire nation could confer, that sacrifice
of life so freely offered and refused in his youth for the
maintainance of our one government was accepted in the
cause of all government among men.

APPENDIX. 619
No language can be extravagant which speaks of the
virtues of our departed Companion. Statesmen, orators
and poets have striven to give adequate expression to
our admiring appreciation of them. He was an honest,
sincere, earnest and religious man. He was a dutiful
son, a patriotic and brave soldier, an upright and faithful
citizen, a most tender and loving husband; and truthful,
courteous, moral and clean in every relation in life.
" Let his example stand
Colossal, seen of every land;
And make the soldier firm, the statesman pure.
Till in all lands and through all human story
The path of duty be the way to glory."
He died a soldier's death. The Christian fortitude and
courage with which he approached the end of life, lifted
the whole world nearer to God. Never before in the his
tory of the world did a nation with such uplift of love and
devotion pause in all its activities at the tomb of one
man, and with uncovered heads and sflent meditation,
endeavor to become reconciled to the will of God. Who
can tell what will be the fruitage of that sermon from
the mount of his great sacrifice, listened to, and solemnly
pondered by all the world, " It is God's way, not ours,
let His will be done." Wondering stifl at the awful
mystery of that way, may God help us in humble sub
mission to say, "Let His Will Be Done."
Joseph B. Leake,
Geo. K. Dauchy,
C. F. Matteson,
Horatio L. Wait,
William Vocke,
Committee.

INDEX.

Page
Abbott, Abial Ralph  78
Abdill, Edward Connell  582
Adair, Addison Augustus  487
Adams, Albert Egerton  265
.\dams, Axel Smedberg  324
Andreas, Alfred Theodore  493
Avery, William  296
Ayers, Henry Payson  196
Baldwin, James Adams  587
Barry, George Henry  no
Blake, Samuel Coleman  317
Bliven, Charles Edward  292
Bogue, Roswell Griswold  167
Bosley, Daniel Webster  441
Boutell, Lewis Henry  420
Bowen, Edwin Anson  481
Bradley, David Cleland  23
Brady, George Keyports  423
Bundy, John Curtis  127
Burdsal, Caleb Southard  146
Butler, Thaddeus Joseph  339
Candee, George William  375
Capron, Albert Banfield  607
Capron, Thadeus Hurlbut  76
Card, Joseph Phelps  204
Chandler, George  25
Chapin, Edward Southland. . . . 434
Clapp, Joseph  136
Clarke, Haswell Cordis  574
Clarke, Thomas Cordis  53
Clarke, William Edwin  361
Clarke, William Edwin, Jr .... 202
Clendenin, David Ramsay  224
Cornish. Standish Vorce  426
Corse, Edwards  144
Courtney, Michael Lewis  20
Crooke, William Dawson  183 (621

Page.
Davis, Charles Wilder  403
Davis, George Royal  454
Dean, Thomas  107
Deardoff, David Porter  515
DeHaven, Joseph Edwin  7
deTrobriand, Philip Regis Denis, 334
DeWoIf, Henry  157
Dickey, Theophilus Lyle  17
Drury, Lucius HoUenbeck  12
Ducat, Arthur Charles  275
Dustin, Daniel  122
Dutton. Everell Fletcher  525
Dyer, Clarence Hopkins  192
Dyer, George Randolph  247
Dyer, Reuben Fredson  272
Earle, Charles Warrington. . . . 160
Edwards, Arthur  ,  589
Erickson, Christian  485
Ewen, Warren  112
Farrar, Henry Weld  8
Farrar, Sarauel Franklin  394
Fidlar, John Bines  322
Fitch, John Adams  72
Fitzwilliam, Francis Julius. .. . 468
Flint, Franklin Foster  105
Frank, Mayer  251
Fullerton, Thomas Coxey  188
Gardner, Peter Guy  543
Gile, David Herrick  354
Goodbrake, Christopher  90
Gray, Albert Zabriskie  56
Gresham, Walter Quintin  240
Greusel, Nicholas  287
Hale, Charles Reuben  563
Hamilton, Benjamin Brown. . .. 206
Hamilton, John Brown  413
Hand, Peter  462

622

INDEX.

Page.
Hanna, Robert Barlow  ii8
Harmon, Joseph Warren  505
Haven, Samuel Rush  66
High, Jaraes Lambert  388
Hitchcock, Frank  234
Hobart, Andrew Jackson  263
Howard, John Edwin  519
Hoyt, Henry William Betley. .. 81
Hunt, George  585
Hutchinson, James Withington, 343
Jackson, Huntington Wolcott. . 566
James, William Andrew  172
Johnson, Hosmer Allen  83
Jones, Marcellus Ephraim  560
Kavanagh, Morgan Redmond.. . 613
Kingsbury, Ezra Wolcott  490
Kittoe, Edward Dominicus  38
Knickerbocker, Henry Mabbett, 10
Knox, Edward Burgin  63
Lawton, George Whitfield  30
Lewis, James  444
Lewis. Robert Henry  74
Locke, Joseph Litchfield  437
Logan, John Alexander  28
Loomis, John Mason  534
Luff, William Merritt  198
Lyster, William John  346
Martin, James Porter  221
Matteson, Asa Abraham  268
McAllister, Edward  549
McClelland, George Pressly. . . . 418
McClurg, Alexander Caldwell. . 597
McEntee, Stuart  330
McGuire, John Francis  497
McKinley, William  615
McNulta, John  500
Mc'Vioker, Jaraes Hubert  279
Mead, WiUiam Gale  139
Means, Archibald  371
Meyers, Charles Washington... 365
Montgomery, William Adara... 253
Morgan, Francis  32
Morgan, Williara Potwin  290

Page.
Neff, James Irwin  148
Newlin, George Elkins  509
Newton, Don Carlos  154
Noble, Henry Theophilus  97
Nowlan, Henry James  397
Ogden, Williara Langworthy. .. 171
Oliver, John Young  327
Palmer, George Henry  593
Patrick, John Joseph Ravenscroft 228
Pease, Phineas  152
Phelps, Alonzo Jefferson  348
Plumraer, Sarauel Craig  521
Porter, Henry Thomas  352
Post, Philip Sidney  212
Preston, Everett Bruce  237
Price, Edward Root  546
Puterbaugh, Sabin D  129
Rauch, John Henry  175
Reid, John Gardiner  loi
Rhodes, Charles Daniel  88
Richards, Alonzo 'Van Ness. ... 86
Risser, Abraham Frank  208
Root, George Frederick  249
Ross, Leonard Fulton  579
Roper, George Stevens  309
Roundy, Daniel Curtis. ....... 332
Russell, Martin James  529
Scott, Lemuel Linnear  358
Sexton, James Andrew  429
Sherer, Samuel Baldwin  125
Skinner, Mark  33
Sraith, Arthur Arnold  553
Smith, George Washington  381
Smith, John Eugene  305
Sperry, Anson  60
Stiles, Israel Newton  217
Stout, Alexander Miller  259
Stowe, William Page  270
Strong, William Emerson  93
Taylor, William Henry  299
Thompson, John Leverett  49
Thomson, Frank M  231
Towne, Orrin Charles  283

INDEX.

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Page.
Troy, Lewis Lucas  464
Trumbull, James Lewis  180
Underwood, BenjaminWinslow, 395
Waite, Charles  377
Walker, John Crawford  398
Wallace, Thomas  194
Walworth, Nathan Halbert. . . . 132
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin.. . 41
Waterman, Richard  477
Welch, Deming Norris  15

Page,
White, Frank Harwood  138
White, James Cushing  164
White, Julius  69
Williaras, Abrara  301
Winterbotham, John Russell.. . 115
Wood, Joseph Hooker  556
Woods, Arthur Tannett  141
Worthington, Edward Stanley.. 368
Wright, Thomas Seaman  178

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