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 MEMORIALS 
 
 OF 
 
 DECEASED COMPANIONS OF THE COMMANDERY OF THE 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, MILITARY ORDER OF THE 
 
 LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 From May 8, 1879, when the Commandery was Instituted, 
 to July i, 
 
 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.
 
 V- 
 
 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 Commandery of the Mili- 
 -sP 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 
 i thus reflect in some measure the kindly judgment and sincere 
 f\f 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 not come within 
 b 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 
 life endures. 
 
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 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, MorrelPs Division, Fitz 
 John Porter's Corps in the Army 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 
 my pocket. He then told me to practice the call during the
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 V. 
 
 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 Army 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." 
 
 Sloiv.
 
 EDWIN JOSEPH DE HAVEN. 
 
 Lieutenant Commander United States Naiy. Died at Geneva, 
 Switzerland, October, i8jg. 
 
 F^NTERED the service as Midshipman. U.S.N., Octo- 
 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. 
 
 Captain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, April 17, 1881. 
 
 \ A |HEREAS, It has pleased God, in the interposition 
 "H. 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- 
 dan, rising in rank from a Second Lieutenant in the 
 
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 MEMORIALS. 9 
 
 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. 
 
 \ i fHEREAS, 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, ir 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 22, 1884. 
 
 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 Hollenbeck 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 
 Carolina, Arkansas, and the breaking out of the rebellion
 
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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 I3th 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 rilling 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 Hollenbeck 
 Drury, the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion of the United States has lost one 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, February 1 1, 1885. 
 
 I HE members of this Commandery have heard with 
 V deep regret of the death of Companion Colonel 
 Deming Norris Welch, February 11, 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 Tenrfessee, 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 our 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 Volunteers. Died at 
 Atlantic City, Neiv Jersey, July 22, 1885. 
 
 I HE 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 16. 1863, when he resigned and resumed 
 the duties of civil life. The register shows that he joined 
 this Cornmandery, 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 Cornmandery; 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 
 with his brethren on the bench or not, his recorded
 
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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 off 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 Cornmand- 
 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 Twenty-fifth Infantry and Brevet Major, United States 
 Army. Died at San Antonio, Texas, July 16, 1886. 
 
 ekIPANION 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, 1868, 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 Captain. 
 
 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 
 the lessons of true manhood which made him the
 
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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-fifth Illinois Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Chicago, October 25, 1886. 
 
 Y OUR committee appointed to take action upon the 
 i. 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. Reserved 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 
 I'olunteers. Died at Chicago, November 2, 1886. 
 
 \ if HEN a soldier died upon the field, "few and short 
 
 H. 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, 
 
 Hands unseen thy couch are strewing;
 
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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 Stales Volunteers. Died at Washington, 
 District of Columbia, December 26, 1886. 
 
 I HE Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of 
 V 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 
 the deep sense of the great loss which we and the Nation 
 have sustained. 
 
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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 
 Vohinteers. Died at Lazvton, Michigan, February 7, 1887. 
 
 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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 MEMORIALS. 31 
 
 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, August j, 1887. 
 
 ji/HEREAS, Our Companion Francis Morgan, late 
 * "i 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. 
 32
 
 HON. MARK SKINNER. 
 
 Companion of the Third Class. Died at Manchester, Vermont, 
 September 16, 1887. 
 
 I HE "time-beats" that are counting out our genera- 
 V 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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 34 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 1 6th, 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 
 by habit; a tireless but discriminating reader; a thought-
 
 MEMORIALS. 35 
 
 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 
 whole heart his time and strength, his health, and almost
 
 36 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 
 past on their errands of loyalty and mercy. The
 
 MEMORIALS. 37 
 
 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. We 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 zg, 1887. 
 
 I HE Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the 
 i. 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 and 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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 MEMORIALS. 39 
 
 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, 1814. 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, began 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- 
 tility 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 of the Northwest, with headquarters 
 at Dubuque, Iowa. He was brevetted Colonel of Volun-
 
 4O MEMORIALS. 
 
 teers, September 3Oth, and mustered out of service Octo- 
 ber 31, 1865. He was elected a companion of this Com- 
 mandery April 7, 1887 (Insignia 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, iSS'j . 
 
 I HE Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the 
 V 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 
 o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday the 22d day of 
 October last. 
 
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 42 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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-
 
 MEMORIALS. 43 
 
 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- 
 foreseen, unexpected, reckless, and brought untold miser}'
 
 44 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 property. 
 
 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 
 without previous notice, and mindful all the time of the
 
 MEMORIALS. 45 
 
 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 
 1 3th, 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 
 efforts to soften, mollify and persua.de. Ever at his post,
 
 46 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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. 
 
 The Tuilleries 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 Court 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 
 of the Louvre shall be burnt to the ground. "
 
 MEMORIALS. 47 
 
 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 
 "here in this far off besieged city in these long dismal
 
 48 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 A'ezf 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 
 peison. His virtue was stern and inflexible, adjusted 
 indeed rather to the rigorous standard of ancient morality 
 than to the less ambitious and less elevated maxims of 
 the modern code. 
 
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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 1860-1861, 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 
 events of that and the four subsequent years, if at this
 
 MEMORIALS. 51 
 
 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 
 three battalions, one from New Hampshire, his native 
 State, another from Massachusetts and a third from 
 
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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-ninth Massachusetts Infantry and Brevet 
 
 Major, United States Volunteers. Died at 
 
 Chicago, Illinois, July 6, 1888. 
 
 O REVET Major Thomas Cordis Clarke, a companion 
 H J 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, 
 companionable, 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 
 sword, a wreath of laurel leaves. For thy immaculate
 
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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 27, i88g. 
 
 3INCE 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 2/th 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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 MEMORIALS. 57 
 
 sity of New York, where he graduated in 1860. 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 Commandery of the Loyal Legion, bear- 
 ing in mind his sterling qualities as soldier and citizen, 
 tenders its respectful sympathy to his bereaved widow 
 and his relatives and friends, and directs that this minute
 
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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, Augtist 24, 1889. 
 
 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 
 current of business ways or of business connections that 
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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 9, 1890. 
 
 I HE Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of 
 i^ 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 
 Second Sergeant, and from this almost to the date of his 
 death his service has been continuous. 
 
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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, an d 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 
 periods fruitful. In his career as a soldier he exemplified
 
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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 speaks 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. 
 
 Major and Surgeon, United States Volunteers. Died at Neiv Lenox, 
 Illinois, May 4, 1890. 
 
 I A f E are again called upon to mourn the loss of a com- 
 *(. panion; 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 
 have regularly taken his place among us, he had passed 
 from time to eternity. 
 
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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. 
 Alterwards 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 
 the Potomac, attached to the brigade of General W. F.
 
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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 General and Brevet Major General, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Evanston, Illinois, May 12, 1890. 
 
 IN 1861 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 of his 
 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; 
 and then in peace and modest silence he passed from
 
 MEMORIALS. 7 1 
 
 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.
 
 JOHN ADAMS FITCH. 
 
 Major First Illinois Light Artillery United States Volunteers 
 Died at Chicago, July //, 1890. 
 
 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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 MEMORIALS. 73 
 
 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 as 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 Delaware Independent Battery, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Cleveland, Ohio, November 27, 1890. 
 
 THE unflagging march of time adds year upon 
 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, 1890. 
 
 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 Illinois 
 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. BlNGHAM, 
 
 JOHN T. McAuLEY, 
 
 Committee.
 
 ABIAL RALPH ABBOTT. 
 
 First Lieutenant First Illinois Artillery, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago. January 9, 1801. 
 
 "TLBIAL RALPH ABBOTT was born April 5, 1832, 
 l\ 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- 
 sary attribute of their humanity. 
 
 He possessed a strong, clear mind, enriched by a
 
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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 Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, United 
 States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, February 12, 1891. 
 
 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 
 evening of February 12, 1891, at his home in Chicago, 
 
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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 W. MERCER, 
 
 Committee.
 
 HOSMER ALLEN JOHNSON. 
 
 Companion of the Third Class. Died at Chicago, February 26, i8qi. 
 
 I HE Illinois Commandery of the Loyal Legion, in the 
 V. 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 
 and destitute poor of our city. 
 
 The great services of Dr. Johnson were promptly
 
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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 if, i8qi. 
 
 'TfjNOTHER Companion of this Commandery has 
 f\ 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 1 1, 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 Assistant Adjutant General, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, March 8, 1891. 
 
 I HE grim destroyer which we call death has of late 
 V 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. 
 
 Charles D. Rhodes was born at Franklin Mills, Ohio, 
 on September 16, 1839. In October, 1861, he enlisted
 
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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 assured 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 and Surgeon Tzvcntieth Illinois Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Clinton, Illinois, March 16, i8qi. 
 
 I HE 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 I4th day of June, 1816. 
 
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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 corne 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 with 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 
 worth and influence in the medical world was particularly 
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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, 
 
 Committee.
 
 WILLIAM EMERSON STRONG. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel 7\velfth Wisconsin Infantry and Brevet Brigadier 
 
 General, United States Volunteers. Died at 
 
 Florence, Italy, April 10, i8gr. 
 
 I HE announcement of the death of General William E. 
 
 V 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- 
 ferred upon General Strong. He was brevetted Briga-
 
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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. He was 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 
 
 " * the touch of a vanished hand, 
 And the sound of a voice that is still."
 
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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, i8qi. 
 
 ''FLGAIN the Companions of this Commandery are ad- 
 f\ 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 
 now silent in the grave, and never again shall we be 
 
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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 rilled. 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, 1 830. 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 
 rank from that date. He commanded this company until 
 December, 1862, when he was detached and assigned 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- 
 est sympathy in their great bereavement, and mourn in
 
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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. CROOKER, 
 
 Committee.
 
 JOHN GARDINER REID. 
 
 Captain Fifth United States Veteran Volunteers. Died at Chicago, 
 Afril 26, i8qi. 
 
 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 
 engaged in his profession at the time Fort Sumter was
 
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 fired upon. He enlisted as private in Company D of the 
 Eighth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the i/th 
 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, 1861, 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- 
 panion there was that bond of love and fellowship which
 
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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. 
 
 Our late Companion, soon after being mustered out 
 of the service, resumed the practice of his profession in
 
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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, 
 Illinois, September /j, 1891. 
 
 \i/E are called upon again to mourn the loss of a 
 "R 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 1841, 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 
 different grades from Lieutenant to Colonel, reaching the 
 latter grade in July, 1868. 
 
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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. BlNGHAM, 
 
 MICHAEL R. MORGAN, 
 OTHO H. MORGAN, 
 
 Committee.
 
 THOMAS DEAN. 
 
 Captain Third Michigan Cavalry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, December 17, i8gi . 
 
 OUR Companion, Captain Thomas Dean, passed to 
 his final rest on the i/th 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 1860, 
 when he went to Allegan, Michigan, and engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits. In September, 1861, he enlisted 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, 
 1 890, and has been an enthusiastic and valued member. 
 We extend to his bereaved companion and other rela-
 
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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 New York Cavalry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 1892. 
 
 I HE 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 
 was with the Army of the Potomac, in which he dis-
 
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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 13, 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, 1892. 
 
 e^PANION 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 n, 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 
 from the Naval service of the United States.
 
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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 W1NTERBOTHAM. 
 
 First Lieutenant One Hundred and Fifty-fifth New York Infantry 
 
 and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Volunteers. 
 
 Died at Chicago. January jo, 1892. 
 
 *7TjT the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Ten- 
 j\ 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 Spottsylvaniaon the I2th 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 1 6, in the storming of the Petersburg works, 
 he was severely wounded, and was honorably discharged 
 on account of the disability caused thereby on December 
 22, 1864. On his discharge from service, Colonel
 
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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. 
 
 Caftain Seventy-second Indiana Infantry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Bloomington, Illinois. March 6, 1892. 
 
 etfPANION Captain Robert Barlow Hanna was born 
 at Brookville, Indiana, October 29, 1819, 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 
 mind remained as clear and bright as in the days of 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 he was 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, 
 His pity gave, ere charity began."
 
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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 AVilliam 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 Volunteers. Died at Carthage, 
 
 Missouri, March jo, i8g2. 
 
 *7Y,GAIN the message which is becoming so frequent 
 f\ 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, 
 Illinois, where he has since resided. In 1855 and 1856
 
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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 16, 1892. 
 
 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, 1892. 
 
 OUR late Companion, Lieutenant Colonel John Curtis 
 Bundy, was born at St. Charles, Kane County, Illi- 
 nois, on the i6th 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- 
 sioned as Lieutenant Colonel of the First Arkansas In- 
 fantry. 
 
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 128 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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, Untied States Volunteers. 
 Died at Peoria, Illinois, September 25, r8q2. 
 
 'Tt.S THE touch of the Frost King's icy finger trans- 
 [\ 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 life 
 full of energy and worthy ambition; a life that gave as 
 well as received. Stilled is that teeming and active
 
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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, 1802. 
 
 'TTiNOTHER manly face will be missed from our social 
 f\ 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 15, 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. 10. 
 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- 
 ure was to make all who came near him happy.
 
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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, 
 
 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, 1861, 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 10, 1893. 
 
 CENTERED the service as Quartermaster Sergeant, 
 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 
 service with the Army of the Cumberland. 
 
 138
 
 WILLIAM GALE MEAD. 
 
 first Lieutenant Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January ij, 
 
 ON January 13, 1893, the Illinois Comrnandery 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, 
 
 'TKRTHUR TANNATT WOODS, eldest son of Captain 
 f\ 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 of the 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 of 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 
 the Commandery of the State of Missouri, to the Military
 
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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, 
 
 I HOSE of you who have stood in the front of battle 
 V. 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 War 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, 1860, 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, /<?<?_?. 
 
 etfPANION 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 hi' 
 fantry, United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, 
 Illinois, September 14, 
 
 I OMPANION 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 
 that battalion, young Neff was elected and commissioned 
 
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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- 
 ous for his fidelity, discretion and sound judgment.
 
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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, Ftorence 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 
 of 54 years. Thus do the brave men, whose united pur-
 
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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 to 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, 1893. 
 
 O REVET Brigadier General Phineas Pease, a Com- 
 
 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. 
 
 *"TT.GAIN our hearts are saddened by the removal of the 
 g\ 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 sympathies 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 
 might discharge to the uttermost his duty to the State, 
 so when the success of the Union cause was assured 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 Thirly-fourtk Illinois Infantry, United 
 States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, October- 10, 1893. 
 
 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 1 86 1 he entered his life-long service with the Illi- 
 nois Central Railroad Company, commencing as junior 
 clerk and passing through various 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 I3th day of May, he 
 enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth 
 Illinois Infantry Volunteers, being mustered in on the 
 3ist 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 8th day of January, 1 89 1 , 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 
 all his friends, and it is wkh a deep sense of personal
 
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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 atid Brevet Ca-ptain, 
 
 United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, 
 
 Illinois, Noi'ember iq, 1893. 
 
 HARLES 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 disability. 
 
 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 rilled in the 
 
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 swamps of Missouri, and August 11, 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 daylight 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 
 as we knew him, can ever lose faith in humanity. No
 
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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, November 22, 1893. 
 
 i 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 
 as a Captain in the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artil- 
 
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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 
 glimpse of the future of the republic now the more firmly 
 founded upon the principles for which he was once will-
 
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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. 
 
 Alajor and Surgeon Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, December c?, 1893. 
 
 Wfj AJOR Roswell Griswold Bogue was born in Louis- 
 | I ville, St. Lawrence County, New York, 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 
 amid such surroundings, performing the most difficult 
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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 blind 
 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 in the 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 
 citizen he was a man among men.
 
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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 Nezu York Cavalry and Brevet Captain, 
 United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, 
 Illinois, December 21 , 
 
 ON THE 2 ist 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 
 education. 
 
 He enlisted June 13, 1861, as private in the Third 
 
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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, United 
 
 States Volunteers. Died at Highland Park, 
 
 Illinois, December jr, 180,3. 
 
 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 
 Island Cavalry, and resigned April 25, 1865, on account 
 
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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, 1894. 
 
 IU1 AJOR and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John Henry 
 j " \ 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 
 Botany in Rush Medical College of this city in the year 
 
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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- 
 nois, and probably no man in the United States, devoted
 
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 more time arid 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 Rauch '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 lozva Cavalry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at New York City, July 26, 1894. 
 
 nUTENANT Thomas Seaman Wright was born at 
 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- 
 tured in a fight with guerillas near Memphis, Tennessee, 
 
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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. MERRILL, 
 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 ji 1894 
 
 I HE minutes of our time strike on, and are counted 
 i, 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, 1861, to enter the service 
 as a private in the Eleventh 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 W T ar, 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 
 by him, in his relations to others.
 
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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 loiua Infantry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Hinsdale, Illinois, Afril 27, 1894. 
 
 'TT.S 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 1 8, 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, 
 when it took part in the Bayou Teche Campaign under 
 General Banks.
 
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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 
 Assistant 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 
 Manager until Major Crooke should be restored to health, 
 as was then earnestly hoped.
 
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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. 
 While we his memory cherish, let us his virtues imitate 
 and his death improve. With fragrance eternal, may
 
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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- 
 pointed Acting Assistant Inspector General on the Staff 
 
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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, luka, 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 
 1 6, 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 
 served until his death. He was an active republican, a
 
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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 1 9th 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 3ist 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 
 the full measure of the light he enjoyed. No man stood
 
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 higher in his profession for integrity no citizen com- 
 manded more sincere respect, and in social life 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, 
 
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 WILLIAM H. H. MCDOWELL', 
 GEORGE S. ROPER, 
 
 Committee.
 
 CLARENCE HOPKINS DYER. 
 
 Major and Assistant Adjutant General, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Woodstock, Vermont, August 10, 1894. 
 
 CLARENCE 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 
 of the 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 warmest 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. 1894. 
 
 e/IPANION Thomas Wallace was born at Finnwick, 
 Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, April n, 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 1851 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, 1894. 
 
 T~\ EATH has been very busy in our ranks since last we 
 | y 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, 1863. He was 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 Illinois Cavalry and Brevet Major, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Fort Mead, South Dakota, October g, 1894. 
 
 t A flLLIAM MERRITT LUFF, late Captain and Brevet 
 Mil 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- 
 tary spirit which prompted him at an early day to offer 
 
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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 
 for gallant and meritorious services during the war."
 
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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, 1 884, 
 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 
 him of his loss, hoping that the change would take his
 
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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, 1894. 
 
 COMPANION William Edwin Clarke, Jr., the only son 
 
 V 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. 
 He was a prominent member of the Ashland and Lincoln
 
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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 Infantry, United 
 
 States Volunteers, Died at Engleivood, Illinois, 
 
 October 22, 1894. 
 
 3INCE 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, November //, 
 
 QENJAMIN BROWN HAMILTON was born at New 
 H j 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 ^48, 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 23, 1894. 
 
 (T INCE our last meeting another of our Comrades 
 <j 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 i/th of September, 
 
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 1862, as First Lieutenant of Company B; was promoted 
 to the Captaincy of that cc/mpany on the nth of March, 
 1 864, 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- 
 spirited; in business, far-sighted and comprehensive in
 
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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 
 an influential and useful citizen; his family an affection-
 
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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, 
 
 GENERAL Philip Sidney Post was born in Florida, 
 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 
 admitted to the bar in 1856. He began the practice of
 
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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. 
 
 At the opening of the battle of Nashville, on the fif-
 
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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 1866 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 
 24, 1866, Miss Cornelia A. Post, only daughter of Honor-
 
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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 17, 1895. 
 
 TSRAEL NEWTON STILES was bom July 16, 1833, 
 
 in the town of Suffield, Connecticut, where he passed 
 the earlier 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 
 Twenty-third Corps having been ordered from Eastport,
 
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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 
 useful and conspicuous of our members. Not that only;
 
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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 
 Army. Died at Chicago, Illinois, February ig, 1895. 
 
 I HE committee appointed to prepare a tribute of re- 
 i^ 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, 1860. He was appointed Second Lieutenant, 
 Seventh Infantry, December 20, 1860, First Lieuten- 
 ant, May 14, 1861, and Captain, January 2, 1863. He
 
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 was appointed Major and Assistant Adjutant General, 
 April 10, 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 Games' 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 
 years as an officer during a period when the Nation's life
 
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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, f 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. BlNGHAM, 
 
 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, March 5, 1895. 
 
 I HAT merciless and unsparing arbiter of the final 
 
 V 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, ne 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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 MEMORIALS. 225 
 
 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 
 Illinois Cavalry, he came to Morrison, Illinois, and 
 assisted in recruiting Company C, and upon the organ- 
 ization of the regiment at St. Charles was elected Senior 
 Major, September 18, 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 
 Military Commission which tried and convicted the 
 assassins of President Lincoln, in 1865. He was mus- 
 tered out of the volunteer service July 17, 1865, and re- 
 turned to Morrison, Illinois, where he engaged for a year 
 in mercantile pursuits, but business life not proving con- 
 genial to his tastes he sought a position in the Regular 
 Army, which he easily secured.
 
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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 
 that proclaimed liberty to all mankind, and educated in
 
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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. 
 
 Captain One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Belleville, Illinois, April 10, 1895. 
 
 I HE committee appointed to prepare a tribute of re- 
 i. spect to the memory of our late Companion, Cap- 
 tain John Joseph Ravenscroft Patrick, who died at Belle- 
 ville, Illinois, April 10, 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 
 failing health. He participated in the Vicksburg Cam-
 
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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 iQth 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 New York Heavy Artillery, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Nczv York, N. Y., April 20, 1895. 
 
 O ORN 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 
 a comparatively young man.
 
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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 25, 1895. 
 
 *7TiS IN days gone by we have seen amidst the roar of 
 f\ 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 
 2 5> *895. 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 
 friend at the same time.
 
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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. 
 
 Ca-ptain Twenty- second Connecticut Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 27, 1895. 
 
 BRUCE PRESTON was born in Willing- 
 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 
 own in life's strifes and duties.
 
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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, 1895. 
 
 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 
 Companion, 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 
 encouragement. To both he is the typical American, 
 having attained distinction and exalted position by his
 
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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 
 advance and, keeping abreast with the progress and
 
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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 many of 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 1860 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 
 been expressed high tributes to his executive worth and 
 skill.
 
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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- 
 tered out of service April 30, 1 866. He was at the siege of
 
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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 2Oth 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 
 did not think he knew everything, and as a mark of con-
 
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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 
 hisiwound 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, 
 
 TAMES L. HIGH, 
 
 '--,-.- J 
 
 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 Excelsior Springs, Missouri, Jtily fj, 1895. 
 
 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 1812. 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, 1895. 
 
 Y OUR Committee on Memorial to Dr. George F. Root, 
 V 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, arid those intellectual 
 achievements that lend to manhood both dignity and 
 grace. 
 
 His was, indeed, a life of genuine harmony, harmony 
 of practice 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 Vohinteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 16, 1895. 
 
 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, 1841, he left that place at the age of twelve years, 
 coming to Philadelphia, where he remained until 1860, 
 when he removed to Chicago. 
 
 At the outbreak of the war he sought to enlist under 
 the first call, but was refused because of his physical 
 condition at the time. 
 
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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, 
 
 \ i flLLIAM ADAM MONTGOMERY, late Captain of 
 U. 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 in> 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 1860. 
 
 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 of his 
 revolutionary grandfather, Montgomery at once laid aside 
 his law books, and enlisted in the Second Regiment of
 
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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 I4th of De- 
 cember, 1861, 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 commissiim 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 iith 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 2Oth 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 
 ranks and formed a part of that splendid line of blue
 
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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 
 and capacity, he was respected and trusted by his asso-
 
 MEMORIALS. 257 
 
 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 '61 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 
 which has crossed the river. There let us trust we may
 
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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 25, 1895, 
 
 " 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- 
 VQ 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 
 dc 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 I3th day of March, 1865, "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 
 of the Cumberland and bore a conspicuous and gallant
 
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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 
 remained in the State of his nativity he might have been
 
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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. Of 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 Michigan Infantry, United States Volun- 
 teers. Died at Clinton, Iowa, December 6, 
 
 'TLNDREW JACKSON HOBART was born in Yates 
 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 
 1 6, 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 Nersj York Mounted Rifles, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 4, i8qb. 
 
 ALBERT EGERTON ADAMS, Captain First New 
 f\ York Mounted Rifles, was born at Great Fails, 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. 
 
 At this time his father, Reverend John Ripley Adams, 
 
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 although sixty years of age, was already one of the few 
 "righting 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 
 unusual witness to the high regard entertained for him
 
 MEMORIALS. 26/ 
 
 
 
 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. 
 
 *Tf.SA A. MATTESON, a Companion of this Com- 
 f\ 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 
 old, and his mother and family soon after removed to 
 Galesburg, Knox County. 
 
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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 1860. 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. 
 
 DlLLWYN V. PURINGTON, 
 
 ARTHUR A. SMITH, 
 LEMUEL L. SCOTT, 
 
 Committee.
 
 WILLIAM PAGE STOWE. 
 
 Chaplain Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, United States Volun- 
 teers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 4, i8q6. 
 
 QEVEREND William Page Stowe, M. A., D. D., a 
 [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 25, i8q6. 
 
 OUR Companion, Reuben Fredson Dyer, after four 
 days' illness, died at his home in Ottawa, Illinois, 
 January 25, 1896, aged sixty-three years. His 
 wife 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- 
 souri, and Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 
 
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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 
 idea was, the soldier should be none the less a gentle-
 
 274 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 him." 
 
 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 Twelfth Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier 
 
 General, United States Volunteers. Died at Downer's 
 
 Grove, Illinois, January sq, i8g6. 
 
 TTjRTHUR CHARLES DUCAT was born February 
 f\ 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 i/th, 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 luka 
 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 
 service. 
 
 When General Rosecrans on October 24, 1862, was
 
 MEMORIALS. 2/7 
 
 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 
 same army were largely advanced by the able and con-
 
 278 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 2gth, 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, 1896. 
 
 /tAMES HUBERT McVICKER, 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 7 5,000 volunteers, he was 
 one of the prime movers in calling a mass meeting of the 
 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 
 held in Chicago in 1864. After the close of the war,
 
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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 
 in it. 
 
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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, Afril /j>, i8gb. 
 
 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 
 office of the State Grain Inspector, and thereafter Chi- 
 cago was his home.
 
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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- 
 manded the respect and confidence of every one. As a
 
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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 25, 180,6. 
 
 I OLONEL Nicholas Greusel died at Aurora, Illinois, 
 \^_ Saturday, April 25, 1896. He was born at Blies- 
 kastie, Germany, July 4, 1817, 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 
 the war. 
 
 As soon as Colonel Greusel's health was partially re-
 
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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 Ashevtlle, North Carolina, June 14, 1896. 
 
 *TI.GAIN we of a younger generation are called upon to 
 \ mourn the death of the "early loved and lost." 
 ^ s ~ 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 Qtiartermaster and Brevet Major, United 
 States Volunteers. Died at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
 vania, August 29, 1896 
 
 *TLNOTHER of our comrades and a Companion of 
 f\ 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 2ist of September, 1835. In ms 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 military 
 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- 
 acterized his discharge of the duties in that department.
 
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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. 
 
 Lives of some men are measured by the years of their
 
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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 life 
 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-fifth Illinois Infantry, United States Vol- 
 unteers. Died at Woodstock, Illinois, November 26, i8g6. 
 
 \ A I RONG not the dead with tears. A glorious, bright 
 * *i 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 16, 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- 
 ing the place he left as station agent of the Chicago &
 
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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, 1896. 
 
 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 n, 
 1834; came West in 1859, staying 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 Quartermaster Sixth lozua Cavalry, United 
 States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, January 6, 1897. 
 
 etfPANION Abram Williams was born in Utica, New 
 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 
 was especially efficient and valuable, so much so as to
 
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 receive meritorious mention. At one time, becoming 
 dissatisfied with the dilatoriness of the Illinois 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: 
 
 " As a patriot he breasted the storm of war, as a
 
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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, i8g"j. 
 
 AtOHN EUGENE SMITH was born in the Canton of 
 . Berne, Switzerland, August 3, 1816. 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 people 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 twent}' 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 
 has so often stood as sole conservator of peace and law,
 
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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 from 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 
 perilous journey he returned with health and strength
 
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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 Volunteers. Died at Rockford. 
 
 Illinois. February j, 1897. 
 
 ^EORGE STEVENS ROPER was born in Worcester 
 V^J 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 thoughtfulness 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 
 1860. 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- 
 tional life, the chief glory of which is the maintenance of
 
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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 achievement 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, 1860. 
 
 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 
 of Mill Springs, Perryville and Chickamauga, to use his
 
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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- 
 uted to the establishment of permanent peace in our own
 
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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 
 erred, there was always in his philosophy a place for re-
 
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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 
 often sang to us; and these songs were the evidence of
 
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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 our 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- 
 less cycle of the future, and clothed with every good
 
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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, 
 
 I HE 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 w r ere 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 2oth 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 86 1, 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- 
 land. He remained in charge of it until the troops were
 
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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 any time you should 
 need my good offices, they shall be freely given you, for that
 
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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 
 Consulting Neurologist of Wesley Hospital.
 
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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 Trventy-fifth loiva Infantry, United States Volun- 
 teers. Died at Davenport, loiva, March 22, 1897. 
 
 O ORN in Hebron, Ohio, March 16, 1839; died in 
 *\ V 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, luka, 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 Second Cavalry, United States Army. Died at Chicago, 
 Illinois, March 18, i8qj. 
 
 SMEDBERG ADAMS was born at his father's 
 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, produced 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 
 knew him loved him well. 
 
 This Commandery will remember him as one 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. 
 
 ^TOHN Y. OLIVER, a member of the Illinois Com- 
 mandery by 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, Illinois 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, 
 he drilled the Commandery of Knights Templar, and
 
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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 29, 1897. 
 
 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, the long 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 of 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 23, 
 
 e^IPANION 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 and Brevet Brigadier General United States Army, Brigadier 
 
 General and Brevet Major General. United States Volunteers. 
 
 Died at Bayport, Long Island, July /j, 1897. 
 
 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, 1816, 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 1841, after his father'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 1851, 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- 
 pointed Colonel of the Fifty-fifth New York Volunteers, 
 August 2, 1861, the nucleus of which was the militia 
 regiment known as the "Lafayette Guards." The regi- 
 ment was sent to Washington in the early autumn, and
 
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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 ist, 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 
 mustered out January 15, 1866; was appointed Colonel
 
 MEMORIALS. 337 
 
 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, 1879, having 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 
 T 5 !897, 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- 
 teous manners and happy disposition made his compan- 
 ionship very delightful amongst the officers with whom
 
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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 Tzventy-third Illinois Infantry. United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Rome, Italy, July 16, 1897. 
 
 THADDEUS JOSEPH BUTLER, a servant of God 
 
 ^ and a Companion of this Order, closed his human 
 career in the Eternal Capital July 16, 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 1 86 1 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. 
 
 The Chaplain shared the peril and privation of the 
 long and memorable siege at Lexington, Missouri, and
 
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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 n, 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 
 to brighter fields and lead the way. " In fulfillment of
 
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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, 
 
 Committee.
 
 JAMES WITHINGTON HUTCHINSON. 
 
 Second Assistant Engineer, Unites States Navy. Died at Green- 
 field, Illinois, September 2, 1897. 
 
 O ORN Griggsville, Illinois, September 14, 1841. Died 
 *\\ 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 
 Greenfield. A devoted member of the Methodist Epis-
 
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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, Grand 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, seems to sleep 
 Too deep for sound or foam, 
 
 When that which drew from 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 Sachet Harbor, 
 Nezv York, September 23, 
 
 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, 
 
 1 if HEN, 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, he was appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon of the Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, U. S. V., and 
 on December 3ist 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, War 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 
 Gordon Granger as Medical Director of the new organ-
 
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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 Northern 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 and woe and with reverent clasp of the hand offer 
 you our tenderest sympathies and beg to assure you of a
 
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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 9, /<?<?7. 
 
 ^t TENRY THOMAS PORTER was born at Weymouth, 
 Massachusetts, July [3, 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 
 the then Second Congressional District of this State, and 
 
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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, 1898. 
 
 edPANION David Herrick Gile, a member of this 
 Commandery, 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 18, 
 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 86 1. 
 
 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 the muster out of 
 the command, July 18, 1861, he re-enlisted August 23,
 
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 1861, 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- 
 tion in critical situations. On the death of General Me-
 
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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 /<?, 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 iQth 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 
 he served, both superiors and subordinates.
 
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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 wasuncDmpromisingly 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, 
 
 Committee.
 
 WILLIAM EDWIN CLARKE. 
 
 Major and Siirgeon 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, 1819, 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 
 noted preacher and President of Princeton College, 
 Jonathan Edwards.
 
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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 1841-1842 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 
 and began the practice of his profession. In 1847, two
 
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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. C. 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 
 time. 
 
 For twenty-seven years previous to his death he was
 
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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, louua, April 21, i8q8. 
 
 /HARLES WASHINGTON MEYERS was born in 
 \^__ the village of Gambier, 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 16, 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. 
 
 Major Meyers was a Mason, in good standing; a mem-
 
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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, 1898. 
 
 pDWARD 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 William 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 W r orthington, 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 
 ideals, which were so high in private life, he carried un-
 
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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 as 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 Chicago, Illinois, May 22, i8q8. 
 
 'TLRCHIBALD MEANS was born in Allegheny County, 
 f\ Pennsylvania, March 31, 1833, and died at Chicago, 
 ^Illinois, May 22, 1898. 
 
 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 1860. 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 86 1. 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, Captain 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 
 course in espousing the Union cause in Kentucky, which
 
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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 1860. 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 and 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 
 has earned deserved mention in the annals of the nation.
 
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 In his neighborhood, throughout all the localities that 
 knew him, he will 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 CANDEE. 
 
 Colonel and Assistant Paymaster General, United States Army. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, June 10, i8g8. 
 
 OLONEL 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 1 878 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 Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry, and Brevet Brigadier 
 
 General, United States Volunteers. Died at Boulder, 
 
 Colorado, June 23, i8q8. 
 
 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- 
 eral 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 1 862 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., April 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 
 did more to show the true metal of character than our
 
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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 
 intrenchrnents, 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 
 bravery and fortitude he had displayed throughout his
 
 380 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 more 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 Illinois Infantry, and Brevet 
 
 Brigadier General, United States Volunteers. Died at 
 
 Chicago, Illinois, September 16, i8q8. 
 
 'TYjNOTHER gallant soldier who devotedly did his part 
 f\ towards the salvation of our country in the days 
 ^ s -" 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 1 6th 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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 382 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 
 unreasoning men of the South; and then commenced in
 
 MEMORIALS. 383 
 
 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 to the winds and to devote 
 life, honor, everything, to the 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- 
 ment, and he served with it throughout the war, never
 
 384 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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- 
 nessee Campaign. 
 
 Passing safely through the battle of Chickamauga,
 
 MEMORIALS. 385 
 
 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 
 with his accustomed energy and diligence to the practice
 
 386 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 public 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 
 he was connected. Thus he was not only elected Treas-
 
 MEMORIALS. 387 
 
 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, 1898. 
 
 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 1860, 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 I3th 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 
 alluded to it as the great disappointment of his life.
 
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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 
 authorities wherever the English law prevails.
 
 MEMORIALS. 39 1 
 
 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 
 and privations. When the reports began to come back
 
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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 would 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 postomce, 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 
 with us his early death.
 
 MEMORIALS. 393 
 
 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 said of 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 j, 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. 
 
 e^PANION Benjamin Winslow Underwood was born 
 July 7, 1841, at Harwich, Massachusetts. He came 
 West 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 Army. Died at Hot Springs, 
 Arkansas, November 10, 1898 
 
 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 
 !3. I 877," February 27, 1890; Major Seventh Cavalry, 
 United States Army, April 7, 1893. War service in the 
 Department of the Gulf. 
 
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 JOHN CRAWFORD WALKER. 
 
 First Lieutenant Sixty-third United States Colored Troops. Died 
 at Chicago, Illinois, December 12, i8q8. 
 
 'TTiNOTHER member of our Order has been mustered 
 f\ out of service. 
 
 " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest 
 By all their country's wishes blest." 
 
 Lieutenant and Brevet Captain John Crawford 
 Walker died at Chicago, December 12, 1898. 
 
 John Crawford Walker was born in Highland County, 
 Ohio, the I4th 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 luka 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- 
 son, Tennessee, to repel Generals Forrest and Rody,
 
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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 
 Kate Ammen, who survives him. Two children were
 
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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 activity 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 
 who, when the sunshine of prosperity shone brightly
 
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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 75, i8g8. 
 
 HARLES 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 I5th 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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 404 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 
 ! 9. r 775- "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 
 to the slow music of the 'Dead March from Saul,' and
 
 MEMORIALS. 405 
 
 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 I9th 
 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 
 then in use, or at least those guns did not have them;
 
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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 I3th 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 replied 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 
 Luther P. Bradley, now General Bradley, United States
 
 MEMORIALS. 407 
 
 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. 
 
 The organization of this regiment, which became the
 
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 Fifty-first Illinois, was completed at Camp Douglas, 
 where it remained from September, 1861, until the I4th 
 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 3Oth, 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 3ist 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- 
 zation, retiring in good order and inflicting severe loss 
 upon the attacking force.
 
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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 /th 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 
 that day, May n, 1865, Lieutenant Colonel Davis was
 
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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 
 to its interests. 
 
 He was always and everywhere the genial, efficient,
 
 MEMORIALS. 411 
 
 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- 
 gether from Chattanooga on that occasion in the same
 
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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 Ernma 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. 
 
 D 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, 
 AREA 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. Hamilton (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 n, 1894, i n 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 of the 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 
 then resigned his army commission and after a competi-
 
 MEMORIALS. 415 
 
 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 
 once all the important positions be held in Washington.
 
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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 power of 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 the 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 
 that the key-note to this remarkable career is to be sought
 
 MEMORIALS. 417 
 
 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 1 
 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 Pennsylvania Infantry and 
 Brevet Major, United States Volunteers. Died at Daven- 
 port, Iowa, December 27, 1898 
 
 ONCE more we mourn the loss of a beloved, honored 
 and patriotic Companion. George P. McClelland, 
 was born November 11, 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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 MEMORIALS. 419 
 
 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, 
 
 fEWIS H. BOUTELL was born at Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts, July 21, 1826, and died at Washington, 
 ^""^ District of Columbia, January 16, 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 Illinois. 
 
 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. 
 
 Visiting the Old World, he looked upon and studied 
 the works of the great masters in art.
 
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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 ! 
 
 AREA 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. 
 
 KEYPORTS BRADY was bom at cham- 
 
 bersburg, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1839, and 
 died at Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1899. He 
 was a son of Hon. Jasper E wing 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 Hill, 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 21,1 866; promoted to Major, Eighteenth Infantry, 
 March I, 1886; Lieutenant Colonel Seventeenth 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 New York Infantry, 
 
 United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, 
 
 January 23, 1899. 
 
 *7T.NOTHER name has been added to the list of beloved 
 [\ 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, at 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 10, 1865; First Lieutenant, Company K, sameregi-. 
 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 LaSalle, Illinois, and was engaged 
 with railroad and coal mining companies. On September 
 14, 1871, 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- 
 munity where he has resided for many years. A kind
 
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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 Washington, D. C., February 5, 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, 1861, 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 rilled 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 
 that year was mustered in as Captain of Company D in 
 that organization.
 
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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 
 and profitable careerof that successful business enterprise.
 
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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 
 was accepted as a matter of patriotic duty. To the work
 
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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, 1 899, 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 I2th 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, 1 896, 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 
 at all times the very embodiment of an American gentle- 
 man of the highest type, mindful that
 
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 The purest treasure mortal times afford, 
 
 Is spotless reputation; that away, 
 
 Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay." 
 
 GEORGE C. BALL, 
 M. V. SHERIDAN, 
 WILLIAM VOCKE, 
 
 Committee.
 
 JOSEPH LITCHFIELD LOCKE. 
 
 First Lieutenant Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry, United 
 States Vohinteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, July 15, i8qq. 
 
 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 mDuntains, 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. 
 All our experiences are included in his varied career so
 
 MEMORIALS. 439 
 
 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 arid 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 the 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 scheming, 
 As planning some absurd career, 
 Or of a mission dreaming;
 
 44 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 21, i8qq. 
 
 '7T.GAIN we are called upon to pay our just tribute of 
 f\ 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 Fannington, 
 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 
 in January, 1862, and was mustered out of the service 
 January 5, 1863. 
 
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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 
 2/th 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 
 mitigated by the knowledge that he for whom they
 
 MEMORIALS. 443 
 
 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 Nezu York Infantry, United 
 States Volunteers. Died at Joliet, Illinois, October 28, i8go. 
 
 " Can that man 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." 
 
 I HE 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 Jbliet, 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 
 his best on every occasion, and his sense of honor would
 
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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 
 was hurried to the front, and wherever it went, Captain
 
 MEMORIALS. 447 
 
 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 responsibility which 
 rested upon him as an officer, and he moved forward, at
 
 448 MEMORIALS. 
 
 
 
 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 many 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 
 brought to his work that same earnestness, thoroughness
 
 MEMORIALS. 449 
 
 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 great 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 ever) 7 -day life both in theory 
 and practice. As he recognized all men as his brethren,, 
 his aim was to do good to all men as he had opportunity.
 
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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- 
 trolling sentiment of his being, dominating his entire life, 
 inspiring his sour 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 
 patriot. He loved his country with a deep, fervent and
 
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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 for, 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 
 for his country, and that whenever he made a human life
 
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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 ability 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 
 sympathy, loving helpfulness and purity of life these 
 were the prominent articles of his religious creed, and
 
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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 the life elysian 
 Whose portal we call death." 
 
 PHILIP C. HAYES, 
 ROBERT W. MCCLAUGHRY, 
 
 JAMES G. ELWOOD, 
 
 Committee.
 
 GEORGE ROYAL DAVIS. 
 
 Major Third Rhode Island Cavalry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 23, 1899. 
 
 edPANION 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 
 l &59 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 
 there as an ambitious student that he met personally and
 
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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 
 justly 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 
 was again mustered into the service as Captain of the
 
 MEMORIALS. 457 
 
 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 
 many different capacities, and as the ranking officer was 
 frequently in command of military posts in Louisiana.
 
 MEMORIALS. 
 
 From February, 1865, until 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 
 was recognized and appreciated for his wonderful industry
 
 MEMORIALS. 459 
 
 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, 
 and pursued it with an energy and capacity which dis-
 
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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 which the relatives, friends and Companions 
 of any soldier may be justly proud, and which all good
 
 MEMORIALS. 461 
 
 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 Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 23, i8gq. 
 
 *7YiFTER several years of severe suffering from chronic 
 f\ disease our Companion Peter Hand departed this 
 ^ s- " 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 iQth 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 Lieutenant and Adjutant Ninth Illinois Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, November 77, 1899. 
 
 I HIS Commandery is again called upon to mourn the 
 i. 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 
 him as a reward for his bravery in action.
 
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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 Railway 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 Mail 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 
 of Illinois, February 13, 1890. He was also a member
 
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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 Miles, 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 23, 1899. 
 
 OUR late Companion, Francis Julius Fitzwilliam, was 
 born in Bainbridge, Ohio, July n, 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 at 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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 MEMORIALS. 469 
 
 During the winter of 1860 6 1 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 
 Big Sandy and at its mouth took transports down 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 history 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; Perry ville, 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; Cassville, 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- 
 public, and in accordance with the request of the Post,
 
 MEMORIALS. 4/1 
 
 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 1861-2, 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- 
 eral Bragg for Louisville, Kentucky, we were left with
 
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 orders to hold this untenable fort. On August 3Oth, 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 storrn 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 
 Ridge, the next day, on the extreme right of assaulting
 
 MEMORIALS. 473 
 
 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 
 two sons and two daughters, all of whom are married,
 
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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 
 loving father, this good citizen, was a Christian man in
 
 MEMORIALS. 475 
 
 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. 
 
 And so our soldier Companion, leaving behind him
 
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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 mourned 
 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 Civil War. 
 
 Richard Waterman was born on the 2Oth 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 
 allied 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 carne 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 1861, 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 
 as First Lieutenant of Troop F of the First Rhode Island 
 Cavalry.
 
 MEMORIALS. 479 
 
 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 3Oth; 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 2ist; Rappa- 
 hannock Station, August 23rd; Sulphur Springs, August 
 26th; Groveton, August 28th; Second Bull Run, August 
 3Oth; Chantilly, September ist; White Ford, October 
 I2th; Mountville, October 3ist; Hazee Run, November 
 1 6th, and Fredericksburg, December I3th 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- 
 ing himself to real estate and real estate law.
 
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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 Illinois Infantry, United States Vol- 
 unteers. Died at Jacksonville, Florida, January 8, 1900. 
 
 OAPIDLY 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, 1831, 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 a half years; and during the next eight years he 
 engaged in mercantile 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 of the "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 Cap- 
 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 
 and hardships of war. He was a man of fine executive
 
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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 n, 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 2Oth; 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 
 it one of the most safe and profitable moneyed institu-
 
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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, 1900. 
 
 I HIS Commandery has lost another worthy member 
 ^ in the death of Captain Christian Erickson, which 
 occurred on the 2Oth 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 11, 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 Arrny 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 27, igoo. 
 
 ePTAIN Addison Augustus Adair was born in Zanes- 
 ville, 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, 
 who will long remember his honest, whole-hearted
 
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 nature. We believe he fought the fight, kept the faith 
 
 and gained the crown." 
 
 ELIJAH S. WATTS, 
 W T ILLIAM TODD, 
 DUKE NICHELSON, 
 
 Committee.
 
 EZRA WOLCOTT KINGSBURY. 
 
 Captain Second Colorado Cavalry, United States Volunteers. Died 
 at Chicago, Illinois, February g, igoo. 
 
 e'TAIN EzraWolcott Kingsbury, born June 11, 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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 MEMORIALS. 491 
 
 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 
 could) to those who needed help. He was as good a
 
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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 Quartermaster Twelfth Illinois Infantry. United 
 
 States Volunteers. Died at New Rochelle, Neiv York, 
 
 February 10, iqoo. 
 
 r\IED, on February 10, 1900, at New Rochelle, New 
 lj 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 
 t'me 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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 494 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 1860 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 1860 and 
 1861, 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, he was 
 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, 
 numbering them all as his friends. No day was so stormy,
 
 MEMORIALS. 495 
 
 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 military 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 
 Chicago will long remain a standard work upon which
 
 496 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 New York Infantry, United 
 
 States Volunteers Died at Anniston, 
 
 Alabama, February ig, igoo. 
 
 ffEEPING pace with the swift-winged years on their 
 \ \ 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 Cornmandery, 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. 
 In 1868 he removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he prospered
 
 MEMORIALS. 499 
 
 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, February 22, iqoo. 
 
 /'TOHN McNULTA, Colonel Ninety-fourth Illinois 
 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, 
 and who wrought greatly with them in silent fashion for 
 his country and his kind. 
 
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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. 
 This he refused to surrender, saying that he would die
 
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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 
 his warmest personal friends.
 
 MEMORIALS. 503 
 
 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. 
 
 " The shouting and the tumult dies, 
 The captains and the king depart,"
 
 5O4 MEMORIALS. 
 
 but while liberty endures, we not as individuals, but as 
 
 a vast host will be remembered. 
 
 McNulta, John, General mustered out of the military 
 
 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 Infantry, 
 United States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, 
 March 29, 1900. 
 
 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 ne graduated from 
 the Albany Medical College. After graduation, he at- 
 tended a course of lectures and clinics at the University 
 
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 506 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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. 
 He perceived that the medicine chest and the knife should
 
 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 
 and a careful observer, but he relied more upon the prac-
 
 5O8 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 f ronded 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 Pennsylvania Cavalry, United- 
 States Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 2, igoo. 
 
 CIRST LIEUTENANT George Elkins Newlin was 
 |* 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 
 two stores in Philadelphia, where the product of his 
 paper mills was sold. 
 
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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 mills. 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 1 7th, Battle of Antietam. 
 
 1863 May 2d, Battle of Chancellorsville. 
 
 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 
 during the war, as First Lieutenant of Company A,
 
 MEMORIALS. $1 I 
 
 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 1 5th, 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 i /th, regiment engaged at Winchester. 
 
 August 2Oth, regiment engaged at Summit Station. 
 Newlin, with his company, was in the fights at Leetown 
 and Charlestown. 
 
 September I9th, Winchester, when "Sheridan sent 
 Early whirling up the valley." 
 
 September 2Oth, regiment engaged while in pursuit. 
 
 September 22d, regiment engaged while in pursuit. 
 
 October 6th, regiment repulsed a night attack. 
 
 October iQth, 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 I2th, the regiment was again engaged. In 
 this action Newlin with his company was surrounded by
 
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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 still 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 
 Company. He was then made Cashier and Receiver of
 
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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 April 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 
 was never so severe that he did not visit and comfort the
 
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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, will 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-fotirth Indiana Infantry, United States 
 Volunteers. Died at Chicago, Illinois, April 17, iqoo. 
 
 liflULE engaged in the recreation of preparing his 
 **H. 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 i/th, at his 
 home on Oaken wald 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. While 
 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 Shiloh, 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 
 of his injury, and we find him a few months after the
 
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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 Nashville, 
 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 
 joined her husband in the Philippines, where he is now
 
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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 
 1 1,886. 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 25, igoo. 
 
 OUR Companion, John Edwin Howard, was born at 
 Brockville, 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, 1865, 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, Afril 29, iqoo. 
 
 OUR late Companion, Dr. Samuel Craig Plummer, 
 died at his home in Rock Island, Illinois, on the 
 2Qth 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, 1821, 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 Wilmington, 
 Pa., a noble Christian woman who survives him.
 
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 Dr. Plummer left his home in Rock Island, for Spring- 
 field, April, 1 86 1, and on May 2ist 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 
 the First Division, 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 
 Church, his Christian character will linger long in the
 
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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 BUTTON. 
 
 Lieiitenant Colonel One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry and 
 
 Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers. Died at 
 
 Sycamore, Illinois, June 8. igoo. 
 
 I HE 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 Sycamore, 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 
 General by the President for gallantry and meritorious 
 service in the field. 
 
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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 final 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 
 said of him, that whether performing the clerical office
 
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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, 
 ministers to the sick and those in distress, who performs
 
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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, 
 
 Committee.
 
 MARTIN JAMES RUSSELL. 
 
 First Lieutenant and Adjutant Twenty-third Illinois Infantry, United 
 
 States Volunteers. Died at Mackinac Island, 
 
 Michigan, June 25, iqoo. 
 
 JUT ARTIN J. RUSSELL was bora in Chicago, De- 
 
 j ' I 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 
 patriotism and undaunted valor, and gave to her son 
 amply of these characteristics. 
 
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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, 
 1 86 1, 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- 
 tenant Russell having been promoted First Lieutenant
 
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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 J^imes under the 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 
 principle regardless of all consequences."
 
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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 Collector 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 r 
 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 children, James C. (now a member of 
 the First Class in Succession in this Order), Katherine, 
 Martin C. , Louis, Genie, Irene, William Amberg, Ruth 
 and Cecilia, 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 shall 
 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 LOOM1S. 
 
 Colonel Twenty -sixth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. 
 Died at Chicago, Illinois, August 2, iqoo. 
 
 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 Milwaukee, 
 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 
 take an active interest in the organization of the Chicago
 
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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 o'f 
 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, Illinois, 
 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 ability to com- 
 mand, for his military talent, and for his devotion to his
 
 MEMORIALS. 537 
 
 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 luka, Corinth, Farming- 
 ton, Vicksburg, Jackson, Tunnel Hill, 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- 
 teenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, 1863, 1864.
 
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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 Ridge, 
 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 
 for possession of Tunnel Hill.
 
 MEMORIALS. 539 
 
 ' ' 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, while 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- 
 eral Carman. After a careful examination of the map
 
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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 Company 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. 
 
 Colonel Loomis, though shrewd and thrifty, was a
 
 MEMORIALS. 541 
 
 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 
 life, after which the entire property over one million 
 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 lives 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 will not have 
 been made in vain.
 
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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 J, 1900. 
 
 QETER GUY GARDNER was born in Dresden, Ohio, 
 
 ^C 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 
 summer seasons worked as a farm hand. He spent the 
 money so earned in attending school during the winter 
 months. 
 
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 544 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 1 6, 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 La Grange 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 
 born five children, three of whom died in infancy. The 
 first, William R., a young man of much promise, died at
 
 MEMORIALS. 545 
 
 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, iqoo. 
 
 ROOT PRICE was born in Brattleboro, 
 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 1861 his father, Samuel Harrison Price, 
 responded to the call of his country, and enlisted in the 
 Ninth Illinois Cavalry, and was appointed Regimental 
 Quartermaster. His son, the subject of this sketch, 
 
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 MEMORIALS. 547 
 
 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 16, 1863, as 
 Sergeant of Company L, Ninth Illinois Cavalry. 
 
 Some months after, he entered business life and 
 enjoyed its activities until 1890, when failing health 
 compelled his retirement. He was elected an Original 
 Companion of the First Class of the Order, through the 
 Commandery of the State of Illinois, October 9, 1890, 
 and so far as his health permitted was a constant attend- 
 ant at its meetings and devoted to its interests. 
 
 He was a devoted son, a faithful husband, a loving 
 and tender father, a brave and patriotic citizen. Thus
 
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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 25, iqoo. 
 
 pDWARD MCALLISTER was born in Salem, Wash- 
 ington County, New York, on December 24, 1828, 
 ^ s ~* 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 build- 
 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 
 was part of the Army of the Tennessee, and participated 
 in all of its more memorable engagements.
 
 MEMORIALS. 551 
 
 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 Shiloh, the hardships and privations of 
 military 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 1860, 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 Wil- 
 liam K. McAllister, 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, 
 was a brother of the deceased. 
 
 Captain Edward McAllister was an honored example
 
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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 General, 
 
 United States Volunteers. Died at Manitou, Colorado, 
 
 September 21, iqoo. 
 
 ARTHUR ARNOLD SMITH was the son of Erastus 
 f\ 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 
 instruction of Abraham Becker, an attorney of Otsego- 
 
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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, Illinois, 
 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 
 law at Galesburg. In 1867 Governor Oglesby appointed
 
 MEMORIALS. 555 
 
 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-rnen 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 College. To all the varied duties 
 of his life, General Smith brought ability, 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 Nezv York Mounted Rifles, 
 
 United States Volunteers Died at Chicago, Illinois, 
 
 September 2[, igoo. 
 
 eJDNEL 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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 MEMORIALS. 557 
 
 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 fraternity, 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 
 Illinois, April 4, 1883, and was one of its most valued 
 members.
 
 55$ MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 2ist 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 
 struggle in the days of peace. 
 
 We mourn him; we sorrow for those who remain,
 
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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, Unittd States Volunteers. Died at 
 Wheaton, Illinois, October 9, 7900 
 
 e^PANION 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 Ellyn, 
 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 
 sorrows. From the close of the war until 1872, they
 
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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 Council, 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 25, 1900. 
 
 *TTfT Cairo, Illinois, on the last Christmas day of the 
 f\ 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. While 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 life ended. 
 
 As the author of several publications he established 
 an international reputation for research and scholarship, 
 and was particularly interested in efforts for the unifica- 
 tion of the Christian churches of the world. In 1892 he
 
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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 10, 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 New Jersey Infantry and Brevet Lieutenant 
 
 Colonel, United States Volunteers. Died at Nezuark, 
 
 New Jersey, January j, iqoi. 
 
 TliT 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, 
 1841, and had not quite reached the age of sixty years at 
 the time of his death, but those years were full of honor 
 and usefulness. 
 
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 Colonel Jackson was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and 
 belonged to one of the oldest families 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 "reconciliation " 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 father 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- 
 sequently, however, the college itself made atonement
 
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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 i6th and i/th 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 performed makes one of 
 the brightest pages of the history of the Civil War. Few 
 however are aware of the part which Colonel Jackson 
 took in this fiercely contested battle. In a letter pub-
 
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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- 
 nition than the mere mention of their bravery. They
 
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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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 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 
 b}' 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. 
 
 Upon the recommendation of General John Newton
 
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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 wa.s 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-
 
 MEMORIALS. 573 
 
 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 allow 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 life 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 id, igoi. 
 
 T(iN ORDERLY from Divine Headquarters has once 
 f\ 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, 1 86 1, 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. Philip." And on 
 the ist 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, until the 
 close of the war. Throughout that time he was the 
 warm and trusted friend of his commander. He was
 
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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 our 
 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 dsath, 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 will 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 
 upon all of the older residents of the city. He possessed
 
 MEMORIALS. 577 
 
 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 him 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 Illinois. The 
 Rev. Dr. Phillips officiated at the Episcopal Church 
 services, and the Freemasons at the cemetery. There 
 was a large attendance of his comrades of the Grand
 
 5/8 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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- 
 tality. JOHN C. SMITH, 
 
 JAMES. G. ELWOOD, 
 JOHN C. NEELY, 
 
 Committee.
 
 LEONARD FULTON ROSS. 
 
 Brigadier General, United States Volunteers. Died at Galesburg, 
 Illinois, January ij, iqoi. 
 
 TEONARD FULTON ROSS was born at Lewistown, 
 in Fulton County, Illinois, July 18, 1823. Colonel 
 ^"""^ Seventeenth Regiment Illinois Infantry, and Brig- 
 adier General, United States Volunteers. Elected 
 November n, 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 
 friendship 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.
 
 MEMORIALS. 58 1 
 
 Amid all the scenes in the eventful life 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 Hundred and Twentieth Indiana Infantry, 
 
 United States Volunteers. Died at Danville, Illinois, 
 
 February 20, 1901. 
 
 PDWARD CONNELL ABDILL was bom at Pen-y- 
 
 ville, Indiana, May 14, 1840, and died at his home 
 ^ s *"* 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 
 October were delayed by accident to the shaft itself at
 
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 the quarry, and postponed until the 3Oth 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 Twelfth Illinois Infantry, United States Volunteers. Died 
 at Riverside, Illinois, March 77, igor. 
 
 3UNDAY morning, March 17, 1901, there diedjat 
 his Riverside home Captain 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 1861. In July, 1861 he 
 enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Illinois Infantry, re- 
 enlisting as veteran in 1864. He was an exemplary 
 soldier, rilling 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 civil life he was a lawyer of marked ability, inter- 
 esting himself in public 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 Chicago, March 20, 1901. 
 
 etfPANION 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 
 reason of ending of war." 
 
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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 ba 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. Died 
 at Chicago, Illinois, March 20, iqoi. 
 
 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 1812. 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 until 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 ministry. 
 
 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 failing 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 
 cause for anxiety over the condition of their commander.
 
 MEMORIALS. 5QI 
 
 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 gallant fight for life with an insidious 
 and painful disease, and remaining at his post of duty to
 
 59 2 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 Army. Died at Harrison, Illinois, 
 April 7, iqoi. 
 
 r\EATH loves a shining mark! The grim Destroyer 
 ^ 1 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, while 
 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. 
 Owing to difficulties that arose, connected with the ex-
 
 MEMORIALS. 595 
 
 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 
 whom he had served in camp and field, as a man whose
 
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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 /th of April, 
 1901, 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 him 
 And lies down to pleasant dreams." 
 
 ROBERT W. MCCLAUGHRY, 
 J. J. ABERCROMBIE, 
 R. PAGE WAINWRIGHT, 
 
 Committee.
 
 ALEXANDER CALDWELL McCLURG. 
 
 Captain (Lieutenant Colonel by Assignment), and Assistant Adjutant 
 General and Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volun- 
 teers. Died at Jacksonville, Florida, April 15, 1901. 
 
 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 2ist 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 
 services. 
 
 The post of Acting Adjutant General of Baird's Divis-
 
 MEMORIALS. 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 I2th of April he took over the duties of 
 Adjutant General of the Fourteenth Army Corps; but to 
 the proper grade annexed thereto he was not advanced 
 until October 3d, some time after the supercession of 
 Palmer by Davis, when, for "especially gallant 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 Washington. On the 
 1 9th 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, 
 Jonesboro, The March to the Sea, Fayetteville, Averys-
 
 6OO MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 of 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 
 on that of rare books. It was an exotic in the regular
 
 MEMORIALS. 6OI 
 
 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 until 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 
 English houses, to whose names the dignity of duration 
 has given almost aristocratic significance.
 
 6O2 MEMORIALS. 
 
 His warlike achievements and his mercantile 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 this 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. The "greater part 
 of his prose is of permanent interest. Everything he 
 wrote about the Civil War is well worth reading. His 
 masterly account of the 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- 
 ages of the past rise before him, it gains in rapidity and
 
 MEMORIALS. 603 
 
 in certain passages (such as the description of his meet- 
 ing with Milliken on the field of Perryville, 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- 
 dential recognition. 
 
 In 1894 he had a serious illness which was the fore-
 
 604 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 i 5th 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 memory, 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 
 politics he was a conservative, but not of the protoplas-
 
 MEMORIALS. 605 
 
 mic sort that, following 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 mediaeval 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, 
 happy, rich in experience. He had known the joys of
 
 606 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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. 
 
 eMPANION 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 
 
 607
 
 608 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 
 brothers were in the army; and looking backward to the
 
 MEMORIALS. 609 
 
 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 till 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 
 Capron was killed in action in North Carolina, February
 
 6lO MEMORIALS. 
 
 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 command 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
 
 MEMORIALS. 6ll 
 
 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 Commissioner 
 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- 
 ment that has so suddenly come upon them. His eldest
 
 MEMORIALS. 
 
 son, Horace Mann Capron, is a Companion of the Illinois 
 
 Commandery. 
 
 C. H. ROWLAND, 
 E. D. REDINGTON, 
 ANDREW B. HULL, 
 
 Committee.
 
 MORGAN REDMOND KAVANAGH. 
 
 Died at La Grange, Illinois, May 25, 1901. 
 
 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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 614 MEMORIALS. 
 
 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, New York, September 14, 1901, 
 is, by vote of the Commandery, appended hereto. 
 
 WILLIAM McKINLEY, 
 
 ORESIDENT of the United States, Commander-in- 
 S]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 Illi- 
 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 Ihe 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 
 
 615
 
 6l6 APPENDIX. 
 
 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, at Niles, Trumbull 
 County, Ohio. On the breaking out of the Civil War, 
 when only eighteen years of age, on June n, 1861, 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 1869 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-
 
 APPENDIX. 617 
 
 elected every succeeding two years until 1890, when by 
 a successful gerrymander of his district boundaries he 
 was defeated. In June, 1891, 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 fill. 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
 
 6l8 APPENDIX. 
 
 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 silent 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 still 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 
 
 Adams, 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 
 
 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 
 
 DeWolf , Henry 157 
 
 Dickey, Theophilus Lyle 17 
 
 Drury, Lucius Hollenbeck 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, Samuel 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 Quinlin 240 
 
 Greusel, Nicholas 287 
 
 Hale, Charles Reuben 563 
 
 Hamilton, Benjamin Brown. ... 206 
 
 Hamilton, John Brown 413 
 
 Hand, Peter 462 
 
 (621)
 
 622 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Hanna, Robert Barlow 118 
 
 Harmon, Joseph Warren 505 
 
 Haven, Samuel Rush 66 
 
 High, James 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 
 
 McVicker, James Hubert 279 
 
 Mead, William Gale 139 
 
 Means, Archibald 371 
 
 Meyers. Charles Washington... 365 
 
 Montgomery, William Adam... 253 
 
 Morgan, Francis 32 
 
 Morgan, William Potwin 290 
 
 Page. 
 
 Neff, James Irwin 148 
 
 Newlin, George Elkins 509 
 
 Newton, Don Carlos 154 
 
 Noble, Henry Theophilus 97 
 
 Nowlan, Henry James 397 
 
 Ogden, William Langworthy. .. 171 
 
 Oliver, John Young 327 
 
 Palmer, George Henry 593 
 
 Patrick, John Joseph Ravenscrof t 228 
 
 Pease, Phineas 152 
 
 Phelps, Alonzo Jefferson 348 
 
 Plummer, Samuel 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 101 
 
 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 
 
 Smith, 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. 
 
 623 
 
 Page. 
 
 Troy, Lewis Lucas 464 
 
 Trurabull, 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 Gushing 164 
 
 White, Julius 69 
 
 Williams, Abram 301 
 
 Winterbotham, John Russell.. . 115 
 
 Wood, Joseph Hooker 556 
 
 Woods, Arthur Tannett 141 
 
 Worthington, Edward Stanley.. 368 
 
 Wright, Thomas Seaman 178