The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-02-24
The 0Idcst Man in the World.

10 produce Z man or woman Eho has at
i-ined the age reached ty Joseph Circle
now residing in The town Of Caledonia,
Columbia county in Ills State.
Daling The French Revolution one JeaE
Glade Jacon, member Of the Na'iaual
Assembly, was called tie - Dean q liz
human Species" the Eldest Of men."
;. On his scanned worn face were p}oughed
the fgrrowings Of one HUNDRED and twenty
ears" Bu. our " Dean Of tie human
~pec;ea IS nearly twenty years older than
Claude Jacon, who did not complete bis
one hundred and :peuty-ir,t year,
Joseph Cfeje was born in Detroit, OF
French parents. TIE record Of his bap~
tisin 10 tie Catholic Church Of that city
shows that lie is nov l39 years of sge.
lie las been resident Of Wisconsin for
about q ceaIary. Whenever mention Is
ulade Of The oldest inhatitant," there
mead be 10 question as to the person.
Joseph Ciee j, undoubtedly the man.
lie was first Fna-Ti=1 il New Orleans, 100
wears ago. Soae wears after be settled al
Prairie "a CHEN. While Wisconsin was
yet a ptcYi,re Of France. BTlre tie
Keycjuiionary l5gr, lie was empI, yed TO
csrrs letters between praifie du Chen
and Gfeca Bay. II Is but few years
$50 tina; he Wa called - witNess in the
Circuit Court, il a case involving the title
10 certain real estate q. rtajfie Gu CHEN,
to give testimony in relation to events
that transpired eighty years before. He
new resides with a daneh er, b. his third
wife. who Is over seventy years of age.
The residence Of tie family is opIs four
or FIVE miles out Of Portage City. From
citizens Of that place We learn that he
is sill active, is able to chop wood, and
SAX several miles. lie speaks English
quite iinperfectly, but converses tuentiy
III the trench language. lie goes TO
elections, and, like sensible old gentle
man, votes the Union ticket. He stoop.
q liltie urder TIE burden Of years but not
more than many men OF seventy. In
person, lie is ys;her above HE medium
height, spare il flesh, Du: showing cyi-
deuJes Of having been in lis prime man
Of snewy strength. Concerning his hab
It's, guIject OF much Iptcrs>. IL connec-
lion with an instance Of such extraordinary
longevity, re have been abis TO learn but
little, excep! that lie is an inYe.eFate smok-
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rooms oI the State Historical Society
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sentiment 10 his corn position, vet. in SONS
dian gay St .saa', ne experiences The feel
IN, 30 .ou4h:u2iv expressed or v o.ds.
@orth, written under the shadow Of more
!aan seventy years, Q:
part
Inc utmost s'-'"'c o. age 70 l"'s''
Aud, with Lis simple and sophisticated
conceptions respecting a Deity, this freiiDG
Of soii4rinoas Of rem aiming thus ion?
Tie sole survivor Of generation Of Rsik
ing abou, n this latter half OF the nine
teenlh century, ard III these days Of teIe
graphic dispatches, monitors, steam press
Is a-d Tett..io:-he 10 vas a man capa
lie # bearing arms in he GGys Of Brad
decks defra: the sense, wo repeat, Q
,his exceptional and anomalou. loI, joiue>
with bis cTuhs and untu.orei notions upor
religious subjec;a. has induced IL bis 10 IN
the curious fancy THAI perhaps God ha
overlooked him, that Death who comes t
a, oas;Ie, the otherwise Unsuitable, has, II