Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-12-25
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WHOLE NO. 1915.

dnctor OF that great paper, the Coz.
rier Journal, whose ability, energy
and human excellence render him
even more deserving OF fame than
his "mammo,k office or bis Courier
Journal Scores of others. too, were
there, whose celebrity now is 90 cx
tepsise with the Nation. There Is
scarcely sny position Of honor, excel
lence or National distinction in oar
wide domain that has not been hon
orably filled by some individual who
was once q pupil of the Msysvllle
Seminary In the language of for
mer letter published in the Msysville
Republican,, some have been men,
beers of the State Legislature, mem
bers of the Senate. AMI members OF
Congress, Judges of the county and
Judges OF The district, clerks of Cir.
cult Courts and Clerks OF the Senate
and House OF representatives, Sec
rotary OF Legation and Ministers TO
foreign courts, Commonwealth At
torney for the district, and Common
wealth's Attorney Tor the State. The
bench, tue pulpit aud the bar have
each been occupied by them; they
have filed with honor, every position,
from the Principal Of a high school
to the distinguish. President of a
college, aud have occupied some of
The most important chairs as PROBES
sors in many of he best colleges aud
universities in the land ministers OF
the most enlightened churches, and
missionaries TO heather lands; edit
ors and managers of important news
papers famous as poets, historians
and mouud-revealers doctors OF
medicine and doctors of law bank
officers and operators In every com
mercial enterprise az attorneys-at-
law and pleaders at the bar their
name ,s legion, and the whole coun
try is filed with their fame. In all
the departments of life the old semi
nary has sent forth her young men
and her maidens over the wide do
main, from Boston to San Francisco,
and from Chicago to the Crescent
City and, if you visit the city of the
dead. You will find monuments erect
ed to John Armstrong Collins, q star
of the first magnitude, collapsed only
in death; VIM. T. Caste, shot in q
duel on the plains of Dover, and Gen
erAl Vim. Nelson, learned and gal
liant officer and an intrepid soldier
But it was LETT for young Ulysses
Grant to eclipse them all in position
aud world wide distinction.
III u. Grant entered as a pupil the
MaysviIle Seminary during the win
ter season of 1885 aud 1887. In his
classes he sustained himself with
credit, and in his conduct and gen.
eral bearing was the life like mlnia.
ture of General u. S.Grant,the great
soldier and Statesman of the presen,
era, whom the citizens OF Louisville
propose to entertain as their honored
guest on the 10Th of December. He
was a member OF the Philomathean
Society, 10 which The juniors of the
institution belonged. The seniors Of
the school were members of the
Kappa Gamma Chi Society, and you
were ranked 10 that body. find 10
the records of the Philomathean thai
Sin January, 1887, Lissant Cox,
| Ulysses Grant, Absalom MARYLAND,
Wilson G Richardson and John p.
Phister We're appointed as the Exec
utive Commi tee for the ensuing
! moath, aud Mr. Phister's term of OF.
Ace as President expiring with tbls
meeting.he delivered bis valedictory,
to which great attention was paid b,
the members
l have copied verbatim from The
minutes of the Society. from which
you will discover that yonng Grant
even then. was considered an execu
tive member. john z. Phlster, q
President of that occasion, is now
President OF the City Cosneil O
Maysville; and all Of that Phioms
thean Executive Board are now men
OF position and OF high order OF in
telligence. On ano,her page of The
Secretary's book | find that Mr.
Grant submitted the following reso
luton /:
| Resolved, That il be consider ed ont of or
der for any member to speak on the Opposite
side 10 which he belongs.
10 this record you perceive biz
! consistency, even at the early age Of
fifteen. In February OF the same
year (is37) the records show tina
"Ulysses Grant and Z NJ. Richesor
were anpointed TO decla,m on the en-
suing Friday" AT another meeting
/ fiud that "Mr Grant submitted th,
following resolution"
Resolved, That any member who leave
his seat during debate shall be fined not les
thsa sig and one-fourth cents.
The importance Of order, decision
and consistency seemed TO have im
pressed him at sn early age Will,
he attended the Maysville Seminar,
he boarded with The family of biz