The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
-Four companies United States Second artillery.
Light battery.

-Four companies United States Second artillery.
Light battery.
Company A. United States artillery.
Grand Army Republic.
Roscoe Conklng Club.
Boys in Blue.
Columbia, Washington and De Molay command
cries Knights Templar, of this city, in full
regalia.
Beauseant Commandery Knights Templar, Of
Baltimore
Then came the hearse drawn by six
iron-gray horses, each led by colored
groom. Following the hearse were
about 100 carriages occupied by officers
OF the executive mansion and their wives,
relatives of the late President. ex-Presi-
dents Grant and Hayes, President Arthur
and Secretary Blaine, other cabinet min
listers and their wives, diplomatic corps.
! Chief Justice Waite and Associate JUS
tees Harlan, Matthews and Miller. SEN
ators, members of the house, governors
of states, and secretaries and commits
| sioners of District of Columbia. Judges
of the court of claims, iudiciaries of the
| District of Columbia and judges of the
United States court, assistant secretaries
of the state, treasury and interior depart
ments, assistant postmaster general,
solicitor general and assistant attorney
general.
AS the procession moved minute guns
were fired from the military post and
forts surrounding the city and church
! bells tolled.
At least 10000 people were gathered
about the capitol to witness the start of
the procession, while along the line of
march to Sixth Street the crowd was even
greater than on the 18th of March.
Everywhere it was most orderly and
| quiet, and as the hearse containing the
remains moved along the avenue from
the very door of the capitol to the en-
trance of the depot all heads were uncov-
cred. On reaching the depot the mill
tary were drawn up in line on the oppo-
site of the street facing the Sixth Street
entrance. The remains were borne from
| the hearse on the shoulders of six SOL
diers of the Second artillery and placed
In the funeral car. Ten officers from the
army and navy were selected as guard
of honor, and stood with uncovered
| heads as the remains were taken from
! the hearse and them escorted them to the
! car. The diplomatic corps and others
| WIZ NC1c uOG SO1uS Ou tlUHeI Vi Tue
trains did not alight from their carriages.
President Arthur entered the depot with
Secretary Blaine, and after few minu-
ties entered the secretary's carriage and
with ex-President Grant was driven up
the avenue to his temporary home at the
residence of Senator Jones, of Nevada.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
James Abram Garfield was born in the
township of Orange, Cuyahoga County,
| Ohio, on November 10Th, 1881, the
| youngest of family of four children.
On the farm and on the canal and as a
teacher, he worked his way to an educa-
ton, graduating from Williams College
In 1856. He subsequently became pro-
fessor, then president in Hiram Col
lege, Ohio. During his professorship
lie married Lucretia Rudolph, whose
womanly heroism and wifely devotion
! through these recent weeks the world
! has watched in admiration. In 1859
Garfield was elected to the Ohio senate,
and In 1861 was chosen colonel
of the Forty-second Ohio regiment, at
the head of which organization and sub
sequently as the commander of a
brigade, he saw much active service,
participating with distinction in several
! chief battles of the war. For meritori-
GUS acts at Chickamauga, he was pro-
NOTED to major-generalship, and held
his commission until by his Ohio dis
trict he was elected to congress in the
latter part of 1863. Reflections to con-
gress followed with the expiration of
each term until January, 1880; during
the three years preceding which date he
served as speaker of the house. At the
date last named he was elected to the seat
in the United States senate vacated by
Allan &. Thurman on the fourth of
March last. By the republican national
convention at Chicago he was nominated
| for the Presidency of the nation, in No
vember last was elected, on the fourth of
March, 1881, succeeded to the duties of
the high position, on July Cd at Wash
ington was shot by the assassin Guiteau
and On September 10Th, 1881, died from
the wound inflicted.
Chester A. Arthur was born on Octo-
! Der 5th, 1880, in Franklin County, Yer
mOnt. His father was a Baptist clergy
man and an Irishman, who at the age of
eighteen years emigrated to this coun-
try. Chester A. received his boyhood
education at country schools and in his
young manhood entered Union College
whence he graduated member of the
class of '4S. He subsequently studied
law and in 1850 was admitted to
the bar of New York state In New
York city he steadily practiced the law
| until the inauguration of Governor Nor
| gan of New York in January, 1861, when
he was appointed engineer-in-chief of
the gubernatorial staff. The same year
he was promoted to be inspector- general,
and January q, 1862, was advanced to
quartermaster-g general. This post he
held until the expiration of the governors
term OF office, deriving from it the mil
ltary title by which he is known. At the
! close of the war General Arthur first took
active interest in the politics of his state,
and In November of 1871 was appointed
by President Grant collector of the port
OF New York Uice Murphy resigned.
-Four years later he was re-appointed to
the post of collector, and on July 18th,
1878, was removed from the office by
President Hayes, Mr.. Merritt succeeding.
In November last having received NOM
nation in the Chicago convention, he
was elected to the vice presidency, being
the seventh occupant of that office from
the state of New York His predeces-
sors were Aaron Burr, George Clinton,
Daniel d. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren,,
Willard Fillmore, and William A.
Wheeler. Monday night, by the death of
President Garfield, General Arthur be-
came the President of the United States,
heinz sUorn into tho oA6oo o4 he VOC;