Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-13
THE NEW PRESIDENT.
In the Person OF Chester A
Arthur the Fourth Vice
President
Succeeds to the Presidency by
the Death Of the Chief
Magistrate.

General Arthur assumes the respon-
sibilities Of the Hrst Office in the coun-
try under circumstances Of great deli
caoy. AS 10 his life and political ca
reer Gath in the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
says:
Tho Baptist church il responsible
for Chester A. Arthur. Ills father
was one OF those sterling old men who
have made the Baptist clergy mission.
aries and ciyilizers. Almost as early
cr thore we're puritans in England
there were also Baptists. After much
persecution, the Baptists obtained toll
Grafton under William of Orange. In
scotland and the North of Ireland
many OF the Calvinists adopted the
Baptist idea, and claimed that baptism
had even n higher earthly antiquity
than Christianity. The Baptsts are I'm
general Calyinistic Congregationalists
with the great central idea of baptism
as the leading bond OF faith, and an
indispensable rite Like all Calyinists
the Baptists were early advocates of
colleges and OF education. II you can
imagine Scotch-Irish Presbyterian.
with all his other qualities intensified
by the ardor OF his views on baptism.
you can behold General ArthuPs faith.
er. He was born and educated about
Belfast, Ireland, and came to Canada.
and thence, seeking newer fields and
larger congregations. crossed the Amer
ican line, and while settled few miles
east OF St Albans, Vermont. General
Arthur was born in the township of
Fairfield.
THE DOUBT or Ills BIRTH.
Probably his father had to recross
The line 20 preach. and even TO reside.
after the generals birth, and this has
led to some notion that the vice-presi-
dent was born in Canada, an idea
which | think Is 20 be classed with
that Of Wilkes Booth being alive and
Mr.. stanton having cut his throat.
lt Is not reasonable that n gentleman
aware of his disabilities should take
the oath rs vice-president. Yet IL Is
sometimes hard for men of itinerant
clerical parentage, born fifty years ago,
to be thoroughly accurate about their
birthplace. Gen. Arthur's father prob
ably lived in twenty different towns.
and preached IN about that number of
churches, after the son was born. The
general drift Of his residence was down
the east side of Lake Champlain TO the
foot of the lake, and then i'm southern
Vermont, around the field OF Benning-
ton and over into New York state.
about In the quarter of the Hoosac
Tunnel, and no on TO Troy, Albany and
Schenectady.
ARTHUR WAS A GREEN MOUNTAIN hoy.
The old man was called TO the City
of New York few years before the
war. and had quite good church
called the Calvary Baptist. He was
not only n minister, but an author,
something Of the style of Disraeli's
father. While Ben Disraeli, the elder.
wrote the "Curiosities of Literature"
Rev. William Arthur wrote the "Ori-
gin of Modern Names"
About 1875 the old man died, be-
holding his son collector Of the port OF
New York, and considerable of man
In the councils Of the radical Republi-
can party. Tho benevolence, warmth
Of character and love of knowledge in
William Arthur are often talked of by
other clergymen and by some polite
ians here.
10 Is probable that Gen. Arthur's
mother was n New England woman.
Her name indicates ii, both i'm the pre-
nom and the surname-Malvina Stone.
William and Malyin A. Arthur had a
good, big Yankee family, FIVE daugh-
ters and two sons. The second son
went into the war, was a good officer
and Is now major and paymaster i'm the
regular service. He probably owes TO
his brother his durable situation in the
service. Not much is known about
the daughters.
Chester a. Arthur has unquestion-
ably been the center of the family
for the past twenty years, and has given
status to his father. as we'll rs TO his
fathers children. AS we shall see fur
Their on, this son carried the Baptist
preachers stock into one Of the oldest
families of Virginia.
Like most clergymen, William Arthur
thought about the best he could do for
his children was to educate them.
Preachers seldom acquire money unless
they marry IL, and Chester Arthur was
sent TO Union college at Schenectady.
n. y. Very little is said about the
institution,
UNION COLLEGE,
nowadays, though It still hourishes
moderately. and has a long list OF
alumni. 1t stands in the very middle
Of Schenectady.
Schenectady, n few miles west of
Troy and Albany, and south of Sara
toga, Is one Of the early Dutch settle
ments Of New York. and after the rev
olution General Schuyler started tns
formation Of college there. 1t was
chartered by the regents of the unr
Versity' (Os whom Whitelaw Reid is
now one) near the close of Washing
tons administration. It was a Calyan-
istic college, and its first two presi-
dents were John Blair Smith, of Hamp-
den Sidney. Virginia, and Jonathan
Edwards, son Of the metaphysician.
FINALLY that remarkable man. Elipha-
let Mott, the son Of poor parents in
connecticut, was called to Union col
lege when he was only thirty-one years
NAUs
Dr. Mott was preacher at Cherry
valley, New York, and in the Presby-
terian church at Albany. When Alex
ender Hamilton was killed. DIR Mott
SSelvered powerful eulogy upon him
rom the pulpit and an attack ON duel
ing AS soon as Mott took charge of
Snl9n college he applied a business
heao 20 making 1t rich, and among his
Investments was the purchase OF what
- now city opposite Manhattan
island at Hunters Point. The New
\ nork Potter family. Of whom ClarkSon
folter Is the most distinguished. is de-
scended from DIR. Mott, and the ori0i.
nM Potter was one Of Motifs profes-
S0rs at Union.
Under this eccentric, yet luminous
man, Arthur received his edncatSon