Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-12-21
AMONG THE AGED.

is SO.
Ex-President Woolsey of Yale College
has reached the age OF S2 years.
Sir Henry Taylor, author OF "Philip
Won Artevelde," is now So years old.
Prof. Laurens p Hickock, formerly
OF Union College, is now living in Am
herst at the green old age OF So years.
Count Won Moltkc is the oldest COM
| mander-in-chief. He was born in 1900
and can make love in ii languages
Father John Carroll OF Chicago is the
oldest Catholic priest in America He
comes of the famous CAROLS of Mary
land.
Stephen Baker, long the postmaster
of Beverly, Mass, under appointment
of President Jackson, died recently at
the age of 90.
Mrs. Stillwagon of Flushing, l., l.,
has celebrated her 9Sth birthday. She
made the cake and pastry for the occa-
sion with her own fair young fingers.
The oldest English art critic is the
venerable Samuel Carter Hall of Lon
don, who has lately published an enter
tanning volume Of the "reminiscences of
his S3 years.
Col. James Blackburn, farmer of
Edgar county, ILL.,, has passed off at the
age OF 80. He was the owner of 1900
acres of land and commanded a regi-
ment in the Black Hawk war.
Mrs. Sallie Stockwell of West Brattle-
boro, VT, has just died at the age of
lO4 years. She was born in Chesterfield,
n. ii. One of her sisters lived to he
100 and brother died at the age of 30.
Bishop Charles Wordsworth of st.
Andrews, England, now in his SOth
year, was captain OF the Oxford boat
crew in 1929 and taught the young ideas
of Gladstone and Cardinal Manning hsw
to shoot.
A few days ago man walking
through Forest Hill cemetery at Napo-
leon, Or, found the lifeless body of Mrs.
Frances German, aged IS years, beside
her husbands grave. The old lady was
friendless and alone in the world, her
husband having died some time ago.
The oldest Episcopal bishop in the
United States is the Rt Rev. BENJAMIN
Bosworth Smith, Bishop of Kentucky,
now residing in New York city in his
Goth year. He was consecrated to his
bishopric 80 years ago last October in
st. Paul's chapel, New York, along
with Bishop McIlvaine.
James Tygelof, Russian peasant
near Odessa, reached his 147th year.
His son is still alive at the age of lis;
he has grandson of SIS and great
grandson of 40 years. He never drank.
Ii he had never married he might have
spoiled the record of Methusaleh.
In Middlebury, Conn.,, there is fam
lily OF five persons whose average age is
rs years. They are: Calvin Camp of
Middlebury, aged SO; Robert Camp of
Middlebury, aged 70: Mrs. David Stone
of Woodbury., aged so; Mrs. Julia
Strong of Bethlehem, aged 20, and Mrs.
Clarissa Nnrthrop of Bethlehem, aged
70-the two last being twins.
The Oldest peer in the British realm,
the Earl of Morntcash ell, an Irish rep
resentative peer, completed the other
day his 9lst year, having been born in
Stephens Green, Dublin, in 1892. He
succeeded to the earldom on the death
of his father in 1923, and was elected a
peer in 1926, SO that he
has been member of the House of
Lords for 81 years. Heis known as the
''Father of the House.
Paul Britain, who died i'm Lane
county, Oregon, recently, aged 80 years,
was a pioneer in several States. He
was born in North Carolina From his
native State he emigrated to Tennessee
when that State was a wilderness
Then he went to Illinois when it was n
territory inhabited principally by Indi-
ans and Iowa was considered the "Far
West" when he moved his little family
into it and settled on the broad prairie
east of the keosauqua.