Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-12-22
AMONG THE AGED.

is So.
Ex-President Woolsey OF Yale College
has reached the age of 50 years.
Sir Henry Taylor, author of "Philip
Won Artevelde,' is now SO years old.
Prof. Laurens =. TIickock, formerly
of Union College. is now living in Am
herst at the green old age Of 50 years.
Count Won Moltke 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 81.
Mrs. Stillwagon of Flushing, J., 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 SO 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 regi-
ment in the Black Hawk war.
Mrs. Sallie Stockwell of West Brattle-
boro, VT, has Just died at the age OF
104 years. She was born in Chesterfield,
n. II. One of her sisters lived to be
100 and a brother died at the age of 90.
Bishop Charles Wordsworth of st.
Andrews, England, now in his S0th
year, was captain of the Oxford boat
crew in 1929 and taught the young ideas
of Gladstone and Cardinal Manning how
to shoot.
A few days ago man walking
through Forest Hill cemetery at Napo-
leon, Or, found the lfeless body of Mrs.
Frances German, aged 70 years, beside
her husbands grave. The old lady was
friendless and alone in the world, hei
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 coDsecrated to his
bishopric so years ago last October in
st. Paul's chapel, New York, along
with Bishop Mcllvaine.
James Tygelof, a Russian peasant
near Odessa, reached his l47th year
His son is still alive at the age of 1l5
he has a grandson OF So and great
grandson of 40 years. He never drank
| If 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. %
Middlebury, aged So; Robert Camp o.
Middlebury, aged ~: Mrs. David Stone
of Woodbury., aged so; Mrs. Julia
Strong of Bethlehem, aged 20, and Mrs
| Clarissa Northrop of Bethlehem, aged
70-the two last being twins.
The Oldest peer in the British realm
| the Earl of Mountcash ell, an Irish rep
resentative peer, completed the othel
day his Dist year, having been born il
| Stephens Green, Dublin, in 1902. Ht
succeeded to the earldom on the dealt
of his father in 1928, and was elected &
representative peer in 1926, so that hi
has been member of the House o
Lords for 81 years. He is known as the
"Father of the House.
Paul Britain, who died in Lane
county, Oregon, recently, aged SO years
was a pioneer in several States. Tie
was born in North Carolina. From his
native State he emigrated to Tennessee
when that State was wilderness
Then he went to Illinois when it was &
territory inhabited principally by Indi
ans and Iowa was considered the "Fal
West" when he moved his little family
into it and settled on the broad prairi,
east of the keosauqua.
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