Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-08
Age In the Army.

The Oldest captain on the active list
of the army is Captain Pollock, of the
Twenty-tirst infantry; he will be sixty.
five years old during the month. The
oldest lieutenant is 7. =. Bernard. of
the Fifth cavalry, who is sixty-fOur,
being twenty years older than his colo
mel. The oldest lieutenant of artillery
is f. c. Nichols, of the First, who is
siXty-one years of age. The senior
major on the active list in point of years
is Edward Collins, of the First Infantry,
who is sixty years; he entered the SER
vice III 1916 as private in the Batta-
lion of Engineers, and has been in the
service ever since that time. Brevet
Brigadier General Joseph n. G.. Whist
Ter, of the Fifth infantry, is the Oldest
lieutenant colonel in the line of the
army; he is slXty-two; and Lieutenant
Colonel John Hamilton, of the Fifth,
who Is slXty-one. Is the Oldest of his
grade in the artillery. General III. j.
Hunt, the senior colonel of artillery,
now retired, will be sixty-liye years of
age during this month. General Gil
bert, Colonel of the Seventeenth infan-
try. is the Oldest colonel of his arm Of
the service, being sixty-twO, and John
Z. Hatch, of the Second cavalry, is the
senior III years in the cavalry. The
youngest Major General is Schofeld,
and the eldest is Pope, who isslxty-two.
Hancock is sixty; he retires in 1888.
Mackenzie is the youngest brigadler
general in the army; he is now forty
three and retired, and Miles, the next,
is isforty-five. While promotion is slower
in some respects in our army than in
any military service In Europe, yet
there is neither in England ''nOr on the
Continent" an officer of General Mack
enzie's age. ''outside Of royal blood,
who has attained his rank. Angler is
the Oldest brigadier general, and is sixty
three. A brisadier general will be
appointed next year; a major general
and brigadier IN 1886, and likewise in
1898.
The youngest colonel of artillery is
Ayres; of cavalry, Merritt. who is forty
three. and of infantry, Pennypacker.
who is forty-two. The youngest lieu
tenant colonel on the staff of the army,
is J. NJ. Whittemore, of the ordnance,
and Morrow, of the Sixth cavalry, is
the youngest lieutenant colonel in the
line. 5. +. Tillman, Professor of
Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology at
West Point, has the correlative rank of
lieutenant colonel; he is thirty-six years
old, the youngest Of the grade in the
United States army. The youngest
major in the army is William II. Smith,
of the pay department, who is thirty;
George r. Smith, late Of the Twelfth
infantry, who graduated from West
Point in 1875, is a few months older.
Otho w. Budd, who graduated from
West Point In 1868, is the youngest
captain of cavalry, and F. V. Greene
and Carl F. Palfrey are the Youngest
in the Corps of Engineers. The aver
age age of captains of artillery is forty
three, and in cavalry and infantry about
forty-one. In the general staff of the
army the youngest general officer is
General Benet, Chief of Ordinance.
who is fifty-seven, and the senior in
date of commission. Adjutant Gen
eral Drum and Surgeon General Crone
are tifty-nine years old, and Paymaster
General Rochester and COmmissary
General MacFeeley are fifty-eight. The
oldest retired officer of the army is
General W. ). Harvey, who was born
in the last century, and who entered
the service in 1918. He lives at st.
Louis and is accounted the wealthiest
man In the army.