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chusetts potent one in the grand councils of the
order.
Can't. Jack Crawford.


Capt. Jack Crawford.
Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout dele
gate from New Mexico, aid-de-camp on Kountz
staff, is an enthusiastic Grand Army man. He
was with General Crook ON his Sitting BullSioux
campaign, and was an enterprising correspondent
of the New York Herald, not only in that cam
paign, but in the opening of the Black Hills, and
made some wonderful rides to get dispatches to
the telegraph lines. He was chief of scouts in the
campaign against the Apaches, Victoria and
Mana, in 1876-80-S1, and along there, and was
also correspondent of the Herald then He is
now post-trader at Fort Craig, n. III. One re-
markabe thing about this man is that in all his
wild career as an Indian hunter, government
scout, etc. he never tasted intoXcantS in his life
and, though he has published handsome volume
never crossed the threshold of a school house as a
pupil but was taught to read and write by the
Sisters Of Charity while lying wounded in Phila-
dephia hospital after the battle of Spottsylyania
Mrs. S. e. Fuller.
The senior vice-president of the national asscci-
alton, Mrs. S. E. Fuller, is the widow Of a soldier
who lost his life by disease in the service of his
country She was a pioneer in the work Of aiding
the survivors of the late war, and long before the
womans Relief Corps was projected was an ac-
tive worker for the Grand Army She was the
first president of the new organization in Massa-
ehusetts, and her piIgrimages to Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut were re-
in those States show. At Denver she was chosen
national secretary. and did a grand years work in
that capacity. Today with her whole heart she is
pledged to the ccrps, and is ever ready to do all in
her power for the men who saved the Union. She
is a tremendous worker and services in cOnnee-
ton with the late carnival were of great value to
the committee. In the Relief Corps she enjoys
the confidence of her associates, and in
her home she is the mother of son now grown to
manh0od's estate
Louis Wagner.
Comrade Wagner was born in Giessen, Ger
many, i'll 1888, and was AZ years old when chosen
commander-in-chief. In 1949 he came to this
country with his father, who was an exile from
Germany, having participated in revolution
there. In 1861 coinrade Wagner entered the ser
vice as First Lieutenant Of company d, Eighty
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and by successive
promotions reached the rank of BreVet Brigadier-
General. He had held many positions of trust by
the gift of his felloW-citzens and has held Offices
of high rank in Masonry. For years he had been
identified with the temperance work and was ex-
allied to the highest position in the National
Division of the Sons of Temperance, Most
Worthy Patriarch He was a charter member of
Post 2, Philadelphia and again of Posts, was pro-
vlSiOnal department commander, and the first de-
pertinent commander of Pennsylvania. Prior to
his election as conmander-in-clef he had served
twoterms as senior vice commandern-chief I'M
der General Burnside, and while his chief was alb
sent in Europe conducted the affairs in an able
impartial manner. He still retains his love for
and interest in the organization.
EsTs. L. p. Turner.
The National Treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Turner, is one Of natures noblewomen. Natur-
ally charitable and intensely patriotic, her I'M
pulses have led her in the past into many useful
fields of labor. For years she has been the close
friend and believer in the men who served the Re-
public. She has been an active worker in the
field Of Grand Army charities, and at the incep-
ton of the Woman's Relief Corps identified her
self with its fortunes and has never since lowered
its flag. With all her sympathy there was a vein
of the practical in her nature. and it naturally fell
to her to conduct its financial affairs Her man
agenlent of the exchequer in the infancy of its ex-
istence proved Of great value to the department.
| Promoted to a higher position she faithfully full
filled every trust, and to-day the national organZa-
ton is on sound financial basis. As friend she
| is true as steel, and among those who know her
she is only known to be loved. A practical bust
ness woman she brings u ripened intelligence to
her charitable work and success has thus far