New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

Gilbert C. Walker died at a comparatively youthful
age but he had lived long enough to become Governor
OF the ancient commonwealth Of Virginia.
Isaac 5. Catln, unanimously elected president oil
the village OF Owego iayorl in 1e60. at the advanced
age OF tweny-four, laid his Office the breaking
out Of war, when he aided in raising company OF
volunteers on the evening OF April H. ls6l-the hrst
full company Of volunteers raised in the North. General
Catlin says. lie commanded that company Tor more
than year and then assisted Colonel Tracy In raising
the 109th New York Volunteers Of which regiment ne
was first lieutenant colonel. then colonel. He was
severely wounded. and received the bevets OF major
lieutenantcolonel brgadier general aud maIor-gerei
for gallant and meritorious services Elected District
Attorney OF Toca County In 1863 he occupied that oee
until 1867, when he commissioned IN the regular
army ard Is full colonel and brevet Maorueherai
L. s. A. Having removed 10 Prookyn. in 1877 he
was elected rictAuoney for Kings county py
about 1900 majority, though the adverse party ma
iority was about $4,000, and in 1850 was reelected
BY nearly 1000 majority, with party majority
against him Of about 10000 In 1855 he was twice
nominated for Surrogate By the same convention ana
twice declined Accepting the nomination for Mayor
he would have been elected Handsomely had not us
senting Republicans put an Independent caEdidate IN
the Held whom Just enough votes were cast l3oop)
to defeat General Catin, whose vote was $1,000 In
1887 he Joined the Democratic party ard since then
has declned To be a candidate for any Office
II NAV be safe to say that such a record as that
of these men N er made by any other three mem
bers of a country law firm. But still other owego
lawyers gained distinction in new fields. Judge
George A. Madil, in his youth partner OF John J'
TAYLOR emigrated to st. Louis where he reach a Msh
judicial place and still remains of the foremost,
not the foremost of the Missouri bar. The late Charles
T. Ransom, also, who removed to Iowa, and became
Mayor OF Iowa CITY, long attorney for the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and emin mt among
the lawyers Of his nsighbOrhood. The late Samuel r.
Brown once in partnership with Judge " T. DAVIS, ot
Owego removing TO Davenport, Iowa, was engaged In
many Of the most important legal contests through
great part OF the West. At the instance of Mr.
Austin Corbin, who knew his learning and ability,
Mr. Brown came to NewYork several years ago, where
he was attorney for te Long Island Railway Com
pany concerned with large affairs until his recent
death Lyman Truman. twice chosen state senator
from the XXIvth District flor the sessions OF
Is6O6l and 136oI63 afterSasd lin 1862 elected TO
represent Tioga County In the Assembly, who was
among the men OF force and mark at Albany in his
day was not lawyer. but of the successful busi'
ness men of his village 20, also the late Thomas
l. Chathed, state Senator In lSi1'I2
or the Bench of Bishops In the Protestant Episcopal
Church Owego claims (about the proportion for the
whole State Of New York;, DR.. Worthington Bishop OF
Nebraska, and DIR. Leonard, Bishop Of Ohio twhO
dealt lately with Mr. McQueary) both chosen after
service OF peculiar success in important parishes
Owego, but that Is his ancestral home and the sum
mer residence OF his father Mr. William b. LeonaNi
head of the late NewYork banking firm of Leonard
sheldon Co., himself another Illustration OF Owego
fortune since he has lately retired from Wal street.
after long career marked by great ability and un-
usual business success. Bishop LeOnarfs grand
father stephen T. Leonard represented his district In
Congress for two terms, from 1885. The Rev. Dr.
Washington GLADDEN., one OF the bestknown among
Congregational ministers the pulpit ard the press
was from Owego and has summer residence
there. Dr. GLADDEN. learned the printing trade In
| owego, did David Il. Locke {" Petroleum
". Nasby,, "Brick7 Pomeroy, and the late
Henry r. Wells, aiterward the publisher OF " The
New-lork Commercial Advertiser The Rev. DR..
John F. Genung Professor Of Rhetoric ut Amherst
College was an Owego boy. The Rev. DIR. James
Rankne not native to Owego, but long rector of st.
Paus Church there for time president Of Hobart
College. The Rev. George ID. Johnson. also not native
there, though his kindred were, who was rector OF
st. Pauls after Dr. Rankns Is Archdeacon Of Rich
mond one OF the four clergy officialy next In rank
TO Bishop Potter In the metropolitan diocese of New
York. The Rev. DR.. William Al N Bartlett, born
In an adjoining county. resident OF Owego as n
minister OF the Congregational church, where he was
famous for fervd oratory. Aferward he was In
charge OF the Elm Place Church, Brooklyn. and later
OF Plymouth Church. Chicago In that place succeeding
another Owego man, to be mentioned presently. He
| now occupies an UlpOrd ant ITtoDSi puiPN III
Washington, d. c., and prominent in the late Gen
era Assembly as opposing the views of Profe scr
Charles A. Briggs. The Rev. DIR. Moses Colt Tyler,
who followed Dr. Bartlett In his Owego parish, now
Professor OF American constitutional history and law
ut Cornell University is further known extensively
| through his literary works 'he History Of Amer
! lean Literature.2 Manual OF English Literature y
BIawnvc Papers Direct study Of English Master
PIECES and the biography Of Patrick Henry in the
| Ssat. erie l.. y,
| Crandall, once minister Of the Baptist church Of
| Owego aferwaN of NewIOri, and now pastor Of the
! Euclid Avenue Church, Of Cleveland. Ohio, has be-
come one Of the most prominent ministers IN his
denomination. Among distinguished clergymen OF
| Owego not native, there mus be included the
venerable DR.. Samuel Hanson Cox In his
day one OF the most illustriouS Of Pres0y-
terian divines, who was minister of the
church of his denomination in the village The Rev.
Lewis E. Mats0n. whose early death did not prevent
his fame among younger preachers Of the Congregs,-
! tonasts, owego born and bred. When he died,
in his twenty ninth year. he minister Of Plymouth
Church Chicago. HIS father, the late Newell Mat
SON. achieved business success very great scale,
removing from uwego in 1850 and establishing him
self in Chicago ard Milwaukee, where (or many years
he was the foremost iewelry merchant Of all the West
-" The Tiffany of Chicago he called His firm
was the only one In the jewely trade OF Chicago that
paid its debts in ful after the great re of 1o1l Mr.
MatSon left large estate, after clearance from many
complications through a eccvership skfully managed
| BY Edward Forman. another Oweg0 man.
The following list contains only Owego names. The
late Dr. James II. Tnkham al an early age reached
| the grade Of full surgeon in the Navy and atained
| unusual skill and professional reputation. His fine
accomp ishment and taste I'm the higher arts acquired
through study ard extensive travel, with his rare
| personal charm, made him general fayor4te In the
service and in society. His Junior, DR.. Philip Leach,
is assistant surgeon in the service Dr. Lcach's
brother. Frederick. il very prominent civil engineer
he performed great engineering feas IN riilg st
building in the southwest, and is chief engineer
Of Fhe Lehigl Valley Railroad extension 10 Buffalo
The late a. j. Kenyon rose TO be chef
| engineer in the Navy. Mr.. Fayette :. Curtis.
| Is now chief engineer Of the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railway, having for years held the same
place the Harlem road. Professor Raphael Pun
pelly who in youth held important commissions from
the Governments Of Japan and China some results OF
| which employments his volumes Of "Geoogca
G1na Mnn .nlia and Imam and Acrns.