The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-11-27
MASCULINE MENTION.

Senior Montt the Gillian representative
ct washington. Is rich, dapper and exceed
ingly small In stature.
Dean Hoffman, of the General Theologi-
cal seminary In New York. has fortune
estimated at $l5, 1000, 900.
Sidney Dillon, the president of the Union
Pacific railway, commenced as errand boy
In the New York Central railway.
Bishop Gaines. of the African Methodist
church In Georgia, was once a slave and
owned by the brother Of Bob Toombs.
George Gould has always been noted for
aspruceness Of attire that is giving place,
AS he grows In years, to q neglect of dress
such as characterizes his father.
Professor James Hall, the distinguished
paleontologist of New York, is hale and
hearty at eighty. one years of age. He is
the Nestor Of American biologists.
Vice President Levi P. Morton earned
his first dollar as clerk in village dry
goods store at ShOreham, N H. Hence the
name Of his swell Washington hotel.
A son of General John c. Fremont is
lieutenant attached to the new cruiser
Philadelphia. He is fine specimen of
physical manhood, like his father before
him.
Colonel L. L. Denning, of New York, en-
Joys the honor of being the child of parents
welded by the poet William G. Bryant,
when the latter was u justice of the peace
in Long Island village.
There are some peculiar condolences in
the family history of John Threlkeld, of
Harrodsburg, KY. He was eighty-seven
years old on Nov. last. His mother was
born on Nov. and died on Nov. 6, and he
had three sisters, all of whom were born
on Nov. g.
David Meriwether, successor to Henry
Clay in the United States senate, is still
living in Louisville at the age of ninety
two. He was governor of New Mexico in the
ffties, and built the first house in Keokuk,
La. Mr.. Meriwether is as young physically
as some men of sixty
Bishop Bowman, the senior bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church in America, is
man of diminutive physique, with clean
shaven and spiritual features, thin, COM
pressed lips and white, flowing locks. He
is said to bear great resemblance to John
Wesley, the father of Methodism.
Secretary Rusk preserves many of the
primeval manners of his rustic boyhood.
1t is rare thing to find him up after
O'Clock in the evening, and if nothing
prevents he goes to bed at $780, He gets
up at daybreak, and instead of lunch at
noon has dinner at that hour and supper
at 6.
Major Israel B. Donaldson, who was Uni
ted States marshal in Kansas during the
wild days of the proslavery conflict, is
still living in San Marcos, Tex, at the age
of ninety-five. 1t is said that he sis hale
and ruddy, able to walk some distance,
and his conversational powers are quite re-
markable."
General Nelson Monroe, of Boston, is q
nephew of President Monroe He is other
wise distinguished as the next-to-oldest
member of the Sons of Veterans and as
champion of the eight dollar pension
law" General Monroe's father, the pres
ident's brother, is living at the advanced
age Of ninety-six.
William j. Haines, of St. Louis, is a rare
old man of 103 years, with an experience
as a soldier in two wars, as an engineer on
an African slave trader and as a pioneer
locomotive engineer on the Missouri Pacif-
ic railroad. Mr.. Haines is an extremely
well preserved centenarian, with an erect
figure and firm step that belle his years.