The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

Senior Montt, the Gillian representative
at 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 SIS, 0O0, 600.
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
| g spruceness of attire that is giving place,
as he grows in years, to a 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 ?. Morton earned
/ his first dollar as clerk in a village dry
! goods store at Shoreham, \. H. Hence the
name Of his swell Washington hotel.
A son of General John c. Fremont is a
! lieutenant attached TO the new cruiser
| Philadelphia. He is a 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 c. Bryant,
when the latter was justice of the peacs
in a Long Island village.
There are some peculiar condolences in
the family history Of John ThreIkeld, of
Harrodsburg, Ky. He was eighty-seven
years old on Nov. last. His mother was
born on Nov. and died on Nov g, 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 Ia Keokuk,
Ia. Mr.. Meriwether is as young physically
as some men of sixty.
Bishop Bowman, the senior bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church in America, is
a man Of diInlnutive physique, with clean
shaven and spiritual features, thin, com
pressed lips and white, flowing locks. He
is said TO bear great resem blanCe to John
Wesley, the father of Methodisn.
Secretary Rusk preserves many of the
a..
1t is a rare thing to find him up after 0
o'clock in the evening, and if nothing
prevents he goes TO bed at $50. He gets
up at daybreak, and instead OF a lunch at
noon has dinner at that hour and supper
at g.
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-ive 1t is said that be sis hale
and rudy, able to walk some distance,
and his conversational powers are quite re-
markable."
General Nelson Monroe, of Boston, is a
nephew of President Monroe. He is other
wise distinguished as the next-to-oldess
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 l03 years, with an experience
as 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.