The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-10
NEW G. A. R. OFFICERS
Captain Shields, of Hunterdon
Department, Commander
Women's Corps
Election.
Special to the Jersey City Neaes.

TRENTON, Feb. ., 1S94.-The annual Ell
campment of the Department of New Jersey,
Grand Army of the Republic, closed late
Yesterday afternoon after the election OF
officers. 1t was decided that it was not
necessary to take any action on the recon-
mendation of the National Encampment
that military drills be given in public
schools. because the recommendation had
been endorsed in every post in the State.
The question of holding a summer encamp-
ment at Cape May was left to the incoming
administration to decide after consulting
with the local posts.
The election of officers occupied the better
mart of the day. There were four candidates
for Department Commander, but the honor
came to John Shields of Pennington, who re-
ceived 227 votes out of the A6. W. n. Bran
SON of Railway was elected Senior wee
Commander; E. 2. Brainard of Newark, the
Junior Vice Commander; Rev. Charles e
Hill of Red Bank was reelected Chaplain
without any opposition. DR.. John Young
love of Elizabeth received 3S7 votes for
Medical Director.
COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATIONS.
The Council of Administration will CON
sist of the following men:-M. V. Kennedy
field: A. A. Meseroll, Trenton; George w.
Price. New Brunswick; Isaac Townsend,
Newark.
The nine delegates to the National En-
campment are:-E. c. Stahl, Trenton; &.
Fl. Benson, Jersey City; John A.. Rodrigo,
Newark; D. S.. Viewer, Camden; Charles
Edwards, Newark: w. +. Gaul, Camden; w.
J.. Buckley; Paterson; Samuel b. roster,
Trenton, and Joel HAITI, Orange.
Department Commander Shields, after be
ing installed into office, announced A. I.
Connect of Pennington as Assistant Adjutant
| General. and E. V. Richards of Trenton as
Assistant Quartermaster General.
Past Department Commander Hartshorne
was presented with a crayon portrait OF him.
self by the members OF his stan.
CAPTAIN SHIELDS CAREER.
Captain John Shields, Department Com
mander, enlisted in Company E, Fifty-third
| Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, In
| September. 1861. He served until March,
1864. and participated in all the battles and
| marches in which his regiment was engaged.
He was wounded in the battle of Fredericks-
burg and again at Gettysburg while charging
| through the wheat field. Here the ball passed
| through the larynx and lodged in the shout
| der. where it still remains. He resigned o n
| a surgeons certificate of disability March Il,
| 1854. and returned to his home. Captain
| Shields is fifty-four years of age; ne belongs
! to the society of the Army of the Potomac
| and is d member of the Loyal Legion. He
I W1S IaySD AOIlltlGlllCI III AfLoS1 atoA = ~
in 1859. and served in the same capacity In
| Pennington in 1892. He has been President
| of the Pennington Board OF Street Commits
sioners for four years, and was Vice PreSl-
| dent and Director of the Hunterdon County
| Bank for a number of years. He was the
| Republican candidate for State Senator
in 1891 and was defeated, although
he reduced the Democratic majority
| one-half. He has attended the G.. A. r. en-
| campments for man. years, Is always
| interested in the welfare and progress of the
| G. A. r. After the war he engaged in rail
| road contracting, to which he still devotes
most of his time.
woMEN'S RELIEF CORPS.
The State Women's Relief Corps, in annual
session in Aaron Wilkes Post rooms, elected
| the following officers: Department President,
Mrs. Emma P. Southwick, Trenton; Senior
\ Vice. Mrs. Lasure, Paterson: Junior Vice,
| Mrs. Appleby, New Brunswick.
At the morning session, Comrade Baker,
of Post So, visited the meeting and made a
speech.
The twelfth annual convention OF the
Ladies of the G.. A. r. Department OF New
Jersey was held at Trenton, February s and
8. The following are the officers elected
Department President, Mrs. Llbbie Hard
man of Newark; Senior Vice-President, Mrs.
Lavinia Gam of Millville; Junior Vice
President, Mrs. Wheat; Secret
ary, Mrs. Lena Garrick of Hoboken.
Chaplain. Mrs Van Buskirk, of Bayonne.
Treasurer, Mrs. Blyler, of Camden; Council
of Administration, Mrs. j. F. Wood of Jer-
sey City, Miss Lizzie Winslow of Newark,
Mrs. Bates of Trenton; Delegate at Large tc
National Convention, Mrs. Laura McNeir Of
Camden; Delegates to National Convention,
Mrs. j.. F. Wood of Jersey City, Mrs. Hol
gate of Newark, Mrs. Bates Of Trenton
Trustees, Mrs. Wolf of West New York
Mrs. Stultz of Jersey City.
The reports show this order in a hourlshlne
Laura McNeir, was presented by the ladies
with q handsome basket of flowers. She va
also the recipient of other handsome presents