The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-06-07
PERSONAL.

Miss Irwin. the great granddaughter of Ben
jamin Franklin, has gone to Boston from Phila-
elphia to preside over the Harvard Annex.
Her renowned ancestor moved the other way
from Boston to Philadelphia.
Long years ago. it is said Jacob De Hvaen,
n wealthy tanner of German town. Pa, made a
loan to the Government of $450,000 to relieve
the distress OF the American soldiers at Valley
Forge. The story goes that he afterward re-
fused to accept payment except in gold, and,
not receiving it, he died of broken heart in
1853. Now his heirs from five States will open
up negotiations with his Philadelphia heirs,
and will file claim for the loan and interest,
running up into the millions.
Coy. Mckinley and Gen. Gibson addressed
10000 people near Fort Seneca o., last week at
the GAR services. When the Governor ar
rived in Tiffin he was entertained at the home
of Gen. Gibson. The party were driven across
the country to Fort Senaca, which stands on
the site OF blockbouse which sheltered 5000
troops during the war of 1872. The Governor
assumed country customs and made his toilet
on the back porch, washing from a shiny tim
pan made from genuine American tin. At
are buried, Memorial services were held, and
the crowd was the largest ever gathered in
Seneca County. In his speech, while abiding
to the prominent part Ohio had taken in the
late war, the Governor remarked that an
American could not show his patriotism in
time of war by proxy, and in eulogizing the
American flag said that he was opposed to the
flag being pulled down anywhere, even in
Canada or the Hawaiian Islands. Gov. Nc
Kinley also aided Cincinnati in celebrating
M emorial Day, and delivered an orstion at the
Music Hall under the auspices of Troyes Post,
GAR.
at his home, in Syracuse N. Y, beautiful
testimonial from the 1900 employees of the
Government Printing Office in Washington.
The gift is valuable gold watch of Geneva
manufacture set with 80 rubies, and gold
mounted ebony cane
Thomas Alien of Pennington, w. Va, is 104
years old, and can reasonably claim to be the
Oldest veteran of the civil war. He is men,
Der of Grafton Post, GAR, and took part in
the procession at Grafton on May 80.
Gen. Charles Anderson. of Greenville, O., ex-
mended as member of the Board of Managers
of the National Soldiers Home to succeed
Gen. Barnett, of Cleveland, whose term has ex-
pired.
Mrs. u. s. Grant is now in New York. She
speaks of her pleasant Western trip with en-
thusiasm. It is said that she loves to dwell on
the past and the achievements of her husband.
s'The great Captains of the war died all too
soon," she said Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Sherman
every one of them. They are all gone, and.
excepting Gen. Sherman, perhaps, none of them
could be considered old"
Capt j. 6. B. Adams, Commsnderin-Chief,
GAR, was invited TO address the pupils of the
higher-grade schools of Chelsea on May %.
Capt Adams gave vivid account of his four
years experience in the war. He related the
story of his capture and his experience in Libby
Prison, prisons at Macon. Ga, and Morris
Island. and an account of his escape and re-
capture. In closing, he urged the young people
never to forget the boys in blue. He wanted
the boys of to-day to remember the veteran,
and in his declining years not to let him suffer-
and not to forget that the highest duty of an
American citizen was love and devotion to his
country and the old flag.
Some newspapers have accused George Wash
ington of neglecting his mothers grave by not
marking il with stone. This is contradicted
by Mrs. Lee, the wife of Admiral Samuel p
Lee, retired. and the daughter of Francis P.
Blair. She has often told of visiting the grave
of Mary Washington in 1880 and seeing a small
headstone, of the kind then universally used.
1t had been broken off at about 10 inches
foot in hight, and had evidently been much
larger stone At any rate, there is no good
ton allowed the grave of his mother to lie I'M
marked.
The monument to Gen. Robert McAllister at
Belvidere, N. J., was unvailed on May 80 with
his brilliant war record. A bust of the Polish
patriot Kosciusko was also unvailed at Perth
Amboy, N. j. As the cloth was pulled from the
memorial, salute was fired by a detachment
of Battery I, Polish Artillery, of Newark, n j.
statue of Gen. McNeill was unvailed at st.
Louis, and at Albany, N Y, a monument was
dedicated to Col. Addison Farnsworth, who COM
mandsd the 10Th N. Y, and was fatally wound
ed at the second Bull Run.
We have received photograph of the u. s. |
Monitor in miniature constructed by Comrsde |
A. J. Hartle, 9Th and 4ath Ohio, Miami County, !
o. The model is 81 inches in length; across |
the center nine inches; hight, four and one
half inches one inch above the water fnes |