The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-14
MUSTERED OUT.

Veterans of the COuntry's Grandest Army
Who Have Answered the Last Call.
MEADE-At Woodland Park, Colo, Oct. "a,
James Meade, I75th N. Y.
MANN.-At Athens, o., Oct. 2, W. T. Mann,
Co. c. 18th Ohio, aged 81. Comrade Mann's
death was very sudden. He dropped dead while
on his way to work He was taken prisoner
at the battle of Chiekamagus, and confined in
Bell Isle and Andersonville for over IL months.
He was buried with all the honOrs of the GAR.
by Columbus Golden Post, SO, of which he was
an honored member.
STowE.-At Cleveland, o.. recently, Joseph
NJ. Stowe, Co. G, 18th Ohio, and Co. b, 9Th Ohio,
aged 81. Comrade Stowe was born at Haver-
hill, N. H.. and was by occupation a ship-car-
penter. He enlisted Aug. 80, 1852; was dis
charged June Is, 1865; joined J. B. Steedman
Post, 500, April A. 1889. He had been great
sufferer with cancer of the mouth for several
years. He drew small pension. He was I'M
able to perform any labor. His married daugh-
ter, Mrs Lord, nursed him through his last
sickness He was buried under auspices of
J. B. Steedmsn Post. He held the office OK
Chaplain during 1890.
VoGT-At Cleveland, o., recently, Charles
III. Vogt, Co. E. Cd U. S. X. C., aged %. Com
rade Yogt enlisted in August 1861, and was in
the service Is months. He was mustered into
Steedman Post, 500. in 1888.
HUNTER.-At Elmwood, o.. Oct. 90 James
Hunter was mustered into J. G. Mccoy Post,
Columbus, o.. Dec. %, 1885, transferred to
Cicero Davis Post, of Dublin, o., July 81, 1866.
He leaves widow and several children.
GRANDY.-At Brushton. N. Y, Oct. %, Lewis
~ Grandy, Co. G., 96th N. Y, aud Co. +, 6th
Mich, aged 81. Deceased was an active menu
Der of Aldrich Post, S63. He leaves widow
and one daughter.
WHIPPLE.-At Eureka, Col, recently. s. q.
Whipple, U. s A, aged ~. Comrade Whipple
was born in Willistou, VT, but removed to Ohio
when a boy, where he spent his youth. In 1913
he was taken with the gold fever" and on
JAN /, 1S49. started for the new Ell Dorado in
a party of A, arriving at Suffers Fort after
three months of weary travel. From the mid
die of l549 to 1851 Col. Whipple was engaged
in mining transporting supplies, and Iumoer-
ing In these pursuits be smaSsed consider
able fortune with which he intended to return
to Ohio but was taken sick, and before his re-
covery had lost everything. He then took
ship at San Francisco and went to Astoria, Ore,
and thence to Portland in rowboat. Here he
engaged in getting out timber in which he was
quite successful, returning to San Francisco in
the Fall. He was one of the men who laid out
Crescent City in 1852, and took Government
claim adjoining the town. In 1852 he became
County Treasurer of Klamath County by ap-
pointment, and in 1852 he was elected to the
Legislature. In 1855 he was appointed Special
Indian Agent. In 1856 he was again elected
to the Legislature from klamath Couhty, IN
which he had bill passed organizing Del
Norts Comfy. himself selecting the name. In
1853 he went to UniOntOwn, now Arcats, and
established q paper called the Northern Cali
foy7,ian In 1860 he, with Walter Van Dyke,
bought the Humboldt Times. In that year he
was elected to the Legislature from Humboldt
County by the Union party Up to this time
he had been a Democrat. The Indians becom-
ing troublesome Assemblymau Whipple urged
the formation of a military force to subdue
them. OF the battalion raised he was made
commander, with the rank of LientenanG-
Colonel In this service he secured his title as
Col. Whipple and at its close he was offered
Captaincy in the Regular Army. He served IN
the Regular Army with the rank of Captain
until 1884, when he was retired. in 1856, upon
the reorganization of the Times stock COM
pany, he went to Eureka and took editorial
charge of that paper which he retained until
the Spring of 1892, when nc sold his interest,".
A widow and three children survive him.