The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-28
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Washington, May 27-Walter Quintin
Gresham was soldier, a judge and a
statesman prominent and distinguish
ed in those three great fields Of human
endeavor. He rose to the rank of ma
jor general of volunteers during the
rebellion. He was for fourteen years
United States circuit judge for Illinois
and held three cabinet portfolios post
master-general and secretary of the
treasury under Arthur, and secretary
of state under Cleveland.
Mr.. Gresham came of English stock.
His ancestors moved to Virginia and
later to Harrison county, Ind, where
he was born on st. Patricks day,
1882. In 1888. Mr.. Gresham's father
was elected sheriff and the next year
was murdered by a noted desperate
mother was left a widow with five
small children. Walter @. was then
but two years of age. He grew up
with but two or three winters school
ing, until he was sixteen years of age.
By dint of hard work and the assist
ance of his brother, he succeeded in
entering the seminary at Corydon.
Two years there and one at Bloom
ington University completed his edu-
cation so far as schooling was con-
cerned. He took up the law. In 1885
the Republican party was formed and
with it the first Shrek of war was
sounded. Governor Morton appointed
him lieutenant of the thirty-eighth In
diana, but before he saw active ser
vice he was appointed colonel of the
fifty-third Indiana IN 1861. Mr.. Ores
hams regiment was ordered to join
General Grant at Fort Donaldson.
Honors Follow Quickly.
August II, 1863, he was appointed
brigadier-general on the recommended
ton of Grant and Sherman and placed
in command of the Natchez division.
In the following spring he was placed
in command of the division of the
Seventeenth Corps Of the Tennessee.
which took part in the campaign
against Atlanta. At Leggett's Hill,
before Atlanta, he was struck by
sharpshooter's bullet just below the
knee. To the day of his death he never
recovered the full use of the limb.
The war over, General Gresham re-
turned to his profession at New AL
bany, Ind. In 1866 he was nominated
---oes 9oairet II. q Kerr but
the district was Democratic and he
VS. ue1edcea. wnen General Grant
became president he appointed Mr..
Gresham United States district judge
for Indiana. When Postmaster-Gen-
eral Howe died in April, 1888. Mr..
Gresham was rendered the cabinet po-
sition by telegraph and accepted. Near
the close of Arthurs term, on the
death of Secretary Folger, he was APP
pointed secretary of the treasury, a
position he held until October, 1884.
President Arthur, who had taken him
from the bench, had the satisfaction
of restoring him to the bench at the
close of his service, by appointing him
to succeed Judge Drummond.
In 1888 Judge Gresham was made a
prominent candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for the presidency at
the Chicago convention. His liberal
views on the tariff created against him
the antagonism of the extreme protec-
tlonists at Chicago. Judge Gresham
openly dissented from the Mckinley
aw in 1892, and after the nomination of
Mr. Cleveland by the Democrats, he,
)nce Republican, renowned his allie
rance to the Republican party and
'dvocated Mr.. Clevelands election
after Mr.. Cleveland was elected, ir
February, 1898, he summoned Judg
fresham to Lakewood, N. J., where
fter a consultation, he rendered II
i'm the position of premier of the
abinet he was forming. Judg
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