The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

Colonel H. A. Theaker, Mrs. Theaker
and Miss Nina Theaker reached this
city yesterday and registered at the
Knutsford. Colonel Theaker is the new
colonel of the Sixteenth, and has come
here from the Fourteenth Infantry, sta
toned at Vancouver, to take the place
of Colonel -Penrose, who retired last
March. The colonel is we'll known to
all of the older officers of the Sixteenth,
and several of them were with him all
Yesterday afternoon. As this is Colo
mel Theaker's first visit to this city,
he will spend today in viewing the
Post and will move into his Douglas
quarters about Monday of next week.
May 14th, 1861, he was appointed
first lieutenant in the Sixteenth In
fantry After having served in this
capacity until the July of 1864 he was
promoted to captain in the same regi-
ment. During the fall of 1866 he was
transferred TO the Thirty-fourth In
fantry and then transferred back again
TO the Sixteenth in the spring of 1859.
He served as captain in the Sixteenth
until the September of 1856 when again
he was promoted tc major of the Fiji
teenth. On July 10, 1891, he received the
promotion of lieutenant colonel of the
10th of last month was made colonel.
The colonel was breveted for gallant
and meritorious service in the battle
of Missionary Ridge, Tenn, and played
a very prominent part throughout the
war.
He is one of the youngest colonels in
the army being but f1fty-four years of
age.
The colonel is a very pleasant old
man. They have two daughters, Miss
Nina, a young lady just entering her
teens, and an older daughter who is
now in school in California. The colo
mel is of portly build, with regular fea-
lures, and a dropping moustache, which
like his hair, is streaked with gray.
He and his brother officers spent a good
part of last evening joshing each other
about their gray hair and wrinkles.
Yesterday was rather slow in the
local obstetrics, the weather seemingly
affecting travel as well as everything
else. But two new arrivals registered
at the Walker. They were David Keith
of Park City and ]. S. Lewis, Hot
Springs, Ida.
Cullen guests of yesterday were R.
H. Clark, Chicago w. NJ Roylance,
Springville; E. K. Campbell, Ell Paso,
and ]. w. Demming, Council Bluffs.
Host Porter's guests of yesterday
registered as follows: G. w. Dyche,
Boston, ]. F. Dengler, New York; How
ard Cushman, New York; Sidney Stew
ems, Ogden; F. H. Tichenor, Manitou,
and S. A. Bailey and wife, Telluride,
Colo.
Yesterdays Knutsford list comprised
A D. Jones, New York; A. NJ Won
Markhof and valet, Austria; G. W.
Roope, Boston; Mrs. S. NJ. Smith, and
Miss z. L. Smith, San Francisco; Par
ker Smith and wife, Chicago; Mrs. A.
Ballard, Chicago: Hugh c. Macbeth,
New York; ]. A. NJ. Manaud and wife,
Colorado Springs; S. Roschild, Cincin-
natl; J. F. Rubel and wife, Chicago;
w. J. B. See, Denver; Frank Harrison
and wife, Little Rock; Ludwig Else
man, Boston; J. E. Powell, Washing
ton, D. c.; c. L. Baker, New York; L.
F. Graham, San Francisco, and F. L.
circuit, Sacramento.
E. K. Campbell, the irrepressible
commercial man. is again doing Zion
OF late, Campbelrs calls here have been
like angels visits, and his many friends
are kicking.