The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-12
MEET AFTER - YEARS
SERGEANT WARD AND BROTHER
HAVE An ODD EXPERIENCE
The Police onfe~r Approached on the
street by a Man whe Turns out
20 Be sths Lons Loaf Brother
Members of weII-known Family

+ Twenty-Five years axo Sergeant &c Po1se.
Trv4zx Ward ard z1s brother Henry spa
rated = uzvsnps-g. "a. Years rolled past.
aEd nc word cane o. Hszry. HIS arozasr
ard sisters tried to get trace e 1lz. bat.
EAazE a. every pslzt gave him sp as
dead. Yesterday ss1srBoon sargsznt ward
Tas standing on ssegEd avenue. corner %
CherrE street when = nan walked ~ 70
hin ard putting cut bis 12n1 sad: How
@ yDu 60. Irvng7'
Ward involanfarily put cot nls hand I'd
took taat % IRE stranger. rsua-klzg.
That = KY name, Bat ycg have the best
@ re
'Doz't yog remember ysar brother
EeflrTT' asked the stranger.
Yes hut s. r twenty-five years since
have seen % heard GO Azm"
Wei 7 ar r,enFv sid TIE nan. ard
i Vas ~ mere e1zzos tat / s&< your
name IN TIE directory AID thought you
night be ny brother"
The two thus strangely united fell %
taking over old tines and she changes
teat have taken place Stree they we're
children o. the prsverhlsi silver spoon
IrElaz and henry Ward are members
az one - TIRE os6est and mast aristoc-atsc
New York families Al South Dover there
Il a Monument erected 60 the memory o.
thsIr father By ne TEsntiath Nsw York
militia and The East Nsw Yor1 Methodist
CoEf~Eense. T. = tribute 70 ire ''sghti1g
pars3u. as be was called. who gave up
lis lie Tor hls c1Gntry's honor a. the Sec
end battle o BAH Run. TIE elder y ard
was q lawyer IN SEw York city ard maj
Tte5 Mss Jane Ellzabsfa Herman. whose
family migrated % Sew York feom HoI-
lsnd 70 lsSs AID settled n HerkireT coln-
fy- Her &c - Wulan Herman. was ons
or the three original claimants OF Mare
Island and be died Ehfe litigation was
ln progress with me government. II vas
oEing % The influence OF hIS Esfs that Mr..
ward gave uP ths practice - law ard
entered the nslnistFy. When tAs var with
The South or1as out he received a con-
mission "a chaplain OF the Twentieth New
York rsEiEen:. militia re raised = com
panY and b The unanimous vote q rs
members wss made captain TIE regiment
wEs under command Of Col Platt. a PEP
sonsl friend - Mr Ward AT the second
battle % EaEl Ran ar Ward waE killed
Hss remains we're brought hack 20 New
YORK and barred So deeply was he be-
lowed ~ his associates. both - tbs min
istry and militia. hat the soldiers u tae
Twentieth sna ne East New York en-
ference erected a monument at South
Dover. near New York. 70 his memory.
More than this. they presented the widgw
wttn a fire residence ard 1T on one Hun
Grea ssd Eighteenth street, Harlem Two
years later AIRS. Ward died, leaving SIX
children Irving xsnt % I've wfth Dr.
Reynolds q Pitfsfard. y. y. While Henry
vas taken n charge BY Dr.. Kng. Of New
YORK Dr. King was 4 member q the East
New York conferences. and subsequently,
became q bishop. Minnie Ward oue *
TrvlnS's sisters married Mllll1naiTa Tsats.
~ Harlem. =. Y. ard SIN lives there
His SISTER laura vas adopted b. sx-i0v.
Holly. - Connection. ard bis sister Ada
tng az SanfR Cruz Cal
Irving was edUr1te8 a. what - nog
called Syracuse university ard he cut a
bread swath. having piEnty II money. and
being naturally ane-isak.ng ataletsc
young uAu, NhSn he became q age 70
zen he.r 90 3 considerable fortune, ard
like hts brother Henry. enjoyed g.
Finally ne 80 brothers met szaln n
Davenport Ia ard separated twenty-five
years age. What became q Hezry ID ere
knew lie dropped completely out =
sigat ard ais orother and sisters thought
% sim as occugylrE a. uaknown grave
fTvinS finally entered The United States
army ara became a member o. ths Fur
yeeuth lafsasTy, located ~ Tazceaver.
WASH. barracks u I%s Re vas homer
ably rusterek 5Gt ~ servl~e aa5 cane 20
Seattle 80 Eve. Two er three years $50
hs fslnes the peEee f1r-e bat 70 one krsw
anything a0aut h.m CT rs History. he
made a nae afEaeF ana Was popular wiz
the people afagE every bsat 20 wh5ea hs
was aEE1Enef E1Eallv CAsas ReeA reedes1
sergeant ar5 be decided that ward vas
the ore gar C1R position Sree hs ap-
p5Lntraenf NArf Ess rYrvs8 90 % enz sc
the best ofH -evs tast eve- d1nHei q ucl-
forrn- SIC attends s-rlc.ty e hls aucy ans
Is universally perl,1~ Had g. Pa been
for tHe unexpected meeting wttE bis
hrcthsr his slstery vaal8 probably have