Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-01
OUR DISTINGUISHED DEAD
Hamilton Fish of RooSevelt'S
Rough Riders a Well
Known New Yorker.
CAPTAIN ALLYN CAPRON.
Fish Was Grandson of Hamilton Fish,
President Grants Secretary
of State.

Was the Son of Banker Nicholas Fish and
Nephew of Railroad President and of a
Speaker of the New York Assembly-Was
20 Years of Age and Very Popular-Better
Athlete Than Student-Member of Union |
League club.
Hamilton Fish, third, belonged to |
one Of the best known families of New |
York. His father. Nicholas Fish, is |
a banker at 12O Broadway and lives
at 16 Irving place. one of his uncles
is Stuyvesant Fish, President Of the
Illinois Central railroad. Another I'M
Gle is Hamilton Fish, who was speaker
of the New York Assembly in 1895
and 1896. His grandfather was the
first Hamilton Fish, who was Secre-
taty of State under Grant
Young Fish was about 2G years old.
Like most members Of the family he
was very TALL standing feet. inches
in his stocking feet He was of pow
crful build though op-shouldered
For two or three years he was stu
dent at Columbia University Of which
his father has been a trustee for many
years. He gave little attention to his
studies, but devoted a good deal to
| athletics, particularly to rowing. He
was one of the strongest oars in the
Columbia Varsity crew of 1895, which
upset all calculations by defeating
Cornell and the University of Pennsyl-
vania at Poughkeepsie. Soon after
this Fish left COLES and went out to
Utah to rough it on a railroad. For
several months he worked as brake
man. at the end of which time h
jammed his index finger in coupling
cars. He came back to New York in
1896 to have the finger amputated, and
remained here mos, Of the time until
six or eight months ago.
Fish was always of a rowing and ad-
venturOus disposition, and it was
merely verihcation of his friends
predictions when news came from the
West that Ham" Fish had joined
Roosevelt's rough riders. While he
regiment was in process of organiza-
ton at san Antonio, Tex, Fish receiv-
ed a SerEeants commission in his
company.
Fish's prowess was displayed on sew
eral occasions while he was in this city
in fist fights which he had, in most Of
which he was victorious. In spite of
these exploits, Fish was ordinarily the
best natured of men, and had hosts Of
friends who sWOre by him, many Of
them Columbia students and members
of prominent New York families.
Fish was a member of the Union
League Club and the St. Nicholas So
ciety lie belonged to the Delta Psi
college fraternity.
Capt. Allyn Capron was born IN
Florida and entered the Military
Academy in 1868. He was graduated
in 1867. and received an appointment
as Second Lieutenant of Artillery. In
1871 he became First Lieutenant, and
Captain in 1855 He was graduated
from the Artillery School with honor
in 1878. Capt. Capron was in COM
mand Of Company L OF the First Artil-
lery, and was twenty fifth on the list
for promotion.
, Among the wounded was Major Bell,
a Pennsylvania. He served during
, the civil war in the Eighty-sixth Ohio,
and when honorably mustered out he
became Captain of an Independent
company Of cavalry which he raised in
his native state. Afterward he served
as Captain in the Thirteenth Penn
sylvana Cavalry until in 1865 he was
mustered out. The next year he was
appointed Second Lieutenant in the
Seventh regular cavalry. He became
, First Lieutenant in 1867, Captain in
1876, and in 1896 he was promoted 10
, Major Of the First Cavalry. He was
y brevetted Lieutenant Colonel in 1896
for gallant services.
i, Capt. Knox is in command of Com
pany X of the First Cavalry. He is a
y Tennesseean and entered the Military
, Academy in 1866. He was appointed
Second Lieutenant in 1870, First Lieu
. tenant in 1871 and Captain in 1889.
Capt. Mccormick was born in Ohio
= and entered West Point in 1872 He
was graduated in 1876 and was appoin-
" ted Second Lieutenant in the Tenth
Cavalry. He became First Lieutenant
in 1878 and Captain in 1895. He is d
: graduate Of the infantry and cavalry
= school.
! Lieut.. B.ram was born in Mississ-
u ippi ana was graduated from West
y Point in 1855, receiving an appoint
c mont as Second Lieutenant in the FRS
:: Cavalry. He was made a First Lieu.
II tenant in 1882.
e Mrs. Gaylor Lost in the Grand Canyon.