The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-26

! Il WV O94A AJs Ilfh VlsN3ss
has practiced law until the creation q
the new appellate court Of Pennsylvania
Of which he % now a member.
Urban A. Woodbury., OF Hurlinsfqn'
Vt, born In New Hampshire, JplH y,
1888; moved 70 Vermont. lsio, dgAap.
ated IN medicine from the University Of
Vermont. Ia 1859. Enlisted Ia Company
II, Second Vermont volunteers IN 4layi
1861; lost right arm at Bull Run, July
q, 1861; taken prisoner and sent 20
Richmond. Panoied in October 1851. s
Recruited and drilled troops IN Vermont
until exchanged Ia November, 1867 Sap-
tain ia Eleventh Vermont volunteers
from December 1854 20 June, ~.
Lieutenant and captain Of Vermont 4,
g., rom June, 1858, 70 close Of war,
Mayor Of Burlington IN lSSb-se. Iieuten-
ant governor OF Vermont 1888 20 lsse
Governor OF Vermont, 1884 to 1883. col,
onel on Governor BaFStoW'S stait' w.
to 1855.
Asouihorn EdItoF.
Captain Evan p. Howell was born IA
Milton county, Ga, near Atlanta on the
tenth day Of December, 1883. BE anleA-
"a his education at the Georgia mills
tary institute at Marietta, Ca, ana Sha
Lumpkin Law School, at Arthur, GA
He practiced law for year ana enters
ed the Confederate army as orderly SER
geant OF Company p, First 9eof8i4
regiment Of volunteers on the seventh
day Of April, 1881, twelve months troops.
He wns promoted IN May, 1851 70 aec-
ond lieutenant in his company and soon
after 20 first lieutenant. The time Of
enlistment Of the First Georgia haVing
expired. the company Captain Howell
belonged to Immediately volunteerod
and elected him captain. He was ~ ah
OF the important battles Of the western
army around Chattanooga and IN the
retreat from Dalton around AtlanlaP
Jonesboro and Lovejoy's station. He
surrendered with Johnston'9 army &C
the end Of the war and returned home'
where he resumed the practice OF law.
In 1876 he purchased a half interest IN
the Atlanta Constitution. In 1887 Cap
tain Howell sold his fourth interest for
100000. Captain Howell has been per-
sonallV connected with all the great en-
terprises that have contributed to the
upbuIIding OF Atlanta since the war.
Captain Howell has been a member OF
four national Democratic conventions.
commencing IN 1875. He was appointed
consul 10 Manchester, England, by
President Cleveland during his hrse
term and declined the place on account
OF his business.
Colonel James A. Sexton was born In
ChIcako He enlisted for three months
on the 18th day OF April, 1851. When
seventeen years ofage he enlisted IN the
Fifty-first Illinois infantry volunteer
regiment. May, 1862, was commissioned
first lieutenant In sixty-seventh regt-
ment, Illinois infantry, was Transferred
to Seventy y-second Illinois; accepting
captaincV OF a company recruited under
the auspices OF the Y. N. C. A., which
became "D" Company, Of what was
known as the First Board Of Trade reg
iment, Was assigned to RanB0n's brig
| ade, McArthur's division, Seventeenth
army corps. army OF the Tennessee, and
participated in all the campaigns,
marches, battles and sieges OF that
! army After the war Colonel Sexton
settled IN I.awndes county, Alabama,
where he purchased plantation. In
1867 he sold out his interest In the south
md returned to Chicago and engaged in
the foundry business under the arm
name Of j. A. & 7. 8. Sexton. After
the Chicago fire IN 1871 the firm name
] was cllanged 10 and; leRoNHTaS Ctlbbe
| SeXtOn tCo. II has been eminently
successful
During Colonel sexton's army service
Fhe was wounded four times and was
mentioned ini the reports and general
orders OF his superior officers several
times. Three Of his sons enlisted In the
volunteer army for the present war with
Spain.
Richard weightman, secretary Of
the commission, was born In Washlngs
ton, October, lS45. He Joined the Con.
federate army in September. 1851, and
served continuously until May, 1855.
was paroied at Shreveport, La. For
| twenty years Afterward he resided in
that state, the last thirteen having been
devoted to Journalism IN New Orleans.
Since 1891 3r. Weightman has been edI-
toriaI writer on the Washington Post
About the middle OF November lAst,
Mr.. YPlehtman was sent by his paper
to Investigate and report upon the con-
dltIon OF afEAlss in Cuba. His letters
from the island were IN exact contra
dictlon OF the sensational reports then
current He reported the Cuban civil
government a mere thing Of bucEram
and the insurgent armies little more
than maraudIng bands without cohesion
and OF no military importance.