The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-15
ARE FROM TENN WHAT SHALL | DO?
Officers of the Noted Com.
panieS Now in Port.
Professional and Business Men In
Private LIfe-The Commander.
Nevada Troop.

The Third Battalion Of the First
Tennessee arrived in port Sunday at
ternoon on board the transport City
OF Puebla. Lieutenant Colonel Gracey
ChiIders is in command of the Ten
nesseeans. The Colonel is native Of
ClarksviIIe, Tennessee. He has been
Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment
since its organization. ten years ago.
He is a member of the firm Of +. p.
Gracey & Bro, tobacco, and commits
sion merchants, and railroad and
steamship agents. II is one Of the
largest and richest firms in Western
Tennessee. The Colonel is a bachelor.
He is a, man much loved by the SOL
diers of his command.
Mai. John G.. Mcclure, of the Third
Battalion, is from Meanwhile, Tenn,
where he has been a practicing attOr
ney for many years. At one time Maj.
Mcclure was colonel OF the First Ten
nessee, but resigned, as he was unable
to attend to his law business and de-
vote the time he considered necessary
to the regiment. When the war broke
out he raised a company OF which he
was made captain and was commits
stoned major while the regiment was
stationed at San Francisco. Maj. Nc
Guire was born in Boston. and his
father was an officer in the Federal
army. He has been a leading Demo-
cratic politician in Tennessee for sew
eral years, although never holding a
political office.
Capt. CASTOR O'Brien of Company Fl,
although only 20 years old, is the SEN
iOr captain of the regiment. He has
been captain in the guard for seven
years. He is in the tobacco business.
The captains father was a colonel in
the Confederate army during the late
war.
Capt H B. Myers, Company e, is a
graduate of the military college and
was first lieutenant of Maj. McGuire's
Company, and when the latter was Sc
lected major, he was promoted to cap
tain.
Capt. S. o. Murphy, Company X, is
a son of Col. Murphy, who commanded
a regiment during the Civil war on the
Confederate side Capt. Murphy is the
invalid of the regiment and great care
is taken of him. Among the officers
III
is 240 pounds and he stands feet 4
| inches without shoes.
Capt. n. K. Givens, Company l. is
a retired capitalist and a man of strong
personality.
| pany H, is from one of the oldest
| southern families. His grandfather
was Postmaster General in President
| Buchanan's Cabinet. His father was
a General in the Confederate army
| The lieutenant is college-bred man
| and has been practicing law for sew
| eral years.
| Capt. w. J. Gilbreath, Company d. is
| the editor of the Lawrenceburg Times
| He has been connected with the Ma,
| tional Guard for the past seven years
| First Lieut.. Carlos Vanleer. Com
pany L, is the ordnance officer of the
| regiment. Before the war he was {
| pay clerk in the navy and was at
| tached to the training ship Alliance
| His home is in Nashville, where he i:
engaged in the practice of law.
| One troop of the Nevada cavalry i:
also on board the City of Puebla-ir
| command of Capt. Fred NJ Linseatt
He is a mining engineer and a mill
tary graduate of the University of Ne
| vada. At the time he graduated HI
held the highest rank, that of major
in the college.
Fred z. GignouX is the frs heuten
ant in the same troop and is also :
| mining engineer. His home is il
Reno.
Maj. Rice, who has been an office
| in the regular army for the past TWEEN
| " years, is in command of two de
| tachments of heavy artillery belongin:
to the First California heavy artiller,
that are on the Puebla en- route to Ma
Mia.