The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-26

capacity until 1889. when he was made SUI
peiintendfnt OF the military academy,
where he served until 1888, when he was
again made superintendent OF public build
ings and grounds and served as such until
tae end OF February, 1897. when he was APP
pointed brigader general. cnief OF engl-
iiters.
Major Stephen C. Mills. inspector gem
eral, U. s. A., recorder OF the commas
ION. was born in New York; appointed TO
the military academy from Illinois; grad
Gated in 1877; was assigned to the Twelfth
infantry, becoming a captain in this resi-
ment in 1894 and in July, 1888, was APP
Pointed major AMI inspector general "
S. a. Major Mil served in rambler
oil IndIen wars in the West from 1873 70
1882; was military at,ache to the sean
dindvlan count and o. aide de camp OF
Major General Kruger he was engaged III
the revision OF drill regulatlouf.
Cha,lcs Denby WIS born in 1880 at Mount
Ivy, Hottettout county, Vrginia, ana was
student at Georgetown university ana Is
an LII, u. Of that institution; graduated
at tho Virginia military Institute Taught
school in Alablma two years; look up his
residence at Evansville, Ind ~ 1858, anu
has since resided there; Is lawyer by
u ofess,op; was lieutenant and colonel IN
the FoWy-sGcord indiana Volunteers. was
APPOINTED by President Cleveland as minis
! ter to ciina May 20, 1885, and remained
In that capacity at PtBin uuttl July II,
1898.
General jones Adams Beaver was born
IN Perry county, Pennsylvania, October II,
1897 graduated at Jefferson college IN
" cHte,n Pennsylvania in 1858; studied
law, admitted to the bar In 1853; prncticed
law az y leionte; he bclorSsd 10 milf
tary camp, OF which Goycrnoe Curtis was
captain ard when he Civil War broke out
, eutered the Union army at the first call;
atlfr cxpirai!on OF lhr term. re entered The
army NJ lleute!ant coones OF the Forty
fflh Peupsylyana: at charlottesville was
shot through the body, May, 1863 he then
being in comman4 CT The one Hundred aud
| Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry; after
| his recovery he reioinSd his regiment,
was shot again ut SpottsylYanA ana at
1 Cold Harbor; mt the first assault on Peters
| burg he was terribly wounded by a shell;
returned to the brigade and at Rcanls
| Station lost his lex. This was on he 25th
OF August. 1864. and ended General Beav-
lD'a military Arvice. General Beavers ca
! reer since the war Is well known. He was
! elected governor OF Pennsylvania in 1856,
and since the eut of his term. January,
| 1891, prartlced law until the creation of
the new appellate court of Pennsylvania,
| OF which ho is row . member.
| Urban a. Woodbury. OF Burlington, VT,
| was born in New Hampshire, July II. lS3S;
| moved TO Vermont in 1910 Was educated
| In the common schools Graduated IN med
| ene from the University of Vermont IN
| 1854, EMisted In company II. Second Yer
mCnt volunteers In May, 1861; was pro-
| Noted corporal ana first sergeant, lost
| night arm AT Bull Run. July n, 1861 taken
| prisoner aud sent to Richmond, paroled In
October, 1861 Recruited and drilled troops
in Vermont until exchanged in November.
1869 Captain in Eleventh Vermont vol
untcers from December, 1862 to June. lSh3,
Lieutenant and captain OF Vermont V. X.
c., from June, 1863, to close of the war,
Mayor Of Burlington lSS5-G lieutenant
governor Of Vermont 1855 to 1890 governor
Of Vermont 1894 to 1896. Colonel on Gov
ernor Barstows staff, 1884 TO 1856.
Captain Evan +, Howell was born In Mil
ton county. Georgia. near Atlanta, Decem'
Der TO- 1899 He nni he'd his education at
the Georgia military institute at Marietta
Ga. and the lAmpkin law school at Arthur
= Ga. He practlcc1 law for a year and en-
tered tho Confederate army as orderly ser
geant of company u, First Georgia regi-
} ment OF volunteers, on April 5, 1861
twelve month troops He was promoted II
: May, 1861, to second lieutenant IN his com.
pany. and soon after to first lieutenant
The time OF enlistment OF tho First Georges
having expired, the company Captain How
, ell belonged TO Immediately volunteered
and elected him captain. He was given ,
light battery aud was sationsdat Fort Me
Callister, near Savannah White there Tho
I monitors on their first tour South attacko,
Fort MeCallistcr and Captain Howells bat
terry was part OF the garrison. The fort
was almost dl mantled by the fre from the
monitors, but the fort hold out aud did not
surrender. He was In all of the important
/ battles OF the Western army around Chat
tanuoRa, and IN the retreat from Dalton
, around Atlanta, Jonesboro and I.oveloys
Station. He surrendered with Johnston
, army at the and Of the war and returned
home, whore he resumed the practice o
law. He was made solicitor of his Judicial
s~circuit In 1869 and held this office until h,
was elected to the state senate in 1872
, where he remained until 1877. filling thre
terms, In 1876 he purchased halt inter
est In the Atlanta Constitution and after
I warda sold a fourth interest TO the late
: Henry w Grady, In 1897 Captain Howell
sold his fourth interest for $4,000 Cap
/, tain Howell has been personally connected
with all the great enterprises that have
contributed 10 the upbuilding or Atlant:
since the war He WAS a director IN boil
OF the great eXpostions. He was one o
the four commissioners that built tn
y splendid new capitol in AtlFnta for 81 000,
% 600. Captain Howell has been memhc
' of four National democratic conventions
commencing in 1876. Hn was appolnte
Y consul to Manchester, England by presi
0 dent Cleveland during his first tenn an,
I declined the place on account OF his bust
: ness.
Chicago. He enlisted for three months o,
$ April 10, 1861, When Il years OF ago h
L re-enRisted in tho Ffty-first Illinois in
\ fantry volunteer regiment May, 1862, ~
was commissioned first lieutenant no tn
SiXtysoventh Illinois infantry. As resi
: mental commdTder Colonel Sexton partlel
!, pated i'm tho battles OF Columbia. spring
: field and Nashville, After the war Coloae
n Sexton settled In Lowndes county, Alabama
. where he purchased a plantation IN 1856
Il he returned TO Chiclam0uga, Three s0u
II enlisted in the volunteers army in the vi
a with Spain.
p Riohard Weightman, secretary of tn
: commission, was born in Washington 4
n October. ,siS. He Joined the COME lerat
% army In September, 1861, and served con
o tinuousiy until May, 1865, Was paroled n
II Shreveport, La, Nor twenty years after
ward he resided in that State the Ia
:, thlrtoon having b-- devoted to Journalism
u In New Orleans. Siuce 1891 Mr., Weight
}, man has been an editorial writer on tn
d Washington posl. About the middle o
: November last Mr., Waghtmaa was sent b,
e his papsr TO investigate and report upal
o the conibhon Of affairs In Cuba His lot
y tors from the island were in exact contra
!, diottnn of the sensational reports then cur
n rent. He reported the Cuban civil govern
u ment mere thing Of huckram and the In