The National tribune., 1899-09-21
VETERANS IN THE CITY.

J. A. Speelman, Co. I, 13Sth Ohio, st.
Joseph, Mo. Comrade Speelman has just
finished 20 years of faithful service as a
letter-carrier of ST. Joseph, and has held
and still holds offices of honor in the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers.
NJ. w. Bickford, 10th Me-, MaI1en,
Mass. Comrade Bickford is watchman.
S. NJ. Decker and wife, Lawrence, Mass.
Comrade Decker was boy in the 18th
VT, Stannard's Brigade, when it made its
famous flank attack on Pickett's Division
at Gettysburg. He has been grocer
in Lawrence for 81 years.
Peter Berg, Co. A, % battalion, 18th
U. S., Cincinnati, O. ~Comrade Berg is a
Lieutenant of Police in Cincinnati. He
found here an old comrade of his Leonard
Cook, who has been for many years one of
the Capitol employees.
III. +. Hillebrandt, Co. K, 55th Pa, Os-
borne, Kan. Comrade Hillebrandt is a
lawyer and absracter, and Judge-Advo-
cate of the Department of Kansas, g. r.
Maj. George II. Otis, I'd Wis, Monona,
Iowa. Comrade Otis is literary man.
John b. Pachall, Co. E, 34th NJ Y,
3o4 Temple Building, st. Louis, Mo, Com.
GA. r., for four years.
Capt. P: w. Stumm, Quartermaster,
74th Ohio, Paulding, o. Comrade Stumm
is an attorney.
A. NJ. Apted, 18th Mich, Grand Rapids,
Mich. Comrade Apted is in the plaster
and calcined lime business.
j. w. Hammond, 23d Ind, Louisville.
KY. Comrade Hammond brought the
23d Ind. home as it's Colonel, and claims
to have been the youngest Colonel in the
army, being seven days under 10 years of
age when he was commissioned He is
Past Commander of the Department of
Kentucky, GAR, and is in the revenue
service.
Phil W. Hager, U. S. gunboat Conestoga.
Louisville, KY. Comrade Hager is Past
Commander and present Adjutant of Wal
ter c. Whitaker Post, of Louisville, and a
manufacturing jeweler.
Ell Davis, 10Th Ohio and 22d Ohio bat
terry, Sidney, o. Comrade Davis is Junior
Vice Commander of the Department of
Ohio.
Warren W; Parker Co. A, 18th Vt,
Tunbridge; I3 g pAt Vt 3, Gomrade Sa Parker is a
F. II. Rush, 48th Ohio, Hath Ohio, and
Rush is Past Commander Of Armstrong
Post, and blacksmith by trade.
p. II. Ingmand, I'd Ohio Cav, Jerome
=, Gen; Delavan Bates, Aurora, Neb.
to the rank of First lieutenant, became @
Colonel of the Both u. IS. c. T., the story
of which was admirably told in "A Boy
Lieutenant in a BLACK Regiment" by
Capt. Free S. Rowley, recently running
through THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. Gen
Bates was one of the, gamest fighters i'm
the whole army. and was terribly wounded
in the mine assault in front of Petersburg.
VIM. A. Smith, Co. X, 9TH Ohio, and
gunboat Lexington, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Comrade Smith is marble and granite
dealer. This makes the 18th National
that he has attended, and
he says that he proposes to make it at
least 20.
J. v. Dayton, Co. E, 33d H., MARSHALL
town, Iowa. Comrade Dayton is a farmer.
Frederick Plato, Co. +, 1st battalion.
14th U. s., Brewertown; N. Y. Comrade
Plato was elected President Of the Sykes's
Regulars Association at Philadelphia, He
is in the hardware business.
j. H. Luker, Scottdale, Pa, 5sth Pa.
Comrade Luker is merchant, selling
dry-goods and groceries.
Lorenzo Traver, NJ. D., Providence,
4. l. Comrade Traver was Surgeon in
the navy from 1861 to 1868, serving on the
Delaware, Proteus, Tallapoosa Corwin,