Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-15

Hon. M. A. 0. Packard received the /
following telegram Wednesday evening:
Indianapolis, Dec. 13, 1899.-M. A. 0.
Packard, Plymouth.-Jasper died at
Lafayette this afternoon.
o. M. PACKARD.
Gen. Jasper Packard was the sOn or
Thomas and Nancy Ann Berry Pack
ard, and was born in Trumbull-after-
ward MshOning-county, Ohio, Feb. l,
1882. His father was q farmer in mod
crate financial circumstances and 8
hard working man, who removed from
Trumbull county, Ohio, to Marshall
county, Indiana, in 1885. His parents
were married in 1902 and had twelve
children born to them. The paternal
and maternal ancestors were Virginians
while his grandfsthers, paternal and
maternal, were natives of Pennsylvania.
The first school young Packard at
tended was in a log cabin, having
creased paper windows, which takes US
back to pioneer days in Marshall coun-
ty. The second school young Packard
attended, though built of logs was
more pretentiOus. The logs were hewed
and the CREASED paper had been dis
placed for glass, and it is quite probable
that, when Gen Packard was in rem
iniscent mood, he cOmpart - .hese prim-
tive school hCNses to ts.o spienr:d
buildings which Iadiana now furnishes
her youth in search of education. The
first teachers that made the primary ed
ucation of Gen. Packard memorable
were women, and with chivalric recOg
milton he coupled their names with hit
struggles to master the rudiments o.
his education. They were Emma
Houghton and Elizabeth Griffith. Thes
women, true to their profession, ia
more important calling than the bus
world finds time TO appreciate at it
full value, lnstlled in the mind of tn
boy love for learning and an amb
tion to excel in spelling, reading an
arithmetic. The influences in such re
RdIuo Vi tDC tCdChCio ehOo
early schools may be properly expresse
by init" but the desire to advance
created by his women teachers, n
manned in spite of masculine ineff
cheney.
Supplementary of his common scho'
sttainments, Gen. Packard attende
Central-now Hillsdsle- college, {
Spring Arbor, Mich. He then entere
Oberlin college, Ohio, and subsequent
matriculated III the Michigan univers
ty at Ann Arbor, from which he gra,
uated in the class of 1855. The final
cisl means to pursue his college courl
we're procured by himself by workir
! in harvest and hay fields in the summ
and teaching district schools part
each winter, After graduating Ge
Packard settled at Laporte, Ind,
1856, where he engaged In teaching ar
where he became principal of the his
school and superintendent of the ci
! schools. subsequently he was elects
superintendent of county schools
Laporte county, and sfterward elects
a justice of the peace. In the mee
time Gen. Packard had studied law al
/ was admitted to the LapOrte bar, b
! directly following his admission to Il
bar he enlisted in the union army al
. never resumed the practice of his pr
fession.
m On Oct. 90, 1861, Gen. Packard enl
y ted as private in the Forty eighth re
iment of Indiana infantry. He l
Z cruited a company and was comm
= stoned first lieutenant and then ca
tain in the Forty eighth regimen
u Afterwsrd he was promoted
lieutenant-colonel, and then TO q
office of colonel in the One Hundr
u and Twenty-eighth regiment, and W
brevetted brigsdier-general. &c
Packard was in the campaign again
Corinth. He participated in the Cal
. psign against Vicksburg in 1853, al
was in the battles of Raymond, JAG
= son, Chrmpion's hill and Vicksbur
- and during the same year look part
= the battla of Missionary Ridge
Chattanooga.
81 WAR RECORD.
- Gen. Packard was in the Allan
campaign in 1864 and in the battles
Z Rocky Face, Resacs, New Ho
Church, Dallas, Marietta and Allan
= and later, during the same year,
y Tennessee, in the battles of Frank
" and Nashville, and in 1865 he was