Evening star., 1900-10-05

Quartermaster General Rogia.

| dig 1eL =. r s6OS1d, QOartermaSter
general of the q. v. T., enlisted in April
1861 in Company D. I'd Pennsylvania Vol
unteeer Cavalry, and in May following en-
tered the regular United States service
| He was honorably discharged in 1864, after
| having participated In the seven days
| hight around Richmond, the battles of
| South Mountain Antietam and the Wilder
| ness and numerous engagements of less
magnitude. He was appointed quarter
| master general of the L. V. T. in 1897 and
| reappointed in 1898 and 1899.
Adjutant General Hamilton.
Brig. Gen. Stephen F. Hamilton of the
pension bureau is the adjutant general Of
the e. V. U. He Joined Company A, Blue
Reserves at Philadelphia, Pa, in the Win
ter Of 1S60-61, but returned to his boyhood
home In northwestern Pennsylvania, and
assisted in recruiting a company which
was attached to the 53d Pennsylvania Col
(noW GEM John r. Brooke as Company
q, in September, 1861 He was drillmaster
OF the company, and most Of the time act
ing orderly sergeant. He was wounded at
Fair Oaks June l. 1862, and was mustered
use crutches until after the close of the
war. He was mustered into the original
u. A. X. In 1867. and continued in the pres
ent organization. He has served five wears
as adJutant in Post 10, Department of New
Jersey, u. A. r.. one year as representative
1or New Jersey on national staff: three and
a half years adjutant of Post 90 G. A. R.,
department Of Potomac, and one year as
aid on Gen. Hopkins staff. In the Union
veterans Union he has served five years as
ad1utant for Logan Command, Department
OF tne Potomac; two years as assistant ad-
Jutant general Department of the Poto-
mac, and one and a half years as assistant
adjutant general of the National Command
detailed for pension business) and two
years as adjutant general of the National
Command.
Surgeon General MORGAN.
The surgeon general of the q. V. u is
DR.. j. w. Morgan Of Moline, Ill. He was
born in Indiana and Is sixty-three years
old. and graduate Of the College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons Of Keokuk Iowa He
commenced practice in Iowa in 1859, and
when war broke out entered the service as
a contract surgeon with the 14th Iowa In
fantry. He was in the battles of Fort Dom
aldson, Shiloh. Pittsburg Landing and Cor
inth. His regiment was captured at Shiloh
In the hornets nest" After the siege Of
Cor1nth he resigned and went home, and
then went out as surgeon Of the 10th Regi-
ment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and re-
mained with 1t until the close Of the war.
He is member Of the Grand Army, as |
well as Union Veterans Union. a member |
Pythias. the Eastern STAR Ancient Order |
Of United Workmen, Degree Of Honor and |
several other orders. He was elected sur
geon general Of the Union Veteran Union !
elected last year at Des Moines Iowa.
He has made hundreds Of speeches for |
the Grand Army and the Union Veteran |
Union, as well as political addresses.
Chaplain r. b. Albrook.
Rev. ]. B. Albrook, DID,, Ph.D., chief |
chaplain of the Union Veterans Union, was
bern in Monroe, Pa. July 49, 1914. and
moved with his parents to Iowa when he
was twelve years Old Up to his soldier
days he was farmer, mechanic and school
teacher, teaching five winter schools be-
fore the age Of twenty. During the war Of
the rebellion he was first lieutenant Of the
Milo Guards and a member of Company l. |
I'd Iowa Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. On
from which he graduated, June Is. 1870. at
following college degrees: A. B., A NJ,
D. and D. d. After graduation he en-
tered the ministry of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and has occupied some of the
best pulpits of his conference.
He Is now serving his second term of six |
years as presiding elder. During his min
istry he has built several churches and par
sonageS paid gr1evous church debts, has
added over 1 600 to the church membership
and dedicated two seminaries and twenty
nine churches. For FIVE years he was presi-
dent OF Epworth Seminary, leaving It with
doubled property and the number Of stu |
dents Quadrupied. The next three years
were spent as financial agent Of Cornell
College. where he raised $58, coo for endow-
ment. He has bean trustee OF this college
for twenty-three years.
HIS Offices In civic socaeties have been: