Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-31

CHICAGO, August 3O.-Maj. Lee
Rassieur, of ST. Louis, was chosen
ccmmander-in- of the G. A. R. at
to-day's session of the encampment.
There was no opposition to his election
his name was placed in nomination
by Maj William Warner, of Kansas
City.
D. G. Milliken. of Maine. was chosen
senior vice commander and Frank Sea-
mons of Tennessee, junior vice COM
mander; John a. Wilkins, Delta, o.,
Surgeon General the Rev. A. brahms,
San Quentin, Cal, Chaplain-in-Chief.
There was no opposition to any of the
candidates.
Maj. Rassieur was born in Germany
in 1874. He came to this country in
1851 with his parents, who settled in
st. Louis He was educated in the pub
lie schools, and attended the High
School. He did not complete the High
School course, however, and at the
age of Is years took position in a
law Office. He was thus engaged at
the breaking out of the civil war in
the spring of 1861. When not quite
II years old, ne was selected by the
Loyal Germans of South St. Louis for
their spokesman at a meeting held for
the purpose of deciding whether the
ciuizens of the locality should express
their intention of standing by the
Union or remaining neutral. At the
call of young Rassieur, who had been
ruled out of order by the chairman OF
the meeting, the loyal men in attend
ance, repaired to another place and
adopted a set of resolutions in favor
of the UNION, which has become his
toric in the annals of Missouri.
Rassieur Enlisted.
in the First United States Reserve
Corps volunteers, May Z, 1861, and
was made an orderly sergeant. He
was mustered out of service August
20. 1865, with the rank OF major, which
commission he received at the age OF
20 years. At the close of the war he
studied law and was admitted to the
bar at st. Louis on April l, 1867. He
practiced law in st. Louis until 1894,
when he was elected judge of the st.
Louis Probate Court on the Republi-
can ticket. At the expiration of his
term in 1898 he resumed the practice
of law, In which he is still engaged.
From 1874 until 1878 he was a mem
her Of the board of directors of the
public schools of st. Louis, holding the
office Of vice president during the last
year OF his incumbency. He is COM
mander of the Frank Blair Post No. l,
G. A. R.. of ST. Louis He was judge
advocate general OF the Grand Army
of the Republic in 1893, and depart
ment commander of Missouri in 1891.
The Womens National Association
of Union ex-PriSoners of war elected
officers as follows: President, Mrs.
Charles f. Sheriff, Allegheny City;
senior vice president, Mrs. Benjamin
Mccall Allegheny City; Junior vice
president, Mrs. John Horne, Steuben-
vile. O.; treasurer, Mrs. Alfred II.
Jones, Pittsburg; secretary, Mrs. Alice
P. Linhart, Pittsburg; conductor, Mrs.
w. Craig, Pittsburg; guard, Mrs. R. A.
A. Patterson Castle Shannon.
At the meeting of the Naval Vet
Grams Association the following off,
GERS were elected: Commodore COM
handing, Frederick E. Haskins,
Brooklyn, n. Y; fleet officers, Captain
J. A Miller, Athens, O.; commander,
J. o. Shaw, Bath Me; lieutenant COM
mander. A. H. Rung, Minneapolis; lieu
tenant, j. H. Eagan, Joliet, H.; mas
ter, P. w. Hager, GAINESVILLE, n. Y;
ensign, ]. II. Butler, Eaton. o.; SER
geon, w. E. AtweH, GAINESVILLE, o.;
paymaster, l. D. Baker, Boston; chap
lain, A. S. McWiHiams, Detroit.
The Association of the Army of the
Frontier elected David Murphy, Of st.
Louis, president, and John c. Bonnet,
Chicago, secretary.
The Mississippi river ram feet brig
ade elected John A. II. Owens, OF
Charleston, n. Y, commander.
The following officers were elected
by the Women's Relief Corps for the
ensuing year: National president, Mrs.
Mary L. Carr, Longmont, Col; nation
al senior president, Mrs. Belle VI.
Satterlee. ST. Louis; national junior
vice president, Mrs. Abbie R. Flagg,
Battle Creek, Mich; national treas
urer. Mrs. Sarah E. Phillips, Syracuse,
\. Y.