The National tribune., 1900-04-19
PERSONAL.
day, 1900?

Comrade Charles HI. Newton, of Marietta,
O., will be prominent candidate at the
Ohio Encampment for the office Of Junior
Vice-Commander. He is a deservedly
popular comrade, and has served three
terms as Commander of Buell. Post, ITS,
which will present his name. He is a
worthy and influential GAR. man and
one of the leading business men Of Marietta,
being cashier of the Savings Bank since
1881. He has splendid record as sol
der. In July, 1863, he recruited 33 men
for the I'd Ohio II. A. He was commission
ed Second Lieutenant and assigned 10 Co.
K. He was promoted First Lieutenant,
July 18, 1864, and transferred to Battery
d. Later he served in Battery II. He is
well known 10 the comrades of Ohio, having
served as Aid on the Department Staff and
also OH the National staff.
Lieut.-Col. Webb c. Hayes. Of the 31st
u. S. Inf, son the late President Hayes.
has been homo ably discharged from the
United States Army at his own request.
He has been serving in the Philippines
with Col. Petit. but is now on his way by
transport to San Fra cisco. No reason is
assigned at the War Department for his
retirement from the military Service.
Gen. Edward NJ. McCook has gone into
the Soldiers Home at Yountville. Cal.
He is the son of the late John NcCook, and
was born at Steubenville, o., in 1888. He
was in Kansas at the outbreak Of the re,
bellion, and promptly enlisted in the Kan,
SaS Legion He was appointed a Second
Lieutenant in the 1st u. 5. Cav. in May
1861, and then became Major of the I'd Ind.
\ Cav, of which regiment he rose TO be Col
onel. He received four breyets for gallant
conduct, but resigned from the Regular
| Army in 1866 and went TO Colorado. He
was the fifth and seventh Governor OF
| Colorado, and displayed high ability in
that position.
| Rev. ID. II. Ellis, a minister of the United
Brethren Church, at lockwood. Pa, thinks
| he is the only survivor of the original
Monitors crew ut the time she fought the
Merrimac. He then belonged 10 the Engi,
neer'S gang, but was discharged in 1865 as
a Paymaster's Clerk.
Lieut. Arthur l.. Conger. 18th L. s.. is q
son of the late Col. A. l.. COnger Of Akron
o., well-known III Grand Army circles.
Capt. Orville Il. Chamberlin, late of Co
G, 7Ith Ind, Elkhart, Ind, is "a candidate
for the Republican nomination for Circuit
Judge. The Captain has fine record il
a good regiment OF which it is sufficient II
say that il was a member of BairdS Di
vision of the Fourteenth Corps.
The oldest living comrade is perhaps
Henry Dorman, McCook Post. 81. Depart
ment OF Missouri, Lamar, Mo, who re
Gently celebrated his 1O1st birthday II,
was born in New York. Jan. TO- 1893, but i.
now in good health, and able to cut Woo
and do a great deal of work about tn
place. He walks erect, and is able to rea,
the newspapers without glasses. His hear
ing, however, is not good, and his memory
ln6stInct as to events of recent years. III,
, remembers the incidents OF the war of tn,
rebellion very clearly. When n boy M
drove team on the Erie Canal for severa
years, and when he was 21 he married, am,
| settled down near Mt. Washington, n. Y.
q where he cleared farm and built a 10,
a house. Then he was a raftsman on tn
river for Is years. He removed 10 Michi
gan just before the rebellion, and in 1856
enlisted in the 18th Mich. Cav, in which IN
? served till the end of the war, taking part il
all the fighting from Gettysburg 10 Apo
, mattox. His only wound was a bullet hol
, III the right hand, which somewhat cripple.
him. He had four sons in the army, O
whom one died in Libby. lie is the fathe
r of 10 children, of whom eight are known Il
be living.
The Marchioness de LAMA, daughter o
the late ex-Surg. Gen. Wa. A. Hammond
has become convert to Roman Catholic
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