The National tribune., 1901-06-27
Personal.

Mrs. Glare Hoyt Burleigh, a prominent
member of the w. r. C. and Past Presi-
dent of the Department of Massachusetts.
died at her home in Athol, Mass. June I.
Mrs. Burleigh was the daughter of the
/ late DR.. Geo. Hoyt, of Athol, Mass. where
she was born Sept. 20. 1884. She received
her early education in the schools of that
city, attended seminary in Greenfield,
and later was a pupil at a celebrated
school IN Troy, \. Y. She had the ad-
vantage of instructions from the best
teachers in music and art. She married
hlaj. ii. NJ. Burleigh in Kansas in 1862
He died about seven years ago. Mrs.
Burleigh had long been prominent mem
Der of the Massachusetts w. Il. G.. She
was the first President of the Corps es-
tablished at Athol, Mass, and in 1894 was
elected President of the Department, hav-
ing previously held a number of important
Offices in the Order in that State. She
was later Superintendent of the National
Home of the W. r. c. at Madison, Ohio
She mas been an invalid for the past four
years.
James E. Taylor, well-known artist
and illustrator, died June %, at his resi-
III view 10TH. lie WAS DOEu III IlH-
cinnati, Ohio, in 1889. He served in a
volunteer regiment and then as war cor
respondent and artist for Frank Leslie
during the civil war. He became well
known through his pictures, which he
painted in the West, when in 1861 he
went among the Indians with peace com
mission. OF late years he was illustrator
for a number of magazines, as well as
deyoting attention to painting.
~
Coffee Cooler, endeared himself to all
Michigan veterans, was present at the
recent Encampment held at Flint, Mich,
where he met hundreds of old acquaint-
ances from all parts of the State. Com
rade Cooper is Past Department Inspector
and Past Junior Vice Commander of this
Department, and he was presented with
badge by Commander Allen and made an
honorary member of the Encampment.
Comrade Cooper is now engaged in busi-
ness in New York City.
Say that the boys are getting old?
Well, now, they are not so awful old
but you will have trouble if you try to
lay them on the shelf. Just listen: Com
rade Milton Garrigus, of Kokomo, Ind,
was elected Department Commander of
the Indiana G.. A. X. at its recent An
nual Encampment. He is a tall, slender,
alert man, who does not look at all the 50
years which the papers charge him with
he went out in the beginning of the war,
and after serving in the ranks got a COM
mission, and ended as a Captain in the |
142d Ind. lie is leading man in politics |
and social life in Indiana, and everywhere |
popular. He fell in love with q young |
lady of 19-Miss Marie Thomas, and the |
damsel reciprocated But she was an or
phan, living with her uncle-Henry Ed |
wards. Edwards had an idea about whom |
.h4
rade Garrisus. He forbade Garrigus the
house, and this not proving effective, |
started out to thrash the old fellow. There
Is where he fell down. By-standers say
that the fight was as pretty a thing as was
ever seen in Kokomo, which has formerly |
had reputation for that sort of enter
tainment. Fists, brick-bats, cobbIe-stones |
and anything else handy were used, with |
the result of convincing Edwards that he |
had better let his niece marry whom she ]
pleased. The cards are out.
Gen. Robert Nugent. of Irish Brigade !
fame, died in New York June 20, from the !
effects of a bullet received in his stomach |
while leading in the great charge on |
Marye's Hights, Dec. 13, 1862. Gen. Nu-
gent was born in Ireland in 1924, and |
went out in 1861 as Lieutenant Colonel |
of the Goth n. Y. He was promoted to
Colonel, and received breyets for gallantry
at NalheS , Mill, FREDERICKSBURG, HeterS- /
burg and during the war. He was ap- |
pointed Captain in the 18th Q. S., and |
retired as Major of the 9th .. S. in |
1879. He was Assistant Provost Marshal |
in New York during the draft riots, and |
saw much Indian fighting on the plains,
under Gen. Miles.
By the capsizing of his yacht in a sud-
den gust, off South Norwalk, Conn, June |
%, Col. Thos. S. Sloan, of New York, was
drowned. Col. Sloan succeeded Capt. Jos.
NJ. KNAPP in command of Battery E, Penn
sylvania Light Artillery, and commanded |
it till the close of the war He after
ward entered the service of the National
Express Company and rose to be its
treasurer. He was Colonel of the Old
Guard of Norwalk.
Gen. Byron Latin, the great paper man,
died at Hudson, N. Y, June 90 He went
out in 1861, as Captain in the 34th N Y,
and rose to be Colonel of the regiment,
and was brevetted for gallantry. He was
Provisional Governor of North Carolina.