The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-24
.oxHooD OF GEN. cHAFFEE.

BOYHooD Oh A1'
Orwell, Ohio, correspondence OF ST.
Louis DEMONSTRATION
humble country home at Orwell, Gen.
Adna r. Chaffee climbed out into the
world and I'D the ladder to his present
high position, that Of commanoer Oh
the United States army in the Philip
pine Islands, and he is the nrst private
in the regular army to be elevated
to such an exalted office. through
his tact and bravery during the charge
of Ell Caney. and then the campaign In
China, where he was also commander
of the United States forces. his name
became a pleasant topic of American
conversation and his friends peneVe
that still greater things are yet TO De
ACCOMPLISHED fe our republic at his
hands. Little did his young compan-
ions think. as they played with him
about snow forts in the fields OF Or
we'll that Adna was some day to com
mand great armies on real battle
grounds Memories of playmate days,
however. go to show that ChaHee
love for things military was very pro-
nounced at the time he was attending
the little district school and the old
fashioned Methodist Sunday school OF
his native locality. In a retrospect or
his career his early command OF the
SNOWFALL forces loom up forcibly. He
is born leader OF men. Chahee
father was a farmer. He also engaged
at odd moments in the avocatlon OF
cahtpet-making. The mother possess
cd all the qualifications of the typical
good woman of the early days OF the
western reserve. She spent much OF
her time at the spinning wheel and IN
| weaving the homespun garments
| which in childhood were worn by Am
| erica's great general of today, and
! her greatest ambition was to rear her
| sons and daughters to be useful men
| and women. Il was not small lam
| ilv that required the attention of this
fond mother. Adna's brothers num-
! bered ten and there were two sisters.
| Adna was born in the year 1S42
| When Adna was IA years OF age ms
mother died Later his father married
! again. The second wife had also been
| married before and was the mother OF
twelve children. 1t was large schoo
| attendance furnished by the house
| hold, and 1t was Only by the greatest
| economy and industry that the child
rem We're reared and given an educa
tional start Adna, at the age OF 10
went to work on a farm in an adJoln
ing county. Here his proficiency wa
demonstrated in the cornheld and a
the pillow What he did he did well
and he accomplished great deal 10
a young man of his age.
Then came the days when Chaffee'
first opportunity opened to him to Joi1
the army, and this he improved, as oil
likewise two of his brothers. Early i
1861 he enlisted in the Sixth Unite
States cavalry. In bidding good-b
to his brothers and sisters in goin
to the front he impressed upon the1
the determination that under no Gil
cumstances would he allow any sold1e
to excel him in point of perfect pei
Torrance of duty, and he never ha
{ Howard Chsffee, a brother, who no
resides in Trumbull county, enliSte
D !. the Sixth Ohio cavalry Georg
= Chaffee, another brother now Twin
] in Nashville, Tenn. enlisted in tt
= Twenty-fifth Illinois as a drummt
s boy, in May, 1862, at the age of
wears Three months later he W;
% transferred to the Fourteenth oh
g battery of flying artillery, and he
' served until the close of the war. T
was wounded in the battle of BIT
bered, was appointed to take commal
of the army in the Philippines as su
o cessor to Gen Macarthur. The a
e pointment of course, was made by t
y late President Mckinley. who believ
is he saw in the rising Chaffee the rig
e man for the place SO Important at tt
n time The ceremonies attending t
st turning over of the military contl
ID to Gen Chaffee were most elabora
d Later Chaffee made tour OF l
% islands in order to recommend su
i. changes in the civil government
is seemed most necessary. In TINS q
t. of Gen. Chaffee's well-earned far
n the house in which he was born, 81
70 standing at Orwell, is much priced
st the townspeople of that little VIVA
re situated in the noted old Ashtabl
county-that county Of Ohio which