Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-24

New Orleans. He was on the staff
of Forrest and other confederate lead
ers during the war.
Alfreu Bowler, for many years as
sociated with Al Hayman as manager
Of the Baldwin theater in San Francis
co, Cal, is dead.
James Marshall died in Chicago. He
was born in Pittsburg and served in
the war Of the rebellion in the fourth
Ohio cavalry.
G. W. Gardner, father of State Sen
ator c.. P. Gardner, died at Mendoza,
H., the result of paralytic stroke.
He was IS years old.
Hosea NJ. Knowlton, former attor-
ney general Of Massachusetts, who
was stricken with apoplexy Dec 6,
died at Marion, Mass.
Thomas Meredith of Lewis, Ia,
died. He was a well known philan-
thropist, and just before his death
gave $4,000 for Y NJ. c. A building.
| Ex-Sheriff Samuel B. Glass. prom
inent republican politician and. cashier
of the Reddick State bank. died at
Reddick, H.. Of cerebral hemorrhage.
DR.. J. NJ. Bowser. aged SO years, a
wealthy practicing physician Of
! Goshen, Ind, where he had been res
ident for twenty years, died of heart
disease at his home.
Colonel Abraham Fullerton, former
congressman from the ninth Virginia
district, died at his home in Bristol,
Tenn, aged 70 years. He organized
the first company of confederate in
fantry to go from east Tennessee.
W.T.. Willis, aged 40 years, a mem
Der of the Pfalser Coal company of
Brazil, Ind, which was recently sold
to the Keaver Coal Company, and for
merly of Chicago, died. He former
Iy resided in Chicago. His wife and
two children were with him. The body
was taken to HilIsdale, Mich.
Colonel J. L. Alternately, aged SO
years, a pioneer of Kansas and a
wealthy wholesale furniture manUfac-
turer, died at his home in Leaven-
worth. He was born in Ohio and
came west in 1856. He was the
father of w. NJ. Alternately of Kansas
City and father-in-law of J. W. Walter
Of the Alternately Furniture Company
Of that city Colonel Abernathy's
estate is worth more than 100000.
During the civil war he was lieutenant
colonel of the eighth Kansas volun-
teers and participated in the battles
of Chickamauga and Lookout noun
tain.
General Wager Swayne, aged 6S
years, famous as a civil war veteran,
as the founder of the first schools for
the education of negroes and as the
victorious attorney of the national
bank system in the Ohio tax fight, died
at his residense in New York of a com
plication or diseases. Mrs. SWayne
and his two sons and a daughter we're
at the bedside. General Swayne, son
of Noah Haynes Swayne, justice of the
supreme court Of the United States
was of quaker descent, his ancestor,
Francis SWayne, having come to
America in the same vessel as Will
liam Penn. His mother was a Vir-
GINA woman, who celebrated her mar
! llcISS W JuuSt sway lie ny lIG6luS dill
her slaves, and who brought up her
son to be one Of the most ardent aboli-
tionists Of the civil war period. Wager
Swayne was educated at Yale, gradu-
ating in SO with Chauncey M. Depew,
Justices Brown and Brewer of the su
preme court and other men since
prominent. He practiced law until the
| brpa king ont of tho civil war WHOM h q
offered his services and was appointed
major of the forty-third Ohio volun-
teers. He took part in the Missouri
campaign, assisting in the capture of
Island No. 10 and New Madrid, and
was in the battles of Corinth and Iuka,
NOTED to the colonelcy of his regi-
ment.